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Serbia
Presto la nuova legge, è in vendita il gestore
Mobtel
Con la deregulation delle tlc Belgrado guarda al
futuro
Alberto Negri
BELGRADO L’antenna del portatile impazzisce. Hallo,
Hallo... Chi risponde
al telefono nei Balcani? Al confine tra Macedonia,
Serbia e Kosovo, lungo
l’autostrada Belgrado-Salonicco, sul Decimo
Corridoio pan-europeo, si
scatena nell’etere la battaglia silenziosa del
roaming. Per un tratto il server
è macedone, appena acquistato da un consorzio
ungherese guidato da
Deutsche Telekom, poi si inserisce quello kosovaro
dell’Alcatel francese, si
passa quindi al serbo Mobtel (063) e, alla fine,
quando ormai si imbocca la
valle della Morava, aggancia Telecom (064) gestita
dalla Tim italiana di
Belgrado.
A Gljiane, in un punto preciso, chiamato la «Roccia
del gatto», alcune
migliaia di serbi rimasti in Kosovo intanto si
danno appuntamento nella
campagna, come fanno ogni giorno, per catturare con
il portatile il campo di
trasmissione di Belgrado, esempio di etno-economia
balcanica nei servizi
che in Bosnia le tre comunità, croati, bonsiaci e
serbi, applicano da tempo.
In Serbia la battaglia del roaming ne annuncia
un’altra, a colpi di centinaia di
milioni di dollari, marchi ed euro, per
l’acquisizione del primo gestore di linea
mobile con 900mila utenti, la Mobtel, di proprietà
dei fratelli Karic, la famiglia
kosovara che ha compiuto una spettacolare ascesa
economica negli anni
di Milosevic. Lo conferma, per la prima volta in
modo ufficiale, la portavoce
del gruppo, Anna Bovan: «Per lo 063 siamo in
trattativa con diversi
investitori, tra cui in primo piano ci sono
Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone e
l’austriaca Mobilcom. Certo prima di concludere
serve un passo
fondamentale: approvare la legge che consente di
cedere la maggioranza
di un’industria strategica a un investitore
straniero».
La vendita Mobtel sarà il primo grande affare in
Serbia dell’era
post-Milosevic. E questa volta Slobo lo dovrà
seguire da lontano, forse da
molto lontano se verrà estradato all’Aja dopo il
processo a Belgrado.
Anche l’azionista pubblico, la Ptt, sarebbe
intenzionata a cedere tutta o
una parte della suo 49 per cento. Le quote di
questa joint venture,
costituita nel ’94, e la maggioranza, in mano ai
fratelli Karic, sono custodite
nella Beka Trade di Mosca. Una delle tante
curiosità che spiegano perchè
Mobtel, almeno dal punto di vista finanziario, non
è caduta nella rete delle
sanzioni.
La firma di questo contratto, come quello tra la
Stet italiana e la Telecom
serba, è ormai un pezzo di storia balcanica.
All’inizio tutto avrebbe potuto
essere diverso. La Mobtel infatti eredita, come
spiega Anna Bovan, un
contratto già definito con la società americana Cgi
che in joint venture con
un’altra compagnia Usa, la Spring International
Comm., aveva battuto nel
’92 la concorrenza di Vodafone e France Telecom per
aggiudicarsi la
prima concessione di telefonia mobile per 20 anni:
66 milioni di dollari e
l’obbligo di pagare alla Ptt 2 dollari al mese per
ogni abbonato. La guerra in
Bosnia e il primo embargo contro Belgrado, fanno
saltare l’accordo che
apre la strada ai Karic: partiti da Pec, nel
Kosovo, dove erano famosi per
rallegrare con la loro orchestra le feste di
matrimonio, i fratelli sono
diventati in questi anni il più ricco e importante
gruppo privato con interessi
dall’edilizia, all’editoria, dalla telefonia alle
televisioni.
Gli eccellenti rapporti tra questa famiglia di
kosovari e l’ultra-nazionalista
serbo Milosevic sono stati all’origine di questa
business story. Da un paio
d’anni però i Karic, che avevano anche ricoperto
posti di responsabilità nei
Governi controllati da Milosevic, si erano smarcati
da Slobo. La loro rete tv,
Bk, è stata la prima venerdì scorso a iniziare la
diretta davanti alla villa di
Dedinje dove era asserragliato Milosevic: con una
punta di esagerazione i
socialisti accusano la tv dei Karic di essere stata
tra i protagonisti
dell’arresto dell’ex presidente jugoslavo.
Decisiva per il futuro di Mobtel ma anche della
Telecom Serbia — 29% Tim
e 20% alla greca Ote — sarà invece la nuova legge.
La bozza è racchiusa
in un voluminoso faldone che l’italiano Sergio
Genchi, consigliere del
ministro delle telecomunicazioni serbo, sintetizza
così: «Istituzione di
un’Authority, deregulation immediata del settore,
fine del monopolio delle
linee fisse, liberalizzazione delle tariffe».
Il ministro delle telecom, la signora Marija Raseta
Vukosaljevic, ingegnere,
rappresenta lo Stato e quindi con il 51% il maggior
azionista della Telecom
Serbia, che ha chiesto alla Tim nel colloquio tra
il presidente Roberto
Colaninno e il primo ministro Zoran Dijndijc di
rimuovere l’attuale dirigenza
italiana che ha il controllo operativo. Il ministro
dà un giudizio secco
sull’operazione di vendita del 49% a italiani e
greci nel ’97 per 1,56 miliardi
di marchi: «Non è stato un buon affare per la
Serbia: il nostro obiettivo oggi
è rimettere ordine nella società e rivedere il
contratto».
Ma il fatto davvero sorprendente è che la signora
Raseta afferma di non
aver mai visto un bilancio Telecom. Una situazione
paradossale che il
ministro spiega in questo modo: «Una volta
incassati i contanti il regime
precedente si è disinteressato della società». E i
soldi, l’iniezione di cash
che nel ’97 ha tenuto a galla Slobo, dove sono
finiti? «Non lo sappiamo»
risponde il ministro che non vuole commentare gli
articoli della stampa
italiana su possibili tangenti internazionali
nell’affare.
In realtà i soldi dei serbi sono stati in parte
spesi o hanno fatto il giro del
mondo. La fetta maggiore, 1,2 miliardi di marchi è
transitata, ma solo di
passaggio, nel Fondo nazionale di Sviluppo, poi in
banche straniere e
offshore, oppure come prestiti in società dai
bilanci dolorosamente in
rosso, o ancora nel circuito del credito locale a
tassi di interesse molto alti.
La Slobo-economia ha spolpato la Telecom, come
tutto il resto,
distribuendo un po’ di consistenti mance qua e là.
Il direttore del Fondo di sviluppo ora è lo stesso
premier che ha piazzato
nei ministeri i suoi «Dijndijc Boys», quasi tutti
provenienti dall’estero dove
lavoravano per multinazionali o società di
consulenza: «Se creano
difficoltà a uno di noi andiamo tutti via»,
minaccia ironicamente il
vice-governatore della Banca centrale, ex McKinsey,
che continua a fare il
pendolare come i ministri delle Finanze, delle
Privatizzazioni e dell’Energia,
tra Belgrado, Francoforte, Parigi e Londra. Le
riforme economiche
dell’amministrazione saranno il test che dirà nei
prossimi mesi chi comanda
davvero a Belgrado tra il presidente Kostunica e la
Serbia tradizionale, da
una parte, e i modernisti filo-occidentali
dall’altra.
All’incrocio delle principali direttrici dei
Balcani, dal Danubio all’autostrada
Nord-Sud, la Serbia spera negli investimenti
stranieri per sfruttare questo
asset strategico che è la posizione di Belgrado tra
Est e Ovest: ferrovie,
telecomunicazioni e pipeline, interessano Germania,
Grecia, Austria, Italia,
ma anche gli Usa. Gli investimenti di importanti
capitali privati con la vendita
di qualche gioiello di famiglia e le infrastrutture
finanziate dall’Europa
possono fare recuperare ai serbi il decennio
perduto con Milosevic. Ma
nessuno può permettersi di dimenticare che i
Balcani sono soprattutto la
loro storia e soltanto in alcuni momenti anche la
loro economia.
