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Kosovo (en francais)
1. Appel pour le Kosovo
2. Kosovo: deux grenades lancées sur une maison serbe de Mitrovica
3. Arrivée de renforts français au Kosovo en vue du scrutin du 23
octobre
A VOIR AUSSI, DANS LE SITE PRO-SECESSIONISTE ET ANTI-YOUGOSLAVE
"COURRIER DE BALKANS":
Kosovo : le Président Boris Tadic appelle les Serbes à participer aux
élections
Le Président de Serbie Boris Tadic a appelé les Serbes du Kosovo à
prendre part aux élections parlementaires organisées dans le
protectorat international le 23 octobre, s’opposant ainsi au
gouvernement de Serbie, à l’Église orthodoxe et à l’opinion de la
plupart des représentants serbes du Kosovo. Seuls Vuk Draskovic et
Oliver Ivanovic soutiennent cet appel.
http://www.balkans.eu.org/article4646.html
Une journaliste d’investigation blessée au Kosovo
La journaliste d’investigation Fatmire Terdevci a été blessée dans une
fusillade la semaine dernière au Kosovo. Qui donc avait envie de faire
taire cette voix courageuse d’une femme qui a osé enquêter sur beaucoup
de sujets que la plupart des journalistes du Kosovo préfèrent
délaisser ?
http://www.balkans.eu.org/article4628.html
Relations Albanie-Kosovo : Ibrahim Rugova fait son retour à Tirana
Le Président Kosovar Ibrahim Rugova vient d’effectuer une visite
officielle en Albanie, alors qu’il boycottait ce pays depuis le retour
au pouvoir des Socialistes, il y a sept ans. À quelques semaines des
élections législatives au Kosovo, cette visite a été l’occasion de
demander un plus grand engagement de l’Albanie en faveur de
l’indépendance.
http://www.balkans.eu.org/article4605.html
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Liste de diffusion : Damnés du Kosovo
http://www.gael.ch/collectif/damnes/inscriptions.html
Appel pour le Kosovo
Cinq mois après les émeutes du 17 mars 2004 et cinq ans après
l’intervention militaire de l’OTAN, nous avons séjourné au Kosovo du 14
au 22 août, afin d'y observer les conditions dans lesquelles vivent les
minorités.
Nous avons constaté qu'en ce début de troisième millénaire s'y
perpétuent de véritables ghettos, dans lesquels les minorités, dont les
Roms (1), les Ashkalis (2), les Gorans (3) et les Serbes, vivent
au-dessous du minimum acceptable en matière de droits de l'homme.
/.../
La plupart des membres de minorités encore présents dans la province ne
peuvent sortir de leurs ghettos, ne fût-ce que pour faire des courses
ou accéder aux services publics : poste, école, hôpitaux, transport en
commun. Ils ne peuvent parler leur langue – le serbo-croate, le romany
ou même le turc – dans les lieux à majorité albanaise, par crainte
d’être agressés.
/.../
Tout cela se déroule alors qu'une administration internationale est
censée instaurer un état de droit au Kosovo et alors que les armées du
monde dit démocratique sont censées y faire régner l'ordre et la paix
civile, comme le prévoit la résolution 1244 du Conseil de sécurité de
l’ONU, qui mit fin à la guerre de 1999.
Nous avons pu constater que, sous le vernis démocratique et
"multiethnique", un véritable pouvoir raciste et fascisant est en place
au Kosovo. Il est dirigé en sous-main par le crime organisé qui pousse
ses ramifications dans toutes les grandes villes d'Europe et d’Amérique
du Nord.
Afin de ne pas perdre la face et achever leur mission sur le constat
d'échec que s'attachent à formuler tous les observateurs rencontrés,
les responsables internationaux, qui sont là-bas "pour gagner de
l'argent et non pas pour perdre la vie" (le Père Sava), sont prêts, à
brader dès que possible le statut final du Kosovo, au mépris de
l'exigence préalable, posée par l’ONU elle-même, du respect des
standards permettant l'instauration d'un état de droit et le retour des
réfugiés. Ceci se réalisera probablement après les élections générales
du 23 octobre, qui ne feront que cautionner des institutions permettant
cette violation continue des droits de l'homme et un régime fondé sur
la discrimination raciale la plus brutale.
Ce que nous avons constaté au Kosovo, en plus de ces perspectives
inquiétantes, dans le cadre d'une Europe qui foule ainsi aux pieds les
grands principes de la civilisation, nous incite à pousser un cri
d'alarme et à lancer un appel aux consciences européennes.
Nous ne pouvons laisser se perpétrer un tel crime alors que les
objectifs déclarés des pays occidentaux, lors de leur intervention
"humanitaire" de 1999, étaient de mettre un terme au nettoyage ethnique
et d’instaurer la démocratie au Kosovo.
/.../
Pour la délégation qui a parcouru le Kosovo entre le 14 et le 22 août
2004 : Frédéric Saillot (France), Georges Berghezan (Belgique),
Philippe Scheller (Suisse), Dominique Frey (France), Thomas Gadisseux
(Belgique), Dragan Kotarac (France), Jean-Marie Maissonnier (France),
Nedzmedin Neziri (France), Dominique Reding (Belgique), Alain
Verkindere (Belgique).
Le 1 octobre 2004
Liste de diffusion Damnés du Kosovo
http://www.gael.ch/collectif/damnes/20041001.html
Comité de surveillance OTAN
http://www.csotan.org/textes/appel.php?art_id=181
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http://www.gael.ch/collectif/
CP 915 - 1264 St-Cergue
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SOURCE:
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De : "Roland Marounek"
ATS
28 septembre 2004
http://www.edicom.ch/news/international/040928051140.tu.shtml
Kosovo: deux grenades lancées sur une maison serbe de Mitrovica
PRISTINA - Des assaillants non identifiés ont jeté lundi soir deux
grenades contre une maison serbe à Mitrovica, au Kosovo, a annoncé la
police de l'ONU. Une fusillade a également éclaté mais aucun blessé n'a
été signalé.
Une première grenade a explosé vers 23h00 locales, endommageant le toit
de la maison, a précisé cette source. Des soldats de maintien de la
paix de l'OTAN ont ensuite fait sauter une seconde grenade, qui n'avait
pas explosée.
Cet incident intervient moins d'un mois avant les élections
législatives prévues le 23 octobre dans cette province serbe à majorité
albanaise et placée sous le contrôle de l'ONU.
=== 3 ===
SOURCE:
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/alerte_otan/messages
De : "Roland Marounek"
Arrivée de renforts français au Kosovo en vue du scrutin du 23 octobre
AP | 06.10.04 | 16:39
STANOVCE, Serbie-Monténégro (AP) -- Un détachement français envoyé en
renfort au Kosovo en prévision des élections du 23 octobre dans la
province séparatiste de Serbie ont été parachutés mercredi au-dessus de
Stanovce (15 km au nord de la capitale Pristina).
Les 361 parachutistes français de la KFOR, la force de l'OTAN au
Kosovo, se sont posés dans des champs de maïs, les visages couverts de
peinture de camouflage et l'arme prête, avant de se regrouper pour se
déployer dans la province.
Cette unité française était la première à arriver dans le cadre de
l'opération «Engagement déterminé», qui verra à terme la KFOR renforcée
de 2.000 hommes, portant son effectif total pour l'élection à 20.000
soldats. Ces renforts, français, allemands et italiens resteront un
mois au Kosovo.
La KFOR déployée au Kosovo depuis la fin de la guerre à la mi-1999, a
été fortement critiquée pour avoir échoué à protéger les Serbes et
autres minorités lors d'une flambée de violence en mars dernier. Ces
deux jours d'émeutes et de pillage avaient fait 19 morts et 900 blessés.
«L'objectif (...) est que les Kosovars puissent avoir une période très
calme leur permettant de voter sans aucune pression», a déclaré le
colonel Yves Kermorvant.
Le scrutin du 23 octobre est la seconde élection générale au Kosovo.
Les électeurs choisiront les membres de l'assemblée multiethnique,
alors que la province reste sous la protectorat des Nations unies,
depuis plus de cinq ans déjà. La minorité serbe a menacé de boycotter
l'élection, soutenus par le Premier ministre serbe Vojislav Kostunica,
l'église orthodoxe de Serbie et les ultranationalistes. AP
1. Appel pour le Kosovo
2. Kosovo: deux grenades lancées sur une maison serbe de Mitrovica
3. Arrivée de renforts français au Kosovo en vue du scrutin du 23
octobre
A VOIR AUSSI, DANS LE SITE PRO-SECESSIONISTE ET ANTI-YOUGOSLAVE
"COURRIER DE BALKANS":
Kosovo : le Président Boris Tadic appelle les Serbes à participer aux
élections
Le Président de Serbie Boris Tadic a appelé les Serbes du Kosovo à
prendre part aux élections parlementaires organisées dans le
protectorat international le 23 octobre, s’opposant ainsi au
gouvernement de Serbie, à l’Église orthodoxe et à l’opinion de la
plupart des représentants serbes du Kosovo. Seuls Vuk Draskovic et
Oliver Ivanovic soutiennent cet appel.
http://www.balkans.eu.org/article4646.html
Une journaliste d’investigation blessée au Kosovo
La journaliste d’investigation Fatmire Terdevci a été blessée dans une
fusillade la semaine dernière au Kosovo. Qui donc avait envie de faire
taire cette voix courageuse d’une femme qui a osé enquêter sur beaucoup
de sujets que la plupart des journalistes du Kosovo préfèrent
délaisser ?
http://www.balkans.eu.org/article4628.html
Relations Albanie-Kosovo : Ibrahim Rugova fait son retour à Tirana
Le Président Kosovar Ibrahim Rugova vient d’effectuer une visite
officielle en Albanie, alors qu’il boycottait ce pays depuis le retour
au pouvoir des Socialistes, il y a sept ans. À quelques semaines des
élections législatives au Kosovo, cette visite a été l’occasion de
demander un plus grand engagement de l’Albanie en faveur de
l’indépendance.
http://www.balkans.eu.org/article4605.html
=== 1 ===
Liste de diffusion : Damnés du Kosovo
http://www.gael.ch/collectif/damnes/inscriptions.html
Appel pour le Kosovo
Cinq mois après les émeutes du 17 mars 2004 et cinq ans après
l’intervention militaire de l’OTAN, nous avons séjourné au Kosovo du 14
au 22 août, afin d'y observer les conditions dans lesquelles vivent les
minorités.
Nous avons constaté qu'en ce début de troisième millénaire s'y
perpétuent de véritables ghettos, dans lesquels les minorités, dont les
Roms (1), les Ashkalis (2), les Gorans (3) et les Serbes, vivent
au-dessous du minimum acceptable en matière de droits de l'homme.
