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* Scambio di opinioni sulla Jugoslavia agli Europei - e altro.
* Accanimento arbitrale?
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Alla Redazione del "MANIFESTO" - Roma
c.a. Pippo Russo
Ho provato un profondo disgusto leggendo l’articolo "Conti aperti
tra
Slovenia e Jugoslavia" del 13 giugno u.s. di Pippo Russo, dedicato alla
partita dei Campionati Europei - che e' poi finita 3 a 3 dopo una
rocambolesca rimonta da parte jugoslava. Nell'articolo mancano tante
informazioni... "Ma Pippo, Pippo non lo sa..."? E’ dal 1992 che richiamo
e richiamiamo l’attenzione dei giornalisti sportivi perche' trattino le
problematiche vicende degli atleti e delle compagini jugoslave con una
maggiore obiettività ed aderenza alla realtà di quanto accade in quelle
terre.
Iniziava allora una campagna unilaterale, indiscriminata, contro
quelli che hanno scelto con dignità di essere, e rimanere, jugoslavi.
Già allora le rappresentative jugoslave venivano escluse dai giochi
olimpici di Barcellona, e pure alla squadra di calcio veniva impedito di
partecipare agli Europei... Se lo sport è un elemento unificante, al di
là
delle differenze "etniche", religiose, culturali, questo dovrebbe valere
a maggior ragione per la Jugoslavia. E non è soltanto retorica: l’hanno
dimostrato anche qui a Roma gli atleti jugoslavi durante il campionato
europeo di basket in quel fatidico anno 1991!
In quegli anni la nostra "civile comunita' internazionale"
incominciava a sfasciare la Jugoslavia e (all'uopo) demonizzava la parte
serba anche nelle cronache, e sui campi sportivi! Monika Seles finiva
accoltellata da un tedesco entrato in campo carico di odio antiserbo -
povero deficiente, non poteva nemmeno capire che la Seles e' di origine
ungherese della Vojvodina, dunque nemmeno "serba"... Ma si sa, ormai:
piu' sei "jugoslavo", in senso multinazionale, e piu' vieni demonizzato
in quanto "serbo", perche' minacci alle fondamenta l'equazione che la
Jugoslavia va sfasciata a tutti i costi...
Pippo Russo dimostra di non conoscere la storia recente quando si
riferisce al "regime di Milosevic" parlando della Zagabria del 1990,
quando Milosevic era solamente Presidente della Repubblica di Serbia. Ed
ora: quale partita dei "conti aperti" tra Jugoslavia e Slovenia??!! Si è
forse chiesto l’articolista chi sono i vari Amir, Zahovic, se non
musulmano-bosniaci che giocano per la Slovenia insieme ad altri serbi e
montenegrini?... Mentre Mateja Kezman, tipico nome e cognome sloveno,
gioca nella squadra avversaria!!!
A me, Jugoslavia-Slovenia è sembrata più che altro una partita tra
"Jugoslavia squadra A" e "Jugoslavia squadra B".
Leggo dall'articolo: "...del suo ritiro parlano di un ambiente
spartano per necessità economiche." Lo slogan separatista della Slovenia
era: "Meglio ultimi in Europa che primi in Jugoslavia"... E la
Jugoslavia in che situazione si trova?! Peccato, perché i "compagni" del
Manifesto hanno perso ancora un’altra occasione per condannare
l’isolamento, le sanzioni e la continua aggressione contro la
Jugoslavia.
Quando si parla del "famoso [?!] calcio vibrato dal croato Boban allo
stomaco di un poliziotto serbo" si vuole forse giustificare per
l’opinione pubblica italiana un atto puramente teppistico per ragioni
"politiche", perché il poliziotto è serbo, cattivo, e perciò se lo è
meritato? Altrimenti a che pro specificare l’etnia di appartenenza? Non
ho mai sentito giustificare un’aggressione tipicamente vandalica contro
persone del servizio d’ordine in quanto sardi, abruzzesi o altro...
Ma in fondo e' vero: quel poverino di Boban ha dovuto "dormire fuori
casa nelle due notti successive". E dov’era Boban quando nella sua
Zagabria, in quello stesso anno, l’inno della squadra nazionale
jugoslava
era sonoramente fischiato alla partita per le qualificazioni agli
Europei? Guarda caso, questo sfegatato nazionalista, estremista e
acclamata stella del Milan, ha contribuito alla campagna elettorale per
il suo Tudjman.
Guardiamo ancora un po' all'indietro: alla Expo di Siviglia nel
1992, durante le Olimpiadi, alcuni giocatori della squadra croata di
basket capeggiati da Vrankovic distrussero le vetrine del padiglione del
turismo jugoslavo. E come la mettiamo con i gravi disordini che
avvengono ora regolarmente tra le tifoserie di Spalato e di Zagabria,
nella Croazia "indipendente"?
Anche ai Mondiali di Parigi nel 1998 il clima era pesantemente
antijugoslavo, e in certi ben noti ambienti girò la proposta di
estromettere la formazione jugoslava - proposta reiterata anche in
questi ultimi Europei da parte albanese e belga. Ma allora ci
furono persino intimidazioni ed atti terroristici, come un pacco-bomba
recapitato a casa di una famiglia di immigrati serbi in Francia.
Infine, per sua conoscenza - a meno che non voglia rimanere nella
ignoranza e prendere fischi per fiaschi: Sinisa Mihajlovic è nato a
Vukovar, di padre serbo e madre croata, che sono dovuti scappare
entrambi in Serbia a causa della pulizia etnica e dei crimini commessi
dai nazionalisti ustascia con a capo un tizio che adesso siede nel
parlamento croato, un "certo" Mercep... Fatti sui quali le allego un po’
di documentazione.
Resti nel dubbio, caro giornalista... Con quali parole potrei
salutarla?
Ivan P. Istrijan, luglio 2000
(il mio cognome rivela le mie origini natali)
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FUORI TEMA, MA NON TROPPO
> Cari compagni,
> mi arriva questo mail nel quale si sostiene che la Jugoslavia agli
> europei sarebbe stata vittima di accanimento arbitrale. Francamente, mi
> sembra che la Jugoslavia abbia avuto anche sfiga, pero' secondo me quel
> laziale di Mihajlovic l'espulsione se l'e' pure meritata...
>
> Saluti internazionalisti e romanisti :-)
>
Non è per fare il laziale quale sono, e orgoglioso di esserlo, ma per
lavoro
(in questo momento lavoro come operatore internet in una redazione
sportiva)
sto seguendo gli europei di calcio.
Bè mi sembra proprio che la proposta di varie federazioni sportive, tra
cui
i belgi padroni di casa, di escludere la nazionale jugoslava, seppure si
sia
qualificata regolarmente (e ai danni della Croazia pergiunta!), non
abbia
fatto iniziare questa competizione con un clima disteso intorno agli
uomini
di Boskov. Una espulsione a partita mi sembra francamente troppo anche
per
una nazionale sicuramente "grintosa", non più di quella italiana però,
come
quella jugoslava. E poi una (Kezman) dopo quattro secondi dall'ingresso
del
giocatore ed al suo primo intervento...mah!
Per quanto riguarda "quel laziale (e scudettato, nda) di Mihajlovic", il
suo
nervosismo risale alle polemiche sullo striscione su Arkan e non è nuovo
a
questi gesti eccessivi ma dovuti, mi sembra, al fatto che è uno di
quelli
che, pur essendo nato in Croazia a Vukovar, tiene di più alla Jugoslavia
come nazione unita.
Il fatto è che, seppur reale, questo "attacco" alla Jugoslavia è del
tutto
secondario di fronte ad altri che si stanno verificando in questo
momento.
Mi riferisco al silenzio su ciò che sta avvenendo nel Protettorato
dell'(UC)Kosovo ed al sostegno (anche da parte del "Movimento" in
Italia, VO
ne sa qualcosa...) alle formazione filo-occidente (da cui troppo spesso
sono
finanziate) in Jugoslavia...
Saluti antimperialisti (e laziali)
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>
> Date:
> Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:39:01 +0200
> Subject:
> [LISEZ-MOI CA !] Les Emirats europé ens du Football
> From:
> "Atelier" <agedhomme@...> | Block addres
> SUJET:
>
> Quand l'OTAN joue au football.
>
> RESUME
>
> Au cours du premier tour du championnat d'Europe, l'équipe de
> Yougoslavie a
> fini tous ses matches à 10 joueurs, victime d'un arbitrage
> particulièrement
> sévère, alors qu'elle n'est pas plus brutale qu'une autre. Le
> Yougoslavie-Espagne (3:4) du 21 juin a été un monument de partialité
> arbitrale. Consigne politique ou préjugé culturel?
>
> LE TEXTE
>
> L'OTAN n'est pas seulement une alliance militaire. C'est un club, au
> sens
> britannique du mot: une société de gens nantis, dotés d'une même
> éducation
> et liés par des loisirs et des intérêts communs. Quelquefois ce club se
> ligue en milice pour protéger ou étendre ces intérêts. Le reste du
> temps, il
> se construit une "maison commune" où les loisirs et les sports sont, à
> défaut d'autre chose, un important facteur de cohésion.
>
> L'Euro 2000 de football a lieu dans une contrée aux joues roses, le
> Benelux..
> Au siège même de l'Union européenne et de l'OTAN. Or, lorsque l'OTAN
> organise un tournoi de football, il ne laisse rien au hasard. S'il
> admet, en
> principe, toutes les équipes issues des éliminatoires, ses médias se
> chargent de faire la part des "favoris" et des "parias".
>
> Les "favoris" ne sont pas nécessairement les meilleures nations du
> moment.
> Mais ce sont celles qui devraient "naturellement" se qualifier pour les
> phases avancées du tournoi. Elles ont un jeu élaboré, une stratégie, une
>
> discipline de groupe, une volonté. Elles ont des traditions, une
> légende.
> Elles font toutes partie de l'UE.
>
> Les "parias" ne sont pas, non plus, des nations de moindre valeur
> sportive.
> Leur handicap est socio-économique: avec leur niveau de vie inférieur,
> elles
> servent de vivier pour la pêche aux talents des grandes équipes
> ouest-européennes. Lesquelles y "achètent" des gosses de 16 ans, les
> forment
> et les gardent ou les revendent selon les cas. Les "parias" sont pour la
>
> plupart slaves et/ou orthodoxes. Ils ont tous, selon les journalistes,
> "une
> technique époustouflante", de "grandes valeurs individuelles", mais
> également un "moral fragile" et un "manque de cohésion". Le handicap
> économique se mue discrètement en une tare culturelle.
>
> Le solide jeu collectif de la Roumanie, de la Slovénie et de la
> Yougoslavie
> a fait litière de ce préjugé. De même que, a contrario, les débâcles
> collectives de l'Angleterre, de l'Allemagne, du Danemark et de la
> Belgique,
> la pauvreté de la Norvège, la stérilité de la Suède. Du premier tour de
> l'Euro 2000, l'OTAN sort honteux et laminé. Malgré cela, les succès
> réguliers des "parias" devant des équipes occidentales nécrosées par
> l'argent et le mercenariat étranger continuent d'être accueillis en
> divines
> surprises. Pour les titres, on ne parie pas sur les parias.
>
> Enfin, que ces derniers fassent le spectacle, passe encore. Mais qu'ils
> arbitrent le jeu des vedettes, pas question. Benelucky s'est choisi des
> arbitres uniquement dans son proche voisinage, rien au-delà de Vienne.
> Non
> qu'il ait des préjugés, mais, vous comprenez, avec "ces gens-là" si
> corruptibles, si chauvins...
>
> (C'est le même raisonnement qu'a suivi le "Tribunal pénal international"
>
> sponsorisé à La Haye par l'OTAN et les pétrodollars: ses magistrats
> peuvent
> venir de Chine ou de Malaisie ‹ démocraties réputées pour leur respect
> du
> droit ‹ mais certainement pas de Russie ou de Roumanie. Ses procureurs
> ne
> peuvent être qu'anglo-saxons ou, depuis peu, suisses, ce qui est
> actuellement un bon gage de servilité.)
>
> *
>
> Or, dans cet Euro 2000, il y a encore plus paria que les parias :
> l'équipe
> de Yougoslavie. Une équipe composée de Serbes et d'un Hongrois. Nous
> n'avons
> jamais entendu aucun journaliste occidental préciser ce détail. Le Serbe
> qui
> joue au football est un Yougoslave. Le Yougoslave qui fait la guerre est
> un
> Serbe. Entre ces deux disciplines pourtant apparentées, le même peuple
> change systématiquement d'appellation.
>
> Quoi qu'il en soit, cette Serboslavie a déboulé dans un cercle de 16
> nations
> dont presque toutes font partie de la coalition militaire qui l'a
> agressée
> au printemps 1999. Même celles qui n'en étaient pas (Slovénie, Tchéquie,
>
> Roumanie) ont demandé à en être. Leurs gouvernements, du moins.
>
> Or les Serbes sont impossibles. En pleine guerre civile doublée
> d'embargo,
> ils se sont arrangés pour être champions d'Europe et du monde de
> basketball..
> Ils n'ont cédé l'or olympique aux Américains, chez eux, qu'au terme d'un
>
> match éprouvant où la "Dream Team" avait pété les plombs. Quel pied de
> nez!
> Quel atout politique pour le régime de Belgrade! Or le basket n'est
> qu'un
> passe-temps d'initiés en comparaison du football.
>
> Ayant cela en vue, on comprend mieux le drame des dirigeants
> occidentaux.
> Ils n'ont pas pu, une troisième fois, bannir la Yougoslavie de l'Euro
> pour
> raisons politiques. Mais il leur serait aussi impossible (à Dieu ne
> plaise!)
> de remettre la coupe à un Dragan Stojkovic qu'il était impossible à
> Hitler
> de serrer la main de Jesse Owens aux JO de Munich. Or cette équipe est
> trop
> bonne pour qu'on puisse se fier à une élimination spontanée. Quelles
> solutions reste-t-il? L'exclusion administrative? Mais leurs supporters,
> à
> la différence de ceux des "favoris", ne sont pas des hooligans. Les
> arbitres? Ils sont des nôtres. Va pour les arbitres.
>
> Cela ne signifie pas que les arbitres qui ont contraint la Yougoslavie,
> et
> elle seule, à finir tous ses matches en infériorité numérique, qui lui
> ont
> collé du rouge là où, à d'autres, ils auraient donné du jaune, et du
> jaune
> là où ils n'auraient même pas levé le sifflet, qui ont sapé le rythme
> et le
> moral d'une équipe notoirement subtile et correcte en relevant la
> moindre de
> ses irrégularités, étaient soudoyés ou drillés politiquement. Cela
> signifie
> que le matraquage médiatique qui se poursuit depuis dix ans contre cette
>
> nation les pousse à voir dans toute faute serbe la preuve d'une nature
> impénitente qui ne trouve son salut que dans le châtiment, alors que
> chez
> les "civilisés", le même geste n'est qu'une maladresse qui n'entache en
> rien
> un fonds positif. L'iniquité apparente des hommes en noir (couleur des
> prédicateurs et des juges) n'est qu'une adaptation aux besoins intimes
> des
> patients: aux uns le bâton, aux autres la caresse. L'Européen moyen est
> pédagogue dans l'âme et théologien sans le savoir.
>
> Les Serbes ne sont pas les seuls cobayes de cette pédagogie. Les
> Roumains en
> ont tâté eux aussi dans leur rencontre avec l'Angleterre.
>
> Ajoutons aussi que les Serbes ont, avec l'Europe, un long contentieux
> d'arbitrage. Depuis l'intercession calamiteuse de la "commission
> Badinter"
> dans les affaires intérieures yougoslaves, qui avait récrit le droit
> international pour complaire à l'Allemagne et démembrer leur pays,
> depuis la
> création d'un tribunal ad hoc chargé de poursuivre leurs dirigeants élus
> à
> l'exclusion des autres méchants de la région, ils se méfient de
> l'impartialité occidentale. Ils ne se privent pas de le dire, et
> quelquefois
> vertement. Ce qui indigne le camp d'en face, amoureux de sa pureté, tout
> en
> inculquant aux intéressés un complexe de persécution non dénué de
> fondement..
>
> *
>
> Tout ceci pour en arriver à ce chef-d'oeuvre de tricherie arbitrale qu'a
> été
> le Yougoslavie-Espagne du 21 juin. L'Espagne devait gagner pour passer.
> Avec
> la victoire probable de la Norvège contre la Slovénie, la question serbe
>
> était réglée.
>
> Or l'Espagne était loin du compte. Elle n'a fait qu'égaliser, par deux
> fois,
> avant de se faire encore distancer. A l'issue du temps réglementaire,
> elle
> était éliminée. L'arbitre français, un M. Vestiaire, avait pourtant fait
>
> tout son possible, châtiant le Serbe autant qu'il excusait l'Ibère,
> expulsant enfin, comme il se doit, un défenseur yougo. Le commentateur
> de la
> Télévision suisse romande que nous écoutions murmurait de temps à autre
> que
> "M. Vestiaire est inconséquent dans ses décisions", ce qui pour un
> Suisse
> est le sommet de la contestation.
>
> Cause perdue? Voire. A la 87e minute, j'ai dit devant témoins: "vous
> allez
> voir, il va leur inventer un penalty". Et de fait: après avoir offert
> aux
> "favoris" la plus longue prolongation de cet Euro, M. Vestale
> récompensait
> une chute espagnole qu'il eût aussi bien pu sanctionner pour simulation.
> "Un
> penalty pour le moins généreux", commenta le sceptique de la TSR, mais
> c'était 3 à 3. Puis un beau tir d'Alfonso, devant une défense serbe
> médusée
> par tant d'acharnement, qualifiait l'Espagne. C'était largement APRES la
> fin
> de la prolongation.
>
> Le scénario était parfait. Mais on avait oublié une chose. On avait omis
>
> d'expliquer aux Norvégiens comment se défaire de la Slovénie. M.
> Vestiaire
> n'avait réussi à éliminer que... la Norvège! Les Nordiques, ulcérés, ont
>
> d'ailleurs annoncé en conférence de presse qu'ils déposeraient protêt
> contre
> l'arbitrage du Yougoslavie-Espagne.
>
> Conclusion de cet imbroglio minable: La Yougoslavie va affronter la
> Hollande, pays organisateur et favori des "favoris", chez elle à
> Rotterdam,
> samedi 24 juin à 18 heures. Il est exclu qu'elle puisse l'emporter.
