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Kosovo - The "Banality of Evil"
by Gilles d'Aymery
February 19, 2001
> http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=294133
Macedonia Warns NATO of Possible Conflict on Border
With Kosovo
SKOPJE, Feb 21, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse)
---
Alberto Tarozzi wrote:
> ecco come si stanno mobilitando gli albanesi nei balcani per la campagna di
> primavera.
>
> alberto tarozzi e zivkica nedanovska.
>
> 1.FONTE: FREE B-92- VESTI.
>
> 2.TITOLO: Il numero delle vittime doppio.
>
> 3.INDICE: ///
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET:
> http://vesti.freeb92.net/press-index.phtml">http://www.b92.net/archive/s/pre
> ss-index.phtmlmozete
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001. Le Notizie del 19.02.2001.
>
> L'attacco sull'autobus dei Serbi nel villaggio Livadice vicino a Podujevo
> In Kosovo è
> l'indice chiaro alla comunità internazionale che i terroristi albanesi sono
> "i padroni
> della situazione sul terreno"- ha dichiarato il vicepresidente del Partito
> Democratico
> Serbo ( DSS), Marko Jaksic. "L'escalation spaventosa del terrorismo in
> Kosovo e
> Metohija ci dimostra che il KFOR e l'UNMK non sono in grado di proteggere i
> Serbi
> neanche di eliminare le bande terroristiche ".Secondo l'avviso di Jaksic"il
> numero
> delle vittime nell'attacco sul convoglio dei Serbi il 16 febbraio è doppio
> di quello
> che hanno pubblicato e fra le vittime ci sono anche i bambini"."Se si vuole
> , sul serio
> la pace in Kosovo, la comunità internazionale si deve scontrare con gli
> Albanesi".
> "Però, quello è poco probabile, perchè il comandante di KFOR, Carlo Cabigiosu
> ha dichiarato che il KFOR non ha l'intenzione di scontrarsi con gli
> Albanesi a causa
> dei Serbi".
>
> 1.FONTE: FRVESTI
>
> 2.TITOLO: Gli attacchi non cesseranno
>
> 3.INDICE: Nebojsa Pavkovic avverte il vertice jugoslavo:
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85135&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5. NUMERO DI PAGINE : 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> Alla riunione del vertice jugoslavo e serbo, dedicata all'escalation della
> violenza al sud di Serbia e in Kosovo e Metohija, il capo dello Stato
> Maggiore, il generale Nebojsa Pavkovic, ha annunciato l'ecalation ulteriore
> della situazione che si rifletterà negli attacchi giornalieri fuori della
> zona di
> sicurezza.Secondo lui"gli attacchi saranno indirizzati alla polizia e
> all'esercito perchè l'ultimo
> attacco sul convoglio di civili ha provocato la condanna della pubblica
> opinione al mondo."
> Lui ha aggiunto che l'atteggiamento e le reazioni dei politici occidentali
> è differente dall'atteggiamento degli appartenenti di KFOR sul terreno.Loro
> tuttora "chiudono un occhio"
> quando si tratta dei terroristi albanesi i quali campi e basi sono
> letteralmente davanti agli occhi
> di KFOR, all'estremo est del Kosovo.
> Il generale Pavkovic in particolare ha preso in considerazione le
> conseguenze del ritiro dell'Esercito
> Jugoslavo dalla regione di Medvedje, Bujanovac e Presevo, come prevede il
> piano del vicepresidente del Governo serbo, Njebojsa Covic.
> "Con la partenza dell'Esercito jugoslavo da questo territorio, la
> situazione nella regione peggiorerà
> sia nel piano militare- strategico, sia nel piano psicologico perchè questo
> stimolerà lo sfollamento
> della popolazione serba di questi comuni"-dice la fonte di "Vesti"vicina
> allo Stato Maggiore jugoslavo.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: L'offensiva degli Albanesi in primavera.
>
> 3.INDICE: l'Ex-ministro macedone degli Interni avverte.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85212&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'ex ministro macedone degli Interni, Pavle Trajanov, afferma che in
> Macedonia esistono
> i campi per l'addestramento delle nuove unità dell'Esercito separatistico
> di Kosovo"OVK"
> per gli attacchi primaverili nel sud di Serbia e che le autorità macedone
> ne sanno."Nelle
> regioni di Skopje,Kumanovo e Tetovo esistono i campi dove si nascondono e
> dove si addestrano le nuove formazioni dellOVK che si stanno preparando per
> gli attacchi in primavera nel sud
> di Serbia"- ha dichiarato per il giornale "Vesti" di Skopje Pavle
> Trajanov.Lui ha precisato che
> nei villaggi Tanusevci, Malino,Brest, Lijane e Vakinci si raccolgono i
> membri dell'OVK,
> si nascondono e si preparano per l'attacco militare nel sud di Serbia.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: La mobilitazione forzata.
>
> 3.INDICE: L'associazione di Goranci denuncia.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85213&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: ½.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'associazione nativa di Goranci ( il gruppo etnico che vive in 16 villaggi
> al confine di tre campi di
> Jugoslavia, Albania e Macedonia. Parla il serbo e ha la confessione
> musulmana ) ha avvertito
> ieri il pubblico che i suoi membri sono esposti a molte minacce degli
> estremisti albanesi e che il
> KFOR non ha intrapreso niente per proteggerli .L'associazione ha avviato
> l'appello alle forze
> Internazionali di pace in Kosovo per impedire quanto prima la mobilitazione
> forzata che l'OVK
> sta effettuando a Gora sui Goranci. Infine, dicono che gli estremisti
> albanesi minacciano con la
> morte ai Goranci che rifiutano di essere 'mobilitati'.
>
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Swans
Kosovo - The "Banality of Evil"
by Gilles d'Aymery
February 19, 2001
> http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=294133
Macedonia Warns NATO of Possible Conflict on Border
With Kosovo
SKOPJE, Feb 21, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse)
---
Alberto Tarozzi wrote:
> ecco come si stanno mobilitando gli albanesi nei balcani per la campagna di
> primavera.
>
> alberto tarozzi e zivkica nedanovska.
>
> 1.FONTE: FREE B-92- VESTI.
>
> 2.TITOLO: Il numero delle vittime doppio.
>
> 3.INDICE: ///
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET:
> http://vesti.freeb92.net/press-index.phtml">http://www.b92.net/archive/s/pre
> ss-index.phtmlmozete
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001. Le Notizie del 19.02.2001.
>
> L'attacco sull'autobus dei Serbi nel villaggio Livadice vicino a Podujevo
> In Kosovo è
> l'indice chiaro alla comunità internazionale che i terroristi albanesi sono
> "i padroni
> della situazione sul terreno"- ha dichiarato il vicepresidente del Partito
> Democratico
> Serbo ( DSS), Marko Jaksic. "L'escalation spaventosa del terrorismo in
> Kosovo e
> Metohija ci dimostra che il KFOR e l'UNMK non sono in grado di proteggere i
> Serbi
> neanche di eliminare le bande terroristiche ".Secondo l'avviso di Jaksic"il
> numero
> delle vittime nell'attacco sul convoglio dei Serbi il 16 febbraio è doppio
> di quello
> che hanno pubblicato e fra le vittime ci sono anche i bambini"."Se si vuole
> , sul serio
> la pace in Kosovo, la comunità internazionale si deve scontrare con gli
> Albanesi".
> "Però, quello è poco probabile, perchè il comandante di KFOR, Carlo Cabigiosu
> ha dichiarato che il KFOR non ha l'intenzione di scontrarsi con gli
> Albanesi a causa
> dei Serbi".
>
> 1.FONTE: FRVESTI
>
> 2.TITOLO: Gli attacchi non cesseranno
>
> 3.INDICE: Nebojsa Pavkovic avverte il vertice jugoslavo:
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85135&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5. NUMERO DI PAGINE : 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> Alla riunione del vertice jugoslavo e serbo, dedicata all'escalation della
> violenza al sud di Serbia e in Kosovo e Metohija, il capo dello Stato
> Maggiore, il generale Nebojsa Pavkovic, ha annunciato l'ecalation ulteriore
> della situazione che si rifletterà negli attacchi giornalieri fuori della
> zona di
> sicurezza.Secondo lui"gli attacchi saranno indirizzati alla polizia e
> all'esercito perchè l'ultimo
> attacco sul convoglio di civili ha provocato la condanna della pubblica
> opinione al mondo."
> Lui ha aggiunto che l'atteggiamento e le reazioni dei politici occidentali
> è differente dall'atteggiamento degli appartenenti di KFOR sul terreno.Loro
> tuttora "chiudono un occhio"
> quando si tratta dei terroristi albanesi i quali campi e basi sono
> letteralmente davanti agli occhi
> di KFOR, all'estremo est del Kosovo.
> Il generale Pavkovic in particolare ha preso in considerazione le
> conseguenze del ritiro dell'Esercito
> Jugoslavo dalla regione di Medvedje, Bujanovac e Presevo, come prevede il
> piano del vicepresidente del Governo serbo, Njebojsa Covic.
> "Con la partenza dell'Esercito jugoslavo da questo territorio, la
> situazione nella regione peggiorerà
> sia nel piano militare- strategico, sia nel piano psicologico perchè questo
> stimolerà lo sfollamento
> della popolazione serba di questi comuni"-dice la fonte di "Vesti"vicina
> allo Stato Maggiore jugoslavo.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: L'offensiva degli Albanesi in primavera.
>
> 3.INDICE: l'Ex-ministro macedone degli Interni avverte.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85212&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'ex ministro macedone degli Interni, Pavle Trajanov, afferma che in
> Macedonia esistono
> i campi per l'addestramento delle nuove unità dell'Esercito separatistico
> di Kosovo"OVK"
> per gli attacchi primaverili nel sud di Serbia e che le autorità macedone
> ne sanno."Nelle
> regioni di Skopje,Kumanovo e Tetovo esistono i campi dove si nascondono e
> dove si addestrano le nuove formazioni dellOVK che si stanno preparando per
> gli attacchi in primavera nel sud
> di Serbia"- ha dichiarato per il giornale "Vesti" di Skopje Pavle
> Trajanov.Lui ha precisato che
> nei villaggi Tanusevci, Malino,Brest, Lijane e Vakinci si raccolgono i
> membri dell'OVK,
> si nascondono e si preparano per l'attacco militare nel sud di Serbia.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: La mobilitazione forzata.
>
> 3.INDICE: L'associazione di Goranci denuncia.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85213&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: ½.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'associazione nativa di Goranci ( il gruppo etnico che vive in 16 villaggi
> al confine di tre campi di
> Jugoslavia, Albania e Macedonia. Parla il serbo e ha la confessione
> musulmana ) ha avvertito
> ieri il pubblico che i suoi membri sono esposti a molte minacce degli
> estremisti albanesi e che il
> KFOR non ha intrapreso niente per proteggerli .L'associazione ha avviato
> l'appello alle forze
> Internazionali di pace in Kosovo per impedire quanto prima la mobilitazione
> forzata che l'OVK
> sta effettuando a Gora sui Goranci. Infine, dicono che gli estremisti
> albanesi minacciano con la
> morte ai Goranci che rifiutano di essere 'mobilitati'.
>
--
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LETTERA APERTA A RAMON MANTOVANI
Faccio riferimento alle parole che Mantovani mi disse alcuni anni fa,
in seguito ad una mia critica relativa a certi titoli del
quotidiano "Liberazione" sulla guerra in Bosnia : "Il titolo e' un po'
infelice, ma sai quali sono le posizioni del partito e puoi ritrovarle
nel contenuto dell’articolo..." Gia’ allora fui scettico e
risposi : "Ma in quanti vuoi che vadano a vedere il contenuto
dell’articolo, con tutta la propaganda continua e a senso unico che
devono sorbirsi da tutti i media: la gente si ferma al titolo e giudica
in base a quello".
Pochi giorni fa mi sono purtroppo dovuto ricordare di questo scambio di
battute. Su "Liberazione" del 17 febbraio scorso si leggeva il
titolo: "Mantovani, PRC : Il caso Telecom e’ plausibile". Il contenuto
svela chiaramente quali sono i referenti privilegiati da Mantovani e da
una parte del PRC, nelle problematiche jugoslave: "Quando nell’estate
del 1998 (prima dell’inizio del conflitto [per il Kosovo-Metohija]) mi
recai nuovamente a Belgrado e a Pristina (...) trovai sia gli esponenti
del Partito Socialista sia quelli della JUL, il partito della signora
Milosevic [sic! Mira Markovic : "Per i compagni sono compagna, per gli
altri ho un nome e cognome", dal libro-intervista "La risposta",
Edizioni Internazionali Beta, Roma 1998, che voi avete opportunamente
evitato di recensire su "Liberazione"...], molto freddi. Al contrario
ho trovato buona accoglienza da parte dei leader pacifisti kosovari
[vuol dire secessionisti pan-albanesi ?], Rugova in testa."
