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A few articles on Kosovo
[ Il generale canadese Lewis MacKenzie - ex comandante delle truppe ONU
in Bosnia, rimosso dall'incarico all'epoca per difetto di razzismo
antiserbo - commenta: forse in Kosovo nel 1999 abbiamo bombardato la
parte sbagliata?
Piu' alcune ciliegine:
"The Telegraph" rivela la logica della provocazione negli scontri dello
scorso mese: estremisti albanesi hanno attaccato una vettura della KFOR
(ed ucciso un poliziotto del Ghana) cercando di farsi passare per serbi;
"The Economist" gia' nel 1978 spiegava alla opinione pubblica
occidentale che nei Balcani si andava risvegliando il progetto
neonazista grande-albanese;
infine, riproduciamo una lettera di sostegno al Presidente Milosevic
datata 2000 e firmata da 828 albanesi-kosovari di orientamento
anti-segregazionista e progressista ... ]
1. We bombed the wrong side?
(Lewis MacKenzie - now retired, commanded UN troops during the Bosnian
civil war of 1992)
2. Albanians posed as Serbs to stoke ethnic fires in Kosovo (The
Telegraph - UK)
3. FLASHBACK 1 : The Eastern Question again
(The Economist - June 10, 1978)
4. FLASHBACK 2 : Letter of Support to the President of the Republic by
828 Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija as published in "Serbia in the
World" No 98/99 June/July 2000
=== 1 ===
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/comment/
story.html?id=46d92
5b4-8d36-470a-accd-34642b09c5bf
National Post (Canada) April 06, 2004
Comment A14
We bombed the wrong side?
Lewis MacKenzie
Five years ago our television screens were dominated by pictures of
Kosovo-Albanian refugees escaping across Kosovo's borders to the
sanctuaries of Macedonia and Albania. Shrill reports indicated that
Slobodan Milosevic's security forces were conducting a campaign of
genocide and that at least 100,000 Kosovo-Albanians had been
exterminated and buried in mass graves throughout the Serbian province.
NATO sprung into action and, in spite of the fact no member nation of
the alliance was threatened, commenced bombing not only Kosovo, but the
infrastructure and population of Serbia itself --
without the authorizing United Nations resolution so revered by
Canadian leadership, past and present.
Those of us who warned that the West was being sucked in on the side of
an extremist, militant, Kosovo-Albanian independence movement were
dismissed as appeasers. The fact that the lead organization
spearheading the fight for
independence, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was universally
designated a terrorist organization and known to be receiving support
from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda was conveniently ignored.
The recent dearth of news in the North American media regarding the
increase in violence in Kosovo compared to the comprehensive coverage
in the European press strongly suggests that we Canadians don't like to
admit it when we are wrong. On the contrary, selected news clips on
this side of the ocean continue to reinforce the popular spin that
those dastardly Serbs are at it again.
A case in point was the latest crisis that exploded on March 15. The
media reported that four Albanian boys had been chased into the river
Ibar in Mitrovica by at least two Serbs and a dog (the dog's ethnic
affiliation was not reported).
Three of the boys drowned and one escaped to the other side.
Immediately, thousands of Albanians mobilized and concentrated in the
area of the divided city. Attacks on Serbs took place throughout the
province resulting in an estimated 30 killed and 600 wounded. Thirty
Serbian Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries were destroyed,
more than 300
homes were burnt to the ground and six Serbian villages cleansed of
their occupants. One hundred and fifty international peacekeepers were
injured.
Totally ignored in North America were the numerous statements from
impartial sources that said there was no incident between the Serbs,
the dog and the Albanian boys. NATO Police spokesman Derek Chappell
stated on March 16 that it was "definitely not true" that the boys had
been chased into the river by Serbs. Chappell went on to say that the
surviving boy had told his parents that they had entered the river
alone and that three of his friends had been swept away by the current.
Admiral Gregory Johnson, the overall NATO
commander, further stated that the ensuing clashes were "orchestrated
and well-planned ethnic cleansing" by the Kosovo-Albanians. Those Serbs
forced to leave joined the 200,000 who had been cleansed from the
province since NATO's "humanitarian" bombing in 1999. The '"cleansees"
have become very effective "cleansers."
In the same week a number of individuals posing as Serbs ambushed and
killed a UN policeman and his local police partner. During the
firefight one of them was wounded which caused an immediate switch from
Serbian to Albanian as he screamed, "I've been hit"! The UN pursued the
attackers and tracked them to an Albanian-run farm where they
discovered weapons and the wounded Albanian who had died from his
wounds. Four Albanians were arrested. Once again, the ambush had been
reported in the United States but not the
follow-up which clearly indicated yet another orchestrated provocation
by the Albanian terrorists.
Kosovo is administered by the UN, the very organization many Canadians
have indicated they would like to see take over from the United States
in Iraq. The fact the UN cannot order its civilian employees to go or
stay anywhere -- they have to volunteer -- combined with recent history
that saw the UN abandon Iraq after a single brutal attack on their
compound in Baghdad and the reality that Kosovo, under the
organization's administration, is a basket case, disqualifies it from
consideration for such a role.
Since the NATO/UN intervention in 1999, Kosovo has become the crime
capital of Europe. The sex slave trade is flourishing.
The province has become an invaluable transit point for drugs en route
to Europe and North America. Ironically, the majority of the drugs come
from another state "liberated" by the West, Afghanistan. Members of the
demobilized, but not eliminated, KLA are intimately involved in
organized crime and the government. The UN police arrest a small
percentage of those
involved in criminal activities and turn them over to a judiciary with
a revolving door that responds to bribes and coercion.
The objective of the Albanians is to purge all non-Albanians, including
the international community's representatives, from Kosovo and
ultimately link up with mother Albania thereby achieving the goal of
"Greater Albania." The campaign started with their attacks on Serbian
security forces in the early 1990s and they were successful in turning
Milosevic's heavy-handed response into worldwide sympathy for their
cause. There was no genocide as claimed by the West -- the 100,000
allegedly buried in mass graves turned out to be around 2,000, of all
ethnic origins, including those killed in combat during the war itself.
The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have
subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an
ethnically pure and independent Kosovo.We have never blamed them for
being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we
continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of
evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help
of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just
consider the message of encouragement this sends to other
terrorist-supported independence movements around the world.
Funny how we just keep digging the hole deeper!
Maj-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, now retired, commanded UN troops during the
Bosnian civil war of 1992.
(c) 2004 National Post . All Rights Reserved.
=== 2 ===
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/28/
wkos28.xml&
sSheet=/news/2004/03/28/ixnewstop.html
Albanians posed as Serbs to stoke ethnic fires in Kosovo
By Neil Barnett in Pristina
(Filed: 28/03/2004)
telegraph.co.uk
The murder of a United Nations policeman in Kosovo last week was
committed by ethnic Albanians who posed as Serbs in an effort to cast
their bitter rivals as villains, the Telegraph has learned.
The UN policeman, from Ghana, and a local Albanian police officer were
killed when their car was sprayed with bullets near the town of
Podujevo, the centre of Albanian resistance against the Belgrade
government.
Kosovo, in which Serbs make up only about 10 per cent of the
population, is nominally part of Serbia and Montenegro but has been
administered by the local UN mission since the war in 1999.
The ambush has heightened fears that the mob violence against Serbs
which recently broke out in the disputed enclave will usher in a new
campaign of attacks against Nato Kosovo Force (Kfor) troops and the UN
mission by Albanian extremists impatient for Kosovo's independence.
The UN car was hit after a man flagged it down at the roadside. As the
gunmen opened fire with Kalashnikovs, they were heard speaking Serbian.
According to a senior security official, however, when one gunman was
shot by a survivor, he instinctively screamed in Albanian: "I've been
hit."
Afterwards the gunmen were forced to hijack a passing Mercedes when
their getaway car failed to start. Security officials said that police
officers gave chase for several miles, exchanging fire with gang
members, but failed to capture them.
Soon after, however, Kfor troops raided a local Albanian-owned farm
where they found two Kalashnikovs and a corpse with gunshot wounds,
believed to be that of the gunman hit in the attack. Four people were
arrested.
During the riots a fortnight ago in the towns of Mitrovica and Pristina
- the first serious unrest for five years - 28 people died and 500
houses were destroyed, as well as 42 Serbian Orthodox churches and
monasteries.
Major Tim Dunne, a Kfor spokesman, said that there was evidence that
the mob violence had been carefully orchestrated. "We stopped numerous
buses carrying men aged 18 to 40 from going to Mitrovica," he said. The
troops believed that the men were being bussed in to take part in the
unrest.
The violence flared when three Albanian children drowned after
allegedly being chased into a river by Serbs. Unrest quickly spread
and, according to one UN official, the "subsequent disturbances all
over Kosovo, and their prolonged nature, point to widespread
orchestration".