/.../
La plupart des membres de minorités encore présents dans la province ne
peuvent sortir de leurs ghettos, ne fût-ce que pour faire des courses
ou accéder aux services publics : poste, école, hôpitaux, transport en
commun. Ils ne peuvent parler leur langue – le serbo-croate, le romany
ou même le turc – dans les lieux à majorité albanaise, par crainte
d’être agressés.
/.../
Tout cela se déroule alors qu'une administration internationale est
censée instaurer un état de droit au Kosovo et alors que les armées du
monde dit démocratique sont censées y faire régner l'ordre et la paix
civile, comme le prévoit la résolution 1244 du Conseil de sécurité de
l’ONU, qui mit fin à la guerre de 1999.
Nous avons pu constater que, sous le vernis démocratique et
"multiethnique", un véritable pouvoir raciste et fascisant est en place
au Kosovo. Il est dirigé en sous-main par le crime organisé qui pousse
ses ramifications dans toutes les grandes villes d'Europe et d’Amérique
du Nord.
Afin de ne pas perdre la face et achever leur mission sur le constat
d'échec que s'attachent à formuler tous les observateurs rencontrés,
les responsables internationaux, qui sont là-bas "pour gagner de
l'argent et non pas pour perdre la vie" (le Père Sava), sont prêts, à
brader dès que possible le statut final du Kosovo, au mépris de
l'exigence préalable, posée par l’ONU elle-même, du respect des
standards permettant l'instauration d'un état de droit et le retour des
réfugiés. Ceci se réalisera probablement après les élections générales
du 23 octobre, qui ne feront que cautionner des institutions permettant
cette violation continue des droits de l'homme et un régime fondé sur
la discrimination raciale la plus brutale.
Ce que nous avons constaté au Kosovo, en plus de ces perspectives
inquiétantes, dans le cadre d'une Europe qui foule ainsi aux pieds les
grands principes de la civilisation, nous incite à pousser un cri
d'alarme et à lancer un appel aux consciences européennes.
Nous ne pouvons laisser se perpétrer un tel crime alors que les
objectifs déclarés des pays occidentaux, lors de leur intervention
"humanitaire" de 1999, étaient de mettre un terme au nettoyage ethnique
et d’instaurer la démocratie au Kosovo.
/.../
Pour la délégation qui a parcouru le Kosovo entre le 14 et le 22 août
2004 : Frédéric Saillot (France), Georges Berghezan (Belgique),
Philippe Scheller (Suisse), Dominique Frey (France), Thomas Gadisseux
(Belgique), Dragan Kotarac (France), Jean-Marie Maissonnier (France),
Nedzmedin Neziri (France), Dominique Reding (Belgique), Alain
Verkindere (Belgique).
Le 1 octobre 2004
Liste de diffusion Damnés du Kosovo
http://www.gael.ch/collectif/damnes/20041001.html
Comité de surveillance OTAN
http://www.csotan.org/textes/appel.php?art_id=181
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Comité pour la paix en Yougoslavie
http://www.gael.ch/collectif/
CP 915 - 1264 St-Cergue
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Inscription - désinscription et historique des messages envoyés à la
liste de diffusion Damnés du Kosovo
http://www.gael.ch/collectif/damnes/inscriptions.html
=== 2 ===
SOURCE:
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/alerte_otan/messages
De : "Roland Marounek"
ATS
28 septembre 2004
http://www.edicom.ch/news/international/040928051140.tu.shtml
Kosovo: deux grenades lancées sur une maison serbe de Mitrovica
PRISTINA - Des assaillants non identifiés ont jeté lundi soir deux
grenades contre une maison serbe à Mitrovica, au Kosovo, a annoncé la
police de l'ONU. Une fusillade a également éclaté mais aucun blessé n'a
été signalé.
Une première grenade a explosé vers 23h00 locales, endommageant le toit
de la maison, a précisé cette source. Des soldats de maintien de la
paix de l'OTAN ont ensuite fait sauter une seconde grenade, qui n'avait
pas explosée.
Cet incident intervient moins d'un mois avant les élections
législatives prévues le 23 octobre dans cette province serbe à majorité
albanaise et placée sous le contrôle de l'ONU.
=== 3 ===
SOURCE:
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/alerte_otan/messages
De : "Roland Marounek"
Arrivée de renforts français au Kosovo en vue du scrutin du 23 octobre
AP | 06.10.04 | 16:39
STANOVCE, Serbie-Monténégro (AP) -- Un détachement français envoyé en
renfort au Kosovo en prévision des élections du 23 octobre dans la
province séparatiste de Serbie ont été parachutés mercredi au-dessus de
Stanovce (15 km au nord de la capitale Pristina).
Les 361 parachutistes français de la KFOR, la force de l'OTAN au
Kosovo, se sont posés dans des champs de maïs, les visages couverts de
peinture de camouflage et l'arme prête, avant de se regrouper pour se
déployer dans la province.
Cette unité française était la première à arriver dans le cadre de
l'opération «Engagement déterminé», qui verra à terme la KFOR renforcée
de 2.000 hommes, portant son effectif total pour l'élection à 20.000
soldats. Ces renforts, français, allemands et italiens resteront un
mois au Kosovo.
La KFOR déployée au Kosovo depuis la fin de la guerre à la mi-1999, a
été fortement critiquée pour avoir échoué à protéger les Serbes et
autres minorités lors d'une flambée de violence en mars dernier. Ces
deux jours d'émeutes et de pillage avaient fait 19 morts et 900 blessés.
«L'objectif (...) est que les Kosovars puissent avoir une période très
calme leur permettant de voter sans aucune pression», a déclaré le
colonel Yves Kermorvant.
Le scrutin du 23 octobre est la seconde élection générale au Kosovo.
Les électeurs choisiront les membres de l'assemblée multiethnique,
alors que la province reste sous la protectorat des Nations unies,
depuis plus de cinq ans déjà. La minorité serbe a menacé de boycotter
l'élection, soutenus par le Premier ministre serbe Vojislav Kostunica,
l'église orthodoxe de Serbie et les ultranationalistes. AP
(italiano / srpskohrvatski)
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http://komunist.free.fr/arhiva/okt2004/kuba.html
Arhiva : : Oktobar 2004.
Evropska Unija ne sme biti saučesnik SAD protiv Kube!
Predsedništvu Evropske Unije
Predsedništvu Evropske Komisije
Brisel
Bez i malo razumevanja za Kubu, Evropska Unija je 2003. zavela sankcije
protiv te zemlje koju SAD već decenijama bespravno drže pod stravičnom
blokadom.
Smatramo taj potez činom predaje i saučesništva sa SAD koje svojom
agresorskom politikom grubo krše suverenitet i vređaju nacionalni ponos
ne samo Kube već i čitave Latinske Amerike.
Umesto da bude dosledna, Evropska Unija vodi politiku dvostrukih aršina
u međunarodnoj politici, što je nedopustivo. Nije uvela te iste
sankcije protiv zemalja koje sistematski - a ne samo iznimno -
pribegavaju smrtnoj kazni. Nepopustljiva je prema malim zemljama kao
što su Kuba i Zimbabve, dok na drugoj strani gleda kroz prste državama
kao što su Izrael i Kolubmija, gde su prava čoveka daleko ozbiljnije
ugrožena. Tri četvrtine planete smatra da je politika dvostrukih aršina
neprihvatljiva.
Imajući sve to u vidu, zahtevamo da Evropska Unija u što kraćem roku
povuče sankcije koje je zavela protiv Kube. Zahtevamo da se suprostavi
internacionalizaciji blokade pod kojom SAD drže Kubu. Zahtevamo takođe
da demokratizacija međunarodnih odnosa ubuduće bude jedan od prioriteta
politike Evropske Unije.
U Parizu, 30. septembra 2004.
Potpisnici:
Remi Herrera (Sorbona);
Paolo Nacatani (Univerzitet S.Espiritu, Brazil);
Luciano Vasapollo ("La Sapienza", Rim);
Samir Amin (Predsednik Svetskog Alternativnog Foruma);
Gorge Labica (Predsednik Međunarodnog Demokratskog Centra);
Isabel Monal (Nacionalni Institut za filozofiju, Kuba);
Al Campbell (Univerzitet u Juti, SAD);
Elena Alvarez (Nacionalni Institut za ekonomiju, Kuba);
Gentil Corazza (Univerzitet u Porto Alegreu, Brazil);
Victor Rios Vidal (Fondacija za marksistička istraživanja, Barselona,
Španija);
Armando Fernandez (Univerzitet Complutense, Madrid);
Alesando Valle (Univerzitet grada Meksika);
Francos Houtard (Centar Trikontinental, Belgija);
Regula Eburmkind (Univerzitet u Juti, SAD);
Isabel Einard Amin (Forum Trećeg sveta, Senegal)
Olga Darić (PRCF, Francuska)
....i ostali intelektualci i naučni radnici učesnici IV
Internacionalnog Kongresa Karl Marx u Parizu (Kongres se zavrsava
plenumom posle podne 2. oktobra 2004.)
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Da Parigi appello di intellettuali per la revoca delle sanzioni
dell’Unione Europea a Cuba
Un appello firmato da quarantacinque intellettuali europei e del terzo
mondo, è stato lanciato dal congresso internazionale in corso a Parigi
e diretto alla presidenza della Commissione e dell’Unione Europea.
Nell’appello che pubblichiamo a seguito, i firmatari chiedono
l’immediata revoca delle sanzioni adottate nel 2003 dall’Unione Europea
contro Cuba.
APPELLO
L’Unione Europea non deve essere complice degli USA contro Cuba
Alla Presidenza dell’Unione Europea
Alla Presidenza della Commissione Europea
Bruxelles
Nel 2003, l’Unione Europea, mostrandosi intransigente contro Cuba, ha
adottato sanzioni contro un paese già sottoposto da decenni ad un
durissimo ed illegale blocco da parte degli Stati Uniti.
Riteniamo che questa decisione sia una forma di capitolazione e
complicità con la politica aggressiva degli Stati Uniti contro la
sovranità e la dignità nazionale di Cuba e dell’America Latina nel suo
complesso.
L’Unione Europea non può adottare una doppia morale nelle sue relazioni
internazionali. Non ha adottato sanzioni contro altri paesi che
applicano sistematicamente – e non eccezionalmente – la pena capitale.
Si mostra intransigente contro piccoli Stati come Cuba o Zimbabwe ma si
mostra indulgente verso altri stati come Colombia o Israele dove
avvengono violazioni dei diritti umani enormemente più gravi. I tre
quarti del mondo ritengono ormai inaccettabile la logica dei due pesi e
delle due misure.
