Informazione
* 24 MAGGIO: FIRENZE DICE NO AL SUMMIT DELLA NATO
* LA NATO AL DI SOPRA DI OGNI LEGGE? (D. Pavlovic)
---
FLORENCE SAYS NO TO THE NATO SUMMIT!
On the 24 and 25 May, NATO will hold a summit meeting in Florence, a
city declared to be an "Operator for Peace," with a gold medal for its
Resistance against the Nazi/Facists in WW II.
In this highest-level meeting, the NATO Alliance intends to further
define its strategies with regards to various areas of the world (the
Balkans and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa), the
reorganization in a more explicitly offensive way of its military
apparatus, and its expansion to the East.
The NATO military alliance which, as in the past, continues to be an
instrument of aggression against national sovereignty and of
interference in the internal political affairs of member states, as well
as a constant threat to peace, is today in a process of transformation
of its role and its military apparatus to adapt itself to the growing
requirements of capitalist dominion in its contemporary form: "the free
market."
It is in this sense that the Treaty of Washington of April 1999, also
signed by the Italian government, must be understood, in which NATO
formally arrogates to itself the right to intervene everywhere and
anywhere in support of the new world order, as demonstrated in the war
against Yugoslavia.
War is thus established and increasingly reconfirmed as a concrete
possibility, practicable and in fact practiced, as a major and decisive
instrument for the imposition of the "free market."
For this reason there is an evident connection between the struggles
against wars of aggression, against the presence of NATO's military
bases, against militarism, and against the embargoes, with the struggles
in the North and South of the world which are rising up against the
sanctuaries of capitalism (WTO, IMF, World Bank), against temporary
labor and "flexibility", against exploitation and poverty, for social
and citizenship rights, for the right to a decent life and future, for
the liberation of peoples.
The forces organizing this mobilization express their opposition to the
holding of the NATO summit in Florence and call on the entire population
to boycott and mobilize against this unacceptable provocation.
WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
DAY OF MOBILIZATION AGAINST NATO
concluding with a
DEMONSTRATION
meeting point: PIAZZA SAN MARCO
5:30 p.m.
Endorsers: Women in Black, Tuscan Antagonistic Movement, Casa for
Social Rights, Association for Renewal of the Left, CPA Occupied Social
Center, Communist Refoundation Party, Young Communists, Liberazione
newspaper, Forum of the Women of Communist Refoundation, Peace Charter,
Coordinamento of Leftist Students, Political Science Collective,
Programmatic Area of Communists in CGIL trade union, RDB Healthworkers
union (Tuscany), Camera del Lavoro Sociale labor council, Fuori
Binario
newspaper, Peace Tent, Ass. Senza Confine, Missing Links Ass., Ass.
for Defense of Minorities, Movement for the Confederation of Communists,
Cobas school union, Sincobas union, Slai Cobas union (Florence), Cobas
Union Confederation (Florence), Gulf Committee, National Coordinamento
of RSU workplace union councils, National Coord. of Committees Against
the War, Guerre e Pace magazine, Coord. of World March of Women, Coord.
Rete Lilliput (Florence), CSOA il Mulino Occupied Social Center,
National, Ass. AZAD - Freedom for the Kurdish People, Val di Sieve Peace
Committee, ASSOPACE, PMLI, Nuova Unita' newspaper, North Americans
Against War, Coord. University Language Teachers (Florence), 1968
Archives, Forum of Associations Against the Free Market (Milan), Ass.
Village of Peoples, Economy Group "E. Balducci", RACS, Ass. "Friendship"
Rom (Florence), Florence Committee for the Liberation of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, Valdarno Committee Against the War, Ernesto de Martino
Institute, Ass. Chiama Africa, Cultural Ass. Punto Rosso (Massa
Carrara), RSU union council of University of Florence. Mani Tese
(Florence).
---
Above or Beyond the Law
Dragan Pavlovic
Editor in chief, "Dialogue", Paris
____________________________________________________________________
The First World War Has Not Happened Yet
We seem to be dreaming. We look at the world as if it were not much
older
than we can remember. We do not doubt that we have made progress through
history as human beings, and we are proud of it. As children we may not
even have had a bicycle or ridden the train; and now we can have
breakfast
in one part of the world and dinner on the opposite side of our planet
Earth. Basic essential human rights are not an issue any more in this,
our
part of the world; we struggle for even more rights - extra rights are
the
order of the day: homosexual rights, even animal rights, and so on. War?
That is the business of fools, of lower people, they can have wars if
they
wish, but here war is forgotten. If we hear about such things from the
other
side of the world, it all sounds as remote as tales from an old history
book. We have moved beyond ... The new era is on its way; the world has
profoundly changed forever.
But is it so?
If we would shake our heads, open wide our eyes, and look back through
history, we could clearly see how profound an illusion this is. The
reality
is cruel. Conflicts between states have been constant and have all too
often
escalated into bloody wars. This has been an infallible pattern now for
not
only hundreds but many thousands of years. History looks rather like
conflict - war periods randomly distributed over the planet, with
uninhabited areas proportionally less exposed. When it has happened that
some large region remained relatively spared for a fairly long period of
time, then people always, without exception, started to believe that the
time of war was past and gone. However, those exceptional periods always
came to an end and the hopes for lasting peace proved to be in vain.
Today we have no serious reasons to believe that the future will not
resemble the past. The present period of peace in the Western world is
negligibly short, if compared to the sweep of history, and the cycle of
war
and peace periods following endlessly one upon another -- much too short
to
enable us to conclude that the miracle has occurred. Hence, there are
more
wars to come in the future.
The same applies to the frontiers between states. They have been
changing
over the centuries, and the long history of changes only offers the
promise
that there will be more changes to come, the Europe of the future is not
going to resemble the one we know now, and that this is going to happen,
unfortunately, through conflicts and wars.
In the past, the slowness of communications and the restricted range of
deadly weapons resulted in more or less local wars. With the advance of
technology, communications and the world population, people have been
able
to travel faster and attack at greater distance, and wars have been
becoming
more universal. Yet so far, the real World War has not quite been
possible, even though very major wars, particularly in the past century,
were possible. Some of you may still remember what they looked like.
Today at last, thanks to technological progress, truly universal war is
practically at hand. So this is the sort of war we can expect to see
next.
All major wars in the past were fought for a "universal" cause, for
freedom,
for world order, for a prosperous and peaceful future, for improved
humanity, for "high" human ideals. We know today that all without
exception
were ruthless lies and the result of ignoble motives, immoral purposes
and
self-deception. Significantly, it was always the leaders of the most
powerful states, the ones most advanced in military technology, who took
it
for granted that eternal wisdom and utmost humanity went hand in hand
with
power. They believed that their concept of a better world then had to be
imposed - indeed even that failing to impose it would had been highly
immoral and unjust. Thinkers who opposed those attitudes were
marginalised
since the reigning power had their own thinkers, their own philosophers,
own
writers, own wise men, own elite. And so it went on. In short, there
were
many common features to distinguish aggressive states that probably
could be
recognised should they appear again today.
Yet absurd as it may be, in the past, they were seldom identified in
time by
large sections of the populations. Why, I do not know. Perhaps it was
because they were never exactly the same, born in different times and
different places, in different cultural environments; and in spite of
this,
they all displayed these similar features.
Above or Beyond the Law
There is in particular one feature, so systematically present, so well
represented, that always followed sometimes long periods of maturation
of
those so characteristic and yet atypical and unrecognisable ideological
traits that I mention, which is so strong that its appearance should by
itself be able to wake up the most somnolent from their deadly dreams:
THEY
(the states i.e., their leaders) always put themselves above the law,
violating their own laws, the laws of other countries, agreements
between
states, treaties, international conventions. Always. In the earlier
times
those were not the laws in narrow sense but rather customs or frequently
unwritten agreements. In the twentieth century the laws par excellence,
just
borne to assure everlasting peace, were violated. To do this, very
strong
reasons were given, always, without exception. The essence of all
reasons
was that fulfilment of essential human duties had to overcome humanly
made,
imperfect laws. THEY would promote first an untenable thesis that
violence
could be combated by equal or even greater violence. To achieve their
ultimate goals, THEY had to turn upside down the famous Greek argument
of
the justice beyond the law, justice emanating out of human categorical
imperatives, a priory knowledge of right and wrong, our ideal of
justice.
(Antigones' refusal not to bury the body of her brother and to let it be
torn apart by animals; she was convinced that the universal law is
higher
than human made laws and that such a vicious act could not be let
happen).
The ancient Greeks knew that laws couldn't entail the entire human moral
intuition. They knew that we may, in the rare cases, in order to fulfil
that
ideal of justice - the laws steam to and just fall short of - and go
beyond
the law, but only to forgive and to pardon. What a tyrants would do is
that
they would either virtually apply the law but exceeding what it
prescribes,
or go above it and violate it (for the "higher" cause!) punishing more,
oppressing more, destroying and killing, and this makes the "fine"
difference of the moral and immoral.
Here is the famous passage form Sophocles" "Antigone".
CREON. And thou didst indeed dare to transgress that law?
ANTIGONE. Yes; for it was not Zeus that had published me that edict; not
such are the laws set among men by the justice who dwells with the gods
below; nor deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal
could
override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life
is
not of today or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they
were first put forth.
Not through dread of any human pride could I answer to the gods for
breaking
these. Die I must,-I knew that well (how should I not?)-even without thy
edicts. But if I am to die before my time, I count that a gain: for when
any
one lives, as I do, compassed about with evils, can such an one find
aught
but gain in death?
So for me to meet this doom is trifling grief; but if I had suffered my
mother's son to lie in death an unburied corpse, that would have grieved
me;
for this, I am not grieved. And if my present deeds are foolish in thy
sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
In the other words, Sophocles was saying that we can break the law only
if
in doing this we commit a less violent act, and then we certainly do not
increase the punishment, we diminish it or pardon altogether. Only then
we
may, in some special circumstances, break the human-made and imperfect
human
laws. But what THEY (the states mentioned above i.e., their actual
leaders)
would so systematically do, and we should so easily see it if we just
open
our eyes, is that, contrary to Sophocles - who would break the law only
to
pardon - those states would introduce more cruel, more violent measures,
not
only to impose by force the "utmost human values", but to punish,
repress
and even exterminate. They would do all of this in a simple and clear
way -
with sword and fire. This, and at least this - we must always be able to
recognise at its very beginning. Before the announced (first) world war,
before it is too late.
Morals about Imperatives
I will let the reader discover examples of that pattern in history.
Ancient
Macedonia, the Romans, the Ottomans, Napoleonic France, our colonial
predecessors, Nazi Germany, are some of the most obvious cases. And
there
were others as well. Today, we must be very well aware that quite
recently,
the UN Charter and more then 50 treaties and international conventions,
as
well as a few national Constitutions, were violated.
In politics, not declared desires, promises and bare words, but acts and
results of those acts show what was really wanted. 78 days of bombing of
Yugoslavia, led to NATO occupation of Kosovo and installation of second
huge
military NATO basis in the Balkans (against small Serbia!?), ethnic
cleansing of the totality of Serbs from Kosovo (those who still rest
there
are in the "reserves"), having as a result reinforcement of Belgrade
government, subtotal destruction of the country's industry, death of
couple
of thousands of civilians, pushing the entire population deep in misery.
Those who did it all recognise now (secretly though) their failure and
plan
further (again military) actions to correct it. This will further help
"revive" the history, some were so anxious that was dying.
Again, we should not confuse entire nations with states, actual
governments,
and some political leaders. At the very end of the 20th century, we are
witnessing a dangerous, perhaps deadly, turn, taken by some of our
leaders
of the Western world, with the NATO Alliance at the summit. The pattern
is
easy to recognise, although, some of us have missed to spot it.
Fortunately,
we are the creatures able to learn, and this could be learned. Only
knowledge, under condition that we use it, and this being an imperative
today, could help us, probably, make that future does not resemble the
past.
Yes, not an easy task, but possible.
_____________________________________
Dragan Pavlovic
dragan@...
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
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* LA NATO AL DI SOPRA DI OGNI LEGGE? (D. Pavlovic)
---
FLORENCE SAYS NO TO THE NATO SUMMIT!
On the 24 and 25 May, NATO will hold a summit meeting in Florence, a
city declared to be an "Operator for Peace," with a gold medal for its
Resistance against the Nazi/Facists in WW II.
In this highest-level meeting, the NATO Alliance intends to further
define its strategies with regards to various areas of the world (the
Balkans and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa), the
reorganization in a more explicitly offensive way of its military
apparatus, and its expansion to the East.
The NATO military alliance which, as in the past, continues to be an
instrument of aggression against national sovereignty and of
interference in the internal political affairs of member states, as well
as a constant threat to peace, is today in a process of transformation
of its role and its military apparatus to adapt itself to the growing
requirements of capitalist dominion in its contemporary form: "the free
market."
It is in this sense that the Treaty of Washington of April 1999, also
signed by the Italian government, must be understood, in which NATO
formally arrogates to itself the right to intervene everywhere and
anywhere in support of the new world order, as demonstrated in the war
against Yugoslavia.
War is thus established and increasingly reconfirmed as a concrete
possibility, practicable and in fact practiced, as a major and decisive
instrument for the imposition of the "free market."
For this reason there is an evident connection between the struggles
against wars of aggression, against the presence of NATO's military
bases, against militarism, and against the embargoes, with the struggles
in the North and South of the world which are rising up against the
sanctuaries of capitalism (WTO, IMF, World Bank), against temporary
labor and "flexibility", against exploitation and poverty, for social
and citizenship rights, for the right to a decent life and future, for
the liberation of peoples.
The forces organizing this mobilization express their opposition to the
holding of the NATO summit in Florence and call on the entire population
to boycott and mobilize against this unacceptable provocation.
WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
DAY OF MOBILIZATION AGAINST NATO
concluding with a
DEMONSTRATION
meeting point: PIAZZA SAN MARCO
5:30 p.m.
Endorsers: Women in Black, Tuscan Antagonistic Movement, Casa for
Social Rights, Association for Renewal of the Left, CPA Occupied Social
Center, Communist Refoundation Party, Young Communists, Liberazione
newspaper, Forum of the Women of Communist Refoundation, Peace Charter,
Coordinamento of Leftist Students, Political Science Collective,
Programmatic Area of Communists in CGIL trade union, RDB Healthworkers
union (Tuscany), Camera del Lavoro Sociale labor council, Fuori
Binario
newspaper, Peace Tent, Ass. Senza Confine, Missing Links Ass., Ass.
for Defense of Minorities, Movement for the Confederation of Communists,
Cobas school union, Sincobas union, Slai Cobas union (Florence), Cobas
Union Confederation (Florence), Gulf Committee, National Coordinamento
of RSU workplace union councils, National Coord. of Committees Against
the War, Guerre e Pace magazine, Coord. of World March of Women, Coord.
