I telegiornali nei giorni scorsi ci informavano che le truppe italiane
hanno finalmente preso il controllo dell'aereoporto di Pristina.
Viva le truppe italiane!
Viva L'Italia!
Viva l'Albania italiana!
Eia eia alala'!
* ELENCO ATTI TERRORISTICI DAL 24 MAGGIO AL 26 GIUGNO SCORSI
* TRUPPE OCCUPATRICI ARRESTANO SERBO ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE
* VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO DI DECANI
* L'ANALISI DELL'ISTITUTO CATO (LINK)
* KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO TRA MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
* FLASHBACK: GLI EBREI KOSOVARI SCACCIATI DALL'UCKFOR
* IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
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CRIMINI COMMESSI DAL FANATISMO NAZIONALISTA PANALBANESE
IN KOSMET TRA IL 24 MAGGIO ED IL 26 GIUGNO 2000.
***DA NON RIPORTARE SUI GIORNALI***
(From: John Jay Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [STOPNATO] [serbrights] [Fwd: sign and email/KOSOVO] STOP
NATO:
¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM )
_________
So far, we've only sent this out to the IHT. Of course, there are many
other
newspapers/TV channels, etc., ...
_________
Sir: - We challenge the International Herald Tribune to publish the
disgraceful diary of evil racial persecution set out below.
We dare the IHT to show its readers, all over the world, what
kind
of a job of "Humanitarian Protection" KFOR troops and UNMIK's so-called
"Peacekeepers" are doing to "keep the peace" in Kosovo today ?... This
is
real news... Why not publish it ?... Let's see how fair and open-minded
a
'great' "Democratic" newspaper can honestly be !
The Western media shows remarkably little interest in the
suffering
of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo. Sure, we're told of an
occasional incident, here and there, but even then obscured in very
small
print, usually on the inside pages - where are the headlines !
Is
this what is really meant by "Free" Press - the "freedom" merely to pick
and
choose what you tell your readers, strictly according to how its telling
may
or may not suit the agendas of the incumbent political administrators in
Washington ? Do you believe that votes supposedly reflecting American
public
'opinion' formed in this way, on the basis of selective misinformation,
is
anything like an exercise in true 'democracy' ?
Your readers wouldn't ! - If they only knew that's how it
really is
- ! Happy 4th of July !...
All details and statistics below- (strictly according to
routine
nformation known to and monitored by members of the International Red
Cross)
- are matters of official UNMIK record.
All were in Kosovo, an autonomous province of the sovereign
Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia - currently occupied and
supposedly
"protected", under UN mandate, by KFOR troops.
This is just a one month catalogue of the racial crime and
brutal
persecution carried out against Serbs and other non-Albanians between 24
May
and 26 June of this year only !
__________________________________________
TERRORIST ACTS COMMITTED BY ALBANIANS,
FORMERLY OF THE (KLA) THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY,
BETWEEN 24 MAY - 26 JUNE 2000.
1. Murder of Vladimir Ilic, a Kosovo Serb, 50, on his doorstep at Vitina
on
24 May;
2. Attack on Kosovo Serbs in the village of Dobrotin, Municipality of
Lipljan, on 26 May, on which occasion 4 Serbian civilians were gravely
wounded;
3. Throwing of a hand grenade on a Serbian cafe at Bresje on 26 May, on
which occasion 5 Serbians were gravely wounded;
4. Setting a fire in the Trepca complex in southern Kosovska Mitrovica
on 6
May which caused enormous material damage;
5. Attack on a group of Serbs in front of a store in the village of
Cernica, on 28 May, in the Municipality of Gnjilane, on which occasion
Tihomir Trifunovic, Vojin Vasic and a 5-year old, Milos Petrovic, were
killed and two other Serbian civilians were gravely wounded;
6. Armed attacks on a local police patrol in the village of Konculj on
23
and 24 May and a mortar attack on the members of local Kosovo Serbian
police, on 30 May, in the village of Lucane ;
7. Attack on Serbian civilians in the village of Klokot, Municipality
of
Vitina, on 31 May, in which Lepterka Marinkovic, 67, was killed and
another
3 Serbs were gravely wounded;
8. Murder of Milutin Trajkovic, 33, a Serbian, in the village of Babin
Most,
on 31 May, in the Municipality of Obilic;
9. Murder of Iso Heta, 71, an elderly retired member of the Ministry of
the
Interior, on 31 May;
10. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of Kosovo Serb, Djordje
Velickovic, on 1 June, at Obilic, on which occasion Misko Todorovic was
also gravely wounded;
11. Killing of two Serbs, Sinisa Dimic and Vlastimir Milic, and
wounding of
3 others on 2 June, two of them underage children, in an automobile
which
ran over an anti-tank mine planted by Albanian terrorists the night
before
on the road between the Serbian villages of Ugljari and Preoce near
Pristina;
12. Burning down of a number of Serbian houses in both Prizren and
Decani on
3 June;
13. Continued arbitrary arrests of Kosovo Serbian civilians by KFOR and
UNMIK, on 7 June, of which one of the most drastic examples was the
arrest
of Nebojsa Stojanovic, 30, at Gracanica, who was apprehended while in an
intensive care unit following a serious injury sustained after KFOR
opened
automatic fire on Serbs protesting about the terror of the so-called
Kosovo
Liberation Army, (of which this catalogue is one brief example);
14. Brutal attack and wounding of Jovan Cerovic, 55, a Serb, on 8 June,
by
10 terrorists with clubs in the district of Obilic;
15. Burning of a number of Serbian houses at Obilic on 9 June;
16. Anduction of Safet Pucurica, 37, a worker from Kosovska Mitrovica on
10
June, on the road Vucitrn-Kosovska Mitrovica;
17. Armed attack on an automobile driven by 4 Goranci (non-Albanian
Muslim)
on 9 June, near Orcus, Municipality of Gora, on which occasion one of
these
civilians was severely wounded;
18. Burning of Serbian houses at Obilic and the dynamiting of Roma
(Gypsy)
houses on 10 June, in the village of Novo Rujce, Municipality of
Lipljan;
19. Setting a fire in the Kosovo Serbian restaurant "Lotos" on 10 June;
20. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Orahovac on 12 and 13 June;
21. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Obilic on 14 June;
22. Abduction, rape and mutilation of a 14-year old Serbian girl in
Pristina
on 14 June;
23. Killing of Zlatibor Denic and Borko Filipovic and the wounding of
Dejan
Filipovic on 15 June, the latter losing both his arms and legs, in an
automobile which ran over an anti-tank mine planted by the terrorists of
the
Kosovo Liberation Army on the road between the villages of Preoce and
Lepina;
24. Attack on humanitarian convoys heading for Serbian Strpce on both 30
May
and on 16 June, in the villages of Radivojce and Pozarane;
25. Mortar attack on the Decani monastery near Pec, on the night of 21
and
22 June. Decani monastery was built in 1335. It is one of the treasures
of
Serbian cultural heritage, housing frescoes of great value and a large
number of priceless ancient manuscripts and icons;
26. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of a Serb, Toma Ivkovic, in
Gnjilane on 21 June, on which occasion Mr. Ivkovic's mother was wounded;
27. Brutal abduction of 2 Serbs, Vlada, 80, and Persa Miletic, 50, on 21
June, in the village of Mali Trnovac, in the Municipality of Bujanovac.
Their fate is still unknown;
28. Abduction of Serb, Bozidar Markovic, 60, on 23 June, in the village
of
Susice, Municipality of Strpci ;
29. Abduction of 14-year Serbian boy Jovica Milic, while tending his
herd on
24 June, in the village of Susice, Municipality of Stprce. He managed to
escape, sustaining serious injuries and psychological stress;
30. Mortar attack on eleven Serbian houses in the village of Velika
Hoca, on
24 June in the Municipality of Orahovac ;
31. Abduction of Kosovo Serbian, Tomislav Markovic, on the
Podujevo-Pristina
road on 24 June;
32. Murder of Kica Milanovic, 50, a Kosovo Serbian, on his doorstep at
Kosovo Polje on 25 June;
33. Attempt to abduct Milorad Soric, a Kosovo Serb civilian, in front of
his
house on 26 June, in Orahovac, on which occasion he escaped but was
seriously injured."
The UN calls this - "Humanitarian Protection" ?.... What would
your
readers call it ???...They were shown more of a single child's boot
(blue -
remember it ?) than they will ever see of the continuing inhuman misery
inflicted, every day, on Serbian men, women and children in Kosovo.
John Jay
London
ppdscat@...
"Human rights are for ALL humans, including Serbs!"
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ARRESTATO DALLE TRUPPE DI OCCUPAZIONE STATUNITENSI SERBO
ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE CONTRO IL REGIME RAZZISTA DELLA KFOR
> > Danas, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
> > July 6, 2000
> >
> > Radojko Kecic arrested
> >
> > Strpce (Beta) - American KFOR soldiers arrested
> > photographer Radojko Kecic
> > of Strpce yesterday for organizing the demonstration
> > of the Serbs in this
> > town in the south of Kosovo. Kecic, the owner of a
> > photo shop, was taken to
> > the American military base Bondsteel near Urosevac.
> >
> > Approximately ten Polish and American special forces
> > soldiers arrested
> > Kecic while he was purchasing food at a nearby kiosk.
> > According to Serb
> > sources in Strpce, American KFOR soldiers have created
> > a list of 46 persons
> > of Serb nationality who participated in the
> > demonstrations and road blocks
> > in Strpce. Kecic, the same sources state, is the first
> > from that list to be
> > arrested.
