Informazione
LINKS articoli 4--7/7/2005
SOURCE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yugoslaviainfo/
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From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 4th, 2005)
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would
die of fear
Ivo Andric
Rollie Keith's Political Integrity (by Boba Borojevic)
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/borojevic/022.shtml
Former Yugoslavs demand basic rights in Slovenia
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2005-07-02T155936Z_01_MOL257559_RTRUKOC_0_RIGHTS-SLOVENIA-ETHNIC.xml
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Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
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THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Serbia-Montenegro at the gate of real partnership relations with EU
http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?pf=1&id=13903&url=%2Fvesti%2Fvest.php%3Fpf%3D1%26id%3D13903
British Ambassador: EU accession date depends on Romania alone (by
Monica Bonea)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13349
Government's agreement with IMF irks unions (by Adrian Hamzescu)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13331
'Advancing' on all fronts (by Clive Leviev-Sawyer)
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/a-salute-to-the-united-states-advancing-on-all-fronts/id_11699/catid_29
Albania Ready for Parliamentary Elections (by Erlis Selimaj)
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/07/01/feature-02?print=yes
Ruling and opposition parties claim victory in Albanian election
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=50755
'Clean Hunter'
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30119
Bush pays cheap for Russian democracy
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15743
Russia to help China oust the USA from Eurasia (by P.Gvaskov)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15745
Yomiuri Shimbun: Japan and China face off over energy
http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=318
Greece, Turkey co-launch historic gas pipeline
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/39810.asp
Break for News: Live 8 is a NWO Psyop - So is AIDS (by Fintan Dunne)
http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/07/live8-is-nwo-psyop-so-is-aids.html
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From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 5th, 2005)
DU Weapons: War Crime and Crime Against Humanity (by A. Maeda, S.
Saruta & K. Inamori)
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_18827.shtml
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Balkan Reconstruction Report
http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/section.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&tpid=8
=======================================================
Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
=========================
THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
MakFax (FYRM)
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/izdanje.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=154
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Glas javnosti: Srebrenica and reaction (by Miodrag Zarkovic)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/gn070105.htm
AP via Ha'aretz: Wiesenthal Center renews pressure on Croatia
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/jul05/hed7082.shtml
Wiesenthal Center Executive Director visits Pozega over Asner case
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/politika/H7043527.4yc
Czech troops going to Kosovo
http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=20050701E02476;story=Czech-troops-going-to-Kosovo
Building a future in Kosovo (by Robert Fox)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4641257.stm
AP: Mad Maddy: "I have from the very beginning understood the dream of
the people of Kosovo and I have myself worked to try to make this
dream come true"
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-ex-secretary-of-state-albright-in.html
Former Balkan US envoy: US will not accept solutions against the will
of majority
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/dobbins-us-will-not-accept-solutions.html
'Kosovo and the region's readiness for change'
http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?pf=1&id=14000&url=%2Fvesti%2Fvest.php%3Fpf%3D1%26id%3D14000
An exchange of letters on the Balkans
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/corr-j05_prn.shtml
Senator Believes U.S. Should Take Position to Diffuse Tense Issue that
Has Repercussions for Greater Balkan Region
http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=3633&lang=US
United Macedonian Diaspora: Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice (by Steve Gligorov)
http://www.maknews.com/html/articles/koloski/letter_to_rice.html
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (by John Brady Kiesling)
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=01&m=A99&aa=8
Greek-Turkish relations and the EU (by John Psaropoulos)
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=01&m=A99&aa=9
Welcome to America? (by Stella L. Jatras)
http://www.apisgroup.org/article.html?id=2619
Croatian Assistant DM: Parliament decesion has not harmed relations
between Croatian and US armed forces
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/politika/H7043501.4yc
'Shark Hunt 2005'
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30168
Moldova wants changes to OSCE resolution (by Andreea Pocotila)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13415
Ukraine, Moldova to seal off Transdnestr
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050704/40838781.html
Transnistria: The Case for "Soft" Unilateral Diplomacy (by Achilles
Skordas)
http://www.westernpolicy.org/Secondary.asp?PageName=Publication&Page=Commentary/Commentary74.asp
Russia's new move (by Vladimir Radyuhin)
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/05/stories/2005070505071100.htm
New Silk Route era (by Siddharth Varadarajan)
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/05/stories/2005070514121400.htm
China fails to win Russian pledge on oil pipeline (by Vladimir Radyuhin)
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/05/stories/2005070506441400.htm
Russian-Chinese gambit: Imminent menace
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15752
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From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 6th, 2005)
Wag the Dog
Deconstructing ICTY 's Big Lie (by Andy Wilcoxson)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg070505.htm
American Foreign Policy 101 (by Ryan McMaken)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken108.html
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Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
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THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
MakFax (FYRM)
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/izdanje.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=155
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Newton's Third Law
http://grayfalcon.blogspot.com/2005/07/newtons-third-law.html
Macedonia Seeks Provisional Release of ICTY Indictees
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/07/05/feature-02?print=yes
SRSG gives green light for security sector review to start
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/srsg-gives-green-light-for-security.html
UNMIK, UNDP and the PISG Ministry of Communities and Returns sign
Memorandum of Understanding in support to returns in Kosovo
http://mail.unmikonline.org/DPI/PressRelease.nsf/0/5F9B9F4001232912C125703500233026/$FILE/pr1385.pdf
Macedonia and Montenegro initiate new, higher forms of economic
cooperation
http://www.mia.com.mk/ang/glavnavest/lastvest.asp?vest=\Refresh1\048-0507.htm
'Free your Mind'
http://www.azi.md/print/34941/En
"European Integration Experience of the Baltic States: Recommendations
for Moldova"
http://www.azi.md/print/34942/En
President wants Romania to export democracy (by Andreea Pocotila)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13478
The Quiet American in Iran (by Trish Schuh
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GG06Ak03.html
China knocking on Russia's door (by Sergei Blagov)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GG06Ad02.html
Global Times: Oil deal tests US policy towards China (by Ding Gang)
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200507/06/print20050706_194469.html
China's bid for Unocal heightens tension with the US (by John Chan)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/chin-j06_prn.shtml
The US Government Should Stop Meddling in the Oil Market (by Ivan Eland)
http://www.antiwar.com/eland/
IPS: Only Uncle Sam's finger on the trigger (by Praful Bidwai)
http://www.antiwar.com/bidwai/
European Security and Defense Policy "final blow"
http://srirangan.net/india-defence/node/327/print
Live 8: Corporate Media Bonanza (by Michel Chossudovsky)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20050705&articleId=641
New Statesman: Out with them all! (by John Pilger)
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=3305
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From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 7th, 2005)
Silver City (by Nebojsa Malic)
http://antiwar.com/malic/
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Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
=========================
THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
MakFax (FYRM)
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/izdanje.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=156
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Jive8 : damage control for international war criminal (by William Bowles)
http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0344.html
Another Prosecution Witness Exposed a Liar (by Andy Wilcoxson)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg070605.htm
Kosovo government allocates funds for KLA war veterans
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/kosovo-government-allocates-funds-for.html
"Citizens of both countries must realise that we cannot be slaves to
the past, and that we must turn to the future"
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/politika/H7064014.4yc
Mad Maddy: Future depends on you - this is a crucial year
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/albright-future-depends-on-you-this-is.html
MIA: Former President: Macedonian State Will Survive
http://www.idividi.com.mk/English/Politics/316353/index.html
Gov't: Time has come for FYROM to offer convincing answers to
irredentist maps
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=3112107&service=10
"The Mineral industry in Kosovo is one of the main pillars for the
economic development in Kosovo"
http://www.eciks.org/english/lajme.php?action=total_news&main_id=192
Rockwool Group to build factory in Istria
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/gospodarstvo/H7064028.4ya
Unholy Trinity 'Investments' in Serbia
http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?pf=1&id=14092&url=%2Fvesti%2Fvest.php%3Fpf%3D1%26id%3D14092
Transnistrian Games Without Frontiers
http://www.azi.md/print/34959/En
Russia Out, 'Prosperity' In
http://www.infotag.md/inews/41964/
Russia to save its neighbors from export of revolutions
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15761
Strong Russia annoys USA
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15767
'China is on the Rise, America is Worried.' (by Ali Cimen)
http://www.zaman.com/include/yazdir.php?bl=interviews&alt=&trh=20050707&hn=21384
Washington draws Indian in against China
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200507/07/print20050707_194676.html
The USA will have to take account of the new international center, the
Asian monster
(by Vadim Trukhachev)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15762
Geopolitics in Central Asia Today (by Oliver Lee)
http://www.zaman.com/include/yazdir.php?bl=commentary&trh=20050707&hn=21424
SOURCE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yugoslaviainfo/
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From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 4th, 2005)
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would
die of fear
Ivo Andric
Rollie Keith's Political Integrity (by Boba Borojevic)
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/borojevic/022.shtml
Former Yugoslavs demand basic rights in Slovenia
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2005-07-02T155936Z_01_MOL257559_RTRUKOC_0_RIGHTS-SLOVENIA-ETHNIC.xml
-----------------------------------------------
Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
=========================
THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Serbia-Montenegro at the gate of real partnership relations with EU
http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?pf=1&id=13903&url=%2Fvesti%2Fvest.php%3Fpf%3D1%26id%3D13903
British Ambassador: EU accession date depends on Romania alone (by
Monica Bonea)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13349
Government's agreement with IMF irks unions (by Adrian Hamzescu)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13331
'Advancing' on all fronts (by Clive Leviev-Sawyer)
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/a-salute-to-the-united-states-advancing-on-all-fronts/id_11699/catid_29
Albania Ready for Parliamentary Elections (by Erlis Selimaj)
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/07/01/feature-02?print=yes
Ruling and opposition parties claim victory in Albanian election
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=50755
'Clean Hunter'
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30119
Bush pays cheap for Russian democracy
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15743
Russia to help China oust the USA from Eurasia (by P.Gvaskov)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15745
Yomiuri Shimbun: Japan and China face off over energy
http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=318
Greece, Turkey co-launch historic gas pipeline
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/39810.asp
Break for News: Live 8 is a NWO Psyop - So is AIDS (by Fintan Dunne)
http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/07/live8-is-nwo-psyop-so-is-aids.html
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From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 5th, 2005)
DU Weapons: War Crime and Crime Against Humanity (by A. Maeda, S.