Rete Lilliput (Florence), CSOA il Mulino Occupied Social Center,
National, Ass. AZAD - Freedom for the Kurdish People, Val di Sieve Peace
Committee, ASSOPACE, PMLI, Nuova Unita' newspaper, North Americans
Against War, Coord. University Language Teachers (Florence), 1968
Archives, Forum of Associations Against the Free Market (Milan), Ass.
Village of Peoples, Economy Group "E. Balducci", RACS, Ass. "Friendship"
Rom (Florence), Florence Committee for the Liberation of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, Valdarno Committee Against the War, Ernesto de Martino
Institute, Ass. Chiama Africa, Cultural Ass. Punto Rosso (Massa
Carrara), RSU union council of University of Florence. Mani Tese
(Florence).
---
Above or Beyond the Law
Dragan Pavlovic
Editor in chief, "Dialogue", Paris
____________________________________________________________________
The First World War Has Not Happened Yet
We seem to be dreaming. We look at the world as if it were not much
older
than we can remember. We do not doubt that we have made progress through
history as human beings, and we are proud of it. As children we may not
even have had a bicycle or ridden the train; and now we can have
breakfast
in one part of the world and dinner on the opposite side of our planet
Earth. Basic essential human rights are not an issue any more in this,
our
part of the world; we struggle for even more rights - extra rights are
the
order of the day: homosexual rights, even animal rights, and so on. War?
That is the business of fools, of lower people, they can have wars if
they
wish, but here war is forgotten. If we hear about such things from the
other
side of the world, it all sounds as remote as tales from an old history
book. We have moved beyond ... The new era is on its way; the world has
profoundly changed forever.
But is it so?
If we would shake our heads, open wide our eyes, and look back through
history, we could clearly see how profound an illusion this is. The
reality
is cruel. Conflicts between states have been constant and have all too
often
escalated into bloody wars. This has been an infallible pattern now for
not
only hundreds but many thousands of years. History looks rather like
conflict - war periods randomly distributed over the planet, with
uninhabited areas proportionally less exposed. When it has happened that
some large region remained relatively spared for a fairly long period of
time, then people always, without exception, started to believe that the
time of war was past and gone. However, those exceptional periods always
came to an end and the hopes for lasting peace proved to be in vain.
Today we have no serious reasons to believe that the future will not
resemble the past. The present period of peace in the Western world is
negligibly short, if compared to the sweep of history, and the cycle of
war
and peace periods following endlessly one upon another -- much too short
to
enable us to conclude that the miracle has occurred. Hence, there are
more
wars to come in the future.
The same applies to the frontiers between states. They have been
changing
over the centuries, and the long history of changes only offers the
promise
that there will be more changes to come, the Europe of the future is not
going to resemble the one we know now, and that this is going to happen,
unfortunately, through conflicts and wars.
In the past, the slowness of communications and the restricted range of
deadly weapons resulted in more or less local wars. With the advance of
technology, communications and the world population, people have been
able
to travel faster and attack at greater distance, and wars have been
becoming
more universal. Yet so far, the real World War has not quite been
possible, even though very major wars, particularly in the past century,
were possible. Some of you may still remember what they looked like.
Today at last, thanks to technological progress, truly universal war is
practically at hand. So this is the sort of war we can expect to see
next.
All major wars in the past were fought for a "universal" cause, for
freedom,
for world order, for a prosperous and peaceful future, for improved
humanity, for "high" human ideals. We know today that all without
exception
were ruthless lies and the result of ignoble motives, immoral purposes
and
self-deception. Significantly, it was always the leaders of the most
powerful states, the ones most advanced in military technology, who took
it
for granted that eternal wisdom and utmost humanity went hand in hand
with
power. They believed that their concept of a better world then had to be
imposed - indeed even that failing to impose it would had been highly
immoral and unjust. Thinkers who opposed those attitudes were
marginalised
since the reigning power had their own thinkers, their own philosophers,
own
writers, own wise men, own elite. And so it went on. In short, there
were
many common features to distinguish aggressive states that probably
could be
recognised should they appear again today.
Yet absurd as it may be, in the past, they were seldom identified in
time by
large sections of the populations. Why, I do not know. Perhaps it was
because they were never exactly the same, born in different times and
different places, in different cultural environments; and in spite of
this,
they all displayed these similar features.
Above or Beyond the Law
There is in particular one feature, so systematically present, so well
represented, that always followed sometimes long periods of maturation
of
those so characteristic and yet atypical and unrecognisable ideological
traits that I mention, which is so strong that its appearance should by
itself be able to wake up the most somnolent from their deadly dreams:
THEY
(the states i.e., their leaders) always put themselves above the law,
violating their own laws, the laws of other countries, agreements
between
states, treaties, international conventions. Always. In the earlier
times
those were not the laws in narrow sense but rather customs or frequently
unwritten agreements. In the twentieth century the laws par excellence,
just
borne to assure everlasting peace, were violated. To do this, very
strong
reasons were given, always, without exception. The essence of all
reasons
was that fulfilment of essential human duties had to overcome humanly
made,
imperfect laws. THEY would promote first an untenable thesis that
violence
could be combated by equal or even greater violence. To achieve their
ultimate goals, THEY had to turn upside down the famous Greek argument
of
the justice beyond the law, justice emanating out of human categorical
imperatives, a priory knowledge of right and wrong, our ideal of
justice.
(Antigones' refusal not to bury the body of her brother and to let it be
torn apart by animals; she was convinced that the universal law is
higher
than human made laws and that such a vicious act could not be let
happen).
The ancient Greeks knew that laws couldn't entail the entire human moral
intuition. They knew that we may, in the rare cases, in order to fulfil
that
ideal of justice - the laws steam to and just fall short of - and go
beyond
the law, but only to forgive and to pardon. What a tyrants would do is
that
they would either virtually apply the law but exceeding what it
prescribes,
or go above it and violate it (for the "higher" cause!) punishing more,
oppressing more, destroying and killing, and this makes the "fine"
difference of the moral and immoral.
Here is the famous passage form Sophocles" "Antigone".
CREON. And thou didst indeed dare to transgress that law?
ANTIGONE. Yes; for it was not Zeus that had published me that edict; not
such are the laws set among men by the justice who dwells with the gods
below; nor deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal
could
override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life
is
not of today or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they
were first put forth.
Not through dread of any human pride could I answer to the gods for
breaking
these. Die I must,-I knew that well (how should I not?)-even without thy
edicts. But if I am to die before my time, I count that a gain: for when
any
one lives, as I do, compassed about with evils, can such an one find
aught
but gain in death?
So for me to meet this doom is trifling grief; but if I had suffered my
mother's son to lie in death an unburied corpse, that would have grieved
me;
for this, I am not grieved. And if my present deeds are foolish in thy
sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
In the other words, Sophocles was saying that we can break the law only
if
in doing this we commit a less violent act, and then we certainly do not
increase the punishment, we diminish it or pardon altogether. Only then
we
may, in some special circumstances, break the human-made and imperfect
human
laws. But what THEY (the states mentioned above i.e., their actual
leaders)
would so systematically do, and we should so easily see it if we just
open
our eyes, is that, contrary to Sophocles - who would break the law only
to
pardon - those states would introduce more cruel, more violent measures,
not
only to impose by force the "utmost human values", but to punish,
repress
and even exterminate. They would do all of this in a simple and clear
way -
with sword and fire. This, and at least this - we must always be able to
recognise at its very beginning. Before the announced (first) world war,
before it is too late.
Morals about Imperatives
I will let the reader discover examples of that pattern in history.
Ancient
Macedonia, the Romans, the Ottomans, Napoleonic France, our colonial
predecessors, Nazi Germany, are some of the most obvious cases. And
there
were others as well. Today, we must be very well aware that quite
recently,
the UN Charter and more then 50 treaties and international conventions,
as
well as a few national Constitutions, were violated.
In politics, not declared desires, promises and bare words, but acts and
results of those acts show what was really wanted. 78 days of bombing of
Yugoslavia, led to NATO occupation of Kosovo and installation of second
huge
military NATO basis in the Balkans (against small Serbia!?), ethnic
cleansing of the totality of Serbs from Kosovo (those who still rest
there
are in the "reserves"), having as a result reinforcement of Belgrade
government, subtotal destruction of the country's industry, death of
couple
of thousands of civilians, pushing the entire population deep in misery.
Those who did it all recognise now (secretly though) their failure and
plan
further (again military) actions to correct it. This will further help
"revive" the history, some were so anxious that was dying.
Again, we should not confuse entire nations with states, actual
governments,
and some political leaders. At the very end of the 20th century, we are
witnessing a dangerous, perhaps deadly, turn, taken by some of our
leaders
of the Western world, with the NATO Alliance at the summit. The pattern
is
easy to recognise, although, some of us have missed to spot it.
Fortunately,
we are the creatures able to learn, and this could be learned. Only
knowledge, under condition that we use it, and this being an imperative
today, could help us, probably, make that future does not resemble the
past.
Yes, not an easy task, but possible.
_____________________________________
Dragan Pavlovic
dragan@...
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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* Arrivarono dalla Germania nazista i proiettili all'uranio impoverito
* La NATO ammette l'uso di armi all'uranio impoverito, l'UNMIK chiede
spiegazioni, la Jugoslavia chiede la riparazione dei danni, i militari
contaminati fanno causa al governo britannico, la denuncia del GAVCI
* Due libri ed un intero sito internet sull'uranio impoverito
* L'uranio impoverito usato dagli USA anche a Portorico
---
Marco Saba wrote:
>
> Arrivarono dalla Germania nazista i proiettili all'uranio impoverito.
>
> 1945: L'uranio delle prime bombe atomiche USA e
> la tecnologia dei proiettili all'uranio impoverito
> ceduti dai gerarchi nazisti in cambio dell'immunità
> (6 maggio 2000)
>
> Il 14 maggio 1945 il sommergibile U-234 XB si arrese alla
> nave americana USS Sutton. Conteneva 560 kg di uranio
> arricchito che sarebbe servito per le prime due bombe
> nucleari (Alamogordo ed Hiroshima) e per alimentare il
> reattore che produsse il plutonio per la bomba di Nagasaki.
>
> Oltre all'uranio c'erano le tecnologie belliche di punta della
> Germania nazista, tra cui il sistema di detonatori per la
> bomba al plutonio e la tecnologia dei proiettili all'uranio
> impoverito. La resa era stata negoziata in cambio
> dell'immunità per Martin Bormann ed Heinrich Müller oltreché
> per gli altri gerarchi nazisti che erano a bordo del
> sommergibile. Tra questi troviamo: Johann Heinrich Fehler,
> Heinz Schlicke, Wolfgang Hirschfeld, Ulrich Kessler, Kay
> Nieschling, il Dr. Walter, Hideo Tomonaga e Genzo Shosi.
>
> Questi ultimi due, giapponesi, vennero eliminati (avvelenati) dai
> nazisti durante l'ultimo viaggio del sommergibile perché
> stavano scoprendo l'intrigo e volevano impedire che quelle
> armi potessero essere usate contro il Giappone.
>
> La tesi del fatto che la tecnologia dei proiettili all'uranio
> impoverito risalisse alla Germania nazista, venne per la prima
> volta avanzata da Dr. Siegwart-Horst Guenther nell'articolo da
> noi precedentemente pubblicato:
> "Uran-Geschosse: Nach Zyklon B, eine neue deutsche Kampf- und
> Massenvernichtungs-Technologie" [Poiettili all'uranio: dopo il
> Zyklon-B, dalla Germania un'altra arma e tecnologia di combattimento]
>
> Il Prof. Guenther è stato arrestato in Germania, violentato in
> prigione e oggetto di due tentativi di omicidio. Al suo
> processo, il Giudice ha chiesto di effettuare una perizia
> psichiatrica per rinchiuderlo in manicomio. Attualmente
> Guenther (76 anni) è agli arresti domiciliari in Austria.
>
> La tesi di Guenther è confermata da decine di documenti
> ufficiali di cui l'Osservatorio è in possesso e dalla
> testimonianza di un esperto americano nostro collaboratore.
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> From: "Janet M Eaton" <jeaton@...>
> To: mai-not@...
> Subject: NATO Admits To Use Of DU in YU May 5th Article
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:42:05 +0000
>
> This is a very good article that reviews the attempts to persuade
> NATO to reveal details on DU use during the NATO War vs
> Yugoslavia which is imperative for investigating its impact on
> human health. It also refers to several studies on the health
> consequences of DU which suggest strongly the need for precautions
> for people living and working in the contaminated regions where
> bombing with DU munitions occurred and notes precautions currently
> being taken in the area.
>
> fyi- janet
>
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> From: "Dan Fahey" <mtpdu@...>
> Date sent: Fri, 5 May 2000 11:35:44 -0400
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> Subject: [du-list] Interesting article on Kosovo
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>
> The Greenwich Village Gazette
> May 5, 2000
> http://www.nycny.com/columns/guests/hyland05-05.html
> NATO Admits To Use Of Radioactive Munitions in Yugoslavia
> By Julie Hyland
> http://www.wsws.org
>
> NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson has finally provided
> limited details of the Alliance's use of depleted uranium (DU)
> ammunition during its war against Serbia last year. Robertson
> disclosed the information in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi
> Annan last month-four months after it was first requested.
>
> DU is a waste product of the process used to enrich natural uranium
> ore for use in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. It is 1.7 times
> as dense as lead and is used in the tips of a bullet or a round to
> pierce armor plating. It can also be used in cruise missile nose cones
> and has been used in the armor of tanks.
>
> DU breaks into tiny particles on impact, which can be easily ingested
> and/or inhaled. Numerous studies have linked DU ammunition to the
> increase of cancer in Iraq, following the 1991 Gulf War, and to the
> number of army personnel in the US and the UK suffering from "Gulf War
> Syndrome".
>
> Annan had requested detailed information on NATO's use of DU during
> its 78-day bombardment of Yugoslavia, following a UN investigation by
> the Balkan Task Force (BTF). The results of the BTF
> investigation-which included members from the World Health
> Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Swedish
> Radiation Protection Institute-were reported last October.
