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PER LA SERIE: "LE PRODEZZE DELL'UCKFOR" abbiamo scelto oggi:
* Attaccato ancora un autobus, per un pelo evitata un'altra strage
(Tanjug 9/2)
* Gravemente ferito un serbo ad Obilic (Tanjug 10/2)
* A Gnjilane lanciata una granata in un negozio (Tanjug 10/2)
* Ancora proteste a Mitrovica (B92 7/2)
* In marzo nuove esercitazioni NATO in grande stile (B92 7/2)
* A Mitrovica grave preoccupazione nel ghetto serbo (Tanjug 4-5/2)
* Scontri tra albanesi-kosovari e francesi a Mitrovica (Tanjug 5/2)
* Pesante aggressione contro un serbo a Gnjilane (Tanjug 5/2)
* Attacchi a ripetizione contro le sedi di organizzazioni umanitarie ad
Obilic (Tanjug 5/2)
* Serbo assassinato a Gnjilane (Tanjug 4/2)
* Attaccato a Prizren un reparto ospedaliero dove sono ricoverate donne
serbe: vari feriti, tra cui un militare tedesco, ma come al solito la
KFOR non interviene (Tanjug 5/2)
* SPECIALE: grazie all'UCKFOR fiorisce in Kosmet il commercio... di
ragazze e minorenni da avviare alla prostituzione nei paesi ricchi
(Tanjug - The Times of London)
* RIEPILOGO delle azioni contro la popolazione non schipetara in Kosmet
nei soli ultimi dieci giorni di gennaio (Ministero degli Esteri RFJ)
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ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACKED A BUS TRANSPORTING SERBS
LIPLJAN, February 9 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists shelled a bus
carrying Serbs in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo
and Metohija on Wednesday, but missed the target, according to reports
by local amateur radio operators.
The attack took place at around 3:40 p.m. some 3 km south of Lipljan and
barely 500 metres from an international KFOR force checkpoint at the
village of Staro Gacko, the sources said.
Last summer, 14 Serbs were murdered while working in a field in Staro
Gacko.
Wednesday's shell, fired by three ethnic Albanians who had jumped out of
a
red Volkswagen Golf car, exploded just metres from the bus, the radio
operators said.
The Finnish KFOR troops manning the checkpoint witnessed the incident,
but
took no steps against the three attackers, who escaped from the scene.
The troops' statements that they were not authorised to shoot or leave
the
checkpoint and pursue the attackers have caused a storm of protests from
the Serbs, who gathered demanding that KFOR soldiers should leave the
checkpoint, if they can provide no protection.
Last Wednesday, two Serb civilians were killed in the shelling of a bus
of
the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at Kosovska Mitrovica.
ETHNIC ALBANIANS ATTACKED AND GRAVELY INJURE A SERB
OBILIC, February 10 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists attacked and
gravely injured a Serb in the U.N.-administered Serbian province of
Kosovo
and Metohija on Wednesday, according to reports.
The Serb, Vladimir Subotic of Obilic, near the provincial chief city of
Pristina, was attacked by seven ethnic Albanians, amateur radio
operators
said.
Subotic has been taken for treatment to the Russian battalion hospital
in
Kosovo Polje.
Earlier on Wednesday, a hand grenade was lobbed into the home of a Serb,
but failed to go off.
The international KFOR force and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK)
received protest letters from the Obilic-based Protection and Human
Rights
Committee over the recent demolition of the local monument to Serbian
XIVth
century hero Milos Obilic.
ETHNIC ALBANIANS LOBBED A HAND GRENADE INTO A SERB STORE
GNJILANE, February 10 (Tanjug) - Several powerful blasts on Tuesday
shook
Gnjilane in the southeast of the U.N.-administered Serbian province of
Kosovo and Metohija, the Protection and Human Rights Committee in
Gnjilane
said on Thursday.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists lobbed a hand grenade through the window of a
store where local Serbs congregate, but the grenade did not go off, and
was
disposed of by U.N. mission (UNMIK) police in a controlled explosion at
a
safe distance.
Although the same store had already been targeted twice, the
international
KFOR force has shown no disposition to set up a checkpoint in the area.
Several people were hurt by broken glass in the subsequent melee after
the
grenade was thrown in.
Half an hour later, another powerful explosion reverberated in the town,
in the vicinity of two residential buildings housing Serbs.
Shortly afterwards, KFOR discovered a cache with 14 grenades in the
residential-cum-office building of the former insurance company in
downtown
Gnjilane and arrested two ethnic Albanian minors.
According to the Gnjilane Serbian Church Council, ethnic Albanian
criminals ravaged the windows of two Serb bars in the town during the
night
between Wednesday and Thursday, while three days ago, masked attackers
badly beat up a Romany in his home.
Serbs protest in Kosovska Mitrovica (B92 7/2/00)
PRISTINA, Monday - About three thousand Serbs protested in Kosovska
Mitrovica
today following days of violent conflict in the town. Local Serb leader
Oliver Ivanovic spoke to the crowd, calling on them to voluntarily
organise
protection of people and property in the northern part of the divided
town.
Ivanovic also said that despite talk of a multiethnic community, there
had
been too many gruesome crimes for Serbs and Albanians continue living
together. Ivanovic told B292 last night that he had spoken UN civilian
mission head Bernard Kouchner and that a co-ordinated strategy for
stabilising the situation in the town had been agreed
Kouchner said today that he had been shocked by the series of violent
incidents in the town in the past few days, adding that the
international
community would not allow extremists to win in Kosovo and that crime or
a new
war in the province would not be tolerated.
The UN mission chief accused Albanian extremists of last week's attack
on a
UNHCR bus in which two civilians were killed, adding that it was the
first
time in the work of the UN and the UNHCR that a vehicle or a civilian
bus had
been attacked. He also claimed that Serb extremists were blocking Kosovo
Serbs from taking part in the work of the Temporary Administrative
Council.
NATO manoeuvres in Kosovo "crude display of force" (B92 7/2/00)
BELGRADE, Monday - The NATO and KFOR military manoeuvres planned for
Kosovo
next month are a crude display of force and a renewed threat to
Yugoslavia,
Deputy Federal Foreign Minister Nebojsa Vujovic said today. Vujovic told
a
press conference that the exercises would violate international
agreements on
Kosovo. He also criticised a planned census of the province, saying that
the
basic conditions for such a census did not exist while ethnic cleansing
was
in progress and it was still not possible for displaced Serbs to return.
UNMIK AND KFOR UNABLE TO PROTECT THE SERBS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February. 4 (Tanjug) - The head of the Kosovska
Mitrovica district, Zdravko Trajkovic, on Friday strongly protested with
the administrator of the U.N. Civilian Mission in Kosovo and Metohija
(UNMIK) for Kosovska Mitrovica, Mark Marconni, over the latest terrorist
actions by the ethnic Albanians who fired an anti-tank grenade on a bus
near this town and threw hand grenades on a cafe in the predominantly
Serb
northern part of the city.
"These terrorist acts by the ethnic Albanian terrorists and gangs are
the
result of the irresponsible and unprofessional conduct of UNMIK and KFOR
who failed to protect the Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians
from
the insane activities of the ethnic Albanian terrorists," Trajkovic set
out.
"During your eight-month presence in Kosovo and Metohija, you neither
want, can nor know how to adequately protect the Serbs and Montenegrins
in
this district. I fear, and this has been confirmed a number of times at
the
expense of the Serbs and Montenegrins, that in the future you will also
refuse to carry out the corresponding measures to prevent all terrorist
acts aimed against the citizens," Trajkovic warned.
It is high time for you to understand that you too should take
responsibility for the dangerous ventures of the ethnic Albanian
terrorists
and gangs due to your passive conduct regarding the crimes against
peaceful
citizens in keeping with all international conventions," Trajkovic
stated.
UNMIK, KFOR CLAMP CURFEW ON DIVIDED KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA February 4 (Tanjug) - A U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK)
spokesman said on Friday that overnight unrest and violence in both
sectors
of divided Kosovska Mitrovica had necessitated the imposition of a
curfew.
According to Beatrice Lacoste, UNMIK and the international KFor force
have
been forced to restrict movement in both Serb and ethnic Albanian parts
of
this town in the U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo
and Metohija between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Rioting broke out after two ethnic Turks and two ethnic Albanians were
murdered, and a cafe was bombed and sprayed with submachine gun bullets,
gravely injuring 15 Serbs and six ethnic Albanians.
The curfew is another proof that the U.N. administration, headed by
Bernard Kouchner, and KFor are incapable of establishing the rule of law
in
Kosovo and Metohija and providing security for all ethnic communities.
Lacoste condemned the terrorist attack in the course of which a grenade
was lobbed into a Serb cafe on Thursday night.
She said that Serbs working for UNMIK were targeted by ethnic Albanian
terrorists also in the south, ethnic Albanian part of the town.
For their safety, UNMIK transferred 31 Serbs into the north,
predominantly
Serb-populated part of Kosovska Mitrovica during the night. Anger that
boiled over after the bombing of the cafe Belami found vent in the
smashing
of shop windows, and sacking of offices and cars belonging to
international
organisations, primarily UNMIK.
By dawn, there were nearly two thousand people in the streets,
protesting
chiefly against the inability of UNMIK and KFor to prevent ethnic
Albanian
violence against Serbs.
CLASH BETWEEN FRENCH TROOPS AND ALBANIANS ON BRIDGE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 5 (Tanjug) - Several hundred ethnic
Albanians
who gathered on Saturday around 14.00 at the southern end of the bridge
on
the river Ibar in Kosovska Mitrovica are being dispersed by French KFOR
members with shock-bombs.
The clash between the French, who in less than an hour threw over 50
shock-bombs and tear gas, and the Albanians who threw bottles and rocks,
is
still going on.
The Albanians are trying to cross the bridge, in what they are prevented
by the French, who have scores of wounded.
On the bridge near the railway station arrived on Saturday also German
members of KFOR, as a reinforcement to their colleagues in case ethnic
Albanians attempt to cross into the northern part of town, inhabited
mostly
by Serbs.
Explosions of shock-bombs are still heard and smoke and the smell of
tear
gas is blown by the wind into the northern part of Mitrovica.
SERB BEATEN UP
GNJILANE, February 5 (Tanjug) - In Gnjilane on Thursday around 14.30
hours
was seriously wounded a Serb, Ljubomir Antic (66), Gnjilane
church-national
council said.
