Hillary’s willing media partners

The article Donald Trump Finds Improbable Ally in WikiLeaks was the front page article all day long for the New York Times, but the author of the article, Patrick Healy, failed to inform the readers that he was an adviser for the Clinton campaign. New York Times is not an independent and unbiased newspaper

The article Donald Trump Finds Improbable Ally in WikiLeaks was the front page article all day long for the New York Times, but the author of the article, Patrick Healy, failed to inform the readers that he was an adviser for the Clinton campaign. New York Times is not an independent and unbiased newspaper

The fight against anti-democratic globalism is on, and at the moment it is most visible in the United States where Americanism represented with Donald J. Trump is in a death or life fight with Hillary Clinton’s globalism.

At the moment, if we should believe the opinion polls, we have dark days ahead if we have another Clinton in the White House.  Hillary’s warmongering attitudes in Syria and the urge to blame Russians for all the evil in the world could be very dangerous.

A Trump victory will shake George Soros and his globalist puppets to the foundations, but then he would have to defeat the mainstream media who is running the campaign for Hillary.

Before the election, Wikileaks has daily revelations from the corrupt Clinton campaign, and the amount of collusion with the media is very scary. Those of you who believe in an impartial media should take a look at the massive documentation from alternative media.

Below, you can see the email I wrote to  Patrick Healy of the New York Times and the central players in the Clinton campaign. You can download the original email I replied to here.

Subject: Re: Re: Hi Angel and Tina — running stuff by you re Clinton/Trump story in tomorrow’s NYT
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:26:36 +0200
From: Kristian Kahrs <kristian@demokratene.no>
To: pdh@nytimes.com
CC: Jennifer Palmieri <jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com>, Sara Latham <slatham@hillaryclinton.com>, Christina Reynolds <creynolds@hillaryclinton.com>, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com>, Josh Schwerin <jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com>, Brian Fallon <bfallon@hillaryclinton.com>, Nick Merrill <nmerrill@hillaryclinton.com>, Jesse Ferguson <jferguson@hillaryclinton.com>

Dear Patrick Healy, the unbiased, impartial and righteous national political correspondent for the New York Times, dear Jennifer Palmieri, Sara Latham, Christina Reynolds, John Podesta, Josh Schwerin, Brian Fallon, Nick Merrill and Jesse Ferguson of the Clinton campaign

I read your article Donald Trump Finds Improbable Ally in WikiLeaks, and while I found it interesting, you conveniently seemed to miss the fact that you have been a very important adviser to the Clinton campaign at the same times as you are this independent journalist for the NYT. We can read about your close advising in the Wikileaks Podesta emails, and the feature of download the raw source has been quite useful so that I can just download an eml file and reply to everyone in the email.

And I am very grateful for the insight of Stefan Molyneux who has made a tremendous effort in exposing the close relationship between the media and the HRC campaign, and his two latest videos, The Truth About Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street Speeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLtbcclcfM&feature=em-uploademail

and The Truth About The Hillary Clinton Wikileaks Scandal are great resources for a better understanding of the Podesta/Clinton emails, and in my email archive, I have tons of Molyneux’s very well documented videos. Click on the title of the emails to see the description with links to sources.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDJru5cuWX4&feature=em-uploademail

I would maybe expect that a reputable newspaper like the NYT would have made an interview with Molyneux, but I could find no results about him. Maybe you should write something about him?

So, who am I? Previously, I was a writer for The Associated Press, and thus of course published in the NYT several times, but now I am the Foreign Policy Coordinator for the Democrats in Norway, a national conservative party with a lot in common with European parties like the National Front in France, FPÖ in Austria, AfD in Germany, the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People’s Party. Last night I also wrote an email to Eric Schmidt and John Podesta, and you can see this in my FB post, and while I do not think Donald J. Trump is perfect, I have endorsed him.

In his videos Stefan Molyneux says we are guilty if we spend our time watching cat videos (I do love cats) instead of confronting the very dangerous globalist takeover in all aspects of our society. Although I am not American, I see how much freedom we can lose the Americans elect HRC as the next commander in chief. We are in the middle of a struggle for Western civilization, and I am willing to fight to the end. While I have been sharing videos on Facebook and Twitter, I also need to step up my game. Therefore, I’d like to publish more stories to my website SorrySerbia.com in English and in Norwegian at demokratene.no. This email will be an article on SorrySerbia.com

Sincerely

Kristian Kahrs

On 29.02.2016 20.22, Jennifer Palmieri wrote:

Brian – think you should talk to him because all the stuff he has about HRC’s thinking is not right and you can knock down.  I told Amy that we are not focused on him, leaving that to r’s.

Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 29, 2016, at 1:48 PM, Sara Latham <slatham@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:

+ John

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Christina Reynolds <creynolds@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:

News to me—as is that last part. To my knowledge, we’ve not gotten to that in planning?

 

I think the first point is ok, but don’t love pointing to states where we think he’ll do well, unless that’s just a total done deal.

From: Josh Schwerin [mailto:jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 1:41 PM
To: Jennifer Palmieri <jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com>; Christina Reynolds <creynolds@hillaryclinton.com>; Brian Fallon <bfallon@hillaryclinton.com>; Nick Merrill <nmerrill@hillaryclinton.com>; Jesse Ferguson <jferguson@hillaryclinton.com>
Cc: Sara Latham <slatham@hillaryclinton.com>

Subject: Fwd: Hi Angel and Tina — running stuff by you re Clinton/Trump story in tomorrow’s NYT

Are we working on this story on our end?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Angel Urena <Angel@presidentclinton.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:39 PM
Subject: Fwd: Hi Angel and Tina — running stuff by you re Clinton/Trump story in tomorrow’s NYT
To: Synergy <synergy@hillaryclinton.com>

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Healy, Patrick” <pdh@nytimes.com>
Date: February 29, 2016 at 12:36:31 PM CST
To: Angel Urena – PC <angel@presidentclinton.com>, Tina Flournoy <Tina@presidentclinton.com>
Subject: Hi Angel and Tina — running stuff by you re Clinton/Trump story in tomorrow’s NYT

Hi Angel, hi Tina,

Hope you’re both well. Amy Chozick and I are doing a story about how the Clinton campaign and its supporters view Trump as a general election opponent and plan to run against him. The story will run in tomorrow’s paper.

One part of the story deals with how Secretary Clinton, President Clinton, President Obama, and other Dems regard Trump as a potential general election opponent.

I wanted to run some points by you about President Clinton, based on our reporting with allies and campaign advisers and other Dems who have spoken to him.

We’re told that President Clinton (like Mrs. Clinton and some other Dems) thinks that Trump would be a formidable opponent in the general election, and that Dems are in a form of denial if they dismiss Trump as a joke who would be easily defeated in November. President Clinton, like others, thinks that Trump has his finger on the pulse of the electorate’s mood and that only a well-financed, concerted campaign portrayed him as dangerous and bigoted will win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election.

