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Undici anni dopo / Eleven years after

1) Segnalazioni: TARGET un anno dopo, Galleria fotografica, Video della conferenza di Montreal 2009, una Trasmissione televisiva per ricordare

2) Eleven Years After The Bombing: Depleted Uranium in NATO Bombs Remains Deadly 
VIDEO sottotitolato in italiano + TEXT

3) Eleventh Anniversary of NATO bombings marked in Belgrade / In Serbia celebrata la giornata del ricordo dell’aggressione della NATO

4) NATO's Kosovo War, 11 Years Later (J. Bissett)

5) The Balkans: 11 years since the latest war in Europe (Voice of Russia)


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Source: Stop NATO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato
Blog site:
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/
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2009: TARGET - Meeting internazionale 
nel X Anniversario dei bombardamenti della NATO sulla Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia - VICENZA 21-22/3/2009


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Fotogalerija: 11 godina NATO bombardovanja SR Jugoslavije
Galleria fotografica: a 11 anni dai bombardamenti sulla Jugoslavia


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Humanitarian Intervention Challenged
2009 Montreal event - sponsored by "The Centre for Research on Globalization" and Vanier College


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Trasmissione G.A.MA.DI. a TeleAmbiente (canale 68 nel centro Italia) e reti consociate
Sabato 27/3/2010 ore 22: 

24 marzo 1999: UN DILUVIO DI BOMBE SULLA JUGOSLAVIA

Con Ivan Pavicevac
In studio Miriam Pellegrini Ferri

N.B. dopo la messa in onda, la trasmissione sarà visionabile nell'archivio online: http://www.gamadilavoce.it/download.htm


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Da: Alessandro Di Meo 
Data: 24 marzo 2010 15:23:53 GMT+01:00
Oggetto: Eleven Years After The Bombing: Depleted Uranium in NATO Bombs Remains Deadly

in occasione dell'undicesimo anniversario dei bombardamenti in Serbia, ricevo da Ljubica Vujadinovic che è stata con noi a Vranje a dicembre scorso.
ha prodotto questo lavoro che anticipa il nostro, che sarà pronto per metà di aprile e toccherà altri importanti aspetti.
buona visione
alessandro


BALKANS: DEPLETED URANIUM IN NATO BOMBS REMAINS DEADLY

Story by: Ljubica Vujadinovic
City: Vranje
Date: 2010-03-24

SOTTOTITOLATO IN LINGUA ITALIANA

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http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5464864-deathly-gifts-of-natos-merciful-angel-serbia

Deathly Gifts of NATO's Merciful Angel, Serbia

BY Ljubica Vujadinovic

Belgrade : Serbia | Mar 23, 2010

A leading Serbian expert in the field says the NATO's use of depleted uranium ammunition in it's aggression on Serbia has caused enormous increase in cancer rates and number of newborns with genetic malformations.
Silent killer
“Depleted uranium is not only radioactive, it is very toxic as well,” says doctor Radomir Kovacevic, an expert of the Institute for radiology protection “Dr. Dragomir Karajovic” in Belgrade. In an interview for VJ Movement, he explains “Primary it is nephrotoxic, so it affects kidneys, then liver and spleen. Actually, the whole organism is affected from the aspect of toxicity, it is poisoned.”.
Four studies conducted so far, on both civilians and those who worked on the spots'decontamination, have shown that the DU exposure causes typical and specific changes on genetic material.
”DNA molecule is very sensitive on aggression - in this case it is radioactivity. Experimental oncology has shown 18 years ago that in the etiopathogenesis of malignity precedes one genotoxic stadium and that is exactly what is visible on those chromosomes,” tells doctor Kovacevic, stating that the information obtained so far is enough to link the DU contamination to increase in cancer rates.
Threat to newborn lives
In Vranje area, which is surrounded by four known DU contaminated locations, there has been an enormous increase in cancer rates and number of newborns with genetic malformations. “In 1998, 21 children have been born with deformities. In 2008 there were 73,” says Nela Cvetkovic, a Member of the Vranje City Council, in a statement for VJM. The number of newborn didn't change, it is about 800-1000 babies per year.
At the same time, in a six year period after the NATO bombing a number of newly registered cancer cases has more than doubled – from 185 in the year 2000 to 398 new diagnosis in 2006.
Permanent consequences
“The half-life of uranium 238 is very long - 4,5 billion years,” reminds nuclear physicist Miroslav Simic, stating that “this way of throwing away the nuclear waste on civil, but also military targets, is not human as the consequences are permanent.”
Traces of uranium 236 and some plutonium isotopes found on bombed locations suggest that at least a part of the material in the projectiles had originated from reprocessing nuclear fuel.
“Plutonium is one million times more toxic than uranium,” says Mr Simic in an interview for VJM, and explains that “one particle of plutonium which would enter a human body is enough to cause fatal consequences”.
At the same time in Kosovo, doctor Nebojsa Srbljak, who researches the health consequences of the bombing on civil population, accuses NATO of using so-called dirty bombs. “We first started researching when we found traces of Iodine 131 in the tissue extracted from one patient,” he says, adding that Iodine 131, also known as radio iodine, is well known as a major factor in health consequences of nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.
Price for Kosovo independence
In Kosovo, none of more than a hundred known DU contaminated locations has been cleaned. Foreign personnel has been warned to stay clear of those areas unless with full radiological protective clothing. But no one warned civilians.
“We, the doctors know what it is, politicians are silent to please their mentors. But the people are in the worst position as there are new cancer cases among young persons every day,” says doctor Srbljak, adding that the data on health statistics of Albanian population is completely unavailable. Albanian people, or at least their leaders, seem to be willing to pay the DU price for Kosovo independence.


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In Serbia oggi si celebra la giornata del ricordo dell’aggressione della NATO

24. marzo 2010.

In tutta Serbia e nella diaspora oggi si celebra la Giornata del ricordo delle vittime che sono cadute nei bombardamenti e l’aggressione della NATO, undici anni fa. Nei bombardamenti sono state uccise 3.500 persone e 12.500 sono state ferite. Sono stati distrutti e danneggiati alcune migliaia di stabilimenti, edifici, ponti, ospedali e case. In Serbia sono stati organizzati molti comizi di rimembranza, ai quali è stato reso l’onore alle vittime. I loro familiari, i congiunti e gli amici hanno deposto le ghirlande ai monumenti che sono stati eretti in onore alle vittime. Il patriarca serbo Irinej ha somministrato la liturgia in suffragio delle vittime dei bombardamenti della NATO nella chiesa di San Marco a Belgrado. I bombardamenti della NATO contro la Serbia sono iniziati il 24 marzo del 1999 e sono durati 78 giorni. Il loro pretesto è stata la cosiddetta catastrofe umanitaria della popolazione albanese. L’aggressione della NATO è terminata con la firma dell’accordo di Kumanovo e il ritiro delle forze dell’esercito e la polizia della Serbia dal territorio kosovaro. Dopo il loro ritiro in Kosovo sono entrate le forze di pace delle Nazioni Unite. Dall’arrivo delle forze internazionali dal Kosovo sono stati cacciati piu’ di 200 mila serbi. Piu’ in dettaglio nel nostro servizio dopo il notiziario.


