Chapter 592 592 The so-called massacre
The Yugoslav People's Army has undergone development and reform in the 90s, especially the enhancement of exchanges with the Chinese army, and its combat effectiveness has developed by leaps and bounds. In particular, Yugoslavia has received a part of China's cheap supply of advanced weapons, and has improved its defense industry, and the level of equipment is among the highest in the whole of Europe.
The two KPA heavy brigades sent by Novakovic to Kosovo are modern mechanized units that have been reorganized and reformed. For example, the main battle tank uses the VT-1A2 tank that China has authorized Yugoslavia's own enterprises to assemble itself, and the standard rifle is also used by China.5 Type 8-II of 8mm caliber.
After all, the Chinese Army's "extravagance" is world-famous, and the Yugoslav People's Army cannot build its own army according to the standards of the Chinese army, such as the lack of various advanced electronic warfare weapons and the lack of sufficient helicopters. The total number of these two heavy brigades is about 20 helicopters, some of which were purchased from the former Soviet Union, and some of which were imported from China later. Of course, the performance of Chinese helicopters is much better than that of the former Soviet Union.
In this combat operation, Novakovich dispatched the heavy brigade of the People's Army, which actually meant that he was killing chickens with knives, mainly to show his tough hand and reduce the political pressure on himself. In fact, although the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has received support from the United States and other Western countries, it actually lacks heavy firepower, and has little resistance in the face of tens of thousands of people in the two heavy brigades of the KPA.
However, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is also relatively fierce and resolute, and even though its strength is far inferior to that of the regular army, it still uses various favorable conditions to counterattack the government army.
Two days after the occupation of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, KLA heavy units launched a recapture operation against the city. Because the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) basically does not have field combat capabilities, it can only watch the armored units of the Yugoslav People's Army drive into the city. However, KSA has been ruthless in the city, using all necessary means, including mines, C4s, ambushes and sneak attacks, to prevent the KPA from retaking Pristina.
This urban war caused significant losses to Pristina, which was not very large. In order to clear the militants, the tanks ruthlessly fired into the buildings, and the militants did not hesitate to blow up the buildings and block the enemy with collapsed masonry in order to bury the government troops.
The fighting brought disaster to the residents of Pristina, and the locals, who were excited to welcome independence, did not expect to wait for a war, and in such a life-and-death dispute, neither the KPA nor the Kosovo Liberation Army had any intention of taking into account the lives and lives of the locals, so they had to flee from the city in frustration and became groups of war refugees.
On the first day of the urban warfare, the overwhelming KPA recaptured the government building and took control of most of the city, but the cunning and shrewd Kokto constantly fought with them, launching sneak attacks on the government forces occupying Pristina in some residential areas, causing them to suffer some losses.
With the support and support of the CIA, Hasin Tuci, a key leader in the leadership of the Kosovo Liberation Army, began to launch attacks throughout Kosovo, with the main goal of attacking important government offices such as police stations and city halls, as well as acquiring some useful weapons. In addition, it is necessary to seize some news and media units, occupy the mouthpieces of public opinion, and fan the momentum for the action of scientific and technological interpretation.
Kosovo is a predominantly agricultural area, and the rural areas are redundant with towns, and the operation in the rural areas has made the encirclement and suppression of Kosovo even more troublesome. Although they recaptured the important town of Pristina in one day, in order to completely eliminate KLA, they had to divide their forces and use smaller establishments as operating units to attack KLA forces in a wider area.
However, this war is not as easy as Novakovic imagined, and the Kozakh solution, which has received external support, has especially chosen a more correct line of struggle, although Kosovo has basically been recaptured by the army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, there are still thousands of scattered armed elements in the entire autonomous province who insist on resisting, and the official authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have a bigger problem, and the separatist tendency of the Albanians in the territory has become obvious. Especially after the KPA occupied Kosovo, they looked at the KPA with the eyes of the aggressor, which made the KPA soldiers feel chills on their scalps.
In addition, because of the devastation caused by the war, a large number of war refugees have been born in the local area, and in order to escape the war, they fled from the city and had no livelihood, so it is really not easy to resettle these refugees and persuade them to return to their homes. Moreover, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia also needs to distinguish between refugees and militants with ulterior motives, so that the handling of refugees is extremely strict, not only restricting the activities of refugees, but also carrying out actions such as body searches, which naturally caused a lot of conflicts in the process, and was even called a violation of human rights by the Western media.
