OK, here's another source, which of course you will say is wrong, Paratrooper.
Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare
Edited by Jaminka Udovick & James Ridgeway
Copyright 1995
Lawrence Hill Books
On page 27:
Quote:
But the Albanians are not ethnic Turks; rather, they are the descendants of the Illyrians, who predate the Slavic invasions of the Baltic.
In addition to denying that the Albanians are Illyrian, and therefore the indigenous peoples of the region, Serbian extremists claim that Kosovo has never been anything but "Old Serbia," the heart of its medievel kingdom and the place where a cataclysmic battle for Serb power was fought and lost in 1389.
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Another aspect of historical reality, as opposed to myth, is the fact that Albanians fought alongside the Serbs in the Christian armies at Kosovo Polje; epic songs of the battle exist in Albanian and were traditionally sung by Albanian folk poets as well as by Serbs. In addition, the Albanian clans helped protect Orthodox monasteries in Kosovo during the long centuries of Turkish rule.
Many Serb historians deny these arguments, insisting that Albanians held high administrative posts, served as soldiers for the Ottomans, and have always been enemies for the Serbs. Serbs blame Albanians as well as the Turks for the violence that lead to the mass migrations of Serbs northward from the sixteenth century through the eighteenth century.
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In the process of liberating what they considered a Christian birthright, the commanders of the Serb forces ordered looting and massacres of Albanians, including the sick and wounded, women and children, many of them Christians themselves although speaking Albanian rather than Serbian.
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The last section refers to the Balkan Wars in 1912.
The author was born in Belgrade, Serbia and is a professor of sociology in the United States.
The source once again completely overturns several of your false statements including:
* that the Serbs committed no ethnic cleansing
* that the Serbs were the native people to the land
* your implicit belief that the Albanians are not a people of a separate ethnicity from both the Slavs and the Turks
Feel free to make up a BS reason to dismiss these facts as always.
Total tally of sources denied by Paratrooper: (7)
UN (2 reports)
Kosovo Verification Group (1 report)
Book authors (2 different groups)
Articles (1 article)
CNN
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