Doubts have also been cast over how the children came to drown as
suspicions grew that the blame had been wrongly placed on Serbs.
Allegations that they were involved were made by a fourth child who
survived, yet during the violence a spokesman for the UN mission, Derek
Chapple, said that police had no conclusive evidence. Last Wednesday,
Mr Chapple was "moved to other duties" on the orders of senior UN
mission officials, who are believed to think he had been too frank.
Last week, after mainly British reinforcements arrived, the streets of
Kosovo were largely calm. With more than 3,800 Serbs still displaced,
however, tensions remained. Major James Daniel, second in command of
the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, said that
his troops had been "well received" by both communities.
=== 3 ===
FLASHBACK 1
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/economist061078.htm
The Eastern Question again
The Economist - June 10, 1978 (Page 17)
"Just as we are not and do not want to be Turks, so we shall oppose
anyone who would like to turn us into Slavs. . . . We want to be
Albanians"
That message was sent to the Congress of Berlin 100 years ago today,
on June 10, 1878, by an assembly in the town of Prizren in Kosovo,
then still a province of the Turkish empire. The congress was not
impressed. Bismarck dismissed the message with the curt remark: "There
is no Albanian nationality". Bismarck was wrong. A century later, the
aspirations of this fiercely nationalist people, one of Europe's
oldest, look like presenting Europe with a new version of the Eastern
Question that tested the statesmanship of Bismarck, Disraeli and
company.
To be sure, most Albanians have had a state of their own since the
first world war. But the 2.5m Albanians who live in Albania proper
have more than 1.5m fellow-Albanians living across the border in
Jugoslavia, most of them in Kosovo, now an automomous province of
Serbia, one of federal Jugoslavia's six republics. Unlike other
European peoples with close relatives outside their national
frontiers, the Albanians of Albania have never stopped claiming the
right to unite themselves with these other Albanians. The Albanian
communisit party newspaper Zeri i Popullit last week sternly
maintained, apropos the Prizren message, the "principle of the
integrity of the lands inhabited by the Albanians".
That is empty talk so long as Albania, far smaller and poorer than
Jugoslavia, has no powerful friend to help it. It has lately
quarrelled even with China, its great patron ever since the break with
Russia in the late 1950s. But the Russians may see the split with
China as their opportunity.Their growing navy still lacks a regular
port opening on to the Mediterranean, and they might be happy to
return to the base at Vlore (Valona) they lost in 1960. Russian support
for Albania's claim on Kosovo might buy the Soviet government a return
to Vlore, with the bonus of reminding post-Tito Jugoslavia that Russia
can make life distinctly unpleasant for it if it goes on refusing to
toe the Soviet line.
Jugoslavia, sensing the danger, does what it can to keep its Albanians
quiet. The new federal government formed a few weeks ago has two
Albanians in senior posts. The vice-presidency of Jugoslavia, which
rotates among the constituent republics, has just devolved on an
Albanian, Fadilj Hodzha, a distant cousin of Albania's ailing party
leader Enver Hoxha. But the Albanians-in-Jugoslavia still have cause
for discontent. Those who continue to campaign for union with Albania
go to jail. Those who, as an alternative, want their own republic
inside Jugoslavia on a par with Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and the
rest are still denied it. Serbia does not want to give up its ancient
overlordship of Kosovo. Macedonia, part of which is also inhabited by
Albanians, fears that it would be carved up in the making of a new
Albanian republic.
The matter could come to a head when 86-year-old Tito and 69-year-old
Hoxha die, which could happen any day. It will present a challenge to
western diplomacy. It is not easy for the west to get closer to an
intensely xenophobic, anti-western regime such as Albania's. Britain
still has no diplomatic relations with it because of the mining of two
British destroyers by the Albanians in 1946; West Germany because of a
large Albanian claim for wartime reparations; the United States just
because it is powerful and "imperialist". The EEC may be the best way
for the western world to get back on terms with this prickly little
nation. The European community should be ready to offer Enver Hoxha's
successor a package of hard-currency aid that will help him to develop
his country. That might divert Albania's attention from the Kosovo
claim; keep the peace between Jugoslavia and Albania; and make it
possible for the west to be friends with both of them.
Copyright 1978 The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Posted for Fair Use only.
=== 4 ===
FLASHBACK 2
Letter of Support to the President of the Republic by 828 Albanians
from Kosovo and Metohija as published in "Serbia in the World" No 98/99
June/July 2000
Pristina, June 6 (TANJUG) - The Democratic Reform Party of the
Albanians of Kosovo and Metohija, sent a letter of support today to the
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic
stressing his implementation of the policy of joint life and equal
rights of all the inhabitants of Kosovo and Metohija, and of the policy
of peace, tolerance and reason. The letter, signed by 828 Albanians
from all over Kosovo and Metohija states:
"Dear Mr President,
We hereby greet you and address you in this form to offer our full
support to your political struggle for the unity and prosperity of our
country - the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
We Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija can no longer endure nor tolerate
the wave of terror against our citizens, neighbours and friends. This
avalanche of terror, crime and anarchy reflects the one year mission by
KFOR and UNMIK.
Many of our neighbours have disappeared, others have been killed or
expelled. What has been going on the past year Kosovo and Metohija -
the ethnic cleansing in the presence of the so-called peacekeepers and
of the local traitors and their helpers - is certainly the biggest
crime in the history of mankind.
Hoping for a better future, trusting our democratic parties and above
all the Democratic Reform Party of the Albanians, its leadership and
our activists who have been with us all this time, encouraging us and
urging us to resist, we have managed to sift the good from the bad and
to prove who are the terrorist gangs, and who are peaceful and loyal
citizens, albeit at the price of human lives.
The recent murders of our members and activists are nothing else but
the defeat and a sign of cowardice of our fellow Albanians, i.e. of the
groups of Albanian bandits and traitors now pillaging and rampaging
with ample support by the UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija, with the
intention to destroy and obliterate the voice of reason and tolerance.
Dear Mr. President,
We believe in the future of Kosovo and Metohija with all the ethnic
communities united. We trust your policy of joint life in the struggle
for the equality of all of us living in Kosovo and Metohija, the policy
of peace, tolerance and reason".
[ Il generale canadese Lewis MacKenzie - ex comandante delle truppe ONU
in Bosnia, rimosso dall'incarico all'epoca per difetto di razzismo
antiserbo - commenta: forse in Kosovo nel 1999 abbiamo bombardato la
parte sbagliata?
Piu' alcune ciliegine:
"The Telegraph" rivela la logica della provocazione negli scontri dello
scorso mese: estremisti albanesi hanno attaccato una vettura della KFOR
(ed ucciso un poliziotto del Ghana) cercando di farsi passare per serbi;
"The Economist" gia' nel 1978 spiegava alla opinione pubblica
occidentale che nei Balcani si andava risvegliando il progetto
neonazista grande-albanese;
infine, riproduciamo una lettera di sostegno al Presidente Milosevic
datata 2000 e firmata da 828 albanesi-kosovari di orientamento
anti-segregazionista e progressista ... ]
1. We bombed the wrong side?
(Lewis MacKenzie - now retired, commanded UN troops during the Bosnian
civil war of 1992)
2. Albanians posed as Serbs to stoke ethnic fires in Kosovo (The
Telegraph - UK)
3. FLASHBACK 1 : The Eastern Question again
(The Economist - June 10, 1978)
4. FLASHBACK 2 : Letter of Support to the President of the Republic by
828 Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija as published in "Serbia in the
World" No 98/99 June/July 2000
=== 1 ===
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/comment/
story.html?id=46d92
5b4-8d36-470a-accd-34642b09c5bf
National Post (Canada) April 06, 2004
Comment A14
We bombed the wrong side?
Lewis MacKenzie
Five years ago our television screens were dominated by pictures of
Kosovo-Albanian refugees escaping across Kosovo's borders to the
sanctuaries of Macedonia and Albania. Shrill reports indicated that
Slobodan Milosevic's security forces were conducting a campaign of
genocide and that at least 100,000 Kosovo-Albanians had been
exterminated and buried in mass graves throughout the Serbian province.
NATO sprung into action and, in spite of the fact no member nation of
the alliance was threatened, commenced bombing not only Kosovo, but the
infrastructure and population of Serbia itself --
without the authorizing United Nations resolution so revered by
Canadian leadership, past and present.
Those of us who warned that the West was being sucked in on the side of
an extremist, militant, Kosovo-Albanian independence movement were
dismissed as appeasers. The fact that the lead organization
spearheading the fight for
independence, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was universally
designated a terrorist organization and known to be receiving support
from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda was conveniently ignored.
The recent dearth of news in the North American media regarding the
increase in violence in Kosovo compared to the comprehensive coverage
in the European press strongly suggests that we Canadians don't like to
admit it when we are wrong. On the contrary, selected news clips on
this side of the ocean continue to reinforce the popular spin that
those dastardly Serbs are at it again.