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http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/24/5582898.html

Voice of Russia - March 24, 2010

Serbia pays tribute to victims of NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia 

On Wednesday, Serbia pays tribute to victims of the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia in 1999, when more than 2,500 civilians died and about 200,000 more were displaced as the result of the alliance’s air strikes. 
The bombing became NATO’s largest-ever military operation on the territory of Serbia and Montenegro since the end of World War Two, experts say, pointing to the fact that the bombing was staged without being okayed by the US Security Council. 
Commemoration events are due to be held all across Serbia, including the capital Belgrade, later in the day, with the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej set to lead memorial service at the Belgrade St. Marcus Cathedral.   

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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=03&dd=24&nav_id=66015

B92 - March 24, 2010

Anniversary of NATO attacks marked 

BELGRADE: Wednesday marks the 11-year anniversary of the start of the 78-day NATO-led bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 
The bombing commenced after failed peace negotiations in Rambouillet, France.
The attacks ended on June 9 with the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement and the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244. 
In the bombing, great damage was done to Serbia’s infrastructure, including business facilities, schools, hospitals, media headquarters and cultural monuments. 
According to varying estimates, in between 1,200 and 3,500 people were killed. 
The air strikes began on March 24, 1999 at 19:30 CET, at which time the government of Slobodan Milosevic declared that the country was at war. 
Commemorations will be held on Wednesday for victims of the attacks. 

Air-raid sirens 

Sirens will be sounded symbolically throughout the country at noon and will last 60 seconds. 
SPC Patriarch Irinej will be holding a service in honor of the victims of the bombing at the Saint Marko's Church in Belgrade. 
Even though 11 years have passed, consequences of the bombing are still visible. One of the most prominent examples is the state military headquarters, located in the center of Belgrade, which remains damaged. 
In the 78 days of the attacks, 540 buildings were destroyed, 58 bridges and 30,000 homes. 
The material damage is estimated at about USD 30bn. 
Restoration began in June 1999, immediately after the war ended, led by then restoration directorate chief, and now Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjic.  


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The Balkan Monitor - March 23, 2010

NATO's Kosovo War, 11 Years Later

By Ambassador James Bissett


Eleven years ago NATO opened its bombing campaign against Serbia, illegally and without provocation. It started on March 24, 1999, and continued for 78 days and nights. It was the most intensive air offensive suffered by any country since the end of the Second World War. 

Over a thousand people were killed and the civilian infrastructure of Serbia was destroyed, but it proved unable to degrade the Serbian military. 

It caused far more suffering than it prevented. For the first time since its founding the North Atlantic Alliance, led by the United States, acted in violation of its own treaty and the United Nations Charter by using violence to resolve an international dispute. 

This illegal act marked a historical turning point and was a fatal step in dismantling the framework of peace and security that had governed international relations since the end of the Second World War. 

It set precedents that will continue to plague international affairs for years. The bombing also revealed a disturbing reality that has continued to haunt us: the ease with which our democratic countries can be led into committing acts of violence and war by political leaders prepared to tell us lies.

President Clinton, Prime Minister Blair and other NATO leaders told their citizens that the bombing of Serbia was a humanitarian intervention to stop President Milosevic of Serbia from committing genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Albanian majority in Kosovo. 

This of course was not true: forensic times have found some 2,000 victims of the Kosovo conflict so far – Serbian and Albanian, civilian and military – who had been killed prior to NATO’s air war in March 1999. Distressing as this figure may be, it is not genocide. Nevertheless, the accusations that genocide took place in Kosovo continue to be accepted without hesitation by the western media.

The claim about ethnic cleansing was also a falsehood. While it is true that several thousand Albanians had been displaced within Kosovo by the armed conflict between the Serb security forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the large-scale exodus of the Albanian population occurred after the bombing started. 

United Nations figures show that the mass of refugees fled Kosovo after the first bombs began to fall In other words, it was the bombing that caused the flight from Kosovo. Despite the proof of this we continue to hear in the western media that the NATO bombing “stopped ethnic cleansing.”

In reality the bombing of Serbia had nothing to do with genocide or ethnic cleansing. The bombing had everything to do with demonstrating that NATO was still a viable military organization and was needed in Europe. There is ample evidence now to show that the United States and British secret services aided and abetted the KLA in its efforts to use violence to destabilize Kosovo and to create the excuse for NATO intervention.

The Kosovo crisis and the 78 day bombing campaign against Serbia was from the outset a carefully planned fraud. 

Because bombing people for humanitarian reasons was an obvious contradiction, it had to be portrayed as an urgently needed rescue mission to stop the “genocide” that was allegedly taking place in Kosovo. 

This was done by a highly organized publicity campaign designed to deceive a compliant media and a gullible public that Milosevic was evil and that the Serbs were barbarians who had to be stopped. Hailed as the man who brought the Bosnian war to a conclusion at Dayton four years earlier, he was now depicted as the “butcher of the Balkans” and conveniently charged by the Hague War Crimes Tribunal as a war criminal. The duplicity and the deception which reached their height during the bombing itself has continued to this day.

The subsequent policies followed by the United States and its NATO allies have not only continued to be based on falsehood and hypocrisy, but also continue to pose a threat to world peace and security.

The heart of the problem has been what appears to be a determination of the United States policy makers, whether Democrat or Republican, to look upon the Western Balkans as their special fiefdom where international rules of conduct do not apply. 

It is as if they regard these Slavic lands as lesser breeds without the law, and therefore can do with them whatever they deem desirable. This hubris has lead the United States and the obedient but morally bankrupt leaders of Germany, France and Great Britain to follow wrong-headed policies such as the bombing of Serbia and the recognition of Kosovo independence – and to do so without scruples.

Perhaps it is too much to hope for that the critical financial problems faced by the United States and many European countries will curtail their meddling in the affairs of smaller nations and give them pause to reflect that the rule of law applies to all and that international disputes must be resolved without the use of force. This is the hope – however tenuous - expressed by our Foundation's members, friends and associates on the eleventh anniversary of the bombing of Serbia.


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http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/24/5607543.html

Voice of Russia - March 24, 2010

The Balkans: 11 years since the latest war in Europe


11 years ago NATO, without the sanction of the UN Security Council, started massed bombings of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which developed into the most wide-scale military operation in the Balkans since the end of the Second World War.  

