Verso la Grande Albania: Ottobre 2003
(ENGLISH / ITALIANO)
*** Sulle nostre fonti vedi le Avvertenze in fondo a questo messaggio
*** Sul rocambolesco arresto dell'Intoccabile criminale di guerra Agim
Ceku si veda:
Agim Ceku l'Intoccabile
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2908
Former KLA Leader Agim Ceku Arrested, Then Released
http://www.balkantimes.com/
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=== GLI AVVENIMENTI DI OTTOBRE 2003 ===
A BELGRADO PARLAMENTO E GOVERNO ESPRIMONO SCONCERTO ED INDIGNAZIONE PER
IL PRECIPITARE DEL CAOS E DELLA VIOLENZA NELLA PROVINCIA OCCUPATA DALLA
NATO ED AMMINISTRATA DA ONU E SEPARATISTI
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FoNet - September 30, 2003
Belgrade warns of “dramatic” situation in Kosovo
STRASBOURG -- Tuesday – Belgrade today called on the
international community to recognise the “dramatic”
human rights situation in Kosovo.
In a speech to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary
Assembly, Dragoljub Micunovic, a senior member of
Serbia’s governing coalition, warned that Kosovo’s
future could not be built on the results of ethnic
cleansing and the criminalisation of society.
The speech opened a debate on the human rights
situation in the United Nations-governed province.
Micunovic said that Serbia had been forced to call the
debate after the killing of two Serb youths in the
Kosovo village of Gorazdevac. The victims were shot as
they bathed in a nearby river. Seven Serbs have been
killed in the province since June.
“These children were killed only because they were
Serbs,” he told the Assembly. This sent a message “to
all Serbs currently living in Kosovo that they must
leave, that reconciliation and the multi-ethnic
society that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and
all of us strive for are not possible.”
“The killing of children in the 21st century in any of
Europe simply because they are of a different
nationality must alert not only the democratic public,
but also the international institutions concerned with
the protection of human rights and safety,” Micunovic
added, before calling for “large-scale measures
against criminals and terrorists”.
Micunovic, the speaker of the Serbia-Montenegro
parliament, warned that the Gorazdevac killings were
not an isolated act but the culmination of a series of
terrorist operations. He claimed there had been over
6,000 attacks on Serbs and their property or cultural
monuments since the arrival of peacekeepers after the
end of the war in July 1999, over 1,000 Serbs had been
killed and 10 monasteries and churches destroyed. The
fate of 1,300 Serbs remains unknown, he added.
Micunovic, a candidate in November’s elections for
Serbian president, called on the international
community to take “energetic and decisive steps toward
the full and consistent implementation of Resolution
1244, the speedier return of the displaced, the
creation of better security conditions and freedom of
movement for all ethnic communities”. Resolution 1244
is the document adopted by the UN Security Council by
which the province is governed.
In his speech, Micunovic made reference to the
Albanian National Army, an extremist ethnic Albanian
group that was branded a terrorist organisation
earlier this year by the UN’s former Kosovo governor
Michael Steiner. It must be recognised, said
Micunovic, that the ANA operates not only in Kosovo,
but also in western Macedonia and southern Serbia. The
group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a
Serbia-Montenegro military vehicle last week, in which
an officer was seriously wounded.
Talks between Belgrade and Pristina are due to begin
in mid-October, and will cover practical matters, but
not the province’s final status. Micunovic said that
Belgrade was approaching the dialogue “with a basic
wish for us all to stand up to hatred, terrorism and
any form of violence.” In order to do this, he added,
“everyone must understand that there are no good and
bad enemies, but that they are enemies of us all –
enemies of the human race.”
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-09/30/331210.html
Serbia Info - September 30, 2003
ANA prepares terrorist attacks in southern Serbia and
Kosovo-Metohija
Belgrade, Sept 30, 2003 - The Serbian Ministry of
Interior said that its operational data confirm that
the Albanian terrorist organisation ANA plans to carry
out terrorist attacks in southern Serbia just before
the beginning of a dialogue between Belgrade and
Pristina.
This terrorist organisation plans to make a massacre
by planting and activating explosive devices in the
facilities where members of the Albanian ethnic
community gather, including schools, read a statement
by the Ministry.
The terrorist attack will be performed by ANA's tried
members, however, it is possible that the organisation
will also contract criminals of Serbian nationality,
for which ANA has already set aside considerable
amounts of money.
According to intelligence, ANA plans to carry out the
attacks in Bujanovac, Presevo and Kosovo-Metohija, the
Ministry said.
The Serbian police have stepped up security measures
in order to prevent any possible terrorist attacks on
the territory of the Republic of Serbia.
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KOSOVO: POLIZIOTTO TEDESCO UNMIK MOLTO GRAVE DOPO PESTAGGIO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 1 OTT - Un agente della polizia tedesca in
servizio presso la polizia della Missione Onu in Kosovo (Unmik) e'
stato aggredito oggi nella citta' settentrionale di Kosovska
Mitrovica e le sue condizioni sono molto gravi. L'agente, del quale
non e' stato rivelato il nome, e' stato aggredito mentre entrava
negli uffici del commissariato che si trova nella parte sud della
citta' (abitata da albanesi) e colpito ripetutamente alla testa con
una sbarra di ferro. Un kosovaro albanese e' stato arrestato perche'
ritenuto l'autore dell'attacco: secondo gli investigatori si
tratterebbe di una persona ''mentalmente instabile''. L'agente e'
stato soccorso e trasportato in ospedale. Andrea Angeli, portavoce
dell'Unmik ha detto all'Ansa che in serata il poliziotto verra'
trasferito in Germania a bordo di un aereo ambulanza per essere
sottoposto ad intervento chirurgico. Meno di due mesi fa nella stessa
citta' di Kosovska Mitrovica venne ucciso in un agguato un agente
indiano della polizia Onu.(ANSA) BLL 01/10/2003 19:28
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Beta - October 2, 2003
UN policeman injured in Mitrovica attack
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Wednesday – A member of the
international police force in Kosovo was severely
injured today when he was attacked in a car park
outside the regional UNMIK police headquarters in
Kosovska Mitrovica.
International police at the scene arrested a Kosovo
Albanian who is suspected of striking the German
police officer several times in the head with a metal
rod, causing serious injuries, according to a
statement from UNMIK.
UNMIK police said that the motive did not appear to be
personal, but added that the suspect is mentally ill
and had been expressing hatred for police in general
for some time.
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KOSOVO: CONTINUA LA VIOLENZA, 4 UCCISI IN SOLE 24 ORE
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 2 OTT - Una nuova ondata di violenza questa volta
apparentemente non a sfondo etnico sta investendo il Kosovo a meno di
due settimane dal possibile inizio dei negoziati tra Pristina e
Belgrado per la definizione dello status della provincia.
Quattro albanesi-kosovari sono rimasti uccisi in due agguati nelle
ultime 24 ore. Il primo e' stato compiuto nel villaggio di Glamnic,
nel distretto settentrionale di Podujevo (a ridosso del confine
amministrativo con la Serbia) dove due fratelli e un cugino sono
stati uccisi a raffiche di mitra mentre si trovavano all'interno di
un furgone. Un albanese e' stato arrestato dalla polizia ma non ha
ancora fornito chiarimenti sulla strage. Un quarto omicidio e'
stato compiuto la notte scorsa in un villaggio nei pressi della
citta' occidentali di Decani: un uomo di 37 anni, Avdi Muja e' caduto
in un agguato nel quale sono rimasti feriti anche tre suoi cugini.
Non distante da li' un testimone di un importante processo con tre ex
guerriglieri dell'Uck era miracolosamente sfuggito a un attentato
compiuto con una bomba comandata a distanza. Non si esclude che gli
episodi possano essere in qualche modo collegati. (ANSA).
BLL/CIP 02/10/2003 13:25
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PERSINO GLI STATUNITENSI SI LAMENTANO: TROPPE ARMI SONO ANCORA IN GIRO,
CE LE DEVONO CONSEGNARE
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17814
Stars And Stripes - October 2, 2003
Latest Kosovo weapons amnesty plan has few takers
By Jessica Iñigo
GNJILANE, Kosovo — Troops in the Multi-National
Brigade (East) sector of Kosovo Force, where camps
Bondsteel and Monteith are housed, are disappointed in
the low turnout rate of the latest monthlong weapons
amnesty program.
Initially, military officials hoped to sweet-talk
illegal gun toters into handing over their weapons by
giving cash to any county that turned in more than 300
weapons.
But military officials changed their minds and will
now give the money to the three municipalities that
turn over the most weapons, said Maj. Anthony Frey,
fire support officer for Task Force Falcon. The amount
of cash to be given out was unavailable.
Civilians say the military needs to change its tune if
it wants to see some real response to the amnesty
program.
“Everybody would turn in their weapons if the military
just made a program that would give people a license
to have the weapons that they own,” Alban Beqiri, a
Kosovar Albanian living in Urosevac, said through an
interpreter. “Nobody wants to just give away something
that they own, that they paid for.”
Also, civilians believe that there aren’t too many
more weapons left to be turned in. Soldiers believe
otherwise.
“I know weapons are still out there,” said Spc. Justin
Bish, of Company C, 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry
(Mechanized), who was manning an amnesty point in
Gnjilane, Kosovo, near Camp Monteith. “Countless
weapons are still out there. They just need to come
and turn them in.”
At his point, three sniper rifles, five
rocket-propelled grenades and four machine guns were
turned in.
“At first hardly anything was turned in, but as time
started dwindling down some weapons started showing
up,” said Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Ackerson, who manned
the same point in Gnjilane.
Ackerson said that even though all the weapons turned
in were old and rusted, they still worked.
“These are all functional weapons,” he said. “They’ve
been packed in grease and buried in burlap under
ground.”
Ackerson explained that the grease keeps the weapons
working, while burying them keeps them out of sight in
case of a military weapons raid through the town.
“Every time an illegal weapon is taken off the street,
there is success,” Brig. Gen. Jerry G. Beck, commander
of Multi-National Brigade (East), said during a news
conference Thursday. “Every time another grenade is
turned in, there is another life spared. Every time
ammunition is recovered, there is one less argument
that ends in someone being wounded or killed.”
The weapons amnesty program went through September and
allowed for any illegal weapons to be turned in
without question.
Illegal weapons found at other times will be turned in
to the U.N. Development Program for disposal, and
owners could be fined and sent to jail.
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KOSOVO:PARLAMENTO NON DECIDE PER INIZIO DIALOGO CON BELGRADO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 2 OTT - Il Parlamento del Kosovo ha deciso di non
votare oggi l'autorizzazione all'avvio del dialogo con le autorita'
di Belgrado il cui inizio e' previsto per il prossimo 14 ottobre a
Vienna. I parlamentari albanesi hanno rinviato la votazione a
giovedi' prossimo, 9 ottobre, chiedendo nel frattempo ''maggiori
dettagli e una piu' vasta consultazione''. Esponenti del partito
democratico (Pdk) del premier Bajram Rexhepi hanno sollecitato in
particolare la presentazione della lista dei partecipanti al dialogo
da parte serba e garanzie sulla presenza di una mediazione
internazionale.(ANSA). BLL/CIP 02/10/2003 13:29
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KOSOVO: DOPO UN ANNO GENERALE MINI LASCIA COMANDO KFOR
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 3 OTT - Cambio al vertice della Kfor, la forza di
pace a guida Nato presente in Kosovo dal giugno del 1999: dopo un
anno di comando il generale italiano Fabio Mini ha passato le
consegne al generale tedesco Holger Kammerhoff. Alla cerimonia che si
e' svolta a Pristina sono intervenuti fra gli altri il
sottosegretario alla Difesa Salvatore Cicu, il comandante della Nato
in Europa James Jhones e il comandante di Afsouth ammiraglio Gregory
Jhonson. Jhones ha espresso compiacimento per ''l'energia,
l'entusiasmo e l'impegno esemplare in molti e complessi aspetti della
missione'' dimostrati dal generale italiano. Mini, ha aggiunto, ''si
e' guadagnato il rispetto dei kosovari dimostrando una profonda
conoscenza della politica kosovara, e per questo parte come un grande
amico del Kosovo''. Alla cerimonia hanno presenziato le piu' alte
autorita' istituzionali locali, sia albanesi che serbe.
L'ammiraglio Gregory ha promesso da parte sua che ''capitalizzeremo
l'esperienza e la straordinaria visione'' del generale. Parole di cui
si e' compiaciuto il sottosegretario Cicu, giunto in Kosovo insieme
al nuovo Capo di Stato maggiore dell'Esercito generale Giulio
Fraticelli: ''Questo anno di complesso e importantissimo comando
italiano - ha commentato Cicu - e' motivo di grande soddisfazione
per i risultati conseguiti, che sono stati riconosciuti ampiamente
sia dalle altre forze alleate che dalle autorita' istituzionali
locali''. Il generale Mini nel suo discorso di fine missione, e'
tornato ad insistere sul tema che ha piu' affrontato in questo anno
di comando: ''L'intolleranza blocca lo sviluppo - ha dichiarato - la
gente non ne puo' piu' e non vede l'ora di avere l'opportunita' di
lavorare''. Davanti alla banda dei suoi bersaglieri che avevano
appena intonato l'inno, Mini ha poi detto in italiano ''bersaglieri,
siete sempre belli''. La cerimonia si e' conclusa con il lancio in
quota e l'arrivo davanti alla tribuna delle autorita' dei 5
paracadutisti del 9/o Col Moschin che avevano finora assicurato la
sua scorta. Mini e' ripartito per l'Italia seguito dal suo piu'
stretto staff di collaboratori fra i quali il caporalmaggiore
Domenico Casale, fedelissimo e apprezzatissimo cuoco del comando. In
Kosovo restano invece altri 2800 soldati italiani che continueranno
a partecipare alla missione della Kfor. In questo momento sono oltre
12mila i soldati italiani impegnati in missioni all'estero, 8.000 dei
quali nei Balcani. (ANSA). BLL 03/10/2003 15:11
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KOSOVO:PROFUGA SERBA RITORNA, ALBANESE CHE OCCUPA CASA SPARA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 4 OTT - Una profuga serba di 73 anni e' stata
gravemente ferita oggi nel Kosovo orientale da un albanese che
occupava insieme alla propria famiglia la sua vecchia casa.
