One thousand years ago, the cornerstone of Serb statehood, of its
national consciousness and culture, was created in Kosova and
Metohija. Ever since, no other legal state has existed in Kosova and
Metohija. Of all the peoples living and working in these territories
throughout this time, the roots of the Serb people are the deepest
and most extensive. One cannot imagine a Serb state without Kosova
and Metohija. Therefore, keeping Kosova and Metohija as an integral
part of Serbia is as important as keeping the Serbian nation alive.
The migration of Serbs and the abandonment of their ancestral homes
in Kosova and Metohija became the destiny of the Serb people.
Ottoman rule and the atrocities of Islamized Albanians who settled
there subsequently brought about conditions under which life for
Serbs was impossible. People had no other choice but run as far away
as they could in order save their children; run away without looking
back, to abandon homes, property, the cemeteries of their
grandfathers; to seek safety in Serbia or elsewhere. The migration
of Serbs from Kosova and Metohija occurred between the two world
wars, while the settling of Serb volunteers there -- warriors first
and foremost -- maintained to some extent the Serb presence here.
Regrettably, this only lasted till World War II, when, first the
occupying fascists, and then the Communists resumed the driving out
of Serbs and settling a great number of emigrants from Albania.
During the period of time 1944-45, the Communist regime prevented
the expelled Serbs from coming back and repossessing their homes,
acknowledging as a fait accompli the remodeling of the ethnic
structure of the region. At the same time, the Albanians were
rewarded with autonomy in Kosova and Metohija which was to serve
them later as a foundation for their secessionist policies. The
effects of such an anti-Serb policy resulting in a great number of
Serbs leaving Kosova and Metohija. Albanian usurped hundreds of
hectares of both state- and Serbs-owned private land, whereas
monasteries, cemeteries and other sacred places of the Serbs became
subject to systematic devastation. In the late 1980s, in a bid to
hold onto power, the Communist regime in Serbia announced that it
would pursue a just national policy and set out to solve the Kosova
and Metohija issue. Serbs were misled by the emendation of the Serb
constitution, by which the decision-making authority was given back
to the Parliament. On paper, Serbia became a unified state, while
promises of the Serb president paved the way for the return of Serbs
to Kosova and Metohija. That was an historic opportunity which the
current Serbian regime failed to fulfill. The policy the Belgrade
regime has been pursuing vis-a-vis Kosova and Metohija is motivated
chiefly by sheer political considerations, failing thus to address
the real interests of the Serb people. With the consent and pressure
of international community, the regime has quietly allowed the
secessionist movement of Albanians to get stronger, create de facto
a parastate called the Republic of Kosova and internationalize the
Kosova issue. Once the Yugoslav federation crisis is settled, it
becomes very much clear that the Serb issue must be by all means
resolved through the unification of all Serb territories into a
single state. Aware of the alarming situation in Kosova and Metohija,
which is deteriorating at breakneck speed; bearing in mind the
treachery the Serb regime has committed against its fellow nationals
in Republika Srpska and the Serb Republic of Krajina, one can easily
expect the same thing to happen to Serbs in Kosova and Metohija.
Distressed by statements of foreign officials who maintain that the
issues of Kosova and Metohija, Raska province (Sandjak) and
Vojvodina should be solved within the frameworks of the crisis in
Yugoslavia; being aware that the national consciousness and the
future of the Serb people is unimaginable without Kosova and
Metohija as an unalienable part of the Serb state; convinced that
the president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, has created a blueprint
for a treachery against sacred Serb land to deliver it to Albanian
secessionists, we are hereby stating the following goals of Serb
national policy in Kosova and Metohija, and the necessary measures
for accomplishing such goals and crushing by all means the
secessionist insurrection of Albanians in Kosova and Metohija. In
order to thwart the effects of this insurrection, we are committed
to see the following issues settled urgently:
Reorganization of the state
To reorganize the state and change the current federation and
territorial autonomies because these autonomies have proven to be
fatal to the Serb people. The best solution would be to design a
single state that would include in it the Serb Republic of Krajina,
the Republika Srpska, the Republic of Serbia and Republic of
Montenegro. The Serb state would have one president, a single
parliament, a single government, while regions would be mediators
between the local administrations and the the central government.
