MOVIMENTO DI SOLIDARIETA' AUSTRIA-JUGOSLAVIA:
* PRIMI RISULTATI DELLA PETIZIONE DI APPOGGIO AI PRIGIONIERI POLITICI DI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
* RELAZIONE DAL VIAGGIO IN KOSOVO
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KOUCHNER ACCOGLIE LE RICHIESTE DEI 42 PRIGIONIERI POLITICI IN SCIOPERO
DELLA FAME NELLE CARCERI DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
Subject: Kouchner meets demands of political prisoners
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:40:53 +0200
From: Jug Öster Solibeweg <joesb@...>
To: <joesb@...>
On Sunday May 21 the protector of Kosovo, Kouchner , has met the demands
of
37 Serbs and 5 Romanies who had been on hunger strike since April 10. He
promised the immediate start of their legal procedures as well as the
chairmanship of international judges.
The 42 prisoners has staged their protest, because they have been
incarcerated for minor offences or completely unproven adventurous
accusations already for nearly one year. At the same time Albanian
assassins
had been released immediately by the exclusively Albanian UN
protectorate
judges. The 42 Sebs and Romanies of the UN prison of Kosovska Mitrovica
demand the status of political prisoners as they have obviously been
imprisoned because of their national affiliation (details see
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb).
Although Kouchner has promised fair trials these are very unlikely. The
purpose of the protectorate’s administration is to legitimate war and
occupation by NATO by blaming all on the Serbs. For them it is obvious
that
only the complete albanisation of Kosovo can grant their rule.
The geo-strategic interest of NATO therefore co-incites with those of
the
KLA to displace all non-Albanians. Thus the “juridical system” of the
occupants is subordinated to this principle.
We therefore will closely watch the further proceeding regarding the
Serb
and Romani political prisoners in Kosovo.
The JÖSB demands the return of all displaced non-Albanians, the
withdrawal
of NATO and KLA as well as the complete restitution of Yugoslavia’s
sovereignty of the Kosovo.
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Below we once again publish our petition and the list of supporter who
we
want to thank for their efforts:
To:
Bernard Kouchner, UNMIK governor
Juan Ortuno, KFOR commander
Kaplan Baruti, president of the court of Kosovska Mitrovica
Sven Eric Laarsen, UNMIK police chief of Kosovska Mitrovica
Freedom for the political prisoners in Kosovo who are in hunger strike
We, the undersigned individuals and organisations, request the UN
protectorate authorities, UNMIK, to immediately release the thirty-six
Serbs
and Roma who are in hunger strike, as well as their five fellow
detainees in
the UN prison of Kosovska Mitrovica, if they are only being accused of
summary offences.
Substantiation:
1
For almost one year the non-Albanian detainees are being held without
the
prospect of trials in court. According to press statements, not even
preliminary examinations are being conducted.
2
At the same time, assassins motivated by Albanian nationalism such as
the
recent case of Dzeljalj Ademi, who threw a hand grenade in the Serb
Ghetto
of Mitrovica, injuring 22 Serb civilians and 14 French NATO soldiers are
released without being tried.
3
Until now the protectorate judiciary was not at all able to dispel the
massive doubts of their impartiality.
4
Under the given circumstances as the UÇK/KSK is still armed and still
acting
as a belligerent power in a civil war and expelled great parts of the
national minorities and political critics to own and to carry weapons,
which
is the main accusation against the detained non-Albanians, is pure
self-defence.
To detain the non-Albanians of Kosovska Mitrovica obviously has
political
and nationalist motives and they have to be freed immediately.
Yugoslav Austrian Solidarity Movement
(Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung)
Vienna, April 27th, 2000
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RELAZIONE DAL VIAGGIO DI SOLIDARIETA' A KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
Persecuted and expelled by UÇK, NATO and UNO
Report of the solidarity delegation to the last multi-national part of
Kosovo
In early May a delegation of the Austrian–Yugoslav Solidarity Movement
(JÖSB) came to Kosovska Mitrovica in order to
a. express our demand to free the political prisoners from UNMIK
incarceration,
b. express our support to the remaining non-Albanians in the Ghetto
of
Kosovska Mitrovica
c. investigate the local situation without media manipulation.
