IL PAGLIACCIO
"Possiamo inviare altri 50mila soldati ma non possiamo impedire alle
persone di comportarsi male, se sono proprio determinate a comportarsi
male"
Lo ha detto George Robertson, Segretario Generale della NATO - che ha
armato ed addestrato il fanatismo nazionalista dell'UCK, ne protegge i
terroristi e chiude entrambi gli occhi dinanzi ai continui atti di
violenza e vandalismo - in visita nella zona d'occupazione del Kosovo il
18 luglio u.s.
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> NATO chief visits Kosovo as fresh violence breaks out
>
> July 18, 2000
> Web posted at: 2:07 p.m. EDT (1807 GMT)
> In this story:
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> October elections may be in jeopardy
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo -- NATO Secretary-General George Robertson on
> Tuesday appealed to Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica to help stop the culture
> of violence.
>
> Peace in the Balkans
> "You can bring in another 50,000 troops and you can't stop people
> behaving badly if they are determined to behave badly. So what has got
> to happen is the culture of violence has got to cease," he said.
> Robertson and about 20 ambassadors from NATO member states arrived in
> Kosovo on Tuesday to check the situation more than a year after the
> beginning of the peacekeeping mission.
> As he toured Prizren, hundreds of Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica were
> protesting to demand the release of a Serbian suspect whose arrest
> sparked demonstrations and violence Monday night.
> During the Monday disturbances, NATO-led peacekeepers from the KFOR
> force used tear gas and fired in the air. One U.N. police officer was
> briefly held hostage during the unrest.
> Robertson said KFOR and the United Nations had dealt professionally with
> the violence and urged Serbs to choose cooperation rather than
> confrontation.
> "The Serb community's future depends on KFOR and that is why they have
> to cooperate with KFOR, why they should be involved in civic
> institutions that the United Nations is creating -- that is for their
> future and for their benefit," he told reporters in Prizren.
> Robertson had earlier met the peacekeeping commander, Brig. Gen. Juan
> Ortuno of Spain, before flying to Prizren and was expected to return to
> Pristina for meetings with U.N. officials and representatives of Serb
> and ethnic Albanian communities.
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> Since NATO and the United Nations took control of Kosovo in June of last
> year, Kosovska Mitrovica has been their most dangerous flashpoint,
> mainly because it is the only place in the province where Serbs and
> ethnic Albanians still live near each other in large numbers.
> In the latest outbreak of violence, trouble flared after U.N. police
> arrested the Serb on Monday for an alleged assault on an ethnic Albanian
> last month.
> "The Serb population was very angry," said Oliver Ivanovic, the leader
> of the Serb community in the northern part of the city.
> The protesters stopped the U.N. vehicles and threw rocks at the
> peacekeepers. About 30 Serbs were seen carrying baseball bats.
> Soldiers had fired five tear gas grenades to disperse the crowd, KFOR
> spokesman Maj. Scott Slaten said.
> Kosovo's U.N.-led administration, known as UNMIK, said four people had
> been slightly injured by the tear gas canisters. A local Serb surgeon
> said one woman was more seriously hurt and that a total of nine people
> had sought medical treatment.
> By Tuesday morning, calm had returned to Kosovska Mitrovica, where
> Kosovo Serbs and ethnic Albanians live in mutual hostility, separated
> only by the river Ibar that runs through its center.
> Protesters gathered again Tuesday outside the jail where the Serb,
> Dalibor Vukovic, was being held. Their protest appeared to be peaceful,
> at least initially.
> Serb leaders sent a letter to U.N. police repeating their demand for the
> release of Vukovic, who authorities say is a member of a self-styled
> Serb security force known as the "bridge watchers." The bridge watchers
> monitor people crossing into the Serb section of the city across the
> main bridge.
> The Serbs threatened more violence if Vukovic is not released.
> It was the second confrontation in less than a week between Serbs and
> peacekeepers in the city.
> On Friday, four grenades were fired from the ethnic Albanian side,
> touching off about three hours of Serb protests, which ended without
> injuries.
> Also, on Sunday, an explosion ripped through a medieval Serbian Orthodox
> Church in Kosovo, flattening the structure. The church of the Holy
> Prophet Elijah was located in the village of Pomazetin, just outside the
> Serb village of Kosovo Polje. The church was not under guard by NATO-led
> peacekeepers.
> October elections may be in jeopardy
> The Kosovska Mitrovica clash occurred as the U.N. mission is trying to
> convince Serbs to register for municipal elections in October, the first
> internationally supervised balloting in Kosovo's history.
> Most Serb leaders are resisting until the United Nations and NATO can
> guarantee their security and allow thousands of Serbs to return to
> Kosovo, which they fled after Yugoslav forces withdrew at the end of
> NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in 1999.
> Since then, more than 150,000 Kosovo Serbs have also fled the province
> in fear of attacks by ethnic Albanians seeking vengeance.
> The leader of the largest Serb community left in Kosovo has assured
> international officials that he will not stand in the way of Serbs who
> may want to register.
> However, Oliver Ivanovic said Monday that he did not believe many Serbs
> would sign up until the U.N. takes steps to allow more than 200,000
> Serbs to return there.
> Ivanovic offered assurances to Daan Everts, head of the Kosovo mission
> of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
> which will oversee the election and which is registering voters.
> Everts said Ivanovic's comments were encouraging.
> "Mr. Ivanovic has promised that he would do what he can to avoid any
> violence or intimidation and let people at least have the freedom of
> choice," Everts said.
> --
> CNN Belgrade Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci, The Associated Press and
> Reuters contributed to this report.
