ANCHE GREGORIO E' AGLI ARRESTI DOMICILIARI

Ci giunge notizia che finalmente anche Gregorio Piccin, l'ultimo dei
cinque compagni arrestati lo scorso 7 dicembre ad essere ancora
trattenuto in carcere, e' stato trasferito nella sua abitazione, dove e'
sottoposto agli arresti domiciliari.

Ovviamente questo non ci consente di abbassare la guardia: la campagna
di solidarieta' deve andare avanti per ottenere quantomeno
* la fine immediata della manovra diffamatoria avviata sui mezzi di
dis-informazione, per la quale sono gia' state sporte alcune denuncie;
* il decadimento delle accuse piu' insensate (art. 270 e 270bis);
* la liberta' di movimento dei compagni.

A questo proposito diffondiamo il comunicato giuntoci dal Comitato per
la liberta' di Sergio Spina, alle cui proposte noi ADERIAMO come
iniziativa di controinformazione sulle questioni internazionali e della
guerra imperialista. CRJ


>
> Vi inviamo il documento elaborato dal Comitato per la libertà di
> Sergio Spina (v. arresti 7 Dicembre 1999), pregandovi di diffonderlo.
> Vi invitiamo, inoltre, ad aderire alle future iniziative che verranno
> via via proposte dal comitato stesso.
> Per informazioni e adesioni: comitato.libero@...
>
>
> COMITATO PER LA LIBERTA? DI SERGIO SPINA
>
>
>
> Questo documento si propone di riavviare, in seguito all?arresto di
> Sergio Spina e dei suoi compagni, una discussione politica che abbia
> il compito di porre, all?attenzione di tutti, i temi che tale vicenda
> ha riproposto con forza.
>
> Siamo dell?idea che i punti evidenziati debbano trovare un ampio
> consenso da parte di uno schieramento, il più vasto possibile, che
> abbia a cuore la difesa dei diritti della persona e le garanzie delle
> regole democratiche per tutti i cittadini.
>
> Riteniamo che, pur nella condanna netta di ogni forma di terrorismo
> come strumento di contrapposizione antagonista, tuttavia non
> ripeteremo l?errore commesso in passato, per cui la condanna netta del
> terrorismo ha impedito un?analisi seria su un movimento che in modo
> legittimo rivendicava la possibilità di costruire una società diversa.
>
> Pensiamo sia giunto il tempo di stabilire che l?antagonismo sociale
> sia l?espressione che raccoglie il disagio di tanti, e che governo,
> magistratura e forze dell?ordine debbano smetterla di riproporre il
> teorema secondo il quale l?antagonismo sociale diventa unicamente
> veicolo di reclutamento per organizzazioni terroristiche.
>
> A nostro avviso, sono quattro i punti prioritari per avviare una seria
> discussione che permetta di fare chiarezza sulle garanzie di libertà
> del cittadino in una democrazia come quella italiana.
>
> 1) NEGAZIONE DEI DIRITTI DELLA PERSONA
>
> L?arresto di Sergio Spina e dei suoi compagni evidenzia a nostro
> giudizio due questioni principali: la prima riguarda l?uso della
> carcerazione da parte dei magistrati inquirenti, non come forma di
> prevenzione di presunti atti terroristici, bensì come strumento di
> pressione - là dove non si hanno idee chiare - che porti gli arrestati
> a collaborare facendo i nomi di tutti coloro che hanno conosciuto nel
> loro percorso politico, nella speranza di arrivare per tentativi a una
> qualche "verità".
>
> La seconda questione, certo non meno grave, riguarda la diffamatoria
> campagna di stampa che ha visto, via via, Sergio Spina indicato prima
> come "cattivo maestro", poi "mente" del gruppo, in quanto più anziano;
> in seguito, punto di raccordo con organizzazioni terroristiche
> collegate all?omicidio D?Antona; infine, il grande salto che ipotizza
> collegamenti con il terrorismo internazionale, sia islamico che
> europeo.
>
> Tutto questo ha prodotto, e continua a produrre, un evidente disparità
> tra chi diffama e chi è diffamato: Sergio Spina, infatti, nella sua
