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Now comes ethnic cleansing in reverse. Human Rights Watch reports that more than 164,000 Serbs have fled Kosovo, along with "significant" numbers of Gypsies, to escape the revenge of Kosovar Albanians.
Since there were only 180,000 Serbs in Kosovo before this all began, it looks as if the cleansing has been fairly complete.
The Kosovo Liberation Army, defenders of the Albanian majority, have now occupied most civil offices and have become a de facto government under the semi-approving gaze of NATO.
By now, it is becoming clear that this war is much more than the leaders of the West and their army of flacks have been telling us it was. Kosovo is a bloody struggle over territory and revenge.
Those who likened the Serbian atrocities against the Kosovars to the Holocaust were wrong, as were those who advertised NATO intervention to rescue them as a great moral crusade like the lib