We’re told that President Clinton (like Mrs. Clinton and many other Dems) thinks the single greatest weapon against Trump is Trump’s own instinct to make outrageous, divisive, even hateful comments that can come across as unpresidential. He, Mrs. Clinton, and the campaign all agree that they will need to seize on opportunities to paint Trump as extremist and recklessly impulsive.

We’re told that President Clinton, like Secretary Clinton and some others, think Trump could pose a real threat in battleground states that President Obama carried in 2008 and 2012 — like Virginia and Ohio — and he will be competitive in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

We’re also told that the campaign intends to unleash President Clinton on social media and the campaign trail when Trump lashes out/tries to sway the news cycle.

Happy to talk this over by email or phone before 6pm today. Thanks, Patrick

Patrick Healy

National political correspondent, New York Times

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Josh Schwerin

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Hillary for America

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Good intentions gone bad

Tihomir Kukolja is the director of Renewing Our Mind, and he has a political ambition to pressure Europe to accept thousands of migrants.

Tihomir Kukolja is the director of Renewing Our Minds, and he has a political ambition to pressure Europe to accept thousands of migrants.

Tihomir Kukolja, the director of the reconciliation program Renewing Our Minds, has many good intentions when he and his friends give assistance to migrants in Serbia and Croatia from the Middle East, but unfortunately, these apostles of good deeds have not understood that their effort is actually helping human traffickers and Islamists that are behind and organizing the massive influx of migrants to Europe.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Kristian Kahrs, and I have been living many years in Belgrade. Now I live in Norway where I am the Head of Information for the national conservative party the Democrats of Norway. We are in the proud national conservative tradition of the Danish People’s Party, the Sweden Democrats, UKIP, National Front in France, the Freedom Party of Austria and the Serbian People’s Party to mention a few. At our national convention in March, I’ll be a candidate to become the leader for the Democrats.

Now Kukolja has launched a massive political campaign with several posts per day to the closed Facebook group ROM Response Prayer Group. Here he is campaigning for Europe to accept massive amounts of migrants, and the activists in this group even help migrants to cross the borders illegally.

This is not the first time Kukolja has made serious errors of judgment. In 2011 before NATO countries went to war against Libya, Kukolja supported this war against a well-functioning welfare state to create a haven for Islamists and human traffickers. Our war also created a complete hell for Christian and other minorities. In the article Choosing Not to Act Is to Act in Huffington Post, Kukolja gave very poor reasons for going to war. In the aftermath of the war, when the consequences had become clear, Kukolja regretted his article, but I warned him against it from the start.

Now Kukolja has initiated another campaign, another serious error of judgment, thinking that his actions will create a better world. As Kukolja, I am also a Christian, and I agree that we should help those who are in need. Often I have been reminded about the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and I think this is a very good example for all of us. As we remember from the story, the Samaritan did not take the wounded man to his own country, but he paid the inn so that he could get local care.

It is also problematic that instead of just helping the migrants with food and accommodation, Kukolja uses prayer to impose a certain political solution. He writes for instance: We need to pray that all the European countries will understand that they have a part to play in accepting the refugees. I find it unbiblical that Kukolja tries to use rhetoric to get God on his side.

The Serbian government has also been irresponsible when they have opened up their borders to the migrants from the Middle East, but fortunately my friend and the leader of the Serbian Peoples Party, Nenad Popović has his head on the right place when he has proposed to build a wall along the Serbian border to Macedonia.

For those who have followed my activities on SorrySerbia.com, I have issues with people who use their Christian faith to promote their political agenda. One example is the former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, an ordained minister who refuses me access to documents to explain why Norway went to war against Yugoslavia in 1999. He is constantly referring to his Christian values.

Another example is British MP Alistair Burt, a member of the National Prayer Breakfast network in Washington D.C. In 2013, he was upset that the British government was not able to wage war on Bashar al-Assad without the consent of the parliament. And Assad is, of course, the best hope for Christians in Syria against Sunni Islamic extremists. More about that in my article Blessed are the peacemakers.

Not many critical comments are allowed in the Facebook group. It is maybe pleasant for Kukolja to operate in his own comfortable echo chamber, but the group should be public so that we can have a free and respectful discussion about Kukolja’s activism. However, I have made the content of the Facebook group available in a 150-page document.

Let me give you an example. I wrote in a commentPray for our politicians for wisdom do stop this cynical human trafficking. Are you sure Tihomir’s help does not encourage more migrants to risk their lives? Are you sure this is not, in fact, helping the Islamists and human traffickers responsible for this?

Kukolja was not at all happy about this comment, and he wrote in his reply: Thank you Valarie for the words of encouragement and your prayers. The best thing is to ignore those who try to spam our reports with their inappropriate comments.

Kukolja also deleted several other comments I made, and he is most comfortable when he is not challenged. I would encourage those who are interested to read very good comments by the theologian John Dettoni. Not surprisingly, Kukolja has no comments to Dettoni’s thoughtful remarks, other than to claim that he is only helping. If you do not have access to the group, here are four pages with Dettoni’s excellent analysis. When Kukolja is not willing to consider respectful and thorough criticism, he needs to be confronted and corrected in the public domain.

With his daily posts, Kukolja encourages more migrants to risk their lives to get to Europe. In 2015, thousands of migrants have drowned, and as long as the illegal migrant trade continues, more people will die. For those who read Norwegian, we in the Democrats have introduced our solution for the war in Syria and the migrant crisis. We want to have Russia and China to be partners with Syria’s government to stop the war, and we want an Australian solution where no one crossing the Mediterranean Ocean by boat will be granted political asylum or refugee status. The Australian solution works, and we’ll be able to save many lives.

In all his posts, Kukolja uses the term refugees, but many of those coming are economic migrants. But it suits Kukolja’s political purposes to use the word refugee. Of course, for those who win the golden ticket to Europe, it could be well worth the risk, but seeking a better economic future for yourself and your family does not qualify to be a refugee.

And let us take a look at the conditions in the refugee camps in Turkey. In the video Turkish refugee camps for Syrians set high standard from Euronews, we see that the camps close to the Syrian border are well equipped with electricity and water. One of the residents there says that he believes his fellow countrymen do not have to leave Syria, but he encourages them to return to Syria to defend their homeland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbYo2KqLT0

It is also important to know the reasons for the migration. Reading Western media and NGO reports, it is nearly impossible to get a balanced view. We, the West, are responsible for creating terrible wars. As mentioned above, we bombed a well-functioning welfare state, Libya, back to the stone age to give direct support to Islamists and human traffickers, making a hell for our Christian brothers and sisters. Of course, Libya was a dictatorship, but attempting to establish democracies in Islamic countries will only lead to Sharia and Islamism. In Syria, we supported the overthrow of the relatively secular dictator Bashar al-Assad, and now we have a quarter of a million dead people.