L'incidente e' accaduto nella citta' di Gjilane, dove la donna era
rientrata per la prima volta dopo la fuga in Serbia avvenuta nel
1999, al termine della guerra. Andrea Angeli, portavoce della
missione delle Nazioni Unite (Unmik), ha detto all'Ansa che la donna
e' stata ferita allo stomaco da tre colpi di pistola.
L'albanese-kosovaro che ha aperto il fuoco e' stato arrestato.
Secondo una prima ricostruzione, la donna serba questa mattina si e'
presentata alla porta di quella che ha indicato come la propria
abitazione e che aveva abbandonato quattro anni fa per sfuggire alle
violenze etniche. La casa era stata nel frattempo occupata da una
famiglia di 15 albanesi. Uno degli uomini presenti nell'abitazione
prima ha cacciato la donna, poi le ha sparato. Il rientro dei
profughi serbi in Kosovo e la restituzione delle loro proprieta' e'
uno dei punti cruciali dei negoziati fra Pristina e Belgrado che
dovrebbero iniziare il prossimo 14 ottobre a Vienna. (ANSA).
BLL 04/10/2003 16:36
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KOSOVO: GERMANIA, MORTI DUE SOLDATI TEDESCHI IN INCIDENTE
(ANSA) - BERLINO, 4 OTT - Due soldati tedeschi del contingente di pace
internazionale Kfor in Kosovo sono morti ieri sera in un incidente
stradale, secondo quanto reso noto oggi a Berlino da un portavoce del
ministero della difesa. L'incidente e' avvenuto nei pressi della
localita' Suevareka. Non sono stati forniti particolari sulla
dinamica dell'incidente. La procura di Potsdam ha avviato indagini.
(ANSA). BUS 04/10/2003 18:11
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IL CRIMINALE DI GUERRA AGIM CEKU OFFRE AI SUOI ALLEATI TRUPPE
KOSOVARO-ALBANESI PER L'OCCUPAZIONE DELL'AFGHANISTAN E DELL'IRAQ
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 7 Ott 2003 13:08:17 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Kosovo: Agim Ceku Offers 3,000 KLA Fighters For Afghan, Iraqi
Occupations
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/10/4-SEE/see-061003.asp
[Note: The US government site Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty officially spells the name of the Serbian
province of Kosovo as 'Kosova.' The so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army clearly appreciates the fact. If in
fact the US takes its ally Ceku up on his offer it
could mark the closest thing Washington is likely to
get in the way of UN endorsement for the occupation of
Iraq, as war criminal Ceku's racist killers are
currently on the UN payroll as members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps.]
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - October 6, 2003
U.S. REPORTEDLY TURNED DOWN KOSOVA'S OFFERS OF HELP IN IRAQ AND
AFGHANISTAN
-Agim Ceku, who heads the civilian Kosova Protection
Corps (TMK), has offered to send some of his 3,000
men, many of whom are former guerrillas of the Kosova
Liberation Army.
"The New York Times" of 6 October reported that
Kosova's president, Ibrahim Rugova, and parliamentary
speaker Nexhat Daci have between them made several
offers to send police to Iraq or Afghanistan but were
turned down or ignored by Washington. Agim Ceku, who
heads the civilian Kosova Protection Corps (TMK), has
offered to send some of his 3,000 men, many of whom
are former guerrillas of the Kosova Liberation Army.
The Kosovars argue that they have much experience of
value to Iraq and Afghanistan, noting also that most
Kosovars are Muslims. Elizabeth Jones, who is
assistant secretary of state for European affairs,
reportedly told Rugova that he should concentrate on
building democracy in Kosova. Pro-U.S. feeling is very
strong in Kosova as result of U.S.-led efforts that
stopped the Serbian crackdown there in 1999. PM
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IBRAHIM RUGOVA INSISTE SULLA SECESSIONE
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 14 Ott 2003 20:31:36 Europe/Rome
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Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] 'Kosovo President' Presses US, EU Over
Independence
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Beta - October 14, 2003
Rugova presses for independence
-“As soon as the European Union and the United States
recognise Kosovo’s independence, the United Nations
will do the same.”
VIENNA -- Tuesday – Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova
today urged the international community to recognise
Kosovo independence as the only way to bring stability
to the region and prevent the past from repeating
itself.
“As soon as the European Union and the United States
recognise Kosovo’s independence, the United Nations
will do the same”, Rugova told a press conference
after today’s first meeting with Belgrade leaders in
Vienna.
When it comes to Kosovo, he said, the new government
in Belgrade is no different from the old regime of
Slobodan Milosevic. Nevertheless he emphasised the
need for dialogue.
Kosovo’s explicit aim is independence and
Euro-Atlantic integration, said Rugova, adding that
this would reduce the room for maneuvering in Kosovo
and prevent a repetition of the horrors of the past.
Kosovo Parliament Speaker Nexhat Daci, the second
member of the Pristina delegation, accused Serbia of
holding Kosovo hostage and preventing it from
integrating with Europe. He warned that Kosovo was
capable of doing the same to Serbia and claimed that
independence was an unstoppable process.
He repeated calls for the international community to
cede more powers to the Kosovo government and demanded
that Belgrade “stop funding parallel structures” in
the province. Daci said he expected the Kosovo
government to soon form ministries of energy and
foreign affairs, and eventually justice and interior
ministries.
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FALLIMENTO TOTALE DEI "COLLOQUI" SERBO-ALBANOKOSOVARI, ORGANIZZATI A
VIENNA DALL'ONU. I SECESSIONISTI CHIEDONO "INDIPENDENZA" E CACCIATA
DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE ONU (NON DEGLI USA) DA SUBITO
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/di/Qkosovo-talks-demo.Rt_S_DOE.html
Agence France-Presse - October 14, 2003
Hundreds protest against start of Pristina-Belgrade talks
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, Oct 14 (AFP) - Several
hundred Kosovar Albanians demanded independence from
Serbia Tuesday as they protested against the opening
of talks between Pristina and Belgrade.
The protesters held placards calling for the
province's independence from Serbia and the withdrawal
of the United Nations mission (UNMIK) that has
governed Kosovo since the end of the 1998-99 war
between Belgrade forces and ethnic Albanian
guerrillas.
"Holkeri, don't speak in our name," said one banner in
reference to UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri, who is leading
the Kosovo delegation at the talks which began in
Vienna earlier Tuesday.
The demonstration was organised by Kosovo's National
Movement party, a radical grouping which holds only
one seat in the 120-member assembly.
The dialogue is the first between Kosovar Albanian
authorities and the Serbian government since the war,
which cost thousands of lives and drove hundreds of
thousands from their homes.
The initiative has been heavily promoted by the UN and
the European Union but it is unpopular here, where
many in the ethnic Albanian majority see it as a step
back from their ultimate goal of independence.
The issue of Kosovo's final status is not on the
agenda for the talks, which have been limited to
"practical" concerns such as transport, energy and
missing people.
Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexepi refused to attend
the opening session of the dialogue after parliament
failed to support his participation.
The Kosovo delegation included Kosovo President
Ibrahim Rugova and parliament speaker Nexhat Daci.
The Serbian delegation was led by Prime Minister Zoran
Zivkovic and Nebojsa Covic, the deputy prime minister
in charge of Kosovo matters.
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/srna101403b.htm
SRNA - October 14, 2003
Kosovo: Albanians chant "NATO get out" at protest against Vienna talks
Pristina - Hundreds of Albanians took part in a protest in Pristina
against the beginning of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue in Vienna. The
protest, organized by the Popular Movement of Kosovo LPK , began at
1200 1000 gmt outside the National Theatre.
Some 800 protesters chanted "UCK Kosovo Liberation Army ", "UNMIK UN
Mission in Kosovo get out", NATO get out" and "Down with Rugova".
There were no incidents and a great number of Kfor NATO-led Kosovo
Force soldiers and UNMIK policemen, with the help of the Kosovo police
service, controlled all access road to Pristina and the roads leading
to Serb enclaves.
SAVA JANJIC, EDITORIALE PER ERP.KIM:
L’incontro viennese fra la delegazione del governo serbo ed i leaders
di etnia albanese della provincia meridionale del kosovo è stato più di
una delusione. il capo dell’unmik holkeri ha condotto con sé una
rappresentanza composta unicamente da albanesi ed ha escluso all’ultimo
momento i portavoce serbi e turchi come richiestogli da ibrahim rugova.
ed è questa assenza che ha dato a rugova l’opportunità di mostrare come
tutti i cittadini della provincia serba si trovino d’accordo con la sua
visione estrema e dogmatica e di presentare il kosovo come regione
abitata da soli albanesi. la composizione etnicamente pura delle
autorità presenti a vienna riflette di fatto la situazione della
provincia, nella quale i serbi e le altre minoranze vengono brutalmente
‘ripuliti’ dagli oltranzisti albanesi e ed i loro rappresentanti nelle
istituzioni -sponsorizzate dalle nazioni unite- sono ridotti ad un
agente politico insignificante. questa prima fase dei negoziati era
stata convocata affinché ci
si concentrasse su quattro temi concreti: i trasporti e le
comunicazioni, l’energia, le persone rapite e scomparse ed il ritorno
degli profughi serbi. ma soprattutto, ci si aspettava da entrambe le
parti in causa che esibissero posizioni responsabili e costruttive, che
avrebbero potuto condurre ad una svolta positiva dopo quattro lunghi
anni di stallo... (continua)
link originale:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim17oct03.html
traduzione in italiano di exju.org:
http://www.exju.org/more.php?id=465_0_1_0_M19
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EDITORIALE DI C. DELISO SU ANTIWAR.COM
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso92.html
ANTIWAR, Thursday, October 23, 2003
No Second Kosovo
by Christopher Deliso
As the situation in Iraqcontinues to worsen, amidst daily reports of
new American and civilian deaths, the administration is embarking on a
whitewashing campaign designed to prove that things aren't so bad in an
occupied country that offers no exit for the US. However, due to its
dizzying speed, today's global media – so useful for governments'
propaganda purposes – can turn on its masters, without even having to
try very hard.
Unfortunately for the War Party, there really is nowhere to turn for
good news. The victorious occupation of Afghanistan is being tainted by
charges of sleaze, rampant corruption and pesky resurgencesfrom the old
Taliban gang. And, much further afield, an even earlier failed
intervention is unraveling, having arrived at its logical conclusion.
Kosovo Protests: 'Out With the UN! We Don't Need You Here!'
The internationals really should have known better. Protected by
special badges, shiny cars, air-conditioned offices and plenty of
disposable income, the UN corps in Kosovo presumed some sort of
inviolability, some dispensation from on high that would leave the
Kosovars eternally awe-struck and grateful.
This wasn't the case, as an eye-opening recent dispatch from the
Guardian indicates. Kosovo's Albanians are sick and tired of being
babysat by internationals who they've found to be both callous and
corrupt. They blame them for misappropriating large sums of money from
public coffers, for fueling the explosive increase in prostitution and
other mafia-supported services, and for prolonging the status quo of
limbo, one that prevents the resolution of vital issues like property
ownership and privatization, all of which have kept foreign investors
at arm's length from Kosovo. As the Guardian's Helena Smith reports:
"…the first chant came from the back of the crowd. 'Go home!' yelled a
youngster, as he stood in Pristina's dusty Mother Teresa Square, the
site last week of Kosovo's first post war demonstration.
'Out with the UN!' screamed an elderly woman, producing a placard that
conveyed the same message. 'We don't need you here!'
As locals grapple with price increases and worsening poverty, it is the
'internationals' who have become symbols of the contradictions
threatening to tear the UN protectorate apart. Across the province, men
and women appear disgusted by their foreign guardians' 'corrupt'
beneficence and depraved 'colonial' ways.
'They came to keep the peace and now they're causing tensions,' said
Qamile Blakcori. 'We are very grateful that Western forces saved us
from the Serbs, but now it's time they go.'"
According to the report, everyone from the street all the way to the
highest political offices has reason to criticize the internationals –
an ominous sign for the UN mission:
"'…last week's protest, timed to coincide with the start of historic
but widely unpopular reconciliation talks in Vienna with the Serbs, is
just the beginning,' says Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi.
'Being ruled 5,000 miles away from New York is simply not working,' he
snapped. 'With no road maps, or political deadlines, or sense of
resolving their unclear international status as a non-state entity,
Kosovars are fast losing hope.'
'What was especially galling to Kosovars was the brazen "corruption"
within the mission,' said Rexhepi, who was elected in March 2002. He
added that not only was the UN refusing to grant his people more
self-rule, it was also abusing power 'at the highest levels.'
The malpractice – reluctantly confirmed by Western diplomats – had made
him 'feel very ashamed'. A lot of the misplaced funds, he suspected,
were local taxes. 'Unmik claimed it has zero tolerance for corruption
and organised crime, but there is serious corruption involving huge
amounts of money right at its core,' he lamented."
A Hydra's Head of Complexities
However, the situation is more complicated still. Were the foreigners
to immediately pull out of the province, and were the issue of Kosovo's
final status to be decided, would the economy suddenly start to grow?
Or would the sudden removal of Kosovo's economic life-support apparatus
swiftly bring about the patient's demise?
There is the additional complexity of negotiating sovereignty – a total
mess in the case of Kosovo. Regarded as a Serbian province by both
Serbia and (in theory, at least) the UN, Kosovo is regarded as a
shining example of a 19th-Century nation-state by Albanian
nationalists, some of whom also see it as merely a sub-state of a
larger hypothetical Albania. But Serbs are reluctant to let it go, and
it is not unlikely that in the end it will be partitioned – making an
already puny, untenable nation even smaller.
