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Pancevo: gli agenti chimici rilasciati in seguito al bombardamento della
NATO infettano la citta' serba
'No one will be able to prove what killed us'
Chemicals released after Nato bombing infect Serbian
city
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Tuesday May 15, 2001
The Guardian
When the Nato bombs started to fall on Pancevo's
petro-chemical factory, 10 miles east of Belgrade next
to the Danube in Serbia, the locals thought it must be
a mistake. Surely, even in war, no one would risk
releasing deadly chemicals less than two miles from a
city.
But, as the attacks continued, it was clear that they
were being aimed at storage tanks that contained the
raw materials for PVC.
As the air strikes continued, heroic efforts were made
to load them into rail tankers to save the civilian
population. But it was all in vain - 80,000 people
were exposed to a dose of one chemical 10,500 times
above the safe limit.
At the height of the Nato offensive, the bombing of
Pancevo was seen as a victory against a strategic
target because of its spectacularly burning oil
refinery, with only a footnote of regret about the
contamination of the canal that feeds into the Danube.
But two years on, the long-term damages caused to the
city, its people and their water supply are only now
being fully realised and dealt with. The UN
Environment Programme (Unep) and the city are
desperately trying to scrape together the funds to
save the area from continuing environmental disaster.
Already, 100 workers who tried to stop the leaks and
limit the damage of chemicals flowing into the ground
have been declared permanent invalids because of lung
damage. A number of young men have had unexplained
heart trouble.
Two years after the bombing, despite two winters of
heavy rains to cleanse the soil, still nothing grows
around the petrochemical works. The earth has patches
of dark-green algae in puddles but no other life;
elsewhere, the countryside is alive with verdant
growth.
The newly elected mayor of Pancevo, Borislava Kruska,
a quietly spoken woman, says by the time Nato experts
had arrived months after the bombing, the chemicals on
the surface, which were causing air pollution, had
evaporated.
Most of the chemicals, however, remain just below the
surface.
"It is what I call the perfect murder. Nobody will be
able to prove what killed us," she said. Unep says a
saturation level of one part per million of vinyl
chloride monomer (VCM) in the air is enough to trigger
cancer of the liver. It can cause brain tumours and
attacks the nervous system.
In Pancevo, the saturation reached 10,500 parts per
million.
It is too early to see the effects on the human
population, but there are alarming signs that
something is wrong: A rare bone cancer, previously
restricted to very old dogs, has being found in
abundance in puppies and adolescents.
And VCM is not the mayor's only worry. There is
another PVC chemical, 1,2-dichloroethane (EDC), which
is highly toxic and particularly attacks the liver and
kidneys. At least 2,000 tonnes of it leaked into the
ground after the bombing.
Eating all root vegetables in Pancevo has been banned
and tests show that EDC has penetrated deep into the
ground, close to the city's water supply.
A group of experts from several countries is trying to
work out how to recover the EDC before it reaches the
water table. An estimated 130,000 people use the local
water pumped from the ground.
Unep estimates that the pollution problem will cost
�14m to fix; so far it has raised �4.5m from the
international community that bombed Pancevo. Holes
will need to be drilled to pump out the contaminated
water before it reaches the water table.
The canal, which runs from the bombed water-treatment
plant at the factory to the Danube, needs �4m worth of
dredging to prevent the contaminants leaking into
Europe's longest river.
Some urgent remedial measures have been taken. In one
area, Unep has removed 80cms (31.5in) of topsoil to
collect most of the eight tonnes of mercury released
by the bombing.
The technical manager of the factory, Dmitar
Krivokuca, who is working with UNEP on the clean up,
said: "There has been some poisoning of our workers
and people are in jeopardy the whole time, but we have
to clear this up if we are going to restart and
provide employment."
The neighbouring oil refinery has started work again
providing the first jobs in an area that had 10,000
industrial workers before the war.
The smell of sulphur now dominates from the cheap
Russian oil being processed, but filters will be
fitted when funds permit.
The mayor said: "We are not pretending that before the
bombing the area was not polluted, it was, but not on
this scale.
"As we go on living and dying in Pancevo, we will
never be able to prove what is killing us. No
population has been exposed to this level of these
chemicals anywhere in the world. What we need is help
to stop it getting worse."
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Pancevo: gli agenti chimici rilasciati in seguito al bombardamento della
NATO infettano la citta' serba
'No one will be able to prove what killed us'
Chemicals released after Nato bombing infect Serbian
city
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Tuesday May 15, 2001
The Guardian
When the Nato bombs started to fall on Pancevo's
petro-chemical factory, 10 miles east of Belgrade next
to the Danube in Serbia, the locals thought it must be
a mistake. Surely, even in war, no one would risk
releasing deadly chemicals less than two miles from a
city.
But, as the attacks continued, it was clear that they
were being aimed at storage tanks that contained the
raw materials for PVC.
As the air strikes continued, heroic efforts were made
to load them into rail tankers to save the civilian
population. But it was all in vain - 80,000 people
were exposed to a dose of one chemical 10,500 times
above the safe limit.
At the height of the Nato offensive, the bombing of
Pancevo was seen as a victory against a strategic
target because of its spectacularly burning oil
refinery, with only a footnote of regret about the
contamination of the canal that feeds into the Danube.
But two years on, the long-term damages caused to the
city, its people and their water supply are only now
being fully realised and dealt with. The UN
Environment Programme (Unep) and the city are
desperately trying to scrape together the funds to
save the area from continuing environmental disaster.
Already, 100 workers who tried to stop the leaks and
limit the damage of chemicals flowing into the ground
have been declared permanent invalids because of lung
damage. A number of young men have had unexplained
heart trouble.
Two years after the bombing, despite two winters of
heavy rains to cleanse the soil, still nothing grows
around the petrochemical works. The earth has patches
of dark-green algae in puddles but no other life;
elsewhere, the countryside is alive with verdant
growth.
The newly elected mayor of Pancevo, Borislava Kruska,
a quietly spoken woman, says by the time Nato experts
had arrived months after the bombing, the chemicals on
the surface, which were causing air pollution, had
evaporated.
Most of the chemicals, however, remain just below the
surface.
"It is what I call the perfect murder. Nobody will be
able to prove what killed us," she said. Unep says a
saturation level of one part per million of vinyl
chloride monomer (VCM) in the air is enough to trigger
cancer of the liver. It can cause brain tumours and
attacks the nervous system.
In Pancevo, the saturation reached 10,500 parts per
million.
It is too early to see the effects on the human
population, but there are alarming signs that
something is wrong: A rare bone cancer, previously
restricted to very old dogs, has being found in
abundance in puppies and adolescents.