Thankfully, Donald Trump has his head on the right place when he welcomes the Russians in Syria. See the video Donald Trump: ‘Let Russia fight ISIS’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHgA4_0CAo

IS has said that they are going to flood Europe with 500,000 migrants, and that is exactly what they are doing. No matter if Kukolja and his activists claim that these are not terrorists, we will face a humongous demographic problem with cultures that do not mix with our freedom values at all. To stop the migration, Western politicians need to work with Russia and China to stop the wars they have created instead of appearing to be good to take in these migrants. Migrants might tell Kukolja and his activists that they are from Syria, but there is no way to confirm this. We know that Syrian passports are very attractive on the black market for a reasonable price, and many have bought a fake Syrian identity.

What media and politicians in the West generally do not understand is that the wars in Iraq and Syria really is a war of caliphates. The Islamic State is not as important as the fight between Shiite and Sunni Islam to dominate the Islamic world. Everything IS does can be supported by Islam’s original sources, the Quran and Sunnah, and I do not think they are especially radical. They just follow Islam the way the so-called prophet Muhammed intended.

And what is more worrying is the US support against for Sunni Islamic radicals. The head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn gave the US administration several warnings that if they supported the Syrian opposition, it would be a direct support for Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda Iraq. But the administration did not listen. Lt. Gen. Flynn said it was a wilful decision. Se this interview with the general or read the complete transcript:

In an emotional video, we see Bianca Bortoneanu urges us not to judge the refugees. I agree with her. We should treat those migrants that are coming with respect, but at the same time, we need to be very critical of our politicians, NGOs and other activists who made this mess. However, at the same time, we should also be aware of the enormous demographic consequences of a massive migration from Islamic cultures to Europe.

Not all appreciate the rhetoric of writer, comedian, and YouTube personality Pat Condell, but in his most recent video, he speaks about the epidemic of rapes committed by the new migrants in Germany.  He also says that European governments could have stopped the migrant crisis if they had followed the rules and regulations they themselves voted for.

Especially for those who do not like Condell, I would challenge you to look at the video and decide if there are any factual errors. Below the video, you can also read the description with well-documented links to what he is talking about. For instance, you can see the well-documented article Germany: Migrants’ Rape Epidemic by Soren Kern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIcltV7r-nM

Lastly, I would recommend the video Will Migrant Crisis Kill EU?, taken from the YouTube channel of former presidential candidate Ron Paul.  Here Daniel McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and Paul interviews the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage, about the effect of the migrant crisis will have on the European Union.

Many of us national conservatives are very concerned that European bureaucrats make undemocratic decisions on accepting hundreds of thousands of migrants to Europe. Many of us are concerned that we’ll have more and more parallel societies with special privileges for the Islamic population and ‘No-Go’ Zones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-uoaIorfVU

Greetings to friends of Sonja Biserko

На српском, ФБ Репортер, Кристијан Каш против фалсификовања историје на Косову.

I ended up on the mailing list of Sonja Biserko of the Helsinki Committee, and since she has an open address list with prominent people like Doris Pack, Tim JudahWolfgang Petritsch, John Clint Williamson and 138 other well-known opinion leaders, I decided to send them the following greeting on July 2:

Dear Sonja Biserko

I am grateful to Sonja Biserko because she provided me with email addresses for influential people with an interest in the Balkans and Kosovo. I hope these are people interested in a balanced view of the Kosovo war.

I am grateful to Sonja Biserko because she provided me with email addresses for influential people with an interest in the Balkans and Kosovo. I hope these are people interested in a balanced view of the Kosovo war.

Thank you for this update. I see that you have a lot of influential people on your email list, also from my home country Norway, with a keen interest in the Balkans. I have a special relationship with Kosovo because I served as the press officer for KFOR in 2000. I was working in the international HQ in Pristina, but soon had the unpleasant experience of having to confront my own naivety and misplaced belief that we from the West and NATO were needed to teach the Balkan “barbarians” something about democracy, freedom of speech and human rights.

I have come a long way since 2000, and on March 24, 2011, I gave a public apology to the Serbian people on RTS news for the failure of us in NATO to protect Kosovo’s non-Albanians.

As keen followers of Kosovo politics, you will also have noticed the repeated mention of the figure of an alleged 20,000 rapes in Kosovo, blamed on Yugoslav security forces in 1999, but since I believe you are well informed, you will know that Human Rights Watch only documented a total of 96 rapes there in the whole of 1998 and 1999. In my article Fighting inflated Kosovo rape figures, I challenge inaccurate reporting by the Guardian’s Mark Tran and Dr. Frances Trix, professor of linguistics and anthropology at Indiana University.

On my website, you can also see that I have confronted Norwegian researcher Josef Martinsen for actively falsifying history in Kosovo through his completely misleading figures of who died and why. I have cross-checked Martinsen’s figures against other lists and against the excellent databases of the Humanitarian Law Center led by Nataša Kandić‡, and unfortunately, I have to characterize his work as an active lie because he is unwilling to correct his data, despite my several warnings. Read more in my article Kosovo war fantasies of Josef Martinsen debunked! I hope my research will be of interest to, for instance, John Clint Williamson and others.

I have tried to get good answers from Kjell Magne Bondevik, who was the Norwegian prime minister in 1999. I have asked Bondevik, an ordained Lutheran minister, about why he went to war against Yugoslavia, but it seems easier for him to speak about his Christian values than to practice them. Read my interview with him, and if you understand Norwegian, you can also listen to it.

So, what shall we do to avoid wars led by NATO and other forces of “democracy” under the pretense of R2P? How shall we avoid Western warmongers leading us to war, calling it humanitarian intervention, when their wars are much more issues of protecting their national interests, rather than human rights?

My answer is to get involved in politics. At the moment, I am the head of information for the Democrats of Norway, a national conservative party in the proud tradition of the Danish People’s Party, the Swedish Democrats, UKIP, Front National, Austria’s Freedom Party and others. At our party convention in February next year, I will be a candidate to become the leader of the Democrats, and I am sure that we can copy the successes of other national conservative parties in Europe. I think we have a good chance of making a big impact in the Norwegian parliamentary elections in 2017.

By the way, all of my articles are open to comments regardless of whether you agree or disagree with me.