> >
> > Translated by S. Lazovic (July 6, 2000)
---
VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO MEDIOEVALE DI DECANI.
SILENZIO ASSOLUTO DEGLI "INTELLETTUALI" SERVILI D'EUROPA
SUL VANDALISMO CONTINUATO A SFONDO RAZZISTA AI DANNI DEI
MONUMENTI DELLA CULTURA ORTODOSSA IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
> From: Kiehl <emilia@...>
> To: Undisclosed.Recipients@...
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> Date: Jueves 22 de Junio de 2000 12:00 PM
>
>
>
> Date: 22 June 2000 09:30
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
>
>
> >Dear all, please see if you can help and/or forward to anyone who you
may
> >think can do something about this. Love Branka
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bob Petrovich <bojanp@...>
> >To: Branka Perry <branka.jp@...>
> >Date: 22 June 2000 04:01
> >Subject: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Branka, I need help, someone who can write
> >>letter in precise legalese on subject explained below.
> >>
> >>I plan to press Finnish government for
> >>their role in destruction of Christian
> >> shrines in Kosovo !
> >>
> >>There is no time, we have to start Friday, to time delivery for
> >>Monday morning.
> >>
> >>20 people from 10 or so OSCE countries will do the trick.
> >>
> >>For success, we need several waves of 20 people spread in several days.
> >>
> >>I have already collected emails and phone numbers of
> >>people in Finnish Foreign ministry, Public prosecutor for international
> >>affairs and others in Ministry
> >>of justice and Government ombudsman. I will distibute that list to
anyone
> >>who
> >>agree to actively participate ( send e-mail and
> >>later follow up over the phone)
> >>
> >>
> >>Under Finnish law, anyone REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY can file
> >>complaint for criminal conduct of Finnish public servant. They forgot
to
> >>change rules with advent of the Net.
> >>
> >>Please let me know what you think about it, can you help and if your
group
> >>want to participate.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Best,
> >>
> >>B.
> >>-------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Dear xxxx
> >>
> >>Maybe you have already seen the urgent appeal of
> >>Fr. Sava regarding Decani Monastery.
> >>
> >>It is not only theft of private property and flagrant
> >>breach of the law, it is much worse.
> >>Monastery sits at the bottom of the mountain and water
> >>tower 150ft above it presents a real threat. Sabotage
> >>may cause water blast able of destroying monastery and
> >>killing everyone inside.
> >>
> >>The monks from the brotherhood are the last remaining
> >>Serbs in Decani area. All others minority Serbs are
> >>ethnically cleansed with silent approval of UNMIK and
> >>KFOR.
> >>
> >>Theft of Monastery land and plan to put Monastery in
> >>peril can not be seen but attempt to eradicate Serbs
> >>from the area.
> >>
> >>In Decani, local UNMIK administrator is Finnish.
> >>
> >>In another case, Finnish commander of KFOR approves of
> >>
> >>destruction of religious shrines.
> >>
> >>I want to stage blitz on Finnish institutions and ask
> >>the questions of Finnish Government involvement.
> >>Also, plan to ask for help Finnish Orthodox Church.
> >>
> >>Please could you help me and elaborate breaches of the
> >>law in both cases. I am lay person and can not do it.
> >>
> >>I will do the rest. Finland is "the most wired country
> >>in the world" and I intend to use it to the fullest
> >>extent.
> >>
> >>Every member of government and judicary
> >>is reachable by e-mail.
> >>
> >>If you agree with strategy, I will send you the list
> >>of all relevant e-mail addresses of all relevant
> >>institutions in Finland so you could start next wave
> >>
> >>Very truly yours,
> >>
> >>Bob Petrovich
> >>Willowdale, Canada
> >>mailto:bojanp@...
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Name: Ms.Helina Kokarinnen, Finland,
> >>Function: municipal administrator for Decani, Kosovo,
> >>Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal acts commited:
> >>
> >>1. Violation of private property. Ms.Kokarinnen issued
> >>licence for ground preparation works for building
> >>of water tower on private property without approval of
> >>the land owner (Serbian Orthodox Church). Work has
> >>commneced, tresspassers cut the ancient wood and stole
> >>lumber.
> >>
> >>2. endangering cultural monument - medieval monastery.
> >>Planned Water tower 50 meters above Monastery
> >>represent threat to Monastery . Sabotage or structural
> >>failure will cause water tidal wave able to destroy
> >>monastery.
> >>
> >>3. putting human lives in peril.monastery is
> >>permanently inhabited by monk brotherhood.
> >>
> >>4. failure to prevent criminal act -theft of private
> >>property ( lumber)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava possess copies of UNMIK documents.
> >>
> >>Text of documents can be seen at:
> >>http://www.egroups.com/message/yugoslaviainfo/2064?&start=2038
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava can be reached at:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava
> >>Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> >>Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,Kosovo and Metohija
> >>http://www.decani.yunet.com
> >>http://www.kosovo.com
> >>Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> >>Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> >>Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
> >>------------------------------------------------------
> >>pattern:
> >>-------------------------------------------------------
> >>Name: Colonel Arto Raty, Finland
> >>Function: head of KFOR operations in Slovinje,
> >>Kosovo, Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal act:
> >>public incitement of ethnic cleansing
> >>public incitement of dectruction of religious shrine
> >>activity contrary to given duty (enforcing UNSC 1244)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>"If a church has value as a historical place then
> >>clearly it should be guarded,but if it has no
> >>historical value and there is no chance of the
> >>Serbs returning anytime soon to the area, then
> >>it should be gently dismantled,"
> >>
> >>Finnish Colonel Arto Raty
> >>head of KFOR operations in Slovinje
> >>Source: REUTERS
> >>http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000613_699.html
> >>
> >>For importance of Churches for communities see the
> >>letter of World Council of Churches:
> >>
>
>>http://platon.ee.duth.gr/data/maillist-archives/orthodoxia/1999_12/msg0007
> 2
> >.
> >>html
> >>
> >>Church in Slovinje, where Col. Raty is head of KFOR
> >>was destroyed by Albanian externists.
> >>
> >>http://www.kosovo.com/crucified/default.htm#_catalog
> From: "Nancy A. Hey" <cattynancy@...> (by way of Herman de
> Tollenaere <hermantl@...>)
> To: office@...
> Subject: Decani old growth forest threatened in Kosovo [fwd]
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:27:32 +0200
>
> [small spelling corrections made]
>
> Subject: Decani Monastery Wood being Destroyed with UNMIK written
permission
>
> URGENT.....URGENT.....URGENT
>
> ALBANIANS DESTROYING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MONASTERY FOREST WITH UNMIK
WRITTEN
> PERMISSION
>
> I am taking this opportunity to inform you about very deplorable events
> which happened around Decani monastery in the last few days. According to
> the written permission of the municipal administrator for Decani, Ms.
> Helina Kokarinnen, local Albanian contractors were allowed to start
> cutting the monastery century old pine wood just 50 m above monastery of
> Decani. The cutting of wood was in fact a preparation for the building of
a
> water tower which is a part of a larger project of enlargement of the
water
> system for Decani. This project is undertaken by the Italian Company
COOPI.
> According to the information received
> yesterday from COOPI the plan was made in September 1999 and was approved
> by local UNMIK office.
>
> Neither the UNMIK administrator nor KFOR authorities or COOPI ever
> contacted the Monastery authorities about this undertaking, although the
> cutting of the wood and the clearing of the ground for a water tower is
> done on the property of Decani Monastery. The monks have reacted the very
> first day and requested from KFOR to stop the destruction of the monastery
> forest but KFOR answered with almost two days of delay granting the
> security to the monks to go to the location just 50 meters from the
> monastery. The monks had not dared go alone because of constant danger
from
> Kosovo Albanians who had even launched a mortar attacks three months ago
> against the monastery and make great pressures against the brotherhood.
>
> The consequences of this illegal operation are deplorable. More than 40
> cubic meters of pine wood have been cut and stolen by ethnic Albanians in
> their trucks ( 8 big trees). At least 20 more trees have been burned
> because the contractors wanted to be sure that the terrain is not mined
and
> conducted a mine-clearing operation destroying many other trees in the
> area. It is very important to know that this wood had been planted three
> centuries ago by Decani monks and majority of the cut pines, which were a
> landmark of Decani Monastery, are more than 150 years old. Therefore this
> is not only an issue of violation of the private property by UN
authorities
> and KFOR but also an environmental violation of one of the most beautiful
> and oldest pine forest in Kosovo.
>
> Decani Monastery and the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> have condemned this illegal act in strongest terms. The Church will ask
> from the Special Representative of the Secretary General Dr. Bernard
> Kouchner to launch a full investigation on this issue and the
> recompensation for the done damage.
>
> Attachment:
> Copy of the letter by which the UN administrator Ms HELINA KOKARINNEN
> granted a written permission to Kosovo Albanian contractor to cut
> unspecified number of trees in the monastery forest. Ms. Kokarinnen in
> her conversation with the monks behaved as if she did not know exactly
> what it was all about. This morning she left to Finland without any
> explanation to the monastery which requested an urgent meeting for today.
>
> >------------------------------------
> To KFOR - Decan/Decani
>
> June 14, 2000
>
> I have discussed with Nue Mulaj who is working for the organization
> COOPI (ID card no 26) as an excavator driver. Nue Mulaj is ready to cut
the
> trees needed for water supply working. According to Mr. Mulaj he has
agreed
> about cutting and carrying the trees with COOPI, wood company Djeravica
and
> KFOR representative. Mr. Mulaj can take and carry the trees for free from
> the forest.