A parte il fatto che qui Mantovani dimentica di parlare dell’accoglienza
che gli riservarono i "combattenti" dell’UCK - ma come diamine puo’
continuare
a definire semplicisticamente "pacifisti" gli ambienti rugoviani,
legati da sempre all’Occidente attraverso Germania e Vaticano, quando
lo stesso Rugova ha ripetuto per l’ennesima volta a "Der Spiegel" lo
scorso dicembre che la indipendenza e' il suo obiettivo, aggiungendo
peraltro (come se non l’avessimo gia’ capito) che "La NATO e’ gia’ il
nostro esercito privato"?!? Dichiarazioni che ricalcano pari-pari
le precedenti, ad esempio quelle del '92 a "Danas" (Croazia), nelle
quali Rugova ha sempre sostenuto che quello di protettorato deve
essere uno status transitorio in vista delle unificazione della
Grande Albania. Avete pubblicato almeno queste ultime dichiarazioni
a "Der Spiegel" su "Liberazione"? Perche’ non ne traete mai nessuna
conseguenza?
In tutto il resto dell’articolo di Mantovani e’ contraddittorio e
dimostra apparentemente scarsa conoscenza delle questioni, ad esempio
quando dice che la FIAT (Iveco) avrebbe fatto "il suo ingresso con
quote consistenti nelle imprese di quel paese", il che e’ semmai da
riferire ai decenni precedenti ma resta comunque inesatto.
Il recente "caso" della Telekom serba e’ chiaramente, a mio avviso, una
campagna tutta giocata a fini di politica interna italiana, con la
quale pero’ si cerca sempre di attribuire, in ultimo, le colpe peggiori
a Milosevic che avrebbe "finanziato la pulizia etnica", pulizia etnica
che e’ una invenzione, dal punto di vista storico. La RF di Jugoslavia
ha dovuto attuare una legittima repressione contro il movimento
secessionista e terrorista, movimento che tutti gli internazionalisti
ed i democratici avrebbero dovuto denunciare e combattere per il suo
carattere nazionalista e reazionario e per la sua funzione
disgregatrice nei confronti della Jugoslavia multinazionale, in questo
affiancato dagli altri secessionismi.
D’altronde anche nell’articolo a fianco, a firma Paola Pittei, si
dimostra chi sono gli interlocutori del PRC sulle questioni jugoslave :
Giulio Marcon, capofila di una delle tante ONG, istituzioni
paragovernative (altro che "non governative..."), maestrine di
democrazia ma con le mani in pasta nella gestione degli "aiuti"
(predestinati verso si-sa-chi) e della ricostruzione. Da ben prima dei
bombardamenti Marcon e altri come lui invocavano una
internazionalizzazione della questione del Kosovo-Metohija, adesso che
quello e’ diventato un protettorato co-gestito da NATO e mafia
nazionalista non sono ancora soddisfatti ?
Ivan per il Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia
Roma, 23/2/2001
--
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Faccio riferimento alle parole che Mantovani mi disse alcuni anni fa,
in seguito ad una mia critica relativa a certi titoli del
quotidiano "Liberazione" sulla guerra in Bosnia : "Il titolo e' un po'
infelice, ma sai quali sono le posizioni del partito e puoi ritrovarle
nel contenuto dell’articolo..." Gia’ allora fui scettico e
risposi : "Ma in quanti vuoi che vadano a vedere il contenuto
dell’articolo, con tutta la propaganda continua e a senso unico che
devono sorbirsi da tutti i media: la gente si ferma al titolo e giudica
in base a quello".
Pochi giorni fa mi sono purtroppo dovuto ricordare di questo scambio di
battute. Su "Liberazione" del 17 febbraio scorso si leggeva il
titolo: "Mantovani, PRC : Il caso Telecom e’ plausibile". Il contenuto
svela chiaramente quali sono i referenti privilegiati da Mantovani e da
una parte del PRC, nelle problematiche jugoslave: "Quando nell’estate
del 1998 (prima dell’inizio del conflitto [per il Kosovo-Metohija]) mi
recai nuovamente a Belgrado e a Pristina (...) trovai sia gli esponenti
del Partito Socialista sia quelli della JUL, il partito della signora
Milosevic [sic! Mira Markovic : "Per i compagni sono compagna, per gli
altri ho un nome e cognome", dal libro-intervista "La risposta",
Edizioni Internazionali Beta, Roma 1998, che voi avete opportunamente
evitato di recensire su "Liberazione"...], molto freddi. Al contrario
ho trovato buona accoglienza da parte dei leader pacifisti kosovari
[vuol dire secessionisti pan-albanesi ?], Rugova in testa."
A parte il fatto che qui Mantovani dimentica di parlare dell’accoglienza
che gli riservarono i "combattenti" dell’UCK - ma come diamine puo’
continuare
a definire semplicisticamente "pacifisti" gli ambienti rugoviani,
legati da sempre all’Occidente attraverso Germania e Vaticano, quando
lo stesso Rugova ha ripetuto per l’ennesima volta a "Der Spiegel" lo
scorso dicembre che la indipendenza e' il suo obiettivo, aggiungendo
peraltro (come se non l’avessimo gia’ capito) che "La NATO e’ gia’ il
nostro esercito privato"?!? Dichiarazioni che ricalcano pari-pari
le precedenti, ad esempio quelle del '92 a "Danas" (Croazia), nelle
quali Rugova ha sempre sostenuto che quello di protettorato deve
essere uno status transitorio in vista delle unificazione della
Grande Albania. Avete pubblicato almeno queste ultime dichiarazioni
a "Der Spiegel" su "Liberazione"? Perche’ non ne traete mai nessuna
conseguenza?
In tutto il resto dell’articolo di Mantovani e’ contraddittorio e
dimostra apparentemente scarsa conoscenza delle questioni, ad esempio
quando dice che la FIAT (Iveco) avrebbe fatto "il suo ingresso con
quote consistenti nelle imprese di quel paese", il che e’ semmai da
riferire ai decenni precedenti ma resta comunque inesatto.
Il recente "caso" della Telekom serba e’ chiaramente, a mio avviso, una
campagna tutta giocata a fini di politica interna italiana, con la
quale pero’ si cerca sempre di attribuire, in ultimo, le colpe peggiori
a Milosevic che avrebbe "finanziato la pulizia etnica", pulizia etnica
che e’ una invenzione, dal punto di vista storico. La RF di Jugoslavia
ha dovuto attuare una legittima repressione contro il movimento
secessionista e terrorista, movimento che tutti gli internazionalisti
ed i democratici avrebbero dovuto denunciare e combattere per il suo
carattere nazionalista e reazionario e per la sua funzione
disgregatrice nei confronti della Jugoslavia multinazionale, in questo
affiancato dagli altri secessionismi.
D’altronde anche nell’articolo a fianco, a firma Paola Pittei, si
dimostra chi sono gli interlocutori del PRC sulle questioni jugoslave :
Giulio Marcon, capofila di una delle tante ONG, istituzioni
paragovernative (altro che "non governative..."), maestrine di
democrazia ma con le mani in pasta nella gestione degli "aiuti"
(predestinati verso si-sa-chi) e della ricostruzione. Da ben prima dei
bombardamenti Marcon e altri come lui invocavano una
internazionalizzazione della questione del Kosovo-Metohija, adesso che
quello e’ diventato un protettorato co-gestito da NATO e mafia
nazionalista non sono ancora soddisfatti ?
Ivan per il Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia
Roma, 23/2/2001
--
Questa lista e' provvisoriamente curata da componenti
dell'ex Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia Vivra'",
oggi "Comitato Promotore dell'Assemblea Antimperialista":
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http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/djaja/amnesia.htm
> AMNESTY.... OR AMNESIA?
> By Aleksandar Djaya
> From Belgrade, Special to Emperor's Clothes [2-21-2001]
> Translated by N. Malic
>
> It took the martyrdom of Serb civilians in a bus near Poduyevo ?
> protected by soldiers of the same countries that drove those Serbs out
> of Kosovo-Metohia [Kos-Met] ? to stop the Federal Parliament, at least
> temporarily, from passing the humiliating, Western-instigated Amnesty
> Act.
>
> Amnesty, or Amnesia?
>
> Earlier, in the Serbian Parliament, a DOS minister explained that "an
> act of mercy" made such a law necessary. Well mercy is a fine thing
> and perhaps some of the KLA prisoners deserve it. But there is the
> other side of the story....
>
> In the spring of 1999, NATO?s operation "Merciful Angel", the bombing
> of Yugoslavia, killed thousands of civilians and inflicted immense
> destruction. Today, this Merciful Angel issues ultimatums to the same
> Yugoslav political forces whose electoral campaign and subsequent
> government takeover it had financed. It demands DOS pass the Amnesty
> Act and release the "political prisoners."
>
> Who are these Kos-Met Political Prisoners? They were arrested for the
> murder of Yugoslav civilians, Serbian and Albanian, and of policemen
> and Yugoslav soldiers. What would these prisoners of conscience do
> upon their release? They would return to Kos-Met to be greeted as
> heroes by their terrorist associates. The next day they would take
> rifles and, as members of the "KLA" or "UCPMB" [which has invaded
> Serbia] again shoot or abduct and murder Serbian and uncooperative
> Albanian citizens or set up ambush massacres like the bus bombing near
> Poduyevo.
>
> Until that tragic event, the Yugoslav media mentioned little else but
> the Amnesty Act and the need to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal and
> possibly extradite our citizens to this New World Inquisition. As if
> there were no enterprises and factories, economy and industry,
> workers, civil servants, teachers or administrators. As if there were
> no people with ordinary, everyday lives, but only the visions in the
> brains of DOS leaders of some hypothetical "better future" ? dependent
> on the tender mercies of those who made our lives miserable for ten
> long years, only finally to bomb us with thousands of tons of their
> nuclear waste...
>
> Some facts are obvious to the blind. Nevertheless, the DOS-controlled
> media labors heroically to hide them.
>
> If the former government thought that controlling the state television
> and the largest publishing house in the Balkans (while allowing the
> existence of a hundred opposition TV stations throughout Serbia and a
> dozen opposition newspapers) would secure an easy electoral victory ?
> thus committing a major strategic blunder ? then DOS, still
> unnaturally calling itself the "opposition", is continuing in the
> footsteps of its predecessor. There is one important difference: the
> current government controls all the media. Through this captive media
> it continually attempts to convince itself and everyone else that it
> can fill the restless hearts and minds of Serbian citizens with
> optimism and their increasingly empty wallets with funds by doing two
> things:
>
> * First, constantly repeating the promise to arrest leaders of the
> previous government.
> * Second, submitting to all sorts of humiliating demands from the
> US and the West.
>
> If NATO, KFOR and the Hague are the true political reality, as the DOS
> leaders claim, how "real" are these leaders? Does this country have a
> president? Does it have a prime minister, parliament and government?
> Does it have citizens; indeed, does it have any "Reality" at all? Or
> are Serbia and Yugoslavia today only virtually real, a computer game
> run by DOS for the greater amusement of the New World Masters?
>
> Unfortunately, the events in Kosovo-Metohia and the south of Serbia
> transcend virtual-reality fiction. It is true that the new government
> cannot (yet) be held legally responsible for the tragedies in Kos-Met.
> (Though one should ask oneself why the latest and most monstrous
> attack by the terrorist "KLA" - the massacre of Serb civilians in a
> bus near Poduyevo ? happened to this government (and not the old one)
> though this government "cooperates" with the international community
> to a sometimes disgusting degree? Or how long will DOS continue to
> blame the current escalation of terrorism against Yugoslavia on
> someone else? Or at least wish it was the fault of someone else?
>
> JUST WISHING AND HOPING
>
> Wishes are one thing; reality is something else. Ever since the
> victory of "democratic" forces in the federal and state elections,
> what has been the reality in southern Serbia?s Buyanovats, Preshevo
> and Medvedja counties?
>
> Albanian secessionist terrorists have fortified their positions
> including outside the so-called ground safety zone. With the help and
> protection of American KFOR troops, they have brought in heavy
> weaponry. In the "pauses" between attacks on our country?s sovereignty
> and its citizens, they engage in "combat target practice". The targets
> are our law enforcement agents and soldiers, forbidden from firing
> back until Washington gives its blessing. Meanwhile, our humiliated
> police respond to the hail of mortar fire from terrorist positions
> with "dignified restraint" from any response!
>
> Meanwhile, Albanian terrorists responded to the [DOS] peace plan for
> southern Serbia by bombing a bus, massacring Serb returnees in
> Kos-Met, near Poduyevo. And while the United States and NATO "support"
> the peace plan and pat the backs of DOS diplomats worldwide, the
> charred bodies of Serb policemen are being dragged out of their patrol
> car, which hit a mine near the village of Luchane, near Buyanovats.
>
> Nevertheless the most important issue for some of our leaders (not
> all, one must say with honesty) is still the extradition of the former
> Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich to the Hague Tribunal!
>
> Was the Yugoslav Parliament really supposed to ratify the Amnesty
> (Amnesia) Act on that fateful day?
>
> THE PLAN TO FINISH OFF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> The Washington-concocted scenario for crippling the Serbian state is
> in its essence so simple and logical (sinister, but logical
> nevertheless) that it can be ignored only by those who wish to do so.