Saruta & K. Inamori)
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_18827.shtml
------------------------------------------------------------
Balkan Reconstruction Report
http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/section.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&tpid=8
=======================================================
Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
=========================
THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
MakFax (FYRM)
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/izdanje.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=154
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Glas javnosti: Srebrenica and reaction (by Miodrag Zarkovic)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/gn070105.htm
AP via Ha'aretz: Wiesenthal Center renews pressure on Croatia
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/jul05/hed7082.shtml
Wiesenthal Center Executive Director visits Pozega over Asner case
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/politika/H7043527.4yc
Czech troops going to Kosovo
http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=20050701E02476;story=Czech-troops-going-to-Kosovo
Building a future in Kosovo (by Robert Fox)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4641257.stm
AP: Mad Maddy: "I have from the very beginning understood the dream of
the people of Kosovo and I have myself worked to try to make this
dream come true"
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-ex-secretary-of-state-albright-in.html
Former Balkan US envoy: US will not accept solutions against the will
of majority
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/dobbins-us-will-not-accept-solutions.html
'Kosovo and the region's readiness for change'
http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?pf=1&id=14000&url=%2Fvesti%2Fvest.php%3Fpf%3D1%26id%3D14000
An exchange of letters on the Balkans
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/corr-j05_prn.shtml
Senator Believes U.S. Should Take Position to Diffuse Tense Issue that
Has Repercussions for Greater Balkan Region
http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=3633&lang=US
United Macedonian Diaspora: Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice (by Steve Gligorov)
http://www.maknews.com/html/articles/koloski/letter_to_rice.html
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (by John Brady Kiesling)
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=01&m=A99&aa=8
Greek-Turkish relations and the EU (by John Psaropoulos)
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=01&m=A99&aa=9
Welcome to America? (by Stella L. Jatras)
http://www.apisgroup.org/article.html?id=2619
Croatian Assistant DM: Parliament decesion has not harmed relations
between Croatian and US armed forces
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/politika/H7043501.4yc
'Shark Hunt 2005'
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30168
Moldova wants changes to OSCE resolution (by Andreea Pocotila)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13415
Ukraine, Moldova to seal off Transdnestr
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050704/40838781.html
Transnistria: The Case for "Soft" Unilateral Diplomacy (by Achilles
Skordas)
http://www.westernpolicy.org/Secondary.asp?PageName=Publication&Page=Commentary/Commentary74.asp
Russia's new move (by Vladimir Radyuhin)
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/05/stories/2005070505071100.htm
New Silk Route era (by Siddharth Varadarajan)
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/05/stories/2005070514121400.htm
China fails to win Russian pledge on oil pipeline (by Vladimir Radyuhin)
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/05/stories/2005070506441400.htm
Russian-Chinese gambit: Imminent menace
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15752
=========================
=========================
From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 6th, 2005)
Wag the Dog
Deconstructing ICTY 's Big Lie (by Andy Wilcoxson)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg070505.htm
American Foreign Policy 101 (by Ryan McMaken)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken108.html
--------------------------------------------------
Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
=========================
THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
MakFax (FYRM)
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/izdanje.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=155
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Newton's Third Law
http://grayfalcon.blogspot.com/2005/07/newtons-third-law.html
Macedonia Seeks Provisional Release of ICTY Indictees
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/07/05/feature-02?print=yes
SRSG gives green light for security sector review to start
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/srsg-gives-green-light-for-security.html
UNMIK, UNDP and the PISG Ministry of Communities and Returns sign
Memorandum of Understanding in support to returns in Kosovo
http://mail.unmikonline.org/DPI/PressRelease.nsf/0/5F9B9F4001232912C125703500233026/$FILE/pr1385.pdf
Macedonia and Montenegro initiate new, higher forms of economic
cooperation
http://www.mia.com.mk/ang/glavnavest/lastvest.asp?vest=\Refresh1\048-0507.htm
'Free your Mind'
http://www.azi.md/print/34941/En
"European Integration Experience of the Baltic States: Recommendations
for Moldova"
http://www.azi.md/print/34942/En
President wants Romania to export democracy (by Andreea Pocotila)
http://www.daily-news.ro/print_preview.php?idarticle=13478
The Quiet American in Iran (by Trish Schuh
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GG06Ak03.html
China knocking on Russia's door (by Sergei Blagov)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GG06Ad02.html
Global Times: Oil deal tests US policy towards China (by Ding Gang)
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200507/06/print20050706_194469.html
China's bid for Unocal heightens tension with the US (by John Chan)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/chin-j06_prn.shtml
The US Government Should Stop Meddling in the Oil Market (by Ivan Eland)
http://www.antiwar.com/eland/
IPS: Only Uncle Sam's finger on the trigger (by Praful Bidwai)
http://www.antiwar.com/bidwai/
European Security and Defense Policy "final blow"
http://srirangan.net/india-defence/node/327/print
Live 8: Corporate Media Bonanza (by Michel Chossudovsky)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20050705&articleId=641
New Statesman: Out with them all! (by John Pilger)
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=3305
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From: "Darkita"
To: yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Selected articles (July 7th, 2005)
Silver City (by Nebojsa Malic)
http://antiwar.com/malic/
-------------------------
Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/
=========================
THE GLOBAL TYRANNY
MakFax (FYRM)
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/izdanje.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=156
B92 News
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
Jive8 : damage control for international war criminal (by William Bowles)
http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0344.html
Another Prosecution Witness Exposed a Liar (by Andy Wilcoxson)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg070605.htm
Kosovo government allocates funds for KLA war veterans
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/kosovo-government-allocates-funds-for.html
"Citizens of both countries must realise that we cannot be slaves to
the past, and that we must turn to the future"
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/politika/H7064014.4yc
Mad Maddy: Future depends on you - this is a crucial year
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/albright-future-depends-on-you-this-is.html
MIA: Former President: Macedonian State Will Survive
http://www.idividi.com.mk/English/Politics/316353/index.html
Gov't: Time has come for FYROM to offer convincing answers to
irredentist maps
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=3112107&service=10
"The Mineral industry in Kosovo is one of the main pillars for the
economic development in Kosovo"
http://www.eciks.org/english/lajme.php?action=total_news&main_id=192
Rockwool Group to build factory in Istria
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/gospodarstvo/H7064028.4ya
Unholy Trinity 'Investments' in Serbia
http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?pf=1&id=14092&url=%2Fvesti%2Fvest.php%3Fpf%3D1%26id%3D14092
Transnistrian Games Without Frontiers
http://www.azi.md/print/34959/En
Russia Out, 'Prosperity' In
http://www.infotag.md/inews/41964/
Russia to save its neighbors from export of revolutions
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15761
Strong Russia annoys USA
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15767
'China is on the Rise, America is Worried.' (by Ali Cimen)
http://www.zaman.com/include/yazdir.php?bl=interviews&alt=&trh=20050707&hn=21384
Washington draws Indian in against China
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200507/07/print20050707_194676.html
The USA will have to take account of the new international center, the
Asian monster
(by Vadim Trukhachev)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15762
Geopolitics in Central Asia Today (by Oliver Lee)
http://www.zaman.com/include/yazdir.php?bl=commentary&trh=20050707&hn=21424
Il paradossale antifascismo della Croazia
1) Considerazioni sulla "Giornata dell'antifascismo" in Croazia (22
giugno)
2) Savo Zlatic: "Poslali su me na Kordun" (Mi hanno mandato nel Kordun)
(testi a cura di Andrea, Jasna e Tamara per il CNJ)
### Sulla Guerra Popolare di Liberazione in Croazia vedi anche:
"Bijela Smrt" - La marcia eroica dei 680 di Matic Poljana
di Vitomir Grbac
https://www.cnj.it/PARTIGIANI/vgrbac.htm ###
=== 1 ===
Considerazioni sulla "Giornata dell'antifascismo" in Croazia (22 giugno)
Il giorno 22 giugno u.s. in Croazia si e' celebrata, con numerose
piccole cerimonie presso monumenti e luoghi-simbolo, la Giornata
dell'Antifascismo. Questa data è l'anniversario della formazione, nel
1941, di alcune strutture combattenti partigiane territoriali in
Banija, presso il Kordun, un episodio che non ebbe mai l'importanza
che le viene assegnata adesso.
Scopo della introduzione di questa ricorrenza nella attuale Croazia
"indipendente" è dimostrare a tutti i costi che la Croazia si sarebbe
ribellata al nazifascismo prima ancora della Serbia, ed
indipendentemente da essa. Ricordiamo infatti che nella Jugoslavia
unita la ricorrenza della Resistenza era il 7 luglio (inizio della
ribellione in Serbia), mentre per la Croazia la data che si celebrava
era il 30 luglio.
Il recente "antifascismo" dello Stato croato si basa su dunque alcuni
"errori" storici, che hanno ciascuno una spiegazione in termini di
opportunità e compatibilità politiche:
1) far passare il grande contributo dei partigiani croati alla lotta
di Liberazione nazionale jugoslava come lotta per la Liberazione della
nazione croata dal giogo nazifascista - isolandola dunque dal contesto
jugoslavo, che va rimosso ed umiliato a tutti i costi;
2) nascondere il fatto che la maggioranza degli antifascisti croati
(per lo meno quelli che ad un certo punto presero le armi) fossero
comunisti, e che il contributo militare ed organizzativo del Partito
Comunista fu centrale nella lotta (le altre componenti del movimento
essendo di fatto irrilevanti);
3) cancellare il contributo dei Serbi di Croazia.
Si specula dunque e si falsifica tutta la storia, si cambia la data
dell'inizio della lotta antifascista nella Croazia per distorcere ed
omettere la verità.
E' degno di nota anche il fatto che il presidente della Repubblica
Stipe Mesic -- gia' braccio destro di Tudjman, co-fondatore dell'HDZ,
e che come ultimo presidente federale e zelante esecutore dei diktat
tedeschi nel 1991 fu tra i maggiori responsabili dello squartamento
della Jugoslavia (del quale ha fatto persino vanto in un libro
intitolato "Come abbiamo distrutto la Jugoslavia", sic) -- questo
stesso Stipe Mesic si esprime oggi, opportunisticamente, con toni
apparentemente improntati al più fermo antifascismo (vedi sotto),
scavalcando in questo senso, benche' con pura finalita' retorica e
demagogica, tutti gli altri leader politici attuali delle repubbliche
jugoslave ex-federate!
Paradossalmente, quindi, la Croazia "indipendente", forgiata nella
guerra di secessione razzista antijugoslava sotto la guida dei
cadaveri ustascia, ed attualmente guidata da uno dei peggiori
responsabili di quello squartamento, si esprime oggi a livello
ufficiale in senso antifascista addirittura piu' esplicitamente di
quanto non facciano tutti gli altri governi e leader dei dintorni. Ma
in realtà la coscienza antifascista della Croazia è una falsa
coscienza, perchè non può esistere alcun serio antifascismo dove Unità
e Fratellanza sono state calpestate e vilipese.
CROAZIA: PRESIDENTE MESIC CONDANNA NOSTALGIA FASCISTA
(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 20 GIU - Il presidente croato Stipe Mesic ha
condannato oggi ogni sentimento di nostalgia per il regime
filofascista croato, esistito durante la Seconda guerra mondiale,
elogiando nel contempo i valori dell'antifascismo e della lotta
partigiana capeggiata dal maresciallo Josip Broz Tito. ''E' ormai alle
nostre spalle il periodo in cui, nuocendo agli interessi della
Croazia, si flirtava con il fascismo diminuendo i valori
dell'antifascismo'', ha dichiarato Mesic in un messaggio alla nazione
in occasione della Giornata della lotta antifascista che, in memoria
della prima brigata partigiana, viene celebrata il 22 giugno.
Alludendo al regime nazionalista del suo predecessore Franjo Tudjman,
che durante gli anni Novanta aveva sottoposto al revisionismo storico
ogni valore collegato alla Federazione jugoslava e al suo leader Tito,
Mesic ha detto che ''in quel periodo siamo stati testimoni, e lo siamo
periodicamente tuttora, di un ignobile revisione delle verita'
storiche sulla Seconda guerra mondiale''. ''L'antifascismo e' un
valore universale e un valore umano e noi vogliamo riaffermare il
nostro amore per la liberta' e il nostro orientamento antifascista'',
ha affermato Mesic ribadendo che la Croazia e' fondata su queste idee,
impiantate nella sua Costituzione. Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale
sul suolo croato si e' combattuta anche una guerra civile tra il
regime filonazista degli ustascia di Ante Pavelic e i partigiani
guidati dai comunisti di Tito. Dopo la dissoluzione della Jugoslavia
il nuovo regime nazionalista di Tudjman ha in parte tentato di
riabilitare gli ustascia vedendo in loro l'espressione
dell'aspirazione verso l'indipendenza del popolo croato, minimizzando
i loro crimini e mettendo in primo piano i peccati del
comunismo.(ANSA). COR
20/06/2005 16:55
=== 2 ===
Savo Zlatic: "Poslali su me na Kordun"
Alla fine di giugno si è tenuta a Zagabria la presentazione del libro
del dottor Savo Zlatic: "Poslali su me na Kordun" (Mi hanno mandato
nel Kordun). Il Kordun è un noto massiccio montuoso, che prende il
nome dal francese "cordon" dal tempo delle guerre napoleoniche, e fu
immortalato anche nella canzone tradizionale "Na Kordunu"; esso è
carico di memoria delle lotte partigiane. Si tratta del grande
territorio liberato intorno a Topusko e Petrova Gora, teatro di
scontri bellici e sede di un ospedale partigiano nascosto sottoterra,
che si vide letteralmente "passare sopra" l'offensiva ustascia in due
riprese senza essere scoperto mai!