Sincerely

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Josef Martinsen followed up with the following reply:

For those who are unfamiliar with my work on the Balkan’s since summer 1999 when I entered a Kosovo in turmoil and chocked after Milosevic soldiers and police units who during 1998-99 murdered more then ten thousands civilian Albanians, children, women and men old and young, and physically forced more then half of the Albanian population out of Kosovo into Montenegro, Macedonia, Albanian and the rest of Europe. You can load down without any cost on my web page www.kosovotrilogy.com my two books and a documentary film and experience my findings. In my new web page www.truth-commission.com (work in progress) we will reach out to the younger generation in Serbia and Kosovo trying to agree on the Truth around the Kosovo war and a start up on a reconciliation process.
Kristian Kahrs accuse me for falsifying my own documentation related to war crimes against unarmed civilians i.e. 400 mass graves containing civilian Albanian children, women and men reported to UN. He want me to include in my findings a certain number of Serbian police and para military as war crime victims. I told Kristian Kahrs face to face that I under no circumstances could corrupt my own findings with his so-called war victims.
Kristian Kahrs also mentioned Natasha Kandic (HLC) and her documentation that was made public first week in February 2015 at Media Centar, Belgrade. In her presentation she came up with a list of false registered victims of the war that four other persons / organisations had registered, among them I was listed.
Natasha Kandic said that app. 3.100 were irregular but there were no names presented.
I contacted Humanitarian Law Centre branch in Pristina, Kosovo and asked for the names that Natasha claimed were wrong because I would of course correct my possible wrong registered victims. Director Bekim Blakaj (HLC) in Pristina could not provide the names, well he could name five persons that supposedly were alive and two cases of supposedly double registration, that are a total of 9 names not 3.100. The reason I contacted HLC in Pristina was that I had had good contact with them over many years. Natasha Kandic showed no interest in cooperation with me when I visited her in October 2013, almost two years before she made her presentation in 2015. When you publicly accuse someone for wrong documentation you better support it with hard facts.
Yours Sincerely
Josef Martinsen 

And my reply to Martinsen and the rest of Sonja Biserko’s friends was the followng:

Dear friends of Kosovo

I see that Josef Martinsen has made grave public accusations against Nataša Kandić and the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), but his email only reached about 30 people. Therefore, I have added the original list of people from Sonja Biserko’s email list in addition to many of my own contacts in the BCC field because I do not send mass mailings with visible email addresses.

There is a lot to be said about the work of Martinsen, but with his completely twisted facts, he is an obstacle to reconciliation and forgiveness in the Balkans. I am sure he originally had good intentions, but when he only sees the crimes from one side, he is misrepresenting the truth.

Of course, as I have publicly stated on numerous occasions, I want all war crimes to be punished, regardless of the perpetrator, Serbs, Albanians, NATO or others. However, the Pristina parliament has made that difficult now because they have blocked an international tribunal to deal with Kosovo Albanian war crimes. I am sure John Clint Williamson and others receiving this email regret this very much.

When Martinsen claims he has close to a complete record of civilian victims in the Kosovo war, he is presenting a direct lie. Again, I encourage you to read my article Kosovo war fantasies of Josef Martinsen… debunked!, and you can also download my 92 page analysis of Martinsen’s research. Many of the names on his list have been listed several times; he has failed to record hundreds of civilians killed, Albanians and non-Albanians alike, and hundreds of his names do not represent real people.

The HLC might have good reasons not to reveal Martinsen’s erroneous names, but I have learned that the methodology and professionalism of Kandić, her lead researcher Predrag Miletić and the entire HLC team, is the highest you can expect. For each victim, they have several witnesses, 10 or more. The Norwegian government and many other governments have acknowledged their high standards, and that is the reason they support HLC, not Martinsen.

Friends of Kosovo, regardless if we have different opinions of Kosovo’s final legal status, we need to be transparent about the war crimes taking place in Kosovo. Inflated rape figures and research like the kind we have seen from Martinsen, only polarize the situation allowing the hatred to continue.

Peace

Kristian

Fighting inflated Kosovo rape figures

I expect very high standards for accuracy from The Guardian, and I expect them to correct their incorrect and inflated figures of Kosovo rapes.

I expect very high standards for accuracy from The Guardian, and I expect them to correct their incorrect and inflated figures of Kosovo rapes.

The Priština authorities and many mass media outlets continue to push lies about thousands of rapes allegedly committed by Serbian security forces in Kosovo in 1998-99. This is an information battle where we need to be persistent and thorough to communicate the truth about these inflated rape figures.

Let me give you a couple of examples. The journalist Mark Tran of The Guardian wrote an article where he mentioned 20,000 rapes allegedly committed by Serbs.  Two weeks ago, I submitted an op-ed about this, without receiving any reply. Today I submitted a formal complaint to the newspaper that prides itself with accuracy. Today, I wrote the following email to reader@theguardian.com.

Dear readers’ editor

I would hereby like to submit a complaint about the accuracy of an article written by your journalist Mark Tran, and as a part of my complaint, I would like to give you my op-ed sent to guardian.letters@theguardian.com on June 18, so far without a reply from The Guardian:

Why continue the propaganda war?

By Kristian Kahrs
SorrySerbia.com

Inaccurate reporting from The Guardian's Mark Tran

Inaccurate reporting from The Guardian’s Mark Tran.

The Guardian’s sudden allegation that Serbian forces committed 20,000 previously unreported rapes in Kosovo in 1999 contradicts your own excellent investigative reporting.
Guardian writer Mark Tran’s June 11th “Dresses on washing lines pay tribute to Kosovo survivors of sexual violence,” also ignores the March 2000 Human Rights Watch assertion of 96 war-related rapes in 1998 through 1999, as cited in their report, “Kosovo: Rape as a Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing”.

In August 2000, award-winning Guardian reporter Audrey Gillan’s “The Propaganda war,” cites her failure to uncover any evidence of mass rapes in Kosovo. She said that while finding no such evidence, she did witness scores of reporters searching in vain for “rape camps” alleged by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.

Having served as a Norwegian NATO information officer in 2000, and since as a reporter, I have direct experience in Kosovo. Despite working with the Humanitarian Law Centre, which has the most complete records of Kosovo’s War victims, I have found no data that supports Mr. Tran’s thesis.

War crimes must be punished to the full extent of the law, regardless of perpetrator. But The Guardian’s allegation of tens of thousands of previously unheard-of rapes runs directly counter to efforts at reconciliation based on honest reporting, legitimate punishment, and ending a propaganda war that your writer appears to be continuing 15 years after the end of hostilities. No peace can be built on the basis of outlandishly false claims.
___

I have read the Guardian News & Media Editorial Code and your article about how to make a complaint. Therefore, I ask the readers’s editor to consider if The Guardian has violated article 1 about accuracy:

i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.

ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and – where appropriate – an apology published.

On Twitter, Mr. Tran has sited an old article from 2012 in Balkan Insight as a source for his claim of 20,000 rapes, but The Guardian should know that these are claims BI no longer uses. In the article Kosovo Plans Benefits for War Rape Victims published on June 22, 2015, BI states: “There is still no accurate estimate of the number of women and girls who were raped or suffered other forms of sexual violence during the war with Serbian forces.”

For further documentation about inflated rape figures in war, you can read my summary of the book Fools’ Crusade, Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions.

As you see for instants in the recent article in I have learned to expect the highest standards from The Guardian, and therefore, I thank you for your transparency and seriousness of this complaint.

I am available 24 hours on my Serbian mobile +381 628 406 604, and I will promptly respond by email if you need clarifications.