>
> 1. The Amnesty Act would release all Albanian terrorists. Furthermore,
> it would halt prosecution of deserters and draft-dodgers, rendering
> any subsequent draft ineffective;
>
> 2. As stated in warnings from the West and as enforced by the threat
> of arrest by the Hague Tribunal, any Army commander or law enforcement
> agent in the field who shoots back at NATO's proxy terrorists could be
> labeled a "war criminal". The Army and police chain of command would
> be paralyzed;
>
> 3. Continued insistence on restraint would in effect support the
> deeper penetration of Albanian terrorists from Kos-Met into southern
> Serbia;
>
> 4. Conditioning financial aid to our country with the extradition of
> Yugoslav citizens to the Hague Inquisition would stimulate political
> conflict among the people (1) and if need be ? in order to definitely
> destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia ? incite a civil war. Afterwards,
> obviously, under appropriate resolutions of the UN Security Council
> and in order to protect civilians, their "human rights" and
> "democratic liberties", NATO would occupy all of Yugoslavia! (2)
>
> This State Department/CIA production isn't especially original.
> Nevertheless, it has worked to destroy many Latin American
> "banana-republics." Whether the thousand-year Serb state will founder
> and become a banana-republic at the dawn of the 21st century depends
> on all of us: those in power, as well as ? and even more ? those who
> elected them.
>
> Amnesty, or amnesia? You decide.
>
> Aleksandar Djaya was a columnist for the Yugoslav newspaper 'Borba'
> for two decades, until the Oct. 5th coup. He has written in several
> media and directed Theater in Belgrade.
>
> ***
>
> Further reading...
>
> 1) 'For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Jared Israel at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/tolls.htm Discusses the
> attitude of the current Yugoslav 'government' toward the Hague
> Tribunal.
>
> 2)'German Foreign Minister Calls for Permanent German Troop Occupation
> of Yugoslavia' at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/occupation.htm
> discusses the 'Associated Press' dispatch in which the German Foreign
> Minister argues that Germany should occupy Yugoslavia. Comments by
> Michel Chossudovsky.
>
> 3) Critics say the Hague Tribunal (also known as the International
> Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia or ICTY and also the War
> Crimes Tribunal...) - critics say it reminds them of the Inquisition.
> How very strange... See 'Learning from the Inquisition' by Dr. Kosta
> Cavoski at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm
>
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> These attacks are part of the terror in 'democratic' Serbia. We are
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>
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> AMNESTY.... OR AMNESIA?
> By Aleksandar Djaya
> From Belgrade, Special to Emperor's Clothes [2-21-2001]
> Translated by N. Malic
>
> It took the martyrdom of Serb civilians in a bus near Poduyevo ?
> protected by soldiers of the same countries that drove those Serbs out
> of Kosovo-Metohia [Kos-Met] ? to stop the Federal Parliament, at least
> temporarily, from passing the humiliating, Western-instigated Amnesty
> Act.
>
> Amnesty, or Amnesia?
>
> Earlier, in the Serbian Parliament, a DOS minister explained that "an
> act of mercy" made such a law necessary. Well mercy is a fine thing
> and perhaps some of the KLA prisoners deserve it. But there is the
> other side of the story....
>
> In the spring of 1999, NATO?s operation "Merciful Angel", the bombing
> of Yugoslavia, killed thousands of civilians and inflicted immense
> destruction. Today, this Merciful Angel issues ultimatums to the same
> Yugoslav political forces whose electoral campaign and subsequent
> government takeover it had financed. It demands DOS pass the Amnesty
> Act and release the "political prisoners."
>
> Who are these Kos-Met Political Prisoners? They were arrested for the
> murder of Yugoslav civilians, Serbian and Albanian, and of policemen
> and Yugoslav soldiers. What would these prisoners of conscience do
> upon their release? They would return to Kos-Met to be greeted as
> heroes by their terrorist associates. The next day they would take
> rifles and, as members of the "KLA" or "UCPMB" [which has invaded
> Serbia] again shoot or abduct and murder Serbian and uncooperative
> Albanian citizens or set up ambush massacres like the bus bombing near
> Poduyevo.
>
> Until that tragic event, the Yugoslav media mentioned little else but
> the Amnesty Act and the need to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal and
> possibly extradite our citizens to this New World Inquisition. As if
> there were no enterprises and factories, economy and industry,
> workers, civil servants, teachers or administrators. As if there were
> no people with ordinary, everyday lives, but only the visions in the
> brains of DOS leaders of some hypothetical "better future" ? dependent
> on the tender mercies of those who made our lives miserable for ten
> long years, only finally to bomb us with thousands of tons of their
> nuclear waste...
>
> Some facts are obvious to the blind. Nevertheless, the DOS-controlled
> media labors heroically to hide them.
>
> If the former government thought that controlling the state television
> and the largest publishing house in the Balkans (while allowing the
> existence of a hundred opposition TV stations throughout Serbia and a
> dozen opposition newspapers) would secure an easy electoral victory ?
> thus committing a major strategic blunder ? then DOS, still
> unnaturally calling itself the "opposition", is continuing in the
> footsteps of its predecessor. There is one important difference: the
> current government controls all the media. Through this captive media
> it continually attempts to convince itself and everyone else that it
> can fill the restless hearts and minds of Serbian citizens with
> optimism and their increasingly empty wallets with funds by doing two
> things:
>
> * First, constantly repeating the promise to arrest leaders of the
> previous government.
> * Second, submitting to all sorts of humiliating demands from the
> US and the West.
>
> If NATO, KFOR and the Hague are the true political reality, as the DOS
> leaders claim, how "real" are these leaders? Does this country have a
> president? Does it have a prime minister, parliament and government?
> Does it have citizens; indeed, does it have any "Reality" at all? Or
> are Serbia and Yugoslavia today only virtually real, a computer game
> run by DOS for the greater amusement of the New World Masters?
>
> Unfortunately, the events in Kosovo-Metohia and the south of Serbia
> transcend virtual-reality fiction. It is true that the new government
> cannot (yet) be held legally responsible for the tragedies in Kos-Met.
> (Though one should ask oneself why the latest and most monstrous
> attack by the terrorist "KLA" - the massacre of Serb civilians in a
> bus near Poduyevo ? happened to this government (and not the old one)
> though this government "cooperates" with the international community
> to a sometimes disgusting degree? Or how long will DOS continue to
> blame the current escalation of terrorism against Yugoslavia on
> someone else? Or at least wish it was the fault of someone else?
>
> JUST WISHING AND HOPING
>
> Wishes are one thing; reality is something else. Ever since the
> victory of "democratic" forces in the federal and state elections,
> what has been the reality in southern Serbia?s Buyanovats, Preshevo
> and Medvedja counties?
>
> Albanian secessionist terrorists have fortified their positions
> including outside the so-called ground safety zone. With the help and
> protection of American KFOR troops, they have brought in heavy
> weaponry. In the "pauses" between attacks on our country?s sovereignty
> and its citizens, they engage in "combat target practice". The targets
> are our law enforcement agents and soldiers, forbidden from firing
> back until Washington gives its blessing. Meanwhile, our humiliated
> police respond to the hail of mortar fire from terrorist positions
> with "dignified restraint" from any response!
>
> Meanwhile, Albanian terrorists responded to the [DOS] peace plan for
> southern Serbia by bombing a bus, massacring Serb returnees in
> Kos-Met, near Poduyevo. And while the United States and NATO "support"
> the peace plan and pat the backs of DOS diplomats worldwide, the
> charred bodies of Serb policemen are being dragged out of their patrol
> car, which hit a mine near the village of Luchane, near Buyanovats.
>
> Nevertheless the most important issue for some of our leaders (not
> all, one must say with honesty) is still the extradition of the former
> Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich to the Hague Tribunal!
>
> Was the Yugoslav Parliament really supposed to ratify the Amnesty
> (Amnesia) Act on that fateful day?
>
> THE PLAN TO FINISH OFF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> The Washington-concocted scenario for crippling the Serbian state is
> in its essence so simple and logical (sinister, but logical
> nevertheless) that it can be ignored only by those who wish to do so.
>
> 1. The Amnesty Act would release all Albanian terrorists. Furthermore,
> it would halt prosecution of deserters and draft-dodgers, rendering
> any subsequent draft ineffective;
>
> 2. As stated in warnings from the West and as enforced by the threat
> of arrest by the Hague Tribunal, any Army commander or law enforcement
> agent in the field who shoots back at NATO's proxy terrorists could be
> labeled a "war criminal". The Army and police chain of command would
> be paralyzed;
>
> 3. Continued insistence on restraint would in effect support the
> deeper penetration of Albanian terrorists from Kos-Met into southern
> Serbia;
>
> 4. Conditioning financial aid to our country with the extradition of
> Yugoslav citizens to the Hague Inquisition would stimulate political
> conflict among the people (1) and if need be ? in order to definitely
> destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia ? incite a civil war. Afterwards,
> obviously, under appropriate resolutions of the UN Security Council
> and in order to protect civilians, their "human rights" and
> "democratic liberties", NATO would occupy all of Yugoslavia! (2)
>
> This State Department/CIA production isn't especially original.
> Nevertheless, it has worked to destroy many Latin American
> "banana-republics." Whether the thousand-year Serb state will founder
> and become a banana-republic at the dawn of the 21st century depends
> on all of us: those in power, as well as ? and even more ? those who
> elected them.
>
> Amnesty, or amnesia? You decide.
>
> Aleksandar Djaya was a columnist for the Yugoslav newspaper 'Borba'
> for two decades, until the Oct. 5th coup. He has written in several
> media and directed Theater in Belgrade.
>
> ***
>
> Further reading...
>
> 1) 'For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Jared Israel at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/tolls.htm Discusses the
> attitude of the current Yugoslav 'government' toward the Hague
> Tribunal.
>
> 2)'German Foreign Minister Calls for Permanent German Troop Occupation
> of Yugoslavia' at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/occupation.htm
> discusses the 'Associated Press' dispatch in which the German Foreign
> Minister argues that Germany should occupy Yugoslavia. Comments by
> Michel Chossudovsky.
>
> 3) Critics say the Hague Tribunal (also known as the International
> Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia or ICTY and also the War
> Crimes Tribunal...) - critics say it reminds them of the Inquisition.
> How very strange... See 'Learning from the Inquisition' by Dr. Kosta
> Cavoski at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm
>
> Send this article to a friend! [Does not work with all email
> programs...]
>
> Please Assist Yugoslav Journalists' Fund
>
> Emperor's Clothes is trying to assist a few families of Yugoslav
> journalists. These journalists are among the many journalists who have
> literally been thrown out of work when thugs took over all TV and
> radio stations and newspapers during and after the Oct. 5th coup.
> These attacks are part of the terror in 'democratic' Serbia. We are
> providing some financial help; we need to provide more.
>
> It's really a privilege to be able to help these brave men and women
> who are trying to report 'the other side' within Yugoslavia and,
> through Emperor's Clothes and other media, to the outside world.
>
> Meanwhile, our own operating costs have increased. (For instance,
> monthly fees for the superb news media search engine Lexis have more
> than doubled.)
>
> If you can make a contribution either to our general expenses or
> specifically to help the Journalists' Fund, please do. Any amount will
> help. To use our secure server, please go to
> http://www.emperors-clothes.com/howyour.htm#donate. (If you use the
> secure server and wish your contribution to go to the Journalists'
> Fund, please send us a note at emperors1000@...
>
> Or you can mail a check to Emperor's Clothes, P.O. Box 610-321,
> Newton, MA 02461-0321.
>
> Or call 617 916-1705 from 9-5, Eastern U.S. time and ask for Bob.
> Thanks very much!
>
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Michel Collon wrote:
>
> Please find here an important article about Macedonia, Kosovo, Nato
> and their future.
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic area? 2. KLA attack: is it a surprise? 3.
> What is surviving of the official Nato version? 4. Is Washington
> playing double game? 5. Will KLA provoke a new war? 6. What do the US
> really want? 7. Will it be possible for Washington to keep playing
> with all sides? 8. Did they «forge a monster»? 9. What shall be the
> role of the rivalry between USA and EU? 10. Is Kostunica trapped? 11.
> Perspectives for Peace.
>
> -- Michel Collon
> michel.collon@... (For fair use only)
>
> After Kosovo, Macedonia.
> What is left of the explanations of NATO ?
>
> A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA have
> attacked the villages
> of the Presevo valley in Serbia, after they have killed 11 Serbian
> civilians of Kosovo by throwing a bomb in a bus, they are waging now
> war
> in neighbouring Macedonia. And again refugees are on the roads. Is
> there a
> new escalation in the Balkans?
> In fact, these events allow to better understand what happened in
> 1999. In
> this complex situation (because everything is done to disorientate the
> public
> opinion), let us answer clearly to the main questions.
>
> Michel Collon
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ?
>
> Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the general
> Jackson,
> commander of the NATO troops:
> "We will certainly stay here for a long time in order to guarantee the
> safety of the energy corridors which cross Macedonia". (1) 'Energy
> corridors' ? We had presented the maps showing the projects of Europe
> (a whole net of oil and gas pipe-lines connecting Europe via the
> Balkans
> to the huge oil and gas resources of the former soviet Caucasus) and
> the ones
> of the US (a pipe-line Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania-Adriatic which would
> give
> to the US oil multinationals the control of this road of oil and gas).
> These
> projects are in fact rival. This is why all the great powers attempt
> for ten
> years to control Yugoslavia. The road of oil and gas passes by. We had
> also
> stressed that as soon as 1992 it is in Macedonia - however very far
> away
> from the conflicts zones - and nowhere else that Washington had
> decided to
> send a division.