Il Dottor Savo Zlatic è il medico, comunista e partigiano, che fondò
ed organizzo' quell'ospedale e che lo condusse dall'agosto del 1941
fino circa all'inverno del 1943, quando divenne un importante
organizzatore politico della lotta dei partigiani in Croazia e si vide
assegnati altri compiti. Per passare al nuovo incarico nel 1943 aveva
lasciato l'ospedale nella mano della dottoressa Schlessinger. I
Schlessinger erano marito e moglie medici che tutti e due persero la
vita nella guerra partigiana. Lei, curando ed aiutando i
partigiani colpiti, fu ferita e morì nello stesso ospedale a Petrova
Gora, mentre il marito fu preso dal nemico durante la quinta offensiva
(Sutjeska) ed impiccato.
Da Zagabria Jasna Tkalec ci scrive:
<< Mio padre fu anche partigiano a Petrova Gora, e ne ho sentite tante
su quei posti - ad esempio la storia della loro cuoca partigiana (baba
Mara) che ebbe la gola tagliata dal coltello ustascia in un eccidio
collettivo, ma riuscì ad uscire da un cumulo di morti ed a salvarsi...
Oggi Savo Zlatic e' quasi novantenne, in salute discreta, anche se ne
ha passate tante nella vita. Appena finita la guerra (1945-1948) fu
ministro della sanità della Croazia, poi dopo il 1948 (al tempo della
drammatica rottura tra Tito e Stalin) fini sull'Isola Calva.
Il libro appena uscito è il suo diario di guerra e contiene alcuni
suoi commenti.
Molto belle le presentazioni del libro fatte dall'ex generale della
JNA in pensione Rade Bulat, che fu combattente partigiano nonche'
comandante dei partigiani del Kordun, e da Gjuka Hrzenjak, militante
partigiano e dirigente del Fronte Popolare. Ambedue hanno detto parole
coraggiose ed oneste sulla Croazia di oggi, politicamente e
storicamente. >>
1) Considerazioni sulla "Giornata dell'antifascismo" in Croazia (22
giugno)
2) Savo Zlatic: "Poslali su me na Kordun" (Mi hanno mandato nel Kordun)
(testi a cura di Andrea, Jasna e Tamara per il CNJ)
### Sulla Guerra Popolare di Liberazione in Croazia vedi anche:
"Bijela Smrt" - La marcia eroica dei 680 di Matic Poljana
di Vitomir Grbac
https://www.cnj.it/PARTIGIANI/vgrbac.htm ###
=== 1 ===
Considerazioni sulla "Giornata dell'antifascismo" in Croazia (22 giugno)
Il giorno 22 giugno u.s. in Croazia si e' celebrata, con numerose
piccole cerimonie presso monumenti e luoghi-simbolo, la Giornata
dell'Antifascismo. Questa data è l'anniversario della formazione, nel
1941, di alcune strutture combattenti partigiane territoriali in
Banija, presso il Kordun, un episodio che non ebbe mai l'importanza
che le viene assegnata adesso.
Scopo della introduzione di questa ricorrenza nella attuale Croazia
"indipendente" è dimostrare a tutti i costi che la Croazia si sarebbe
ribellata al nazifascismo prima ancora della Serbia, ed
indipendentemente da essa. Ricordiamo infatti che nella Jugoslavia
unita la ricorrenza della Resistenza era il 7 luglio (inizio della
ribellione in Serbia), mentre per la Croazia la data che si celebrava
era il 30 luglio.
Il recente "antifascismo" dello Stato croato si basa su dunque alcuni
"errori" storici, che hanno ciascuno una spiegazione in termini di
opportunità e compatibilità politiche:
1) far passare il grande contributo dei partigiani croati alla lotta
di Liberazione nazionale jugoslava come lotta per la Liberazione della
nazione croata dal giogo nazifascista - isolandola dunque dal contesto
jugoslavo, che va rimosso ed umiliato a tutti i costi;
2) nascondere il fatto che la maggioranza degli antifascisti croati
(per lo meno quelli che ad un certo punto presero le armi) fossero
comunisti, e che il contributo militare ed organizzativo del Partito
Comunista fu centrale nella lotta (le altre componenti del movimento
essendo di fatto irrilevanti);
3) cancellare il contributo dei Serbi di Croazia.
Si specula dunque e si falsifica tutta la storia, si cambia la data
dell'inizio della lotta antifascista nella Croazia per distorcere ed
omettere la verità.
E' degno di nota anche il fatto che il presidente della Repubblica
Stipe Mesic -- gia' braccio destro di Tudjman, co-fondatore dell'HDZ,
e che come ultimo presidente federale e zelante esecutore dei diktat
tedeschi nel 1991 fu tra i maggiori responsabili dello squartamento
della Jugoslavia (del quale ha fatto persino vanto in un libro
intitolato "Come abbiamo distrutto la Jugoslavia", sic) -- questo
stesso Stipe Mesic si esprime oggi, opportunisticamente, con toni
apparentemente improntati al più fermo antifascismo (vedi sotto),
scavalcando in questo senso, benche' con pura finalita' retorica e
demagogica, tutti gli altri leader politici attuali delle repubbliche
jugoslave ex-federate!
Paradossalmente, quindi, la Croazia "indipendente", forgiata nella
guerra di secessione razzista antijugoslava sotto la guida dei
cadaveri ustascia, ed attualmente guidata da uno dei peggiori
responsabili di quello squartamento, si esprime oggi a livello
ufficiale in senso antifascista addirittura piu' esplicitamente di
quanto non facciano tutti gli altri governi e leader dei dintorni. Ma
in realtà la coscienza antifascista della Croazia è una falsa
coscienza, perchè non può esistere alcun serio antifascismo dove Unità
e Fratellanza sono state calpestate e vilipese.
CROAZIA: PRESIDENTE MESIC CONDANNA NOSTALGIA FASCISTA
(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 20 GIU - Il presidente croato Stipe Mesic ha
condannato oggi ogni sentimento di nostalgia per il regime
filofascista croato, esistito durante la Seconda guerra mondiale,
elogiando nel contempo i valori dell'antifascismo e della lotta
partigiana capeggiata dal maresciallo Josip Broz Tito. ''E' ormai alle
nostre spalle il periodo in cui, nuocendo agli interessi della
Croazia, si flirtava con il fascismo diminuendo i valori
dell'antifascismo'', ha dichiarato Mesic in un messaggio alla nazione
in occasione della Giornata della lotta antifascista che, in memoria
della prima brigata partigiana, viene celebrata il 22 giugno.
Alludendo al regime nazionalista del suo predecessore Franjo Tudjman,
che durante gli anni Novanta aveva sottoposto al revisionismo storico
ogni valore collegato alla Federazione jugoslava e al suo leader Tito,
Mesic ha detto che ''in quel periodo siamo stati testimoni, e lo siamo
periodicamente tuttora, di un ignobile revisione delle verita'
storiche sulla Seconda guerra mondiale''. ''L'antifascismo e' un
valore universale e un valore umano e noi vogliamo riaffermare il
nostro amore per la liberta' e il nostro orientamento antifascista'',
ha affermato Mesic ribadendo che la Croazia e' fondata su queste idee,
impiantate nella sua Costituzione. Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale
sul suolo croato si e' combattuta anche una guerra civile tra il
regime filonazista degli ustascia di Ante Pavelic e i partigiani
guidati dai comunisti di Tito. Dopo la dissoluzione della Jugoslavia
il nuovo regime nazionalista di Tudjman ha in parte tentato di
riabilitare gli ustascia vedendo in loro l'espressione
dell'aspirazione verso l'indipendenza del popolo croato, minimizzando
i loro crimini e mettendo in primo piano i peccati del
comunismo.(ANSA). COR
20/06/2005 16:55
=== 2 ===
Savo Zlatic: "Poslali su me na Kordun"
Alla fine di giugno si è tenuta a Zagabria la presentazione del libro
del dottor Savo Zlatic: "Poslali su me na Kordun" (Mi hanno mandato
nel Kordun). Il Kordun è un noto massiccio montuoso, che prende il
nome dal francese "cordon" dal tempo delle guerre napoleoniche, e fu
immortalato anche nella canzone tradizionale "Na Kordunu"; esso è
carico di memoria delle lotte partigiane. Si tratta del grande
territorio liberato intorno a Topusko e Petrova Gora, teatro di
scontri bellici e sede di un ospedale partigiano nascosto sottoterra,
che si vide letteralmente "passare sopra" l'offensiva ustascia in due
riprese senza essere scoperto mai!
Il Dottor Savo Zlatic è il medico, comunista e partigiano, che fondò
ed organizzo' quell'ospedale e che lo condusse dall'agosto del 1941
fino circa all'inverno del 1943, quando divenne un importante
organizzatore politico della lotta dei partigiani in Croazia e si vide
assegnati altri compiti. Per passare al nuovo incarico nel 1943 aveva
lasciato l'ospedale nella mano della dottoressa Schlessinger. I
Schlessinger erano marito e moglie medici che tutti e due persero la
vita nella guerra partigiana. Lei, curando ed aiutando i
partigiani colpiti, fu ferita e morì nello stesso ospedale a Petrova
Gora, mentre il marito fu preso dal nemico durante la quinta offensiva
(Sutjeska) ed impiccato.
Da Zagabria Jasna Tkalec ci scrive:
<< Mio padre fu anche partigiano a Petrova Gora, e ne ho sentite tante
su quei posti - ad esempio la storia della loro cuoca partigiana (baba
Mara) che ebbe la gola tagliata dal coltello ustascia in un eccidio
collettivo, ma riuscì ad uscire da un cumulo di morti ed a salvarsi...
Oggi Savo Zlatic e' quasi novantenne, in salute discreta, anche se ne
ha passate tante nella vita. Appena finita la guerra (1945-1948) fu
ministro della sanità della Croazia, poi dopo il 1948 (al tempo della
drammatica rottura tra Tito e Stalin) fini sull'Isola Calva.
Il libro appena uscito è il suo diario di guerra e contiene alcuni
suoi commenti.
Molto belle le presentazioni del libro fatte dall'ex generale della
JNA in pensione Rade Bulat, che fu combattente partigiano nonche'
comandante dei partigiani del Kordun, e da Gjuka Hrzenjak, militante
partigiano e dirigente del Fronte Popolare. Ambedue hanno detto parole
coraggiose ed oneste sulla Croazia di oggi, politicamente e
storicamente. >>
Natasa Kandic & the Propaganda War against Yugoslavia
The nineteen Nato countries that attacked the sovereign state of Yugoslavia
in 1999 had a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 1300 times that of
Yugoslavia.
Similarly with the respective media outlets the same imbalance applied, namely
1300 to 1.
(Given the universality of the English and French languages the relative
world wide impact of the media from the Nato countries could be said to be
much more).
Following the Nato destruction of Yugoslavia?s RTS television station the
media ratio between aggressor and victim became 1300 to zero.
Consequently it became relatively easy to promote anti-Yugoslav propaganda,
because after all who would counter it?
"Under these conditions", wrote Edward Herman in his work, Propaganda System
Number One,
"remarkable structures of disinformation can be built, institutionalised,
and remain parts of historic memory even in the face of ex post confutation?s,
which are kept out of sight."
Out of this propaganda onslaught came shocking stories which ranged from
?Serb concentration camps?, ?ethnic cleansing? and ?genocide?, to the childish
claim that Yugoslav soldiers were deliberately killing dogs because the Albanian
population were devoted to their pets. This story, aired by the BBC, was
aimed directly and exclusively at Britain, on the grounds of its impact on
a pet loving nation. Of course none of it was true but the adage that ?a
lie can be half way around the block before the truth has even got its shoes
on? served the Nato countries well.
At the outset of the break- up of the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, the
Washington based public relations firm, Ruder and Finn Global Public Affairs,
was handed the task of demonising the Serbs and their leadership.
Given the advantage, as outlined above, of 1300 to zero, Ruder and Finn managed
to turn the truth onto its head. It was the Serbs who were now incredibly
decreed as being guilty of systematic ethnic cleansing, a policy that no
one more than the Serbs had suffered from. Indeed the aim of Serbia was the
preservation of the Yugoslav federation, not its disintegration, thus opposing
the very essence of ethnic cleansing.