> condizione di totale isolamento, sia pure agli arresti domiciliari,
> non è messo nelle condizioni di difendersi.
>
> 2) NO ALLA GUERRA
>
> Riteniamo essenziale esprimere il più profondo e convinto NO alla
> guerra.
>
> L?aggressione della Nato all?ex -Jugoslavia non solo non ha conseguito
> il risultato di portare la democrazia e la pacifica convivenza tra
> Serbi e Kossovari, ma, al contrario, ha seminato morte, distruzione ed
> accrescimento dell?odio.
>
> Tutto ciò ha prodotto giustamente una reazione del movimento pacifista
> internazionale, che ha visto - soprattutto in Italia - lo svolgersi di
> innumerevoli manifestazioni democratiche e di massa contro la guerra.
>
> È utile far notare che, mentre nessun processo è stato istituito per
> giudicare crimini di guerra - dei quali si è macchiato anche il nostro
> paese, in palese violazione della Costituzione Italiana - assistiamo
> per contro alla volontà del governo di strumentalizzare piccoli
> episodi (come il danneggiamento avvenuto nel settembre scorso ai danni
> di una ditta che lavora al progetto Aviano 2000) per sfuggire a quelle
> che sono le proprie responsabilità.
>
> In questo contesto si inserisce l?ambiguità della magistratura, che da
> un lato dichiara marginali gli episodi in questione, escludendo nello
> stesso tempo collegamenti con gruppi terroristici, e dall?altro
> continua ad applicare un regime fortemente restrittivo, assolutamente
> sproporzionato alle accuse.
>
> 3) LEGGI SPECIALI
>
> Riteniamo anacronistico, a distanza di oltre vent?anni dall?entrata in
> vigore delle leggi speciali, nate dalla presunta necessità di
> contrastare il terrorismo dilagante in quegli anni, il fatto che esse
> non solo non vengano rimosse, in quanto l?emergenza terrorismo è
> finita da un pezzo, ma vengano utilizzate in modo spropositato per
> colpire, oggi, cinque persone - ci chiediamo quante domani -
> lasciandole marcire in carcere per anni, là dove - in una condizione
> di democrazia "normale" - sarebbero state condannate al massimo per
> pochi mesi.
>
> Tutto ciò ci impone una riflessione comune sulla necessità di una
> grande mobilitazione che costringa il parlamento italiano a cancellare
> quelle norme, restituendo ai cittadini il diritto-dovere di essere
> giudicati in proporzione ai reati commessi secondo la normativa
> ordinaria.
>
> 4) A CHI GIOVA?
>
> Non possiamo davvero pensare che la strategia tesa a criminalizzare
> tutti i movimenti antagonisti, sia alla guerra che alle tante forme di
> ingiustizia con cui ci si scontra quotidianamente, sia da attribuire
> al caso.
>
> Tutto ciò è frutto, a nostro giudizio, della volontà precisa di
> tacitare ogni forma di antagonismo, per andare in modo spedito verso
> quell?odioso progetto, denominato "pensiero unico".
>
> A conferma che quanto diciamo non sia frutto di un teorema, ci
> soccorrono commentatori di importanti quotidiani nazionali, i quali,
> pur precisando che è legittimo opporsi, fanno comunque notare che la
> partecipazione a qualunque forma di antagonismo fa sì che le
> organizzazioni terroristiche traggano risorse umane per scardinare
> l?ordine democratico.
>
> Insomma, un invito non tanto velato a rimanere tutti a casa.
>
> Noi non solo non rimarremo a casa, ma invitiamo tutti ad uscire dalla
> condizione di isolamento nella quale ciascuno di noi si trova, per
> costruire ovunque comitati, gruppi di iniziativa e quant?altro possa
> concorrere al ristabilimento della civiltà del diritto e della libertà
> di manifestare il dissenso.
>
>
>
> Bologna, 9 Febbraio 2000
>
> IL COMITATO PER LA LIBERTA?DI SERGIO SPINA
>
>
>
>
>
> Per informazioni ed adesioni: comitato.libero@...

VIRTU' MIRACOLOSE DELLA RISIERA DI SAN SABBA?