A case in point was the latest crisis that exploded on March 15. The
media reported that four Albanian boys had been chased into the river
Ibar in Mitrovica by at least two Serbs and a dog (the dog's ethnic
affiliation was not reported).
Three of the boys drowned and one escaped to the other side.
Immediately, thousands of Albanians mobilized and concentrated in the
area of the divided city. Attacks on Serbs took place throughout the
province resulting in an estimated 30 killed and 600 wounded. Thirty
Serbian Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries were destroyed,
more than 300
homes were burnt to the ground and six Serbian villages cleansed of
their occupants. One hundred and fifty international peacekeepers were
injured.
Totally ignored in North America were the numerous statements from
impartial sources that said there was no incident between the Serbs,
the dog and the Albanian boys. NATO Police spokesman Derek Chappell
stated on March 16 that it was "definitely not true" that the boys had
been chased into the river by Serbs. Chappell went on to say that the
surviving boy had told his parents that they had entered the river
alone and that three of his friends had been swept away by the current.
Admiral Gregory Johnson, the overall NATO
commander, further stated that the ensuing clashes were "orchestrated
and well-planned ethnic cleansing" by the Kosovo-Albanians. Those Serbs
forced to leave joined the 200,000 who had been cleansed from the
province since NATO's "humanitarian" bombing in 1999. The '"cleansees"
have become very effective "cleansers."
In the same week a number of individuals posing as Serbs ambushed and
killed a UN policeman and his local police partner. During the
firefight one of them was wounded which caused an immediate switch from
Serbian to Albanian as he screamed, "I've been hit"! The UN pursued the
attackers and tracked them to an Albanian-run farm where they
discovered weapons and the wounded Albanian who had died from his
wounds. Four Albanians were arrested. Once again, the ambush had been
reported in the United States but not the
follow-up which clearly indicated yet another orchestrated provocation
by the Albanian terrorists.
Kosovo is administered by the UN, the very organization many Canadians
have indicated they would like to see take over from the United States
in Iraq. The fact the UN cannot order its civilian employees to go or
stay anywhere -- they have to volunteer -- combined with recent history
that saw the UN abandon Iraq after a single brutal attack on their
compound in Baghdad and the reality that Kosovo, under the
organization's administration, is a basket case, disqualifies it from
consideration for such a role.
Since the NATO/UN intervention in 1999, Kosovo has become the crime
capital of Europe. The sex slave trade is flourishing.
The province has become an invaluable transit point for drugs en route
to Europe and North America. Ironically, the majority of the drugs come
from another state "liberated" by the West, Afghanistan. Members of the
demobilized, but not eliminated, KLA are intimately involved in
organized crime and the government. The UN police arrest a small
percentage of those
involved in criminal activities and turn them over to a judiciary with
a revolving door that responds to bribes and coercion.
The objective of the Albanians is to purge all non-Albanians, including
the international community's representatives, from Kosovo and
ultimately link up with mother Albania thereby achieving the goal of
"Greater Albania." The campaign started with their attacks on Serbian
security forces in the early 1990s and they were successful in turning
Milosevic's heavy-handed response into worldwide sympathy for their
cause. There was no genocide as claimed by the West -- the 100,000
allegedly buried in mass graves turned out to be around 2,000, of all
ethnic origins, including those killed in combat during the war itself.
The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have
subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an
ethnically pure and independent Kosovo.We have never blamed them for
being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we
continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of
evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help
of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just
consider the message of encouragement this sends to other
terrorist-supported independence movements around the world.
Funny how we just keep digging the hole deeper!
Maj-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, now retired, commanded UN troops during the
Bosnian civil war of 1992.
(c) 2004 National Post . All Rights Reserved.
=== 2 ===
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/28/
wkos28.xml&
sSheet=/news/2004/03/28/ixnewstop.html
Albanians posed as Serbs to stoke ethnic fires in Kosovo
By Neil Barnett in Pristina
(Filed: 28/03/2004)
telegraph.co.uk
The murder of a United Nations policeman in Kosovo last week was
committed by ethnic Albanians who posed as Serbs in an effort to cast
their bitter rivals as villains, the Telegraph has learned.
The UN policeman, from Ghana, and a local Albanian police officer were
killed when their car was sprayed with bullets near the town of
Podujevo, the centre of Albanian resistance against the Belgrade
government.
Kosovo, in which Serbs make up only about 10 per cent of the
population, is nominally part of Serbia and Montenegro but has been
administered by the local UN mission since the war in 1999.
The ambush has heightened fears that the mob violence against Serbs
which recently broke out in the disputed enclave will usher in a new
campaign of attacks against Nato Kosovo Force (Kfor) troops and the UN
mission by Albanian extremists impatient for Kosovo's independence.
The UN car was hit after a man flagged it down at the roadside. As the
gunmen opened fire with Kalashnikovs, they were heard speaking Serbian.
According to a senior security official, however, when one gunman was
shot by a survivor, he instinctively screamed in Albanian: "I've been
hit."
Afterwards the gunmen were forced to hijack a passing Mercedes when
their getaway car failed to start. Security officials said that police
officers gave chase for several miles, exchanging fire with gang
members, but failed to capture them.
Soon after, however, Kfor troops raided a local Albanian-owned farm
where they found two Kalashnikovs and a corpse with gunshot wounds,
believed to be that of the gunman hit in the attack. Four people were
arrested.
During the riots a fortnight ago in the towns of Mitrovica and Pristina
- the first serious unrest for five years - 28 people died and 500
houses were destroyed, as well as 42 Serbian Orthodox churches and
monasteries.
Major Tim Dunne, a Kfor spokesman, said that there was evidence that
the mob violence had been carefully orchestrated. "We stopped numerous
buses carrying men aged 18 to 40 from going to Mitrovica," he said. The
troops believed that the men were being bussed in to take part in the
unrest.
The violence flared when three Albanian children drowned after
allegedly being chased into a river by Serbs. Unrest quickly spread
and, according to one UN official, the "subsequent disturbances all
over Kosovo, and their prolonged nature, point to widespread
orchestration".
Doubts have also been cast over how the children came to drown as
suspicions grew that the blame had been wrongly placed on Serbs.
Allegations that they were involved were made by a fourth child who
survived, yet during the violence a spokesman for the UN mission, Derek
Chapple, said that police had no conclusive evidence. Last Wednesday,
Mr Chapple was "moved to other duties" on the orders of senior UN
mission officials, who are believed to think he had been too frank.
Last week, after mainly British reinforcements arrived, the streets of
Kosovo were largely calm. With more than 3,800 Serbs still displaced,
however, tensions remained. Major James Daniel, second in command of
the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, said that
his troops had been "well received" by both communities.
=== 3 ===
FLASHBACK 1
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/economist061078.htm
The Eastern Question again
The Economist - June 10, 1978 (Page 17)
"Just as we are not and do not want to be Turks, so we shall oppose
anyone who would like to turn us into Slavs. . . . We want to be
Albanians"
That message was sent to the Congress of Berlin 100 years ago today,
on June 10, 1878, by an assembly in the town of Prizren in Kosovo,
then still a province of the Turkish empire. The congress was not
impressed. Bismarck dismissed the message with the curt remark: "There
is no Albanian nationality". Bismarck was wrong. A century later, the
aspirations of this fiercely nationalist people, one of Europe's
oldest, look like presenting Europe with a new version of the Eastern
Question that tested the statesmanship of Bismarck, Disraeli and
company.
To be sure, most Albanians have had a state of their own since the
first world war. But the 2.5m Albanians who live in Albania proper
have more than 1.5m fellow-Albanians living across the border in
Jugoslavia, most of them in Kosovo, now an automomous province of
Serbia, one of federal Jugoslavia's six republics. Unlike other
European peoples with close relatives outside their national
frontiers, the Albanians of Albania have never stopped claiming the
right to unite themselves with these other Albanians. The Albanian
communisit party newspaper Zeri i Popullit last week sternly
maintained, apropos the Prizren message, the "principle of the
integrity of the lands inhabited by the Albanians".
That is empty talk so long as Albania, far smaller and poorer than
Jugoslavia, has no powerful friend to help it. It has lately
quarrelled even with China, its great patron ever since the break with
Russia in the late 1950s. But the Russians may see the split with
China as their opportunity.Their growing navy still lacks a regular
port opening on to the Mediterranean, and they might be happy to
return to the base at Vlore (Valona) they lost in 1960. Russian support
for Albania's claim on Kosovo might buy the Soviet government a return
to Vlore, with the bonus of reminding post-Tito Jugoslavia that Russia
can make life distinctly unpleasant for it if it goes on refusing to
toe the Soviet line.