> Investigators concentrated on four environmental "hot-spots" in
> Kosovo-Pancevo, Kragujevac, Novi Sad and Bor-but complained that the
> lack of official confirmation from NATO of its use of DU "during the
> Kosovo conflict distorted the prerequisites for the group's work".
>
> The report concluded that whilst the Kosovo conflict did not cause an
> environmental catastrophe for the whole of the Balkan region,
> pollution at the four spots investigated was "serious and poses a
> threat to human health". It urged an investigation into the impact of
> DU ammunition on human health.
>
> Robertson wrote that the United States Air Force A-10 "tankbuster"
> aircraft had concentrated their operations "in an area west of the
> Pec-Dakovica-Prizren highway, in the area surrounding Klina, in the
> area around Prizren, and in an area to the north of a line joining
> Suva Reka and Urosevac". He added, "However, many missions using DU
> also took place outside these areas."
>
> The UN Environmental Programme (UNep) complained that "the information
> provided [by Robertson] is not of sufficient detail to facilitate an
> accurate field assessment of the environmental and human health
> consequences of its use at the present time". This meant it was not
> possible "to comprehensively carry out an objective and scientifically
> based environmental and human health impact assessment in Kosovo".
>
> Whilst claiming that Robertson's admission "should not be a cause of
> widespread alarm", UNep urged that its October 1999 recommendations
> should be followed-including preventing access to all places where
> contamination has been confirmed, informing the local populace of the
> possible risks and taking "appropriate precautionary measures".
>
> The lack of detailed information in Robertson's letter is not
> surprising. NATO pursued a strategy of "carpet-bombing" towns and
> cities across Yugoslavia during its offensive. Some 700 planes flew
> almost 35,000 sorties, destroying large parts of the country's
> industrial and social infrastructure.
>
> During the latter stages of the air campaign, NATO moved to 24-hour
> bombing, targeting industrial plants, airports, electricity and
> telecommunications facilities, railways, bridges and fuel depots,
> schools, health clinics, day care centres, government buildings,
> churches, museums and monasteries.
>
> A comprehensive list of those areas targeted with DU ammunition would
> probably mean declaring much of Serbia and Kosovo contaminated, as
> well as raising serious concerns over the environmental and health
> dangers for surrounding countries.
>
> It is unlikely that a detailed breakdown will be forthcoming.
> Following Robertson's admission, Francois LeBlevenac, a NATO
> spokesman, said that the alliance had "no direct control" over the use
> of DU ammunition during the war. Whilst NATO had overall control of
> the campaign against Serbia, "it had no jurisdiction over the choice
> of armaments used by member nations," LeBlevenac said.
>
> Both the US and the UK were known to have used DU ammunition during
> the war. Whilst both have denied that the weapons posed any
> significant risk to human health, numerous studies have revealed
> significant dangers. The US Army's Environmental Policy Institute
> reported in 1995: "If DU enters the body, it has the potential to
> generate significant medical consequences. The risks associated with
> DU are both chemical and radiological."
>
> UK Ministry of Defense personnel in Kosovo have been warned to stay
> clear of any sites targeted with DU munitions, unless they are wearing
> full radioactive protective clothing. The National Radiological
> Protection Board advises UK nationals visiting or working in Kosovo to
> avoid disturbing areas contaminated with DU. Last April, radiation
> physicists at the University of Maryland submitted evidence to the US
> Department of Energy, recommending that DU never be used in warfare
> because of the health hazards.
>
> Last week German KFOR troops designated an area of approximately 5,000
> square metres in Kosovo-Metohija as radioactive, leading the Defence
> Ministry to promise it would conduct health checks on all its
> personnel in the vicinity.
>
> The consequences of DU munitions have been most clearly revealed in
> Iraq. The US fired almost 944,000 rounds of DU ammunition in Iraq and
> Kuwait during the 1991 war. Congenital birth defects in Iraq are
> reported to have increased to three times their post-war levels and
> there has been a dramatic increase in cancers and childhood leukemia.
> Last year, British experimental biologist Roger Cohill warned that the
> use of DU weapons against Yugoslavia was likely to result in an
> additional 10,000 fatal cancer cases in the region.
>
> As in Iraq, NATO sanctions against Serbia are undermining the medical
> profession's ability to detect and treat the disease. At a public
> meeting convened in London on March 24 to commemorate the first
> anniversary of the NATO bombing, Labour MP's Alice Mahon and Bob
> Marshall-Andrews reported on their recent visit to Yugoslavia as part
> of a campaign to lift western sanctions.
>
> The two reported that they had spoken with refugees from Kosovo,
> Bosnia and Croatia and met patients at the Bazanijska Kosa hospital in
> Belgrade. Cancer experts at the hospital had informed them that
> sanctions were seriously undermining cancer prevention and the quality
> of care. Radiotherapy equipment often does not have all the required
> parts and chemotherapy drugs are unavailable.
>
> Already this has meant that the number of early-detected cancer cases
> has dropped from 35 percent in 1990 to 13 percent. Doctors told them
> that, in comparison to the rest of Europe, Serbia is now bottom of the
> league table for five-year survival rates for lung, breast, colon,
> rectum, prostate, testicular, ovarian,stomach and cervical cancers.
>
> The BTF report is available on the Internet at:
> http://www.grid.unep.ch/btf
>
> This article contributed by http://www.wsws.org
>
>
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KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION
UNMIK CALLS ON NATO TO SUBMIT DATA ON DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION
BERLIN, April 19 (Tanjug) - Tom Koenigs of Germany, head of the U.N.
civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) section for civilian
administration, on Wednesday urged NATO to submit data on
depleted-uranium
ammunition it had used during its aggression on Yugoslavia last year.
Koenigs told Hamburg's Greenpeace Magazine that UNMIK urgently needed
data
on precise locations where NATO had used radioactive ammunition in order
to
be able to take steps to protect the population in the Yugoslav Republic
of
Serbia's southern province.
Koenigs referred only to Kosovo and Metohija locations, being of the
view
that this ammunition, that could be fatal for the health of civilians
and
troops, had only been used in the Province.
The German Defence Ministry said in March that all German troops
participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR would be enabled to
come
to Germany for a check-up if they considered to have been exposed to
radioactivity.
NATO admitted as far back as April 1999 that it was using radioactive
ammunition in its aggression on Yugoslavia.
Relevant details were released at a later stage - U.S. troops dropped on
Serbia 31,000 bombs charged with depleted uranium and weighing 10 tons.
They used U.S. A-10 bombers for the purpose.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Diana Johnstone <107764.116@...>
> To: <Blind.Copy.Receiver@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:57 AM
> Subject: Tr: [KDN] Reuters: NATO Accused of Wider Uranium Use
>
> > NATO accused of wider uranium use
> >
> > By Amra Kevic, Reuters, 4/22/2000
> >
> > BELGRADE - Yugoslavia said yesterday that NATO planes had fired
> > depleted uranium shells on eight locations in Yugoslavia, near Kosovo
> > during airstrikes last year.
> >
> > A UN official said last month that NATO had admitted using depleted
> > uranium weapons in Kosovo, exposing civilians, its own troops, and aid
> > workers to health hazards, but that it remained unclear whether they
were
> > used elsewhere.
> >
> > ''Detailed investigation of Yugoslav territory, excluding Kosovo, showed
> that
> > this ammunition was used on eight locations south of the 44th
parallel,''
> said
> > Yugoslav Assistant Defense Minister General Slobodan Petkovic at a news
> > conference.
> >
> > Yugoslav Army teams found depleted uranium shells and fragments in the
> > border regions of Bujanovac and Vranje in southern Serbia, in Uzice,
> Cacak
> > and Kraljevo in western and central Serbia, and on the Montenegrin
> > peninsula of Lustica.
> >
> > ''The degree of contamination ranges from the bottom limit of 200
> > becquerels to 235,000 becquerels per kilogram sample of soil, or 1,000
> > times above the tolerable level,'' Petkovic said. The sites were mainly
> > farmland.
> >
> > ''Measures are now underway to seal off these areas to people and
> animals,''
> > said Petkovic, presenting a government report on the environmental
> > consequences of NATO's bombing campaign from March to June.
> >
> > He did not give the exact locations or details of the size and extent of
> the
> > contamination in each case.
> >
> > Pekka Haavisto, head of the environment task force, in March said NATO
> > was still holding back crucial information on where and how it used the
> > depleted uranium shells.
> >
> > The Yugoslav Army estimated that US jets had fired 50,000 depleted
> > uranium rounds during the 11-week campaign. The United States had
earlier
> > said it had used 31,000 rounds.
> >
> > ''In this way, a very prosperous country can rid itself of its nuclear
> waste
> > cheaply,'' Petkovic said.
> >
> > Kosovo was more exposed since depleted uranium was used on 100
> > locations, mostly around Prizren, Urosevac, Djakovica, Decani, and
> > Djurakovac, Petkovic said, but added that Yugoslav authorities had no
> > access to the region now.
> >
> > He said the Prizren-Djakovica-Pec stretch, where Italian and German
> > peacekeepers are deployed, was targeted the most.
> >
> > Kosovo has been controlled by NATO-led peacekeepers and UN civilian
> > administrators since Serb forces withdrew last June after the bombing.
> >
> > Some specialists believe particles and dust from the dense, heavy metal
> > shells can contaminate land and water sources with toxic, radioactive
> > particles.
> >
> > The Pentagon said last month that the 31,000 rounds of depleted uranium
> > bullets used by US attack jets did not present a significant hazard to
> health
> > or the environment.
> >
> > Yugoslavia called yesterday for international help to remove
contaminated
> > soil to nuclear waste disposal sites.
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http://www.sunday-times.co.uk (Britain)
Sunday Time (UK)
April 16 2000
BRITAIN
Ailing troops sue over Balkan war syndrome
SOLDIERS who served in the former Yugoslavia plan to sue the Ministry of
Defence (MoD)after suffering chronic health problems they believe were
caused by "Balkan war syndrome", writes Lois Rogers.
Doctors link their symptoms to exposure to depleted uranium in anti-tank
missiles used during the Kosovo conflict. Research has shown that the
heavy metal causes health problems leading to cancer, neurological and
immune system defects and reproductive system damage.
Up to 10,500 Britons were sent to Kosovo to assist in peacekeeping
missions and many were exposed to the fine, poisonous dust, which
remains in the atmosphere and pollutes water supplies, after Nato's
bombardment.
However, the MoD said: "We have done considerably more research into
depleted uranium than other nations as it has been raised as a concern
for a number of Gulf war veterans. We have seen no evidence to suggest
it is the cause of any illness among them and we are not aware of any
compensation claims from Kosovo veterans."
Twelve servicemen - 11 of whom are still serving - are preparing to sue.
If the initial claims are successful, they could open the floodgates for
a multi-million-pound group action which could deeply embarrass the
government.
The MoD is still struggling to fend off claims by thousands of Gulf war
veterans, who say they were made seriously ill by a hastily administered
cocktail of vaccines in-tended to protect them from biological warfare
agents.
Belgium, which had troops serving alongside British soldiers in Kosovo,
has already begun a systematic review of the health of the 14,000 troops
it sent to the region. Tests have identified cases of men suffering the
effects of exposure to uranium - even though they were not de-ployed in
high-risk areas.
In Britain, however, the official response has been unequivocal. A
secret memo circulated two weeks ago to army medical staff by the
biological weapons unit at Porton Down has insisted there was no
evidence of risk to British troops who served in Kosovo.
"I don't know how they can say that," said a 27-year-old man still in
the airborne unit he served with in Kosovo. He has been crippled by
fatigue.
"We are expected to do regular five-mile runs as part of our training,
and I just can't make it," he said. "I am dreading my next medical in
June. I am going to be thrown out."
Another 24-year-old, who is also still in the army, re-ported
debilitating fatigue and excruciating joint pain. "People like us just
have no future," he said.
America was the only allied force to use depleted uranium (DU) in its
missiles. So far it has admitted to firing about 10 tons of DU-bearing
missiles from aircraft over Kosovo last year. Requests for details on
missile rounds used in Serbia have been resisted.
Dan Fahey, a DU re-searcher at the Military Toxins Project in
Washington, said: "We know it has been used in many more locations than
we have been led to believe. The biggest danger is to the local
population."
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Subject: Follia Militare: armi e radiazioni nucleari, morte di due
soldati sardi
Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:19:09 +0100
Resent-From: pck-armamenti@...
Comunicato Stampa
FOLLIA MILITARE: ARMI E RADIAZIONI NUCLEARI
MORTE DI DUE SOLDATI SARDI
A conferma che il rischio nucleare, tutt'altro che scongiurato, ha già
superato i limiti di guardia (allegati 1 e 2), scoppia ora il caso di
due
soldati sardi, morti in condizioni che fanno sospettare di contatti con
materiale radioattivo (allegato 3).
La logica bellica sta arrivando alle estreme conseguenze !
Il 2.000 si avvii e cresca secondo la cultura e la prassi della
NONVIOLENZA
p. Angelo Cavagna
Tutti gli allegati si possono trovare nella sezione "Speciale Nucleare"
del
sito GAVCI alla pagina:
http://www.peacelink.it/users/gavci/news/news.htm
oppure possono essere richiesti alla segreteria (riferimenti nella firma
in
basso)
1) Articolo di p. Angelo pubblicato da: "Settimana" n. 39 del 31 Ottobre
Deterrenza nucleare: "illegale" oltre che "immorale"
2) Rapporto di Giovanni Nifosì dell'Associazione Italiana Giuristi
contro le
Armi Nucleari sull'esito della votazione ONU della NAC - Agenda per un
nuovo
programma
3) Articoli della "Nuova Sardegna", inviati da Antonio Repetto di Pax
Christi Italiana sul caso di Salvatore Vacca, giovane militare sardo,
morto
in circostanze ancora da verificare.
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DUE LIBRI ED UN SITO INTERNET
1.
International Action Center
IL METALLO DEL DISONORE
Che cos'e' l'uranio impoverito
Asterios Editore, Trieste 1999, lire 39000
2.
INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER - IL METALLO DEL DISONORE
Lire.15.000
Una documentazione scientifica e militante sull'uso e gli effetti
dell'uranio impoverito dall'estrazione, alla lavorazione fino
all'utilizzo civile e militare nelle ultime guerre di aggressione contro
i popoli irakeno e jugoslavi.