****
Pictures and a map of the demarcation line between the multi-national
North
and the albanised South can be found under:
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
****
Hunger strike of the political prisoners
As reported in our declaration of April 24th, 2000, the event that
triggered
the decision for the hunger strike was the release of the Albanian
Dzeljalj
Ademi, who had injured 22 civilians and 14 KFOR soldiers in an anti-Serb
hand-grenade attack, while the non-Albanian prisoners remain
incarcerated
for months without trial. The prisoners demand investigations for a
trial.
The most blatant case is a 16-year old boy who was arrested for genocide
last summer.
Another case worth mentioning is a Serb man called Jaksimovic from the
vicinity of Orahovac, who was stopped by UNMIK at a road block. An
Albanian
whose hand had been injured by gunfire and who was at the site by
chance,
claimed that Mr Jaksimovic was the person who had injured him, and Mr
Jaksimovic was immediately arrested by UNMIK soldiers. One of Mr
Jaksimovic’
s fellow travellers who is Albanian heard that the other Albanian was
told
by passers-by to point at “the guy with the beard” (i.e. Jaksimovic) and
to
claim that he was responsible.
In general the accusations are completely arbitrary and politically
motivated. The witnesses are arbitrarily selected and their testimonies
are
first of all determined by their loyalty to the aims of the UÇK (KLA),
as
the comport of the judges. The few Serb judges that had existed all
resigned, because their personal safety could not be guaranteed. They
also
protested against the partiality of the UNMIK judicial system. The
discrimination between Albanians and non-Albanians proves, that Serbs
and
Romanies are being held in prison for political and ethnical reasons and
not
for concrete offences of law—they are political prisoners of the UN.
Two of the hunger strikers are in a critical state. One of them fell
into
coma. Nevertheless UNMIK does not allow doctors nor journalists to visit
the
prisoners. Now also relatives of the prisoners started a hunger strike.
They
organise daily protest manifestations in front of the prison, in which
thousands of people participate. The JÖSB representative expressed his
solidarity with the gathered crowd.
As delegates of the aid organisation Humanitas we tried hard to get
permission to see the prisoners. The local UNMIC police commander, Sven
Erik
Larson, actually told us that most accusations of the Serb and Romany
prisoners against the UNMIK judiciary are justified. Nevertheless he did
not
grant us permission to visit the prisoners, but sent us to Pristina. In
Pristina our demand was refused by Edita Ryan, who is the competent NGO
liaison officer and who called Humanitas an organisation that illegally
operates in Kosovo.
We call upon everyone to join our campaign for the release of the
political
prisoners and to step up pressure on UNMIK by organising further visits
to
the prison of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Kosovo impressions
In fact the North of Kosovo which is not under UÇK control is the only
multi-national part of Kosovo—even after the war. Here are some concrete
examples:
Kaplan Beruti in Svecan. The chief presiding judge of Kosovska
Mitrovica,
the Albanian Kaplan Beruti, who is actually responsible for the
arbitrary
incarceration of the Serbs and Romanies who went on hunger strike, is
living
in Svecan, north of Kosovska Mitrovica, a village that is predominantly
Serbian—and he lives there without KFOR protection. His children go to a
local school.
Serb refugees in Albanian houses in Banjska: On the premises of this
monastery in the northern mountains there are several week-end cottages
owned by Albanians. Now Serb refugees from the South live in these
houses.
We asked about the former owners and were surprised to hear that they
are
living in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and that they were
even
paid rent for these houses.
Albanians in daily life: Asking several Serbs about the Albanian flats
and
houses in Kosovo Mitrovica that are under tight KFOR protection, we were
always told that there is a significant difference between UÇK followers
whose flats serve as UÇK bases, and Albanians who are loyal to
Yugoslavia.
The latter can live there without any problems.
The impressions from the southern part of Kosovo are completely
different.
Destroyed Romany quarter: At the road from Kosovska Mitrovica to
Pristina
only 10–20% of the houses seem to be burnt. The Romany quarter of
southern
Kosovska Mitrovica is completely devastated, burnt down and razed to the
ground. UÇK racist national ideology obviously was fully realised here.