Jugoslavia, sensing the danger, does what it can to keep its Albanians
quiet. The new federal government formed a few weeks ago has two
Albanians in senior posts. The vice-presidency of Jugoslavia, which
rotates among the constituent republics, has just devolved on an
Albanian, Fadilj Hodzha, a distant cousin of Albania's ailing party
leader Enver Hoxha. But the Albanians-in-Jugoslavia still have cause
for discontent. Those who continue to campaign for union with Albania
go to jail. Those who, as an alternative, want their own republic
inside Jugoslavia on a par with Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and the
rest are still denied it. Serbia does not want to give up its ancient
overlordship of Kosovo. Macedonia, part of which is also inhabited by
Albanians, fears that it would be carved up in the making of a new
Albanian republic.
The matter could come to a head when 86-year-old Tito and 69-year-old
Hoxha die, which could happen any day. It will present a challenge to
western diplomacy. It is not easy for the west to get closer to an
intensely xenophobic, anti-western regime such as Albania's. Britain
still has no diplomatic relations with it because of the mining of two
British destroyers by the Albanians in 1946; West Germany because of a
large Albanian claim for wartime reparations; the United States just
because it is powerful and "imperialist". The EEC may be the best way
for the western world to get back on terms with this prickly little
nation. The European community should be ready to offer Enver Hoxha's
successor a package of hard-currency aid that will help him to develop
his country. That might divert Albania's attention from the Kosovo
claim; keep the peace between Jugoslavia and Albania; and make it
possible for the west to be friends with both of them.
Copyright 1978 The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Posted for Fair Use only.
=== 4 ===
FLASHBACK 2
Letter of Support to the President of the Republic by 828 Albanians
from Kosovo and Metohija as published in "Serbia in the World" No 98/99
June/July 2000
Pristina, June 6 (TANJUG) - The Democratic Reform Party of the
Albanians of Kosovo and Metohija, sent a letter of support today to the
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic
stressing his implementation of the policy of joint life and equal
rights of all the inhabitants of Kosovo and Metohija, and of the policy
of peace, tolerance and reason. The letter, signed by 828 Albanians
from all over Kosovo and Metohija states:
"Dear Mr President,
We hereby greet you and address you in this form to offer our full
support to your political struggle for the unity and prosperity of our
country - the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
We Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija can no longer endure nor tolerate
the wave of terror against our citizens, neighbours and friends. This
avalanche of terror, crime and anarchy reflects the one year mission by
KFOR and UNMIK.
Many of our neighbours have disappeared, others have been killed or
expelled. What has been going on the past year Kosovo and Metohija -
the ethnic cleansing in the presence of the so-called peacekeepers and
of the local traitors and their helpers - is certainly the biggest
crime in the history of mankind.
Hoping for a better future, trusting our democratic parties and above
all the Democratic Reform Party of the Albanians, its leadership and
our activists who have been with us all this time, encouraging us and
urging us to resist, we have managed to sift the good from the bad and
to prove who are the terrorist gangs, and who are peaceful and loyal
citizens, albeit at the price of human lives.
The recent murders of our members and activists are nothing else but
the defeat and a sign of cowardice of our fellow Albanians, i.e. of the
groups of Albanian bandits and traitors now pillaging and rampaging
with ample support by the UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija, with the
intention to destroy and obliterate the voice of reason and tolerance.
Dear Mr. President,
We believe in the future of Kosovo and Metohija with all the ethnic
communities united. We trust your policy of joint life in the struggle
for the equality of all of us living in Kosovo and Metohija, the policy
of peace, tolerance and reason".
[ Saremo grati a chi potesse trasmetterci una traduzione di questa
intervista in tempi rapidi ! CNJ ]
Interview with ex-foreign minister of Yugoslavia
http://www.artel.co.yu/en/izbor/jugoslavija/2004-04-07.html
Journalist: Noah Tucker
Friday, 26th March 2004
Zivadin Jovanovic, former Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (in the
Milosevic government) interviewed by Noah Tucker
Why was Yugoslavia singled out for special treatment by the West?
Mainly because of the geo-political interests of NATO and especially
the USA. The former Yugoslavia is situated in an extremely important
position in Europe. It is on the bridgehead to the Middle East and
Caspian regions – I don’t need to speak of why these are so important.
I believe that NATO considered Yugoslavia to be a stumbling block in
its eastward expansion and strategic control of Eurasia. So it was in
their interests to weaken and fragment Yugoslavia in order to gain
easier control and access.
Also, global changes in Europe made American troops and NATO bases in
Central Europe unnecessary. There was no more danger from the Warsaw
Pact and Russia. So it was understandable that NATO was trying to find
a new role, and looking for locations for new bases, more in line with
the new situation and new strategic objectives.
Now they have Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo and Mitohija, Krivolak in
Macedonia, and Tusla in Bosnia, near the border with Serbia. The
Americans would also like to have bases in inner Serbia, including one
on our highest mountain, Kapaonik.
The USA has been building a network of bases in the Balkans - as well
as Greece, they have Romania, Croatia and Albania, which are members of
the ‘Partnership for Peace’ and candidate members of NATO.
Why did Yugoslavia stay out of NATO? Will Serbia apply to join NATO?
Yugoslavia was never the same as the other Eastern European countries.
From the beginning of World War 2 we were part of the Allied forces,
unlike Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania which did not join the
Allies until the end of the war. We liberated ourselves, rather than
being liberated by the Red Army. Also we resisted Stalin. We had a
position which was between Warsaw and Brussels, independent of Moscow
and Washington. So for historical reasons we are different from the
rest and have to be treated differently.
We have to have a dialogue, even some co-operation with NATO. But we
were victims of NATO aggression only five years ago, which has had a
terrible effect on our economy, our society, and people’s health. There
are two points in my opinion-
Firstly, any strategic change, for instance entering the ‘Partnership
for Peace’ or NATO, could only be decided by a referendum.
Secondly, Serbia and Montenegro should pursue its own security within
the European security concept, or by seeking recognition for a position
of active neutrality.
Could you explain two tactical decisions by the government of which you
were a member – the agreement to the ceasefire in Kosovo in October
1998, under which the Kosovo Liberation Army greatly strengthened its
positions with US assistance, and the agreement with NATO in June 1999
which allowed NATO to claim victory even though the Yugoslavian Armed
Forces were apparently still capable of fighting?
On the so-called ceasefire in 1998 - the Yugoslavian government always
wanted to be co-operative in achieving stability. In accepting the
demand for the ceasefire in Kosovo and Mitohija, Yugoslavia respected
the fact that the USA had overall influence over the UCK (KLA). Their
terrorism was like a cancer for Serbia. The government hoped that the
United States would exercise control over them.
Was that not naive?
We had the experience of the Dayton agreement. Peace was reached in
Bosnia, however unfavourable that was to Serbians, and it resulted in
some stability. So in 1998, the Yugoslavian Government counted on a
reasonable possibility that the USA would hold to their part of the
agreement.
On the end of the bombing in 1999 – it is a historical fact that NATO
and US generals miscalculated about the strength of the Yugoslavian
defence. Recall the statements that in three days, seven days, fourteen
days and so on, Serbia will kneel. That is the case in spite of the
fact that the military power of NATO was without comparison to
Yugoslavian military equipment and potential.
The war had to be ended at some stage. It ended at a point when the
Yugoslavian military equipment and manpower was not too badly affected
by the 78 days of continuous bombardment. But NATO had started widely
and massively to attack civilian targets – cities, television stations,
markets, trains, hospitals, schools, bridges, electricity transformers,
and so on.
The bombing ended by an agreement which placed responsibility for
Kosovo and Metohija in the hands of the United Nations Security Council
rather than NATO. Putting aside the abuses of the Security Council – we
are talking of the right moment to reach agreement.
And finally, it is my understanding that our military reserves, of
petrol, ammunition etc were by then rather exhausted. Sanctions, lack
of foreign currency, almost an iron curtain erected around us by
neighbouring countries under very strong American pressure, made it
very difficult, nearly impossible, to replenish our reserves. The
Yeltsin government in Russia, instead of helping us to make these
pressures at least sustainable, was transmitting American pressures to
us.
Can you explain something about the transfer of power in Yugoslavia and
Serbia in the year 2000?
This had many characteristics of American pressure and interference,
including interference in the electoral process. This was contrary to
basic international principles and UN resolutions.
According to official US Congress records, the USA poured in over $100
million for ‘democratisation’ in Serbia. This went to the DOS
‘Democratic Coalition’ parties, opposition media and some NGOs. This is
not to mention the money from George Soros. That degree of
interference, unimaginable in any Western country, led to a deformation
of the will of the electorate in the September and December 2000
elections.
Personally, I think that the consequences of this change – which
essentially was the result of Western interests rather than the result
of real freedom of citizenship – are still felt in Serbia. Everyone was
surprised at how the Radicals gained such popularity in Serbia. The
explanation is that the most recent election results, of 28th December
2003, were a reaction against the artificial results in 2000.
What about the Socialist Party?
