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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] La “giustizia” dei Nazisti e quella della NATO
La “giustizia” dei Nazisti e quella della NATO:
come le immagini si somigliano.
Discorso di Klaus Hartmann, vice presidente dell’ICDSM, tenuto l’8
novembre 2003, nella Piazza de L’Aia.
Amici e cittadini!
Oggi manifestiamo qui per la seconda volta quest’anno, chiedendo la
soppressione del Tribunale de L’Aia sulla Jugoslavia. Stiamo
dimostrando per l’immediato rilascio di Slobodan Milosevic. Stiamo
dimostrando per il rilascio di tutti i prigionieri politici della NATO!
Non chiediamo che i criminali vengano rilasciati: al contrario,
chiediamo la condanna e l’imprigionamento dei criminali di guerra, i
criminali di guerra che hanno distrutto la Jugoslavia:
- I governanti degli stati della NATO devono finire dietro le sbarre!
- Il rilascio e il risarcimento per le loro vittime!
Non stiamo protestando contro il fatto che il governo dei Paesi Bassi e
L’Aia ospitino le corti internazionali delle Nazioni Unite. Ospitare la
Corte internazionale di Giustizia e la Corte internazionale per i
crimini di guerra rende onore a questa città e a questo Paese. Ma la
buona reputazione viene danneggiata da questo cosiddetto Tribunale ad
hoc sulla Jugoslavia. Esso non è un’istituzione legale, ma uno
strumento di ricatto politico. E’ al servizio degli Stati Uniti e degli
altri Paesi della NATO come strumento della loro continua aggressione
contro i popoli dei Balcani. Con il cosiddetto “tribunale”, questa
città tiene in braccio il bimbo illegittimo di Madeleine Albright, che
è definita “la madre del Tribunale”.
Questo cosiddetto “tribunale” è illegale: è stato fondato da un corpo
non autorizzato su basi legali inesistenti. E’ finanziato illegalmente
ed è il simbolo di una violazione permanente della legge
internazionale. Questa è illegalità dall’inizio alla fine, è
un’illegalità che non può essere riscattata. E che non condurrà da
nessuna parte. Ecco perché domandiamo:
* La soppressione di questo “tribunale”
* L’annullamento di tutte le sue cosiddette sentenze
* Il rilascio di coloro imprigionati illegalmente e il loro risarcimento
La nostra protesta ha luogo in un momento in cui, in tutto il mondo,
gli antifascisti stanno commemorando il Giorno della Rimembranza e del
Monito.
Tale occasione è la notte del 9 novembre, perché nel 1938, 65 anni fa,
la campagna razzista ed antisemita che si era sviluppata nel corso
degli anni divenne un’orgia di violenza nel pogrom su scala nazionale
conosciuto dai nazisti come il “Reichskristallnacht” (La notte dei
cristalli). I nazisti ritenevano responsabili le loro vittime ebree, e
chiedevano loro di pagare per la violenza e le distruzioni! Ciò è
simile ai recenti sviluppi nei Balcani.
I fascisti hanno coniato l’immagine degli “slavi subumani” e i media
occidentali non hanno esitato a utilizzare questa immagine nella loro
campagna di odio contro i serbi all’inizio degli anni novanta.Fu una
campagna nazista e si intensificò fino a diventare una violenta orgia:
l’aggressione della NATO contro la Jugoslavia nel 1999.
I libri di storia degli aggressori diffondono l’immagine dei serbi come
aggressori, ad esempio contro i croati. Molto tempo prima che
l’attenzione internazionale fosse rivolta alla guerra già in corso, i
separatisti croati avevano imitato “la notte dei cristalli”. Durante
“la notte dei cristalli” dalmata, il 2 maggio 1991, i croati, cantando
le canzoni ustascia-fasciste della Seconda guerra mondiale e
sventolando le loro bandiere a scacchi con le svastiche croate,
inseguirono e massacrarono i Serbi. Chi conosce questa “notte dei
cristalli” in Occidente, con il lavaggio del cervello dei mass media?
Naturalmente, questo reato non riveste alcun ruolo nel circo della Del
Ponte.
Dal settembre al dicembre del 1933, esattamente settanta anni fa, si
svolgeva a Leipzig il cosiddetto processo per il rogo del Reichstag con
Georgi Dimitrov e i suoi compagni Blagoj Popov e Vassil Tanev come
imputati. I fascisti tedeschi tentarono di usare questa farsa nella
Corte del Leipzig Reich per criminalizzare tutti i loro avversari, così
da legittimare e consolidare la loro dittatura. Erano stati gli stessi
fascisti tedeschi ad appiccare il fuoco al Reichstag, allo scopo di
accusare i comunisti di incendio doloso. Come si somigliano le
immagini! La NATO ha distrutto la Jugoslavia, ma accusa di distruzione
coloro che la difendevano.
Come si somigliano le immagini! A Leipzig, la Corte tedesca del Reich
cercò di rifiutare a Georgi Dimitrov il diritto di parlare,
consentendogli solo di rispondere alle domande.
A L’Aia, il giudice May cercò di dichiarare “irrilevanti” le
imbarazzanti domande poste da Slobodan Milosevic, a volte spegnendo
anche il suo microfono.
Come si somigliano le immagini! I fascisti cercarono di isolare
completamente Georgi Dimitrov in prigione, di tagliarlo fuori da tutti
i contatti con l’esterno, specie da quelli con i suoi camerati. Il
“tribunale” de L’Aia sta cercando non solo di rifiutare a Slobodan
Milosevic le visite della sua famiglia, ma anche dei suoi compagni.
Come si somigliano le immagini! I nazisti avevano pianificato il
processo di Leipzig come uno spettacolo esemplare per promuovere la
loro dittatura. Avevano installato un ufficio postale speciale
adiacente al palazzo di giustizia; il processo era trasmesso in diretta
dall’aula del Tribunale… Ma, proprio come a L’Aia, ciò funzionò solo
all’inizio del processo.
Come si somigliano le immagini! Settanta anni fa, l’8 novembre 1933, il
ministro nazista della Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, prese posizione nel
“processo” contro Georgi Dimitrov. Subì una totale sconfitta. I capi
della propaganda Rudolf Scharping, Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright e
Jamie Shea, ancora oggi hanno paura di testimoniare contro Slobodan
Milosevic. La terza schiera – Holbrooke, Petritch, Ashdown e Mesic
rappresentano dei Goebbels in miniatura – anch’essi senza successo.
Come si somigliano le immagini! A Leipzig, i Nazisti chiamarono a
testimoniare contro Georgi Dimitrov informatori della polizia,
criminali e agenti. A L’Aia, sono saliti sul banco dei testimoni i
terroristi dell’UCK, l’agente della CIA William Walker e il generale
Naumann della NATO.
Come si somigliano le immagini! I fascisti tedeschi portarono davanti
alla corte di Leipzig gli antifascisti incarcerati nelle prigioni e nei
campi di concentramento, promettendo loro la libertà in cambio di una
falsa testimonianza contro Georgi Dimitrov. Lo stesso schema a L’Aia:
offrendo degli “accordi”, la corte spinge gli altri imputati a rendere
falsa testimonianza. A Belgrado, i collaboratori del tribunale hanno
promesso a Rade Markovic non solo di rilasciarlo, ma anche di
procurargli la ricchezza e una nuova identità. Ma per via della sua
fermezza, Rade Markovic fu riportato immediatamente in prigione a
Belgrado.
Come si somigliano le immagini! La corte di Leipzig fu sorpresa e
inorridita, quando Georgi Dimitrov riuscì a dare un carattere politico
al processo. Oggi la Del Ponte, Nice, May e i loro servitori dei media
sono terrorizzati dal fatto che Slobodan Milosevic possa contraddire,
con fatti storici inseriti nel loro giusto contesto, la manipolazione
falsa e razzista dei media.
Come si somigliano le immagini! Georgi Dimitrov si oppose al piano
fascista di un processo farsa anticomunista trasformando lo stesso in
un atto d’accusa contro il fascismo. Slobodan Milosevic si oppone ai
piani dei suoi accusatori NATO mettendoli al banco degli imputati e
persino i media che simpatizzano per il tribunale rimangono stupiti e
hanno dovuto ammetterlo (prenderne atto).
Come si somigliano le immagini! Georgi Dimitrov denunciò che il rogo
del Reichstag e il (relativo) processo costituivano due parti della
stessa provocazione fascista, e definì con sarcasmo “Spirito Santo”
coloro che, dietro le quinte, inscenarono sia il rogo sia gli atti
d’accusa. Oggi, Slobodan Milosevic sta dimostrando che gli aggressori e
gli accusatori appartengono alla stessa scuderia e che questo tribunale
fa parte dell’arsenale NATO per assoggettare i popoli.
Come si somigliano le immagini! All’inizio degli anni ’90, gli Stati
uniti e i loro complici inserirono il “Nuovo ordine mondiale” nella
loro agenda. Chi ricorda, chi sa che 60 anni prima si parlava del
“Nuovo ordine europeo” (in italiano nel testo) e che il “Nuovo ordine
per l’Europa” era nell’agenda delle potenze dell’asse fascista?
Molte immagini si somigliano, ma alcune differiscono. Nel 1933, i
fascisti non fecero segreto dei loro obiettivi: volevano sbarazzarsi
del comunismo e instaurare la loro dittatura illimitata. Oggi, gli
aggressori condannano le violazioni dei diritti umani e i crimini di
guerra per celare le loro crociate di asservimento. E’ il trionfo
dell’ipocrisia. Essi raramente svelano i loro segreti:
Il colpo scagliato contro Milosevic nell’ottobre del 2000, benché
originariamente spacciato nelle capitali NATO come una vittoria sul
“nazionalismo serbo”, fu ben presto reclamizzato come la vittoria su
“l’ultimo stato comunista in Europa”.
Quando Alija Izetbegovic fu seppellito qualche settimana fa, coloro che
tennero il discorso al funerale si rammaricarono che non fosse riuscito
a raggiungere “il traguardo più importante della sua vita”: la
supremazia politica dei musulmani in Bosnia! Neanche una parola
sull’idillio multi culturale che si dice egli abbia incoraggiato
durante la guerra.