Insieme a Jeorg Haider, anche il Presidente del Consiglio italiano
Massimo D'Alema ritiene la Risiera di San Sabba il luogo piu' indicato
per un pellegrinaggio riparatorio. Alcuni giornali di oggi 12 febbraio
2000 riportano infatti con enfasi la scelta di D'Alema di trascorrere il
25 Aprile prossimo in quello che fu l'unico campo di sterminio tedesco
su territorio oggi italiano. In questa maniera D'Alema prosegue nel
tentativo di farsi riabilitare e riaccreditare come leader antifascista
e democratico, dopo la sua partecipazione alla marcia pacifista
Perugia-Assisi.
Massimo D'Alema, nei confronti del quale sono state presentate 30
denunce penali per attentato alla Costituzione nata dalla Resistenza,
figura tra i mandanti dei bombardamenti sul petrolchimico di Pancevo,
delle bombe sulle colonne di profughi kosovari, della ri-occupazione
coloniale della Grande Albania, della pulizia etnica oggi in atto in un
settore di questa (il "Kosova"), dell'istigazione alla secessione e
ri-occupazione coloniale anche del Montenegro, del respingimento dei
profughi di razza politicamente scorretta dalle coste italiane nonche' -
a proposito di lager - dell'istituzione sul territorio italiano dei
lager per stranieri privi di documenti.


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SEGNALIAMO:
*** notizie aggiornate su quanto avviene quotidianamente in Kosmet le
trovate ogni giorno SOLAMENTE sulle pagine di SERBIA INFO:
in English: http://www.serbia-info.com/news/index.html
na srpskohrvatskom: http://www.srbija-info.yu
*** LIVING MARXISM e' la rivista inglese che sta facendo da anni un
eccezionale lavoro di controinformazione sulle questioni jugoslave;
sulla situazione in Kosovo-Metohija si veda ad esempio
http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/documentary/kosovo/docu_frame.html
QUIZ: cosa sai sul Kosmet?
http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/documentary/kosovo/quiz_frameset.html

PER LA SERIE: "LE PRODEZZE DELL'UCKFOR" abbiamo scelto oggi:

* Attaccato ancora un autobus, per un pelo evitata un'altra strage
(Tanjug 9/2)
* Gravemente ferito un serbo ad Obilic (Tanjug 10/2)
* A Gnjilane lanciata una granata in un negozio (Tanjug 10/2)
* Ancora proteste a Mitrovica (B92 7/2)
* In marzo nuove esercitazioni NATO in grande stile (B92 7/2)
* A Mitrovica grave preoccupazione nel ghetto serbo (Tanjug 4-5/2)
* Scontri tra albanesi-kosovari e francesi a Mitrovica (Tanjug 5/2)
* Pesante aggressione contro un serbo a Gnjilane (Tanjug 5/2)
* Attacchi a ripetizione contro le sedi di organizzazioni umanitarie ad
Obilic (Tanjug 5/2)
* Serbo assassinato a Gnjilane (Tanjug 4/2)
* Attaccato a Prizren un reparto ospedaliero dove sono ricoverate donne
serbe: vari feriti, tra cui un militare tedesco, ma come al solito la
KFOR non interviene (Tanjug 5/2)

* SPECIALE: grazie all'UCKFOR fiorisce in Kosmet il commercio... di
ragazze e minorenni da avviare alla prostituzione nei paesi ricchi
(Tanjug - The Times of London)

* RIEPILOGO delle azioni contro la popolazione non schipetara in Kosmet
nei soli ultimi dieci giorni di gennaio (Ministero degli Esteri RFJ)


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ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACKED A BUS TRANSPORTING SERBS
LIPLJAN, February 9 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists shelled a bus
carrying Serbs in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo
and Metohija on Wednesday, but missed the target, according to reports
by local amateur radio operators.
The attack took place at around 3:40 p.m. some 3 km south of Lipljan and
barely 500 metres from an international KFOR force checkpoint at the
village of Staro Gacko, the sources said.
Last summer, 14 Serbs were murdered while working in a field in Staro
Gacko.
Wednesday's shell, fired by three ethnic Albanians who had jumped out of
a
red Volkswagen Golf car, exploded just metres from the bus, the radio
operators said.
The Finnish KFOR troops manning the checkpoint witnessed the incident,
but
took no steps against the three attackers, who escaped from the scene.
The troops' statements that they were not authorised to shoot or leave
the
checkpoint and pursue the attackers have caused a storm of protests from
the Serbs, who gathered demanding that KFOR soldiers should leave the
checkpoint, if they can provide no protection.
Last Wednesday, two Serb civilians were killed in the shelling of a bus
of
the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at Kosovska Mitrovica.