James Harff, director of Ruder Finn, when boasting of his propaganda achievements
to French TV2, stated, "Speed is vital, it is the first assertion that really
counts. All future denials are entirely ineffective." Ruder Finn uses several
hundred journalists, politicians, representatives of humanitarian associations
and academics to create public opinion. When asked of his proudest public
relation endeavours Harff responded, "To have managed to put Jewish opinion
on our side. Tens of thousands of Jews perished in Croatian camps yet we
succeeded masterfully."
Harff later clarified that his firm never actually claimed that ?genocide?
or ?ethnic cleansing? was taking place, but merely publicised the fact that
someone, somewhere, had made such claims. However these two charges in particular
are still today the overriding impressions of the Yugoslav conflict in the
mind of much of the western world.
That the western media readily accepted these claims without seeking any
confirmation was a reflection of their subservience to the requirements of
their own governments. That we now have ?embedded? reporters in Iraq, broadcasting
government and military hand outs as if they were independently verified
news, is merely a further example of this journalistic degeneration.
This propaganda success allowed Nato to claim that the bombing was justified
on the grounds of ?humanitarian intervention?. In reality it enabled Nato
and particularly the United States to pursue long held foreign policy objectives.
In her book, ?Fool?s Gold? author Diana Johnstone clarifies it this way:
"Apparently, many people on the left, who would normally defend peace and
justice, were fooled or confused by the claim that the "Kosovo war" was waged
for purely humanitarian reasons. The altruistic pretensions of NATO's Kosovo
war served to gain public acceptance of war as the appropriate instrument
of policy. This opened the way for the United States, in the wake of 11 September
2001, to attack Afghanistan as the opening phase of a new, long-term "war
against terrorism".
The bombing of Yugoslavia marked a turning point in the expansion of U.S.
military hegemony. For the first time, a European country was subjected to
the type of U.S. intervention usually reserved for Central America. It also
marked the end of Germany's postwar inhibition about foreign military intervention,
and saw Germans returning to the scene of Nazi crimes with a clear conscience.
For the first time, NATO abandoned its defensive posture and attacked a country
that posed no threat to its member states, outside the NATO treaty area,
and without seeking UN Security Council authorization.
International law was circumvented in the name of an alleged higher moral
imperative. A precedent was set. When the United States subsequently arrogated
the right to bomb and invade Afghanistan on moral grounds, its NATO allies
could only meekly offer to tag along. In a world with no more legal barriers
to might proclaiming itself right, there was nothing to stop a U.S. president
from using military force to crush every conceivable adversary".
In his opening statement at the beginning of his defence case President Milosevic
explained what happened in Kosovo prior to the NATO aggression, establishing
the truth about the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, which was in fact a
terrorist organization aiming for the creation of an ethnically pure and
independent Kosovo that would later be associated with Albania to create
a Greater Albania.
He also exposed the fact that the KLA was funded and trained by the West
and exercised a murderous regime over Serbs and Albanians in all areas of
Kosovo and Metohija where it managed to take over control.
The prosecution, of course, now denies all this. Yet the fact is that the
US and Britain knew the true situation in Yugoslavia before the 1999 bombing
campaign, particularly the situation in Kosovo, and had known for some considerable
time. This can be seen from the following quotes:
"The Albanian nationalists have a two point platform,??first to establish
what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger
with Albania to form a greater Albania?"
(New York Times 12th July 1982).
"In reality, the Albanians control every phase of life in Kosovo: the police,
the courts, agriculture, the factories, the villages and the cities. . .
At present, the Serbs are fleeing, faced with growing Albanian violence.
Twenty thousand among them have left Kosovo in the last seven years. . ."
(The New York Times 10th November 1987)
On February 22, 1998, Special US envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, declared
publicly:
"I know a terrorist when I see one. And I'm telling you, these guys in the
KLA are terrorists."
Only later, when their objectives had been achieved would politicians from
within the Nato countries, in rare moments of candour, occasionally admit
that the propaganda was merely a cover for their aggression.
Former cabinet minister in the Blair government, Michael Meacher, wrote an
article in the Guardian newspaper of 27th March 2004 where he revealed the
following:
"The 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, directed by the
US general Wesley Clark, was said to be stopping an alleged "genocide" by
the Serbs in Kosovo (some 2,000 bodies were later exhumed, a horrifying number
but far short of the 100,000 the US predicted). The US goal was to assist
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Yet the year before, the US state department
had branded the KLA a terrorist organisation, financing its operations from
the heroin trade and funds from Islamic countries and individuals, including
Osama bin Laden".
In June 2001, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea admitted " there was no genocide
in Kosovo."
Moreover, two weeks before the war, an official report of the German foreign
ministry declared: "There was no ethnic persecution of the Albanians as a
group. Only the confrontations between two armies."
And on the eve of the Nato bombing campaign Bill Clinton informed a group
of federal employees;
"If we want solid economic relations, permitting us to sell in the whole
world, Europe must be the key. . This is what the thing in Kosovo is about."
(Monopoly - NATO and the Conquest of the World. Michel Collon EPO, 2000 Brussels).
PROPAGANDA.
It would be reasonable to assume that a media imbalance of 1300 to zero against
Yugoslavia could not get any worse. However if you assumed that then you
would be wrong.
At the end of Nato?s 78 day bombing campaign information revealing the truth
of the break-up of Yugoslavia did appear in limited form, mostly thanks to
independent media outlets. However the mainstream media continued to promote
the Nato propaganda version, not least because of the requirements of The
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), an organ,
although illegally created and purely a political tool of the western powers,
portrayed itself as a legitimate legal body. Its task being to exonerate
the aggression of the Nato countries and criminalise the victims of that
aggression, an objective that would need a considerable amount of deceit
and hypocrisy.
In addition to the overwhelming dominance of Nato propaganda, and since the
5th October 2000 western backed coup against the government of Slobodan Milosevic,
the new leadership of the now named Serbia and Montenegro, with their position
totally dependent on the grace of the United States, became an echo within
the country for the propaganda of the very people who had bombed them. Furthermore
the Serbian media was now being used to broadcast this same propaganda and
began to actively encourage the handing over of their own citizens to the
ICTY in The Hague.
This incredible state of affairs, treason is the only word that is suitable
to use, was exacerbated further by the activities of prominent individuals
within Serbia, individuals who fully supported this prostration before the
might of the United States.
One such individual is Natasa Kandic.
NATASA KANDIC.
In his article ?The Fabrication and Dissemination of Deception? from 2001
Gilles d?Aymery notes the following:
"Many news reports of atrocities and "genocide" allegedly committed by the
Serbs and widely disseminated in the Western main media have originated with
a little known NGO in Belgrade, Serbia, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC).
The story of the refrigerated truck filled with corpses that was purportedly
dumped in the [river] Danube in April 1999 is a good example.
The HLC was created in 1992 by Natasa Kandic, its present Executive Director.
It has been funded by George Soros as well as the National Endowment for
Democracy and this year the Ford Foundation provided HLC with a $80,000 grant.
Kandic is a darling of the Western Human Rights crowd. She's received tons
of awards and was conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Valencia,
Spain, for "her longstanding work in the field of human rights and her humanitarian
activities."
According to a July 18 editorial by Justin Raimundo of Antiwar.com, "It was
Kandic who, as the organizer of an OSCE media conference held in Montenegro,
told Serbian journalists who walked out in protest at the NATO-crats' high-handedness:
'They pay you and have the right to question your conduct during the war.'
Heavily subsidized by interventionist sugar-daddy George Soros, Kandic is
a weird, isolated figure in Serbian politics, one of the few who openly sided
with NATO during the bombing."
So, one could entertain the idea that if "they" pay, "they" also have the
right and the expectation to a return on their investment. Natasa Kandic
has undoubtedly been quite a profitable investment!"
Here are some examples of the work of Natasa Kandic and her HLC:
At the ICTY on the 6th April 2005 defence witness Danica Marinkovic, the
Investigating Judge who led the inquiry into events at the Kosovo village
of Racak, was cross-examined by prosecutor Geoffrey Nice.
Having failed to refute Mrs Marinkovoc?s testimony on the Racak incident
Mr Nice attempted a character assassination of the defence witness. His claim
that Mrs Marinkovoc had ordered the Serbian police to commit murder was so
outrageous that even the Nato judges asked him for corroborating evidence.
Mr Nice had to withdraw the accusation because his one and only source was
an article written by Natasa Kandic which was only notable precisely because
it offered no supporting evidence for the accusation.
The New York Times of January 26, 2004 published a report commenting on the
resignation of USA Today correspondent Jack Kelley over an article he had
written in 1999.
The Times report commented:
"In his July 1999 article, Mr. Kelley referred to a three-ring notebook with
a black vinyl cover that contained a direct order "typed on army stationery
and stamped by the Supreme Defense Council of the Yugoslav Army Headquarters
in Belgrade, which is headed by Milosevic." The order, which Mr. Kelley said
was typed in Cyrillic letters and intended for a lieutenant, read: "The aim
of the military activity should be to cleanse Cusk and the surrounding villages
and terrain."
And further:
"In the article, Mr. Kelley wrote about a Yugoslav Army notebook that had
a typed order to "cleanse" a Kosovo village, although he did not identify
the person who showed him the notebook. He added that United Nations investigators
considered this "the strongest and most direct evidence linking the government
of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo."
Announcing Kelley?s resignation, the USA Today issue of 13th January 2004
stated that they had concluded a seven-month investigation into "whether
Kelley might have embellished or fabricated stories."
According to the New York Times Kelley had claimed as his source for the
story, "A human rights advocate" and confirmed that source as "The rights
advocate, Natasa Kandic, the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center
in Belgrade"
On 30th April 2001, what later became known as ?the freezer truck hoax? broke
in the western press through Associated Press who under the headline, "Rights
Activist Says Yugoslav Army, Police Destroyed Evidence Of Kosovo Atrocities."
stated:
"?[Natasa] Kandic [from the Humanitarian Law Center]?cited a report in a
local magazine in the eastern Serbian Negotin region, describing how on the
night of April 6, 1999, a refrigerated trailer truck was lifted out of the
Danube near Kladovo, at the border with Romania"
"The vehicle bore license plates from Pec, a western Kosovo city, and allegedly
contained 50 bodies. According to Kandic?s center, the bodies were subsequently
transferred to a truck with Belgrade plates and driven away."
And the piece continued:
"?Our investigations produced witnesses who can testify that many people
were killed, their bodies buried only to be dug up again and later moved
to another place,? said Natasa Kandic of the Humanitarian Law Center, a leading
human rights watchdog organization in Yugoslavia"
The point of this story was to claim that Mr Milosevic had ordered a cover-up
of the alleged atrocities in Kosovo and was removing the evidence, but unfortunately
for him a truck carrying Albanian bodies from Kosovo had crashed into the
Danube.
This story was very timely for Nato and the new Serbian government because
at the time Nato was demanding the transfer of Mr Milosevic to the ICTY and
as the Independent newspaper commented approvingly, "The bodies are the evidence
the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague needs to prove its charge
of crimes against humanity against Mr Milosevic."
The story was published worldwide and the BBC even presented a 45-minute
documentary on it, on the 27th January 2002 as part of their holocaust memorial
season.
However subsequent investigations into this story revealed the following:
The local magazine quoted in the AP article was Timocka Kriminala Revija
(criminal review) owned by Dragan Vitomirovic.
Timocka published two articles about a refrigerator truck full of bodies.
The first article, dated 15th September 1999, stated that the truck contained
dead Kurds and that the licence plates were Swiss.
However, the second story, published 1st May 2001 the one that Natasa Kandic
presented to the world and the source of the allegations against Slobodan
Milosevic, the dead Kurds had become the dead Albanians and the Swiss licence
plates had become Kosovo license plates.
It further transpired that Dragan Vitomirovic had a brother with a record
of smuggling illegal aliens across the Romanian border and moreover, had
been encouraged to write the second article by Interior Minister Mihajlovic,
a member of the newly installed Nato backed Serbian government.
