“The agenda of the KLA is not independence for Kosovo, but a Greater Albania.” - Robin Cook in Parliament 18 January 1999.

See Appendix 3 above.

"If you want to draw international attention you have to fight for it. That is exactly it. You need to use violence to achieve your goals." - Veton Surroi, KLA political leader, in BBC programme, Moral Combat - NATO at War, March 2000.

"The more civilians were killed the chances of international intervention became bigger, and the KLA, of course, realised that. There was this foreign diplomat who once told me, ‘Look, unless you pass the count of 5,000 deaths you will never have anybody permanently present in Kosovo from the foreign diplomacy.’" - Dugi Gorani, KLA negotiator. - ibid. It has been suggested that this foreign diplomat was Madeleine Albright.

"Any armed action we undertook would bring retaliation against civilians. We knew we were endangering a great number of civilian lives." - Hashim Thaci, KLA political leader. - ibid.

The KLA mingled with civilians and a great many of their members were non-uniformed village militia. They themselves killed many civilians, including their own people when they believed them to be "collaborators". Unfortunately, as a result of KLA intimidation, the witness of Kosovo Albanians about their experiences is less reliable than it might be.