ETHNIC ALBANIANS ATTACKED AND GRAVELY INJURE A SERB
OBILIC, February 10 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists attacked and
gravely injured a Serb in the U.N.-administered Serbian province of
Kosovo
and Metohija on Wednesday, according to reports.
The Serb, Vladimir Subotic of Obilic, near the provincial chief city of
Pristina, was attacked by seven ethnic Albanians, amateur radio
operators
said.
Subotic has been taken for treatment to the Russian battalion hospital
in
Kosovo Polje.
Earlier on Wednesday, a hand grenade was lobbed into the home of a Serb,
but failed to go off.
The international KFOR force and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK)
received protest letters from the Obilic-based Protection and Human
Rights
Committee over the recent demolition of the local monument to Serbian
XIVth
century hero Milos Obilic.

ETHNIC ALBANIANS LOBBED A HAND GRENADE INTO A SERB STORE
GNJILANE, February 10 (Tanjug) - Several powerful blasts on Tuesday
shook
Gnjilane in the southeast of the U.N.-administered Serbian province of
Kosovo and Metohija, the Protection and Human Rights Committee in
Gnjilane
said on Thursday.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists lobbed a hand grenade through the window of a
store where local Serbs congregate, but the grenade did not go off, and
was
disposed of by U.N. mission (UNMIK) police in a controlled explosion at
a
safe distance.
Although the same store had already been targeted twice, the
international
KFOR force has shown no disposition to set up a checkpoint in the area.
Several people were hurt by broken glass in the subsequent melee after
the
grenade was thrown in.
Half an hour later, another powerful explosion reverberated in the town,
in the vicinity of two residential buildings housing Serbs.
Shortly afterwards, KFOR discovered a cache with 14 grenades in the
residential-cum-office building of the former insurance company in
downtown
Gnjilane and arrested two ethnic Albanian minors.
According to the Gnjilane Serbian Church Council, ethnic Albanian
criminals ravaged the windows of two Serb bars in the town during the
night
between Wednesday and Thursday, while three days ago, masked attackers
badly beat up a Romany in his home.

Serbs protest in Kosovska Mitrovica (B92 7/2/00)

PRISTINA, Monday - About three thousand Serbs protested in Kosovska
Mitrovica
today following days of violent conflict in the town. Local Serb leader
Oliver Ivanovic spoke to the crowd, calling on them to voluntarily
organise
protection of people and property in the northern part of the divided
town.
Ivanovic also said that despite talk of a multiethnic community, there
had
been too many gruesome crimes for Serbs and Albanians continue living
together. Ivanovic told B292 last night that he had spoken UN civilian
mission head Bernard Kouchner and that a co-ordinated strategy for
stabilising the situation in the town had been agreed

Kouchner said today that he had been shocked by the series of violent
incidents in the town in the past few days, adding that the
international
community would not allow extremists to win in Kosovo and that crime or
a new
war in the province would not be tolerated.

The UN mission chief accused Albanian extremists of last week's attack
on a
UNHCR bus in which two civilians were killed, adding that it was the
first
time in the work of the UN and the UNHCR that a vehicle or a civilian
bus had
been attacked. He also claimed that Serb extremists were blocking Kosovo
Serbs from taking part in the work of the Temporary Administrative
Council.

NATO manoeuvres in Kosovo "crude display of force" (B92 7/2/00)

BELGRADE, Monday - The NATO and KFOR military manoeuvres planned for
Kosovo
next month are a crude display of force and a renewed threat to
Yugoslavia,
Deputy Federal Foreign Minister Nebojsa Vujovic said today. Vujovic told
a
press conference that the exercises would violate international
agreements on
Kosovo. He also criticised a planned census of the province, saying that
the
basic conditions for such a census did not exist while ethnic cleansing
was
in progress and it was still not possible for displaced Serbs to return.

UNMIK AND KFOR UNABLE TO PROTECT THE SERBS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February. 4 (Tanjug) - The head of the Kosovska
Mitrovica district, Zdravko Trajkovic, on Friday strongly protested with
the administrator of the U.N. Civilian Mission in Kosovo and Metohija
(UNMIK) for Kosovska Mitrovica, Mark Marconni, over the latest terrorist
actions by the ethnic Albanians who fired an anti-tank grenade on a bus
near this town and threw hand grenades on a cafe in the predominantly
Serb
northern part of the city.
"These terrorist acts by the ethnic Albanian terrorists and gangs are
the
result of the irresponsible and unprofessional conduct of UNMIK and KFOR
who failed to protect the Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians
from
the insane activities of the ethnic Albanian terrorists," Trajkovic set
out.
"During your eight-month presence in Kosovo and Metohija, you neither
want, can nor know how to adequately protect the Serbs and Montenegrins
in
this district. I fear, and this has been confirmed a number of times at
the
expense of the Serbs and Montenegrins, that in the future you will also
refuse to carry out the corresponding measures to prevent all terrorist
acts aimed against the citizens," Trajkovic warned.
It is high time for you to understand that you too should take
responsibility for the dangerous ventures of the ethnic Albanian
terrorists
and gangs due to your passive conduct regarding the crimes against
peaceful
citizens in keeping with all international conventions," Trajkovic
stated.