And VCM is not the mayor's only worry. There is
another PVC chemical, 1,2-dichloroethane (EDC), which
is highly toxic and particularly attacks the liver and
kidneys. At least 2,000 tonnes of it leaked into the
ground after the bombing.
Eating all root vegetables in Pancevo has been banned
and tests show that EDC has penetrated deep into the
ground, close to the city's water supply.
A group of experts from several countries is trying to
work out how to recover the EDC before it reaches the
water table. An estimated 130,000 people use the local
water pumped from the ground.
Unep estimates that the pollution problem will cost
�14m to fix; so far it has raised �4.5m from the
international community that bombed Pancevo. Holes
will need to be drilled to pump out the contaminated
water before it reaches the water table.
The canal, which runs from the bombed water-treatment
plant at the factory to the Danube, needs �4m worth of
dredging to prevent the contaminants leaking into
Europe's longest river.
Some urgent remedial measures have been taken. In one
area, Unep has removed 80cms (31.5in) of topsoil to
collect most of the eight tonnes of mercury released
by the bombing.
The technical manager of the factory, Dmitar
Krivokuca, who is working with UNEP on the clean up,
said: "There has been some poisoning of our workers
and people are in jeopardy the whole time, but we have
to clear this up if we are going to restart and
provide employment."
The neighbouring oil refinery has started work again
providing the first jobs in an area that had 10,000
industrial workers before the war.
The smell of sulphur now dominates from the cheap
Russian oil being processed, but filters will be
fitted when funds permit.
The mayor said: "We are not pretending that before the
bombing the area was not polluted, it was, but not on
this scale.
"As we go on living and dying in Pancevo, we will
never be able to prove what is killing us. No
population has been exposed to this level of these
chemicals anywhere in the world. What we need is help
to stop it getting worse."
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POGROM IN BELGRADE
by Jared Israel [14 May 2001]
"po�grom (pe-gr�m�, po�grem) noun
An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution
of a
minority group, especially one
conducted against Jews." (Dictionary, MS Bookshelf 98)
Dr. Klara Mandic, a founder of the Serbian-Jewish Friendship
Association,
who lost her entire family to pro-Nazi thugs during World War II,
was
brutally murdered three days ago in Belgrade. Dr. Mandic and
other Yugoslav
Jews had worked tirelessly to expose anti-Serb lies in the
Western mass
media. (See the 'Open Letter to American Jews,' of which she was
a signer.
It is posted below.)
The mass media in the West and the Washington-dominated media in
Yugoslavia
are portraying this gruesome murder as a robbery gone wrong.
"Initial
police findings indicated that Klara Mandic...was killed during a
robbery
attempt." ( 'AP', May 11)
But although robbery is a clear-cut affair - i.e., something is
taken - the
'Associated Press' reported that:
"Police did not say whether any items were missing. They did not
say why
they thought it was a robbery attempt." ('AP')
"Killed during a robbery attempt" suggests that the robbers
murdered Dr.
Mandic because she caught them in the act or to prevent her from
identifying them later. But according to the Wire Service reports
she was
'beaten to
death' and then 'shot in the back of the head' and finally set on
fire.
('AP' and 'AFP', 11 May.)
This is not the behavior of robbers anxious to get the goods and
escape. It
is the behavior of murderers with a task: to leave a message of
terror.
As with any crime the question is: who gains? The answer here is,
only the
current Yugoslav authorities and their Washington controllers.
Belgrade's coup d'etat government has severe problems. The
Yugoslav economy
is functioning at about 1/3 the level prior to the coup d'etat.
The country
is riddled with strikes against government efforts to give
Yugoslav industry
away to Western interests. Desperate to prevent the formation of
an
unstoppable opposition, the current regime has silenced all
dissenting media.
For example, the popular Palma TV station was recently ordered to
stop
broadcasting political shows. Thugs working for the authorities
have beaten
and arrested scores of opponents. After ridiculously botching an
attempt by
thugs with women's stockings pulled down over their faces to
kidnap or
murder former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich on March
28, the
regime arrested him, claiming the arrest was urgently needed
because they
had proof of terrible crimes. As for what these crimes were,
various
members of the regime proposed different possibilities, ranging
from theft
to murder, but during the six weeks they have held Mr.
Miloshevich for
"investigation," these authorities have yet to produce a single
witness to
testify against Mr. Miloshevich, nor have they indicted him for
anything,
not even traffic violations. Clearly the arrest was carried out
to satisfy
orders from
Washington, as Richard Holbrooke more or less admitted in the 'NY
Times
Magazine' (April 8). Mr. Miloshevich's offense is he has
reisisted
Washington and he has refused to crawl.
A week ago, Dusan Matic, lawyer for the jailed former security
chief, Rade
Markovic, told a press conference that his client had been
threatened with
death if he refused to testify against Mr. Miloshevich. In jail,
Mr.
Miloshevich has been denied critically needed treatment for a
dangerous
heart condition.
Even as ordinary people desert the government, the atmosphere of
terror has
increased. Government operatives threaten anti-NATO activists
with beatings
or death. The authorities have put up with the words "We are
watching you!"
in imitation of the slogan "Big Brother is Watching you!" from
'1984',
George Orwell's book about a fascistic state. At least six
opponents of the
regime have died under 'mysterious' circumstances.
Dr. Mandic was murdered in order to send a message to Yugoslav
patriots in
general, but particularly to Yugoslav Jews who have credibility
in the West
and who have given Washington a pain in the neck.
Over the past decade, they continually denounced the anti-Serbian
statements made by American Jewish leaders as lies. The murder of
Klara
Mandic is intended as a message to these Jews: Beware! You were
driven from
Croatia,
Bosnia and Kosovo. Shut your mouths, or there may be more
'robberies'.
Meanwhile, American Jewish leaders have responded to the
terror-killing of
Dr. Mandic with deafening silence. Why? All evidence suggests she
was
killed to punish her for an ancient crime: being a Jew who told
the truth.
The American Jewish leadership, self-appointed Protectors of
World Jewry,
were also silent in 1990-92, when anti-Serb fascists seized
control of
Croatia and began terrorizing local Jews, many of whom fled to
Belgrade.
Similarly, Jews fled the Sarajevo regime of the Islamist, Alijah
Izetbegovic, a man ludicrously mis-portrayed by the American
media as a
tolerant democrat. In both cases American Jewish leaders said:
nothing. (1)
Why? Because the Croatian and Bosnian fascists were Washington's
allies.
Washington did not want them criticized. And these 'tamed'
leaders do what
Washington dictates. And today Washington dictates: silence
Serbia's Jews.