> Faudra-t-il, comme à Munich en 72, mitrailler une équipe dans son
> vestiaire?
> Ou se contentera t'on de faire arbitrer la rencontre par un Européen
> moyen?
>
> *** SD ***
>
> LECTURE
>
> Vladimir Dimitrijevic: "Les Emirats européens du football" (à paraître,
> septembre 2000).
>
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* Accanimento arbitrale?
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Alla Redazione del "MANIFESTO" - Roma
c.a. Pippo Russo
Ho provato un profondo disgusto leggendo l’articolo "Conti aperti
tra
Slovenia e Jugoslavia" del 13 giugno u.s. di Pippo Russo, dedicato alla
partita dei Campionati Europei - che e' poi finita 3 a 3 dopo una
rocambolesca rimonta da parte jugoslava. Nell'articolo mancano tante
informazioni... "Ma Pippo, Pippo non lo sa..."? E’ dal 1992 che richiamo
e richiamiamo l’attenzione dei giornalisti sportivi perche' trattino le
problematiche vicende degli atleti e delle compagini jugoslave con una
maggiore obiettività ed aderenza alla realtà di quanto accade in quelle
terre.
Iniziava allora una campagna unilaterale, indiscriminata, contro
quelli che hanno scelto con dignità di essere, e rimanere, jugoslavi.
Già allora le rappresentative jugoslave venivano escluse dai giochi
olimpici di Barcellona, e pure alla squadra di calcio veniva impedito di
partecipare agli Europei... Se lo sport è un elemento unificante, al di
là
delle differenze "etniche", religiose, culturali, questo dovrebbe valere
a maggior ragione per la Jugoslavia. E non è soltanto retorica: l’hanno
dimostrato anche qui a Roma gli atleti jugoslavi durante il campionato
europeo di basket in quel fatidico anno 1991!
In quegli anni la nostra "civile comunita' internazionale"
incominciava a sfasciare la Jugoslavia e (all'uopo) demonizzava la parte
serba anche nelle cronache, e sui campi sportivi! Monika Seles finiva
accoltellata da un tedesco entrato in campo carico di odio antiserbo -
povero deficiente, non poteva nemmeno capire che la Seles e' di origine
ungherese della Vojvodina, dunque nemmeno "serba"... Ma si sa, ormai:
piu' sei "jugoslavo", in senso multinazionale, e piu' vieni demonizzato
in quanto "serbo", perche' minacci alle fondamenta l'equazione che la
Jugoslavia va sfasciata a tutti i costi...
Pippo Russo dimostra di non conoscere la storia recente quando si
riferisce al "regime di Milosevic" parlando della Zagabria del 1990,
quando Milosevic era solamente Presidente della Repubblica di Serbia. Ed
ora: quale partita dei "conti aperti" tra Jugoslavia e Slovenia??!! Si è
forse chiesto l’articolista chi sono i vari Amir, Zahovic, se non
musulmano-bosniaci che giocano per la Slovenia insieme ad altri serbi e
montenegrini?... Mentre Mateja Kezman, tipico nome e cognome sloveno,
gioca nella squadra avversaria!!!
A me, Jugoslavia-Slovenia è sembrata più che altro una partita tra
"Jugoslavia squadra A" e "Jugoslavia squadra B".
Leggo dall'articolo: "...del suo ritiro parlano di un ambiente
spartano per necessità economiche." Lo slogan separatista della Slovenia
era: "Meglio ultimi in Europa che primi in Jugoslavia"... E la
Jugoslavia in che situazione si trova?! Peccato, perché i "compagni" del
Manifesto hanno perso ancora un’altra occasione per condannare
l’isolamento, le sanzioni e la continua aggressione contro la
Jugoslavia.
Quando si parla del "famoso [?!] calcio vibrato dal croato Boban allo
stomaco di un poliziotto serbo" si vuole forse giustificare per
l’opinione pubblica italiana un atto puramente teppistico per ragioni
"politiche", perché il poliziotto è serbo, cattivo, e perciò se lo è
meritato? Altrimenti a che pro specificare l’etnia di appartenenza? Non
ho mai sentito giustificare un’aggressione tipicamente vandalica contro
persone del servizio d’ordine in quanto sardi, abruzzesi o altro...
Ma in fondo e' vero: quel poverino di Boban ha dovuto "dormire fuori
casa nelle due notti successive". E dov’era Boban quando nella sua
Zagabria, in quello stesso anno, l’inno della squadra nazionale
jugoslava
era sonoramente fischiato alla partita per le qualificazioni agli
Europei? Guarda caso, questo sfegatato nazionalista, estremista e
acclamata stella del Milan, ha contribuito alla campagna elettorale per
il suo Tudjman.
Guardiamo ancora un po' all'indietro: alla Expo di Siviglia nel
1992, durante le Olimpiadi, alcuni giocatori della squadra croata di
basket capeggiati da Vrankovic distrussero le vetrine del padiglione del
turismo jugoslavo. E come la mettiamo con i gravi disordini che
avvengono ora regolarmente tra le tifoserie di Spalato e di Zagabria,
nella Croazia "indipendente"?
Anche ai Mondiali di Parigi nel 1998 il clima era pesantemente
antijugoslavo, e in certi ben noti ambienti girò la proposta di
estromettere la formazione jugoslava - proposta reiterata anche in
questi ultimi Europei da parte albanese e belga. Ma allora ci
furono persino intimidazioni ed atti terroristici, come un pacco-bomba
recapitato a casa di una famiglia di immigrati serbi in Francia.
Infine, per sua conoscenza - a meno che non voglia rimanere nella
ignoranza e prendere fischi per fiaschi: Sinisa Mihajlovic è nato a
Vukovar, di padre serbo e madre croata, che sono dovuti scappare
entrambi in Serbia a causa della pulizia etnica e dei crimini commessi
dai nazionalisti ustascia con a capo un tizio che adesso siede nel
parlamento croato, un "certo" Mercep... Fatti sui quali le allego un po’
di documentazione.
Resti nel dubbio, caro giornalista... Con quali parole potrei
salutarla?
Ivan P. Istrijan, luglio 2000
(il mio cognome rivela le mie origini natali)
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FUORI TEMA, MA NON TROPPO
> Cari compagni,
> mi arriva questo mail nel quale si sostiene che la Jugoslavia agli
> europei sarebbe stata vittima di accanimento arbitrale. Francamente, mi
> sembra che la Jugoslavia abbia avuto anche sfiga, pero' secondo me quel
> laziale di Mihajlovic l'espulsione se l'e' pure meritata...
>
> Saluti internazionalisti e romanisti :-)
>
Non è per fare il laziale quale sono, e orgoglioso di esserlo, ma per
lavoro
(in questo momento lavoro come operatore internet in una redazione
sportiva)
sto seguendo gli europei di calcio.
Bè mi sembra proprio che la proposta di varie federazioni sportive, tra
cui
i belgi padroni di casa, di escludere la nazionale jugoslava, seppure si
sia
qualificata regolarmente (e ai danni della Croazia pergiunta!), non
abbia
fatto iniziare questa competizione con un clima disteso intorno agli
uomini
di Boskov. Una espulsione a partita mi sembra francamente troppo anche
per
una nazionale sicuramente "grintosa", non più di quella italiana però,
come
quella jugoslava. E poi una (Kezman) dopo quattro secondi dall'ingresso
del
giocatore ed al suo primo intervento...mah!
Per quanto riguarda "quel laziale (e scudettato, nda) di Mihajlovic", il
suo
nervosismo risale alle polemiche sullo striscione su Arkan e non è nuovo
a
questi gesti eccessivi ma dovuti, mi sembra, al fatto che è uno di
quelli
che, pur essendo nato in Croazia a Vukovar, tiene di più alla Jugoslavia
come nazione unita.
Il fatto è che, seppur reale, questo "attacco" alla Jugoslavia è del
tutto
secondario di fronte ad altri che si stanno verificando in questo
momento.
Mi riferisco al silenzio su ciò che sta avvenendo nel Protettorato
dell'(UC)Kosovo ed al sostegno (anche da parte del "Movimento" in
Italia, VO
ne sa qualcosa...) alle formazione filo-occidente (da cui troppo spesso
sono
finanziate) in Jugoslavia...
Saluti antimperialisti (e laziali)
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>
> Date:
> Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:39:01 +0200
> Subject:
> [LISEZ-MOI CA !] Les Emirats europé ens du Football
> From:
> "Atelier" <agedhomme@...> | Block addres
> SUJET:
>
> Quand l'OTAN joue au football.
>
> RESUME
>
> Au cours du premier tour du championnat d'Europe, l'équipe de
> Yougoslavie a
> fini tous ses matches à 10 joueurs, victime d'un arbitrage
> particulièrement
> sévère, alors qu'elle n'est pas plus brutale qu'une autre. Le
> Yougoslavie-Espagne (3:4) du 21 juin a été un monument de partialité
> arbitrale. Consigne politique ou préjugé culturel?
>
> LE TEXTE
>
> L'OTAN n'est pas seulement une alliance militaire. C'est un club, au
> sens
> britannique du mot: une société de gens nantis, dotés d'une même
> éducation
> et liés par des loisirs et des intérêts communs. Quelquefois ce club se
> ligue en milice pour protéger ou étendre ces intérêts. Le reste du
> temps, il
> se construit une "maison commune" où les loisirs et les sports sont, à
> défaut d'autre chose, un important facteur de cohésion.
>
> L'Euro 2000 de football a lieu dans une contrée aux joues roses, le
> Benelux..
> Au siège même de l'Union européenne et de l'OTAN. Or, lorsque l'OTAN
> organise un tournoi de football, il ne laisse rien au hasard. S'il
> admet, en
> principe, toutes les équipes issues des éliminatoires, ses médias se
> chargent de faire la part des "favoris" et des "parias".
>
> Les "favoris" ne sont pas nécessairement les meilleures nations du
> moment.
> Mais ce sont celles qui devraient "naturellement" se qualifier pour les
> phases avancées du tournoi. Elles ont un jeu élaboré, une stratégie, une
>
> discipline de groupe, une volonté. Elles ont des traditions, une
> légende.
> Elles font toutes partie de l'UE.
>
> Les "parias" ne sont pas, non plus, des nations de moindre valeur
> sportive.
> Leur handicap est socio-économique: avec leur niveau de vie inférieur,
> elles
> servent de vivier pour la pêche aux talents des grandes équipes
> ouest-européennes. Lesquelles y "achètent" des gosses de 16 ans, les
> forment
> et les gardent ou les revendent selon les cas. Les "parias" sont pour la
>
> plupart slaves et/ou orthodoxes. Ils ont tous, selon les journalistes,
> "une
> technique époustouflante", de "grandes valeurs individuelles", mais
> également un "moral fragile" et un "manque de cohésion". Le handicap
> économique se mue discrètement en une tare culturelle.
>
> Le solide jeu collectif de la Roumanie, de la Slovénie et de la
> Yougoslavie
> a fait litière de ce préjugé. De même que, a contrario, les débâcles
> collectives de l'Angleterre, de l'Allemagne, du Danemark et de la
> Belgique,
> la pauvreté de la Norvège, la stérilité de la Suède. Du premier tour de
> l'Euro 2000, l'OTAN sort honteux et laminé. Malgré cela, les succès
> réguliers des "parias" devant des équipes occidentales nécrosées par
> l'argent et le mercenariat étranger continuent d'être accueillis en
> divines
> surprises. Pour les titres, on ne parie pas sur les parias.
>
> Enfin, que ces derniers fassent le spectacle, passe encore. Mais qu'ils
> arbitrent le jeu des vedettes, pas question. Benelucky s'est choisi des
> arbitres uniquement dans son proche voisinage, rien au-delà de Vienne.
> Non
> qu'il ait des préjugés, mais, vous comprenez, avec "ces gens-là" si
> corruptibles, si chauvins...
>
> (C'est le même raisonnement qu'a suivi le "Tribunal pénal international"
>
> sponsorisé à La Haye par l'OTAN et les pétrodollars: ses magistrats
> peuvent
> venir de Chine ou de Malaisie ‹ démocraties réputées pour leur respect
> du
> droit ‹ mais certainement pas de Russie ou de Roumanie. Ses procureurs
> ne
> peuvent être qu'anglo-saxons ou, depuis peu, suisses, ce qui est
> actuellement un bon gage de servilité.)
>
> *
>
> Or, dans cet Euro 2000, il y a encore plus paria que les parias :
> l'équipe
> de Yougoslavie. Une équipe composée de Serbes et d'un Hongrois. Nous
> n'avons
> jamais entendu aucun journaliste occidental préciser ce détail. Le Serbe
> qui
> joue au football est un Yougoslave. Le Yougoslave qui fait la guerre est
> un
> Serbe. Entre ces deux disciplines pourtant apparentées, le même peuple
> change systématiquement d'appellation.
>
> Quoi qu'il en soit, cette Serboslavie a déboulé dans un cercle de 16
> nations
> dont presque toutes font partie de la coalition militaire qui l'a
> agressée
> au printemps 1999. Même celles qui n'en étaient pas (Slovénie, Tchéquie,
>
> Roumanie) ont demandé à en être. Leurs gouvernements, du moins.
>
> Or les Serbes sont impossibles. En pleine guerre civile doublée
> d'embargo,
> ils se sont arrangés pour être champions d'Europe et du monde de
> basketball..
> Ils n'ont cédé l'or olympique aux Américains, chez eux, qu'au terme d'un
>
> match éprouvant où la "Dream Team" avait pété les plombs. Quel pied de
> nez!
> Quel atout politique pour le régime de Belgrade! Or le basket n'est
> qu'un
> passe-temps d'initiés en comparaison du football.
>
> Ayant cela en vue, on comprend mieux le drame des dirigeants
> occidentaux.
> Ils n'ont pas pu, une troisième fois, bannir la Yougoslavie de l'Euro
> pour
> raisons politiques. Mais il leur serait aussi impossible (à Dieu ne
> plaise!)
> de remettre la coupe à un Dragan Stojkovic qu'il était impossible à
> Hitler
> de serrer la main de Jesse Owens aux JO de Munich. Or cette équipe est
> trop
> bonne pour qu'on puisse se fier à une élimination spontanée. Quelles
> solutions reste-t-il? L'exclusion administrative? Mais leurs supporters,
> à
> la différence de ceux des "favoris", ne sont pas des hooligans. Les
> arbitres? Ils sont des nôtres. Va pour les arbitres.
>
> Cela ne signifie pas que les arbitres qui ont contraint la Yougoslavie,
> et
> elle seule, à finir tous ses matches en infériorité numérique, qui lui
> ont
> collé du rouge là où, à d'autres, ils auraient donné du jaune, et du
> jaune
> là où ils n'auraient même pas levé le sifflet, qui ont sapé le rythme
> et le
> moral d'une équipe notoirement subtile et correcte en relevant la
> moindre de
> ses irrégularités, étaient soudoyés ou drillés politiquement. Cela
> signifie
> que le matraquage médiatique qui se poursuit depuis dix ans contre cette
>
> nation les pousse à voir dans toute faute serbe la preuve d'une nature
> impénitente qui ne trouve son salut que dans le châtiment, alors que
> chez
> les "civilisés", le même geste n'est qu'une maladresse qui n'entache en
> rien
> un fonds positif. L'iniquité apparente des hommes en noir (couleur des
> prédicateurs et des juges) n'est qu'une adaptation aux besoins intimes
> des
> patients: aux uns le bâton, aux autres la caresse. L'Européen moyen est
> pédagogue dans l'âme et théologien sans le savoir.
>
> Les Serbes ne sont pas les seuls cobayes de cette pédagogie. Les
> Roumains en
> ont tâté eux aussi dans leur rencontre avec l'Angleterre.
>
> Ajoutons aussi que les Serbes ont, avec l'Europe, un long contentieux
> d'arbitrage. Depuis l'intercession calamiteuse de la "commission
> Badinter"
> dans les affaires intérieures yougoslaves, qui avait récrit le droit
> international pour complaire à l'Allemagne et démembrer leur pays,
> depuis la
> création d'un tribunal ad hoc chargé de poursuivre leurs dirigeants élus
> à
> l'exclusion des autres méchants de la région, ils se méfient de
> l'impartialité occidentale. Ils ne se privent pas de le dire, et
> quelquefois
> vertement. Ce qui indigne le camp d'en face, amoureux de sa pureté, tout
> en
> inculquant aux intéressés un complexe de persécution non dénué de
> fondement..
>
> *
>
> Tout ceci pour en arriver à ce chef-d'oeuvre de tricherie arbitrale qu'a
> été
> le Yougoslavie-Espagne du 21 juin. L'Espagne devait gagner pour passer.
> Avec
> la victoire probable de la Norvège contre la Slovénie, la question serbe
>
> était réglée.
>
> Or l'Espagne était loin du compte. Elle n'a fait qu'égaliser, par deux
> fois,
> avant de se faire encore distancer. A l'issue du temps réglementaire,
> elle
> était éliminée. L'arbitre français, un M. Vestiaire, avait pourtant fait
>
> tout son possible, châtiant le Serbe autant qu'il excusait l'Ibère,
> expulsant enfin, comme il se doit, un défenseur yougo. Le commentateur
> de la
> Télévision suisse romande que nous écoutions murmurait de temps à autre
> que
> "M. Vestiaire est inconséquent dans ses décisions", ce qui pour un
> Suisse
> est le sommet de la contestation.
>
> Cause perdue? Voire. A la 87e minute, j'ai dit devant témoins: "vous
> allez
> voir, il va leur inventer un penalty". Et de fait: après avoir offert
> aux
> "favoris" la plus longue prolongation de cet Euro, M. Vestale
> récompensait
> une chute espagnole qu'il eût aussi bien pu sanctionner pour simulation.
> "Un
> penalty pour le moins généreux", commenta le sceptique de la TSR, mais
> c'était 3 à 3. Puis un beau tir d'Alfonso, devant une défense serbe
> médusée
> par tant d'acharnement, qualifiait l'Espagne. C'était largement APRES la
> fin
> de la prolongation.
>
> Le scénario était parfait. Mais on avait oublié une chose. On avait omis
>
> d'expliquer aux Norvégiens comment se défaire de la Slovénie. M.
