Letter: Kosovo bloodshed a religious war

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Thursday, April 1, 1999 | 11:44 a.m.

It started when Muslim Turkey massacred more than 1 million Armenian Christians because their population in Turkey exploded. In Saudi Arabia no Christian churches are allowed, but Saudi Arabia sends money to Europe to build mosques.

At one time all the people in the Balkans were Christians but under the 500-year domination and slavery tactics of the Ottoman Empire, the Albanians became Muslims to escape the yoke of the Turks. This is why the Serbs and Albanians look alike. Take away the religion and there is no difference.

What the Serbs are doing now is what has been done to them for years and also during World War II. At one time Kosovo had 50 percent so-called ethnic Albanians and now there are 90 percent. The Serbs are a minority in their own area.

BILL K. CONSTANTINE