In 1992, American Jewish leaders did speak out. They took out an
ad in the
'N.Y. Times' and made speeches and wrote articles parroting the
Washington-Bonn lie that Serbs were the new Nazis and Miloshevich
the
(latest) new Hitler, spreading these slanders with evident relish
at
finding themselves on the right side of a pogrom. By comparing
Miloshevich,
an anti-racist, to Hitler, they belittled the suffering of
Hitler's victims
(including not only Jews but millions of Slavs, 'Gypsies',
leftists, etc.) (2)
Gentiles tend to view Jews as experts on genocide. So the Jewish
leaders
were invaluable to the anti-Serb propaganda effort. They lent an
air of
credibility to doctored pictures of supposed Serbian death camps
in Bosnia,
shown ad nauseum all over the world in August, 1992 - pictures
which have
been proven to be fakes. After all, if 'the Jews' said Serbs were
genocidal
it must be true. (3)
But while the leaders could fool many American Jews, who, like
most
Americans, are uninformed about political forces in the Balkans,
or, for
that matter, precisley where to find 'the Balkans' on a map -
they could
not fool
Jews in Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Jews knew exactly whom the U.S. and
Germany
were using as proxy forces in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo: the
political
descendents of Hitler's local allies who killed over 80,000 Jews
alongside
perhaps 750,000 Serbs during W.W.II, killed them in ways so
brutal that
visiting Nazis were shocked. For example, by beating them to
death and
burning them. In other words, just as they killed Dr. Klara
Mandic.
Yugoslav Jews have tried to awaken world opinion. Take one tiny
but
instructive example: it was a Yugoslav Jew, teaching in New
England, who
made me aware of the full story of what the Serbs had gone
through in World
War
II, how much they had suffered trying to protect their Jewish
countrymen. I
will write more about that in another article, 'The Jewish Debt
to the Serbs'.
It was a Yugoslav Jew, Chedomir Pralinchevich, who first told the
world
that several hundred thousand Serbs, Roma ("Gypsies"), Jews and
other
non-Albanians were being driven from Kosovo after its
'liberation' by NATO
forces, with the connivance of the NATO command. A Yugoslav Jew
located Mr.
Pralinchevich and a Yugoslav Jew translated the interview. (4)
The wire service reports suggest that since (they say) there was
no sign of
forced entry, Dr. Mandic probably knew her attackers. This is
nonsense.
Terrorist forces in the employ of the Belgrade authorities would
of course
have tools for picking locks. Moreover, even a woman living alone
will open
the door to certain people, for example, to policemen.
Both the 'Agence France Presse' and 'BBC' stories also include
the
following (identically worded) paragraph:
"At least five of Milosevic's allies have been killed since 1997,
including
Yugoslav defence minister Pavle Bulatovic and Serbian deputy
interior
minister Radovan Stojicic. Their murderers have never been found.
"(May 11)
The combination of "she knew her attackers" and "Milosevic allies
keep
getting killed" is clearly intended to suggest that this crime
may be the
work of the ever-accusable Mr. Miloshevich. This is consistent
with the
Washington-directed effort to blame all Washington's attacks on
the victims
of those attacks. Thus the former head of Serbian TV was held in
jail for
about two months (a high court just ordered that he be released).
The
charge against him? Well, no charge was actually filed but they
were
supposedly 'investigating' his 'responsibility' for the deaths of
16
technicians and reporters killed when NATO bombed Serbian
television.
And so we are supposed to believe that for some reason explicable
only to
himself, that mysteriously evil genius, Miloshevich, has chosen
this
moment, when his personal survival depends on rallying Serbian
patriots to
stand up
and be counted - that he has chosen this moment to have an old
friend
murdered in a manner calculated to terrorize - whom? His own
supporters!
Do they actually pay people to think up this crap?
In fact there is nothing mysterious about this murder.
Washington's proxies
have been using terror for ten years. Indeed, didn't Washington
drop
uranium-encased bombs on civilian targets during the 78 days of
bombing in
1999? What is the difference between blowing a child to bits with
a cluster
bomb and murdering and mutilating Dr. Mandic?
The Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists, who have killed thousands
of Serbs,
'Gypsies', anti-racist Albanians and others in the most brutal
ways, are in
the pay of NATO special forces. And the thugs who murdered Dr.
Mandic,
imitating the methods of World War II Nazis, are in the employ of
the
Washington-controlled gangsters who presently run Yugoslavia. (5)
Having been murdered by NATO thugs, Dr. Mandic is now being
murdered again
in the pro-NATO media. The 'AP' wrote:
"In 1990, Mandic helped found the Society of Serb-Jewish
Friendship, though
her role in it was viewed with suspicion by the local Jewish
community."
(May 11, 2001)
This is a lie and surely the 'AP' knows it. Almost all Yugoslav
Jews in
fact agree with Dr. Mandic's pro-Yugoslav sentiments, as
expressed in the
'Open Letter', below.
Today the Yugoslav Jewish community is small. Why? Because the
predecessors
of America's current Balkans allies killed over 80,000 Yugoslav
Jews during
W.W.II. Those who were not killed only survived due to the heroic
efforts
of Serbian people who risked their lives to hide them. (6)
Dr. Mandic's murder was a terrorist warning from an increasingly
isolated
puppet regime in Belgrade, a regime which, since it has seized
control of
Yugoslavia by means of a coup, has given the ordinary people
nothing but
growing misery and growing subservience to Washington.
Decent people will not forget this murder. Nor will they forgive
those who
sent the killers.
-- JI, 13 May 2001
*******************
Below is the 'Open Letter' from the Serbian-Jewish Friendship
Society. One
of the signers is Dr. Klara Mandic.
Open Letter to American Jews
Dear Fellow Jews,
We the Jewish members of the Belgrade chapter of the Jewish
Serbian
Friendship society, dedicated to the ongoing development of
friendly
relations between Jews and Serbs wherever they live together, are
taking
this initiative to address other Jewish organizations and their
leadership.
We protest the involvement of Jewish organizations, insitutions
and leading
Jewish personalities in the world for their condemnations and
attacks on
the Serbian people in Serbia, Montenegro and the former Yugoslav
republics .
It is with a deep sense of regret and irony that we learn of
widespread
Jewish support of the distorted and too often patently untrue
depiction of
the Serbian role in the civil war in Bosnia. We particularly
object to and
protest Jewish support of the foundationless, inhumane and cruel
economic
measures taken against the population of Serbia and Montenegro.
Still more disturbing is the active role taken by [these
prominent] Jews in
support of military intervention and attacks against Serbs
fighting against
overwhelming odds for their political rights and their basic
survival.