The Socialist Party suffered badly because it was considered the only
real danger for the DOS. So combined pressures from inside and abroad
led to fractionalization of the party, with part of it in practice
joining the DOS coalition.
These pressures continue. The Americans would like the Socialist Party
to become anti-Milosevic. But I think they may also prove to be
counterproductive, not helpful for political stability and
relationships with the West. A country with such huge economic
problems, an explosive social situation, an undefined state, calls for
a very strong socialist party, and there is no chance to invent a
better one than the Socialist Party of Serbia that already exists. So
the next general elections may be even more of a disappointment for the
West than the results of December 2003.
intervista in tempi rapidi ! CNJ ]
Interview with ex-foreign minister of Yugoslavia
http://www.artel.co.yu/en/izbor/jugoslavija/2004-04-07.html
Journalist: Noah Tucker
Friday, 26th March 2004
Zivadin Jovanovic, former Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (in the
Milosevic government) interviewed by Noah Tucker
Why was Yugoslavia singled out for special treatment by the West?
Mainly because of the geo-political interests of NATO and especially
the USA. The former Yugoslavia is situated in an extremely important
position in Europe. It is on the bridgehead to the Middle East and
Caspian regions – I don’t need to speak of why these are so important.
I believe that NATO considered Yugoslavia to be a stumbling block in
its eastward expansion and strategic control of Eurasia. So it was in
their interests to weaken and fragment Yugoslavia in order to gain
easier control and access.
Also, global changes in Europe made American troops and NATO bases in
Central Europe unnecessary. There was no more danger from the Warsaw
Pact and Russia. So it was understandable that NATO was trying to find
a new role, and looking for locations for new bases, more in line with
the new situation and new strategic objectives.
Now they have Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo and Mitohija, Krivolak in
Macedonia, and Tusla in Bosnia, near the border with Serbia. The
Americans would also like to have bases in inner Serbia, including one
on our highest mountain, Kapaonik.
The USA has been building a network of bases in the Balkans - as well
as Greece, they have Romania, Croatia and Albania, which are members of
the ‘Partnership for Peace’ and candidate members of NATO.
Why did Yugoslavia stay out of NATO? Will Serbia apply to join NATO?
Yugoslavia was never the same as the other Eastern European countries.
From the beginning of World War 2 we were part of the Allied forces,
unlike Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania which did not join the
Allies until the end of the war. We liberated ourselves, rather than
being liberated by the Red Army. Also we resisted Stalin. We had a
position which was between Warsaw and Brussels, independent of Moscow
and Washington. So for historical reasons we are different from the
rest and have to be treated differently.
We have to have a dialogue, even some co-operation with NATO. But we
were victims of NATO aggression only five years ago, which has had a
terrible effect on our economy, our society, and people’s health. There
are two points in my opinion-
Firstly, any strategic change, for instance entering the ‘Partnership
for Peace’ or NATO, could only be decided by a referendum.
Secondly, Serbia and Montenegro should pursue its own security within
the European security concept, or by seeking recognition for a position
of active neutrality.
Could you explain two tactical decisions by the government of which you
were a member – the agreement to the ceasefire in Kosovo in October
1998, under which the Kosovo Liberation Army greatly strengthened its
positions with US assistance, and the agreement with NATO in June 1999
which allowed NATO to claim victory even though the Yugoslavian Armed
Forces were apparently still capable of fighting?
On the so-called ceasefire in 1998 - the Yugoslavian government always
wanted to be co-operative in achieving stability. In accepting the
demand for the ceasefire in Kosovo and Mitohija, Yugoslavia respected
the fact that the USA had overall influence over the UCK (KLA). Their
terrorism was like a cancer for Serbia. The government hoped that the
United States would exercise control over them.
Was that not naive?
We had the experience of the Dayton agreement. Peace was reached in
Bosnia, however unfavourable that was to Serbians, and it resulted in
some stability. So in 1998, the Yugoslavian Government counted on a
reasonable possibility that the USA would hold to their part of the
agreement.
On the end of the bombing in 1999 – it is a historical fact that NATO
and US generals miscalculated about the strength of the Yugoslavian
defence. Recall the statements that in three days, seven days, fourteen
days and so on, Serbia will kneel. That is the case in spite of the
fact that the military power of NATO was without comparison to
Yugoslavian military equipment and potential.
The war had to be ended at some stage. It ended at a point when the
Yugoslavian military equipment and manpower was not too badly affected
by the 78 days of continuous bombardment. But NATO had started widely
and massively to attack civilian targets – cities, television stations,
markets, trains, hospitals, schools, bridges, electricity transformers,
and so on.
The bombing ended by an agreement which placed responsibility for
Kosovo and Metohija in the hands of the United Nations Security Council
rather than NATO. Putting aside the abuses of the Security Council – we
are talking of the right moment to reach agreement.
And finally, it is my understanding that our military reserves, of
petrol, ammunition etc were by then rather exhausted. Sanctions, lack
of foreign currency, almost an iron curtain erected around us by
neighbouring countries under very strong American pressure, made it
very difficult, nearly impossible, to replenish our reserves. The
Yeltsin government in Russia, instead of helping us to make these
pressures at least sustainable, was transmitting American pressures to
us.
Can you explain something about the transfer of power in Yugoslavia and
Serbia in the year 2000?
This had many characteristics of American pressure and interference,
including interference in the electoral process. This was contrary to
basic international principles and UN resolutions.
According to official US Congress records, the USA poured in over $100
million for ‘democratisation’ in Serbia. This went to the DOS
‘Democratic Coalition’ parties, opposition media and some NGOs. This is
not to mention the money from George Soros. That degree of
interference, unimaginable in any Western country, led to a deformation
of the will of the electorate in the September and December 2000
elections.
Personally, I think that the consequences of this change – which
essentially was the result of Western interests rather than the result
of real freedom of citizenship – are still felt in Serbia. Everyone was
surprised at how the Radicals gained such popularity in Serbia. The
explanation is that the most recent election results, of 28th December
2003, were a reaction against the artificial results in 2000.
What about the Socialist Party?
The Socialist Party suffered badly because it was considered the only
real danger for the DOS. So combined pressures from inside and abroad
led to fractionalization of the party, with part of it in practice
joining the DOS coalition.
These pressures continue. The Americans would like the Socialist Party
to become anti-Milosevic. But I think they may also prove to be
counterproductive, not helpful for political stability and
relationships with the West. A country with such huge economic
problems, an explosive social situation, an undefined state, calls for
a very strong socialist party, and there is no chance to invent a
better one than the Socialist Party of Serbia that already exists. So
the next general elections may be even more of a disappointment for the
West than the results of December 2003.
[ I successori cristianodemocratici e cristianosociali di Helmut Kohl
chiedono adesso esplicitamente la secessione del Kosovo - perfettamente
in linea con la geopolitica revanscista pan-tedesca, che dal 1991 in
poi ha trasformato la Jugoslavia in un lago di sangue ed in uno "zoo"
di "gabbie etniche" ... ]
----- Original Message -----
From: ERPKIM Info Service
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: [ERPKIM] Helmut Kohl successors continue war against Yugoslavia
April 06, 2004
ERP KiM Newsletter 06-04-04d
Disclaimer:
The views expressed by the authors of newspaper articles or other texts
which are not official communiqués or news reports by the Diocese are
their own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Serbian
Orthodox Churchbut may reflect views of many Serbs.
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Today is the anniversary of the Hitler's bombing of Belgrade. On April
6, 1941 the Luftwaffe attacked Belgrade which had been proclaimed an
open city. Thousands of civilians were killed and many city quarters
wiht the valuable Natinal Library of Serbia leveled to the ground.
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Helmut Kohl successors continue war against Yugoslavia
Dateline: 6th April 2004
http://www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2004-04-06.htm
Helmut Kohl’s former governing parties, CDU/CSU, call for the
"independence" of Kosovo - against all UN resolutions.
Having spent so much time and money and arms undermining Yugoslavia and
Kosovo it is not surprising that German troops assigned to KFOR have
proved "impotent" to protect Kosovo Serbs and Orthodox Serb
monasteries. Note how the German political class only calls for
independence and "negotiations" now that the Serbs have been reduced
(by Germany’s Muslim Albanian allies) to a small minority. Why did they
not call for partition when UN troops arrived? Because then a more
equitable division of land might have been achieved – and that was no
good to the ethnic-cleansing, murdering, German-armed KLA!.
Dateline: 6th April 2004
INTRODUCTION
The corporatist, strongly Roman Catholic leaning Conservative Parties
in German - CDU/CSU (the combination of Christian Democrats and the
Bavarian Christian Social Union) most effectively pursued under Helmut
Kohl the elimination of the sovereign nation states of Europe in order
to create the European Super-State. Kohl, whose brother was killed in
the war and who once tore down border posts between France and Germany,
repeatedly used the same rhetoric (about German "destiny", the
"European Train" and Europe "setting the points") used by the Nazis.