Venerdì 6 Aprile 2001
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Da "Il Sole 24 Ore" del 6/4/2001
Serbia
Presto la nuova legge, è in vendita il gestore
Mobtel
Con la deregulation delle tlc Belgrado guarda al
futuro
Alberto Negri
BELGRADO L’antenna del portatile impazzisce. Hallo,
Hallo... Chi risponde
al telefono nei Balcani? Al confine tra Macedonia,
Serbia e Kosovo, lungo
l’autostrada Belgrado-Salonicco, sul Decimo
Corridoio pan-europeo, si
scatena nell’etere la battaglia silenziosa del
roaming. Per un tratto il server
è macedone, appena acquistato da un consorzio
ungherese guidato da
Deutsche Telekom, poi si inserisce quello kosovaro
dell’Alcatel francese, si
passa quindi al serbo Mobtel (063) e, alla fine,
quando ormai si imbocca la
valle della Morava, aggancia Telecom (064) gestita
dalla Tim italiana di
Belgrado.
A Gljiane, in un punto preciso, chiamato la «Roccia
del gatto», alcune
migliaia di serbi rimasti in Kosovo intanto si
danno appuntamento nella
campagna, come fanno ogni giorno, per catturare con
il portatile il campo di
trasmissione di Belgrado, esempio di etno-economia
balcanica nei servizi
che in Bosnia le tre comunità, croati, bonsiaci e
serbi, applicano da tempo.
In Serbia la battaglia del roaming ne annuncia
un’altra, a colpi di centinaia di
milioni di dollari, marchi ed euro, per
l’acquisizione del primo gestore di linea
mobile con 900mila utenti, la Mobtel, di proprietà
dei fratelli Karic, la famiglia
kosovara che ha compiuto una spettacolare ascesa
economica negli anni
di Milosevic. Lo conferma, per la prima volta in
modo ufficiale, la portavoce
del gruppo, Anna Bovan: «Per lo 063 siamo in
trattativa con diversi
investitori, tra cui in primo piano ci sono
Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone e
l’austriaca Mobilcom. Certo prima di concludere
serve un passo
fondamentale: approvare la legge che consente di
cedere la maggioranza
di un’industria strategica a un investitore
straniero».
La vendita Mobtel sarà il primo grande affare in
Serbia dell’era
post-Milosevic. E questa volta Slobo lo dovrà
seguire da lontano, forse da
molto lontano se verrà estradato all’Aja dopo il
processo a Belgrado.
Anche l’azionista pubblico, la Ptt, sarebbe
intenzionata a cedere tutta o
una parte della suo 49 per cento. Le quote di
questa joint venture,
costituita nel ’94, e la maggioranza, in mano ai
fratelli Karic, sono custodite
nella Beka Trade di Mosca. Una delle tante
curiosità che spiegano perchè
Mobtel, almeno dal punto di vista finanziario, non
è caduta nella rete delle
sanzioni.
La firma di questo contratto, come quello tra la
Stet italiana e la Telecom
serba, è ormai un pezzo di storia balcanica.
All’inizio tutto avrebbe potuto
essere diverso. La Mobtel infatti eredita, come
spiega Anna Bovan, un
contratto già definito con la società americana Cgi
che in joint venture con
un’altra compagnia Usa, la Spring International
Comm., aveva battuto nel
’92 la concorrenza di Vodafone e France Telecom per
aggiudicarsi la
prima concessione di telefonia mobile per 20 anni:
66 milioni di dollari e
l’obbligo di pagare alla Ptt 2 dollari al mese per
ogni abbonato. La guerra in
Bosnia e il primo embargo contro Belgrado, fanno
saltare l’accordo che
apre la strada ai Karic: partiti da Pec, nel
Kosovo, dove erano famosi per
rallegrare con la loro orchestra le feste di
matrimonio, i fratelli sono
diventati in questi anni il più ricco e importante
gruppo privato con interessi
dall’edilizia, all’editoria, dalla telefonia alle
televisioni.
Gli eccellenti rapporti tra questa famiglia di
kosovari e l’ultra-nazionalista
serbo Milosevic sono stati all’origine di questa
business story. Da un paio
d’anni però i Karic, che avevano anche ricoperto
posti di responsabilità nei
Governi controllati da Milosevic, si erano smarcati
da Slobo. La loro rete tv,
Bk, è stata la prima venerdì scorso a iniziare la
diretta davanti alla villa di
Dedinje dove era asserragliato Milosevic: con una
punta di esagerazione i
socialisti accusano la tv dei Karic di essere stata
tra i protagonisti
dell’arresto dell’ex presidente jugoslavo.
Decisiva per il futuro di Mobtel ma anche della
Telecom Serbia — 29% Tim
e 20% alla greca Ote — sarà invece la nuova legge.
La bozza è racchiusa
in un voluminoso faldone che l’italiano Sergio
Genchi, consigliere del
ministro delle telecomunicazioni serbo, sintetizza
così: «Istituzione di
un’Authority, deregulation immediata del settore,
fine del monopolio delle
linee fisse, liberalizzazione delle tariffe».
Il ministro delle telecom, la signora Marija Raseta
Vukosaljevic, ingegnere,
rappresenta lo Stato e quindi con il 51% il maggior
azionista della Telecom
Serbia, che ha chiesto alla Tim nel colloquio tra
il presidente Roberto
Colaninno e il primo ministro Zoran Dijndijc di
rimuovere l’attuale dirigenza
italiana che ha il controllo operativo. Il ministro
dà un giudizio secco
sull’operazione di vendita del 49% a italiani e
greci nel ’97 per 1,56 miliardi
di marchi: «Non è stato un buon affare per la
Serbia: il nostro obiettivo oggi
è rimettere ordine nella società e rivedere il
contratto».
Ma il fatto davvero sorprendente è che la signora
Raseta afferma di non
aver mai visto un bilancio Telecom. Una situazione
paradossale che il
ministro spiega in questo modo: «Una volta
incassati i contanti il regime
precedente si è disinteressato della società». E i
soldi, l’iniezione di cash
che nel ’97 ha tenuto a galla Slobo, dove sono
finiti? «Non lo sappiamo»
risponde il ministro che non vuole commentare gli
articoli della stampa
italiana su possibili tangenti internazionali
nell’affare.
In realtà i soldi dei serbi sono stati in parte
spesi o hanno fatto il giro del
mondo. La fetta maggiore, 1,2 miliardi di marchi è
transitata, ma solo di
passaggio, nel Fondo nazionale di Sviluppo, poi in
banche straniere e
offshore, oppure come prestiti in società dai
bilanci dolorosamente in
rosso, o ancora nel circuito del credito locale a
tassi di interesse molto alti.
La Slobo-economia ha spolpato la Telecom, come
tutto il resto,
distribuendo un po’ di consistenti mance qua e là.
Il direttore del Fondo di sviluppo ora è lo stesso
premier che ha piazzato
nei ministeri i suoi «Dijndijc Boys», quasi tutti
provenienti dall’estero dove
lavoravano per multinazionali o società di
consulenza: «Se creano
difficoltà a uno di noi andiamo tutti via»,
minaccia ironicamente il
vice-governatore della Banca centrale, ex McKinsey,
che continua a fare il
pendolare come i ministri delle Finanze, delle
Privatizzazioni e dell’Energia,
tra Belgrado, Francoforte, Parigi e Londra. Le
riforme economiche
dell’amministrazione saranno il test che dirà nei
prossimi mesi chi comanda
davvero a Belgrado tra il presidente Kostunica e la
Serbia tradizionale, da
una parte, e i modernisti filo-occidentali
dall’altra.
All’incrocio delle principali direttrici dei
Balcani, dal Danubio all’autostrada
Nord-Sud, la Serbia spera negli investimenti
stranieri per sfruttare questo
asset strategico che è la posizione di Belgrado tra
Est e Ovest: ferrovie,
telecomunicazioni e pipeline, interessano Germania,
Grecia, Austria, Italia,
ma anche gli Usa. Gli investimenti di importanti
capitali privati con la vendita
di qualche gioiello di famiglia e le infrastrutture
finanziate dall’Europa
possono fare recuperare ai serbi il decennio
perduto con Milosevic. Ma
nessuno può permettersi di dimenticare che i
Balcani sono soprattutto la
loro storia e soltanto in alcuni momenti anche la
loro economia.