> Vestiaire
> n'avait réussi à éliminer que... la Norvège! Les Nordiques, ulcérés, ont
>
> d'ailleurs annoncé en conférence de presse qu'ils déposeraient protêt
> contre
> l'arbitrage du Yougoslavie-Espagne.
>
> Conclusion de cet imbroglio minable: La Yougoslavie va affronter la
> Hollande, pays organisateur et favori des "favoris", chez elle à
> Rotterdam,
> samedi 24 juin à 18 heures. Il est exclu qu'elle puisse l'emporter.
> Faudra-t-il, comme à Munich en 72, mitrailler une équipe dans son
> vestiaire?
> Ou se contentera t'on de faire arbitrer la rencontre par un Européen
> moyen?
>
> *** SD ***
>
> LECTURE
>
> Vladimir Dimitrijevic: "Les Emirats européens du football" (à paraître,
> septembre 2000).
>
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L'appello che segue, da noi gia' diffuso nella ricorrenza della
aggressione della NATO alla RF di Jugoslavia, sta raccogliendo un numero
sempre crescente di adesioni:
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KOSOVO, NO ALL'OBLIO
L'APPELLO DI BRUXELLES
Nel corso della primavera del 1999, la città di Bruxelles, in quanto
sede della NATO, è stata il centro decisionale ed esecutivo dei
bombardamenti effettuati, nel nome del diritto umanitario, contro la
Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia da parte dei Paesi membri di questa
organizzazione.
Noi, membri attivi o in pensione dell'insegnamento del Diritto
Internazionale, crediamo che il primo anniversario di un evento così
grave non possa passare inosservato e debba, al contrario, suscitare in
ogni cittadino una seria riflessione commisurata alla sfida.
La guerra è stata preparata, decisa e condotta contro i principi
fondamentali del diritto internazionale.
L'azione della NATO seguì al fallimento delle negoziazioni di
Rambouillet. Ebbene, queste avevano comportato dei concreti passi avanti
in relazione agli aspetti politici del conflitto, prima che le
condizioni dell'ultimo minuto, del tutto inaccettabili per la parte
serba, ne precipitassero l'impasse. Ovvero la guerra.
L'attacco violò chiaramente la Carta delle Nazioni Unite, che autorizza
eccezionalmente il ricorso alla forza limitatamente al caso di legittima
difesa o in seguito a specifica autorizzazione del Consiglio di
Sicurezza. Premesse inesistenti in questo caso.
Infine, il modo in cui i bombardamenti sono stati condotti contraddice
le regole del diritto internazionale che disciplinano la condotta delle
ostilità. In via generale, la distruzione sistematica delle
infrastrutture economiche e dei mezzi di comunicazione, deliberatamente
destinata a prostrare la popolazione e a provocare il suo sollevamento,
sono incompatibili con i principi umanitari invocati per giustificarla.
In considerazione di quanto appena affermato, vorremmo manifestare con
chiarezza che la nostra condanna senza riserva dell'azione della NATO
non implica in alcun modo né adesione, né compiacenza, verso le autorità
di Belgrado ed, in particolar modo, verso la loro gestione della
questione etnica. Allo stesso modo, la nostra riprovazione, sempre
attuale, in merito alla condotta senza fondamenti legali dei
bombardamento dell'Iraq e dell'embargo contro questo Paese, non puo'
essere interpretato come un qualsivoglia vassallaggio verso il regime di
Baghdad.
La strategia della guerra, che ha devastato la Jugoslavia e ha reso
ingovernabile il Kosovo, ha prodotto più rifugiati e vittime di quanto
una qualsiasi altra combinazione di forza e diplomazia avrebbe
comportato. Essa va contestata, sia dal punto di vista politico, sia dal
punto di vista morale. Essa è stata del resto accompagnata da una
campagna mediatica volta a legittimare sistematicamente le operazioni in
corso.
Le disposizioni prese dopo la fine dei bombardamenti tendono a
subordinare l'aiuto internazionale ai risultati elettorali interni in
Jugoslavia ed a privilegiare l'aiuto in funzione delle opzioni politiche
prese dai suoi destinatari, fatto che costituisce un mezzo poco
onorevole d'intervento politico negli affari interni di un Paese terzo.
Quanto al Kosovo, esso è divenuto, sotto l'amministrazione creata dalle
forze della NATO, una regione praticamente monoetnica dove le minoranze
non albanesi, siano esse serbe, rom, slave, musulmane, ebraiche, turche
o croate, sono dovute fuggire per gli attentati o rifugiarsi in ghetti.
Vorremmo anche sottolineare il fatto che la guerra condotta in
Jugoslavia riveste un significato che va ben oltre la realtà di questo
Paese. In effetti, l'intervento della NATO in Kosovo, sotto la direzione
degli Stati Uniti d'America, s'iscrive in una serie di scelte operate
dall'unica superpotenza al mondo. Il gigantismo del suo budget militare;
la scelta di mantenere la NATO malgrado la dissoluzione del Patto di
Varsavia e la fine dell'URSS, e successivamente il suo allargamento ad
Est; il rifiuto di ratificare il Trattato d'Interdizione degli
Esperimenti Nucleari; lo sviluppo dei sistemi antimissile e la recente
rivelazione dell'esistenza di un sistema mondiale di ascolto delle
comunicazioni private e ufficiali, tali sono gli aspetti più salienti di
una politica decisa sempre più à Washington. Tutto questo lascia
presagire la nascita di un nuovo modello di esercizio del potere in
virtù del quale la sola legittimità risiederebbe nel possesso e
l'impiego dei mezzi di coercizione sempre più potenti.
Ecco perché invitiamo tutti coloro che condividono queste inquietudini e
che non vogliono più che le bombe siano l'alternativa alla legalità
internazionale, alla negoziazione, al dialogo democratico, a
sottoscrivere questo appello ed a farne, ovunque nel mondo, uno
strumento di resistenza morale di fronte al nuovo "ordine" universale
annunciato.
Primi firmatari:
Olivier CORTEN, professore presso il Centro di Diritto Internazionale,
Università Libera di Bruxelles (ULB); Eric DAVID, professore presso
l'ULB;
Barbara DELCOURT, membro dell'Istituto di Studi Europei, professore
presso
l'ULB; François HOUTART, professore emerito all'Università Cattolica di
Lovagno/Louvain (UCL); Pierre KLEIN, professore presso l'ULB, Paulette
PIERSON-MATHY, professore all'ULB, Yves ROGISTER, ricercatore presso il
CADOP, Università di Liegi, François RIGAUX, professore emerito all'UCL,
già
preside della Facoltà di Diritto, Jean SALMON, professore emerito
all'ULB.Eric SUY, professore emerito alla KUL, ex-vicesegretario
generale delle Nazioni Unite.
Le adesioni possono essere inviate agli indirizzi seguenti:
per mail: action-kosovo@...
per fax: 00.32 10 453152
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KOSOVO, CONTRE L'OUBLI :
L'APPEL DE BRUXELLES
Au cours du printemps 1999, la ville de Bruxelles, en sa qualité de
siège de l'OTAN, était le centre de décision et d'exécution des
bombardements de la Yougoslavie par les pays membres de cette
organisation, au nom du droit humanitaire. Nous, membres actifs ou à la
retraite de l'enseignement du droit, nous croyons que le premier
anniversaire d'un événement aussi grave ne peut passer inaperçu et doit,
au contraire, susciter chez tout citoyen une sérieuse réflexion à la
mesure de l'enjeu.
La guerre a été préparée, décidée et menée à l'encontre des principes
les plus fondamentaux du droit international.
L'action de l'OTAN suivit l'échec des négociations de Rambouillet. Or,
ces dernières avaient enregistré des avancées sérieuses sur les dossiers
politiques du conflit, avant que des conditions de dernière minute, de
toute évidence inacceptables pour la partie serbe, ne précipitent
l'impasse. C'est à dire la guerre.
Son déclenchement violait à l'évidence la Charte des Nations Unies, qui
n'autorise exceptionnellement le recours à la force qu'en cas de
légitime défense ou d'autorisation du Conseil de sécurité. Prémisses
inexistantes dans ce cas.
Enfin, la manière dont les bombardements ont été menés contredit les
règles de droit international qui régissent la conduite des hostilités.
De manière générale, la destruction systématique de l'infrastructure
économique et des moyens de communication, délibérément destinée à
décourager la population et à provoquer son soulèvement, sont
incompatibles avec les principes humanitaires invoqués pour les
justifier.
Ceci dit, nous voudrions manifester avec clarté que notre condamnation
sans réserve de l'action de l'OTAN, n'implique nullement adhésion ni
complaisance envers les autorités de Belgrade et particulièrement envers
leur gestion de la question ethnique. De même, notre réprobation,
toujours actuelle, de la poursuite sans fondement légal des
bombardements de l'Irak et de l'embargo contre ce pays, ne peut être
interprétée comme une quelconque allégeance envers le régime de Bagdad.
La stratégie de guerre, qui a dévasté la Yougoslavie et rendu non-viable
le Kosovo, a produit plus de réfugiés et de victimes qu'en aurait causé
toute autre combinaison de pression politique et de diplomatie. Elle
mérite d'être contestée, tant du point de vue politique que du point de
vue moral. Elle fut par ailleurs accompagnée d'une campagne médiatique
visant à légitimer systématiquement l'agression en cours.
Les dispositions prises après la fin des bombardements tendent à
conditionner l'aide internationale aux résultats électoraux internes en
Yougoslavie et à privilégier l'aide en fonction des options politiques
prises par ses destinataires, ce qui constitue un moyen peu honorable
d'intervention politique dans les affaires internes d'un pays souverain.
Quant au Kosovo, il est devenu, sous l'administration créée suite à
l'agression de l'OTAN, une région quasiment mono-ethnique où les
minorités non albanaises, qu'elles soient serbe, rom, slave, musulmane,
juive, turque ou croate, ont dû fuir les attentats ou se réfugier dans
des ghettos.
Nous voudrions aussi souligner le fait que la guerre menée en
Yougoslavie revêt une signification qui dépasse de loin le cas de ce
pays. En effet, l'intervention de l'OTAN au Kosovo, sous la direction
des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, s'inscrit dans une série de choix opérés par
l'unique superpuissance du monde. Le gigantisme de son budget militaire;
le choix de maintenir l'OTAN malgré la dissolution du Traité de Varsovie
et la fin de l'URSS, puis de l'élargir à l'Est de l'Europe; le refus de
ratifier le Traité d'interdiction des essais nucléaires; le
développement des systèmes antimissiles et la récente révélation de
l'existence d'un système mondial d'écoute des communications privées et
officielles, tels sont les aspects les plus saillants d'un nouveau
modèle d'exercice du pouvoir dessiné à Washington et dont la seule
légitimité résiderait dans la possession et l'emploi d'outils de
coercition chaque fois plus performants.
Voilà pourquoi, nous invitons tous ceux qui partagent ces inquiétudes
et qui refusent que les bombes soient l'alternative à la légalité
internationale, à la négociation, au dialogue démocratique, à signer cet
appel et à faire de lui, partout dans le monde, un instrument de
résistance morale face au nouvel "ordre" planétaire qui s'annonce.
Premièrs signataires :
Olivier CORTEN, professeur au Centre de Droit International, Université
libre de Bruxelles (ULB); Eric DAVID, professeur à l'ULB; Barbara
DELCOURT, membre de l'Institut d'études européennes, professeur à l'ULB;
François HOUTART, professeur émérite à l'Université catholique de
Louvain (UCL); Pierre KLEIN, professeur à l'ULB, Paulette PIERSON-MATHY,
professeur à l'ULB, Yves ROGISTER, chargé de recherche auprès du CADOP,
université de Liège, François RIGAUX, professeur émérite à l'UCL, ancien
doyen de la Faculté de Droit, Jean SALMON, professeur émérite à l'ULB;
Eric SUY, professeur émérite à la KUL, ancien secrétaire général adjoint
des Nations Unies.
Les adhésions peuvent être envoyées aux adresses suivantes:
François Houtart, CETRI
5, Av. Sainte Gertrude
B- 1348 LOUVAIN LA NEUVE
par e-mail: action-kosovo@...
par fax : 010-45083152
Soutien financier: CETRI, N° de cpte 068-0602320-74; mention: l'Appel de
Bruxelles.
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KOSOVO must not be forgotten:
BRUSSELS APPEAL
In the spring of 1999 Brussels, as the headquarters of NATO, was the
centre of decision and execution of the bombing of Yugoslavia by the 19
member nations of that organisation in the name of human rights. We,
active in or retired from the teaching of law, believe that the first
anniversary of such a serious event must not go unnoticed, but on the
contrary should induce every citizen to think seriously about the
enormous stakes.
The war was prepared, decided and prosecuted against the most
fundamental principles of international law.
NATO decided to take action after the Rambouillet talks broke down. And
yet these talks had made serious progress of the political issues before
last minute conditions, which were totally unacceptable to the Serbs,
led to an impasse. In other words, to war.
The outbreak of the war was a flagrant violation of the United Nations
Charter, which authorises the use of force only in exceptional cases of
legitimate self-defence or with the authorisation of the Security
Council. There were no such premises, in this case.
Finally, the way in which the bombing was carried out violates the rules
of international law which govern the conduct of hostilities. In
general, the systematic destruction of the economic infrastructure and
the means of communication, deliberately intended to discourage the
population and provoke an uprising, are incompatible with the
humanitarian principles invoked to justify them.
That said, our wishing to express our unequivocal and unreserved
condemnation of the action taken by NATO in no way implies any support
of or complacency towards the Belgrade authorities and in particular
their management of the ethnic question. Similarly, our sustained
reprobation of the continuation, without any legal grounds, of the
bombing of Iraq and the embargo imposed on this country, must not be
interpreted as any allegiance to the Baghdad regime.
The war strategy that devastated Yugoslavia and made Kosovo non-liveable
produced more refugees and victims than would have been caused by any
other combination of force and diplomacy. So it must be contested, both
from the political and the moral point of view. It was accompanied by a
media campaign to systematically legitimise the operations under way.
The arrangements made at the end of the bombing are intended to make
international aid contingent to the results of elections in Yugoslavia
and make aid contingent on the political options adopted by its
beneficiaries, which is not a very honourable means of political
interventions in the internal affairs of a third country. For its part,
under the UN administration created in Kosovo following the NATO
aggression, this region has become a virtually mono-ethnical one, where
non-Albanian minorities, be they Serbs, Gypsies, Slavs, Muslims, Jews,
Turks or Croats, had to flee from attacks or take refuge in ghettos.
We should also like to underscore the fact that the consequences of the
war waged in Yugoslavia extend far beyond the borders of this country.
More specifically, NATO's intervention in Kosovo, under the leadership
of the United States, is in line with a series of choices made by the
sole remaining superpower. Its gargantuan military budget; keeping NATO
in place, in spite of the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the end of
the USSR, and even to enlarge it by including Eastern Europe; projecting
armed force on the world arena by treating international institutions
with disdain; refusing to ratify the nuclear test ban treat; developing
anti-missile systems and, as recently discovered, a world-wide system
for eavesdropping on private and official calls are the most salient
aspects of a new model for exercising power charted in Washington, based
solely on the possession and use of ever more sophisticated instruments
of coercion.
That is why we call on all those who share these concerns and no longer
wish to see bombs as the alternative to international law, negotiations,
and democratic dialogue, to sign this appeal and turn it, everywhere in
the world, into an instrument of moral resistance against the new world
"order" that is emerging.
First signatories,
Olivier Corten, Professor at the Centre for International Law, Free
University of Brussels (ULB); Eric David, Professor at the ULB; Barbara
Delcourt, member of the Institute of European Studies, Professor at the
ULB;
François Houtart, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of
Louvain
(UCL); Pierre Klein, Professor at the ULB; Paulette Pierson-Mathy,
Professor at the ULB; Yves Rogister, Researcher at the CADOP, University
of
Liège; François Rigaux, Professor Emeritus at the UCL, former Dean of
the
Faculty of Law; Jean Salmon, Professor Emeritus at the ULB ; Eric Suy,
Professor Emeritus at the KUL ; former assistant general secretary of
the United Nations."
If you want to adhere to the Appeal, please send your name to:
CETRI
5, Av. Sainte Gertrude
1348 Louvain La Neuve
BELGIUM
By e-mail: action-kosovo@...
or fax to 32.10.453152
Financial support: CETRI; Account no. 000-1306002-91; mention:
Brussels Appeal
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> Liste d'adhésions par pays au 01.06.2000
>
>
> ALLEMAGNE
>
>
> Altvater, Elmar; prefesseur à l'Université de Berlin; président de la
> Fondation
> Lelio Basso.