Sincerely

SorrySerbia logoKristian Kahrs
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Also, well respected members of the academia actively promotes lies about Kosovo wartime rapes. One of these is Dr. Frances Trix, professor of linguistics and anthropology at Indiana University. She also pushes the lie of 20,000 rapes in Kosovo in her article 5,000 Hanging Skirts: How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova, but when asked for facts, she responds with ad hominem attacks challenging me to go to Kosova”.

I had one comment correcting the false allegations of Dr. Trix, and the editor of juancole.com, Juan Cole, initially wrote that he was so glad for your civil disagreement, which adds so much to the blog. However, then I tried to submit the following comment as a response to Dr. Trix:

Thank you for your general statements about Kosovo. However, please note that I did not ask you about your general view of the conflicts in the Balkans but a concrete question about your sources for your claim of 20,000 rapes. Your arguments seem more like what you would expect from a junior high school student, not a professor from a famous university. In your reply to me, without siting any reputable sources, you claim that 20,000 rapes is “probably an underestimate judging by the experience in Bosnia.”


It is interesting that you mention Bosnia, and here Diana Johnstone who has written the very well documented book Fools’ Crusade, Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions. In the link, you can see my summary of her book, updated with relevant links and clickable footnotes. In her book, Johnstone writes about Dr. Frits Kalshoven, professor of humanitarian international law at the University of Leiden. Until 1993, he was the head of the only international body to pursue a thorough investigation of rape accusations was the Commission set up by the Security Council to prepare the documentary basis for the ICTY. He was replaced by Professor Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, an American of Egyptian origin. Five years after resigning from the UN commission, Professor Kalshoven told Dutch journalist Aart Brouwer:

“Terms like ‘genocide’ came all too easily from the mouths of people like Bassiouni, an American professor of law, who had to establish a reputation and to work on fund-raising. In my opinion these terms were way out of line. ‘Genocidal rape’ is utter nonsense. ‘Genocide’ means extermination, and it is of course impossible to exterminate people and make them pregnant at the same time. It is a propaganda term which was used against the Serbs right from the start, but I have never found any indication that rape was committed systematically by any of the parties – and I understand by ‘systematically’, on orders from the top.”

However, it appeared that I was not allowed to write this comment because it appears that Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni is a personal friend. of Juan Cole. Then he wrote the following in an email:

Oh, then I saw that horrible quote at the end about attacking my friend Cherif and denying rape altogether. This is hate speech and I had to take it down.

When opponents use accusations of hate speech, we know that they have no more arguments, but we just have to continue to fight for the truth. We just have to continue the fight, patiently countering false statements by facts.

Norwegian heroes in Čaglavica

Norwegian soldiers fought against a massive Albanian mob on March 17 and 18, 2004. The pictures in this article are screen shots from the video Norwegian KFOR protecting Serbs in Kosovo 2004 aired by NRK, the Norwegian national public broadcaster in 2007.

Norwegian soldiers fought against a massive Albanian mob on March 17 and 18, 2004. The pictures in this article are screen shots from the video below, Norwegian KFOR protecting Serbs in Kosovo 2004, aired by NRK, the Norwegian national public broadcaster in 2007.

On March 17 and 18 2004, Sven and his two Norwegian infantry companies fought like lions to protect Serbian lives in the Serbian enclave of Čaglavica just south of Priština. Sven shot and killed to Albanians and probably killed many more with his Sisu armored personnel carrier in Obilić.

As a former NATO officer in Kosovo in 2000, it is not at all pleasant to be confronted with my naïve attitudes and statements, and this is the reason that I will spend the rest of my life to give my public apology.

However, when I failed and we failed in 1999-2000 and 2004, it gives me great comfort to know that there were Norwegian heroes during this ethnic cleansing of Serbs those dramatic days in 2004. Of course, Sven is not his real name, and if Albanians in Norway knew his name, he would endanger the lives of himself and his family.

On many levels, KFOR and the international community failed these days. They did not have sufficient intelligence, and many nations in KFOR acted cowardly facing the Albanian mob violence. For more analysis you can read the report The March 2004 Riots in Kosovo: a Failure of the International Community written by Norwegian Lt. Col. Egil Daltveit. Direct download link.

For those interested in the Serbian government assessment of crime and terrorism in Kosovo, the Albanian Terrorism and Organized Crime in Kosovo-Metohija whitepaper is useful.

Also see the video below, Norwegian soldiers protecting Serbs 2004, featuring an interview with the Norwegian battalion commander, Col. Aril Brandvik, and some of the soldiers who fought in Čaglavica. The video has English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mcqXNJ-VuU

On March 17, 2004, the Norwegian Taskforce, the Norwegian battalion in KFOR huddled up on their vehicles to reach Čaglavica from their base of Lebane on the way to Podujevo. The main road were was closed, and therefore the battalion had to travel through Obilić. Since Sven was the person with the best knowledge of the geography of Kosovo, he was the commander of the lead vehicle.

Norwegian soldiers fought against a massive Albanian mob on March 17 and 18, 2004. The pictures in this article are screen shots from the video Norwegian KFOR protecting Serbs in Kosovo 2004 aired by NRK, the Norwegian national public broadcaster in 2007.“We came to a roadblock consisting of 3-500 people, Albanian men aged 16-40, who simply blocked off the main street in the middle of Obilić. When we drove up to the crowd, they attacked my vehicle. They went simply berserk on the wagon, and they also tried to get in, but the hatches were blocked so they did not enter. I had weapons ready, and got up of the hatch.”

Sven drew his Glock 9mm pistol and threw a CS grenade in the middle of the crowd to disperse them, but nothing of this helped.

“I closed the hatch and gave the driver orders to only carry on, run them straight down. If we had been standing there, we would have lost the momentum, and the entire battalion would come to a standstill. Then we drove straight through the crowd, and because of that we drove through the crowd, just mowed them straight down.”

“Do you think anyone died there?”

“Yes, people were killed there. When we drove over them, people were killed. When you get run over by a six wheeler weighing 22 tons, then you die. Had we not done that, Čaglavica would have burned.”

Norwegian soldiers fought against a massive Albanian mob on March 17 and 18, 2004. The pictures in this article are screen shots from the video Norwegian KFOR protecting Serbs in Kosovo 2004 aired by NRK, the Norwegian national public broadcaster in 2007.Čaglavica was in the Swedish area of responsibility, and they had requested that the Norwegians should come and support them because they failed the task of protecting Čaglavica. When the Norwegians came, there was complete chaos.

“The Albanians shot with AK-47s, and the Swedes lay flat along the ground and were terrified. We saw a lot of people who came walking toward us, a couple thousand people. We gathered the guys quickly and set up a line, blocked the main road with shields, and we were a human castle against the Albanian mob that came.

The Norwegians got support from the US Special Forces and Irish Battalion, and Swedish Special Forces to get set line further out to the side that the Albanians would not be able to enter Čaglavica on the flanks.