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"Humanity" on the Danube
by Rick Rozoff [13 April 2001]
[Mr. Rick Rozoff is a tireless researcher, prolific
political analyst and definite annoyance to the New
World Order. ]
"The Danube has been blocked along a vital
stretch in Serbia since 1999, when NATO
bombings destroyed several bridges....The
economies of Romania, Bulgaria and
Yugoslavia have lost more than a half billion
Euros because of the blocked river at Novi
Sad, in addition to thousands of layoffs in the
shipping industry...." (From 'Reuters' article,
excerpts below)
The fact that the bridges in question had no conceivable
connection with Kosovo, the supposed reason for the
NATO aggression, is not mentioned in the 'Reuters'
article (excerpts below). The article does report that
the domestic economies of several already
impoverished countries were further devastated by the
blocking of the Danube, with a terrible cost to the living
standards of millions of people. Please note that the
article avoids any criticism of NATO on this count - and
rightly so for the NATO pilots who bravely bombed
civilians (and their bridges) from 50,000 feet were
preventing Humanitarian Disaster, so the suffering of
millions was no big deal, plus most were Slavs anyway.
So why the rush to open the Danube now? Because
Germany, a leading Humanitarian Bomber, needs it
opened, that's why. Because without the Danube, the
German Establishment is losing money, and they're
Humanoids too, you know.
President Milosevic (see below) refused to halt repair
work on homes, factories, rail lines, maternity wards,
broadcast facilities, power grids, energy and water
plants, which NATO bombed, and clear the Danube,
which NATO also bombed. What was his problem? Why
couldn't he get with the program? Didn't he know that
German Foreign Minister Fischer needs the Danube to
ship 1,000 Leopard tanks to Turkey so they can
slaughter the Kurds, at an affordable price? (1)
Here follow excerpts from the 'Reuters' piece. - RR.
Danube Through Serbia Closed to
Year End
BUDAPEST, Apr 13, 2001 -- (Reuters) Shipping on the
Danube River through Serbia will not resume before
the end of the year, despite a deal to begin clearing
NATO bomb debris, [Hellmuth Strasser] head of the
Danube Commission said on Thursday.
The Danube has been blocked along a vital stretch in
Serbia since 1999, when NATO bombings destroyed
several bridges...
The economies of Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
have lost more than a half billion euros because of the
blocked river at Novi Sad, in addition to thousands of
layoffs in the shipping industry, he said.
Almost two years after the bridges were bombed, the
11-nation Danube Commission awarded a 26 million
euro contract to a Danish-Hungarian consortium to
begin clearing the debris...
"Basically (Slobodan) Milosevic's government had
stalled our project at least five or so months," he said.
"But when the new government came to power,
literally, we had the green light."
The [non-Yugoslav] consortium that won the contract
will begin clearing debris in the next few weeks,
Strasser said. The first agenda item will be de-mining
the area from NATO bombs that destroyed the three
bridges...
[Note: Prof. Michel Chossudovsky points out that the
Danish-Hungarian consortium will be paid at standard
world rates for clearing the Danube. They will employ
highly skilled Yugoslav workers and pay them one
twentieth of what they'd have to pay a Danish worker.
- RR]
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Further Reading:
(1) On the highly successful Yugoslav program to
rebuild after the bombing, see "The Other Side," an
interview with Minister Ivkovic, who was in charge of
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"Humanity" on the Danube
by Rick Rozoff [13 April 2001]
[Mr. Rick Rozoff is a tireless researcher, prolific
political analyst and definite annoyance to the New
World Order. ]
"The Danube has been blocked along a vital
stretch in Serbia since 1999, when NATO
bombings destroyed several bridges....The
economies of Romania, Bulgaria and
Yugoslavia have lost more than a half billion
Euros because of the blocked river at Novi
Sad, in addition to thousands of layoffs in the
shipping industry...." (From 'Reuters' article,
excerpts below)
The fact that the bridges in question had no conceivable
connection with Kosovo, the supposed reason for the
NATO aggression, is not mentioned in the 'Reuters'
article (excerpts below). The article does report that
the domestic economies of several already
impoverished countries were further devastated by the
blocking of the Danube, with a terrible cost to the living
standards of millions of people. Please note that the
article avoids any criticism of NATO on this count - and
rightly so for the NATO pilots who bravely bombed
civilians (and their bridges) from 50,000 feet were
preventing Humanitarian Disaster, so the suffering of
millions was no big deal, plus most were Slavs anyway.
So why the rush to open the Danube now? Because
Germany, a leading Humanitarian Bomber, needs it
opened, that's why. Because without the Danube, the
German Establishment is losing money, and they're
Humanoids too, you know.
President Milosevic (see below) refused to halt repair
work on homes, factories, rail lines, maternity wards,
broadcast facilities, power grids, energy and water
plants, which NATO bombed, and clear the Danube,
which NATO also bombed. What was his problem? Why
couldn't he get with the program? Didn't he know that
German Foreign Minister Fischer needs the Danube to
ship 1,000 Leopard tanks to Turkey so they can
slaughter the Kurds, at an affordable price? (1)
Here follow excerpts from the 'Reuters' piece. - RR.
Danube Through Serbia Closed to
Year End
BUDAPEST, Apr 13, 2001 -- (Reuters) Shipping on the
Danube River through Serbia will not resume before
the end of the year, despite a deal to begin clearing
NATO bomb debris, [Hellmuth Strasser] head of the
Danube Commission said on Thursday.
The Danube has been blocked along a vital stretch in
Serbia since 1999, when NATO bombings destroyed
several bridges...
The economies of Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
have lost more than a half billion euros because of the
blocked river at Novi Sad, in addition to thousands of
layoffs in the shipping industry, he said.
Almost two years after the bridges were bombed, the
11-nation Danube Commission awarded a 26 million
euro contract to a Danish-Hungarian consortium to
begin clearing the debris...
"Basically (Slobodan) Milosevic's government had
stalled our project at least five or so months," he said.
"But when the new government came to power,
literally, we had the green light."
The [non-Yugoslav] consortium that won the contract
will begin clearing debris in the next few weeks,
Strasser said. The first agenda item will be de-mining
the area from NATO bombs that destroyed the three
bridges...
[Note: Prof. Michel Chossudovsky points out that the
Danish-Hungarian consortium will be paid at standard
world rates for clearing the Danube. They will employ
highly skilled Yugoslav workers and pay them one
twentieth of what they'd have to pay a Danish worker.
- RR]
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(1) On the highly successful Yugoslav program to
rebuild after the bombing, see "The Other Side," an
interview with Minister Ivkovic, who was in charge of
that rebuilding program. At
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ivkovic1.htm
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STO SMO DOBILI A STO IZGUBILI
Izgubili smo mir, dobili rat.
Izgubili smo srecu i zadovoljstvo mladih, dobili preko dvadeset tisuca
grobova i jos vise
invalida.
Izgubili smo “jednoumlje”, dobili bezumlje.
Izgubili smo samoupravno socijalisticko drustvo, dobili kapitalizam,
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Izgubili smo bratstvo i jedinstvo i ljubav medju ljudima, dobili
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Izgubili smo radnicko samoupravljanje i drustveno vlasnistvo, dobili smo
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ostati bez posla.
Izgubili smo sigurno zaposlenje i redovitu placu, dobili nezaposlenost i
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placu i onima koji su zaposleni.
Izgubili smo slobodu kretanja po cijelom svijetu bez viza, dobili
ograniceno kretanje za vecinu
zemalja svijeta.
Izgubili smo nesvrstanost, dobili ovisnost o Zapadu i avione NATO -
pakta nad glavom.
Izgubili smo veze s Balkanom, dobili “Balkan” u glavama.
Izgubili smo pravo da sami odlucujemo o bitnim pitanjima vaznim za
zivot, dobili da o nama
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Izgubili smo radnicka odmaralista i odmor na moru, dobili strance u
nasim odmaralistima i
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Izgubili smo besplatnu zdravstvenu zastitu, dobili partecipaciju i
placanje zdravstvenih usluga.
Izubili smo besplatno skolovanje za sve, dobili skole i fakultete za
“elitu” koja moze platiti.
Izgubili smo postenje, moral i ljudskost, dobili licemjerje, prevaru i
neljudskost.
Izgubili smo delegate u Saboru iz nasih sredina, dobili “placenike” (sa
15 do 20 tisuca place),
koji nam se obracaju samo kad trebaju glasove i mandat.