It is incomprehensible to us that Jewish insitutions and
individual Jews,
who have themselves for thousands of years been the victims of
prejudice,
exile and annihilation, would participate in a racist pogrom of
the same
nature
against the Serbs - nothing can exuse Jewish involvement in such
a campaign.
Not even during the Nazi era, when the great majority of German
people
supported Hitler, was there such an organized and systematic
propaganda
campaign against Nazism or particularly the German people as
there is in the
world today against Serbia and the Serbian people.
Most importantly, Nazism constituted a bona fide threat to the
entire
world: philosophycally, politically and militarily. It was no
contrivance
of Madison Avenue and international political manipulation, as is
the case
today with Serbs. It is yet the the greatest of ironies that it
was fascist
manipulations, in Germany, grotesquely similar to those of
Nazism, which
served as the impetus for the break up of Yugoslavia, set the
stage for the
ensuing civil war and the tone of the geopolitical agenda which
today
dominates Western perception of this tragedy.
These perceptions have been profoundly enhanced by modern media
technology
alliances of political and economic convenience and the woeful
lack of
historical knowledge, endemic in Western populations,
particularly in
America. Millions of people worldwide, well meaning people, have
been
manipulated; Jews among them.
In the religious, nationalistic civil war raging in Bosnia there
is indeed
brutality taking place. However, the guilt for that brutality
almost
exclusively attributed to the Serbs, is not founded in reality.
The Serbs today once again find themselves in a position familiar
to
themselves and similar to that in which the Jews have so often
found
themselves. For centuries, the Serbs were the victims of the
Turkish
conquerer; subjugated, exiled and forced into religious
conversion on the
one hand, and the object of Teutonic oppression under the
Austro-Hungarian
Empire on the other.
From 1941 through the end of World War II they were, alongside
Jews, the
victims of the Holocaust under the Nazis, the Ustashi and their
Muslim
allies under the leadership of Hitler's trusted crony, the Grand
Mufti of
Jerusalem, El-Husseini. Today, as the Serbs are again threatened
life and
limb by a new generation of Fascists, Nazis and Muslim
fundamentalists, and
the racist nationalism of Croatia under the anti-Semitic
leadership of
Franjo Tudjman, they are labeled as "aggressors".
Confronted by these old enemies who attack them in full regalia,
replete
with all the traditional symbols: Swastika, Shahevnitza, Star &
Crescent,
the Serbs are fighting for their biological survival on land that
has been
for a
millenium their own.
The entire history of the Serbs is one of struggle for survival
and
freedom. They live on lands which for centuries now have been the
cross-roads between great and often conflicting powers; the place
where
their borders meet: the
Christian church of the East and West - Orthodox and [Roman]
Catholic, the
Great Schism, the Muslim drive West, pitted against the German
drive east.
For many hundreds of years the Serbs have stood, in their fight
for
independence, as an unbridgeable obstacle to both these great
currents, the
rivers of blood swelling the shores of Serbian land with the
valiantly spent
lives of their sons and daughters - generation to generation.
In World Wars I and II the Serbs again carried the greatest
burden and
suffered the greatest losses in the "allied" fight against
tyranny in the
Balkans. So often alone in their struggle for liberation, they
have always
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POGROM IN BELGRADE
by Jared Israel [14 May 2001]
"po�grom (pe-gr�m�, po�grem) noun
An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution
of a
minority group, especially one
conducted against Jews." (Dictionary, MS Bookshelf 98)
Dr. Klara Mandic, a founder of the Serbian-Jewish Friendship
Association,
who lost her entire family to pro-Nazi thugs during World War II,
was
brutally murdered three days ago in Belgrade. Dr. Mandic and
other Yugoslav
Jews had worked tirelessly to expose anti-Serb lies in the
Western mass
media. (See the 'Open Letter to American Jews,' of which she was
a signer.
It is posted below.)
The mass media in the West and the Washington-dominated media in
Yugoslavia
are portraying this gruesome murder as a robbery gone wrong.
"Initial
police findings indicated that Klara Mandic...was killed during a
robbery
attempt." ( 'AP', May 11)
But although robbery is a clear-cut affair - i.e., something is
taken - the
'Associated Press' reported that:
"Police did not say whether any items were missing. They did not
say why
they thought it was a robbery attempt." ('AP')
"Killed during a robbery attempt" suggests that the robbers
murdered Dr.
Mandic because she caught them in the act or to prevent her from
identifying them later. But according to the Wire Service reports
she was
'beaten to
death' and then 'shot in the back of the head' and finally set on
fire.
('AP' and 'AFP', 11 May.)
This is not the behavior of robbers anxious to get the goods and
escape. It
is the behavior of murderers with a task: to leave a message of
terror.
As with any crime the question is: who gains? The answer here is,
only the
current Yugoslav authorities and their Washington controllers.
Belgrade's coup d'etat government has severe problems. The
Yugoslav economy
is functioning at about 1/3 the level prior to the coup d'etat.
The country
is riddled with strikes against government efforts to give
Yugoslav industry
away to Western interests. Desperate to prevent the formation of
an
unstoppable opposition, the current regime has silenced all
dissenting media.
For example, the popular Palma TV station was recently ordered to
stop
broadcasting political shows. Thugs working for the authorities
have beaten
and arrested scores of opponents. After ridiculously botching an
attempt by
thugs with women's stockings pulled down over their faces to
kidnap or
murder former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich on March
28, the
regime arrested him, claiming the arrest was urgently needed
because they
had proof of terrible crimes. As for what these crimes were,
various
members of the regime proposed different possibilities, ranging
from theft
to murder, but during the six weeks they have held Mr.
Miloshevich for
"investigation," these authorities have yet to produce a single
witness to
testify against Mr. Miloshevich, nor have they indicted him for
anything,
not even traffic violations. Clearly the arrest was carried out
to satisfy
orders from
Washington, as Richard Holbrooke more or less admitted in the 'NY
Times
Magazine' (April 8). Mr. Miloshevich's offense is he has
reisisted
Washington and he has refused to crawl.
A week ago, Dusan Matic, lawyer for the jailed former security
chief, Rade
Markovic, told a press conference that his client had been
threatened with
death if he refused to testify against Mr. Miloshevich. In jail,
Mr.
Miloshevich has been denied critically needed treatment for a
dangerous
heart condition.
Even as ordinary people desert the government, the atmosphere of
terror has
increased. Government operatives threaten anti-NATO activists
with beatings
or death. The authorities have put up with the words "We are
watching you!"
in imitation of the slogan "Big Brother is Watching you!" from
'1984',
George Orwell's book about a fascistic state. At least six
opponents of the
regime have died under 'mysterious' circumstances.