The Serb state should be a national and democratic state of Serbs
and citizens and other ethnic groups, to whom all individual, civil
and civic rights would be guaranteed. The abolition of the existing
autonomy of Kosova and Metohija -- by which a fatal disparity was
created in Serbia and provided for the Albanians a basis to demand
secession -- is the core element in accomplishing the Serb national
issue. The Serb people now carrying out a demanding struggle for the
unification of all Serb lands must consider as its foremost priority
the keeping of all territories within Serb borders. The complete
inclusion of Kosova and Metohija into a unique Serb state is an
internal matter, and it must be resolved as such and without outside
arbitration by the so-called international community. A settlement
of the status of Kosova and Metohija as an integral part of the Serb
state as well as a settlement of all other issues related to
realization of a modern and democratic state of law can only be
achieved by creating a new constitution. The constitution can be
promulgated by a constitution-making parliament elected in a direct
ballot by all the people in the country. The national policy toward
Kosova and Metohija cannot be achieved without having it discussed
by the appropriate bodies of parliament and without the consent of
the legitimate representatives of the Serb people in Kosova and
Metohija. Taking into account the fact that a considerable number of
national minorities live in Serbia, they would, in conformity with
international standards, enjoy all individual and collective rights,
i.e., the right to using their languages in judicial matters, the
right to be educated in their own languages, the right to their
religious services, cultural activities and so forth. However, a
complementary requisite for enjoying such rights must be their
obligation to show loyalty to the state of which they are citizens.
Revision of the citizen registers and citizen rights on the basis of
the 1991 census
It is very necessary that the federal parliament urgently adopts the
law on citizenship. The law would define the number Albanian
immigrants and their predecessors, who have in an illegal way over
the period 1941-1987 acquired property and other estates no one
could ever achieve in any other country. There are around 400,000
such foreigners in Yugoslavia today, Such a law would prevent them
from living any longer in our state. Similar standards should be
applied to all citizens of the seceded republics, unless they are of
Serb nationality, and to all minorities who refuse to accept
citizenship in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Some 400,000
refugees from seceded Yugoslav republics could be settled in their
stead, a legitimate act of the regime. Two rules should be applied
in eliminating the immigrants: those who have been proven to be
extremists will be immediately expelled, while others must possess
the proper documents, the most important being the citizenship
certificate, something none of them of course has. This 'fatherland
certificate' must have on its cover page the Serb coat of arms: the
white double-headed eagle of the Nemanjics, and the crest with four
Cyrillic Ss. The failure to possess this paper would be the basis
for expulsion. The repatriation of Albanians temporarily working in
foreign countries must be prevented, especially those who left
during the 1990-1993 period (it is estimated that they number some
300,000). Employment should be denied to people of certain vocations
which would compell them to leave the country. Albanians are in this
respect very adept -- on the one hand because they have supporters
in many countries, and on the other it fits their mentality to live
in other countries. Such measures would first and foremost affect
the educated portion of their population, so that the rest could be
easily manipulated and not be able to organize resistance.
Revision of land ownership laws
In regard to revising ownership status a special law should be
promulgated by which all Albanian-owned land and other wealth will
be given back to Serbs and the Serb Orthodox Church in Kosova and
Metohija. The church used to be in possession of large estates and
it maintained welfare activities with the local population. By
enlarging its land and estate, the monasteries could in an optimal
manner perform their religious, cultural and national mission. They
could also help the Serb people meet and prevent their further
migration. In the events that took place in the second half of 20th
century, it was only the Serb priests who did not move from Kosova.
So, owing to their patriotism and their right to inheritance, they
deserve large estates. The land that was sold to Albanians or has in
one way or another ended up in the hands of Albanians, especially
over the period 1966-1987 (during the Communist and Ballist
[Albanian National Front] rule), as well as estates acquired by
Fascists during World War II, should be given back to their Serb
owners or/and their successors. This could be carried out easily
because Albanians in most of the cases have not built new houses but
have only knocked down those existing ones so that Serbs could not
have a place to go if they decided to return. Albanians have done
this because they feared that the situation might change and their
illegal appropriation of estates could not last forever. During the
socialist [Communist] reign, agricultural cooperatives and
collectives were exclusively established on the estates and in the
villages of Serbs, thus there is a serious need for reprivatization
to give those estates back to their previous owners under the
condition that they live on them. If not, the land should be offered
to new owners. There is plenty of state-owned land that can be
either allocated or sold to Serbs coming from outside Kosova and
Metohija. The land must be allocated to private owners, for the
state has not handled it properly. In addition, the land of
agricultural cooperatives is adequate for settling on it significant
numbers of colonists, who, by living there, could be more capable of
developing welfare, social, defense and other activities. There is
plenty of such land all over Kosova and Metohija. It is very easy to
concentrate on such lands Serbs who could maintain close cooperation
with other such centers to provide assistance in development. The
establishment of chains of such settlements is achievable in the
regions of Decan, Prizren and Suhareka, where, by expelling the
Albanians, a strong defense barricade against Albania could be
secured.
