>I can't believe NATO thought Milosevic would roll over when the bombing
started.  Their plan must have extended past the bombing.  I think NATO
really didn't anticipate the Serb tactics of sending out a flood of
refugees, or they would have had supplies ready to be shipped in for them.
Still, I think a flood of refugees is better than the mass graves found
after the last war.

Two points, well three...

(1)Why can't the Serb military create mass graves right now?

(2)NATO did anticipate the flood of refugees and did not send supplies(until
recently).  The point was to "radicalize" the populace so they will refuse
nothing less but independence for Kosovo.  (3)The agreement Milosevic
wouldn't sign is because it would give Kosovo "de facto independence now,
with guaranteed de jure independence in three years".

The following is from the Houston Chronicle - Outlook, by Dr. Ronald L.
Hatchett on Sunday March 28th.  This is just the last bit of it but it is
what you need to hear.


Under the agreement, "Kosovo will have a president, prime minister and
government, an assembly, its own Supreme Court, constitutional court and
other courts and prosecutors."

"Kosovo will have the authority to make laws not subject to revision by
Serbia or the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including levying taxes,
instituting programs of economic, scientific, technological, regional and
social development, conducting foreign relations within its area of
responsibility in the same manner as a Republic."

For the Kosovo Albanians, the Rambouillet agreement gives them total control
over the province immediately. The only sacrifice required of them is to
wait three years before the arrangements are made legally permanent. For the
Serbs, the Rambouillet agreement means that immediately upon signing they
lose all sovereignty over Kosovo. Total political control would be in the
hands of the Albanians and the NATO Civilian Implementation Mission.
Yugoslav laws would no
longer apply in Kosovo. Neither would Yugoslavia be able to exercise police
powers in Kosovo. After three years, these arrangements would be made
permanent by the "will of the people" - not the people of the whole country
of Yugoslavia of which Kosovo is supposedly a part, but only by the will of
the people of Kosovo, who are mainly Albanians.

The Yugoslavian delegation at Rambouillet agreed to give the Albanians
autonomy in Kosovo - control over their day-to-day lives including
religious, education and health care systems, and local government
operations. But they tried to negotiate changes to preserve the right of
the Yugoslav federal government to determine economic and foreign policy,
for Yugoslav national law to continue to apply in Kosovo, and for any
international presence in Kosovo to be limited to observation and advice,
not control.

The Serbian negotiating efforts were summarily dismissed and the Serbs were
told they had only two choices: sign the agreement as written or face NATO
bombing.

What would you have done if you were on the Serb delegation?

(Read this "agreement" at www.transnational.org)

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