> Roksandic Mirjana ; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ;
> Rostock
> Wilke, Joachim; philosophe
>
> AUTRICHE
>
> Blau, Paul; professeur à l'Université de Vienne
> Meissner, Freda; journaliste
>
>
> BELGIQUE
>
> Algoet Peter ; filosoof, socratiker, Gent
> André Edgar ; prof. hon. univ. Mons-Hainaut ; Havré
> Arnauts Laurent ; avocat
>
> Bàrdos-Féltoronyi Nicolas ; professeur UCL
> Bekaert Xavier ; Université Libre de Bruxelles
> Benda Wim ; KU Leuven
> Berghezan Georges ; journaliste, Bruxelles
> Biot, Paul ; directeur du Centre de Théâtre Action
> Bouckaert André ; professeur. UCL
> Bovy Yannick ; journaliste
> Bricmont Jean ; professeur de physique, UCL
> Carton Bruno ; chargé de recherches GRESEA
> Collon Michel ; écrivain; journaliste
> De Belder Bert ; coordinateur Médecine pour le tiers-monde
> De Brabander Ludo ; Mouvement pour la Paix "Vrede vzw"
> Decroly Vincent ; député Parti Ecolo
> Dermagne Jean-Marie ; avocat, chargé de recherche au SIRDE,
> Louvain-la-Neuve
> De Vos Pol ; Président Ligue anti-impérialiste
> De Wilde Yvon ; documentaliste , Bruxelles
> Dhont Riet ; Parti du travail de Belgique
> Doyen, Paul, enseignant, Bruxelles
> Dutry Guillemine ; Grez-Doiceau
>
> Franchoo Serge ; chercheur Université Catholique Leuven
> Franck Robert ; prof. Université Catholique de Louvain
>
> Galand Pierre ; Ancien Président d'OXFAM-Belgique; Président du
CNPPD;
> Président du Forum Nord-Sud
> Georlette, Rob ; pharmacien à Putte
>
> Kapper, Alain ; chercheur
> Kerckhofs J.P. ; porte-parole de l'Appel pour une école démocratique"
> Kontodimas Christos ; journaliste
>
> Martens Ludo ; président du Parti du travail de Belgique
> Merckx Kris ; Nationaal woordvoerder Partij van de Arbeid van België
> Moins, Jacques; ancien député par Bruxelles; avocat; journaliste
>
> Nerinckx Wim ; Univ. Gent
>
> Peeters Anne ; directrice GRESEA
> Pestiau Jean ; professeur de physique, UCL
> Piérart Pierre ; prof. honoraire Université Mons-Hainaut
> Pôlet Claudine ; Comité de surveillance OTAN, Bruxelles
> Poznanski Marcel ; Comité de surveillance OTAN, Bruxelles
>
> Romain Roger ; ex-conseiller communal PCB
> Rossa Rosso Nadine ; secrétaire générale du Parti du travail de
Belgique
>
> Soetewey Jan ; Christenen voor het Socialisme
> Spriet Georges ; Vrede vzw
>
> Van den Hove Didier ; Louvain-la-Neuve
> Valverde t.a., Hernán ; avocat au barreau de Bruxelles ; licencié en
> droit
> international
> Vandepitte Marc ; Deurne
> Vanhoutte Peter ; volksvertegenwoodiger (député) Agalev
> Vanoost, Lode ; AGALEV (parti écolo-flamand), vice-président de la
> chambre
> de répresentants
> Versluys Jan ; Destelbergen
> Watté Jeroen ; KU Leuven
>
>
> BOSNIE HERZEGOVINE
>
> Past Martin S. ; Peace Office Outpost Sarajevo
>
> BULGARIE
>
> Doncheva Blagovesta
>
>
> CANADA
>
> Baillargeon Normand ; prof. Univ. du Québec, Montréal
> Soucy Pascal ; Gaspé
> Wells Christopher ; Hunter River, P.E.I.
>
>
> COSTA RICA
>
> Wagner Ureta Eric
>
>
> DANEMARK
>
> Diwan Zohair ; lecturer, economist
> Tarp Sven ; Associated professor Aarhus School of Business
>
>
> ESPAGNE
>
> Pena Lorenzo ; maître de recherche au CSIC, Madrid
> Rademacher, Gerda
> de Trazegnies Granda, Leopoldo ; prof. F.P.O. Sevilla
> Etxezarreta, Miren, Professeur d'économie appliqué; Université de
> Barcelona
>
>
> ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE
>
> Chomsky Noam; Linguiste, écrivain, Professeur au Massachusets
Institut
> of
> Technology.
> d'Aymery Gilles ; Swans.com
> Dion Roland ; San Diego CA
> Feldman Alex ; Boston, MA
> Hey Nancy Alison ; Washington D.C.
> Johnstone, Diana ; journaliste
> Makara Petar ; IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY
> Mitrovic-Minic Snezana ; Senior Software Engineer, Simon Fraser
> University,
> Burnaby, BC
> Progovac Ljiljana ; Associate Professor, Wayne State University,
> Detroit, MI
> Robertson Barton W. ; Torrance, CA
> Ward, Morehouse; Leading member of the Council on International and
> Public Affairs, New York
> Welsh Joe ; student, Ohio University
>
>
> FRANCE
>
> Albala, Nuri; Avocat à la Cour, Paris; membre de l'AIJD.
> Andréani Caroline ; comité "Halte à l'OTAN"
> Badiou, Alain; philosophe, dramaturge, professeur à l'École Normale
> Supérieur d'Ulm et à l'Université de Paris VII
> Ballin Bernard ; médecin ; Chazey-sur-Ain
> Belougne Dominique ; Université de Bordeaux II
> Bidard, Sophie ; site Internet Résistance, Paris
> Bourdieu Pierre ; sociologue, professeur au Collège de France
> Bullard Linda ; présidente Féd. int. des mouvements de l'agriculture
> biologique
> Debray, Régis ; écrivain
> Delorca, Frédéric; co-fondateur du site "Résistance", Paris
> Fonseca Jean-Marc
> Krivine Jean-Paul ; psychologue
> Labica Georges ; prof. émérite des Universités (F)
> Menexiadis Dimitri ; maître de conférences, Université Bretagne Sud,
> Lorient
> Miracle Sole, salvador ; chercheur CNRS, Marseille
> Pecker, Jean-Claude; Professeur honoraire d'Astrophysique théorique
au
> College de France.
> Pergnier Maurice ; Prof. émérite Univérsité Paris-Val de Marne
> Richier Jean-Paul ; medecin, Paris
> Van Muylder, Céline ; étudiante ;
> Weil, Roland; Avocat; Président de l'Association Internationale de
> Juristes
> Démocrates
>
>
> GRECE
>
> Axelos, Loukas ; écrivain
> Charamambidis, Michalist ; sociologue
> Damianakou, Maria ; écrivain
> Meletzis, Spyros ; photographe ; ancien résistant
> Kalomendou, Theophanie ; docteur en philosophie
>
>
> INDE
>
> Sharma, Jitendra; Senior Advocate at the Indias's Supreme Court;
> Secretary
> General, International Association of Democratic Lawyers.
>
>
> ISRAEL
>
> Budeiri Musa ; Bir Zeit Univ., Jérusalem
> Cohen Raya ;
> Eylon Debbie ; Jérusalem
> Matar Anat ; Tel Aviv Univ.
> Pelleg Sryck Tamar ; Human rights lawyer
> Weiss Ronit
> Wollin Amos ; journaliste, Tel Aviv
>
>
> ITALIE
>
> Amit Daniel ; Istituto "La Sapienza", Rome
> Gallo Domenico; juge, Rome
> Hambye Thomas ; chercheur au Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome
> La Valle, Ranieri; sénateur
> Marenco Franco ; ENEA, Roma
> Parisi Giorgio ; Université de Roma "La Sapienza"
> Tognoni, Gino; Sécretaire Général de la Fondation International Lelio
> Basso
>
>
> MEXIQUE
>
> Dvoeglazov Valeri ; Professeur, Mexico
> Lopez Castro Gabriel, Professeur, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico
> Lopez Laval Hilda ;
> Manko Vladimir S., Professeur, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico
>
>
> PALESTINE (territoires occupés)
>
> Budeiri Musa ; Bir Zeit Univ. , Jérusalem
>
>
> PAYS - BAS
>
> Dekker Nico ; Université libre d'Amsterdam
> de Tollenaere Herman ; écrivain historien, Leiden
> van Asseldonk Chris, Ton ; La Haye
>
> PHILIPPINES
>
> Mariano Rafael ; chairperson, BAYAN Philippines (New Patriotic
Alliance)
>
> Pagaduan-Araullo Carolina ; executive director, Philippine Peace
Center
>
>
> ROYAUME - UNI
>
> Browne Chedmond ; African history lecturer, Montserrat
> Hall Duncan ; chercheur
> Jayan, Nayar; professor at the School of Law; University of Warwick
> Liebling, Helen; psychologue, University of Warwick
> McGettigan Andrew ; social housing worker
> Paliwala, Abdul; professeur at the School of Law; University of
Warwick
> Rangwalla, Glenn; Political Sciences professor Cambridge University
> White Jonathan ; Research student
>
>
> RUSSIE
>
> Lukin Alexander; fondateur du Comité pour la Paix en Yougoslavie,
>
>
> SRI LANKA
>
> Bala, Tampoe; secrétaire général de la Ceylan Mercantil Industrie,
Sir
> Lanka
>
>
> SUISSE
>
> Sanz Markus ; membre fondateur du Comité pour la Paix en Yougoslavie,
> professeur au collège de Genève (CH) (050400)
> Weber, Franz; écologiste; président de la Fondation "Weber"
>
>
> VENEZUELA
>
> Pardo Adolfo ; dirigeant syndical, Caracas
>
>
> YOUGOSLAVIE
>
> Grubacic Andrej ; co-fondateur du site Résistance, Belgrade.
> Vidanovic Djordje ; Prof. Univ. Nis
>
>
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aggressione della NATO alla RF di Jugoslavia, sta raccogliendo un numero
sempre crescente di adesioni:
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KOSOVO, NO ALL'OBLIO
L'APPELLO DI BRUXELLES
Nel corso della primavera del 1999, la città di Bruxelles, in quanto
sede della NATO, è stata il centro decisionale ed esecutivo dei
bombardamenti effettuati, nel nome del diritto umanitario, contro la
Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia da parte dei Paesi membri di questa
organizzazione.
Noi, membri attivi o in pensione dell'insegnamento del Diritto
Internazionale, crediamo che il primo anniversario di un evento così
grave non possa passare inosservato e debba, al contrario, suscitare in
ogni cittadino una seria riflessione commisurata alla sfida.
La guerra è stata preparata, decisa e condotta contro i principi
fondamentali del diritto internazionale.
L'azione della NATO seguì al fallimento delle negoziazioni di
Rambouillet. Ebbene, queste avevano comportato dei concreti passi avanti
in relazione agli aspetti politici del conflitto, prima che le
condizioni dell'ultimo minuto, del tutto inaccettabili per la parte
serba, ne precipitassero l'impasse. Ovvero la guerra.
L'attacco violò chiaramente la Carta delle Nazioni Unite, che autorizza
eccezionalmente il ricorso alla forza limitatamente al caso di legittima
difesa o in seguito a specifica autorizzazione del Consiglio di
Sicurezza. Premesse inesistenti in questo caso.
Infine, il modo in cui i bombardamenti sono stati condotti contraddice
le regole del diritto internazionale che disciplinano la condotta delle
ostilità. In via generale, la distruzione sistematica delle
infrastrutture economiche e dei mezzi di comunicazione, deliberatamente
destinata a prostrare la popolazione e a provocare il suo sollevamento,
sono incompatibili con i principi umanitari invocati per giustificarla.
In considerazione di quanto appena affermato, vorremmo manifestare con
chiarezza che la nostra condanna senza riserva dell'azione della NATO
non implica in alcun modo né adesione, né compiacenza, verso le autorità
di Belgrado ed, in particolar modo, verso la loro gestione della
questione etnica. Allo stesso modo, la nostra riprovazione, sempre
attuale, in merito alla condotta senza fondamenti legali dei
bombardamento dell'Iraq e dell'embargo contro questo Paese, non puo'
essere interpretato come un qualsivoglia vassallaggio verso il regime di
Baghdad.
La strategia della guerra, che ha devastato la Jugoslavia e ha reso
ingovernabile il Kosovo, ha prodotto più rifugiati e vittime di quanto
una qualsiasi altra combinazione di forza e diplomazia avrebbe
comportato. Essa va contestata, sia dal punto di vista politico, sia dal
punto di vista morale. Essa è stata del resto accompagnata da una
campagna mediatica volta a legittimare sistematicamente le operazioni in
corso.
Le disposizioni prese dopo la fine dei bombardamenti tendono a
subordinare l'aiuto internazionale ai risultati elettorali interni in
Jugoslavia ed a privilegiare l'aiuto in funzione delle opzioni politiche
prese dai suoi destinatari, fatto che costituisce un mezzo poco
onorevole d'intervento politico negli affari interni di un Paese terzo.
Quanto al Kosovo, esso è divenuto, sotto l'amministrazione creata dalle
forze della NATO, una regione praticamente monoetnica dove le minoranze
non albanesi, siano esse serbe, rom, slave, musulmane, ebraiche, turche
o croate, sono dovute fuggire per gli attentati o rifugiarsi in ghetti.
Vorremmo anche sottolineare il fatto che la guerra condotta in
Jugoslavia riveste un significato che va ben oltre la realtà di questo
Paese. In effetti, l'intervento della NATO in Kosovo, sotto la direzione
degli Stati Uniti d'America, s'iscrive in una serie di scelte operate
dall'unica superpotenza al mondo. Il gigantismo del suo budget militare;
la scelta di mantenere la NATO malgrado la dissoluzione del Patto di
Varsavia e la fine dell'URSS, e successivamente il suo allargamento ad
Est; il rifiuto di ratificare il Trattato d'Interdizione degli
Esperimenti Nucleari; lo sviluppo dei sistemi antimissile e la recente
rivelazione dell'esistenza di un sistema mondiale di ascolto delle
comunicazioni private e ufficiali, tali sono gli aspetti più salienti di
una politica decisa sempre più à Washington. Tutto questo lascia
presagire la nascita di un nuovo modello di esercizio del potere in
virtù del quale la sola legittimità risiederebbe nel possesso e
l'impiego dei mezzi di coercizione sempre più potenti.
Ecco perché invitiamo tutti coloro che condividono queste inquietudini e
che non vogliono più che le bombe siano l'alternativa alla legalità
internazionale, alla negoziazione, al dialogo democratico, a
sottoscrivere questo appello ed a farne, ovunque nel mondo, uno
strumento di resistenza morale di fronte al nuovo "ordine" universale
annunciato.
Primi firmatari:
Olivier CORTEN, professore presso il Centro di Diritto Internazionale,
Università Libera di Bruxelles (ULB); Eric DAVID, professore presso
l'ULB;
Barbara DELCOURT, membro dell'Istituto di Studi Europei, professore
presso
l'ULB; François HOUTART, professore emerito all'Università Cattolica di
Lovagno/Louvain (UCL); Pierre KLEIN, professore presso l'ULB, Paulette
PIERSON-MATHY, professore all'ULB, Yves ROGISTER, ricercatore presso il
CADOP, Università di Liegi, François RIGAUX, professore emerito all'UCL,
già
preside della Facoltà di Diritto, Jean SALMON, professore emerito
all'ULB.Eric SUY, professore emerito alla KUL, ex-vicesegretario
generale delle Nazioni Unite.
Le adesioni possono essere inviate agli indirizzi seguenti:
per mail: action-kosovo@...
per fax: 00.32 10 453152
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KOSOVO, CONTRE L'OUBLI :
L'APPEL DE BRUXELLES
Au cours du printemps 1999, la ville de Bruxelles, en sa qualité de
siège de l'OTAN, était le centre de décision et d'exécution des
bombardements de la Yougoslavie par les pays membres de cette
organisation, au nom du droit humanitaire. Nous, membres actifs ou à la
retraite de l'enseignement du droit, nous croyons que le premier
anniversaire d'un événement aussi grave ne peut passer inaperçu et doit,
au contraire, susciter chez tout citoyen une sérieuse réflexion à la
mesure de l'enjeu.
La guerre a été préparée, décidée et menée à l'encontre des principes
les plus fondamentaux du droit international.
L'action de l'OTAN suivit l'échec des négociations de Rambouillet. Or,
ces dernières avaient enregistré des avancées sérieuses sur les dossiers
politiques du conflit, avant que des conditions de dernière minute, de
toute évidence inacceptables pour la partie serbe, ne précipitent
l'impasse. C'est à dire la guerre.
Son déclenchement violait à l'évidence la Charte des Nations Unies, qui
n'autorise exceptionnellement le recours à la force qu'en cas de
légitime défense ou d'autorisation du Conseil de sécurité. Prémisses
inexistantes dans ce cas.
Enfin, la manière dont les bombardements ont été menés contredit les
règles de droit international qui régissent la conduite des hostilités.
De manière générale, la destruction systématique de l'infrastructure
économique et des moyens de communication, délibérément destinée à
décourager la population et à provoquer son soulèvement, sont
incompatibles avec les principes humanitaires invoqués pour les
justifier.
Ceci dit, nous voudrions manifester avec clarté que notre condamnation
sans réserve de l'action de l'OTAN, n'implique nullement adhésion ni
complaisance envers les autorités de Belgrade et particulièrement envers
leur gestion de la question ethnique. De même, notre réprobation,
toujours actuelle, de la poursuite sans fondement légal des
bombardements de l'Irak et de l'embargo contre ce pays, ne peut être
interprétée comme une quelconque allégeance envers le régime de Bagdad.
La stratégie de guerre, qui a dévasté la Yougoslavie et rendu non-viable
le Kosovo, a produit plus de réfugiés et de victimes qu'en aurait causé
toute autre combinaison de pression politique et de diplomatie. Elle
mérite d'être contestée, tant du point de vue politique que du point de
vue moral. Elle fut par ailleurs accompagnée d'une campagne médiatique
visant à légitimer systématiquement l'agression en cours.
Les dispositions prises après la fin des bombardements tendent à
conditionner l'aide internationale aux résultats électoraux internes en
Yougoslavie et à privilégier l'aide en fonction des options politiques
prises par ses destinataires, ce qui constitue un moyen peu honorable
d'intervention politique dans les affaires internes d'un pays souverain.
Quant au Kosovo, il est devenu, sous l'administration créée suite à
l'agression de l'OTAN, une région quasiment mono-ethnique où les
minorités non albanaises, qu'elles soient serbe, rom, slave, musulmane,
juive, turque ou croate, ont dû fuir les attentats ou se réfugier dans
des ghettos.
Nous voudrions aussi souligner le fait que la guerre menée en
Yougoslavie revêt une signification qui dépasse de loin le cas de ce
pays. En effet, l'intervention de l'OTAN au Kosovo, sous la direction
des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, s'inscrit dans une série de choix opérés par
l'unique superpuissance du monde. Le gigantisme de son budget militaire;
le choix de maintenir l'OTAN malgré la dissolution du Traité de Varsovie
et la fin de l'URSS, puis de l'élargir à l'Est de l'Europe; le refus de
ratifier le Traité d'interdiction des essais nucléaires; le
développement des systèmes antimissiles et la récente révélation de
l'existence d'un système mondial d'écoute des communications privées et
officielles, tels sont les aspects les plus saillants d'un nouveau
modèle d'exercice du pouvoir dessiné à Washington et dont la seule
légitimité résiderait dans la possession et l'emploi d'outils de
coercition chaque fois plus performants.
Voilà pourquoi, nous invitons tous ceux qui partagent ces inquiétudes
et qui refusent que les bombes soient l'alternative à la légalité
internationale, à la négociation, au dialogue démocratique, à signer cet
appel et à faire de lui, partout dans le monde, un instrument de
résistance morale face au nouvel "ordre" planétaire qui s'annonce.
