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Chapter 4 • Nicola Mai<br />
Narratives of self-victimization used to describe the situation after 1998:<br />
• Loss of property and of status for Serbs; further improvement for<br />
Albanians;<br />
• Fear of attacks, kidnapping and rape;<br />
• Threats and intimidation by Albanian gangs;<br />
• Murders and retaliatory violence enacted against Serbs;<br />
• Repression of Serbs;<br />
• Pressure on Serbs to leave Kosovo;<br />
• “Our police were always impartial, Albanians were safer under the<br />
protection of Yugoslav police and army than the Serbs were under the<br />
KFOR”;<br />
• Serbs were not nationalistic; Albanians were.<br />
Narratives of responsibility and conspiracy: “it was them!”<br />
• Albanians began the conflict; the Serbs were defending their legitimate<br />
status;<br />
• “They never liked us, they were pretending to be friendly”;<br />
• Albanians were manipulated (supported) from outside Kosovo; by<br />
Albania, European powers, America;<br />
• The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was directly controlled by foreign<br />
powers;<br />
• The western media orchestrated events in collusion with the KLA;<br />
• The Albanians were the ones truly responsible for the NATO bombings;<br />
• Albanians fled Kosovo exclusively in order to blame the Serbs and provoke<br />
the bombing;<br />
• Serbian rage was a mere reaction to unjust humiliation;<br />
• Albanian demands for greater rights were unjustified;<br />
• It was always the Serbs who suffered most;<br />
• The Albanians were ungrateful: they already had everything;<br />
• NATO intervened to serve its own secret interests: since Kosovo is full<br />
of mineral resources, America has always wanted to control the<br />
Balkans;<br />
• It was not the Albanians nor Serbs from Kosovo who did this. Some<br />
stronger power influenced them;<br />
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