In regard to Kandic?s claim that, "Our investigations produced witnesses
who can testify that many people were killed, their bodies buried only to
be dug up again and later moved to another place" it is important to note
the following:
Police officer Captain Dragan Karleusa, who was appointed to investigate
the allegations, appeared in July 2002 as a prosecution witness at The Hague
against Mr Milosevic and admitted that not a single witness deposition had
ever been taken. (Trial transcript).
Given that as of July 2002 the investigating officers had not taken a single
witness deposition and had not a shred of evidence to substantiate the allegation,
how was it possible for the BBC to broadcast six months earlier, on the 27th
January 2002, their ?factual? documentary programme ?Mass Killings in Kosovo??
Noting the above examples of the work of Kandic?s Humanitarian Law Center
it is laughable, if not tragic, to hear Hague prosecutor Geoffrey Nice along
with the mainstream media describe this HLC as "a very reliable human rights
organisation." One wonders what an unreliable one would be like!
Let us just recap for a moment and reflect on Kandic?s history as cited in
the few samples above.
She sided with Nato as the bombs dropped on her own people and it was she
who berated Serbian journalists for not showing respect to their Nato masters,
claiming they pay their wages. It was she who was named as the source for
the USA article originally printed in 1999 which forced the resignation of
Jack Kelley after an investigation that USA Today held to determine, "whether
Kelley might have embellished or fabricated stories."
In 2001 it was she who supplied The Hague with the Freezer Truck Story, second
version, the rewritten second version naturally. Also, at The Hague this
year Prosecutor Nice was forced to drop his character assassination attempt
against a defence witness as his one and only source was an article written
by Kandic.
You would think that given this history any self-respecting newspaper, when
confronted by a new allegation from this same source, would immediately realise
that some corroborating evidence would be needed before publication. One
would like to think that the editor?s thoughts would be something like this:
"Oh dear, it?s that fairy tale queen again. Hold the presses while I get
this checked and double checked."
Moreover, bearing in mind the history of previous HLC accusations it should
at the very least have given the media a degree of suspicion concerning future
?stories?supplied by this NGO. However in June 2005 this ?very reliable human
rights organisation? was at it again, riding to the rescue of a desperate,
not to say disastrous, prosecution case with a story instantly embraced by
a subservient media.
On Wednesday 1st June 2005 the prosecution in the Slobodan Milosevic case
at The Hague introduced a video tape, apparently showing the execution of
six people by a ?Serbian unit? known as the ?Scorpions? which it is claimed
occurred in 1995. The ?Scorpions?, the prosecution alleges, were under the
command of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), which oversaw
state security and policing in Serbia. The tape was then broadcast on Serbian
television. The tape was supplied by, you?ve guessed it, Natasa Kandic.
Yet The Hague court already had prior knowledge of the so-called ?Scorpion?
unit, and knew they were not under the command of the MUP.
Milan Milanovic, the Deputy Defense Minister of the Republic of Serbian Krajina
(RSK) testified as a prosecution witness at The Hague on October 14, 2003
where he confirmed the unit was subordinated to the command of the Army of
the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
They used them initially in 1992 as security guards for the Krajina Petroleum
Industries oil company.
Furthermore, a viewing of the video in full would reveal that this was the
case. The prosecution showed a few minutes of the two-hour long video, whereas
a full viewing would indeed confirm by the insignia on their vehicles that
Milanovic?s testimony was correct. Therefore there is no connection with
this, essentially mercenary unit, to the Belgrade government whatsoever.
The prosecution should have learned that lesson from the testimony of their
own witness, Milanovic, in 2003, yet they chose not to heed the satirical
maxim, "If at first you don?t succeed give up, it?s no use making a complete
fool of yourself."
We are dealing here, once again, with a complete red herring. Of course it
is the first blast of media propaganda that will be embedded in people?s
minds, and not the later refutations. As James Harff, director of Ruder Finn,
boasted, "Speed is vital, it is the first assertion that really counts. All
future denials are entirely ineffective."
Despite this Mr Milosevic made some telling points about the videotape. While
stating that if the tape was authentic, this was indeed an ?horrific? act,
he noted however that the video had some technical irregularities which gave
rise for concern and pointed out that although the prosecution is linking
this tape with Srebrenica and claiming the killings took place in Trnovo,
the two places are more that 160km apart, and that there was nothing on the
tape to suggest a link, nor anything on the tape to confirm where it was
actually filmed.
In regard to the ?discovery? of this video and its showing at The Hague,
it should be noted that the prosecution case concluded last year, yet the
prosecution was allowed to present it six months later, and furthermore,
present it without disclosing its existence to the defence, thus breaking
all legal norms and even breaking the Hague tribunal?s own rules of procedure.
Before leaving the issue of this tape it is interesting to note two news
reports which purported to give some background details. The first report
is from Reuters and the second from The Observer, written by one Tim Judah,
who for those not aware, comes from the London-based IWPR (International
War & Peace Reporting) stable, an organisation known for its previous collaboration
with Kandic and an organisation about as trustworthy as a rattlesnake with
a headache.
Reuters dispatch of 4th June 4th 2005 stated:
"The video was obtained last December from an unnamed and now protected source
by Hague prosecutors and Natasa Kandic, a Serbian human rights activist.
They spent months authenticating it and investigating the men it showed.
It was shown to Serbian war crimes prosecutors a week ago and its broadcast
to a national audience was coordinated with the government of Prime Minister
Vojislav Kostunica."
The Observer of 5th June 2005 included this passage:
"On 23 May she (Kandic) gave it to Serbia's own war crimes prosecutor. He
promised to investigate, but no arrests were made. She also gave it to The
Hague's prosecution team, who showed it on Wednesday. Immediately afterwards
she gave it to Serbian TV".
The Reuters report claims ?They spent months authenticating it and investigating
the men it showed.?
Yet the Observer report states that Kandic gave it to the Serbian authorities
and The Hague prosecution team on 23rd May, just eight days prior to its
showing. So who ?spent months authenticating it.?
FUNDING.
To understand the workings of an organisation, its intentions and philosophy,
it is necessary to examine where its funding comes from.
As documented, both the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and American
billionaire financier George Soros have provided funding for Kandic?s Humanitarian
Law Center.
The National Endowment for Democracy is a United States government agency.
Founded in 1983, the NED took over functions that were once the responsibility
of the CIA. Unlike the CIA however the NED receives open congressional appropriations,
as opposed to the previously covert funding, and thus their activities are
more openly documented. For instance NED programme operator Paul McCarthy
revealed in his testimony to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in
Europe that the NED, in 1998, was responsible in Yugoslavia for, amongst
other things, the newspapers Nasa Borba, Vreme and Danas, the TV station
Negotin, the news agency BETA and the Belgrade station Radio B-92.
It is worth noting that among the directors who have served on the board
of the National Endowment for Democracy are: Wesley Clark, former Supreme
Commander of Nato, Richard Holbrooke former Assistant Secretary of State,
and Francis Fukuyama, author of the anti-communist diatribe, ?The End of
History.?
George Soros is responsible for the creation of many organisations, one such
being the Open Society Institute. Journalist Neil Clark commented in the
New Statesman magazine that:
"Soros deems a society `open' not if it respects human rights and basic freedoms,
but if it is `open' for him and his associates to make money. And, indeed,
Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise `open.' In Kosovo,
for example, he has invested $50m in an attempt to gain control of the Trepca
mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead and other
minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5bn. He thus copied a pattern
he has deployed to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe: of advocating
`shock therapy' and `economic reform,' then swooping in with his associates
to buy valuable state assets at knockdown prices."
In her article ?George Soros ? Imperial Wizard? published in the autumn 2002
issue of Covert Action Quarterly, Heather Coffin quoted Soros as saying:
"In each country I identified a group of people, some leading personalities,
others less well known - who share my belief..."
Coffin also noted:
"He was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia. Calling
himself a philanthropist, billionaire George Soros' role is to tighten the
ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting
his own financial gain. Soros' commercial and "philanthropic" operations
are clandestine, contradictory and coactive. And as far as his economic activities
are concerned, by his own admission, he is without conscience; a capitalist
who functions with absolute amorality."
Gilles d?Amery reported further details on Soros in ?The Fabrication and
Dissemination of Deception?:
"A prominent hawk on Yugoslavia, Soros pressured Bill Clinton, as early as
1993, to escalate the war by lifting an arms embargo against Bosnian separatists.
Emboldened by U.S. support, separatist rebels launched "ethnic cleansing"
campaigns against Serb civilians living in the territories they claimed.
The bloodiest such action was Operation Storm, an August 1995 offensive by
Croatian forces, in which as many as 300,000 Serbs were driven from Krajina,
and an unknown number of Serb civilians slaughtered."
The blood was not dry in Krajina before Soros and his fellow hawks confronted
Congress in December 1995 with a petition, signed by 40 prominent policy
makers, urging massive U.S. intervention in the Balkans -- not to protect
Serbs from further atrocities, but to escalate the war by intensifying support
for separatist rebels.
George Soros is also a notable contributor to the funding of the ICTY itself.
Another organisation that supports the ICTY is the Coalition for International
Justice (CIJ), which was founded and funded by Soros and it is the CIJ that
supplies many of the ICTY?s legal staff. Moreover the ICTY also has provision
for the obtaining of evidence by, among others, George Soros? Open Society
Foundation.
Between them the NED and Soros can be said to fund the ?human rights? organisations
(Soros is also involved with HRW) that highlight ?atrocities?, they also
control large parts of the Serbian media that publicises these ?atrocities?
and they contribute to the ICTY who conduct the resulting trials. A tidy
circle indeed and within this circle where is the allowance for any opposing
voice?
These then are the masters that Natasa Kandic and her HLC serve. In essence
Kandic is merely a Nato foot soldier.
EVIDENCE.
As for the accusations of ?ethnic cleansing? and ?genocide? levelled against
Slobodan Milosevic the ICTY have not a scrap of credible evidence. They have
not got one single document or other exhibit that suggests Mr Milosevic or
the Yugoslav government are guilty of these grave charges.
On the contrary, the ICTY have in their possession a mass of documents and
sworn testimonies to confirm that the Milosevic government and the Yugoslav
authorities took all available steps to prevent any possible crimes against
civilians.
For instance, General Gojovic, who was the head of the Legal Directorate
at the Yugoslav Defense Ministry during the 1999 Kosovo war, testified in
March this year that war crimes were severely punished by the Yugoslav Army.
He exhibited a large file of documents laying out the work of the Yugoslav
military justice system. These documents detailed the type of crime committed,
whether this be robbery or a more serious offence, the files identified the
soldiers who committed the crimes, and the relevant action taken by the Yugoslav
courts as of 2001. For example the Yugoslav authorities successfully convicted
over 2000 perpetrators in Kosovo alone with some soldiers receiving the death
penalty for their crimes.
Further, the ICTY have in their possession copies of the orders from the
Yugoslav Supreme Command that instructed soldiers to abide by the Geneva
Conventions.
Also, during General Gojovic?s testimony Slobodan Milosevic exhibited numerous
pamphlets containing codes of conduct that were distributed to the personnel
of the Yugoslav Army, which clearly stated that all personnel were ordered
to respect civilians, treat enemy prisoners humanely and observe the laws
of war.
That the Yugoslav government did this while engaged in a life and death struggle
against internal and external enemies is to their everlasting credit and
proves that the charge against them of a "Joint Criminal Enterprise" of President
Milosevic and others to ethnically cleanse Kosovo and Metohija of non-Serbs,
on which the "indictment" relies, is inapplicable, and a complete and utter
nonsense.
Of course all this would be relevant if the aim of the ICTY was to objectively
establish the truth about the break-up of Yugoslavia and punish those responsible
for any crimes committed. However this is not the case.
The ICTY is a political tool. It is a creation of the United States and its
function is to justify the Nato aggression and to punish the victims of that
aggression. The real guilt of the Yugoslav prisoners is that they defied
Nato and fought for the independence of their country. Moreover, the ICTY
exists to serve as a warning to anyone who thinks of trying to resist US
foreign policy in the future.