Changing the ethnic structure of the population
The colonization of Kosova and Metohija should be carried out
quickly and conclusively. Through political propaganda, colonists
could be portrayed as Serbs populating Serb land and it is all the
same which part of the country they live in as long as they live in
their own land. These Serbs should also be supplied with equipment
and long-term loans so they can cultivate the land they are granted
which would make them stay there. Most of the Croats from Janjeva
and Letnica [two Kosova regions where some Croats lived and still
do], guided by ethno-centrism, left for Croatia without any pressure
whatsoever. Their property has been either sold to Albanians or was
plundered by Albanians from adjacent regions. Serb refugees from
Croatia should be settled in those homes and estates. Besides
confiscating the land from Albanians which they illegally
expropriated, all those who have pillaged the wealth and have
occupied Serb territories must must pay the consequences pursuant to
the Law on Banning the Repatriation of Serbs in Kosova and Metohija.
The Law on Prohibition of Selling Estates should be fully respected
and all efforts should be made to have its provisions fully and
properly implemented. To this end, the foremost responsibility goes
to the current Ministry of Finances (Treasury) of the Republic of
Serbia, which has in fact mostly not enforced that law. Ethnic
expansion of Albanians onto Serb state- or privately owned land must
be foiled by all means possible. All Albanians who are not citizens
-- something can be easily proved with a census -- should be fired
from their jobs. All the Albanians who wish to leave will be given
passports. Albanians of Yugoslav citizenship living abroad and/or
involved in secessionist activities must lose their citizenship.
Taking into account the current ethnic distribution (with only a few
rural Serb enclaves and over 700 purely Albanian centers, while the
few Serbs in owns have been virtually suppressed by the Albanians,
we consider that the colonization should be carried out in an
organized fashion, through establishing of new villages,
settlements, small towns or new neighborhoods in existing towns).
Such places should be of a closed type with an inner form of
organization, i.e., medical services, entertainment, cultural
activities, etc. In this way people can be divided along ethnic
lines, while the minority Serb population in mixed neighborhoods in
the towns would gradually move to the newly established enclaves, an
idea which requires both support and motivation. In order to have
the Serb enclaves protected, an Albanian population of 5 to 10 per
cent should be installed there (a selection of distinguished
families and those with authority). Highways should be constructed
(up to 1 kilometer apart -- in a process that can be called "terrain
configuration -- to cleanse a wide belt through Albanian enclaves
and near other sites like military barracks, polygons, depots, etc.
Near such highways the land and space must be allocated to Serb
colonists, which would result in thinning the Albanian population of
the territories, one element that provides a feeling of security for
Albanians. These moves would create a "leopard spot" pattern of Serb
enclaves that would grow and eventually become larger than the
Albanian enclaves. Conquering territories in this way is more
efficient than "planting" individuals in Albanian communities, for
it does not raise ownership issues. The first method provides far
more security for colonists, while the second is a more lasting
process. The Serb enclaves would chiefly depend on state supplies
and a small number of Serb-owned private firms, while Albanian areas
would be supported mainly through private firms, which could be
allowed to operate. The state could help private firms that don't
operate efficiently. Further, electricity and water supplies to the
Albanian enclaves can be disrupted to make their lives unbearable.
All this will be aimed not only at having the Albanian population
divided but utterly isolated too. But if the Serbs find the
neighboring enclaves of Albanians attractive (with privately owned
shops, entertainment etc.), these can be eliminated by prompting
incidents in those enclaves, such as beatings and violence. The
fundamental prerequisite to efficiently control the flow of goods
and capital is to prevent corruption in Kosova and Metohija and
Serbia proper, for one has to bear in mind that Albanians are very
good at cheating and bribing others. To prevent the flow of large
amounts of capital through illegal routes - money should be strictly
controlled by a well-organized banking system, frequent
interventions of the fiscal police, rigid control of transportation
and roads, attention to any kind of major change in the market,
customs procedure and trade with dealers from abroad, financing
political organizations, etc. All necessary measures should be taken
to thwart the functioning of the Albanian private sector through
permanent restriction of their activities, which could in turn
result in maintaining rigid control over the funds of their
political parties. Contacts with private firms and companies in
Serbia must be prevented so Albanian capital cannot have a monopoly
in Serbia. Through adequate legislation and efficient taxing
policies, large amounts of money could be collected and used in
financing programs like colonization . Paramount attention must be
paid to drugs trafficking. If one Albanian is caught in such an
activity, that must be used as a pretext to stalk and punish large
groups of them. Such cases would discredit important personalities
in the eyes of the Western world. This is a particularly sensitive
issue for them because Albanians are already considered the main
traffickers of drugs in the world. Rigorous measures should be
undertaken against Albanian smugglers -- especially in tobacco. All
this can result in serious social tensions if one bears in mind the
fact that most of the Albanian population earns its living from
selling things on the streets and by smuggling, practices which
inevitably results in increase of criminal/illegal activities.