In the vicinity of the house where he lives with his wife, Antic was hit
in the back of his head and knocked unconscious.
He regained conscience, after more than one hour, with the help of
troops
of the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), who found him
lying in the street and bleeding.
Antic, who is suffering from loss of balance, and has swellings on his
right eye, nose and head, has been taken to a hospital in Vranje, south
Serbia, for treatment.
Antic who was beaten up did not see his attackers who struck him from
the
back and left him in the street, because they probably though he would
succumb to the blows.
REPEATED BOMB ATTACK ON COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION BUILDING
OBILIC, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists attacked on Thursday
evening around 20.15 hours, for the second time, with a hand grenade the
building of the committee for the protection of human rights in the
center
of Obilic, and set fire to the house of Rade Gajic, the committee said,
radio amateurs from Kosovo and Metohija reported.
None was hurt, but the damages are considerable.
Daily attacks on Serbs in Obilic have not ceased, the committee warned,
pointing out that it was becoming increasingly clear that Albanian
terrorists, by planned actions and in cooperation with the local command
of
the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), were slowly
achieving their planned goal of expelling Serbs from the homes of their
ancestors.
SERB MURDERED IN GNJILANE
GNJILANE, February 4 (Tanjug) - A Serb was murdered in Gnjilane in the
U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo and Metohija on
Friday, according to amateur radio operators' reports, quoting the
town's
Serbian Church Council.
A masked murderer rang the bell of the home of the Serb, Branislav
Zivic,
aged 63, at 2:25 p.m., and when Zivic opened the door, pumped four
pistol
bullets into him.
Zivic's wife Marica was in the kitchen at the time.
The Zivics are the last Serb family remaining in their street.
A spokesman for the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) police said it
was very hard to trace the murderer, especially in view of the fact
that
the ethnic Albanian neighbours who saw the murder committed were loath
to
cooperate with the police.
ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND SERB WOMEN IN HOSPITAL
PRIZREN, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists on Friday attacked
with
hand grenades one of the hospital buildings in Prizren and wounded
several
Serb women, one of them seriously.
Tanjug has learnt that ethnic Albanian terrorists had obtained
information
that also receiving treatment in one of the hospital buildings were four
Serb women.
Albanian medical personnel only one day earlier did not allow those
patients to be admitted to hospital.
International forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR) in Prizren did not
react at all to the terrorist attack, although in it was also wounded a
German member of KFOR.
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TRAFFIC IN WOMEN, CHILDREN SINCE ARRIVAL OF KFOR
LONDON, February 5 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival
of
the international forces (KFOR) in the Serbian province has been
developed
a wide network of prostitution and traffic in women, the London Times
warned Saturday.
The London newspaper pointed out that prostitution and traffic in women
started only after the arrival of KFOR and of the U.N. Civilian Mission
(UNMIK) in Kosovo and Metohija.
According to the Times, the network of prostitution and traffic in women
in Kosovo and Metohija is controled by organized crime, mostly
Albanians,
and the business is developed in several phases.
Local girls are persuaded to work for them, but girls are also brought
from Eastern Europe.
They first go though brothels in Kosovo and Metohija whose main clients
are members of KFOR and other international organizations.
After that the women are transferred through Albania to Western European
countries where they are sold to criminals.
The price of one girl is between three and four and a half thousand D
marks.
The London newspaper has learnt that kidnapping are an increasingly
frequent method of the Albanian mafia in Kosovo-Metohija.
Victims of kidnapping are also children, the Times warned, who are later
sold by Albanian criminals for adoption somewhere in Europe or even for
human organ transplants.
International humanitarian organizations, whose representatives are
present in Kosovo and Metohija, claim that the number of kidnapped women
and children is so high that they do not succeed to help them, while at
the
same time they receive serious threats from the Albanian mafia, the
London
daily said.
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The Times of London
February 5 2000
EUROPE
Sex slave trade thrives among Kosovo troops
FROM JAMES PRINGLE IN PRISTINA
THE presence of Nato-led troops in Kosovo is supporting a new and
sinister white slave trade trade, in which women from impoverished parts
of Eastern Europe are being bought and sold into prostitution.
The women, some as young as 16, are held captive by gangsters, often
Albanian, and sell sexual favours to troops and businessmen in the seedy
nightclubs springing up around Kosovo.
Others smuggled into the region from Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania
and beyond are moved further on, into Albania, across the Adriatic into
Italy and from there to brothels in Western Europe, all the time under
the "ownership" of organised crime. Even children are following similar
routes, sold for adoption or, some say, for body parts.
International agencies trying to combat the trade say that it is
expanding rapidly, despite efforts to rescue women from the clutches of
the loosely organised, mafia-style gangs. They say the numbers are
becoming too great for agencies to manage.
Kosovo was not, in the past, a destination for the East European sex
trade, which began with the collapse of communism in 1991, but the lure
of a 45,000-strong army and a large international component has proved
an irresistible draw and bars and nightclubs are springing up across the
province in places such as Gnjilane and Urosevac.
One at Slatina, just outside Pristina and near the HQ of Russian forces,
is the Nightclub International, from which Italian Carabinieri rescued
12 young women last week. Their duties involved dispensing sexual
favours, at about £30 for half an hour, to Russian and American Kfor
troops and other foreign clients.
"These girls who were rescued are terrified and don't understand what
has happened to them," Pasquale Lupoli, chief of mission of the
International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in Pristina, said. "But
they are now in a protected area where security is guaranteed."
The IOM, a little-known Geneva-based governmental agency, was originally
set up to provide travel documents and an assistant network to migrants;
instead, it is engaged increasingly in trying to help the thousands of
girls who are now prisoners in the European sex trade.
Signor Lupoli said that the number of such girls was rising so quickly
that the agency was finding it very difficult to cope. The IOM had also
had difficulties locating a non-government organisation (NGO) to agree
to take care of them. One problem is that the girls are not refugees so
do not come under, say, the UNHCR.
There was, Signor Lupoli said, also some danger. Albanian gangsters are
searching for their "property" and IOM staff have received threats. In
Kosovo, British troops are subject to a strict "no walking out" policy,
but other nationalities' forces, such as the Russians, Americans and
Italians, are less closely monitored. "None of our soldiers goes into
these bars unless on an official mission," one British officer said. "If
they did, they would find themselves on a military charge."
Of the dozen women rescued by the Carabinieri in Slatina, one had been
raped at 14 and all had been maltreated. Like hundreds of similar
victims, they had been sold several times as they were spirited across
Balkan borders from owner to owner.
Greece, too, is a destination for the sex traders. Mirela Stan, 24, of
Romania, and Hitara Antilsova, 29, from Ukraine, were found dead from
the cold on a mountainside near the Greek-Bulgarian border in January.
They perished in an effort to reach their "promised land", a Greek
nightclub.
In Kosovo, the streets were empty recently after dark after a panic that
teenage girls were being kidnapped by the Albanian mafia to be sold into
prostitution. Indeed, some have disappeared.
These days, a young East European woman costs from £1,000 to £1,400
to buy. She first has to pay back her cost, then ostensibly she gets
half of what she makes from prostitution, while the boss retains 50 per
cent. Additionally, the girl has then to pay 10 per cent of her earnings
for board. "Often she ends up with very little or nothing," an IOM
official said. If she is lucky.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE, 4 February 2000 No. 2876
S P E C I A L I S S U E
CRIMES OF ALBANIAN TERRORISTS AGAINST NON-ALBANIAN
POPULATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
(January 21 - 31, 2000.)
21 January 2000
UROSEVAC - Albanian terrorists in the village of Miras, municipality of
Urosevac, looted, set on fire and destroyed the houses and other
property
of the following Serb families: Miroslava Cicic, Dusan and Vladimir
Dangubic, Mladen and Vukasin Vrtikapa, Sava and Danilo Lugonja, Dosta
and
Djurdje Vitkovic.
The KFOR members present in the village did not intervene.
23 January 2000
K. KAMENICA - In the village of Koretin, municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica, Albanian terrorists stoned the column of Serb vehicles, under
the
protection of Russian KFOR. A vehicle belonging to Negovan Filipovic and
a
bus, operating on Vranje-Kosovska Kamenica line, were stoned.
- Near the village of Bratilovce, municipality of Kosovska Kamenica,
Albanian terrorists disassembled and looted the equipment of a TV
transmitter of the RTV Serbia.
GNJILANE - Albanian terrorists beat and seriously injured, threatening
to
kill him, Vlasta Serafimovic, if he did not immediately leave the family
house and move out of Gnjilane.
UROSEVAC - In the village of Tankosic, municipality of Urosevac,
Albanian
terrorist gangs looted and burned the houses and property of Serb
families:
Jordan Markovic, Dragan Milenkovic, Zivojin and Aleksandar Stojiljkovic,
Slavko and Borivoje Markovic, Zarko Novokmet, Todor Stamenkovic, Slavka
Stankovic, Ljubisa Dimitrijevic, Dusan Velickovic, Vojislav Andjelkovic,
Stanisa Jovic and Dragan Krstic.
The KFOR members, present in the village did not intervene.
VUCITRN- in the village of Banjska, municipality of Vucitrn, Albanian
terrorists planted explosive on a church, damaging and destroying a
large
part of the building in two powerful blasts - entrance area, side wall,
dome and the interior.
24 January 2000
K. MITROVICA - In Kneza Milosa street, in Kosovska Mitrovica, Albanian
terrorists beat and seriously injured with wooden clubs Miomir Antovic
from
the village of Rudare - municipality of Zvecan.
MEDVEDJA - In the village of Svirce, municipality of Urosevac, Albanian
terrorists looted, destroyed and set on fire the property of Serb
families:
Djordje and Mile Simic, Ljubisav Stamenkovic, Zdravko Andjelkovic,
Ljubinka
Mihajlovic, Srba Spasic, Milos and Guta Mitic and Jagoda Petkovic.
ORAHOVAC - On 17 July 1999, Albanian terrorists abducted Djordje
Baljosevic and Dusko Dolasevic, police officers from the fire brigade in
Velika Hoca, who were returning from an official assignment in factory
"Termovent" near Orahovac.
PRISTINA - On 2 August 1999, Albanian terrorists abducted Rade Budimir
in
the front of the building in 14 Kragujevacka street, Pristina.