Immaginate che venga svelato un angolo di verità – e benché esso
denunci la menzogna della cosiddetta “aggressione serba” passa
praticamente inosservato!
Come continuerà lo spettacolo del circo della Del Ponte?
Il professor Paul de Waart, rinomato esperto olandese di diritto
internazionale, ha di recente dichiarato alla televisione olandese che
il processo contro Milosevic sarebbe dovuto essere sospeso un mese dopo
l’inizio, per carenza di prove. Il fatto che ciò non sia avvenuto parla
da sé e dimostra che non abbiamo a che fare con una corte ma con degli
agenti politici della NATO.
L’orario ridotto della difesa di Slobodan Milosevic seguirà l’orario
ridotto della “accusa”. L’”accusa” ha avuto otto anni per preparare il
suo caso. Slobodan Milosevic aveva chiesto due anni per la sua
preparazione – due anni in libertà, con accesso agli archivi, con
testimoni e mezzi di comunicazione. Conosciamo la risposta della corte:
Milosevic ha avuto tre mesi – nella sua cella in prigione. Ciò
significa, in realtà, solo sei settimane, entro le quali egli dovrebbe
presentare la lista completa dei testimoni della difesa e i temi
principali della loro testimonianza. Una pari protezione davanti alla
legge è un principio fondamentale riconosciuto in campo internazionale.
Ma questo “tribunale” se ne infischia dei principi riconosciuti a
livello internazionale. Qui c’è un uomo, cui vengono negati i suoi
diritti, che deve affrontare da solo l’enorme apparato dell’emisfero
NATO. Ciò dimostra semplicemente che questa “corte” non ha nulla a che
vedere con la legalità. Essa calpesta i principi e le regole di legge.
Siamo orgogliosi che il fondatore del nostro Comitato internazionale
sia il presidente degli antifascisti di Bulgaria, la terra di Georgi
Dimitrov. Il professor Velko Valkanov aveva ragione dichiarando: “Non
ci sorprende che i giudici abbiano concesso a Milosevic così poco tempo
per preparare la sua difesa. Quelli non sono dei veri giudici. Se il
tribunale non è legittimo, come possono queste persone essere dei veri
giudici? Essi hanno una missione politica da compiere. Sono gli organi
esecutivi di una vendetta politica – una vendetta portata avanti contro
tutti coloro che hanno osato contraddire i governanti del mondo. I
“giudici” de L’Aia sono in realtà i complici dei crimini della NATO. Il
loro comportamento in tribunale è la prova della loro natura
antigiuridica.
Anche il modo in cui il tribunale tratta il problema della salute delle
sue vittime parla da sé e si prende gioco delle convenzioni ONU. Dopo
la diagnosi di un cardiologo olandese che Slobodan Milosevic ha la
pressione così alta da rischiare problemi organici, infarto, danni
cerebrali e la morte, la Del Ponte motteggiò sul Neue Zuricher Zeitung
il 18 giugno 2003 che “egli è in ottima salute. Molta gente a
sessant’anni e oltre soffre di pressione alta”. Non che ci si debba
aspettare una maggiore sensibilità da questa creatura, ma ella
aggiunse: “Non lo risparmieremo – spero di non darvi questa
impressione!” Come si può definire questo – un tentativo di omicidio
legale? Che abisso di cinismo, di puro disprezzo per l’umanità! E’
proprio questo profondo cinismo che ha reso infami i torturatori
fascisti!
Nel mio discorso del 28 giugno al Vidovdan, di fronte all’ex prigione
nazista di Scheveningen – ora utilizzata come prigione NATO – ho detto:
“Non riusciranno a farla franca! Gli schiavisti non hanno mai vinto
nella storia!”
Oggi stiamo manifestando con il motto: “Non permetteremo alla NATO di
scrivere la nostra storia!”.
Le potenze della NATO hanno bisogno della “giustizia” del circo della
Del Ponte per instaurare la loro versione della storia, la loro
interpretazione della realtà come l’unica ed eterna verità. Non ci
riusciranno, così come i fascisti tedeschi non riuscirono a costruire
il loro “Reich dei mille anni”, che si concluse in 12 anni.
Nel 1933, comunisti ed antifascisti scrissero il “Libro marrone sul
rogo del Reichstag e il terrore di Hitler”. E’ un eccellente documento
di solidarietà internazionale antifascista. E’ la storia scritta dalle
masse, la vera storia che aiuta la popolazione ad imparare la verità
sulla barbarie fascista. Dobbiamo continuare questa tradizione di
antifascismo e internazionalismo: dobbiamo seguire questo esempio e
scrivere il libro nero sulla distruzione della Jugoslavia e il terrore
della NATO. Dobbiamo contribuire a svelare la verità sui loschi
personaggi NATO dietro il tribunale. Dobbiamo diffondere la verità
sulla giusta lotta del popolo serbo, la sua eroica resistenza contro
l’aggressione NATO – come un incentivo per la necessaria resistenza al
“nuovo ordine mondiale”.
Nell’articolo “Let’s distribuite Original-Ton of Slobodan Milosevic”,
SLOBODA ha reso una formulazione classica: Slobodan Milosevic ci
aiuterà nella nostra lotta se ora noi aiutiamo lui! Facciamo conoscere
quello che Slobodan Milosevic dichiara in tribunale. Egli rappresenta
un temibile strumento contro l’imperialismo, come dimostrato dal
comportamento di May in “tribunale” e dal silenzio dei media. La nostra
lotta per il rilascio di Slobodan Milosevic si colloca nella tradizione
della lotta contro il fascismo e contro la guerra.
La lezione centrale, il giuramento reso dopo la liberazione dalla
barbarie fascista terminava con la seguente promessa: “Mai più il
fascismo, mai più la guerra!” Questa promessa fu tradita il 24 marzo
1999. Mai più il fascismo, mai più la guerra! Questo è, e rimarrà, il
nostro impegno. E’ questo che ci collega agli antifascisti e agli
antimilitaristi di tutte le generazioni.
L’antifascismo non è solo una commemorazione del passato.
L’antifascismo non ha lo sguardo rivolto al passato. L’antifascismo
significa ancora ciò che Georgi Dimitrov disse all’epoca: è la lotta
contro le forze più aggressive del capitale finanziario internazionale
e i suoi disegni egemonici del mondo.
Difendendo coloro che resistono alle nuove forze egemoniche, noi
onoriamo la memoria di Georgi Dimitrov.
Ripetiamo oggi la promessa fatta il 28 giugno. Torneremo ancora!
Libertà per Slobodan! Libertà per la Jugoslavia!
Libertà ed eguaglianza per tutti i popoli!
Mai più il fascismo, mai più la guerra!
(traduzione di Ivan Pavicevac e Manuela Marianetti)
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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] La “giustizia” dei Nazisti e quella della NATO
La “giustizia” dei Nazisti e quella della NATO:
come le immagini si somigliano.
Discorso di Klaus Hartmann, vice presidente dell’ICDSM, tenuto l’8
novembre 2003, nella Piazza de L’Aia.
Amici e cittadini!
Oggi manifestiamo qui per la seconda volta quest’anno, chiedendo la
soppressione del Tribunale de L’Aia sulla Jugoslavia. Stiamo
dimostrando per l’immediato rilascio di Slobodan Milosevic. Stiamo
dimostrando per il rilascio di tutti i prigionieri politici della NATO!
Non chiediamo che i criminali vengano rilasciati: al contrario,
chiediamo la condanna e l’imprigionamento dei criminali di guerra, i
criminali di guerra che hanno distrutto la Jugoslavia:
- I governanti degli stati della NATO devono finire dietro le sbarre!
- Il rilascio e il risarcimento per le loro vittime!
Non stiamo protestando contro il fatto che il governo dei Paesi Bassi e
L’Aia ospitino le corti internazionali delle Nazioni Unite. Ospitare la
Corte internazionale di Giustizia e la Corte internazionale per i
crimini di guerra rende onore a questa città e a questo Paese. Ma la
buona reputazione viene danneggiata da questo cosiddetto Tribunale ad
hoc sulla Jugoslavia. Esso non è un’istituzione legale, ma uno
strumento di ricatto politico. E’ al servizio degli Stati Uniti e degli
altri Paesi della NATO come strumento della loro continua aggressione
contro i popoli dei Balcani. Con il cosiddetto “tribunale”, questa
città tiene in braccio il bimbo illegittimo di Madeleine Albright, che
è definita “la madre del Tribunale”.
Questo cosiddetto “tribunale” è illegale: è stato fondato da un corpo
non autorizzato su basi legali inesistenti. E’ finanziato illegalmente
ed è il simbolo di una violazione permanente della legge
internazionale. Questa è illegalità dall’inizio alla fine, è
un’illegalità che non può essere riscattata. E che non condurrà da
nessuna parte. Ecco perché domandiamo:
* La soppressione di questo “tribunale”
* L’annullamento di tutte le sue cosiddette sentenze
* Il rilascio di coloro imprigionati illegalmente e il loro risarcimento
La nostra protesta ha luogo in un momento in cui, in tutto il mondo,
gli antifascisti stanno commemorando il Giorno della Rimembranza e del
Monito.
Tale occasione è la notte del 9 novembre, perché nel 1938, 65 anni fa,
la campagna razzista ed antisemita che si era sviluppata nel corso
degli anni divenne un’orgia di violenza nel pogrom su scala nazionale
conosciuto dai nazisti come il “Reichskristallnacht” (La notte dei
cristalli). I nazisti ritenevano responsabili le loro vittime ebree, e
chiedevano loro di pagare per la violenza e le distruzioni! Ciò è
simile ai recenti sviluppi nei Balcani.
I fascisti hanno coniato l’immagine degli “slavi subumani” e i media
occidentali non hanno esitato a utilizzare questa immagine nella loro
campagna di odio contro i serbi all’inizio degli anni novanta.Fu una
campagna nazista e si intensificò fino a diventare una violenta orgia:
l’aggressione della NATO contro la Jugoslavia nel 1999.