CON LE FOTOGRAFIE DEI CRIMINI DELLA NATO
Per informazioni: Centro di Documentazione Wilhelm Wolff
Piazzale Radaelli n.3 Marghera (Tel/fax:041-930490)
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>
> [Particolarmente importanti per il Tribunale Internazionale (per
> favore leggeteli e scaricateli):
>
> 1) DU: dalla Yugoslavia arrivano le prime analisi
>
> 2) Effetti a cascata sull'uomo dalla guerra nei Balcani]
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> [Sezione: Uranio-News!]
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Speciale 14° anniversario di Cernobil (26 aprile 2000)
>
> Cernobil: Commemorazione in USA unisce due chiese
>
> DU: dalla Yugoslavia arrivano le prime analisi
>
> Effetti a cascata sull'uomo dalla guerra nei Balcani
>
> ENEA: risparmiate 500 vite umane in Italia
>
> USA: Sessantatré dimostravano contro il DU: 25 $ di multa
>
> Un grido dall'UNICEF: togliete l'embargo all'Iraq!
>
> Anche in Polonia, sui bambini, gli effetti del dopo Cernobil
>
> Una novella sui villaggi morti intorno a Cernobil
>
> In India parlano dell'appello delle celebrità
>
> Celebrità e Nobel mondiali: no al terrore nucleare !
>
> Novità: Tomahawk al DU sparati in Sudan e RFYu
>
> In Giappone incidente, si spegne un reattore nucleare
>
> BNFL: rapporto allarmante del The Guardian
>
> BNFL: MILIARDI O TRILIARDI PER RIPULIRE UNA ZONA INQUINATA?
>
> Cernobil: scompaiono le renne e il popolo Saami
>
> Cernobil: ancora on-line le balle della OECD-NEA
>
> Miniere d'uranio: il racconto di Cavallo Giallo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> A Vieques vogliono interrompere le proteste con la forza (25 aprile)
>
> Uranio sparato dalla GIAT a Bourges, in Francia (1 gennaio)
>
> Sneh nega la storia delle mine ai neutroni in Israele... (31 marzo)
>
> Anche il missile AIM-9X contiene uranio impoverito (25 aprile)
>
> Gli USA hanno barato: sparato ancora DU a Vieques! (25 aprile)
>
> I carrarmati all'uranio impoverito usati nel Kosovo (25 aprile)
>
> La BAE del gas nervino fa anche i proiettili all'uranio (22 dicembre
> 1999)
>
> ONU: uno degli effetti dell'accordo IAEA-UNESCO (25 aprile)
>
> Un mare di guai, scaricando le scorie in mare (25 aprile)
>
> Bando DU: In Spagna conferenza internazionale (24 aprile)
>
> Cernobil: preoccupazione per il reattore ancora attivo (23 aprile)
>
> Dal Pakistan: la soluzione migliore è il disarmo (23 aprile)
>
> Vieques: si piange e si prega per evitare i bombardamenti (23 aprile)
>
> Protesta antinucleare: condannata anche una suora (22 aprile)
>
> Radiazioni collegate alla sindrome di Down (22 aprile)
>
> Bilancio mortale a Cernobil, ma Cook insiste... (22 aprile)
>
> Uranio finisce in una discarica: non è la prima volta (22 aprile)
>
> Giappone verso il bando della produzione d'uranio (22 aprile)
>
> Dalla Yugoslavia contro l'uranio nelle armi (22 aprile)
>
> Giorno della Terra: 500 milioni contro il nucleare (22 aprile)
>
> Anche i pesci vittime nucleari (21 aprile)
>
> La Turchia insiste con la centrale nella zona sismica (21 aprile)
>
> SPQB: Sono Pazzi Questi Britannici (21 aprile)
>
> NATO sotto accusa per l'uranio impoverito (21 aprile)
>
> USA e Israele isolati alla conferenza nucleare dell'ONU? (21 aprile)
>
> GreenPeace: ora anche gli USA devono firmare (21 aprile)
>
> Bangkok: Cobalto in una discarica, tre morti (21 aprile)
>
> Anche i piccioni sono radioattivi! (21 aprile)
>
> Chernobil: già tre milioni e mezzo le persone colpite (21 aprile)
>
> Romania, tonnellate di uranio finiscono in un fiume (20 aprile)
>
> USA: ORNL, spruzzato in giro uranio 233 e fluoro (20 aprile)
>
> Alice Stewart: la donna che sapeva troppo (20 aprile)
>
> Secondo incidente in una settimana a Pearl Harbour (19 aprile)
>
> Bobby Kennedy Jr. contro i bombardamenti a Vieques (19 aprile)
>
> Mazzette per la discarica nucleare a Yucca Mountain (19 aprile)
>
> Il giorno della terra: 50 iniziative sul nucleare (19 aprile)
>
> Tegola di Hiroshima regalata a museo italiano (19 aprile)
>
> Chernobil: sta peggiorando la salute degli ucraini (19 aprile)
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>
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>
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DEPLETED URANIUM IN VIEQUES, PORTORICO
NOTE: This letter was written by Dr. Rocke, who is the former head of
the Pentagon's
Depleted Uranium Project and one of the authors of the Pentagon's
Program for
Environmental Remediation of Formerly Used Defense Sites.
If, as indicated in the following press report that DOD officials are
ready to use force against the residents of Vieques, then the citizens
of
the world must ban together to help the residents of Vieques.
This started because U.S. Marine Corps pilots willfully fired depleted
uranium in violation of laws and regulations, as admitted by U.S. Navy
officials, into Vieques and then a Navy pilot dropped a bomb that killed
one and injured others. The claim has been that the bomb went off
course.
Funny thing about physics and Newtonian mechanics, bombs only go where
you
place them. Therefore the claim that the bomb was errant is pure
rubbish.
The pilot killed that guard and injured the others because he was wrong
and was not careful with the bomb release. That is pure negligence!!!!!
This is also an issue of environmental justice where U.S. Department of
Defense representatives refuse to provide medical care for all exposed
individuals and also complete environmental remediation. U.S. Forces
have
contaminated the island of Vieques for too long causing health and
environmental damage. It must stop now. In a direct quote from:
031-503-1017 Respond to Depleted Uranium/Low level Radioactive Materials
(DULLRAM) Hazards (new) U.S. Army Manual of Common Tasks the Department
of Defense authors state that:
"NOTE: Contamination will make food and water unsafe for consumption."
Seems that Navy officials know that the use of DU causes willful harm
because it is in the required DU training that all DOD personnel must
complete by order and law. Thus disregard of this information probably
violates RCRA (42 CFR 901) and is a crime against humanity.
Next: The U.S. Navy cites that Vieques is needed for training our
forces,
yet, the Navy has advertised to any nation for a fee that Vieques can be
used for as quoted "Mission: consistently provide professional customer
services, conduct real world anti-submarine warfare training for
aircrafts, ships, and submarines of U.S. and foreign navies...Live-fire
capability for most non-conventional weapons inventory...to provide
airspace, surface, and subsurface water space for developmental and
operational testing of new and existing weapons systems."
In case anyone has missed the most important part of this advertisement
it
is that "non-conventional" as cited has historically referred to
nuclear,
biological, and chemical weapons. If that has occurred over the years,
that is why the residents of Vieques are sick. Conventional weapons
residues will also cause health and environmental problems.
It is time for everyone to support the residents of Vieques and demand
that the U.S. Navy withdraw and cease all actions on that island. Just
remember if the Navy willingly fired DU to prepare for battle in Kosovo
then the next preparation with "non-conventional weapons" as advertised
may be for use against you!
Dr. Doug Rokke
FONTE: Seven Stars News Briefs 26-28 April 2000
Bollettino del Partito Socialista Repubblicano Irlandese
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* La NATO ammette l'uso di armi all'uranio impoverito, l'UNMIK chiede
spiegazioni, la Jugoslavia chiede la riparazione dei danni, i militari
contaminati fanno causa al governo britannico, la denuncia del GAVCI
* Due libri ed un intero sito internet sull'uranio impoverito
* L'uranio impoverito usato dagli USA anche a Portorico
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Marco Saba wrote:
>
> Arrivarono dalla Germania nazista i proiettili all'uranio impoverito.
>
> 1945: L'uranio delle prime bombe atomiche USA e
> la tecnologia dei proiettili all'uranio impoverito
> ceduti dai gerarchi nazisti in cambio dell'immunità
> (6 maggio 2000)
>
> Il 14 maggio 1945 il sommergibile U-234 XB si arrese alla
> nave americana USS Sutton. Conteneva 560 kg di uranio
> arricchito che sarebbe servito per le prime due bombe
> nucleari (Alamogordo ed Hiroshima) e per alimentare il
> reattore che produsse il plutonio per la bomba di Nagasaki.
>
> Oltre all'uranio c'erano le tecnologie belliche di punta della
> Germania nazista, tra cui il sistema di detonatori per la
> bomba al plutonio e la tecnologia dei proiettili all'uranio
> impoverito. La resa era stata negoziata in cambio
> dell'immunità per Martin Bormann ed Heinrich Müller oltreché
> per gli altri gerarchi nazisti che erano a bordo del
> sommergibile. Tra questi troviamo: Johann Heinrich Fehler,
> Heinz Schlicke, Wolfgang Hirschfeld, Ulrich Kessler, Kay
> Nieschling, il Dr. Walter, Hideo Tomonaga e Genzo Shosi.
>
> Questi ultimi due, giapponesi, vennero eliminati (avvelenati) dai
> nazisti durante l'ultimo viaggio del sommergibile perché
> stavano scoprendo l'intrigo e volevano impedire che quelle
> armi potessero essere usate contro il Giappone.
>
> La tesi del fatto che la tecnologia dei proiettili all'uranio
> impoverito risalisse alla Germania nazista, venne per la prima
> volta avanzata da Dr. Siegwart-Horst Guenther nell'articolo da
> noi precedentemente pubblicato:
> "Uran-Geschosse: Nach Zyklon B, eine neue deutsche Kampf- und
> Massenvernichtungs-Technologie" [Poiettili all'uranio: dopo il
> Zyklon-B, dalla Germania un'altra arma e tecnologia di combattimento]
>
> Il Prof. Guenther è stato arrestato in Germania, violentato in
> prigione e oggetto di due tentativi di omicidio. Al suo
> processo, il Giudice ha chiesto di effettuare una perizia
> psichiatrica per rinchiuderlo in manicomio. Attualmente
> Guenther (76 anni) è agli arresti domiciliari in Austria.
>
> La tesi di Guenther è confermata da decine di documenti
> ufficiali di cui l'Osservatorio è in possesso e dalla
> testimonianza di un esperto americano nostro collaboratore.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Inviato da:
>
> Marco Saba
> Osservatorio Etico Ambientale
> via F.lli Cervi Res. Idra
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Janet M Eaton" <jeaton@...>
> To: mai-not@...
> Subject: NATO Admits To Use Of DU in YU May 5th Article
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:42:05 +0000
>
> This is a very good article that reviews the attempts to persuade
> NATO to reveal details on DU use during the NATO War vs
> Yugoslavia which is imperative for investigating its impact on
> human health. It also refers to several studies on the health
> consequences of DU which suggest strongly the need for precautions
> for people living and working in the contaminated regions where
> bombing with DU munitions occurred and notes precautions currently
> being taken in the area.
>
> fyi- janet
>
> To: "DU List" <du-list@...>
> From: "Dan Fahey" <mtpdu@...>
> Date sent: Fri, 5 May 2000 11:35:44 -0400
> Send reply to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
> Subject: [du-list] Interesting article on Kosovo
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>
> The Greenwich Village Gazette
> May 5, 2000
> http://www.nycny.com/columns/guests/hyland05-05.html
> NATO Admits To Use Of Radioactive Munitions in Yugoslavia
> By Julie Hyland
> http://www.wsws.org
>
> NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson has finally provided
> limited details of the Alliance's use of depleted uranium (DU)
> ammunition during its war against Serbia last year. Robertson
> disclosed the information in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi
> Annan last month-four months after it was first requested.
>
> DU is a waste product of the process used to enrich natural uranium
> ore for use in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. It is 1.7 times
> as dense as lead and is used in the tips of a bullet or a round to
> pierce armor plating. It can also be used in cruise missile nose cones
> and has been used in the armor of tanks.
>
> DU breaks into tiny particles on impact, which can be easily ingested
> and/or inhaled. Numerous studies have linked DU ammunition to the
> increase of cancer in Iraq, following the 1991 Gulf War, and to the
> number of army personnel in the US and the UK suffering from "Gulf War
> Syndrome".
>
> Annan had requested detailed information on NATO's use of DU during
> its 78-day bombardment of Yugoslavia, following a UN investigation by
> the Balkan Task Force (BTF). The results of the BTF
> investigation-which included members from the World Health
> Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Swedish
> Radiation Protection Institute-were reported last October.
> Investigators concentrated on four environmental "hot-spots" in
> Kosovo-Pancevo, Kragujevac, Novi Sad and Bor-but complained that the
> lack of official confirmation from NATO of its use of DU "during the
> Kosovo conflict distorted the prerequisites for the group's work".
>
> The report concluded that whilst the Kosovo conflict did not cause an
> environmental catastrophe for the whole of the Balkan region,
> pollution at the four spots investigated was "serious and poses a
> threat to human health". It urged an investigation into the impact of
> DU ammunition on human health.
>
> Robertson wrote that the United States Air Force A-10 "tankbuster"
> aircraft had concentrated their operations "in an area west of the
> Pec-Dakovica-Prizren highway, in the area surrounding Klina, in the
> area around Prizren, and in an area to the north of a line joining
> Suva Reka and Urosevac". He added, "However, many missions using DU
> also took place outside these areas."
>
> The UN Environmental Programme (UNep) complained that "the information
> provided [by Robertson] is not of sufficient detail to facilitate an
> accurate field assessment of the environmental and human health
> consequences of its use at the present time". This meant it was not
> possible "to comprehensively carry out an objective and scientifically
> based environmental and human health impact assessment in Kosovo".
>
> Whilst claiming that Robertson's admission "should not be a cause of
> widespread alarm", UNep urged that its October 1999 recommendations
> should be followed-including preventing access to all places where
> contamination has been confirmed, informing the local populace of the
> possible risks and taking "appropriate precautionary measures".
>
> The lack of detailed information in Robertson's letter is not
> surprising. NATO pursued a strategy of "carpet-bombing" towns and
> cities across Yugoslavia during its offensive. Some 700 planes flew
> almost 35,000 sorties, destroying large parts of the country's
> industrial and social infrastructure.
>
> During the latter stages of the air campaign, NATO moved to 24-hour
> bombing, targeting industrial plants, airports, electricity and
> telecommunications facilities, railways, bridges and fuel depots,
> schools, health clinics, day care centres, government buildings,
> churches, museums and monasteries.
