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Sunday Times
March 11 2001
Albanian exiles fund Balkans war
Tom Walker and Alex Todorovic
THE Albanian diaspora is pouring millions of pounds
into secretive funds helping guerrillas in southern
Serbia and Macedonia fight for a "greater Albania" in
an operation that threatens Nato's peacekeeping forces
in the Balkans.
Although police throughout western Europe, including
Britain, are looking at ways of cutting off the funds
- which came to prominence during the Kosovo conflict
- they admit they have had little success.
Radicals among the diaspora, such as Leka Zog, the
exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, have vowed to
continue supporting the struggle in whatever way they
can.
Increased co-operation between Belgrade and London in
the battle against Balkan racketeering was discussed
at a recent meeting between a Yugoslav government
adviser and Home Office officials. Belgrade files on
the Albanian mafia are to be made available to British
police for the first time in an effort to stem the
flow of money and arms.
Last week Kosovo Albanians in London confirmed that
they had received new demands for contributions to
unspecified causes. One estimated that up to £5,000 a
week was being raised in London; another said he
feared for the safety of his two brothers and elderly
mother in Pristina, the Kosovo capital, if he failed
to pay up.
In Switzerland federal investigators said they were
struggling to link Albanian funds with weapons
purchases because most such deals were struck by
mobile telephone and within the rigid patriarchal
family structures.
The so-called "Homeland Calling Fund", the main
cash-for-arms conduit used during the Kosovo war, is
thought to have been closed. However, the police
believe another fund, ostensibly to raise cash for the
Albanian University of Tetovo in Macedonia, is playing
a similar role.
Leka Zog, whose father, King Zog, ruled Albania
briefly before the second world war, is said to be
preparing for a trip to Kosovo to call for the
"unification" of territory dominated by Albanians.
Suleman Ganaj, a prominent royalist, complained that
Albanians living in Macedonia were treated like
second-class citizens. "They want freedom," he said.
"We support every step taken by Albanians still under
the domination of foreign powers, every attempt to
free ourselves from Serbs, Macedonians and other
neighbours."
Ganaj warned that the tolerance of Nato's peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo was wearing thin. "Kosovo should have
independence and its own army," he said.
Maps of a greater Albania on diaspora websites feature
a swathe of territory around Kosovo, taking in an arc
of land in southern Serbia and across into Macedonia,
including the capital, Skopje. Further west,
Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, is shown as
Albanian - as are territories in northern Greece.
Fighting flared last week in the Presevo Valley in
southern Serbia and in the nearby Albanian-majority
borderlands in Macedonia. Presevo Albanians and Serbs
failed to agree on a local ceasefire last night,
despite intense negotiations involving the United
Nations and European Union monitors.
Albanian guerrillas said this weekend that they had no
intention of allowing the Yugoslav army into the
security zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia, even
though Nato has given Belgrade approval.
Talat, a young rebel, said that fighting the Serbs had
helped to make 2001 "the best year of my life". He
said that after each border clash the guerrillas'
numbers swell, gaining as many as 70 new volunteers a
day.
The funds coming from abroad and from within Kosovo
have helped to prepare a force of about 2,000 along
the Presevo and Macedonian fronts, he said, and their
leaders aim to enlarge Kosovo's territory.
Talat showed reporters a small field hospital inside
the exclusion zone, where he hugged an injured
colleague, a bearded fighter with the nom de guerre of
Masovitsa. His left hand was loosely wrapped in gauze
and plastered with ointment, but the flesh hung from
his fingertips.
"They [the Serbs] were attacking from all sides with
machineguns, tanks and rockets," Masovitsa said. "At
one point there were only about 50 yards between us
and them." He described how he had shielded his face
with his hands as a rocket exploded nearby. "God saved
my life," he concluded.
A further group of about 300 rebels calling themselves
the National Liberation Army (NLA) was forced by
American soldiers from its headquarters in Tanusevci,
a Macedonian border village. Three Macedonian
policemen had been killed and the Skopje government
was critical of Nato peacekeepers for allowing the
rebels into the country from Kosovo.
The guerrillas, led by Ismet Yashari, then attacked a
police convoy escorting Ljube Boskovski, Macedonia's
deputy interior minister, a few miles south of
Tanusevci at Brest.
A rocket-propelled grenade fired by the NLA killed a
driver in the convoy, which was then pinned down for
12 hours by the rebels. Srdjan Kerim, the Macedonian
foreign minister, has asked Nato to seal off the
130-mile border with Kosovo to stop rebels slipping
through.
The Bush administration in Washington made it clear
this weekend that Slobodan Milosevic, the former
Serbian leader, would have to be arrested in Serbia -
but not necessarily handed over to the war criminal
tribunal in the Hague - by March 31 if Yugoslavia is
to receive hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of
aid.
Additional reporting: Juliet Terzieff, James Pettifer,
Fiona Fleck
-------- Original Message --------
Oggetto: Prof. Négovan Rajic: DE KABOUL À KOSOVO
Data: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:18:25 -0500
DE KABOUL ? KOSOVO
Le destruction barbare des boudhas g?ants en Afghanistan a provoqu?, ?
juste titre, un toll? de protestations dans le monde.
Qu'ils soient croyants ou non, tous les hommes civilis?s ressentiront
douloureusement ce geste comme un affront intol?rable ?
la culture. Il s'agit non seulement d'une atteinte au patrimoine
artistique de l'humanit? , mais aussi ? son histoire et ? sa
m?moire collective .
Malheureusement, ? l'heure o? j'?cris ces lignes, les Thalibans ont d?j?
transform? en un tas de pierres ces falaises de gr?s
auxquelles les pieux moines bouddhistes avaient jadis insuffl? une ?me.
Aucune grande puissance n'avait pas os? envoyer ses
troupes dans le gu?pier afghan pour sauver ces tr?sors inestimables . Si
? la limite cela peut se justifier par souci d'?pargner
des vies humaines , on ne peut comprendre comment au Kosovo, au coeur de
l'Europe, et en pr?sence des troupes des
Nations Unies, l'Occident puisse assister, sans broncher, ? la
destruction des monuments d'une civilisation qui en fin de
compte lui appartient. Qui peut croire les commandants de la KFOR,
disposant d'une arm?e de 40 000 soldats et de deux
mille policiers sur un territoire ne d?passant pas celui d'un
d?partement fran?ais, quand ils pr?tendent n'avoir pas de moyens
suffisants pour prot?ger les populations serbes des extr?mistes albanais
et emp?cher la destruction d'une centaine d'?glises
chr?tiennes dont certaines ?taient orn?es des fresques admirables datant
du Moyen Age? Comment cela se fait-il que les
dirigeants occidentaux et ces intellectuels qui encore hier satanisaient
les Serbes, en les accusant de tous les crimes possibles,
se taisent aujourd'hui l?chement?
Combien de temps l'Occident pourrait-il fermer les yeux devant une
r?alit? qui demain risque de le rattraper comme elle a
rattrap? jadis les dirigeants nazis. Non, demain , ses dirigeants
n'auront pas le droit de dire: nous ne savions pas. Les ?glises
orthodoxes sont d?truites ? la dynamite, les maisons serbes incendi?es
et les vieux cimeti?res profan?s en pr?sence des
troupes de la communaut? internationale , celle-l? m?me qui pr?tend
s'?riger en juge supr?me du bien et du mal.
Comble de cynisme ou d'inconscience, on nous dit maintenant que le
commandant des troupes alli?es au Kosovo, complice
des terroristes, songe confier la garde des monast?res orthodoxes,
encore d?bout, aux anciens soldats de l'UCK! Hitler
lui-m?me n'avait pas os? pousser la perfidie jusqu'? confier la
protection des synagogues aux formations des SS! Si la
nouvelle se confirme , il faudra mettre une croix sur les derniers
vestiges de ces joyaux d'art m?di?val, prot?g?s par
l'UNESCO et t?moin s muets d'une civilisation mise ? mort comme les
boudhas g?ants.
Mais ne nous d?trompons pas, leur disparition sera aussi notre d?faite
morale et les puissants de ce monde n'auront pas la
conscience tranquille en essayant de nous persuader que cette
destruction est ce que les Serbes ont m?rit? par leurs crimes,
car qui, ? l'heure o? les grandes compagnies p?troli?res ?laborent d?j?
des plans pour sillonner de pipelines la p?ninsule
balkanique , puisse encore croire que la guerre contre la Yougoslavie
fut une guerre humanitaire?
N?govan
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Sunday Times
March 11 2001
Albanian exiles fund Balkans war
Tom Walker and Alex Todorovic
THE Albanian diaspora is pouring millions of pounds
into secretive funds helping guerrillas in southern
Serbia and Macedonia fight for a "greater Albania" in
an operation that threatens Nato's peacekeeping forces
in the Balkans.
Although police throughout western Europe, including
Britain, are looking at ways of cutting off the funds
- which came to prominence during the Kosovo conflict
- they admit they have had little success.
Radicals among the diaspora, such as Leka Zog, the
exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, have vowed to
continue supporting the struggle in whatever way they
can.
Increased co-operation between Belgrade and London in
the battle against Balkan racketeering was discussed
at a recent meeting between a Yugoslav government
adviser and Home Office officials. Belgrade files on
the Albanian mafia are to be made available to British
police for the first time in an effort to stem the
flow of money and arms.
Last week Kosovo Albanians in London confirmed that
they had received new demands for contributions to
unspecified causes. One estimated that up to £5,000 a
week was being raised in London; another said he
feared for the safety of his two brothers and elderly
mother in Pristina, the Kosovo capital, if he failed
to pay up.
In Switzerland federal investigators said they were
struggling to link Albanian funds with weapons
purchases because most such deals were struck by
mobile telephone and within the rigid patriarchal
family structures.
The so-called "Homeland Calling Fund", the main
cash-for-arms conduit used during the Kosovo war, is
thought to have been closed. However, the police
believe another fund, ostensibly to raise cash for the
Albanian University of Tetovo in Macedonia, is playing
a similar role.