After establishing the defense line, the soldiers could see a mob of 10,000 Albanians coming their direction, and a truck with one driver and his passenger also approached the Norwegian barricade.

Sven shot 11 shots with his pistol, and as you can see from the picture, he shot eight shots at the driver and one shot at the passenger. The passenger was later shot in the chest one meter from Sven when the Albanian attacked the Norwegian soldiers.

Sven shot 11 shots with his pistol, and as you can see from the picture, he shot eight shots at the driver and one shot at the passenger. The passenger was later shot in the chest one meter from Sven when the Albanian attacked the Norwegian soldiers.

“I saw that the truck came towards us, but it had to constantly slow up not to run down his own men. The Albanians stood in the way of it, and it ran and honked and yelled, but eventually he came all too close, and I thought, ‘if he comes closer now, least 10 to 20 soldiers die immediately, because he would run he them right down.’ Then I simply had to shoot the driver. Altogether, I fired 11 shots.”

“With a pistol?”

“Yes, with pistol yes.”

“And you had no assault rifle or something?”

“No, I had an MP5 too, but I had a shield in hand so I couldn’t use it.”

“It was a one-handed shot then?”

Yes, a strong hand. I saw that the bullets hit him because I saw that he sat and shook in the car all the time”

“How far away was this?”

“Seven meters maybe, seven to 10 meters, and finally I saw the impact of the shots when he hung out from the truck, thus, he fell out the side window. The truck scolded down from the highway and into a ditch, but the truck was so close to the guys that the Albanians managed to creep into our line. Then came one guy came to take me.”

The two men in the truck were the brothers Bajer and Kastriot Elshani, and Sven confronted the other brother attacking him.

“He was one meter away when I shot him with two bullets in the chest. He fell right into the ground, and then he was dragged out of the line there.”

Norwegian soldiers fought against a massive Albanian mob on March 17 and 18, 2004. The pictures in this article are screen shots from the video Norwegian KFOR protecting Serbs in Kosovo 2004 aired by NRK, the Norwegian national public broadcaster in 2007.At this time, the situation was out of control, and the soldiers tried to break up the Albanian mob.

“It was like running into a brick wall; there were so much people. You could not turn them back,” says Sven. “I was responsible for a seizure-clearing team to scramble and run through the line, but you could not get out because you ran right into people. And the Albanians had also managed to squeeze in a little kids and older people in front. They hid behind human shields using small boys and everything like that.”

The soldiers fought all night, and on March 18 they also had big operations. “The Albanians also managed to catch a Swedish Sisu, one medic Sisu, where they simply managed to break the window to Sisu with crowbar, ignite it, and inside an injured Swede almost died. They tried simply to kill those who were inside the Sisu,” says Sven.

“How would you assess other nations’ efforts in relation to the Norwegian soldiers?”

“I shall not be biased or anything because I am Norwegian, but had the Norwegians not arrived, Čaglavica would have burned. The Swedes had simply given up. It is the worst I’ve seen, that they were so behind as they were. They were not at all trained and not ready for what happened there. The Irish Battalion came to help us, and they did well, and Ukrainian special police also did well. Those who failed completely were the Indian Special Riot Police. There was no point in that they even came.”

“But riot police, they ought to have found out such things?”

“Yes, but they came with bamboo shields and bamboo stuff for Indian country. They were not at all equipped to cope. The Norwegians were the best Irish battering was also very good, and the same was the Ukrainian special police. Unfortunately, the Swedes were not much to cheer for. They had resigned long before we arrived.”

KFOR in general failed miserably these days, but I am very pleased that my countrymen did a fantastic job, and the Norwegian soldiers received well-deserved medals.

Kosovo war fantasies of Josef Martinsen… debunked!

Norwegian researcher Josef Martinsen. Picture from his website.

Norwegian researcher Josef Martinsen. Picture from his website.

Norwegian researcher Josef Martinsen actively pushes his version of war crimes that he claims happened in Serbia’s Kosovo province from 1998, even if he is very well aware that his data represents an active falsification of the history of that conflict in Kosovo in the favor of the Albanians.

I had previously written that I had not been sure whether Martinsen understood that he was lying about who died and why in Kosovo, but since he has refused to answer any of my publically posed questions on his research, I have no alternative but to conclude that he is knowingly presenting lies.

This does not imply that I know why Martinsen is lying; I merely note that what he is presenting are data that he himself must know to be untrue.

On Jan. 29, 2015, Martinsen held a press conference in Belgrade’s Media Center, that drew a grand total of two journalists. Despite the lack of any serious interest in his work, Martinsen nevertheless hired two security guards to prevent me from entering the meeting room to ask any questions in the presence of media witnesses. Regardless, I am happy to have had the chance to speak to a handful of guests outside the press conference room.

I am also happy I was able to dissuade the “Helsinki Committee” and its chief Sonja Biserko, from supporting Martinsen’s project. I am on record as strongly disagreeing with Biserko on many matters regarding Serbia and the destruction of Yugoslavia, but at least we had a frank face-to-face discussion in which I can avow that she has been informed exactly what Martinsen is doing.

I also have a good relationship with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo and with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade, and I am satisfied that Norway never supported Martinsen’s project.

Martinsen has called for a truth commission, and says he wants to set up an NGO in Serbia, but a truth process should not be built on the foundation of a big lie. Martinsen is thus not going to have any success in creating a commission or a serious NGO, nor do I wish to spend too much more time debunking a deceiver. He has done more to harm his own credibility than I could even if I tried. I am only writing this article to make sure that the interested public fully knows that Martinsen is purposely presenting false and misleading data about the victims of in Kosovo.

Nataša Kandić joins Biserko as another Western-financed activist despised by many Serbs, but when it comes to the strict methodology of recording dead and missing in Kosovo, there is no equal to Kandic’s Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), which maintains the most complete open database of killed and how in Kosovo from 1998 to 2000. This database is public in the form of the Kosovo Memory Book, and this is a great example of how to build a database of killed and missing in conflicts around the world. HLC reported on its progress at a press conference on Feb. 6, 2015.

Also, Martinsen’s major problem is that he claims his book gives “close to a complete record of civilian victims and places where crimes were committed during the war in 1998-99,” but he is far distant from presenting any kind of complete record.

HLC combines sources from Martinsen and three others, and a combined 3,190 names from these four sources were not included in the Kosovo Memory Book. As of Dec. 31, 2014, HLC still had to check 1,071 names, but disturbingly, only 581 of them are even claimed to have died in the war. Another 488 were actually found alive, 151 died of natural causes, and 184 died due to caused unrelated to the war, while 715 did not even exist!

Most curiously, Kandić declined to give any breakdown of which victims’ names Martinsen was responsible for, but I assert that his refusal to submit to any third-party scrutiny signifies that the findings of his work are so substandard that they must be rejected entirely until proven and independently verified one by one. Please listen to my recording of the press conference.