The tribunal?s rules are unique and have nothing to do with justice or discovering
the truth about the break-up of Yugoslavia.
It has 1300 employees, it has lawyers, legal secretaries, investigators and
judges who are all primarily from the Nato countries that attacked Yugoslavia.
It has assistance from the governments and intelligence services of those
countries that attacked Yugoslavia.
It is therefore hardly neutral.
When commenting on the illegal weapons used by Nato against Yugoslavia, weapons
that are forbidden by the Geneva Convention such as fragmentation bombs,
graphite bombs, used to paralyse the electrical grid and weapons of Depleted
Uranium which cause cancer and birth defects,
US Congressman Lester Munson stated:
"You will never see these NATO pilots brought before a UN tribunal. NATO
is the accuser, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury and the executioner,
because it is NATO that pays the bills for the ICTY. NATO does not have to
submit to international law. It is international law."
(Monopoly - NATO and the Conquest of the World. Michel Collon EPO, 2000 Brussels).
Given this scenario it is easy to see people such as Natasa Kandic as an
obedient servant of Nato, and every ?smoking gun? story that is produced
by her ilk is not only testimony to the fact that the prosecution lacks any
factual evidence, but testimony to the correctness of the battle for justice
and historical truth being undertaken by Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague
today.
And even a media advantage of 1300 to zero will ultimately not be enough
to conceal the truth about the destruction of Yugoslavia and the false demonising
of its people.
Ian Johnson
June 2005
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The nineteen Nato countries that attacked the sovereign state of Yugoslavia
in 1999 had a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 1300 times that of
Yugoslavia.
Similarly with the respective media outlets the same imbalance applied, namely
1300 to 1.
(Given the universality of the English and French languages the relative
world wide impact of the media from the Nato countries could be said to be
much more).
Following the Nato destruction of Yugoslavia?s RTS television station the
media ratio between aggressor and victim became 1300 to zero.
Consequently it became relatively easy to promote anti-Yugoslav propaganda,
because after all who would counter it?
"Under these conditions", wrote Edward Herman in his work, Propaganda System
Number One,
"remarkable structures of disinformation can be built, institutionalised,
and remain parts of historic memory even in the face of ex post confutation?s,
which are kept out of sight."
Out of this propaganda onslaught came shocking stories which ranged from
?Serb concentration camps?, ?ethnic cleansing? and ?genocide?, to the childish
claim that Yugoslav soldiers were deliberately killing dogs because the Albanian
population were devoted to their pets. This story, aired by the BBC, was
aimed directly and exclusively at Britain, on the grounds of its impact on
a pet loving nation. Of course none of it was true but the adage that ?a
lie can be half way around the block before the truth has even got its shoes
on? served the Nato countries well.
At the outset of the break- up of the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, the
Washington based public relations firm, Ruder and Finn Global Public Affairs,
was handed the task of demonising the Serbs and their leadership.
Given the advantage, as outlined above, of 1300 to zero, Ruder and Finn managed
to turn the truth onto its head. It was the Serbs who were now incredibly
decreed as being guilty of systematic ethnic cleansing, a policy that no
one more than the Serbs had suffered from. Indeed the aim of Serbia was the
preservation of the Yugoslav federation, not its disintegration, thus opposing
the very essence of ethnic cleansing.
James Harff, director of Ruder Finn, when boasting of his propaganda achievements
to French TV2, stated, "Speed is vital, it is the first assertion that really
counts. All future denials are entirely ineffective." Ruder Finn uses several
hundred journalists, politicians, representatives of humanitarian associations
and academics to create public opinion. When asked of his proudest public
relation endeavours Harff responded, "To have managed to put Jewish opinion
on our side. Tens of thousands of Jews perished in Croatian camps yet we
succeeded masterfully."
Harff later clarified that his firm never actually claimed that ?genocide?
or ?ethnic cleansing? was taking place, but merely publicised the fact that
someone, somewhere, had made such claims. However these two charges in particular
are still today the overriding impressions of the Yugoslav conflict in the
mind of much of the western world.
That the western media readily accepted these claims without seeking any
confirmation was a reflection of their subservience to the requirements of
their own governments. That we now have ?embedded? reporters in Iraq, broadcasting
government and military hand outs as if they were independently verified
news, is merely a further example of this journalistic degeneration.
This propaganda success allowed Nato to claim that the bombing was justified
on the grounds of ?humanitarian intervention?. In reality it enabled Nato
and particularly the United States to pursue long held foreign policy objectives.
In her book, ?Fool?s Gold? author Diana Johnstone clarifies it this way:
"Apparently, many people on the left, who would normally defend peace and
justice, were fooled or confused by the claim that the "Kosovo war" was waged
for purely humanitarian reasons. The altruistic pretensions of NATO's Kosovo
war served to gain public acceptance of war as the appropriate instrument
of policy. This opened the way for the United States, in the wake of 11 September
2001, to attack Afghanistan as the opening phase of a new, long-term "war
against terrorism".
The bombing of Yugoslavia marked a turning point in the expansion of U.S.
military hegemony. For the first time, a European country was subjected to
the type of U.S. intervention usually reserved for Central America. It also
marked the end of Germany's postwar inhibition about foreign military intervention,
and saw Germans returning to the scene of Nazi crimes with a clear conscience.
For the first time, NATO abandoned its defensive posture and attacked a country
that posed no threat to its member states, outside the NATO treaty area,
and without seeking UN Security Council authorization.
International law was circumvented in the name of an alleged higher moral
imperative. A precedent was set. When the United States subsequently arrogated
the right to bomb and invade Afghanistan on moral grounds, its NATO allies
could only meekly offer to tag along. In a world with no more legal barriers
to might proclaiming itself right, there was nothing to stop a U.S. president
from using military force to crush every conceivable adversary".
In his opening statement at the beginning of his defence case President Milosevic
explained what happened in Kosovo prior to the NATO aggression, establishing
the truth about the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, which was in fact a
terrorist organization aiming for the creation of an ethnically pure and
independent Kosovo that would later be associated with Albania to create
a Greater Albania.
He also exposed the fact that the KLA was funded and trained by the West
and exercised a murderous regime over Serbs and Albanians in all areas of
Kosovo and Metohija where it managed to take over control.
The prosecution, of course, now denies all this. Yet the fact is that the
US and Britain knew the true situation in Yugoslavia before the 1999 bombing
campaign, particularly the situation in Kosovo, and had known for some considerable
time. This can be seen from the following quotes:
"The Albanian nationalists have a two point platform,??first to establish
what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger
with Albania to form a greater Albania?"
(New York Times 12th July 1982).
"In reality, the Albanians control every phase of life in Kosovo: the police,
the courts, agriculture, the factories, the villages and the cities. . .
At present, the Serbs are fleeing, faced with growing Albanian violence.
Twenty thousand among them have left Kosovo in the last seven years. . ."
(The New York Times 10th November 1987)
On February 22, 1998, Special US envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, declared
publicly:
"I know a terrorist when I see one. And I'm telling you, these guys in the
KLA are terrorists."
Only later, when their objectives had been achieved would politicians from
within the Nato countries, in rare moments of candour, occasionally admit
that the propaganda was merely a cover for their aggression.
Former cabinet minister in the Blair government, Michael Meacher, wrote an
article in the Guardian newspaper of 27th March 2004 where he revealed the
following:
"The 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, directed by the
US general Wesley Clark, was said to be stopping an alleged "genocide" by
the Serbs in Kosovo (some 2,000 bodies were later exhumed, a horrifying number
but far short of the 100,000 the US predicted). The US goal was to assist
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Yet the year before, the US state department
had branded the KLA a terrorist organisation, financing its operations from
the heroin trade and funds from Islamic countries and individuals, including
Osama bin Laden".
In June 2001, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea admitted " there was no genocide
in Kosovo."
Moreover, two weeks before the war, an official report of the German foreign
ministry declared: "There was no ethnic persecution of the Albanians as a
group. Only the confrontations between two armies."
And on the eve of the Nato bombing campaign Bill Clinton informed a group
of federal employees;
"If we want solid economic relations, permitting us to sell in the whole
world, Europe must be the key. . This is what the thing in Kosovo is about."
(Monopoly - NATO and the Conquest of the World. Michel Collon EPO, 2000 Brussels).
PROPAGANDA.
It would be reasonable to assume that a media imbalance of 1300 to zero against
Yugoslavia could not get any worse. However if you assumed that then you
would be wrong.
At the end of Nato?s 78 day bombing campaign information revealing the truth
of the break-up of Yugoslavia did appear in limited form, mostly thanks to
independent media outlets. However the mainstream media continued to promote
the Nato propaganda version, not least because of the requirements of The
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), an organ,
although illegally created and purely a political tool of the western powers,
portrayed itself as a legitimate legal body. Its task being to exonerate
the aggression of the Nato countries and criminalise the victims of that
aggression, an objective that would need a considerable amount of deceit
and hypocrisy.
In addition to the overwhelming dominance of Nato propaganda, and since the
5th October 2000 western backed coup against the government of Slobodan Milosevic,
the new leadership of the now named Serbia and Montenegro, with their position
totally dependent on the grace of the United States, became an echo within
the country for the propaganda of the very people who had bombed them. Furthermore
the Serbian media was now being used to broadcast this same propaganda and
began to actively encourage the handing over of their own citizens to the
ICTY in The Hague.
This incredible state of affairs, treason is the only word that is suitable
to use, was exacerbated further by the activities of prominent individuals
within Serbia, individuals who fully supported this prostration before the
might of the United States.
One such individual is Natasa Kandic.
NATASA KANDIC.
In his article ?The Fabrication and Dissemination of Deception? from 2001
Gilles d?Aymery notes the following:
"Many news reports of atrocities and "genocide" allegedly committed by the
Serbs and widely disseminated in the Western main media have originated with
a little known NGO in Belgrade, Serbia, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC).
The story of the refrigerated truck filled with corpses that was purportedly
dumped in the [river] Danube in April 1999 is a good example.
The HLC was created in 1992 by Natasa Kandic, its present Executive Director.
It has been funded by George Soros as well as the National Endowment for
Democracy and this year the Ford Foundation provided HLC with a $80,000 grant.
Kandic is a darling of the Western Human Rights crowd. She's received tons
of awards and was conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Valencia,
Spain, for "her longstanding work in the field of human rights and her humanitarian
activities."
According to a July 18 editorial by Justin Raimundo of Antiwar.com, "It was
Kandic who, as the organizer of an OSCE media conference held in Montenegro,
told Serbian journalists who walked out in protest at the NATO-crats' high-handedness:
'They pay you and have the right to question your conduct during the war.'
Heavily subsidized by interventionist sugar-daddy George Soros, Kandic is
a weird, isolated figure in Serbian politics, one of the few who openly sided
with NATO during the bombing."
So, one could entertain the idea that if "they" pay, "they" also have the
right and the expectation to a return on their investment. Natasa Kandic
has undoubtedly been quite a profitable investment!"
Here are some examples of the work of Natasa Kandic and her HLC:
At the ICTY on the 6th April 2005 defence witness Danica Marinkovic, the
Investigating Judge who led the inquiry into events at the Kosovo village
of Racak, was cross-examined by prosecutor Geoffrey Nice.
Having failed to refute Mrs Marinkovoc?s testimony on the Racak incident
Mr Nice attempted a character assassination of the defence witness. His claim
that Mrs Marinkovoc had ordered the Serbian police to commit murder was so
outrageous that even the Nato judges asked him for corroborating evidence.
Mr Nice had to withdraw the accusation because his one and only source was
an article written by Natasa Kandic which was only notable precisely because
it offered no supporting evidence for the accusation.
The New York Times of January 26, 2004 published a report commenting on the
resignation of USA Today correspondent Jack Kelley over an article he had
written in 1999.
The Times report commented:
"In his July 1999 article, Mr. Kelley referred to a three-ring notebook with
a black vinyl cover that contained a direct order "typed on army stationery
and stamped by the Supreme Defense Council of the Yugoslav Army Headquarters
in Belgrade, which is headed by Milosevic." The order, which Mr. Kelley said
was typed in Cyrillic letters and intended for a lieutenant, read: "The aim
of the military activity should be to cleanse Cusk and the surrounding villages
and terrain."
