Remorse after 12 years:  Serbs, sorry for our crime

Former officer in the NATO force in Kosovo and Metohija, Christian Kas (Kristian Kahrs), has publicly asked forgiveness of the Serbian people because of the evil that they had been subjected to during and after the 1999 bombing.

At the crime scene ... Kas now lives in Belgrade and he is sorry for the injustices inflicted on the Serbs

Kas is the rank of Major 2000th The spent six months in Kosovo in the KFOR mission.
- A month ago I saw the Serbs from Kosovo in a refugee camp near Resnik Crabs and then I realized how much we have caused harm to people here. More than ten years, I felt a collective responsibility because we did not defend the Serbs in Kosovo. However, after that visit the camp I felt a personal and moral responsibility since I was a senior officer in NATO. I want to publicly ask for forgiveness from the Serbian people. We were unable to protect them from the Albanians, we are totally failed in its mission. We are responsible for ethnic cleansing, under our supervision have been expelled more than 250,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians - began Kas story for the Press.
Norway welcomed the start of the bombing of the military exercises of his army, and soon after he arrived in Kosovo. According to UN Resolution 1244, Kas was part of a mission that was supposed to protect minority populations from the persecution of Albanians.
- In early January 2000. year I arrived in Kosovo. I stayed there for six months and I worked on the staff as an officer for notification. I was a spokesman for KFOR, and in my responsibilities was the official site of the mission. I watched closely to make big mistakes in the field. I watched as the force of law enforcement, as we are too busy on the role of liberators Albanians. We were too discouraged when we were allowed to transform the KLA into the Kosovo Protection Corps and then in Kosovo police.

Black Balance:

• 78 days time the bombing of Yugoslavia, from 24 March to 10 June 1999.
• 3,500 people killed
• 89 children killed
• 1031 member of the military and police killed
• 12,500 people injured
• 2,700 children were injured
• 19 countries participated in the aggression
• 2300 air attacks carried out
• 995 facilities attacked
• 1150 combat aircraft participated
• 420 000 projectiles were fired

Kas said he did not know much about Serbia before the arrival of the mission. He was shocked by some of the details that he has learned.
- I was preparing to institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. There I met a lot of scientists who knew the situation in the Balkans. He was a prominent opponent of the bombing, told me that the authorities in Kosovo holds the mafia, that organized crime is widespread. He told me that there are data that suggest that the Albanians were the main heroin dealers in Norway. Later I was convinced of the truth of it - says Kas.
He remained as an officer of NATO in Kosovo by July 2000. year. After leaving military service he returned to Kosovo as a freelance journalist and remained there until February 2001. year.
- I will never forget the 16th February 2001. year. Then the terrorist attack occurred on the bus "Nis Express" in Podujevo. The attack was carried out Florim Ejupi. Then killed 12 Serbs. I was only an hour and a half after the massacre, and I saw bodies of killed Serbs, including the body of a child. Then I decided to leave. I moved to Serbia, where they still live and work as a freelance journalist. I do not want to go back to Norway, I want to live in Serbia - ending his confession Christian Kas.