Leka Zog, whose father, King Zog, ruled Albania
briefly before the second world war, is said to be
preparing for a trip to Kosovo to call for the
"unification" of territory dominated by Albanians.
Suleman Ganaj, a prominent royalist, complained that
Albanians living in Macedonia were treated like
second-class citizens. "They want freedom," he said.
"We support every step taken by Albanians still under
the domination of foreign powers, every attempt to
free ourselves from Serbs, Macedonians and other
neighbours."
Ganaj warned that the tolerance of Nato's peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo was wearing thin. "Kosovo should have
independence and its own army," he said.
Maps of a greater Albania on diaspora websites feature
a swathe of territory around Kosovo, taking in an arc
of land in southern Serbia and across into Macedonia,
including the capital, Skopje. Further west,
Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, is shown as
Albanian - as are territories in northern Greece.
Fighting flared last week in the Presevo Valley in
southern Serbia and in the nearby Albanian-majority
borderlands in Macedonia. Presevo Albanians and Serbs
failed to agree on a local ceasefire last night,
despite intense negotiations involving the United
Nations and European Union monitors.
Albanian guerrillas said this weekend that they had no
intention of allowing the Yugoslav army into the
security zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia, even
though Nato has given Belgrade approval.
Talat, a young rebel, said that fighting the Serbs had
helped to make 2001 "the best year of my life". He
said that after each border clash the guerrillas'
numbers swell, gaining as many as 70 new volunteers a
day.
The funds coming from abroad and from within Kosovo
have helped to prepare a force of about 2,000 along
the Presevo and Macedonian fronts, he said, and their
leaders aim to enlarge Kosovo's territory.
Talat showed reporters a small field hospital inside
the exclusion zone, where he hugged an injured
colleague, a bearded fighter with the nom de guerre of
Masovitsa. His left hand was loosely wrapped in gauze
and plastered with ointment, but the flesh hung from
his fingertips.
"They [the Serbs] were attacking from all sides with
machineguns, tanks and rockets," Masovitsa said. "At
one point there were only about 50 yards between us
and them." He described how he had shielded his face
with his hands as a rocket exploded nearby. "God saved
my life," he concluded.
A further group of about 300 rebels calling themselves
the National Liberation Army (NLA) was forced by
American soldiers from its headquarters in Tanusevci,
a Macedonian border village. Three Macedonian
policemen had been killed and the Skopje government
was critical of Nato peacekeepers for allowing the
rebels into the country from Kosovo.
The guerrillas, led by Ismet Yashari, then attacked a
police convoy escorting Ljube Boskovski, Macedonia's
deputy interior minister, a few miles south of
Tanusevci at Brest.
A rocket-propelled grenade fired by the NLA killed a
driver in the convoy, which was then pinned down for
12 hours by the rebels. Srdjan Kerim, the Macedonian
foreign minister, has asked Nato to seal off the
130-mile border with Kosovo to stop rebels slipping
through.
The Bush administration in Washington made it clear
this weekend that Slobodan Milosevic, the former
Serbian leader, would have to be arrested in Serbia -
but not necessarily handed over to the war criminal
tribunal in the Hague - by March 31 if Yugoslavia is
to receive hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of
aid.
Additional reporting: Juliet Terzieff, James Pettifer,
Fiona Fleck
-------- Original Message --------
Oggetto: Prof. Négovan Rajic: DE KABOUL À KOSOVO
Data: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:18:25 -0500
DE KABOUL ? KOSOVO
Le destruction barbare des boudhas g?ants en Afghanistan a provoqu?, ?
juste titre, un toll? de protestations dans le monde.
Qu'ils soient croyants ou non, tous les hommes civilis?s ressentiront
douloureusement ce geste comme un affront intol?rable ?
la culture. Il s'agit non seulement d'une atteinte au patrimoine
artistique de l'humanit? , mais aussi ? son histoire et ? sa
m?moire collective .
Malheureusement, ? l'heure o? j'?cris ces lignes, les Thalibans ont d?j?
transform? en un tas de pierres ces falaises de gr?s
auxquelles les pieux moines bouddhistes avaient jadis insuffl? une ?me.
Aucune grande puissance n'avait pas os? envoyer ses
troupes dans le gu?pier afghan pour sauver ces tr?sors inestimables . Si
? la limite cela peut se justifier par souci d'?pargner
des vies humaines , on ne peut comprendre comment au Kosovo, au coeur de
l'Europe, et en pr?sence des troupes des
Nations Unies, l'Occident puisse assister, sans broncher, ? la
destruction des monuments d'une civilisation qui en fin de
compte lui appartient. Qui peut croire les commandants de la KFOR,
disposant d'une arm?e de 40 000 soldats et de deux
mille policiers sur un territoire ne d?passant pas celui d'un
d?partement fran?ais, quand ils pr?tendent n'avoir pas de moyens
suffisants pour prot?ger les populations serbes des extr?mistes albanais
et emp?cher la destruction d'une centaine d'?glises
chr?tiennes dont certaines ?taient orn?es des fresques admirables datant
du Moyen Age? Comment cela se fait-il que les
dirigeants occidentaux et ces intellectuels qui encore hier satanisaient
les Serbes, en les accusant de tous les crimes possibles,
se taisent aujourd'hui l?chement?
Combien de temps l'Occident pourrait-il fermer les yeux devant une
r?alit? qui demain risque de le rattraper comme elle a
rattrap? jadis les dirigeants nazis. Non, demain , ses dirigeants
n'auront pas le droit de dire: nous ne savions pas. Les ?glises
orthodoxes sont d?truites ? la dynamite, les maisons serbes incendi?es
et les vieux cimeti?res profan?s en pr?sence des
troupes de la communaut? internationale , celle-l? m?me qui pr?tend
s'?riger en juge supr?me du bien et du mal.
Comble de cynisme ou d'inconscience, on nous dit maintenant que le
commandant des troupes alli?es au Kosovo, complice
des terroristes, songe confier la garde des monast?res orthodoxes,
encore d?bout, aux anciens soldats de l'UCK! Hitler
lui-m?me n'avait pas os? pousser la perfidie jusqu'? confier la
protection des synagogues aux formations des SS! Si la
nouvelle se confirme , il faudra mettre une croix sur les derniers
vestiges de ces joyaux d'art m?di?val, prot?g?s par
l'UNESCO et t?moin s muets d'une civilisation mise ? mort comme les
boudhas g?ants.
Mais ne nous d?trompons pas, leur disparition sera aussi notre d?faite
morale et les puissants de ce monde n'auront pas la
conscience tranquille en essayant de nous persuader que cette
destruction est ce que les Serbes ont m?rit? par leurs crimes,
car qui, ? l'heure o? les grandes compagnies p?troli?res ?laborent d?j?
des plans pour sillonner de pipelines la p?ninsule
balkanique , puisse encore croire que la guerre contre la Yougoslavie
fut une guerre humanitaire?
N?govan
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'CIA's bastard army ran riot in Balkans' backed extremists'
Special report: Kosovo
By Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday March 11, 2001, The Observer
The United States secretly supported the ethnic
Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in
Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army
fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in
an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European
officers who served with the international
peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as
leading Macedonian and US sources.
They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately
ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across
Kosovo's borders.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews by
The Observer. They emerge as America has been forced
into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian
extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that
would include Albanian communities in Serbia and
Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have
intensified their campaign of attacks in the two
areas, threatening a new war in the region which last
week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans
for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For between
the European and US military missions. European
officers are furious that the Americans have allowed
guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms
and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told The
Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run
riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to
overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US
State Department seems incapable of reining in its
bastard army.'
He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing
frustration with US support for the radical Albanians.
US policy was and still is out of step with the other
Nato allies.'
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in
the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the
National Liberation Army [which has been responsible
for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in
recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation
in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened
when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one.
'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies
have not been honest here.'
The claims were given extra credence from an
unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of
Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent
the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war
inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last
administration. There had now been 'a shift of
emphasis'.
---
For more background information on the CIA's involvement
with the KLA and
the lies and deception which launched NATO's war against
Yugoslavia, check
out the following articles which appear in issue #43 of
the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade's magazine, Press for Conversion!
(Dozens of other articles, summarizing 50 years of CIA
covert activities,
are also included in this issue, on the theme: "A
People's History of the
CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to
Zaire.")
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/>
---
1999, Yugoslavia: KLA, CIA, OSCE and NATO Join Hands
By Peter Stavropoulos
The BBC and Newsweek report that President Clinton
has approved CIA
training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to do
sabotage in Yugoslavia.
According to Newsweek, the CIA will train the KLA in
"age-old tricks like
cutting telephone lines, blowing up buildings, fouling
gasoline reserves
and pilfering food supplies - in an effort to undermine
public support for
the Serbian leader and damage Yugoslav targets that can't
be reached from
the air."
U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger secretly
briefed the
House and Senate Intelligence committees on these plans
the week that
former-General in the Croatian military, Agim Ceku, was
appointed to head
the KLA.
Newsweek says, "Intelligence officials worry it
would be difficult to
control the US-trained rebels once boot camp is over and
they are set loose
on Milosevic." A former chief of intelligence planner for
the US Air Force
said, "I'm afraid they could use their training to carry
out atrocities.
If they think they can rein them in, it's tremendous
naivete."
KLA ranks in Albania swelled. An estimated 10,000
arrived in
Albania, mainly from Germany, Switzerland, France and
Austria. Reuters has
reported that the KLA is also forcing male Kosovar
refugees to join its ranks.
Jane's reported that U.S. military Special Forces
and British SAS
were fighting alongside the KLA inside Kosovo. The French
news agency
Agence France Presse has reported on the deaths of three
French army
paratroop officers killed while commanding a KLA unit
trying to cross into
Kosovo from Albania.
The U.S.-NATO backing to the KLA and Ceku, its new
military leader is
the most telling refutation of the claims made to justify
the war.
Who is the KLA Commander, Agim Ceku?
* Ceku an ethnic Kosovo Albanian, graduated from the
Belgrade Military
Academy; served as an artillery captain in the Yugoslav
army.