>
> Helina Kokarinen
> Municipal administrator Municipality of Decan/Decani
>
> >--------------------------------------------
> With this letter which was shown by KFOR to the Monastery Authorities
> (we have a copy) it is evident that UNMIK administrator knew all from
> the beginning and in fact issued a blank permission to Kosovo Albanians to
> cut as many trees as they like. From COOPI authorities the Monastery
> learned that the location for this water tower was chosen by Albanians and
> that from the technical point of view the tower may have been constructed
> on another location. The monastery authorities think that the local
> Albanians deliberately chose this location in order to make a pressure on
> the monastery, violate its property and steal the valuable pine trees
free.
> It is sad that UNMIK and KFOR played such a deplorable role in all this.
>
> Fr. Sava
>
>
> >--
> Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
> Kosovo and Metohija
>
> http://www.decani.yunet.com
> http://www.kosovo.com
>
> decani@...
> Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
>
>
>
---
L'ANALISI DELLA SITUAZIONE SECONDO L'ISTITUTO CATO
Cato Policy Analysis No. 373
June 10, 2000
Dubious Anniversary: Kosovo One Year Later
by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz
Christopher Layne is a visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the
Cato Institute. Benjamin
Schwarz is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly
Executive Summary
One year after NATO ended its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, the
Clinton
administration’s Kosovo policy is a conspicuous failure. Kosovo is now
the scene of a brutal ethnic
cleansing campaign carried out by NATO’s erstwhile de facto ally, the
Kosovo Liberation Army,
an organization profoundly inimical to America’s interests and professed
values. The KLA is also
currently fomenting an insurgency elsewhere in Serbia, which promises to
destabilize the Balkans
even further.
The Clinton administration has embarked on yet another
multi-billion-dollar nation-building
adventure, which many analysts suggest will entangle the U.S. military
for a decade or longer.
This situation could have been avoided. Because of its inept diplomacy
and strategic
miscalculation, the administration bears a large measure of
responsibility for both Kosovo’s
humanitarian crisis a year ago and the KLA’s postwar thuggery. It is now
clear that the
administration’s claims of "horrific slaughter" and attempts at
"genocide" by the Serbs were gross
exaggerations designed to whip up
support for intervention from a skeptical Congress and public.
Confronting Kosovo’s depressing prospects, the administration consoles
itself that, as President
Clinton says, it "did the right thing in the right way" when it
intervened. Even granting that
doubtful premise, this is not enough to exonerate policymakers from
their responsibility for the
situation the United States confronts today. In the real world,
policymakers are judged by the
consequences of their actions, not by their intentions. The Kosovo war
has not vindicated the
administration’s doctrine of "virtuous power." By waging an avoidable
war, the Clinton
administration has saddled
the United States with a host of intractable problems.
Full Text of Policy Analysis No. 373 (PDF, 19 pgs, 79 Kb)
---
KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO: MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
>Original message:
>From: "robert rodvik" <robrod@...>
>To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
>Subject: Fw: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:13:43 -0700
>
>
>
>
>Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:07 PM
>Subject: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>
>
> In keeping with its propaganda role, CBC-TV continues the distortions
>and spin that characterized its coverage during NATO's bombing spree. The
>Ministry of Truth indicates that tonight, Friday June 23, 2000 that it is
>going to once again reprise the situation in Kosovo and surrounding
>environs. You can tune in to The National at 10p.m. and get all the latest
>spin on the National Magazine, which will most likely reiterate that the
>crimes of the Serbs were so evil that NATO had no other choice.
> The sad part of all this is that the Canadian taxpayer funds this
>propaganda operation.
>NIL ILLIGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM
>RR
>____________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>
>
>KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO
>NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
>Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
>
>Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's
>78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato
>control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media
>have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public
>serious retrospectives on the war and its aftermath. One
>reason for this may be that Nato's bombing campaign and
>year-long occupation not only failed to realize most of
>Nato's proclaimed objectives, but the intervention also
>produced a far higher level of ethnic violence than had
>existed previously--first against ethnic Albanians, then
>later against all ethnic minorities. As the Norwegian
>foreign affairs analyst Jan Oberg notes, "the largest ethnic
>cleansing in the Balkans [in percentage that fled] has
>happened under the very eyes of 45,000 Nato troops" in
>occupied Kosovo.
>
>True, Nato did eventually succeed in getting Belgrade to
>withdraw the Serb army from Kosovo. But in the process,
>Nato's bombing campaign triggered a Serb military response
>against ethnic Albanians that Nato officials themselves had
>predicted would occur; a response that was based not on the
>unprovoked nastiness of Serbs but rather on rational
>military calculations. Expulsions were greatest where
>fighting was heaviest, mainly in territories controlled by
>the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Indeed, in the words of
>the OSCE, much of the refugee flow was designed "to keep
>main communications routes open to supply Serb forces with
>material, fuel, and food." Moreover, although Nato had
>denied any collaboration with rebel forces during the
>bombing, top Nato officials now admit that KLA guerrillas
>were "constantly on the phone to Nato," and that Nato had
>"instigated" a major KLA offensive (Paul Richter, LA Times,
>June 10, 2000). President Clinton may have announced that
>the main purpose of bombing was "to deter an even bloodier
>offensive against innocent civilians in Kosovo" (March 24,
>1999), but as the bombing increased it exponentially (as
>well as adding Nato's contribution to Albanian pain), that
>aim was clearly not met.
>
>With the increase in violence following the bombing, Nato
>officials quickly announced that the Serb attacks and
>expulsions would have taken place anyway, under a
>pre-arranged plan the Serbs allegedly called "Operation
>Horseshoe." But no mention had ever been made of such a plan
>prior to the bombing, and a pre-war German Foreign Office
>report had even denied that Serb actions in Kosovo
>constituted "ethnic cleansing;" instead, the report found
>that the Serb military campaign was designed to quell an
>insurgency. UN Special Envoy Jiri Dienstbier says the same:
>"Before the bombing Albanians were not driven away on the
>basis of ethnic principle. [They were] victims of the brutal
>war between the Yugoslav army and the Kosovo Liberation
>Army" (CTK National News Wire, April 20, 2000). The fact
>that Belgrade was willing to allow 2,000 OSCE observers into
>Kosovo (although the OSCE contingent never exceeded 1,400),
>and that it objected strongly to their removal before Nato
>launched its bombing, is also inconsistent with a planned
>"Operation Horseshoe." As the retired German Brigadier
>General, and now a consultant with the OSCE, D. Heinz Loquai
>argues in his recent book, Der Kosovo-Konflikt Wege in einen
>Vermeidbaren Krieg ("The Kosovo Conflict: The Road to an
>Avoidable War"), the German Foreign Ministry's revelation
>two weeks into the war that it possessed intelligence
>confirming the existence of "Operation Horseshoe" was an
>outright fabrication culled from Bulgarian intelligence
>reports and the imagination of Nato military propagandists.
>None of this, however, has prevented apologists for Nato's
>war from repeating the lie that Operation Allied Force was
>justified by the imminent implementation of this mythical
>plan to "ethnically cleanse" Kosovo of its Albanian
>population. (On June 11, 2000, the ineffable George
>Robertson asked Jonathan Dimbleby on Britain's ITV to
>"imagine if almost 2 million refugees had been expelled...if
>Milosevic had succeeded with that ethnic cleansing.")
>
>In the face of the Nato-induced surge in violence in March
>and April 1999, Nato officials changed course and proclaimed
>that their new main objective was returning the Kosovo
>Albanians to their homes quickly and safely; and with the
>help of the media Nato successfully portrayed the bombing as
>a response to the mass exodus rather than its cause. But
>even this new objective was met only in part--the Albanians
>who had fled Kosovo did return quickly, but their safety and
>welfare were compromised by several factors. One was that
>Nato bombs had killed and seriously injured many hundreds of
>fleeing Albanians. Nato also used both deadly cluster bombs
>and depleted uranium munitions in Kosovo, a choice of
>weapons not conducive to the long-run safety of the
>returnees. To date, an estimated 100 people have been killed
>and many hundreds injured by exploding fragmentation bombs.
>The toll from depleted uranium-- radiation-induced
>illness--will come later, as it has in Iraq.
>
>Nato's bombing also contributed heavily to infrastructure
>damage, and reconstruction has been slow. Nato's generosity
>was largely exhausted in providing resources to destroy and
>kill--the estimated cost of the military operations against
>Yugoslavia has run in excess of $10 billion, whereas the
>resources spent for humanitarian aid and reconstruction in
>Kosovo have been well under $1 billion. Thus, hundreds of
>thousands remain homeless, jobless, and lacking in basic
>facilities.
>
>Nato's occupation also failed to bring law and order to
>Kosovo. This was partly a consequence of the destruction,
>poverty, and exacerbated hatred produced by the war. But it
>was also a result of the fact that, in direct violation of
>UN Resolution 1244 which called for the "demilitarization"
>of the KLA, under Nato authority the KLA has been
>incorporated into a "Kosovo Protection Corps," thereby
>legalizing and legitimating what until then had been an
>armed rebel force. This, plus the Nato bias in favor of the
>KLA and against the Serbs, has helped institutionalize a
>system of violence and pervasive fear, mainly damaging to
>the minority Serbs, Roma and Turks, but also adversely
>affecting most Kosovo Albanians. On top of this, organized
>crime has soared throughout the region. The British-based
>Jane's Intelligence Review reports that "large numbers of
>international criminals are now seeking refuge in Kosovo"
>(Paul Harris, June 1, 2000). According to a study by the
>International Crisis Group, the areas of southwest Serbia
>(both Kosovo and parts of Serbia proper) where the KLA's
>influence remains greatest have become the preferred "Balkan
>route" for the "heroin trail" between Turkey and Western
>Europe ("What Happened to the KLA," March 3, 2000).
