UN, NATO permitted Kosovo rampage.(united nations)(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

In Serbia's Kosovo province last March, 19 people were killed, 4,100 were left homeless, and at least 550 homes and 27 Orthodox Christian churches were set to the torch as a result of riots stoked by the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). A report issued in late July by Human Rights Watch accused UN and NATO peacekeepers, stationed in Kosovo for the supposed purpose of maintaining order, of passively abetting the murderous rampage.

"The report, based on interviews with officials and victims, describes how, time after time, heavily armed soldiers of the NATO-led K-For [the UN's Kosovo Force] stayed in their barracks as Serb homes were burnt and looted," summarized the July 27 London Independent. "Relief, when it did arrive, was often too little too late, leading to a new status quo in which displaced communities found it impossible to return home."

"In the village of Svinjare, a mob of armed Albanians marched past the main French K-For base before burning all of the 137 Serb homes," continued the press account. "The NATO troops stayed in their barracks watching buildings just a few hundred meters from their base go up in flames. In nearby Vicitrn, French K-For soldiers failed to intervene while Albanian gangs set fire to 69 Ashkali [Albanian-speaking Gypsies] homes, just 10 minutes' drive from the military base. At Prizren, in the southeast, German K-For ...