Chiediamo per questo che l’Unione Europea revochi rapidamente le
sanzioni contro Cuba, si adoperi per ostacolare
l’internazionalizzazione del blocco contro Cuba da parte
dell’amministrazione degli Stati Uniti, inserisca nella sua agenda
politica la democratizzazione delle relazioni internazionali.
Parigi, 30 settembre 2004-10-01
PRIMI FIRMATARI: Remì Herrera (Università di Parigi); Paolo Nacatani
(Università S.Espiritu, Brasile); Luciano Vasapollo (università di Roma
“La Sapienza”); Samir Amin (Presidente Forum Mondiale delle
alternative); George Labica (Presidente Centro Democratico
Internazionale); Isabel Monal (Istituto Nazionale di Filosofia di
Cuba); Al Campbell (Università dell’Utah, Stati Uniti); Elena Alvarez
(Istituto Nazionale per l’Economia, Cuba); Gentil Corazza (Università
federale di Porto Alegre, Brasile); Victor Rios Vidal (Fondazione di
ricerca marxista, Barcellona, Spagna); Armando Fernandez (Università
Complutense, Madrid); Alesando Valle (Università di Città del Messico);
Francois Houtard (Centro Tricontinentale, Belgio); Regula Eburmkind
(università dell’Utah, Stati Uniti); Isabel Einard Amin (Forum del
Terzo Mondo, Senegal) ed altri trenta intellettuali, studiosi e
ricercatori riuniti al Convegno internazionale marxista di Parigi
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http://komunist.free.fr/arhiva/okt2004/kuba.html
Arhiva : : Oktobar 2004.
Evropska Unija ne sme biti saučesnik SAD protiv Kube!
Predsedništvu Evropske Unije
Predsedništvu Evropske Komisije
Brisel
Bez i malo razumevanja za Kubu, Evropska Unija je 2003. zavela sankcije
protiv te zemlje koju SAD već decenijama bespravno drže pod stravičnom
blokadom.
Smatramo taj potez činom predaje i saučesništva sa SAD koje svojom
agresorskom politikom grubo krše suverenitet i vređaju nacionalni ponos
ne samo Kube već i čitave Latinske Amerike.
Umesto da bude dosledna, Evropska Unija vodi politiku dvostrukih aršina
u međunarodnoj politici, što je nedopustivo. Nije uvela te iste
sankcije protiv zemalja koje sistematski - a ne samo iznimno -
pribegavaju smrtnoj kazni. Nepopustljiva je prema malim zemljama kao
što su Kuba i Zimbabve, dok na drugoj strani gleda kroz prste državama
kao što su Izrael i Kolubmija, gde su prava čoveka daleko ozbiljnije
ugrožena. Tri četvrtine planete smatra da je politika dvostrukih aršina
neprihvatljiva.
Imajući sve to u vidu, zahtevamo da Evropska Unija u što kraćem roku
povuče sankcije koje je zavela protiv Kube. Zahtevamo da se suprostavi
internacionalizaciji blokade pod kojom SAD drže Kubu. Zahtevamo takođe
da demokratizacija međunarodnih odnosa ubuduće bude jedan od prioriteta
politike Evropske Unije.
U Parizu, 30. septembra 2004.
Potpisnici:
Remi Herrera (Sorbona);
Paolo Nacatani (Univerzitet S.Espiritu, Brazil);
Luciano Vasapollo ("La Sapienza", Rim);
Samir Amin (Predsednik Svetskog Alternativnog Foruma);
Gorge Labica (Predsednik Međunarodnog Demokratskog Centra);
Isabel Monal (Nacionalni Institut za filozofiju, Kuba);
Al Campbell (Univerzitet u Juti, SAD);
Elena Alvarez (Nacionalni Institut za ekonomiju, Kuba);
Gentil Corazza (Univerzitet u Porto Alegreu, Brazil);
Victor Rios Vidal (Fondacija za marksistička istraživanja, Barselona,
Španija);
Armando Fernandez (Univerzitet Complutense, Madrid);
Alesando Valle (Univerzitet grada Meksika);
Francos Houtard (Centar Trikontinental, Belgija);
Regula Eburmkind (Univerzitet u Juti, SAD);
Isabel Einard Amin (Forum Trećeg sveta, Senegal)
Olga Darić (PRCF, Francuska)
....i ostali intelektualci i naučni radnici učesnici IV
Internacionalnog Kongresa Karl Marx u Parizu (Kongres se zavrsava
plenumom posle podne 2. oktobra 2004.)
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Da Parigi appello di intellettuali per la revoca delle sanzioni
dell’Unione Europea a Cuba
Un appello firmato da quarantacinque intellettuali europei e del terzo
mondo, è stato lanciato dal congresso internazionale in corso a Parigi
e diretto alla presidenza della Commissione e dell’Unione Europea.
Nell’appello che pubblichiamo a seguito, i firmatari chiedono
l’immediata revoca delle sanzioni adottate nel 2003 dall’Unione Europea
contro Cuba.
APPELLO
L’Unione Europea non deve essere complice degli USA contro Cuba
Alla Presidenza dell’Unione Europea
Alla Presidenza della Commissione Europea
Bruxelles
Nel 2003, l’Unione Europea, mostrandosi intransigente contro Cuba, ha
adottato sanzioni contro un paese già sottoposto da decenni ad un
durissimo ed illegale blocco da parte degli Stati Uniti.
Riteniamo che questa decisione sia una forma di capitolazione e
complicità con la politica aggressiva degli Stati Uniti contro la
sovranità e la dignità nazionale di Cuba e dell’America Latina nel suo
complesso.
L’Unione Europea non può adottare una doppia morale nelle sue relazioni
internazionali. Non ha adottato sanzioni contro altri paesi che
applicano sistematicamente – e non eccezionalmente – la pena capitale.
Si mostra intransigente contro piccoli Stati come Cuba o Zimbabwe ma si
mostra indulgente verso altri stati come Colombia o Israele dove
avvengono violazioni dei diritti umani enormemente più gravi. I tre
quarti del mondo ritengono ormai inaccettabile la logica dei due pesi e
delle due misure.
Chiediamo per questo che l’Unione Europea revochi rapidamente le
sanzioni contro Cuba, si adoperi per ostacolare
l’internazionalizzazione del blocco contro Cuba da parte
dell’amministrazione degli Stati Uniti, inserisca nella sua agenda
politica la democratizzazione delle relazioni internazionali.
Parigi, 30 settembre 2004-10-01
PRIMI FIRMATARI: Remì Herrera (Università di Parigi); Paolo Nacatani
(Università S.Espiritu, Brasile); Luciano Vasapollo (università di Roma
“La Sapienza”); Samir Amin (Presidente Forum Mondiale delle
alternative); George Labica (Presidente Centro Democratico
Internazionale); Isabel Monal (Istituto Nazionale di Filosofia di
Cuba); Al Campbell (Università dell’Utah, Stati Uniti); Elena Alvarez
(Istituto Nazionale per l’Economia, Cuba); Gentil Corazza (Università
federale di Porto Alegre, Brasile); Victor Rios Vidal (Fondazione di
ricerca marxista, Barcellona, Spagna); Armando Fernandez (Università
Complutense, Madrid); Alesando Valle (Università di Città del Messico);
Francois Houtard (Centro Tricontinentale, Belgio); Regula Eburmkind
(università dell’Utah, Stati Uniti); Isabel Einard Amin (Forum del
Terzo Mondo, Senegal) ed altri trenta intellettuali, studiosi e
ricercatori riuniti al Convegno internazionale marxista di Parigi
[ Tre risposte ad una intervista rilasciata dal nuovo ambasciatore
degli USA a Belgrado, Michael Polt, lo scorso 22 agosto sul quotidiano
"Politika". Mentre Polt insiste ad imporre "condizioni" alla Serbia (ad
esempio, sulla collaborazione con il "Tribunale ad hoc" dell'Aia), i
commentatori si chiedono per quale motivo gli USA insistano tanto ad
accanirsi contro i serbi: dopo l'appoggio alla pulizia etnica antiserba
in Croazia e dopo i bombardamenti del 1999, gli USA oggi sostengono il
terrorismo a sfondo separatista e razzista nella provincia occupata del
Kosmet... Si noti che Veljko Guberina, noto avvocato, nella sua lettera
aperta all'ambasciatore afferma di aver sempre nutrito simpatie per gli
USA e di essere stato un anticomunista della prima ora; anche Raymond
Kent, professore di Storia a Berkeley, richiama la politica estera USA
a riprendere la strada tradizionale dell'amicizia con i serbi.
Evidentemente, le strategie geopolitiche ed il cinismo imperialista
sono molto piu' forti delle antiche affinita'... ]
(english / srpskohrvatski)
Mike Polt / Grahovac - Guberina - Kent
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ŠTA SE ‘GVOZDENOM PESNICOM’ SPROVODI U SRBIJI I NA BALKANU
Beograd, 23/8/2004
Slavica Grahovac
(Povodom teksta ‘Topi se strpljenje”, Politika 22/8/2004)
U nedavnom intervjuju novog američkog ambasadora u SCG, Majkla Polta,
koji je dao listu Politika, ambasador izjavljuje da se ‘američko
strpljenje topi..” te da Amerika hoće energično ‘gvozdenom pesnicom’ da
sprovede medjunarodno pravo povodom Haga I izručivanja osumnjičenih za
ratne zločine, hapšenje Karadžića I Mladića kao I po pitanju Kosova.
a mi sa svoje strane takodje energično tražimo odluku po pitanju
Kosmeta.
Ambasador ističe da je stav američke Vlade vis a vis Kosova da “se prvo
nametnu standardi…’ koje SAD “tražI od slobodnih ljudi u SAD a koje
tražI od slobodnih društava širom sveta, poštovanje prava manjina,
odgovornost I prava većine, bezbednost I sigurnost pojedinca…’ I
nastavlja sa tim da su “standardi neophodni da bi mogli da utvrde da li
društvo može sobodno da upravlja pravedno…pre nego počnemo da
raspravljamo o statusu Kosova…” NastavljajućI na pitanje novinara da
smo se umesto progresa u martu ove godine, suočili sa eksplozijom
mržnje na Kosovu smatra da su time “…interesi albanske većine ozbiljno
oštećeni ovakvim akcijama…” insistiraju}I dalje na tome da situacija na
Kosovu nije ni bolja ni lošija no pre martovskih dogadjaja I da SAD
“insistira na dijalogu”…Uz to protivnik je bojkota lokalnih izbora od
strane kosovskih Srba uz obrazloženje da “demokratski procesi
funkcioni{u jedino ukoliko ljudi u njima učestvuju…” I da “…nema
koristi od izbora ukoliko se na njima niko ne pojavi…”
Pitamo se da li će Vašington istom gvozdenom rukom tražiti da se ispune
zahtevi Srba da se vrate na svoja vekovna ognjišta na Kosovu a na koja
su uz pomoć NATO-a Amerikanci već vratili Albance I pomogli im svojim
delovanjem da sa iste teritorije isteraju 250.000 Srba I sada zaista
budu većinski narod na toj teritoriji??