>
>It must be admitted, however, that Nato did succeed in
>"teaching the Serbs a lesson." But what exactly was that
>lesson? Certainly not that ethnic cleansing is unacceptable
>to the Western conscience. Although Nato allegedly waged war
>to terminate ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and although an
>agreement of June 9, 1999, stipulated that Nato would
>"establish and maintain a secure environment for all
>citizens of Kosovo," under Nato's occupation somewhere
>between 60 and 90 percent of Serbs and Roma have left
>Kosovo, mainly because of KLA harassment, home burnings, and
>killing, and a large fraction of Kosovo's Jews and Turks
>have also fled. Thus the biggest story of Nato's 12-month
>occupation is that under Nato's watch, Kosovo's ethnic
>minorities have been subjected to a truly massive
>multi-ethnic cleansing. For the media, however, Nato is
>trying to do its best under difficult circumstances, and
>Milosevic remains the only villain in sight. And they fail
>to see that the only lesson taught the Serbs by Nato has
>been "Don't mess with us"--a lesson devoid of moral content.
>
>Now one year later, Nato's policies have not brought peace
>and stability to Kosovo and the Balkans. Kosovo is still
>legally a part of Yugoslavia, but while a Nato protectorate
>it has been turned over to the Albanians and KLA. This has
>allowed them to do a fine job of ethnic cleansing, but has
>made Kosovo a cauldron of hatred and violence and a likely
>base for further instability and warfare. Unwilling to
>provide large resources for rebuilding, Nato has no
>solutions and no evident "exit strategy." This was not
>"humanitarian intervention," it has been an irresponsible
>misuse of power that made a bad situation worse, gilded over
>with lofty rhetoric.
>
>Edward Herman is co-editor, with Philip Hammond, of Degraded
>Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis (Pluto, 2000);
>David Peterson is a Chicago-based researcher and journalist.
>
---
DISCORSO DI CEDOMIR PRLINCEVIC, LEADER DELLA COMUNITA' EBRAICA
IN KOSMET, SCACCIATO DALL'UCKFOR, AD AMSTERDAM NELL'OTTOBRE SCORSO
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
SOLDIERS FOR THE TRUTH
"DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER"
14 June 2000 - FLAG DAY
"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
General George Washington, New York Legislature, 1775
Soldiers For The Truth Foundation, PO Box 63840, Colorado Springs, CO
80962-3840
HTTP://WWW.SFTT.ORG
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Terror in Kosovo"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ed.: The truth about Kosovo is still elusive. Was there a War? Did we
really win it? Are we supporting the right people? The following piece
offers a different perspective and questions our current understanding.
Introduced by Ben Works, Balkan scholar and one of our SFTT Trustees,
BenWorks@....
Last October, Colleagues of mine tracked down the head of the small
Jewish
community in Pristina, Kosovo for an interview. Mr Cedemir Prlincevic
confirmed that the Jewish community had been ethnically cleansed by the
KLA
and associated gangsters from Albania who overwhelmed Kosovo as they
flooded
into the province in tandem with NATO's occupation troops.
Today, our troops are surrounded by hostile KLA gunmen determined to
wrest
Kosovo from its native communities, and by sullen Serbs who have about
reached their limit of patience. It is an out-of-control situation.
A longer interview with Mr. Prlincevic is accessible at Mr. Israel's
website
"The Emperors Clothes":
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm,
or www.tenc.net
**********************************************************************
By Cedomir Prlincevic
Archivist & head of the Jewish community of Pristina and Jared Israel 24
October 1999
I appreciate very much the invitations from Global Reflexion to address
the
meeting held last night in Amsterdam, and the invitation from
"Association
Dialogue" to address the Conference tomorrow in Paris...
For months people in the West, and also, through satellite transmission,
those of us in Yugoslavia, have been bombarded with Western media claims
that NATO, that is the US and Germany, want to create, in Kosovo, a
multiethnic, democratic society.
We tend to believe that other people mean what they say. And therefore
I
and others in Pristina, believed that when KFOR, that is NATO, marched
into
Kosovo, they would protect the rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians.
The KFOR troops and the UCK crossed the border into Kosovo together;
they
entered Pristina together. Immediately the UCK and gangster elements
under
their leadership took over government institutions and fanned out, going
after the homes of non-Albanians and pro-Yugoslav Albanians.
I lived in a large complex of nice apartments inhabited by doctors,
lawyers,
university professors, managers of various institutions, the
intellectual
core of Pristina society. Right after KFOR arrived, the gangster
elements
attacked this section, called Milana. They moved up and down through
the
buildings, banging on doors, breaking down doors, throwing tear gas into
people's apartments, forcing them out on pain of death.
The Western media claims that KFOR has been "unable" to control the
action
of "mysterious gangs" who unfortunately have targeted Serbs, nor have
they
the manpower needed to prevent ethnic Albanians from Kosovo from
exacting
revenge. This is simply untrue.
When the Albanians attacked, one of my neighbors (a doctor) called
KFOR. An
English Major arrived with his squad. But the Albanians did not flee.
I
spoke to this Major. I asked him why he didn't do anything. He said
"This
is a job for the Civil Authorities." But you see, by then there were no
civil authorities other than the UCK. He said KFOR was only interested
in
cases of murder.
I showed him documents, confirming that I was the President of the
Jewish
community in Pristina. He replied: "Later." He didn't have time to
examine these papers. While the Major and his squad were there - before
their eyes - the gangsters continued their work. In some cases, when
residents
appealed to these British KFOR troops, the KFOR people took the part of
modern day Solomons. The Albanians explained their plight: "We have no
place to stay tonight." So the KFOR people said, "Why don't you share
this
apartment amongst yourselves!" - in other words, the gangsters were to
move
in with the prey.
KFOR left, the Albanians moved in, and then the Albanians said, "Now
leave
or we will slaughter you."
Under these circumstances, who would stay? We lost everything, years of
our
lives - our lives, and our community, the only place we can ever be at
home - gone. Stolen. About 30,000 people were driven from this huge
complex
in Milana in a matter of days. I have had to flee to tiny quarters in
Belgrade, I and my family, including my 81 year old mother.
The behavior of a large part of the Albanian population was terrible.
They
lied to support the NATO campaign of lies, inventing tales of harassment
and
mass executions. Secretly, and then openly, they supported the UCK.
These
people would never have done such terrible things were it not for years
of
encouragement from two centers - the United States and Germany.
Albanian culture unfortunately includes a strong strain of intolerance;
it
also has a powerful Clan structure which puts Clan leaders in a
dictatorial
position. These two cultural traits have been utilized by NATO to
provide
foot soldiers for modern-day fascism, complete with a liberal rhetorical
cover.
Recently I have tried to communicate to interviewers why the Albanians
left
for Macedonia and Albania during the war. I told them they didn't
understand the significance of certain features of modern Albanian
culture.
It is very closed off, very self-oriented, and very much under the
control
of the leaders of Clans. The word 'clans' is not used here simply to
describe a formal structural feature of Albanian society. Quite the
contrary, clans are the actual, functioning social unit of vast numbers
of
Albanians.
During the bombing, my neighbor, an ethnic Albanian, left. I asked him
why
are you leaving? We're not getting killed in this housing development,
we're all helping each other, and we're all together in the air raid
shelter - why are you leaving? And he just looked at me, and he
said, "I have to. I've been told to leave now. Everyone will be
leaving
now."
And that was that. This man and his wife, who were sophisticated
intellectuals, whose children played with the Serbian children, whom I
had
considered to be friends - they were leaving.
Many opponents of the war thought the UCK was making a big mistake by
terrorizing Albanians. But it wasn't making a mistake. It was making a
point to the clan leaders: we have the backing of NATO and we will kill
Albanians who buck us. Given the existence of anti-Serb racism among
Albanians, this we're-the-winning-team argument brought the leaders into
line.
Huge numbers of Albanians left Kosovo during the bombing. They did not
leave because Serbs were slaughtering them, which was a made-up story.
They
did not leave because they were getting bombed; though they were getting
bombed. They left because they were told to leave by their clan
leaders.
Vast numbers of people from all over the world have protested the
bombing of
Yugoslavia. In doing so they have created a movement out of the
political
shambles of our world.
And yet it is now, after the cessation of bombing, that we have entered
the
worst hell. This terrible fascist-like invasion has created far worse
suffering than the bombing. Some are driven out, some disappear, some
are
murdered and their murders attributed to forces beyond NATO's control.
Some, like the Serbs and Roma of Orahovac, have been imprisoned in a new
Warsaw Ghetto.
I urge those who care about Justice not to remain silent.
---
IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 14, 2000
President Honours Albanian KLA Volunteers Killed in Kosovo
TIRANA - Albanian President Rexhep Meidani has honoured two Albanians
killed while fighting for the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
against Serbian forces last year, the presidency said on Tuesday.
Meidani, marking the first anniversary of the entry of NATO troops into
Kosovo, acknowledged for the first time the role played by Albanian
volunteers by awarding Indrit Cara and Astrit Suli the Golden Eagle
medal.
Albania has already honoured former NATO commander Wesley Clark with its
highest award for foreigners. The alliance's former Secretary-General,
Javier Solana, will also receive the Skenderbeg Award.
Cara, originally from Kavaja in western Albania, joined Kosovo Albanian
friends who had been living as immigrants in Britain in signing up for
the KLA.