UNMIK official warns us of deadly danger: We went to the UNMIK office
for
NGOs in Pristina in order to obtain a permit to visit the prisoners of
Kosovska Mitrovica. When the official in charge, Edita Ryan, saw our
letter
that was written in Cyrillic, she told us immediately that we must not
show
this letter to anybody, because this could be our death sentence—she
also
said that she was saying so “off records”. She even discouraged us to
have
it translated into English within Kosovo.
Albanian taxi driver speaks Serbo-Croatian: Due to the many warnings we
avoided speaking Serbian to the driver who brought us from Mitrovica to
Pristina and back. When we realised that he was listening to Serbian
radio
and was cursing in Serbian, we started talking to him in Russian. He
felt
completely at ease speaking Serbian. When we got of the car, he urgently
reminded us not to utter a single word of Serbian on the streets,
because
this was very dangerous.
There is a system behind the persecution of non-Albanians
The political and ethnic persecution of Serbs and Romanies by the UN
judiciary is only the tip of the iceberg. NATO/UNO, based on the UÇK,
actually formed a regime that oppresses and discriminates against all
non-Albanians in order to finally expel them and to deprive the
integrity of
Yugoslavia of its demographical legitimacy. While UÇK and its successor
organisation TMK respectively were demilitarised only very superficially
(only heavy weapons), and there constantly are attacks against
non-Albanians—these attacks claimed more than 1,000 lives since the
beginning of the NATO occupation!—Serb forces were completely stripped
of
their weapons, thus depriving them of the ability for self-defence. This
means a death sentence for many of those who are determined to stay,
because
due to “lack of capacity” they are not granted KFOR protection. Only the
convoys of fleeing non-Albanians are granted protection.
Re-settlement: Kouchner and other representatives of the so-called
international community say that it is still to early to bring the
non-Albanian refugees to the South of Kosovo; but at the same time in
the
North of Kosovska Mitrovica, KFOR is trying by means of force to bring
Albanian refugees to their houses. There is proof that UÇK fighters are
also
infiltrated, brought to the North of Kosovska Mitrovica: There were
sniper
attacks from the three Albanian tall buildings that were recently
re-settled.
Elections: There is also proof that UNO/KFOR is not a neutral mediator,
but
a motive force. They plan to organise elections for a protectorate
government on the base of the present ethnic composition, to preserve
the
expulsion of 300,000 non-Albanians and the settlement of an unknown
number
of Albanians from the North of Albania.
Yugoslavia is the only multi-national state of the Balkans
The war triggered by the UÇK with the support of the west and
transformed by
NATO into a war against the whole of Yugoslavia, claimed a total of
2,108
victims counted on both sides. But just a year of NATO protectorate
already
claimed the lives of more than one thousand non-Albanians! In spite of
ardent ethnic conflicts there had not been expulsions and “ethnical
cleansing” under Yugoslav rule in Kosovo. Even when UÇK fuelled the
spiral
of violence with their terrorist attacks since 1997, there were hardly
any
refugees. When the fighting subsided, most refugees returned. The
“Horseshoe
Plan” (“Potkovica Plan”) turned out to be a secret service propaganda
forgery. Only after the NATO bombardments started, refugees started to
flee
in large numbers. Now, under the rule of UÇK and NATO, there actually is
systematic “ethnical cleansing” that had earlier been attributed to
Yugoslav
forces. 300,000 non-Albanians have been expelled and the few that
remained
are constantly threatened, and KFOR refuses to protect them seriously.
In spite of the disintegrating tendencies and internal tensions,
Yugoslavia
still is a multi-ethnic state and as such is the only possible form of
peaceful co-existence of the ethnically mixed peoples of the Balkans. It
was
the West that used the “right of ethnical-territorial
self-determination” as
a crowbar against Yugoslavia. That necessarily lead to a civil war. The
Serb
people was and is the heart of Yugoslavia and had relinquished its
ethnical
interests in favour of this common state. So when now the other peoples
of
Yugoslavia revoke this federation, it is only just, when Serbia also
defends
her national interests. But the decisive difference between the Serbs
and
the other peoples is, that the latter became slaves of the New World
Order,
while the Serbian people is fighting against the new NATO tyranny.
This is why Kosovo has to remain a part of Yugoslavia, why the refugees
have
to return and why UÇK and NATO have to vanish!