Premièrs signataires :
Olivier CORTEN, professeur au Centre de Droit International, Université
libre de Bruxelles (ULB); Eric DAVID, professeur à l'ULB; Barbara
DELCOURT, membre de l'Institut d'études européennes, professeur à l'ULB;
François HOUTART, professeur émérite à l'Université catholique de
Louvain (UCL); Pierre KLEIN, professeur à l'ULB, Paulette PIERSON-MATHY,
professeur à l'ULB, Yves ROGISTER, chargé de recherche auprès du CADOP,
université de Liège, François RIGAUX, professeur émérite à l'UCL, ancien
doyen de la Faculté de Droit, Jean SALMON, professeur émérite à l'ULB;
Eric SUY, professeur émérite à la KUL, ancien secrétaire général adjoint
des Nations Unies.
Les adhésions peuvent être envoyées aux adresses suivantes:
François Houtart, CETRI
5, Av. Sainte Gertrude
B- 1348 LOUVAIN LA NEUVE
par e-mail: action-kosovo@...
par fax : 010-45083152
Soutien financier: CETRI, N° de cpte 068-0602320-74; mention: l'Appel de
Bruxelles.
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KOSOVO must not be forgotten:
BRUSSELS APPEAL
In the spring of 1999 Brussels, as the headquarters of NATO, was the
centre of decision and execution of the bombing of Yugoslavia by the 19
member nations of that organisation in the name of human rights. We,
active in or retired from the teaching of law, believe that the first
anniversary of such a serious event must not go unnoticed, but on the
contrary should induce every citizen to think seriously about the
enormous stakes.
The war was prepared, decided and prosecuted against the most
fundamental principles of international law.
NATO decided to take action after the Rambouillet talks broke down. And
yet these talks had made serious progress of the political issues before
last minute conditions, which were totally unacceptable to the Serbs,
led to an impasse. In other words, to war.
The outbreak of the war was a flagrant violation of the United Nations
Charter, which authorises the use of force only in exceptional cases of
legitimate self-defence or with the authorisation of the Security
Council. There were no such premises, in this case.
Finally, the way in which the bombing was carried out violates the rules
of international law which govern the conduct of hostilities. In
general, the systematic destruction of the economic infrastructure and
the means of communication, deliberately intended to discourage the
population and provoke an uprising, are incompatible with the
humanitarian principles invoked to justify them.
That said, our wishing to express our unequivocal and unreserved
condemnation of the action taken by NATO in no way implies any support
of or complacency towards the Belgrade authorities and in particular
their management of the ethnic question. Similarly, our sustained
reprobation of the continuation, without any legal grounds, of the
bombing of Iraq and the embargo imposed on this country, must not be
interpreted as any allegiance to the Baghdad regime.
The war strategy that devastated Yugoslavia and made Kosovo non-liveable
produced more refugees and victims than would have been caused by any
other combination of force and diplomacy. So it must be contested, both
from the political and the moral point of view. It was accompanied by a
media campaign to systematically legitimise the operations under way.
The arrangements made at the end of the bombing are intended to make
international aid contingent to the results of elections in Yugoslavia
and make aid contingent on the political options adopted by its
beneficiaries, which is not a very honourable means of political
interventions in the internal affairs of a third country. For its part,
under the UN administration created in Kosovo following the NATO
aggression, this region has become a virtually mono-ethnical one, where
non-Albanian minorities, be they Serbs, Gypsies, Slavs, Muslims, Jews,
Turks or Croats, had to flee from attacks or take refuge in ghettos.
We should also like to underscore the fact that the consequences of the
war waged in Yugoslavia extend far beyond the borders of this country.
More specifically, NATO's intervention in Kosovo, under the leadership
of the United States, is in line with a series of choices made by the
sole remaining superpower. Its gargantuan military budget; keeping NATO
in place, in spite of the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the end of
the USSR, and even to enlarge it by including Eastern Europe; projecting
armed force on the world arena by treating international institutions
with disdain; refusing to ratify the nuclear test ban treat; developing
anti-missile systems and, as recently discovered, a world-wide system
for eavesdropping on private and official calls are the most salient
aspects of a new model for exercising power charted in Washington, based
solely on the possession and use of ever more sophisticated instruments
of coercion.
That is why we call on all those who share these concerns and no longer
wish to see bombs as the alternative to international law, negotiations,
and democratic dialogue, to sign this appeal and turn it, everywhere in
the world, into an instrument of moral resistance against the new world
"order" that is emerging.
First signatories,
Olivier Corten, Professor at the Centre for International Law, Free
University of Brussels (ULB); Eric David, Professor at the ULB; Barbara
Delcourt, member of the Institute of European Studies, Professor at the
ULB;
François Houtart, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of
Louvain
(UCL); Pierre Klein, Professor at the ULB; Paulette Pierson-Mathy,
Professor at the ULB; Yves Rogister, Researcher at the CADOP, University
of
Liège; François Rigaux, Professor Emeritus at the UCL, former Dean of
the
Faculty of Law; Jean Salmon, Professor Emeritus at the ULB ; Eric Suy,
Professor Emeritus at the KUL ; former assistant general secretary of
the United Nations."
If you want to adhere to the Appeal, please send your name to:
CETRI
5, Av. Sainte Gertrude
1348 Louvain La Neuve
BELGIUM
By e-mail: action-kosovo@...
or fax to 32.10.453152
Financial support: CETRI; Account no. 000-1306002-91; mention:
Brussels Appeal
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> Liste d'adhésions par pays au 01.06.2000
>
>
> ALLEMAGNE
>
>
> Altvater, Elmar; prefesseur à l'Université de Berlin; président de la
> Fondation
> Lelio Basso.
> Roksandic Mirjana ; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ;
> Rostock
> Wilke, Joachim; philosophe
>
> AUTRICHE
>
> Blau, Paul; professeur à l'Université de Vienne
> Meissner, Freda; journaliste
>
>
> BELGIQUE
>
> Algoet Peter ; filosoof, socratiker, Gent
> André Edgar ; prof. hon. univ. Mons-Hainaut ; Havré
> Arnauts Laurent ; avocat
>
> Bàrdos-Féltoronyi Nicolas ; professeur UCL
> Bekaert Xavier ; Université Libre de Bruxelles
> Benda Wim ; KU Leuven
> Berghezan Georges ; journaliste, Bruxelles
> Biot, Paul ; directeur du Centre de Théâtre Action
> Bouckaert André ; professeur. UCL
> Bovy Yannick ; journaliste
> Bricmont Jean ; professeur de physique, UCL
> Carton Bruno ; chargé de recherches GRESEA
> Collon Michel ; écrivain; journaliste
> De Belder Bert ; coordinateur Médecine pour le tiers-monde
> De Brabander Ludo ; Mouvement pour la Paix "Vrede vzw"
> Decroly Vincent ; député Parti Ecolo
> Dermagne Jean-Marie ; avocat, chargé de recherche au SIRDE,
> Louvain-la-Neuve
> De Vos Pol ; Président Ligue anti-impérialiste
> De Wilde Yvon ; documentaliste , Bruxelles
> Dhont Riet ; Parti du travail de Belgique
> Doyen, Paul, enseignant, Bruxelles
> Dutry Guillemine ; Grez-Doiceau
>
> Franchoo Serge ; chercheur Université Catholique Leuven
> Franck Robert ; prof. Université Catholique de Louvain
>
> Galand Pierre ; Ancien Président d'OXFAM-Belgique; Président du
CNPPD;
> Président du Forum Nord-Sud
> Georlette, Rob ; pharmacien à Putte
>
> Kapper, Alain ; chercheur
> Kerckhofs J.P. ; porte-parole de l'Appel pour une école démocratique"
> Kontodimas Christos ; journaliste
>
> Martens Ludo ; président du Parti du travail de Belgique
> Merckx Kris ; Nationaal woordvoerder Partij van de Arbeid van België
> Moins, Jacques; ancien député par Bruxelles; avocat; journaliste
>
> Nerinckx Wim ; Univ. Gent
>
> Peeters Anne ; directrice GRESEA
> Pestiau Jean ; professeur de physique, UCL
> Piérart Pierre ; prof. honoraire Université Mons-Hainaut
> Pôlet Claudine ; Comité de surveillance OTAN, Bruxelles
> Poznanski Marcel ; Comité de surveillance OTAN, Bruxelles
>
> Romain Roger ; ex-conseiller communal PCB
> Rossa Rosso Nadine ; secrétaire générale du Parti du travail de
Belgique
>
> Soetewey Jan ; Christenen voor het Socialisme
> Spriet Georges ; Vrede vzw
>
> Van den Hove Didier ; Louvain-la-Neuve
> Valverde t.a., Hernán ; avocat au barreau de Bruxelles ; licencié en
> droit
> international
> Vandepitte Marc ; Deurne
> Vanhoutte Peter ; volksvertegenwoodiger (député) Agalev
> Vanoost, Lode ; AGALEV (parti écolo-flamand), vice-président de la
> chambre
> de répresentants
> Versluys Jan ; Destelbergen
> Watté Jeroen ; KU Leuven
>
>
> BOSNIE HERZEGOVINE
>
> Past Martin S. ; Peace Office Outpost Sarajevo
>
> BULGARIE
>
> Doncheva Blagovesta
>
>
> CANADA
>
> Baillargeon Normand ; prof. Univ. du Québec, Montréal
> Soucy Pascal ; Gaspé
> Wells Christopher ; Hunter River, P.E.I.
>
>
> COSTA RICA
>
> Wagner Ureta Eric
>
>
> DANEMARK
>
> Diwan Zohair ; lecturer, economist
> Tarp Sven ; Associated professor Aarhus School of Business
>
>
> ESPAGNE
>
> Pena Lorenzo ; maître de recherche au CSIC, Madrid
> Rademacher, Gerda
> de Trazegnies Granda, Leopoldo ; prof. F.P.O. Sevilla
> Etxezarreta, Miren, Professeur d'économie appliqué; Université de
> Barcelona
>
>
> ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE
>
> Chomsky Noam; Linguiste, écrivain, Professeur au Massachusets
Institut
> of
> Technology.
> d'Aymery Gilles ; Swans.com
> Dion Roland ; San Diego CA
> Feldman Alex ; Boston, MA
> Hey Nancy Alison ; Washington D.C.
> Johnstone, Diana ; journaliste
> Makara Petar ; IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY
> Mitrovic-Minic Snezana ; Senior Software Engineer, Simon Fraser
> University,
> Burnaby, BC
> Progovac Ljiljana ; Associate Professor, Wayne State University,
> Detroit, MI
> Robertson Barton W. ; Torrance, CA
> Ward, Morehouse; Leading member of the Council on International and
> Public Affairs, New York
> Welsh Joe ; student, Ohio University
>
>
> FRANCE
>
> Albala, Nuri; Avocat à la Cour, Paris; membre de l'AIJD.
> Andréani Caroline ; comité "Halte à l'OTAN"
> Badiou, Alain; philosophe, dramaturge, professeur à l'École Normale
> Supérieur d'Ulm et à l'Université de Paris VII
> Ballin Bernard ; médecin ; Chazey-sur-Ain
> Belougne Dominique ; Université de Bordeaux II
> Bidard, Sophie ; site Internet Résistance, Paris
> Bourdieu Pierre ; sociologue, professeur au Collège de France
> Bullard Linda ; présidente Féd. int. des mouvements de l'agriculture
> biologique
> Debray, Régis ; écrivain
> Delorca, Frédéric; co-fondateur du site "Résistance", Paris
> Fonseca Jean-Marc
> Krivine Jean-Paul ; psychologue
> Labica Georges ; prof. émérite des Universités (F)
> Menexiadis Dimitri ; maître de conférences, Université Bretagne Sud,
> Lorient
> Miracle Sole, salvador ; chercheur CNRS, Marseille
> Pecker, Jean-Claude; Professeur honoraire d'Astrophysique théorique
au
> College de France.
> Pergnier Maurice ; Prof. émérite Univérsité Paris-Val de Marne
> Richier Jean-Paul ; medecin, Paris
> Van Muylder, Céline ; étudiante ;
> Weil, Roland; Avocat; Président de l'Association Internationale de
> Juristes
> Démocrates
>
>
> GRECE
>
> Axelos, Loukas ; écrivain
> Charamambidis, Michalist ; sociologue
> Damianakou, Maria ; écrivain
> Meletzis, Spyros ; photographe ; ancien résistant
> Kalomendou, Theophanie ; docteur en philosophie
>
>
> INDE
>
> Sharma, Jitendra; Senior Advocate at the Indias's Supreme Court;
> Secretary
> General, International Association of Democratic Lawyers.
>
>
> ISRAEL
>
> Budeiri Musa ; Bir Zeit Univ., Jérusalem
> Cohen Raya ;
> Eylon Debbie ; Jérusalem
> Matar Anat ; Tel Aviv Univ.
> Pelleg Sryck Tamar ; Human rights lawyer
> Weiss Ronit
> Wollin Amos ; journaliste, Tel Aviv
>
>
> ITALIE
>
> Amit Daniel ; Istituto "La Sapienza", Rome
> Gallo Domenico; juge, Rome
> Hambye Thomas ; chercheur au Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome
> La Valle, Ranieri; sénateur
> Marenco Franco ; ENEA, Roma
> Parisi Giorgio ; Université de Roma "La Sapienza"
> Tognoni, Gino; Sécretaire Général de la Fondation International Lelio
> Basso
>
>
> MEXIQUE
>
> Dvoeglazov Valeri ; Professeur, Mexico
> Lopez Castro Gabriel, Professeur, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico
> Lopez Laval Hilda ;
> Manko Vladimir S., Professeur, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico
>
>
> PALESTINE (territoires occupés)
>
> Budeiri Musa ; Bir Zeit Univ. , Jérusalem
>
>
> PAYS - BAS
>
> Dekker Nico ; Université libre d'Amsterdam
> de Tollenaere Herman ; écrivain historien, Leiden
> van Asseldonk Chris, Ton ; La Haye
>
> PHILIPPINES
>
> Mariano Rafael ; chairperson, BAYAN Philippines (New Patriotic
Alliance)
>
> Pagaduan-Araullo Carolina ; executive director, Philippine Peace
Center
>
>
> ROYAUME - UNI
>
> Browne Chedmond ; African history lecturer, Montserrat
> Hall Duncan ; chercheur
> Jayan, Nayar; professor at the School of Law; University of Warwick
> Liebling, Helen; psychologue, University of Warwick
> McGettigan Andrew ; social housing worker
> Paliwala, Abdul; professeur at the School of Law; University of
Warwick
> Rangwalla, Glenn; Political Sciences professor Cambridge University
> White Jonathan ; Research student
>
>
> RUSSIE
>
> Lukin Alexander; fondateur du Comité pour la Paix en Yougoslavie,
>
>
> SRI LANKA
>
> Bala, Tampoe; secrétaire général de la Ceylan Mercantil Industrie,
Sir
> Lanka
>
>
> SUISSE
>
> Sanz Markus ; membre fondateur du Comité pour la Paix en Yougoslavie,
> professeur au collège de Genève (CH) (050400)
> Weber, Franz; écologiste; président de la Fondation "Weber"
>
>
> VENEZUELA
>
> Pardo Adolfo ; dirigeant syndical, Caracas
>
>
> YOUGOSLAVIE
>
> Grubacic Andrej ; co-fondateur du site Résistance, Belgrade.
> Vidanovic Djordje ; Prof. Univ. Nis
>
>
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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PATENTE SERBA
Mi sento in obbligo di segnalare una cosa,
assolutamente non giusta. Sono serbo, impiegato in
Italia. A Belgrado mi sono laureato in ingegneria
elettronica, dopo di che ho fatto un master alla
Bocconi. In Italia la patente di guida serba non e'
riconosciuta. Invece, ad esempio, quella croata o
slovena sì.
Visto che più di dieci anni fa, in ex-Jugoslavia,
tutti abbiamo fatto la stessa scuola di guida (l'unica
che c'era, quella statale) sembrerebbe almeno ridicolo
dire che croati o sloveni guidano meglio di serbi.
Dejan Pesic
Lettera apparsa su "La Repubblica" del 9/7/2000
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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Mi sento in obbligo di segnalare una cosa,
assolutamente non giusta. Sono serbo, impiegato in
Italia. A Belgrado mi sono laureato in ingegneria
elettronica, dopo di che ho fatto un master alla
Bocconi. In Italia la patente di guida serba non e'
riconosciuta. Invece, ad esempio, quella croata o
slovena sì.
Visto che più di dieci anni fa, in ex-Jugoslavia,
tutti abbiamo fatto la stessa scuola di guida (l'unica
che c'era, quella statale) sembrerebbe almeno ridicolo
dire che croati o sloveni guidano meglio di serbi.
Dejan Pesic
Lettera apparsa su "La Repubblica" del 9/7/2000
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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I telegiornali nei giorni scorsi ci informavano che le truppe italiane
hanno finalmente preso il controllo dell'aereoporto di Pristina.
Viva le truppe italiane!
Viva L'Italia!
Viva l'Albania italiana!
Eia eia alala'!
* ELENCO ATTI TERRORISTICI DAL 24 MAGGIO AL 26 GIUGNO SCORSI
* TRUPPE OCCUPATRICI ARRESTANO SERBO ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE
* VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO DI DECANI
* L'ANALISI DELL'ISTITUTO CATO (LINK)
* KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO TRA MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
* FLASHBACK: GLI EBREI KOSOVARI SCACCIATI DALL'UCKFOR
* IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
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CRIMINI COMMESSI DAL FANATISMO NAZIONALISTA PANALBANESE
IN KOSMET TRA IL 24 MAGGIO ED IL 26 GIUGNO 2000.
***DA NON RIPORTARE SUI GIORNALI***
(From: John Jay Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [STOPNATO] [serbrights] [Fwd: sign and email/KOSOVO] STOP
NATO:
¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM )
_________
So far, we've only sent this out to the IHT. Of course, there are many
other
newspapers/TV channels, etc., ...
_________
Sir: - We challenge the International Herald Tribune to publish the
disgraceful diary of evil racial persecution set out below.
We dare the IHT to show its readers, all over the world, what
kind
of a job of "Humanitarian Protection" KFOR troops and UNMIK's so-called
"Peacekeepers" are doing to "keep the peace" in Kosovo today ?... This
is
real news... Why not publish it ?... Let's see how fair and open-minded
a
'great' "Democratic" newspaper can honestly be !