Pitamo dalje kako to da se Hrvatima I Albancima dozvoljava secesionizam
u okviru, za prve SFRJ, legalne I legitimno priznate zemlje od strane
UN, a zatim za druge u okviru same Srbije čiji je Kosmet sastavni deo I
takodje legalno I legitimno priznate od strane UN?
Možemo na osnovu činjenica koje su nam se same nametnule kao istina za
ovih 15 godina libanizacije prostora bivše SFRJ da zaključimo da je pod
plaštom demokratije I očuvanja ljudskih prava manjini to jest prvo
Hrvatima pa sada Albanacima Amerika pomogla da se njihovi nazovi
“problemi” sa Srbima internacionalizuju I da se stekne ružna slika o
Srbima u svetu, da se isti satanizuju I time direktno I indirektno
pomogla rasturanje SFRJ a sada govori o ‘Albanskoj većini’ I
integraciji “srpske I romske manjine” u ‘albansko društvo”. Kakvog li
licemerja u najmanju ruku?
No, sve nam to govori da u svetu I dalje vlada ‘pax americana’ I da
sila boga ne moli već bog silu voli. Medjutim, ovo što se danas dešava
Srbima, može samo da služI kao opomena drugim malim narodima koji se
nalaze na takvim geostrateškim položajima bitnim za velike sile I da
ponešto nauče na našem primeru.
Mi kao autentičan narod sa ovih prostora ne bismo smeli da dozvolimo
ovakvo uništenje I kasnije pretvaranje u mit I legendu kao 13. to
pleme, Hazari, I da bi se kasnije našI suplemenici kroz vreme I vekove
prepoznavali I na uštrb drugih naroda, u zgodnoj prilici, pravili novu
državu!
No, svako zlo ima I svoje naličje I ponešto dobro a to je da nas ove
nesreće nisu razvejale u potpunosti nego sabile, pa maker na teritoriju
manju od Srbije. Verujem da u svetu ima pozitivne energije I mislećih
ljudi koji neće dozvoliti uništenje jednog celog naroda. MislećI svet
zna da se žarišta lako prave, da u Evropi postoji Severna Irska, Alto
Adidje, Korzika, Kurdi u Turskoj, koji kao Demoklov mač prete Evropi I
svetu, da ne govorimo o pojedinim državama da se isto I njima može
desiti ako ne budu kooperativni.
Opstanak Srba na svojim vekovnim ognjištima značI pobedu pozitivne
političke misli u svetskoj politici I izlazak pred sud istorije čistog
srca I obraza. A sud istorije I budućih generacija je vrlo teško breme
koga su mnogi narodi dobro svesni. Da pomenemo samo Nemačku posle
drugog svetskog rata.
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Pismo Veljka GUBERINE americkom ambasadoru u Beogradu
AMERIČKA AMBASADA U BEOGRADU
Kneza Miloša 50
Za njegovu ekselenciju ambasadora gospodina Majkla Polta
Poštovani gospodine ambasadore,
U nedeljnom broju našeg najznačajnijeg I najvažnijeg lista ‘politika”
od 22 / 8 / 2004 dali ste intervju njenom novinaru gospodinu Bošku
Jakšiću, gde izmedju ostalog stoji vaša izričita izjava: “Vašington će
s’ gvozdenom odlučnošću insistirati da Beograd ispuni obaveze prema
Hagu.”
S obzirom da vam novinar nije postavio pitanje koje je za na{u javnost
od izuzetnog značaja, to sam slobodan da Vam ja postavim pitanje ‘zašto
do danas Vaša Vlada nije ‘gvozdenom odlučnošću’ insistirala da albansko
rukovodstvo u Prištini ispuni svoju obavezu i omogućI srpskom narodu
pravo na život , to jest, da dozvoli našem narodu povratak na svoja
vekovna ognjišta sa kojih je proteran.
Naime, i posle pet godina uz primenu drastičnog nasilja koje vodi do
ubijanja, albansko rukovodstvo u Prištini to isto sprovodi, a Vaša
Vlada prelazi preko toga. Brojni poznati i ugledni gradjani Srbije nisu
iz raznih ličnih I političkih razloga takvo pitanje javno uputili Vama
I preko Vas Vašoj Vladi, dok ja, koji sam takodje poznati gradjanin ove
zemlje, a pošto sam uvek pripadao nezavisnoj advokatskoj profesiji,
slobodan sam da u svoje ime I ime brojnih drugih naših gradjana
postavim neka pitanja.
Vi kao obrazovan čovek znate da je Vaša zemlja uz učešće skoro svih
evropskih država izjavila da je: ‘BOMBARDOVALA SRBIJU DA BI SPREČILA
HUMANITARNU KATASTROFU MILION ALBANACA KOJE JE MILOŠEVIĆ PROTERAO SA
NJIHOVIH IMANJA’.
U proleće 1999. godine pa sve do danas na sve strane ste objašnjavali
svoj zločin prema Srbima, a koji Vam naš narod nikada neće oprostiti.
Štaviše, doveli ste i snage NATO pakta da budu na Kosovu kako bi
omogu}ili Albancima, juna meseca 1999. godine, da se vrate na svoja
imanja, a oni su pri tom izbacivali Srbe iz njihovih stanova, kuća i
imanja i useljavali se u iste.
Ako Vam to nije poznato, spreman sam gospodine ambasadore da Vas
povedem i uverim u tačnost tih tvrdnji, jer sam 35 godina dolazio na
Kosovo I Metohiju branećI Albance koji su počinili ubistva iz domena
krvne osvete a po čemu su oni poznati u celom svetu jer se ravnaju po
Kanonu Leke Dukadjinija. Slobodan sam takodje, da Vam skrenem pažnju na
još jedno pitanje koje bi Vam trebalo da bude dobro poznato. Ceo svet
je mirno gledao kako su Hrvati proterivali Srbe sa njihovih imanja
1995. godine jer su, a Vaša Vlada se saglasila, tvrdili da su Srbi
izvršili oružanu pobunu protiv Hrvatske države čiji su gradjani i da
Hrvatska ima pravo da zaštiti svoju državu od pobunjenika. Sada se
analogno tome postavlja pitanje ‘Zar Albanci nisu bili gradjani Srbije
protiv koje su digli oružanu pobunu, te i Srbija ima pravo da brani
svoju državu protiv pobunjenih gradjana.’
Pogotovo je značajno a što bi I Vama trebalo da bude poznato da je još
1912/13 godine rešeno pitanje granica I medjusobnih odnosa izmedju
balkanskih država koje su te godine, posle vekovnog turskog ropstva,
oslobodile se I povratile nezavisnost koju su izgubile tokom XIV I XV
veka kada su Osmanlije uništile sve, tada slobodne države, na Balkanu.
Takodje, trebalo bi da znate da tada nije bilo nikakve albanske države
na tom prostoru a najmanje na Kosovu I Metohiji a o čemu govore vekovni
spomenici o njihovom bivstvovanju u tim krajevima.
Takvo stanje je I potvrdjeno 1919. godine mirovnim ugovorom posle Prvog
svetskog rata. Takodje, to stanje je potvrdjeno 1945. godine posle
Drugog svetskog rata.
Na kraju, kao pravnik slobodan sam, gospodine ambasadore, da Vam na
kraju postavim još jedno pitanje ‘u ime kojih načela Vaša Vlada daje
sebi pravo da odvoji jednu pokrajinu srpske vekovne države koja je bila
I koja će ostati izvorište njene državnosti, istorije, kulture I
duhovnosti ?’
Gospodine ambasadore, slobodan sam da Vam uputim ovo pismo jer potičem
iz porodice koja je opšte poznata da je vaspitana na načelima Vaše
demokratije, a zbog čega sam još 1945. godine bio osudjen kao
pristalica ‘američkog imperijalizma’, jer nisam želeo, iako sam bio
mladić od 20 godina, da u Beogradu marširam pevajućI ‘Amerika I
Engleska biće zemlja proleterska!’
Uz poštovanje, uveravam Vas da sam bio I ostaću prijatelj Vašeg naroda
ali ne mogu da predjem preko gore iznetih stvari pogotovo što je moja
celokupna porodica ostala pripadnik slobodnog sveta na čelu sa Vašom
zemljom.
U Beogradu 27 avgusta 2004
Veljko Guberina
Advokat u penziji
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Letter of Veljko Guberina to the American Ambassador in Belgrade
Belgrade, 27 August 2004
The United States Embassy in Belgrade,
Kneza Milosa 50.
To his Excellency Ambassador Mike Polt,
Respectfully, I submit the ensuing text to You.
In the Sunday Edition of our widerly read and most important newspaper,
"Politika," (22/08/2004), You granted an interview to its correspondent
Bosko Jaksic.
In it, inter alia, one finds Your underlined affirmation that
Washington "will insist, with iron will, that Belgrade fulfill its
obligations to the Hague (Tribunal)."
In view of the fact that the correspondent did not bring up a question
of exceptional importance to our public at large, I take the liberty to
pose the question to You. Why is it that, to this day, Your Government
has not insisted, with the will of equal strength, that the Albanian
authorities at Pristina must honor their obligation to allow the
(remaining) Serbs to live unmolestd within Kosovo? This includes also
an implicit requirement, namely to unblock the return of Serb families,
expelled from Kosovo, to their original homes?
In what cannot be factually disputed, within the last five years,
Albanian authorities at Pristina have continued with the butcheries
against remaining non-Albanian citizens while Your Government has not
intervened to stop them decisivly. Since a number of many prominent and
distinguished Serb personalities, for personal or political reasons or
both, failed to openly address the question to You I take it upon
myself to so do. I am a reasonably known and independent
attorney-at-law, now retired, without any ambitions and hence free to
ask several questions of general interest to us.
As a highly educated person, You surely must be aware that the United
States, in unison with most of the European countries, had made the
following declaration. "Serbia was bombed in order to prevent the human
catastrophe involving a million Albanians that Milosevic expellled from
their properties at Kosovo."
Since the Spring of 1999 to-date, this claim is constantly reiterated
to justify what, in effect, was and remains a terrorist attack that our
people find it hard to either forget or forgive. Interestingly enough,
the NATO armed units were put into Kosovo since June 1999 to allow
Albanian refugees from Kosovo to return their homes. The Albanians took
advantage of NATO's help and threw Serbs out of their homes, moving
into them and taking over their properties.