* During Yugoslavia's dissolution in 1991, he defected to
the newly formed
Croatian Army to assist its drive to secession. He was
decorated nine
times in battles against Serb forces in both Bosnia and
Croatia.
* Brigadier-General, Croatian Army.
* Mastermind of the "Medak Massacre" (September 1993), a
savage bloodbath
against Serb civilians in which Canadian peacekeeping
troops were compelled
to intervene, killing 30 Croatian militiamen.
* He played a central role in the Croatian Army's
"cleansing" of Serbs from
eastern Croatia's Krajina region, where Serbs had
comprised the majority
for hundreds of years.
* Ceku was "one of the key planners of 'Operation Storm'"
led by the
Croatian Armed Forces against Krajina Serbs in 1995"
(Jane's Defence
Weekly, June 10, 1999). This was supported by the U.S.
and assisted by
NATO bombing of Serb positions. Ceku developed close ties
with U.S.
military officials. (More than 300,000 Croa-tian Serbs
were expelled from
Croatia between 1991 and 1998. Hundreds were murdered,
including many too
old or disabled to escape. Methods included: systematic
and deliberate
bombing of civilians, well-publicized acts of terror to
spread panic, rape,
and arson against homes, farms and other property. It was
the greatest act
of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans prior to the NATO
bombing in Kosovo.
* The Croatian Army was trained by a U.S. company called
Military
Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), composed of retired
U.S. military
officers. An MPRI spokesmen described Ceku in Jane's
Defense Weekly (JDW)
as a highly competent and disciplined officer.
* Ceku retired from his Croatian Army post in February,
1999.
* Ceku was appointed KLA chief-of-staff in a
reorganization to more closely
align it with U.S. strategy.
* Ceku is under investigation by the International
Criminal Tribunal for
war crimes against Serbs in Croatia (Sunday Times of
London, October 10,
1999.)
Source: "Former Croatian general has US backing: New KLA
leader was
responsible for ethnic cleansing," World Socialist Web
Service, May 29,
1999.
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/kla-m29.shtml>
---
CIA Training and Advice
By Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty
U.S. intelligence agents have admitted they helped
train the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) before NATO's bombing of
Yugoslavia. This angered
some European diplomats, who said it had undermined a
political solution.
CIA officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and
1999. They gave
the KLA U.S. military training manuals and field advice.
When the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE),
which coordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week
before airstrikes
began, many of its satellite phones and global positioning
systems were
secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that they could stay
in touch with
NATO and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the phone
number of General
Clark, the NATO commander.
Several Americans with CIA links, spoke to makers of
"Moral Combat,"
a BBC2 documentary [Mar.12, 2000], and The Sunday Times
about their
clandestine roles. U.S. diplomatic observers were "a CIA
front, gathering
intelligence on the KLA's arms and leadership," said one.
Another agent,
said he had been "suckered in" by an organization that ran
amok in post-war
Kosovo. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander involved in
destabilizing majority
Albanian villages in Serbia proper, said he met British,
U.S. and Swiss
agents in northern Albania in 1996.
Source: Siol nan Gaidheal, March 2000.
<http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com/ciaaid.htm>
---
William Walker: Mr. Massacre, from El Salvador to Racak
By Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi.
On January 15, 1999, a U.S. diplomat, William
Walker, head of the war
crimes verification team of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), visited the Kosovar village of Racak to
investigate an
alleged Serb massacre of ethnic Albanian peasants. "I do
not hesitate to
describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against
humanity," he said. "Nor
do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of
responsibility."
Washington responded to this by quickly setting the U.S.
military machine
in motion.
Walker's background inspires suspicion about the
entire Yugoslavia
campaign. If William Walker is not a CIA agent, he's done
a very bad job
of not looking like one. He spent most of his foreign
service career in
Central and South America. He began his diplomatic career
in 1961 in Peru.
In the early 1980s, he held the highly controversial post
of Deputy Chief
of Mission in Honduras, exactly the time and place the
Contras were formed.
Walker was promoted, in 1985, to Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
for Central America. He was a special assistant to
Assistant Secretary of
State, Elliot Abrams, who was closely connected to the
"Iran-Contra"
scandal. According to Independent Counsel Lawrence
Walsh's lengthy
indictment of Abrams and Oliver North, Walker set up a
phony humanitarian
operation at an airbase in Ilopango, El Salvador, which
funneled guns,
ammunition and supplies to Contras in Nicaragua.
Although outed in the international press as a
gunrunner, Walker's
diplomatic career did not suffer. In 1988, he became
ambassador to El
Salvador, a state which was still in the grip of
U.S.-sponsored state terror.
In late 1989, when U.S.-trained Salvadoran soldiers
executed six
Jesuit priests and two women, Walker was asked about
evidence linking the
killings to the Salvadoran High Command. He apologized
for chief of staff
Rene Ponce, saying "Management control problems can exist
in these kinds of
situations. I'm not condoning it, but in times of great
emotion and great
anger, things like this happen."
Shrugging off news of eyewitness reports that the
murderers wore
Salvadoran army uniforms, Walker said "anyone can get
uniforms. The fact
that they wore military uniforms was not proof they were
military."
Later, Walker recommended to Secretary of State
James Baker that the
U.S. "not jeopardize" its relationship with El Salvador by
investigating
"past deaths, however heinous." This is ironic, coming
from a man who
later recommended that the U.S. go to war with Yugoslavia
over heinous
deaths.
In 1996, Walker hosted a ceremony in Washington
honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought secretly in El Salvador. While Walker
was Ambassador
there, the official U.S. story was that only 50 U.S.
military advisors in
the country (Washington Post, May 6, 1996).
"Ambassador Walker's record certainly does
compromise his reliability
as an objective witness," said James Morrell, research
director, Center for
International Policy, Washington.
There is a widespread belief that Walker's role in
Racak was to
assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre to be used
as an excuse for
military action. French national TV and two major French
newspapers ran
exposes on the Racak incident. They cited inconsistencies
in Walker's
version of events. Even the Los Angeles Times ran a story
suggesting the
Racak massacre was faked. The theory behind these expos?s
is that the KLA
gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their
uniforms, put them
in civilian clothes and called in the observers. Walker,
significantly,
did not see the bodies until 12 hours after Serb police
left the town. As
Walker knows, not only can "anybody have uniforms," anyone
can have them
taken off, too.
Source:
<http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm> Aug.10, 2000.
---
Who is William Walker?
(1935 - )
U.S. Foreign Service officer:
* Peru (1962-1964)
* Japan (1964-1967)
* Brazil (1969-1972)
* El Salvador (1974-1991)
* Honduras (1980-1986)
* Panama (1985)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Honduras (1980-1982)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Bolivia (1982-1984)
* Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America,
Office of
Inter-American Affairs; worked with Ollie North and was
special assistant
to Eliot Abrams, helping arm the Contras (1985-1988)
* Ambassador, El Salvador (1988-1992); invited death squad
leader Roberto
d'Aubuisson to U.S. embassy's July 4 party (1989)
* Vice Pres., National Defense Univ., Wash., D.C.
(1994-97)
* hosted a Washington ceremony honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought
secretly in El Salvador (1996)
* Special Representative of Secretary General, heading UN
Transitional
Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (return E.
Slavonia to Croatian
control) (1997-1998)
* Head, Kosovo Verification Mission, Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe (1998-1999)
Sources:
<http://alpha.ddm.uci.edu/zotmail/archive/1999/19991109101.html>
<http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gyedb/STILE/Email0002026/m4.html>
<http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1992/92050804.html>
<http://www.moravian.edu/NewsInfo/NewsReleases/NR174.htm>
<http://www.pir.org>
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Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
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Special report: Kosovo
By Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday March 11, 2001, The Observer
The United States secretly supported the ethnic
Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in
Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army
fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in
an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European
officers who served with the international
peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as
leading Macedonian and US sources.
They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately
ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across
Kosovo's borders.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews by
The Observer. They emerge as America has been forced
into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian
extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that
would include Albanian communities in Serbia and
Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have
intensified their campaign of attacks in the two
areas, threatening a new war in the region which last
week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans
for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For between
the European and US military missions. European
officers are furious that the Americans have allowed
guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms
and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told The
Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run
riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to
overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US
State Department seems incapable of reining in its
bastard army.'
He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing
frustration with US support for the radical Albanians.
US policy was and still is out of step with the other
Nato allies.'
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in
the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the
National Liberation Army [which has been responsible
for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in
recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation
in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened
when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one.
'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies
have not been honest here.'
The claims were given extra credence from an
unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of
Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent
the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war
inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last
administration. There had now been 'a shift of
emphasis'.
---
For more background information on the CIA's involvement
with the KLA and
the lies and deception which launched NATO's war against
Yugoslavia, check
out the following articles which appear in issue #43 of
the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade's magazine, Press for Conversion!
(Dozens of other articles, summarizing 50 years of CIA
covert activities,
are also included in this issue, on the theme: "A
People's History of the
CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to
Zaire.")
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/>
---
1999, Yugoslavia: KLA, CIA, OSCE and NATO Join Hands
By Peter Stavropoulos
The BBC and Newsweek report that President Clinton
has approved CIA
training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to do
sabotage in Yugoslavia.
According to Newsweek, the CIA will train the KLA in
"age-old tricks like
cutting telephone lines, blowing up buildings, fouling
gasoline reserves
and pilfering food supplies - in an effort to undermine
public support for
the Serbian leader and damage Yugoslav targets that can't
be reached from
the air."
U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger secretly
briefed the
House and Senate Intelligence committees on these plans
the week that
former-General in the Croatian military, Agim Ceku, was
appointed to head
the KLA.
Newsweek says, "Intelligence officials worry it
would be difficult to
control the US-trained rebels once boot camp is over and
they are set loose
on Milosevic." A former chief of intelligence planner for
the US Air Force
said, "I'm afraid they could use their training to carry
out atrocities.
If they think they can rein them in, it's tremendous
naivete."
