Atrocities in Kosovo rarely get much media attention

Atrocities in Kosovo rarelyget much media attention
EDITOR:
On March 23, 1999, NATO in conjunction with America, commenced a 78-day bombing campaign against former Yugoslavia over alleged human rights abuses concerning the Albanians of Kosovo, Serbia.
Over the past five years, a multinational U.N. peacekeeping force has temporarily presided there to protect all nationalities residing in Kosovo. June 8, 1999, was Victory Day for NATO and the west (United States/Britain), who willingly joined forces with the Muslim Albanians of Kosovo. They were the new rulers of Kosovo. Hasim Taci, a lead Muslim Albanian extremist and known murderer, heads their Kosovo police force. Without the protection of the Serbian/Yugoslav army, the non-Albanian minorities immediately began to see big changes.
Under the very eyes of this U.N. protection force, Albanians began cleansing Kosovo of its ethnic minorities. Turks, Gypsies, Goranci, Serbs, Greeks and even Christian Albanians were beaten or murdered and their property stolen and/or damaged. Children were being shot at to and from school, and the elderly and infirmed were not able to shop for food without U.N. escort. The remaining Serbs and other non-Albanians who have been brave enough to continue to live in Kosovo do so in subhuman conditions. Most of this has passed with scant media attention.
Today, after five years of "peacekeeping" and thousands of dollars spent to restore order, things have only worsened. More than 100 (and counting) Serbian Orthodox Christian sites have been mined and razed to the ground by the Muslim Albania majority. As "peacekeepers" look the other way, the Orthodox Christian sites along with its people will soon become history.
Approximately 31 people are now confirmed dead. Strangely though, during the course of all the murders, destruction and harm to human life and property that have continued to date, rarely is a Muslim Albanian brought to trial or convicted. Even stranger is the fact that very little is mentioned via the U.S. media.
Over the past decade, the Serbs watched carefully an ever-growing Islamic extremism developed in Bosnia, Kosovo and Sandzjak. In trying to curtail this terrorism on their own lands and protect their citizens, they were vilified by the world, sanctioned and in the end awarded peace bombs, in the name of "humanitarianism," from the NATO/Clinton administration's joint venture, the largest military might in the world. Cowards only bomb from the air. The bombing had inflicted unspeakable collateral damage to life and property.
Why is everyone so silent? Five years ago, the vilification and destruction of Serbia, its people, economy and total infrastructure were acceptable by the west, particularly the United States. The Serbs, who vowed to fight and stop the Islamic terrorist element on their soil posed no threat to the United States or Europe.
INGRID LYRAS
Lowellville
What will runoff of septagedo to our drinking water ?
EDITOR:
When septic systems are installed in Mahoning County, the Mahoning Board of Health has strict rules about putting enough laterals underground to absorb all the liquid waste from that household so that no sewage appears on top of the ground. Now the same board of health issues a permit to a septic cleaning company that plans to dump thousands of gallons of septage on top of the ground around those same households in North Jackson. The question is "Why," when there are treatment plants that will process the septage?
Will the water in Meander Reservoir then be safe to drink? Any heavy rainfall will cause septage runoff into a nearby stream that flows into Meander, thereby contaminating our drinking water.
Today, terrorists will not be the only ones we have to worry about contaminating our water supply.
JOHN POLISH
Austintown