His corporatist/fascist bigotry was best summed up in his words "Might
is right in politics and war".
German and Austrian Conservatives have always shared one great enemy in
the centre of Europe - the Orthodox, Slav Serbs. The break up of
Yugoslavia - created out of the defeat of Germany and Austro-Hungary in
the First World War - was planned by the German Christian Democrat
Government in the 1980s. The creation of the clerical Catholic State of
Croatia had been the long term aim of the Vatican - which had had
intimate relations with Croatia's wartime fascist regime. Both powers
have exploited the Muslim enemies of the Serbs, particularly in Bosnia
and Albania - and of course among the Muslim population of Kosovo. The
latter were throughout the 20th century no more than 50% of the Kosovo
population. But after the effective terrorist war waged by the Albanian
Kosovo KLA, the Blair/Clinton/Kohl illegal war against Yugoslavia and
the incompetent "peace keeping" of the United Nations' KFOR troops most
Serbs have now been driven out of their historic homeland in Kosovo
just as they were driven out of the Krajina (border area of Croatia).
Just as German politicians are now more open and aggressive about their
true aims for "German Europe" so their increasing success
in(former) Yugoslavia gives them the courage to admit their long
planned aims in Kosovo. In this article from our friends at
german-foreign-policy.com Helmut Kohl's former governing parties,
CDU/CSU, call for the "independence" of Kosovo. In other words the
secession of Kosovo from Serbia and its complete hand-over to the
murdering regime which has driven the Serbs (not to mention Jews and
gypsies) out of another of their homelands. This is a bit like Germany
financing, say, French Muslims to take over Kent and then suggesting
that Kent should become "Independent" of Britain!
Having spent so much time and money and arms undermining Yugoslavia and
Kosovo it is not surprising that German troops assigned to KFOR have
proved "impotent" to protect Kosovo Serbs and Orthodox Serb
monasteries. Note how the German political class only calls for
independence and "negotiations" now that the Serbs have been reduced
(by Germany's Muslim Albanian allies) to a small minority. Why did they
not call for partition when UN troops arrived? Because then a more
equitable division of land might have been achieved - and that was no
good to the ethnic-cleansing, murdering, German-armed KLA!
BERLIN/MUNICH
The Munich based Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung (CAP - Centre
for Applied
Political Research) demands that Serbia, once and for all, cede its
southern province Kosovo and transfer all its sovereign rights over the
region to the United Nations. In the meantime politicians of the
opposition parties, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian
Social Union (CSU) demand a "resolution of this issue as quickly as
possible." According to Michael Glos, CSU member of the Bundestag
(lower house of parliament), the attempt to "bring together the hostile
ethnic groups of Serbs and Albanians" is "fiction": "Multicultural
societies" are "a very difficult venture which Germany should not
select as a model."
CAP, one of the most important German think tanks in the area of
foreign policy, demands in a just published study that Belgrade's
sovereignty over the southern Serbian province Kosovo should be
"ended".1) For this reason CAP demands lifting of UN resolution 1244 of
June 10, 1999 and transfering "complete sovereignty" over the area to
the United Nations. The Serb speaking minority in Kosovo would have to
negotiate for its autonomous right with Pristina.
Ethnic separation
Meanwhile, the CDU and CSU opposition pleads for a "resolution of this
issue as soon as possible." According to the current position of the
CDU/CSU faction, Berlin has to commit itself to "a comprehensible,
realistic framework for action" which "would open clear prospects for
all of Kosovo's ethnic groups." As early as 1999 the former foreign
policy speaker of the largest German opposition faction, Lamers, (one
of the most bigoted euro-federalists -ed) demanded that "the fiction"
of a multi-ethnic Kosovo be dropped. At that time, Lamers pleaded for
separation of Kosovo into a smaller Serbian and a larger Albanian part.
"No more Serbs"
While Berlin's opposition voices demand ethnic separation in Kosovo,
the Serb-Orthodox diocese Raska-Prizren severely criticizes the German
KFOR commandant, Holger Kammerhoff, and the German KFOR soldiers
stationed in Prizren. The diocese explained that the German troops had
not responded sufficiently during the anti-Serbian pogroms and had
allowed "all of the remaining Christian-orthodox heritage to disappear
overnight," declaring: "What the Albanians did not accomplish during
the era of Nazi Germany, they managed under the German troops of the
so-called peace mission". An Austrian Lt. Colonel reported after the
pogroms: "Now, there are no more Serbs in Prizren."
Sources:
Kosovo's Fifth Anniversary. On the Road to Nowhere?;
www.cap.uni-muenchen.de März 2004
Ruck/Helias: Rot-gruen muss Kurs im Kosovo korrigieren;
Pressemitteilung der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion
23.03.2004
Glos aeussert Zweifel an Kosovo-Politik. "Nato-Einsatz beruht auf einer
Fiktion"; Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung 24.03.2004
Schwere Vorwuerfe der Orthodoxen gegen deutsche KFOR-Truppen; APA
25.03.2004
In Prizren gibt es keine Serben mehr; Der Standard 25.03.2004
---
(...)
History is repeating 60 years later:
Tragic events of March 17-18 evoke the painful memories of the past
WW2 Genocide - Albanian SS Skenderbey Division -an important historical
analysis of the development of Nazism among Albanians and forming of
the infamous SS Skenderbey Division. - Many times Germans had to
restrain their Moslem allies: "Bedri Pejani, the Muslim leader of the
Albanian National Committee, called for the extermination of Orthodox
Serbian Christians in Kosovo-Metohija and for a union of a Greater
Albania with Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Rashka (Sandzak) region of
Serbia into a Greater Islamic State. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj
Amin el Husseini, was presented the Pejani plan which he approved as
being in the interest of Islam. The Germans,however, rejected the
plan". ( http://www.kosovo.com/skenderbeyss.html%c2%a0)
The Holocaust in Kosovo - Sean Mac Mathuna and John Heathcote - This
Web Page is focusing on the Nazism among Albanians, especially in
Kosovo during the WWII. Under the support of Nazi Germany and Islamic
pro-Nazi circles from the Middle East Kosovo Albanian Nazis organized
persecutions of Orthodox Serbs and Jews.
http://www.kosovo.com/ww2kos.html
EC: The Roots of Kosovo's Faschism, by George Thompson - another essay
"Kosovo Albanian nationalist militias called the "Balli Kombetar" (or
"Ballistas") carried out a campaign of deportation and murder of Serbs
in 1943 and 1944. Then, on Hitler’s express order, the Germans formed
the 21st "Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS" - the Skanderbeg Division.
With German leaders and Kosovo Albanian officers and troops, Hitler’s
hoped that using the Skanderbergs Germany could "achieve its well-known
political objective" of creating a viable (i.e., pure) "Greater
Albania" including Kosovo".
http://www.kosovo.com/roots.html
Eyewitness to Genocide in Kosovo: Kosovo-Metohija and the Skenderbeg
Division I was only 11 years old when Hitlers Division 'Skanderbeg' and
'Prinz Eugen' burned down the village of Velika and killed about 428
persons. Our family paid a heavy price that day - Radoje Knezevic, a
Serb from Kosovo and Metohija
http://www.kosovo.com/albnazi.html
Tetovo and Greater AlbaniaTetovo between 1941-1944, by Carl Savich. The
truth about events during the Nazi occupation of today's Macedonia. As
well as in Kosovo, Albanian Nazis of Skenderbey SS division commited
crimes against Slav population. - "The Skanderbeg SS Division crossed
into Macedonia and occupied Tetovo and Skopje in the early part of
September, 1944. The purpose for the occupation was to garrison
Macedonia and safeguard the retreat of German troops from Greece and
the Aegean peninsula".
http://www.kosovo.com/tetovo.html%c2%a0
---
Finally a letter from one of our readers:
From: Pedja Zoric (California, U.S)
Sent: April 6, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: April 6 1941
On this day (April 6) Nazi Germany attacked Yugoslavia, bombed Belgrade
and other Serbian cities.Thousands died. Distraction.
Because of that attack Hitler postponed Barbarossa, and attacked Russia
later than originally planned, we all know how June 22 attack on Russia
ended.
That was the second time in 20th Century that Germany attacked Serbs.
To revenge two lost WW, Germany later in 20th Century attacked two more
times.
In 1991 pure aggression against the Serbs, and then bombing Serbs in
1999. German soldiers now occupy Bosnian Serb Republica Srpska and
Serbian Kosovo and Metohija.
In March pogrom against Kosovo Serbs, German soldiers stood buy in
Prizren, former capital of medieval Serbian Kingdom, and watched how
Albanians from Albania and Kosovo killed the few remaining Serbs in
Prizren and destroyed everything Serbian.
For all the lives lost and destruction, Germany never paid one cent as
war reparation, to the Serbian state.