The air bombings continued for two and a half months - from March 24th to June 8th of 1999. Taking part were more than 1,000 warplanes, which dropped 79,000 tons of explosives on Serbia. According to Serbian reports, 2,500 peaceful civilians were killed, and hundreds of dwelling houses, schools, hospitals, state institutions, and also cultural monuments were destroyed over that period.   

As a pretext for such unlawful actions, which were carried out without approval by the UN Security Council, were accusations brought against Belgrade of unwillingness to reach agreement with the Albanian separatists in Kosovo and of carrying out ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo Province. 

The Chief of Department of Ethno-Political Conflicts at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pavel Kandel finds these accusations groundless:  

"All arguments were formal. Because, firstly, the talks were broken off by the Western allies themselves, which proposed an option, which, as they knew from the very beginning, could not be approved. 

"Secondly, the massive flows of refugees from the Kosovo Province, which really occurred as a result of armed clashes between the Serbian forces and the Albanian separatists and lasted for at least one year, did not slow down after NATO's bombings. Therefore, the argument itself proved false. What really happened was this: NATO aimed to use the situation in Kosovo for the destabilization of the Milosevic regime, which the Western capitals regarded as unfavourable. This was done in fact".     

The existence of a single Yugoslav state ran counter to NATO's interests, since it served as an obstacle to the broadening of NATO's sphere of influence in the Southeastern direction. The USA and its partners thought that the establishment of control over the Balkans would enable them to move their strategic facilities Eastward and parallel with this to control the transport routes of Caspian energy resources. 

The implementation of this plan began immediately after the disappearance of the Soviet Union from the political arena. And the initial stage was actually the collapse of former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, which occurred not without the support of the West. The aggression of the North Atlantic Alliance against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the tearing away Kosovo and the declaration of Kosovo's independence by Albanian separatists in February of 2008 can be regarded as the completion of this process. 

The U.S. military base Camp Bondsteel, which is the biggest in Europe, is situated in Kosovo today. This shows the new configuration, which the U.S. military presence in Europe is taking, following the end of the "Cold War". 






Carlotto: attenti alla Tav, l’ecomostro fa gola alla mafia


Scritto il 21/3/10 • nella Categoria: idee


«Una follia, una devastazione del territorio: va assolutamente impedita». Massimo Carlotto, autore di tanti noir politici sulla corruzione del nord-est, interviene in valle di Susa contro l’alta velocità Torino-Lione, ospite del Valsusa Filmfest dopo Giorgio Diritti e Erri De Luca. E lancia un’accusa: «Attenti, dietro alle grandi opere c’è sempre la mafia. Non quella di Provenzano, che è la preistoria della mafia. Ma la mafia di oggi, che ha bisogno di investire i proventi delle sue attività illecite, col decisivo appoggio di settori del mondo imprenditoriale, finanziario e politico. Per i capitali mafiosi, i grandi appalti sono l’investimento più sicuro».

Al Teatro Fassino di Avigliana, il 20 marzo, Carlotto ha intrattenuto il pubblico per due ore, accompagnato dai fiati jazz di Maurizio Camardi e dell’intenso intervento attoriale di Loris Contarini, voce recitante nello spettacolo “L’Italia ai tempi de L’amore del bandito”, per raccontare lo strazio degli operai dell’amianto, condannati a morte dal business senza scrupoli dell’industria degli anni ’60 e ’70: uomini che ora non avranno più neppure una giustizia postuma, dice Carlotto, «perché la nuova legge cancellerà tutti quei processi: una ferita che non si rimarginerà mai».

Ambiente, salute, tutela dei lavoratori, consumo del territorio. E grandi opere. Dalla contestatissima Torino-Lione alle arterie autostradali del nord-est. «Alla presidenza del Veneto ora arriverà la Lega, con l’attuale ministro Luca Zaia che prima prometteva barricate contro le centrali nucleari ma adesso dice: parliamone. Zaia – aggiunge Carlotto – predica l’agricoltura identitaria, ma come ministro ha fatto un accordo con la McDonald’s per l’hamburger McItaly. Il governatore uscente, Giancarlo Galan, vuole in cambio il ministero delle infrastrutture: speriamo che non lo ottenga, perché Galan è il più micidiale devastatore in azione in Italia, un perfetto serial killer del territorio».

Stop al consumo di terra: parola d’ordine fatta propria dall’inventore dell’Alligatore, detective protagonista di tanti fortunatissimi noir, nei quali Carlotto si incarica di “smascherare” la miscela esplosiva, criminale e affaristica, che produce asfalto e cemento con la connivenza di politica, banche e imprese, a spese del territorio sempre più impoverito. «Siamo pieni di capannoni vuoti, messi in saldo e comprati dai cinesi. La gente pensa che i cantieri siano una risposta positiva alla crisi, invece le nuove infrastrutture servono solo a chi le costruisce. E sapete chi ci guadagna di più?» Indovinato: «La mafia».

Le nuove mafie, naturalmente, quelle su cui i giornali tacciono. Esempi? Ground Zero a New York, il più grande cantiere edile del mondo. «Sapete chi ricostruirà le Torri Gemelle? La famiglia Gambino». O il Ponte sullo Stretto: «E’ successo che la ‘ndrangheta ha battuto Cosa Nostra, che adesso si chiama Stidda, e ha occupato militarmente Messina. I siciliani resistono, ma la guerra la combattono lontano dalle telecamere italiane, in Canada. E intanto hanno perso il controllo dell’affare del secolo, che è in mano ai calabresi, i quali per il narcotraffico sono in affari coi colombiani e, anche se non se ne parla, con la nuova mafia vincente europea: quella del Kosovo».

Col piglio del criminologo, lo scrittore di gialli-verità traccia uno scenario inquietante: «Il Kosovo è un narco-Stato senza legge, retto da tre famiglie. L’Uck, presentata come esercito di liberazione, è in realtà il braccio armato della mafia kosovara, che smista in Europa la droga: sia l’eroina che proviene dall’Afghanistan, sia la coca dei cartelli colombiani, grazie all’alleanza strategica con la ‘ndrangheta». Un’emergenza che sui media nessuno denuncia, anche se «la Germania è indifesa di fronte alla mafia calabrese, perché non ha ancora neppure il reato di associazione mafiosa nel suo codice penale», mentre i kosovari «sono ormai padroni del nord-est e di mezza Europa, fino alla Norvegia». Qualcuno li ha aiutati, accusa lo scrittore, aggiornando sotto il profilo criminale la geopolitica europea: «C’era da fermare la mafia russa, e si è puntato sul Kosovo. Questa è la realtà con cui fare i conti».