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Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
joesb@...
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
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* PRIMI RISULTATI DELLA PETIZIONE DI APPOGGIO AI PRIGIONIERI POLITICI DI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
* RELAZIONE DAL VIAGGIO IN KOSOVO
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KOUCHNER ACCOGLIE LE RICHIESTE DEI 42 PRIGIONIERI POLITICI IN SCIOPERO
DELLA FAME NELLE CARCERI DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
Subject: Kouchner meets demands of political prisoners
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:40:53 +0200
From: Jug Öster Solibeweg <joesb@...>
To: <joesb@...>
On Sunday May 21 the protector of Kosovo, Kouchner , has met the demands
of
37 Serbs and 5 Romanies who had been on hunger strike since April 10. He
promised the immediate start of their legal procedures as well as the
chairmanship of international judges.
The 42 prisoners has staged their protest, because they have been
incarcerated for minor offences or completely unproven adventurous
accusations already for nearly one year. At the same time Albanian
assassins
had been released immediately by the exclusively Albanian UN
protectorate
judges. The 42 Sebs and Romanies of the UN prison of Kosovska Mitrovica
demand the status of political prisoners as they have obviously been
imprisoned because of their national affiliation (details see
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb).
Although Kouchner has promised fair trials these are very unlikely. The
purpose of the protectorate’s administration is to legitimate war and
occupation by NATO by blaming all on the Serbs. For them it is obvious
that
only the complete albanisation of Kosovo can grant their rule.
The geo-strategic interest of NATO therefore co-incites with those of
the
KLA to displace all non-Albanians. Thus the “juridical system” of the
occupants is subordinated to this principle.
We therefore will closely watch the further proceeding regarding the
Serb
and Romani political prisoners in Kosovo.
The JÖSB demands the return of all displaced non-Albanians, the
withdrawal
of NATO and KLA as well as the complete restitution of Yugoslavia’s
sovereignty of the Kosovo.
*******
Below we once again publish our petition and the list of supporter who
we
want to thank for their efforts:
To:
Bernard Kouchner, UNMIK governor
Juan Ortuno, KFOR commander
Kaplan Baruti, president of the court of Kosovska Mitrovica
Sven Eric Laarsen, UNMIK police chief of Kosovska Mitrovica
Freedom for the political prisoners in Kosovo who are in hunger strike
We, the undersigned individuals and organisations, request the UN
protectorate authorities, UNMIK, to immediately release the thirty-six
Serbs
and Roma who are in hunger strike, as well as their five fellow
detainees in
the UN prison of Kosovska Mitrovica, if they are only being accused of
summary offences.
Substantiation:
1
For almost one year the non-Albanian detainees are being held without
the
prospect of trials in court. According to press statements, not even
preliminary examinations are being conducted.
2
At the same time, assassins motivated by Albanian nationalism such as
the
recent case of Dzeljalj Ademi, who threw a hand grenade in the Serb
Ghetto
of Mitrovica, injuring 22 Serb civilians and 14 French NATO soldiers are
released without being tried.
3
Until now the protectorate judiciary was not at all able to dispel the
massive doubts of their impartiality.
4
Under the given circumstances as the UÇK/KSK is still armed and still
acting
as a belligerent power in a civil war and expelled great parts of the
national minorities and political critics to own and to carry weapons,
which
is the main accusation against the detained non-Albanians, is pure
self-defence.
To detain the non-Albanians of Kosovska Mitrovica obviously has
political
and nationalist motives and they have to be freed immediately.
Yugoslav Austrian Solidarity Movement
(Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung)
Vienna, April 27th, 2000
(1) Committee 'NATO-NO', NL
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RELAZIONE DAL VIAGGIO DI SOLIDARIETA' A KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
Persecuted and expelled by UÇK, NATO and UNO
Report of the solidarity delegation to the last multi-national part of
Kosovo
In early May a delegation of the Austrian–Yugoslav Solidarity Movement
(JÖSB) came to Kosovska Mitrovica in order to
a. express our demand to free the political prisoners from UNMIK
incarceration,
b. express our support to the remaining non-Albanians in the Ghetto
of
Kosovska Mitrovica
c. investigate the local situation without media manipulation.