UNMIK, KFOR CLAMP CURFEW ON DIVIDED KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA February 4 (Tanjug) - A U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK)
spokesman said on Friday that overnight unrest and violence in both
sectors
of divided Kosovska Mitrovica had necessitated the imposition of a
curfew.
According to Beatrice Lacoste, UNMIK and the international KFor force
have
been forced to restrict movement in both Serb and ethnic Albanian parts
of
this town in the U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo
and Metohija between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Rioting broke out after two ethnic Turks and two ethnic Albanians were
murdered, and a cafe was bombed and sprayed with submachine gun bullets,
gravely injuring 15 Serbs and six ethnic Albanians.
The curfew is another proof that the U.N. administration, headed by
Bernard Kouchner, and KFor are incapable of establishing the rule of law
in
Kosovo and Metohija and providing security for all ethnic communities.
Lacoste condemned the terrorist attack in the course of which a grenade
was lobbed into a Serb cafe on Thursday night.
She said that Serbs working for UNMIK were targeted by ethnic Albanian
terrorists also in the south, ethnic Albanian part of the town.
For their safety, UNMIK transferred 31 Serbs into the north,
predominantly
Serb-populated part of Kosovska Mitrovica during the night. Anger that
boiled over after the bombing of the cafe Belami found vent in the
smashing
of shop windows, and sacking of offices and cars belonging to
international
organisations, primarily UNMIK.
By dawn, there were nearly two thousand people in the streets,
protesting
chiefly against the inability of UNMIK and KFor to prevent ethnic
Albanian
violence against Serbs.

CLASH BETWEEN FRENCH TROOPS AND ALBANIANS ON BRIDGE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 5 (Tanjug) - Several hundred ethnic
Albanians
who gathered on Saturday around 14.00 at the southern end of the bridge
on
the river Ibar in Kosovska Mitrovica are being dispersed by French KFOR
members with shock-bombs.
The clash between the French, who in less than an hour threw over 50
shock-bombs and tear gas, and the Albanians who threw bottles and rocks,
is
still going on.
The Albanians are trying to cross the bridge, in what they are prevented
by the French, who have scores of wounded.
On the bridge near the railway station arrived on Saturday also German
members of KFOR, as a reinforcement to their colleagues in case ethnic
Albanians attempt to cross into the northern part of town, inhabited
mostly
by Serbs.
Explosions of shock-bombs are still heard and smoke and the smell of
tear
gas is blown by the wind into the northern part of Mitrovica.

SERB BEATEN UP
GNJILANE, February 5 (Tanjug) - In Gnjilane on Thursday around 14.30
hours
was seriously wounded a Serb, Ljubomir Antic (66), Gnjilane
church-national
council said.
In the vicinity of the house where he lives with his wife, Antic was hit
in the back of his head and knocked unconscious.
He regained conscience, after more than one hour, with the help of
troops
of the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), who found him
lying in the street and bleeding.
Antic, who is suffering from loss of balance, and has swellings on his
right eye, nose and head, has been taken to a hospital in Vranje, south
Serbia, for treatment.
Antic who was beaten up did not see his attackers who struck him from
the
back and left him in the street, because they probably though he would
succumb to the blows.

REPEATED BOMB ATTACK ON COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION BUILDING
OBILIC, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists attacked on Thursday
evening around 20.15 hours, for the second time, with a hand grenade the
building of the committee for the protection of human rights in the
center
of Obilic, and set fire to the house of Rade Gajic, the committee said,
radio amateurs from Kosovo and Metohija reported.
None was hurt, but the damages are considerable.
Daily attacks on Serbs in Obilic have not ceased, the committee warned,
pointing out that it was becoming increasingly clear that Albanian
terrorists, by planned actions and in cooperation with the local command
of
the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), were slowly
achieving their planned goal of expelling Serbs from the homes of their
ancestors.