25 January 2000
GNJILANE - Albanian terrorists threw an explosive device on a food store
owned by Dragan Jovcic, in Laze Stefanovica street. At the time of the
attack, there were 10 Serbs and an Albanian in the store. No one was
hurt.
Substantial material damage was caused.
In another part of Gnjilane, another bomb exploded. It was thrown on a
house of Cemal Saciri, a Turk. The explosion damaged a shop window of a
store belonging to Vojislav Topalovic.
26 January 2000
PRISTINA - Nenad Stamenkovic, from Miljevac village, municipality of
Pristina, residing in Nis, 4 Teslina Street, reported that this brother
Zarko Stamenkovic from Miljevac village, municipality of Pristina (born
12
June 1960) by Albanian terrorists on 22 June 1999, on the road between
Pristina and village of Devet Jugovica.
BUJANOVAC - In the village of Dobrosin, municipality of Bujanovac,
Albanian terrorists attacked by machine-guns, snipers and other
automatic
weapons a police patrol on a regular assignment. Zarko Guberinic, a
police
officer of the Ministry of the Interior (born 22 June 1969 in Djakovica)
sustained light injuries.
- By the main Gnjilane-Bujanovac road, near Silovo village, Albanian
terrorists looted and set on fire the house and "Breza" restaurant on
the
ground floor, owned by Dragan Djokic. The cafe was consumed by fire.
28 January 2000
PODUJEVO - In the village of Glavnik, municipality of Podujevo, Albanian
terrorists stoned a bus of "Nis ekspres", breaking two big side glasses
and
damaging the exterior.
30 January 2000
GNJILANE - The remains of Danilo Djordjevic (51) from Vlasko selo
Nikolicevo near Zajecar, was found on 19 January on the road for Surlane
village, 15 km south of Gnjilane. According to the findings of US
forensic
experts, the cause of the death was a blow to the head. On his hands and
neck there are traces indicating that he was tied by rope, that he was
killed in a cruel way and tortured.
Many accounts confirm that the perpetrators of this crime are Albanians
from an ethnically pure village of Surlane, full of extremists, who
tried
to portray Djordjevic as a Serb terrorist on an assignment.
By his tortured body, a bag full of plastic explosive were found, which
according to the UNMIK representatives should serve as false evidence
that
this alleged Serb terrorist had an intention to blow up and totally
destroy
this Albanian village. UNMIK immediately discounted this possibility
since
the man was only 160 cm tall, weighing 58 kg. He was not a Serb, but a
Vlach from Romania. At the age of 51 he can hardly be a Serb terrorist.
31 January 2000
PRIZREN - Hasim Cuse (60), an uncle of a member of the Temporary
Executive
Council of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, Sokol Cuse,
who
was reported missing on 18 January, was found dead yesterday in the
place
Dulje, near Suva Reka, in the vicinity of Prizren.
He was shot three times in the head.
Hasim Cuse was last seen in the town on 18 January and he has not been
seen since.
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*** LIVING MARXISM e' la rivista inglese che sta facendo da anni un
eccezionale lavoro di controinformazione sulle questioni jugoslave;
sulla situazione in Kosovo-Metohija si veda ad esempio
http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/documentary/kosovo/docu_frame.html
QUIZ: cosa sai sul Kosmet?
http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/documentary/kosovo/quiz_frameset.html
PER LA SERIE: "LE PRODEZZE DELL'UCKFOR" abbiamo scelto oggi:
* Attaccato ancora un autobus, per un pelo evitata un'altra strage
(Tanjug 9/2)
* Gravemente ferito un serbo ad Obilic (Tanjug 10/2)
* A Gnjilane lanciata una granata in un negozio (Tanjug 10/2)
* Ancora proteste a Mitrovica (B92 7/2)
* In marzo nuove esercitazioni NATO in grande stile (B92 7/2)
* A Mitrovica grave preoccupazione nel ghetto serbo (Tanjug 4-5/2)
* Scontri tra albanesi-kosovari e francesi a Mitrovica (Tanjug 5/2)
* Pesante aggressione contro un serbo a Gnjilane (Tanjug 5/2)
* Attacchi a ripetizione contro le sedi di organizzazioni umanitarie ad
Obilic (Tanjug 5/2)
* Serbo assassinato a Gnjilane (Tanjug 4/2)
* Attaccato a Prizren un reparto ospedaliero dove sono ricoverate donne
serbe: vari feriti, tra cui un militare tedesco, ma come al solito la
KFOR non interviene (Tanjug 5/2)
* SPECIALE: grazie all'UCKFOR fiorisce in Kosmet il commercio... di
ragazze e minorenni da avviare alla prostituzione nei paesi ricchi
(Tanjug - The Times of London)
* RIEPILOGO delle azioni contro la popolazione non schipetara in Kosmet
nei soli ultimi dieci giorni di gennaio (Ministero degli Esteri RFJ)
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ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACKED A BUS TRANSPORTING SERBS
LIPLJAN, February 9 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists shelled a bus
carrying Serbs in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo
and Metohija on Wednesday, but missed the target, according to reports
by local amateur radio operators.
The attack took place at around 3:40 p.m. some 3 km south of Lipljan and
barely 500 metres from an international KFOR force checkpoint at the
village of Staro Gacko, the sources said.
Last summer, 14 Serbs were murdered while working in a field in Staro
Gacko.
Wednesday's shell, fired by three ethnic Albanians who had jumped out of
a
red Volkswagen Golf car, exploded just metres from the bus, the radio
operators said.
The Finnish KFOR troops manning the checkpoint witnessed the incident,
but
took no steps against the three attackers, who escaped from the scene.
The troops' statements that they were not authorised to shoot or leave
the
checkpoint and pursue the attackers have caused a storm of protests from
the Serbs, who gathered demanding that KFOR soldiers should leave the
checkpoint, if they can provide no protection.
Last Wednesday, two Serb civilians were killed in the shelling of a bus
of
the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at Kosovska Mitrovica.
ETHNIC ALBANIANS ATTACKED AND GRAVELY INJURE A SERB
OBILIC, February 10 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists attacked and
gravely injured a Serb in the U.N.-administered Serbian province of
Kosovo
and Metohija on Wednesday, according to reports.
The Serb, Vladimir Subotic of Obilic, near the provincial chief city of
Pristina, was attacked by seven ethnic Albanians, amateur radio
operators
said.
Subotic has been taken for treatment to the Russian battalion hospital
in
Kosovo Polje.
Earlier on Wednesday, a hand grenade was lobbed into the home of a Serb,
but failed to go off.
The international KFOR force and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK)
received protest letters from the Obilic-based Protection and Human
Rights
Committee over the recent demolition of the local monument to Serbian
XIVth
century hero Milos Obilic.
ETHNIC ALBANIANS LOBBED A HAND GRENADE INTO A SERB STORE
GNJILANE, February 10 (Tanjug) - Several powerful blasts on Tuesday
shook
Gnjilane in the southeast of the U.N.-administered Serbian province of
Kosovo and Metohija, the Protection and Human Rights Committee in
Gnjilane
said on Thursday.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists lobbed a hand grenade through the window of a
store where local Serbs congregate, but the grenade did not go off, and
was
disposed of by U.N. mission (UNMIK) police in a controlled explosion at
a
safe distance.
Although the same store had already been targeted twice, the
international
KFOR force has shown no disposition to set up a checkpoint in the area.
Several people were hurt by broken glass in the subsequent melee after
the
grenade was thrown in.
Half an hour later, another powerful explosion reverberated in the town,
in the vicinity of two residential buildings housing Serbs.
Shortly afterwards, KFOR discovered a cache with 14 grenades in the
residential-cum-office building of the former insurance company in
downtown
Gnjilane and arrested two ethnic Albanian minors.
According to the Gnjilane Serbian Church Council, ethnic Albanian
criminals ravaged the windows of two Serb bars in the town during the
night
between Wednesday and Thursday, while three days ago, masked attackers
badly beat up a Romany in his home.
Serbs protest in Kosovska Mitrovica (B92 7/2/00)
PRISTINA, Monday - About three thousand Serbs protested in Kosovska
Mitrovica
today following days of violent conflict in the town. Local Serb leader
Oliver Ivanovic spoke to the crowd, calling on them to voluntarily
organise
protection of people and property in the northern part of the divided
town.
Ivanovic also said that despite talk of a multiethnic community, there
had
been too many gruesome crimes for Serbs and Albanians continue living
together. Ivanovic told B292 last night that he had spoken UN civilian
mission head Bernard Kouchner and that a co-ordinated strategy for
stabilising the situation in the town had been agreed
Kouchner said today that he had been shocked by the series of violent
incidents in the town in the past few days, adding that the
international
community would not allow extremists to win in Kosovo and that crime or
a new
war in the province would not be tolerated.
The UN mission chief accused Albanian extremists of last week's attack
on a
UNHCR bus in which two civilians were killed, adding that it was the
first
time in the work of the UN and the UNHCR that a vehicle or a civilian
bus had
been attacked. He also claimed that Serb extremists were blocking Kosovo
Serbs from taking part in the work of the Temporary Administrative
Council.
NATO manoeuvres in Kosovo "crude display of force" (B92 7/2/00)
BELGRADE, Monday - The NATO and KFOR military manoeuvres planned for
Kosovo
next month are a crude display of force and a renewed threat to
Yugoslavia,
Deputy Federal Foreign Minister Nebojsa Vujovic said today. Vujovic told
a
press conference that the exercises would violate international
agreements on
Kosovo. He also criticised a planned census of the province, saying that
the
basic conditions for such a census did not exist while ethnic cleansing
was
in progress and it was still not possible for displaced Serbs to return.
UNMIK AND KFOR UNABLE TO PROTECT THE SERBS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February. 4 (Tanjug) - The head of the Kosovska
Mitrovica district, Zdravko Trajkovic, on Friday strongly protested with
the administrator of the U.N. Civilian Mission in Kosovo and Metohija
(UNMIK) for Kosovska Mitrovica, Mark Marconni, over the latest terrorist
actions by the ethnic Albanians who fired an anti-tank grenade on a bus
near this town and threw hand grenades on a cafe in the predominantly
Serb
northern part of the city.
"These terrorist acts by the ethnic Albanian terrorists and gangs are
the
result of the irresponsible and unprofessional conduct of UNMIK and KFOR
who failed to protect the Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians
from
the insane activities of the ethnic Albanian terrorists," Trajkovic set
out.