However, we consider that through a strong and efficient police
force, it is quite easy to make people seek refuge abroad. All steps
should be undertaken so the capital of Albanians be channeled
through Macedonia and Albania. The issuing of papers from state
authorities (besides the seizure of passports) has to be as
complicated as possible, with all those who fail to possess proper
papers to be oppressively fined. Albanians like to stick to their
tribal procedures in solving disputes and hate administrative
intervention in the walks of life they consider important to them.
Such legislation should be adopted which would force Albanians to
ask for permission to even possess a cow. To promote such
regulations will persuade them to go abroad, and then face serious
impediments at the borders when attempting to come back. As for Serb
enclaves the procedure should be less complicated, while in the
cities where services are common to the whole community, like the
Ministry of Interior, citizens of different nationalities should be
treated in different ways. These procedures will undoubtedly result
in dissatisfaction in their community which will be a precondition
for a broad readiness for involvement in various organizations,
including terrorist ones. Therefore, individuals from the state
security must be "infiltrated" by agents who could pretend to press
for establishing such underground or/and hostile organizations, or
even become the leaders of such groupings. Such ruses could be
exploited by the state as a pretext to undertake uncompromising
actions against all their organizations which would result in
inter-ethnic tensions and a further ruptures in their parallel life.
To this end, more and more such groups are needed, while the police
would now and then destroy one of them, which could then be allowed
to consolidate again and look like genuine and "bona fide"
organizations. Political parties of Albanians should be created
through specific legislation and at the same time scandals should be
created to discredit them. This could discredit their leaders in
eyes of the domestic and foreign public opinion, a particularly
sensitive consideration for Albanians. Distinguished individuals who
play important roles in their political life should be eliminated
through scandals or by staging traffic accidents, jealousy killings
or infecting them with the AIDS virus when they travel abroad. Their
infection would be discovered when crossing borders thus they could
be quarantined. Through adequate propaganda in their mass media such
events can create such an artificial picture of an intolerable
percentage of infected people, which would be used as an excuse to
isolate large groups of people. This would help in promoting a
picture of Albanians as an infected people.
Information and propaganda
To broadcast special radio and TV programs in the Albanian language
which would aim at eroding their patriarchal and tribal mentality by
offering the most decadent values of the West, which can be easily
adopted by primitive people. The Serb enclaves could be spared from
such programs primarily owing to language barriers, as well as
through establishing cable television in newly erected buildings and
settlements for Serbs. It is fundamental to establish a powerful and
efficient propaganda machinery to feed international public opinion,
something which has been already used. Even an underground (secret)
publishing activity must be originated to enable them to defuse the
criticism against the Serb regime. Albanians must be denied all
kinds of social assistance, for it has facilitated their high birth
rate. This birth rate among the national minorities of the Moslem
faith has resulted in a very high population in Kosova and Metohija.
Such a thing creates a demographic surplus, therefore emigration of
Albanians is indispensable and could be carried out without any
pressure by the Serb authorities. A crucial element of the Serb
national program is to have a third and fourth child. Serbia has
enough space and economic resources to handle dozens of millions of
inhabitants, hence an increased birth rate is important in every
respect. In order to have the Serb birth rate increased, which would
directly impact on Kosova and Metohija itself, scores of concrete
actions must be undertaken, be that stimulative or restrictively,
respectively. Serb mothers who have three, four or more children
should be entitled to their retirement earlier. They must be granted
children's allowance, regardless their family income. Planning and
enlarging of families must be the top priority of all individuals,
families and entire society. Serb families with more children must
be granted loans for house and private business, they must be
granted apartments, they must be given jobs and other facilities and
incentives to bring up their children. It is necessary to open in
Kosova and Metohija region military and police schools and
academies, additional military institutions and other state
institutions such as ministries which would facilitate the settling
there of thousands of army officers, policemen, state clerks,
together with their families, with the infrastructure needed for
normal life. All the Serbs who wish to live in those areas must be
given free, fertile land, construction sites, and sites for their
private business. All those who locate their economic facilities
there and have at least 10 employees, should be provided with
abundant opportunities, such as being exempted from taxes for ten
years.
