Albanian American Civic League

HON. JOSEPH J. DioGuardi
OF CONGRESS

1985—1989
50 Barald Road717 2ND STREET,NE,(Ste301)
SCARSDALE, NEW YORK 10583 Washington, D.C. 20002
(914)472-6872 (202) 547-7580
FAx (914) 967-7443 FAX (202) 547-7656

April 20, 1992

VIA FAX

Your editorial of April 15, ?Butcher of the Balkans?, claiming that the Serbian Communist party boss Slobodan Milosevic is almost as bad as Saddam Hussein is about a year late and still short of the mark. Milosevic is the equal to Saddam Hussein and I dare say is as bad as Adolph Hitler himself when it comes to Albanians in former Yugoslavia. The brutal tactics used by his Serbian Communist armed forces, regular or irregular, against the Croatian people and now the South Slav Muslims in Bosnia the equal to Saddam Hussein?s treachery. the barbaric treatment of 2,000,000 Albanians in Kosova (an unarmed pacifist population), since martial law was imposed in Kosova in 1989, easily qualifies Milosevic?s Serbian Nationalist, Chauvinist and Communist Regime, as the heir apparent to Hitler?s Third Reich.

About a year ago (Feb. 21, 1991) at a Senate Foreign Relations European Subcommittee Hearing chaired by Senator Joseph Biden, I testified as President of the Albanian American Civic League that ?time was running our for Yugoslavia? and that ?the continued Serbian occupation and oppression of the formerly autonomous Albanian province of Kosova was raising tensions to the breaking point?. I testified further that ?if our State Department fails to act now, Yugoslavia will become the Lebanon of the 1990?s? and that ?for Albanians in Kosova, Yugoslavia has already become the Kuwait of Europe.?

It?s now a year later and we have witnessed the continuing expansion by brutal force and violence, of the Serbs into Croatia and now into Bosnia-Hercegovina. When is our State Department going to wake up and get involved before it is too late? Sanctions were not enough for Saddam Hussein and they will not work with Slobodan Milosevic who is hell bent on implementing his medieval dream of a ?greater Serbia? using a campaign of terror, violence, cultural genocide and racism (against Albanians especially), not seen since Hitler?s concentration camps and his Warsaw Ghetto.

Bob Barzilay
New York Times
Letter To The Editor
10th Floor

It is too late for sanctions!! The nationalist tensions and passions have been raised to the boiling point and any hope of negotiated border changes is just a fool?s quest now. The U.S. and the European Community (E.C.) must disarm the Serbs now before there is more bloodshed in Bosnia and before the greatest massacre of an unarmed population since World War II begins in Kosova.

I recently met with Larry Eagleberger, the Deputy Secretary of State, and he too feels that the greatest potential for bloodshed in the Balkans exists in Kosova today. An arms
embargo won?t work because the Serbs have assembled one of the most powerful armed
forces in Europe over the past 50 years with the help of Moscow and the U.S. who competed for the favor of this so called ?broker? between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Anything short of intervention now by the U.S. and the E.C. to stop the wanton aggression of Slobodan Milosevic will result in one of the greatest blood baths Europe has seen since World War II.

Sincerely
Joe DioGuardi