I libri di storia degli aggressori diffondono l’immagine dei serbi come
aggressori, ad esempio contro i croati. Molto tempo prima che
l’attenzione internazionale fosse rivolta alla guerra già in corso, i
separatisti croati avevano imitato “la notte dei cristalli”. Durante
“la notte dei cristalli” dalmata, il 2 maggio 1991, i croati, cantando
le canzoni ustascia-fasciste della Seconda guerra mondiale e
sventolando le loro bandiere a scacchi con le svastiche croate,
inseguirono e massacrarono i Serbi. Chi conosce questa “notte dei
cristalli” in Occidente, con il lavaggio del cervello dei mass media?
Naturalmente, questo reato non riveste alcun ruolo nel circo della Del
Ponte.
Dal settembre al dicembre del 1933, esattamente settanta anni fa, si
svolgeva a Leipzig il cosiddetto processo per il rogo del Reichstag con
Georgi Dimitrov e i suoi compagni Blagoj Popov e Vassil Tanev come
imputati. I fascisti tedeschi tentarono di usare questa farsa nella
Corte del Leipzig Reich per criminalizzare tutti i loro avversari, così
da legittimare e consolidare la loro dittatura. Erano stati gli stessi
fascisti tedeschi ad appiccare il fuoco al Reichstag, allo scopo di
accusare i comunisti di incendio doloso. Come si somigliano le
immagini! La NATO ha distrutto la Jugoslavia, ma accusa di distruzione
coloro che la difendevano.
Come si somigliano le immagini! A Leipzig, la Corte tedesca del Reich
cercò di rifiutare a Georgi Dimitrov il diritto di parlare,
consentendogli solo di rispondere alle domande.
A L’Aia, il giudice May cercò di dichiarare “irrilevanti” le
imbarazzanti domande poste da Slobodan Milosevic, a volte spegnendo
anche il suo microfono.
Come si somigliano le immagini! I fascisti cercarono di isolare
completamente Georgi Dimitrov in prigione, di tagliarlo fuori da tutti
i contatti con l’esterno, specie da quelli con i suoi camerati. Il
“tribunale” de L’Aia sta cercando non solo di rifiutare a Slobodan
Milosevic le visite della sua famiglia, ma anche dei suoi compagni.
Come si somigliano le immagini! I nazisti avevano pianificato il
processo di Leipzig come uno spettacolo esemplare per promuovere la
loro dittatura. Avevano installato un ufficio postale speciale
adiacente al palazzo di giustizia; il processo era trasmesso in diretta
dall’aula del Tribunale… Ma, proprio come a L’Aia, ciò funzionò solo
all’inizio del processo.
Come si somigliano le immagini! Settanta anni fa, l’8 novembre 1933, il
ministro nazista della Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, prese posizione nel
“processo” contro Georgi Dimitrov. Subì una totale sconfitta. I capi
della propaganda Rudolf Scharping, Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright e
Jamie Shea, ancora oggi hanno paura di testimoniare contro Slobodan
Milosevic. La terza schiera – Holbrooke, Petritch, Ashdown e Mesic
rappresentano dei Goebbels in miniatura – anch’essi senza successo.
Come si somigliano le immagini! A Leipzig, i Nazisti chiamarono a
testimoniare contro Georgi Dimitrov informatori della polizia,
criminali e agenti. A L’Aia, sono saliti sul banco dei testimoni i
terroristi dell’UCK, l’agente della CIA William Walker e il generale
Naumann della NATO.
Come si somigliano le immagini! I fascisti tedeschi portarono davanti
alla corte di Leipzig gli antifascisti incarcerati nelle prigioni e nei
campi di concentramento, promettendo loro la libertà in cambio di una
falsa testimonianza contro Georgi Dimitrov. Lo stesso schema a L’Aia:
offrendo degli “accordi”, la corte spinge gli altri imputati a rendere
falsa testimonianza. A Belgrado, i collaboratori del tribunale hanno
promesso a Rade Markovic non solo di rilasciarlo, ma anche di
procurargli la ricchezza e una nuova identità. Ma per via della sua
fermezza, Rade Markovic fu riportato immediatamente in prigione a
Belgrado.
Come si somigliano le immagini! La corte di Leipzig fu sorpresa e
inorridita, quando Georgi Dimitrov riuscì a dare un carattere politico
al processo. Oggi la Del Ponte, Nice, May e i loro servitori dei media
sono terrorizzati dal fatto che Slobodan Milosevic possa contraddire,
con fatti storici inseriti nel loro giusto contesto, la manipolazione
falsa e razzista dei media.
Come si somigliano le immagini! Georgi Dimitrov si oppose al piano
fascista di un processo farsa anticomunista trasformando lo stesso in
un atto d’accusa contro il fascismo. Slobodan Milosevic si oppone ai
piani dei suoi accusatori NATO mettendoli al banco degli imputati e
persino i media che simpatizzano per il tribunale rimangono stupiti e
hanno dovuto ammetterlo (prenderne atto).
Come si somigliano le immagini! Georgi Dimitrov denunciò che il rogo
del Reichstag e il (relativo) processo costituivano due parti della
stessa provocazione fascista, e definì con sarcasmo “Spirito Santo”
coloro che, dietro le quinte, inscenarono sia il rogo sia gli atti
d’accusa. Oggi, Slobodan Milosevic sta dimostrando che gli aggressori e
gli accusatori appartengono alla stessa scuderia e che questo tribunale
fa parte dell’arsenale NATO per assoggettare i popoli.
Come si somigliano le immagini! All’inizio degli anni ’90, gli Stati
uniti e i loro complici inserirono il “Nuovo ordine mondiale” nella
loro agenda. Chi ricorda, chi sa che 60 anni prima si parlava del
“Nuovo ordine europeo” (in italiano nel testo) e che il “Nuovo ordine
per l’Europa” era nell’agenda delle potenze dell’asse fascista?
Molte immagini si somigliano, ma alcune differiscono. Nel 1933, i
fascisti non fecero segreto dei loro obiettivi: volevano sbarazzarsi
del comunismo e instaurare la loro dittatura illimitata. Oggi, gli
aggressori condannano le violazioni dei diritti umani e i crimini di
guerra per celare le loro crociate di asservimento. E’ il trionfo
dell’ipocrisia. Essi raramente svelano i loro segreti:
Il colpo scagliato contro Milosevic nell’ottobre del 2000, benché
originariamente spacciato nelle capitali NATO come una vittoria sul
“nazionalismo serbo”, fu ben presto reclamizzato come la vittoria su
“l’ultimo stato comunista in Europa”.
Quando Alija Izetbegovic fu seppellito qualche settimana fa, coloro che
tennero il discorso al funerale si rammaricarono che non fosse riuscito
a raggiungere “il traguardo più importante della sua vita”: la
supremazia politica dei musulmani in Bosnia! Neanche una parola
sull’idillio multi culturale che si dice egli abbia incoraggiato
durante la guerra.
Immaginate che venga svelato un angolo di verità – e benché esso
denunci la menzogna della cosiddetta “aggressione serba” passa
praticamente inosservato!
Come continuerà lo spettacolo del circo della Del Ponte?
Il professor Paul de Waart, rinomato esperto olandese di diritto
internazionale, ha di recente dichiarato alla televisione olandese che
il processo contro Milosevic sarebbe dovuto essere sospeso un mese dopo
l’inizio, per carenza di prove. Il fatto che ciò non sia avvenuto parla
da sé e dimostra che non abbiamo a che fare con una corte ma con degli
agenti politici della NATO.
L’orario ridotto della difesa di Slobodan Milosevic seguirà l’orario
ridotto della “accusa”. L’”accusa” ha avuto otto anni per preparare il
suo caso. Slobodan Milosevic aveva chiesto due anni per la sua
preparazione – due anni in libertà, con accesso agli archivi, con
testimoni e mezzi di comunicazione. Conosciamo la risposta della corte:
Milosevic ha avuto tre mesi – nella sua cella in prigione. Ciò
significa, in realtà, solo sei settimane, entro le quali egli dovrebbe
presentare la lista completa dei testimoni della difesa e i temi
principali della loro testimonianza. Una pari protezione davanti alla
legge è un principio fondamentale riconosciuto in campo internazionale.
Ma questo “tribunale” se ne infischia dei principi riconosciuti a
livello internazionale. Qui c’è un uomo, cui vengono negati i suoi
diritti, che deve affrontare da solo l’enorme apparato dell’emisfero
NATO. Ciò dimostra semplicemente che questa “corte” non ha nulla a che
vedere con la legalità. Essa calpesta i principi e le regole di legge.
Siamo orgogliosi che il fondatore del nostro Comitato internazionale
sia il presidente degli antifascisti di Bulgaria, la terra di Georgi
Dimitrov. Il professor Velko Valkanov aveva ragione dichiarando: “Non
ci sorprende che i giudici abbiano concesso a Milosevic così poco tempo
per preparare la sua difesa. Quelli non sono dei veri giudici. Se il
tribunale non è legittimo, come possono queste persone essere dei veri
giudici? Essi hanno una missione politica da compiere. Sono gli organi
esecutivi di una vendetta politica – una vendetta portata avanti contro
tutti coloro che hanno osato contraddire i governanti del mondo. I
“giudici” de L’Aia sono in realtà i complici dei crimini della NATO. Il
loro comportamento in tribunale è la prova della loro natura
antigiuridica.
Anche il modo in cui il tribunale tratta il problema della salute delle
sue vittime parla da sé e si prende gioco delle convenzioni ONU. Dopo
la diagnosi di un cardiologo olandese che Slobodan Milosevic ha la
pressione così alta da rischiare problemi organici, infarto, danni
cerebrali e la morte, la Del Ponte motteggiò sul Neue Zuricher Zeitung
il 18 giugno 2003 che “egli è in ottima salute. Molta gente a
sessant’anni e oltre soffre di pressione alta”. Non che ci si debba
aspettare una maggiore sensibilità da questa creatura, ma ella
aggiunse: “Non lo risparmieremo – spero di non darvi questa
impressione!” Come si può definire questo – un tentativo di omicidio
legale? Che abisso di cinismo, di puro disprezzo per l’umanità! E’
proprio questo profondo cinismo che ha reso infami i torturatori
fascisti!