Izgubili smo besplatnu pomoc kod ostvarivanja nekih svojih prava, dobili
javne biljeznike
kojima se placa i samo ovjeravanje pecata.
Izgubili smo pravo na besplatno ostvarenje svojih prava na sudu, dobili
placanje (oko tisucu
kuna) za najobicniji zahtjev za “istjerivanje pravde”.
Izgubili smo jedan jezik (hrvatski ili srpski), dobili tri ; hrvatski,
srpski i bosanski.
Izgubili smo drugarstvo za sve, dobili gospodstvo samo za neke.
Neka nam bude, kad smo sve to “demokratski” odabrali.
Traduzione da “Hrvatska ljevica” rivista croata, n.ro 3/ 2001
Bilancio di dieci anni
COSA ABBIAMO OTTENUTO E COSA ABBIAMO PERSO
di Ivica Basic
Abbiamo perso la pace, ottenuto la guerra.
Abbiamo perso la felicita' e la gioia dei giovani, abbiamo ottenuto
oltre 20000 tombe ed
ancora piu' invalidi.
Abbiamo perso il “pensiero unico”, ottenuto l’assurdo.
Abbiamo perso la societa' socialista autogestita, ottenuto il
capitalismo, lo stato criminale e di
ruberie.
Abbiamo perso l’unita' e la fratellanza, l’amore tra la gente, ed
ottenuto il nazionalismo e
l’odio.
Abbiamo perso l’autogestione operaia e la proprieta' collettiva, e sono
arrivate le “trombe
d’aria” che ci hanno rapito la proprieta' trasformando gli operai in
semplice merce, che puo'
facilmente rimanere senza lavoro.
Abbiamo perso l’impiego sicuro ed il salario regolare, ottenuto la
disoccupazione ed il salario
insicuro ed irregolare anche per quelli che lavorano.
Abbiamo perso la liberta' di muoverci in tutto il mondo senza visti,
abbiamo ottenuto
restrizioni a muoversi nella maggior parte dei paesi nel mondo.
Abbiamo perso il non-allineamento, ottenuto la dipendenza dall’Occidente
e gli aerei del patto
NATO sopra la testa.
Abbiamo perso i legami con i Balcani, ottenuto invece “i Balcani” nella
testa.
Abbiamo perso il diritto di decidere da soli sulle questioni vitali,
ottenuto che di noi decidono
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Bilanca desetljeca
Ivica Basic
STO SMO DOBILI A STO IZGUBILI
Izgubili smo mir, dobili rat.
Izgubili smo srecu i zadovoljstvo mladih, dobili preko dvadeset tisuca
grobova i jos vise
invalida.
Izgubili smo “jednoumlje”, dobili bezumlje.
Izgubili smo samoupravno socijalisticko drustvo, dobili kapitalizam,
drzavu kriminala i
lopovluka.
Izgubili smo bratstvo i jedinstvo i ljubav medju ljudima, dobili
nacionalizam i mrznju.
Izgubili smo radnicko samoupravljanje i drustveno vlasnistvo, dobili smo
tajkune koji su nam
oteli vlasnistvo i pretvorili radnike u obicnu robu. Koji mogu lako
ostati bez posla.
Izgubili smo sigurno zaposlenje i redovitu placu, dobili nezaposlenost i
nesigurnu i neredovitu
placu i onima koji su zaposleni.
Izgubili smo slobodu kretanja po cijelom svijetu bez viza, dobili
ograniceno kretanje za vecinu
zemalja svijeta.
Izgubili smo nesvrstanost, dobili ovisnost o Zapadu i avione NATO -
pakta nad glavom.
Izgubili smo veze s Balkanom, dobili “Balkan” u glavama.
Izgubili smo pravo da sami odlucujemo o bitnim pitanjima vaznim za
zivot, dobili da o nama
odlucuju drugi.
Izgubili smo radnicka odmaralista i odmor na moru, dobili strance u
nasim odmaralistima i
hotelima, a odmor koristimo za dopunsku zaradu da se prezivi.
Izgubili smo besplatnu zdravstvenu zastitu, dobili partecipaciju i
placanje zdravstvenih usluga.
Izubili smo besplatno skolovanje za sve, dobili skole i fakultete za
“elitu” koja moze platiti.
Izgubili smo postenje, moral i ljudskost, dobili licemjerje, prevaru i
neljudskost.
Izgubili smo delegate u Saboru iz nasih sredina, dobili “placenike” (sa
15 do 20 tisuca place),
koji nam se obracaju samo kad trebaju glasove i mandat.
Izgubili smo besplatnu pomoc kod ostvarivanja nekih svojih prava, dobili
javne biljeznike
kojima se placa i samo ovjeravanje pecata.
Izgubili smo pravo na besplatno ostvarenje svojih prava na sudu, dobili
placanje (oko tisucu
kuna) za najobicniji zahtjev za “istjerivanje pravde”.
Izgubili smo jedan jezik (hrvatski ili srpski), dobili tri ; hrvatski,
srpski i bosanski.
Izgubili smo drugarstvo za sve, dobili gospodstvo samo za neke.
Neka nam bude, kad smo sve to “demokratski” odabrali.
Traduzione da “Hrvatska ljevica” rivista croata, n.ro 3/ 2001
Bilancio di dieci anni
COSA ABBIAMO OTTENUTO E COSA ABBIAMO PERSO
di Ivica Basic
Abbiamo perso la pace, ottenuto la guerra.
Abbiamo perso la felicita' e la gioia dei giovani, abbiamo ottenuto
oltre 20000 tombe ed
ancora piu' invalidi.
Abbiamo perso il “pensiero unico”, ottenuto l’assurdo.
Abbiamo perso la societa' socialista autogestita, ottenuto il
capitalismo, lo stato criminale e di
ruberie.
Abbiamo perso l’unita' e la fratellanza, l’amore tra la gente, ed
ottenuto il nazionalismo e
l’odio.
Abbiamo perso l’autogestione operaia e la proprieta' collettiva, e sono
arrivate le “trombe
d’aria” che ci hanno rapito la proprieta' trasformando gli operai in
semplice merce, che puo'
facilmente rimanere senza lavoro.
Abbiamo perso l’impiego sicuro ed il salario regolare, ottenuto la
disoccupazione ed il salario
insicuro ed irregolare anche per quelli che lavorano.
Abbiamo perso la liberta' di muoverci in tutto il mondo senza visti,
abbiamo ottenuto
restrizioni a muoversi nella maggior parte dei paesi nel mondo.
Abbiamo perso il non-allineamento, ottenuto la dipendenza dall’Occidente
e gli aerei del patto
NATO sopra la testa.
Abbiamo perso i legami con i Balcani, ottenuto invece “i Balcani” nella
testa.
Abbiamo perso il diritto di decidere da soli sulle questioni vitali,
ottenuto che di noi decidono
gli altri.
Abbiamo perso i residence per i lavoratori e le vacanze al mare,
ottenuto i turisti stranieri nei
nostri residence e negli alberghi, mentre le nostre vacanze le usiamo
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Abbiamo perso l’onesta', la morale e l’umanita', ottenuto l’ipocrisia,
l’inganno e l’immoralita'.
Abbiamo perso i delegati delle nostre società nel Sabor [il Parlamento
croato], ed ottenuto
“mercenari” (con paghe tra le 15000 e le 20000 kune) che si rivolgono a
noi soltanto quando
hanno bisogno di voti e del mandato.
Abbiamo perso l’assistenza gratuita all’ottenimento di alcuni diritti,
ottenuto notai che
paghiamo anche per la sola verifica del timbro.
Abbiamo perso il diritto gratuito a far valere i propri diritti al
Tribunale, ottenuto invece il
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Da Alessandra riceviamo e volentieri diffondiamo:
"Non so se avete visto tre notizie interessanti su
Borba di ieri (10 aprile):
- la prima sul fatto che le armi nella villa di
Milosevic sarebbero state messe dalla polizia
- la seconda sul tentativo, durante l'arresto,di
rapire Milosevic per portarlo subito all'Aja
- la terza, secondo me molto importante, della
riconosciuta innocenza di un giovane Serbo di
Mitrovica accusato di genocidio e tenuto in prigione
dall'agosto del 1999. Naturalmente qui si sono tutti
ben guardati dal riportare la notizia.