As the Guardian relays, the West is beginning to understand that Kosovo
is setting the precedent for a future of failure worldwide:
"…officials readily admit that any of the alternatives – independence,
partition, continued international stewardship – are unlikely to
satisfy everyone.
'It's just like Iraq, whatever we do is going to affect the entire
region,' said one senior EU diplomat.
'Kosovo is a perfect example of the confusion the West is likely to get
into if it doesn't think through the political implications of its
military strategy. If we go on like this we're going to have to set up
a colonial service.'"
We shouldn't forget the silent majority of decent, common Albanian
people who just want to live in peace, without headaches and
intimidation from mafia groups and militias. Yet the economic and
political dislocation that will accompany any international withdrawal
is only likely to put more of these thugs, not less, into power. The
Kosovo experience since 1999 has been of a timid UN rewarding former
militants and war criminals by keeping them armed and in power –
through just changing their uniforms. And the same timid, unaccountable
UN has allowed this unsavory bunch to run roughshod, driving out or
exterminating Serbian, Roma and Macedonian Muslim minorities.
Where to Turn Now?
In short, we have a situation whereby a large, frustrated group of
people have found a common enemy to replace their previous one.
However, they needed – and still need – both. The Serbs gave Kosovo's
Albanians a feeling of nationhood, a strident victimology and a common
cause. As predicted, this sentiment of Albanian unity proved an
evanescent one, collapsing immediately after NATO's bombing campaign
ceased. At that point, with nationalistic unity no longer necessary,
Kosovo's Albanians turned to settling their own internal scores.
And, as said above, the Albanians also need the internationals. They
provide a lucrative market for the legal and illegal service industries
alike, as well as employment in NGO's and other aid groups. Kosovo has
also received generous international grants, and its international
limbo has shielded it from some of the most common coercive measures in
the Western arsenal. Kosovo may be "freed" soon, but what will happen
to its hard-won sovereignty when its political decisions are made by
groups like the IMF? Currently, Serbia is still responsible for
Kosovo's international debt – though it doesn't pay any taxes to
Belgrade. Indeed, being a protectorate or a province is sometimes more
comfortable than having to go it alone.
That said, Kosovo – whether partitioned or not – will have to come
crawling back to someone. But to who? Certainly not Serbia. Even though
a majority of the people in both places may not want it, joining the
even-poorer Albania may be Kosovo's only hope. The West failed to
understand that if a province has historically been poor, there is
usually some good reason why – and not merely, as Albanian nationalists
claim, that it was forever ignored by Belgrade. In fact, part of the
reason Yugoslavia split was that more affluent regions like Croatia and
Slovenia were fed up: they felt their tax remittances were
disproportionately being siphoned into poor Macedonia, and sucked into
the vertiginous black hole of Kosovo.
Into the Vortex
And that's pretty much the only way to describe it. Kosovo embodies all
of the worst Balkan qualities. It is like a centrifuge, a vortex in
which all of the incongruent discourses of the region and the West have
come to jostle and grate, with increasing speed and volatility. That
the West even thought it could successfully intervene there in the
first place was sheer folly. It has caused far more problems than it
solved – though it has made many people very rich while doing so.
Looking back, one is baffled at the stupidity of the "experts" who
launched this adventure. At how they could possibly have failed to see
the necessary outcomes of the intervention: the destruction of
minorities; the destabilization of Macedonia; the reversion to mafia
rule; the corruption, Western and domestic; the lack of long-term
economic viability, and most crucially, the lack of a clear exit
strategy.
Violence Surges, But the Truth Speeds Up Too
In the end, considering the wide knowledge and experience of the war
planners, it becomes hard to believe that the Kosovo job was done for
any other reasons than political posturing, corporate war profiteering,
manipulating cheap nationalism, and giving NATO a reason to live.
Luckily, as Iraq is now showing, history won't let the world get away
with the same thing twice. In Iraq, popular dissent arrived so fast
that we might say the events themselves have sped up. They are
impatient, having gotten used to all the same characters – the
international aid groups, the opposition leaders, the ethnic
infighting, the foreign contractors – previously encountered in Kosovo.
They don't waste time anymore, as they did in Kosovo, in guarding their
secrets in seed form. Now, in the age of terror, they bloom forth
immediately and die just as fast, stripping themselves of any meaning
or significance – save to remind us that invading Iraq was a really bad
idea.
Indeed, there will be no second Kosovo. This time it will be much
worse. Yet with the acceleration of volatile events, fortunately, we
will also see an acceleration of truth. The one that reminds us that,
when planning folly abroad, there is a basic need to plan for all
eventualities in advance, and to not undertake a course of action if it
is likely to end in disaster. This is the truth that the Bush
Administration is so feverishly trying to obscure right now.
Unfortunately for everyone now in Iraq, we can have faith that the
events there will violently outpace them – but so will the truth,
eventually.
SEE ALSO:
Angry Kosovars call on 'colonial' UN occupying force to leave
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,1066264,00.html
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ALLE FIAMME CASA DI SERBI PRESSO KOSOVO POLJE
ALBANIANS SET FIRE TO SERB HOUSE IN KOSOVO
SRNA - October 14, 2003
Kosovo Polje, 14 October: Two Albanians set fire to an outbuilding in
the garden belonging to Borivoje Velickovic in the village of Bresje
near Kosovo Polje, eyewitnesses have told the SRNA news agency.
According to these sources, unidentified perpetrators travelled in a
Golf car with a hoisted Albanian flag from the direction of Pristina,
where they might have taken part in demonstrations against the
Belgrade-Pristina talks. The burnt building is right next to the
Velickovic family house and a considerable damage was avoided only
thanks to a swift intervention of locals and firemen.
Members of the Kosovo police service failed to apprehend the
perpetrators despite the stepped up traffic controls and road blocs.
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COVIC: "SE DATE L'INDIPENDENZA AL KOSOVO, ALLORA DOVETE DARLA ANCHE AI
SERBI DI BOSNIA"
http://slobodan-milosevic.ihostsites.net/news/rbeg101503.htm
SOURCE: Radio Belgrade in Serbian 0800 gmt 15 Oct 03
If Kosovo given independence, Bosnian Serb entity should be too - Covic
Radio Belgrade (Transcript) - October 15, 2003
Announcer: The so-called talks with the Albanians, like the ones in
Vienna yesterday, continue to be a charade that involves posing for the
world, Deputy Serbian Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic has reiterated in a
Belgrade Television programme. Recalling previous talks in Lucerne
after which the Albanian representatives were nearly lynched upon
their return to Pristina, Covic said that time was running out for
finding a solution to the problem. There are fewer and fewer Serbs in
Kosovo-Metohija as time goes by, and the ones who want to return are
running out of hope, Nebojsa Covic said.
Covic: We do not have the right to deceive the citizens and we have to
come up with an active approach. I want to reiterate: if anyone
believes that we should discuss the status issue, we are prepared to
do so immediately, but we immediately have to set out the principles
and establish the state of affairs; or, if they have already made the
decision to take Kosmet Kosovo-Metohija away from us, they should just
say so. Let them take it, but if they do take it, it will give us the
right to take it back one day. Obviously, the lobbies are strong, but
I believe that nothing is over and that all the options are still open
in the entire region and that the right that is granted to
Kosovo-Metohija, that is, to the area, must also be given to the
Bosnian Serb Republic. And I wish to be spared the stories of
so-called Serbian extremism, promoting tensions, and so forth. They
should explain to us why they are not prepared to give up parts of
their countries.
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KOSOVO: SEQUESTRATI 36 CHILI DI EROINA GIUNTI DA ALBANIA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 15 OTT - La polizia della missione delle Nazioni
Unite in Kosovo (Unmik) ha sequestrato un carico di 36 chili di
eroina che si sospetta provenissero dall'Albania. L'operazione e'
stata condotta nei giorni scorsi a ridosso del confine occidentale,
ma solo oggi la polizia lo ha confermato a Pristina. La droga era
nascosta all'interno di un'autovettura con targa austriaca: dei tre
occupanti arrestati, due erano cittadini dell'Albania, il terzo era
un albanese-kosovaro. La droga sequestrata vale sul mercato illegale
circa 1,5 milioni di euro. E' questo il piu' grosso sequestro di droga
compiuto in Kosovo da quando la provincia e' sotto l'amministrazione
internazionale.(ANSA) BLL 15/10/2003 19:58
UN police make huge heroin bust in Kosovo
Agence France Presse - October 15, 2003
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - Three people have been arrested for
trying to smuggle 36 kilograms (79.2 pounds) of heroin into Kosovo
from neighbouring Albania, United Nations police said Wednesday
The arrest was made last week when border police stopped a vehicle
bearing Austrian registration plates for a routine check in western
Kosovo, UN police spokesman Derek Chappell told AFP.
"Concealed within the body of the car were found numerous packets
containing a material that preliminary tests have identified as
heroin," Chappel said.
Two of the suspects were from Albania and one was an ethnic-Albanian
from Kosovo.
Chappell said the street value of the drugs in Western Europe was 1.5
million euros (1.8 million dollars), making it the largest heroin
seizure in Kosovo since the province came under UN administration
after the 1998-99 war.
In July UN police in eastern Kosovo seized 18 kilograms of heroin,
valued at some 800,000 euros.
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SERBO-KOSOVARO MUORE DI FAME AD UROSEVAC A CAUSA DEL REGIME DI
APARTHEID. I SERBI RIMASTI IN CITTA' DOPO IL MASSACRO A COLPI DI
ACCETTA LO SCORSO GIUGNO SONO QUINDICI (15). I GIORNALISTI ITALIANI NON
NE PARLANO PERCHE' SONO DEI VIGLIACCHI
http://slobodan-milosevic.ihostsites.net/news/beta101703.htm
Beta - October 17, 2003
Kosovo Serb dies of starvation
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Friday – An elderly Kosovo Serb has died of
starvation because he was afraid to go out into the street alone, Beta
reports.
Sixty-five year old Zivorad Velikinac was taken to the Mitrovica
hospital on Wednesday where one staff member described him as looking
like a prisoner from Auschwitz.
“Although he lived in central Urosevac, he had not eaten anything for
more than fifteen days because his Albanian neighbours stopped
bringing him food and he did not dare go into the street alone,” said
physician Nebojsa Srbljak.
The president of the Serb National Council, Milan Ivanovic, accused
UNMIK of being responsible because Serbs and other non-Albanians still
had no freedom of movement in the province.
Ivanovic, who is also a physician in the Mitrovica Hospital, confirmed
that Velikinac had died of starvation.
Only about fifteen Serbs live in Urosevac today, down from ten thousand
before the 1999 war.
SEE ALSO:
'Looking Like A Prisoner From Auschwitz': Fearful Of
Leaving Home, Elderly Kosovo Serb Dies Of Starvation
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25110&style=headlines
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FUGA IN MASSA DA GRABAC E BICA IN SEGUITO ALLA DECISIONE ITALIANA DI
NON PROTEGGERE PIU' I SERBI
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.com
SRNA - October 18, 2003
KOSOVO SERBS ANNOUNCE MASS EXODUS FROM TWO VILLAGES AFTER KFOR ESCORTS
STOPPED
Klina - Serb returnees to the villages of Grabac and Bica, near Klina,
have announced that they will move out en masse tomorrow because Kfor
(Kosovo Force) has stopped providing them with an escort.
A total of 60 Serb returnees, who returned to these villages at the end
of June this year, blocked local roads through Bica this morning,
requesting that the Italian Kfor command provide buses for their safe
passage out of the village. The reason for the fresh exodus, as SRNA
was informed by Bica resident Dragoljub Perunicic, is that the
Italians cancelled the escort of a convoy to Kosovska Mitrovica on
Thursday (16 October), explaining that they apparently did not have
enough soldiers.
However, the Spanish Kfor representative informed the inhabitants this
morning that the escort had been stopped, and that if Serbs wanted to
travel to and from Kosovska Mitrovica, they should do this without
being escorted by a convoy of Kfor combat vehicles.
The inhabitants of Bica and Grabac returned in the middle of this year
after Kfor and UNMIK (UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo)
promised them constant security. In spite of this, Zoran Doncic was
wounded a month ago in one of the villages, and Albanian extremists
have on more than one occasion fired on the returnees' only recently
renovated houses.
A letter was sent to the Coordination Centre for Kosovo-Metohija today,
asking for assistance with displacement, that is, a move back to
central Serbia.
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IL 60 PER CENTO DELLA PROVINCIA E' SENZA ENERGIA ELETTRICA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Over%2060%20pct%20of%20territory%20of%20Kosovo%20and%20Metohij
a%20in%20darkness
Tanjug (Serbia) - October 25, 2003
Over 60 pct of territory of Kosovo and Metohija in
darkness
18:16 BELGRADE , Oct 25 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo and
Metohija [there] does not work a single block of the
local thermo-electric power plants and there are power
cuts in over 60 pct of the province, Dragan Vignjevic
of the Serbian Power Company (EPS) told Tanjug
Saturday.
"EPS delivered on Friday up to 300 megawatts of
electricity to Kosovo and Metohija," Vignjevic said
adding that electric power was arriving in the
province "in much smaller quantities from Montenegro
and from Albania."
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KOSOVARO-ALBANESI DEL CLAN JASHARI ATTACCANO LE TRUPPE FRANCESI A
PREKAZ, L'UNMIK GARANTISCE LORO L'IMPUNITA'
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Kosovo%20Albanians%20attack%20French%20troops
Tanjug (Serbia) - October 26, 2003
Kosovo Albanians attack French troops
19:49 PRISTINA , Oct 26 (Tanjug) - A group of Kosovo
Albanians attacked on Saturday a group of French
troops within KFOR at Prekaz in central Kosovo, and
forced them to leave the region, UN police stated on
Sunday.
