I was deeply saddened to read Gregory Clark's article. It seems that all Clark did was check a few Serbian Web sites to get his education on Balkan history. Clark falsely states that the Croatian Ustashi murdered some 1 million Serbs during World War II, when in reality the number of Serbs that perished was 485,000. Don't get me wrong, the lower number is horrendous as well, but it is a lot less than 1 million. For a better understanding of Serbian actions during World War II, I would suggest that Clark read, "Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History" by Philip J. Cohen.
Clark states that "ironically it was the Kosovo Liberation Army that invented the term (ethnic cleansing), to describe its plan to drive out the Serbian minority." Wrong.
It was not the KLA; it was Vasa Cubrilovic when he submitted his work "The Expulsion of the Albanians" to the Serbian government as a memorandum on March 7, 1937. As Hitler had a final solution for the Jewish people, Cubrilovic had one for the Albanians -- two years before Hitler started his maniacal and genocidal campaign.
Clark writes: "Much was made of a 1989 speech by former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic said to call for 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo. But one has only to read the speech to realize it said the exact opposite." Well, if we read what Cubrilovic wrote in 1937 and look at what Milosevic did in 1999, you would think that Milosevic and the Serbian government used Cubrilovic's work as a playbook.
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