Many Albanian volunteers, most of them former soldiers, joined the ranks
of the KLA, moved by the atrocities Serbian forces had committed and
were committing in Kosovo, some 90 percent of whose population were
ethnic Albanian, or by the prospect of better pay in the irregular army.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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hanno finalmente preso il controllo dell'aereoporto di Pristina.
Viva le truppe italiane!
Viva L'Italia!
Viva l'Albania italiana!
Eia eia alala'!
* ELENCO ATTI TERRORISTICI DAL 24 MAGGIO AL 26 GIUGNO SCORSI
* TRUPPE OCCUPATRICI ARRESTANO SERBO ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE
* VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO DI DECANI
* L'ANALISI DELL'ISTITUTO CATO (LINK)
* KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO TRA MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
* FLASHBACK: GLI EBREI KOSOVARI SCACCIATI DALL'UCKFOR
* IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
---
CRIMINI COMMESSI DAL FANATISMO NAZIONALISTA PANALBANESE
IN KOSMET TRA IL 24 MAGGIO ED IL 26 GIUGNO 2000.
***DA NON RIPORTARE SUI GIORNALI***
(From: John Jay Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [STOPNATO] [serbrights] [Fwd: sign and email/KOSOVO] STOP
NATO:
¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM )
_________
So far, we've only sent this out to the IHT. Of course, there are many
other
newspapers/TV channels, etc., ...
_________
Sir: - We challenge the International Herald Tribune to publish the
disgraceful diary of evil racial persecution set out below.
We dare the IHT to show its readers, all over the world, what
kind
of a job of "Humanitarian Protection" KFOR troops and UNMIK's so-called
"Peacekeepers" are doing to "keep the peace" in Kosovo today ?... This
is
real news... Why not publish it ?... Let's see how fair and open-minded
a
'great' "Democratic" newspaper can honestly be !
The Western media shows remarkably little interest in the
suffering
of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo. Sure, we're told of an
occasional incident, here and there, but even then obscured in very
small
print, usually on the inside pages - where are the headlines !
Is
this what is really meant by "Free" Press - the "freedom" merely to pick
and
choose what you tell your readers, strictly according to how its telling
may
or may not suit the agendas of the incumbent political administrators in
Washington ? Do you believe that votes supposedly reflecting American
public
'opinion' formed in this way, on the basis of selective misinformation,
is
anything like an exercise in true 'democracy' ?
Your readers wouldn't ! - If they only knew that's how it
really is
- ! Happy 4th of July !...
All details and statistics below- (strictly according to
routine
nformation known to and monitored by members of the International Red
Cross)
- are matters of official UNMIK record.
All were in Kosovo, an autonomous province of the sovereign
Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia - currently occupied and
supposedly
"protected", under UN mandate, by KFOR troops.
This is just a one month catalogue of the racial crime and
brutal
persecution carried out against Serbs and other non-Albanians between 24
May
and 26 June of this year only !
__________________________________________
TERRORIST ACTS COMMITTED BY ALBANIANS,
FORMERLY OF THE (KLA) THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY,
BETWEEN 24 MAY - 26 JUNE 2000.
1. Murder of Vladimir Ilic, a Kosovo Serb, 50, on his doorstep at Vitina
on
24 May;
2. Attack on Kosovo Serbs in the village of Dobrotin, Municipality of
Lipljan, on 26 May, on which occasion 4 Serbian civilians were gravely
wounded;
3. Throwing of a hand grenade on a Serbian cafe at Bresje on 26 May, on
which occasion 5 Serbians were gravely wounded;
4. Setting a fire in the Trepca complex in southern Kosovska Mitrovica
on 6
May which caused enormous material damage;
5. Attack on a group of Serbs in front of a store in the village of
Cernica, on 28 May, in the Municipality of Gnjilane, on which occasion
Tihomir Trifunovic, Vojin Vasic and a 5-year old, Milos Petrovic, were
killed and two other Serbian civilians were gravely wounded;
6. Armed attacks on a local police patrol in the village of Konculj on
23
and 24 May and a mortar attack on the members of local Kosovo Serbian
police, on 30 May, in the village of Lucane ;
7. Attack on Serbian civilians in the village of Klokot, Municipality
of
Vitina, on 31 May, in which Lepterka Marinkovic, 67, was killed and
another
3 Serbs were gravely wounded;
8. Murder of Milutin Trajkovic, 33, a Serbian, in the village of Babin
Most,
on 31 May, in the Municipality of Obilic;
9. Murder of Iso Heta, 71, an elderly retired member of the Ministry of
the
Interior, on 31 May;
10. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of Kosovo Serb, Djordje
Velickovic, on 1 June, at Obilic, on which occasion Misko Todorovic was
also gravely wounded;
11. Killing of two Serbs, Sinisa Dimic and Vlastimir Milic, and
wounding of
3 others on 2 June, two of them underage children, in an automobile
which
ran over an anti-tank mine planted by Albanian terrorists the night
before
on the road between the Serbian villages of Ugljari and Preoce near
Pristina;
12. Burning down of a number of Serbian houses in both Prizren and
Decani on
3 June;
13. Continued arbitrary arrests of Kosovo Serbian civilians by KFOR and
UNMIK, on 7 June, of which one of the most drastic examples was the
arrest
of Nebojsa Stojanovic, 30, at Gracanica, who was apprehended while in an
intensive care unit following a serious injury sustained after KFOR
opened
automatic fire on Serbs protesting about the terror of the so-called
Kosovo
Liberation Army, (of which this catalogue is one brief example);
14. Brutal attack and wounding of Jovan Cerovic, 55, a Serb, on 8 June,
by
10 terrorists with clubs in the district of Obilic;
15. Burning of a number of Serbian houses at Obilic on 9 June;
16. Anduction of Safet Pucurica, 37, a worker from Kosovska Mitrovica on
10
June, on the road Vucitrn-Kosovska Mitrovica;
17. Armed attack on an automobile driven by 4 Goranci (non-Albanian
Muslim)
on 9 June, near Orcus, Municipality of Gora, on which occasion one of
these
civilians was severely wounded;
18. Burning of Serbian houses at Obilic and the dynamiting of Roma
(Gypsy)
houses on 10 June, in the village of Novo Rujce, Municipality of
Lipljan;
19. Setting a fire in the Kosovo Serbian restaurant "Lotos" on 10 June;
20. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Orahovac on 12 and 13 June;
21. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Obilic on 14 June;
22. Abduction, rape and mutilation of a 14-year old Serbian girl in
Pristina
on 14 June;
23. Killing of Zlatibor Denic and Borko Filipovic and the wounding of
Dejan
Filipovic on 15 June, the latter losing both his arms and legs, in an
automobile which ran over an anti-tank mine planted by the terrorists of
the
Kosovo Liberation Army on the road between the villages of Preoce and
Lepina;
24. Attack on humanitarian convoys heading for Serbian Strpce on both 30
May
and on 16 June, in the villages of Radivojce and Pozarane;
25. Mortar attack on the Decani monastery near Pec, on the night of 21
and
22 June. Decani monastery was built in 1335. It is one of the treasures
of
Serbian cultural heritage, housing frescoes of great value and a large
number of priceless ancient manuscripts and icons;
26. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of a Serb, Toma Ivkovic, in
Gnjilane on 21 June, on which occasion Mr. Ivkovic's mother was wounded;
27. Brutal abduction of 2 Serbs, Vlada, 80, and Persa Miletic, 50, on 21
June, in the village of Mali Trnovac, in the Municipality of Bujanovac.
Their fate is still unknown;
28. Abduction of Serb, Bozidar Markovic, 60, on 23 June, in the village
of
Susice, Municipality of Strpci ;
29. Abduction of 14-year Serbian boy Jovica Milic, while tending his
herd on
24 June, in the village of Susice, Municipality of Stprce. He managed to
escape, sustaining serious injuries and psychological stress;
30. Mortar attack on eleven Serbian houses in the village of Velika
Hoca, on
24 June in the Municipality of Orahovac ;
31. Abduction of Kosovo Serbian, Tomislav Markovic, on the
Podujevo-Pristina
road on 24 June;
32. Murder of Kica Milanovic, 50, a Kosovo Serbian, on his doorstep at
Kosovo Polje on 25 June;
33. Attempt to abduct Milorad Soric, a Kosovo Serb civilian, in front of
his
house on 26 June, in Orahovac, on which occasion he escaped but was
seriously injured."
The UN calls this - "Humanitarian Protection" ?.... What would
your
readers call it ???...They were shown more of a single child's boot
(blue -
remember it ?) than they will ever see of the continuing inhuman misery
inflicted, every day, on Serbian men, women and children in Kosovo.
John Jay
London
ppdscat@...
"Human rights are for ALL humans, including Serbs!"
---
ARRESTATO DALLE TRUPPE DI OCCUPAZIONE STATUNITENSI SERBO
ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE CONTRO IL REGIME RAZZISTA DELLA KFOR
> > Danas, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
> > July 6, 2000
> >
> > Radojko Kecic arrested
> >
> > Strpce (Beta) - American KFOR soldiers arrested
> > photographer Radojko Kecic
> > of Strpce yesterday for organizing the demonstration
> > of the Serbs in this
> > town in the south of Kosovo. Kecic, the owner of a
> > photo shop, was taken to
> > the American military base Bondsteel near Urosevac.
> >
> > Approximately ten Polish and American special forces
> > soldiers arrested
> > Kecic while he was purchasing food at a nearby kiosk.