Il business criminale? «Innanzitutto riciclaggio illegale dei rifiuti e sofisticazioni alimentari. Poi vengono droga, armi, prostituzione». Cifre da capogiro. Dove investirle? «La globalizzazione dei mercati ha agevolato il riciclaggio: il Mediterraneo è diventato l’area perfetta», la più grande “lavanderia” mondiale di soldi sporchi. «Il miglior affare, per i cartelli criminali, è rappresentato dalle grandi opere: un investimento sicuro. Per questo, nessuna delle grandi infrastrutture è al riparo dal pericolo dell’infiltrazione mafiosa». Che da 15 anni è divenuta organica: «Le mafie non potrebbero agire impunemente su questo terreno se non avessero dei collegamenti ormai di fatto formali, continuativi, con ampi settori dell’imprenditoria, della finanza e della politica».

La Torino-Lione? Non fa eccezione, dice lo scrittore veneto, che aderisce apertamente al movimento No-Tav: «Le grandi infrastrutture divorano il territorio ma non servono assolutamente a nulla, sono solo grandi affari, che arricchiscono i potentati». C’è da combattere una battaglia civile, avverte Carlotto: «Dobbiamo impedire una devastazione che diverrebbe definitiva. Una battaglia da vincere, a tutti i costi, per invertire la tendenza»

Dal Veneto alla Campania, dalla Sicilia alla valle di Susa, c’è un’Italia che si organizza in movimenti di resistenza, «ovunque contrastati con la stessa durezza da parte della polizia: ormai la tutela del territorio è ridotta a una questione di ordine pubblico, chi lotta per difendere la sua terra viene considerato come un eversore». Motivo in più, dice Carlotto, per resistere: «Bisogna trovare la formula per unire tutti i movimenti, sapendo che da questa battaglia dipende il nostro futuro e quello dei nostri figli, che al territorio chiedono benessere e salute». E cita una battuta di una delle Madri di Plaza del Majo: «L’unica battaglia persa è quella che si abbandona».

Come Erri De Luca, Massimo Carlotto scende in campo direttamente, da romanziere: «Io credo che uno scrittore debba attraversare il suo tempo, occupandosene». E visto che i media «non raccontano più le trasformazioni della criminalità in Italia, i suoi collegamenti e le collusioni con alcuni ambienti», qualcuno dovrà pur farlo. Da “Gomorra” ai noir di Lucarelli e De Cataldo, si dipana il “romanzo criminale” dei retroscena italiani, di cui “l’Alligatore” del nord-est è uno degli indagatori più acuti. Obiettivo? «Svelare quello che la gente non sa». Libri che smascherano la corruzione e gli intrecci pericolosi all’ombra del potere: «Oggi – dice Carlotto – si sta creando una comunità di lettori che pretende questo tipo di romanzo, perché racconta quelle realtà che, appunto, non leggono sui giornali e non vedono in televisione».





1999 NATO AGGRESSION WAS A CRIME AGAINST PEACE

1) BELGRADE FORUM FOR A WORLD OF EQUALS: 1999 NATO AGGRESSION AGAINST SERBIA (FRY) WAS A CRIME AGAINST PEACE

2) 11 Years Later: NATO Powers Prepare Final Solution In Kosovo (Rick Rozoff)

3) 11 Years Later: Kosovo, NATO hands over Serb site to UCK followers


Segnaliamo inoltre: 


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BELGRADE FORUM FOR A WORLD OF EQUALS

1999 NATO AGGRESSION AGAINST SERBIA (FRY) WAS A CRIME AGAINST PEACE

March 24th marks 11th anniversary of the start of NATO aggression against Serbia (Yugoslavia).
During continuous bombardments lasting 78 days between 3500 and 4000 people have been killed and about 10.000 wounded two thirds of whom were civilians. How many have died in the meantime as a consequence of heavy wounds, use of depleted uranium missiles, unexploded cluster bombs and other means of indiscriminate killings and destruction - is hard to establish. The economic damage had been evaluated at the time at over 100 billion US dollars. 
Following the aggression Kosovo and Metohija has been occupied by about 40.000 NATO troops, called KFOR, under the flag of UN.
About 250.000 of Serbs and other no Albanians have been ethnically cleansed from the Serbian Autonomous Province.
Eleven years after they still have not been permitted to return to their ancestors homes. While the Province has been run by UN mission (UNMIK) over 150 Serbian medieval monasteries and churches have been destroyed by Albanian terrorists, tens of thousands of Serbian homes have been set a fire, dozens of graveyards flattered and ploughed not to leave traces of Serbs and Christianity.
So called Plan of Marty Ahtisary for conditional (gradual) independence of Kosovo and Metohija has never been approved by UN Security Coucil. Yet, it is being implemented. In February 2008, with the backing of USA, Great Britain, Germany and France Albanian separatists and leaders of the terrorist KLA, unilaterally declared separation of the Province from Serbia violating UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) which explicitly guaranties sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia (FRY).
The first to recognize this illegal independence was Afghanistan followed by USA and their closest allies. In spite of the enormous pressure of USA administration on other countries, this illegal creature named “Republic of Kosovo” is recognized by less than a third of UN members.
Even EU could not reach unity on the question having five member countries refusing to obey direct request of Washington (Spain, Greece, Romania, Slovak Republic, Cyprus). 
Kosovo today is run by Hashim Tachi, former leader of the terrorist KLA (known as “snake”) and his comrades many of whom have combined experiences - terrorism, drug and human beings trafficking and other records of international organiyed crime. Over 50 percent of the population in Kosovo and Metohija are unemployed. About 80 percent of heroin smuggled to Europe passes through and is under control of Kosovo Albanians mafia.
Many Civic organizations in Serbia are reminding the public these days of this sad anniversary pointing out that the NATO aggression was an act of crime against peace and stability. It was undertaken contrary to the UN Charter, without approval of UN Security Council, contrary to the Founding Act of the Alliance and in blunt violation of the national constitutions of all NATO member countries, USA included. 
They point out that USA and other NATO member countries continue to put the blame on Serbia, on the late Slobodan Milosevic and his government, even on the entire Serbian nation, thus trying to cover up own responsibility for crimes, destruction and other tragic consequences. They remind that this aggression was perpetuated for the sake of dislocation of the USA military bases and troops toward East (Russia), Caspian Basin, Central Asia and Middle East. Aggression against Serbia (DRY) in 1999 was aimed, among other objectives) to set up a precedent for military Interventions without consent of UN SC, all over the world. 
Many new books analyzing roots and consequences of the NATO aggression are being published in Serbia to coincide with this anniversary. 
Former Serbian generals, diplomats, political writers have been engaged in an extraordinary effort to present the truth of the imperialistic policy of USA and NATO demonstrated 11 years ago on Serbia. While the Government controlled media try to play down growing anti-NATO public sentiments, many others, including in Belgrade, are devoting considerable space and time to open criticism of USA/NATO policy of domination and official pro-NATO policy. After recent public appeal of over 200 most prominent Serbian intellectuals to hold a referendum on the issue of NATO membership, these days came out an initiative to have military neutrality included in the country’s Constitution thus making it impossible to even consider membership in NATO, or any other military alliance. On the 24th of March, in various places in Belgrade and all over the country flowers will be laid to the graves and monuments to the victims of the NATO aggression. 