Should You doubt the veracity of the foregoing I am prepred, Mr.
Ambassador,
to affirm it by proposing that You join me in situ personally. For some
35 years I have been defending Albanians at Kosovo and Metohija. They
were charged in criminal courts for the vengeance killings for which
they are well known all over the world because of the draconic laws in
the Kanun of Leka Dukadjinija (binding Albanian moral code).
I take the liberty to also bring to Your attention another question
which should hardly come as a surprise. In 1995, the World at large
barely noticed, let alone protested, the massive Croat expulsion
("ethnic cleansing") of (some 200,000) Serbs from Krajina. The main de
jure reason for this failure was the U.S. position that the Serbs
residing within Croatia mounted an armed rebellion against the Croat
State of which they were citizens and Croatia had an inherent right to
"defend itserlf." By the same token, one must ask "when the Kosovo
Albanians as citizens of Serbia went into an armed rebellion against
it, was and is not not Serbia equally entitled to protect the rights of
its other citizens from a violent revolt of the rebelling segment of of
its citizenry?"
As You undoubtedly know, the question of borders and mutual relations
involving the restoration of Balkan States was settled in 1912/1913.
They had freed themselves and secured their own independence from
centuries-long enslavement by Turkish occupiers. The obliteration of
pre-existing Balkan states was attained by the Ottoman Turks in the
course of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries. One must also trust
that You are familiar with the fact that there was not at the time any
question of restoring an Albanian state that never came into coherent
existence anywhere let alone at Kosovo and Metohija. This is clearly
attested by the presence of ancient monuments which were not Albanian
when they began to migrate into and settle in the two areas.
The historical matter-of-fact was re-affirmed in 1919, by way of
peaceful agreement, immediately after World War One.
Sequentially, as an attorney, I am obliged to approach the end of this
letter by asking You just one more question. "In the name of what
principles does Your Government abrogate for Itself the right to sever
the space which saw the advent of Medieval Serbia and became the
revered birthplace of the Serb state, its history, its culture and its
spirituality?"
I should reveal also that I took the liberty to address You, Mr.
Ambassador, precisely because I come from a family known for being
steeped in the fundamental principles of American Democracy. In 1945, I
was convicted as a supporter of "American Imperialism." Even at 20 I
did not wish to march through the streets of Belgrade chanting slogans
which would turn America and Great Britain into "proletarian nations."
Respectfully, to conclude, I can assure you that I have been and remain
a friend of the American People. But, I cannot sweep the foregoing
particulars under the rug and all the more so since my entire family
has been and is a member of the free world with America at its helm.
Belgrade, 27 August 2004
Veljko Guberina, Retired Attorney
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H.E. Ambassador Mike Polt,
United States Embassy,
Kneza Milosa 60,
Belgrade, Serbia.
4 October 2004
Dear Mr. Ambassdor,
The time has arrived when foreign policy is too important to our own
survival to be left exclusively in the hands of our Government and what
might be called the “foreign-policy elite,” constantly cloning itself
and orbiting around Washington, D.C. This requires learning about the
real world at the grass-roots level and acting to promote respect for
close proximity to truth no matter where the chips might fall. I am
thus writing to you as an informed fellow-citizen. This letter and all
the addenda will be forwarded to Secretary Powell, President George W.
Bush, Senator John Kerry and others of my choice. It is also posted on
the Internet with references to the addenda.
To begin, I enclose a translation of a letter sent to you by a
Belgrade-based attorney-at-law, Veljko Guberina, on 27th September
last. In it, he touches upon two subjects which are of major interest
to the Serb People but which transcend, by far, the local dimension.
One is a demand imposed on Belgrade by our Government to “cooperate”
with the International Criminal Tribunal for (ex-)Yugoslavia. More
precisely, this is understood to mean the arrest and delivery of
General Vladko Mladic to the Hague. The principal charge against him is
a Command implication in the alleged genocide of Bosnian Muslims at
Srebrenica. Attorney Guberina merely touches upon this matter following
an interview that you had granted recently to “Politika,” leading
Belgrade newspper. You underlined the “iron will” in Washington to see
its demand honored and adhered to.
My only comment at this time about Mladic’s alleged crime of “genocide”
is that it cannot be sustained under closer scrutiny. One basic fact
stands out in this case. He had ordered the busing out of Srebrenica
all of the Muslim women and children. All of them reached safely the
Bosnian Muslim stronghold of Tuzla. Whatever happened at Srebrenica it
was thus not “genocide.” It should be added that the scarce fuel for
the buses was donated by the U.N. Just like Milosevic (who is in a
Hague jail) Mladic has been already tried and convicted through the
media on a charge which would not pass muster in any established court
adhering to the Anglo-Saxon Common Law. Its pivotal principle requires
that a person be deemed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The burden of proof rests upopn the accuser, not the media. Hence, I
would suggest that our will should not be cast in iron.
The second subject is an increasing willingness in Washington to
accomodate the special interests and lobbies which advocate the
severing of Kosovo from Serbia. Under one cosmetic formula or another,
despite frequent assertions that our policy has been consistently
opposed to altering the existing borders within the Balkan Peninsula,
the transfer of Sovereignty to Kosovo’ Albanians seems to be only a
matter of timing.
What is of capital importance to our own National Interest, the
attorney brings out, in a professional way, without any anti-American
venom, the inconsitencies, contradictions and asymmetries that came
with our entry into the Yugoslav fratricidal tragedy. This would be bad
enough if it were confined only to the Balkans but the problem has
become endemic since the end of the Administration headed by the first
member of the Bush family to be in the White House. If this seems less
than credible to some or many at home just read the recently released
and devastating report (30 September 2004) from the Washington-based
Institute for Agriculture and Trade (enclosed). Its conclusion is that
the U.S. has repeatedly shown “scorn for International Law... causing
the United States to lose credibility at offering any kind of global
leadership.”
At this point it is appropriate to turn to the Hague Tribunal before
the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. There is, on hand, an abundant
literature against the concepts and practices of the Hague Tribunal by
different nationals from a variety of professions. For my part, as a
Historian, I enclose two articles published in the Paris-based journal
“Dialogue” in 1996 and 1997. One is extensive and documented with the
title of “Contextualizing Hate - The Hague Tribunal, the Clinton
Administration and the Serbs,” (No. 20, 1996). The other, much shorter
and without notes, is “The True Nature of the ‘International Criminal
Tribunal,’” (No. 24,1997).
The origins of this Tribunal, its fundings, its internal practices, its
penchant for advocacy and pre-judgements, condemnations through
frequent use of the media, and last but not least the bizzare theater
called the “trial of Milosevic,” --all point to the same conclusion.
The Tribunal is a political tool, set up by Madeleine Albright and
funded originally by two Muslim states and, subsequently, by a private
person, George Soros, an illegal contribution even within the
Tribunal’s mandate.
As is often the practice in politics, the Hague Tribunal was
immediately enveloped in moralitic imperatives (just like the NATO
military attack on the Serbs) which served to veil two of its real
political aims. One was and continues to be the interminable punishment
of Serbs through patronizing and cerebral terrorism which defined an
entire and historically honorable people through the eggregious acts of
some extreme elements. These are obviously extant in all populations,
including our own. Milosevic has been used as a club.
The second basic purpose was and is to block the acceptance of any
notion that the U.S.- led NATO military atrtack against Yugoslavia was
an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign state neither at war
with us nor preparing any harm to our citizens. There are grounds on
which one could credibly argue that a war crime had been committed as
well by the NATO Commander, General Wesley Clark. When the NATO flight
officers discovered that the bombings of Yugoslav military targets at
Kosovo were ineffective, General Clark switched to the bombing of
civilian targets, including people and infrastructure. Additionally,
depleted uranium was injected into the soil, water and air in Serbia
and Kosovo, while cluster bombs dropped at the time can still maim or
kill a Serb or an Albanian child attracted by their color.
The justifications for an immediate “need” to”bomb the Serbs” consisted
of the so-called “Racak massacre” that proved to be a hoax (by an
international forensic team) and “failure of the Serbs” to sign the
would-be “Peace Treaty” at Rambouillet. A special Appendix to this
doument (Appendix B) demanded nothing less than the occupation of
Yugoslavia by NATO without any resitance. It was a last- minute
insertion developed in order to make it imposible for the Serb
delegation to sign. As Madeleine Albright put it later on “we raised
the bar so Milosevic could not jump over it.” In an easy job of
demolition by close and factual analyses, the whole edifice of
disinformation, misinformation(and the constant lobotomy performed on
OUR public mind) would drawn in its own mud.
To make sure that --along with an assessment of Milosevic’s would
-be“trial”--the foregoing text is not “dismissed” as a simplistic
attempt to ,” rehabilitate the Serbs,” I enclose a measured and
credible statement of the last Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, James
Bissett. He made it in an interview on 27 September 2004. I should add,
on the grounds of historical conext and knowledge, that the Serbs do
not require as a People any “rehabilitation.” This is a subject on
which I weould be prepared to correspond in detail with you should you
think otherwise. I wouild like to end now on a couple of
recommendations.
First, I strongly believe that our leaders in Washington and our
Ambassadors abroad should stop patronizing the “natives” through
lectures of what they should or must do or not do. We have no mandate
to carry out some sort of “Civilising Mission.” But, our behavior
abroad, since the implosion of the Soviet Union, has been far too
arrogant to allow us to become as respected and even liked as we were
right after WWII. The collective effort against terrorism which we wish
to empower will never become concrete and lasting unless we show
genuine respect for the less powerful and economically less successful
humans who live in other countries and whose sons and daughters have
enriched the fabric of the American peoople. I must conclude by adding
that Americans of Serb origin have earned eight Congressional Medals of
Honor in two World Wars despite their relatively small numerical
presence.
With the Best Regards
and the hope that, at the
end of the day, when
you leave Belgrade, the
Serbs will honor you,
Raymond K. Kent, Emeritus
History Department,
University of California at Berkeley
degli USA a Belgrado, Michael Polt, lo scorso 22 agosto sul quotidiano
"Politika". Mentre Polt insiste ad imporre "condizioni" alla Serbia (ad
esempio, sulla collaborazione con il "Tribunale ad hoc" dell'Aia), i
commentatori si chiedono per quale motivo gli USA insistano tanto ad
accanirsi contro i serbi: dopo l'appoggio alla pulizia etnica antiserba
in Croazia e dopo i bombardamenti del 1999, gli USA oggi sostengono il
terrorismo a sfondo separatista e razzista nella provincia occupata del
Kosmet... Si noti che Veljko Guberina, noto avvocato, nella sua lettera
aperta all'ambasciatore afferma di aver sempre nutrito simpatie per gli
USA e di essere stato un anticomunista della prima ora; anche Raymond
Kent, professore di Storia a Berkeley, richiama la politica estera USA
a riprendere la strada tradizionale dell'amicizia con i serbi.