One French soldier was hurt, but no one was arrested,
UNMIK police said in the statement, carried by the
German DPA news agency.
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - October 28, 2003
Legal proceedings not instituted against Jashari
family members, Ratel
13:24 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Chief
commander of KFOR North-East Brigade, French General
Bernard Ratel, said on Tuesday legal proceedings were
not instituted against members of the Jashari family
or other people belonging to the group which had
carried out an armed attack at a KFOR patrol in Prekaz
last weekend.
I expect from Kosovo-Metohija political leaders and
those of the church to express loathing and
condemnation after each inncident that occurs in the
province, Ratel said, and pointed out that freedom of
movement had to exist on the whole territory of the
province.
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HASIM TACI: PER ME L'IMPUNITA' E' GARANTITA, IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA E'
DALLA PARTE NOSTRA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Tachi%20certain%20he%20will%20not%20be%20accsued%20before%20wa
r%20crimes%20tribunal
Tanjug - October 26, 2003
Tachi certain he will not be accused before war crimes
tribunal
17:52 KJAGODINA , Oct 26 (Tanjug) - President of the
Democratic Party of Kosovo Hashim Tachi has stated he
was certain that he would never be indicted by the war
crimes tribunal.
"I know that people in the Serbian Justice Ministry
and Vladan Batic himself will be disappointed, but The
Hague is not working according to the wishes of
Belgrade," Tachi told, Jagodina television Palma Plus,
in an interveiw broadcast late Saturday evening.
---
ALTRE ARMI SEQUESTRATE
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/db/Qserbia-montenegro.R5yd_DOQ.html
Agence France-Presse - October 26, 2003
Serbian police uncover arms cache belonging to
"Albanian terrorists"
BELGRADE, Oct 26 (AFP) - Serbian police said Sunday
they had discovered an arms cache in south Serbia
belonging to "Albanian terrorist groups" operating in
the region.
Police said the haul included around 30 automatic
weapons, grenade launchers, hand grenades and
ammunition.
The discovery came as part of a crackdown on the
activities of "Albanian terrorist groups" in southern
Serbia, the police said.
The weaponry was found close to the village of Veliki
Trnovac, near the town of Bujanovac, where it had been
hidden since demilitarisation in 2001 by the Albanian
extremist group, the "liberation army of Presevo,
Medvedja and Bujanovac," police said.
Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, adjoining Kosovo, lie
in a region with a large Albanian population and were
the scene of clashes from 2000 to 2001 between Serb
forces and the self-proclaimed liberation army, which
later disbanded to become the "Albanian national
army," since dubbed a terrorist organisation by the
United Nations.
---
CECCHINI SECESSIONISTI CONTRO I CONTADINI
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25241&style=headlines
Beta - October 27, 2003
Kosovo Serb farmers under fire
SRBICA -- Monday – Unknown gunmen opened fire on a
group of seven Serbs from village of Banja today as
they headed to their orchards on tractors.
The apple orchards are located near a village
populated exclusively by Albanians.
Village leader Milutin Kovacevic told media that the
group was fired on from several different directions,
adding that it was pure luck that no one was killed.
The Serbs hid in a nearby forest until Danish KFOR
troops came to their rescue and escorted them home.
Banje and the neighbouring Suvo Grlo are the only two
villages in the Srbica municipality still inhabited by
Serbs.
They are completely cut off from the surrounding
region and subject to frequent attacks by their
Albanian neighbours.
---
ARRESTATO PER INTIMIDAZIONI AI DANNI DI TESTIMONI NEL PROCESSO CONTRO
TERRORISTI PANALBANESI
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25234&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - October 27, 2003
Rebel leader’s brother arrested
PRISTINA -- Monday – United Nations police in Kosovo
have arrested the brother of Shefket Musliu, a former
rebel leader in southern Serbia, Pristina daily Koha
Ditore reports.
The paper claims that Xhevdet Musliu was detained on
suspicion he tried to intimidate witnesses in his
brother’s trial.
Shefket Musliu is on trial in Kosovo, having been
arrested earlier this year. He had previously led an
ethnic Albanian guerrilla group operating in southern
Serbia.
Koha Ditore reports that Xhevdet was detained on
Sunday afternoon and was remanded in custody for 72
hours. The arrest was confirmed by his lawyer Masar
Morina.
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KOSOVO: CARABINIERI ARRESTANO ALBANESI PER CRIMINI DI GUERRA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 28 OTT - Cinque albanesi del Kosovo sono stati
arrestati dai carabinieri dell'Unita' specializzata multinazionale
(Msu) con l'accusa di crimini di guerra. Nei loro confronti era stato
emesso ordine di cattura da un procuratore del dipartimento
internazionale di giustizia del Kosovo. Secondo l'ordine di cattura
i cinque nel periodo compreso fra il 27 febbraio e l'8 marzo 1999,
quando erano membri dell'ormai disciolto Esercito di liberazione del
Kosovo (Uck), sequestrarono e torturarono 15 albanesi nel distretto
di Kacanic sospettati di aver collaborato con i serbi: quattro di
loro da quel tempo risultano scomparsi. I reati contestati sono
sequestro di persona, tentato omicidio e lesioni personali gravissime
che in considerazione del movente e del contesto in cui vennero
commessi rientrano nei crimini di guerra. A quel tempo l'Uck si
preparava ad entrare in guerra al fianco della Nato contro il potere
e le milizie di Slobodan Milosevic che imperversavano in Kosovo. Lo
stesso Uck si rese tuttavia colpevole prima, durante e dopo il
conflitto di violenze nei confronti di presunti ''collaborazionisti''
del governo di Belgrado. Alla cattura dei cinque ex guerriglieri,
oltre ai carabinieri, hanno partecipato anche un ispettore e due
assistenti della polizia di Stato italiana inquadrati nella polizia
dell'Unmik, la missione delle Nazioni Unite in Kosovo.(ANSA).
BLL 28/10/2003 12:25
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Five%20former%20OVK%20members%20arrested%20in%20Kosovo-
Metohija
Five former OVK members arrested in Kosovo-Metohija
09:31 PRISTINA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Five former members
of the Liberation Army of Kosovo (OVK) were arrested
on Monday in eastern part of Kosovo and Metohija on
suspicion that they committed war crimes during the
armed conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija that ended in June
1999, the Kosovo-Metohija public television RTK
reported.
According to the report, five Albanians were arrested
in Kacanik, near the border with Macedonia, by Italian
troops of the U.N. mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). UNMIK
has not made an official confirmation of the arrests.
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DEL KOSMET OGNI TANTO SI CHIACCHIERA ALL'ONU
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25245&order=priority&style=headlines
SRNA - October 27, 2003
Kosovo on Security Council agenda this week
NEW YORK -- Monday – The UN Security Council has
scheduled an open session on Kosovo for this Thursday.
On the agenda will be a review of UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan’s report on UNMIK’s work and a verbal
report by UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri.
Serbia-Montenegro’s ambassador to the UN, Dejan
Sahovic, is also expected to speak at the session.
---
PRESSIONI SUI SERBI DI SUVI DO: ANDATEVENE AL DIAVOLO
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - October 28, 2003
Serbs in Kosovo village under pressure by ethnic
Albanians to leave
19:14 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Serbs in
the Suvi Do village about 3 km from Kosovska Mitrovica
said Tuesday that they are under constant pressure to
abandon their village, which is completely surrounded
by ethnic Albanian communities.
Daily thefts of livestock, crops and agricultural
machinery, the absence of the freedom of movement and
threats by ethnic Albanian neighbors are some of the
reasons the residents are considering leaving, a local
Serb told Tanjug on condition of anonymity for
security reasons.
---
LA LOBBY ALBANO-STATUNITENSE PREME PER LA SVENDITA DELLE DITTE
EX-AUTOGESTITE, ILLEGALMENTE ESPROPRIATE DALL'ONU ALLA SERBIA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Kosovo agency continues illegal privatization
17:22 BELGRADE , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - The Kosovo
Pivatization Agency continues the illegal
privatization of socially-owned companies in Kosovo
and Metohija by posting a third invitation for
tenders, Kosovo-Metohija Coordinating Center
department for economic growth and reconstruction head
Milena Vasic said on Tuesday.
"It is our belief that the decision was made under
pressure from ethnic Albanian representatives in
Kosovo's interim institutions, media, but also the
Albanian lobbies abroad, in particular in the United
States Congress," Vasic told a press conference for
reporters of the Coordinating Center.
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KOSOVO: IN PARTENZA BRIGATA TRINAZIONALE CON ALPINI
(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 29 OTT - La Multinational Land Force (MLF), compagine
militare alpina italo-slovena-ungherese, partecipera' dal 12 novembre
alla sua prima missione internazionale di peacekeeping, in Kosovo,
nell' ambito dell' operazione di pace Decive Endevour.
La MLF dal 12 novembre e per i prossimi sei mesi, prendera' il
comando dell' area occidentale della regione, a capo di 8.000 militari
provenienti da 13 nazioni. La compagine militare, composta da 200
militari, 40 dei quali provenienti dalla Slovenia e dall' Ungheria
(gli altri 160 sono alpini della Brigata ''Julia''), e' nata nel 2000
con precisi compiti di supporto nelle missioni di pace ed e' operativa
dalla fine del 2002.
Per domani e' prevista a Udine, nella Caserma di Prampero, sede
della Brigata Alpina 'Julia', la cerimonia di saluto per la partenza.
(ANSA). RED-DF 29-OTT-03 14:43 NNNN
29/10/2003 16:07
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ESSENDO SERBO VIENE AGGREDITO IN PIENO CENTRO CITTADINO
A Serb beaten up in center of Gnjilane
Tanjug - October 31, 2003
12:54 GNJILANE - Djura Stojkovic (70) of the village of Donje Budrige,
near Gnjilane, has been beaten up in the center of Gnjilane and was
seriously injured.
On Thursday, Stojkovic was walking down the main street towards the
municipality building when he was brutaly attacked.
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CHI SPEDISCE LE ARMI AL CENTRO "ADEM JASHARI" ?
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug103103.htm
Tanjug - October 31, 2003
Who is sending weapons to Adem Jashari centre? - Trajkovic
12:21 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Return Coalition member of Kosovo parliament
Rada Trajkovic has told Tanjug that Kfor (Kosovo Force) commanders
should explain to the people of Kosovo-Metohija where the
antiaircraft weapons, such as Stingers and multiple rocket launchers,
which can be found at the Adem Jashari Memorial Centre, come from.
"According to the information we possess, the Adem Jashari Memorial
Centre serves for the storage of up-to-date weapons, and it has to be
revealed which NATO member country is supplying the ethnic Albanians
with such weapons," Trajkovic said. She pointed out that Serbs found
as unacceptable the initiative MPs of Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party
of Kosovo (DPK) (PDK in Albanian) had tried to launch at the Kosovo
parliament, so as to protect the centre and Jashari family.
She reminded of the fact that the initiative on protecting the Jashari
family followed after members of that family had attacked a patrol of
French UNMIK soldiers in Prekaz, central Kosovo.
At the Kosovo parliament Thursday (30 October) session, the initiative
was opposed to by parliament Speaker Nexhad Dachi as well. The only
Kosovo Serb Minister, Goran Bogdanovic, also said the DPK initiative
on the protection of the Memorial Centre and Jashari family was
unacceptable for Kosovo Serbs.
"It is good to know who Adem Jashari was and what kind of crimes he
committed in Kosovo-Metohija," Bogdanovic said, pointing out that such
attempts of certain ethnic Albanian leaders and parties should be
denounced by representatives of the international community in Kosovo
as well.
=== LINKS ===
Child murders found
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77365#1
KFOR Says There Is No Room For Serbian Security Forces
In Serbian Province Of Kosovo
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#KFOR%20says%20there%20is%20no%20room%20for%20Serbian%20securit
y%20forces%20in%20Kosovo
Unindicted War Criminal Hashim Thaci Calls For
Constitution To Insure 'Transfer Of International
Authority To Kosovo'
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25177&style=headlines
Albanian usurpation of the Serbian Orthodox inheritance in Kosovo and
Metohija
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77759
Serbian Deputy PM: Belgrade refuses dialogue without multiethnic Kosovo
delegation
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
10/23/331598.html
Attacks on Kosovo Serbs continue...
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim28oct03.html
Kosovo's Privatisation Hiccups (by T. Matic & A. Lama)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200310_465_2_eng.txt
Albania and Kosovo
http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/
home.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=37
''The Return of The Hague Tribunal and the West's Dilemma in Kosovo''
(by Christopher Deliso)
http://www.pinr.com/
report.php?ac=view_printable&report_id=106&language_id=1
=== AVVERTENZE ===
Come al solito, questa nostra rassegna sul Kosmet non ha pretesa di
completezza: le notizie qui riportate sono da considerare solo come
esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.
Per quanto riguarda i precedenti "bollettini di guerra" dal Kosmet (da
maggio 2002 in poi), essi sono elencati alle URL:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2697
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2848.
In generale, un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime
di terrore instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali
(KFOR) e dai neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare nel nostro
archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija si
veda in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2521
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.
Due SITI IN LINGUA ITALIANA dove trovare informazioni aggiornate sulle
violenze perpetrate giorno per giorno in Kosmet sono
http://www.ansa.it/balcani kosovo/kosovo.shtml (ANSA) e
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.it
Si tratta di due servizi professionali di informazione, di orientamento
istituzionale, con tutto quanto cio' comporta dal punto di vista della
interpretazione e presentazione degli avvenimenti.
Molti dei materiali che riportiamo nelle nostre rassegne provengono
dalle mailinglists:
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antinato@...
anti-imperialiste@...
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e dal bollettino della chiesa ortodossa in Kosmet ERP KIM:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
Ulteriori informazioni si trovano sul sito curato dalla chiesa
serbo-ortodossa:
http://www.kosovo.com
(a cura di A.M.)