Dr. Mandic was murdered in order to send a message to Yugoslav
patriots in
general, but particularly to Yugoslav Jews who have credibility
in the West
and who have given Washington a pain in the neck.
Over the past decade, they continually denounced the anti-Serbian
statements made by American Jewish leaders as lies. The murder of
Klara
Mandic is intended as a message to these Jews: Beware! You were
driven from
Croatia,
Bosnia and Kosovo. Shut your mouths, or there may be more
'robberies'.
Meanwhile, American Jewish leaders have responded to the
terror-killing of
Dr. Mandic with deafening silence. Why? All evidence suggests she
was
killed to punish her for an ancient crime: being a Jew who told
the truth.
The American Jewish leadership, self-appointed Protectors of
World Jewry,
were also silent in 1990-92, when anti-Serb fascists seized
control of
Croatia and began terrorizing local Jews, many of whom fled to
Belgrade.
Similarly, Jews fled the Sarajevo regime of the Islamist, Alijah
Izetbegovic, a man ludicrously mis-portrayed by the American
media as a
tolerant democrat. In both cases American Jewish leaders said:
nothing. (1)
Why? Because the Croatian and Bosnian fascists were Washington's
allies.
Washington did not want them criticized. And these 'tamed'
leaders do what
Washington dictates. And today Washington dictates: silence
Serbia's Jews.
In 1992, American Jewish leaders did speak out. They took out an
ad in the
'N.Y. Times' and made speeches and wrote articles parroting the
Washington-Bonn lie that Serbs were the new Nazis and Miloshevich
the
(latest) new Hitler, spreading these slanders with evident relish
at
finding themselves on the right side of a pogrom. By comparing
Miloshevich,
an anti-racist, to Hitler, they belittled the suffering of
Hitler's victims
(including not only Jews but millions of Slavs, 'Gypsies',
leftists, etc.) (2)
Gentiles tend to view Jews as experts on genocide. So the Jewish
leaders
were invaluable to the anti-Serb propaganda effort. They lent an
air of
credibility to doctored pictures of supposed Serbian death camps
in Bosnia,
shown ad nauseum all over the world in August, 1992 - pictures
which have
been proven to be fakes. After all, if 'the Jews' said Serbs were
genocidal
it must be true. (3)
But while the leaders could fool many American Jews, who, like
most
Americans, are uninformed about political forces in the Balkans,
or, for
that matter, precisley where to find 'the Balkans' on a map -
they could
not fool
Jews in Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Jews knew exactly whom the U.S. and
Germany
were using as proxy forces in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo: the
political
descendents of Hitler's local allies who killed over 80,000 Jews
alongside
perhaps 750,000 Serbs during W.W.II, killed them in ways so
brutal that
visiting Nazis were shocked. For example, by beating them to
death and
burning them. In other words, just as they killed Dr. Klara
Mandic.
Yugoslav Jews have tried to awaken world opinion. Take one tiny
but
instructive example: it was a Yugoslav Jew, teaching in New
England, who
made me aware of the full story of what the Serbs had gone
through in World
War
II, how much they had suffered trying to protect their Jewish
countrymen. I
will write more about that in another article, 'The Jewish Debt
to the Serbs'.
It was a Yugoslav Jew, Chedomir Pralinchevich, who first told the
world
that several hundred thousand Serbs, Roma ("Gypsies"), Jews and
other
non-Albanians were being driven from Kosovo after its
'liberation' by NATO
forces, with the connivance of the NATO command. A Yugoslav Jew
located Mr.
Pralinchevich and a Yugoslav Jew translated the interview. (4)
The wire service reports suggest that since (they say) there was
no sign of
forced entry, Dr. Mandic probably knew her attackers. This is
nonsense.
Terrorist forces in the employ of the Belgrade authorities would
of course
have tools for picking locks. Moreover, even a woman living alone
will open
the door to certain people, for example, to policemen.
Both the 'Agence France Presse' and 'BBC' stories also include
the
following (identically worded) paragraph:
"At least five of Milosevic's allies have been killed since 1997,
including
Yugoslav defence minister Pavle Bulatovic and Serbian deputy
interior
minister Radovan Stojicic. Their murderers have never been found.
"(May 11)
The combination of "she knew her attackers" and "Milosevic allies
keep
getting killed" is clearly intended to suggest that this crime
may be the
work of the ever-accusable Mr. Miloshevich. This is consistent
with the
Washington-directed effort to blame all Washington's attacks on
the victims
of those attacks. Thus the former head of Serbian TV was held in
jail for
about two months (a high court just ordered that he be released).
The
charge against him? Well, no charge was actually filed but they
were
supposedly 'investigating' his 'responsibility' for the deaths of
16
technicians and reporters killed when NATO bombed Serbian
television.
And so we are supposed to believe that for some reason explicable
only to
himself, that mysteriously evil genius, Miloshevich, has chosen
this
moment, when his personal survival depends on rallying Serbian
patriots to
stand up
and be counted - that he has chosen this moment to have an old
friend
murdered in a manner calculated to terrorize - whom? His own
supporters!
Do they actually pay people to think up this crap?
In fact there is nothing mysterious about this murder.
Washington's proxies
have been using terror for ten years. Indeed, didn't Washington
drop
uranium-encased bombs on civilian targets during the 78 days of
bombing in
1999? What is the difference between blowing a child to bits with
a cluster
bomb and murdering and mutilating Dr. Mandic?
The Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists, who have killed thousands
of Serbs,
'Gypsies', anti-racist Albanians and others in the most brutal
ways, are in
the pay of NATO special forces. And the thugs who murdered Dr.
Mandic,
imitating the methods of World War II Nazis, are in the employ of
the
Washington-controlled gangsters who presently run Yugoslavia. (5)
Having been murdered by NATO thugs, Dr. Mandic is now being
murdered again
in the pro-NATO media. The 'AP' wrote:
"In 1990, Mandic helped found the Society of Serb-Jewish
Friendship, though
her role in it was viewed with suspicion by the local Jewish
community."
(May 11, 2001)
This is a lie and surely the 'AP' knows it. Almost all Yugoslav
Jews in
fact agree with Dr. Mandic's pro-Yugoslav sentiments, as
expressed in the
'Open Letter', below.
