At the beginning of '99, on the streets of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, a large number of Albanian residents began to gather at some point, carrying uniform signs and slogans, chanting slogans, protesting in the streets, and shouting, with the loudest words being "independence," "sovereignty," "Albania," and so on.

At first, there were no large-scale protests in Pristina, which is a small city with a population of less than 700,000 people, but slowly, Albanians from all over Kosovo, and even ethnic Albanians from Albania and other countries, gathered in Kosovo to participate in this large-scale demonstration.

The demonstrations were jointly initiated by some scattered Kosovo Albanian political organizations, trade union organizations and other industry organizations, so they seemed to involve all walks of life and were very representative, and even some Kosovo CPs participated in the demonstrations, demanding that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia give up the oppression of Kosovo and give Kosovo a higher autonomy and even sovereignty, so that Kosovo can be completely independent.

Slowly, the number of Albanians attending the march and rally increased, and they came to the door of the government building, and it was at this time that a dramatic event took place, and the governor of the autonomous province of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, the chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo and one of the few local heads of the Yugoslav local administrative units who were not cadres of the Yugoslav Communist Party, came out of the government building and addressed the demonstrators.

“…… My Albanian compatriots, your peaceful call for independence, I have heard, and as your elected leader, it is my duty to insist on what you stand for, and since your insistence is to give Kosovo the identity of a sovereign and independent State, then this will also be what the Kosovo authorities are after. Long live Kosovo! Long live the Albanians! ”

Rugova's speech completely ignited the atmosphere of the whole scene, and the crowd excitedly shouted "Long live Kosovo!" Long live the Albanians! It seems that from this moment on they have achieved independence. The military and police of the Yugoslav security forces who were maintaining order at the scene, because most of them were not local Albanians, all turned blue when they saw this scene, and the commander of the military police even wanted to go up and negotiate with Rugova, but any rash actions on their part in this scene could lead to extremely bad results.

No one knows why things have turned out the way they have been, or what they have turned out to be. Since the political reform in Yugoslavia, especially after Novaković came to power, Yugoslavia has not only failed to forcefully suppress some separatist forces in the region when Milosevic was in charge of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the other hand, but has continued to make concessions in an attempt to win over these people by means of appeasement in exchange for their satisfaction.

The CP forces in Kosovo are already weak, especially after the political reform, which has allowed other political parties in some regions to participate in politics, especially in some places with a high degree of autonomy. Even though the central power in Yugoslavia was still the dictatorship of the Yugoslav Communist Party, other parties were allowed to intervene at the local level. The fact that the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) led by Rugova was able to become the ruling party in the autonomous province of Kosovo was inseparable from Novakovic's appeasement and support.

Rugova is a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised, he is the GZJY group in Kosovo, and he has a natural hostility to Yugoslavia, no matter how Novakovic tries to win him over, it will not work, but the Americans threw a meat and bone over, and this guy immediately joined the "cuckoo plan" of the Americans to cause trouble in Yugoslavia.

He was an important part of the cuckoo plan, and when the Americans rallied Kosovo's Albanians to demonstrate, he came out to deal a fatal blow to the Yugoslav authorities. At this time, a situation had already emerged in Kosovo in which both public opinion and local government had fallen to the independent side, and the Yugoslav authorities would be very embarrassed in how to accept them.

And there's more to the Cuckoo Project than that!

Just as the people were cheering, as if they were celebrating the imminent independence of the country, suddenly several gunshots rang out in the square, and then several young Albanian students were seen lying in pools of blood. Then, naturally, someone shouted: "The military police shot and killed, the military police shot and killed!" ”

"Stooge! They can't see us independent! ”

"Kill them, long live Kosovo's independence!"

The Kosovars, whose eyes were bloody, rushed to the Yugoslav security forces, who were originally maintaining order, and the Yugoslav security forces were also confused, because they had not shot at the people in the field just now, but someone pointed the blame at them.

Several military and police officers who could not react were directly knocked down by the demonstrators, and the angry demonstrators punched and kicked them, and even beat these poor military and police to death. They took the weapons of the military police, and some of the daring ones immediately started shooting the military police with their guns. But the crowd was so dense that the bullets did not hit the military and police, but caused more casualties among the demonstrators, and the blame was attributed to the Yugoslav security forces, who turned their hands on them even more angrily.