Zivadin Jovanovic
President of the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals   

www.beoforum.rs  



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http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/11-years-later-nato-powers-prepare-final-solution-in-kosovo

Stop NATO - March 18, 2010

11 Years Later: NATO Powers Prepare Final Solution In Kosovo

Rick Rozoff


March 17 marked the sixth anniversary of a concerted assault against Serbs and other ethnic minorities in Kosovo that resulted in 800 Serbian homes and thirty five Orthodox churches and monasteries being destroyed, 4,000 Serbs and Roma (Gypsies) forced to flee their homes, 900 hundred people injured and 19 killed.

The attacks followed the accidental drowning of three ethnic Albanian youth which local separatist politicians and media attributed to the actions of Serbs and used to incite an orgy of intolerance, ethnic hostility and violence. 

They marked the worst, and deadliest, violence in the Balkans since NATO's 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and the war in Macedonia two years later launched by an offshoot of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) operating out of NATO-occupied Kosovo. Clashes occurred between ethnic Albanians and Serbs and between both and NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops. The dead and wounded included members of all three groups.

On the first day of the attacks, which started in the ethnically-divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica but soon spread to several other locales, personnel of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) abandoned offices in the cities of Gnjilane, Prizren and Pec and one UN representative, alluding to the anti-Jewish rampage in Nazi Germany in 1938, said “Kristallnacht is under way in Kosovo. What is happening in Kosovo must unfortunately be described as a pogrom against Serbs: churches are on fire and people are being attacked for no other reason than their ethnic background.” [1]

The United Nations ombudsman at the time, Poland's Marek Nowicki, issued a similar warning, saying "there exists the intent to cleanse this land of the presence of all Serbs.” [2]

The government of Serbia, and Kosovo was still legally recognized as its province by every nation in the world except Albania, also characterized the attacks as designed to perpetrate ethnic cleansing. But NATO, in charge of KFOR and as such the Serbian sites that were destroyed, did not.

Four years later Albanian separatist leaders declared the province's unilateral independence on February 17. Despite a historically unprecedented campaign by the U.S. and its NATO allies to gain international recognition for "the first NATO state in the world" as Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica described the illegal entity shortly following its secession [3], after over two years and a combination of heavy-handed pressure and handsome bribery from the West only 65 of the world's 192 nations accord the breakaway entity diplomatic recognition.

Those who do not include the BRIC nations - Brazil, China, India and Russia - and the overwhelming majority of countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Those who do include the United States and all other NAT0 members except for Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain which have their own reasons for fearing the Kosovo precedent, and small (and very small) states particularly susceptible to economic incentives like Belize, the Comoros, Liechtenstein, the Maldives, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, and San Marino.

In early January the commander of NATO's Joint Forces Command Naples, U.S. Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, was in Kosovo and met with German KFOR
Commander Markus Bentler, afterwards claiming that self-governing Serbian enclaves, surrounded and besieged by Kosovo separatists, "represent a threat to Kosovo stability," and emphasizing "KFOR's readiness to answer any threat."

More specifically, Fitzgerald said that "All violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 pose a threat to security. Since the resolution does not approve of parallel institutions, they are cause for concern." 

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 was adopted on June 10, 1999 and placed Kosovo under interim UN administration.

As for ethnic Serbs violating the terms or even the spirit of the resolution by refusing to surrender to an illegal secessionist regime not recognized by almost two-thirds of United Nations members, UN Resolution 1244 "Reaffirm[s] the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the region, as set out in the Helsinki Final Act...."

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia devolved into the Western-engineered State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, which in turn split into its two parts in 2006. This created waters muddy enough for advocates of Kosovo separatism to fish in, but the fact remains that Kosovo was a province of Serbia during the eleven years of the Federal Republic mentioned in UN Resolution 1244. The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro was coterminous with and the successor state to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 

The Constitutional Charter of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro of February 4, 2003 states:

"Should Montenegro break away from the state union of Serbia and Montenegro, the international instruments pertaining to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, particularly UN SC Resolution 1244, would concern and apply in their entirety to Serbia as the successor."

Serbs in Kosovo don't desire to leave Kosovo but to remain in Serbia. Residents of the U.S. state of West Virginia can appreciate the distinction.

By an ostensible "threat to security" the NATO commander meant the unwillingness of Serbs and other non-Albanian minorities to vote in elections held by and entrust their fragile security to a renegade political anomaly with an ethnically exclusionary agenda and extensive, in fact inextricable, links to Europe's largest criminal underworld. (To wit, trafficking in narcotics, weapons, sex slaves, passports and, if accounts in the recent memoirs of former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Carla Del Ponte are to be credited, organs extracted from murdered victims.)

That is, refusing to submit to the West's carefully groomed client state and the first NATO pseudo-nation. As with the Georgia of Mikheil Saakashvili, all the West's much-celebrated "Euro-Atlantic" rhetoric about diversity, pluralism, rule of law, transparency, human rights and democratic values is exposed for the hollow, self-serving lie it is.

After 50,000 NATO troops poured into Kosovo in 1999, bringing with them their allies from the Kosovo Liberation Army which they had trained and armed in camps in Albania, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Roma and other minorities fled the province. 200,000 Serbs alone remain in exile almost eleven years later.

Roma sources have estimated that a comparable amount of Roma and related Askalis and Egyptians have been terrorized into fleeing their homes and relocating elsewhere in Kosovo, other parts of Serbia, Macedonia and further abroad.

UN Resolution 1244, which of late NATO and U.S. officials have taken to evoking (as the Devil quotes Scripture) also "Reaffirm[s] the right of all refugees and displaced persons to return to their homes in safety."

Before NATO's entry and the KLA's return in June of 1999, Kosovo was one of the most ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse spots on the earth. Its two million citizens consisted of Muslims, Christians and Jews, including (to defy stereotypes) Muslim Slavs and Christian Albanians. Its inhabitants were Albanian, Serbian, Askali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Egyptian, Gorani, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Roma and Turkish.

If the province was diverse, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army wasn't. It was monoethnic. Fiercely so. It sought an exclusively Albanian Kosovo and after that Greater Albania.

The West is near to providing it with the first and is assisting its former members - ex-KLA chief Hashim Thaci is now recognized by the West as Kosovo's prime minister - to achieve the second.

