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."

[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.]