(ENGLISH / ITALIANO)
*** Sulle nostre fonti vedi le Avvertenze in fondo a questo messaggio
*** Sul rocambolesco arresto dell'Intoccabile criminale di guerra Agim
Ceku si veda:
Agim Ceku l'Intoccabile
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2908
Former KLA Leader Agim Ceku Arrested, Then Released
http://www.balkantimes.com/
default3.asp?lang=english&page=process_print&article_id=21750
=== GLI AVVENIMENTI DI OTTOBRE 2003 ===
A BELGRADO PARLAMENTO E GOVERNO ESPRIMONO SCONCERTO ED INDIGNAZIONE PER
IL PRECIPITARE DEL CAOS E DELLA VIOLENZA NELLA PROVINCIA OCCUPATA DALLA
NATO ED AMMINISTRATA DA ONU E SEPARATISTI
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24829&order=priority&style=headlines
FoNet - September 30, 2003
Belgrade warns of “dramatic” situation in Kosovo
STRASBOURG -- Tuesday – Belgrade today called on the
international community to recognise the “dramatic”
human rights situation in Kosovo.
In a speech to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary
Assembly, Dragoljub Micunovic, a senior member of
Serbia’s governing coalition, warned that Kosovo’s
future could not be built on the results of ethnic
cleansing and the criminalisation of society.
The speech opened a debate on the human rights
situation in the United Nations-governed province.
Micunovic said that Serbia had been forced to call the
debate after the killing of two Serb youths in the
Kosovo village of Gorazdevac. The victims were shot as
they bathed in a nearby river. Seven Serbs have been
killed in the province since June.
“These children were killed only because they were
Serbs,” he told the Assembly. This sent a message “to
all Serbs currently living in Kosovo that they must
leave, that reconciliation and the multi-ethnic
society that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and
all of us strive for are not possible.”
“The killing of children in the 21st century in any of
Europe simply because they are of a different
nationality must alert not only the democratic public,
but also the international institutions concerned with
the protection of human rights and safety,” Micunovic
added, before calling for “large-scale measures
against criminals and terrorists”.
Micunovic, the speaker of the Serbia-Montenegro
parliament, warned that the Gorazdevac killings were
not an isolated act but the culmination of a series of
terrorist operations. He claimed there had been over
6,000 attacks on Serbs and their property or cultural
monuments since the arrival of peacekeepers after the
end of the war in July 1999, over 1,000 Serbs had been
killed and 10 monasteries and churches destroyed. The
fate of 1,300 Serbs remains unknown, he added.
Micunovic, a candidate in November’s elections for
Serbian president, called on the international
community to take “energetic and decisive steps toward
the full and consistent implementation of Resolution
1244, the speedier return of the displaced, the
creation of better security conditions and freedom of
movement for all ethnic communities”. Resolution 1244
is the document adopted by the UN Security Council by
which the province is governed.
In his speech, Micunovic made reference to the
Albanian National Army, an extremist ethnic Albanian
group that was branded a terrorist organisation
earlier this year by the UN’s former Kosovo governor
Michael Steiner. It must be recognised, said
Micunovic, that the ANA operates not only in Kosovo,
but also in western Macedonia and southern Serbia. The
group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a
Serbia-Montenegro military vehicle last week, in which
an officer was seriously wounded.
Talks between Belgrade and Pristina are due to begin
in mid-October, and will cover practical matters, but
not the province’s final status. Micunovic said that
Belgrade was approaching the dialogue “with a basic
wish for us all to stand up to hatred, terrorism and
any form of violence.” In order to do this, he added,
“everyone must understand that there are no good and
bad enemies, but that they are enemies of us all –
enemies of the human race.”
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-09/30/331210.html
Serbia Info - September 30, 2003
ANA prepares terrorist attacks in southern Serbia and
Kosovo-Metohija
Belgrade, Sept 30, 2003 - The Serbian Ministry of
Interior said that its operational data confirm that
the Albanian terrorist organisation ANA plans to carry
out terrorist attacks in southern Serbia just before
the beginning of a dialogue between Belgrade and
Pristina.
This terrorist organisation plans to make a massacre
by planting and activating explosive devices in the
facilities where members of the Albanian ethnic
community gather, including schools, read a statement
by the Ministry.
The terrorist attack will be performed by ANA's tried
members, however, it is possible that the organisation
will also contract criminals of Serbian nationality,
for which ANA has already set aside considerable
amounts of money.
According to intelligence, ANA plans to carry out the
attacks in Bujanovac, Presevo and Kosovo-Metohija, the
Ministry said.
The Serbian police have stepped up security measures
in order to prevent any possible terrorist attacks on
the territory of the Republic of Serbia.
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KOSOVO: POLIZIOTTO TEDESCO UNMIK MOLTO GRAVE DOPO PESTAGGIO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 1 OTT - Un agente della polizia tedesca in
servizio presso la polizia della Missione Onu in Kosovo (Unmik) e'
stato aggredito oggi nella citta' settentrionale di Kosovska
Mitrovica e le sue condizioni sono molto gravi. L'agente, del quale
non e' stato rivelato il nome, e' stato aggredito mentre entrava
negli uffici del commissariato che si trova nella parte sud della
citta' (abitata da albanesi) e colpito ripetutamente alla testa con
una sbarra di ferro. Un kosovaro albanese e' stato arrestato perche'
ritenuto l'autore dell'attacco: secondo gli investigatori si
tratterebbe di una persona ''mentalmente instabile''. L'agente e'
stato soccorso e trasportato in ospedale. Andrea Angeli, portavoce
dell'Unmik ha detto all'Ansa che in serata il poliziotto verra'
trasferito in Germania a bordo di un aereo ambulanza per essere
sottoposto ad intervento chirurgico. Meno di due mesi fa nella stessa
citta' di Kosovska Mitrovica venne ucciso in un agguato un agente
indiano della polizia Onu.(ANSA) BLL 01/10/2003 19:28
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24855&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - October 2, 2003
UN policeman injured in Mitrovica attack
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Wednesday – A member of the
international police force in Kosovo was severely
injured today when he was attacked in a car park
outside the regional UNMIK police headquarters in
Kosovska Mitrovica.
International police at the scene arrested a Kosovo
Albanian who is suspected of striking the German
police officer several times in the head with a metal
rod, causing serious injuries, according to a
statement from UNMIK.
UNMIK police said that the motive did not appear to be
personal, but added that the suspect is mentally ill
and had been expressing hatred for police in general
for some time.
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KOSOVO: CONTINUA LA VIOLENZA, 4 UCCISI IN SOLE 24 ORE
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 2 OTT - Una nuova ondata di violenza questa volta
apparentemente non a sfondo etnico sta investendo il Kosovo a meno di
due settimane dal possibile inizio dei negoziati tra Pristina e
Belgrado per la definizione dello status della provincia.
Quattro albanesi-kosovari sono rimasti uccisi in due agguati nelle
ultime 24 ore. Il primo e' stato compiuto nel villaggio di Glamnic,
nel distretto settentrionale di Podujevo (a ridosso del confine
amministrativo con la Serbia) dove due fratelli e un cugino sono
stati uccisi a raffiche di mitra mentre si trovavano all'interno di
un furgone. Un albanese e' stato arrestato dalla polizia ma non ha
ancora fornito chiarimenti sulla strage. Un quarto omicidio e'
stato compiuto la notte scorsa in un villaggio nei pressi della
citta' occidentali di Decani: un uomo di 37 anni, Avdi Muja e' caduto
in un agguato nel quale sono rimasti feriti anche tre suoi cugini.
Non distante da li' un testimone di un importante processo con tre ex
guerriglieri dell'Uck era miracolosamente sfuggito a un attentato
compiuto con una bomba comandata a distanza. Non si esclude che gli
episodi possano essere in qualche modo collegati. (ANSA).
BLL/CIP 02/10/2003 13:25
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PERSINO GLI STATUNITENSI SI LAMENTANO: TROPPE ARMI SONO ANCORA IN GIRO,
CE LE DEVONO CONSEGNARE
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17814
Stars And Stripes - October 2, 2003
Latest Kosovo weapons amnesty plan has few takers
By Jessica Iñigo
GNJILANE, Kosovo — Troops in the Multi-National
Brigade (East) sector of Kosovo Force, where camps
Bondsteel and Monteith are housed, are disappointed in
the low turnout rate of the latest monthlong weapons
amnesty program.
Initially, military officials hoped to sweet-talk
illegal gun toters into handing over their weapons by
giving cash to any county that turned in more than 300
weapons.
But military officials changed their minds and will
now give the money to the three municipalities that
turn over the most weapons, said Maj. Anthony Frey,
fire support officer for Task Force Falcon. The amount
of cash to be given out was unavailable.
Civilians say the military needs to change its tune if
it wants to see some real response to the amnesty
program.
“Everybody would turn in their weapons if the military
just made a program that would give people a license
to have the weapons that they own,” Alban Beqiri, a
Kosovar Albanian living in Urosevac, said through an
interpreter. “Nobody wants to just give away something
that they own, that they paid for.”
Also, civilians believe that there aren’t too many
more weapons left to be turned in. Soldiers believe
otherwise.
“I know weapons are still out there,” said Spc. Justin
Bish, of Company C, 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry
(Mechanized), who was manning an amnesty point in
Gnjilane, Kosovo, near Camp Monteith. “Countless
weapons are still out there. They just need to come
and turn them in.”
At his point, three sniper rifles, five
rocket-propelled grenades and four machine guns were
turned in.
“At first hardly anything was turned in, but as time
started dwindling down some weapons started showing
up,” said Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Ackerson, who manned
the same point in Gnjilane.
Ackerson said that even though all the weapons turned
in were old and rusted, they still worked.
“These are all functional weapons,” he said. “They’ve
been packed in grease and buried in burlap under
ground.”
Ackerson explained that the grease keeps the weapons
working, while burying them keeps them out of sight in
case of a military weapons raid through the town.
“Every time an illegal weapon is taken off the street,
there is success,” Brig. Gen. Jerry G. Beck, commander
of Multi-National Brigade (East), said during a news
conference Thursday. “Every time another grenade is
turned in, there is another life spared. Every time
ammunition is recovered, there is one less argument
that ends in someone being wounded or killed.”
The weapons amnesty program went through September and
allowed for any illegal weapons to be turned in
without question.
Illegal weapons found at other times will be turned in
to the U.N. Development Program for disposal, and
owners could be fined and sent to jail.
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KOSOVO:PARLAMENTO NON DECIDE PER INIZIO DIALOGO CON BELGRADO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 2 OTT - Il Parlamento del Kosovo ha deciso di non
votare oggi l'autorizzazione all'avvio del dialogo con le autorita'
di Belgrado il cui inizio e' previsto per il prossimo 14 ottobre a
Vienna. I parlamentari albanesi hanno rinviato la votazione a
giovedi' prossimo, 9 ottobre, chiedendo nel frattempo ''maggiori
dettagli e una piu' vasta consultazione''. Esponenti del partito
democratico (Pdk) del premier Bajram Rexhepi hanno sollecitato in
particolare la presentazione della lista dei partecipanti al dialogo
da parte serba e garanzie sulla presenza di una mediazione
internazionale.(ANSA). BLL/CIP 02/10/2003 13:29
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KOSOVO: DOPO UN ANNO GENERALE MINI LASCIA COMANDO KFOR
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 3 OTT - Cambio al vertice della Kfor, la forza di
pace a guida Nato presente in Kosovo dal giugno del 1999: dopo un
anno di comando il generale italiano Fabio Mini ha passato le
consegne al generale tedesco Holger Kammerhoff. Alla cerimonia che si
e' svolta a Pristina sono intervenuti fra gli altri il
sottosegretario alla Difesa Salvatore Cicu, il comandante della Nato
in Europa James Jhones e il comandante di Afsouth ammiraglio Gregory
Jhonson. Jhones ha espresso compiacimento per ''l'energia,
l'entusiasmo e l'impegno esemplare in molti e complessi aspetti della
missione'' dimostrati dal generale italiano. Mini, ha aggiunto, ''si
e' guadagnato il rispetto dei kosovari dimostrando una profonda
conoscenza della politica kosovara, e per questo parte come un grande
amico del Kosovo''. Alla cerimonia hanno presenziato le piu' alte
autorita' istituzionali locali, sia albanesi che serbe.
L'ammiraglio Gregory ha promesso da parte sua che ''capitalizzeremo
l'esperienza e la straordinaria visione'' del generale. Parole di cui
si e' compiaciuto il sottosegretario Cicu, giunto in Kosovo insieme
al nuovo Capo di Stato maggiore dell'Esercito generale Giulio
Fraticelli: ''Questo anno di complesso e importantissimo comando
italiano - ha commentato Cicu - e' motivo di grande soddisfazione
per i risultati conseguiti, che sono stati riconosciuti ampiamente
sia dalle altre forze alleate che dalle autorita' istituzionali
locali''. Il generale Mini nel suo discorso di fine missione, e'
tornato ad insistere sul tema che ha piu' affrontato in questo anno
di comando: ''L'intolleranza blocca lo sviluppo - ha dichiarato - la
gente non ne puo' piu' e non vede l'ora di avere l'opportunita' di
lavorare''. Davanti alla banda dei suoi bersaglieri che avevano
appena intonato l'inno, Mini ha poi detto in italiano ''bersaglieri,
siete sempre belli''. La cerimonia si e' conclusa con il lancio in
quota e l'arrivo davanti alla tribuna delle autorita' dei 5
paracadutisti del 9/o Col Moschin che avevano finora assicurato la
sua scorta. Mini e' ripartito per l'Italia seguito dal suo piu'
stretto staff di collaboratori fra i quali il caporalmaggiore
Domenico Casale, fedelissimo e apprezzatissimo cuoco del comando. In
Kosovo restano invece altri 2800 soldati italiani che continueranno
a partecipare alla missione della Kfor. In questo momento sono oltre
12mila i soldati italiani impegnati in missioni all'estero, 8.000 dei
quali nei Balcani. (ANSA). BLL 03/10/2003 15:11
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KOSOVO:PROFUGA SERBA RITORNA, ALBANESE CHE OCCUPA CASA SPARA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 4 OTT - Una profuga serba di 73 anni e' stata
gravemente ferita oggi nel Kosovo orientale da un albanese che
occupava insieme alla propria famiglia la sua vecchia casa.