> We have to be frank: even in the left circles, some peoples found
> exaggerated to suspect Washington to have so dark projects. But very
> recently,
> the respectable British newspaper Guardian confirmed: "A project
> called the Trans-Balkan pipeline has been little-reported in any
> British,
> European or American newspaper. The line
> will run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the Adriatic at Vlore,
> passing through
> Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. It is likely become the main route to
> the west for the oil
> and gas now being extracted in central Asia. It will carry 750,000
> barrels a day. The project is necessary, according to a paper
> published by the US Trade and Development Agency, because it will
> "provide a consistent source of crude oil to American refineries",
> "provide
> American companies with a key role in developing the vital east-west
> corridor",
> and "advance the privatisation aspirations of the US government in the
> region"." (2)
> Clear, isn't it ? Moreover, Bill Richardson, the former US energy
> secretary, declared in 1998, that is before the war: "This is
> about America's energy security". When the US speak about 'energy
> security',
> one must know what it means: to preserve the world domination and the
> profits of their oil multinationals. And Richardson continues:
> "We would like these newly independent countries reliant on Western
> commercial and political interests rather than going another way.
> We've made a substantial political investment in the Caspian, and it's
> very important to us that both the pipeline map and the politics come
> out right." (3)
> And The Guardian adds this essential comment: "On December 9, 98
> (before
> the war), the president of Albania attended a meeting on this subject
> in
> Sofia:"According to my personal opinion, no solution which will stay
> strictly
> inside of the Serbian borders will bring a sustainable peace." The
> message
> could hardly be clearer: if you want the agreement of the Albanians
> for
> the Trans-Balkans pipeline, you have to take the Kosovo away from the
> Serbs". (4)
>
> 2. Is the offensive of the KLA a surprise?
>
> The US made thus a pact with the devil. Because many US diplomatic
> reports testified it: the separatist KLA murdered not only Serbian
> policemen or civilians, but also Albanians married with Serbs or
> simply
> accepting to live in the Yugoslav state. And the special envoy of
> Washington in the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, had himself claimed three
> times
> in front of the international press, at the beginning of 1998: "I tell
> you
> that these KLA peoples are terrorists". But three months later, these
> terrorists were turned by miracle into 'freedom fighters' and NATO
> will soon
> become their air force.
> Today the US simulate surprise faced to the "extremist violence" (5)
> which
> attacks Macedonia. It is hypocrisy! As soon as June 98, the KLA
> distributed
> among its European sympathisers a map of 'Great Albania'. In our book
> Monopoly (p.69), we reproduced this map and made the following
> comment:
> "In addition to Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, this great Albania
> would
> remove large territories in Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece. Wars are
> unavoidable if the KLA is allowed to realize its plans".
> This Greater Albania implies not only expansionism but also ethnic
> cleansing.
> Today, under the eyes and with the tacit agreement of NATO, 350,000
> not-Albanians have already been expelled from Kosovo: Serbs but also
> Gypsies,
> Gorani, Turks etc.. Kosovo is almost 'clean'. A surprise? Not really,
> since, on July 12, 1982 already, the New York Times interviewed a
> Yugoslav official in Kosovo, a man of Albanian ancestry,
> who said: "'The [Albanian] nationalists have a two-point
> platform...first to
> establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and
> then the
> merger with Albania to form a greater Albania." Besides, during the
> anti-Yugoslav insurgency of 1981, the Albanian nationalists had
> already
> established a close collaboration between their units in Macedonia,
> Serbia
> and Montenegro.
> All this didn't prevent the influential US Senator Joseph Lieberman to
> declare in April 99: "[The] United States of America and the Kosovo
> Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles...
> Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
> values."(6).
> In other words, the US and the KLA share the same fight. Besides,
> anybody who travels through Kosovo can see everywhere, for example in
> the petrol stations, the Albanian and US flags closely associated.
>
> 3. Does the version of NATO still make any sense ?
>
> What did NATO tell us to justify its murderous bombings? 1. That its
> war
> was humanitarian. Wrong: it was for oil and to break an economy which
> resisted to the Western multinationals and to the IMF. 2. That it had
> tried everything to find a negotiated solution. Also wrong: we now
> know that
> there was never any negotiation; Rambouillet was only a comedy to
> justify a
> war which had already been decided. 3. That it was a clean war. Wrong
> again:
> 2.000 Yugoslav civilians killed, a huge number of factories and
> infrastructures destroyed, the use of forbidden and criminal weapons:
> cluster bombs, depleted uranium.
> General Mangum just wote in the very official journal of the Army War
> College:
> " The high- altitude bombing did very little damage to the Serb
> military. It was only after NATO began deliberately attacking civilian
> targets that the Serbs sued for peace." (7)
>
> Now what was left of the official version also collapses. We were
> told:
> `The problems of Kosovo are caused by Milosevic'. The situation is not
> better with Kostunica and a government which is subjected to the West
> ! By the way, the Time confess: "Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton
> administration spin during the 1999
> bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of helpless ethnic
> Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo Liberation Army who
> were fighting a
> David-vs.-Goliath struggle against Belgrade's genocidal army. Well,
> guess
> what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of
> the KLA stripe to
> be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is
> also
> considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops
> police the border
> between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of
> Macedonia.
> Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do
> business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence
> for Kosovo dimmed even further." (8)
> So, you may say white today, and black tomorrow if this useful for
> "business". Who will dare to come and speak to us about a humanitarian
> war, newt time?
>
> We were told that the intervention was necessary to stop a Serbian
> genocide
> and to establish a multi-ethnic Kosovo. But the German general Heinz
> Loquai
> has demonstrated that the so-called 'horse-shoe plan' document
> presented
> by the German minister Scharping was fake, that the genocide was a lie
> of the
> media and he just qualified the war as 'unjustified', and accused NATO
> to
> have caused two humanitarian catastrophes: a massive exodus of the
> Albanians
> and then another exodus of the Serbs. And the general Michael Rose,
> who
> commanded the UN forces in Bosnia, reproaches NATO "to have introduced
> a
> culture of violence". (9)
> Finally, in order to find some excuse for the current ethnic cleansing
> in
> Kosovo, the supporters of NATO and KLA have pretended that it was
> 'revenge acts
> for what the Serbs had done'. And now, in Macedonia, where nothing
> happened,
> under which pretext should one justify the aggression of the KLA? It
> is
> time to acknowledge the only possible explanation: the KLA aims to
> establish
> an ethnically clean state and can only realise this program by the
> escalation of hatred and by terrorism.
>
> 4. Does Washington play a double game?
>
> The United States make as if they were indignant at the current
> violences
> of the KLA. But we must point out several things: 1. They didn't move
> a
> finger when the KLA went out from Kosovo to attack the region of
> Presevo
> in Central Serbia. Worse: the infiltration occurred from the US
> occupation
> zone in Kosovo. 2. Washington and the NATO pretend today "to try to
> stop the
> flux of weapons and fighters towards southern Serbia and
> Macedonia".(10)
> But anybody who goes to Kosovo can observe roadblocks and
> check-points of
> the KFOR every five kilometers. But the same KFOR is working with
> interprets
> and other collaborators coming from the KLA, which besides was
> transformed
> by KFOR into the very official 'Kosovo Protection Corps'. So, the ones
> who
> don't look for the weapons of the KLA will not find them.
> Moreover, the major Jim Marshall, spokesman of the US KFOR, declared
> on
> March, 6: "We have identified between 75 and 150 rebels in Tanusevci
> (Macedonia), we saw them enter and go out from Kosovo, and get rid of
> their equipments and weapons before to cross the border." A little
> stupid
> question: what did prevent you to arrest them? 45,000 NATO soldiers
> are
> occupying Kosovo and can not arrest 150 terrorists ? Can not or
> don't want to? On March, 11, in the British newspaper Observer,
> several
> European high officers of KFOR and also several Macedonian officials
> accused
> explicitly the CIA to have encouraged the KLA to start its summer
> offensive
> in the South of Serbia in order to undermine the former Yugoslav
> president
> Slobodan Milosevic. Today, who could guarantee that these
> encouragements
> have stopped?
>
> 5. Will the KLA start a new war ?
>
> What will happen ? The current fights around Tanusevce could well be
> the prelude of more important clashes. For example, to take control of
> Tetovo, five kilometers away from the Kosovo border.
> In any case, one thing is clear: the KLA, which lost the elections
> last
> year, -because the large majority of the Albanians in Kosovo don't
> want to
> live in a permanent state of war - can only regain ground by using
> violence.
> Including in Macedonia where it pretends to defend the rights of the
> Albanian minority, but one often forgets to remind that, for years,
> every
> government of this country has been made of a coalition with Albanian
> parties.
> To take power, and thus increase the range of its maffia - like
> traffics,
> necessitates war.
> The tactics of the KLA is thus clear: to cause an escalation by
> provoking the Macedonian and the Yugoslavian armies. Hoping that the
> later
> will attack Albanian civilians as was done by some Serbian forces
> during
> the first days of the NATO bombings. That will allow to reach two
> goals: 1. To internationalise the conflict (we will come back to it
> later).
> 2. To enrol new recruits in an Albanian youth which has been fanatised
> by
> nationalism. In spite of the development of many little traffics more
> or
> less legal, the Albanian community of Macedonia has an unemployment
> rate of
> 60%; it is a potential where to recruit.
> To get this escalation, the KLA will probably use again a method which
> has already been put in practice. As a French observer of the OSCE
> explained it in Kosovo in 1998: "Inside the OSCE, everybody knew that
> NATO, in particular the US, didn't want our mission (of pacification)
> to
> succeed. The massacres have been encouraged to justify a military
> intervention. One day we got a message. We were told that Albanian
> fighters had been trained by American instructors. They were explained
> that it was more strategic to kill Serbian policemen to provoke
> important
> retaliations against the Albanian community." (11)
> As in Bosnia and in Kosovo there can be some time before that this
> tactics ends up in more important clashes. An important step would be
> done by provoking the equivalent of the 'Racak massacre'. In January
> 99,
> in this village of Kosovo that it had fortified, the KLA had provoked,
> and lost, a fight between the two armies. But it made believe that the
> victims were civilians coldly massacred by the Yugoslav army. With the
> help
> of the CIA, one made believe this media-lie in the international media
> and
> this allow to condition the Western public opinion to make it accept a
> war
> decided for a long time by the US. Each war of today is preceded by
> such
> a big media-lie, with shocking pictures.
>
> 6. What are the US really looking for?
>
> But to do again the 'Racak trick' would necessitate a complicity of
> the
> US to lead the Western media. If this would happen, that would
> certainly be
> the sign that the US superpower would be preparing a new intervention.
> One can oppose two objections to this hypothesis: First the US are
> qualifying today the KLA as 'extremist forces' and condemn their
> actions, at
> least in words. Answer: at the beginning of 98 also, they qualified
> the
> KLA as 'terrorists', as we have seen, but that didn't prevent them to
> support unconditionally the KLA a few months later. If there is one
> principle to remember
> in the action of the US for ten years, it is that there are no
> principles!
> One can also ask why would the US intervene although they seem to
> control
> the region and have installed there their military bases ? Of course
> one
> doesn't know yet all the aspects of their current tactics. It may be
> that
> behind the scene they push the KLA to create again some tension in
> order to
> help the US troops to occupy the whole region. As soon as the first
> incidents in the Presevo valley occurred, Washington had generously
> proposed to station US troops in Serbia proper. One must also remind
> that during the so-called
> 'negotiations' in Rambouillet before the war, Madeleine Albright had
> required that NATO will be allowed to occupy militarily the whole
> Yugoslavia.
> It may also be that new Bush administration has not yet decided which
> is
> the best tactic to protect the US interests in the Balkans, that it
> prefers
> to play for some time with both sides and that the tactic of the KLA
> was
> precisely to force it to take a decision or to act quicker.
> In both cases, one thing is sure: the US are not there to defend peace
> or
> protect any people of the Balkans. They are there to reign. And to
> reign
> you have to divide, as we know, and to divide the best solution is a
> war, or
> at least a so-called 'low intensity' war, a situation of 'neither war
> nor
> peace' with irregular clashes. Isn't it the best way to justify the
> installation of US military bases in the Balkans ?
> Of course, the candidate George Bush had said that he wanted to move
> the
> US troops out of Kosovo. But the president George Bush rapidly forgot
> these
> electoral promises. Lets remind that in 1995 the candidate Bill
> Clinton
> had promised that the US troops would have left Bosnia by Christmas.
> Immediately afterwards, the commander of the UN troops in Bosnia, the
> general MacKenzie, answered to a parliamentary commission: "If I were
> you,
> I'd start training your grandchildren as Bosnia peacekeepers." (12)
> Wether it wants to force Bush to intervene or acts in collaboration
> with him,
> the goal of the KLA is in any case to internationalise again the
> conflict,
> as did the Muslims of Izetbegovic in Bosnia from 1992 and the KLA
> itself in
> Kosovo in 1998.
> By attacking almost at the same time Macedonia and the South of
> Serbia,
> by denouncing in racist terms any Slav presence on their territories,
> the leaders of the KLA aim at provoking a reaction of Macedonia and
> Yugoslavia, but also of Greece, close to the Serbs. And, as an
> indirect
> result, a retaliation of their own allies: Albania and Turkey. That is
> an
> internationalisation of the conflict which would force Washington to
> choose
> between its allies and, as the KLA hopes, to definitely choose the
> Albanian side.