Martinsen has a major problem in documenting sources and witnesses to alleged murders in Kosovo. According to his own Excel file that he gave to me, he claims to be the only source for 2,625 names and partially responsible for 3,408, for a combined number of 6033 persons, from the period before June 20, 1999, those before and those without date as you will see in the Excel document.

However, the HLC has only been able to confirm 65 witnesses from the entirely of his two books. How could only 65 witnesses be sufficient to cover the claims of 6,033 victims? They could not.

I have tried to get answers from Martinsen on many occasions, but he has never replied to any relevant questions. In the year 2000, for example, I was working as a Norwegian press officer with the rank of major for NATO in Pristina, in a very central position. That year, HLC recorded 195 murders and disappearances/kidnappings, only 60 of them Albanians. On the other hand, Martinsen lists 603 names for 2000, the vast majority Albanian, and as far as I can count, only 38 non-Albanians. What is more damning is that only 21 of his names correspond with the HLC database. This means that we have no way of verifying 582 names Martinsen lists for 2000, and he also negligently or purposely failed to record 174 murders and kidnappings in 2000 that are already documented and in the public domain. Of course, in my professional NATO capacity, I would have known about such murders at the scale he purports. What is his explanation for those undocumented 582 names he added from thin air?

In my article, Victims of the Kosovo war, I pointed out several names that are doubles or even refer to people who are alive, neither dead nor missing. The quality of Martinsen’s research is simply not acceptable to be published, and together with HLC, I have joined in carefully debunking his work in my investigative article Active falsification of history in Kosovo. Funders of such “research” should take care not to be associated with intentional war propaganda financed on the false pretenses of being truth or peace oriented. There is no better way to perpetuate hatred and violent animosity than to alternately diminish the losses of one side in a conflict while falsely inflating the losses of the other.

Please download the entire document about Martinsen’s completely unsupported and biased pro-Albanian falsification of history in Kosovo, 92 pages.

Kurir International about falsification

Kurir InternationalThank you very much to Jelena Vukić for an excellent interview about me and my work in Kurir International. In this interview, I get to tell my story how I came to give my apology to the Serbian people and how I am working to disclose attempts of an active falsification of history in Kosovo when it comes to how many were killed and why they were killed.

Kurir International is a magazine in English with an excellent distribution in the international community in Serbia, and English speaking professionals around the world. For instants, all the members of the European parliament get their copy.

Next month, I am also looking forward to the arrival of Josef Martinsen in Belgrade. Martinsen is planning to have his presentation of his book What happened in Kosovo 1998-99, a documentation. Since I am the only one who have carried out a careful analysis of his research, I am looking forward to debating with Martinsen in the public domain. Hopefully, this will create a better awareness of who died and why in the Kosovo war.

Related article: Active falsification of history in Kosovo

I wish you all a blessed and peaceful Christmas. Christ is born! Or as they say in Serbian: Христос се роди!

http://sorryserbia.com/files/Kurir.pdf

Download a copy of this interview to your computer.

Sergey, the complete story

Sergey Belous, a Ukrainian citizen from Kharkov was kidnapped by in Ukraine by Ukrainian forces while doing his job as a journalist. He thought he was going to be shot and killed, but after international pressure, he was released. Now he is giving his first interview as a free man in Belgrade, Serbia. In this video, he speaks about the importance of his Christian faith while in captivity.

Now that Sergey is safely back in Serbia, I have now closed the petition for Sergey’s return and declared victory. Thank you very much for the 1,764 signatures, and a complete list of those who helped with Sergey’s release is available here. Thank you also to those of you who have been helping anonymously. You know who you are.

However, the Ukrainian Union of Journalists has initiated a lawsuit against the Ukrainian government to compensate the equipment stolen from the three journalists and for the mental distress caused by their kidnapping.

More about Sergey’s story in the following articles:

Mother Tanja running like an eagle for Sergey. More pictures from Sergey's arrival on Facebook

Mother Tanja running like an eagle for Sergey.

Active falsification of history in Kosovo

Please note my updated article Kosovo war fantasies of Josef Martinsen… debunked! published on Feb. 17, 2015.

This is a document about the active falsification of history in the Kosovo war from 1998 when it comes to how many was killed and who they were.

An accusation of active falsification of history, consciously not telling the truth, is of course a very serious allegation that should not be used lightly, but when it comes to the book What happened in Kosovo, documentation, there is no other way to describe it.

Josef Martinsen has been very dedicated to creating lists of civilian victims in Kosovo, but unfortunately, he does not tell the complete story.

Josef Martinsen has been very dedicated to creating lists of civilian victims in Kosovo, but unfortunately, he does not tell the complete story.

I have encouraged the author, the Norwegian former army officer Josef Martinsen to correct his information several times since October 2013, but instead considering this documentation, he has intensified his effort to distribute free copies of his book in English, Serbian and Albanian on his website kosovotrilogy.com.

Fortunatlely, the international community is about to wake up when it comes to war crimes committed by Kosovo Albanians against Serbs, non Albanians and fellow Albanians, as we can read about in the article Senior Kosovo Guerrillas Face Crimes Against Humanity Cases:

The EU’s Special Investigative Task Force said that unnamed “senior officials of the former Kosovo Liberation Army” will face indictments for crimes against humanity and other abuses committed after the 1999 conflict.

“These individuals bear responsibility for a campaign of persecution that was directed against the ethnic Serb, Roma, and other minority populations of Kosovo and toward fellow Kosovo Albanians who they labeled either to be collaborators with Serbs or, more commonly, simply to have been political opponents of the KLA leadership,” Clint Williamson, the lead prosecutor with the task force, told a press conference in Brussels.

This court process is supported by the European Union and the United Nations Security Council.

Acknowledgement

However, before I write anything else, I’d like to express my appreciation to my friend Josef Martinsen who made me realize that we need to see each individual that was killed in Kosovo and the need to tell their stories in a proper and respectful way that is should be accepted by all sides of the war.

For his effort and dedication for his research I would give Martinsen an A. Too few people care about the dead and the suffering in Kosovo, and it is good that Albanian victims have a spokesman like him.

Even if Martinsen knew that I was going to be critical to his book and his research, he showed great courage when he came to present his research in Belgrade.

But when it comes to the result of Martinsen’s research, I must give him an F. Although I do believe he had the very best intentions, there are serious errors and presumptions that need to be addressed. In his book, he makes the following statement on page seven:

“this document represents close to a complete record of civilian victims and places where crimes were committed during the war in 1998-99.”

I do not believe that Martinsen would write a sentence like this if he really did not believe it, but as you will see from the documentation below, this statement is simply not true. Martinsen is far away from presenting a “close to complete record of civilian victims.”

The numbers

Below, you will see and incomplete list 434 mostly civilian names, an incomplete list of 126 police officers and three soldiers on leave that are not present in Martinsen’s list. The combined number of murdered and kidnapped police officers in 1998 and 1999 was 344.