SERB MURDERED IN GNJILANE
GNJILANE, February 4 (Tanjug) - A Serb was murdered in Gnjilane in the
U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo and Metohija on
Friday, according to amateur radio operators' reports, quoting the
town's
Serbian Church Council.
A masked murderer rang the bell of the home of the Serb, Branislav
Zivic,
aged 63, at 2:25 p.m., and when Zivic opened the door, pumped four
pistol
bullets into him.
Zivic's wife Marica was in the kitchen at the time.
The Zivics are the last Serb family remaining in their street.
A spokesman for the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) police said it
was very hard to trace the murderer, especially in view of the fact
that
the ethnic Albanian neighbours who saw the murder committed were loath
to
cooperate with the police.

ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND SERB WOMEN IN HOSPITAL
PRIZREN, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists on Friday attacked
with
hand grenades one of the hospital buildings in Prizren and wounded
several
Serb women, one of them seriously.
Tanjug has learnt that ethnic Albanian terrorists had obtained
information
that also receiving treatment in one of the hospital buildings were four
Serb women.
Albanian medical personnel only one day earlier did not allow those
patients to be admitted to hospital.
International forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR) in Prizren did not
react at all to the terrorist attack, although in it was also wounded a
German member of KFOR.

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TRAFFIC IN WOMEN, CHILDREN SINCE ARRIVAL OF KFOR
LONDON, February 5 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival
of
the international forces (KFOR) in the Serbian province has been
developed
a wide network of prostitution and traffic in women, the London Times
warned Saturday.

The London newspaper pointed out that prostitution and traffic in women
started only after the arrival of KFOR and of the U.N. Civilian Mission
(UNMIK) in Kosovo and Metohija.

According to the Times, the network of prostitution and traffic in women
in Kosovo and Metohija is controled by organized crime, mostly
Albanians,
and the business is developed in several phases.

Local girls are persuaded to work for them, but girls are also brought
from Eastern Europe.

They first go though brothels in Kosovo and Metohija whose main clients
are members of KFOR and other international organizations.

After that the women are transferred through Albania to Western European
countries where they are sold to criminals.

The price of one girl is between three and four and a half thousand D
marks.

The London newspaper has learnt that kidnapping are an increasingly
frequent method of the Albanian mafia in Kosovo-Metohija.

Victims of kidnapping are also children, the Times warned, who are later
sold by Albanian criminals for adoption somewhere in Europe or even for
human organ transplants.

International humanitarian organizations, whose representatives are
present in Kosovo and Metohija, claim that the number of kidnapped women
and children is so high that they do not succeed to help them, while at
the
same time they receive serious threats from the Albanian mafia, the
London
daily said.

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The Times of London
February 5 2000
EUROPE