Evidentemente, le strategie geopolitiche ed il cinismo imperialista
sono molto piu' forti delle antiche affinita'... ]
(english / srpskohrvatski)
Mike Polt / Grahovac - Guberina - Kent
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ŠTA SE ‘GVOZDENOM PESNICOM’ SPROVODI U SRBIJI I NA BALKANU
Beograd, 23/8/2004
Slavica Grahovac
(Povodom teksta ‘Topi se strpljenje”, Politika 22/8/2004)
U nedavnom intervjuju novog američkog ambasadora u SCG, Majkla Polta,
koji je dao listu Politika, ambasador izjavljuje da se ‘američko
strpljenje topi..” te da Amerika hoće energično ‘gvozdenom pesnicom’ da
sprovede medjunarodno pravo povodom Haga I izručivanja osumnjičenih za
ratne zločine, hapšenje Karadžića I Mladića kao I po pitanju Kosova.
a mi sa svoje strane takodje energično tražimo odluku po pitanju
Kosmeta.
Ambasador ističe da je stav američke Vlade vis a vis Kosova da “se prvo
nametnu standardi…’ koje SAD “tražI od slobodnih ljudi u SAD a koje
tražI od slobodnih društava širom sveta, poštovanje prava manjina,
odgovornost I prava većine, bezbednost I sigurnost pojedinca…’ I
nastavlja sa tim da su “standardi neophodni da bi mogli da utvrde da li
društvo može sobodno da upravlja pravedno…pre nego počnemo da
raspravljamo o statusu Kosova…” NastavljajućI na pitanje novinara da
smo se umesto progresa u martu ove godine, suočili sa eksplozijom
mržnje na Kosovu smatra da su time “…interesi albanske većine ozbiljno
oštećeni ovakvim akcijama…” insistiraju}I dalje na tome da situacija na
Kosovu nije ni bolja ni lošija no pre martovskih dogadjaja I da SAD
“insistira na dijalogu”…Uz to protivnik je bojkota lokalnih izbora od
strane kosovskih Srba uz obrazloženje da “demokratski procesi
funkcioni{u jedino ukoliko ljudi u njima učestvuju…” I da “…nema
koristi od izbora ukoliko se na njima niko ne pojavi…”
Pitamo se da li će Vašington istom gvozdenom rukom tražiti da se ispune
zahtevi Srba da se vrate na svoja vekovna ognjišta na Kosovu a na koja
su uz pomoć NATO-a Amerikanci već vratili Albance I pomogli im svojim
delovanjem da sa iste teritorije isteraju 250.000 Srba I sada zaista
budu većinski narod na toj teritoriji??
Pitamo dalje kako to da se Hrvatima I Albancima dozvoljava secesionizam
u okviru, za prve SFRJ, legalne I legitimno priznate zemlje od strane
UN, a zatim za druge u okviru same Srbije čiji je Kosmet sastavni deo I
takodje legalno I legitimno priznate od strane UN?
Možemo na osnovu činjenica koje su nam se same nametnule kao istina za
ovih 15 godina libanizacije prostora bivše SFRJ da zaključimo da je pod
plaštom demokratije I očuvanja ljudskih prava manjini to jest prvo
Hrvatima pa sada Albanacima Amerika pomogla da se njihovi nazovi
“problemi” sa Srbima internacionalizuju I da se stekne ružna slika o
Srbima u svetu, da se isti satanizuju I time direktno I indirektno
pomogla rasturanje SFRJ a sada govori o ‘Albanskoj većini’ I
integraciji “srpske I romske manjine” u ‘albansko društvo”. Kakvog li
licemerja u najmanju ruku?
No, sve nam to govori da u svetu I dalje vlada ‘pax americana’ I da
sila boga ne moli već bog silu voli. Medjutim, ovo što se danas dešava
Srbima, može samo da služI kao opomena drugim malim narodima koji se
nalaze na takvim geostrateškim položajima bitnim za velike sile I da
ponešto nauče na našem primeru.
Mi kao autentičan narod sa ovih prostora ne bismo smeli da dozvolimo
ovakvo uništenje I kasnije pretvaranje u mit I legendu kao 13. to
pleme, Hazari, I da bi se kasnije našI suplemenici kroz vreme I vekove
prepoznavali I na uštrb drugih naroda, u zgodnoj prilici, pravili novu
državu!
No, svako zlo ima I svoje naličje I ponešto dobro a to je da nas ove
nesreće nisu razvejale u potpunosti nego sabile, pa maker na teritoriju
manju od Srbije. Verujem da u svetu ima pozitivne energije I mislećih
ljudi koji neće dozvoliti uništenje jednog celog naroda. MislećI svet
zna da se žarišta lako prave, da u Evropi postoji Severna Irska, Alto
Adidje, Korzika, Kurdi u Turskoj, koji kao Demoklov mač prete Evropi I
svetu, da ne govorimo o pojedinim državama da se isto I njima može
desiti ako ne budu kooperativni.
Opstanak Srba na svojim vekovnim ognjištima značI pobedu pozitivne
političke misli u svetskoj politici I izlazak pred sud istorije čistog
srca I obraza. A sud istorije I budućih generacija je vrlo teško breme
koga su mnogi narodi dobro svesni. Da pomenemo samo Nemačku posle
drugog svetskog rata.
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Pismo Veljka GUBERINE americkom ambasadoru u Beogradu
AMERIČKA AMBASADA U BEOGRADU
Kneza Miloša 50
Za njegovu ekselenciju ambasadora gospodina Majkla Polta
Poštovani gospodine ambasadore,
U nedeljnom broju našeg najznačajnijeg I najvažnijeg lista ‘politika”
od 22 / 8 / 2004 dali ste intervju njenom novinaru gospodinu Bošku
Jakšiću, gde izmedju ostalog stoji vaša izričita izjava: “Vašington će
s’ gvozdenom odlučnošću insistirati da Beograd ispuni obaveze prema
Hagu.”
S obzirom da vam novinar nije postavio pitanje koje je za na{u javnost
od izuzetnog značaja, to sam slobodan da Vam ja postavim pitanje ‘zašto
do danas Vaša Vlada nije ‘gvozdenom odlučnošću’ insistirala da albansko
rukovodstvo u Prištini ispuni svoju obavezu i omogućI srpskom narodu
pravo na život , to jest, da dozvoli našem narodu povratak na svoja
vekovna ognjišta sa kojih je proteran.
Naime, i posle pet godina uz primenu drastičnog nasilja koje vodi do
ubijanja, albansko rukovodstvo u Prištini to isto sprovodi, a Vaša
Vlada prelazi preko toga. Brojni poznati i ugledni gradjani Srbije nisu
iz raznih ličnih I političkih razloga takvo pitanje javno uputili Vama
I preko Vas Vašoj Vladi, dok ja, koji sam takodje poznati gradjanin ove
zemlje, a pošto sam uvek pripadao nezavisnoj advokatskoj profesiji,
slobodan sam da u svoje ime I ime brojnih drugih naših gradjana
postavim neka pitanja.
Vi kao obrazovan čovek znate da je Vaša zemlja uz učešće skoro svih
evropskih država izjavila da je: ‘BOMBARDOVALA SRBIJU DA BI SPREČILA
HUMANITARNU KATASTROFU MILION ALBANACA KOJE JE MILOŠEVIĆ PROTERAO SA
NJIHOVIH IMANJA’.
U proleće 1999. godine pa sve do danas na sve strane ste objašnjavali
svoj zločin prema Srbima, a koji Vam naš narod nikada neće oprostiti.
Štaviše, doveli ste i snage NATO pakta da budu na Kosovu kako bi
omogu}ili Albancima, juna meseca 1999. godine, da se vrate na svoja
imanja, a oni su pri tom izbacivali Srbe iz njihovih stanova, kuća i
imanja i useljavali se u iste.
Ako Vam to nije poznato, spreman sam gospodine ambasadore da Vas
povedem i uverim u tačnost tih tvrdnji, jer sam 35 godina dolazio na
Kosovo I Metohiju branećI Albance koji su počinili ubistva iz domena
krvne osvete a po čemu su oni poznati u celom svetu jer se ravnaju po
Kanonu Leke Dukadjinija. Slobodan sam takodje, da Vam skrenem pažnju na
još jedno pitanje koje bi Vam trebalo da bude dobro poznato. Ceo svet
je mirno gledao kako su Hrvati proterivali Srbe sa njihovih imanja
1995. godine jer su, a Vaša Vlada se saglasila, tvrdili da su Srbi
izvršili oružanu pobunu protiv Hrvatske države čiji su gradjani i da
Hrvatska ima pravo da zaštiti svoju državu od pobunjenika. Sada se
analogno tome postavlja pitanje ‘Zar Albanci nisu bili gradjani Srbije
protiv koje su digli oružanu pobunu, te i Srbija ima pravo da brani
svoju državu protiv pobunjenih gradjana.’
Pogotovo je značajno a što bi I Vama trebalo da bude poznato da je još
1912/13 godine rešeno pitanje granica I medjusobnih odnosa izmedju
balkanskih država koje su te godine, posle vekovnog turskog ropstva,
oslobodile se I povratile nezavisnost koju su izgubile tokom XIV I XV
veka kada su Osmanlije uništile sve, tada slobodne države, na Balkanu.
Takodje, trebalo bi da znate da tada nije bilo nikakve albanske države
na tom prostoru a najmanje na Kosovu I Metohiji a o čemu govore vekovni
spomenici o njihovom bivstvovanju u tim krajevima.
Takvo stanje je I potvrdjeno 1919. godine mirovnim ugovorom posle Prvog
svetskog rata. Takodje, to stanje je potvrdjeno 1945. godine posle
Drugog svetskog rata.
Na kraju, kao pravnik slobodan sam, gospodine ambasadore, da Vam na
kraju postavim još jedno pitanje ‘u ime kojih načela Vaša Vlada daje
sebi pravo da odvoji jednu pokrajinu srpske vekovne države koja je bila
I koja će ostati izvorište njene državnosti, istorije, kulture I
duhovnosti ?’
Gospodine ambasadore, slobodan sam da Vam uputim ovo pismo jer potičem
iz porodice koja je opšte poznata da je vaspitana na načelima Vaše
demokratije, a zbog čega sam još 1945. godine bio osudjen kao
pristalica ‘američkog imperijalizma’, jer nisam želeo, iako sam bio
mladić od 20 godina, da u Beogradu marširam pevajućI ‘Amerika I
Engleska biće zemlja proleterska!’