"During your eight-month presence in Kosovo and Metohija, you neither
want, can nor know how to adequately protect the Serbs and Montenegrins
in
this district. I fear, and this has been confirmed a number of times at
the
expense of the Serbs and Montenegrins, that in the future you will also
refuse to carry out the corresponding measures to prevent all terrorist
acts aimed against the citizens," Trajkovic warned.
It is high time for you to understand that you too should take
responsibility for the dangerous ventures of the ethnic Albanian
terrorists
and gangs due to your passive conduct regarding the crimes against
peaceful
citizens in keeping with all international conventions," Trajkovic
stated.
UNMIK, KFOR CLAMP CURFEW ON DIVIDED KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA February 4 (Tanjug) - A U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK)
spokesman said on Friday that overnight unrest and violence in both
sectors
of divided Kosovska Mitrovica had necessitated the imposition of a
curfew.
According to Beatrice Lacoste, UNMIK and the international KFor force
have
been forced to restrict movement in both Serb and ethnic Albanian parts
of
this town in the U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo
and Metohija between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Rioting broke out after two ethnic Turks and two ethnic Albanians were
murdered, and a cafe was bombed and sprayed with submachine gun bullets,
gravely injuring 15 Serbs and six ethnic Albanians.
The curfew is another proof that the U.N. administration, headed by
Bernard Kouchner, and KFor are incapable of establishing the rule of law
in
Kosovo and Metohija and providing security for all ethnic communities.
Lacoste condemned the terrorist attack in the course of which a grenade
was lobbed into a Serb cafe on Thursday night.
She said that Serbs working for UNMIK were targeted by ethnic Albanian
terrorists also in the south, ethnic Albanian part of the town.
For their safety, UNMIK transferred 31 Serbs into the north,
predominantly
Serb-populated part of Kosovska Mitrovica during the night. Anger that
boiled over after the bombing of the cafe Belami found vent in the
smashing
of shop windows, and sacking of offices and cars belonging to
international
organisations, primarily UNMIK.
By dawn, there were nearly two thousand people in the streets,
protesting
chiefly against the inability of UNMIK and KFor to prevent ethnic
Albanian
violence against Serbs.
CLASH BETWEEN FRENCH TROOPS AND ALBANIANS ON BRIDGE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 5 (Tanjug) - Several hundred ethnic
Albanians
who gathered on Saturday around 14.00 at the southern end of the bridge
on
the river Ibar in Kosovska Mitrovica are being dispersed by French KFOR
members with shock-bombs.
The clash between the French, who in less than an hour threw over 50
shock-bombs and tear gas, and the Albanians who threw bottles and rocks,
is
still going on.
The Albanians are trying to cross the bridge, in what they are prevented
by the French, who have scores of wounded.
On the bridge near the railway station arrived on Saturday also German
members of KFOR, as a reinforcement to their colleagues in case ethnic
Albanians attempt to cross into the northern part of town, inhabited
mostly
by Serbs.
Explosions of shock-bombs are still heard and smoke and the smell of
tear
gas is blown by the wind into the northern part of Mitrovica.
SERB BEATEN UP
GNJILANE, February 5 (Tanjug) - In Gnjilane on Thursday around 14.30
hours
was seriously wounded a Serb, Ljubomir Antic (66), Gnjilane
church-national
council said.
In the vicinity of the house where he lives with his wife, Antic was hit
in the back of his head and knocked unconscious.
He regained conscience, after more than one hour, with the help of
troops
of the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), who found him
lying in the street and bleeding.
Antic, who is suffering from loss of balance, and has swellings on his
right eye, nose and head, has been taken to a hospital in Vranje, south
Serbia, for treatment.
Antic who was beaten up did not see his attackers who struck him from
the
back and left him in the street, because they probably though he would
succumb to the blows.
REPEATED BOMB ATTACK ON COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION BUILDING
OBILIC, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists attacked on Thursday
evening around 20.15 hours, for the second time, with a hand grenade the
building of the committee for the protection of human rights in the
center
of Obilic, and set fire to the house of Rade Gajic, the committee said,
radio amateurs from Kosovo and Metohija reported.
None was hurt, but the damages are considerable.
Daily attacks on Serbs in Obilic have not ceased, the committee warned,
pointing out that it was becoming increasingly clear that Albanian
terrorists, by planned actions and in cooperation with the local command
of
the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), were slowly
achieving their planned goal of expelling Serbs from the homes of their
ancestors.
SERB MURDERED IN GNJILANE
GNJILANE, February 4 (Tanjug) - A Serb was murdered in Gnjilane in the
U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo and Metohija on
Friday, according to amateur radio operators' reports, quoting the
town's
Serbian Church Council.
A masked murderer rang the bell of the home of the Serb, Branislav
Zivic,
aged 63, at 2:25 p.m., and when Zivic opened the door, pumped four
pistol
bullets into him.
Zivic's wife Marica was in the kitchen at the time.
The Zivics are the last Serb family remaining in their street.
A spokesman for the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) police said it
was very hard to trace the murderer, especially in view of the fact
that
the ethnic Albanian neighbours who saw the murder committed were loath
to
cooperate with the police.
ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND SERB WOMEN IN HOSPITAL
PRIZREN, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists on Friday attacked
with
hand grenades one of the hospital buildings in Prizren and wounded
several
Serb women, one of them seriously.
Tanjug has learnt that ethnic Albanian terrorists had obtained
information
that also receiving treatment in one of the hospital buildings were four
Serb women.
Albanian medical personnel only one day earlier did not allow those
patients to be admitted to hospital.
International forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR) in Prizren did not
react at all to the terrorist attack, although in it was also wounded a
German member of KFOR.
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TRAFFIC IN WOMEN, CHILDREN SINCE ARRIVAL OF KFOR
LONDON, February 5 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival
of
the international forces (KFOR) in the Serbian province has been
developed
a wide network of prostitution and traffic in women, the London Times
warned Saturday.
The London newspaper pointed out that prostitution and traffic in women
started only after the arrival of KFOR and of the U.N. Civilian Mission
(UNMIK) in Kosovo and Metohija.
According to the Times, the network of prostitution and traffic in women
in Kosovo and Metohija is controled by organized crime, mostly
Albanians,
and the business is developed in several phases.
Local girls are persuaded to work for them, but girls are also brought
from Eastern Europe.
They first go though brothels in Kosovo and Metohija whose main clients
are members of KFOR and other international organizations.
After that the women are transferred through Albania to Western European
countries where they are sold to criminals.
The price of one girl is between three and four and a half thousand D
marks.
The London newspaper has learnt that kidnapping are an increasingly
frequent method of the Albanian mafia in Kosovo-Metohija.
Victims of kidnapping are also children, the Times warned, who are later
sold by Albanian criminals for adoption somewhere in Europe or even for
human organ transplants.
International humanitarian organizations, whose representatives are
present in Kosovo and Metohija, claim that the number of kidnapped women
and children is so high that they do not succeed to help them, while at
the
same time they receive serious threats from the Albanian mafia, the
London
daily said.
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The Times of London
February 5 2000
EUROPE
Sex slave trade thrives among Kosovo troops
FROM JAMES PRINGLE IN PRISTINA
THE presence of Nato-led troops in Kosovo is supporting a new and
sinister white slave trade trade, in which women from impoverished parts
of Eastern Europe are being bought and sold into prostitution.
The women, some as young as 16, are held captive by gangsters, often
Albanian, and sell sexual favours to troops and businessmen in the seedy
nightclubs springing up around Kosovo.
Others smuggled into the region from Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania
and beyond are moved further on, into Albania, across the Adriatic into
Italy and from there to brothels in Western Europe, all the time under
the "ownership" of organised crime. Even children are following similar
routes, sold for adoption or, some say, for body parts.
International agencies trying to combat the trade say that it is
expanding rapidly, despite efforts to rescue women from the clutches of
the loosely organised, mafia-style gangs. They say the numbers are
becoming too great for agencies to manage.
Kosovo was not, in the past, a destination for the East European sex
trade, which began with the collapse of communism in 1991, but the lure
of a 45,000-strong army and a large international component has proved
an irresistible draw and bars and nightclubs are springing up across the
province in places such as Gnjilane and Urosevac.
One at Slatina, just outside Pristina and near the HQ of Russian forces,
is the Nightclub International, from which Italian Carabinieri rescued
12 young women last week. Their duties involved dispensing sexual
favours, at about £30 for half an hour, to Russian and American Kfor
troops and other foreign clients.
"These girls who were rescued are terrified and don't understand what
has happened to them," Pasquale Lupoli, chief of mission of the
International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in Pristina, said. "But
they are now in a protected area where security is guaranteed."
The IOM, a little-known Geneva-based governmental agency, was originally
set up to provide travel documents and an assistant network to migrants;
instead, it is engaged increasingly in trying to help the thousands of
girls who are now prisoners in the European sex trade.
Signor Lupoli said that the number of such girls was rising so quickly
that the agency was finding it very difficult to cope. The IOM had also
had difficulties locating a non-government organisation (NGO) to agree
to take care of them. One problem is that the girls are not refugees so
do not come under, say, the UNHCR.
There was, Signor Lupoli said, also some danger. Albanian gangsters are
searching for their "property" and IOM staff have received threats. In
Kosovo, British troops are subject to a strict "no walking out" policy,
but other nationalities' forces, such as the Russians, Americans and
Italians, are less closely monitored. "None of our soldiers goes into
these bars unless on an official mission," one British officer said. "If
they did, they would find themselves on a military charge."
Of the dozen women rescued by the Carabinieri in Slatina, one had been
raped at 14 and all had been maltreated. Like hundreds of similar
victims, they had been sold several times as they were spirited across
Balkan borders from owner to owner.
Greece, too, is a destination for the sex traders. Mirela Stan, 24, of
Romania, and Hitara Antilsova, 29, from Ukraine, were found dead from
the cold on a mountainside near the Greek-Bulgarian border in January.
They perished in an effort to reach their "promised land", a Greek
nightclub.
In Kosovo, the streets were empty recently after dark after a panic that
teenage girls were being kidnapped by the Albanian mafia to be sold into
prostitution. Indeed, some have disappeared.