>
> 7. Will Washington still be able to play on both sides?
>
> To understand the situation of the US, it is important to understand
> that
> they systematically play on several sides at the same time. To support
> and
> to manipulate discretely two adversaries - and even train them
> militarily -
> does not embarrass them at all. For example, we can read in the
> British Daily
> Telegraph of March 3: "The private company of security which is the
> most
> appreciated by the US government has trained both sides of the last
> ethnic
> conflict in the Balkans. Only two years ago the Albanian rebels of
> Kosovo
> were trained by the society 'Military Professional Resources' based in
> Virginia... One of the recent task of this society was the training of
> the
> Macedonian army which is now shooting on the Albanian guerrilla."
> One should not underestimate the role in the US military system of the
> private companies and militia, led by former high officers. Already in
> Bosnia, they had trained and led the Muslim militia of the president
> Izetbegovic before that the US could openly intervene. And in Croatia
> they
> helped the president Tudjman to realise the bloody ethnic cleansing of
> the Serbian Krajina in august 95 (13). History repeats itself.
> Having played in several sides, the US can be for a moment in a
> difficult
> situation. From one side, they continue to use the KLA to get more
> concessions from Serbia: the complete privatisation and the
> elimination of
> the main opposition party, the SPS (by sending its president Milosevic
> to the Court of the Hague). But on the other hand, if they let the KLA
> going too far, they will have troubles with precious allies: 1. The
> Macedonian government 2. Greece (also threatened by the demands of the
> KLA) 3. The Yugoslav president Kostunica.
> The Macedonian government has not much autonomy and one says that
> Washington could impose it what it wants, including a federal state,
> prelude to a splitting. Moreover, the Macedonian leaders are very
> weakened by various scandals, which have revealed their links
> with the US. The left opposition claims to be more independent, but
> its
> main candidate was put aside by terror during the last elections.
> Macedonia,
> a too weak and unstable ally for Washington ?
> On the other hand, the Greek leaders are important pawns in the NATO
> strategy of Washington. But the Greek people is strongly against NATO,
> the
> influence of the communist party is important and very recently one
> third
> of the Greek soldiers have required and obtained to be moved out from
> Kosovo to escape the dangers of depleted uranium.
> Finally by playing too openly with the card of the KLA, the US would
> strongly endangered the president Kostunica, who was elected with an
> ambiguous profile - anti-NATO and pro-West - and who can not present
> to
> his opinion any positive result about Kosovo, to the contrary.
> To allow him to make come again some Yugoslav troops to watch the
> border is maybe a small concession to give some more credit to
> Kostunica and to somehow balance the two 'friends' of the US. But the
> reason can also be simply to avoid that US soldiers would be in first
> line
> and risk to come back to the US in body-bags, which is always
> embarrassing
> for the US opinion. And, in a more machiavellian way, that would start
> again clashes between Serbs and Albanians.
> What if Washington drops the KLA and reverses its alliance? Then it
> could be that its German 'ally' -but also rival- supports again
> secretly
> the KLA as it did at the beginning 98 (14). Which also explains that
> the
> KLA has interest to make even more provocations. The rivalry between
> Western great powers is thus another factor which increases the risks
> of
> war. Many European politicians had already accused the US to be guilty
> of
> having uselessly prolonged the war in Bosnia in order to eliminate
> their
> German competitor which had got a too good position. (15)
> Reverse the alliance? One has already seen everything in this respect
> from
> the US, for example between Iran, Iraq and Syria. But their goal is to
> establish in the Balkans a 'plane-carrier' state, like Israel in the
> Middle-East. For this, an obvious choice is still an Albanian state
> which
> would owe everything to Washington. However, the European powers
> refuse
> a change of the borders in the Balkans. This would cause new wars and
> destabilise the projects of 'corridors' described above.
> One thing is sure: the intervention of NATO for some hidden interests
> didn't
> bring and will not bring peace.
>
> 8. Do they really ask themselves if they have created a monster?
>
> It is again in The Guardian that one could read, on March 12, a
> surprising question: 'Did we create a monster ?'. Their special
> correspondent
> in Pristina reports: "The West is stunned. Balkan nightmares were
> supposed
> to have ended with the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. But now
> Albanian nationalist militants are stirring ethnic rivalries in a
> quest
> for a greater Kosovo. The liberated victims have become the villains.
> In Washington and London, and in the offices of NATO and UN in
> Pristina, a
> question is dominating: did we create a monster ?" The correspondent
> of the
> Guardian led a quite vast investigation with the staff of UN and KFOR
> and
> concludes: "The failure of KFOR to disarm the KLA, protect the Serb
> minority and build a multi-ethnic society has created a climate in
> which extremists flourish. For almost a year it
> ignored intellectuals who urged a crackdown on KLA members who seized
> assets and set up criminal networks. "Now it's too late, the moderates
> won the election, but those who smuggle and run the rackets have the
> real power," one officer serving there
> admits."
> Disastrous result, and one understands that the former governor of
> Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, had quickly left the ship before that his
> self-satisfied TV statements have been refuted.
> Because what The Guardian reports is true. I was myself in Kosovo last
> December to make there a documentary movie "The damned of Kosovo"
> (which will
> be ready next May). I discovered there a hell for the Serbs and all
> non - Albanian minorities. Most of them have been expelled from
> Kosovo:
> ethnic cleansing. The ones who have stayed live in terror. To speak
> its own
> language in public constitutes a mortal danger. Also to go on highways
> in non-Serbian zones. But the terror strikes also a number of
> Albanians.
> KLA maffiosi kill Albanians also. To take houses, companies or women.
> And
> many of the Albanian with who I was talking, predicted a civil war
> - between Albanians - in two or three years time.
> Quickly The Guardian mentions the theory of 'the mistake': The West
> would 'have misunderstood the danger of Albanian nationalism'. Of
> which
> 'West' are we talking here? If it is the public, it is indeed true
> that
> it didn't understand because one hided to it carefully the truth. When
> some analysts explained that the program of the KLA was the ethnic
> cleansing,
> they were almost excluded of the media or even considered as evils.
> But if one speaks about the leaders of this 'West' - the White House,
> Tony Blair, Solana and Robertson, the CIA - they knew of course for a
> long
> time because their own reports considered the KLA as 'terrorists'.
> In Kosovo, we have also seen that one has to distinguish between a
> number
> of honest Western aid workers and militaries, and their high-level
> officials.
> The former went to Kosovo with prejudices but also with good will. The
> later
> have been sent to Kosovo to hide this truth, to hide the secret goals
> of the
> US and their allies and to lie.
> It is certainly in the first category that one must put Eric Torch, a
> UN aid worker cited by The Guardian: "Albanians
> trace their lineage to the Illyrans who controlled the territory in
> the
> 11th century BC. Underground schools during Milosevic's rule
> inculcated ethnic
> hatred into generations."
> Yes, you have read correctly: 'during Milosevic's
> rule'. This confirms what have said some unconventional analysts:
> these
> parallel Albanian schools, organized by the party of Rugova and
> financed
> by the US taught racist anti-Serbian conceptions. It was wrong to say
> that
> the responsibility of the conflict was entirely on the side of the
> Serbs.
> Pushed by the US, the Albanian leaders of Kosovo refused to negotiate
> seriously, they wanted only independence and taught the hatred to
> achieve it.
>
> 9. Which role will play the rivalry US -EU?
>
> One can not understand the attitude of the US in these events without
> replacing it in the context of their world strategy. One of the
> key-men
> of the new Bush administration is called Wolfowitz. In our book
> Liar's Poker we made comments about his shock-report of March 92:
> "The status of unique super-power of the US must be preserved by a
> constructive behaviour and a sufficient military force to dissuade any
> nation or group of nations to challenge the supremacy of the US. We
> must
> act in order to prevent the appearance of a security system
> exclusively
> European which could destabilise NATO" (16).
> The US military budget began to blow up under Clinton and this will
> continue under Bush. Three potential rivals at more or less long term
> are
> today the potential targets of this dangerous strategy: the European
> Union,
> Russia, China. The embassy of the later was bombed as a warning. It is
> considered by the CIA as risking to overtake around 2015-2030 the
> power of
> the US. Concerning Russia, the new US State secretary, Colin Powell,
> declared
> that the objections of Moscow would not prevent the expansion of NATO
> to
> the East or the militarisation of space by the so-called
> 'anti-missiles
> shield' (NMD). His colleague Condoleezza Rice declared that she
> sincerely
> "believes that Russia is a threat for the West" (17). And the Defence
> secretary
> Rumsfeld attacked Russia for "its 'active proliferation of missiles'
> to
> countries like Iran, Korea or India". (18)
> Concerning Europe, Rumsfeld warned against any autonomous European
> intervention force which would perturb the transatlantic relation
> during
> the conference of Munich about global safety, beginning of February.
> Answer
> of the German minister Joskha Fisher: the new Bush administration
> wants to
> restart a new arms race. His colleague Scharping expressed sympathy
> for
> the Russian views about NMD. Germany has, like France, condemned the
> US bombings against Iraq.
> Moreover, the ambition of the US to dictate their will to the whole
> world
> is currently braked by several points of resistance that they don't
> succeed to eliminate. Iraq still resists, as well as the Palestinians.
> The US intervention in Colombia could transform itself into a new
> Vietnam.
> The communist guerrilla in Nepal worries the American experts. Some of
> them
> think that it is time to find a solution in the Balkans and to focus
> on other
> operations.
> All this on a background of growing commercial rivalries and crisis
> which
> could only worsen the tension USA-Europe. The game that these powers
> are
> playing in the Balkans for ten years, each of them trying to get the
> biggest part of the cake, this game will continue to cause damages to
> the
> peoples of the region. When the elephants fight each other, it is the
> grass
> which is smashed.
> And after all the gifts that the US have given to reward the terrorism
> of
> the KLA, one can expect that this example will be contagious for some
> fractions of the Albanian community in Macedonia and Montenegro or for
> other
> secessionist movements in the world. One will use provocations and
> terrorism to try to present oneself as 'victims'.
> The mistrust between US and Europe about Kosovo increased when the
> candidate Bush threatened to move out the US troops from the Balkans,
> letting
> the Europeans alone in what one is forced to call a mess. Since then,
> many European officials criticize -privately- the support of the US to
> the
> terrorists of KLA. An expert of the French Institute of International
> Relations (IFRI) has just declared: "The Dayton process is dead. The
> whole
> system needs to be renegotiated. But no-one wants to open the
> Pandora's
> box by calling it into question, risking poisoning the
> situation on the ground. If for example, the Kosovo Albanians were
> appeased
> with a state of their own, it would trigger a domino
> effect that would see Serbia's junior partner in the
> rump Yugoslavia, Montenegro, as well as Bosnian Serbs
> and Bosnian Croats all renewing their own independence claims.
> For some time it appeared the Americans were prepared
> to look at changing borders. I think that cannot
> happen now, and if they did try it they would be opposed by Europe."
> (19))
>
> What will be the outcome? In fact, Bush has four options: 1. to redraw
> his
> troops. That would have strongly embarrassed the Europeans. It is now
> not
> possible anymore, especially with the depleted uranium scandal. 2. to
> reverse
> the alliance and to support the Serbia of Kostunica. But the US troops
> could become the targets of the KLA. And one is not sure that Serbia
> will be a reliable partner for the long term. The spirit of popular
> resistance is still alive there. 3. to support both sides by using a
> strategy of tension. 4. to maintain the support to the KLA to create
> an
> Albanian 'Israel-like' state while hiding its game as long as
> possible.
> No one of the options is moral, we have seen that this criteria is
> never
> relevant. But to realize their strategic long-term goals, the US can
> well
> resort to changing and contradictory tactics.
> For now a combination of the options 3 and 4 seems the most likely to
> us. But
> maybe the US have not decided yet and they are waiting to see the most
> favourable according to the reactions of their 'friends' ?
> In any case, the tactics being changing, some docile media would have
> some
> trouble to explain to the peoples that the good guys are not good
> anymore and
> that the bad guys are on the other side. Let's hope that these
> troubles will
> cause a deep reflexion. If one doesn't understand the economic
> interests at
> stake, and first, the ones of the multinationals looking for new
> markets,
> working forces and raw materials, it is impossible to understand all
> these
> wars.
>
> 10. Is Kostunica in a trap ?
>
> The president Kostunica has been elected by defending an ambiguous
> position:
> on one hand, he denounces the war of NATO, the occupation of Kosovo
> and
> the interference of the US; on the other hand, he promises the
> reconciliation with this very same West and an economic improvement
> thanks
> to Western aid.
> Till now the least one can say is that he wasn't rewarded concerning
> Kosovo.