Retired officers from the army, policemen and state clerks can have
their accommodation/housing problems solved by allocating to them
comfortable and maximally big apartments in the region of Kosova and
Metohija. The border belt, a minimum of 50 kilometers adjacent to
Albania should be used for settling Serbs. This would avert any
danger of having the zone jeopardized, while the neighborly
relationship could work in compliance with needs and interests of
both sides. The border zone near Albania could be exclusively
allocated to Serbs, while the rest of land would be the property of
the Yugoslav army.
Education
The education system in state schools should stick to elements and
values of the Serb, European and world culture and art; the
instruction language must be Serbian. Open perspectives and free
development in Serbia are very attractive for the minorities.
Schools in languages of minorities will be treated as private, while
if one wants to have a job he will need a verification proving he
has completed courses pursuant to the state curricula. A careful
selection and normal inclusion of all positive Serb values and
structures will be included in their education in this way.
Following the overthrow of the Albanian parastate, the Serb
University of Prishtine has made a radical change and it is in a
good way to achieve enormous results, which directly determine the
fate of Kosova and Metohija and the state itself. This course should
be further stabilized and promoted, in harmony with the new needs
and curricula. All the efforts should be made that conditions at the
Serbian University of Prishtine be more favorable than in Serbia
proper. Efforts should be made to further maintain and promote the
current illegal parallel education of Albanians, because in this way
they will have all the doors closed for employment and incorporation
in the society. All these efforts should be made to have the
population dispersed all over the world, including Macedonia and
Albania. Such activities should be carried out concomitantly with
various forms of pressure and creating feelings of uncertainty. All
the tools, though modified to specific circumstances, should be used
to prevent Albanian secessionists from having a job.
Army
In order to have the Kosova and Metohija problem solved, the
Yugoslav army must be turned into the Serb army. People from the
republics that have seceded from the federation must be immediately
driven out of the army, in the first place all those holding
commanding posts, except those who have distinguished themselves as
verified and gallant combatants in defending the freedom of the Serb
people. Such an army would be more consolidated and more capable to
solve complicated military and war issues, and, furthermore it could
be less expensive. The Law on the Army should be so severe that it
would oblige every citizen of Yugoslavia to make his contribution in
defense of the country, while members of national minorities could
contribute with money or labor. These issues must be arranged in
details by a specific law. In the vicinity of the existing military
bases it is necessary to intensify the settling of Serbs, while
non-Serbs must not be allowed to build houses there. The current
situation in this respect is catastrophic, therefore urgent measures
are needed to have it changed. Some military facilities of a vital
importance should be relocated to Serb enclaves, but at the same
time they must maintain full control all over the territory of
Kosova and Metohija through visits, maneuvers and other activities
of the army. Within the army, it is indispensable to legalize the
operation of professional Chetnik guerrilla units, who should be
located in localities of strategic importance in Kosova and Metohija.
Police
The police are a very important element of the state, responsible
for keeping Kosova and Metohija as the permanent property of the
Serb state. However, the police must be better trained and more
professional than they are now. The police must have young and
educated people, while all its members must complete additional
courses. The police academy will play a crucial role in this
respect. Police forces in Kosova and Metohija will be exclusively
involved in protecting Serb inhabitants, as an endangered people in
these areas.
Public Services
The route through which the Serb army withdrew in 1915 has
significantly determined the direction of a future highway (Nis,
Prishtine, Podgorica, Bar), which would in a solid way connect
Serbia with Montenegro and the Adriatic Sea, via Kosova and Metohija.
The realization of such a project must be a priority for the public
services. Even during the international sanctions and economic
crisis it is possible to have a rapid progress in this direction,
which would have an epochal impact on the problem of Kosova.
Defense
The current situation in Kosova and ija can result in
unpredictable consequences, especially if outside factors aim at
implementing such a scenario. Therefore, particular attention must
be paid to preventive actions, first of all by seizing all kinds of
weaponry, in with licenses or without them, so to neutralize all
paramilitary, para-police and para-territorial defense formations.
If we have to fight a war to defend Kosova and Metohija, it should
be fought with all possible means and have it finished as soon as
possible. No talks or agreements should start with representatives
of Albanians until the law on citizenship is adopted and until it is
verified the exact number of those who recognize and accept this
state as a state of theirs. To those Albanians who claim to be
citizens of Serbia or Yugoslavia, respectively, the state should be
more tolerant, and they can be incorporated into state and political
bodies if they accept the Serb state and its laws.