Aggiungo copia dei tre articoli"
> http://209.197.77.95/daily.html
Borba, 10/04/2001
1)
JUL Spokeswoman - Police Planted Weapons in
Milosevic's Villa
Yugoslav Left (JUL) spokeswoman Dragana Kuzmanovic
said on Monday that the party had information that the
weapons found in the villa of former Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic in Uzicka street had been
planted by the police.
According to her, seven members of a Belgrade police
special unit were ordered to hide arms and explosive
devices behind the radiator and in the corners of
Milosevic's house after he had been taken to
investigating bodies.
Kuzmanovic told a press conference that one of them,
who after carrying out his task was on the verge of a
nervous break-down, informed the party about that.
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said that there
is no justice if it is selective and in parts,
Kuzmanovic pointed out and said that was the reason
why JUL insists the public be informed who were the
people in jeans and masks who "raided the house in the
night of March 31 and tried to liquidate Milosevic and
his family by using shock bombs."
2)
Serbian Radical Party for Forming Inquiry Board in
Milosevic Case
Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj said on
Monday that his party will support the setting up of
an inquiry board that would investigate circumstances
under which former Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic has been arrested, if proposed in the
Serbian parliament.
In a Serbian parliament session break, Seselj told
reporters that these circumstances should be examined,
since he thinks that people with black masks who
appeared around Milosevic's house were not special
police units, but bounty hunters who wanted to arrest
Milosevic.
He added that for this purpose a helicopter was ready
at the border between Serbia and Republika Srpska,
that was supposed to transport Milosevic to be
extradited to The Hague tribunal.
3)
Acquittal for Serb Igor Simic
By passing a sentence of acquittal the district court
of Kosovska Mitrovica ended the trial of Igor Simic
(25), a law student from Kosovska Mitrovica, who was
charged with genocide.
At the end of the main hearing, international
prosecutor Michael Hartman requested that Simic be
released from detention, ending the procedure in the
first phase.
The prosecutor explained in detail his decision and a
five-member court panel, presided over by judge
Kirsten Karpamar decided to acquit Simic.
Simic has been in detention since August 9, 1999, on
charges that with five other Serbs he killed 26 ethnic
Albanian on April 14 that year in the southern part of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
During the trial that lasted almost four months,
testified 12 witnesses and Simic was proved innocent.
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FREE MILOSEVIC, JAIL EAGLEBURGER, ZIMMERMANN (ETC.)...
by George Szamuely
Quiz time. Who said the following?
"Serbia has never had only Serbs living in it. Today, more than in the
past, members of other peoples and nationalities also live in it. This
is
not a disadvantage for Serbia. I am truly convinced that it is its
advantage. National composition of almost all countries in the world
today…has also been changing in this direction. Citizens of different
nationalities, religions, and races have been living together more and
more
frequently and more and more successfully."
Elie Wiesel? Madeleine Albright? George Soros? Vojislav Kostnica, Zoran
Djindjic or one of the other creatures the U.S. installed in power in
Belgrade? No, it was Slobodan Milosevic. He spoke these words in Kosovo
on
June 28, 1989, the very occasion on which he allegedly whipped the Serbs
into
a bloodthirsty nationalist frenzy. (1)
The real Milosevic has never had the remotest connection with the
idiotic
cartoonish figure depicted by the U.S. government, the "two op-ed-page
articles a year" denizens of the defense-industry-funded think tanks and
the ignorant reporters passing for "Balkans experts" on NewsHour with
Jim
Lehrer.
Milosevic was neither a "nationalist," nor a "Communist," nor a
"dictator"
nor a "demagogue." To be sure, he was never one of those East European
Communists-turned-Thatcherite-overnight so beloved by U.S. elites. Nor
did
it help that he won elections handily, or that in the late 1980s he was
leading
massive demonstrations against the IMF bromides that were destroying
Yugoslavia's industry. The U.S. actually did Yugoslavia a favor by
imposing
sanctions in 1992. It freed the countryâ€"all too briefly, as the Serbs
are
about to find outâ€"from the dreadful ministrations of the IMF. (2)
Milosevic did not instigate the wars in the Balkans. On the contrary,
his
record throughout the decade was that of a man eager for peace. Who was
really responsible for the wars? Those who insisted on secession without
waiting to settle outstanding issues like final borders, the status of
minorities or the disposal of state property and debt? Or those who, in
accordance with international law, insisted that secession could only be
"legal" if it was accepted by the seceding state and the seceded-from
state? (3)
There is no question that the US Government will put enormous pressure
on
the Belgrade authorities to transfer Milosevic to the Hague, where he
would
receive a ridiculously unfair trial in a "court" which has already
pre-judged him guilty of "war crimes," "genocide" and "crimes against
humanity". This is
the purpose of the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia: to absolve the real instigators of the wars in the Balkans
of
any responsibility for their actions.
The Balkans today are littered with tiny, weak NATO protectorates whose
domestic and foreign policies are shaped down to the last detail by the
U.S. and its junior EU partners. This was an entirely foreseen
consequence
of U.S. policy in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. There is
no
truth whatsoever to the legend that the United States wanted to keep
Yugoslavia together but was thwarted in this noble endeavor by the
machinations of the Germans. In February 1990, nearly two years before
the
villainous German Chancellor Helmut Kohl supposedly muscled in on the
Balkans by recognizing Croatia and Slovenia, Deputy Secretary of State
Lawrence Eagleburger was already telling the Slovenians that Washington
would accept Slovenia's secession provided it was done "peacefully and
democratically." The Slovenians did not need another signal. Even so, in
October 1990â€"eight months before Slovenia declared independence, one
year
before war broke out in
Croatiaâ€"Congress passed an amendment to the Foreign Operations
Appropriation law barring any U.S. loans or credits for Yugoslavia
unless
the assistance was directed to a republic "which has held free and fair
elections and which is not engaged in systematic abuse of human rights".
This was an
extraordinary piece of legislation. According to Washington then,
Yugoslavia had ceased to exist. The U.S. government was henceforth to
deal
with the "republics," entities with no international legal standing
whatsoever.
In the days leading up to the secession of Croatia and Slovenia, U.S.
officials would make pro forma declarations opposing unilateral
declarations of independence. Then they would warn the Yugoslav army not
to
use force to stop the republics breaking away. It was a policy of
accepting
de facto independence. Moreover, it was revealed in the London Observer
last year that, contrary to the publicly proclaimed Western policy of
neutrality, the British were in fact secretly selling arms to Slovenia
days
before its declaration of independence. Since Britain is merely
America's
errand boy on
such matters, one can be fairly certain that this was a
Washington-initiated policy.
The carnage that was to come in Bosnia was entirely the consequence of a
ruthless and cynical U.S. policy. In March 1992, after seeing the bitter
fighting that followed the secession of Croatia, the leaders of Bosnia's
Serbs, Croats and Muslims sat down in Lisbon and hammered out a
partition
plan of Bosnia. According to a 1993 New York Times story, European
Community "mediators who brokered the agreement argued that partition
was
the only way to contain the ethnic rivalries. But the Bush
Administration
was pushing the Europeans to recognize Bosnia as an independent country,
with a Muslim-led Government in Sarajevo." When the Bosnian Muslim
or--more
accurately--Islamist leader, Alija Izetbegovic returned to Sarajevo,
U.S.
Ambassador Warren Zimmermann called on him. "He said he didn't like it"
Mr.
Zimmermann recalled. "I told him, if he didn't like it, why sign it?"
But
after talking to the Ambassador, Mr. Izetbegovic publicly renounced the
Lisbon agreement."
By April the United States had managed to bully the Europeans into
recognizing the state of Bosnia, thereby setting in train the carnage to
come. The U.S. subsequently sabotaged the Vance-Owen partition plan as
well
as the Stoltenberg partition plan. The fighting finally came to an end
with
a U.S.-sponsored partition plan at Dayton. We got what we were after all
along. Bosnia was turned into a colony. (4)
***
Further Reading:
1) To read 'What Milosevic Really Said at Kosovo Field in 1989' go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/milosaid.html
2) The IMF was directly involved in the Yugoslav coup of Oct. 5th. While
promising to aid, the IMF in fact presides over the destruction of
economies.