> On March 6, he declared: "The representatives of the international
> community
> in Kosovo are facing failure, because they did not provide stability
> and peace,
> and the crisis spilled over into Macedonia. Kfor is dealing with its
> own security,
> and not with the security of those because of whom it is here."(20)
> Kostunica also accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing the
> aspirations of a Greater Albania. KFOR is abandoning protection of the
> border and is
> inviting our army to be in the crossfire" (21) He also expressed hope
> that
> the policy of the new U.S. administration would be marked by "a high
> level of
> non-interference in the problems of other states". (22)
> The paradox is that two days after having warned so clearly against
> NATO and the interference of the US , the same Kostunica added that
> "he did not rule out Yugoslavia becoming a formal alliance partner one
> day."(23) A NATO which is however the most obvious tool of the
> interference spirit of the US ! In the same declaration, the Yugoslav
> president declared himself disappointed: "When I came to office, I did
> not
> expect the situation in the country to be quite so difficult; it is
> discouraging," citing security and constitutional problems as well as
> 40
> percent unemployment and 800,000 refugees. Surprising declaration as
> the
> 800,000 refugees (expelled from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo) are living
> in Serbia for years. Concerning the unemployed, did he lead his
> electoral
> campaign by ignoring that the Western embargo and the state of the
> economy had such consequences ? And by not reading the program of the
> economists of his own electoral coalition which foresaw privatisations
> and
> massive dismissals ?
>
> How to interpret these contradictory statements ? In fact, as
> expected,
> the material situation of the Serbian population has still worsened
> with the
> Djindjic government. If the salaries of the university professors have
> been
> doubled, the ones of the workers have only increased by 25% to 50%,
> and
> it is completely insufficient to face the huge increases of the
> prices.
> The cubic meter of gas has gone from three up to twelve dinars, the
> kilo of
> sausages from 150 up to 300 dinars, the electricity bill of a
> household
> has increased from 150 or 200 dinars a month to 500 dinars! The
> electricity
> company of Belgrade indicates that 130,000 households of the city have
> a very important debt: more than 30,000 dinars! And the price of
> petrol also
> increases, all the more that the new government took control of all
> the
> oil sector in order to eliminate the black market of petrol (cheaper).
> As expected, the honeymoon didn't last. If the president Kostunica is
> not
> considered as personally responsible for all this, the rate of
> discontent
> towards the new government of Zoran Djindjic on the other hand has
> already gone up to 60%: "He doesn't do anything for the people. Even
> during
> the war, we had always had electricity, but with the 'great
> democracy', the
> cuts last for four hours during the day, three hours at night" is it
> told
> everywhere. And many judge that elections are unavoidable in 12 or 18
> months
> time. The heterogeneous coalition of 18 parties should split quite
> soon.
> It is why one must dismiss Milosevic and eliminate the risk of a come
> back of the socialist party, even if this party has not yet gone up in
> the polls.
>
> Which evolution is to foresee inside Yugoslavia? The professors that
> are
> not from the universities are on a prolonged strike. Many strikes
> occur also in the industry, only broken by threats of collective
> dismissals.
> This didn't prevent the new left trade-union 'Solidarity' to get at
> the
> car factory Zastava an additional increase of salary of 25%. On the
> other
> hand, the minority trade-union of government tendency had refused to
> join the strike. 'Solidarity' has announced the publication of a
> monthly
> newspaper and the next months should see it increasing its influence.
> Did Kostunica fall in a trap of the West? Was he expecting to get more
> support in the question of Kosovo and for the economy? Till now he
> just
> got alms and the US make the other credits depend on the extradition
> of
> Milosevic. What Kostunica can not do otherwise he would contradict
> himself
> and commit a political suicide. Thus, the US finance a new campaign of
> OTPOR
> to criminalize Milosevic. The US, which, for fifty years, have
> supported,
> financed and armed all the far-right and military dictatorships in the
> world, these US which have protected the crimes of Pinochet, Mobutu,
> Franco, Salazar, the Greek colonels and the Turkish fascist generals,
> these
> US pretend to judge just one former head of state, precisely one who
> has
> resisted to them ? The US deserve the Oscar of hypocrisy.
>
> 11. Perspectives.
>
> In a world marked by a looming economic crisis, by an increase of the
> wars and a frightening increase of the military budgets, it is
> important to
> fully draw the lessons of Kosovo and of the current situation.
> 1. There are no 'humanitarian' wars, only economic and strategic wars.
> 2. The US and NATO are not searching to solve the problems but to
> dominate the world. Thus they create or excite the problems when it is
> useful
> for them 3. The military intervention against Yugoslavia and in favour
> of
> the KLA has worsened everything. 4. It is not 'by mistake' that
> Washington
> supported the KLA, but consciously.
> It is urgent to reinforce or to recreate a powerful peace movement on
> a
> grass-root level. The only way to get there is to work with patience
> in
> establishing the dialog between the peoples, who are all victims of
> this
> strategy of 'dividing to conquer'.
> And for this, to debate of the results of this war and of the real
> strategies of the great powers is the fundamental condition. The
> struggle for
> peace begins with a lucid analysis.
>
> 12th of March 2001
>
> Notes
>
> (1) Michel Collon, Monopoly - L'Otan à la Conquête du monde, EPO,
> march 2000,
> p. 96. (English edition prepared)
> (2) The Guardian, February 15, 2001.
> (3) Idem.
> (4) Idem.
> (5) AFP-Skopje, March 6, 2001.
> (6) Washington Post, April 28, 1999.
> (7) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001.
> (8) Time, 8 mars 2001
> (9) Both cited in Kan Anders-Vredeskoerier (Holland), march 2001.
> (10) Declaration of Robertson (NATO), AP, March 6.
> (11) L'Humanité, November 18, 1999
> (12) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001
> (13) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 191. (Soon published
> in English version)
> (14) See Monopoly, pp. 70-71.
> (15) The European mediator in Bosnia, David Owen, cited in Michel
> Collon,
> Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 182.
> (16) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, p. 116.
> (17) Le Figaro, February 10, 2001.
> (18) PBS, February 14, 2001.
> (19) AFP - Paris, March 8, 2001.
> (20) BBC, March 6.
> (21) Reuters - Skopje, March 8, 2001.
> (22) BBC, March 6.
> (23) Reuters - London, March 8, 2001
>
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> Please find here an important article about Macedonia, Kosovo, Nato
> and their future.
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic area? 2. KLA attack: is it a surprise? 3.
> What is surviving of the official Nato version? 4. Is Washington
> playing double game? 5. Will KLA provoke a new war? 6. What do the US
> really want? 7. Will it be possible for Washington to keep playing
> with all sides? 8. Did they «forge a monster»? 9. What shall be the
> role of the rivalry between USA and EU? 10. Is Kostunica trapped? 11.
> Perspectives for Peace.
>
> -- Michel Collon
> michel.collon@... (For fair use only)
>
> After Kosovo, Macedonia.
> What is left of the explanations of NATO ?
>
> A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA have
> attacked the villages
> of the Presevo valley in Serbia, after they have killed 11 Serbian
> civilians of Kosovo by throwing a bomb in a bus, they are waging now
> war
> in neighbouring Macedonia. And again refugees are on the roads. Is
> there a
> new escalation in the Balkans?
> In fact, these events allow to better understand what happened in
> 1999. In
> this complex situation (because everything is done to disorientate the
> public
> opinion), let us answer clearly to the main questions.
>
> Michel Collon
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ?
>
> Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the general
> Jackson,
> commander of the NATO troops:
> "We will certainly stay here for a long time in order to guarantee the
> safety of the energy corridors which cross Macedonia". (1) 'Energy
> corridors' ? We had presented the maps showing the projects of Europe
> (a whole net of oil and gas pipe-lines connecting Europe via the
> Balkans
> to the huge oil and gas resources of the former soviet Caucasus) and
> the ones
> of the US (a pipe-line Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania-Adriatic which would
> give
> to the US oil multinationals the control of this road of oil and gas).
> These
> projects are in fact rival. This is why all the great powers attempt
> for ten
> years to control Yugoslavia. The road of oil and gas passes by. We had
> also
> stressed that as soon as 1992 it is in Macedonia - however very far
> away
> from the conflicts zones - and nowhere else that Washington had
> decided to
> send a division.
> We have to be frank: even in the left circles, some peoples found
> exaggerated to suspect Washington to have so dark projects. But very
> recently,
> the respectable British newspaper Guardian confirmed: "A project
> called the Trans-Balkan pipeline has been little-reported in any
> British,
> European or American newspaper. The line
> will run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the Adriatic at Vlore,
> passing through
> Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. It is likely become the main route to
> the west for the oil
> and gas now being extracted in central Asia. It will carry 750,000
> barrels a day. The project is necessary, according to a paper
> published by the US Trade and Development Agency, because it will
> "provide a consistent source of crude oil to American refineries",
> "provide
> American companies with a key role in developing the vital east-west
> corridor",
> and "advance the privatisation aspirations of the US government in the
> region"." (2)
> Clear, isn't it ? Moreover, Bill Richardson, the former US energy
> secretary, declared in 1998, that is before the war: "This is
> about America's energy security". When the US speak about 'energy
> security',
> one must know what it means: to preserve the world domination and the
> profits of their oil multinationals. And Richardson continues:
> "We would like these newly independent countries reliant on Western
> commercial and political interests rather than going another way.
> We've made a substantial political investment in the Caspian, and it's
> very important to us that both the pipeline map and the politics come
> out right." (3)
> And The Guardian adds this essential comment: "On December 9, 98
> (before
> the war), the president of Albania attended a meeting on this subject
> in
> Sofia:"According to my personal opinion, no solution which will stay
> strictly
> inside of the Serbian borders will bring a sustainable peace." The
> message
> could hardly be clearer: if you want the agreement of the Albanians
> for
> the Trans-Balkans pipeline, you have to take the Kosovo away from the
> Serbs". (4)
>
> 2. Is the offensive of the KLA a surprise?
>
> The US made thus a pact with the devil. Because many US diplomatic
> reports testified it: the separatist KLA murdered not only Serbian
> policemen or civilians, but also Albanians married with Serbs or
> simply
> accepting to live in the Yugoslav state. And the special envoy of
> Washington in the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, had himself claimed three
> times
> in front of the international press, at the beginning of 1998: "I tell
> you
> that these KLA peoples are terrorists". But three months later, these
> terrorists were turned by miracle into 'freedom fighters' and NATO
> will soon
> become their air force.
> Today the US simulate surprise faced to the "extremist violence" (5)
> which
> attacks Macedonia. It is hypocrisy! As soon as June 98, the KLA
> distributed
> among its European sympathisers a map of 'Great Albania'. In our book
> Monopoly (p.69), we reproduced this map and made the following
> comment:
> "In addition to Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, this great Albania
> would
> remove large territories in Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece. Wars are
> unavoidable if the KLA is allowed to realize its plans".
> This Greater Albania implies not only expansionism but also ethnic
> cleansing.
> Today, under the eyes and with the tacit agreement of NATO, 350,000
> not-Albanians have already been expelled from Kosovo: Serbs but also
> Gypsies,
> Gorani, Turks etc.. Kosovo is almost 'clean'. A surprise? Not really,
> since, on July 12, 1982 already, the New York Times interviewed a
> Yugoslav official in Kosovo, a man of Albanian ancestry,
> who said: "'The [Albanian] nationalists have a two-point
> platform...first to
> establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and
> then the
> merger with Albania to form a greater Albania." Besides, during the
> anti-Yugoslav insurgency of 1981, the Albanian nationalists had
> already
> established a close collaboration between their units in Macedonia,
> Serbia
> and Montenegro.
> All this didn't prevent the influential US Senator Joseph Lieberman to
> declare in April 99: "[The] United States of America and the Kosovo
> Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles...
> Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
> values."(6).
> In other words, the US and the KLA share the same fight. Besides,
> anybody who travels through Kosovo can see everywhere, for example in
> the petrol stations, the Albanian and US flags closely associated.
>
> 3. Does the version of NATO still make any sense ?
>
> What did NATO tell us to justify its murderous bombings? 1. That its
> war
> was humanitarian. Wrong: it was for oil and to break an economy which
> resisted to the Western multinationals and to the IMF. 2. That it had
> tried everything to find a negotiated solution. Also wrong: we now
> know that
> there was never any negotiation; Rambouillet was only a comedy to
> justify a
> war which had already been decided. 3. That it was a clean war. Wrong
> again:
> 2.000 Yugoslav civilians killed, a huge number of factories and
> infrastructures destroyed, the use of forbidden and criminal weapons:
> cluster bombs, depleted uranium.
> General Mangum just wote in the very official journal of the Army War
> College:
> " The high- altitude bombing did very little damage to the Serb
> military. It was only after NATO began deliberately attacking civilian
> targets that the Serbs sued for peace." (7)
>
> Now what was left of the official version also collapses. We were
> told:
> `The problems of Kosovo are caused by Milosevic'. The situation is not
> better with Kostunica and a government which is subjected to the West
> ! By the way, the Time confess: "Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton
> administration spin during the 1999
> bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of helpless ethnic
> Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo Liberation Army who
> were fighting a
> David-vs.-Goliath struggle against Belgrade's genocidal army. Well,
> guess
> what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of
> the KLA stripe to
> be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is
> also
> considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops
> police the border
> between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of
> Macedonia.
> Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do
> business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence
> for Kosovo dimmed even further." (8)
> So, you may say white today, and black tomorrow if this useful for
> "business". Who will dare to come and speak to us about a humanitarian
> war, newt time?