Nel mio discorso del 28 giugno al Vidovdan, di fronte all’ex prigione
nazista di Scheveningen – ora utilizzata come prigione NATO – ho detto:
“Non riusciranno a farla franca! Gli schiavisti non hanno mai vinto
nella storia!”
Oggi stiamo manifestando con il motto: “Non permetteremo alla NATO di
scrivere la nostra storia!”.
Le potenze della NATO hanno bisogno della “giustizia” del circo della
Del Ponte per instaurare la loro versione della storia, la loro
interpretazione della realtà come l’unica ed eterna verità. Non ci
riusciranno, così come i fascisti tedeschi non riuscirono a costruire
il loro “Reich dei mille anni”, che si concluse in 12 anni.
Nel 1933, comunisti ed antifascisti scrissero il “Libro marrone sul
rogo del Reichstag e il terrore di Hitler”. E’ un eccellente documento
di solidarietà internazionale antifascista. E’ la storia scritta dalle
masse, la vera storia che aiuta la popolazione ad imparare la verità
sulla barbarie fascista. Dobbiamo continuare questa tradizione di
antifascismo e internazionalismo: dobbiamo seguire questo esempio e
scrivere il libro nero sulla distruzione della Jugoslavia e il terrore
della NATO. Dobbiamo contribuire a svelare la verità sui loschi
personaggi NATO dietro il tribunale. Dobbiamo diffondere la verità
sulla giusta lotta del popolo serbo, la sua eroica resistenza contro
l’aggressione NATO – come un incentivo per la necessaria resistenza al
“nuovo ordine mondiale”.
Nell’articolo “Let’s distribuite Original-Ton of Slobodan Milosevic”,
SLOBODA ha reso una formulazione classica: Slobodan Milosevic ci
aiuterà nella nostra lotta se ora noi aiutiamo lui! Facciamo conoscere
quello che Slobodan Milosevic dichiara in tribunale. Egli rappresenta
un temibile strumento contro l’imperialismo, come dimostrato dal
comportamento di May in “tribunale” e dal silenzio dei media. La nostra
lotta per il rilascio di Slobodan Milosevic si colloca nella tradizione
della lotta contro il fascismo e contro la guerra.
La lezione centrale, il giuramento reso dopo la liberazione dalla
barbarie fascista terminava con la seguente promessa: “Mai più il
fascismo, mai più la guerra!” Questa promessa fu tradita il 24 marzo
1999. Mai più il fascismo, mai più la guerra! Questo è, e rimarrà, il
nostro impegno. E’ questo che ci collega agli antifascisti e agli
antimilitaristi di tutte le generazioni.
L’antifascismo non è solo una commemorazione del passato.
L’antifascismo non ha lo sguardo rivolto al passato. L’antifascismo
significa ancora ciò che Georgi Dimitrov disse all’epoca: è la lotta
contro le forze più aggressive del capitale finanziario internazionale
e i suoi disegni egemonici del mondo.
Difendendo coloro che resistono alle nuove forze egemoniche, noi
onoriamo la memoria di Georgi Dimitrov.
Ripetiamo oggi la promessa fatta il 28 giugno. Torneremo ancora!
Libertà per Slobodan! Libertà per la Jugoslavia!
Libertà ed eguaglianza per tutti i popoli!
Mai più il fascismo, mai più la guerra!
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WASHINGTON A TROUVE LA SOLUTION
«Divisons l'Irak comme la Yougoslavie!»
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Washington has Found the Solution
"Let's Divide Iraq as We Did in Yugoslavia!"
by Michel Collon
www.globalresearch.ca 23 December 2003
The URL of this article is:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/COL312A.html
---
They have found the solution! Divide Iraq into three mini-states and
then pit them against one another. Does that remind you of something
else? Oh, yes! It's not the first time something like this happened....
The New York Times published an editorial on November 25, 2003 carrying
Leslie Gelb's by-line. He's an influential man who, until recently,
presided over the very important Council on Foreign Relations, a think
tank that brings together the CIA, the secretary of state and big shots
from U.S. multinational corporations.
Gelb's plan? Replace Iraq with three mini-states:
"Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in the south."
The objective? "To put most of its money and troops where they would do
the most good quickly -- with the Kurds and Shiites. The United States
could extricate most of its forces from the so-called Sunni Triangle,
north and west of Baghdad.... American officials could then wait for
the troublesome and domineering Sunnis, without oil or oil revenues, to
moderate their ambitions or suffer the consequences."
In short, starve the central state around Baghdad because the Sunnis
have always spearheaded the resistance to U.S. imperialism.
We denounced this CIA plan, which has been around for some time now,
albeit discreetly, in an article that appeared in September 2002. But,
to divide Iraq has, in fact, been an old Israeli dream. In 1982, Oded
Yinon, an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office, wrote: "To
dissolve Iraq is even more important for us than dissolving Syria. In
the short term, it's Iraqi power that constitutes the greatest threat
to Israel. The Iran-Iraq war tore Iraq apart and provoked its downfall.
All manner of inter-Arab conflict help us and accelerate our goal of
breaking up Iraq into small, diverse pieces."
Will you take some ethnic cleansing again?
So, Gelb wants to break up Iraq while transforming the north (Kurdish
majority) and the south (Shiite majority) into "self-governing regions,
with boundaries drawn as closely as possible along ethnic lines."
But didn't this method provoke a civil war and a bloodbath in
Yugoslavia? Because all the diverse regions in that country contained
significant minorities, and partition was impossible without the forced
transfer of populations. That is why Berlin, and then Washington,
discreetly financed and armed racist extremists, who were nostalgic for
World War II. This made civil war almost inevitable because the IMF and
the World Bank had plunged Yugoslavia into bankrupt to make it submit
to triumphant neo-liberalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall. All of
this was carefully concealed from the public.
Just as they are now concealing from the public the fact that all of
the peoples of the former Yugoslavia have been plunged into misery and
unemployment, which is worse now than it has ever been. Meanwhile,
multinational corporations have taken the upper hand in controlling the
country's wealth.
In Iraq too, the three large populations do not reside "each in their
own region," but are, for the most part, intermingled. Furthermore,
Gelb knows very well that to start up this strategy in Iraq once again
would, in all likelihood, provoke serious "ethnic" conflicts, even
maybe a civil war. He cynically announces that the state in the center
of Iraq "might punish the substantial minorities left in the center,
particularly the large Kurdish and Shiite populations in Baghdad. These
minorities must have the time and the wherewithal to organize and make
their deals, or go either north or south." In this way, millions of
people would be forced to leave the regions where they have always
lived, but Gelb doesn't find this inconvenient if it permits the U.S.
to secure colonial domination.
Doesn't the Yugoslav precedent serve as enough warning? The truth is
that, for Gelb, the civil war in Yugoslavia was a great success for the
U.S. because it permitted the breakup of a country that resisted
multinationals.
Again the Theory of "Ethnically Pure States"!
In effect, Gelb openly refers to "a hopeful precedent ... Yugoslavia."
Curious, indeed! Weren't we told that the United States intervened
there in order to prevent "ethnic cleansing"? Not at all, he admits :
"ethnically pure" states are alright when they serve Washington's plans.
While extolling "ethnically pure states" (Gelb also speaks of "natural
states"!), he criticizes Tito for having regrouped in a united
Yugoslavia "highly disparate ethnic groups," while pretending that Iraq
is "an artificial state" for the same reasons; Gelb is resorting to old
theories held by the extreme right.
His theory about ethnically pure states is really identical to
Hitler's: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" (one people, one empire,
one führer). It is also a theory adopted by Zionists who dream of
Israel "purified of Arabs." In Yugoslavia, it was the theory held by
Western protégés, the Croat Tudjman and the Bosnian Muslim Izetbegovic.
It was also a theory held by the right-wing Serbian leader, Karadzic.
It is strange to find the U.S. extolling theories that it once
pretended to fight against!
The truth is that the United States -- just as all other colonialists
-- is for or against ethnically pure states according to whether or not
it suits U.S. strategic interests. The only thing that counts is to
weaken resistance. Divide in order to conquer. As always. The Britons
carefully organized the division of Ireland, India and Pakistan as well
as other places in the world. The influential U.S. strategist, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, wants to divide Russia into three countries in order to
isolate Moscow from oil reserves. The CIA also has its "own plans" to
divide Saudi Arabia. In an era when very large economic and political
entities are forming around the European Union and the United States,
look at how these same Great Powers are organizing the balkanization of
certain other states -- states that resist them.
The guiding principle of U.S. international policy is that there is no
guiding principle. The U.S. can pretend to fight ethnic cleansing one
day and then organize it the next. And with complete arbitrariness. In
the past, the United States had obliged the Kurds to remain inside the
Turkish state which was being led by fascist generals, but today, the
U.S. is preparing a Kurdish state, allegedly rooted in the principle of
"self-determination" (in reality a puppet state). They are pretending
to bring democracy to the world, but in these instances the U.S. is
rehabilitating fascist theories about "ethnically pure" states.
The Danger of a Theory that Is Exportable throughout the World
The danger of this false theory goes far beyond Iraq and Yugoslavia.
Most of the states existing on the planet today are "multinational."
And sensible people consider themselves to be enriched by this mixing
of cultures. But if one allows theories of "ethnically pure" states,
the USA would have a pretext to break up any "multinational" country
that resists it.
Washington, in effect, intends to trample to a greater and greater
extent international law and state sovereignty. The U.S. is preparing
to do throughout the world what it had begun in Yugoslavia and
Afghanistan, which, unfortunately, a majority of Western leftists
allowed them to do for the worst reasons. Stop! It is time to assess
the disastrous alliance of this Left with the United States in the
Yugoslav and Afghan affaires. If anyone wants to resist global war,
that is to say the recolonization of the world, it is time to come to
the defense of the sovereignty of Third World countries, a principle
that is embodied in the UN Charter. This change for the better took
place in 1945 and the USA is intent on dismantling it.