Today the Yugoslav Jewish community is small. Why? Because the
predecessors
of America's current Balkans allies killed over 80,000 Yugoslav
Jews during
W.W.II. Those who were not killed only survived due to the heroic
efforts
of Serbian people who risked their lives to hide them. (6)
Dr. Mandic's murder was a terrorist warning from an increasingly
isolated
puppet regime in Belgrade, a regime which, since it has seized
control of
Yugoslavia by means of a coup, has given the ordinary people
nothing but
growing misery and growing subservience to Washington.
Decent people will not forget this murder. Nor will they forgive
those who
sent the killers.
-- JI, 13 May 2001
*******************
Below is the 'Open Letter' from the Serbian-Jewish Friendship
Society. One
of the signers is Dr. Klara Mandic.
Open Letter to American Jews
Dear Fellow Jews,
We the Jewish members of the Belgrade chapter of the Jewish
Serbian
Friendship society, dedicated to the ongoing development of
friendly
relations between Jews and Serbs wherever they live together, are
taking
this initiative to address other Jewish organizations and their
leadership.
We protest the involvement of Jewish organizations, insitutions
and leading
Jewish personalities in the world for their condemnations and
attacks on
the Serbian people in Serbia, Montenegro and the former Yugoslav
republics .
It is with a deep sense of regret and irony that we learn of
widespread
Jewish support of the distorted and too often patently untrue
depiction of
the Serbian role in the civil war in Bosnia. We particularly
object to and
protest Jewish support of the foundationless, inhumane and cruel
economic
measures taken against the population of Serbia and Montenegro.
Still more disturbing is the active role taken by [these
prominent] Jews in
support of military intervention and attacks against Serbs
fighting against
overwhelming odds for their political rights and their basic
survival.
It is incomprehensible to us that Jewish insitutions and
individual Jews,
who have themselves for thousands of years been the victims of
prejudice,
exile and annihilation, would participate in a racist pogrom of
the same
nature
against the Serbs - nothing can exuse Jewish involvement in such
a campaign.
Not even during the Nazi era, when the great majority of German
people
supported Hitler, was there such an organized and systematic
propaganda
campaign against Nazism or particularly the German people as
there is in the
world today against Serbia and the Serbian people.
Most importantly, Nazism constituted a bona fide threat to the
entire
world: philosophycally, politically and militarily. It was no
contrivance
of Madison Avenue and international political manipulation, as is
the case
today with Serbs. It is yet the the greatest of ironies that it
was fascist
manipulations, in Germany, grotesquely similar to those of
Nazism, which
served as the impetus for the break up of Yugoslavia, set the
stage for the
ensuing civil war and the tone of the geopolitical agenda which
today
dominates Western perception of this tragedy.
These perceptions have been profoundly enhanced by modern media
technology
alliances of political and economic convenience and the woeful
lack of
historical knowledge, endemic in Western populations,
particularly in
America. Millions of people worldwide, well meaning people, have
been
manipulated; Jews among them.
In the religious, nationalistic civil war raging in Bosnia there
is indeed
brutality taking place. However, the guilt for that brutality
almost
exclusively attributed to the Serbs, is not founded in reality.
The Serbs today once again find themselves in a position familiar
to
themselves and similar to that in which the Jews have so often
found
themselves. For centuries, the Serbs were the victims of the
Turkish
conquerer; subjugated, exiled and forced into religious
conversion on the
one hand, and the object of Teutonic oppression under the
Austro-Hungarian
Empire on the other.
From 1941 through the end of World War II they were, alongside
Jews, the
victims of the Holocaust under the Nazis, the Ustashi and their
Muslim
allies under the leadership of Hitler's trusted crony, the Grand
Mufti of
Jerusalem, El-Husseini. Today, as the Serbs are again threatened
life and
limb by a new generation of Fascists, Nazis and Muslim
fundamentalists, and
the racist nationalism of Croatia under the anti-Semitic
leadership of
Franjo Tudjman, they are labeled as "aggressors".
Confronted by these old enemies who attack them in full regalia,
replete
with all the traditional symbols: Swastika, Shahevnitza, Star &
Crescent,
the Serbs are fighting for their biological survival on land that
has been
for a
millenium their own.
The entire history of the Serbs is one of struggle for survival
and
freedom. They live on lands which for centuries now have been the
cross-roads between great and often conflicting powers; the place
where
their borders meet: the
Christian church of the East and West - Orthodox and [Roman]
Catholic, the
Great Schism, the Muslim drive West, pitted against the German
drive east.
For many hundreds of years the Serbs have stood, in their fight
for
independence, as an unbridgeable obstacle to both these great
currents, the
rivers of blood swelling the shores of Serbian land with the
valiantly spent
lives of their sons and daughters - generation to generation.
In World Wars I and II the Serbs again carried the greatest
burden and
suffered the greatest losses in the "allied" fight against
tyranny in the
Balkans. So often alone in their struggle for liberation, they
have always
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del Presidente Milosevic riguardo al suo mandato d'arresto
Appello circa il mio arresto del Tribunale del GIP di Belgrado n. 318/01
del 01/04/2001, per 3099 con la motivazione scritta degli art. 191 II
comma
e 1/2 ZKP della Legge Jugoslava.
In questo verbale e' scritto che io sono stato istigatore dei piu'
grandi
funzionari del Senato, del Ministero delle Finanze M. Sainovic, e S.
Zebic,
Direttore del Tribunale, di entrare in possesso di beni dello Stato per
usufruirne per altri scopi, dal 1994 sino al 5/10/2000.
Questi soldi sono stati destinati al nostro popolo e agli armamenti per
la
difesa del nostro Stato. All'interrogatorio dei giudici e dell'OJT
(auditori),
alla presenza del mio avvocato, credo di aver spiegato tutto. Dopo la
lettura
del verbale non ho avuto obiezioni.
Come presidente della Serbia posso affermare che tutti i colloqui con
gli
economisti e gli alti funzionari del mio paese erano soltanto sui
compiti
di ognuno per il bene della Serbia; i programmi contro l'inflazione del
94'.
E non ho mai sfruttato con i miei collaboratori la mia posizione, ne'
quella
che essi avevano. In tutti i discorsi ufficiali svolti con il Presidente
della Repubblica, con il Vice presidente del Senato ed altre
personalita',
non vi e' stata nessuna istigazione, ma soltanto valutazioni per la
sopravvivenza all'embargo totale e sugli aiuti umanitari (in tutti i
sensi),
per i nostri popoli oltre la Drina, nonostante che i nostri mezzi
fossero
minimi. Credo che tutti i miei collaboratori, sia quelli nominati nel
verbale d'accusa che quelli non nominati, abbiano svolto il loro lavoro
nel
miglior modo possibile.