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"Possiamo inviare altri 50mila soldati ma non possiamo impedire alle
persone di comportarsi male, se sono proprio determinate a comportarsi
male"
Lo ha detto George Robertson, Segretario Generale della NATO - che ha
armato ed addestrato il fanatismo nazionalista dell'UCK, ne protegge i
terroristi e chiude entrambi gli occhi dinanzi ai continui atti di
violenza e vandalismo - in visita nella zona d'occupazione del Kosovo il
18 luglio u.s.
> STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/07/18/yugo.kosovo.02/index.html
>
> NATO chief visits Kosovo as fresh violence breaks out
>
> July 18, 2000
> Web posted at: 2:07 p.m. EDT (1807 GMT)
> In this story:
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> October elections may be in jeopardy
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo -- NATO Secretary-General George Robertson on
> Tuesday appealed to Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica to help stop the culture
> of violence.
>
> Peace in the Balkans
> "You can bring in another 50,000 troops and you can't stop people
> behaving badly if they are determined to behave badly. So what has got
> to happen is the culture of violence has got to cease," he said.
> Robertson and about 20 ambassadors from NATO member states arrived in
> Kosovo on Tuesday to check the situation more than a year after the
> beginning of the peacekeeping mission.
> As he toured Prizren, hundreds of Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica were
> protesting to demand the release of a Serbian suspect whose arrest
> sparked demonstrations and violence Monday night.
> During the Monday disturbances, NATO-led peacekeepers from the KFOR
> force used tear gas and fired in the air. One U.N. police officer was
> briefly held hostage during the unrest.
> Robertson said KFOR and the United Nations had dealt professionally with
> the violence and urged Serbs to choose cooperation rather than
> confrontation.
> "The Serb community's future depends on KFOR and that is why they have
> to cooperate with KFOR, why they should be involved in civic
> institutions that the United Nations is creating -- that is for their
> future and for their benefit," he told reporters in Prizren.
> Robertson had earlier met the peacekeeping commander, Brig. Gen. Juan
> Ortuno of Spain, before flying to Prizren and was expected to return to
> Pristina for meetings with U.N. officials and representatives of Serb
> and ethnic Albanian communities.
> Arrest of Serb sparks protest
> Since NATO and the United Nations took control of Kosovo in June of last
> year, Kosovska Mitrovica has been their most dangerous flashpoint,
> mainly because it is the only place in the province where Serbs and
> ethnic Albanians still live near each other in large numbers.
> In the latest outbreak of violence, trouble flared after U.N. police
> arrested the Serb on Monday for an alleged assault on an ethnic Albanian
> last month.
> "The Serb population was very angry," said Oliver Ivanovic, the leader
> of the Serb community in the northern part of the city.
> The protesters stopped the U.N. vehicles and threw rocks at the
> peacekeepers. About 30 Serbs were seen carrying baseball bats.
> Soldiers had fired five tear gas grenades to disperse the crowd, KFOR
> spokesman Maj. Scott Slaten said.
> Kosovo's U.N.-led administration, known as UNMIK, said four people had
> been slightly injured by the tear gas canisters. A local Serb surgeon
> said one woman was more seriously hurt and that a total of nine people
> had sought medical treatment.
> By Tuesday morning, calm had returned to Kosovska Mitrovica, where
> Kosovo Serbs and ethnic Albanians live in mutual hostility, separated
> only by the river Ibar that runs through its center.
> Protesters gathered again Tuesday outside the jail where the Serb,
> Dalibor Vukovic, was being held. Their protest appeared to be peaceful,
> at least initially.
> Serb leaders sent a letter to U.N. police repeating their demand for the
> release of Vukovic, who authorities say is a member of a self-styled
> Serb security force known as the "bridge watchers." The bridge watchers
> monitor people crossing into the Serb section of the city across the
> main bridge.
> The Serbs threatened more violence if Vukovic is not released.
> It was the second confrontation in less than a week between Serbs and
> peacekeepers in the city.
> On Friday, four grenades were fired from the ethnic Albanian side,
> touching off about three hours of Serb protests, which ended without
> injuries.
> Also, on Sunday, an explosion ripped through a medieval Serbian Orthodox
> Church in Kosovo, flattening the structure. The church of the Holy
> Prophet Elijah was located in the village of Pomazetin, just outside the
> Serb village of Kosovo Polje. The church was not under guard by NATO-led
> peacekeepers.
> October elections may be in jeopardy
> The Kosovska Mitrovica clash occurred as the U.N. mission is trying to
> convince Serbs to register for municipal elections in October, the first
> internationally supervised balloting in Kosovo's history.
> Most Serb leaders are resisting until the United Nations and NATO can
> guarantee their security and allow thousands of Serbs to return to
> Kosovo, which they fled after Yugoslav forces withdrew at the end of
> NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in 1999.
> Since then, more than 150,000 Kosovo Serbs have also fled the province
> in fear of attacks by ethnic Albanians seeking vengeance.
> The leader of the largest Serb community left in Kosovo has assured
> international officials that he will not stand in the way of Serbs who
> may want to register.
> However, Oliver Ivanovic said Monday that he did not believe many Serbs
> would sign up until the U.N. takes steps to allow more than 200,000
> Serbs to return there.
> Ivanovic offered assurances to Daan Everts, head of the Kosovo mission
> of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
> which will oversee the election and which is registering voters.
> Everts said Ivanovic's comments were encouraging.
> "Mr. Ivanovic has promised that he would do what he can to avoid any
> violence or intimidation and let people at least have the freedom of
> choice," Everts said.
> --
> CNN Belgrade Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci, The Associated Press and
> Reuters contributed to this report.
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