See 'The International Monetary Fund And The Yugoslav Elections at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/1.htm
3) Analyst T.W. Carr has written a most useful account of the Western
assault
on Yugoslavia. See 'Germany and the US in the Balkans- a Careful
Coincidence
of National Policies?' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/carr/carr.html
4) See Prof. Michel Chossudovsky's "Dismantling Yugoslavia, Colonizing
Bosnia" at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/dismantl.htm
www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes]
The URL for this article is
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/free.htm
**********************************************
U.S. TROOPS SHOT AT IN KOSOVO
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff@...>
[What a reassuringly bland, vague, non-committal, evasive tone the
following report has. Nowhere is it
hinted that the snipers could possibly be members of the KLA - I repeat,
the KLA - who were armed and trained by U.S. and other NATO military and
intelligence personnel since 1995, at the very moment the Dayton Peace
Accord was being negotiated. The Western propaganda mills,
notwithstanding
how thoroughly they've succeeded in misleading and stupefying their
respective populaces, would have a difficult time explaining this about
face. So the press wire services will simpy allude to certain anonymous
malefactors taking shots at the 'peacekeepers.']
GUNMEN FIRE ON U.S. FORCES IN KOSOVO
by FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Gunmen fired on U.S. and Polish
peacekeepers
in Kosovo as they were patrolling the rugged mountains near the border
with
Macedonia, a U.S. army spokeswoman said Tuesday. NATO-led peacekeepers
returned fire and suffered no injuries in Monday's gunfight, the first
since a joint U.S-Russian patrol came under attack in December, said
Capt.
Alayne Cramer, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces in Kosovo. No suspects were
detained. The attack occurred southwest of the Kosovo village of
Krivenik,
where an Associated Press Television News producer, Kerem Lawton, was
killed during a mortar attack March 29. The source of that mortar attack
is
under investigation.
Both ethnic Albanian insurgents and Macedonian government troops
fighting
each other in the area in March have denied responsibility. Peacekeepers
have stepped up patrols in the border area in recent weeks, netting arms
caches and discovering what appeared to be a camp used by extremists.
Peacekeepers sought to prevent ethnic Albanian guerrillas from using
Kosovo
as a staging ground to launch attacks in Macedonia, where the insurgents
are fighting for more rights.
Just nine miles along the border to the north, peacekeepers cordoned off
the wreckage of a British helicopter that crashed in heavy rain Monday.
Two
people died and five others were injured. There was no indication of any
hostile fire, said Maj. Fergus Smith, a spokesman for the British
contingent
serving in Kosovo. Despite the unease along Kosovo's borders, Serbia --
Yugoslavia's larger republic -- is moving ahead on drafting a framework
for
self-government that should allow elections this year, a senior U.N.
official said.
The announcement comes just days after Yugoslavia's President Vojislav
Kostunica and Kosovo's U.N. Administrator Hans Haekkerup agreed that the
Serbs should take part in the working group drafting the self-government
framework. Jean-Marie Guehenno, the undersecretary-general for
peacekeeping, said the working group has already laid out the skeleton
structure of a framework for
self-government. Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador, Dejan Sahovic, also
demanded
security guarantees for the Kosovo Serb participants and demanded
''guarantees concerning equal participation.''
On Monday, Guehenno told an open U.N. Security Council meeting that
''serious measures to tackle law and order are beginning to bear
fruit,''
but that he did not hold out hope for a return of Serbs and allied
ethnic
minorities before the election. U.N. administrators and NATO-led
peacekeepers have
been in charge of Kosovo since June 1999 after a 78-day NATO bombing
campaign forced Yugoslav troops to withdraw and ended then-Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic's attacks on separatist ethnic Albanians.
*******************************************
CRISIS BUILDS UP IN MOSLEM CROATIAN FEDERATION OF BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
The government of Western Herzegovina, which is a constituent part of
the
Moslem Croatian Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, warns that it will
no
longer be able to guarantee security to members of the international
community and to federal authorities.
The headquarters of an OSCE mission and missions of other international
organizations in the province's administrative center, Siroki Breg, have
been destroyed, with the personnel evacuated under the protection of
KFOR
forces.
It will be remembered that all federal ministries have been out of
operation since March 3, the day Croatian self-government was proclaimed
in
territories with predominantly Croatian population in the Federation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. And the situation becomes increasingly
complicated
with very passing day.
The authorities of Western Herzegovina have formed a staff to address
security issues, which will reportedly protect interests of the Croatian
people, preventing anti-Croatian acts. This decision in fact withdraws
the
province from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The federal defense minister, not recognized by the Western Herzegovina
authorities, has called on the global community to take urgent measures
to
end the disorder. The Croatians' discontent wave and their threats to
the
world community, as well as to the federal government, army and police
of
Bosnia and Herzegovina extend to other provinces. (Source: Pravda.ru)
********************************************
YOUNG ALBANIANS FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION BY OWN MEN
Young Albanians forced into prostitution tell of their sorry plight By
Hans-Hagen Bremer Paris - Albanian women told a committee of the Council
of
Europe meeting in Paris on Monday grim tales of being auctioned off like
cattle and of enduring brutal psychological pressure designed break
them,
to turn them into uncomplaining prostitutes.
"They are auctioned off like animals. If they're blonde and pretty, the
bids are higher. Then they're trained for their future trade. They're
raped, tortured and psychologically broken until they submit. It's a
real
slave market," said Briseida Mema, describing the techniques Albanian
pimps
use on women to supply western Europe with prostitutes. Mema belongs to
the
Independent Forum of Albanian Women.
Also invited to the hearing on the burgeoning trade in women and their
sexual enslavement were parliamentarians, police specialists and
representatives of private aid organisations, including a number from
eastern Europe. The camps where the women are inducted into the sex
industry also exist in countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Calls for classifying trafficking in women as a crime against humanity
have
been growing stronger recently. According to Socialist MP Lydie Err of
Luxembourg, it represents a new type of crime against humanity which
remains relatively unpunished. Where charges are filed, he says, they
often
result in sentences and fines below those imposed on dealers in drugs
and
arms.
Fearing revenge attacks by their tormentors, many women who have escaped
from prostitution withdrew their agreement to publicly address the
committee. Philippe Boudin, director of the French Committee Against
Modern
Slavery, puts the number of non-EU women forced into prostitution in the
European Union since the collapse of communism in 1989 at 500,000 to
600,000. Every year, another 120,000 or so join their sorry ranks. For
the
traffickers and pimps, business is booming, says Don Cesare Lodeserto,
head
of the Regina Pacis womens' shelter in Lecce, Italy. The introduction of
the euro has only boosted earnings.
Experts at the United Nations put turnover in the global sex-slave trade
at
seven to 13 billion dollars. The EU declared war on the illegal trade in
women back in 1999. Several directives aimed at harmonising and
stiffening
relevant laws are currently being examined by the council of ministers.
As
yet, none has been passed into law. So far, only Belgium and Italy have
declared the trafficking of women for the prostitution industry as a
crime
and taken steps to provide help to victims of ruthless gangs of human
traffickers. In Belgium, for example, escaped women can assume a new
identity if they wish.
Part of this problem is that many if not most of the male European MP
frequently use prostitutes. Power corrupts in many ways.
(Source: Frankfurter Rundschau online. Published: 4-9-2001 Author:
Hans-Hagen Bremer)
******************************************
LUKASHENKO SAYS WEST TO EARMARK $500 MILLION FOR HIS OPPONENTS
MINSK, Apr 10, 2001 -- (RFE/RL) Belarusian President Alexander
Lukashenko
on 6 April said the West is planning to allot $500 million for
candidates
who will challenge him in this year's presidential ballot in Belarus,
Belapan reported.
Lukashenko said he obtained this information from former Russian Prime
Minister Yevgenii Primakov.
According to Lukashenko, the Belarusian presidential elections will also
be
crucial for the fate of Russia.
"We may not, we don't have the right to lose this [presidential]
campaign.
If we lose these elections,
Russia's days will be counted," he noted.
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Milosevic sarebbero state messe dalla polizia
- la seconda sul tentativo, durante l'arresto,di
rapire Milosevic per portarlo subito all'Aja
- la terza, secondo me molto importante, della
riconosciuta innocenza di un giovane Serbo di
Mitrovica accusato di genocidio e tenuto in prigione
dall'agosto del 1999. Naturalmente qui si sono tutti
ben guardati dal riportare la notizia.