Noi non abbiamo mai parlato di aiuti umanitari a persone individuali o a
gruppi, si e' discusso sempre di problemi dello Stato. I soldi che sono
stati prelevati dalla BeoBanka sono stati mandati nelle situazioni
sociali
ed economiche prioritarie, questo non era un segreto per nessuno, si
aiutavano quelli che avevano maggior bisogno, io ero orientato verso di
loro.
Ho sempre ccrcato di impedire situazioni di privilegio.
Riguardo ai soldi che sono stati usati per armamenti e munizioni
destinati
ai militari delle Repubbliche Serba di Bosnia e di Krajina, quelli non
potevano essere dichiarati ufficialmente perche' erano segreti militari
di
Stato.
Per quanto riguarda i finanziamenti ai nostri Reparti Speciali
Antiterrorismo, cui abbiamo fornito "dall'ago alla locomotiva", cioe'
dai
proiettili agli elicotteri a molti altri mezzi, che ancora oggi sono a
disposizione dello Stato (che avrebbero dovuto restare segreti militari)
e
a tutti gli altri mezzi che servivano ai militari della Repubblica Serba
di
Bosnia. Ritengo oggi che sarebbero dovuti rimanere segreti militari,
anche
se il Tribunale ha la facolta' di verificare i fatti. Tuttora le squadre
antiterrorismo per la sicurezza del nostro Paese hanno parecchio lavoro
nel
sud della Serbia.
Con questo, confermo che come Capo di questo Stato non ho istigato ad
appropriazioni di beni dello Stato per ragioni personali.
Nel verbale c'e' scritto che io come Presidente S. Milosevic ho istigato
il
Direttore delle Dogane di appropriarsi di beni per distribuirli in giro.
Riguardo al Partito Socialista Serbo, voglio attirare l'attenzione su M.
Sainovic, D. Matkovic e M. Kertes e molti altri funzionari che hanno
raccolto
soldi per il partito, pero' non mi risulta che queste persone abbiano
rubato
nulla dei soldi destinati al PSS. Anzi, credo che e' cosi. Queste
persone
avevano soltanto il compito di raccolta fondi per il Partito.
Al Tribunale ho dichiarato che io non mi sono mai personalmente occupato
dei
finanziamenti del mio partito in tutti questi anni. Non sarebbe neanche
logico che qualcuno mi chiedesse questo, come Presidente dcllo Stato,
neanche
i piu' stretti collaboratori del mio partito.
Dichiaro di non aver mai usufruito di neppure un dinaro dei beni del
partito
e nemmeno dei mezzi di trasporto messimi a disposizione dal PSS.
Durante il mio interrogatorio al Tribunale ho dichiarato di non aver mai
preso soldi, ne' direttamente ne' indirettamente per le cose personali,
ma
soltanto lo stipendio come Presidente della Repubblica di Serbia e
Presidente della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia, di altri
finanziamenti
non disponevo.
Voglio evidenziare tutto cio'.
Secondo le accuse del Tribunale e dell'OJT, mi sarei appropriato di beni
indebitamente ed amoralmente, e per questo avrei procurato gravi
problemi
economici e di sicurczza per lo Stato.
Sto presentando ricorso perche' esclusivamente credo nella verita,' non
mi
danno fastidio indagini di nessun genere, di tutto cio' che ho fatto
nella
mia vita, sono solo profondamente addolorato di essere trattato come un
criminale per quello che ho fatto per il mio Stato credendo di aver dato
il
meglio di me stesso. Credo che questo processo sia politicamente
costruito,
sotto gli ordini del Nuovo Stato, per infangare e sminuire il lavoro da
me
svolto in questi anni, in particolar modo per essermi opposto ai potenti
del
pianeta.
Sono convinto che sono stato arrestato per impedirmi di portare
testimoni
oppure di espatriare e non c'e' logica che il Tribunale e l'OJT
affermino
di non aver potuto consegnare il mandato di cattura a causa del popolo
che
faceva barriera contro l'avvicinamento alla mia casa. La motivazione del
mio
arresto e' per l'appropriazione di grandi fondi finanziari dalla
BeoBanka
per me stesso, non per i militari della Repubblica di Bosnia e di
Kraijna,
non per gli aiuti al popolo oltre la Drina, non per gli operai
metallurgici
e tanti altri. Esistono tante persone al mondo che non sono in galera e
si
possono difendere liberi, nonostante possano avere una influenza sui
testimoni. Io non desidero che essi vengano messi in galera, ma che mi
sia
data la stessa possibilita'.
Sono stato messo in carcere solo io, precisamente nella data del
31/03/2001
stabilita dai Paesi che hanno aggredito il nostro Paese, questo non e'
un
segreto per nessuno, perche' questa data era stata stabilita molti mesi
prima dalla stampa e dai media.
Io non potevo influire sui testimoni, dato che i miei telefoni erano
sotto
controllo e la mia porta di casa controllata dalla polizia, i testimoni
che dicono la verita' non possono essere contro di me, e quelli che
non dicono la verita' non possono certo avere una qualche influenza.
Per questo sto facendo il mio ricorso contro la carcerazione, in base
all'art. 23 comma 6 (ZKP), con la richiesta di scarcerazione e di
potermi
difendere in liberta'.
In ogni momento sono disponibile a comparire davanti al Tribunale del
mio
Paese. Voglio sottolineare che in questi sei mesi sono stato aggredito
da
stampa e mass media di questo regime per crimini di tutti i tipi che
avrei
commesso, e non sono mai scappato.
Io sono molto orgoglioso per tutto cio' che ho fatto, credo che il
popolo
non credera' a tutti i crimini attribuitimi.
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del Presidente Milosevic riguardo al suo mandato d'arresto
Appello circa il mio arresto del Tribunale del GIP di Belgrado n. 318/01
del 01/04/2001, per 3099 con la motivazione scritta degli art. 191 II
comma
e 1/2 ZKP della Legge Jugoslava.
In questo verbale e' scritto che io sono stato istigatore dei piu'
grandi
funzionari del Senato, del Ministero delle Finanze M. Sainovic, e S.
Zebic,
Direttore del Tribunale, di entrare in possesso di beni dello Stato per
usufruirne per altri scopi, dal 1994 sino al 5/10/2000.
Questi soldi sono stati destinati al nostro popolo e agli armamenti per
la
difesa del nostro Stato. All'interrogatorio dei giudici e dell'OJT
(auditori),
alla presenza del mio avvocato, credo di aver spiegato tutto. Dopo la
lettura
del verbale non ho avuto obiezioni.
Come presidente della Serbia posso affermare che tutti i colloqui con
gli
economisti e gli alti funzionari del mio paese erano soltanto sui
compiti
di ognuno per il bene della Serbia; i programmi contro l'inflazione del
94'.