L'incidente e' accaduto nella citta' di Gjilane, dove la donna era
rientrata per la prima volta dopo la fuga in Serbia avvenuta nel
1999, al termine della guerra. Andrea Angeli, portavoce della
missione delle Nazioni Unite (Unmik), ha detto all'Ansa che la donna
e' stata ferita allo stomaco da tre colpi di pistola.
L'albanese-kosovaro che ha aperto il fuoco e' stato arrestato.
Secondo una prima ricostruzione, la donna serba questa mattina si e'
presentata alla porta di quella che ha indicato come la propria
abitazione e che aveva abbandonato quattro anni fa per sfuggire alle
violenze etniche. La casa era stata nel frattempo occupata da una
famiglia di 15 albanesi. Uno degli uomini presenti nell'abitazione
prima ha cacciato la donna, poi le ha sparato. Il rientro dei
profughi serbi in Kosovo e la restituzione delle loro proprieta' e'
uno dei punti cruciali dei negoziati fra Pristina e Belgrado che
dovrebbero iniziare il prossimo 14 ottobre a Vienna. (ANSA).
BLL 04/10/2003 16:36
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KOSOVO: GERMANIA, MORTI DUE SOLDATI TEDESCHI IN INCIDENTE
(ANSA) - BERLINO, 4 OTT - Due soldati tedeschi del contingente di pace
internazionale Kfor in Kosovo sono morti ieri sera in un incidente
stradale, secondo quanto reso noto oggi a Berlino da un portavoce del
ministero della difesa. L'incidente e' avvenuto nei pressi della
localita' Suevareka. Non sono stati forniti particolari sulla
dinamica dell'incidente. La procura di Potsdam ha avviato indagini.
(ANSA). BUS 04/10/2003 18:11
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IL CRIMINALE DI GUERRA AGIM CEKU OFFRE AI SUOI ALLEATI TRUPPE
KOSOVARO-ALBANESI PER L'OCCUPAZIONE DELL'AFGHANISTAN E DELL'IRAQ
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 7 Ott 2003 13:08:17 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Kosovo: Agim Ceku Offers 3,000 KLA Fighters For Afghan, Iraqi
Occupations
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/10/4-SEE/see-061003.asp
[Note: The US government site Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty officially spells the name of the Serbian
province of Kosovo as 'Kosova.' The so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army clearly appreciates the fact. If in
fact the US takes its ally Ceku up on his offer it
could mark the closest thing Washington is likely to
get in the way of UN endorsement for the occupation of
Iraq, as war criminal Ceku's racist killers are
currently on the UN payroll as members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps.]
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - October 6, 2003
U.S. REPORTEDLY TURNED DOWN KOSOVA'S OFFERS OF HELP IN IRAQ AND
AFGHANISTAN
-Agim Ceku, who heads the civilian Kosova Protection
Corps (TMK), has offered to send some of his 3,000
men, many of whom are former guerrillas of the Kosova
Liberation Army.
"The New York Times" of 6 October reported that
Kosova's president, Ibrahim Rugova, and parliamentary
speaker Nexhat Daci have between them made several
offers to send police to Iraq or Afghanistan but were
turned down or ignored by Washington. Agim Ceku, who
heads the civilian Kosova Protection Corps (TMK), has
offered to send some of his 3,000 men, many of whom
are former guerrillas of the Kosova Liberation Army.
The Kosovars argue that they have much experience of
value to Iraq and Afghanistan, noting also that most
Kosovars are Muslims. Elizabeth Jones, who is
assistant secretary of state for European affairs,
reportedly told Rugova that he should concentrate on
building democracy in Kosova. Pro-U.S. feeling is very
strong in Kosova as result of U.S.-led efforts that
stopped the Serbian crackdown there in 1999. PM
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IBRAHIM RUGOVA INSISTE SULLA SECESSIONE
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 14 Ott 2003 20:31:36 Europe/Rome
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Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] 'Kosovo President' Presses US, EU Over
Independence
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25056&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - October 14, 2003
Rugova presses for independence
-“As soon as the European Union and the United States
recognise Kosovo’s independence, the United Nations
will do the same.”
VIENNA -- Tuesday – Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova
today urged the international community to recognise
Kosovo independence as the only way to bring stability
to the region and prevent the past from repeating
itself.
“As soon as the European Union and the United States
recognise Kosovo’s independence, the United Nations
will do the same”, Rugova told a press conference
after today’s first meeting with Belgrade leaders in
Vienna.
When it comes to Kosovo, he said, the new government
in Belgrade is no different from the old regime of
Slobodan Milosevic. Nevertheless he emphasised the
need for dialogue.
Kosovo’s explicit aim is independence and
Euro-Atlantic integration, said Rugova, adding that
this would reduce the room for maneuvering in Kosovo
and prevent a repetition of the horrors of the past.
Kosovo Parliament Speaker Nexhat Daci, the second
member of the Pristina delegation, accused Serbia of
holding Kosovo hostage and preventing it from
integrating with Europe. He warned that Kosovo was
capable of doing the same to Serbia and claimed that
independence was an unstoppable process.
He repeated calls for the international community to
cede more powers to the Kosovo government and demanded
that Belgrade “stop funding parallel structures” in
the province. Daci said he expected the Kosovo
government to soon form ministries of energy and
foreign affairs, and eventually justice and interior
ministries.
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FALLIMENTO TOTALE DEI "COLLOQUI" SERBO-ALBANOKOSOVARI, ORGANIZZATI A
VIENNA DALL'ONU. I SECESSIONISTI CHIEDONO "INDIPENDENZA" E CACCIATA
DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE ONU (NON DEGLI USA) DA SUBITO
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/di/Qkosovo-talks-demo.Rt_S_DOE.html
Agence France-Presse - October 14, 2003
Hundreds protest against start of Pristina-Belgrade talks
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, Oct 14 (AFP) - Several
hundred Kosovar Albanians demanded independence from
Serbia Tuesday as they protested against the opening
of talks between Pristina and Belgrade.
The protesters held placards calling for the
province's independence from Serbia and the withdrawal
of the United Nations mission (UNMIK) that has
governed Kosovo since the end of the 1998-99 war
between Belgrade forces and ethnic Albanian
guerrillas.
"Holkeri, don't speak in our name," said one banner in
reference to UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri, who is leading
the Kosovo delegation at the talks which began in
Vienna earlier Tuesday.
The demonstration was organised by Kosovo's National
Movement party, a radical grouping which holds only
one seat in the 120-member assembly.
The dialogue is the first between Kosovar Albanian
authorities and the Serbian government since the war,
which cost thousands of lives and drove hundreds of
thousands from their homes.
The initiative has been heavily promoted by the UN and
the European Union but it is unpopular here, where
many in the ethnic Albanian majority see it as a step
back from their ultimate goal of independence.
The issue of Kosovo's final status is not on the
agenda for the talks, which have been limited to
"practical" concerns such as transport, energy and
missing people.
Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexepi refused to attend
the opening session of the dialogue after parliament
failed to support his participation.
The Kosovo delegation included Kosovo President
Ibrahim Rugova and parliament speaker Nexhat Daci.
The Serbian delegation was led by Prime Minister Zoran
Zivkovic and Nebojsa Covic, the deputy prime minister
in charge of Kosovo matters.
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/srna101403b.htm
SRNA - October 14, 2003
Kosovo: Albanians chant "NATO get out" at protest against Vienna talks
Pristina - Hundreds of Albanians took part in a protest in Pristina
against the beginning of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue in Vienna. The
protest, organized by the Popular Movement of Kosovo LPK , began at
1200 1000 gmt outside the National Theatre.
Some 800 protesters chanted "UCK Kosovo Liberation Army ", "UNMIK UN
Mission in Kosovo get out", NATO get out" and "Down with Rugova".
There were no incidents and a great number of Kfor NATO-led Kosovo
Force soldiers and UNMIK policemen, with the help of the Kosovo police
service, controlled all access road to Pristina and the roads leading
to Serb enclaves.
SAVA JANJIC, EDITORIALE PER ERP.KIM:
L’incontro viennese fra la delegazione del governo serbo ed i leaders
di etnia albanese della provincia meridionale del kosovo è stato più di
una delusione. il capo dell’unmik holkeri ha condotto con sé una
rappresentanza composta unicamente da albanesi ed ha escluso all’ultimo
momento i portavoce serbi e turchi come richiestogli da ibrahim rugova.
ed è questa assenza che ha dato a rugova l’opportunità di mostrare come
tutti i cittadini della provincia serba si trovino d’accordo con la sua
visione estrema e dogmatica e di presentare il kosovo come regione
abitata da soli albanesi. la composizione etnicamente pura delle
autorità presenti a vienna riflette di fatto la situazione della
provincia, nella quale i serbi e le altre minoranze vengono brutalmente
‘ripuliti’ dagli oltranzisti albanesi e ed i loro rappresentanti nelle
istituzioni -sponsorizzate dalle nazioni unite- sono ridotti ad un
agente politico insignificante. questa prima fase dei negoziati era
stata convocata affinché ci
si concentrasse su quattro temi concreti: i trasporti e le
comunicazioni, l’energia, le persone rapite e scomparse ed il ritorno
degli profughi serbi. ma soprattutto, ci si aspettava da entrambe le
parti in causa che esibissero posizioni responsabili e costruttive, che
avrebbero potuto condurre ad una svolta positiva dopo quattro lunghi
anni di stallo... (continua)
link originale:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim17oct03.html
traduzione in italiano di exju.org:
http://www.exju.org/more.php?id=465_0_1_0_M19
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EDITORIALE DI C. DELISO SU ANTIWAR.COM
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso92.html
ANTIWAR, Thursday, October 23, 2003
No Second Kosovo
by Christopher Deliso
As the situation in Iraqcontinues to worsen, amidst daily reports of
new American and civilian deaths, the administration is embarking on a
whitewashing campaign designed to prove that things aren't so bad in an
occupied country that offers no exit for the US. However, due to its
dizzying speed, today's global media – so useful for governments'
propaganda purposes – can turn on its masters, without even having to
try very hard.
Unfortunately for the War Party, there really is nowhere to turn for
good news. The victorious occupation of Afghanistan is being tainted by
charges of sleaze, rampant corruption and pesky resurgencesfrom the old
Taliban gang. And, much further afield, an even earlier failed
intervention is unraveling, having arrived at its logical conclusion.
Kosovo Protests: 'Out With the UN! We Don't Need You Here!'
The internationals really should have known better. Protected by
special badges, shiny cars, air-conditioned offices and plenty of
disposable income, the UN corps in Kosovo presumed some sort of
inviolability, some dispensation from on high that would leave the
Kosovars eternally awe-struck and grateful.
This wasn't the case, as an eye-opening recent dispatch from the
Guardian indicates. Kosovo's Albanians are sick and tired of being
babysat by internationals who they've found to be both callous and
corrupt. They blame them for misappropriating large sums of money from
public coffers, for fueling the explosive increase in prostitution and
other mafia-supported services, and for prolonging the status quo of
limbo, one that prevents the resolution of vital issues like property
ownership and privatization, all of which have kept foreign investors
at arm's length from Kosovo. As the Guardian's Helena Smith reports:
"…the first chant came from the back of the crowd. 'Go home!' yelled a
youngster, as he stood in Pristina's dusty Mother Teresa Square, the
site last week of Kosovo's first post war demonstration.
'Out with the UN!' screamed an elderly woman, producing a placard that
conveyed the same message. 'We don't need you here!'
As locals grapple with price increases and worsening poverty, it is the
'internationals' who have become symbols of the contradictions
threatening to tear the UN protectorate apart. Across the province, men
and women appear disgusted by their foreign guardians' 'corrupt'
beneficence and depraved 'colonial' ways.
'They came to keep the peace and now they're causing tensions,' said
Qamile Blakcori. 'We are very grateful that Western forces saved us
from the Serbs, but now it's time they go.'"
According to the report, everyone from the street all the way to the
highest political offices has reason to criticize the internationals –
an ominous sign for the UN mission:
"'…last week's protest, timed to coincide with the start of historic
but widely unpopular reconciliation talks in Vienna with the Serbs, is
just the beginning,' says Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi.
'Being ruled 5,000 miles away from New York is simply not working,' he
snapped. 'With no road maps, or political deadlines, or sense of
resolving their unclear international status as a non-state entity,
Kosovars are fast losing hope.'
'What was especially galling to Kosovars was the brazen "corruption"
within the mission,' said Rexhepi, who was elected in March 2002. He
added that not only was the UN refusing to grant his people more
self-rule, it was also abusing power 'at the highest levels.'
The malpractice – reluctantly confirmed by Western diplomats – had made
him 'feel very ashamed'. A lot of the misplaced funds, he suspected,
were local taxes. 'Unmik claimed it has zero tolerance for corruption
and organised crime, but there is serious corruption involving huge
amounts of money right at its core,' he lamented."
A Hydra's Head of Complexities
However, the situation is more complicated still. Were the foreigners
to immediately pull out of the province, and were the issue of Kosovo's
final status to be decided, would the economy suddenly start to grow?
Or would the sudden removal of Kosovo's economic life-support apparatus
swiftly bring about the patient's demise?
There is the additional complexity of negotiating sovereignty – a total
mess in the case of Kosovo. Regarded as a Serbian province by both
Serbia and (in theory, at least) the UN, Kosovo is regarded as a
shining example of a 19th-Century nation-state by Albanian
nationalists, some of whom also see it as merely a sub-state of a
larger hypothetical Albania. But Serbs are reluctant to let it go, and
it is not unlikely that in the end it will be partitioned – making an
already puny, untenable nation even smaller.