Support the Resistance
The essence of Gelb's plan is to plunge Iraq into a long civil war in
order to rescue the U.S. colonial occupation and to be able to continue
stealing oil. The U.S. will attempt to divide the resistance -- which
can be found in all of the various populations -- by punishing those
who would continue to live together and by hypocritically organizing
"ethnic cleansing." The U.S. plan is to divide Iraq by blackmail, while
defaming the Sunnis, who have long been at the forefront of resistance
to imperialism.
Will Washington implement Gelb's plan? What will prevent them from
doing so? The fear that an Iraqi Shiite state would join Iran, the most
powerful "hostile" army in the Middle East. And the fear that an Iraqi
Kurdish state would become a lightning rod for Kurds who want to secede
from Turkey, a respected strategic ally that lies on the crossroads of
the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East. But if Iraqi resistance
continues to grow and unite its diverse currents, including Shiites,
then Washington risks missing its chance to implement its plan to break
up the country.
The Yugoslav precedent must serve as a solemn warning! Plunging other
countries into the same drama is out of the question! In view of the
fact that Bush has unleashed new dangers throughout the entire world,
and in view of the fact that he is resorting to fascist theories more
and more frequently, the only possible answer is to build up a united
world front against the policies of the United States and to support
the resistance everywhere -- and first and foremost, the remarkable
Iraqi resistance (the mainstream media have often characterized them as
"terrorists").
The Iraqi resistance is preventing Bush from attacking Iran, Syria,
North Korea and Cuba in stride. It shows once again that the United
States has never been invincible. Bush is becoming the world's
laughingstock. "Paper tiger" is the classic expression. In this way,
the Iraqi resistance offsets the discouragement and the pessimism that
had begun to spread in Iraq after the "liberation of Baghdad." The war
is not over; it's only just beginning. Support the resistance, because
we are supporting ourselves.
Translated by Milo Yelesiyevich Also available in French and Spanish
michel.collon@...
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In order to Understand Iraq:
- 23 million inhabitants, divided into 3 large groups (no official
census and the USA destroyed state and civil registries).
- Shiites: 55 - 60%. Mostly in the south.
- Sunnis: 20 - 25%. Mostly in the center (between Mosul and Baghdad).
- Kurds: 20%. Mostly in the north (significant Kurdish minorities also
live in Turkey, Iran, Syria, Russia). The majority of them are Sunni.
- Minorities (5%): 200,000 to 300,000 Turkmen, Assyrians-Chaldeans
(Christians), Yezidis, 2.000 Jews....
- But no region is ethnically "pure":
o At least one million Kurds live outside of Kurdistan (mostly in
Baghdad, but also in the south, in Basrah).
o At least one million Shiites live in Baghdad.
o Some Sunnis live in the south.
o Some Arabs live in Kurdistan.
For this reason, dividing up Iraq is impossible without risking a civil
war and ethnic cleansing. Especially so in a climate where the U.S. has
done everything it could over the past twenty years to stir up
conflicts while provoking (i.e., financing) certain minority leaders so
that they will favor a breakup. This is exactly how they did things in
Yugoslavia.
In short, if the USA is permitted to divide up Iraq, important
"minorities" risk being targets throughout the country. Then, Bush is
going to say that he is obliged to keep his troops there to "protect"
these minorities.
Exactly as in Kosovo, where the U.S. has installed a military base with
a landing strip that can accomodate bombers (sic !), after having
systematically fanned the flames of the conflict behind the scenes.
Today, the USA in Kosovo is protecting KLA criminals and the mafia
which practices ethnic cleansing. (see Test-medias, Kosovo questions 2,
5, 7 in our report "Autopsy of Yugoslavia").
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In order to Understand Yugoslavia:
- 21 million inhabitants, divided into 6 republics. According to the
official census of 1991: Slovenia (1.9 million), Croatia (4.7), Serbia
(9.7), Macedonia (2.0), Montenegro (0.6), Bosnia (4.3).
- No region was ethnically "pure": substantial minorities resided
throughout the country which rendered the country indivisible.
- In Croatia: Serbs (12%).
- In Macedonia: Albanians (21%), Turks (5%), Roma (2%), Serbs (2%).
- In Bosnia: Muslims (43%), Serbs (31%), Croats (17%), Others (7%). All
of these groups were mixed together throughout the region.
[EDITORS NOTE: IN IRAQ CIVIL REGISTRIES WERE ALSO DESTROYED BY
OCCUPATION FORCES, SEE, Destroying Iraq's Public Records by Saad
Kiryakos, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KIR307A.html ]
Despite the warnings of numerous experts and Western leaders in 1991,
Germany, and then the United States, forced the division of the country
at the price of a terrible civil war and the forcible displacement of
populations of all minorities.
Here also, Berlin and Washington have supported, financed and armed -
secretly - separatist leaders and extremists. All this has been
carefully hidden from the public.
BIBLIO: Maps showing the "indivisible" nature of Yugoslavia and Bosnia,
in particular. Michel Collon, Liar's Poker: The Great Powers,
Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future, IAC, New York 2001, P. 11 & 13.
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WASHINGTON A TROUVE LA SOLUTION
«Divisons l'Irak comme la Yougoslavie!»
est ici:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3003%5d
Washington has Found the Solution
"Let's Divide Iraq as We Did in Yugoslavia!"
by Michel Collon
www.globalresearch.ca 23 December 2003
The URL of this article is:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/COL312A.html
---
They have found the solution! Divide Iraq into three mini-states and
then pit them against one another. Does that remind you of something
else? Oh, yes! It's not the first time something like this happened....
The New York Times published an editorial on November 25, 2003 carrying
Leslie Gelb's by-line. He's an influential man who, until recently,
presided over the very important Council on Foreign Relations, a think
tank that brings together the CIA, the secretary of state and big shots
from U.S. multinational corporations.
Gelb's plan? Replace Iraq with three mini-states:
"Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in the south."
The objective? "To put most of its money and troops where they would do
the most good quickly -- with the Kurds and Shiites. The United States
could extricate most of its forces from the so-called Sunni Triangle,
north and west of Baghdad.... American officials could then wait for
the troublesome and domineering Sunnis, without oil or oil revenues, to
moderate their ambitions or suffer the consequences."
In short, starve the central state around Baghdad because the Sunnis
have always spearheaded the resistance to U.S. imperialism.
We denounced this CIA plan, which has been around for some time now,
albeit discreetly, in an article that appeared in September 2002. But,
to divide Iraq has, in fact, been an old Israeli dream. In 1982, Oded
Yinon, an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office, wrote: "To
dissolve Iraq is even more important for us than dissolving Syria. In
the short term, it's Iraqi power that constitutes the greatest threat
to Israel. The Iran-Iraq war tore Iraq apart and provoked its downfall.
All manner of inter-Arab conflict help us and accelerate our goal of
breaking up Iraq into small, diverse pieces."
Will you take some ethnic cleansing again?
So, Gelb wants to break up Iraq while transforming the north (Kurdish
majority) and the south (Shiite majority) into "self-governing regions,
with boundaries drawn as closely as possible along ethnic lines."
But didn't this method provoke a civil war and a bloodbath in
Yugoslavia? Because all the diverse regions in that country contained
significant minorities, and partition was impossible without the forced
transfer of populations. That is why Berlin, and then Washington,
discreetly financed and armed racist extremists, who were nostalgic for
World War II. This made civil war almost inevitable because the IMF and
the World Bank had plunged Yugoslavia into bankrupt to make it submit
to triumphant neo-liberalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall. All of
this was carefully concealed from the public.
Just as they are now concealing from the public the fact that all of
the peoples of the former Yugoslavia have been plunged into misery and
unemployment, which is worse now than it has ever been. Meanwhile,
multinational corporations have taken the upper hand in controlling the
country's wealth.
In Iraq too, the three large populations do not reside "each in their
own region," but are, for the most part, intermingled. Furthermore,
Gelb knows very well that to start up this strategy in Iraq once again
would, in all likelihood, provoke serious "ethnic" conflicts, even
maybe a civil war. He cynically announces that the state in the center
of Iraq "might punish the substantial minorities left in the center,
particularly the large Kurdish and Shiite populations in Baghdad. These
minorities must have the time and the wherewithal to organize and make
their deals, or go either north or south." In this way, millions of
people would be forced to leave the regions where they have always
lived, but Gelb doesn't find this inconvenient if it permits the U.S.
to secure colonial domination.
Doesn't the Yugoslav precedent serve as enough warning? The truth is
that, for Gelb, the civil war in Yugoslavia was a great success for the
U.S. because it permitted the breakup of a country that resisted
multinationals.
Again the Theory of "Ethnically Pure States"!
In effect, Gelb openly refers to "a hopeful precedent ... Yugoslavia."
Curious, indeed! Weren't we told that the United States intervened
there in order to prevent "ethnic cleansing"? Not at all, he admits :
"ethnically pure" states are alright when they serve Washington's plans.
While extolling "ethnically pure states" (Gelb also speaks of "natural
states"!), he criticizes Tito for having regrouped in a united
Yugoslavia "highly disparate ethnic groups," while pretending that Iraq
is "an artificial state" for the same reasons; Gelb is resorting to old
theories held by the extreme right.
His theory about ethnically pure states is really identical to
Hitler's: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" (one people, one empire,
one führer). It is also a theory adopted by Zionists who dream of
Israel "purified of Arabs." In Yugoslavia, it was the theory held by
Western protégés, the Croat Tudjman and the Bosnian Muslim Izetbegovic.
It was also a theory held by the right-wing Serbian leader, Karadzic.
It is strange to find the U.S. extolling theories that it once
pretended to fight against!