Uz poštovanje, uveravam Vas da sam bio I ostaću prijatelj Vašeg naroda
ali ne mogu da predjem preko gore iznetih stvari pogotovo što je moja
celokupna porodica ostala pripadnik slobodnog sveta na čelu sa Vašom
zemljom.
U Beogradu 27 avgusta 2004
Veljko Guberina
Advokat u penziji
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Letter of Veljko Guberina to the American Ambassador in Belgrade
Belgrade, 27 August 2004
The United States Embassy in Belgrade,
Kneza Milosa 50.
To his Excellency Ambassador Mike Polt,
Respectfully, I submit the ensuing text to You.
In the Sunday Edition of our widerly read and most important newspaper,
"Politika," (22/08/2004), You granted an interview to its correspondent
Bosko Jaksic.
In it, inter alia, one finds Your underlined affirmation that
Washington "will insist, with iron will, that Belgrade fulfill its
obligations to the Hague (Tribunal)."
In view of the fact that the correspondent did not bring up a question
of exceptional importance to our public at large, I take the liberty to
pose the question to You. Why is it that, to this day, Your Government
has not insisted, with the will of equal strength, that the Albanian
authorities at Pristina must honor their obligation to allow the
(remaining) Serbs to live unmolestd within Kosovo? This includes also
an implicit requirement, namely to unblock the return of Serb families,
expelled from Kosovo, to their original homes?
In what cannot be factually disputed, within the last five years,
Albanian authorities at Pristina have continued with the butcheries
against remaining non-Albanian citizens while Your Government has not
intervened to stop them decisivly. Since a number of many prominent and
distinguished Serb personalities, for personal or political reasons or
both, failed to openly address the question to You I take it upon
myself to so do. I am a reasonably known and independent
attorney-at-law, now retired, without any ambitions and hence free to
ask several questions of general interest to us.
As a highly educated person, You surely must be aware that the United
States, in unison with most of the European countries, had made the
following declaration. "Serbia was bombed in order to prevent the human
catastrophe involving a million Albanians that Milosevic expellled from
their properties at Kosovo."
Since the Spring of 1999 to-date, this claim is constantly reiterated
to justify what, in effect, was and remains a terrorist attack that our
people find it hard to either forget or forgive. Interestingly enough,
the NATO armed units were put into Kosovo since June 1999 to allow
Albanian refugees from Kosovo to return their homes. The Albanians took
advantage of NATO's help and threw Serbs out of their homes, moving
into them and taking over their properties.
Should You doubt the veracity of the foregoing I am prepred, Mr.
Ambassador,
to affirm it by proposing that You join me in situ personally. For some
35 years I have been defending Albanians at Kosovo and Metohija. They
were charged in criminal courts for the vengeance killings for which
they are well known all over the world because of the draconic laws in
the Kanun of Leka Dukadjinija (binding Albanian moral code).
I take the liberty to also bring to Your attention another question
which should hardly come as a surprise. In 1995, the World at large
barely noticed, let alone protested, the massive Croat expulsion
("ethnic cleansing") of (some 200,000) Serbs from Krajina. The main de
jure reason for this failure was the U.S. position that the Serbs
residing within Croatia mounted an armed rebellion against the Croat
State of which they were citizens and Croatia had an inherent right to
"defend itserlf." By the same token, one must ask "when the Kosovo
Albanians as citizens of Serbia went into an armed rebellion against
it, was and is not not Serbia equally entitled to protect the rights of
its other citizens from a violent revolt of the rebelling segment of of
its citizenry?"
As You undoubtedly know, the question of borders and mutual relations
involving the restoration of Balkan States was settled in 1912/1913.
They had freed themselves and secured their own independence from
centuries-long enslavement by Turkish occupiers. The obliteration of
pre-existing Balkan states was attained by the Ottoman Turks in the
course of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries. One must also trust
that You are familiar with the fact that there was not at the time any
question of restoring an Albanian state that never came into coherent
existence anywhere let alone at Kosovo and Metohija. This is clearly
attested by the presence of ancient monuments which were not Albanian
when they began to migrate into and settle in the two areas.
The historical matter-of-fact was re-affirmed in 1919, by way of
peaceful agreement, immediately after World War One.
Sequentially, as an attorney, I am obliged to approach the end of this
letter by asking You just one more question. "In the name of what
principles does Your Government abrogate for Itself the right to sever
the space which saw the advent of Medieval Serbia and became the
revered birthplace of the Serb state, its history, its culture and its
spirituality?"
I should reveal also that I took the liberty to address You, Mr.
Ambassador, precisely because I come from a family known for being
steeped in the fundamental principles of American Democracy. In 1945, I
was convicted as a supporter of "American Imperialism." Even at 20 I
did not wish to march through the streets of Belgrade chanting slogans
which would turn America and Great Britain into "proletarian nations."
Respectfully, to conclude, I can assure you that I have been and remain
a friend of the American People. But, I cannot sweep the foregoing
particulars under the rug and all the more so since my entire family
has been and is a member of the free world with America at its helm.
Belgrade, 27 August 2004
Veljko Guberina, Retired Attorney
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H.E. Ambassador Mike Polt,
United States Embassy,
Kneza Milosa 60,
Belgrade, Serbia.
4 October 2004
Dear Mr. Ambassdor,
The time has arrived when foreign policy is too important to our own
survival to be left exclusively in the hands of our Government and what
might be called the “foreign-policy elite,” constantly cloning itself
and orbiting around Washington, D.C. This requires learning about the
real world at the grass-roots level and acting to promote respect for
close proximity to truth no matter where the chips might fall. I am
thus writing to you as an informed fellow-citizen. This letter and all
the addenda will be forwarded to Secretary Powell, President George W.
Bush, Senator John Kerry and others of my choice. It is also posted on
the Internet with references to the addenda.
To begin, I enclose a translation of a letter sent to you by a
Belgrade-based attorney-at-law, Veljko Guberina, on 27th September
last. In it, he touches upon two subjects which are of major interest
to the Serb People but which transcend, by far, the local dimension.
One is a demand imposed on Belgrade by our Government to “cooperate”
with the International Criminal Tribunal for (ex-)Yugoslavia. More
precisely, this is understood to mean the arrest and delivery of
General Vladko Mladic to the Hague. The principal charge against him is
a Command implication in the alleged genocide of Bosnian Muslims at
Srebrenica. Attorney Guberina merely touches upon this matter following
an interview that you had granted recently to “Politika,” leading
Belgrade newspper. You underlined the “iron will” in Washington to see
its demand honored and adhered to.
My only comment at this time about Mladic’s alleged crime of “genocide”
is that it cannot be sustained under closer scrutiny. One basic fact
stands out in this case. He had ordered the busing out of Srebrenica
all of the Muslim women and children. All of them reached safely the
Bosnian Muslim stronghold of Tuzla. Whatever happened at Srebrenica it
was thus not “genocide.” It should be added that the scarce fuel for
the buses was donated by the U.N. Just like Milosevic (who is in a
Hague jail) Mladic has been already tried and convicted through the
media on a charge which would not pass muster in any established court
adhering to the Anglo-Saxon Common Law. Its pivotal principle requires
that a person be deemed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The burden of proof rests upopn the accuser, not the media. Hence, I
would suggest that our will should not be cast in iron.
The second subject is an increasing willingness in Washington to
accomodate the special interests and lobbies which advocate the
severing of Kosovo from Serbia. Under one cosmetic formula or another,
despite frequent assertions that our policy has been consistently
opposed to altering the existing borders within the Balkan Peninsula,
the transfer of Sovereignty to Kosovo’ Albanians seems to be only a
matter of timing.
What is of capital importance to our own National Interest, the
attorney brings out, in a professional way, without any anti-American
venom, the inconsitencies, contradictions and asymmetries that came
with our entry into the Yugoslav fratricidal tragedy. This would be bad
enough if it were confined only to the Balkans but the problem has
become endemic since the end of the Administration headed by the first
member of the Bush family to be in the White House. If this seems less
than credible to some or many at home just read the recently released
and devastating report (30 September 2004) from the Washington-based
Institute for Agriculture and Trade (enclosed). Its conclusion is that
the U.S. has repeatedly shown “scorn for International Law... causing
the United States to lose credibility at offering any kind of global
leadership.”
At this point it is appropriate to turn to the Hague Tribunal before
the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. There is, on hand, an abundant
literature against the concepts and practices of the Hague Tribunal by
different nationals from a variety of professions. For my part, as a
Historian, I enclose two articles published in the Paris-based journal
“Dialogue” in 1996 and 1997. One is extensive and documented with the
title of “Contextualizing Hate - The Hague Tribunal, the Clinton
Administration and the Serbs,” (No. 20, 1996). The other, much shorter
and without notes, is “The True Nature of the ‘International Criminal
Tribunal,’” (No. 24,1997).
The origins of this Tribunal, its fundings, its internal practices, its
penchant for advocacy and pre-judgements, condemnations through
frequent use of the media, and last but not least the bizzare theater
called the “trial of Milosevic,” --all point to the same conclusion.
The Tribunal is a political tool, set up by Madeleine Albright and
funded originally by two Muslim states and, subsequently, by a private
person, George Soros, an illegal contribution even within the
Tribunal’s mandate.
As is often the practice in politics, the Hague Tribunal was
immediately enveloped in moralitic imperatives (just like the NATO
military attack on the Serbs) which served to veil two of its real
political aims. One was and continues to be the interminable punishment
of Serbs through patronizing and cerebral terrorism which defined an
entire and historically honorable people through the eggregious acts of
some extreme elements. These are obviously extant in all populations,
including our own. Milosevic has been used as a club.
The second basic purpose was and is to block the acceptance of any
notion that the U.S.- led NATO military atrtack against Yugoslavia was
an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign state neither at war
with us nor preparing any harm to our citizens. There are grounds on
which one could credibly argue that a war crime had been committed as
well by the NATO Commander, General Wesley Clark. When the NATO flight
officers discovered that the bombings of Yugoslav military targets at
Kosovo were ineffective, General Clark switched to the bombing of
civilian targets, including people and infrastructure. Additionally,
depleted uranium was injected into the soil, water and air in Serbia
and Kosovo, while cluster bombs dropped at the time can still maim or
kill a Serb or an Albanian child attracted by their color.
