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...Yugoslav leadership has largely tried to repress the ethnic Albanians, but, according to Crawford, when the Kosovar Liberation Army arose a year ago, it gave Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic an excuse to use actual ethnic cleansing campaigns...
After giving the audience a brief history of the Kosovo region from 1389 to the present, Crawford identified two points that he said have not been clear in the media coverage...
...Crawford explained that the differences between the Serbians and the ethnic Albanians are more deeply rooted than differences between other groups in the region, all of which are of Slavic origin...
...think this is about territory," Crawford said. "What it is about is numbers...
According to Crawford, by the early 1980s, Serbs realized that they would soon be an ethnic minority in Kosovo, and throughout Serbia. The shift would have been the result of the growing ethnic Albanian population...