The Western media shows remarkably little interest in the
suffering
of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo. Sure, we're told of an
occasional incident, here and there, but even then obscured in very
small
print, usually on the inside pages - where are the headlines !
Is
this what is really meant by "Free" Press - the "freedom" merely to pick
and
choose what you tell your readers, strictly according to how its telling
may
or may not suit the agendas of the incumbent political administrators in
Washington ? Do you believe that votes supposedly reflecting American
public
'opinion' formed in this way, on the basis of selective misinformation,
is
anything like an exercise in true 'democracy' ?
Your readers wouldn't ! - If they only knew that's how it
really is
- ! Happy 4th of July !...
All details and statistics below- (strictly according to
routine
nformation known to and monitored by members of the International Red
Cross)
- are matters of official UNMIK record.
All were in Kosovo, an autonomous province of the sovereign
Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia - currently occupied and
supposedly
"protected", under UN mandate, by KFOR troops.
This is just a one month catalogue of the racial crime and
brutal
persecution carried out against Serbs and other non-Albanians between 24
May
and 26 June of this year only !
__________________________________________
TERRORIST ACTS COMMITTED BY ALBANIANS,
FORMERLY OF THE (KLA) THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY,
BETWEEN 24 MAY - 26 JUNE 2000.
1. Murder of Vladimir Ilic, a Kosovo Serb, 50, on his doorstep at Vitina
on
24 May;
2. Attack on Kosovo Serbs in the village of Dobrotin, Municipality of
Lipljan, on 26 May, on which occasion 4 Serbian civilians were gravely
wounded;
3. Throwing of a hand grenade on a Serbian cafe at Bresje on 26 May, on
which occasion 5 Serbians were gravely wounded;
4. Setting a fire in the Trepca complex in southern Kosovska Mitrovica
on 6
May which caused enormous material damage;
5. Attack on a group of Serbs in front of a store in the village of
Cernica, on 28 May, in the Municipality of Gnjilane, on which occasion
Tihomir Trifunovic, Vojin Vasic and a 5-year old, Milos Petrovic, were
killed and two other Serbian civilians were gravely wounded;
6. Armed attacks on a local police patrol in the village of Konculj on
23
and 24 May and a mortar attack on the members of local Kosovo Serbian
police, on 30 May, in the village of Lucane ;
7. Attack on Serbian civilians in the village of Klokot, Municipality
of
Vitina, on 31 May, in which Lepterka Marinkovic, 67, was killed and
another
3 Serbs were gravely wounded;
8. Murder of Milutin Trajkovic, 33, a Serbian, in the village of Babin
Most,
on 31 May, in the Municipality of Obilic;
9. Murder of Iso Heta, 71, an elderly retired member of the Ministry of
the
Interior, on 31 May;
10. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of Kosovo Serb, Djordje
Velickovic, on 1 June, at Obilic, on which occasion Misko Todorovic was
also gravely wounded;
11. Killing of two Serbs, Sinisa Dimic and Vlastimir Milic, and
wounding of
3 others on 2 June, two of them underage children, in an automobile
which
ran over an anti-tank mine planted by Albanian terrorists the night
before
on the road between the Serbian villages of Ugljari and Preoce near
Pristina;
12. Burning down of a number of Serbian houses in both Prizren and
Decani on
3 June;
13. Continued arbitrary arrests of Kosovo Serbian civilians by KFOR and
UNMIK, on 7 June, of which one of the most drastic examples was the
arrest
of Nebojsa Stojanovic, 30, at Gracanica, who was apprehended while in an
intensive care unit following a serious injury sustained after KFOR
opened
automatic fire on Serbs protesting about the terror of the so-called
Kosovo
Liberation Army, (of which this catalogue is one brief example);
14. Brutal attack and wounding of Jovan Cerovic, 55, a Serb, on 8 June,
by
10 terrorists with clubs in the district of Obilic;
15. Burning of a number of Serbian houses at Obilic on 9 June;
16. Anduction of Safet Pucurica, 37, a worker from Kosovska Mitrovica on
10
June, on the road Vucitrn-Kosovska Mitrovica;
17. Armed attack on an automobile driven by 4 Goranci (non-Albanian
Muslim)
on 9 June, near Orcus, Municipality of Gora, on which occasion one of
these
civilians was severely wounded;
18. Burning of Serbian houses at Obilic and the dynamiting of Roma
(Gypsy)
houses on 10 June, in the village of Novo Rujce, Municipality of
Lipljan;
19. Setting a fire in the Kosovo Serbian restaurant "Lotos" on 10 June;
20. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Orahovac on 12 and 13 June;
21. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Obilic on 14 June;
22. Abduction, rape and mutilation of a 14-year old Serbian girl in
Pristina
on 14 June;
23. Killing of Zlatibor Denic and Borko Filipovic and the wounding of
Dejan
Filipovic on 15 June, the latter losing both his arms and legs, in an
automobile which ran over an anti-tank mine planted by the terrorists of
the
Kosovo Liberation Army on the road between the villages of Preoce and
Lepina;
24. Attack on humanitarian convoys heading for Serbian Strpce on both 30
May
and on 16 June, in the villages of Radivojce and Pozarane;
25. Mortar attack on the Decani monastery near Pec, on the night of 21
and
22 June. Decani monastery was built in 1335. It is one of the treasures
of
Serbian cultural heritage, housing frescoes of great value and a large
number of priceless ancient manuscripts and icons;
26. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of a Serb, Toma Ivkovic, in
Gnjilane on 21 June, on which occasion Mr. Ivkovic's mother was wounded;
27. Brutal abduction of 2 Serbs, Vlada, 80, and Persa Miletic, 50, on 21
June, in the village of Mali Trnovac, in the Municipality of Bujanovac.
Their fate is still unknown;
28. Abduction of Serb, Bozidar Markovic, 60, on 23 June, in the village
of
Susice, Municipality of Strpci ;
29. Abduction of 14-year Serbian boy Jovica Milic, while tending his
herd on
24 June, in the village of Susice, Municipality of Stprce. He managed to
escape, sustaining serious injuries and psychological stress;
30. Mortar attack on eleven Serbian houses in the village of Velika
Hoca, on
24 June in the Municipality of Orahovac ;
31. Abduction of Kosovo Serbian, Tomislav Markovic, on the
Podujevo-Pristina
road on 24 June;
32. Murder of Kica Milanovic, 50, a Kosovo Serbian, on his doorstep at
Kosovo Polje on 25 June;
33. Attempt to abduct Milorad Soric, a Kosovo Serb civilian, in front of
his
house on 26 June, in Orahovac, on which occasion he escaped but was
seriously injured."
The UN calls this - "Humanitarian Protection" ?.... What would
your
readers call it ???...They were shown more of a single child's boot
(blue -
remember it ?) than they will ever see of the continuing inhuman misery
inflicted, every day, on Serbian men, women and children in Kosovo.
John Jay
London
ppdscat@...
"Human rights are for ALL humans, including Serbs!"
---
ARRESTATO DALLE TRUPPE DI OCCUPAZIONE STATUNITENSI SERBO
ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE CONTRO IL REGIME RAZZISTA DELLA KFOR
> > Danas, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
> > July 6, 2000
> >
> > Radojko Kecic arrested
> >
> > Strpce (Beta) - American KFOR soldiers arrested
> > photographer Radojko Kecic
> > of Strpce yesterday for organizing the demonstration
> > of the Serbs in this
> > town in the south of Kosovo. Kecic, the owner of a
> > photo shop, was taken to
> > the American military base Bondsteel near Urosevac.
> >
> > Approximately ten Polish and American special forces
> > soldiers arrested
> > Kecic while he was purchasing food at a nearby kiosk.
> > According to Serb
> > sources in Strpce, American KFOR soldiers have created
> > a list of 46 persons
> > of Serb nationality who participated in the
> > demonstrations and road blocks
> > in Strpce. Kecic, the same sources state, is the first
> > from that list to be
> > arrested.
> >
> > Translated by S. Lazovic (July 6, 2000)
---
VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO MEDIOEVALE DI DECANI.
SILENZIO ASSOLUTO DEGLI "INTELLETTUALI" SERVILI D'EUROPA
SUL VANDALISMO CONTINUATO A SFONDO RAZZISTA AI DANNI DEI
MONUMENTI DELLA CULTURA ORTODOSSA IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
> From: Kiehl <emilia@...>
> To: Undisclosed.Recipients@...
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> Date: Jueves 22 de Junio de 2000 12:00 PM
>
>
>
> Date: 22 June 2000 09:30
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
>
>
> >Dear all, please see if you can help and/or forward to anyone who you
may
> >think can do something about this. Love Branka
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bob Petrovich <bojanp@...>
> >To: Branka Perry <branka.jp@...>
> >Date: 22 June 2000 04:01
> >Subject: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Branka, I need help, someone who can write
> >>letter in precise legalese on subject explained below.
> >>
> >>I plan to press Finnish government for
> >>their role in destruction of Christian
> >> shrines in Kosovo !
> >>
> >>There is no time, we have to start Friday, to time delivery for
> >>Monday morning.
> >>
> >>20 people from 10 or so OSCE countries will do the trick.
> >>
> >>For success, we need several waves of 20 people spread in several days.
> >>
> >>I have already collected emails and phone numbers of
> >>people in Finnish Foreign ministry, Public prosecutor for international
> >>affairs and others in Ministry
> >>of justice and Government ombudsman. I will distibute that list to
anyone
> >>who
> >>agree to actively participate ( send e-mail and
> >>later follow up over the phone)
> >>
> >>
> >>Under Finnish law, anyone REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY can file
> >>complaint for criminal conduct of Finnish public servant. They forgot
to
> >>change rules with advent of the Net.
> >>
> >>Please let me know what you think about it, can you help and if your
group
> >>want to participate.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Best,
> >>
> >>B.
> >>-------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Dear xxxx
> >>
> >>Maybe you have already seen the urgent appeal of
> >>Fr. Sava regarding Decani Monastery.
> >>
> >>It is not only theft of private property and flagrant
> >>breach of the law, it is much worse.
> >>Monastery sits at the bottom of the mountain and water
> >>tower 150ft above it presents a real threat. Sabotage
> >>may cause water blast able of destroying monastery and
> >>killing everyone inside.
> >>
> >>The monks from the brotherhood are the last remaining
> >>Serbs in Decani area. All others minority Serbs are
> >>ethnically cleansed with silent approval of UNMIK and
> >>KFOR.
> >>
> >>Theft of Monastery land and plan to put Monastery in
> >>peril can not be seen but attempt to eradicate Serbs
> >>from the area.
> >>
> >>In Decani, local UNMIK administrator is Finnish.
> >>
> >>In another case, Finnish commander of KFOR approves of
> >>
> >>destruction of religious shrines.
> >>
> >>I want to stage blitz on Finnish institutions and ask
> >>the questions of Finnish Government involvement.
> >>Also, plan to ask for help Finnish Orthodox Church.
> >>
> >>Please could you help me and elaborate breaches of the
> >>law in both cases. I am lay person and can not do it.
> >>
> >>I will do the rest. Finland is "the most wired country
> >>in the world" and I intend to use it to the fullest
> >>extent.
> >>
> >>Every member of government and judicary
> >>is reachable by e-mail.
> >>
> >>If you agree with strategy, I will send you the list
> >>of all relevant e-mail addresses of all relevant
> >>institutions in Finland so you could start next wave
> >>
> >>Very truly yours,
> >>
> >>Bob Petrovich
> >>Willowdale, Canada
> >>mailto:bojanp@...
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Name: Ms.Helina Kokarinnen, Finland,
> >>Function: municipal administrator for Decani, Kosovo,
> >>Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal acts commited:
> >>
> >>1. Violation of private property. Ms.Kokarinnen issued
> >>licence for ground preparation works for building
> >>of water tower on private property without approval of
> >>the land owner (Serbian Orthodox Church). Work has
> >>commneced, tresspassers cut the ancient wood and stole
> >>lumber.
> >>
> >>2. endangering cultural monument - medieval monastery.
> >>Planned Water tower 50 meters above Monastery
> >>represent threat to Monastery . Sabotage or structural
> >>failure will cause water tidal wave able to destroy
> >>monastery.
> >>
> >>3. putting human lives in peril.monastery is
> >>permanently inhabited by monk brotherhood.
> >>
> >>4. failure to prevent criminal act -theft of private
> >>property ( lumber)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava possess copies of UNMIK documents.
> >>
> >>Text of documents can be seen at:
> >>http://www.egroups.com/message/yugoslaviainfo/2064?&start=2038
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava can be reached at:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava
> >>Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> >>Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,Kosovo and Metohija
> >>http://www.decani.yunet.com
> >>http://www.kosovo.com
> >>Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> >>Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> >>Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
> >>------------------------------------------------------
> >>pattern:
> >>-------------------------------------------------------
> >>Name: Colonel Arto Raty, Finland
> >>Function: head of KFOR operations in Slovinje,
> >>Kosovo, Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal act:
> >>public incitement of ethnic cleansing
> >>public incitement of dectruction of religious shrine
> >>activity contrary to given duty (enforcing UNSC 1244)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>"If a church has value as a historical place then
> >>clearly it should be guarded,but if it has no
> >>historical value and there is no chance of the
> >>Serbs returning anytime soon to the area, then
> >>it should be gently dismantled,"
> >>
> >>Finnish Colonel Arto Raty
> >>head of KFOR operations in Slovinje
> >>Source: REUTERS
> >>http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000613_699.html
> >>
> >>For importance of Churches for communities see the
> >>letter of World Council of Churches:
> >>
>
>>http://platon.ee.duth.gr/data/maillist-archives/orthodoxia/1999_12/msg0007
> 2
> >.
> >>html
> >>
> >>Church in Slovinje, where Col. Raty is head of KFOR
> >>was destroyed by Albanian externists.
> >>
> >>http://www.kosovo.com/crucified/default.htm#_catalog
> From: "Nancy A. Hey" <cattynancy@...> (by way of Herman de
> Tollenaere <hermantl@...>)
> To: office@...
> Subject: Decani old growth forest threatened in Kosovo [fwd]
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:27:32 +0200
>
> [small spelling corrections made]
>
> Subject: Decani Monastery Wood being Destroyed with UNMIK written
permission
>
> URGENT.....URGENT.....URGENT
>
> ALBANIANS DESTROYING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MONASTERY FOREST WITH UNMIK
WRITTEN
> PERMISSION
>
> I am taking this opportunity to inform you about very deplorable events
> which happened around Decani monastery in the last few days. According to
> the written permission of the municipal administrator for Decani, Ms.
> Helina Kokarinnen, local Albanian contractors were allowed to start
> cutting the monastery century old pine wood just 50 m above monastery of
> Decani. The cutting of wood was in fact a preparation for the building of
a
> water tower which is a part of a larger project of enlargement of the
water
> system for Decani. This project is undertaken by the Italian Company
COOPI.
> According to the information received
> yesterday from COOPI the plan was made in September 1999 and was approved
> by local UNMIK office.
>
> Neither the UNMIK administrator nor KFOR authorities or COOPI ever
> contacted the Monastery authorities about this undertaking, although the
> cutting of the wood and the clearing of the ground for a water tower is
> done on the property of Decani Monastery. The monks have reacted the very
> first day and requested from KFOR to stop the destruction of the monastery
> forest but KFOR answered with almost two days of delay granting the
> security to the monks to go to the location just 50 meters from the
> monastery. The monks had not dared go alone because of constant danger
from
> Kosovo Albanians who had even launched a mortar attacks three months ago
> against the monastery and make great pressures against the brotherhood.
>
> The consequences of this illegal operation are deplorable. More than 40
> cubic meters of pine wood have been cut and stolen by ethnic Albanians in
> their trucks ( 8 big trees). At least 20 more trees have been burned
> because the contractors wanted to be sure that the terrain is not mined
and
> conducted a mine-clearing operation destroying many other trees in the
> area. It is very important to know that this wood had been planted three
> centuries ago by Decani monks and majority of the cut pines, which were a
> landmark of Decani Monastery, are more than 150 years old. Therefore this
> is not only an issue of violation of the private property by UN
authorities
> and KFOR but also an environmental violation of one of the most beautiful
> and oldest pine forest in Kosovo.
>
> Decani Monastery and the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> have condemned this illegal act in strongest terms. The Church will ask
> from the Special Representative of the Secretary General Dr. Bernard
> Kouchner to launch a full investigation on this issue and the
> recompensation for the done damage.
>
> Attachment:
> Copy of the letter by which the UN administrator Ms HELINA KOKARINNEN
> granted a written permission to Kosovo Albanian contractor to cut
> unspecified number of trees in the monastery forest. Ms. Kokarinnen in
> her conversation with the monks behaved as if she did not know exactly
> what it was all about. This morning she left to Finland without any
> explanation to the monastery which requested an urgent meeting for today.
>
> >------------------------------------
> To KFOR - Decan/Decani
>
> June 14, 2000
>
> I have discussed with Nue Mulaj who is working for the organization
> COOPI (ID card no 26) as an excavator driver. Nue Mulaj is ready to cut
the
> trees needed for water supply working. According to Mr. Mulaj he has
agreed
> about cutting and carrying the trees with COOPI, wood company Djeravica
and
> KFOR representative. Mr. Mulaj can take and carry the trees for free from
> the forest.
>
> Helina Kokarinen
> Municipal administrator Municipality of Decan/Decani
>
> >--------------------------------------------
> With this letter which was shown by KFOR to the Monastery Authorities
> (we have a copy) it is evident that UNMIK administrator knew all from
> the beginning and in fact issued a blank permission to Kosovo Albanians to
> cut as many trees as they like. From COOPI authorities the Monastery
> learned that the location for this water tower was chosen by Albanians and
> that from the technical point of view the tower may have been constructed
> on another location. The monastery authorities think that the local
> Albanians deliberately chose this location in order to make a pressure on
> the monastery, violate its property and steal the valuable pine trees
free.
> It is sad that UNMIK and KFOR played such a deplorable role in all this.
>
> Fr. Sava
>
>
> >--
> Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
> Kosovo and Metohija
>
> http://www.decani.yunet.com
> http://www.kosovo.com
>
> decani@...
> Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
>
>
>
---
L'ANALISI DELLA SITUAZIONE SECONDO L'ISTITUTO CATO
Cato Policy Analysis No. 373
June 10, 2000
Dubious Anniversary: Kosovo One Year Later
by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz
Christopher Layne is a visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the
Cato Institute. Benjamin
Schwarz is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly
Executive Summary
One year after NATO ended its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, the
Clinton
administration’s Kosovo policy is a conspicuous failure. Kosovo is now
the scene of a brutal ethnic
cleansing campaign carried out by NATO’s erstwhile de facto ally, the
Kosovo Liberation Army,
an organization profoundly inimical to America’s interests and professed
values. The KLA is also
currently fomenting an insurgency elsewhere in Serbia, which promises to
destabilize the Balkans
even further.
The Clinton administration has embarked on yet another
multi-billion-dollar nation-building
adventure, which many analysts suggest will entangle the U.S. military
for a decade or longer.
This situation could have been avoided. Because of its inept diplomacy
and strategic
miscalculation, the administration bears a large measure of
responsibility for both Kosovo’s
humanitarian crisis a year ago and the KLA’s postwar thuggery. It is now
clear that the
administration’s claims of "horrific slaughter" and attempts at
"genocide" by the Serbs were gross
exaggerations designed to whip up
support for intervention from a skeptical Congress and public.
Confronting Kosovo’s depressing prospects, the administration consoles
itself that, as President
Clinton says, it "did the right thing in the right way" when it
intervened. Even granting that
doubtful premise, this is not enough to exonerate policymakers from
their responsibility for the
situation the United States confronts today. In the real world,
policymakers are judged by the
consequences of their actions, not by their intentions. The Kosovo war
has not vindicated the
administration’s doctrine of "virtuous power." By waging an avoidable
war, the Clinton
administration has saddled
the United States with a host of intractable problems.
Full Text of Policy Analysis No. 373 (PDF, 19 pgs, 79 Kb)
---
KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO: MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
>Original message:
>From: "robert rodvik" <robrod@...>
>To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
>Subject: Fw: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:13:43 -0700
>
>
>
>
>Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:07 PM
>Subject: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>
>
> In keeping with its propaganda role, CBC-TV continues the distortions
>and spin that characterized its coverage during NATO's bombing spree. The
>Ministry of Truth indicates that tonight, Friday June 23, 2000 that it is
>going to once again reprise the situation in Kosovo and surrounding
>environs. You can tune in to The National at 10p.m. and get all the latest
>spin on the National Magazine, which will most likely reiterate that the
>crimes of the Serbs were so evil that NATO had no other choice.
> The sad part of all this is that the Canadian taxpayer funds this
>propaganda operation.
>NIL ILLIGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM
>RR
>____________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>
>
>KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO
>NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
>Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
>
>Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's
>78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato
>control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media
>have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public
>serious retrospectives on the war and its aftermath. One
>reason for this may be that Nato's bombing campaign and
>year-long occupation not only failed to realize most of
>Nato's proclaimed objectives, but the intervention also
>produced a far higher level of ethnic violence than had
>existed previously--first against ethnic Albanians, then
>later against all ethnic minorities. As the Norwegian
>foreign affairs analyst Jan Oberg notes, "the largest ethnic
>cleansing in the Balkans [in percentage that fled] has
>happened under the very eyes of 45,000 Nato troops" in
>occupied Kosovo.
>
>True, Nato did eventually succeed in getting Belgrade to
>withdraw the Serb army from Kosovo. But in the process,
>Nato's bombing campaign triggered a Serb military response
>against ethnic Albanians that Nato officials themselves had
>predicted would occur; a response that was based not on the
>unprovoked nastiness of Serbs but rather on rational
>military calculations. Expulsions were greatest where
>fighting was heaviest, mainly in territories controlled by
>the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Indeed, in the words of
>the OSCE, much of the refugee flow was designed "to keep
>main communications routes open to supply Serb forces with
>material, fuel, and food." Moreover, although Nato had
>denied any collaboration with rebel forces during the
>bombing, top Nato officials now admit that KLA guerrillas
>were "constantly on the phone to Nato," and that Nato had
>"instigated" a major KLA offensive (Paul Richter, LA Times,
>June 10, 2000). President Clinton may have announced that
>the main purpose of bombing was "to deter an even bloodier
>offensive against innocent civilians in Kosovo" (March 24,
>1999), but as the bombing increased it exponentially (as
>well as adding Nato's contribution to Albanian pain), that
>aim was clearly not met.
>
>With the increase in violence following the bombing, Nato
>officials quickly announced that the Serb attacks and
>expulsions would have taken place anyway, under a
>pre-arranged plan the Serbs allegedly called "Operation
>Horseshoe." But no mention had ever been made of such a plan
>prior to the bombing, and a pre-war German Foreign Office
>report had even denied that Serb actions in Kosovo
>constituted "ethnic cleansing;" instead, the report found
>that the Serb military campaign was designed to quell an
>insurgency. UN Special Envoy Jiri Dienstbier says the same:
>"Before the bombing Albanians were not driven away on the
>basis of ethnic principle. [They were] victims of the brutal
>war between the Yugoslav army and the Kosovo Liberation
>Army" (CTK National News Wire, April 20, 2000). The fact
>that Belgrade was willing to allow 2,000 OSCE observers into
>Kosovo (although the OSCE contingent never exceeded 1,400),
>and that it objected strongly to their removal before Nato
>launched its bombing, is also inconsistent with a planned
>"Operation Horseshoe." As the retired German Brigadier
>General, and now a consultant with the OSCE, D. Heinz Loquai
>argues in his recent book, Der Kosovo-Konflikt Wege in einen
>Vermeidbaren Krieg ("The Kosovo Conflict: The Road to an
>Avoidable War"), the German Foreign Ministry's revelation
>two weeks into the war that it possessed intelligence
>confirming the existence of "Operation Horseshoe" was an
>outright fabrication culled from Bulgarian intelligence
>reports and the imagination of Nato military propagandists.
>None of this, however, has prevented apologists for Nato's
>war from repeating the lie that Operation Allied Force was
>justified by the imminent implementation of this mythical
>plan to "ethnically cleanse" Kosovo of its Albanian
>population. (On June 11, 2000, the ineffable George
>Robertson asked Jonathan Dimbleby on Britain's ITV to
>"imagine if almost 2 million refugees had been expelled...if
>Milosevic had succeeded with that ethnic cleansing.")
>
>In the face of the Nato-induced surge in violence in March
>and April 1999, Nato officials changed course and proclaimed
>that their new main objective was returning the Kosovo
>Albanians to their homes quickly and safely; and with the
>help of the media Nato successfully portrayed the bombing as
>a response to the mass exodus rather than its cause. But
>even this new objective was met only in part--the Albanians
>who had fled Kosovo did return quickly, but their safety and
>welfare were compromised by several factors. One was that
>Nato bombs had killed and seriously injured many hundreds of
>fleeing Albanians. Nato also used both deadly cluster bombs
>and depleted uranium munitions in Kosovo, a choice of
>weapons not conducive to the long-run safety of the
>returnees. To date, an estimated 100 people have been killed
>and many hundreds injured by exploding fragmentation bombs.
>The toll from depleted uranium-- radiation-induced
>illness--will come later, as it has in Iraq.
>
>Nato's bombing also contributed heavily to infrastructure
>damage, and reconstruction has been slow. Nato's generosity
>was largely exhausted in providing resources to destroy and
>kill--the estimated cost of the military operations against
>Yugoslavia has run in excess of $10 billion, whereas the
>resources spent for humanitarian aid and reconstruction in
>Kosovo have been well under $1 billion. Thus, hundreds of
>thousands remain homeless, jobless, and lacking in basic
>facilities.
>
>Nato's occupation also failed to bring law and order to
>Kosovo. This was partly a consequence of the destruction,
>poverty, and exacerbated hatred produced by the war. But it
>was also a result of the fact that, in direct violation of
>UN Resolution 1244 which called for the "demilitarization"
>of the KLA, under Nato authority the KLA has been
>incorporated into a "Kosovo Protection Corps," thereby
>legalizing and legitimating what until then had been an
>armed rebel force. This, plus the Nato bias in favor of the
>KLA and against the Serbs, has helped institutionalize a
>system of violence and pervasive fear, mainly damaging to
>the minority Serbs, Roma and Turks, but also adversely
>affecting most Kosovo Albanians. On top of this, organized
>crime has soared throughout the region. The British-based
>Jane's Intelligence Review reports that "large numbers of
>international criminals are now seeking refuge in Kosovo"
>(Paul Harris, June 1, 2000). According to a study by the
>International Crisis Group, the areas of southwest Serbia
>(both Kosovo and parts of Serbia proper) where the KLA's
>influence remains greatest have become the preferred "Balkan
>route" for the "heroin trail" between Turkey and Western
>Europe ("What Happened to the KLA," March 3, 2000).
>
>It must be admitted, however, that Nato did succeed in
>"teaching the Serbs a lesson." But what exactly was that
>lesson? Certainly not that ethnic cleansing is unacceptable
>to the Western conscience. Although Nato allegedly waged war
>to terminate ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and although an
>agreement of June 9, 1999, stipulated that Nato would
>"establish and maintain a secure environment for all
>citizens of Kosovo," under Nato's occupation somewhere
>between 60 and 90 percent of Serbs and Roma have left
>Kosovo, mainly because of KLA harassment, home burnings, and
>killing, and a large fraction of Kosovo's Jews and Turks
>have also fled. Thus the biggest story of Nato's 12-month
>occupation is that under Nato's watch, Kosovo's ethnic
>minorities have been subjected to a truly massive
>multi-ethnic cleansing. For the media, however, Nato is
>trying to do its best under difficult circumstances, and
>Milosevic remains the only villain in sight. And they fail
>to see that the only lesson taught the Serbs by Nato has
>been "Don't mess with us"--a lesson devoid of moral content.
>
>Now one year later, Nato's policies have not brought peace
>and stability to Kosovo and the Balkans. Kosovo is still
>legally a part of Yugoslavia, but while a Nato protectorate
>it has been turned over to the Albanians and KLA. This has
>allowed them to do a fine job of ethnic cleansing, but has
>made Kosovo a cauldron of hatred and violence and a likely
>base for further instability and warfare. Unwilling to
>provide large resources for rebuilding, Nato has no
>solutions and no evident "exit strategy." This was not
>"humanitarian intervention," it has been an irresponsible
>misuse of power that made a bad situation worse, gilded over
>with lofty rhetoric.
>
>Edward Herman is co-editor, with Philip Hammond, of Degraded
>Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis (Pluto, 2000);
>David Peterson is a Chicago-based researcher and journalist.
>
---
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"Terror in Kosovo"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ed.: The truth about Kosovo is still elusive. Was there a War? Did we
really win it? Are we supporting the right people? The following piece
offers a different perspective and questions our current understanding.
Introduced by Ben Works, Balkan scholar and one of our SFTT Trustees,
BenWorks@....
Last October, Colleagues of mine tracked down the head of the small
Jewish
community in Pristina, Kosovo for an interview. Mr Cedemir Prlincevic
confirmed that the Jewish community had been ethnically cleansed by the
KLA
and associated gangsters from Albania who overwhelmed Kosovo as they
flooded
into the province in tandem with NATO's occupation troops.
Today, our troops are surrounded by hostile KLA gunmen determined to
wrest
Kosovo from its native communities, and by sullen Serbs who have about
reached their limit of patience. It is an out-of-control situation.
A longer interview with Mr. Prlincevic is accessible at Mr. Israel's
website
"The Emperors Clothes":
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm,
or www.tenc.net
**********************************************************************
By Cedomir Prlincevic
Archivist & head of the Jewish community of Pristina and Jared Israel 24
October 1999
I appreciate very much the invitations from Global Reflexion to address
the
meeting held last night in Amsterdam, and the invitation from
"Association
Dialogue" to address the Conference tomorrow in Paris...
For months people in the West, and also, through satellite transmission,
those of us in Yugoslavia, have been bombarded with Western media claims
that NATO, that is the US and Germany, want to create, in Kosovo, a
multiethnic, democratic society.
We tend to believe that other people mean what they say. And therefore
I
and others in Pristina, believed that when KFOR, that is NATO, marched
into
Kosovo, they would protect the rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians.
The KFOR troops and the UCK crossed the border into Kosovo together;
they
entered Pristina together. Immediately the UCK and gangster elements
under
their leadership took over government institutions and fanned out, going
after the homes of non-Albanians and pro-Yugoslav Albanians.
I lived in a large complex of nice apartments inhabited by doctors,
lawyers,
university professors, managers of various institutions, the
intellectual
core of Pristina society. Right after KFOR arrived, the gangster
elements
attacked this section, called Milana. They moved up and down through
the
buildings, banging on doors, breaking down doors, throwing tear gas into
people's apartments, forcing them out on pain of death.
The Western media claims that KFOR has been "unable" to control the
action
of "mysterious gangs" who unfortunately have targeted Serbs, nor have
they
the manpower needed to prevent ethnic Albanians from Kosovo from
exacting
revenge. This is simply untrue.
When the Albanians attacked, one of my neighbors (a doctor) called
KFOR. An
English Major arrived with his squad. But the Albanians did not flee.
I
spoke to this Major. I asked him why he didn't do anything. He said
"This
is a job for the Civil Authorities." But you see, by then there were no
civil authorities other than the UCK. He said KFOR was only interested
in
cases of murder.
I showed him documents, confirming that I was the President of the
Jewish
community in Pristina. He replied: "Later." He didn't have time to
examine these papers. While the Major and his squad were there - before
their eyes - the gangsters continued their work. In some cases, when
residents
appealed to these British KFOR troops, the KFOR people took the part of
modern day Solomons. The Albanians explained their plight: "We have no
place to stay tonight." So the KFOR people said, "Why don't you share
this
apartment amongst yourselves!" - in other words, the gangsters were to
move
in with the prey.
KFOR left, the Albanians moved in, and then the Albanians said, "Now
leave
or we will slaughter you."
Under these circumstances, who would stay? We lost everything, years of
our
lives - our lives, and our community, the only place we can ever be at
home - gone. Stolen. About 30,000 people were driven from this huge
complex
in Milana in a matter of days. I have had to flee to tiny quarters in
Belgrade, I and my family, including my 81 year old mother.
The behavior of a large part of the Albanian population was terrible.
They
lied to support the NATO campaign of lies, inventing tales of harassment
and
mass executions. Secretly, and then openly, they supported the UCK.
These
people would never have done such terrible things were it not for years
of
encouragement from two centers - the United States and Germany.
Albanian culture unfortunately includes a strong strain of intolerance;
it
also has a powerful Clan structure which puts Clan leaders in a
dictatorial
position. These two cultural traits have been utilized by NATO to
provide
foot soldiers for modern-day fascism, complete with a liberal rhetorical
cover.
Recently I have tried to communicate to interviewers why the Albanians
left
for Macedonia and Albania during the war. I told them they didn't
understand the significance of certain features of modern Albanian
culture.
It is very closed off, very self-oriented, and very much under the
control
of the leaders of Clans. The word 'clans' is not used here simply to
describe a formal structural feature of Albanian society. Quite the
contrary, clans are the actual, functioning social unit of vast numbers
of
Albanians.
During the bombing, my neighbor, an ethnic Albanian, left. I asked him
why
are you leaving? We're not getting killed in this housing development,
we're all helping each other, and we're all together in the air raid
shelter - why are you leaving? And he just looked at me, and he
said, "I have to. I've been told to leave now. Everyone will be
leaving
now."
And that was that. This man and his wife, who were sophisticated
intellectuals, whose children played with the Serbian children, whom I
had
considered to be friends - they were leaving.
Many opponents of the war thought the UCK was making a big mistake by
terrorizing Albanians. But it wasn't making a mistake. It was making a
point to the clan leaders: we have the backing of NATO and we will kill
Albanians who buck us. Given the existence of anti-Serb racism among
Albanians, this we're-the-winning-team argument brought the leaders into
line.
Huge numbers of Albanians left Kosovo during the bombing. They did not
leave because Serbs were slaughtering them, which was a made-up story.
They
did not leave because they were getting bombed; though they were getting
bombed. They left because they were told to leave by their clan
leaders.
Vast numbers of people from all over the world have protested the
bombing of
Yugoslavia. In doing so they have created a movement out of the
political
shambles of our world.
And yet it is now, after the cessation of bombing, that we have entered
the
worst hell. This terrible fascist-like invasion has created far worse
suffering than the bombing. Some are driven out, some disappear, some
are
murdered and their murders attributed to forces beyond NATO's control.
Some, like the Serbs and Roma of Orahovac, have been imprisoned in a new
Warsaw Ghetto.
I urge those who care about Justice not to remain silent.
---
IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 14, 2000
President Honours Albanian KLA Volunteers Killed in Kosovo
TIRANA - Albanian President Rexhep Meidani has honoured two Albanians
killed while fighting for the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
against Serbian forces last year, the presidency said on Tuesday.
Meidani, marking the first anniversary of the entry of NATO troops into
Kosovo, acknowledged for the first time the role played by Albanian
volunteers by awarding Indrit Cara and Astrit Suli the Golden Eagle
medal.
Albania has already honoured former NATO commander Wesley Clark with its
highest award for foreigners. The alliance's former Secretary-General,
Javier Solana, will also receive the Skenderbeg Award.
Cara, originally from Kavaja in western Albania, joined Kosovo Albanian
friends who had been living as immigrants in Britain in signing up for
the KLA.
Many Albanian volunteers, most of them former soldiers, joined the ranks
of the KLA, moved by the atrocities Serbian forces had committed and
were committing in Kosovo, some 90 percent of whose population were
ethnic Albanian, or by the prospect of better pay in the irregular army.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
------------------------------------------------------------
hanno finalmente preso il controllo dell'aereoporto di Pristina.
Viva le truppe italiane!
Viva L'Italia!
Viva l'Albania italiana!
Eia eia alala'!
* ELENCO ATTI TERRORISTICI DAL 24 MAGGIO AL 26 GIUGNO SCORSI
* TRUPPE OCCUPATRICI ARRESTANO SERBO ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE
* VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO DI DECANI
* L'ANALISI DELL'ISTITUTO CATO (LINK)
* KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO TRA MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
* FLASHBACK: GLI EBREI KOSOVARI SCACCIATI DALL'UCKFOR
* IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
---
CRIMINI COMMESSI DAL FANATISMO NAZIONALISTA PANALBANESE
IN KOSMET TRA IL 24 MAGGIO ED IL 26 GIUGNO 2000.