>
> We were told that the intervention was necessary to stop a Serbian
> genocide
> and to establish a multi-ethnic Kosovo. But the German general Heinz
> Loquai
> has demonstrated that the so-called 'horse-shoe plan' document
> presented
> by the German minister Scharping was fake, that the genocide was a lie
> of the
> media and he just qualified the war as 'unjustified', and accused NATO
> to
> have caused two humanitarian catastrophes: a massive exodus of the
> Albanians
> and then another exodus of the Serbs. And the general Michael Rose,
> who
> commanded the UN forces in Bosnia, reproaches NATO "to have introduced
> a
> culture of violence". (9)
> Finally, in order to find some excuse for the current ethnic cleansing
> in
> Kosovo, the supporters of NATO and KLA have pretended that it was
> 'revenge acts
> for what the Serbs had done'. And now, in Macedonia, where nothing
> happened,
> under which pretext should one justify the aggression of the KLA? It
> is
> time to acknowledge the only possible explanation: the KLA aims to
> establish
> an ethnically clean state and can only realise this program by the
> escalation of hatred and by terrorism.
>
> 4. Does Washington play a double game?
>
> The United States make as if they were indignant at the current
> violences
> of the KLA. But we must point out several things: 1. They didn't move
> a
> finger when the KLA went out from Kosovo to attack the region of
> Presevo
> in Central Serbia. Worse: the infiltration occurred from the US
> occupation
> zone in Kosovo. 2. Washington and the NATO pretend today "to try to
> stop the
> flux of weapons and fighters towards southern Serbia and
> Macedonia".(10)
> But anybody who goes to Kosovo can observe roadblocks and
> check-points of
> the KFOR every five kilometers. But the same KFOR is working with
> interprets
> and other collaborators coming from the KLA, which besides was
> transformed
> by KFOR into the very official 'Kosovo Protection Corps'. So, the ones
> who
> don't look for the weapons of the KLA will not find them.
> Moreover, the major Jim Marshall, spokesman of the US KFOR, declared
> on
> March, 6: "We have identified between 75 and 150 rebels in Tanusevci
> (Macedonia), we saw them enter and go out from Kosovo, and get rid of
> their equipments and weapons before to cross the border." A little
> stupid
> question: what did prevent you to arrest them? 45,000 NATO soldiers
> are
> occupying Kosovo and can not arrest 150 terrorists ? Can not or
> don't want to? On March, 11, in the British newspaper Observer,
> several
> European high officers of KFOR and also several Macedonian officials
> accused
> explicitly the CIA to have encouraged the KLA to start its summer
> offensive
> in the South of Serbia in order to undermine the former Yugoslav
> president
> Slobodan Milosevic. Today, who could guarantee that these
> encouragements
> have stopped?
>
> 5. Will the KLA start a new war ?
>
> What will happen ? The current fights around Tanusevce could well be
> the prelude of more important clashes. For example, to take control of
> Tetovo, five kilometers away from the Kosovo border.
> In any case, one thing is clear: the KLA, which lost the elections
> last
> year, -because the large majority of the Albanians in Kosovo don't
> want to
> live in a permanent state of war - can only regain ground by using
> violence.
> Including in Macedonia where it pretends to defend the rights of the
> Albanian minority, but one often forgets to remind that, for years,
> every
> government of this country has been made of a coalition with Albanian
> parties.
> To take power, and thus increase the range of its maffia - like
> traffics,
> necessitates war.
> The tactics of the KLA is thus clear: to cause an escalation by
> provoking the Macedonian and the Yugoslavian armies. Hoping that the
> later
> will attack Albanian civilians as was done by some Serbian forces
> during
> the first days of the NATO bombings. That will allow to reach two
> goals: 1. To internationalise the conflict (we will come back to it
> later).
> 2. To enrol new recruits in an Albanian youth which has been fanatised
> by
> nationalism. In spite of the development of many little traffics more
> or
> less legal, the Albanian community of Macedonia has an unemployment
> rate of
> 60%; it is a potential where to recruit.
> To get this escalation, the KLA will probably use again a method which
> has already been put in practice. As a French observer of the OSCE
> explained it in Kosovo in 1998: "Inside the OSCE, everybody knew that
> NATO, in particular the US, didn't want our mission (of pacification)
> to
> succeed. The massacres have been encouraged to justify a military
> intervention. One day we got a message. We were told that Albanian
> fighters had been trained by American instructors. They were explained
> that it was more strategic to kill Serbian policemen to provoke
> important
> retaliations against the Albanian community." (11)
> As in Bosnia and in Kosovo there can be some time before that this
> tactics ends up in more important clashes. An important step would be
> done by provoking the equivalent of the 'Racak massacre'. In January
> 99,
> in this village of Kosovo that it had fortified, the KLA had provoked,
> and lost, a fight between the two armies. But it made believe that the
> victims were civilians coldly massacred by the Yugoslav army. With the
> help
> of the CIA, one made believe this media-lie in the international media
> and
> this allow to condition the Western public opinion to make it accept a
> war
> decided for a long time by the US. Each war of today is preceded by
> such
> a big media-lie, with shocking pictures.
>
> 6. What are the US really looking for?
>
> But to do again the 'Racak trick' would necessitate a complicity of
> the
> US to lead the Western media. If this would happen, that would
> certainly be
> the sign that the US superpower would be preparing a new intervention.
> One can oppose two objections to this hypothesis: First the US are
> qualifying today the KLA as 'extremist forces' and condemn their
> actions, at
> least in words. Answer: at the beginning of 98 also, they qualified
> the
> KLA as 'terrorists', as we have seen, but that didn't prevent them to
> support unconditionally the KLA a few months later. If there is one
> principle to remember
> in the action of the US for ten years, it is that there are no
> principles!
> One can also ask why would the US intervene although they seem to
> control
> the region and have installed there their military bases ? Of course
> one
> doesn't know yet all the aspects of their current tactics. It may be
> that
> behind the scene they push the KLA to create again some tension in
> order to
> help the US troops to occupy the whole region. As soon as the first
> incidents in the Presevo valley occurred, Washington had generously
> proposed to station US troops in Serbia proper. One must also remind
> that during the so-called
> 'negotiations' in Rambouillet before the war, Madeleine Albright had
> required that NATO will be allowed to occupy militarily the whole
> Yugoslavia.
> It may also be that new Bush administration has not yet decided which
> is
> the best tactic to protect the US interests in the Balkans, that it
> prefers
> to play for some time with both sides and that the tactic of the KLA
> was
> precisely to force it to take a decision or to act quicker.
> In both cases, one thing is sure: the US are not there to defend peace
> or
> protect any people of the Balkans. They are there to reign. And to
> reign
> you have to divide, as we know, and to divide the best solution is a
> war, or
> at least a so-called 'low intensity' war, a situation of 'neither war
> nor
> peace' with irregular clashes. Isn't it the best way to justify the
> installation of US military bases in the Balkans ?
> Of course, the candidate George Bush had said that he wanted to move
> the
> US troops out of Kosovo. But the president George Bush rapidly forgot
> these
> electoral promises. Lets remind that in 1995 the candidate Bill
> Clinton
> had promised that the US troops would have left Bosnia by Christmas.
> Immediately afterwards, the commander of the UN troops in Bosnia, the
> general MacKenzie, answered to a parliamentary commission: "If I were
> you,
> I'd start training your grandchildren as Bosnia peacekeepers." (12)
> Wether it wants to force Bush to intervene or acts in collaboration
> with him,
> the goal of the KLA is in any case to internationalise again the
> conflict,
> as did the Muslims of Izetbegovic in Bosnia from 1992 and the KLA
> itself in
> Kosovo in 1998.
> By attacking almost at the same time Macedonia and the South of
> Serbia,
> by denouncing in racist terms any Slav presence on their territories,
> the leaders of the KLA aim at provoking a reaction of Macedonia and
> Yugoslavia, but also of Greece, close to the Serbs. And, as an
> indirect
> result, a retaliation of their own allies: Albania and Turkey. That is
> an
> internationalisation of the conflict which would force Washington to
> choose
> between its allies and, as the KLA hopes, to definitely choose the
> Albanian side.
>
> 7. Will Washington still be able to play on both sides?
>
> To understand the situation of the US, it is important to understand
> that
> they systematically play on several sides at the same time. To support
> and
> to manipulate discretely two adversaries - and even train them
> militarily -
> does not embarrass them at all. For example, we can read in the
> British Daily
> Telegraph of March 3: "The private company of security which is the
> most
> appreciated by the US government has trained both sides of the last
> ethnic
> conflict in the Balkans. Only two years ago the Albanian rebels of
> Kosovo
> were trained by the society 'Military Professional Resources' based in
> Virginia... One of the recent task of this society was the training of
> the
> Macedonian army which is now shooting on the Albanian guerrilla."
> One should not underestimate the role in the US military system of the
> private companies and militia, led by former high officers. Already in
> Bosnia, they had trained and led the Muslim militia of the president
> Izetbegovic before that the US could openly intervene. And in Croatia
> they
> helped the president Tudjman to realise the bloody ethnic cleansing of
> the Serbian Krajina in august 95 (13). History repeats itself.
> Having played in several sides, the US can be for a moment in a
> difficult
> situation. From one side, they continue to use the KLA to get more
> concessions from Serbia: the complete privatisation and the
> elimination of
> the main opposition party, the SPS (by sending its president Milosevic
> to the Court of the Hague). But on the other hand, if they let the KLA
> going too far, they will have troubles with precious allies: 1. The
> Macedonian government 2. Greece (also threatened by the demands of the
> KLA) 3. The Yugoslav president Kostunica.
> The Macedonian government has not much autonomy and one says that
> Washington could impose it what it wants, including a federal state,
> prelude to a splitting. Moreover, the Macedonian leaders are very
> weakened by various scandals, which have revealed their links
> with the US. The left opposition claims to be more independent, but
> its
> main candidate was put aside by terror during the last elections.
> Macedonia,
> a too weak and unstable ally for Washington ?
> On the other hand, the Greek leaders are important pawns in the NATO
> strategy of Washington. But the Greek people is strongly against NATO,
> the
> influence of the communist party is important and very recently one
> third
> of the Greek soldiers have required and obtained to be moved out from
> Kosovo to escape the dangers of depleted uranium.
> Finally by playing too openly with the card of the KLA, the US would
> strongly endangered the president Kostunica, who was elected with an
> ambiguous profile - anti-NATO and pro-West - and who can not present
> to
> his opinion any positive result about Kosovo, to the contrary.
> To allow him to make come again some Yugoslav troops to watch the
> border is maybe a small concession to give some more credit to
> Kostunica and to somehow balance the two 'friends' of the US. But the
> reason can also be simply to avoid that US soldiers would be in first
> line
> and risk to come back to the US in body-bags, which is always
> embarrassing
> for the US opinion. And, in a more machiavellian way, that would start
> again clashes between Serbs and Albanians.
> What if Washington drops the KLA and reverses its alliance? Then it
> could be that its German 'ally' -but also rival- supports again
> secretly
> the KLA as it did at the beginning 98 (14). Which also explains that
> the
> KLA has interest to make even more provocations. The rivalry between
> Western great powers is thus another factor which increases the risks
> of
> war. Many European politicians had already accused the US to be guilty
> of
> having uselessly prolonged the war in Bosnia in order to eliminate
> their
> German competitor which had got a too good position. (15)
> Reverse the alliance? One has already seen everything in this respect
> from
> the US, for example between Iran, Iraq and Syria. But their goal is to
> establish in the Balkans a 'plane-carrier' state, like Israel in the
> Middle-East. For this, an obvious choice is still an Albanian state
> which
> would owe everything to Washington. However, the European powers
> refuse
> a change of the borders in the Balkans. This would cause new wars and
> destabilise the projects of 'corridors' described above.
> One thing is sure: the intervention of NATO for some hidden interests
> didn't
> bring and will not bring peace.
>
> 8. Do they really ask themselves if they have created a monster?
>
> It is again in The Guardian that one could read, on March 12, a
> surprising question: 'Did we create a monster ?'. Their special
> correspondent
> in Pristina reports: "The West is stunned. Balkan nightmares were
> supposed
> to have ended with the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. But now
> Albanian nationalist militants are stirring ethnic rivalries in a
> quest
> for a greater Kosovo. The liberated victims have become the villains.
> In Washington and London, and in the offices of NATO and UN in
> Pristina, a
> question is dominating: did we create a monster ?" The correspondent
> of the
> Guardian led a quite vast investigation with the staff of UN and KFOR
> and
> concludes: "The failure of KFOR to disarm the KLA, protect the Serb
> minority and build a multi-ethnic society has created a climate in
> which extremists flourish. For almost a year it
> ignored intellectuals who urged a crackdown on KLA members who seized
> assets and set up criminal networks. "Now it's too late, the moderates
> won the election, but those who smuggle and run the rackets have the
> real power," one officer serving there
> admits."
> Disastrous result, and one understands that the former governor of
> Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, had quickly left the ship before that his
> self-satisfied TV statements have been refuted.
> Because what The Guardian reports is true. I was myself in Kosovo last
> December to make there a documentary movie "The damned of Kosovo"
> (which will
> be ready next May). I discovered there a hell for the Serbs and all
> non - Albanian minorities. Most of them have been expelled from
> Kosovo:
> ethnic cleansing. The ones who have stayed live in terror. To speak
> its own
> language in public constitutes a mortal danger. Also to go on highways
> in non-Serbian zones. But the terror strikes also a number of
> Albanians.
> KLA maffiosi kill Albanians also. To take houses, companies or women.
> And
> many of the Albanian with who I was talking, predicted a civil war
> - between Albanians - in two or three years time.