> > According to Serb
> > sources in Strpce, American KFOR soldiers have created
> > a list of 46 persons
> > of Serb nationality who participated in the
> > demonstrations and road blocks
> > in Strpce. Kecic, the same sources state, is the first
> > from that list to be
> > arrested.
> >
> > Translated by S. Lazovic (July 6, 2000)
---
VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO MEDIOEVALE DI DECANI.
SILENZIO ASSOLUTO DEGLI "INTELLETTUALI" SERVILI D'EUROPA
SUL VANDALISMO CONTINUATO A SFONDO RAZZISTA AI DANNI DEI
MONUMENTI DELLA CULTURA ORTODOSSA IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
> From: Kiehl <emilia@...>
> To: Undisclosed.Recipients@...
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> Date: Jueves 22 de Junio de 2000 12:00 PM
>
>
>
> Date: 22 June 2000 09:30
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
>
>
> >Dear all, please see if you can help and/or forward to anyone who you
may
> >think can do something about this. Love Branka
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bob Petrovich <bojanp@...>
> >To: Branka Perry <branka.jp@...>
> >Date: 22 June 2000 04:01
> >Subject: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Branka, I need help, someone who can write
> >>letter in precise legalese on subject explained below.
> >>
> >>I plan to press Finnish government for
> >>their role in destruction of Christian
> >> shrines in Kosovo !
> >>
> >>There is no time, we have to start Friday, to time delivery for
> >>Monday morning.
> >>
> >>20 people from 10 or so OSCE countries will do the trick.
> >>
> >>For success, we need several waves of 20 people spread in several days.
> >>
> >>I have already collected emails and phone numbers of
> >>people in Finnish Foreign ministry, Public prosecutor for international
> >>affairs and others in Ministry
> >>of justice and Government ombudsman. I will distibute that list to
anyone
> >>who
> >>agree to actively participate ( send e-mail and
> >>later follow up over the phone)
> >>
> >>
> >>Under Finnish law, anyone REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY can file
> >>complaint for criminal conduct of Finnish public servant. They forgot
to
> >>change rules with advent of the Net.
> >>
> >>Please let me know what you think about it, can you help and if your
group
> >>want to participate.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Best,
> >>
> >>B.
> >>-------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Dear xxxx
> >>
> >>Maybe you have already seen the urgent appeal of
> >>Fr. Sava regarding Decani Monastery.
> >>
> >>It is not only theft of private property and flagrant
> >>breach of the law, it is much worse.
> >>Monastery sits at the bottom of the mountain and water
> >>tower 150ft above it presents a real threat. Sabotage
> >>may cause water blast able of destroying monastery and
> >>killing everyone inside.
> >>
> >>The monks from the brotherhood are the last remaining
> >>Serbs in Decani area. All others minority Serbs are
> >>ethnically cleansed with silent approval of UNMIK and
> >>KFOR.
> >>
> >>Theft of Monastery land and plan to put Monastery in
> >>peril can not be seen but attempt to eradicate Serbs
> >>from the area.
> >>
> >>In Decani, local UNMIK administrator is Finnish.
> >>
> >>In another case, Finnish commander of KFOR approves of
> >>
> >>destruction of religious shrines.
> >>
> >>I want to stage blitz on Finnish institutions and ask
> >>the questions of Finnish Government involvement.
> >>Also, plan to ask for help Finnish Orthodox Church.
> >>
> >>Please could you help me and elaborate breaches of the
> >>law in both cases. I am lay person and can not do it.
> >>
> >>I will do the rest. Finland is "the most wired country
> >>in the world" and I intend to use it to the fullest
> >>extent.
> >>
> >>Every member of government and judicary
> >>is reachable by e-mail.
> >>
> >>If you agree with strategy, I will send you the list
> >>of all relevant e-mail addresses of all relevant
> >>institutions in Finland so you could start next wave
> >>
> >>Very truly yours,
> >>
> >>Bob Petrovich
> >>Willowdale, Canada
> >>mailto:bojanp@...
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Name: Ms.Helina Kokarinnen, Finland,
> >>Function: municipal administrator for Decani, Kosovo,
> >>Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal acts commited:
> >>
> >>1. Violation of private property. Ms.Kokarinnen issued
> >>licence for ground preparation works for building
> >>of water tower on private property without approval of
> >>the land owner (Serbian Orthodox Church). Work has
> >>commneced, tresspassers cut the ancient wood and stole
> >>lumber.
> >>
> >>2. endangering cultural monument - medieval monastery.
> >>Planned Water tower 50 meters above Monastery
> >>represent threat to Monastery . Sabotage or structural
> >>failure will cause water tidal wave able to destroy
> >>monastery.
> >>
> >>3. putting human lives in peril.monastery is
> >>permanently inhabited by monk brotherhood.
> >>
> >>4. failure to prevent criminal act -theft of private
> >>property ( lumber)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava possess copies of UNMIK documents.
> >>
> >>Text of documents can be seen at:
> >>http://www.egroups.com/message/yugoslaviainfo/2064?&start=2038
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava can be reached at:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava
> >>Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> >>Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,Kosovo and Metohija
> >>http://www.decani.yunet.com
> >>http://www.kosovo.com
> >>Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> >>Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> >>Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
> >>------------------------------------------------------
> >>pattern:
> >>-------------------------------------------------------
> >>Name: Colonel Arto Raty, Finland
> >>Function: head of KFOR operations in Slovinje,
> >>Kosovo, Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal act:
> >>public incitement of ethnic cleansing
> >>public incitement of dectruction of religious shrine
> >>activity contrary to given duty (enforcing UNSC 1244)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>"If a church has value as a historical place then
> >>clearly it should be guarded,but if it has no
> >>historical value and there is no chance of the
> >>Serbs returning anytime soon to the area, then
> >>it should be gently dismantled,"
> >>
> >>Finnish Colonel Arto Raty
> >>head of KFOR operations in Slovinje
> >>Source: REUTERS
> >>http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000613_699.html
> >>
> >>For importance of Churches for communities see the
> >>letter of World Council of Churches:
> >>
>
>>http://platon.ee.duth.gr/data/maillist-archives/orthodoxia/1999_12/msg0007
> 2
> >.
> >>html
> >>
> >>Church in Slovinje, where Col. Raty is head of KFOR
> >>was destroyed by Albanian externists.
> >>
> >>http://www.kosovo.com/crucified/default.htm#_catalog
> From: "Nancy A. Hey" <cattynancy@...> (by way of Herman de
> Tollenaere <hermantl@...>)
> To: office@...
> Subject: Decani old growth forest threatened in Kosovo [fwd]
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:27:32 +0200
>
> [small spelling corrections made]
>
> Subject: Decani Monastery Wood being Destroyed with UNMIK written
permission
>
> URGENT.....URGENT.....URGENT
>
> ALBANIANS DESTROYING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MONASTERY FOREST WITH UNMIK
WRITTEN
> PERMISSION
>
> I am taking this opportunity to inform you about very deplorable events
> which happened around Decani monastery in the last few days. According to
> the written permission of the municipal administrator for Decani, Ms.
> Helina Kokarinnen, local Albanian contractors were allowed to start
> cutting the monastery century old pine wood just 50 m above monastery of
> Decani. The cutting of wood was in fact a preparation for the building of
a
> water tower which is a part of a larger project of enlargement of the
water
> system for Decani. This project is undertaken by the Italian Company
COOPI.
> According to the information received
> yesterday from COOPI the plan was made in September 1999 and was approved
> by local UNMIK office.
>
> Neither the UNMIK administrator nor KFOR authorities or COOPI ever
> contacted the Monastery authorities about this undertaking, although the
> cutting of the wood and the clearing of the ground for a water tower is
> done on the property of Decani Monastery. The monks have reacted the very
> first day and requested from KFOR to stop the destruction of the monastery
> forest but KFOR answered with almost two days of delay granting the
> security to the monks to go to the location just 50 meters from the
> monastery. The monks had not dared go alone because of constant danger
from
> Kosovo Albanians who had even launched a mortar attacks three months ago
> against the monastery and make great pressures against the brotherhood.
>
> The consequences of this illegal operation are deplorable. More than 40
> cubic meters of pine wood have been cut and stolen by ethnic Albanians in
> their trucks ( 8 big trees). At least 20 more trees have been burned
> because the contractors wanted to be sure that the terrain is not mined
and
> conducted a mine-clearing operation destroying many other trees in the
> area. It is very important to know that this wood had been planted three
> centuries ago by Decani monks and majority of the cut pines, which were a
> landmark of Decani Monastery, are more than 150 years old. Therefore this
> is not only an issue of violation of the private property by UN
authorities
> and KFOR but also an environmental violation of one of the most beautiful
> and oldest pine forest in Kosovo.
>
> Decani Monastery and the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> have condemned this illegal act in strongest terms. The Church will ask
> from the Special Representative of the Secretary General Dr. Bernard
> Kouchner to launch a full investigation on this issue and the
> recompensation for the done damage.
>
> Attachment:
> Copy of the letter by which the UN administrator Ms HELINA KOKARINNEN
> granted a written permission to Kosovo Albanian contractor to cut
> unspecified number of trees in the monastery forest. Ms. Kokarinnen in
> her conversation with the monks behaved as if she did not know exactly
> what it was all about. This morning she left to Finland without any
> explanation to the monastery which requested an urgent meeting for today.