In the late 1990s no one but ethnic Albanian separatist extremists, by no means all Albanians, felt constrained to wage unprovoked armed attacks against security and civilian targets in the province.

The fate of the smaller ethnic communities, those neither Albanian nor Serbian, since June of 1999 gives the definitive lie to eleven years of Western propaganda about Kosovo. Roma, Gorans, Turks and others have been murdered, driven in fear from their homes and forced to flee the province.

Paul Polansky, head of the Kosovo Roma Refugee Fund, wrote in 2008 (two days before Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence) that "Before NATO troops arrived, there were about 17,500 Gypsy homes with a population of about 120,000. By the time I did my survey [in 2007] more than 14,500 homes had been destroyed by Albanians and only about 30,000 Gypsies were still in Kosovo." 

He added:

"I witnessed many Albanians chasing out Gypsy families and then looting their homes before burning them down. This happened in front of NATO troops."

"Fearing independence, all minorities are still leaving Kosovo....After eight years of UN administration, there is still no freedom of movement for minorities outside their own villages."

"The German government acknowledges that there are more than 35,000 Kosovo Gypsies living today in Germany. Germany hopes to deport them when Kosovo has independence...." [4]

He further detailed that remaining Roma have been living in camps on or near toxic dumps (an abandoned mining and smelting complex with a slag heap
containing 100 million tons of poisonous materials) and suffering from epidemic rates of cancer and brain damage.

Polansky used the word appropriate to what is occurring: Genocide.

Last October, twenty months after separatist leaders announced Kosovo's independence, Germany formalized plans to forcibly deport 14,000 Kosovo refugees including 12,000 Roma. A member of parliament of the opposition Left Party warned that the expulsion would put them in danger, as "Kosovo is a country in which minorities are deeply discriminated against and persecuted." [5]

There are an estimated 20,000 internally displaced persons in Kosovo living in dangerous and squalid conditions. A United Nations report estimates that 20 per cent of Roma remaining in Kosovo are stateless.

Albanians have not fared much better. A feature in Germany's Der Spiegel in 2002 revealed that "After the war the cruelest cleansings took place
among the Albanians. Under the pretext that they were 'Serbian collaborators', the leaders of the KLA liquidated their political opponents; old blood feuds were settled, and Albanian civilians were executed by the Albanians themselves." 

"The number of the victims is estimated to be more than a thousand. The perpetrators or instigators were usually former senior KLA leaders; after the war they were integrated nearly without exception into the KLA successor organization, the civilian Kosovo Protection Corps." [6]

A report by the Reuters news agency last November documented that if non-Albanians fear for their lives in Kosovo, even ethnic Albanians were condemned to a plight that can barely be qualified as living. 

Eleven years and an estimated three million euros (over $4 million) in aid later, the official unemployment rate is between 40-50 per cent and the average per capita income is 1,760 euros, "less than 93 cents a day, according to the World Bank."

"That compares with average joblessness of just under 10 percent in the
European Union and an average salary of about 24,000 euros ($35,930)." [7]

Kosovo is the showcase for the West's self-styled humanitarian intervention and post-Cold War "nation building." The prototype for Afghanistan, Iraq and much of the rest of the world.

With the perversion - the inversion - of the intent of UN Resolution 1244, the U.S. and its NATO allies are well on their way to insuring a monoethnic Kosovo with a NATO standard army.

In late January of this year U.S. ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell "said that Serbia's efforts to once again impose its legal system on Kosovo are a clear violation of the UN Security Council's Resolution 1244."

He further stated:

"What has been forgotten over the last ten years is that Resolution 1244
clearly takes the power over Kosovo away from Serbia, and Belgrade's effort to impose a legislative system in Kosovo is an open violation of the resolution....This resolution recognizes Kosovo's territorial integrity and the fact that there is only one legal system in Kosovo. All countries that do not recognize Kosovo still recognize the validity of Resolution 1244." [8]

Again, the resolution unequivocally confirms "the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the region, as set out in the Helsinki Final Act...."

Which is how Russia still views the mandate of UN Resolution 1244. Two days after the American envoy's egregious comments, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said that the current Western - U.S., NATO and European Union - plans for forcibly subjugating northern Kosovo and its Serb minority "violates Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council."

"By this I refer to the so-called strategy for northern Kosovo, which
violates UN SC Resolution 1244 and generates tensions in the province."

He also said that Russia "insists on the UN mission in Kosovo,
UNMIK, fulfilling its obligations in representing Kosovo in regional and
international institutions." [9]

However, U.S. Ambassador Dell, in indicating that Western intentions toward surviving Serbian enclaves are not peaceful, referred to their autonomous governing bodies as "criminal parallel structures" and added "criminal structures organized in the north are completely linked with the so-called parallel governmental structures." [10] To exclusively single out Serbian communities in a Kosovo that is the most crime-ridden part of Europe is a tour de force of arrogance, underhandedness and Goebbelsesque distortion of the truth. 

Serb and other threatened minority communities are to be subordinated to the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), which will transition them to the control of the Kosovo regime of former KLA chief Hashim Thaci.

In late January Pieter Feith, the European Union Special Representative in Kosovo, disclosed that "EULEX personnel will be moving into northern Kosovo soon."

"Feith's strategy for northern Kosovo calls for the support of the
'international community' in direct links between Serbia's European
perspective and the decrease of Belgrade's support for the 'parallel'
structures in the north of Kosovo.

"The strategy was created by Feith and the temporary institutions in Pristina, and it is part of the decentralization process in Kosovo, with the goal of taking over control in the northern [Serbian] part of Kosovska Mitrovica." [11]

In the same week Feith visited NATO headquarters in Brussels with EULEX chief Yves de Kermabon to "take part in an informal meeting with the NATO
Council and...focus on cooperation between the EU and NATO in the field, and the situation in the north of Kosovo.

"The visit comes after the meeting of the NATO military leadership, who discussed Kosovo." [12] 

(Starting in December of 2007 the European Union worked in tandem with Washington to unleash an independent Kosovo on Europe and the world and to supplant the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo with the European Union Rule of Law - EULEX - Mission as the transitional mechanism for turning the province fully over to the new Republic of Kosovo. The EU nations that led the drive to recognize Kosovo's secession were Britain, France, Germany and Italy, the same four countries that met in Munich 70 years earlier to cede the Sudetenland and then all of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.) 

Russian political analyst Pyotr Iskenderov wrote a few days afterward that "the plan for a final solution for North Kosovo is similar to the one Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili had in mind launching an attack against South Ossetia in August, 2008. Even the stated objectives - the restoration of the constitutional jurisdiction in Saakashvili's wording - is the same in both cases.