KLA ranks in Albania swelled. An estimated 10,000
arrived in
Albania, mainly from Germany, Switzerland, France and
Austria. Reuters has
reported that the KLA is also forcing male Kosovar
refugees to join its ranks.
Jane's reported that U.S. military Special Forces
and British SAS
were fighting alongside the KLA inside Kosovo. The French
news agency
Agence France Presse has reported on the deaths of three
French army
paratroop officers killed while commanding a KLA unit
trying to cross into
Kosovo from Albania.
The U.S.-NATO backing to the KLA and Ceku, its new
military leader is
the most telling refutation of the claims made to justify
the war.
Who is the KLA Commander, Agim Ceku?
* Ceku an ethnic Kosovo Albanian, graduated from the
Belgrade Military
Academy; served as an artillery captain in the Yugoslav
army.
* During Yugoslavia's dissolution in 1991, he defected to
the newly formed
Croatian Army to assist its drive to secession. He was
decorated nine
times in battles against Serb forces in both Bosnia and
Croatia.
* Brigadier-General, Croatian Army.
* Mastermind of the "Medak Massacre" (September 1993), a
savage bloodbath
against Serb civilians in which Canadian peacekeeping
troops were compelled
to intervene, killing 30 Croatian militiamen.
* He played a central role in the Croatian Army's
"cleansing" of Serbs from
eastern Croatia's Krajina region, where Serbs had
comprised the majority
for hundreds of years.
* Ceku was "one of the key planners of 'Operation Storm'"
led by the
Croatian Armed Forces against Krajina Serbs in 1995"
(Jane's Defence
Weekly, June 10, 1999). This was supported by the U.S.
and assisted by
NATO bombing of Serb positions. Ceku developed close ties
with U.S.
military officials. (More than 300,000 Croa-tian Serbs
were expelled from
Croatia between 1991 and 1998. Hundreds were murdered,
including many too
old or disabled to escape. Methods included: systematic
and deliberate
bombing of civilians, well-publicized acts of terror to
spread panic, rape,
and arson against homes, farms and other property. It was
the greatest act
of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans prior to the NATO
bombing in Kosovo.
* The Croatian Army was trained by a U.S. company called
Military
Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), composed of retired
U.S. military
officers. An MPRI spokesmen described Ceku in Jane's
Defense Weekly (JDW)
as a highly competent and disciplined officer.
* Ceku retired from his Croatian Army post in February,
1999.
* Ceku was appointed KLA chief-of-staff in a
reorganization to more closely
align it with U.S. strategy.
* Ceku is under investigation by the International
Criminal Tribunal for
war crimes against Serbs in Croatia (Sunday Times of
London, October 10,
1999.)
Source: "Former Croatian general has US backing: New KLA
leader was
responsible for ethnic cleansing," World Socialist Web
Service, May 29,
1999.
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/kla-m29.shtml>
---
CIA Training and Advice
By Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty
U.S. intelligence agents have admitted they helped
train the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) before NATO's bombing of
Yugoslavia. This angered
some European diplomats, who said it had undermined a
political solution.
CIA officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and
1999. They gave
the KLA U.S. military training manuals and field advice.
When the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE),
which coordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week
before airstrikes
began, many of its satellite phones and global positioning
systems were
secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that they could stay
in touch with
NATO and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the phone
number of General
Clark, the NATO commander.
Several Americans with CIA links, spoke to makers of
"Moral Combat,"
a BBC2 documentary [Mar.12, 2000], and The Sunday Times
about their
clandestine roles. U.S. diplomatic observers were "a CIA
front, gathering
intelligence on the KLA's arms and leadership," said one.
Another agent,
said he had been "suckered in" by an organization that ran
amok in post-war
Kosovo. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander involved in
destabilizing majority
Albanian villages in Serbia proper, said he met British,
U.S. and Swiss
agents in northern Albania in 1996.
Source: Siol nan Gaidheal, March 2000.
<http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com/ciaaid.htm>
---
William Walker: Mr. Massacre, from El Salvador to Racak
By Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi.
On January 15, 1999, a U.S. diplomat, William
Walker, head of the war
crimes verification team of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), visited the Kosovar village of Racak to
investigate an
alleged Serb massacre of ethnic Albanian peasants. "I do
not hesitate to
describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against
humanity," he said. "Nor
do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of
responsibility."
Washington responded to this by quickly setting the U.S.
military machine
in motion.
Walker's background inspires suspicion about the
entire Yugoslavia
campaign. If William Walker is not a CIA agent, he's done
a very bad job
of not looking like one. He spent most of his foreign
service career in
Central and South America. He began his diplomatic career
in 1961 in Peru.
In the early 1980s, he held the highly controversial post
of Deputy Chief
of Mission in Honduras, exactly the time and place the
Contras were formed.
Walker was promoted, in 1985, to Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
for Central America. He was a special assistant to
Assistant Secretary of
State, Elliot Abrams, who was closely connected to the
"Iran-Contra"
scandal. According to Independent Counsel Lawrence
Walsh's lengthy
indictment of Abrams and Oliver North, Walker set up a
phony humanitarian
operation at an airbase in Ilopango, El Salvador, which
funneled guns,
ammunition and supplies to Contras in Nicaragua.
Although outed in the international press as a
gunrunner, Walker's
diplomatic career did not suffer. In 1988, he became
ambassador to El
Salvador, a state which was still in the grip of
U.S.-sponsored state terror.
In late 1989, when U.S.-trained Salvadoran soldiers
executed six
Jesuit priests and two women, Walker was asked about
evidence linking the
killings to the Salvadoran High Command. He apologized
for chief of staff
Rene Ponce, saying "Management control problems can exist
in these kinds of
situations. I'm not condoning it, but in times of great
emotion and great
anger, things like this happen."
Shrugging off news of eyewitness reports that the
murderers wore
Salvadoran army uniforms, Walker said "anyone can get
uniforms. The fact
that they wore military uniforms was not proof they were
military."
Later, Walker recommended to Secretary of State
James Baker that the
U.S. "not jeopardize" its relationship with El Salvador by
investigating
"past deaths, however heinous." This is ironic, coming
from a man who
later recommended that the U.S. go to war with Yugoslavia
over heinous
deaths.
In 1996, Walker hosted a ceremony in Washington
honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought secretly in El Salvador. While Walker
was Ambassador
there, the official U.S. story was that only 50 U.S.
military advisors in
the country (Washington Post, May 6, 1996).
"Ambassador Walker's record certainly does
compromise his reliability
as an objective witness," said James Morrell, research
director, Center for
International Policy, Washington.
There is a widespread belief that Walker's role in
Racak was to
assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre to be used
as an excuse for
military action. French national TV and two major French
newspapers ran
exposes on the Racak incident. They cited inconsistencies
in Walker's
version of events. Even the Los Angeles Times ran a story
suggesting the
Racak massacre was faked. The theory behind these expos?s
is that the KLA
gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their
uniforms, put them
in civilian clothes and called in the observers. Walker,
significantly,
did not see the bodies until 12 hours after Serb police
left the town. As
Walker knows, not only can "anybody have uniforms," anyone
can have them
taken off, too.
Source:
<http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm> Aug.10, 2000.
---
Who is William Walker?
(1935 - )
U.S. Foreign Service officer:
* Peru (1962-1964)
* Japan (1964-1967)
* Brazil (1969-1972)
* El Salvador (1974-1991)
* Honduras (1980-1986)
* Panama (1985)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Honduras (1980-1982)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Bolivia (1982-1984)
* Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America,
Office of
Inter-American Affairs; worked with Ollie North and was
special assistant
to Eliot Abrams, helping arm the Contras (1985-1988)
* Ambassador, El Salvador (1988-1992); invited death squad
leader Roberto
d'Aubuisson to U.S. embassy's July 4 party (1989)
* Vice Pres., National Defense Univ., Wash., D.C.
(1994-97)
* hosted a Washington ceremony honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought
secretly in El Salvador (1996)
* Special Representative of Secretary General, heading UN
Transitional
Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (return E.
Slavonia to Croatian
control) (1997-1998)
* Head, Kosovo Verification Mission, Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe (1998-1999)
Sources:
<http://alpha.ddm.uci.edu/zotmail/archive/1999/19991109101.html>
<http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gyedb/STILE/Email0002026/m4.html>
<http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1992/92050804.html>
<http://www.moravian.edu/NewsInfo/NewsReleases/NR174.htm>
<http://www.pir.org>
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
Richard Sanders
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
Editor, Press for Conversion!
541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 5R2
Tel.: 613-231-3076 Fax: 613-231-2614
Email: <ad207@...> Web site: <www.ncf.ca/coat>
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* Lettera aperta a Sonja Biserko-Licht, rappresentante della Fondazione
Soros a Belgrado (R.K. Kent)
* Human Rights Watch... Watch (R. Rozoff)
---
A LETTER FROM AMERICA
TO ONE SONJA BISERKO IN BELGRADE
R.K.Kent
Emeritus Professor of History
University of California at Berkeley
In a "briefing" of the CSCE, dated 6th March 2001, you identify yourself
as Chair of the "Serbian" Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. You
claim to be assessing, by way of a "Progress Report,"what is happening
in Serbia after the fall of Milosevic. Of course, your text is not just
a "Report" about Serbia and the Serbs between 5 October 2000 and the
beginning of March 2001. It criss-crosses into "other" time-frames. It
is a rambling and disjointed piece, riddled with self-esteem. It is
also a pontificating and hate-mongering tract against the Serbs, easily
identifiable as such. You simply expurgate from the "Report" any harm
done to the Serbs. To give but one example that cannot be refuted, you
are parading an asymmetrical humanism of stunning proportions. Your
heart is bleeding for the incomplete release of all the ethnic
Albanians held in Serbia’s prisons.and not just 105. You refuse to even
consider the charge that some of them may have tortured and killed Serb
women and children and should hence not be released. But,let us leave
that aside and add in another dimension left out. There have been and
are still some 80,000 ethnic Albanians in the Greater Belgrade area
alone Most of them have escaped any "justifiable retribution" from the
Serbs, to recall a phrase uttered by the well-known French Serbophobe,
Bernar Kouchner. He simply whitewashed the Albanian "purification" of
Kosovo. But, since you are out to keep smearing the Serbs for an alleged
"pernicious nationalism," intolerant of other ethnicities, this "credit"
column in the ledger is left out in a calculated way.