The truth is that the United States -- just as all other colonialists
-- is for or against ethnically pure states according to whether or not
it suits U.S. strategic interests. The only thing that counts is to
weaken resistance. Divide in order to conquer. As always. The Britons
carefully organized the division of Ireland, India and Pakistan as well
as other places in the world. The influential U.S. strategist, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, wants to divide Russia into three countries in order to
isolate Moscow from oil reserves. The CIA also has its "own plans" to
divide Saudi Arabia. In an era when very large economic and political
entities are forming around the European Union and the United States,
look at how these same Great Powers are organizing the balkanization of
certain other states -- states that resist them.
The guiding principle of U.S. international policy is that there is no
guiding principle. The U.S. can pretend to fight ethnic cleansing one
day and then organize it the next. And with complete arbitrariness. In
the past, the United States had obliged the Kurds to remain inside the
Turkish state which was being led by fascist generals, but today, the
U.S. is preparing a Kurdish state, allegedly rooted in the principle of
"self-determination" (in reality a puppet state). They are pretending
to bring democracy to the world, but in these instances the U.S. is
rehabilitating fascist theories about "ethnically pure" states.
The Danger of a Theory that Is Exportable throughout the World
The danger of this false theory goes far beyond Iraq and Yugoslavia.
Most of the states existing on the planet today are "multinational."
And sensible people consider themselves to be enriched by this mixing
of cultures. But if one allows theories of "ethnically pure" states,
the USA would have a pretext to break up any "multinational" country
that resists it.
Washington, in effect, intends to trample to a greater and greater
extent international law and state sovereignty. The U.S. is preparing
to do throughout the world what it had begun in Yugoslavia and
Afghanistan, which, unfortunately, a majority of Western leftists
allowed them to do for the worst reasons. Stop! It is time to assess
the disastrous alliance of this Left with the United States in the
Yugoslav and Afghan affaires. If anyone wants to resist global war,
that is to say the recolonization of the world, it is time to come to
the defense of the sovereignty of Third World countries, a principle
that is embodied in the UN Charter. This change for the better took
place in 1945 and the USA is intent on dismantling it.
Support the Resistance
The essence of Gelb's plan is to plunge Iraq into a long civil war in
order to rescue the U.S. colonial occupation and to be able to continue
stealing oil. The U.S. will attempt to divide the resistance -- which
can be found in all of the various populations -- by punishing those
who would continue to live together and by hypocritically organizing
"ethnic cleansing." The U.S. plan is to divide Iraq by blackmail, while
defaming the Sunnis, who have long been at the forefront of resistance
to imperialism.
Will Washington implement Gelb's plan? What will prevent them from
doing so? The fear that an Iraqi Shiite state would join Iran, the most
powerful "hostile" army in the Middle East. And the fear that an Iraqi
Kurdish state would become a lightning rod for Kurds who want to secede
from Turkey, a respected strategic ally that lies on the crossroads of
the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East. But if Iraqi resistance
continues to grow and unite its diverse currents, including Shiites,
then Washington risks missing its chance to implement its plan to break
up the country.
The Yugoslav precedent must serve as a solemn warning! Plunging other
countries into the same drama is out of the question! In view of the
fact that Bush has unleashed new dangers throughout the entire world,
and in view of the fact that he is resorting to fascist theories more
and more frequently, the only possible answer is to build up a united
world front against the policies of the United States and to support
the resistance everywhere -- and first and foremost, the remarkable
Iraqi resistance (the mainstream media have often characterized them as
"terrorists").
The Iraqi resistance is preventing Bush from attacking Iran, Syria,
North Korea and Cuba in stride. It shows once again that the United
States has never been invincible. Bush is becoming the world's
laughingstock. "Paper tiger" is the classic expression. In this way,
the Iraqi resistance offsets the discouragement and the pessimism that
had begun to spread in Iraq after the "liberation of Baghdad." The war
is not over; it's only just beginning. Support the resistance, because
we are supporting ourselves.
Translated by Milo Yelesiyevich Also available in French and Spanish
michel.collon@...
---
In order to Understand Iraq:
- 23 million inhabitants, divided into 3 large groups (no official
census and the USA destroyed state and civil registries).
- Shiites: 55 - 60%. Mostly in the south.
- Sunnis: 20 - 25%. Mostly in the center (between Mosul and Baghdad).
- Kurds: 20%. Mostly in the north (significant Kurdish minorities also
live in Turkey, Iran, Syria, Russia). The majority of them are Sunni.
- Minorities (5%): 200,000 to 300,000 Turkmen, Assyrians-Chaldeans
(Christians), Yezidis, 2.000 Jews....
- But no region is ethnically "pure":
o At least one million Kurds live outside of Kurdistan (mostly in
Baghdad, but also in the south, in Basrah).
o At least one million Shiites live in Baghdad.
o Some Sunnis live in the south.
o Some Arabs live in Kurdistan.
For this reason, dividing up Iraq is impossible without risking a civil
war and ethnic cleansing. Especially so in a climate where the U.S. has
done everything it could over the past twenty years to stir up
conflicts while provoking (i.e., financing) certain minority leaders so
that they will favor a breakup. This is exactly how they did things in
Yugoslavia.
In short, if the USA is permitted to divide up Iraq, important
"minorities" risk being targets throughout the country. Then, Bush is
going to say that he is obliged to keep his troops there to "protect"
these minorities.
Exactly as in Kosovo, where the U.S. has installed a military base with
a landing strip that can accomodate bombers (sic !), after having
systematically fanned the flames of the conflict behind the scenes.
Today, the USA in Kosovo is protecting KLA criminals and the mafia
which practices ethnic cleansing. (see Test-medias, Kosovo questions 2,
5, 7 in our report "Autopsy of Yugoslavia").
---
In order to Understand Yugoslavia:
- 21 million inhabitants, divided into 6 republics. According to the
official census of 1991: Slovenia (1.9 million), Croatia (4.7), Serbia
(9.7), Macedonia (2.0), Montenegro (0.6), Bosnia (4.3).
- No region was ethnically "pure": substantial minorities resided
throughout the country which rendered the country indivisible.
- In Croatia: Serbs (12%).
- In Macedonia: Albanians (21%), Turks (5%), Roma (2%), Serbs (2%).
- In Bosnia: Muslims (43%), Serbs (31%), Croats (17%), Others (7%). All
of these groups were mixed together throughout the region.
[EDITORS NOTE: IN IRAQ CIVIL REGISTRIES WERE ALSO DESTROYED BY
OCCUPATION FORCES, SEE, Destroying Iraq's Public Records by Saad
Kiryakos, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KIR307A.html ]
Despite the warnings of numerous experts and Western leaders in 1991,
Germany, and then the United States, forced the division of the country
at the price of a terrible civil war and the forcible displacement of
populations of all minorities.
Here also, Berlin and Washington have supported, financed and armed -
secretly - separatist leaders and extremists. All this has been
carefully hidden from the public.
BIBLIO: Maps showing the "indivisible" nature of Yugoslavia and Bosnia,
in particular. Michel Collon, Liar's Poker: The Great Powers,
Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future, IAC, New York 2001, P. 11 & 13.
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[sui massacri perpetrati dagli ustascia croati, con l'appoggio ed il
concorso del clero cattolico, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale si
veda, in lingua italiana:
"L'arcivescovo del genocidio"
di Marco Aurelio Rivelli - edizioni Kaos, Milano 1999]
Subject: Glina Church massacre posted on the web
From: "Petar Makara"
Date: Mon, December 22, 2003 11:22 pm
Dear friends,
I am almost done (photographs and all) with study of
Glina church massacre. It can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
The stills I took from the video can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/CinePro/index.htm
I had to add much more to this documentary in order
to make the study more complete. I then added it all to:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ww2.html
Please take a look.
Regards to all,
Petar
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
---
The World Must Know about...
Glina Massacre!
BUTCHERY INSIDE THE CHURCH
In a small town of Glina, Krajina, more than two thousand Serbs were
murdered, in a single night. That August night, 1941, most of the
victims were butchered with knives -- right inside their own,
Christian shrine. There was so much blood flowing that it spilled over
the church's threshold out to the street. The appalling crime was done
with full knowledge and approval of the Vatican. It did not matter that
the victim Serbs were also Christians the same as their Croat Nazi
murderers. For centuries Catholic Church was teaching the Croats that
their Serbian neighbors were "wrong" Christians. For Vatican the Serbs
were "Schismatics" because they were sticking to their Eastern
Orthodox roots; to the branch of Christianity that did not change
their ways of Christ worship for the last two millennia.
The hand of the Vatikan, the Croat Nazis known as Ustashas, knew no
mercy. No one was to survive. No one was to tell what happened. One
Serbian peasant did survive.
The sole survivor forgives
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html%5d
In February, 1991, only months before revamped Croat Nazis are to
attack Krajina again, Ljubo Jednak, the sole survivor of the Glina
church massacre talks to the journalists. A simple Serbian peasant who
sticks to his roots and his Christian principles Mr. Jednak says: "To
no one on earth do I wish evil. I never wished evil to any one, not
even to those from whose hands I suffered so much." This Serbian
attitude and willingness to forgive is the only explanation of how
peaceful life, for so many decades after WWII, betweeen the Serbs and
their Croat tormentors was possible.
Documentary: "Something told me I will live"
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
In 1990's German and American politicians, with the intention to
conquer the Balkans, decided to reopen the terrible WWII wounds. Once
again "divide and conquer" game was to be played with the Balkan
people. Once again, deeply rooted Croat separatism and chauvinism was
to be used as a tool. Mr. Jednak, the sole survivor of Glina massacre,
gets surprised again by Croat Nazi blind hatred of the Serbs. Once
again he has to run for his life. In August 1995, almost to the day of
Glina church massacre anniversary, Mr. Jednak leaves his house and
everything he ever owned in Glina and joins endless column of Krajina
Serb refugees. In the safety of Serbia he tells, once more, the story
of how he survived the slaughter. We obtained the video documentary.
Here is the transcript.
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
There is no excuse
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-why.html%5d
No one ever tried to find an excuse for the Glina church massacre.
There is no excuse. We dared compare Glina church massacre to some
other known massacres of World War II Europe. There is no excuse that
the world did not get to know about the event, either. Croat Communist
Tito, downplayed the event in the name of declared "Brotherhood and
Unity." It was a design that was to use the Serbian capacity to forgive.