As the Guardian relays, the West is beginning to understand that Kosovo
is setting the precedent for a future of failure worldwide:
"…officials readily admit that any of the alternatives – independence,
partition, continued international stewardship – are unlikely to
satisfy everyone.
'It's just like Iraq, whatever we do is going to affect the entire
region,' said one senior EU diplomat.
'Kosovo is a perfect example of the confusion the West is likely to get
into if it doesn't think through the political implications of its
military strategy. If we go on like this we're going to have to set up
a colonial service.'"
We shouldn't forget the silent majority of decent, common Albanian
people who just want to live in peace, without headaches and
intimidation from mafia groups and militias. Yet the economic and
political dislocation that will accompany any international withdrawal
is only likely to put more of these thugs, not less, into power. The
Kosovo experience since 1999 has been of a timid UN rewarding former
militants and war criminals by keeping them armed and in power –
through just changing their uniforms. And the same timid, unaccountable
UN has allowed this unsavory bunch to run roughshod, driving out or
exterminating Serbian, Roma and Macedonian Muslim minorities.
Where to Turn Now?
In short, we have a situation whereby a large, frustrated group of
people have found a common enemy to replace their previous one.
However, they needed – and still need – both. The Serbs gave Kosovo's
Albanians a feeling of nationhood, a strident victimology and a common
cause. As predicted, this sentiment of Albanian unity proved an
evanescent one, collapsing immediately after NATO's bombing campaign
ceased. At that point, with nationalistic unity no longer necessary,
Kosovo's Albanians turned to settling their own internal scores.
And, as said above, the Albanians also need the internationals. They
provide a lucrative market for the legal and illegal service industries
alike, as well as employment in NGO's and other aid groups. Kosovo has
also received generous international grants, and its international
limbo has shielded it from some of the most common coercive measures in
the Western arsenal. Kosovo may be "freed" soon, but what will happen
to its hard-won sovereignty when its political decisions are made by
groups like the IMF? Currently, Serbia is still responsible for
Kosovo's international debt – though it doesn't pay any taxes to
Belgrade. Indeed, being a protectorate or a province is sometimes more
comfortable than having to go it alone.
That said, Kosovo – whether partitioned or not – will have to come
crawling back to someone. But to who? Certainly not Serbia. Even though
a majority of the people in both places may not want it, joining the
even-poorer Albania may be Kosovo's only hope. The West failed to
understand that if a province has historically been poor, there is
usually some good reason why – and not merely, as Albanian nationalists
claim, that it was forever ignored by Belgrade. In fact, part of the
reason Yugoslavia split was that more affluent regions like Croatia and
Slovenia were fed up: they felt their tax remittances were
disproportionately being siphoned into poor Macedonia, and sucked into
the vertiginous black hole of Kosovo.
Into the Vortex
And that's pretty much the only way to describe it. Kosovo embodies all
of the worst Balkan qualities. It is like a centrifuge, a vortex in
which all of the incongruent discourses of the region and the West have
come to jostle and grate, with increasing speed and volatility. That
the West even thought it could successfully intervene there in the
first place was sheer folly. It has caused far more problems than it
solved – though it has made many people very rich while doing so.
Looking back, one is baffled at the stupidity of the "experts" who
launched this adventure. At how they could possibly have failed to see
the necessary outcomes of the intervention: the destruction of
minorities; the destabilization of Macedonia; the reversion to mafia
rule; the corruption, Western and domestic; the lack of long-term
economic viability, and most crucially, the lack of a clear exit
strategy.
Violence Surges, But the Truth Speeds Up Too
In the end, considering the wide knowledge and experience of the war
planners, it becomes hard to believe that the Kosovo job was done for
any other reasons than political posturing, corporate war profiteering,
manipulating cheap nationalism, and giving NATO a reason to live.
Luckily, as Iraq is now showing, history won't let the world get away
with the same thing twice. In Iraq, popular dissent arrived so fast
that we might say the events themselves have sped up. They are
impatient, having gotten used to all the same characters – the
international aid groups, the opposition leaders, the ethnic
infighting, the foreign contractors – previously encountered in Kosovo.
They don't waste time anymore, as they did in Kosovo, in guarding their
secrets in seed form. Now, in the age of terror, they bloom forth
immediately and die just as fast, stripping themselves of any meaning
or significance – save to remind us that invading Iraq was a really bad
idea.
Indeed, there will be no second Kosovo. This time it will be much
worse. Yet with the acceleration of volatile events, fortunately, we
will also see an acceleration of truth. The one that reminds us that,
when planning folly abroad, there is a basic need to plan for all
eventualities in advance, and to not undertake a course of action if it
is likely to end in disaster. This is the truth that the Bush
Administration is so feverishly trying to obscure right now.
Unfortunately for everyone now in Iraq, we can have faith that the
events there will violently outpace them – but so will the truth,
eventually.
SEE ALSO:
Angry Kosovars call on 'colonial' UN occupying force to leave
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,1066264,00.html
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ALLE FIAMME CASA DI SERBI PRESSO KOSOVO POLJE
ALBANIANS SET FIRE TO SERB HOUSE IN KOSOVO
SRNA - October 14, 2003
Kosovo Polje, 14 October: Two Albanians set fire to an outbuilding in
the garden belonging to Borivoje Velickovic in the village of Bresje
near Kosovo Polje, eyewitnesses have told the SRNA news agency.
According to these sources, unidentified perpetrators travelled in a
Golf car with a hoisted Albanian flag from the direction of Pristina,
where they might have taken part in demonstrations against the
Belgrade-Pristina talks. The burnt building is right next to the
Velickovic family house and a considerable damage was avoided only
thanks to a swift intervention of locals and firemen.
Members of the Kosovo police service failed to apprehend the
perpetrators despite the stepped up traffic controls and road blocs.
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COVIC: "SE DATE L'INDIPENDENZA AL KOSOVO, ALLORA DOVETE DARLA ANCHE AI
SERBI DI BOSNIA"
http://slobodan-milosevic.ihostsites.net/news/rbeg101503.htm
SOURCE: Radio Belgrade in Serbian 0800 gmt 15 Oct 03
If Kosovo given independence, Bosnian Serb entity should be too - Covic
Radio Belgrade (Transcript) - October 15, 2003
Announcer: The so-called talks with the Albanians, like the ones in
Vienna yesterday, continue to be a charade that involves posing for the
world, Deputy Serbian Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic has reiterated in a
Belgrade Television programme. Recalling previous talks in Lucerne
after which the Albanian representatives were nearly lynched upon
their return to Pristina, Covic said that time was running out for
finding a solution to the problem. There are fewer and fewer Serbs in
Kosovo-Metohija as time goes by, and the ones who want to return are
running out of hope, Nebojsa Covic said.
Covic: We do not have the right to deceive the citizens and we have to
come up with an active approach. I want to reiterate: if anyone
believes that we should discuss the status issue, we are prepared to
do so immediately, but we immediately have to set out the principles
and establish the state of affairs; or, if they have already made the
decision to take Kosmet Kosovo-Metohija away from us, they should just
say so. Let them take it, but if they do take it, it will give us the
right to take it back one day. Obviously, the lobbies are strong, but
I believe that nothing is over and that all the options are still open
in the entire region and that the right that is granted to
Kosovo-Metohija, that is, to the area, must also be given to the
Bosnian Serb Republic. And I wish to be spared the stories of
so-called Serbian extremism, promoting tensions, and so forth. They
should explain to us why they are not prepared to give up parts of
their countries.
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KOSOVO: SEQUESTRATI 36 CHILI DI EROINA GIUNTI DA ALBANIA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 15 OTT - La polizia della missione delle Nazioni
Unite in Kosovo (Unmik) ha sequestrato un carico di 36 chili di
eroina che si sospetta provenissero dall'Albania. L'operazione e'
stata condotta nei giorni scorsi a ridosso del confine occidentale,
ma solo oggi la polizia lo ha confermato a Pristina. La droga era
nascosta all'interno di un'autovettura con targa austriaca: dei tre
occupanti arrestati, due erano cittadini dell'Albania, il terzo era
un albanese-kosovaro. La droga sequestrata vale sul mercato illegale
circa 1,5 milioni di euro. E' questo il piu' grosso sequestro di droga
compiuto in Kosovo da quando la provincia e' sotto l'amministrazione
internazionale.(ANSA) BLL 15/10/2003 19:58
UN police make huge heroin bust in Kosovo
Agence France Presse - October 15, 2003
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - Three people have been arrested for
trying to smuggle 36 kilograms (79.2 pounds) of heroin into Kosovo
from neighbouring Albania, United Nations police said Wednesday
The arrest was made last week when border police stopped a vehicle
bearing Austrian registration plates for a routine check in western
Kosovo, UN police spokesman Derek Chappell told AFP.
"Concealed within the body of the car were found numerous packets
containing a material that preliminary tests have identified as
heroin," Chappel said.
Two of the suspects were from Albania and one was an ethnic-Albanian
from Kosovo.
Chappell said the street value of the drugs in Western Europe was 1.5
million euros (1.8 million dollars), making it the largest heroin
seizure in Kosovo since the province came under UN administration
after the 1998-99 war.
In July UN police in eastern Kosovo seized 18 kilograms of heroin,
valued at some 800,000 euros.
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SERBO-KOSOVARO MUORE DI FAME AD UROSEVAC A CAUSA DEL REGIME DI
APARTHEID. I SERBI RIMASTI IN CITTA' DOPO IL MASSACRO A COLPI DI
ACCETTA LO SCORSO GIUGNO SONO QUINDICI (15). I GIORNALISTI ITALIANI NON
NE PARLANO PERCHE' SONO DEI VIGLIACCHI
http://slobodan-milosevic.ihostsites.net/news/beta101703.htm
Beta - October 17, 2003
Kosovo Serb dies of starvation
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Friday – An elderly Kosovo Serb has died of
starvation because he was afraid to go out into the street alone, Beta
reports.
Sixty-five year old Zivorad Velikinac was taken to the Mitrovica
hospital on Wednesday where one staff member described him as looking
like a prisoner from Auschwitz.
“Although he lived in central Urosevac, he had not eaten anything for
more than fifteen days because his Albanian neighbours stopped
bringing him food and he did not dare go into the street alone,” said
physician Nebojsa Srbljak.
The president of the Serb National Council, Milan Ivanovic, accused
UNMIK of being responsible because Serbs and other non-Albanians still
had no freedom of movement in the province.
Ivanovic, who is also a physician in the Mitrovica Hospital, confirmed
that Velikinac had died of starvation.
Only about fifteen Serbs live in Urosevac today, down from ten thousand
before the 1999 war.
SEE ALSO:
'Looking Like A Prisoner From Auschwitz': Fearful Of
Leaving Home, Elderly Kosovo Serb Dies Of Starvation
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25110&style=headlines
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FUGA IN MASSA DA GRABAC E BICA IN SEGUITO ALLA DECISIONE ITALIANA DI
NON PROTEGGERE PIU' I SERBI
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.com
SRNA - October 18, 2003
KOSOVO SERBS ANNOUNCE MASS EXODUS FROM TWO VILLAGES AFTER KFOR ESCORTS
STOPPED
Klina - Serb returnees to the villages of Grabac and Bica, near Klina,
have announced that they will move out en masse tomorrow because Kfor
(Kosovo Force) has stopped providing them with an escort.
A total of 60 Serb returnees, who returned to these villages at the end
of June this year, blocked local roads through Bica this morning,
requesting that the Italian Kfor command provide buses for their safe
passage out of the village. The reason for the fresh exodus, as SRNA
was informed by Bica resident Dragoljub Perunicic, is that the
Italians cancelled the escort of a convoy to Kosovska Mitrovica on
Thursday (16 October), explaining that they apparently did not have
enough soldiers.
However, the Spanish Kfor representative informed the inhabitants this
morning that the escort had been stopped, and that if Serbs wanted to
travel to and from Kosovska Mitrovica, they should do this without
being escorted by a convoy of Kfor combat vehicles.
The inhabitants of Bica and Grabac returned in the middle of this year
after Kfor and UNMIK (UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo)
promised them constant security. In spite of this, Zoran Doncic was
wounded a month ago in one of the villages, and Albanian extremists
have on more than one occasion fired on the returnees' only recently
renovated houses.
A letter was sent to the Coordination Centre for Kosovo-Metohija today,
asking for assistance with displacement, that is, a move back to
central Serbia.
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IL 60 PER CENTO DELLA PROVINCIA E' SENZA ENERGIA ELETTRICA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Over%2060%20pct%20of%20territory%20of%20Kosovo%20and%20Metohij
a%20in%20darkness
Tanjug (Serbia) - October 25, 2003
Over 60 pct of territory of Kosovo and Metohija in
darkness
18:16 BELGRADE , Oct 25 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo and
Metohija [there] does not work a single block of the
local thermo-electric power plants and there are power
cuts in over 60 pct of the province, Dragan Vignjevic
of the Serbian Power Company (EPS) told Tanjug
Saturday.
"EPS delivered on Friday up to 300 megawatts of
electricity to Kosovo and Metohija," Vignjevic said
adding that electric power was arriving in the
province "in much smaller quantities from Montenegro
and from Albania."
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KOSOVARO-ALBANESI DEL CLAN JASHARI ATTACCANO LE TRUPPE FRANCESI A
PREKAZ, L'UNMIK GARANTISCE LORO L'IMPUNITA'
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Kosovo%20Albanians%20attack%20French%20troops
Tanjug (Serbia) - October 26, 2003
Kosovo Albanians attack French troops
19:49 PRISTINA , Oct 26 (Tanjug) - A group of Kosovo
Albanians attacked on Saturday a group of French
troops within KFOR at Prekaz in central Kosovo, and
forced them to leave the region, UN police stated on
Sunday.