Sex slave trade thrives among Kosovo troops
FROM JAMES PRINGLE IN PRISTINA
THE presence of Nato-led troops in Kosovo is supporting a new and
sinister white slave trade trade, in which women from impoverished parts
of Eastern Europe are being bought and sold into prostitution.
The women, some as young as 16, are held captive by gangsters, often
Albanian, and sell sexual favours to troops and businessmen in the seedy
nightclubs springing up around Kosovo.
Others smuggled into the region from Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania
and beyond are moved further on, into Albania, across the Adriatic into
Italy and from there to brothels in Western Europe, all the time under
the "ownership" of organised crime. Even children are following similar
routes, sold for adoption or, some say, for body parts.
International agencies trying to combat the trade say that it is
expanding rapidly, despite efforts to rescue women from the clutches of
the loosely organised, mafia-style gangs. They say the numbers are
becoming too great for agencies to manage.
Kosovo was not, in the past, a destination for the East European sex
trade, which began with the collapse of communism in 1991, but the lure
of a 45,000-strong army and a large international component has proved
an irresistible draw and bars and nightclubs are springing up across the
province in places such as Gnjilane and Urosevac.
One at Slatina, just outside Pristina and near the HQ of Russian forces,
is the Nightclub International, from which Italian Carabinieri rescued
12 young women last week. Their duties involved dispensing sexual
favours, at about £30 for half an hour, to Russian and American Kfor
troops and other foreign clients.
"These girls who were rescued are terrified and don't understand what
has happened to them," Pasquale Lupoli, chief of mission of the
International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in Pristina, said. "But
they are now in a protected area where security is guaranteed."
The IOM, a little-known Geneva-based governmental agency, was originally
set up to provide travel documents and an assistant network to migrants;
instead, it is engaged increasingly in trying to help the thousands of
girls who are now prisoners in the European sex trade.
Signor Lupoli said that the number of such girls was rising so quickly
that the agency was finding it very difficult to cope. The IOM had also
had difficulties locating a non-government organisation (NGO) to agree
to take care of them. One problem is that the girls are not refugees so
do not come under, say, the UNHCR.
There was, Signor Lupoli said, also some danger. Albanian gangsters are
searching for their "property" and IOM staff have received threats. In
Kosovo, British troops are subject to a strict "no walking out" policy,
but other nationalities' forces, such as the Russians, Americans and
Italians, are less closely monitored. "None of our soldiers goes into
these bars unless on an official mission," one British officer said. "If
they did, they would find themselves on a military charge."
Of the dozen women rescued by the Carabinieri in Slatina, one had been
raped at 14 and all had been maltreated. Like hundreds of similar
victims, they had been sold several times as they were spirited across
Balkan borders from owner to owner.
Greece, too, is a destination for the sex traders. Mirela Stan, 24, of
Romania, and Hitara Antilsova, 29, from Ukraine, were found dead from
the cold on a mountainside near the Greek-Bulgarian border in January.
They perished in an effort to reach their "promised land", a Greek
nightclub.
In Kosovo, the streets were empty recently after dark after a panic that
teenage girls were being kidnapped by the Albanian mafia to be sold into
prostitution. Indeed, some have disappeared.
These days, a young East European woman costs from £1,000 to £1,400
to buy. She first has to pay back her cost, then ostensibly she gets
half of what she makes from prostitution, while the boss retains 50 per
cent. Additionally, the girl has then to pay 10 per cent of her earnings
for board. "Often she ends up with very little or nothing," an IOM
official said. If she is lucky.


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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

BELGRADE, 4 February 2000 No. 2876


S P E C I A L I S S U E



CRIMES OF ALBANIAN TERRORISTS AGAINST NON-ALBANIAN
POPULATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
(January 21 - 31, 2000.)


21 January 2000

UROSEVAC - Albanian terrorists in the village of Miras, municipality of
Urosevac, looted, set on fire and destroyed the houses and other
property
of the following Serb families: Miroslava Cicic, Dusan and Vladimir
Dangubic, Mladen and Vukasin Vrtikapa, Sava and Danilo Lugonja, Dosta
and
Djurdje Vitkovic.
The KFOR members present in the village did not intervene.

23 January 2000

K. KAMENICA - In the village of Koretin, municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica, Albanian terrorists stoned the column of Serb vehicles, under
the
protection of Russian KFOR. A vehicle belonging to Negovan Filipovic and
a
bus, operating on Vranje-Kosovska Kamenica line, were stoned.
- Near the village of Bratilovce, municipality of Kosovska Kamenica,
Albanian terrorists disassembled and looted the equipment of a TV
transmitter of the RTV Serbia.

GNJILANE - Albanian terrorists beat and seriously injured, threatening
to
kill him, Vlasta Serafimovic, if he did not immediately leave the family
house and move out of Gnjilane.

UROSEVAC - In the village of Tankosic, municipality of Urosevac,
Albanian
terrorist gangs looted and burned the houses and property of Serb
families:
Jordan Markovic, Dragan Milenkovic, Zivojin and Aleksandar Stojiljkovic,
Slavko and Borivoje Markovic, Zarko Novokmet, Todor Stamenkovic, Slavka
Stankovic, Ljubisa Dimitrijevic, Dusan Velickovic, Vojislav Andjelkovic,
Stanisa Jovic and Dragan Krstic.
The KFOR members, present in the village did not intervene.

VUCITRN- in the village of Banjska, municipality of Vucitrn, Albanian
terrorists planted explosive on a church, damaging and destroying a
large
part of the building in two powerful blasts - entrance area, side wall,
dome and the interior.

24 January 2000

K. MITROVICA - In Kneza Milosa street, in Kosovska Mitrovica, Albanian
terrorists beat and seriously injured with wooden clubs Miomir Antovic
from
the village of Rudare - municipality of Zvecan.