Three weeks after the events in Pristina, in a refugee camp near the Albanian border, there was a case in which KPA detected KLM armed elements hiding in a refugee camp. This KPA company had suffered heavy losses after being attacked by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) before, and it was so hateful that after discovering that some of the KPA militants were mixed in with the crowd, its company commander ordered the soldiers to arrest the militants and then shoot them en masse to vent their anger.
However, the process was somewhat skewed, and some non-Kodei civilians were also executed in the incident, and in the end they killed more than 100 militants, at least 20% of them innocent Albanians. In addition, this company was mainly composed of Serbs, so it was natural that it was labeled as a genocide, and even the outside world raised the blame all the way to the top of the KPA and the Yugoslav Federation, believing that someone was behind the planned massacre.
In particular, after this news began to spread in the West, the media, including the BBC, CNN, and other media, consciously ignored the fact that the executed people were themselves participants in the war, and exaggerated the contradictions between the Serbs and the Albanians, creating the false impression that the Serbs were consciously ethnically cleansing the Albanians and that a terrible humanitarian crisis was unfolding in the Balkans.
After this incident was revealed, it aroused widespread dissatisfaction among the Albanians, and more Albanians in Kosovo began to join the Kosovo Liberation Army and fight against the Yugoslav People's Army. The leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Hasin Tuci, also made a video statement on the Internet, calling on Western countries to strengthen support for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and save Albanians who are being systematically slaughtered.
What could at best be regarded as the execution of prisoners of war turned into a bloody and horrific massacre that put the Yugoslav authorities under enormous pressure. At this time, Prime Minister Novakovic, who decided to deal with the Kosovo solution, realized that something was wrong, but at this time, even if he wanted to soften and negotiate with the Kosovo solution and the Albanians, the people would not necessarily be willing, because the hatred had already been formed.
In this incident, the West also insidiously highlighted the contradiction between the Serbs and the Albanians, while the Croats, Slovenes, Bosniaks, Montenegrins, and so on seem to be able to stand on the sidelines, which is actually a means of alienating the Yugoslav internal nation from the consciousness. Indeed, some Croats and Slovenes are not very concerned about this conflict, and do not even want to see soldiers from their region go to Kosovo to fight.
The long-awaited opportunity for Americans has finally arrived, and US President Clinton has publicly expressed his strong condemnation of the genocide of the Yugoslav authorities and called on NATO to intervene in this humanitarian crisis to prevent further harm. The implication is that the United States should discuss with NATO a way to resolve the Kosovo crisis.
President Milutinović said that the so-called massacre was a fictitious thing, and Western countries were consciously spreading rumors to shake the stability and peace of Yugoslavia, and he called on the Yugoslav people to see the truth of the incident and not fall for the Westerners.
Approaching, the UN Security Council issued a statement strongly urging all parties to the conflict in Kosovo of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to participate in peace talks "actively, sincerely and unconditionally" and to create conditions for a political settlement of the Kosovo issue. The countries involved in the peace talks include the five rogue countries of the United Nations, plus the regional powers Germany and Italy, and the meeting will be held in Paris, France. Whether you like it or not, the Kosovo crisis has officially escalated into an international problem, and it is impossible for Yugoslavia to solve it on its own behind closed doors.
Since the outbreak of the crisis in Kosovo, China has been relatively tight-lipped, and has not said anything favorable or harmful to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and all that can be said is nothing more than "I hope that the crisis can be resolved peacefully and politically, and that Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity will be protected, and the rights of the people of Kosovo will be respected."
Qi Yiming also planned to do so, such a negotiation is basically a Hongmen banquet, the Yugoslav authorities will definitely not be able to get benefits, and the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy must wear a pair of pants to support the scientific solution, Russia belongs to the role of soy sauce, then only China can support Yugoslavia. When the time comes, China will inevitably bite the bullet and bite the bullet, Yugoslavia's national sovereignty cannot be violated, and it will refuse the entry of any NATO security forces, and it will inevitably reject the option of Kosovo's independence from Yugoslavia.
After the negotiation breaks down, how to end it is the most crucial.