One French soldier was hurt, but no one was arrested,
UNMIK police said in the statement, carried by the
German DPA news agency.
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - October 28, 2003
Legal proceedings not instituted against Jashari
family members, Ratel
13:24 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Chief
commander of KFOR North-East Brigade, French General
Bernard Ratel, said on Tuesday legal proceedings were
not instituted against members of the Jashari family
or other people belonging to the group which had
carried out an armed attack at a KFOR patrol in Prekaz
last weekend.
I expect from Kosovo-Metohija political leaders and
those of the church to express loathing and
condemnation after each inncident that occurs in the
province, Ratel said, and pointed out that freedom of
movement had to exist on the whole territory of the
province.
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HASIM TACI: PER ME L'IMPUNITA' E' GARANTITA, IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA E'
DALLA PARTE NOSTRA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Tachi%20certain%20he%20will%20not%20be%20accsued%20before%20wa
r%20crimes%20tribunal
Tanjug - October 26, 2003
Tachi certain he will not be accused before war crimes
tribunal
17:52 KJAGODINA , Oct 26 (Tanjug) - President of the
Democratic Party of Kosovo Hashim Tachi has stated he
was certain that he would never be indicted by the war
crimes tribunal.
"I know that people in the Serbian Justice Ministry
and Vladan Batic himself will be disappointed, but The
Hague is not working according to the wishes of
Belgrade," Tachi told, Jagodina television Palma Plus,
in an interveiw broadcast late Saturday evening.
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ALTRE ARMI SEQUESTRATE
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/db/Qserbia-montenegro.R5yd_DOQ.html
Agence France-Presse - October 26, 2003
Serbian police uncover arms cache belonging to
"Albanian terrorists"
BELGRADE, Oct 26 (AFP) - Serbian police said Sunday
they had discovered an arms cache in south Serbia
belonging to "Albanian terrorist groups" operating in
the region.
Police said the haul included around 30 automatic
weapons, grenade launchers, hand grenades and
ammunition.
The discovery came as part of a crackdown on the
activities of "Albanian terrorist groups" in southern
Serbia, the police said.
The weaponry was found close to the village of Veliki
Trnovac, near the town of Bujanovac, where it had been
hidden since demilitarisation in 2001 by the Albanian
extremist group, the "liberation army of Presevo,
Medvedja and Bujanovac," police said.
Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, adjoining Kosovo, lie
in a region with a large Albanian population and were
the scene of clashes from 2000 to 2001 between Serb
forces and the self-proclaimed liberation army, which
later disbanded to become the "Albanian national
army," since dubbed a terrorist organisation by the
United Nations.
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CECCHINI SECESSIONISTI CONTRO I CONTADINI
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25241&style=headlines
Beta - October 27, 2003
Kosovo Serb farmers under fire
SRBICA -- Monday – Unknown gunmen opened fire on a
group of seven Serbs from village of Banja today as
they headed to their orchards on tractors.
The apple orchards are located near a village
populated exclusively by Albanians.
Village leader Milutin Kovacevic told media that the
group was fired on from several different directions,
adding that it was pure luck that no one was killed.
The Serbs hid in a nearby forest until Danish KFOR
troops came to their rescue and escorted them home.
Banje and the neighbouring Suvo Grlo are the only two
villages in the Srbica municipality still inhabited by
Serbs.
They are completely cut off from the surrounding
region and subject to frequent attacks by their
Albanian neighbours.
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ARRESTATO PER INTIMIDAZIONI AI DANNI DI TESTIMONI NEL PROCESSO CONTRO
TERRORISTI PANALBANESI
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25234&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - October 27, 2003
Rebel leader’s brother arrested
PRISTINA -- Monday – United Nations police in Kosovo
have arrested the brother of Shefket Musliu, a former
rebel leader in southern Serbia, Pristina daily Koha
Ditore reports.
The paper claims that Xhevdet Musliu was detained on
suspicion he tried to intimidate witnesses in his
brother’s trial.
Shefket Musliu is on trial in Kosovo, having been
arrested earlier this year. He had previously led an
ethnic Albanian guerrilla group operating in southern
Serbia.
Koha Ditore reports that Xhevdet was detained on
Sunday afternoon and was remanded in custody for 72
hours. The arrest was confirmed by his lawyer Masar
Morina.
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KOSOVO: CARABINIERI ARRESTANO ALBANESI PER CRIMINI DI GUERRA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 28 OTT - Cinque albanesi del Kosovo sono stati
arrestati dai carabinieri dell'Unita' specializzata multinazionale
(Msu) con l'accusa di crimini di guerra. Nei loro confronti era stato
emesso ordine di cattura da un procuratore del dipartimento
internazionale di giustizia del Kosovo. Secondo l'ordine di cattura
i cinque nel periodo compreso fra il 27 febbraio e l'8 marzo 1999,
quando erano membri dell'ormai disciolto Esercito di liberazione del
Kosovo (Uck), sequestrarono e torturarono 15 albanesi nel distretto
di Kacanic sospettati di aver collaborato con i serbi: quattro di
loro da quel tempo risultano scomparsi. I reati contestati sono
sequestro di persona, tentato omicidio e lesioni personali gravissime
che in considerazione del movente e del contesto in cui vennero
commessi rientrano nei crimini di guerra. A quel tempo l'Uck si
preparava ad entrare in guerra al fianco della Nato contro il potere
e le milizie di Slobodan Milosevic che imperversavano in Kosovo. Lo
stesso Uck si rese tuttavia colpevole prima, durante e dopo il
conflitto di violenze nei confronti di presunti ''collaborazionisti''
del governo di Belgrado. Alla cattura dei cinque ex guerriglieri,
oltre ai carabinieri, hanno partecipato anche un ispettore e due
assistenti della polizia di Stato italiana inquadrati nella polizia
dell'Unmik, la missione delle Nazioni Unite in Kosovo.(ANSA).
BLL 28/10/2003 12:25
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Five%20former%20OVK%20members%20arrested%20in%20Kosovo-
Metohija
Five former OVK members arrested in Kosovo-Metohija
09:31 PRISTINA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Five former members
of the Liberation Army of Kosovo (OVK) were arrested
on Monday in eastern part of Kosovo and Metohija on
suspicion that they committed war crimes during the
armed conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija that ended in June
1999, the Kosovo-Metohija public television RTK
reported.
According to the report, five Albanians were arrested
in Kacanik, near the border with Macedonia, by Italian
troops of the U.N. mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). UNMIK
has not made an official confirmation of the arrests.
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DEL KOSMET OGNI TANTO SI CHIACCHIERA ALL'ONU
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25245&order=priority&style=headlines
SRNA - October 27, 2003
Kosovo on Security Council agenda this week
NEW YORK -- Monday – The UN Security Council has
scheduled an open session on Kosovo for this Thursday.
On the agenda will be a review of UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan’s report on UNMIK’s work and a verbal
report by UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri.
Serbia-Montenegro’s ambassador to the UN, Dejan
Sahovic, is also expected to speak at the session.
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PRESSIONI SUI SERBI DI SUVI DO: ANDATEVENE AL DIAVOLO
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - October 28, 2003
Serbs in Kosovo village under pressure by ethnic
Albanians to leave
19:14 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Serbs in
the Suvi Do village about 3 km from Kosovska Mitrovica
said Tuesday that they are under constant pressure to
abandon their village, which is completely surrounded
by ethnic Albanian communities.
Daily thefts of livestock, crops and agricultural
machinery, the absence of the freedom of movement and
threats by ethnic Albanian neighbors are some of the
reasons the residents are considering leaving, a local
Serb told Tanjug on condition of anonymity for
security reasons.
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LA LOBBY ALBANO-STATUNITENSE PREME PER LA SVENDITA DELLE DITTE
EX-AUTOGESTITE, ILLEGALMENTE ESPROPRIATE DALL'ONU ALLA SERBIA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Kosovo agency continues illegal privatization
17:22 BELGRADE , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - The Kosovo
Pivatization Agency continues the illegal
privatization of socially-owned companies in Kosovo
and Metohija by posting a third invitation for
tenders, Kosovo-Metohija Coordinating Center
department for economic growth and reconstruction head
Milena Vasic said on Tuesday.
"It is our belief that the decision was made under
pressure from ethnic Albanian representatives in
Kosovo's interim institutions, media, but also the
Albanian lobbies abroad, in particular in the United
States Congress," Vasic told a press conference for
reporters of the Coordinating Center.
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KOSOVO: IN PARTENZA BRIGATA TRINAZIONALE CON ALPINI
(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 29 OTT - La Multinational Land Force (MLF), compagine
militare alpina italo-slovena-ungherese, partecipera' dal 12 novembre
alla sua prima missione internazionale di peacekeeping, in Kosovo,
nell' ambito dell' operazione di pace Decive Endevour.
La MLF dal 12 novembre e per i prossimi sei mesi, prendera' il
comando dell' area occidentale della regione, a capo di 8.000 militari
provenienti da 13 nazioni. La compagine militare, composta da 200
militari, 40 dei quali provenienti dalla Slovenia e dall' Ungheria
(gli altri 160 sono alpini della Brigata ''Julia''), e' nata nel 2000
con precisi compiti di supporto nelle missioni di pace ed e' operativa
dalla fine del 2002.
Per domani e' prevista a Udine, nella Caserma di Prampero, sede
della Brigata Alpina 'Julia', la cerimonia di saluto per la partenza.
(ANSA). RED-DF 29-OTT-03 14:43 NNNN
29/10/2003 16:07
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ESSENDO SERBO VIENE AGGREDITO IN PIENO CENTRO CITTADINO
A Serb beaten up in center of Gnjilane
Tanjug - October 31, 2003
12:54 GNJILANE - Djura Stojkovic (70) of the village of Donje Budrige,
near Gnjilane, has been beaten up in the center of Gnjilane and was
seriously injured.
On Thursday, Stojkovic was walking down the main street towards the
municipality building when he was brutaly attacked.
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CHI SPEDISCE LE ARMI AL CENTRO "ADEM JASHARI" ?
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug103103.htm
Tanjug - October 31, 2003
Who is sending weapons to Adem Jashari centre? - Trajkovic
12:21 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Return Coalition member of Kosovo parliament
Rada Trajkovic has told Tanjug that Kfor (Kosovo Force) commanders
should explain to the people of Kosovo-Metohija where the
antiaircraft weapons, such as Stingers and multiple rocket launchers,
which can be found at the Adem Jashari Memorial Centre, come from.
"According to the information we possess, the Adem Jashari Memorial
Centre serves for the storage of up-to-date weapons, and it has to be
revealed which NATO member country is supplying the ethnic Albanians
with such weapons," Trajkovic said. She pointed out that Serbs found
as unacceptable the initiative MPs of Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party
of Kosovo (DPK) (PDK in Albanian) had tried to launch at the Kosovo
parliament, so as to protect the centre and Jashari family.
She reminded of the fact that the initiative on protecting the Jashari
family followed after members of that family had attacked a patrol of
French UNMIK soldiers in Prekaz, central Kosovo.
At the Kosovo parliament Thursday (30 October) session, the initiative
was opposed to by parliament Speaker Nexhad Dachi as well. The only
Kosovo Serb Minister, Goran Bogdanovic, also said the DPK initiative
on the protection of the Memorial Centre and Jashari family was
unacceptable for Kosovo Serbs.
"It is good to know who Adem Jashari was and what kind of crimes he
committed in Kosovo-Metohija," Bogdanovic said, pointing out that such
attempts of certain ethnic Albanian leaders and parties should be
denounced by representatives of the international community in Kosovo
as well.
=== LINKS ===
Child murders found
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77365#1
KFOR Says There Is No Room For Serbian Security Forces
In Serbian Province Of Kosovo
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#KFOR%20says%20there%20is%20no%20room%20for%20Serbian%20securit
y%20forces%20in%20Kosovo
Unindicted War Criminal Hashim Thaci Calls For
Constitution To Insure 'Transfer Of International
Authority To Kosovo'
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25177&style=headlines
Albanian usurpation of the Serbian Orthodox inheritance in Kosovo and
Metohija
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77759
Serbian Deputy PM: Belgrade refuses dialogue without multiethnic Kosovo
delegation
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
10/23/331598.html
Attacks on Kosovo Serbs continue...
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim28oct03.html
Kosovo's Privatisation Hiccups (by T. Matic & A. Lama)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200310_465_2_eng.txt
Albania and Kosovo
http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/
home.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=37
''The Return of The Hague Tribunal and the West's Dilemma in Kosovo''
(by Christopher Deliso)
http://www.pinr.com/
report.php?ac=view_printable&report_id=106&language_id=1
=== AVVERTENZE ===
Come al solito, questa nostra rassegna sul Kosmet non ha pretesa di
completezza: le notizie qui riportate sono da considerare solo come
esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.
Per quanto riguarda i precedenti "bollettini di guerra" dal Kosmet (da
maggio 2002 in poi), essi sono elencati alle URL:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2697
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2848.
In generale, un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime
di terrore instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali
(KFOR) e dai neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare nel nostro
archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija si
veda in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2521
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.
Due SITI IN LINGUA ITALIANA dove trovare informazioni aggiornate sulle
violenze perpetrate giorno per giorno in Kosmet sono
http://www.ansa.it/balcani kosovo/kosovo.shtml (ANSA) e
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.it
Si tratta di due servizi professionali di informazione, di orientamento
istituzionale, con tutto quanto cio' comporta dal punto di vista della
interpretazione e presentazione degli avvenimenti.
Molti dei materiali che riportiamo nelle nostre rassegne provengono
dalle mailinglists:
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anti-imperialiste@...
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e dal bollettino della chiesa ortodossa in Kosmet ERP KIM:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
Ulteriori informazioni si trovano sul sito curato dalla chiesa
serbo-ortodossa:
http://www.kosovo.com
(a cura di A.M.)