These days, a young East European woman costs from £1,000 to £1,400
to buy. She first has to pay back her cost, then ostensibly she gets
half of what she makes from prostitution, while the boss retains 50 per
cent. Additionally, the girl has then to pay 10 per cent of her earnings
for board. "Often she ends up with very little or nothing," an IOM
official said. If she is lucky.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE, 4 February 2000 No. 2876
S P E C I A L I S S U E
CRIMES OF ALBANIAN TERRORISTS AGAINST NON-ALBANIAN
POPULATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
(January 21 - 31, 2000.)
21 January 2000
UROSEVAC - Albanian terrorists in the village of Miras, municipality of
Urosevac, looted, set on fire and destroyed the houses and other
property
of the following Serb families: Miroslava Cicic, Dusan and Vladimir
Dangubic, Mladen and Vukasin Vrtikapa, Sava and Danilo Lugonja, Dosta
and
Djurdje Vitkovic.
The KFOR members present in the village did not intervene.
23 January 2000
K. KAMENICA - In the village of Koretin, municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica, Albanian terrorists stoned the column of Serb vehicles, under
the
protection of Russian KFOR. A vehicle belonging to Negovan Filipovic and
a
bus, operating on Vranje-Kosovska Kamenica line, were stoned.
- Near the village of Bratilovce, municipality of Kosovska Kamenica,
Albanian terrorists disassembled and looted the equipment of a TV
transmitter of the RTV Serbia.
GNJILANE - Albanian terrorists beat and seriously injured, threatening
to
kill him, Vlasta Serafimovic, if he did not immediately leave the family
house and move out of Gnjilane.
UROSEVAC - In the village of Tankosic, municipality of Urosevac,
Albanian
terrorist gangs looted and burned the houses and property of Serb
families:
Jordan Markovic, Dragan Milenkovic, Zivojin and Aleksandar Stojiljkovic,
Slavko and Borivoje Markovic, Zarko Novokmet, Todor Stamenkovic, Slavka
Stankovic, Ljubisa Dimitrijevic, Dusan Velickovic, Vojislav Andjelkovic,
Stanisa Jovic and Dragan Krstic.
The KFOR members, present in the village did not intervene.
VUCITRN- in the village of Banjska, municipality of Vucitrn, Albanian
terrorists planted explosive on a church, damaging and destroying a
large
part of the building in two powerful blasts - entrance area, side wall,
dome and the interior.
24 January 2000
K. MITROVICA - In Kneza Milosa street, in Kosovska Mitrovica, Albanian
terrorists beat and seriously injured with wooden clubs Miomir Antovic
from
the village of Rudare - municipality of Zvecan.
MEDVEDJA - In the village of Svirce, municipality of Urosevac, Albanian
terrorists looted, destroyed and set on fire the property of Serb
families:
Djordje and Mile Simic, Ljubisav Stamenkovic, Zdravko Andjelkovic,
Ljubinka
Mihajlovic, Srba Spasic, Milos and Guta Mitic and Jagoda Petkovic.
ORAHOVAC - On 17 July 1999, Albanian terrorists abducted Djordje
Baljosevic and Dusko Dolasevic, police officers from the fire brigade in
Velika Hoca, who were returning from an official assignment in factory
"Termovent" near Orahovac.
PRISTINA - On 2 August 1999, Albanian terrorists abducted Rade Budimir
in
the front of the building in 14 Kragujevacka street, Pristina.
25 January 2000
GNJILANE - Albanian terrorists threw an explosive device on a food store
owned by Dragan Jovcic, in Laze Stefanovica street. At the time of the
attack, there were 10 Serbs and an Albanian in the store. No one was
hurt.
Substantial material damage was caused.
In another part of Gnjilane, another bomb exploded. It was thrown on a
house of Cemal Saciri, a Turk. The explosion damaged a shop window of a
store belonging to Vojislav Topalovic.
26 January 2000
PRISTINA - Nenad Stamenkovic, from Miljevac village, municipality of
Pristina, residing in Nis, 4 Teslina Street, reported that this brother
Zarko Stamenkovic from Miljevac village, municipality of Pristina (born
12
June 1960) by Albanian terrorists on 22 June 1999, on the road between
Pristina and village of Devet Jugovica.
BUJANOVAC - In the village of Dobrosin, municipality of Bujanovac,
Albanian terrorists attacked by machine-guns, snipers and other
automatic
weapons a police patrol on a regular assignment. Zarko Guberinic, a
police
officer of the Ministry of the Interior (born 22 June 1969 in Djakovica)
sustained light injuries.
- By the main Gnjilane-Bujanovac road, near Silovo village, Albanian
terrorists looted and set on fire the house and "Breza" restaurant on
the
ground floor, owned by Dragan Djokic. The cafe was consumed by fire.
28 January 2000
PODUJEVO - In the village of Glavnik, municipality of Podujevo, Albanian
terrorists stoned a bus of "Nis ekspres", breaking two big side glasses
and
damaging the exterior.
30 January 2000
GNJILANE - The remains of Danilo Djordjevic (51) from Vlasko selo
Nikolicevo near Zajecar, was found on 19 January on the road for Surlane
village, 15 km south of Gnjilane. According to the findings of US
forensic
experts, the cause of the death was a blow to the head. On his hands and
neck there are traces indicating that he was tied by rope, that he was
killed in a cruel way and tortured.
Many accounts confirm that the perpetrators of this crime are Albanians
from an ethnically pure village of Surlane, full of extremists, who
tried
to portray Djordjevic as a Serb terrorist on an assignment.
By his tortured body, a bag full of plastic explosive were found, which
according to the UNMIK representatives should serve as false evidence
that
this alleged Serb terrorist had an intention to blow up and totally
destroy
this Albanian village. UNMIK immediately discounted this possibility
since
the man was only 160 cm tall, weighing 58 kg. He was not a Serb, but a
Vlach from Romania. At the age of 51 he can hardly be a Serb terrorist.
31 January 2000
PRIZREN - Hasim Cuse (60), an uncle of a member of the Temporary
Executive
Council of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, Sokol Cuse,
who
was reported missing on 18 January, was found dead yesterday in the
place
Dulje, near Suva Reka, in the vicinity of Prizren.
He was shot three times in the head.
Hasim Cuse was last seen in the town on 18 January and he has not been
seen since.
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Su richiesta di alcuni compagni, incuriositi da quanto da noi riportato
sulla nostra ciliegina numero 94, informiamo tutti gli interessati che:
- esistono effettivamente dei programmi di facile uso che consentono di
osservare le visite effettuate sul proprio sito web, intendendo non
solamente il ben noto "contatore" di accessi, ma anche un sistema che
registri i dettagli della visita, compreso il nome del server che si e'
connesso;
- questi programmi fanno spesso parte del "pacchetto" di servizi che il
provider, presso il quale si apre il proprio sito, mette a disposizione;
- essi sono pero' anche reperibili in internet, ad esempio agli
indirizzi:
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ed anche (meno buono) http://es.nedstat.net/
Detto cio': buon divertimento.
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sulla nostra ciliegina numero 94, informiamo tutti gli interessati che:
- esistono effettivamente dei programmi di facile uso che consentono di
osservare le visite effettuate sul proprio sito web, intendendo non
solamente il ben noto "contatore" di accessi, ma anche un sistema che
registri i dettagli della visita, compreso il nome del server che si e'
connesso;
- questi programmi fanno spesso parte del "pacchetto" di servizi che il
provider, presso il quale si apre il proprio sito, mette a disposizione;
- essi sono pero' anche reperibili in internet, ad esempio agli
indirizzi:
http://awsd.com/scripts/weblog/
ed anche (meno buono) http://es.nedstat.net/
Detto cio': buon divertimento.
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NOTA: benche' tra le varie sfaccettature della attuale "farsa di pace"
in Albania e Kosmet rientri a pieno titolo anche la scandalosa missione
Arcobaleno, abbiamo scelto di NON includerla nelle nostre analisi per
almeno tre motivi: 1. perche' ne stanno parlando abbondantemente tutti i
media, anche se quasi solo nell'ottica miope della bassa polemica di
politica interna 2. perche' ci sarebbe troppo da dire, ed il nostro
notiziario non puo' essere caricato troppo 3. perche' ogni stomaco ha i
suoi limiti.
*** La Russia minaccia di farla finita con la farsa del contingente
internazionale in Kosmet, che anziche' applicarla viola sistematicamente
la risoluzione ONU 1244 (AFP 9/2/00)
*** La missione civile UNMIK in Kosmet viene privata di fondi e lasciata
marcire (TFF 8/2/00)
*** L'Albania sta diventando una base permanente della NATO (Albanian
Daily News 4/2/00)
*** Note e rivelazioni sulla operazione "Angelo della Misericordia" di
appoggio all'irredentismo grandealbanese (Committee for National
Solidarity, Belgrado)
---
Moscow Threatens To Pull Peacekeepers Out Of Kosovo
MOSCOW, Feb 9, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Moscow
made a new threat to withdraw its troops from
peacekeeping duties in Kosovo Tuesday, and demanded
that NATO commanders and the UN administration in the
province take steps to protect ethnic minorities.
Moscow said it was particularly concerned about events
in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica
in the north of the province, where clashes last week
between Serbs and ethnic Albanians left at least eight
people dead and forced 550 people to flee their homes,
according to KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping force.
The head of Russia's security committee, Sergei
Ivanov, said in a statement to the military
information agency AVN that KFOR and the United
Nations Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK) had failed to put in
place the UN Security Council resolution guaranteeing
the safety of all inhabitants of the province.
"The change in the humanitarian situation in Kosovo
could force Russia to re-examine its participation in
the peacekeeping operation and the Atlantic alliance
would be responsible for the situation thereafter,"
Ivanov said, quoted by AVN.
The Russian foreign ministry called on Kosovo's
community leaders to demonstrate tolerance and called
on the international forces in the province to
"immediately ensure the safety of ethnic minorities,"
the news agency ITAR-TASS reported. ((c) 2000 Agence
France Presse)
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Care
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U N B R O K E I N K O S O V O ,
N O T E V E N N O R D I C G O V E R N M E N T S C A R E
Lund, Sweden February 7, 2000
"Isn't it amazing that the new moralists who profess to protect human
rights, democracy and peace and who spent unlimited funds on warfare now
don't even bother to provide the UN with the minimum funds to bring
peace to
Kosovo?
The UN urgently needs US$ 102 million. That equals what Sweden spent on
sending 860 soldiers to Kosovo.