Some of the military and police officers closest to the masses were the most unlucky, many of them were directly pulled down and beaten violently, and they wanted to fight back with rifle butts and batons, but there were too many people to fight back at all. Finally, one of the men could not bear this fear, picked up the Type 85-II automatic rifle in his hand, and opened fire on the demonstrators who rushed towards him. And it was extremely convenient, and a reporter next to him raised his camera and captured his hideous face and tongue of fire shooting at the Albanians.

The Yugoslav security forces on the periphery, under the command of the commander on the ground, lined up a shield wall with riot shields and covered the retreat of other military and police, and a large number of demonstrators launched an assault on the shield wall, but in the end the shield wall was held. A group of Kosovars who seized the military police weapons opened fire on them with guns, injuring several military police, and the on-site commander exercised great restraint and did not order the opening of fire on the locals, because if he did, he would be at high risk of being harmed by the extremists, even if he was judged to be okay in the future.

Rugova did not expect things to turn out like this, with more than 60 Kosovars killed and wounded, more than 20 military and police killed and wounded, and what he thought was a peaceful and non-violent march turned into bloodshed, and once the blood was shed, things were out of his control.

Rugova appealed loudly: "Compatriots, please remain calm, do not use violence, the independence we fought for, we do not need blood to water, every life is precious!" ”

But by this time his voice could no longer change the hustle and bustle of the crowd, and someone shouted sarcastically: "Our relatives and friends shed blood, and those shameless Serbs will pay with blood!" ”

"Weakness can't be exchanged for independence, cowardice can't be exchanged for respect, everyone is reversed, the occupation government, we don't need the Yugoslavs to recognize us, we have to be our own masters today!"

Such voices in the crowd came and went, and set off a greater response from people. These people are actually members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) who have returned from the United States and have been trained by the Americans, and unlike Rugova, who advocates nonviolent pacifism, they want a war and revolution to seize Kosovo's independence.

It was this group of people who shot in the crowd just now and caused chaos, and they were the ones who beat the military and police the most, and soon they also grabbed a lot of weapons and formed a fighting force. Surrounded by agitated Kosovars, armed elements of the Kosovo Liberation Army began to storm government buildings, and cheers and shouts for the liberation of Kosovo were everywhere.

A flag with six five stars on a blue background and in the shape of yellow Kosovo territory was flown and subsequently planted by KLA militants on the provincial government building in Pristina. Out of nowhere, more and more militants began to attack the Yugoslav security forces, who did not have many weapons.

"Reinforcements, we need reinforcements, this is a premeditated and organized rebellion, the city is now full of mobs and armed rebels, we need reinforcements, we need heavy troops!" The commander said anxiously that he had lost a lot of his men from the beginning of the conflict.

The Yugoslav People's Army does not have much presence in Kosovo, and the capital of Pristina, for example, is just some ordinary internal security forces. In order to show his sincerity, Prime Minister Novakovic has repeatedly moved the KPA units stationed in Kosovo to other places, which has also caused Kosovo's current defense to be relatively empty.

Eventually, a small number of security forces withdrew from Pristina, and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) successfully captured the capital city.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately shocked the world, and at the same time, it also gave the Yugoslav authorities, especially Prime Minister Novakovic, a difficult problem for them, how to deal with this rebellion, which became their most difficult problem. After the rebellion broke out, many Huairou policy officials in the government, who had always opposed Novakovic, jumped out to take the lead and held that Novakovic was primarily responsible for what happened in Kosovo.

Novakovic was originally soft-hearted, and he couldn't sit still as soon as he was provoked by his opponents. That night, Novaković made a speech, saying that Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity brook no violation, that what happened in Kosovo was a shameful rebellion, that the Yugoslav people would never allow such a thing to happen, and that the KPA would quickly react to the situation and safeguard Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

This can be regarded as a 360-degree U-turn in his attitude towards Kosovo, and his speech that night had no room for the slightest, and he was tough, although he was supported by many nationalists in the country, but it also completely put Yugoslavia and Kosovo in opposition. Soon, the Yugoslav People's Army received his order to set out to quell the rebellion, and two heavy brigades and one internal guard brigade were sent to Kosovo, and a civil war broke out.