MEDVEDJA - In the village of Svirce, municipality of Urosevac, Albanian
terrorists looted, destroyed and set on fire the property of Serb
families:
Djordje and Mile Simic, Ljubisav Stamenkovic, Zdravko Andjelkovic,
Ljubinka
Mihajlovic, Srba Spasic, Milos and Guta Mitic and Jagoda Petkovic.

ORAHOVAC - On 17 July 1999, Albanian terrorists abducted Djordje
Baljosevic and Dusko Dolasevic, police officers from the fire brigade in
Velika Hoca, who were returning from an official assignment in factory
"Termovent" near Orahovac.

PRISTINA - On 2 August 1999, Albanian terrorists abducted Rade Budimir
in
the front of the building in 14 Kragujevacka street, Pristina.

25 January 2000

GNJILANE - Albanian terrorists threw an explosive device on a food store
owned by Dragan Jovcic, in Laze Stefanovica street. At the time of the
attack, there were 10 Serbs and an Albanian in the store. No one was
hurt.
Substantial material damage was caused.
In another part of Gnjilane, another bomb exploded. It was thrown on a
house of Cemal Saciri, a Turk. The explosion damaged a shop window of a
store belonging to Vojislav Topalovic.

26 January 2000

PRISTINA - Nenad Stamenkovic, from Miljevac village, municipality of
Pristina, residing in Nis, 4 Teslina Street, reported that this brother
Zarko Stamenkovic from Miljevac village, municipality of Pristina (born
12
June 1960) by Albanian terrorists on 22 June 1999, on the road between
Pristina and village of Devet Jugovica.

BUJANOVAC - In the village of Dobrosin, municipality of Bujanovac,
Albanian terrorists attacked by machine-guns, snipers and other
automatic
weapons a police patrol on a regular assignment. Zarko Guberinic, a
police
officer of the Ministry of the Interior (born 22 June 1969 in Djakovica)
sustained light injuries.
- By the main Gnjilane-Bujanovac road, near Silovo village, Albanian
terrorists looted and set on fire the house and "Breza" restaurant on
the
ground floor, owned by Dragan Djokic. The cafe was consumed by fire.

28 January 2000

PODUJEVO - In the village of Glavnik, municipality of Podujevo, Albanian
terrorists stoned a bus of "Nis ekspres", breaking two big side glasses
and
damaging the exterior.

30 January 2000

GNJILANE - The remains of Danilo Djordjevic (51) from Vlasko selo
Nikolicevo near Zajecar, was found on 19 January on the road for Surlane
village, 15 km south of Gnjilane. According to the findings of US
forensic
experts, the cause of the death was a blow to the head. On his hands and
neck there are traces indicating that he was tied by rope, that he was
killed in a cruel way and tortured.
Many accounts confirm that the perpetrators of this crime are Albanians
from an ethnically pure village of Surlane, full of extremists, who
tried
to portray Djordjevic as a Serb terrorist on an assignment.
By his tortured body, a bag full of plastic explosive were found, which
according to the UNMIK representatives should serve as false evidence
that
this alleged Serb terrorist had an intention to blow up and totally
destroy
this Albanian village. UNMIK immediately discounted this possibility
since
the man was only 160 cm tall, weighing 58 kg. He was not a Serb, but a
Vlach from Romania. At the age of 51 he can hardly be a Serb terrorist.

31 January 2000

PRIZREN - Hasim Cuse (60), an uncle of a member of the Temporary
Executive
Council of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, Sokol Cuse,
who
was reported missing on 18 January, was found dead yesterday in the
place
Dulje, near Suva Reka, in the vicinity of Prizren.
He was shot three times in the head.
Hasim Cuse was last seen in the town on 18 January and he has not been
seen since.


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Su richiesta di alcuni compagni, incuriositi da quanto da noi riportato
sulla nostra ciliegina numero 94, informiamo tutti gli interessati che:

- esistono effettivamente dei programmi di facile uso che consentono di
osservare le visite effettuate sul proprio sito web, intendendo non
solamente il ben noto "contatore" di accessi, ma anche un sistema che
registri i dettagli della visita, compreso il nome del server che si e'
connesso;
- questi programmi fanno spesso parte del "pacchetto" di servizi che il
provider, presso il quale si apre il proprio sito, mette a disposizione;
- essi sono pero' anche reperibili in internet, ad esempio agli
indirizzi:
http://awsd.com/scripts/weblog/
ed anche (meno buono) http://es.nedstat.net/

Detto cio': buon divertimento.


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