"The contours of the Kosovo separatists' plan to suppress the Serbian resistance in the northern part of the province with the help of the US and the EU are becoming increasingly visible." [13]

After KFOR and EULEX secure domination over Serb communities, they will be transferred to the rulers in Pristina and their NATO-created army.

The month after Thaci and his colleagues declared independence with the assistance of the major NATO nations, KFOR and the revamped KLA that was the Kosovo Protection Corps began the conversion of the latter into the Kosovo Security Force (KSF). It was officially inaugurated in January of 2009. 

Described by Western powers as an "unarmed disaster-relief organization," it was recently identified by a German news agency more accurately as "Kosovo's fledgling army, mainly manned by former guerrillas...." [14] 

Last year it was announced that the Pentagon would supply it with uniforms, Britain with training - in the words of the Defence Ministry to NATO standards and according to London's ambassador to Kosovo to prepare the state for NATO membership - and Germany with 200 vehicles.

Last September NATO held maneuvers with the Kosovo Security Force, Exercise Agile Lion, and pronounced that the KSF had achieved Initial Operational Capability. "The next goal for the KSF is to reach Full Operational Capability." [15]

UN Resolution 1244 also explicitly calls for "Demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and other armed Kosovo Albanian groups...."

NATO has instead rearmed them and is in the process of institutionalizing the former KLA as a national army.

The last time foreign powers militarily occupied Kosovo was in the early 1940s. They were Benito Mussolini's Italy and Adolf Hitler's Germany. The last time an Albanian military formation was created by an occupying power was in 1944 when Heinrich Himmler set up the Skanderbeg SS Division.

January of 2009 brought the official launching of the KSF "overseen by Nato." [16]

Within days of assuming the post of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Admiral James Stavridis affirmed that "We are interested in having modern equipment and advanced training for KSF, and I will try in my capability to assist widely during my three-year mandate." [17]

On March 15 a NATO website disclosed:

"Since achieving Initial Operational Capability in September 2009, the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) has continued to develop its skills and capabilities in core areas, with the assistance of NATO forces in Kosovo....NATO nations decided to support this task with a Donation Programme established In June 2008. The value of all the equipment and infrastructure projects required by the KSF to be fully capable is 37.4 million euros. [18]

On March 7 the Kosovo Security Force, erstwhile "unarmed disaster-relief organization," brandished arms at what was described as a Kosovo Liberation Army memorial service to mark the twelve anniversary of the latter's rebellion against the government of Yugoslavia and the death of its commander at the time, Adem Jashari. An "armed honor guard" also displayed the NATO flag during the parade.

KFOR commander General Markus Bentler pretended to be offended at what, after all, is only the KLA renamed and with new insignia reverting to form, and even mentioned suspending NATO's training of the 2,500-man force the day of the armed march.

The nominal president of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu, responded by stating "KFOR is an important investor in the enlargement of KSF and...all the steps thus far were undertaken in agreement and partnership and I believe that in the future (it) will contribute to our NATO membership." Hashim Thaci's deputy Hajredin Kuci added the assertion that "nobody should expect Kosovo not to behave like a sovereign state." [19]

However, the bond between the North Atlantic military bloc and its KLA allies is an old and unbreakable one, and the next day relations between the NATO Kosovo Force and its Kosovo Security Force subordinates were restored and "a new agreement was reached by which the KSF ceremonial unit could carry weapons in a manner agreed upon in advance." [20]  

Russian analyst Pyotr Iskenderov, cited earlier, wrote that "The statements emanating from Pristina and the intensifying international debates over the Kosovo theme do not only show that the Albanian separatists are preparing an attack against their opponents but also give an idea of its potential scenario, the distribution of roles in it, and the extent to which Hashim Thaci and other former leaders of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army are relying on international support in the process." [21]

From January 15-24 of this year NATO's KFOR conducted military exercises throughout Kosovo. The stated purpose of the maneuvers was to "enable KFOR forces to maintain a high degree of readiness and be prepared to quickly deploy in response to any scenario." [22]

Afterward a Serbian news agency reported on a KFOR press release which stated "the exercises were conducted so as to check the full operational capability of multinational combat groups after the structural changes in the international military forces have taken place.

"More than 5,000 soldiers from 31 countries, 700 tactical vehicles on land, and 21 helicopters for air support, were included in this military simulation of real-life battle conditions....[T]he exercises confirmed that the multinational battle groups are 'fast, very flexible, mobile, and ready to deploy in response to any situation which might endanger security on the whole territory of Kosovo.'"

"KFOR said there will be further exercises so that the groups could be trained and their operational capability preserved at the highest possible level." [23]

Toward the end of last month the U.S. deployed two companies of soldiers based in Camp Bondsteel, the largest overseas military installation the Pentagon has constructed since the Vietnam War, to the north of Kosovo.

"The KFOR command in Pristina has announced that their deployment will confirm operational ability to reinforce and support any combat group in Kosovo."

The U.S. exercises in February and the KFOR ones the previous month occurred against the backdrop of the threats by NATO commander Admiral Mark Fitzgerald and U.S. ambassador to Serbia Christopher Dell examined earlier and are part of "an ICO [International Civilian Office - European Union Special Representative]/Kosovo Albanian government strategy to 'integrate' this [northern Kosovo], predominantly Serb area of the province, and bring it under Pristina's control. 

"Serbs in the north, however, are refusing any kind of connection to the Kosovo institutions. Pristina’s intent is to start shutting down local governments supported by Belgrade." [24]

In conjunction with coordinated moves against Serbian communities in the north of Kosovo by KFOR, EULEX, the Kosovo regime of Thaci and Sejdiu and its new army in formation, attacks against Serb civilians have also intensified in an effort to drive them out of the province.

Three firebombs were hurled at the home of a Serb family in northern Kosovoska Mitrovica last month and the house of an elderly Serb couple in Klina was stoned at the same time. 

On February 18 in Gnjilane, in eastern Kosovo, the grave of a Serbian woman buried earlier in the day was dug up and robbed. A local Serb official remarked of this desecration: "The deceased's last wish was to be buried in the upper part of the Gnjilane cemetery. This was the first burial in this cemetery since 1999. The digging up of her grave is a clear message to Serbs that they cannot even bury their dead in Gnjilane." [25] 

Two days later a Serbian male was assaulted in Istok, in northwestern Kosovo, by a gang of Albanians and afterward taken to a hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica. The coordinator for returning Serbs in the city said "that the situation in Istok has drastically worsened over the last week, and that the attack has further upset Serbs living in the municipality." 

"There are five homes almost complete for returning Serbs...and it is
obvious that someone does not like it," Vesna Malikovic added. [26]

Almost eleven years ago the U.S. and NATO brought their KLA allies to power in Kosovo. There was no way they could have achieved that objective on their own.