Aggiungo copia dei tre articoli"
> http://209.197.77.95/daily.html
Borba, 10/04/2001
1)
JUL Spokeswoman - Police Planted Weapons in
Milosevic's Villa
Yugoslav Left (JUL) spokeswoman Dragana Kuzmanovic
said on Monday that the party had information that the
weapons found in the villa of former Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic in Uzicka street had been
planted by the police.
According to her, seven members of a Belgrade police
special unit were ordered to hide arms and explosive
devices behind the radiator and in the corners of
Milosevic's house after he had been taken to
investigating bodies.
Kuzmanovic told a press conference that one of them,
who after carrying out his task was on the verge of a
nervous break-down, informed the party about that.
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said that there
is no justice if it is selective and in parts,
Kuzmanovic pointed out and said that was the reason
why JUL insists the public be informed who were the
people in jeans and masks who "raided the house in the
night of March 31 and tried to liquidate Milosevic and
his family by using shock bombs."
2)
Serbian Radical Party for Forming Inquiry Board in
Milosevic Case
Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj said on
Monday that his party will support the setting up of
an inquiry board that would investigate circumstances
under which former Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic has been arrested, if proposed in the
Serbian parliament.
In a Serbian parliament session break, Seselj told
reporters that these circumstances should be examined,
since he thinks that people with black masks who
appeared around Milosevic's house were not special
police units, but bounty hunters who wanted to arrest
Milosevic.
He added that for this purpose a helicopter was ready
at the border between Serbia and Republika Srpska,
that was supposed to transport Milosevic to be
extradited to The Hague tribunal.
3)
Acquittal for Serb Igor Simic
By passing a sentence of acquittal the district court
of Kosovska Mitrovica ended the trial of Igor Simic
(25), a law student from Kosovska Mitrovica, who was
charged with genocide.
At the end of the main hearing, international
prosecutor Michael Hartman requested that Simic be
released from detention, ending the procedure in the
first phase.
The prosecutor explained in detail his decision and a
five-member court panel, presided over by judge
Kirsten Karpamar decided to acquit Simic.
Simic has been in detention since August 9, 1999, on
charges that with five other Serbs he killed 26 ethnic
Albanian on April 14 that year in the southern part of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
During the trial that lasted almost four months,
testified 12 witnesses and Simic was proved innocent.
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Thursday, april 12, 2001
1. Free Milosevic, jail Eagleburger, Zimmermann (etc.)...
2. U.S. troops shot at in Kosovo
3. Crisis builds up in Moslem Croatian federation of Bosnia &
Herzegovina
4. Young Albanians forced into prostitution by own men
5. Lukashenko says West to earmark $500 million for his opponents
***********************************************
FREE MILOSEVIC, JAIL EAGLEBURGER, ZIMMERMANN (ETC.)...
by George Szamuely
Quiz time. Who said the following?
"Serbia has never had only Serbs living in it. Today, more than in the
past, members of other peoples and nationalities also live in it. This
is
not a disadvantage for Serbia. I am truly convinced that it is its
advantage. National composition of almost all countries in the world
today…has also been changing in this direction. Citizens of different
nationalities, religions, and races have been living together more and
more
frequently and more and more successfully."
Elie Wiesel? Madeleine Albright? George Soros? Vojislav Kostnica, Zoran
Djindjic or one of the other creatures the U.S. installed in power in
Belgrade? No, it was Slobodan Milosevic. He spoke these words in Kosovo
on
June 28, 1989, the very occasion on which he allegedly whipped the Serbs
into
a bloodthirsty nationalist frenzy. (1)
The real Milosevic has never had the remotest connection with the
idiotic
cartoonish figure depicted by the U.S. government, the "two op-ed-page
articles a year" denizens of the defense-industry-funded think tanks and
the ignorant reporters passing for "Balkans experts" on NewsHour with
Jim
Lehrer.
Milosevic was neither a "nationalist," nor a "Communist," nor a
"dictator"
nor a "demagogue." To be sure, he was never one of those East European
Communists-turned-Thatcherite-overnight so beloved by U.S. elites. Nor
did
it help that he won elections handily, or that in the late 1980s he was
leading
massive demonstrations against the IMF bromides that were destroying
Yugoslavia's industry. The U.S. actually did Yugoslavia a favor by
imposing
sanctions in 1992. It freed the countryâ€"all too briefly, as the Serbs
are
about to find outâ€"from the dreadful ministrations of the IMF. (2)
Milosevic did not instigate the wars in the Balkans. On the contrary,
his
record throughout the decade was that of a man eager for peace. Who was
really responsible for the wars? Those who insisted on secession without
waiting to settle outstanding issues like final borders, the status of
minorities or the disposal of state property and debt? Or those who, in
accordance with international law, insisted that secession could only be
"legal" if it was accepted by the seceding state and the seceded-from
state? (3)
There is no question that the US Government will put enormous pressure
on
the Belgrade authorities to transfer Milosevic to the Hague, where he
would
receive a ridiculously unfair trial in a "court" which has already
pre-judged him guilty of "war crimes," "genocide" and "crimes against
humanity". This is
the purpose of the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia: to absolve the real instigators of the wars in the Balkans
of
any responsibility for their actions.
The Balkans today are littered with tiny, weak NATO protectorates whose
domestic and foreign policies are shaped down to the last detail by the
U.S. and its junior EU partners. This was an entirely foreseen
consequence
of U.S. policy in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. There is
no
truth whatsoever to the legend that the United States wanted to keep
Yugoslavia together but was thwarted in this noble endeavor by the
machinations of the Germans. In February 1990, nearly two years before
the
villainous German Chancellor Helmut Kohl supposedly muscled in on the
Balkans by recognizing Croatia and Slovenia, Deputy Secretary of State
Lawrence Eagleburger was already telling the Slovenians that Washington
would accept Slovenia's secession provided it was done "peacefully and
democratically." The Slovenians did not need another signal. Even so, in
October 1990â€"eight months before Slovenia declared independence, one
year
before war broke out in
Croatiaâ€"Congress passed an amendment to the Foreign Operations
Appropriation law barring any U.S. loans or credits for Yugoslavia
unless
the assistance was directed to a republic "which has held free and fair
elections and which is not engaged in systematic abuse of human rights".
This was an
extraordinary piece of legislation. According to Washington then,
Yugoslavia had ceased to exist. The U.S. government was henceforth to
deal
with the "republics," entities with no international legal standing
whatsoever.
In the days leading up to the secession of Croatia and Slovenia, U.S.
officials would make pro forma declarations opposing unilateral
declarations of independence. Then they would warn the Yugoslav army not
to
use force to stop the republics breaking away. It was a policy of
accepting
de facto independence. Moreover, it was revealed in the London Observer
last year that, contrary to the publicly proclaimed Western policy of
neutrality, the British were in fact secretly selling arms to Slovenia
days
before its declaration of independence. Since Britain is merely
America's
errand boy on
such matters, one can be fairly certain that this was a
Washington-initiated policy.
The carnage that was to come in Bosnia was entirely the consequence of a
ruthless and cynical U.S. policy. In March 1992, after seeing the bitter
fighting that followed the secession of Croatia, the leaders of Bosnia's
Serbs, Croats and Muslims sat down in Lisbon and hammered out a
partition
plan of Bosnia. According to a 1993 New York Times story, European
Community "mediators who brokered the agreement argued that partition
was
the only way to contain the ethnic rivalries. But the Bush
Administration
was pushing the Europeans to recognize Bosnia as an independent country,
with a Muslim-led Government in Sarajevo." When the Bosnian Muslim
or--more
accurately--Islamist leader, Alija Izetbegovic returned to Sarajevo,
U.S.
Ambassador Warren Zimmermann called on him. "He said he didn't like it"
Mr.
Zimmermann recalled. "I told him, if he didn't like it, why sign it?"
But
after talking to the Ambassador, Mr. Izetbegovic publicly renounced the
Lisbon agreement."