When will Germans stop hating the Serbs?
chiedono adesso esplicitamente la secessione del Kosovo - perfettamente
in linea con la geopolitica revanscista pan-tedesca, che dal 1991 in
poi ha trasformato la Jugoslavia in un lago di sangue ed in uno "zoo"
di "gabbie etniche" ... ]
----- Original Message -----
From: ERPKIM Info Service
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: [ERPKIM] Helmut Kohl successors continue war against Yugoslavia
April 06, 2004
ERP KiM Newsletter 06-04-04d
Disclaimer:
The views expressed by the authors of newspaper articles or other texts
which are not official communiqués or news reports by the Diocese are
their own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Serbian
Orthodox Churchbut may reflect views of many Serbs.
---
Today is the anniversary of the Hitler's bombing of Belgrade. On April
6, 1941 the Luftwaffe attacked Belgrade which had been proclaimed an
open city. Thousands of civilians were killed and many city quarters
wiht the valuable Natinal Library of Serbia leveled to the ground.
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Helmut Kohl successors continue war against Yugoslavia
Dateline: 6th April 2004
http://www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2004-04-06.htm
Helmut Kohl’s former governing parties, CDU/CSU, call for the
"independence" of Kosovo - against all UN resolutions.
Having spent so much time and money and arms undermining Yugoslavia and
Kosovo it is not surprising that German troops assigned to KFOR have
proved "impotent" to protect Kosovo Serbs and Orthodox Serb
monasteries. Note how the German political class only calls for
independence and "negotiations" now that the Serbs have been reduced
(by Germany’s Muslim Albanian allies) to a small minority. Why did they
not call for partition when UN troops arrived? Because then a more
equitable division of land might have been achieved – and that was no
good to the ethnic-cleansing, murdering, German-armed KLA!.
Dateline: 6th April 2004
INTRODUCTION
The corporatist, strongly Roman Catholic leaning Conservative Parties
in German - CDU/CSU (the combination of Christian Democrats and the
Bavarian Christian Social Union) most effectively pursued under Helmut
Kohl the elimination of the sovereign nation states of Europe in order
to create the European Super-State. Kohl, whose brother was killed in
the war and who once tore down border posts between France and Germany,
repeatedly used the same rhetoric (about German "destiny", the
"European Train" and Europe "setting the points") used by the Nazis.
His corporatist/fascist bigotry was best summed up in his words "Might
is right in politics and war".
German and Austrian Conservatives have always shared one great enemy in
the centre of Europe - the Orthodox, Slav Serbs. The break up of
Yugoslavia - created out of the defeat of Germany and Austro-Hungary in
the First World War - was planned by the German Christian Democrat
Government in the 1980s. The creation of the clerical Catholic State of
Croatia had been the long term aim of the Vatican - which had had
intimate relations with Croatia's wartime fascist regime. Both powers
have exploited the Muslim enemies of the Serbs, particularly in Bosnia
and Albania - and of course among the Muslim population of Kosovo. The
latter were throughout the 20th century no more than 50% of the Kosovo
population. But after the effective terrorist war waged by the Albanian
Kosovo KLA, the Blair/Clinton/Kohl illegal war against Yugoslavia and
the incompetent "peace keeping" of the United Nations' KFOR troops most
Serbs have now been driven out of their historic homeland in Kosovo
just as they were driven out of the Krajina (border area of Croatia).
Just as German politicians are now more open and aggressive about their
true aims for "German Europe" so their increasing success
in(former) Yugoslavia gives them the courage to admit their long
planned aims in Kosovo. In this article from our friends at
german-foreign-policy.com Helmut Kohl's former governing parties,
CDU/CSU, call for the "independence" of Kosovo. In other words the
secession of Kosovo from Serbia and its complete hand-over to the
murdering regime which has driven the Serbs (not to mention Jews and
gypsies) out of another of their homelands. This is a bit like Germany
financing, say, French Muslims to take over Kent and then suggesting
that Kent should become "Independent" of Britain!
Having spent so much time and money and arms undermining Yugoslavia and
Kosovo it is not surprising that German troops assigned to KFOR have
proved "impotent" to protect Kosovo Serbs and Orthodox Serb
monasteries. Note how the German political class only calls for
independence and "negotiations" now that the Serbs have been reduced
(by Germany's Muslim Albanian allies) to a small minority. Why did they
not call for partition when UN troops arrived? Because then a more
equitable division of land might have been achieved - and that was no
good to the ethnic-cleansing, murdering, German-armed KLA!
BERLIN/MUNICH
The Munich based Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung (CAP - Centre
for Applied
Political Research) demands that Serbia, once and for all, cede its
southern province Kosovo and transfer all its sovereign rights over the
region to the United Nations. In the meantime politicians of the
opposition parties, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian
Social Union (CSU) demand a "resolution of this issue as quickly as
possible." According to Michael Glos, CSU member of the Bundestag
(lower house of parliament), the attempt to "bring together the hostile
ethnic groups of Serbs and Albanians" is "fiction": "Multicultural
societies" are "a very difficult venture which Germany should not
select as a model."
CAP, one of the most important German think tanks in the area of
foreign policy, demands in a just published study that Belgrade's
sovereignty over the southern Serbian province Kosovo should be
"ended".1) For this reason CAP demands lifting of UN resolution 1244 of
June 10, 1999 and transfering "complete sovereignty" over the area to
the United Nations. The Serb speaking minority in Kosovo would have to
negotiate for its autonomous right with Pristina.
Ethnic separation
Meanwhile, the CDU and CSU opposition pleads for a "resolution of this
issue as soon as possible." According to the current position of the
CDU/CSU faction, Berlin has to commit itself to "a comprehensible,
realistic framework for action" which "would open clear prospects for
all of Kosovo's ethnic groups." As early as 1999 the former foreign
policy speaker of the largest German opposition faction, Lamers, (one
of the most bigoted euro-federalists -ed) demanded that "the fiction"
of a multi-ethnic Kosovo be dropped. At that time, Lamers pleaded for
separation of Kosovo into a smaller Serbian and a larger Albanian part.
"No more Serbs"
While Berlin's opposition voices demand ethnic separation in Kosovo,
the Serb-Orthodox diocese Raska-Prizren severely criticizes the German
KFOR commandant, Holger Kammerhoff, and the German KFOR soldiers
stationed in Prizren. The diocese explained that the German troops had
not responded sufficiently during the anti-Serbian pogroms and had
allowed "all of the remaining Christian-orthodox heritage to disappear
overnight," declaring: "What the Albanians did not accomplish during
the era of Nazi Germany, they managed under the German troops of the
so-called peace mission". An Austrian Lt. Colonel reported after the
pogroms: "Now, there are no more Serbs in Prizren."
Sources:
Kosovo's Fifth Anniversary. On the Road to Nowhere?;
www.cap.uni-muenchen.de März 2004
Ruck/Helias: Rot-gruen muss Kurs im Kosovo korrigieren;
Pressemitteilung der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion
23.03.2004
Glos aeussert Zweifel an Kosovo-Politik. "Nato-Einsatz beruht auf einer
Fiktion"; Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung 24.03.2004
Schwere Vorwuerfe der Orthodoxen gegen deutsche KFOR-Truppen; APA
25.03.2004
In Prizren gibt es keine Serben mehr; Der Standard 25.03.2004
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(...)
History is repeating 60 years later:
Tragic events of March 17-18 evoke the painful memories of the past
WW2 Genocide - Albanian SS Skenderbey Division -an important historical
analysis of the development of Nazism among Albanians and forming of
the infamous SS Skenderbey Division. - Many times Germans had to
restrain their Moslem allies: "Bedri Pejani, the Muslim leader of the
Albanian National Committee, called for the extermination of Orthodox
Serbian Christians in Kosovo-Metohija and for a union of a Greater
Albania with Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Rashka (Sandzak) region of
Serbia into a Greater Islamic State. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj
Amin el Husseini, was presented the Pejani plan which he approved as
being in the interest of Islam. The Germans,however, rejected the
plan". ( http://www.kosovo.com/skenderbeyss.html%c2%a0)
The Holocaust in Kosovo - Sean Mac Mathuna and John Heathcote - This
Web Page is focusing on the Nazism among Albanians, especially in
Kosovo during the WWII. Under the support of Nazi Germany and Islamic
pro-Nazi circles from the Middle East Kosovo Albanian Nazis organized
persecutions of Orthodox Serbs and Jews.
http://www.kosovo.com/ww2kos.html
EC: The Roots of Kosovo's Faschism, by George Thompson - another essay
"Kosovo Albanian nationalist militias called the "Balli Kombetar" (or
"Ballistas") carried out a campaign of deportation and murder of Serbs
in 1943 and 1944. Then, on Hitler’s express order, the Germans formed
the 21st "Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS" - the Skanderbeg Division.