The core problem is that you could not care less about the Human Rights
of Serbs at Kosovo from June 1999 through February 2001.Over a thousand
have been kidnapped, many were tortured and killed. Some 150,000 have
been "cleansed" out of Kosovo with all the other minorities. A grave
with 150 Serb victims of Albanian atrocities was found after June 1999
but reports of it had been suppressed for over a year and the bodies had
been reburied. The truth has just come out.The kindest possible
explanation of your shoddy logic, omissions and commissions would be
that you have a dishonest affiliation. The "Serb" Committeee for Human
Rights, in your obvious cosmology, must castigate only the Serbs for
alleged violations of Human Rights of others. That would, however, not
only be too kind. It would also be very incomplete.
You are not actually concerned with Human Rights violations at all. You
are simply using the "Committee for Human Rights" as a cover for a serie
of personal political agendas without any convincing degree of
professional competence. The two identifiable agendas are a declaration
of war on "Serb Nationalism" and an attempt to ingratiate yourself to
all those of influence in the U.S. and the European Union who demonized
"the Serbs" for a decade and engineered eleven weeks of destruction in
Serbia and Kosovo. Let me say at once that your knowledge of recent
history in the ex-Yugoslav space is worthless. By way of another example
that cannot be refuted,
(2)
you pour compliments in the direction of the U.S. and the European Union
for their "efforts to establish peace in the Balkans." To put it in a
Serb idiomatic phrase, "to se, draga Sonja, zove cesanje jajca." It has
nothing to do with actual events. Had the United States not torpedoed
the Lisbon Agreement of February 1992 all of the subsequent fratricidal
tragedies would not have taken place. Here, the European Union was
behind it but not the Clinton Administration. A year later, two
respected foreigners worked hard and long to come up with a three-point
major peace plan, called the Vance-Owen plan. It was acceptable to all
the co-belligerents. Even Richerd Holbrooke supported it. But, it was
again "killed" in Washington with the utterly false "explanation" that
the U.S. did not wish to "reward Serb aggression." The plan reduced the
Serbs land holdings in Bosnia from about 62 percent to just 41, with
most of the resources going to Sarajevo. It would, moreover, take
someone suffering of singular myopia to call the support of the West for
the ethnic cleansings of Western Slavonia (August 1991-February 1992},
Krajina (Augost 1995) and Kosovo (June 1999 to the present), along with
the 78 days of relentless "air war" over Serbia and Kosovo (with all the
destructive consequences} "efforts to establish peace."
You may be dispapointed in President Bush’s decision on or shortly after
31st March. If for no other reason because He will not succumb to your
"clever" canard about the "generous" "grace period" of some six months
given to the current Serb government. It has taken at least since the
Seveneteenth Century for Western Europe and the United States to evolve
into "civil societies." I urge you in the strongest terms to read the
classics of Max Weber and Werner Sombart. The "priorities" you serve
about compliance with Dayton and cooperation with the ICTY are both
comical and tragic. Tragic when one considers that almost half of the
workers with families to feed in Serbia are out of jobs which puts
economic developemnt in Top Priority. By ingratiating yourself to the
U.S. in particular through acceptance of Washington’s list of priorities
you egg-on the Serbophobes in Congress to use the economic weapon
against the background of economic and social misery in Serbia. If you
are a Serb you are certainly an anti-Serb. One could only speculate why.
The comic strip comes in with ITCY. It is by no stretch of imagination a
real court of Law, International or otherwise. It is merely a political
fact of life set-up to keep punishing primarily the Serbs for the same
reason that you yearn for, namely a refusal to get down on their knees
and beg to be forgiven for the temerity to stand up to international
bullies and the "nationalist gall" for not confessing their "collective
guilt." Cooperation with the ICTY? Sure, lets open an ICTY office in
Belgrade. Rush-in "precanske Srbe." What was done to them? Do you car
at all?
For the sake of relative brevity, I refrain from entering here into your
magister dixit text comments about "the internal dynamic in Serbia and
legacy of the last ten years." Should you however wish to enter into a
written duel with me on this or any other subject relating to the last
decade in the ex-Yugoslav space it will give me endless pleasure to rip
your arguments to shreds This letter will be broadcast on several E-mail
networks reaching a couple of million recipients. A copy will be sent to
President Kostunica and certain members of the U.S. Government as well.
R.K.Kent
---
It should come as no surprise that the U.S.-based
Human Rights Watch would act as both advocate and
attack dog for Carla Del Ponte's and the ICTY's
campaign against Yugoslavia, even lecturing the
president of the country - a legal scholar - on what
his constitution really says.
Human Rights Watch is good at following orders - from
the ICTY, the White House, the U.S. State Department
and George Soros - and being paid handsomely to do it.
For information on how HRW (aa well as Amnesty
International U.S.A.) received its marching orders
from the State Department on how to promote NATO's war
against Yugoslavia in 1999, see 'The Progressives'
War" at: http://www.counterpunch.org/kohmtg.html
To learn how HRW assisted drug cazr and war criminal
Barry McCaffrey and the White House in distorting the
truth about the civil conflict in Colombia and in
garnering support for Plan Colombia and increased U.S.
military aggression in that country, see "Barry
McCaffrey And Jose Miguel Vivanco" at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/hrwcolombia.html
To find out more about what HRW is, who its directors
are, and where its funding comes from, see "Who Is
Behind Human Rights Watch?" at:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
(R. Rozoff)
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* Human Rights Watch... Watch (R. Rozoff)
---
A LETTER FROM AMERICA
TO ONE SONJA BISERKO IN BELGRADE
R.K.Kent
Emeritus Professor of History
University of California at Berkeley
In a "briefing" of the CSCE, dated 6th March 2001, you identify yourself
as Chair of the "Serbian" Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. You
claim to be assessing, by way of a "Progress Report,"what is happening
in Serbia after the fall of Milosevic. Of course, your text is not just
a "Report" about Serbia and the Serbs between 5 October 2000 and the
beginning of March 2001. It criss-crosses into "other" time-frames. It
is a rambling and disjointed piece, riddled with self-esteem. It is
also a pontificating and hate-mongering tract against the Serbs, easily
identifiable as such. You simply expurgate from the "Report" any harm
done to the Serbs. To give but one example that cannot be refuted, you
are parading an asymmetrical humanism of stunning proportions. Your
heart is bleeding for the incomplete release of all the ethnic
Albanians held in Serbia’s prisons.and not just 105. You refuse to even
consider the charge that some of them may have tortured and killed Serb
women and children and should hence not be released. But,let us leave
that aside and add in another dimension left out. There have been and
are still some 80,000 ethnic Albanians in the Greater Belgrade area
alone Most of them have escaped any "justifiable retribution" from the
Serbs, to recall a phrase uttered by the well-known French Serbophobe,
Bernar Kouchner. He simply whitewashed the Albanian "purification" of
Kosovo. But, since you are out to keep smearing the Serbs for an alleged
"pernicious nationalism," intolerant of other ethnicities, this "credit"
column in the ledger is left out in a calculated way.
The core problem is that you could not care less about the Human Rights
of Serbs at Kosovo from June 1999 through February 2001.Over a thousand
have been kidnapped, many were tortured and killed. Some 150,000 have
been "cleansed" out of Kosovo with all the other minorities. A grave
with 150 Serb victims of Albanian atrocities was found after June 1999
but reports of it had been suppressed for over a year and the bodies had
been reburied. The truth has just come out.The kindest possible
explanation of your shoddy logic, omissions and commissions would be
that you have a dishonest affiliation. The "Serb" Committeee for Human
Rights, in your obvious cosmology, must castigate only the Serbs for
alleged violations of Human Rights of others. That would, however, not
only be too kind. It would also be very incomplete.
You are not actually concerned with Human Rights violations at all. You
are simply using the "Committee for Human Rights" as a cover for a serie
of personal political agendas without any convincing degree of
professional competence. The two identifiable agendas are a declaration
of war on "Serb Nationalism" and an attempt to ingratiate yourself to
all those of influence in the U.S. and the European Union who demonized
"the Serbs" for a decade and engineered eleven weeks of destruction in
Serbia and Kosovo. Let me say at once that your knowledge of recent
history in the ex-Yugoslav space is worthless. By way of another example
that cannot be refuted,
(2)
you pour compliments in the direction of the U.S. and the European Union
for their "efforts to establish peace in the Balkans." To put it in a
Serb idiomatic phrase, "to se, draga Sonja, zove cesanje jajca." It has
nothing to do with actual events. Had the United States not torpedoed
the Lisbon Agreement of February 1992 all of the subsequent fratricidal
tragedies would not have taken place. Here, the European Union was
behind it but not the Clinton Administration. A year later, two
respected foreigners worked hard and long to come up with a three-point
major peace plan, called the Vance-Owen plan. It was acceptable to all
the co-belligerents. Even Richerd Holbrooke supported it. But, it was
again "killed" in Washington with the utterly false "explanation" that
the U.S. did not wish to "reward Serb aggression." The plan reduced the
Serbs land holdings in Bosnia from about 62 percent to just 41, with
most of the resources going to Sarajevo. It would, moreover, take
someone suffering of singular myopia to call the support of the West for
the ethnic cleansings of Western Slavonia (August 1991-February 1992},
Krajina (Augost 1995) and Kosovo (June 1999 to the present), along with
the 78 days of relentless "air war" over Serbia and Kosovo (with all the
destructive consequences} "efforts to establish peace."