Read what the United Nations Foundation "UN Wire" reported on February
3,
2000 - about a year after the Rambouillet "peace" process began. It is
yet
another proof of the inter-cynical community's mode of operation," says
Jan
Oberg.
- - - - - -
"UNMIK Out Of Money, Kouchner Says
The United Nations has no money to pay its civil servants in Kosovo, UN
administrator Bernard Kouchner said today. Speaking to reporters at the
Japan Press Club in Tokyo, Kouchner said the UN Mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK) is
"facing an emergency, period. We have to pay the civil servants." Some
workers, Kouchner added, have not been paid for months, and "there is
0.00
deutsche mark in the budget 2000 of Kosovo"...Kouchner said the UN needs
$102 million for its operation.
"It is the first time in the history of United Nations peacekeeping
operations that we have to deal with a budget, with the payment of the
civil
servants and organise an administration," Kouchner said. "It is why it
is so
important to get not only promises, but cash. For the infrastructure
projects, we can wait a little bit longer but not for the payment of the
civil servants. We must pay them."
Last week, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticised the
international community for failing to live up to its financial
commitment
to Kosovo. "Unfortunately, a serious crisis of funding has arisen," she
said. The United States, Albright added, would contribute an additional
$10
million and 100 police officers for the operation." And:
"US Criticises Europe For Lack Of Effort
The UN's greatest need in Kosovo, according to police Commissioner Sven
Frederiksen, is for special police trained in riot control and
protection of
UN buildings and officials (Jerome Rivet, Agence France-Presse, 3 Feb).
"If the countries that signed up ... want a success, they will have to
come
up with some people," he said. "We need international police and we need
them desperately."
Several US senators took issue with what they perceive as a lack of
European
support for UN operations in the Balkans. In an Armed Services Committee
hearing, committee Chair John Warner, a Virginia Republican, said, "the
United Nations and other international organizations charged with the
responsibility of rebuilding the civilian structures in Bosnia and
Kosovo
are simply not doing their job."
Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, added, "I am mystified why our
own
NATO allies have not provided more police for service in their own
backyard." The European Union, he added, has not provided any of the $35
million it promised for reconstruction efforts (Reuters/Central Europe
Online, 3 Feb). "On my scorecard, the European nations and the European
Union are flunking the test," he said.
NATO General Wesley Clark reiterated the need for support for police
efforts
in Kosovo. "We desperately, urgently need nations to provide additional
civil police to assist this important mission," he told the committee
(Sands/Pisik, Washington Times, 3 Feb)." Source
http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/unwire.cfm
- - - - -
"Obscene as it is," says Jan Oberg, "there seems to be a tacit agreement
that post-war Serbia and Kosovo are off the public agenda. Here is a
selection of issues we are not supposed to have a well-informed public
debate about:
* that the international missions ignore or violate central provisions
of UN
Security Council resolution 1244 on the basis of which they are in
Kosovo/a;
* that we can't help the Albanians imprisoned in Serbia because the West
officially will have nothing to do with authorities in Belgrade;
* that NATO leaders stand accused of war crimes at the Hague Tribunal
while
citizens of NATO countries hardly know about it;
* that according to international humanitarian organisations there are
between 900.000 and 1.000.000 refugees in Serbia/Montenegro - from
Croatia,
Bosnia and Kosovo, i.e. more than the Albanians who fled to Albania and
Macedonia and who were promised a safe return;
* that the largest ethnic cleansing in the Balkans has happened under
the
very eyes of 45.000 NATO troops, and thousands UN civilians and police,
OSCE
and NGOs;
* that CIA and other dark organisations have obtained millions of
dollars to
overthrow the Belgrade government (e.g. Operation Matrix) - and were on
the
ground all the time;
* that the West maintains sanctions and isolation of Serbia and thus
victimises not only the refugees but the 9 million citizens in
multi-ethnic
Serbia and Montenegro;
* that media, with few exceptions, have stopped asking questions about
all
this;
* that the EU brings oil only to cities run by opposition parties and
thereby violates the finest principle of humanitarianism:
that human suffering/needs should be the only criteria;
* that you never heard about financial "crisis" when NATO bombed and
brought
45.000 heavily armed soldiers on the ground;
* that criminality, mafia operations, corruption and prostitution has
skyrocketed in Kosovo after the arrival of the international community;
* that there is a full war going on behind the scenes about who should
be
the scapegoat for this the most bogus policy in the post-Cold War era.
"Kosovo is now the Big Unmentionable. We know 'Realpolitik' is not about
ethics. But we are making a mockery of democracy if a handful of leaders
get
away with all this without being made accountable for the consequences
of
their deeds.
Is there ONE government in Europe that dares speak up against US
dominance
and refuses to be be taught lessons, as above, by American leaders who
caused 90% of the destruction? Is there ONE European government leader
with
enough civil courage to tell us that something went wrong - and remains
wrong?
The big ones who ran the show won't. But non-NATO Sweden and Finland or
NATO-Norway and Denmark could: the good news is that independent
countries
can have independent views; that's what international democracy is all
about. The bad news is that this is ignored.
The Nordic countries have traditions of open debate; they used to
support
the UN, stand firmly on principles of international law and prefer
dialogue
to guns. They used to care about justice and aid to those most in need.
Imagine that Sweden had not contributed to the military congestion in
Kosovo: it could then have saved the whole UN mission now!
The silence about the docility and complicity of smaller governments in
the
Balkan tragedy is ominous - and their conscience won't be cleared by
raising
their voices about WWII Holocaust or about Jörg Haider," ends Jan Oberg.
© TFF 2000
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Director, head of the TFF Conflict-Mitigation team
to the Balkans and Georgia
T F F
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
Vegagatan 25, S - 224 57 Lund, Sweden
Phone +46-46-145909 (0900-1100)
Fax +46-46-144512
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Senior Parliamentarian Supports Permanent NATO Bases in Albania
TIRANA - A top Albanian parliamentarian said on Friday that parliament
should support the establishment of permanent NATO military bases in the
country as a factor for stability in the case of any imminent threat of
conflict in the area.
The chairman of the foreign parliamentary committee, Sabri Godo of the
opposition Republican party, said in an interview on Friday that the
still explosive situation in the region with Albania's northern
neighbour, the small Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, trying to break
away from Serbia, and the efforts of the regime of Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to undermine Podgorica's attempts towards more
Western reforms, made it necessary for the country to ask for support
from the Euro-Atlantic structures.
"For the time being the establishment of NATO military bases in Albania
poses not legal problem, as they are moves made within the framework of
the (NATO) partnership, but if the issue of establishing permanent bases
should be raised, it should be supported," said Godo.
"Albanian political forces should offer all the facilities to this end."
Godo confirmed reports that NATO will very shortly establish in Albania
a group of senior officers, that will be followed by another group to
help Albania's defence authorities repair and maintain the military
infra-structure in the north-west of the country.
The senior parliamentarian said that 12 NATO officers are planned to be
deployed in Albania at the beginning of February at a NATO base in
Durres, used by troops of the Communication Zone West, part of KFOR
troops in Kosovo.
"This (deployment) has been clearly confirmed, also by the US Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Thomas Pickering, during his
visit at the KFOR contingent in Durres," said Godo, adding that NATO's
presence in Albania should be long term "as the danger hovering over the
Balkans, especially Albania, from the Milosevic regime is well known."
Copyright ©Albanian Daily News
http://www.albaniannews.com/privateadn/2000/02/06/page2.htm
---
===========================
The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU
Dear Madam / Sir,
We are sending you the article "ANGEL OF MERCY" by Mrs. Simonida Dragas,
a
recognized expert on Kosovo and Metohia, in hope that it will be of use
to
you in achieving a better understanding of the situation in this
troubled
region.
Author: Mrs. Simonida Dragas
"ANGEL OF MERCY" - THE STORY OF ONE GENERAL OF YUGOSLAV ARMY
"Angel of Mercy" is the name of war that had been waged by America and
NATO
in Kosovo, where violence continues even though war is officially over
and
bombs are no longer part of the "merciful" action for "liberation" of
Albanians. The title itself is an ironic paraphrasing of the title of
well -
known fresco from Mileseva monastery "The White Angel". But ironic
paraphrasing of things that are held sacred by one nation is also a
testimony to the barbarism of those who paraphrase it.
Americans, Germans and Albanians: It’s the old well - known story. It is
almost as well - known as the Albanian love for weapons: Today, just
like it
used to be the case in the past, there is hardly any Albanian house in
Kosovo that has no weapons in it. Arms are an integral part of thoughts,
hands, and characters of Albanian men. Thus the fact that in former
Yugoslavia many young Albanians had attended military schools and
academies
should not come as a surprise. Young Albanians were enrolled and
selected
like young men of other nationalities - according to their success on
application exams.
We had talked about this subject - Albanians and Yugoslav army - with
someone who is qualified to discuss the subject, being an Albanian and
officer himself. He maintains that there had been quite a lot of
Albanians
in Yugoslav army, among others there are Generals Isa Kransnici, Fadilj
Curanoli, Edhem Racica who still live in Belgrade. Some of them are
still in
active military service.
When the break - up of Yugoslavia had begun, some Albanian officers took
active part in it. Our source claims that none of the high ranking
Albanian
officers had left Yugoslav army. Only younger Albanian officers of lower
rank - such as captains and lieutenants - had deserted. Most of these
deserters had left the units of Yugoslav army that had been stationed in
Slovenia and Croatia. Some of these former officers played important
role in
settlement of Albanians in these areas before they had left the army.
For
example, colonel Beciri played important role in settlement of over 8000
Albanians in Sarajevo, where he had been stationed. He supported
settlement
of Albanians in other parts of Bosnia as well. Colonel Beciri had been
the
President of Albanian Association in Bosnia. He had received money from
his
compatriots whom he had helped to settle in Bosnia. Part of that money
went
for illegal purchase of arms that were destined for Kosovo Albanians.
As soon as the break-up of former Yugoslavia had begun, young Albanian
officers deserting from Yugoslav army signed contracts with the newly
formed
armed forces of Slovenia and Croatia. Their monthly wages ranged from
10000
to 15000 German Marks. Soon they became the hard core of Slovenian and
Croatian armies.