>
> >------------------------------------
> To KFOR - Decan/Decani
>
> June 14, 2000
>
> I have discussed with Nue Mulaj who is working for the organization
> COOPI (ID card no 26) as an excavator driver. Nue Mulaj is ready to cut
the
> trees needed for water supply working. According to Mr. Mulaj he has
agreed
> about cutting and carrying the trees with COOPI, wood company Djeravica
and
> KFOR representative. Mr. Mulaj can take and carry the trees for free from
> the forest.
>
> Helina Kokarinen
> Municipal administrator Municipality of Decan/Decani
>
> >--------------------------------------------
> With this letter which was shown by KFOR to the Monastery Authorities
> (we have a copy) it is evident that UNMIK administrator knew all from
> the beginning and in fact issued a blank permission to Kosovo Albanians to
> cut as many trees as they like. From COOPI authorities the Monastery
> learned that the location for this water tower was chosen by Albanians and
> that from the technical point of view the tower may have been constructed
> on another location. The monastery authorities think that the local
> Albanians deliberately chose this location in order to make a pressure on
> the monastery, violate its property and steal the valuable pine trees
free.
> It is sad that UNMIK and KFOR played such a deplorable role in all this.
>
> Fr. Sava
>
>
> >--
> Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
> Kosovo and Metohija
>
> http://www.decani.yunet.com
> http://www.kosovo.com
>
> decani@...
> Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
>
>
>
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L'ANALISI DELLA SITUAZIONE SECONDO L'ISTITUTO CATO
Cato Policy Analysis No. 373
June 10, 2000
Dubious Anniversary: Kosovo One Year Later
by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz
Christopher Layne is a visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the
Cato Institute. Benjamin
Schwarz is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly
Executive Summary
One year after NATO ended its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, the
Clinton
administration’s Kosovo policy is a conspicuous failure. Kosovo is now
the scene of a brutal ethnic
cleansing campaign carried out by NATO’s erstwhile de facto ally, the
Kosovo Liberation Army,
an organization profoundly inimical to America’s interests and professed
values. The KLA is also
currently fomenting an insurgency elsewhere in Serbia, which promises to
destabilize the Balkans
even further.
The Clinton administration has embarked on yet another
multi-billion-dollar nation-building
adventure, which many analysts suggest will entangle the U.S. military
for a decade or longer.
This situation could have been avoided. Because of its inept diplomacy
and strategic
miscalculation, the administration bears a large measure of
responsibility for both Kosovo’s
humanitarian crisis a year ago and the KLA’s postwar thuggery. It is now
clear that the
administration’s claims of "horrific slaughter" and attempts at
"genocide" by the Serbs were gross
exaggerations designed to whip up
support for intervention from a skeptical Congress and public.
Confronting Kosovo’s depressing prospects, the administration consoles
itself that, as President
Clinton says, it "did the right thing in the right way" when it
intervened. Even granting that
doubtful premise, this is not enough to exonerate policymakers from
their responsibility for the
situation the United States confronts today. In the real world,
policymakers are judged by the
consequences of their actions, not by their intentions. The Kosovo war
has not vindicated the
administration’s doctrine of "virtuous power." By waging an avoidable
war, the Clinton
administration has saddled
the United States with a host of intractable problems.
Full Text of Policy Analysis No. 373 (PDF, 19 pgs, 79 Kb)
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KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO: MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
>Original message:
>From: "robert rodvik" <robrod@...>
>To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
>Subject: Fw: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:13:43 -0700
>
>
>
>
>Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:07 PM
>Subject: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>
>
> In keeping with its propaganda role, CBC-TV continues the distortions
>and spin that characterized its coverage during NATO's bombing spree. The
>Ministry of Truth indicates that tonight, Friday June 23, 2000 that it is
>going to once again reprise the situation in Kosovo and surrounding
>environs. You can tune in to The National at 10p.m. and get all the latest
>spin on the National Magazine, which will most likely reiterate that the
>crimes of the Serbs were so evil that NATO had no other choice.
> The sad part of all this is that the Canadian taxpayer funds this
>propaganda operation.
>NIL ILLIGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM
>RR
>____________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>
>
>KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO
>NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
>Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
>
>Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's
>78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato
>control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media
>have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public
>serious retrospectives on the war and its aftermath. One
>reason for this may be that Nato's bombing campaign and
>year-long occupation not only failed to realize most of
>Nato's proclaimed objectives, but the intervention also
>produced a far higher level of ethnic violence than had
>existed previously--first against ethnic Albanians, then
>later against all ethnic minorities. As the Norwegian
>foreign affairs analyst Jan Oberg notes, "the largest ethnic
>cleansing in the Balkans [in percentage that fled] has
>happened under the very eyes of 45,000 Nato troops" in
>occupied Kosovo.
>
>True, Nato did eventually succeed in getting Belgrade to
>withdraw the Serb army from Kosovo. But in the process,
>Nato's bombing campaign triggered a Serb military response
>against ethnic Albanians that Nato officials themselves had
>predicted would occur; a response that was based not on the
>unprovoked nastiness of Serbs but rather on rational
>military calculations. Expulsions were greatest where
>fighting was heaviest, mainly in territories controlled by
>the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Indeed, in the words of
>the OSCE, much of the refugee flow was designed "to keep
>main communications routes open to supply Serb forces with
>material, fuel, and food." Moreover, although Nato had
>denied any collaboration with rebel forces during the
>bombing, top Nato officials now admit that KLA guerrillas
>were "constantly on the phone to Nato," and that Nato had
>"instigated" a major KLA offensive (Paul Richter, LA Times,
>June 10, 2000). President Clinton may have announced that
>the main purpose of bombing was "to deter an even bloodier
>offensive against innocent civilians in Kosovo" (March 24,
>1999), but as the bombing increased it exponentially (as
>well as adding Nato's contribution to Albanian pain), that
>aim was clearly not met.
>
>With the increase in violence following the bombing, Nato
>officials quickly announced that the Serb attacks and
>expulsions would have taken place anyway, under a
>pre-arranged plan the Serbs allegedly called "Operation
>Horseshoe." But no mention had ever been made of such a plan
>prior to the bombing, and a pre-war German Foreign Office
>report had even denied that Serb actions in Kosovo
>constituted "ethnic cleansing;" instead, the report found
>that the Serb military campaign was designed to quell an
>insurgency. UN Special Envoy Jiri Dienstbier says the same:
>"Before the bombing Albanians were not driven away on the
>basis of ethnic principle. [They were] victims of the brutal
>war between the Yugoslav army and the Kosovo Liberation
>Army" (CTK National News Wire, April 20, 2000). The fact
>that Belgrade was willing to allow 2,000 OSCE observers into
>Kosovo (although the OSCE contingent never exceeded 1,400),
>and that it objected strongly to their removal before Nato
>launched its bombing, is also inconsistent with a planned
>"Operation Horseshoe." As the retired German Brigadier
>General, and now a consultant with the OSCE, D. Heinz Loquai
>argues in his recent book, Der Kosovo-Konflikt Wege in einen
>Vermeidbaren Krieg ("The Kosovo Conflict: The Road to an
>Avoidable War"), the German Foreign Ministry's revelation
>two weeks into the war that it possessed intelligence
>confirming the existence of "Operation Horseshoe" was an
>outright fabrication culled from Bulgarian intelligence
>reports and the imagination of Nato military propagandists.
>None of this, however, has prevented apologists for Nato's
>war from repeating the lie that Operation Allied Force was
>justified by the imminent implementation of this mythical
>plan to "ethnically cleanse" Kosovo of its Albanian
>population. (On June 11, 2000, the ineffable George
>Robertson asked Jonathan Dimbleby on Britain's ITV to
>"imagine if almost 2 million refugees had been expelled...if
>Milosevic had succeeded with that ethnic cleansing.")
>
>In the face of the Nato-induced surge in violence in March
>and April 1999, Nato officials changed course and proclaimed
>that their new main objective was returning the Kosovo
>Albanians to their homes quickly and safely; and with the
>help of the media Nato successfully portrayed the bombing as
>a response to the mass exodus rather than its cause. But
>even this new objective was met only in part--the Albanians
>who had fled Kosovo did return quickly, but their safety and
>welfare were compromised by several factors. One was that
>Nato bombs had killed and seriously injured many hundreds of
>fleeing Albanians. Nato also used both deadly cluster bombs
>and depleted uranium munitions in Kosovo, a choice of
>weapons not conducive to the long-run safety of the
>returnees. To date, an estimated 100 people have been killed
>and many hundreds injured by exploding fragmentation bombs.
>The toll from depleted uranium-- radiation-induced
>illness--will come later, as it has in Iraq.
>
>Nato's bombing also contributed heavily to infrastructure
>damage, and reconstruction has been slow. Nato's generosity
>was largely exhausted in providing resources to destroy and
>kill--the estimated cost of the military operations against
>Yugoslavia has run in excess of $10 billion, whereas the
>resources spent for humanitarian aid and reconstruction in
>Kosovo have been well under $1 billion. Thus, hundreds of
>thousands remain homeless, jobless, and lacking in basic
>facilities.
>
>Nato's occupation also failed to bring law and order to
>Kosovo. This was partly a consequence of the destruction,
>poverty, and exacerbated hatred produced by the war. But it
>was also a result of the fact that, in direct violation of
>UN Resolution 1244 which called for the "demilitarization"
>of the KLA, under Nato authority the KLA has been
>incorporated into a "Kosovo Protection Corps," thereby
>legalizing and legitimating what until then had been an
>armed rebel force. This, plus the Nato bias in favor of the
>KLA and against the Serbs, has helped institutionalize a
>system of violence and pervasive fear, mainly damaging to
>the minority Serbs, Roma and Turks, but also adversely
>affecting most Kosovo Albanians. On top of this, organized
>crime has soared throughout the region. The British-based
>Jane's Intelligence Review reports that "large numbers of
>international criminals are now seeking refuge in Kosovo"
>(Paul Harris, June 1, 2000). According to a study by the
>International Crisis Group, the areas of southwest Serbia
>(both Kosovo and parts of Serbia proper) where the KLA's
>influence remains greatest have become the preferred "Balkan
>route" for the "heroin trail" between Turkey and Western
>Europe ("What Happened to the KLA," March 3, 2000).
