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And whatever their motives, those who killed and put to flight Albanians, and those with authority over the killers and ethnic cleansers bear personal responsibility for the epidemic of crimes in Kosovo.

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responsibility

Question:

Who controlled the killers?

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Those with authority over the killers and ethnic cleansers bear personal responsibility for the epidemic of crimes in Kosovo, regardless of their motives, because ethnic cleansing was a familiar feature of twentieth-century Balkan history, and those who killed and put to flight Albanians had personal responsibility for the crimes committed. The war in Kosovo was not successful because NATO waged the war on behalf of its values, not for its interests, and the harm to the people of the Balkans was inevitable and entirely the fault of Serbia, according to the Clinton administration. However, there are reasons for skepticism about the administration's assertion that Milosevic's spring offensive against the Kosovar Albanians was long intended and carefully planned. NATO could have limited the assaults on noncombatants and averted the disaster that Kosovo suffered by containing the fighting and buying time for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. Instead, NATO chose to negotiate with the KLA, acquire its assent to the Rambouillet plan, and bomb when the Serbs persisted in their refusal.