>
> A comprehensive list of those areas targeted with DU ammunition would
> probably mean declaring much of Serbia and Kosovo contaminated, as
> well as raising serious concerns over the environmental and health
> dangers for surrounding countries.
>
> It is unlikely that a detailed breakdown will be forthcoming.
> Following Robertson's admission, Francois LeBlevenac, a NATO
> spokesman, said that the alliance had "no direct control" over the use
> of DU ammunition during the war. Whilst NATO had overall control of
> the campaign against Serbia, "it had no jurisdiction over the choice
> of armaments used by member nations," LeBlevenac said.
>
> Both the US and the UK were known to have used DU ammunition during
> the war. Whilst both have denied that the weapons posed any
> significant risk to human health, numerous studies have revealed
> significant dangers. The US Army's Environmental Policy Institute
> reported in 1995: "If DU enters the body, it has the potential to
> generate significant medical consequences. The risks associated with
> DU are both chemical and radiological."
>
> UK Ministry of Defense personnel in Kosovo have been warned to stay
> clear of any sites targeted with DU munitions, unless they are wearing
> full radioactive protective clothing. The National Radiological
> Protection Board advises UK nationals visiting or working in Kosovo to
> avoid disturbing areas contaminated with DU. Last April, radiation
> physicists at the University of Maryland submitted evidence to the US
> Department of Energy, recommending that DU never be used in warfare
> because of the health hazards.
>
> Last week German KFOR troops designated an area of approximately 5,000
> square metres in Kosovo-Metohija as radioactive, leading the Defence
> Ministry to promise it would conduct health checks on all its
> personnel in the vicinity.
>
> The consequences of DU munitions have been most clearly revealed in
> Iraq. The US fired almost 944,000 rounds of DU ammunition in Iraq and
> Kuwait during the 1991 war. Congenital birth defects in Iraq are
> reported to have increased to three times their post-war levels and
> there has been a dramatic increase in cancers and childhood leukemia.
> Last year, British experimental biologist Roger Cohill warned that the
> use of DU weapons against Yugoslavia was likely to result in an
> additional 10,000 fatal cancer cases in the region.
>
> As in Iraq, NATO sanctions against Serbia are undermining the medical
> profession's ability to detect and treat the disease. At a public
> meeting convened in London on March 24 to commemorate the first
> anniversary of the NATO bombing, Labour MP's Alice Mahon and Bob
> Marshall-Andrews reported on their recent visit to Yugoslavia as part
> of a campaign to lift western sanctions.
>
> The two reported that they had spoken with refugees from Kosovo,
> Bosnia and Croatia and met patients at the Bazanijska Kosa hospital in
> Belgrade. Cancer experts at the hospital had informed them that
> sanctions were seriously undermining cancer prevention and the quality
> of care. Radiotherapy equipment often does not have all the required
> parts and chemotherapy drugs are unavailable.
>
> Already this has meant that the number of early-detected cancer cases
> has dropped from 35 percent in 1990 to 13 percent. Doctors told them
> that, in comparison to the rest of Europe, Serbia is now bottom of the
> league table for five-year survival rates for lung, breast, colon,
> rectum, prostate, testicular, ovarian,stomach and cervical cancers.
>
> The BTF report is available on the Internet at:
> http://www.grid.unep.ch/btf
>
> This article contributed by http://www.wsws.org
>
>
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KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION
UNMIK CALLS ON NATO TO SUBMIT DATA ON DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION
BERLIN, April 19 (Tanjug) - Tom Koenigs of Germany, head of the U.N.
civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) section for civilian
administration, on Wednesday urged NATO to submit data on
depleted-uranium
ammunition it had used during its aggression on Yugoslavia last year.
Koenigs told Hamburg's Greenpeace Magazine that UNMIK urgently needed
data
on precise locations where NATO had used radioactive ammunition in order
to
be able to take steps to protect the population in the Yugoslav Republic
of
Serbia's southern province.
Koenigs referred only to Kosovo and Metohija locations, being of the
view
that this ammunition, that could be fatal for the health of civilians
and
troops, had only been used in the Province.
The German Defence Ministry said in March that all German troops
participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR would be enabled to
come
to Germany for a check-up if they considered to have been exposed to
radioactivity.
NATO admitted as far back as April 1999 that it was using radioactive
ammunition in its aggression on Yugoslavia.
Relevant details were released at a later stage - U.S. troops dropped on
Serbia 31,000 bombs charged with depleted uranium and weighing 10 tons.
They used U.S. A-10 bombers for the purpose.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Diana Johnstone <107764.116@...>
> To: <Blind.Copy.Receiver@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:57 AM
> Subject: Tr: [KDN] Reuters: NATO Accused of Wider Uranium Use
>
> > NATO accused of wider uranium use
> >
> > By Amra Kevic, Reuters, 4/22/2000
> >
> > BELGRADE - Yugoslavia said yesterday that NATO planes had fired
> > depleted uranium shells on eight locations in Yugoslavia, near Kosovo
> > during airstrikes last year.
> >
> > A UN official said last month that NATO had admitted using depleted
> > uranium weapons in Kosovo, exposing civilians, its own troops, and aid
> > workers to health hazards, but that it remained unclear whether they
were
> > used elsewhere.
> >
> > ''Detailed investigation of Yugoslav territory, excluding Kosovo, showed
> that
> > this ammunition was used on eight locations south of the 44th
parallel,''
> said
> > Yugoslav Assistant Defense Minister General Slobodan Petkovic at a news
> > conference.
> >
> > Yugoslav Army teams found depleted uranium shells and fragments in the
> > border regions of Bujanovac and Vranje in southern Serbia, in Uzice,
> Cacak
> > and Kraljevo in western and central Serbia, and on the Montenegrin
> > peninsula of Lustica.
> >
> > ''The degree of contamination ranges from the bottom limit of 200
> > becquerels to 235,000 becquerels per kilogram sample of soil, or 1,000
> > times above the tolerable level,'' Petkovic said. The sites were mainly
> > farmland.
> >
> > ''Measures are now underway to seal off these areas to people and
> animals,''
> > said Petkovic, presenting a government report on the environmental
> > consequences of NATO's bombing campaign from March to June.
> >
> > He did not give the exact locations or details of the size and extent of
> the
> > contamination in each case.
> >
> > Pekka Haavisto, head of the environment task force, in March said NATO
> > was still holding back crucial information on where and how it used the
> > depleted uranium shells.
> >
> > The Yugoslav Army estimated that US jets had fired 50,000 depleted
> > uranium rounds during the 11-week campaign. The United States had
earlier
> > said it had used 31,000 rounds.
> >
> > ''In this way, a very prosperous country can rid itself of its nuclear
> waste
> > cheaply,'' Petkovic said.
> >
> > Kosovo was more exposed since depleted uranium was used on 100
> > locations, mostly around Prizren, Urosevac, Djakovica, Decani, and
> > Djurakovac, Petkovic said, but added that Yugoslav authorities had no
> > access to the region now.
> >
> > He said the Prizren-Djakovica-Pec stretch, where Italian and German
> > peacekeepers are deployed, was targeted the most.
> >
> > Kosovo has been controlled by NATO-led peacekeepers and UN civilian
> > administrators since Serb forces withdrew last June after the bombing.
> >
> > Some specialists believe particles and dust from the dense, heavy metal
> > shells can contaminate land and water sources with toxic, radioactive
> > particles.
> >
> > The Pentagon said last month that the 31,000 rounds of depleted uranium
> > bullets used by US attack jets did not present a significant hazard to
> health
> > or the environment.
> >
> > Yugoslavia called yesterday for international help to remove
contaminated
> > soil to nuclear waste disposal sites.
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk (Britain)
Sunday Time (UK)
April 16 2000
BRITAIN
Ailing troops sue over Balkan war syndrome
SOLDIERS who served in the former Yugoslavia plan to sue the Ministry of
Defence (MoD)after suffering chronic health problems they believe were
caused by "Balkan war syndrome", writes Lois Rogers.
Doctors link their symptoms to exposure to depleted uranium in anti-tank
missiles used during the Kosovo conflict. Research has shown that the
heavy metal causes health problems leading to cancer, neurological and
immune system defects and reproductive system damage.
Up to 10,500 Britons were sent to Kosovo to assist in peacekeeping
missions and many were exposed to the fine, poisonous dust, which
remains in the atmosphere and pollutes water supplies, after Nato's
bombardment.
However, the MoD said: "We have done considerably more research into
depleted uranium than other nations as it has been raised as a concern
for a number of Gulf war veterans. We have seen no evidence to suggest
it is the cause of any illness among them and we are not aware of any
compensation claims from Kosovo veterans."
Twelve servicemen - 11 of whom are still serving - are preparing to sue.
If the initial claims are successful, they could open the floodgates for
a multi-million-pound group action which could deeply embarrass the
government.
The MoD is still struggling to fend off claims by thousands of Gulf war
veterans, who say they were made seriously ill by a hastily administered
cocktail of vaccines in-tended to protect them from biological warfare
agents.
Belgium, which had troops serving alongside British soldiers in Kosovo,
has already begun a systematic review of the health of the 14,000 troops
it sent to the region. Tests have identified cases of men suffering the
effects of exposure to uranium - even though they were not de-ployed in
high-risk areas.
In Britain, however, the official response has been unequivocal. A
secret memo circulated two weeks ago to army medical staff by the
biological weapons unit at Porton Down has insisted there was no
evidence of risk to British troops who served in Kosovo.
"I don't know how they can say that," said a 27-year-old man still in
the airborne unit he served with in Kosovo. He has been crippled by
fatigue.
"We are expected to do regular five-mile runs as part of our training,
and I just can't make it," he said. "I am dreading my next medical in
June. I am going to be thrown out."
Another 24-year-old, who is also still in the army, re-ported
debilitating fatigue and excruciating joint pain. "People like us just
have no future," he said.
America was the only allied force to use depleted uranium (DU) in its
missiles. So far it has admitted to firing about 10 tons of DU-bearing
missiles from aircraft over Kosovo last year. Requests for details on
missile rounds used in Serbia have been resisted.
Dan Fahey, a DU re-searcher at the Military Toxins Project in
Washington, said: "We know it has been used in many more locations than
we have been led to believe. The biggest danger is to the local
population."
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Subject: Follia Militare: armi e radiazioni nucleari, morte di due
soldati sardi
Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:19:09 +0100
Resent-From: pck-armamenti@...
Comunicato Stampa
FOLLIA MILITARE: ARMI E RADIAZIONI NUCLEARI
MORTE DI DUE SOLDATI SARDI
A conferma che il rischio nucleare, tutt'altro che scongiurato, ha già
superato i limiti di guardia (allegati 1 e 2), scoppia ora il caso di
due
soldati sardi, morti in condizioni che fanno sospettare di contatti con
materiale radioattivo (allegato 3).
La logica bellica sta arrivando alle estreme conseguenze !
Il 2.000 si avvii e cresca secondo la cultura e la prassi della
NONVIOLENZA
p. Angelo Cavagna
Tutti gli allegati si possono trovare nella sezione "Speciale Nucleare"
del
sito GAVCI alla pagina:
http://www.peacelink.it/users/gavci/news/news.htm
oppure possono essere richiesti alla segreteria (riferimenti nella firma
in
basso)
1) Articolo di p. Angelo pubblicato da: "Settimana" n. 39 del 31 Ottobre
Deterrenza nucleare: "illegale" oltre che "immorale"
2) Rapporto di Giovanni Nifosì dell'Associazione Italiana Giuristi
contro le
Armi Nucleari sull'esito della votazione ONU della NAC - Agenda per un
nuovo
programma
3) Articoli della "Nuova Sardegna", inviati da Antonio Repetto di Pax
Christi Italiana sul caso di Salvatore Vacca, giovane militare sardo,
morto
in circostanze ancora da verificare.
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DUE LIBRI ED UN SITO INTERNET
1.
International Action Center
IL METALLO DEL DISONORE
Che cos'e' l'uranio impoverito
Asterios Editore, Trieste 1999, lire 39000
2.
INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER - IL METALLO DEL DISONORE
Lire.15.000
Una documentazione scientifica e militante sull'uso e gli effetti
dell'uranio impoverito dall'estrazione, alla lavorazione fino
all'utilizzo civile e militare nelle ultime guerre di aggressione contro
i popoli irakeno e jugoslavi.
CON LE FOTOGRAFIE DEI CRIMINI DELLA NATO
Per informazioni: Centro di Documentazione Wilhelm Wolff
Piazzale Radaelli n.3 Marghera (Tel/fax:041-930490)
> Aggiornamento articoli aprile DU e RAD su http://www.stop-u238.i.am
>
> [Particolarmente importanti per il Tribunale Internazionale (per
> favore leggeteli e scaricateli):
>
> 1) DU: dalla Yugoslavia arrivano le prime analisi
>
> 2) Effetti a cascata sull'uomo dalla guerra nei Balcani]
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> [Sezione: Uranio-News!]
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Speciale 14° anniversario di Cernobil (26 aprile 2000)
>
> Cernobil: Commemorazione in USA unisce due chiese
>
> DU: dalla Yugoslavia arrivano le prime analisi
>
> Effetti a cascata sull'uomo dalla guerra nei Balcani
>
> ENEA: risparmiate 500 vite umane in Italia
>
> USA: Sessantatré dimostravano contro il DU: 25 $ di multa
>
> Un grido dall'UNICEF: togliete l'embargo all'Iraq!
>
> Anche in Polonia, sui bambini, gli effetti del dopo Cernobil
>
> Una novella sui villaggi morti intorno a Cernobil
>
> In India parlano dell'appello delle celebrità
>
> Celebrità e Nobel mondiali: no al terrore nucleare !
>
> Novità: Tomahawk al DU sparati in Sudan e RFYu
>
> In Giappone incidente, si spegne un reattore nucleare
>
> BNFL: rapporto allarmante del The Guardian
>
> BNFL: MILIARDI O TRILIARDI PER RIPULIRE UNA ZONA INQUINATA?