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) is the highest authority when it comes to identifying victims of the Kosovo war, and they have also had major challenges with Martinsen’s work. They still have to check 1500 names, but they have not been able to document 700 of the names Martinsen has come with.

HLC receives funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and HLC is much delayed because they have to check Martinsen’s lists. They accepted his research initially because they thought he would be a neutral international, but I have contacted the Norwegian Foreign Ministry to explain what kind of problems Martinsen has caused.

Below, you can also read my analysis for the year 2000 when Martinsen has 603 names, and only 21 of those have been confirmed by the HLC.

Had it been 15 or 20 names that were missing or added wrongly, Martinsen would have justified such a statement, but not when we are speaking of hundreds of erroneous names.

What also weakens the argument of Martinsen’s book is that he does not write anything about Albanian crimes against non-Albanians and fellow Albanians, not even with one comma. Of course, it is legitimate to write the account of one side only, but then you cannot claim to promote reconciliation at the same time.

Civilians and non-civilians

These crimes have been massively underreported in Western media, and unfortunately, Western media was co-opted into believing that Serbian savages were the only ones responsible for war crimes. Western audiences still need to hear the stories of the massacres and prison camps organized by the Kosovo Liberation Army, hereafter referred to as the UÇK. People in the West need to hear the stories from the Lapušnik prison camp, those kidnapped and held captive at the UÇK HQ in Mališevo and the massacres in Orahovac, Lake Radonjić and Klećka.

The first person quoted in the article about Klećka is quite interesting. His name is Christopher R. Hill, and he was the Special US Envoy to Yugoslavia and the leader of the failed Rambouillet Accords. Last year he gave me an interview, and he said something quite interesting about the importance of non-governmental organizations NGOs.

“I think one of the problems was many people in the non-governmental movements, and I would say this is one of the first wars in a long time where the press and non-governmental movements were so unified in their view to wage a war,” he told me.

Martinsen’s second major mistake is that he is separating sharply between civilian and non-civilian victims. In a chaotic war, the borders between a legal combatant and an illegal are often very blurry. On Feb. 23, 1998, Robert S. Gelbard of the US State Department said: “We condemn very strongly the terrorist actions in Kosovo. The UÇK (KLA) is, without any question a terrorist group.”

On the other hand, police officers from the Serbian interior ministry, MUP, were the only legal police authority in Kosovo. Of course, when police officers commit war crimes, they must be punished according to the law, but the war in Kosovo started as a legitimate police operation to crack down on the UÇK.

Likewise, it is hard to know when an armed civilian becomes a soldier in a war. This applies to both Albanians sympathizing or joining the ranks of the UÇK or Serbians joining paramilitary structures.

In any country, a murder on a police officer is among the most serious offenses, and when Martinsen does not include police officers killed while doing their legal job in Kosovo, he cannot claim to represent the truth about what happened in Kosovo.

I met Martinsen in September 2013, and I have to give him credit because he is very open about his work. He gave me complete access to his Microsoft Excel file with the names he found. After I met Martinsen, I started analyzing his work, and in November 2013, I published the article Victims of the Kosovo war. This is a follow-up with much better quality in the research that I am presenting.

Until June 20, 1999, Martinsen’s lists contain 8627 names; of these there I counted 501 non-Albanian names. I have also made notes on Martinsen’s list, and the document with my edits where I have tried to mark the non-Albanian names is available on sorryserbia.com/files/kahrsedits.xls.

In this article, I crosschecked the number of dead people from the lists  Kosovo Chronology and Kosovo – list of Civilians murdered presumably by KLA in 1998 published on the website freerepublic.com (FR).

These are incomplete lists of about 540 killed and missing individuals, mostly before NATO went to war against Yugoslavia, where the perpetrators are alleged to be Albanian extremists. However, it is important to state that these are incomplete lists, and the reader should be aware of the stigma in Kosovo Albanian society to witness against their own. Below, I have included 148 of these found by Martinsen.

The publisher of Martinsen's book Sypress forlag, claims that this book is the first documentation of over 10.000 civilian victims of war. The publishing house has no comments about Martinsen's methods.

The publisher of Martinsen’s book Sypress forlag, claims that this book is the first documentation of over 10.000 civilian victims of war. The publishing house has no comments about Martinsen’s methods.

I know these are hard words, but Martinsen and his publisher, the famous Norwegian Balkan professor Svein Mønnesland and his publishing house Sypress forlag operated by Mønnesland’s wife Kirsten Mønnesland are obstacles to reconciliation and a common understanding of history that can be agreed on by all parties in the war.

Unfortunately, even if this was not the intention, the result of Martinsen’s work is a falsification of history. In refusing to consider his documentation, Martinsen and Mønnesland are not telling the truth, and unfortunately, we are then speaking about an active falsification of history.

How to read these lists

Please note that Kosovo Chronology, FR and Martinsen don’t use specific characters such as š, ć, č, đ or ž in Serbian and ë and ç in Albanian, and thus, you have to take account for that when you search the lists. The most appropriate spelling would be the Albanian one for Albanian names and Serbian spelling for Serbian names. In my comments, I have used Serbian names for places in Kosovo, while I have included the Albanian spelling in the HLC entries.

When speaking about the victims, I use their first name to emphasize that every victim should have his or her individual story told in a respectful way. When there is FR in front of the paragraph, information is added from the list from FreeRepublic.com.

The very best database of missing and killed people in Kosovo is that made by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and Nataša Kandić, although this is not a perfect list either. I have crosschecked all the names on the above mentioned lists against the Kosovo Memory Book. The vast majority of the incidents from the lists above are also found in the HLC database, and I have added that reference on every name.

These are names from these two lists, and when I have found names from the HLC list not included in Martinsen’s list, I have also included them here. If I have not written anything else, the first entry is from Kosovo Chronology. Those names marked with yellow are names not found by the HLC or where more investigation is needed.

I have added my comments in italics, but when I have longer comments, I have skipped the italics.

Please note that it is difficult to know the exact number of people not included in this list of names not included in Martinsen’s lists. Some of them might not be correct because the names have not been confirmed, or they might have been in UÇK captivity but then released. I did not have capacity to check all the names in the HLC database against the names of Martinsen’s lists, but as you can see, there are serious errors. In a couple of cases, I have made an assessment call to include names on this list even if Martinsen found them. The reason might have been that he does not have a complete record or he found only one in a series of murders happening in the same place.

Contact with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The HLC initially accepted Martinsen’s data because they considered him a neutral international, but they have to spend a lot of resources and time to check his information. HLC also has support from the Norwegian government, but they have not been able to finish withing the deadline because they have to correct Martinsen’s data.

For the HLC, the situation was so bad that Nataša Kandić asked me to contact the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to explain what kind of problems Martinsen had created for them. Below, you will see Martinsen’s very serious errors.

The document is very large, 91 pages, and therefore it is not suitable to have all of it as an article. However, please download the complete documentation of the active falsification of history in Kosovo.