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html
KEY WITNESS TO THE USTASHA HELL
Ljuban Jednak:
"How I survived Ustasha hell"
by Ljubomir Tesic
Published in newspaper "Blic,"
on May 20, 1997
As the sole survivor of Ustasha massacre of Serbs in Glina church,
Ljuban Jednak was a key witness in a law suit against Artukovic and
Stepinac. In 1995 he was expelled from Glina.
I was with Ljuban Jednak four times. I listened to his testimonies and
wrote them down during his testimonies in the Artukovic trial, in
Glina in 1991, then in 1992, and the last time, in 1995 when he came
to Belgrade as a refugee - sad, unhappy, desperate as the evil of half
a century ago was repeating itself in similar ways. While documenting
this unheard of kind of suffering, I was guided by two things: TRUTH
and that this evil will never be repeated again.
These days all media -- electronic and printed ones -- reported the sad
news: At age eighty one, Ljubo Jednak, the sole surviving witness to
the slaughter in Glina's [Serb] Eastern Orthodox church "God-mother's
Birth" died. He survived the infamous Ustasha hell that happened in the
night between August 3rd and 4th, 1941 - on Saint Ilija's Day. That
otherwise very popular Eastern Orthodox holiday was the day when some
1,500 Serbian men were brutally murdered [inside the Glina church] -
mostly by use of [Ustasha invented knife-glove known as]
"Serb-cutter." "Serbosjek".
Their only guilt was that they were born as Serbs.
Ljuban Jednak died as a refugee in poverty and with a tortured soul. He
was particularly upset by Serbian disunity. His last wish was to rest
at the graveyard where, for centuries, his forefathers were buried in
Banija and Kordun [parts of Krajina.] That wish, unluckily will never
be fulfilled. What was not achieved by [Ustasha fuhrer] Pavelic and
Hitler was now achieved by revamped Croatia under Tudjman and with help
of USA, Germany and the Vatican. Banija, Kordun, the entire Krajina,
home to the Serbs for many centuries is now ethnically cleansed of the
Serbs.
Six years ago, during a news conference, ABC News reporter Sergey
Bodich asked then Croatian Minister of War Sime Djodan whether he ever
visited Banija and whether he was informed that the sole survivor of
1941 Glina church massacre, Mr. Jednak, is again in the same if not
worse situation. Mr. Jednak's house is demolished, ruined, burned and
he is forced again, half a century later, to run to save his bare life,
this time from so-called Croatian National Guard, the Croat army that
sports the same symbols and the same behavior of Pavelic's Nazis.
Obviously at the very edge of verbal explosion, Croat Minister of War,
Mr. Djodan said: "Sir, do not spread Chetnik [WWII Serb anti-Nazi
guerilla] propaganda here! Those gentlemen of Banija were first
Chetniks and then they joined [Tito's] partisans. That gentleman you
are talking about had a project in 1941 -- and he still has it -- whose
purpose is to destroy anything Croatian."
Ljubo Jednak talks
The name of the hero of this story is Ljubo Jednak, a Serb born in 1916
in Seliste a village near the town of Glina. Despite the untold horror
he went through, despite the path from the hell of death to life he
travelled, he was able to keep intact both his physical and mental
health.
After the war [WWII], he was the key witness in the lawsuits about the
Ustasha genocide perpetrated on the Serbian people. He was a witness in
trials of Dr. Andrija Artukovic [Ustasha Minister of Interior who spent
40 years as a free man in California] and Dr. Alojzije [Aloysius]
Stepinac [the head of the Croatian Church during the Ustasha reign of
horror, the Ustasha spiritual leader]. He was also a witness in other
trials of Ustasha war criminals.
As an introduction to the February, 1991 conversations we had with
Ljuban Jednak, we have written his words describing the situation in
Glina then.
Mr. Jednak lived in Glina all his life until his exodus in 1995.
He said, [then, in February, 1991, only a few months before the civil
wars of 1990's started]:
"I have four grandchildren. Two are here in Glina, and two are there in
Zagreb [capital of Croatia]. My daughter Dushanka was born after the
war, and she lives in Zagreb. The other two sons I have are here in
Glina. The older one, Dushan has no children. He has his own house.
Our youngest son, Stevo, lives with us, with me and my wife Stana,
who I married just before the war. Stevo married a Croatian woman. It
is a happy marriage. There is no difference between us and Croats. Our
customs are the same. Our language is the same. Only the fait is
slightly different. That slight difference was and still is the only
source of evil. Stevo and his wife have two children, my beloved
grandchildren."
"I am just preserving [smoking] the meat. I hope to eat it in happiness
and peace. I will serve it to my guests who are always welcome no
matter who they are or where they came from. I also have my plum trees.
At some point I had more cattle, some sheep and cows. I got old, and my
strength betrayed me so I cannot do it all. I have only some chickens
left. Sometimes I keep some pigs just so we have meat for some special
occasion."
"I live here in Glina, on Rinana Street, right next to the cattle
market. This house belonged to some Serbs. Ustashas slaughtered two
Serbian men during the great slaughter of 1941. Only a woman and a
small baby remained. Later on the woman died and the daughter left for
America. It was a long time ago. I do not know whether she is still
alive. This house was in ruins, abandoned. I bought it from the Jaric
family. I build it again and kept renewing and fixing it."
"I have only two acres of land outside of Glina, now. Before I had
more. After the war, I was a professional soldier. Soon, I saw I am not
good at it. I love a peaceful life tied to the land, the house and
fruit trees. If we could only live in peace. Every human being comes
to this earth, as nature granted that life, to live, if possible, in
peace and happiness. Of course - if possible."
"I am not involved in politics. To no one on earth do I wish evil. I
never wished evil to any one, not even to those from whose hands I
suffered so much."
"It is really hard for me, being so old, to tell again and to live
through that slaughter once again, the slaughter I survived only by a
miracle. I told it so many times. I was a witness. I am always upset
and shocked even when I look so peaceful and composed."
[End quote]
Translator's notice:
The photo copy of the "Blic" article we obtained ends about here. In
the continuation, we will present translation of the transcript from
the "Cine Pro" video documentary done by Pancevo author Miroslav
("Mika") Stankovic.
So, what was it that this simple Serbian peasant, Ljubo Jednak, was
ready to forgive?
Mr. Jednak starts talking about his exodus from his Glina house in
August, 1995. He ran, he left everything he ever owned during the
Croat-American operation "Storm." The Croat army with Ustasha insignia
was the ground force. The US provided air cover to the despicable
Nazis.
Mr. Jednak speaks in dense, compact sentences which teem with
information. Interestingly, he addresses his audience in present tense
even when he talks about the times long gone. For him, they may not
be. This gives the horror he went through additional power.
He speaks with a certain calm as if he were floating above it all.
This simple, warm person, so tied to the ground, the fruit trees and
the always bittersweet life of a peasant tries to describe
indescribable. . . .
I believe he found words where there are no words.
Petar Makara,
December 2003
concorso del clero cattolico, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale si
veda, in lingua italiana:
"L'arcivescovo del genocidio"
di Marco Aurelio Rivelli - edizioni Kaos, Milano 1999]
Subject: Glina Church massacre posted on the web
From: "Petar Makara"
Date: Mon, December 22, 2003 11:22 pm
Dear friends,
I am almost done (photographs and all) with study of
Glina church massacre. It can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
The stills I took from the video can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/CinePro/index.htm
I had to add much more to this documentary in order
to make the study more complete. I then added it all to:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ww2.html
Please take a look.
Regards to all,
Petar
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
---
The World Must Know about...
Glina Massacre!
BUTCHERY INSIDE THE CHURCH
In a small town of Glina, Krajina, more than two thousand Serbs were
murdered, in a single night. That August night, 1941, most of the
victims were butchered with knives -- right inside their own,
Christian shrine. There was so much blood flowing that it spilled over
the church's threshold out to the street. The appalling crime was done
with full knowledge and approval of the Vatican. It did not matter that
the victim Serbs were also Christians the same as their Croat Nazi
murderers. For centuries Catholic Church was teaching the Croats that
their Serbian neighbors were "wrong" Christians. For Vatican the Serbs
were "Schismatics" because they were sticking to their Eastern
Orthodox roots; to the branch of Christianity that did not change
their ways of Christ worship for the last two millennia.
The hand of the Vatikan, the Croat Nazis known as Ustashas, knew no
mercy. No one was to survive. No one was to tell what happened. One
Serbian peasant did survive.
The sole survivor forgives
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html%5d
In February, 1991, only months before revamped Croat Nazis are to
attack Krajina again, Ljubo Jednak, the sole survivor of the Glina
church massacre talks to the journalists. A simple Serbian peasant who
sticks to his roots and his Christian principles Mr. Jednak says: "To
no one on earth do I wish evil. I never wished evil to any one, not
even to those from whose hands I suffered so much." This Serbian
attitude and willingness to forgive is the only explanation of how
peaceful life, for so many decades after WWII, betweeen the Serbs and
their Croat tormentors was possible.
Documentary: "Something told me I will live"
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
In 1990's German and American politicians, with the intention to
conquer the Balkans, decided to reopen the terrible WWII wounds. Once
again "divide and conquer" game was to be played with the Balkan
people. Once again, deeply rooted Croat separatism and chauvinism was
to be used as a tool. Mr. Jednak, the sole survivor of Glina massacre,
gets surprised again by Croat Nazi blind hatred of the Serbs. Once
again he has to run for his life. In August 1995, almost to the day of
Glina church massacre anniversary, Mr. Jednak leaves his house and
everything he ever owned in Glina and joins endless column of Krajina
Serb refugees. In the safety of Serbia he tells, once more, the story
of how he survived the slaughter. We obtained the video documentary.
Here is the transcript.
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
There is no excuse
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-why.html%5d
No one ever tried to find an excuse for the Glina church massacre.