>
> Cernobil: scompaiono le renne e il popolo Saami
>
> Cernobil: ancora on-line le balle della OECD-NEA
>
> Miniere d'uranio: il racconto di Cavallo Giallo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> A Vieques vogliono interrompere le proteste con la forza (25 aprile)
>
> Uranio sparato dalla GIAT a Bourges, in Francia (1 gennaio)
>
> Sneh nega la storia delle mine ai neutroni in Israele... (31 marzo)
>
> Anche il missile AIM-9X contiene uranio impoverito (25 aprile)
>
> Gli USA hanno barato: sparato ancora DU a Vieques! (25 aprile)
>
> I carrarmati all'uranio impoverito usati nel Kosovo (25 aprile)
>
> La BAE del gas nervino fa anche i proiettili all'uranio (22 dicembre
> 1999)
>
> ONU: uno degli effetti dell'accordo IAEA-UNESCO (25 aprile)
>
> Un mare di guai, scaricando le scorie in mare (25 aprile)
>
> Bando DU: In Spagna conferenza internazionale (24 aprile)
>
> Cernobil: preoccupazione per il reattore ancora attivo (23 aprile)
>
> Dal Pakistan: la soluzione migliore è il disarmo (23 aprile)
>
> Vieques: si piange e si prega per evitare i bombardamenti (23 aprile)
>
> Protesta antinucleare: condannata anche una suora (22 aprile)
>
> Radiazioni collegate alla sindrome di Down (22 aprile)
>
> Bilancio mortale a Cernobil, ma Cook insiste... (22 aprile)
>
> Uranio finisce in una discarica: non è la prima volta (22 aprile)
>
> Giappone verso il bando della produzione d'uranio (22 aprile)
>
> Dalla Yugoslavia contro l'uranio nelle armi (22 aprile)
>
> Giorno della Terra: 500 milioni contro il nucleare (22 aprile)
>
> Anche i pesci vittime nucleari (21 aprile)
>
> La Turchia insiste con la centrale nella zona sismica (21 aprile)
>
> SPQB: Sono Pazzi Questi Britannici (21 aprile)
>
> NATO sotto accusa per l'uranio impoverito (21 aprile)
>
> USA e Israele isolati alla conferenza nucleare dell'ONU? (21 aprile)
>
> GreenPeace: ora anche gli USA devono firmare (21 aprile)
>
> Bangkok: Cobalto in una discarica, tre morti (21 aprile)
>
> Anche i piccioni sono radioattivi! (21 aprile)
>
> Chernobil: già tre milioni e mezzo le persone colpite (21 aprile)
>
> Romania, tonnellate di uranio finiscono in un fiume (20 aprile)
>
> USA: ORNL, spruzzato in giro uranio 233 e fluoro (20 aprile)
>
> Alice Stewart: la donna che sapeva troppo (20 aprile)
>
> Secondo incidente in una settimana a Pearl Harbour (19 aprile)
>
> Bobby Kennedy Jr. contro i bombardamenti a Vieques (19 aprile)
>
> Mazzette per la discarica nucleare a Yucca Mountain (19 aprile)
>
> Il giorno della terra: 50 iniziative sul nucleare (19 aprile)
>
> Tegola di Hiroshima regalata a museo italiano (19 aprile)
>
> Chernobil: sta peggiorando la salute degli ucraini (19 aprile)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ciao,
>
> Marco Saba
> Osservatorio Etico Ambientale
> via F.lli Cervi Res. Idra
> 20090 Segrate (MI)
> T. 02 21591373
> http://stop-u238.i.am
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DEPLETED URANIUM IN VIEQUES, PORTORICO
NOTE: This letter was written by Dr. Rocke, who is the former head of
the Pentagon's
Depleted Uranium Project and one of the authors of the Pentagon's
Program for
Environmental Remediation of Formerly Used Defense Sites.
If, as indicated in the following press report that DOD officials are
ready to use force against the residents of Vieques, then the citizens
of
the world must ban together to help the residents of Vieques.
This started because U.S. Marine Corps pilots willfully fired depleted
uranium in violation of laws and regulations, as admitted by U.S. Navy
officials, into Vieques and then a Navy pilot dropped a bomb that killed
one and injured others. The claim has been that the bomb went off
course.
Funny thing about physics and Newtonian mechanics, bombs only go where
you
place them. Therefore the claim that the bomb was errant is pure
rubbish.
The pilot killed that guard and injured the others because he was wrong
and was not careful with the bomb release. That is pure negligence!!!!!
This is also an issue of environmental justice where U.S. Department of
Defense representatives refuse to provide medical care for all exposed
individuals and also complete environmental remediation. U.S. Forces
have
contaminated the island of Vieques for too long causing health and
environmental damage. It must stop now. In a direct quote from:
031-503-1017 Respond to Depleted Uranium/Low level Radioactive Materials
(DULLRAM) Hazards (new) U.S. Army Manual of Common Tasks the Department
of Defense authors state that:
"NOTE: Contamination will make food and water unsafe for consumption."
Seems that Navy officials know that the use of DU causes willful harm
because it is in the required DU training that all DOD personnel must
complete by order and law. Thus disregard of this information probably
violates RCRA (42 CFR 901) and is a crime against humanity.
Next: The U.S. Navy cites that Vieques is needed for training our
forces,
yet, the Navy has advertised to any nation for a fee that Vieques can be
used for as quoted "Mission: consistently provide professional customer
services, conduct real world anti-submarine warfare training for
aircrafts, ships, and submarines of U.S. and foreign navies...Live-fire
capability for most non-conventional weapons inventory...to provide
airspace, surface, and subsurface water space for developmental and
operational testing of new and existing weapons systems."
In case anyone has missed the most important part of this advertisement
it
is that "non-conventional" as cited has historically referred to
nuclear,
biological, and chemical weapons. If that has occurred over the years,
that is why the residents of Vieques are sick. Conventional weapons
residues will also cause health and environmental problems.
It is time for everyone to support the residents of Vieques and demand
that the U.S. Navy withdraw and cease all actions on that island. Just
remember if the Navy willingly fired DU to prepare for battle in Kosovo
then the next preparation with "non-conventional weapons" as advertised
may be for use against you!
Dr. Doug Rokke
FONTE: Seven Stars News Briefs 26-28 April 2000
Bollettino del Partito Socialista Repubblicano Irlandese
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Rispetto al messaggio che abbiamo girato in lista, sulla origine nazista
dei proiettili all'uranio impoverito
( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/205?&start=188 )
abbiamo ricevuto le seguenti precisazioni che riteniamo meritevoli di
essere rese note:
(...) Su questa storia dell'uranio
nazista mi sembra che la notizia sul rapporto tra nazisti e bomba di
Hiroshima e Nagasaki sia del tutto priva di fondamento.
In primo luogo, sono gia' completamente noti tutti i dati e la storia
del "Progetto Manahattan", incluso, dove, come e da chi fu arricchito
l'uranio e prodotto il plutonio utilizzati.
In secondo luogo, il dispositivo di innesco fu progettato da Bruno
Rossi, che conoscevo personalmente benissimo (era presidente del
consiglio scientifico dell'IAS quando vi arrivai io) e che ce lo ha
raccontato piu' di una volta, con tale dovizia di particolari (anche a
chi non voleva)
Infine, e' ridicolo pensare che, se i nazi avessero avuto il materiale
fissile e il meccanismo d'innesco non avrebbero usato la bomba, dato che
avevano le V2 che potevano benissimo buttarle su Londra.
F. Polcaro
ricercatore, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Roma
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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dei proiettili all'uranio impoverito
( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/205?&start=188 )
abbiamo ricevuto le seguenti precisazioni che riteniamo meritevoli di
essere rese note:
(...) Su questa storia dell'uranio
nazista mi sembra che la notizia sul rapporto tra nazisti e bomba di
Hiroshima e Nagasaki sia del tutto priva di fondamento.
In primo luogo, sono gia' completamente noti tutti i dati e la storia
del "Progetto Manahattan", incluso, dove, come e da chi fu arricchito
l'uranio e prodotto il plutonio utilizzati.
In secondo luogo, il dispositivo di innesco fu progettato da Bruno
Rossi, che conoscevo personalmente benissimo (era presidente del
consiglio scientifico dell'IAS quando vi arrivai io) e che ce lo ha
raccontato piu' di una volta, con tale dovizia di particolari (anche a
chi non voleva)
Infine, e' ridicolo pensare che, se i nazi avessero avuto il materiale
fissile e il meccanismo d'innesco non avrebbero usato la bomba, dato che
avevano le V2 che potevano benissimo buttarle su Londra.
F. Polcaro
ricercatore, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Roma
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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* SOLIDARIETA' CON I PRIGIONIERI DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA (CLI): 34 serbi,
5 gitani ed un macedone in sciopero della fame; i familiari si uniscono
alla protesta (AFP)
* IBRAHIM RUGOVA A FAVORE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA (AFP / Der Spegel)
* Un nuovo "Tribunale" politico istituito in Kosmet? (AFP)
* Azioni dei terroristi pan-albanesi contro i militari russi in Kosmet
(UPI)
* Il comando KFOR e' passato agli "Eurocorps" (Tanjug)
* L'opinione del kosovaro-albanese Setolli (Tanjug)
* La condizione degli "egiziani" del Kosmet (Tanjug, Irish Times)
----
VOCE OPERAIA wrote:
>
> 7 maggio
>
> LA CORRENTE LENISTA INTERNAZIONALE
> A KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
>
> Un anno fa, in questi giorni, la NATO si accaniva contro la Iugoslavia
> con il pretesto di fermare la "pulizia etnica". Dopo gli Accordi di
> Kumanovo (10 giugno) sotto l'egida dell'ONU, quasi 40mila soldati
> NATO più qualche migliaio di sbirraglia varia, sono entrati in Kosovo,
> per "riportare la pace e la convivenza multietnica".
> Ad un anno di distanza è chiaro il fallimento, non solo
> dell'aggressione NATO, ma dell'occupazione militare del Kosovo.
> - Quasi duecentomila serbi sono stati cacciati col terrore dalle loro
> case e villaggi con il beneplacito delle truppe NATO, sotto i cui
> occhi avveniva la "caccia" non solo al serbo, ma a tutte le altre
> minoranze nazionali nonché agli albanesi avversari dell'UCK.
> - Chi si è oppposto a questa "pulizia etnica", alla trasformazione del
> Kosovo in un porto franco del narco-traffico, delle mafie e dei
> mercenari imperialisti, ha subito la repressione, l'incarcerazione e
> la persecuzione delle autorità amministrative fantoccio dell'ONU
> (UNMIK) capeggiate dal proconsole francese Bernard Kouchner.
> - Kosovska Mitrovica è diventata il simbolo della resistenza delle
> varie minoranze contro lo sciovinismo albanese e la dittatura NATO.
> Ancora oggi 36 prigionieri politici, serbi e rom, sono in sciopero
> della fame contro la loro ingiusta e arbitraria detenzione avvenuta
> senza prove e senza alcun processo regolare.
>
> Allo scopo di chiedere la scarcerazione dei 36 detenuti, di condannare
> l'arbitrarietà inaccettabile delle autorità dell'UNMIK, di difendere
> il diritto all'autodifesa delle minoranze non-albanesi, di porre fine
> alle incursioni terroristiche nelle zone non-albanesi da parte della
> NATO; alcuni militanti della Corrente Leninista Internazionale,
> nell'ambito di una delegazione del Movimento di Solidarietà
> Austria-Iugoslavia (Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung)
> sono in questi giorni a Kosovska Mitrovica e si incontreranno con le
> comunità di questa città simbolo della resistenza alla NATO, all'UCK,
> portando la solidarietà di tutte le forze antimperialiste.
>
> VOCE OPERAIA
> sezione italiana della C.L.I.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> per contatti:
>
> Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
> PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
> joesb@...
>
> International Leninist Current
> ilc@...
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
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BELGRADE, May 9 (AFP) - Over 20 Serb women in northern Kosovo --
the wives and relatives of hunger-striking prisoners in a UN-run
jail -- began a sympathy strike Tuesday, the National Serb Council
(SNV) said.
The women began their hunger strike in a garage close to the
jail in Kosovska Mitrovica, where the suspected war criminals -- 34
Serbs, five Roma gypsies and one Macedonian -- are being held, the
SNV told AFP by telephone.
The prisoners, who began their strike on April 10, are
protesting they have been detained by the UN's mission in Kosovo in
some cases as long as 10 months, without trial and sometimes without
charges.
They are demanding provisional release if their cases are not
heard rapidly and impartially.
Leaders of the Serb community in the ethnically divided northern
town, Oliver Ivanovic and Milan Ivanovic and around 100 Serb
supporters visited the 23 women as they began their parallel
starvation campaign.
The women had announced Monday they would join the hunger strike
until the prisoners' demands were accepted, sending a letter to UN
administrator Bernard Kouchner and the UN's Kosovska Mitrovica
administrator, William Nash.
Doctors who visited the striking prisoners Sunday expressed
concern at the "very serious" medical condition of most of the men.
As the prisoners' hunger strike goes into its fifth week, two
strikers have been hospitalised.
----
RUGOVA A FAVORE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA
Sembrava scomparso dalla scena per far posto all'ala militare, quella
dell'UCK: in realta' Rugova continua a lavorare per il distacco del
Kosovo dalla Jugoslavia e la sua annessione alla "Grande Albania". Lo ha
sempre dichiarato in passato, e continua a dirlo oggi, ad esempio su
"DER SPIEGEL" di meta' aprile, secondo quanto riferito dalla AFP il
15/4/00. Rugova ha citato esplicitamente il progetto della "Grande
Albania" e ha detto all'intervistatore che se non sara' garantita
l'indipendenza in Kosovo sara' di nuovo guerra.
----
Sunday, May 7 12:04 PM SGT http://english.hk.dai
Unprecedented war crimes tribunal to be set up in Kosovo
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, May 7 (AFP) -
An unprecedented war crimes tribunal, placing international judges in
local courts, is to be launched in Kosovo to
jumpstart a legal system blocked by case overload and fears of ethnic
bias, UN officials here said.
Some 40 suspected Kosovo Serb war criminals are held by UN police and
with many of them on hunger strike after almost
a year in pre-trial detention, pressure is mounting for their cases to
come to court.
Only 13 have been indicted, said one legal expert, while the others are
held on suspicion.
"If we succeed in setting this up by the end of June we'll have been
highly successful," said Rolf Welberts, head of human
rights and rule of law at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo.
"It would be a record when you consider how slowly things go here," said
Welberts, whose department both monitors
and develops the budding legal system for the UN mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK).
UNMIK has already held the suspected war criminals, some arrested in
June 1999, for almost a year.
Under UNMIK's own regulations they can be held for 12 months before
either having to face trial or being released, but
Welberts was adamant they would not walk free if the tribunal is not
ready.
"It must be. I don't even want to consider that possibility," he said,
adding that UNMIK would try to renew the
detention period if necessary.