>
>It must be admitted, however, that Nato did succeed in
>"teaching the Serbs a lesson." But what exactly was that
>lesson? Certainly not that ethnic cleansing is unacceptable
>to the Western conscience. Although Nato allegedly waged war
>to terminate ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and although an
>agreement of June 9, 1999, stipulated that Nato would
>"establish and maintain a secure environment for all
>citizens of Kosovo," under Nato's occupation somewhere
>between 60 and 90 percent of Serbs and Roma have left
>Kosovo, mainly because of KLA harassment, home burnings, and
>killing, and a large fraction of Kosovo's Jews and Turks
>have also fled. Thus the biggest story of Nato's 12-month
>occupation is that under Nato's watch, Kosovo's ethnic
>minorities have been subjected to a truly massive
>multi-ethnic cleansing. For the media, however, Nato is
>trying to do its best under difficult circumstances, and
>Milosevic remains the only villain in sight. And they fail
>to see that the only lesson taught the Serbs by Nato has
>been "Don't mess with us"--a lesson devoid of moral content.
>
>Now one year later, Nato's policies have not brought peace
>and stability to Kosovo and the Balkans. Kosovo is still
>legally a part of Yugoslavia, but while a Nato protectorate
>it has been turned over to the Albanians and KLA. This has
>allowed them to do a fine job of ethnic cleansing, but has
>made Kosovo a cauldron of hatred and violence and a likely
>base for further instability and warfare. Unwilling to
>provide large resources for rebuilding, Nato has no
>solutions and no evident "exit strategy." This was not
>"humanitarian intervention," it has been an irresponsible
>misuse of power that made a bad situation worse, gilded over
>with lofty rhetoric.
>
>Edward Herman is co-editor, with Philip Hammond, of Degraded
>Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis (Pluto, 2000);
>David Peterson is a Chicago-based researcher and journalist.
>
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"Terror in Kosovo"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ed.: The truth about Kosovo is still elusive. Was there a War? Did we
really win it? Are we supporting the right people? The following piece
offers a different perspective and questions our current understanding.
Introduced by Ben Works, Balkan scholar and one of our SFTT Trustees,
BenWorks@....
Last October, Colleagues of mine tracked down the head of the small
Jewish
community in Pristina, Kosovo for an interview. Mr Cedemir Prlincevic
confirmed that the Jewish community had been ethnically cleansed by the
KLA
and associated gangsters from Albania who overwhelmed Kosovo as they
flooded
into the province in tandem with NATO's occupation troops.
Today, our troops are surrounded by hostile KLA gunmen determined to
wrest
Kosovo from its native communities, and by sullen Serbs who have about
reached their limit of patience. It is an out-of-control situation.
A longer interview with Mr. Prlincevic is accessible at Mr. Israel's
website
"The Emperors Clothes":
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm,
or www.tenc.net
**********************************************************************
By Cedomir Prlincevic
Archivist & head of the Jewish community of Pristina and Jared Israel 24
October 1999
I appreciate very much the invitations from Global Reflexion to address
the
meeting held last night in Amsterdam, and the invitation from
"Association
Dialogue" to address the Conference tomorrow in Paris...
For months people in the West, and also, through satellite transmission,
those of us in Yugoslavia, have been bombarded with Western media claims
that NATO, that is the US and Germany, want to create, in Kosovo, a
multiethnic, democratic society.
We tend to believe that other people mean what they say. And therefore
I
and others in Pristina, believed that when KFOR, that is NATO, marched
into
Kosovo, they would protect the rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians.
The KFOR troops and the UCK crossed the border into Kosovo together;
they
entered Pristina together. Immediately the UCK and gangster elements
under
their leadership took over government institutions and fanned out, going
after the homes of non-Albanians and pro-Yugoslav Albanians.
I lived in a large complex of nice apartments inhabited by doctors,
lawyers,
university professors, managers of various institutions, the
intellectual
core of Pristina society. Right after KFOR arrived, the gangster
elements
attacked this section, called Milana. They moved up and down through
the
buildings, banging on doors, breaking down doors, throwing tear gas into
people's apartments, forcing them out on pain of death.
The Western media claims that KFOR has been "unable" to control the
action
of "mysterious gangs" who unfortunately have targeted Serbs, nor have
they
the manpower needed to prevent ethnic Albanians from Kosovo from
exacting
revenge. This is simply untrue.
When the Albanians attacked, one of my neighbors (a doctor) called
KFOR. An
English Major arrived with his squad. But the Albanians did not flee.
I
spoke to this Major. I asked him why he didn't do anything. He said
"This
is a job for the Civil Authorities." But you see, by then there were no
civil authorities other than the UCK. He said KFOR was only interested
in
cases of murder.
I showed him documents, confirming that I was the President of the
Jewish
community in Pristina. He replied: "Later." He didn't have time to
examine these papers. While the Major and his squad were there - before
their eyes - the gangsters continued their work. In some cases, when
residents
appealed to these British KFOR troops, the KFOR people took the part of
modern day Solomons. The Albanians explained their plight: "We have no
place to stay tonight." So the KFOR people said, "Why don't you share
this
apartment amongst yourselves!" - in other words, the gangsters were to
move
in with the prey.
KFOR left, the Albanians moved in, and then the Albanians said, "Now
leave
or we will slaughter you."
Under these circumstances, who would stay? We lost everything, years of
our
lives - our lives, and our community, the only place we can ever be at
home - gone. Stolen. About 30,000 people were driven from this huge
complex
in Milana in a matter of days. I have had to flee to tiny quarters in
Belgrade, I and my family, including my 81 year old mother.
The behavior of a large part of the Albanian population was terrible.
They
lied to support the NATO campaign of lies, inventing tales of harassment
and
mass executions. Secretly, and then openly, they supported the UCK.
These
people would never have done such terrible things were it not for years
of
encouragement from two centers - the United States and Germany.
Albanian culture unfortunately includes a strong strain of intolerance;
it
also has a powerful Clan structure which puts Clan leaders in a
dictatorial
position. These two cultural traits have been utilized by NATO to
provide
foot soldiers for modern-day fascism, complete with a liberal rhetorical
cover.
Recently I have tried to communicate to interviewers why the Albanians
left
for Macedonia and Albania during the war. I told them they didn't
understand the significance of certain features of modern Albanian
culture.
It is very closed off, very self-oriented, and very much under the
control
of the leaders of Clans. The word 'clans' is not used here simply to
describe a formal structural feature of Albanian society. Quite the
contrary, clans are the actual, functioning social unit of vast numbers
of
Albanians.
During the bombing, my neighbor, an ethnic Albanian, left. I asked him
why
are you leaving? We're not getting killed in this housing development,
we're all helping each other, and we're all together in the air raid
shelter - why are you leaving? And he just looked at me, and he
said, "I have to. I've been told to leave now. Everyone will be
leaving
now."
And that was that. This man and his wife, who were sophisticated
intellectuals, whose children played with the Serbian children, whom I
had
considered to be friends - they were leaving.
Many opponents of the war thought the UCK was making a big mistake by
terrorizing Albanians. But it wasn't making a mistake. It was making a
point to the clan leaders: we have the backing of NATO and we will kill
Albanians who buck us. Given the existence of anti-Serb racism among
Albanians, this we're-the-winning-team argument brought the leaders into
line.
Huge numbers of Albanians left Kosovo during the bombing. They did not
leave because Serbs were slaughtering them, which was a made-up story.
They
did not leave because they were getting bombed; though they were getting
bombed. They left because they were told to leave by their clan
leaders.
Vast numbers of people from all over the world have protested the
bombing of
Yugoslavia. In doing so they have created a movement out of the
political
shambles of our world.
And yet it is now, after the cessation of bombing, that we have entered
the
worst hell. This terrible fascist-like invasion has created far worse
suffering than the bombing. Some are driven out, some disappear, some
are
murdered and their murders attributed to forces beyond NATO's control.
Some, like the Serbs and Roma of Orahovac, have been imprisoned in a new
Warsaw Ghetto.
I urge those who care about Justice not to remain silent.
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IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 14, 2000
President Honours Albanian KLA Volunteers Killed in Kosovo
TIRANA - Albanian President Rexhep Meidani has honoured two Albanians
killed while fighting for the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
against Serbian forces last year, the presidency said on Tuesday.
Meidani, marking the first anniversary of the entry of NATO troops into
Kosovo, acknowledged for the first time the role played by Albanian
volunteers by awarding Indrit Cara and Astrit Suli the Golden Eagle
medal.
Albania has already honoured former NATO commander Wesley Clark with its
highest award for foreigners. The alliance's former Secretary-General,
Javier Solana, will also receive the Skenderbeg Award.
Cara, originally from Kavaja in western Albania, joined Kosovo Albanian
friends who had been living as immigrants in Britain in signing up for
the KLA.
Many Albanian volunteers, most of them former soldiers, joined the ranks
of the KLA, moved by the atrocities Serbian forces had committed and
were committing in Kosovo, some 90 percent of whose population were
ethnic Albanian, or by the prospect of better pay in the irregular army.
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