You may be dispapointed in President Bush’s decision on or shortly after
31st March. If for no other reason because He will not succumb to your
"clever" canard about the "generous" "grace period" of some six months
given to the current Serb government. It has taken at least since the
Seveneteenth Century for Western Europe and the United States to evolve
into "civil societies." I urge you in the strongest terms to read the
classics of Max Weber and Werner Sombart. The "priorities" you serve
about compliance with Dayton and cooperation with the ICTY are both
comical and tragic. Tragic when one considers that almost half of the
workers with families to feed in Serbia are out of jobs which puts
economic developemnt in Top Priority. By ingratiating yourself to the
U.S. in particular through acceptance of Washington’s list of priorities
you egg-on the Serbophobes in Congress to use the economic weapon
against the background of economic and social misery in Serbia. If you
are a Serb you are certainly an anti-Serb. One could only speculate why.
The comic strip comes in with ITCY. It is by no stretch of imagination a
real court of Law, International or otherwise. It is merely a political
fact of life set-up to keep punishing primarily the Serbs for the same
reason that you yearn for, namely a refusal to get down on their knees
and beg to be forgiven for the temerity to stand up to international
bullies and the "nationalist gall" for not confessing their "collective
guilt." Cooperation with the ICTY? Sure, lets open an ICTY office in
Belgrade. Rush-in "precanske Srbe." What was done to them? Do you car
at all?
For the sake of relative brevity, I refrain from entering here into your
magister dixit text comments about "the internal dynamic in Serbia and
legacy of the last ten years." Should you however wish to enter into a
written duel with me on this or any other subject relating to the last
decade in the ex-Yugoslav space it will give me endless pleasure to rip
your arguments to shreds This letter will be broadcast on several E-mail
networks reaching a couple of million recipients. A copy will be sent to
President Kostunica and certain members of the U.S. Government as well.
R.K.Kent
---
It should come as no surprise that the U.S.-based
Human Rights Watch would act as both advocate and
attack dog for Carla Del Ponte's and the ICTY's
campaign against Yugoslavia, even lecturing the
president of the country - a legal scholar - on what
his constitution really says.
Human Rights Watch is good at following orders - from
the ICTY, the White House, the U.S. State Department
and George Soros - and being paid handsomely to do it.
For information on how HRW (aa well as Amnesty
International U.S.A.) received its marching orders
from the State Department on how to promote NATO's war
against Yugoslavia in 1999, see 'The Progressives'
War" at: http://www.counterpunch.org/kohmtg.html
To learn how HRW assisted drug cazr and war criminal
Barry McCaffrey and the White House in distorting the
truth about the civil conflict in Colombia and in
garnering support for Plan Colombia and increased U.S.
military aggression in that country, see "Barry
McCaffrey And Jose Miguel Vivanco" at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/hrwcolombia.html
To find out more about what HRW is, who its directors
are, and where its funding comes from, see "Who Is
Behind Human Rights Watch?" at:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
(R. Rozoff)
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> Iniziative: 21, 22, 23 MARZO
> 24 MARZO: MANIFESTAZIONE NAZIONALE A CESENA
> "Giochiamo per la pace"
---
21/3 ROMA
ore 18:00
"Guerre, uranio, inquinamento, e distruzione Ambientale"
Interventi di padre Benjamin, Enrico Giardino e Franco Marenco
CSA "Ricomincio dal Faro", Via del Trullo 330, Roma
---
22/3 VARESE
ore 21:00
"Per un futuro senza guerre"
Interventi di Zucchetti e Marenco (Comitato Scienziate/i contro la
guerra)
proiezione di filmati
Cooperativa Novecento, Via de Cristoforis, Varese
---
23/3 BOLOGNA
Invito - Iniziativa:
http://contropiani2000.org/calendario/guerre_strategia_mediatica.htm
Comitato Cittadino contro la Guerra a due anni dalla "Guerra Umanitaria"
L'INFORMAZIONE IMPOVERITA: LE NUOVE GUERRE E LA STRATEGIA MEDIATICA
Bologna - Venerdì 23 Marzo 2001
dalle ore 18 alle ore 24
Sala Zonarelli - v. Sacco 14 - Quartiere S. Donato
* ore 18,00 proiezione del video, in edizione integrale, "Paying the
price:
killing the children of iraq" un film di John Pilger, edizione italiana
a
cura di "Un ponte per ...". introduce Sergio Coronica - Un ponte per ...
* ore 20,00 intervallo gastronomico
* ore 21,00 presentazione del volume "Contro le nuove guerre" a cura
delle
Scienziate e Scienziati contro la Guerra (Odradek, Roma, 2000) e dei
numeri
34 e 35 della rivista "Giano" contenenti il "Dossier NATO"
interventi di:
* Giulia Barone
Storica - Università di Roma 1
* Luigi Cortesi
Storia contemporanea - Università di Napoli
* Tommaso Di Francesco
Giornalista - il Manifesto
* Isidoro D. Mortellaro
Storia delle Istituzioni Politiche - Università di Bari
* Alberto Negri
Giornalista - il Sole 24 Ore
* Francesco Strazzari
Istituto Europeo di Fiesole
Organizza
Comitato Cittadino contro la Guerra
Un ponte per ...
Associazione El Ouali
Con l'adesione di:
ALJ - Associazione Diversiva - Ass. per il Rinnovamento della Sinistra -
PRC Bologna - Rete Contropiani
Per informazioni, adesioni e contatti con i giornalisti:
- controguerra@...
- http://www.contropiani2000.org
Volantino "on line" - Scarica, stampa e diffondi:
PDF -
http://contropiani2000.org/calendario/guerre_strategia_mediatica.pdf
RTF -
http://contropiani2000.org/calendario/guerre_strategia_mediatica.rtf
LINKS:
- Odradek Edizioni
http://www.odradek.it
- Rivista Giano
http://www.odradek.it/giano/
- Contro le nuove Guerre
http://www.odradek.it/edizioni/collane/fuori_linea/nuove%20guerre.htm
- Scienziate e Scienziati contro la Guerra
http://www.scienzaepace.it
- Un ponte per
http://www.unponteper.it
- Paying the price: killing the children of iraq
http://www.unponteper.it/it/baghdad/scheda_film_pilger.htm
---
IL 24 MARZO A CESENA
24 marzo 1999 - 24 marzo 2001
Guerra, Nucleare, NATO
MAI PIU'
Il 24 marzo 1999 la NATO, l¹Europa, il governo D¹Alema-Ulivo (con
l¹appoggio del
Polo), scatenarono una guerra criminale violando la costituzione, le
leggi e i trattati
internazionali, colpendo i popoli della Jugoslavia con bombe
³umanitarie², causando
distruzioni, lutti, disastri ambientali; trasformando l¹Adriatico in una
discarica chimica e
radioattiva, contaminando i Balcani per millenni.
L¹indifferenza uccide come la guerra
Non possiamo e non dobbiamo dimenticare
Sabato 24 marzo, Ore 11,00
Cesena, Piazzale Carlo Marx (zona stazione)
manifestazione nazionale e corteo
per dire
no a nuove guerre ³umanitarie²
no agli F-16 e alle atomiche in Romagna nella base di Pisignano di cui
vogliamo la
chiusura!
no alla NATO!
Il pomeriggio alle ore 14,30, presso la Sala Cinema S. Biagio (Via
Aldini)
ASSEMBLEA NAZIONALE ANTIMPERIALISTA
Comitato Promotore per l'Assemblea Antimperialista:
- Coordinamento Romagnolo contro la guerra e la Nato - Assijug (Perugia)
- Campo Antimperialista - Coll. Antinebbia
(Valdarno) - Comitato contro la guerra Sesto S. Giovanni - Comitato
contro la guerra (Milano Sud) - Comitato per la Pace
e la Solidarietà fra i Popoli - Coorinamento. cittadino antimperialista
(Torino) - Coordinamento romano per la Jugoslavia -
Red Ghost (Ravenna) - Gruppo Zastava! (Trieste) -Soccorso Popolare
(Padova) - Voce Operaia
Aggiornamento delle adesioni al 13 marzo:
Aiutiamo La Jugoslavia (Bologna) - Ass. Cult. Gente Adriatica (Trieste)
- Ass. Cult. Punto Rosso di Vicenza - Ass. Progetto
Drim (Foligno) - Avamposto degli Incompatibili (Lecce) - Azione Popolare
- Centro di Docum. Krupskaja - - Centro di
Docum. politica Albano Corneli di Camerano (AN) - C.S.A. Dordoni
(Cremona) - Centro Studi Ingegneria
Biosociale Acireale (Ct) - Centro Iniziativa Popol. (Foligno) - Circolo
Agorà (Pisa) - Circ. Culturale Iqbal Mash (Bologna) -
Circ. ARCI l¹Osservatorio di Pozzuoli (NA) - Cobas Scuola (Ravenna) -
Circ. P.R.C. Centrocitta¹ (Trieste) - Circ.
Pablo Neruda di Camerino (MC) - Coll. Squasso (Rimini) - Coll.
Autorganizzati (Rimini) - Coll. Spartakus
di Vicenza - Coll. classe contro classe (Roma) - Comit. cittadino contro
la guerra (Bologna) - Comit. contro la guerra
(Treviso) - Comit. contro le guerre di Conegliano (TV) - Comit. Sardo di
solid. internazionalista (Tula) - Comit. Umbro
Antimperialista - Comit. contro la Guerra (Novara) - Comunità degli
Jugoslavi in Umbria - Confederazione COBAS
- Convoglio internaz. Giorgiana Masi (Roma) - Coord. nazionale "Su la
testa" - C.S.O. Stella Rossa (Bassano) - C.U.B.