Beside participation in armed conflicts in Slovenia and Croatia, many
Albanian officers who had received the training and military education
of
highest standard in Yugoslav army prior to their desertion, started
leaving
for Albania as early as 1991. There they began training their
compatriots
from Kosovo and Albania. CIA and BND were well acquainted with their
training camps in Tirana and Kux. Acting on orders of their sponsors,
Albanian officers who had at one point taken the solemn oath of
allegiance
to defend Yugoslavia now lead the units made up of terrorists against
the
same country. This breach of oath had begun as early as early as 1991
and
lasted until the very end of operation "Angel of Mercy". The fact that
gangs
of terrorists had been continuously crossing Yugoslav - Albanian border
is
no big secret. Sometimes during "Angel of Mercy" operations the groups
numbered as many as 10000 or even 15000 terrorists armed with German
weapons
and trained by former officers of Yugoslav army. NATO’s aircraft and
artillery had been providing support for these terrorist groups.
Terrorists
often tried to penetrate Yugoslav territory from Macedonia, going across
Sara mountain.
Our source maintains that UCK / KLA had been formed primarily thanks to
the
efforts of Albanian officers who had received training in Yugoslav army,
prior to their desertion. UCK / KLA commander Agim Ceku was the most
ruthless and fierce among those officers. He used to be stationed in
Yugoslav army’s garrison in town of Gospic in Croatia. He and another
former
officer of Yugoslav army, major Oreskovic, had planned and carried out
the
brutal murdering of 120 Serbs in Gospic late in 1991.
Our source maintains that Albanian officers who had deserted Yugoslav
army
and took part in actions against Serbs were mainly motivated by money
they
had been receiving from their employers. They were also lead by the old
delusion Albanians so often impose upon themselves, that Serbs are bent
on
destroying them; thus, Albanians should try to destroy Serbs in turn.
According to our source, members of UCK / KLA often show inclination to
criminal activities, such as pillaging, looting and random violence
against
civilians, even fellow Albanians. He maintains that former allies - NATO
and
UCK / KLA - may become enemies in the future. UCK / KLA had been only
nominally disbanded. However, it exercises effective control in Kosovo
and
shows more and more resentment against KFOR, which may gradually lead to
the
open conflicts as former members of UCK / KLA continue to pursue their
inclination towards criminal activities described above.
UCK / KLA had been in fact set up in order so the Americans, Germans or
the
British would not have to die in the Balkans, maintains our source.
Today
Albanians believe that their "task" in Kosovo is finished, and since
they
had also gained strength, they are no longer ready to be obedient pawns
of
the "foreigners". Thus the increased tensions between Albanians and
members
of NATO forces in Kosovo.
Our source believes that most of the young Albanian officers who had
received military education in Yugoslav military schools, have deserted
from
Yugoslav army and fought with UCK / KLA are no longer among the living.
They
had perished in conflicts with Yugoslav army and Serbian police since
their
CIA and BND mentors kept pushing them into the foremost front lines.
That
was part of their "allies’" strategy: Use and then dispose of cannon
fodder!
Albanians who had been living in Yugoslavia always had a better life
than
their compatriots in Albania. Over the past several years, the "great
allies" of Albanians and UCK / KLA had maintained a state of chronic
chaos
in Albania and Albanians born in Yugoslavia are slowly getting tired of
their foreign mentors. Our source maintains that none of the members of
UCK
/ KLA, not even Hasim Taci, who had received his training from fellow
criminals in German underworld, would be willing to risk their lives in
realization of new projects of American and German geostrategists. These
projects include plans for subjugating Russia and cutting its population
down to between 30 and 40 millions of Russians by year 2010.
Albanians have far more pressing goals. These include occupation of
parts of
southern Serbia and creation of Great Albania in cooperation with their
compatriots from Macedonia. Center of this Great Albania would be
Pristina.
UCK / KLA does not want to have Albanians from Albania run such a state.
One
cannot help wondering whether CIA and BND will continue supporting and
financing these plans of UCK / KLA...
Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art historian
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in Albania e Kosmet rientri a pieno titolo anche la scandalosa missione
Arcobaleno, abbiamo scelto di NON includerla nelle nostre analisi per
almeno tre motivi: 1. perche' ne stanno parlando abbondantemente tutti i
media, anche se quasi solo nell'ottica miope della bassa polemica di
politica interna 2. perche' ci sarebbe troppo da dire, ed il nostro
notiziario non puo' essere caricato troppo 3. perche' ogni stomaco ha i
suoi limiti.
*** La Russia minaccia di farla finita con la farsa del contingente
internazionale in Kosmet, che anziche' applicarla viola sistematicamente
la risoluzione ONU 1244 (AFP 9/2/00)
*** La missione civile UNMIK in Kosmet viene privata di fondi e lasciata
marcire (TFF 8/2/00)
*** L'Albania sta diventando una base permanente della NATO (Albanian
Daily News 4/2/00)
*** Note e rivelazioni sulla operazione "Angelo della Misericordia" di
appoggio all'irredentismo grandealbanese (Committee for National
Solidarity, Belgrado)
---
Moscow Threatens To Pull Peacekeepers Out Of Kosovo
MOSCOW, Feb 9, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Moscow
made a new threat to withdraw its troops from
peacekeeping duties in Kosovo Tuesday, and demanded
that NATO commanders and the UN administration in the
province take steps to protect ethnic minorities.
Moscow said it was particularly concerned about events
in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica
in the north of the province, where clashes last week
between Serbs and ethnic Albanians left at least eight
people dead and forced 550 people to flee their homes,
according to KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping force.
The head of Russia's security committee, Sergei
Ivanov, said in a statement to the military
information agency AVN that KFOR and the United
Nations Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK) had failed to put in
place the UN Security Council resolution guaranteeing
the safety of all inhabitants of the province.
"The change in the humanitarian situation in Kosovo
could force Russia to re-examine its participation in
the peacekeeping operation and the Atlantic alliance
would be responsible for the situation thereafter,"
Ivanov said, quoted by AVN.
The Russian foreign ministry called on Kosovo's
community leaders to demonstrate tolerance and called
on the international forces in the province to
"immediately ensure the safety of ethnic minorities,"
the news agency ITAR-TASS reported. ((c) 2000 Agence
France Presse)
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From: TFF <tff@...>
Subject: UN Broke in Kosovo, Not Even Nordic Governments
Care
On http://www.transnational.org
February 7, 2000
TFF P r e s s I n f o # 8 6
U N B R O K E I N K O S O V O ,
N O T E V E N N O R D I C G O V E R N M E N T S C A R E
Lund, Sweden February 7, 2000
"Isn't it amazing that the new moralists who profess to protect human
rights, democracy and peace and who spent unlimited funds on warfare now
don't even bother to provide the UN with the minimum funds to bring
peace to
Kosovo?
The UN urgently needs US$ 102 million. That equals what Sweden spent on
sending 860 soldiers to Kosovo.
Read what the United Nations Foundation "UN Wire" reported on February
3,
2000 - about a year after the Rambouillet "peace" process began. It is
yet
another proof of the inter-cynical community's mode of operation," says
Jan
Oberg.
- - - - - -
"UNMIK Out Of Money, Kouchner Says
The United Nations has no money to pay its civil servants in Kosovo, UN
administrator Bernard Kouchner said today. Speaking to reporters at the
Japan Press Club in Tokyo, Kouchner said the UN Mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK) is
"facing an emergency, period. We have to pay the civil servants." Some
workers, Kouchner added, have not been paid for months, and "there is
0.00
deutsche mark in the budget 2000 of Kosovo"...Kouchner said the UN needs
$102 million for its operation.
"It is the first time in the history of United Nations peacekeeping
operations that we have to deal with a budget, with the payment of the
civil
servants and organise an administration," Kouchner said. "It is why it
is so
important to get not only promises, but cash. For the infrastructure
projects, we can wait a little bit longer but not for the payment of the
civil servants. We must pay them."
Last week, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticised the
international community for failing to live up to its financial
commitment
to Kosovo. "Unfortunately, a serious crisis of funding has arisen," she
said. The United States, Albright added, would contribute an additional
$10
million and 100 police officers for the operation." And:
"US Criticises Europe For Lack Of Effort
The UN's greatest need in Kosovo, according to police Commissioner Sven
Frederiksen, is for special police trained in riot control and
protection of
UN buildings and officials (Jerome Rivet, Agence France-Presse, 3 Feb).
"If the countries that signed up ... want a success, they will have to
come
up with some people," he said. "We need international police and we need
them desperately."
Several US senators took issue with what they perceive as a lack of
European
support for UN operations in the Balkans. In an Armed Services Committee
hearing, committee Chair John Warner, a Virginia Republican, said, "the
United Nations and other international organizations charged with the
responsibility of rebuilding the civilian structures in Bosnia and
Kosovo
are simply not doing their job."
Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, added, "I am mystified why our
own
NATO allies have not provided more police for service in their own
backyard." The European Union, he added, has not provided any of the $35
million it promised for reconstruction efforts (Reuters/Central Europe
Online, 3 Feb). "On my scorecard, the European nations and the European
Union are flunking the test," he said.
NATO General Wesley Clark reiterated the need for support for police
efforts
in Kosovo. "We desperately, urgently need nations to provide additional
civil police to assist this important mission," he told the committee
(Sands/Pisik, Washington Times, 3 Feb)." Source
http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/unwire.cfm
- - - - -
"Obscene as it is," says Jan Oberg, "there seems to be a tacit agreement
that post-war Serbia and Kosovo are off the public agenda. Here is a
selection of issues we are not supposed to have a well-informed public
debate about:
* that the international missions ignore or violate central provisions
of UN
Security Council resolution 1244 on the basis of which they are in
Kosovo/a;
* that we can't help the Albanians imprisoned in Serbia because the West
officially will have nothing to do with authorities in Belgrade;
* that NATO leaders stand accused of war crimes at the Hague Tribunal
while
citizens of NATO countries hardly know about it;
* that according to international humanitarian organisations there are
between 900.000 and 1.000.000 refugees in Serbia/Montenegro - from
Croatia,
Bosnia and Kosovo, i.e. more than the Albanians who fled to Albania and
Macedonia and who were promised a safe return;
* that the largest ethnic cleansing in the Balkans has happened under
the
very eyes of 45.000 NATO troops, and thousands UN civilians and police,
OSCE
and NGOs;
* that CIA and other dark organisations have obtained millions of
dollars to
overthrow the Belgrade government (e.g. Operation Matrix) - and were on
the
ground all the time;
* that the West maintains sanctions and isolation of Serbia and thus
victimises not only the refugees but the 9 million citizens in
multi-ethnic
Serbia and Montenegro;
* that media, with few exceptions, have stopped asking questions about
all
this;
* that the EU brings oil only to cities run by opposition parties and
thereby violates the finest principle of humanitarianism:
that human suffering/needs should be the only criteria;
* that you never heard about financial "crisis" when NATO bombed and
brought
45.000 heavily armed soldiers on the ground;
* that criminality, mafia operations, corruption and prostitution has
skyrocketed in Kosovo after the arrival of the international community;
* that there is a full war going on behind the scenes about who should
be
the scapegoat for this the most bogus policy in the post-Cold War era.