By April the United States had managed to bully the Europeans into
recognizing the state of Bosnia, thereby setting in train the carnage to
come. The U.S. subsequently sabotaged the Vance-Owen partition plan as
well
as the Stoltenberg partition plan. The fighting finally came to an end
with
a U.S.-sponsored partition plan at Dayton. We got what we were after all
along. Bosnia was turned into a colony. (4)
***
Further Reading:
1) To read 'What Milosevic Really Said at Kosovo Field in 1989' go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/milosaid.html
2) The IMF was directly involved in the Yugoslav coup of Oct. 5th. While
promising to aid, the IMF in fact presides over the destruction of
economies.
See 'The International Monetary Fund And The Yugoslav Elections at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/1.htm
3) Analyst T.W. Carr has written a most useful account of the Western
assault
on Yugoslavia. See 'Germany and the US in the Balkans- a Careful
Coincidence
of National Policies?' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/carr/carr.html
4) See Prof. Michel Chossudovsky's "Dismantling Yugoslavia, Colonizing
Bosnia" at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/dismantl.htm
www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes]
The URL for this article is
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/free.htm
**********************************************
U.S. TROOPS SHOT AT IN KOSOVO
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff@...>
[What a reassuringly bland, vague, non-committal, evasive tone the
following report has. Nowhere is it
hinted that the snipers could possibly be members of the KLA - I repeat,
the KLA - who were armed and trained by U.S. and other NATO military and
intelligence personnel since 1995, at the very moment the Dayton Peace
Accord was being negotiated. The Western propaganda mills,
notwithstanding
how thoroughly they've succeeded in misleading and stupefying their
respective populaces, would have a difficult time explaining this about
face. So the press wire services will simpy allude to certain anonymous
malefactors taking shots at the 'peacekeepers.']
GUNMEN FIRE ON U.S. FORCES IN KOSOVO
by FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Gunmen fired on U.S. and Polish
peacekeepers
in Kosovo as they were patrolling the rugged mountains near the border
with
Macedonia, a U.S. army spokeswoman said Tuesday. NATO-led peacekeepers
returned fire and suffered no injuries in Monday's gunfight, the first
since a joint U.S-Russian patrol came under attack in December, said
Capt.
Alayne Cramer, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces in Kosovo. No suspects were
detained. The attack occurred southwest of the Kosovo village of
Krivenik,
where an Associated Press Television News producer, Kerem Lawton, was
killed during a mortar attack March 29. The source of that mortar attack
is
under investigation.
Both ethnic Albanian insurgents and Macedonian government troops
fighting
each other in the area in March have denied responsibility. Peacekeepers
have stepped up patrols in the border area in recent weeks, netting arms
caches and discovering what appeared to be a camp used by extremists.
Peacekeepers sought to prevent ethnic Albanian guerrillas from using
Kosovo
as a staging ground to launch attacks in Macedonia, where the insurgents
are fighting for more rights.
Just nine miles along the border to the north, peacekeepers cordoned off
the wreckage of a British helicopter that crashed in heavy rain Monday.
Two
people died and five others were injured. There was no indication of any
hostile fire, said Maj. Fergus Smith, a spokesman for the British
contingent
serving in Kosovo. Despite the unease along Kosovo's borders, Serbia --
Yugoslavia's larger republic -- is moving ahead on drafting a framework
for
self-government that should allow elections this year, a senior U.N.
official said.
The announcement comes just days after Yugoslavia's President Vojislav
Kostunica and Kosovo's U.N. Administrator Hans Haekkerup agreed that the
Serbs should take part in the working group drafting the self-government
framework. Jean-Marie Guehenno, the undersecretary-general for
peacekeeping, said the working group has already laid out the skeleton
structure of a framework for
self-government. Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador, Dejan Sahovic, also
demanded
security guarantees for the Kosovo Serb participants and demanded
''guarantees concerning equal participation.''
On Monday, Guehenno told an open U.N. Security Council meeting that
''serious measures to tackle law and order are beginning to bear
fruit,''
but that he did not hold out hope for a return of Serbs and allied
ethnic
minorities before the election. U.N. administrators and NATO-led
peacekeepers have
been in charge of Kosovo since June 1999 after a 78-day NATO bombing
campaign forced Yugoslav troops to withdraw and ended then-Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic's attacks on separatist ethnic Albanians.
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CRISIS BUILDS UP IN MOSLEM CROATIAN FEDERATION OF BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
The government of Western Herzegovina, which is a constituent part of
the
Moslem Croatian Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, warns that it will
no
longer be able to guarantee security to members of the international
community and to federal authorities.
The headquarters of an OSCE mission and missions of other international
organizations in the province's administrative center, Siroki Breg, have
been destroyed, with the personnel evacuated under the protection of
KFOR
forces.
It will be remembered that all federal ministries have been out of
operation since March 3, the day Croatian self-government was proclaimed
in
territories with predominantly Croatian population in the Federation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. And the situation becomes increasingly
complicated
with very passing day.
The authorities of Western Herzegovina have formed a staff to address
security issues, which will reportedly protect interests of the Croatian
people, preventing anti-Croatian acts. This decision in fact withdraws
the
province from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The federal defense minister, not recognized by the Western Herzegovina
authorities, has called on the global community to take urgent measures
to
end the disorder. The Croatians' discontent wave and their threats to
the
world community, as well as to the federal government, army and police
of
Bosnia and Herzegovina extend to other provinces. (Source: Pravda.ru)
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YOUNG ALBANIANS FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION BY OWN MEN
Young Albanians forced into prostitution tell of their sorry plight By
Hans-Hagen Bremer Paris - Albanian women told a committee of the Council
of
Europe meeting in Paris on Monday grim tales of being auctioned off like
cattle and of enduring brutal psychological pressure designed break
them,
to turn them into uncomplaining prostitutes.
"They are auctioned off like animals. If they're blonde and pretty, the
bids are higher. Then they're trained for their future trade. They're
raped, tortured and psychologically broken until they submit. It's a
real
slave market," said Briseida Mema, describing the techniques Albanian
pimps
use on women to supply western Europe with prostitutes. Mema belongs to
the
Independent Forum of Albanian Women.
Also invited to the hearing on the burgeoning trade in women and their
sexual enslavement were parliamentarians, police specialists and
representatives of private aid organisations, including a number from
eastern Europe. The camps where the women are inducted into the sex
industry also exist in countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Calls for classifying trafficking in women as a crime against humanity
have
been growing stronger recently. According to Socialist MP Lydie Err of
Luxembourg, it represents a new type of crime against humanity which
remains relatively unpunished. Where charges are filed, he says, they
often
result in sentences and fines below those imposed on dealers in drugs
and
arms.
Fearing revenge attacks by their tormentors, many women who have escaped
from prostitution withdrew their agreement to publicly address the
committee. Philippe Boudin, director of the French Committee Against
Modern
Slavery, puts the number of non-EU women forced into prostitution in the
European Union since the collapse of communism in 1989 at 500,000 to
600,000. Every year, another 120,000 or so join their sorry ranks. For
the
traffickers and pimps, business is booming, says Don Cesare Lodeserto,
head
of the Regina Pacis womens' shelter in Lecce, Italy. The introduction of
the euro has only boosted earnings.
Experts at the United Nations put turnover in the global sex-slave trade
at
seven to 13 billion dollars. The EU declared war on the illegal trade in
women back in 1999. Several directives aimed at harmonising and
stiffening
relevant laws are currently being examined by the council of ministers.
As
yet, none has been passed into law. So far, only Belgium and Italy have
declared the trafficking of women for the prostitution industry as a
crime
and taken steps to provide help to victims of ruthless gangs of human
traffickers. In Belgium, for example, escaped women can assume a new
identity if they wish.
Part of this problem is that many if not most of the male European MP
frequently use prostitutes. Power corrupts in many ways.
(Source: Frankfurter Rundschau online. Published: 4-9-2001 Author:
Hans-Hagen Bremer)
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LUKASHENKO SAYS WEST TO EARMARK $500 MILLION FOR HIS OPPONENTS
MINSK, Apr 10, 2001 -- (RFE/RL) Belarusian President Alexander
Lukashenko
on 6 April said the West is planning to allot $500 million for
candidates
who will challenge him in this year's presidential ballot in Belarus,
Belapan reported.
Lukashenko said he obtained this information from former Russian Prime
Minister Yevgenii Primakov.
According to Lukashenko, the Belarusian presidential elections will also
be
crucial for the fate of Russia.
"We may not, we don't have the right to lose this [presidential]
campaign.
If we lose these elections,
Russia's days will be counted," he noted.
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