> Quickly The Guardian mentions the theory of 'the mistake': The West
> would 'have misunderstood the danger of Albanian nationalism'. Of
> which
> 'West' are we talking here? If it is the public, it is indeed true
> that
> it didn't understand because one hided to it carefully the truth. When
> some analysts explained that the program of the KLA was the ethnic
> cleansing,
> they were almost excluded of the media or even considered as evils.
> But if one speaks about the leaders of this 'West' - the White House,
> Tony Blair, Solana and Robertson, the CIA - they knew of course for a
> long
> time because their own reports considered the KLA as 'terrorists'.
> In Kosovo, we have also seen that one has to distinguish between a
> number
> of honest Western aid workers and militaries, and their high-level
> officials.
> The former went to Kosovo with prejudices but also with good will. The
> later
> have been sent to Kosovo to hide this truth, to hide the secret goals
> of the
> US and their allies and to lie.
> It is certainly in the first category that one must put Eric Torch, a
> UN aid worker cited by The Guardian: "Albanians
> trace their lineage to the Illyrans who controlled the territory in
> the
> 11th century BC. Underground schools during Milosevic's rule
> inculcated ethnic
> hatred into generations."
> Yes, you have read correctly: 'during Milosevic's
> rule'. This confirms what have said some unconventional analysts:
> these
> parallel Albanian schools, organized by the party of Rugova and
> financed
> by the US taught racist anti-Serbian conceptions. It was wrong to say
> that
> the responsibility of the conflict was entirely on the side of the
> Serbs.
> Pushed by the US, the Albanian leaders of Kosovo refused to negotiate
> seriously, they wanted only independence and taught the hatred to
> achieve it.
>
> 9. Which role will play the rivalry US -EU?
>
> One can not understand the attitude of the US in these events without
> replacing it in the context of their world strategy. One of the
> key-men
> of the new Bush administration is called Wolfowitz. In our book
> Liar's Poker we made comments about his shock-report of March 92:
> "The status of unique super-power of the US must be preserved by a
> constructive behaviour and a sufficient military force to dissuade any
> nation or group of nations to challenge the supremacy of the US. We
> must
> act in order to prevent the appearance of a security system
> exclusively
> European which could destabilise NATO" (16).
> The US military budget began to blow up under Clinton and this will
> continue under Bush. Three potential rivals at more or less long term
> are
> today the potential targets of this dangerous strategy: the European
> Union,
> Russia, China. The embassy of the later was bombed as a warning. It is
> considered by the CIA as risking to overtake around 2015-2030 the
> power of
> the US. Concerning Russia, the new US State secretary, Colin Powell,
> declared
> that the objections of Moscow would not prevent the expansion of NATO
> to
> the East or the militarisation of space by the so-called
> 'anti-missiles
> shield' (NMD). His colleague Condoleezza Rice declared that she
> sincerely
> "believes that Russia is a threat for the West" (17). And the Defence
> secretary
> Rumsfeld attacked Russia for "its 'active proliferation of missiles'
> to
> countries like Iran, Korea or India". (18)
> Concerning Europe, Rumsfeld warned against any autonomous European
> intervention force which would perturb the transatlantic relation
> during
> the conference of Munich about global safety, beginning of February.
> Answer
> of the German minister Joskha Fisher: the new Bush administration
> wants to
> restart a new arms race. His colleague Scharping expressed sympathy
> for
> the Russian views about NMD. Germany has, like France, condemned the
> US bombings against Iraq.
> Moreover, the ambition of the US to dictate their will to the whole
> world
> is currently braked by several points of resistance that they don't
> succeed to eliminate. Iraq still resists, as well as the Palestinians.
> The US intervention in Colombia could transform itself into a new
> Vietnam.
> The communist guerrilla in Nepal worries the American experts. Some of
> them
> think that it is time to find a solution in the Balkans and to focus
> on other
> operations.
> All this on a background of growing commercial rivalries and crisis
> which
> could only worsen the tension USA-Europe. The game that these powers
> are
> playing in the Balkans for ten years, each of them trying to get the
> biggest part of the cake, this game will continue to cause damages to
> the
> peoples of the region. When the elephants fight each other, it is the
> grass
> which is smashed.
> And after all the gifts that the US have given to reward the terrorism
> of
> the KLA, one can expect that this example will be contagious for some
> fractions of the Albanian community in Macedonia and Montenegro or for
> other
> secessionist movements in the world. One will use provocations and
> terrorism to try to present oneself as 'victims'.
> The mistrust between US and Europe about Kosovo increased when the
> candidate Bush threatened to move out the US troops from the Balkans,
> letting
> the Europeans alone in what one is forced to call a mess. Since then,
> many European officials criticize -privately- the support of the US to
> the
> terrorists of KLA. An expert of the French Institute of International
> Relations (IFRI) has just declared: "The Dayton process is dead. The
> whole
> system needs to be renegotiated. But no-one wants to open the
> Pandora's
> box by calling it into question, risking poisoning the
> situation on the ground. If for example, the Kosovo Albanians were
> appeased
> with a state of their own, it would trigger a domino
> effect that would see Serbia's junior partner in the
> rump Yugoslavia, Montenegro, as well as Bosnian Serbs
> and Bosnian Croats all renewing their own independence claims.
> For some time it appeared the Americans were prepared
> to look at changing borders. I think that cannot
> happen now, and if they did try it they would be opposed by Europe."
> (19))
>
> What will be the outcome? In fact, Bush has four options: 1. to redraw
> his
> troops. That would have strongly embarrassed the Europeans. It is now
> not
> possible anymore, especially with the depleted uranium scandal. 2. to
> reverse
> the alliance and to support the Serbia of Kostunica. But the US troops
> could become the targets of the KLA. And one is not sure that Serbia
> will be a reliable partner for the long term. The spirit of popular
> resistance is still alive there. 3. to support both sides by using a
> strategy of tension. 4. to maintain the support to the KLA to create
> an
> Albanian 'Israel-like' state while hiding its game as long as
> possible.
> No one of the options is moral, we have seen that this criteria is
> never
> relevant. But to realize their strategic long-term goals, the US can
> well
> resort to changing and contradictory tactics.
> For now a combination of the options 3 and 4 seems the most likely to
> us. But
> maybe the US have not decided yet and they are waiting to see the most
> favourable according to the reactions of their 'friends' ?
> In any case, the tactics being changing, some docile media would have
> some
> trouble to explain to the peoples that the good guys are not good
> anymore and
> that the bad guys are on the other side. Let's hope that these
> troubles will
> cause a deep reflexion. If one doesn't understand the economic
> interests at
> stake, and first, the ones of the multinationals looking for new
> markets,
> working forces and raw materials, it is impossible to understand all
> these
> wars.
>
> 10. Is Kostunica in a trap ?
>
> The president Kostunica has been elected by defending an ambiguous
> position:
> on one hand, he denounces the war of NATO, the occupation of Kosovo
> and
> the interference of the US; on the other hand, he promises the
> reconciliation with this very same West and an economic improvement
> thanks
> to Western aid.
> Till now the least one can say is that he wasn't rewarded concerning
> Kosovo.
> On March 6, he declared: "The representatives of the international
> community
> in Kosovo are facing failure, because they did not provide stability
> and peace,
> and the crisis spilled over into Macedonia. Kfor is dealing with its
> own security,
> and not with the security of those because of whom it is here."(20)
> Kostunica also accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing the
> aspirations of a Greater Albania. KFOR is abandoning protection of the
> border and is
> inviting our army to be in the crossfire" (21) He also expressed hope
> that
> the policy of the new U.S. administration would be marked by "a high
> level of
> non-interference in the problems of other states". (22)
> The paradox is that two days after having warned so clearly against
> NATO and the interference of the US , the same Kostunica added that
> "he did not rule out Yugoslavia becoming a formal alliance partner one
> day."(23) A NATO which is however the most obvious tool of the
> interference spirit of the US ! In the same declaration, the Yugoslav
> president declared himself disappointed: "When I came to office, I did
> not
> expect the situation in the country to be quite so difficult; it is
> discouraging," citing security and constitutional problems as well as
> 40
> percent unemployment and 800,000 refugees. Surprising declaration as
> the
> 800,000 refugees (expelled from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo) are living
> in Serbia for years. Concerning the unemployed, did he lead his
> electoral
> campaign by ignoring that the Western embargo and the state of the
> economy had such consequences ? And by not reading the program of the
> economists of his own electoral coalition which foresaw privatisations
> and
> massive dismissals ?
>
> How to interpret these contradictory statements ? In fact, as
> expected,
> the material situation of the Serbian population has still worsened
> with the
> Djindjic government. If the salaries of the university professors have
> been
> doubled, the ones of the workers have only increased by 25% to 50%,
> and
> it is completely insufficient to face the huge increases of the
> prices.
> The cubic meter of gas has gone from three up to twelve dinars, the
> kilo of
> sausages from 150 up to 300 dinars, the electricity bill of a
> household
> has increased from 150 or 200 dinars a month to 500 dinars! The
> electricity
> company of Belgrade indicates that 130,000 households of the city have
> a very important debt: more than 30,000 dinars! And the price of
> petrol also
> increases, all the more that the new government took control of all
> the
> oil sector in order to eliminate the black market of petrol (cheaper).
> As expected, the honeymoon didn't last. If the president Kostunica is
> not
> considered as personally responsible for all this, the rate of
> discontent
> towards the new government of Zoran Djindjic on the other hand has
> already gone up to 60%: "He doesn't do anything for the people. Even
> during
> the war, we had always had electricity, but with the 'great
> democracy', the
> cuts last for four hours during the day, three hours at night" is it
> told
> everywhere. And many judge that elections are unavoidable in 12 or 18
> months
> time. The heterogeneous coalition of 18 parties should split quite
> soon.
> It is why one must dismiss Milosevic and eliminate the risk of a come
> back of the socialist party, even if this party has not yet gone up in
> the polls.
>
> Which evolution is to foresee inside Yugoslavia? The professors that
> are
> not from the universities are on a prolonged strike. Many strikes
> occur also in the industry, only broken by threats of collective
> dismissals.
> This didn't prevent the new left trade-union 'Solidarity' to get at
> the
> car factory Zastava an additional increase of salary of 25%. On the
> other
> hand, the minority trade-union of government tendency had refused to
> join the strike. 'Solidarity' has announced the publication of a
> monthly
> newspaper and the next months should see it increasing its influence.
> Did Kostunica fall in a trap of the West? Was he expecting to get more
> support in the question of Kosovo and for the economy? Till now he
> just
> got alms and the US make the other credits depend on the extradition
> of
> Milosevic. What Kostunica can not do otherwise he would contradict
> himself
> and commit a political suicide. Thus, the US finance a new campaign of
> OTPOR
> to criminalize Milosevic. The US, which, for fifty years, have
> supported,
> financed and armed all the far-right and military dictatorships in the
> world, these US which have protected the crimes of Pinochet, Mobutu,
> Franco, Salazar, the Greek colonels and the Turkish fascist generals,
> these
> US pretend to judge just one former head of state, precisely one who
> has
> resisted to them ? The US deserve the Oscar of hypocrisy.
>
> 11. Perspectives.
>
> In a world marked by a looming economic crisis, by an increase of the
> wars and a frightening increase of the military budgets, it is
> important to
> fully draw the lessons of Kosovo and of the current situation.
> 1. There are no 'humanitarian' wars, only economic and strategic wars.
> 2. The US and NATO are not searching to solve the problems but to
> dominate the world. Thus they create or excite the problems when it is
> useful
> for them 3. The military intervention against Yugoslavia and in favour
> of
> the KLA has worsened everything. 4. It is not 'by mistake' that
> Washington
> supported the KLA, but consciously.
> It is urgent to reinforce or to recreate a powerful peace movement on
> a
> grass-root level. The only way to get there is to work with patience
> in
> establishing the dialog between the peoples, who are all victims of
> this
> strategy of 'dividing to conquer'.
> And for this, to debate of the results of this war and of the real
> strategies of the great powers is the fundamental condition. The
> struggle for
> peace begins with a lucid analysis.
>
> 12th of March 2001
>
> Notes
>
> (1) Michel Collon, Monopoly - L'Otan à la Conquête du monde, EPO,
> march 2000,
> p. 96. (English edition prepared)
> (2) The Guardian, February 15, 2001.
> (3) Idem.
> (4) Idem.
> (5) AFP-Skopje, March 6, 2001.
> (6) Washington Post, April 28, 1999.
> (7) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001.
> (8) Time, 8 mars 2001
> (9) Both cited in Kan Anders-Vredeskoerier (Holland), march 2001.
> (10) Declaration of Robertson (NATO), AP, March 6.
> (11) L'Humanité, November 18, 1999
> (12) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001
> (13) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 191. (Soon published
> in English version)
> (14) See Monopoly, pp. 70-71.
> (15) The European mediator in Bosnia, David Owen, cited in Michel
> Collon,
> Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 182.
> (16) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, p. 116.
> (17) Le Figaro, February 10, 2001.
> (18) PBS, February 14, 2001.
> (19) AFP - Paris, March 8, 2001.
> (20) BBC, March 6.
> (21) Reuters - Skopje, March 8, 2001.
> (22) BBC, March 6.
> (23) Reuters - London, March 8, 2001
>
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