Scuola (Rimini) - Cunfederatzione de sos Comunistas Sardos - Democrazia
Popolare - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Imola) -
Feder. P.R.C. (Rimini) - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Forlì e Cesena) - -
Fondazione Luigi Cipriani (Cremona) - Gruppo
musicale "Alla Macchia" - La giustizia degli erranti (Treviso) -
Laboratorio Marxista (Versilia) - Lista Reno
(Bologna) - Movim. per la confederazione dei comunisti (Toscana) -
Movim. di Solidarietà Austria-Jugoslavia - Pellerossa di
Cesena - Punto Rosso (Jesi) - Radio Citta' Aperta (Roma) - Radio base
(Venezia) - Redazione Proletari Nati (Bologna) -
Rete OperaiaRivista - Frigidaire - Senza Censura - Tribunale Ramsey
Clark - Unione Popolare (Roma) - Un Ponte per... -
Cesare Mangianti (segretario regionale P.R.C. dell¹ Emilia-Romagna) -
Roberto Sconciaforni (segretario federaz. P.R.C.di
Bologna) - Paolo Gambuti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Rimini) -
Martino Albonetti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ravenna)
- Kiwan Kiwan (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ferrara) - Lodovico Cutaia
(segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Parma)
=> Sono inoltre giunte decine di adesioni individuali da varie regioni
d¹Italia
per adesioni e informazioni vai al sito:
http://www.tuttinlotta.org
oppure scrivi a
posta@...
---
Da "Il Manifesto" del 2 Marzo 2001
Un pallone di idee per Sarajevo
A dieci anni di distanza dall'inizio della guerra nella ex
Jugoslavia, Tommasi e i calciatori di Verona lanciano una
campagna per i Balcani
MATTEO PATRONO
Che un progetto di solidarietà sportiva verso i popoli
dell'ex Jugoslavia possa partire di questi tempi da una
città come Verona, può sembrare sorprendente. Il caso
Marsiglia, i naziskin, gli exploit di Forza Nuova e il
razzismo da stadio degli ultimi mesi farebbero pensare
tutto il contrario. E invece, proprio da un clan di
veronesi con la passione per il calcio, è partita ieri una
campagna che a dieci anni di distanza dalla prima guerra
dell'ex Jugoslavia, scoppiata nel giugno del 1991 in
Slovenia, vuole dare un contributo di denaro, idee e
interventi concreti ad un territorio dove, nonostante la
pace, si continua a convivere in mezzo all'odio e alla
tensione.
L'iniziativa si chiama "Giochiamo per la pace" e ha come
obiettivo quello di realizzare in tutte le zone ferite
dalla guerra (in Bosnia Erzegovina, in Croazia, in Serbia
e in Kosovo) degli impianti sportivi di piccola-media
dimensione che possano contribuire al riallacciamento dei
legami fra le comunità interrotti dal conflitto bellico.
Fra i promotori della campagna c'è, manco a dirlo, Damiano
Tommasi, calciatore della Roma da anni impegnato nel campo
della solidarietà e del sociale. La novità è che accanto
al centrocampista di Negrar e al suo compagno di squadra
Eusebio Di Francesco, già protagonisti l'anno scorso di
un'iniziativa simile in Kosovo, ci sono questa volta anche
i giocatori del Chievo Verona (serie B) e un gruppo di
calciatori dilettanti della città scaligera: come a dire,
ecco a voi signori l'altra faccia di Verona. C'è
ovviamente anche la mano del mondo associativo (le Acli,
la Banca Etica, l'Unione sportiva Vitus Dal Colle) e
quella di un giornalista della Gazzetta dello Sport,
Valerio Piccioni, che da anni racconta sulla rosea gli
intrecci fra sport e solidarietà. Ma tutti ieri, alla
presentazione della campagna a Roma, hanno tenuto a
sottolineare che si tratta dell'iniziativa di un gruppo di
persone che, al di là di sigle, enti e cappelli più o meno
istituzionali, hanno provato a mettere insieme idee,
progetti ed esperienze per ricordare che in questi dieci
anni di sofferenza lo sport nei Balcani è sempre stato una
fonte di speranza e che, a maggior ragione oggi, deve
continuare ad essere un mezzo di crescita e di coesione.
Perché, come ha detto ad un certo punto Tommasi, "fare
sport significa conoscersi, confrontarsi e migliorare
insieme".
La campagna di "Giochiamo per la pace" vuole arrivare in
tutta l'ex e attuale Jugoslavia, senza alcuna distinzione
politica, etnica o religiosa. I referenti non saranno
uomini politici, ma organizzazioni che rappresentano la
popolazione di chi fa sport e di chi lo vorrà fare. Su
questa base sono state individuate già alcune zone dove
verrà riproposto il modello del campo sportivo di Stublla,
il centro polivalente costruito l'anno scorso dall'Ipsia
(l'organizzazione di cooperazione internazionale delle
Acli) nella piccola scuola della cittadina kosovara con i
fondi raccolti dai giocatori della Roma. Proprio nel corso
del viaggio che Tommasi e Di Francesco fecero in novembre
per andare ad inaugurare il campo, nacque l'idea di
proseguire su quella strada e andare oltre, coinvolgendo
altre persone ed allargando gli obiettivi. Così, tra poco,
il campo da gioco di Stubbla nascerà anche a Kljuc, in
Bosnia Erzegovina, a Vukovar, in Croazia, a Belgrado e
nella zona di Nis in Serbia e in alcuni villaggi delle
zone di Prizren e Viti, in Kosovo. A Sarajevo, dove lo
stadio Olimpico è oramai circondato soltanto da un
cimitero infinito e i campi di calcio sono pieni di mine,
si cercherà di attrezzare le palestre e di acquistare i
pulmini per il trasporto dei giovani sportivi portatori di
handicap, sopravvissuti alla guerra.
L'obiettivo, come si intuisce, è non solo ricostruire le
infrastrutture ma anche lavorare al fianco delle comunità
locali per avviare rapporti che durino nel tempo; dare un
segnale, a tutte le associazioni che lavorano in Italia e
nei Balcani, per individuare altri progetti realizzabili
in tempi brevi; aumentare la sensibilità della gente nei
confronti di questi popoli, anche ora che la guerra è
finita. Che tutto questo nasca per iniziativa di un gruppo
di giocatori, non tutti miliardari e disposti anche a
spendere le proprie ferie per andare a dare una mano, è un
bel segnale per il nostro calcio. "Sono piccole iniziative
che contribuiscono a far crescere un certo tipo di cultura
- ha detto alla fine Tommasi - se la gente impara ad
aiutarsi, difficilmente poi andrà allo stadio per
picchiare o insultare gli altri". Il campo da gioco è
aperto per tutti: i contributi possono essere versati sul
C.C. bancario numero 511000 presso Banca Etica - Abi 5018
Cab 12100 intestato a "Giochiamo per la pace". A Sarajevo,
per giugno, è prevista una partita di pallone per
festeggiare.
---
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> 24 MARZO: MANIFESTAZIONE NAZIONALE A CESENA
> "Giochiamo per la pace"
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21/3 ROMA
ore 18:00
"Guerre, uranio, inquinamento, e distruzione Ambientale"
Interventi di padre Benjamin, Enrico Giardino e Franco Marenco
CSA "Ricomincio dal Faro", Via del Trullo 330, Roma
---
22/3 VARESE
ore 21:00
"Per un futuro senza guerre"
Interventi di Zucchetti e Marenco (Comitato Scienziate/i contro la
guerra)
proiezione di filmati
Cooperativa Novecento, Via de Cristoforis, Varese
---
23/3 BOLOGNA
Invito - Iniziativa:
http://contropiani2000.org/calendario/guerre_strategia_mediatica.htm
Comitato Cittadino contro la Guerra a due anni dalla "Guerra Umanitaria"
L'INFORMAZIONE IMPOVERITA: LE NUOVE GUERRE E LA STRATEGIA MEDIATICA
Bologna - Venerdì 23 Marzo 2001
dalle ore 18 alle ore 24
Sala Zonarelli - v. Sacco 14 - Quartiere S. Donato
* ore 18,00 proiezione del video, in edizione integrale, "Paying the
price:
killing the children of iraq" un film di John Pilger, edizione italiana
a
cura di "Un ponte per ...". introduce Sergio Coronica - Un ponte per ...
* ore 20,00 intervallo gastronomico
* ore 21,00 presentazione del volume "Contro le nuove guerre" a cura
delle
Scienziate e Scienziati contro la Guerra (Odradek, Roma, 2000) e dei
numeri
34 e 35 della rivista "Giano" contenenti il "Dossier NATO"
interventi di:
* Giulia Barone
Storica - Università di Roma 1
* Luigi Cortesi
Storia contemporanea - Università di Napoli
* Tommaso Di Francesco
Giornalista - il Manifesto
* Isidoro D. Mortellaro
Storia delle Istituzioni Politiche - Università di Bari
* Alberto Negri
Giornalista - il Sole 24 Ore
* Francesco Strazzari
Istituto Europeo di Fiesole
Organizza
Comitato Cittadino contro la Guerra
Un ponte per ...
Associazione El Ouali
Con l'adesione di:
ALJ - Associazione Diversiva - Ass. per il Rinnovamento della Sinistra -
PRC Bologna - Rete Contropiani
Per informazioni, adesioni e contatti con i giornalisti:
- controguerra@...
- http://www.contropiani2000.org
Volantino "on line" - Scarica, stampa e diffondi:
PDF -
http://contropiani2000.org/calendario/guerre_strategia_mediatica.pdf
RTF -
http://contropiani2000.org/calendario/guerre_strategia_mediatica.rtf
LINKS:
- Odradek Edizioni
http://www.odradek.it
- Rivista Giano
http://www.odradek.it/giano/
- Contro le nuove Guerre
http://www.odradek.it/edizioni/collane/fuori_linea/nuove%20guerre.htm
- Scienziate e Scienziati contro la Guerra
http://www.scienzaepace.it
- Un ponte per
http://www.unponteper.it
- Paying the price: killing the children of iraq
http://www.unponteper.it/it/baghdad/scheda_film_pilger.htm
---
IL 24 MARZO A CESENA
24 marzo 1999 - 24 marzo 2001
Guerra, Nucleare, NATO
MAI PIU'
Il 24 marzo 1999 la NATO, l¹Europa, il governo D¹Alema-Ulivo (con
l¹appoggio del
Polo), scatenarono una guerra criminale violando la costituzione, le
leggi e i trattati
internazionali, colpendo i popoli della Jugoslavia con bombe
³umanitarie², causando
distruzioni, lutti, disastri ambientali; trasformando l¹Adriatico in una
discarica chimica e
radioattiva, contaminando i Balcani per millenni.