"By regulation you can do anything in this system," where UNMIK head
Bernard Kouchner has wide-ranging executive
powers, he said.
The new tribunal for war and ethnic crimes will feature international
judges alongside local Serb and ethnic Albanian
magistrates in a bid to overcome deep-seated ethnic hatreds that could
otherwise compromise judgements.
So far the only international judge in Kosovo has been employed in the
ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica,
scene of recurrent violent clashes between Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
Having spent months developing an applicable law -- a mixture of
Yugoslav, Kosovar and international codes -- to try
suspects, the new tribunal will still face many problems, not least the
issue of security.
"Security is a daily fight," said UNMIK legal head Sylvie Pantz. "Until
recently, I didn't have the personnel to secure
hearings, to prevent people from outside from theatening the judges.
"I spend my life begging UNMIK police and KFOR (the international
peacekeeping force). KFOR send me to the police
and vice versa," she said.
In March the ethnic Albanian president of Mitrovica court ordered a
Serbian war crimes suspect to face a court in the
Serb-dominated north of the town but was forced to postpone the case for
security reasons.
Mitrovica's international judge, Krister Karphammer of Sweden, said UN
police and KFOR would not have been able to
guarantee the safety of the people in court.
Pantz admitted that an ethnic Albanian judge trying a Serb for war
crimes in the north of the town risked being
"explosive" and said such cases would be better tried in the provincial
capital Pristina.
Even in petty cases, Karphammer said there was frequently pressure on
all involved.
"The witnesses, victims and even the translators are often threatened,"
he said. "Sometimes witnesses do not answer a
summons, they hide or give false testimony," he said, stressing the
problem was affecting all Kosovo.
International legal experts say that while security and pressure on
judges make trying suspects in Kosovo difficult, they
prefer to hold the trials here rather than in the war crimes court in
The Hague.
The International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has
only indicted five people after the Kosovo
conflict, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four of his
ministers.
Pantz said the ICTY was still blocked by cases from the three-year
Bosnian war, while trials in Kosovo could be part of
the healing process for a society ripped apart by ethnic war.
----
By LULZIM COTA
TIRANA, ALBANIA, May 8 (UPI) -- Unidentified people threw
Molotov cocktail from a car against a Russian base in Marin, in
Skenderaj
district, the KFOR press office in Pristine reported.
Russian KFOR soldiers have become a target in Kosovo, a
development which is a concern for the KFOR command.
Gen. Juan Ortuno, the KFOR commander condemning the killing of
Russian soldier Alexander Semione, who was found dead 10 days ago in
Glogovc commune, and warned that KFOR would not tolerate attacks against
his troops.
"I was informed recently about attacks against our Russian
KFOR troops. Every attack against any one KFOR soldier is considered an
attacks against all of us, and we are an unique force which will not
tolerate such acts," said Ortuno.
However, Ortuno's threat did not stop an other attack against
a Russian military camp in Skenderaj. No one was hurt in Sunday's
incident.
The KFOR press office did not say whether the attackers were
Albanians or other ethnic groups, but Albanians have openly claimed they
do not like Russian presence in Kosovo.
During the last two months Russians have been a target of
aggressive attacks or behaviors around Skenderaj by ethnic Albanians,
who
consider the Russians traditional supports of the Serbs. About 10 weeks
ago a Russian soldier was shot dead by a young Albanian in Skenderaj
market. Another Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Russian camp 10 days
ago
too.
KFOR has not been able to change the ethnic Albanians'
attitude toward Russian troops even the KFOR command has repeatedly
considered the Russians a part of their peace-keeping mission in Kosovo.
----
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - EUROCORPS
EUROCORPS TAKES COMMAND OF KFOR IN U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA
PRISTINA, April 18 (Tanjug) - The five-nation Eurocorps on Tuesday took
over command of the international force (KFor) in Kosovo-Metohija, with
Eurocorps Commander Juan Ortuno (aged 60) of Spain taking over from
Germany's Klaus Reinhardt.
This is the third change at the helm of the military mission to this
U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province since it was deployed just over
ten
months ago. In this time, KFor has not carried out practically a single
task entrusted to it under U.N. Resolution 1244.
On the contrary, Kosovo-Metohija has seen an explosion of crime and
terrorism, the ethnic Albanian terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
has
not been disarmed, there are no safety guarantees, and more than 350,000
Serbs and other non-Albanians have been displaced.
Responsibility for this unfavourable state of affairs rests solely with
KFor, which in its short history has been commanded by British General
Michael Jackson, Germany's Reinhardt and, now, by Spain's Ortuno.
The Eurocorps command comprises 350 senior officers from five European
states - Spain, Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg - which is
roughly
one-third of the headquarters staff, the rest coming from Great Britain,
Italy and the United States.
----
ETHNIC ALBANIAN PUBLICIST - SITUATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
DETERIORATING
PRISTINA, April 17 (Tanjug) - Fatmir Seholi, an independent ethnic
Albanian publicist, said Monday that disastrous anarchy and lawlessness
had
escalated in Kosovo and Metohija.
Seholi told the local radio station Kontakt in Pristina, chief city of
the
Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province, that scores of
robberies
were registered on a daily basis, saying that ethnic Albanian terrorists
were now robbing their ethnic kinds because there were hardly any Serbs
and
other non-Albanians left in the province.
He said that an end must be put to such a state of affairs, because it
could result in a civil war between local ethnic Albanians and
terrorists
and extremists.
"All this is happening in the presence of the U.N. civilian mission
(UNMIK) and international forces," he said stressing that peace was not
at
all at hand in Kosovo and Metohija although the fight against ethnic
Albanian terrorists had stopped.
Instead of trying to find immediately ways of how to improve the
situation
in the province and of restoring the province's multi-ethnic character,
some ethnic Albanian leaders are only trying to get rich, he said.
Seholi underlined UNMIK's and the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR's
responsibility for a failure to implement the U.N. Security Council's
Resolution 1244.
Commenting on announcements that elections will be held in Kosovo and
Metohija, Seholi said that there could be no elections unless the
province's political status was defined. He said that, under the
resolution, the province remained an integral part of Serbia and
Yugoslavia.
All outstanding issues concerning the province should be exclusively
solved in Yugoslav and Serbian authorities' talks with ethnic Albanian
parties and intellectuals as well as representatives of other ethnic
communities, he said.
----
EXPELLED KOSOVO EGYPTIANS STAGE PROTESTS
SKOPJE, April 17 (Tanjug) - About 4,000 ethnic Egyptians, expelled from
Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province into Macedonia by ethnic Albanian
terrorists since the arrival of international peacekeepers, on Monday
lodged a strong protest with the Macedonian government and the Skopje
office of the UNHCR, claiming they have been completely forgotten.
More than 100,000 ethnic Egyptians lived in Kosovo and Metohija before
they were terrorized into fleeing the province by ethnic Albanian
extremists after the arrival of the international force KFOR and U.N.
civilian mission UNMIK. Many have been murdered by ethnic Albanian
terrorists, or have had their houses torched. Most Kosovo Egyptians fled
to
Serbia proper, but part of them also sought refuge in Macedonia, they
said
in the open letter sent to the local and world public.
Neither the UNHCR nor the Skopje authorities have recognized the refugee
ethnic Egyptians as a special ethnic group, even though they enjoyed
this
status in Serbia since 1991. These refugees have been listed as Romanies
or
ethnic Albanians and sent to the respective refugee camps of these
national
minorities, the letter said.
The Irish Times
Monday, April 17, 2000
Murders in Kosovo help to
fuel a family's blood feud
Christian Jennings, reports from Sverke, in Kosovo, on the animosity
between Albanians and the Egyptian Muslim minority
KOSOVO: You can tell what kind of ammunition was used to execute Xhafer
Brahimi's mother, son and nephew because the stray bullets from the
burst of gunfire that killed them lodged in the frozen chicken legs they
were bringing home from market.
"I saw their horse and cart going down the track in front of our house,"
says Brahimi, a 37-yearold Kosovan man from the province's beleaguered
Egyptian Muslim community, an Albanian-speaking ethnic minority.
"As soon as I heard automatic gunfire, I looked down through binoculars.
When I saw the horse stop I knew they were dead," he sobs, wiping his
eyes as he looks at their three coffins laid out on the new spring grass
inside his farm compound in the western Kosovan village of Sverke.
The Brahimi killings were just three out of an estimated 12 murders of
ethnic minorities to have taken place in Kosovo in the last 10 days,
says NATO.
Murders of Serbs, Roma Gypsies and Egyptians have more than trebled
since the beginning of April.
Who fired 10 Kalashnikov bullets into the sternum of Xhafer Brahimi's
78-year-old mother? Who executed his 17-year-old son, Fidan? Whose
hunting rifle was fired pointblank into his 18year-old nephew, Muharem,
as he sat on the horse-drawn cart?
The answer depends on whom you talk to. The 150 mourners who have
gathered around the three newly dug graves under the oak trees at the
bottom of the farm will give you different answers.
"In August last year 10 Albanian men came to the gates of the compound
at night," says Xhafer. "They had guns. They tried to break down the
doors. They were asking for grapes."
For grapes read the Brahimi family vineyard. For the vineyard read land.
For land read money. Throw in Kosovo, and it all ends up as a revenge
blood feud.
"It's all about this damn land," says his aunt, shaking her head as she
looks around at the gathered womenfolk of the family. Thirty-five of
them, wearing traditional Muslim head-scarves, are weeping loudly over
the three coffins draped in gaudily coloured fluffy blankets.
"When the men couldn't break down the gate," continues Xhafer, "they
shot through it. I returned fire from the house and hit one man in the
leg. He went down, and by mistake shot another, killing him."
In fine Albanian tradition, there began a family blood feud. Death
avenged by death. The killing of women and children against the rules.
Repeat till not a single man is left alive.
"The family hasn't really left the compound since the summer," says
Xhafer's brother, offering around Coca-Cola and cigarettes as the women
wail and the sun shines strongly. "When my aunt, son and nephew did,
they were followed from here to market and back, and then killed."
Among the dandelions in a quiet corner of the farm, they've dumped the
cart on which the three family members died. Most of the blood's been
scrubbed off, but you can see the bullet-scarred wood, the rust-coloured
stains.
>From here you can almost understand what the feud is all about. This is
God's country. Fertile fields, gently sloping ploughed furrows,
plentiful space. All 60 acres of it. Through the sky above the valley
clatters an Italian NATO helicopter.
"NATO troops will not come and protect us," says Xhafer Brahimi. "We've
asked several times, we know the people that did this."
UN policemen based in the town of Peja, 15 km distant, did come to
investigate the killings. No arrests have yet been made.
Fifty of the Brahimi clan live here on the edge of the ruined village of
Sverke, a predominantly Serb community whose houses were totally
destroyed by Albanians just after NATO entered Kosovo last June.
"The rest live in Germany, which is where we're going if these killings
continue," says Xhafer. "The people that did this, before the war they
used to co-operate with the Serbs. Now they're common criminals."
There's no doubt that ethnic animosity between Albanians and the
Egyptian minority have worsened relations in the village, as have
accusations of complicity and collaboration with Serb military units,
whose programme of ethnic cleansing of the Kosovan Albanian population
in spring 1999 reached its apogee in the Peja region.
The graves lie in a fenced-off area 20 metres by 20, and it's hard not
to think that if you came back in a year's time, the feud would still be
continuing and UN police would still not have got to the bottom of it.
5 gitani ed un macedone in sciopero della fame; i familiari si uniscono
alla protesta (AFP)
* IBRAHIM RUGOVA A FAVORE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA (AFP / Der Spegel)
* Un nuovo "Tribunale" politico istituito in Kosmet? (AFP)
* Azioni dei terroristi pan-albanesi contro i militari russi in Kosmet
(UPI)
* Il comando KFOR e' passato agli "Eurocorps" (Tanjug)
* L'opinione del kosovaro-albanese Setolli (Tanjug)
* La condizione degli "egiziani" del Kosmet (Tanjug, Irish Times)
----
VOCE OPERAIA wrote:
>
> 7 maggio
>
> LA CORRENTE LENISTA INTERNAZIONALE
> A KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
>
> Un anno fa, in questi giorni, la NATO si accaniva contro la Iugoslavia
> con il pretesto di fermare la "pulizia etnica". Dopo gli Accordi di
> Kumanovo (10 giugno) sotto l'egida dell'ONU, quasi 40mila soldati
> NATO più qualche migliaio di sbirraglia varia, sono entrati in Kosovo,
> per "riportare la pace e la convivenza multietnica".
> Ad un anno di distanza è chiaro il fallimento, non solo
> dell'aggressione NATO, ma dell'occupazione militare del Kosovo.
> - Quasi duecentomila serbi sono stati cacciati col terrore dalle loro
> case e villaggi con il beneplacito delle truppe NATO, sotto i cui
> occhi avveniva la "caccia" non solo al serbo, ma a tutte le altre
> minoranze nazionali nonché agli albanesi avversari dell'UCK.
> - Chi si è oppposto a questa "pulizia etnica", alla trasformazione del
> Kosovo in un porto franco del narco-traffico, delle mafie e dei
> mercenari imperialisti, ha subito la repressione, l'incarcerazione e
> la persecuzione delle autorità amministrative fantoccio dell'ONU
> (UNMIK) capeggiate dal proconsole francese Bernard Kouchner.
> - Kosovska Mitrovica è diventata il simbolo della resistenza delle
> varie minoranze contro lo sciovinismo albanese e la dittatura NATO.
> Ancora oggi 36 prigionieri politici, serbi e rom, sono in sciopero
> della fame contro la loro ingiusta e arbitraria detenzione avvenuta
> senza prove e senza alcun processo regolare.
>
> Allo scopo di chiedere la scarcerazione dei 36 detenuti, di condannare
> l'arbitrarietà inaccettabile delle autorità dell'UNMIK, di difendere
> il diritto all'autodifesa delle minoranze non-albanesi, di porre fine
> alle incursioni terroristiche nelle zone non-albanesi da parte della
> NATO; alcuni militanti della Corrente Leninista Internazionale,
> nell'ambito di una delegazione del Movimento di Solidarietà
> Austria-Iugoslavia (Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung)
> sono in questi giorni a Kosovska Mitrovica e si incontreranno con le
> comunità di questa città simbolo della resistenza alla NATO, all'UCK,
> portando la solidarietà di tutte le forze antimperialiste.
>
> VOCE OPERAIA
> sezione italiana della C.L.I.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> per contatti:
>
> Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
> PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
> joesb@...
