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Коштуница хуже Милошевича лидеры косовских албанцев
Бывший главарь террористической Армии Освобождения Косова Хашим Тачи утверждает «Международное сообщество уже знает приемы Милошевича и не даст себя обмануть. При его власти нам легче будет получить независимость» Kostunica more dangerous leader than Milosevic: Kosovo leaders PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Oct 3 (AFP) — Vojislav Kostunica — championed by the West as Yugoslavia's new leader — has greater nationalist ambitions and is «more dangerous» than incumbent President Slobodan Milosevic himself, according to Kosovo's budding new political classes. Kostunica, who defeated Milosevic in September 24 presidential elections but faces a second round of voting on October 8, "is more dangerous than Milosevic because he has led the international community to believe he is a moderate politician," the secretary general of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Jakup Krasniqi, told AFP. "But he cannot be a moderate because he has warned that he will not turn Milosevic over to the International Criminal Tribunal (for the former Yugoslavia)," added the secretary of the PDK, one of the leading political forces in post-war Kosovo. Milosevic has been indicted by the international tribunal for warcrimes and crimes against humanity during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war. Yugoslavia's election commission has called for a second vote, claiming Kostunica did not secure an absolute majority in the first round, beating Milosevic with only 49 percent of the vote. Kostunica, who claims to have won over 52 percent, has refused to return to the polls and called national strikes this week, with heavy backing from the West, to force Milosevic to accept defeat. "Kostunica and Milosevic are both creatures of extremist Serb nationalism. They are for a Greater Serbia," the PDK secretary general said, explaining that Kostunica supported the Bosnian Serb ultranationalist leader, Radovan Karadzic, one of the international tribunal's most wanted war criminals. "Kostunica focused his campaign on nationalism, accusing Milosevic of having lost Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia (all former Yugoslav republics) and Kosovo", the president of the Liberal Centrist Party (PQLK), Naim Maloku said. Not only is Kostunica labelled as a dangerous nationalist in this mainly ethnic Albanian province, but he is also accused of taking part in the war between separatist fighters and Serbian forces which ended in June 1999. A picture of the would-be Yugoslav president clutching a Kalashnikov, allegedly taken during the war, appeared all over Kosovo's Albanian language newpapers recently. "If Milosevic goes, a man accused of warcrimes will be replaced by a former (Serb) paramilitary in Kosovo," Maloku, who fought himself with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the war, said. Several ethnic Albanian politicians here believe Kostunica has tricked the European Union and the United States, who have promised to lift sanctions on Yugoslavia if Kostunica is recognised as its new president. "If Kostunica arrives in power, he will trick the international community for a while. Independence for Kosovo will be delayed and we will get impatient. With him, there is a risk of another war," said the secretary general of the PDK, led by the former political leader of the KLA Hashim Thaci. "The international community knows Milosevic's politics and will not be taken for a ride. It will be easier for us to have independence with him in power," he added. Ethnic Albanians here may secretly hope Milosevic will stay in power but not enough to actively vote for him. They boycotted the first round of voting, continuing their tradition that began in 1989 when Belgrade denied Kosovo its autonomy, and if a second round goes ahead they will not turn out to vote. «Yugoslav elections are foreign to us,» the ethnic Albanian politcians say. For them, Kosovo, which has been run by the UN since June 1999, is no longer part of Yugoslavia.