And further:
"In the article, Mr. Kelley wrote about a Yugoslav Army notebook that had
a typed order to "cleanse" a Kosovo village, although he did not identify
the person who showed him the notebook. He added that United Nations investigators
considered this "the strongest and most direct evidence linking the government
of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo."
Announcing Kelley?s resignation, the USA Today issue of 13th January 2004
stated that they had concluded a seven-month investigation into "whether
Kelley might have embellished or fabricated stories."
According to the New York Times Kelley had claimed as his source for the
story, "A human rights advocate" and confirmed that source as "The rights
advocate, Natasa Kandic, the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center
in Belgrade"
On 30th April 2001, what later became known as ?the freezer truck hoax? broke
in the western press through Associated Press who under the headline, "Rights
Activist Says Yugoslav Army, Police Destroyed Evidence Of Kosovo Atrocities."
stated:
"?[Natasa] Kandic [from the Humanitarian Law Center]?cited a report in a
local magazine in the eastern Serbian Negotin region, describing how on the
night of April 6, 1999, a refrigerated trailer truck was lifted out of the
Danube near Kladovo, at the border with Romania"
"The vehicle bore license plates from Pec, a western Kosovo city, and allegedly
contained 50 bodies. According to Kandic?s center, the bodies were subsequently
transferred to a truck with Belgrade plates and driven away."
And the piece continued:
"?Our investigations produced witnesses who can testify that many people
were killed, their bodies buried only to be dug up again and later moved
to another place,? said Natasa Kandic of the Humanitarian Law Center, a leading
human rights watchdog organization in Yugoslavia"
The point of this story was to claim that Mr Milosevic had ordered a cover-up
of the alleged atrocities in Kosovo and was removing the evidence, but unfortunately
for him a truck carrying Albanian bodies from Kosovo had crashed into the
Danube.
This story was very timely for Nato and the new Serbian government because
at the time Nato was demanding the transfer of Mr Milosevic to the ICTY and
as the Independent newspaper commented approvingly, "The bodies are the evidence
the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague needs to prove its charge
of crimes against humanity against Mr Milosevic."
The story was published worldwide and the BBC even presented a 45-minute
documentary on it, on the 27th January 2002 as part of their holocaust memorial
season.
However subsequent investigations into this story revealed the following:
The local magazine quoted in the AP article was Timocka Kriminala Revija
(criminal review) owned by Dragan Vitomirovic.
Timocka published two articles about a refrigerator truck full of bodies.
The first article, dated 15th September 1999, stated that the truck contained
dead Kurds and that the licence plates were Swiss.
However, the second story, published 1st May 2001 the one that Natasa Kandic
presented to the world and the source of the allegations against Slobodan
Milosevic, the dead Kurds had become the dead Albanians and the Swiss licence
plates had become Kosovo license plates.
It further transpired that Dragan Vitomirovic had a brother with a record
of smuggling illegal aliens across the Romanian border and moreover, had
been encouraged to write the second article by Interior Minister Mihajlovic,
a member of the newly installed Nato backed Serbian government.
In regard to Kandic?s claim that, "Our investigations produced witnesses
who can testify that many people were killed, their bodies buried only to
be dug up again and later moved to another place" it is important to note
the following:
Police officer Captain Dragan Karleusa, who was appointed to investigate
the allegations, appeared in July 2002 as a prosecution witness at The Hague
against Mr Milosevic and admitted that not a single witness deposition had
ever been taken. (Trial transcript).
Given that as of July 2002 the investigating officers had not taken a single
witness deposition and had not a shred of evidence to substantiate the allegation,
how was it possible for the BBC to broadcast six months earlier, on the 27th
January 2002, their ?factual? documentary programme ?Mass Killings in Kosovo??
Noting the above examples of the work of Kandic?s Humanitarian Law Center
it is laughable, if not tragic, to hear Hague prosecutor Geoffrey Nice along
with the mainstream media describe this HLC as "a very reliable human rights
organisation." One wonders what an unreliable one would be like!
Let us just recap for a moment and reflect on Kandic?s history as cited in
the few samples above.
She sided with Nato as the bombs dropped on her own people and it was she
who berated Serbian journalists for not showing respect to their Nato masters,
claiming they pay their wages. It was she who was named as the source for
the USA article originally printed in 1999 which forced the resignation of
Jack Kelley after an investigation that USA Today held to determine, "whether
Kelley might have embellished or fabricated stories."
In 2001 it was she who supplied The Hague with the Freezer Truck Story, second
version, the rewritten second version naturally. Also, at The Hague this
year Prosecutor Nice was forced to drop his character assassination attempt
against a defence witness as his one and only source was an article written
by Kandic.
You would think that given this history any self-respecting newspaper, when
confronted by a new allegation from this same source, would immediately realise
that some corroborating evidence would be needed before publication. One
would like to think that the editor?s thoughts would be something like this:
"Oh dear, it?s that fairy tale queen again. Hold the presses while I get
this checked and double checked."
Moreover, bearing in mind the history of previous HLC accusations it should
at the very least have given the media a degree of suspicion concerning future
?stories?supplied by this NGO. However in June 2005 this ?very reliable human
rights organisation? was at it again, riding to the rescue of a desperate,
not to say disastrous, prosecution case with a story instantly embraced by
a subservient media.
On Wednesday 1st June 2005 the prosecution in the Slobodan Milosevic case
at The Hague introduced a video tape, apparently showing the execution of
six people by a ?Serbian unit? known as the ?Scorpions? which it is claimed
occurred in 1995. The ?Scorpions?, the prosecution alleges, were under the
command of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), which oversaw
state security and policing in Serbia. The tape was then broadcast on Serbian
television. The tape was supplied by, you?ve guessed it, Natasa Kandic.
Yet The Hague court already had prior knowledge of the so-called ?Scorpion?
unit, and knew they were not under the command of the MUP.
Milan Milanovic, the Deputy Defense Minister of the Republic of Serbian Krajina
(RSK) testified as a prosecution witness at The Hague on October 14, 2003
where he confirmed the unit was subordinated to the command of the Army of
the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
They used them initially in 1992 as security guards for the Krajina Petroleum
Industries oil company.
Furthermore, a viewing of the video in full would reveal that this was the
case. The prosecution showed a few minutes of the two-hour long video, whereas
a full viewing would indeed confirm by the insignia on their vehicles that
Milanovic?s testimony was correct. Therefore there is no connection with
this, essentially mercenary unit, to the Belgrade government whatsoever.
The prosecution should have learned that lesson from the testimony of their
own witness, Milanovic, in 2003, yet they chose not to heed the satirical
maxim, "If at first you don?t succeed give up, it?s no use making a complete
fool of yourself."
We are dealing here, once again, with a complete red herring. Of course it
is the first blast of media propaganda that will be embedded in people?s
minds, and not the later refutations. As James Harff, director of Ruder Finn,
boasted, "Speed is vital, it is the first assertion that really counts. All
future denials are entirely ineffective."
Despite this Mr Milosevic made some telling points about the videotape. While
stating that if the tape was authentic, this was indeed an ?horrific? act,
he noted however that the video had some technical irregularities which gave
rise for concern and pointed out that although the prosecution is linking
this tape with Srebrenica and claiming the killings took place in Trnovo,
the two places are more that 160km apart, and that there was nothing on the
tape to suggest a link, nor anything on the tape to confirm where it was
actually filmed.
In regard to the ?discovery? of this video and its showing at The Hague,
it should be noted that the prosecution case concluded last year, yet the
prosecution was allowed to present it six months later, and furthermore,
present it without disclosing its existence to the defence, thus breaking
all legal norms and even breaking the Hague tribunal?s own rules of procedure.
Before leaving the issue of this tape it is interesting to note two news
reports which purported to give some background details. The first report
is from Reuters and the second from The Observer, written by one Tim Judah,
who for those not aware, comes from the London-based IWPR (International
War & Peace Reporting) stable, an organisation known for its previous collaboration
with Kandic and an organisation about as trustworthy as a rattlesnake with
a headache.
Reuters dispatch of 4th June 4th 2005 stated:
"The video was obtained last December from an unnamed and now protected source
by Hague prosecutors and Natasa Kandic, a Serbian human rights activist.
They spent months authenticating it and investigating the men it showed.
It was shown to Serbian war crimes prosecutors a week ago and its broadcast
to a national audience was coordinated with the government of Prime Minister
Vojislav Kostunica."
The Observer of 5th June 2005 included this passage:
"On 23 May she (Kandic) gave it to Serbia's own war crimes prosecutor. He
promised to investigate, but no arrests were made. She also gave it to The
Hague's prosecution team, who showed it on Wednesday. Immediately afterwards
she gave it to Serbian TV".
The Reuters report claims ?They spent months authenticating it and investigating
the men it showed.?
Yet the Observer report states that Kandic gave it to the Serbian authorities
and The Hague prosecution team on 23rd May, just eight days prior to its
showing. So who ?spent months authenticating it.?
FUNDING.
To understand the workings of an organisation, its intentions and philosophy,
it is necessary to examine where its funding comes from.
As documented, both the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and American
billionaire financier George Soros have provided funding for Kandic?s Humanitarian
Law Center.
The National Endowment for Democracy is a United States government agency.
Founded in 1983, the NED took over functions that were once the responsibility
of the CIA. Unlike the CIA however the NED receives open congressional appropriations,
as opposed to the previously covert funding, and thus their activities are
more openly documented. For instance NED programme operator Paul McCarthy
revealed in his testimony to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in
Europe that the NED, in 1998, was responsible in Yugoslavia for, amongst
other things, the newspapers Nasa Borba, Vreme and Danas, the TV station
Negotin, the news agency BETA and the Belgrade station Radio B-92.
It is worth noting that among the directors who have served on the board
of the National Endowment for Democracy are: Wesley Clark, former Supreme
Commander of Nato, Richard Holbrooke former Assistant Secretary of State,
and Francis Fukuyama, author of the anti-communist diatribe, ?The End of
History.?
George Soros is responsible for the creation of many organisations, one such
being the Open Society Institute. Journalist Neil Clark commented in the
New Statesman magazine that:
"Soros deems a society `open' not if it respects human rights and basic freedoms,
but if it is `open' for him and his associates to make money. And, indeed,
Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise `open.' In Kosovo,
for example, he has invested $50m in an attempt to gain control of the Trepca
mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead and other
minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5bn. He thus copied a pattern
he has deployed to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe: of advocating
`shock therapy' and `economic reform,' then swooping in with his associates
to buy valuable state assets at knockdown prices."
In her article ?George Soros ? Imperial Wizard? published in the autumn 2002
issue of Covert Action Quarterly, Heather Coffin quoted Soros as saying:
"In each country I identified a group of people, some leading personalities,
others less well known - who share my belief..."
Coffin also noted:
"He was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia. Calling
himself a philanthropist, billionaire George Soros' role is to tighten the
ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting
his own financial gain. Soros' commercial and "philanthropic" operations
are clandestine, contradictory and coactive. And as far as his economic activities
are concerned, by his own admission, he is without conscience; a capitalist
who functions with absolute amorality."
Gilles d?Amery reported further details on Soros in ?The Fabrication and
Dissemination of Deception?:
"A prominent hawk on Yugoslavia, Soros pressured Bill Clinton, as early as
1993, to escalate the war by lifting an arms embargo against Bosnian separatists.
Emboldened by U.S. support, separatist rebels launched "ethnic cleansing"
campaigns against Serb civilians living in the territories they claimed.
The bloodiest such action was Operation Storm, an August 1995 offensive by
Croatian forces, in which as many as 300,000 Serbs were driven from Krajina,
and an unknown number of Serb civilians slaughtered."
The blood was not dry in Krajina before Soros and his fellow hawks confronted
Congress in December 1995 with a petition, signed by 40 prominent policy
makers, urging massive U.S. intervention in the Balkans -- not to protect
Serbs from further atrocities, but to escalate the war by intensifying support
for separatist rebels.
