An immediate deployment of an adequate civilian and security presence during the months immediately after the end of the 1999 NATO bombing campaign might well have provided suitable protective mechanisms against the backlash that allowed victims to become victimizers. NATO peacekeeping troops were not directed to stop the abductions, disappearances, retaliation killings, and massive property destruction by groups of ethnic Albanians, which led to a vast reverse ethnic cleansing of the non-Albanian (mainly Serb) population.
如果1999年北约轰炸战役后的几个月内立即部署足够的民事和安全存在，就很有可能提供适当的机制，防止让受害者变成施害者的强烈反应。北约维和部队并未授权制止阿尔巴尼亚族团体进行的绑架、失踪、报复仇杀以及大规模破坏财产，从而导致了对非阿尔巴尼亚族（主要为塞尔维亚族）人口以牙还牙的大规模种族清洗。