[Ed.: Milosevic originally invited UNFPS in to help reduce Kosovo's population, but appears to have become impatient. Milosevic's minister for family concerns described Kosovar women as "baby machines" because they gave birth at four times the rate of Serbians' much lower and unsustainable rate of 1.7.]
An Inclusive Litany
4/19/99
Apparently unable to prevent ethnic Albanians from being victimized
under the Serbian policy of "ethnic cleansing," resulting in a
massive and deadly forced expulsion from their homes in Kosovo, the
United Nations has settled for the next best thing—supplying
refugees with condoms. Nafis Sadik, executive director of the United
Nations Population Fund, declared: "UNFPA recognized that all refugees
and persons in
emergency situations have the same vital human rights, including the
right to reproductive health, as people in any community." The
U.N. is also supplying refugees with kits on sexually transmitted
diseases and "complications from abortion." Albanian refugees may
also resist the opportunity to increase their population after being
supplied with "intrauterine devices" and "vacuum extraction equipment."