The justifications for an immediate “need” to”bomb the Serbs” consisted
of the so-called “Racak massacre” that proved to be a hoax (by an
international forensic team) and “failure of the Serbs” to sign the
would-be “Peace Treaty” at Rambouillet. A special Appendix to this
doument (Appendix B) demanded nothing less than the occupation of
Yugoslavia by NATO without any resitance. It was a last- minute
insertion developed in order to make it imposible for the Serb
delegation to sign. As Madeleine Albright put it later on “we raised
the bar so Milosevic could not jump over it.” In an easy job of
demolition by close and factual analyses, the whole edifice of
disinformation, misinformation(and the constant lobotomy performed on
OUR public mind) would drawn in its own mud.
To make sure that --along with an assessment of Milosevic’s would
-be“trial”--the foregoing text is not “dismissed” as a simplistic
attempt to ,” rehabilitate the Serbs,” I enclose a measured and
credible statement of the last Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, James
Bissett. He made it in an interview on 27 September 2004. I should add,
on the grounds of historical conext and knowledge, that the Serbs do
not require as a People any “rehabilitation.” This is a subject on
which I weould be prepared to correspond in detail with you should you
think otherwise. I wouild like to end now on a couple of
recommendations.
First, I strongly believe that our leaders in Washington and our
Ambassadors abroad should stop patronizing the “natives” through
lectures of what they should or must do or not do. We have no mandate
to carry out some sort of “Civilising Mission.” But, our behavior
abroad, since the implosion of the Soviet Union, has been far too
arrogant to allow us to become as respected and even liked as we were
right after WWII. The collective effort against terrorism which we wish
to empower will never become concrete and lasting unless we show
genuine respect for the less powerful and economically less successful
humans who live in other countries and whose sons and daughters have
enriched the fabric of the American peoople. I must conclude by adding
that Americans of Serb origin have earned eight Congressional Medals of
Honor in two World Wars despite their relatively small numerical
presence.
With the Best Regards
and the hope that, at the
end of the day, when
you leave Belgrade, the
Serbs will honor you,
Raymond K. Kent, Emeritus
History Department,
University of California at Berkeley
ISRAELIANI SPIEGANO AGLI ALBANESI COME RISPETTARE I SERBI... IN UMBRIA
Oppure: ebrei spiegano agli ortodossi come convivere con i musulmani.
Cioe': palestinesi spiegano a serbi ed albanesi quanto sono bravi gli
israeliani.
Ovvero: come manipolare il conflitto altrui dopo aver reso cronico
quello di casa propria. In Umbria.
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/3449/1/51/
Kossovo: da Gerusalemme una scuola di pace
05.10.2004
Dal 5 al 14 ottobre si ritroveranno a Spoleto 15 vicini di casa
appartenenti alle comunità albanese, serba ed ashkalia. Per parlare di
riconciliazione sotto la guida di mediatori israeliani e palestinesi.
Kossovo, una situazione di conflitto sommerso spesso rimossa e
dimenticata. Ipsia-Acli si occupa da anni nella Provincia del sud est
Europa di progetti di cooperazione allo sviluppo che sempre tengono
conto del tema della riconciliazione e della mediazione tra le varie
comunità che vi abitano.
In questi percorsi è spesso utile non rimanere chiusi nell’analisi di
un’unica realtà ma confrontarsi con esperienze anche esterne. Proprio
per questo Ipsia–Acli propone un percorso concreto di mediazione per
gettare semi di pace in Kosovo sulla traccia di un’esperienza
pionieristica di israeliani e palestinesi: la comunità di Nevè
Shalom–Wahat al Salam.
Quindici uomini e donne kosovare di etnia albanese (dalle comunità di
Klina e Gjurjevik), ashkalia (da Mahalla) e serba (da Bicha e Grabac),
che convivono nella medesima regione di Klina, parteciperanno a Spoleto
(Pg), dal 5 al 14 ottobre, al seminario residenziale “Scuola di Pace”,
organizzato da Ipsia, la Ong delle Acli, con il contributo dei
formatori dell’esperienza di Nevè Shalom–Wahat al Salam.
Nevè Shalom–Wahat al Salam (“Oasi di Pace", in ebraico e in arabo), è
un villaggio fondato nel 1972 e situato su una collina a metà strada
fra Gerusalemme e Tel Aviv, in cui attualmente risiedono circa 50
famiglie: una dimostrazione concreta di convivenza civile tra persone
appartenenti a culture e ideologie diverse. Al suo interno, infatti,
ebrei e palestinesi pur mantenendo con fierezza la propria identità
culturale e religiosa, hanno dato vita ad una comunità basata
sull'accettazione, il rispetto reciproco e la cooperazione.
“In un conflitto si maturano esperienze che possono essere utilizzate
proficuamente in altri contesti — dichiara Paola Villa, vicepresidente
dell’Ipsia, più volte in Kosovo — Per questo crediamo sia molto
prezioso il contributo che gli educatori di Nevè Shalom possono offrire
al conflitto in Kosovo, un conflitto tutt’altro che risolto, come
dimostrano i fatti dello scorso marzo, nonostante le agenzie
internazionali continuino a descrivere quella situazione come
esemplare”.
Il seminario, il secondo nel suo genere proposto da Ipsia–Acli, è il
frutto di un percorso cominciato nel luglio del 1999, quando
l’organizzazione ha accompagnato il rientro delle famiglie kosovare
profughe in Albania e si è impegnata nella ricostruzione delle case e
delle scuole. Un percorso che è continuato e si è consolidato, dal 2002
ad oggi, nella realizzazione del progetto “Sviluppo di Comunità”.
Questo forte radicamento nel territorio kosovaro e la fiducia reciproca
costruita in tutti questi anni hanno posto le basi per questo difficile
passo: che 15 kosovari/e accettino di condividere per 10 giorni uno
spazio ed il proprio tempo per “incontrarsi e scontrarsi” con l’aiuto e
la guida di persone molto esperte nella gestione dei conflitti,
Abdessalam Najjar e Nava Sonnenschein della scuola per la pace di Nevè
Shalom – Wahat al Salam.
“La specificità e la delicatezza di questa esperienza — continua Paola
Villa — risiede nel fatto che i partecipanti sono vicini di casa: si
conoscono e conoscono la reciproca storia passata e presente, in
un’area geografica nella quale, durante gli eventi dello scorso marzo,
la tensione ha portato a dover sgomberare le enclaves serbe di Bica e
Grabac. Una situazione delicata che si è potuta arginare anche grazie
all’intervento di mediazione e di pacificazione di alcuni leaders delle
comunità coinvolte, tra i quali alcuni dei partecipanti al seminario”.
Oppure: ebrei spiegano agli ortodossi come convivere con i musulmani.
Cioe': palestinesi spiegano a serbi ed albanesi quanto sono bravi gli
israeliani.
Ovvero: come manipolare il conflitto altrui dopo aver reso cronico
quello di casa propria. In Umbria.
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/3449/1/51/
Kossovo: da Gerusalemme una scuola di pace
05.10.2004
Dal 5 al 14 ottobre si ritroveranno a Spoleto 15 vicini di casa
appartenenti alle comunità albanese, serba ed ashkalia. Per parlare di
riconciliazione sotto la guida di mediatori israeliani e palestinesi.
Kossovo, una situazione di conflitto sommerso spesso rimossa e
dimenticata. Ipsia-Acli si occupa da anni nella Provincia del sud est
Europa di progetti di cooperazione allo sviluppo che sempre tengono
conto del tema della riconciliazione e della mediazione tra le varie
comunità che vi abitano.
In questi percorsi è spesso utile non rimanere chiusi nell’analisi di
un’unica realtà ma confrontarsi con esperienze anche esterne. Proprio
per questo Ipsia–Acli propone un percorso concreto di mediazione per
gettare semi di pace in Kosovo sulla traccia di un’esperienza
pionieristica di israeliani e palestinesi: la comunità di Nevè
Shalom–Wahat al Salam.
Quindici uomini e donne kosovare di etnia albanese (dalle comunità di
Klina e Gjurjevik), ashkalia (da Mahalla) e serba (da Bicha e Grabac),
che convivono nella medesima regione di Klina, parteciperanno a Spoleto
(Pg), dal 5 al 14 ottobre, al seminario residenziale “Scuola di Pace”,
organizzato da Ipsia, la Ong delle Acli, con il contributo dei
formatori dell’esperienza di Nevè Shalom–Wahat al Salam.
Nevè Shalom–Wahat al Salam (“Oasi di Pace", in ebraico e in arabo), è
un villaggio fondato nel 1972 e situato su una collina a metà strada
fra Gerusalemme e Tel Aviv, in cui attualmente risiedono circa 50
famiglie: una dimostrazione concreta di convivenza civile tra persone
appartenenti a culture e ideologie diverse. Al suo interno, infatti,
ebrei e palestinesi pur mantenendo con fierezza la propria identità
culturale e religiosa, hanno dato vita ad una comunità basata
sull'accettazione, il rispetto reciproco e la cooperazione.
“In un conflitto si maturano esperienze che possono essere utilizzate
proficuamente in altri contesti — dichiara Paola Villa, vicepresidente
dell’Ipsia, più volte in Kosovo — Per questo crediamo sia molto
prezioso il contributo che gli educatori di Nevè Shalom possono offrire
al conflitto in Kosovo, un conflitto tutt’altro che risolto, come
dimostrano i fatti dello scorso marzo, nonostante le agenzie
internazionali continuino a descrivere quella situazione come
esemplare”.
Il seminario, il secondo nel suo genere proposto da Ipsia–Acli, è il
frutto di un percorso cominciato nel luglio del 1999, quando
l’organizzazione ha accompagnato il rientro delle famiglie kosovare
profughe in Albania e si è impegnata nella ricostruzione delle case e
delle scuole. Un percorso che è continuato e si è consolidato, dal 2002
ad oggi, nella realizzazione del progetto “Sviluppo di Comunità”.
Questo forte radicamento nel territorio kosovaro e la fiducia reciproca
costruita in tutti questi anni hanno posto le basi per questo difficile
passo: che 15 kosovari/e accettino di condividere per 10 giorni uno
spazio ed il proprio tempo per “incontrarsi e scontrarsi” con l’aiuto e
la guida di persone molto esperte nella gestione dei conflitti,
Abdessalam Najjar e Nava Sonnenschein della scuola per la pace di Nevè
Shalom – Wahat al Salam.
“La specificità e la delicatezza di questa esperienza — continua Paola
Villa — risiede nel fatto che i partecipanti sono vicini di casa: si
conoscono e conoscono la reciproca storia passata e presente, in
un’area geografica nella quale, durante gli eventi dello scorso marzo,
la tensione ha portato a dover sgomberare le enclaves serbe di Bica e
Grabac. Una situazione delicata che si è potuta arginare anche grazie
all’intervento di mediazione e di pacificazione di alcuni leaders delle
comunità coinvolte, tra i quali alcuni dei partecipanti al seminario”.
