Applied Rovian Denialism
"Creating Reality" in the Balkans
by Nebojsa Malic, January 17, 2014

In spite of the abundant revelations in the preceding year, 2014 in the Balkans seems to portend more of the same. Everyone is still in full-on reality denial mode. Or, rather, entrenched in the imperial belief that assertions can "create their own reality."

Still a Lie

In "Kosovo," a province of Serbia occupied by NATO in 1999, ethnically cleansed of non-Albanians and declared an independent state in 2008, local officials "elected" in November took their oaths. Reports from the Serbian media indicate the overseeing EU officials simply covered "Kosovian" state symbols on the paperwork given to Serb collaborators with masking tape (!).

Sami Lushtaku, leader of the terrorist KLA currently jailed and charged with atrocities during the 1998-99 war against Serbia, was granted temporary release to take the oath as mayor of Srbica, renamed by the Albanians to Skenderaj.

Though the Serbs in the north of the occupied province overwhelmingly boycotted the vote, the EU, Empire, NATO, Pristina and Belgrade are all pretending everything was just fine, legal and legitimate. One Serb who agreed to go along – Krstimir Pantic of Kosovska Mitrovica – apparently had a sudden change of heart, resigning after being "elected" mayor by a handful of votes. The other token candidate, Dimitrije Janicijevic, was found shot early Thursday. The media immediately blamed the "hardliner" (i.e. resisting) Serbs, but as the case has been with almost all crime in the occupied province since June 1999, the perpetrators are unknown.

Crime and Reward

A similar fate probably awaits the EU "investigation" into allegations of KLA-organized organ harvesting from Serb captives, which wrapped up this week. Led by State Department operative and ICTY prosecutor John Clint Williamson, the investigators "failed to find a single grave of the abducted Serbs’ remains." Along with illegal trade in drugs, guns and sex slaves and other organized crime activities, organ-harvesting of "disappeared" Serbs was detailed in a December 2010 report by PACE parliamentarian Dick Marty.

With the search for evidence in the trusty hands of the EU, US Department of State and the ICTY, the powers-that-be have declared there’s nothing to see, and everyone should move along. Thus FIFA, the world soccer federation, this week allowed "Kosovo" to play friendly matches against national teams. This is a major boost for "Kosovian" ethnic Albanians, after being recognized by Facebook in December: soccer is the most popular sport in the Balkans. However, FIFA cannot actually recognize "Kosovian" membership just yet, since the "country" lacks UN recognition. That will probably be the next demand the Empire and the EU make of Belgrade.

Not Hamlets, but Richards

Having capitulated to every demand from Washington and Brussels in 2013, the governing quislings in Belgrade are to be "rewarded" by the beginning of formal negotiations on joining the EU, towards the end of this month. Having committed themselves to bringing the country to ruin, they are now squabbling over how to divide the ashes.

The Economist only lagged behind this column by a decade (or 14 months) in comparing the goings-on in Belgrade with something out of Shakespeare, but in bemoaning the "shenanigans" of the quislingocracy the magazine is missing the point: the goal of the politicians involved was never to benefit Serbia – no matter what they’ve said publicly – but to benefit themselves. To that end they have been willing to make a pact with anyone, from the Empire to the Devil.

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