"Kosovo is now the Big Unmentionable. We know 'Realpolitik' is not about
ethics. But we are making a mockery of democracy if a handful of leaders
get
away with all this without being made accountable for the consequences
of
their deeds.
Is there ONE government in Europe that dares speak up against US
dominance
and refuses to be be taught lessons, as above, by American leaders who
caused 90% of the destruction? Is there ONE European government leader
with
enough civil courage to tell us that something went wrong - and remains
wrong?
The big ones who ran the show won't. But non-NATO Sweden and Finland or
NATO-Norway and Denmark could: the good news is that independent
countries
can have independent views; that's what international democracy is all
about. The bad news is that this is ignored.
The Nordic countries have traditions of open debate; they used to
support
the UN, stand firmly on principles of international law and prefer
dialogue
to guns. They used to care about justice and aid to those most in need.
Imagine that Sweden had not contributed to the military congestion in
Kosovo: it could then have saved the whole UN mission now!
The silence about the docility and complicity of smaller governments in
the
Balkan tragedy is ominous - and their conscience won't be cleared by
raising
their voices about WWII Holocaust or about Jörg Haider," ends Jan Oberg.
© TFF 2000
You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item,
but
please retain the source.
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Dr. Jan Oberg
Director, head of the TFF Conflict-Mitigation team
to the Balkans and Georgia
T F F
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
Vegagatan 25, S - 224 57 Lund, Sweden
Phone +46-46-145909 (0900-1100)
Fax +46-46-144512
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Senior Parliamentarian Supports Permanent NATO Bases in Albania
TIRANA - A top Albanian parliamentarian said on Friday that parliament
should support the establishment of permanent NATO military bases in the
country as a factor for stability in the case of any imminent threat of
conflict in the area.
The chairman of the foreign parliamentary committee, Sabri Godo of the
opposition Republican party, said in an interview on Friday that the
still explosive situation in the region with Albania's northern
neighbour, the small Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, trying to break
away from Serbia, and the efforts of the regime of Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to undermine Podgorica's attempts towards more
Western reforms, made it necessary for the country to ask for support
from the Euro-Atlantic structures.
"For the time being the establishment of NATO military bases in Albania
poses not legal problem, as they are moves made within the framework of
the (NATO) partnership, but if the issue of establishing permanent bases
should be raised, it should be supported," said Godo.
"Albanian political forces should offer all the facilities to this end."
Godo confirmed reports that NATO will very shortly establish in Albania
a group of senior officers, that will be followed by another group to
help Albania's defence authorities repair and maintain the military
infra-structure in the north-west of the country.
The senior parliamentarian said that 12 NATO officers are planned to be
deployed in Albania at the beginning of February at a NATO base in
Durres, used by troops of the Communication Zone West, part of KFOR
troops in Kosovo.
"This (deployment) has been clearly confirmed, also by the US Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Thomas Pickering, during his
visit at the KFOR contingent in Durres," said Godo, adding that NATO's
presence in Albania should be long term "as the danger hovering over the
Balkans, especially Albania, from the Milosevic regime is well known."
Copyright ©Albanian Daily News
http://www.albaniannews.com/privateadn/2000/02/06/page2.htm
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The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU
Dear Madam / Sir,
We are sending you the article "ANGEL OF MERCY" by Mrs. Simonida Dragas,
a
recognized expert on Kosovo and Metohia, in hope that it will be of use
to
you in achieving a better understanding of the situation in this
troubled
region.
Author: Mrs. Simonida Dragas
"ANGEL OF MERCY" - THE STORY OF ONE GENERAL OF YUGOSLAV ARMY
"Angel of Mercy" is the name of war that had been waged by America and
NATO
in Kosovo, where violence continues even though war is officially over
and
bombs are no longer part of the "merciful" action for "liberation" of
Albanians. The title itself is an ironic paraphrasing of the title of
well -
known fresco from Mileseva monastery "The White Angel". But ironic
paraphrasing of things that are held sacred by one nation is also a
testimony to the barbarism of those who paraphrase it.
Americans, Germans and Albanians: It’s the old well - known story. It is
almost as well - known as the Albanian love for weapons: Today, just
like it
used to be the case in the past, there is hardly any Albanian house in
Kosovo that has no weapons in it. Arms are an integral part of thoughts,
hands, and characters of Albanian men. Thus the fact that in former
Yugoslavia many young Albanians had attended military schools and
academies
should not come as a surprise. Young Albanians were enrolled and
selected
like young men of other nationalities - according to their success on
application exams.
We had talked about this subject - Albanians and Yugoslav army - with
someone who is qualified to discuss the subject, being an Albanian and
officer himself. He maintains that there had been quite a lot of
Albanians
in Yugoslav army, among others there are Generals Isa Kransnici, Fadilj
Curanoli, Edhem Racica who still live in Belgrade. Some of them are
still in
active military service.
When the break - up of Yugoslavia had begun, some Albanian officers took
active part in it. Our source claims that none of the high ranking
Albanian
officers had left Yugoslav army. Only younger Albanian officers of lower
rank - such as captains and lieutenants - had deserted. Most of these
deserters had left the units of Yugoslav army that had been stationed in
Slovenia and Croatia. Some of these former officers played important
role in
settlement of Albanians in these areas before they had left the army.
For
example, colonel Beciri played important role in settlement of over 8000
Albanians in Sarajevo, where he had been stationed. He supported
settlement
of Albanians in other parts of Bosnia as well. Colonel Beciri had been
the
President of Albanian Association in Bosnia. He had received money from
his
compatriots whom he had helped to settle in Bosnia. Part of that money
went
for illegal purchase of arms that were destined for Kosovo Albanians.
As soon as the break-up of former Yugoslavia had begun, young Albanian
officers deserting from Yugoslav army signed contracts with the newly
formed
armed forces of Slovenia and Croatia. Their monthly wages ranged from
10000
to 15000 German Marks. Soon they became the hard core of Slovenian and
Croatian armies.
Beside participation in armed conflicts in Slovenia and Croatia, many
Albanian officers who had received the training and military education
of
highest standard in Yugoslav army prior to their desertion, started
leaving
for Albania as early as 1991. There they began training their
compatriots
from Kosovo and Albania. CIA and BND were well acquainted with their
training camps in Tirana and Kux. Acting on orders of their sponsors,
Albanian officers who had at one point taken the solemn oath of
allegiance
to defend Yugoslavia now lead the units made up of terrorists against
the
same country. This breach of oath had begun as early as early as 1991
and
lasted until the very end of operation "Angel of Mercy". The fact that
gangs
of terrorists had been continuously crossing Yugoslav - Albanian border
is
no big secret. Sometimes during "Angel of Mercy" operations the groups
numbered as many as 10000 or even 15000 terrorists armed with German
weapons
and trained by former officers of Yugoslav army. NATO’s aircraft and
artillery had been providing support for these terrorist groups.
Terrorists
often tried to penetrate Yugoslav territory from Macedonia, going across
Sara mountain.
Our source maintains that UCK / KLA had been formed primarily thanks to
the
efforts of Albanian officers who had received training in Yugoslav army,
prior to their desertion. UCK / KLA commander Agim Ceku was the most
ruthless and fierce among those officers. He used to be stationed in
Yugoslav army’s garrison in town of Gospic in Croatia. He and another
former
officer of Yugoslav army, major Oreskovic, had planned and carried out
the
brutal murdering of 120 Serbs in Gospic late in 1991.
Our source maintains that Albanian officers who had deserted Yugoslav
army
and took part in actions against Serbs were mainly motivated by money
they
had been receiving from their employers. They were also lead by the old
delusion Albanians so often impose upon themselves, that Serbs are bent
on
destroying them; thus, Albanians should try to destroy Serbs in turn.
According to our source, members of UCK / KLA often show inclination to
criminal activities, such as pillaging, looting and random violence
against
civilians, even fellow Albanians. He maintains that former allies - NATO
and
UCK / KLA - may become enemies in the future. UCK / KLA had been only
nominally disbanded. However, it exercises effective control in Kosovo
and
shows more and more resentment against KFOR, which may gradually lead to
the
open conflicts as former members of UCK / KLA continue to pursue their
inclination towards criminal activities described above.
UCK / KLA had been in fact set up in order so the Americans, Germans or
the
British would not have to die in the Balkans, maintains our source.
Today
Albanians believe that their "task" in Kosovo is finished, and since
they
had also gained strength, they are no longer ready to be obedient pawns
of
the "foreigners". Thus the increased tensions between Albanians and
members
of NATO forces in Kosovo.
Our source believes that most of the young Albanian officers who had
received military education in Yugoslav military schools, have deserted
from
Yugoslav army and fought with UCK / KLA are no longer among the living.
They
had perished in conflicts with Yugoslav army and Serbian police since
their
CIA and BND mentors kept pushing them into the foremost front lines.
That
was part of their "allies’" strategy: Use and then dispose of cannon
fodder!
Albanians who had been living in Yugoslavia always had a better life
than
their compatriots in Albania. Over the past several years, the "great
allies" of Albanians and UCK / KLA had maintained a state of chronic
chaos
in Albania and Albanians born in Yugoslavia are slowly getting tired of
their foreign mentors. Our source maintains that none of the members of
UCK
/ KLA, not even Hasim Taci, who had received his training from fellow
criminals in German underworld, would be willing to risk their lives in
realization of new projects of American and German geostrategists. These
projects include plans for subjugating Russia and cutting its population
down to between 30 and 40 millions of Russians by year 2010.
Albanians have far more pressing goals. These include occupation of
parts of
southern Serbia and creation of Great Albania in cooperation with their
compatriots from Macedonia. Center of this Great Albania would be
Pristina.
UCK / KLA does not want to have Albanians from Albania run such a state.
One
cannot help wondering whether CIA and BND will continue supporting and
financing these plans of UCK / KLA...
Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art historian
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