To demonstrate to whom the likes of Hashim Thaci, Ramush Haradinaj, Agim Ceku and other former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders see themselves indebted to for the opportunity of purging the province of all non-Albanian inhabitants - and eliminating Albanians not deemed sufficiently subservient - they have named the main street in the capital of Pristina after George W. Bush, who engineered Kosovo's formal secession two years ago.

Major streets in the capital are also named after Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright and William Walker, and last November 1 Bill Clinton arrived in Pristina to join Hashim Thaci in unveiling a grotesque eleven-foot statue to the former American president. 

While promoting NATO's new Strategic Concept with her 12-member Group of Experts last month, Madeleine Albright said that "If you wish to know what I think is the most important thing I accomplished as U.S. secretary of state, I think it is the stopping of the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo," though local media reported she initially used the phrase "conducting the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo." [27]

There was no need for her to correct herself. She stated the matter accurately the first time.


1) B92, March 17, 2004
2) Ombudsman office, Pristina, Kosovo, Statement to the Media, 18 March 2004
3) Serbian Government, April 26, 2008 
4) The Statesman (India), February 15, 2008
5) Reuters, October 14, 2009
6) Der Spiegel, September 21, 2002 (In German)
  http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-25211840.html
7) Reuters, November 20, 2009
8) Beta News Agency, January 27, 2010
9) B92/FoNet/Tanjug News Agency, January 29, 2010
10) Beta News Agency, January 27, 2010
11) Tanjug News Agency, January 30, 2010
12) B92/FoNet/Tanjug News Agency, January 29, 2010
13) Strategic Culture Foundation, February 3, 2010
14) Deutsche Presse-Agentur, March 8, 2010
15) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Kosovo Force, September 16, 2009
16) BBC News, January 21, 2010
17) Kosovo Times, July 30, 2009
18) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Allied Command Operations 
   March 15, 2010
19) B92, March 7, 2010
20) Southeast European Times, March 11, 2010
21) Strategic Culture Foundation, February 3, 2010
22) Radio Serbia, January 13, 2010
23) Tanjug News Agency, February 6, 2010
24) B92, February 22, 2010
25) Beta News Agency, February 19, 2010
26) FoNet, February 20, 2010
27) Tanjug News Agency, February 11, 2010

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Associated Press  - March 18, 2010

Kosovo: NATO hands over Serb site to local police  

By NEBI QENA


NATO on Thursday put local police in charge of securing the site of an ancient battle that lies at the historical heart of Serbia's resolve to retain the territory of Kosovo.

The move comes despite objections from Kosovo's minority Serbs....Kosovo's 8,000-strong police force is made up primarily of ethnic Albanians.

The commander of the alliance's force in central Kosovo praised the move, however, saying it shows that Kosovo police are able to secure the sensitive site.

"I understand that these are difficult issues," Brig. Gen. Seppo Toivonen told reporters at the hand-over ceremony. "I still say this concept is a good one to ensure that the Kosovo police will be accepted to do this task."

The transfer comes a day after Kosovo's Serbs marked the six-year anniversary since rioting Albanians launched Kosovo-wide attacks on Serbs, leaving dozens of people dead and scores of Orthodox churches burned.

Kosovo is populated primarily by ethnic Albanians. It declared independence from Serbia in 2008, despite strong objections from Serbia, which has vowed never to give up its claims over the territory.

The site was the scene of an epic 1389 battle for Kosovo, in which a Christian army led by Serbian Prince Lazar was defeated by invading Ottoman forces....






Holocaust Deniers at the U.S. State Department


By Srdja Trifkovic
Saturday, 20 Mar 2010


The latest U.S. Department of State human rights report on Croatia, released on March 11, says matter of factly that “on September 24 [2009] ... Cardinal Josip Bozanic visited Jasenovac, the site of the largest concentration camp in Croatia during World War II where thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Roma were killed” [emphasis added; a daily scene from Jasenovac, l.]. This remarkable claim is the exact moral and factual equivalent of asserting that “tens of thousands” of Jews and others were killed in Auschwitz or Treblinka.

The number of victims at Jasenovac is still uncertain. The lowest estimate with any pretense to methodological seriousness –tens of thousands of victims – was made by the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, famous for saying “Thank God, my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.” Tudjman’s “estimate” on Jasenovac fits in with his other assessments:

“In his book Wastelands: Historical Truths, published in 1988, Mr. Tudjman wrote that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust was 900,000 – not six million. He has also asserted that not more than 70,000 Serbs died at the hands of the Ustashe – most historians say around 400,000 were killed.” (The New York Times, August 20, 1995)

Other sources provide estimates tens of times greater than Dr. Tudjman’s, and hundreds of times greater than that presented as fact by the U.S. State Department:

“JASENOVAC” by Menachem Shelach in Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, 1990, pp. 739-740: “Some six hundred thousand people were murdered at Jasenovac, mostly Serbs, Jews, GYPSIES, and opponents of the USTAŠA regime.”

The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team: “It is estimated that close to 600,000  … mostly Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, were murdered at Jasenovac.”

So much for the Jewish sources. This is what the contemporary German allies of the Ustasa regime had to say on the subject.

Hermann Neubacher, Hitler’s foremost political expert for the Balkans, in his book Sonderaufrag Südost 1940-1945. Bericht eines fliegenden Diplomaten (Goettingen: Muster-Schmidt-Verlag, 1957, p. 18):

"The prescription for the Orthodox Serbs issued by the leader and Führer of Croatia, Ante Pavelić, was reminiscent of the religious wars of the bloodiest memory: One third must be converted to Catholicism, another third must be expelled, and the final third must die. The last part of the program has been carried out.” [i.e. one-third of cca. 1.9 million were killed]

In a report to Himmler, SS General Ernst Frick estimated that “600 to 700,000 victims were butchered in the Balkan fashion.” General Lothar Rendulic, commanding German forces in the western Balkans in 1943-1944, estimated the number of Ustaša victims to be 500,000. In his memoirs Gekaempft, gesiegt, geschlagen (Welsermühl Verlag, Wels und Heidelberg, 1952, p.161) he recalled a memorable exchange on this issue with a Croat dignitary:

“When I objected to a high official who was close to Pavelic that, in spite of the accumulated hatred, I failed to comprehend the murder of half a million Orthodox, the answer I received was characteristic of the mentality that prevailed there: Half a million, that’s too much – there weren’t more than 200,000!

The U.S. Department of State may have in its possession some newly discovered and incontrovertible evidence that Yad Vashem’s researchers had exaggerated the number of victims at Jasenovac a hundredfold or more, that German eyewitnesses were wrong, that even the Holocaust-denying President Tudjman was wrong, and that the number of victims was indeed in some “thousands” rather than tens or hundreds of thousands.

If it does, the State Department should make such evidence for its claims public. If it does not, it should issue a detailed correction and an unreserved apology.