****
Pictures and a map of the demarcation line between the multi-national
North
and the albanised South can be found under:
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
****
Hunger strike of the political prisoners
As reported in our declaration of April 24th, 2000, the event that
triggered
the decision for the hunger strike was the release of the Albanian
Dzeljalj
Ademi, who had injured 22 civilians and 14 KFOR soldiers in an anti-Serb
hand-grenade attack, while the non-Albanian prisoners remain
incarcerated
for months without trial. The prisoners demand investigations for a
trial.
The most blatant case is a 16-year old boy who was arrested for genocide
last summer.
Another case worth mentioning is a Serb man called Jaksimovic from the
vicinity of Orahovac, who was stopped by UNMIK at a road block. An
Albanian
whose hand had been injured by gunfire and who was at the site by
chance,
claimed that Mr Jaksimovic was the person who had injured him, and Mr
Jaksimovic was immediately arrested by UNMIK soldiers. One of Mr
Jaksimovic’
s fellow travellers who is Albanian heard that the other Albanian was
told
by passers-by to point at “the guy with the beard” (i.e. Jaksimovic) and
to
claim that he was responsible.
In general the accusations are completely arbitrary and politically
motivated. The witnesses are arbitrarily selected and their testimonies
are
first of all determined by their loyalty to the aims of the UÇK (KLA),
as
the comport of the judges. The few Serb judges that had existed all
resigned, because their personal safety could not be guaranteed. They
also
protested against the partiality of the UNMIK judicial system. The
discrimination between Albanians and non-Albanians proves, that Serbs
and
Romanies are being held in prison for political and ethnical reasons and
not
for concrete offences of law—they are political prisoners of the UN.
Two of the hunger strikers are in a critical state. One of them fell
into
coma. Nevertheless UNMIK does not allow doctors nor journalists to visit
the
prisoners. Now also relatives of the prisoners started a hunger strike.
They
organise daily protest manifestations in front of the prison, in which
thousands of people participate. The JÖSB representative expressed his
solidarity with the gathered crowd.
As delegates of the aid organisation Humanitas we tried hard to get
permission to see the prisoners. The local UNMIC police commander, Sven
Erik
Larson, actually told us that most accusations of the Serb and Romany
prisoners against the UNMIK judiciary are justified. Nevertheless he did
not
grant us permission to visit the prisoners, but sent us to Pristina. In
Pristina our demand was refused by Edita Ryan, who is the competent NGO
liaison officer and who called Humanitas an organisation that illegally
operates in Kosovo.
We call upon everyone to join our campaign for the release of the
political
prisoners and to step up pressure on UNMIK by organising further visits
to
the prison of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Kosovo impressions
In fact the North of Kosovo which is not under UÇK control is the only
multi-national part of Kosovo—even after the war. Here are some concrete
examples:
Kaplan Beruti in Svecan. The chief presiding judge of Kosovska
Mitrovica,
the Albanian Kaplan Beruti, who is actually responsible for the
arbitrary
incarceration of the Serbs and Romanies who went on hunger strike, is
living
in Svecan, north of Kosovska Mitrovica, a village that is predominantly
Serbian—and he lives there without KFOR protection. His children go to a
local school.
Serb refugees in Albanian houses in Banjska: On the premises of this
monastery in the northern mountains there are several week-end cottages
owned by Albanians. Now Serb refugees from the South live in these
houses.
We asked about the former owners and were surprised to hear that they
are
living in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and that they were
even
paid rent for these houses.
Albanians in daily life: Asking several Serbs about the Albanian flats
and
houses in Kosovo Mitrovica that are under tight KFOR protection, we were
always told that there is a significant difference between UÇK followers
whose flats serve as UÇK bases, and Albanians who are loyal to
Yugoslavia.
The latter can live there without any problems.
The impressions from the southern part of Kosovo are completely
different.
Destroyed Romany quarter: At the road from Kosovska Mitrovica to
Pristina
only 10–20% of the houses seem to be burnt. The Romany quarter of
southern
Kosovska Mitrovica is completely devastated, burnt down and razed to the
ground. UÇK racist national ideology obviously was fully realised here.