With German leaders and Kosovo Albanian officers and troops, Hitler’s
hoped that using the Skanderbergs Germany could "achieve its well-known
political objective" of creating a viable (i.e., pure) "Greater
Albania" including Kosovo".
http://www.kosovo.com/roots.html
Eyewitness to Genocide in Kosovo: Kosovo-Metohija and the Skenderbeg
Division I was only 11 years old when Hitlers Division 'Skanderbeg' and
'Prinz Eugen' burned down the village of Velika and killed about 428
persons. Our family paid a heavy price that day - Radoje Knezevic, a
Serb from Kosovo and Metohija
http://www.kosovo.com/albnazi.html
Tetovo and Greater AlbaniaTetovo between 1941-1944, by Carl Savich. The
truth about events during the Nazi occupation of today's Macedonia. As
well as in Kosovo, Albanian Nazis of Skenderbey SS division commited
crimes against Slav population. - "The Skanderbeg SS Division crossed
into Macedonia and occupied Tetovo and Skopje in the early part of
September, 1944. The purpose for the occupation was to garrison
Macedonia and safeguard the retreat of German troops from Greece and
the Aegean peninsula".
http://www.kosovo.com/tetovo.html%c2%a0
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Finally a letter from one of our readers:
From: Pedja Zoric (California, U.S)
Sent: April 6, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: April 6 1941
On this day (April 6) Nazi Germany attacked Yugoslavia, bombed Belgrade
and other Serbian cities.Thousands died. Distraction.
Because of that attack Hitler postponed Barbarossa, and attacked Russia
later than originally planned, we all know how June 22 attack on Russia
ended.
That was the second time in 20th Century that Germany attacked Serbs.
To revenge two lost WW, Germany later in 20th Century attacked two more
times.
In 1991 pure aggression against the Serbs, and then bombing Serbs in
1999. German soldiers now occupy Bosnian Serb Republica Srpska and
Serbian Kosovo and Metohija.
In March pogrom against Kosovo Serbs, German soldiers stood buy in
Prizren, former capital of medieval Serbian Kingdom, and watched how
Albanians from Albania and Kosovo killed the few remaining Serbs in
Prizren and destroyed everything Serbian.
For all the lives lost and destruction, Germany never paid one cent as
war reparation, to the Serbian state.
When will Germans stop hating the Serbs?
Trieste 9 aprile 2004
ore 17:30 - presso Circolo della Stampa, Corso Italia 13
Di volta in volta sono state chiamate
“ingerenza umanitaria”
“operazione di polizia internazionale”
“guerra preventiva al terrorismo”
Sono invece sempre state
AGGRESSIONI IMPERIALISTE
per definire nuovi assetti geo-politici e per l'accaparramento di
risorse.
E per giustificare queste aggressioni si e' sempre ricorsi alle
provocazioni
e alle menzogne, demonizzando interi popoli.
A 5 anni dall'aggressione alla Jugoslavia da parte della "sinistra con
l'elmetto"
a 1 anno dall'invasione dell'Iraq da parte della "destra delle crociate"
ne parleremo con
JÜRGEN ELSÄSSER
giornalista tedesco autore del libro
MENZOGNE DI GUERRA
Organizzano:
Gruppo ZASTAVA - Trieste
Gruppo Consiliare Regionale del FVG di Rifondazione Comunista
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia
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I BALCANI SENZA LA JUGOSLAVIA ?
Un ciclo di incontri con JUERGEN ELSAESSER,
autore di "Menzogne di guerra"
I recenti pogrom contro le minoranze non albanesi in Kosovo dimostrano
che la crisi jugoslava non si è risolta, nè può esserlo in alcun modo
con i criteri evidentemente dettati dalle grandi potenze. La perdurante
crisi nell'area balcanica, inoltre, ha molto a che fare ed ha molto da
dirci anche rispetto ad altri scenari di guerra - presenti e futuri -
compreso quello iracheno. In Iraq come in Jugoslavia la guerra è stata
costruita a tavolino, per ragioni geostrategiche, con la
disinformazione e facendo leva sui settori più revanscisti e reazionari
della società e sulle "differenze etniche".
Nel quinto anniversario dall'inizio dei bombardamenti sulla RF di
Jugoslavia - 24 marzo 1999 - esce in Germania la quinta edizione del
coraggioso libro di Jürgen Elsässer "Kriegsverbrechen", completamente
riveduta, corretta ed ampliata, con un numero quasi doppio di pagine
rispetto alla precedente. Essa contiene non solo documentazione sulla
occupazione Nato/Uck del Kosovo, ma anche aggiornamenti sui danni
causati dai bombardamenti Nato, materiali sul processo Miloševic (sul
quale esiste pochissima letteratura), nonché materiali sulla situazione
sociale e politica nell'area balcanica letteralmente sconvolta dalle
politiche imperialiste. L'edizione italiana del libro, uscita un anno e
mezzo fa, ha già avuto ampia circolazione nel nostro paese ed è stata
presentata in un precedente ciclo di incontri, nel settembre 2002.
Stavolta coglieremo l'occasione per discutere liberamente con Elsaesser
della situazione e delle prospettive in Jugoslavia.
Nel corso degli incontri saranno letti alcuni brani del nuovo capitolo
"L'ultimo giorno di Sanja", la storia degli ultimi giorni di vita della
giovanissima Sanja, che e' stata uccisa sul ponte di Varvarin - con
intermezzi letterari tratti dai testi di Desanka Maksimovic, Ivo
Andric, Ðorde Balasevic...
Per gli altri appuntamenti in programma vedi:
https://www.cnj.it/INIZIATIVE/elsaes2004.htm
ore 17:30 - presso Circolo della Stampa, Corso Italia 13
Di volta in volta sono state chiamate
“ingerenza umanitaria”
“operazione di polizia internazionale”
“guerra preventiva al terrorismo”
Sono invece sempre state
AGGRESSIONI IMPERIALISTE
per definire nuovi assetti geo-politici e per l'accaparramento di
risorse.
E per giustificare queste aggressioni si e' sempre ricorsi alle
provocazioni
e alle menzogne, demonizzando interi popoli.
A 5 anni dall'aggressione alla Jugoslavia da parte della "sinistra con
l'elmetto"
a 1 anno dall'invasione dell'Iraq da parte della "destra delle crociate"
ne parleremo con
JÜRGEN ELSÄSSER
giornalista tedesco autore del libro
MENZOGNE DI GUERRA
Organizzano:
Gruppo ZASTAVA - Trieste
Gruppo Consiliare Regionale del FVG di Rifondazione Comunista
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia
---
I BALCANI SENZA LA JUGOSLAVIA ?
Un ciclo di incontri con JUERGEN ELSAESSER,
autore di "Menzogne di guerra"
I recenti pogrom contro le minoranze non albanesi in Kosovo dimostrano
che la crisi jugoslava non si è risolta, nè può esserlo in alcun modo
con i criteri evidentemente dettati dalle grandi potenze. La perdurante
crisi nell'area balcanica, inoltre, ha molto a che fare ed ha molto da
dirci anche rispetto ad altri scenari di guerra - presenti e futuri -
compreso quello iracheno. In Iraq come in Jugoslavia la guerra è stata
costruita a tavolino, per ragioni geostrategiche, con la
disinformazione e facendo leva sui settori più revanscisti e reazionari
della società e sulle "differenze etniche".
Nel quinto anniversario dall'inizio dei bombardamenti sulla RF di
Jugoslavia - 24 marzo 1999 - esce in Germania la quinta edizione del
coraggioso libro di Jürgen Elsässer "Kriegsverbrechen", completamente
riveduta, corretta ed ampliata, con un numero quasi doppio di pagine
rispetto alla precedente. Essa contiene non solo documentazione sulla
occupazione Nato/Uck del Kosovo, ma anche aggiornamenti sui danni
causati dai bombardamenti Nato, materiali sul processo Miloševic (sul
quale esiste pochissima letteratura), nonché materiali sulla situazione
sociale e politica nell'area balcanica letteralmente sconvolta dalle
politiche imperialiste. L'edizione italiana del libro, uscita un anno e
mezzo fa, ha già avuto ampia circolazione nel nostro paese ed è stata
presentata in un precedente ciclo di incontri, nel settembre 2002.
Stavolta coglieremo l'occasione per discutere liberamente con Elsaesser
della situazione e delle prospettive in Jugoslavia.
Nel corso degli incontri saranno letti alcuni brani del nuovo capitolo
"L'ultimo giorno di Sanja", la storia degli ultimi giorni di vita della
giovanissima Sanja, che e' stata uccisa sul ponte di Varvarin - con
intermezzi letterari tratti dai testi di Desanka Maksimovic, Ivo
Andric, Ðorde Balasevic...
Per gli altri appuntamenti in programma vedi:
https://www.cnj.it/INIZIATIVE/elsaes2004.htm
