When Tony Blair agreed to back ‘terrorists’

When Tony Blair agreed to back ‘terrorists’

On 28 April 1999, prime minister Tony Blair’s adviser John Sawers wrote a memo to his boss proposing a change in UK policy towards the war in Kosovo. Sawers said the UK should give “practical help” to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the militia force that was fighting Serbians in Kosovo allied to Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia. The UK and NATO had been bombing Yugoslavia for a month up to this point, to defeat its army in Kosovo. The new poli…