UNMIK official warns us of deadly danger: We went to the UNMIK office
for
NGOs in Pristina in order to obtain a permit to visit the prisoners of
Kosovska Mitrovica. When the official in charge, Edita Ryan, saw our
letter
that was written in Cyrillic, she told us immediately that we must not
show
this letter to anybody, because this could be our death sentence—she
also
said that she was saying so “off records”. She even discouraged us to
have
it translated into English within Kosovo.
Albanian taxi driver speaks Serbo-Croatian: Due to the many warnings we
avoided speaking Serbian to the driver who brought us from Mitrovica to
Pristina and back. When we realised that he was listening to Serbian
radio
and was cursing in Serbian, we started talking to him in Russian. He
felt
completely at ease speaking Serbian. When we got of the car, he urgently
reminded us not to utter a single word of Serbian on the streets,
because
this was very dangerous.
There is a system behind the persecution of non-Albanians
The political and ethnic persecution of Serbs and Romanies by the UN
judiciary is only the tip of the iceberg. NATO/UNO, based on the UÇK,
actually formed a regime that oppresses and discriminates against all
non-Albanians in order to finally expel them and to deprive the
integrity of
Yugoslavia of its demographical legitimacy. While UÇK and its successor
organisation TMK respectively were demilitarised only very superficially
(only heavy weapons), and there constantly are attacks against
non-Albanians—these attacks claimed more than 1,000 lives since the
beginning of the NATO occupation!—Serb forces were completely stripped
of
their weapons, thus depriving them of the ability for self-defence. This
means a death sentence for many of those who are determined to stay,
because
due to “lack of capacity” they are not granted KFOR protection. Only the
convoys of fleeing non-Albanians are granted protection.
Re-settlement: Kouchner and other representatives of the so-called
international community say that it is still to early to bring the
non-Albanian refugees to the South of Kosovo; but at the same time in
the
North of Kosovska Mitrovica, KFOR is trying by means of force to bring
Albanian refugees to their houses. There is proof that UÇK fighters are
also
infiltrated, brought to the North of Kosovska Mitrovica: There were
sniper
attacks from the three Albanian tall buildings that were recently
re-settled.
Elections: There is also proof that UNO/KFOR is not a neutral mediator,
but
a motive force. They plan to organise elections for a protectorate
government on the base of the present ethnic composition, to preserve
the
expulsion of 300,000 non-Albanians and the settlement of an unknown
number
of Albanians from the North of Albania.
Yugoslavia is the only multi-national state of the Balkans
The war triggered by the UÇK with the support of the west and
transformed by
NATO into a war against the whole of Yugoslavia, claimed a total of
2,108
victims counted on both sides. But just a year of NATO protectorate
already
claimed the lives of more than one thousand non-Albanians! In spite of
ardent ethnic conflicts there had not been expulsions and “ethnical
cleansing” under Yugoslav rule in Kosovo. Even when UÇK fuelled the
spiral
of violence with their terrorist attacks since 1997, there were hardly
any
refugees. When the fighting subsided, most refugees returned. The
“Horseshoe
Plan” (“Potkovica Plan”) turned out to be a secret service propaganda
forgery. Only after the NATO bombardments started, refugees started to
flee
in large numbers. Now, under the rule of UÇK and NATO, there actually is
systematic “ethnical cleansing” that had earlier been attributed to
Yugoslav
forces. 300,000 non-Albanians have been expelled and the few that
remained
are constantly threatened, and KFOR refuses to protect them seriously.
In spite of the disintegrating tendencies and internal tensions,
Yugoslavia
still is a multi-ethnic state and as such is the only possible form of
peaceful co-existence of the ethnically mixed peoples of the Balkans. It
was
the West that used the “right of ethnical-territorial
self-determination” as
a crowbar against Yugoslavia. That necessarily lead to a civil war. The
Serb
people was and is the heart of Yugoslavia and had relinquished its
ethnical
interests in favour of this common state. So when now the other peoples
of
Yugoslavia revoke this federation, it is only just, when Serbia also
defends
her national interests. But the decisive difference between the Serbs
and
the other peoples is, that the latter became slaves of the New World
Order,
while the Serbian people is fighting against the new NATO tyranny.
This is why Kosovo has to remain a part of Yugoslavia, why the refugees
have
to return and why UÇK and NATO have to vanish!
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