L¹indifferenza uccide come la guerra
Non possiamo e non dobbiamo dimenticare
Sabato 24 marzo, Ore 11,00
Cesena, Piazzale Carlo Marx (zona stazione)
manifestazione nazionale e corteo
per dire
no a nuove guerre ³umanitarie²
no agli F-16 e alle atomiche in Romagna nella base di Pisignano di cui
vogliamo la
chiusura!
no alla NATO!
Il pomeriggio alle ore 14,30, presso la Sala Cinema S. Biagio (Via
Aldini)
ASSEMBLEA NAZIONALE ANTIMPERIALISTA
Comitato Promotore per l'Assemblea Antimperialista:
- Coordinamento Romagnolo contro la guerra e la Nato - Assijug (Perugia)
- Campo Antimperialista - Coll. Antinebbia
(Valdarno) - Comitato contro la guerra Sesto S. Giovanni - Comitato
contro la guerra (Milano Sud) - Comitato per la Pace
e la Solidarietà fra i Popoli - Coorinamento. cittadino antimperialista
(Torino) - Coordinamento romano per la Jugoslavia -
Red Ghost (Ravenna) - Gruppo Zastava! (Trieste) -Soccorso Popolare
(Padova) - Voce Operaia
Aggiornamento delle adesioni al 13 marzo:
Aiutiamo La Jugoslavia (Bologna) - Ass. Cult. Gente Adriatica (Trieste)
- Ass. Cult. Punto Rosso di Vicenza - Ass. Progetto
Drim (Foligno) - Avamposto degli Incompatibili (Lecce) - Azione Popolare
- Centro di Docum. Krupskaja - - Centro di
Docum. politica Albano Corneli di Camerano (AN) - C.S.A. Dordoni
(Cremona) - Centro Studi Ingegneria
Biosociale Acireale (Ct) - Centro Iniziativa Popol. (Foligno) - Circolo
Agorà (Pisa) - Circ. Culturale Iqbal Mash (Bologna) -
Circ. ARCI l¹Osservatorio di Pozzuoli (NA) - Cobas Scuola (Ravenna) -
Circ. P.R.C. Centrocitta¹ (Trieste) - Circ.
Pablo Neruda di Camerino (MC) - Coll. Squasso (Rimini) - Coll.
Autorganizzati (Rimini) - Coll. Spartakus
di Vicenza - Coll. classe contro classe (Roma) - Comit. cittadino contro
la guerra (Bologna) - Comit. contro la guerra
(Treviso) - Comit. contro le guerre di Conegliano (TV) - Comit. Sardo di
solid. internazionalista (Tula) - Comit. Umbro
Antimperialista - Comit. contro la Guerra (Novara) - Comunità degli
Jugoslavi in Umbria - Confederazione COBAS
- Convoglio internaz. Giorgiana Masi (Roma) - Coord. nazionale "Su la
testa" - C.S.O. Stella Rossa (Bassano) - C.U.B.
Scuola (Rimini) - Cunfederatzione de sos Comunistas Sardos - Democrazia
Popolare - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Imola) -
Feder. P.R.C. (Rimini) - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Forlì e Cesena) - -
Fondazione Luigi Cipriani (Cremona) - Gruppo
musicale "Alla Macchia" - La giustizia degli erranti (Treviso) -
Laboratorio Marxista (Versilia) - Lista Reno
(Bologna) - Movim. per la confederazione dei comunisti (Toscana) -
Movim. di Solidarietà Austria-Jugoslavia - Pellerossa di
Cesena - Punto Rosso (Jesi) - Radio Citta' Aperta (Roma) - Radio base
(Venezia) - Redazione Proletari Nati (Bologna) -
Rete OperaiaRivista - Frigidaire - Senza Censura - Tribunale Ramsey
Clark - Unione Popolare (Roma) - Un Ponte per... -
Cesare Mangianti (segretario regionale P.R.C. dell¹ Emilia-Romagna) -
Roberto Sconciaforni (segretario federaz. P.R.C.di
Bologna) - Paolo Gambuti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Rimini) -
Martino Albonetti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ravenna)
- Kiwan Kiwan (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ferrara) - Lodovico Cutaia
(segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Parma)
=> Sono inoltre giunte decine di adesioni individuali da varie regioni
d¹Italia
per adesioni e informazioni vai al sito:
http://www.tuttinlotta.org
oppure scrivi a
posta@...
---
Da "Il Manifesto" del 2 Marzo 2001
Un pallone di idee per Sarajevo
A dieci anni di distanza dall'inizio della guerra nella ex
Jugoslavia, Tommasi e i calciatori di Verona lanciano una
campagna per i Balcani
MATTEO PATRONO
Che un progetto di solidarietà sportiva verso i popoli
dell'ex Jugoslavia possa partire di questi tempi da una
città come Verona, può sembrare sorprendente. Il caso
Marsiglia, i naziskin, gli exploit di Forza Nuova e il
razzismo da stadio degli ultimi mesi farebbero pensare
tutto il contrario. E invece, proprio da un clan di
veronesi con la passione per il calcio, è partita ieri una
campagna che a dieci anni di distanza dalla prima guerra
dell'ex Jugoslavia, scoppiata nel giugno del 1991 in
Slovenia, vuole dare un contributo di denaro, idee e
interventi concreti ad un territorio dove, nonostante la
pace, si continua a convivere in mezzo all'odio e alla
tensione.
L'iniziativa si chiama "Giochiamo per la pace" e ha come
obiettivo quello di realizzare in tutte le zone ferite
dalla guerra (in Bosnia Erzegovina, in Croazia, in Serbia
e in Kosovo) degli impianti sportivi di piccola-media
dimensione che possano contribuire al riallacciamento dei
legami fra le comunità interrotti dal conflitto bellico.
Fra i promotori della campagna c'è, manco a dirlo, Damiano
Tommasi, calciatore della Roma da anni impegnato nel campo
della solidarietà e del sociale. La novità è che accanto
al centrocampista di Negrar e al suo compagno di squadra
Eusebio Di Francesco, già protagonisti l'anno scorso di
un'iniziativa simile in Kosovo, ci sono questa volta anche
i giocatori del Chievo Verona (serie B) e un gruppo di
calciatori dilettanti della città scaligera: come a dire,
ecco a voi signori l'altra faccia di Verona. C'è
ovviamente anche la mano del mondo associativo (le Acli,
la Banca Etica, l'Unione sportiva Vitus Dal Colle) e
quella di un giornalista della Gazzetta dello Sport,
Valerio Piccioni, che da anni racconta sulla rosea gli
intrecci fra sport e solidarietà. Ma tutti ieri, alla
presentazione della campagna a Roma, hanno tenuto a
sottolineare che si tratta dell'iniziativa di un gruppo di
persone che, al di là di sigle, enti e cappelli più o meno
istituzionali, hanno provato a mettere insieme idee,
progetti ed esperienze per ricordare che in questi dieci
anni di sofferenza lo sport nei Balcani è sempre stato una
fonte di speranza e che, a maggior ragione oggi, deve
continuare ad essere un mezzo di crescita e di coesione.
Perché, come ha detto ad un certo punto Tommasi, "fare
sport significa conoscersi, confrontarsi e migliorare
insieme".
La campagna di "Giochiamo per la pace" vuole arrivare in
tutta l'ex e attuale Jugoslavia, senza alcuna distinzione
politica, etnica o religiosa. I referenti non saranno
uomini politici, ma organizzazioni che rappresentano la
popolazione di chi fa sport e di chi lo vorrà fare. Su
questa base sono state individuate già alcune zone dove
verrà riproposto il modello del campo sportivo di Stublla,
il centro polivalente costruito l'anno scorso dall'Ipsia
(l'organizzazione di cooperazione internazionale delle
Acli) nella piccola scuola della cittadina kosovara con i
fondi raccolti dai giocatori della Roma. Proprio nel corso
del viaggio che Tommasi e Di Francesco fecero in novembre
per andare ad inaugurare il campo, nacque l'idea di
proseguire su quella strada e andare oltre, coinvolgendo
altre persone ed allargando gli obiettivi. Così, tra poco,
il campo da gioco di Stubbla nascerà anche a Kljuc, in
Bosnia Erzegovina, a Vukovar, in Croazia, a Belgrado e
nella zona di Nis in Serbia e in alcuni villaggi delle
zone di Prizren e Viti, in Kosovo. A Sarajevo, dove lo
stadio Olimpico è oramai circondato soltanto da un
cimitero infinito e i campi di calcio sono pieni di mine,
si cercherà di attrezzare le palestre e di acquistare i
pulmini per il trasporto dei giovani sportivi portatori di
handicap, sopravvissuti alla guerra.
L'obiettivo, come si intuisce, è non solo ricostruire le
infrastrutture ma anche lavorare al fianco delle comunità
locali per avviare rapporti che durino nel tempo; dare un
segnale, a tutte le associazioni che lavorano in Italia e
nei Balcani, per individuare altri progetti realizzabili
in tempi brevi; aumentare la sensibilità della gente nei
confronti di questi popoli, anche ora che la guerra è
finita. Che tutto questo nasca per iniziativa di un gruppo
di giocatori, non tutti miliardari e disposti anche a
spendere le proprie ferie per andare a dare una mano, è un
bel segnale per il nostro calcio. "Sono piccole iniziative
che contribuiscono a far crescere un certo tipo di cultura
- ha detto alla fine Tommasi - se la gente impara ad
aiutarsi, difficilmente poi andrà allo stadio per
picchiare o insultare gli altri". Il campo da gioco è
aperto per tutti: i contributi possono essere versati sul
C.C. bancario numero 511000 presso Banca Etica - Abi 5018
Cab 12100 intestato a "Giochiamo per la pace". A Sarajevo,
per giugno, è prevista una partita di pallone per
festeggiare.
---
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opinioni delle realta' che compongono questa struttura, ma
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