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NATO celebrated nearly four months of its occupation of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo this week by ordering British troops to demolish Serb barricades in the town of Kosovo Polje.
Despite protests, dumper trucks plowed into roadblocks which were erected after ethnic Albanian gangs launched two grenades into a local market place last week, killing two people and wounding more than 40.
However, to the southwest of the occupied province ethnic Albanians have been blockading the town of Orahovac to keep out Russian troops for more than a month without any interference from NATO whatsoever.
This is yet another example of the double standards that riddles the so-called KFOR occupation force.
KFOR spokesman Major Roland Lavoie made clear one of the real reasons behind the latest NATO action when he admitted that the Kosovo Polje protest cut off the main route from Pristina to its airport.
"There are some protests that prevent people from doing their job, providing security or aid to the population," he said.
Yugoslavia has complained to the United Nations that the decision to open the airport in the Kosovo capital Pristina violated Yugoslav civil air traffic security.
Yugoslav UN envoy Vladislav Jovanovic expressed concern at this "new unilateral and arbitrary decision" and called for it to be revoked.
Stressing that Kosovo was an "autonomous province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia," he said that, under the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, Yugoslavia "has the sole responsibility and rights in its undivided airspace."
Yugoslavia accordingly expected that the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo's (UNMIK) decision to open the airport "will be revoked and that the question of the opening of Pristina airport for commercial flights be resolved in cooperation with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
Mr Jovanovic also protested that the mortar attack on Kosovo Polje was "a terrorist act which exposes the charade" behind the UN decision "to 'demilitarize' and 'transform, ' the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army into the Kosovo Protection Corps."
Not surprisingly these protests have been totally ignored by NATO and the European Union.
Russia has even warned the west that it could end its participation in Kosovo operations unless suggestions the province could secede from Yugoslavia are stopped.
Concerns focused on comments by Western officials who had been "trying to re-examine the agreements about the inviolability of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and sovereignty."
Despite denials from the west that this is, indeed, the plan, the European Union rubber-stamped plans this week to exempt Kosovo and Montenegro from the oil embargo against Yugoslavia.
An EU spokesman also said that a separate decision would be taken by EU foreign ministers next week to exempt Kosovo and Montenegro from a ban on civilian flights.
These moves follow the western administration's decision to allow the German mark to become the effective currency of Kosovo.
As the depleted uranuim dust settles over the Balkans, the west's war aims are becoming clearer by the day and pious and hypocritical words about "humanitarian aims" are becoming less audible.