There is no excuse. We dared compare Glina church massacre to some
other known massacres of World War II Europe. There is no excuse that
the world did not get to know about the event, either. Croat Communist
Tito, downplayed the event in the name of declared "Brotherhood and
Unity." It was a design that was to use the Serbian capacity to forgive.
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html
KEY WITNESS TO THE USTASHA HELL
Ljuban Jednak:
"How I survived Ustasha hell"
by Ljubomir Tesic
Published in newspaper "Blic,"
on May 20, 1997
As the sole survivor of Ustasha massacre of Serbs in Glina church,
Ljuban Jednak was a key witness in a law suit against Artukovic and
Stepinac. In 1995 he was expelled from Glina.
I was with Ljuban Jednak four times. I listened to his testimonies and
wrote them down during his testimonies in the Artukovic trial, in
Glina in 1991, then in 1992, and the last time, in 1995 when he came
to Belgrade as a refugee - sad, unhappy, desperate as the evil of half
a century ago was repeating itself in similar ways. While documenting
this unheard of kind of suffering, I was guided by two things: TRUTH
and that this evil will never be repeated again.
These days all media -- electronic and printed ones -- reported the sad
news: At age eighty one, Ljubo Jednak, the sole surviving witness to
the slaughter in Glina's [Serb] Eastern Orthodox church "God-mother's
Birth" died. He survived the infamous Ustasha hell that happened in the
night between August 3rd and 4th, 1941 - on Saint Ilija's Day. That
otherwise very popular Eastern Orthodox holiday was the day when some
1,500 Serbian men were brutally murdered [inside the Glina church] -
mostly by use of [Ustasha invented knife-glove known as]
"Serb-cutter." "Serbosjek".
Their only guilt was that they were born as Serbs.
Ljuban Jednak died as a refugee in poverty and with a tortured soul. He
was particularly upset by Serbian disunity. His last wish was to rest
at the graveyard where, for centuries, his forefathers were buried in
Banija and Kordun [parts of Krajina.] That wish, unluckily will never
be fulfilled. What was not achieved by [Ustasha fuhrer] Pavelic and
Hitler was now achieved by revamped Croatia under Tudjman and with help
of USA, Germany and the Vatican. Banija, Kordun, the entire Krajina,
home to the Serbs for many centuries is now ethnically cleansed of the
Serbs.
Six years ago, during a news conference, ABC News reporter Sergey
Bodich asked then Croatian Minister of War Sime Djodan whether he ever
visited Banija and whether he was informed that the sole survivor of
1941 Glina church massacre, Mr. Jednak, is again in the same if not
worse situation. Mr. Jednak's house is demolished, ruined, burned and
he is forced again, half a century later, to run to save his bare life,
this time from so-called Croatian National Guard, the Croat army that
sports the same symbols and the same behavior of Pavelic's Nazis.
Obviously at the very edge of verbal explosion, Croat Minister of War,
Mr. Djodan said: "Sir, do not spread Chetnik [WWII Serb anti-Nazi
guerilla] propaganda here! Those gentlemen of Banija were first
Chetniks and then they joined [Tito's] partisans. That gentleman you
are talking about had a project in 1941 -- and he still has it -- whose
purpose is to destroy anything Croatian."
Ljubo Jednak talks
The name of the hero of this story is Ljubo Jednak, a Serb born in 1916
in Seliste a village near the town of Glina. Despite the untold horror
he went through, despite the path from the hell of death to life he
travelled, he was able to keep intact both his physical and mental
health.
After the war [WWII], he was the key witness in the lawsuits about the
Ustasha genocide perpetrated on the Serbian people. He was a witness in
trials of Dr. Andrija Artukovic [Ustasha Minister of Interior who spent
40 years as a free man in California] and Dr. Alojzije [Aloysius]
Stepinac [the head of the Croatian Church during the Ustasha reign of
horror, the Ustasha spiritual leader]. He was also a witness in other
trials of Ustasha war criminals.
As an introduction to the February, 1991 conversations we had with
Ljuban Jednak, we have written his words describing the situation in
Glina then.
Mr. Jednak lived in Glina all his life until his exodus in 1995.
He said, [then, in February, 1991, only a few months before the civil
wars of 1990's started]:
"I have four grandchildren. Two are here in Glina, and two are there in
Zagreb [capital of Croatia]. My daughter Dushanka was born after the
war, and she lives in Zagreb. The other two sons I have are here in
Glina. The older one, Dushan has no children. He has his own house.
Our youngest son, Stevo, lives with us, with me and my wife Stana,
who I married just before the war. Stevo married a Croatian woman. It
is a happy marriage. There is no difference between us and Croats. Our
customs are the same. Our language is the same. Only the fait is
slightly different. That slight difference was and still is the only
source of evil. Stevo and his wife have two children, my beloved
grandchildren."
"I am just preserving [smoking] the meat. I hope to eat it in happiness
and peace. I will serve it to my guests who are always welcome no
matter who they are or where they came from. I also have my plum trees.
At some point I had more cattle, some sheep and cows. I got old, and my
strength betrayed me so I cannot do it all. I have only some chickens
left. Sometimes I keep some pigs just so we have meat for some special
occasion."
"I live here in Glina, on Rinana Street, right next to the cattle
market. This house belonged to some Serbs. Ustashas slaughtered two
Serbian men during the great slaughter of 1941. Only a woman and a
small baby remained. Later on the woman died and the daughter left for
America. It was a long time ago. I do not know whether she is still
alive. This house was in ruins, abandoned. I bought it from the Jaric
family. I build it again and kept renewing and fixing it."
"I have only two acres of land outside of Glina, now. Before I had
more. After the war, I was a professional soldier. Soon, I saw I am not
good at it. I love a peaceful life tied to the land, the house and
fruit trees. If we could only live in peace. Every human being comes
to this earth, as nature granted that life, to live, if possible, in
peace and happiness. Of course - if possible."
"I am not involved in politics. To no one on earth do I wish evil. I
never wished evil to any one, not even to those from whose hands I
suffered so much."
"It is really hard for me, being so old, to tell again and to live
through that slaughter once again, the slaughter I survived only by a
miracle. I told it so many times. I was a witness. I am always upset
and shocked even when I look so peaceful and composed."
[End quote]
Translator's notice:
The photo copy of the "Blic" article we obtained ends about here. In
the continuation, we will present translation of the transcript from
the "Cine Pro" video documentary done by Pancevo author Miroslav
("Mika") Stankovic.
So, what was it that this simple Serbian peasant, Ljubo Jednak, was
ready to forgive?
Mr. Jednak starts talking about his exodus from his Glina house in
August, 1995. He ran, he left everything he ever owned during the
Croat-American operation "Storm." The Croat army with Ustasha insignia
was the ground force. The US provided air cover to the despicable
Nazis.
Mr. Jednak speaks in dense, compact sentences which teem with
information. Interestingly, he addresses his audience in present tense
even when he talks about the times long gone. For him, they may not
be. This gives the horror he went through additional power.
He speaks with a certain calm as if he were floating above it all.
This simple, warm person, so tied to the ground, the fruit trees and
the always bittersweet life of a peasant tries to describe
indescribable. . . .
I believe he found words where there are no words.
Petar Makara,
December 2003
RACCONTO DI NATALE
kouchner, dopo un lungo periodo di assenza, torna in kosovo, per una
missione.
arriva a pristina la sera e stanco per il viaggio, va subito in albergo
a
dormire.
al mattino, ancora intorpidito dal sonno, si alza, nella stanza
semibuia, e
a tentoni raggiunge, con la mano, l'interruttore della luce, lo preme...
funziona... la luce si accende... un sentimento insolito e indecifrabile
gli attraversa l'anima, una sorta di turbamento gli fa presagire
qualcosa
di srtrano... si avvia in bagno, urina, tira lo sciacquone...
FUNZIONA...
l'acqua scorre... il sentimento si fa piu preciso... diventa un vero e
proprio senso di angoscia e la mente sempre meno assopita, comincia a
formulare ipotesi strane... si avvicina alla finestra, la apre... fuori
il
traffico scorre, lento e ordinato, le auto si fermano al rosso dei
semafori
senza frastuoni di clackson.
kouchner sbarra gli occhi... l'angoscia è ormai diventata paura, le
ipotesi
comunciano a costituirsi in piccole mostruose certezze dalle forme
tragiche... alza il telefono... anch'esso FUNZIONA, è il panico e le
dita
tremanti formano il numero di chi, solo, puo recargli soccorso...
finalmente qualcuno risponde
: ''pronto, qui è la kfor''.
... e kouchner, colla voce strozzata
''presto, fate qualcosa, i serbi sono tornati a pristina !!!!!''
Alberto Tarozzi
kouchner, dopo un lungo periodo di assenza, torna in kosovo, per una
missione.
arriva a pristina la sera e stanco per il viaggio, va subito in albergo
a
dormire.
al mattino, ancora intorpidito dal sonno, si alza, nella stanza
semibuia, e
a tentoni raggiunge, con la mano, l'interruttore della luce, lo preme...
funziona... la luce si accende... un sentimento insolito e indecifrabile
gli attraversa l'anima, una sorta di turbamento gli fa presagire
qualcosa
di srtrano... si avvia in bagno, urina, tira lo sciacquone...
FUNZIONA...
l'acqua scorre... il sentimento si fa piu preciso... diventa un vero e
proprio senso di angoscia e la mente sempre meno assopita, comincia a
formulare ipotesi strane... si avvicina alla finestra, la apre... fuori
il
traffico scorre, lento e ordinato, le auto si fermano al rosso dei
semafori
senza frastuoni di clackson.
kouchner sbarra gli occhi... l'angoscia è ormai diventata paura, le
ipotesi
comunciano a costituirsi in piccole mostruose certezze dalle forme
tragiche... alza il telefono... anch'esso FUNZIONA, è il panico e le
dita
tremanti formano il numero di chi, solo, puo recargli soccorso...
finalmente qualcuno risponde
: ''pronto, qui è la kfor''.
... e kouchner, colla voce strozzata
''presto, fate qualcosa, i serbi sono tornati a pristina !!!!!''
Alberto Tarozzi