>
> International Leninist Current
> ilc@...
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
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BELGRADE, May 9 (AFP) - Over 20 Serb women in northern Kosovo --
the wives and relatives of hunger-striking prisoners in a UN-run
jail -- began a sympathy strike Tuesday, the National Serb Council
(SNV) said.
The women began their hunger strike in a garage close to the
jail in Kosovska Mitrovica, where the suspected war criminals -- 34
Serbs, five Roma gypsies and one Macedonian -- are being held, the
SNV told AFP by telephone.
The prisoners, who began their strike on April 10, are
protesting they have been detained by the UN's mission in Kosovo in
some cases as long as 10 months, without trial and sometimes without
charges.
They are demanding provisional release if their cases are not
heard rapidly and impartially.
Leaders of the Serb community in the ethnically divided northern
town, Oliver Ivanovic and Milan Ivanovic and around 100 Serb
supporters visited the 23 women as they began their parallel
starvation campaign.
The women had announced Monday they would join the hunger strike
until the prisoners' demands were accepted, sending a letter to UN
administrator Bernard Kouchner and the UN's Kosovska Mitrovica
administrator, William Nash.
Doctors who visited the striking prisoners Sunday expressed
concern at the "very serious" medical condition of most of the men.
As the prisoners' hunger strike goes into its fifth week, two
strikers have been hospitalised.
----
RUGOVA A FAVORE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA
Sembrava scomparso dalla scena per far posto all'ala militare, quella
dell'UCK: in realta' Rugova continua a lavorare per il distacco del
Kosovo dalla Jugoslavia e la sua annessione alla "Grande Albania". Lo ha
sempre dichiarato in passato, e continua a dirlo oggi, ad esempio su
"DER SPIEGEL" di meta' aprile, secondo quanto riferito dalla AFP il
15/4/00. Rugova ha citato esplicitamente il progetto della "Grande
Albania" e ha detto all'intervistatore che se non sara' garantita
l'indipendenza in Kosovo sara' di nuovo guerra.
----
Sunday, May 7 12:04 PM SGT http://english.hk.dai
Unprecedented war crimes tribunal to be set up in Kosovo
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, May 7 (AFP) -
An unprecedented war crimes tribunal, placing international judges in
local courts, is to be launched in Kosovo to
jumpstart a legal system blocked by case overload and fears of ethnic
bias, UN officials here said.
Some 40 suspected Kosovo Serb war criminals are held by UN police and
with many of them on hunger strike after almost
a year in pre-trial detention, pressure is mounting for their cases to
come to court.
Only 13 have been indicted, said one legal expert, while the others are
held on suspicion.
"If we succeed in setting this up by the end of June we'll have been
highly successful," said Rolf Welberts, head of human
rights and rule of law at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo.
"It would be a record when you consider how slowly things go here," said
Welberts, whose department both monitors
and develops the budding legal system for the UN mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK).
UNMIK has already held the suspected war criminals, some arrested in
June 1999, for almost a year.
Under UNMIK's own regulations they can be held for 12 months before
either having to face trial or being released, but
Welberts was adamant they would not walk free if the tribunal is not
ready.
"It must be. I don't even want to consider that possibility," he said,
adding that UNMIK would try to renew the
detention period if necessary.
"By regulation you can do anything in this system," where UNMIK head
Bernard Kouchner has wide-ranging executive
powers, he said.
The new tribunal for war and ethnic crimes will feature international
judges alongside local Serb and ethnic Albanian
magistrates in a bid to overcome deep-seated ethnic hatreds that could
otherwise compromise judgements.
So far the only international judge in Kosovo has been employed in the
ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica,
scene of recurrent violent clashes between Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
Having spent months developing an applicable law -- a mixture of
Yugoslav, Kosovar and international codes -- to try
suspects, the new tribunal will still face many problems, not least the
issue of security.
"Security is a daily fight," said UNMIK legal head Sylvie Pantz. "Until
recently, I didn't have the personnel to secure
hearings, to prevent people from outside from theatening the judges.
"I spend my life begging UNMIK police and KFOR (the international
peacekeeping force). KFOR send me to the police
and vice versa," she said.
In March the ethnic Albanian president of Mitrovica court ordered a
Serbian war crimes suspect to face a court in the
Serb-dominated north of the town but was forced to postpone the case for
security reasons.
Mitrovica's international judge, Krister Karphammer of Sweden, said UN
police and KFOR would not have been able to
guarantee the safety of the people in court.
Pantz admitted that an ethnic Albanian judge trying a Serb for war
crimes in the north of the town risked being
"explosive" and said such cases would be better tried in the provincial
capital Pristina.
Even in petty cases, Karphammer said there was frequently pressure on
all involved.
"The witnesses, victims and even the translators are often threatened,"
he said. "Sometimes witnesses do not answer a
summons, they hide or give false testimony," he said, stressing the
problem was affecting all Kosovo.
International legal experts say that while security and pressure on
judges make trying suspects in Kosovo difficult, they
prefer to hold the trials here rather than in the war crimes court in
The Hague.
The International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has
only indicted five people after the Kosovo
conflict, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four of his
ministers.
Pantz said the ICTY was still blocked by cases from the three-year
Bosnian war, while trials in Kosovo could be part of
the healing process for a society ripped apart by ethnic war.
----
By LULZIM COTA
TIRANA, ALBANIA, May 8 (UPI) -- Unidentified people threw
Molotov cocktail from a car against a Russian base in Marin, in
Skenderaj
district, the KFOR press office in Pristine reported.
Russian KFOR soldiers have become a target in Kosovo, a
development which is a concern for the KFOR command.
Gen. Juan Ortuno, the KFOR commander condemning the killing of
Russian soldier Alexander Semione, who was found dead 10 days ago in
Glogovc commune, and warned that KFOR would not tolerate attacks against
his troops.
"I was informed recently about attacks against our Russian
KFOR troops. Every attack against any one KFOR soldier is considered an
attacks against all of us, and we are an unique force which will not
tolerate such acts," said Ortuno.
However, Ortuno's threat did not stop an other attack against
a Russian military camp in Skenderaj. No one was hurt in Sunday's
incident.
The KFOR press office did not say whether the attackers were
Albanians or other ethnic groups, but Albanians have openly claimed they
do not like Russian presence in Kosovo.
During the last two months Russians have been a target of
aggressive attacks or behaviors around Skenderaj by ethnic Albanians,
who
consider the Russians traditional supports of the Serbs. About 10 weeks
ago a Russian soldier was shot dead by a young Albanian in Skenderaj
market. Another Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Russian camp 10 days
ago
too.
KFOR has not been able to change the ethnic Albanians'
attitude toward Russian troops even the KFOR command has repeatedly
considered the Russians a part of their peace-keeping mission in Kosovo.
----
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - EUROCORPS
EUROCORPS TAKES COMMAND OF KFOR IN U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA
PRISTINA, April 18 (Tanjug) - The five-nation Eurocorps on Tuesday took
over command of the international force (KFor) in Kosovo-Metohija, with
Eurocorps Commander Juan Ortuno (aged 60) of Spain taking over from
Germany's Klaus Reinhardt.
This is the third change at the helm of the military mission to this
U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province since it was deployed just over
ten
months ago. In this time, KFor has not carried out practically a single
task entrusted to it under U.N. Resolution 1244.
On the contrary, Kosovo-Metohija has seen an explosion of crime and
terrorism, the ethnic Albanian terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
has
not been disarmed, there are no safety guarantees, and more than 350,000
Serbs and other non-Albanians have been displaced.
Responsibility for this unfavourable state of affairs rests solely with
KFor, which in its short history has been commanded by British General
Michael Jackson, Germany's Reinhardt and, now, by Spain's Ortuno.
The Eurocorps command comprises 350 senior officers from five European
states - Spain, Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg - which is
roughly
one-third of the headquarters staff, the rest coming from Great Britain,
Italy and the United States.
----
ETHNIC ALBANIAN PUBLICIST - SITUATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
DETERIORATING
PRISTINA, April 17 (Tanjug) - Fatmir Seholi, an independent ethnic
Albanian publicist, said Monday that disastrous anarchy and lawlessness
had
escalated in Kosovo and Metohija.
Seholi told the local radio station Kontakt in Pristina, chief city of
the
Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province, that scores of
robberies
were registered on a daily basis, saying that ethnic Albanian terrorists
were now robbing their ethnic kinds because there were hardly any Serbs
and
other non-Albanians left in the province.
He said that an end must be put to such a state of affairs, because it
could result in a civil war between local ethnic Albanians and
terrorists
and extremists.
"All this is happening in the presence of the U.N. civilian mission
(UNMIK) and international forces," he said stressing that peace was not
at
all at hand in Kosovo and Metohija although the fight against ethnic
Albanian terrorists had stopped.
Instead of trying to find immediately ways of how to improve the
situation
in the province and of restoring the province's multi-ethnic character,
some ethnic Albanian leaders are only trying to get rich, he said.
Seholi underlined UNMIK's and the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR's
responsibility for a failure to implement the U.N. Security Council's
Resolution 1244.
Commenting on announcements that elections will be held in Kosovo and
Metohija, Seholi said that there could be no elections unless the
province's political status was defined. He said that, under the
resolution, the province remained an integral part of Serbia and
Yugoslavia.
All outstanding issues concerning the province should be exclusively
solved in Yugoslav and Serbian authorities' talks with ethnic Albanian
parties and intellectuals as well as representatives of other ethnic
communities, he said.
----
EXPELLED KOSOVO EGYPTIANS STAGE PROTESTS
SKOPJE, April 17 (Tanjug) - About 4,000 ethnic Egyptians, expelled from
Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province into Macedonia by ethnic Albanian
terrorists since the arrival of international peacekeepers, on Monday
lodged a strong protest with the Macedonian government and the Skopje
office of the UNHCR, claiming they have been completely forgotten.
More than 100,000 ethnic Egyptians lived in Kosovo and Metohija before
they were terrorized into fleeing the province by ethnic Albanian
extremists after the arrival of the international force KFOR and U.N.
civilian mission UNMIK. Many have been murdered by ethnic Albanian
terrorists, or have had their houses torched. Most Kosovo Egyptians fled
to
Serbia proper, but part of them also sought refuge in Macedonia, they
said
in the open letter sent to the local and world public.
Neither the UNHCR nor the Skopje authorities have recognized the refugee
ethnic Egyptians as a special ethnic group, even though they enjoyed
this
status in Serbia since 1991. These refugees have been listed as Romanies
or
ethnic Albanians and sent to the respective refugee camps of these
national
minorities, the letter said.
The Irish Times
Monday, April 17, 2000
Murders in Kosovo help to
fuel a family's blood feud
Christian Jennings, reports from Sverke, in Kosovo, on the animosity
between Albanians and the Egyptian Muslim minority
KOSOVO: You can tell what kind of ammunition was used to execute Xhafer
Brahimi's mother, son and nephew because the stray bullets from the
burst of gunfire that killed them lodged in the frozen chicken legs they
were bringing home from market.
"I saw their horse and cart going down the track in front of our house,"
says Brahimi, a 37-yearold Kosovan man from the province's beleaguered
Egyptian Muslim community, an Albanian-speaking ethnic minority.
"As soon as I heard automatic gunfire, I looked down through binoculars.
When I saw the horse stop I knew they were dead," he sobs, wiping his
eyes as he looks at their three coffins laid out on the new spring grass
inside his farm compound in the western Kosovan village of Sverke.
The Brahimi killings were just three out of an estimated 12 murders of
ethnic minorities to have taken place in Kosovo in the last 10 days,
says NATO.
Murders of Serbs, Roma Gypsies and Egyptians have more than trebled
since the beginning of April.
Who fired 10 Kalashnikov bullets into the sternum of Xhafer Brahimi's
78-year-old mother? Who executed his 17-year-old son, Fidan? Whose
hunting rifle was fired pointblank into his 18year-old nephew, Muharem,
as he sat on the horse-drawn cart?
The answer depends on whom you talk to. The 150 mourners who have
gathered around the three newly dug graves under the oak trees at the
bottom of the farm will give you different answers.
"In August last year 10 Albanian men came to the gates of the compound
at night," says Xhafer. "They had guns. They tried to break down the
doors. They were asking for grapes."
For grapes read the Brahimi family vineyard. For the vineyard read land.
For land read money. Throw in Kosovo, and it all ends up as a revenge
blood feud.
"It's all about this damn land," says his aunt, shaking her head as she
looks around at the gathered womenfolk of the family. Thirty-five of
them, wearing traditional Muslim head-scarves, are weeping loudly over
the three coffins draped in gaudily coloured fluffy blankets.
"When the men couldn't break down the gate," continues Xhafer, "they
shot through it. I returned fire from the house and hit one man in the
leg. He went down, and by mistake shot another, killing him."
In fine Albanian tradition, there began a family blood feud. Death
avenged by death. The killing of women and children against the rules.
Repeat till not a single man is left alive.
"The family hasn't really left the compound since the summer," says
Xhafer's brother, offering around Coca-Cola and cigarettes as the women
wail and the sun shines strongly. "When my aunt, son and nephew did,
they were followed from here to market and back, and then killed."
Among the dandelions in a quiet corner of the farm, they've dumped the
cart on which the three family members died. Most of the blood's been
scrubbed off, but you can see the bullet-scarred wood, the rust-coloured
stains.
>From here you can almost understand what the feud is all about. This is
God's country. Fertile fields, gently sloping ploughed furrows,
plentiful space. All 60 acres of it. Through the sky above the valley
clatters an Italian NATO helicopter.
"NATO troops will not come and protect us," says Xhafer Brahimi. "We've
asked several times, we know the people that did this."
UN policemen based in the town of Peja, 15 km distant, did come to
investigate the killings. No arrests have yet been made.
Fifty of the Brahimi clan live here on the edge of the ruined village of
Sverke, a predominantly Serb community whose houses were totally
destroyed by Albanians just after NATO entered Kosovo last June.
"The rest live in Germany, which is where we're going if these killings
continue," says Xhafer. "The people that did this, before the war they
used to co-operate with the Serbs. Now they're common criminals."
There's no doubt that ethnic animosity between Albanians and the
Egyptian minority have worsened relations in the village, as have
accusations of complicity and collaboration with Serb military units,
whose programme of ethnic cleansing of the Kosovan Albanian population
in spring 1999 reached its apogee in the Peja region.
The graves lie in a fenced-off area 20 metres by 20, and it's hard not
to think that if you came back in a year's time, the feud would still be
continuing and UN police would still not have got to the bottom of it.
