In 1987 David Binder wrote in '' The New York Times '' about the growing ethnic tension in Yugoslavia and rising nationalism among Albanians in Kosovo and referred to the Paraćin massacre , where an ethnic Albanian soldier in the JNA killed four fellow soldiers . Binder also — writing of Slobodan Milošević 's deposing of Dragiša Pavlović as head of Belgrade 's party organisation shortly before — wrote that " Mr. Milosevic accused Mr. Pavlovic of being an appeaser who was soft on Albanian radicals " , and that " Mr. Milosevic and his supporters appear to be staking their careers on a strategy of confrontation with the Kosovo ethnic Albanians " . The article quotes the Federal Secretary for National Defence , Fleet Adm. Branko Mamula , who claimed that " from 1981 to 1987 , 216 illegal Albanian organisations with 1,435 members were discovered in the JNA " . Mamula had also said that ethnic Albanian subversives had been preparing for " killing officers and soldiers , poisoning food and water , sabotage , breaking into weapons arsenals and stealing arms and ammunition , desertion and causing flagrant nationalist incidents in army units "
Paraćin massacre
Paraćin massacre
Kosovo War