E non ho mai sfruttato con i miei collaboratori la mia posizione, ne'
quella
che essi avevano. In tutti i discorsi ufficiali svolti con il Presidente
della Repubblica, con il Vice presidente del Senato ed altre
personalita',
non vi e' stata nessuna istigazione, ma soltanto valutazioni per la
sopravvivenza all'embargo totale e sugli aiuti umanitari (in tutti i
sensi),
per i nostri popoli oltre la Drina, nonostante che i nostri mezzi
fossero
minimi. Credo che tutti i miei collaboratori, sia quelli nominati nel
verbale d'accusa che quelli non nominati, abbiano svolto il loro lavoro
nel
miglior modo possibile.
Noi non abbiamo mai parlato di aiuti umanitari a persone individuali o a
gruppi, si e' discusso sempre di problemi dello Stato. I soldi che sono
stati prelevati dalla BeoBanka sono stati mandati nelle situazioni
sociali
ed economiche prioritarie, questo non era un segreto per nessuno, si
aiutavano quelli che avevano maggior bisogno, io ero orientato verso di
loro.
Ho sempre ccrcato di impedire situazioni di privilegio.
Riguardo ai soldi che sono stati usati per armamenti e munizioni
destinati
ai militari delle Repubbliche Serba di Bosnia e di Krajina, quelli non
potevano essere dichiarati ufficialmente perche' erano segreti militari
di
Stato.
Per quanto riguarda i finanziamenti ai nostri Reparti Speciali
Antiterrorismo, cui abbiamo fornito "dall'ago alla locomotiva", cioe'
dai
proiettili agli elicotteri a molti altri mezzi, che ancora oggi sono a
disposizione dello Stato (che avrebbero dovuto restare segreti militari)
e
a tutti gli altri mezzi che servivano ai militari della Repubblica Serba
di
Bosnia. Ritengo oggi che sarebbero dovuti rimanere segreti militari,
anche
se il Tribunale ha la facolta' di verificare i fatti. Tuttora le squadre
antiterrorismo per la sicurezza del nostro Paese hanno parecchio lavoro
nel
sud della Serbia.
Con questo, confermo che come Capo di questo Stato non ho istigato ad
appropriazioni di beni dello Stato per ragioni personali.
Nel verbale c'e' scritto che io come Presidente S. Milosevic ho istigato
il
Direttore delle Dogane di appropriarsi di beni per distribuirli in giro.
Riguardo al Partito Socialista Serbo, voglio attirare l'attenzione su M.
Sainovic, D. Matkovic e M. Kertes e molti altri funzionari che hanno
raccolto
soldi per il partito, pero' non mi risulta che queste persone abbiano
rubato
nulla dei soldi destinati al PSS. Anzi, credo che e' cosi. Queste
persone
avevano soltanto il compito di raccolta fondi per il Partito.
Al Tribunale ho dichiarato che io non mi sono mai personalmente occupato
dei
finanziamenti del mio partito in tutti questi anni. Non sarebbe neanche
logico che qualcuno mi chiedesse questo, come Presidente dcllo Stato,
neanche
i piu' stretti collaboratori del mio partito.
Dichiaro di non aver mai usufruito di neppure un dinaro dei beni del
partito
e nemmeno dei mezzi di trasporto messimi a disposizione dal PSS.
Durante il mio interrogatorio al Tribunale ho dichiarato di non aver mai
preso soldi, ne' direttamente ne' indirettamente per le cose personali,
ma
soltanto lo stipendio come Presidente della Repubblica di Serbia e
Presidente della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia, di altri
finanziamenti
non disponevo.
Voglio evidenziare tutto cio'.
Secondo le accuse del Tribunale e dell'OJT, mi sarei appropriato di beni
indebitamente ed amoralmente, e per questo avrei procurato gravi
problemi
economici e di sicurczza per lo Stato.
Sto presentando ricorso perche' esclusivamente credo nella verita,' non
mi
danno fastidio indagini di nessun genere, di tutto cio' che ho fatto
nella
mia vita, sono solo profondamente addolorato di essere trattato come un
criminale per quello che ho fatto per il mio Stato credendo di aver dato
il
meglio di me stesso. Credo che questo processo sia politicamente
costruito,
sotto gli ordini del Nuovo Stato, per infangare e sminuire il lavoro da
me
svolto in questi anni, in particolar modo per essermi opposto ai potenti
del
pianeta.
Sono convinto che sono stato arrestato per impedirmi di portare
testimoni
oppure di espatriare e non c'e' logica che il Tribunale e l'OJT
affermino
di non aver potuto consegnare il mandato di cattura a causa del popolo
che
faceva barriera contro l'avvicinamento alla mia casa. La motivazione del
mio
arresto e' per l'appropriazione di grandi fondi finanziari dalla
BeoBanka
per me stesso, non per i militari della Repubblica di Bosnia e di
Kraijna,
non per gli aiuti al popolo oltre la Drina, non per gli operai
metallurgici
e tanti altri. Esistono tante persone al mondo che non sono in galera e
si
possono difendere liberi, nonostante possano avere una influenza sui
testimoni. Io non desidero che essi vengano messi in galera, ma che mi
sia
data la stessa possibilita'.
Sono stato messo in carcere solo io, precisamente nella data del
31/03/2001
stabilita dai Paesi che hanno aggredito il nostro Paese, questo non e'
un
segreto per nessuno, perche' questa data era stata stabilita molti mesi
prima dalla stampa e dai media.
Io non potevo influire sui testimoni, dato che i miei telefoni erano
sotto
controllo e la mia porta di casa controllata dalla polizia, i testimoni
che dicono la verita' non possono essere contro di me, e quelli che
non dicono la verita' non possono certo avere una qualche influenza.
Per questo sto facendo il mio ricorso contro la carcerazione, in base
all'art. 23 comma 6 (ZKP), con la richiesta di scarcerazione e di
potermi
difendere in liberta'.
In ogni momento sono disponibile a comparire davanti al Tribunale del
mio
Paese. Voglio sottolineare che in questi sei mesi sono stato aggredito
da
stampa e mass media di questo regime per crimini di tutti i tipi che
avrei
commesso, e non sono mai scappato.
Io sono molto orgoglioso per tutto cio' che ho fatto, credo che il
popolo
non credera' a tutti i crimini attribuitimi.
-
Tratto da:
YUGOSLAVIA... NOTIZIE - n.6, aprile 2001
bollettino a cura del Comitato Yugoslavia di Torino
tel. 0338-1755563
---
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