George Soros is also a notable contributor to the funding of the ICTY itself.
Another organisation that supports the ICTY is the Coalition for International
Justice (CIJ), which was founded and funded by Soros and it is the CIJ that
supplies many of the ICTY?s legal staff. Moreover the ICTY also has provision
for the obtaining of evidence by, among others, George Soros? Open Society
Foundation.
Between them the NED and Soros can be said to fund the ?human rights? organisations
(Soros is also involved with HRW) that highlight ?atrocities?, they also
control large parts of the Serbian media that publicises these ?atrocities?
and they contribute to the ICTY who conduct the resulting trials. A tidy
circle indeed and within this circle where is the allowance for any opposing
voice?
These then are the masters that Natasa Kandic and her HLC serve. In essence
Kandic is merely a Nato foot soldier.
EVIDENCE.
As for the accusations of ?ethnic cleansing? and ?genocide? levelled against
Slobodan Milosevic the ICTY have not a scrap of credible evidence. They have
not got one single document or other exhibit that suggests Mr Milosevic or
the Yugoslav government are guilty of these grave charges.
On the contrary, the ICTY have in their possession a mass of documents and
sworn testimonies to confirm that the Milosevic government and the Yugoslav
authorities took all available steps to prevent any possible crimes against
civilians.
For instance, General Gojovic, who was the head of the Legal Directorate
at the Yugoslav Defense Ministry during the 1999 Kosovo war, testified in
March this year that war crimes were severely punished by the Yugoslav Army.
He exhibited a large file of documents laying out the work of the Yugoslav
military justice system. These documents detailed the type of crime committed,
whether this be robbery or a more serious offence, the files identified the
soldiers who committed the crimes, and the relevant action taken by the Yugoslav
courts as of 2001. For example the Yugoslav authorities successfully convicted
over 2000 perpetrators in Kosovo alone with some soldiers receiving the death
penalty for their crimes.
Further, the ICTY have in their possession copies of the orders from the
Yugoslav Supreme Command that instructed soldiers to abide by the Geneva
Conventions.
Also, during General Gojovic?s testimony Slobodan Milosevic exhibited numerous
pamphlets containing codes of conduct that were distributed to the personnel
of the Yugoslav Army, which clearly stated that all personnel were ordered
to respect civilians, treat enemy prisoners humanely and observe the laws
of war.
That the Yugoslav government did this while engaged in a life and death struggle
against internal and external enemies is to their everlasting credit and
proves that the charge against them of a "Joint Criminal Enterprise" of President
Milosevic and others to ethnically cleanse Kosovo and Metohija of non-Serbs,
on which the "indictment" relies, is inapplicable, and a complete and utter
nonsense.
Of course all this would be relevant if the aim of the ICTY was to objectively
establish the truth about the break-up of Yugoslavia and punish those responsible
for any crimes committed. However this is not the case.
The ICTY is a political tool. It is a creation of the United States and its
function is to justify the Nato aggression and to punish the victims of that
aggression. The real guilt of the Yugoslav prisoners is that they defied
Nato and fought for the independence of their country. Moreover, the ICTY
exists to serve as a warning to anyone who thinks of trying to resist US
foreign policy in the future.
The tribunal?s rules are unique and have nothing to do with justice or discovering
the truth about the break-up of Yugoslavia.
It has 1300 employees, it has lawyers, legal secretaries, investigators and
judges who are all primarily from the Nato countries that attacked Yugoslavia.
It has assistance from the governments and intelligence services of those
countries that attacked Yugoslavia.
It is therefore hardly neutral.
When commenting on the illegal weapons used by Nato against Yugoslavia, weapons
that are forbidden by the Geneva Convention such as fragmentation bombs,
graphite bombs, used to paralyse the electrical grid and weapons of Depleted
Uranium which cause cancer and birth defects,
US Congressman Lester Munson stated:
"You will never see these NATO pilots brought before a UN tribunal. NATO
is the accuser, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury and the executioner,
because it is NATO that pays the bills for the ICTY. NATO does not have to
submit to international law. It is international law."
(Monopoly - NATO and the Conquest of the World. Michel Collon EPO, 2000 Brussels).
Given this scenario it is easy to see people such as Natasa Kandic as an
obedient servant of Nato, and every ?smoking gun? story that is produced
by her ilk is not only testimony to the fact that the prosecution lacks any
factual evidence, but testimony to the correctness of the battle for justice
and historical truth being undertaken by Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague
today.
And even a media advantage of 1300 to zero will ultimately not be enough
to conceal the truth about the destruction of Yugoslavia and the false demonising
of its people.
Ian Johnson
June 2005
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Data: Sab 2 Lug 2005 15:07:17 Europe/Rome
A: icdsm-italia @ yahoogroups . com
Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Appello urgente -- The life of a Serb inmate
at stake
Act now:
The life of a Serb inmate at stake due to Hague fabrications
[Vlastimir Pusara, prigioniero serbo nel carcere di Zenica (Bosnia
musulmana), sottoposto un mese fa a gravi maltrattamenti dai suoi
aguzzini aizzati dal video-montatura dell'Aia su Srebrenica, e'
entrato DA 24 GIORNI IN SCIOPERO DELLA FAME insieme ad altri
prigionieri serbi. La loro richiesta e' di essere trasferiti ad altra
prigione per non dover subire le violenze cui sono usi i carcerieri di
Zenica. Ricordiamo che il carcere di Zenica si era gia' reso
tristemente noto nel corso della guerra di Bosnia per torture brutali
sui prigionieri serbi, compresi molti civili, giovani uomini arrestati
immediatamente dopo la secessione, nel 1992, per la sola "colpa" di
essere serbi o comunque contrari alla secessione dalla Jugoslavia]
Da: Vladimir Krsljanin
Data: Ven 1 Lug 2005 18:18:09 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Act now: The life of a Serb inmate at stake due to Hague
fabrications
ACT NOW AND SAVE THE LIFE OF VLASTIMIR PUSARA AT STAKE DUE TO HAGUE
FABRICATIONS!
Please circulate widely.
***************************************************************
Public call for help by Lili (Ljiljana) Petrovic, professor of
philosophy from Montreal, niece of Zenica prison inmate Vlastimir
Pusara, who is on a hunger strike:
***************************************************************
"My uncle, Vlastimir Pusara, and others have been on a hunger strike
for 24 days. They began this strike as a desperate last attempt to
bring attention to their situation and to have granted one simple
request: to be moved to another prison. My uncle was in the process of
appealing false allegations made about him, when the harassment at
Zenica turned to extreme violence. After being shown a doctored film
about six executions in in Trnovo, Pusara and some others were
severely beaten. A razor was taken to Pusara's neck, and he narrowly
escaped death.
He began this hunger strike in serious condition. I have been informed
that his health is in grave danger. There is not much time.
An appeal to the Human Rights Court in Strausbourg was just brought
forth by his lawyer Zoran Malesevic, but it will take at least another
week for them to confirm that indeed there have been human rights
abuses in that prison.
I spoke to the Office of the High Representative (who have been, to
say the least, terribly unhelpful, without an ounce of compassion, and
rather insincere). this morning and they told me that this was a
problem for local authorities, but the problem is that the local
authorities are contributing to the imminent death of these inmates.
The stalement right now is that the Minister of Justice for the entire
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slobodan Kovac is in conflict with the
Minister of Justice of the Muslim-Croat Federation, Borijana Kristo.
Kovac has demanded that the prisoners be transferred. Kristo is
blocking it. When the local officials in Republika Srpska act or
refrain to act in a way Ashdown dislikes, he fires them, like last
year, almost to the day, when he sacked the whole government.
I call upon for an urgent action. Please write to the OHR, to the
Ministry of Justice of the Federation and to the most responsible UN
bodies and members.
Please save the life of Vlastimir Pusara and other Serb inmates.
Lili Petrovic
Professor of Philosophy,
Montreal, Canada
Niece of Vlastimir Pusara
E-mail: petrovil@... "
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(Paddy Ashdown):
Telephone number at the OHR is 033-283-500 (in Sarajevo) and
32-22-85-76-49 (in Brussels).
Email addresses: amela.zahiragic@... (Amela Zehiragic),
ian.patrick@... (Ian Patrick)
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Address:
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Data: Sab 2 Lug 2005 15:07:17 Europe/Rome
A: icdsm-italia @ yahoogroups . com
Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Appello urgente -- The life of a Serb inmate
at stake
Act now:
The life of a Serb inmate at stake due to Hague fabrications
[Vlastimir Pusara, prigioniero serbo nel carcere di Zenica (Bosnia
musulmana), sottoposto un mese fa a gravi maltrattamenti dai suoi
aguzzini aizzati dal video-montatura dell'Aia su Srebrenica, e'
entrato DA 24 GIORNI IN SCIOPERO DELLA FAME insieme ad altri
prigionieri serbi. La loro richiesta e' di essere trasferiti ad altra
prigione per non dover subire le violenze cui sono usi i carcerieri di
Zenica. Ricordiamo che il carcere di Zenica si era gia' reso
tristemente noto nel corso della guerra di Bosnia per torture brutali
sui prigionieri serbi, compresi molti civili, giovani uomini arrestati
immediatamente dopo la secessione, nel 1992, per la sola "colpa" di
essere serbi o comunque contrari alla secessione dalla Jugoslavia]
Da: Vladimir Krsljanin
Data: Ven 1 Lug 2005 18:18:09 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Act now: The life of a Serb inmate at stake due to Hague
fabrications
ACT NOW AND SAVE THE LIFE OF VLASTIMIR PUSARA AT STAKE DUE TO HAGUE
FABRICATIONS!
Please circulate widely.
***************************************************************
Public call for help by Lili (Ljiljana) Petrovic, professor of
philosophy from Montreal, niece of Zenica prison inmate Vlastimir
Pusara, who is on a hunger strike:
***************************************************************
"My uncle, Vlastimir Pusara, and others have been on a hunger strike
for 24 days. They began this strike as a desperate last attempt to
bring attention to their situation and to have granted one simple
request: to be moved to another prison. My uncle was in the process of
appealing false allegations made about him, when the harassment at
Zenica turned to extreme violence. After being shown a doctored film
about six executions in in Trnovo, Pusara and some others were
severely beaten. A razor was taken to Pusara's neck, and he narrowly
escaped death.
He began this hunger strike in serious condition. I have been informed
that his health is in grave danger. There is not much time.
An appeal to the Human Rights Court in Strausbourg was just brought
forth by his lawyer Zoran Malesevic, but it will take at least another
week for them to confirm that indeed there have been human rights
abuses in that prison.
I spoke to the Office of the High Representative (who have been, to
say the least, terribly unhelpful, without an ounce of compassion, and
rather insincere). this morning and they told me that this was a
problem for local authorities, but the problem is that the local
authorities are contributing to the imminent death of these inmates.
The stalement right now is that the Minister of Justice for the entire
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slobodan Kovac is in conflict with the
Minister of Justice of the Muslim-Croat Federation, Borijana Kristo.
Kovac has demanded that the prisoners be transferred. Kristo is
blocking it. When the local officials in Republika Srpska act or
refrain to act in a way Ashdown dislikes, he fires them, like last
year, almost to the day, when he sacked the whole government.
I call upon for an urgent action. Please write to the OHR, to the
Ministry of Justice of the Federation and to the most responsible UN
bodies and members.
Please save the life of Vlastimir Pusara and other Serb inmates.
Lili Petrovic
Professor of Philosophy,
Montreal, Canada
Niece of Vlastimir Pusara
E-mail: petrovil@... "
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Addresses for your letters:
OHR - Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Paddy Ashdown):
Telephone number at the OHR is 033-283-500 (in Sarajevo) and
32-22-85-76-49 (in Brussels).
Email addresses: amela.zahiragic@... (Amela Zehiragic),
ian.patrick@... (Ian Patrick)
Ministry of Justice of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Address:
Ministry of Justice
71000-SARAJEVO
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Tel. (387) 33 213 155 (387) 33 656 743
Fax (387) 33 213 155 (387) 33 666 971
e-mail: mirelas@..., mirjanab@...
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