***DA NON RIPORTARE SUI GIORNALI***
(From: John Jay Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [STOPNATO] [serbrights] [Fwd: sign and email/KOSOVO] STOP
NATO:
¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM )
_________
So far, we've only sent this out to the IHT. Of course, there are many
other
newspapers/TV channels, etc., ...
_________
Sir: - We challenge the International Herald Tribune to publish the
disgraceful diary of evil racial persecution set out below.
We dare the IHT to show its readers, all over the world, what
kind
of a job of "Humanitarian Protection" KFOR troops and UNMIK's so-called
"Peacekeepers" are doing to "keep the peace" in Kosovo today ?... This
is
real news... Why not publish it ?... Let's see how fair and open-minded
a
'great' "Democratic" newspaper can honestly be !
The Western media shows remarkably little interest in the
suffering
of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo. Sure, we're told of an
occasional incident, here and there, but even then obscured in very
small
print, usually on the inside pages - where are the headlines !
Is
this what is really meant by "Free" Press - the "freedom" merely to pick
and
choose what you tell your readers, strictly according to how its telling
may
or may not suit the agendas of the incumbent political administrators in
Washington ? Do you believe that votes supposedly reflecting American
public
'opinion' formed in this way, on the basis of selective misinformation,
is
anything like an exercise in true 'democracy' ?
Your readers wouldn't ! - If they only knew that's how it
really is
- ! Happy 4th of July !...
All details and statistics below- (strictly according to
routine
nformation known to and monitored by members of the International Red
Cross)
- are matters of official UNMIK record.
All were in Kosovo, an autonomous province of the sovereign
Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia - currently occupied and
supposedly
"protected", under UN mandate, by KFOR troops.
This is just a one month catalogue of the racial crime and
brutal
persecution carried out against Serbs and other non-Albanians between 24
May
and 26 June of this year only !
__________________________________________
TERRORIST ACTS COMMITTED BY ALBANIANS,
FORMERLY OF THE (KLA) THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY,
BETWEEN 24 MAY - 26 JUNE 2000.
1. Murder of Vladimir Ilic, a Kosovo Serb, 50, on his doorstep at Vitina
on
24 May;
2. Attack on Kosovo Serbs in the village of Dobrotin, Municipality of
Lipljan, on 26 May, on which occasion 4 Serbian civilians were gravely
wounded;
3. Throwing of a hand grenade on a Serbian cafe at Bresje on 26 May, on
which occasion 5 Serbians were gravely wounded;
4. Setting a fire in the Trepca complex in southern Kosovska Mitrovica
on 6
May which caused enormous material damage;
5. Attack on a group of Serbs in front of a store in the village of
Cernica, on 28 May, in the Municipality of Gnjilane, on which occasion
Tihomir Trifunovic, Vojin Vasic and a 5-year old, Milos Petrovic, were
killed and two other Serbian civilians were gravely wounded;
6. Armed attacks on a local police patrol in the village of Konculj on
23
and 24 May and a mortar attack on the members of local Kosovo Serbian
police, on 30 May, in the village of Lucane ;
7. Attack on Serbian civilians in the village of Klokot, Municipality
of
Vitina, on 31 May, in which Lepterka Marinkovic, 67, was killed and
another
3 Serbs were gravely wounded;
8. Murder of Milutin Trajkovic, 33, a Serbian, in the village of Babin
Most,
on 31 May, in the Municipality of Obilic;
9. Murder of Iso Heta, 71, an elderly retired member of the Ministry of
the
Interior, on 31 May;
10. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of Kosovo Serb, Djordje
Velickovic, on 1 June, at Obilic, on which occasion Misko Todorovic was
also gravely wounded;
11. Killing of two Serbs, Sinisa Dimic and Vlastimir Milic, and
wounding of
3 others on 2 June, two of them underage children, in an automobile
which
ran over an anti-tank mine planted by Albanian terrorists the night
before
on the road between the Serbian villages of Ugljari and Preoce near
Pristina;
12. Burning down of a number of Serbian houses in both Prizren and
Decani on
3 June;
13. Continued arbitrary arrests of Kosovo Serbian civilians by KFOR and
UNMIK, on 7 June, of which one of the most drastic examples was the
arrest
of Nebojsa Stojanovic, 30, at Gracanica, who was apprehended while in an
intensive care unit following a serious injury sustained after KFOR
opened
automatic fire on Serbs protesting about the terror of the so-called
Kosovo
Liberation Army, (of which this catalogue is one brief example);
14. Brutal attack and wounding of Jovan Cerovic, 55, a Serb, on 8 June,
by
10 terrorists with clubs in the district of Obilic;
15. Burning of a number of Serbian houses at Obilic on 9 June;
16. Anduction of Safet Pucurica, 37, a worker from Kosovska Mitrovica on
10
June, on the road Vucitrn-Kosovska Mitrovica;
17. Armed attack on an automobile driven by 4 Goranci (non-Albanian
Muslim)
on 9 June, near Orcus, Municipality of Gora, on which occasion one of
these
civilians was severely wounded;
18. Burning of Serbian houses at Obilic and the dynamiting of Roma
(Gypsy)
houses on 10 June, in the village of Novo Rujce, Municipality of
Lipljan;
19. Setting a fire in the Kosovo Serbian restaurant "Lotos" on 10 June;
20. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Orahovac on 12 and 13 June;
21. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Obilic on 14 June;
22. Abduction, rape and mutilation of a 14-year old Serbian girl in
Pristina
on 14 June;
23. Killing of Zlatibor Denic and Borko Filipovic and the wounding of
Dejan
Filipovic on 15 June, the latter losing both his arms and legs, in an
automobile which ran over an anti-tank mine planted by the terrorists of
the
Kosovo Liberation Army on the road between the villages of Preoce and
Lepina;
24. Attack on humanitarian convoys heading for Serbian Strpce on both 30
May
and on 16 June, in the villages of Radivojce and Pozarane;
25. Mortar attack on the Decani monastery near Pec, on the night of 21
and
22 June. Decani monastery was built in 1335. It is one of the treasures
of
Serbian cultural heritage, housing frescoes of great value and a large
number of priceless ancient manuscripts and icons;
26. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of a Serb, Toma Ivkovic, in
Gnjilane on 21 June, on which occasion Mr. Ivkovic's mother was wounded;
27. Brutal abduction of 2 Serbs, Vlada, 80, and Persa Miletic, 50, on 21
June, in the village of Mali Trnovac, in the Municipality of Bujanovac.
Their fate is still unknown;
28. Abduction of Serb, Bozidar Markovic, 60, on 23 June, in the village
of
Susice, Municipality of Strpci ;
29. Abduction of 14-year Serbian boy Jovica Milic, while tending his
herd on
24 June, in the village of Susice, Municipality of Stprce. He managed to
escape, sustaining serious injuries and psychological stress;
30. Mortar attack on eleven Serbian houses in the village of Velika
Hoca, on
24 June in the Municipality of Orahovac ;
31. Abduction of Kosovo Serbian, Tomislav Markovic, on the
Podujevo-Pristina
road on 24 June;
32. Murder of Kica Milanovic, 50, a Kosovo Serbian, on his doorstep at
Kosovo Polje on 25 June;
33. Attempt to abduct Milorad Soric, a Kosovo Serb civilian, in front of
his
house on 26 June, in Orahovac, on which occasion he escaped but was
seriously injured."
The UN calls this - "Humanitarian Protection" ?.... What would
your
readers call it ???...They were shown more of a single child's boot
(blue -
remember it ?) than they will ever see of the continuing inhuman misery
inflicted, every day, on Serbian men, women and children in Kosovo.
John Jay
London
ppdscat@...
"Human rights are for ALL humans, including Serbs!"
---
ARRESTATO DALLE TRUPPE DI OCCUPAZIONE STATUNITENSI SERBO
ORGANIZZATORE DELLE PROTESTE CONTRO IL REGIME RAZZISTA DELLA KFOR
> > Danas, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
> > July 6, 2000
> >
> > Radojko Kecic arrested
> >
> > Strpce (Beta) - American KFOR soldiers arrested
> > photographer Radojko Kecic
> > of Strpce yesterday for organizing the demonstration
> > of the Serbs in this
> > town in the south of Kosovo. Kecic, the owner of a
> > photo shop, was taken to
> > the American military base Bondsteel near Urosevac.
> >
> > Approximately ten Polish and American special forces
> > soldiers arrested
> > Kecic while he was purchasing food at a nearby kiosk.
> > According to Serb
> > sources in Strpce, American KFOR soldiers have created
> > a list of 46 persons
> > of Serb nationality who participated in the
> > demonstrations and road blocks
> > in Strpce. Kecic, the same sources state, is the first
> > from that list to be
> > arrested.
> >
> > Translated by S. Lazovic (July 6, 2000)
---
VERSO LA DISTRUZIONE DEL MONASTERO MEDIOEVALE DI DECANI.
SILENZIO ASSOLUTO DEGLI "INTELLETTUALI" SERVILI D'EUROPA
SUL VANDALISMO CONTINUATO A SFONDO RAZZISTA AI DANNI DEI
MONUMENTI DELLA CULTURA ORTODOSSA IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
> From: Kiehl <emilia@...>
> To: Undisclosed.Recipients@...
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> Date: Jueves 22 de Junio de 2000 12:00 PM
>
>
>
> Date: 22 June 2000 09:30
> Subject: Fw: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
>
>
> >Dear all, please see if you can help and/or forward to anyone who you
may
> >think can do something about this. Love Branka
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bob Petrovich <bojanp@...>
> >To: Branka Perry <branka.jp@...>
> >Date: 22 June 2000 04:01
> >Subject: DECANI IN PERIL - need assistance
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Branka, I need help, someone who can write
> >>letter in precise legalese on subject explained below.
> >>
> >>I plan to press Finnish government for
> >>their role in destruction of Christian
> >> shrines in Kosovo !
> >>
> >>There is no time, we have to start Friday, to time delivery for
> >>Monday morning.
> >>
> >>20 people from 10 or so OSCE countries will do the trick.
> >>
> >>For success, we need several waves of 20 people spread in several days.
> >>
> >>I have already collected emails and phone numbers of
> >>people in Finnish Foreign ministry, Public prosecutor for international
> >>affairs and others in Ministry
> >>of justice and Government ombudsman. I will distibute that list to
anyone
> >>who
> >>agree to actively participate ( send e-mail and
> >>later follow up over the phone)
> >>
> >>
> >>Under Finnish law, anyone REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY can file
> >>complaint for criminal conduct of Finnish public servant. They forgot
to
> >>change rules with advent of the Net.
> >>
> >>Please let me know what you think about it, can you help and if your
group
> >>want to participate.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Best,
> >>
> >>B.
> >>-------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Dear xxxx
> >>
> >>Maybe you have already seen the urgent appeal of
> >>Fr. Sava regarding Decani Monastery.
> >>
> >>It is not only theft of private property and flagrant
> >>breach of the law, it is much worse.
> >>Monastery sits at the bottom of the mountain and water
> >>tower 150ft above it presents a real threat. Sabotage
> >>may cause water blast able of destroying monastery and
> >>killing everyone inside.
> >>
> >>The monks from the brotherhood are the last remaining
> >>Serbs in Decani area. All others minority Serbs are
> >>ethnically cleansed with silent approval of UNMIK and
> >>KFOR.
> >>
> >>Theft of Monastery land and plan to put Monastery in
> >>peril can not be seen but attempt to eradicate Serbs
> >>from the area.
> >>
> >>In Decani, local UNMIK administrator is Finnish.
> >>
> >>In another case, Finnish commander of KFOR approves of
> >>
> >>destruction of religious shrines.
> >>
> >>I want to stage blitz on Finnish institutions and ask
> >>the questions of Finnish Government involvement.
> >>Also, plan to ask for help Finnish Orthodox Church.
> >>
> >>Please could you help me and elaborate breaches of the
> >>law in both cases. I am lay person and can not do it.
> >>
> >>I will do the rest. Finland is "the most wired country
> >>in the world" and I intend to use it to the fullest
> >>extent.
> >>
> >>Every member of government and judicary
> >>is reachable by e-mail.
> >>
> >>If you agree with strategy, I will send you the list
> >>of all relevant e-mail addresses of all relevant
> >>institutions in Finland so you could start next wave
> >>
> >>Very truly yours,
> >>
> >>Bob Petrovich
> >>Willowdale, Canada
> >>mailto:bojanp@...
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Name: Ms.Helina Kokarinnen, Finland,
> >>Function: municipal administrator for Decani, Kosovo,
> >>Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal acts commited:
> >>
> >>1. Violation of private property. Ms.Kokarinnen issued
> >>licence for ground preparation works for building
> >>of water tower on private property without approval of
> >>the land owner (Serbian Orthodox Church). Work has
> >>commneced, tresspassers cut the ancient wood and stole
> >>lumber.
> >>
> >>2. endangering cultural monument - medieval monastery.
> >>Planned Water tower 50 meters above Monastery
> >>represent threat to Monastery . Sabotage or structural
> >>failure will cause water tidal wave able to destroy
> >>monastery.
> >>
> >>3. putting human lives in peril.monastery is
> >>permanently inhabited by monk brotherhood.
> >>
> >>4. failure to prevent criminal act -theft of private
> >>property ( lumber)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava possess copies of UNMIK documents.
> >>
> >>Text of documents can be seen at:
> >>http://www.egroups.com/message/yugoslaviainfo/2064?&start=2038
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava can be reached at:
> >>
> >>Fr. Sava
> >>Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> >>Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,Kosovo and Metohija
> >>http://www.decani.yunet.com
> >>http://www.kosovo.com
> >>Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> >>Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> >>Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
> >>------------------------------------------------------
> >>pattern:
> >>-------------------------------------------------------
> >>Name: Colonel Arto Raty, Finland
> >>Function: head of KFOR operations in Slovinje,
> >>Kosovo, Yugoslavia
> >>
> >>Illegal act:
> >>public incitement of ethnic cleansing
> >>public incitement of dectruction of religious shrine
> >>activity contrary to given duty (enforcing UNSC 1244)
> >>
> >>Evidence:
> >>
> >>"If a church has value as a historical place then
> >>clearly it should be guarded,but if it has no
> >>historical value and there is no chance of the
> >>Serbs returning anytime soon to the area, then
> >>it should be gently dismantled,"
> >>
> >>Finnish Colonel Arto Raty
> >>head of KFOR operations in Slovinje
> >>Source: REUTERS
> >>http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000613_699.html
> >>
> >>For importance of Churches for communities see the
> >>letter of World Council of Churches:
> >>
>
>>http://platon.ee.duth.gr/data/maillist-archives/orthodoxia/1999_12/msg0007
> 2
> >.
> >>html
> >>
> >>Church in Slovinje, where Col. Raty is head of KFOR
> >>was destroyed by Albanian externists.
> >>
> >>http://www.kosovo.com/crucified/default.htm#_catalog
> From: "Nancy A. Hey" <cattynancy@...> (by way of Herman de
> Tollenaere <hermantl@...>)
> To: office@...
> Subject: Decani old growth forest threatened in Kosovo [fwd]
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:27:32 +0200
>
> [small spelling corrections made]
>
> Subject: Decani Monastery Wood being Destroyed with UNMIK written
permission
>
> URGENT.....URGENT.....URGENT
>
> ALBANIANS DESTROYING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MONASTERY FOREST WITH UNMIK
WRITTEN
> PERMISSION
>
> I am taking this opportunity to inform you about very deplorable events
> which happened around Decani monastery in the last few days. According to
> the written permission of the municipal administrator for Decani, Ms.
> Helina Kokarinnen, local Albanian contractors were allowed to start
> cutting the monastery century old pine wood just 50 m above monastery of
> Decani. The cutting of wood was in fact a preparation for the building of
a
> water tower which is a part of a larger project of enlargement of the
water
> system for Decani. This project is undertaken by the Italian Company
COOPI.
> According to the information received
> yesterday from COOPI the plan was made in September 1999 and was approved
> by local UNMIK office.
>
> Neither the UNMIK administrator nor KFOR authorities or COOPI ever
> contacted the Monastery authorities about this undertaking, although the
> cutting of the wood and the clearing of the ground for a water tower is
> done on the property of Decani Monastery. The monks have reacted the very
> first day and requested from KFOR to stop the destruction of the monastery
> forest but KFOR answered with almost two days of delay granting the
> security to the monks to go to the location just 50 meters from the
> monastery. The monks had not dared go alone because of constant danger
from
> Kosovo Albanians who had even launched a mortar attacks three months ago
> against the monastery and make great pressures against the brotherhood.
>
> The consequences of this illegal operation are deplorable. More than 40
> cubic meters of pine wood have been cut and stolen by ethnic Albanians in
> their trucks ( 8 big trees). At least 20 more trees have been burned
> because the contractors wanted to be sure that the terrain is not mined
and
> conducted a mine-clearing operation destroying many other trees in the
> area. It is very important to know that this wood had been planted three
> centuries ago by Decani monks and majority of the cut pines, which were a
> landmark of Decani Monastery, are more than 150 years old. Therefore this
> is not only an issue of violation of the private property by UN
authorities
> and KFOR but also an environmental violation of one of the most beautiful
> and oldest pine forest in Kosovo.
>
> Decani Monastery and the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> have condemned this illegal act in strongest terms. The Church will ask
> from the Special Representative of the Secretary General Dr. Bernard
> Kouchner to launch a full investigation on this issue and the
> recompensation for the done damage.
>
> Attachment:
> Copy of the letter by which the UN administrator Ms HELINA KOKARINNEN
> granted a written permission to Kosovo Albanian contractor to cut
> unspecified number of trees in the monastery forest. Ms. Kokarinnen in
> her conversation with the monks behaved as if she did not know exactly
> what it was all about. This morning she left to Finland without any
> explanation to the monastery which requested an urgent meeting for today.
>
> >------------------------------------
> To KFOR - Decan/Decani
>
> June 14, 2000
>
> I have discussed with Nue Mulaj who is working for the organization
> COOPI (ID card no 26) as an excavator driver. Nue Mulaj is ready to cut
the
> trees needed for water supply working. According to Mr. Mulaj he has
agreed
> about cutting and carrying the trees with COOPI, wood company Djeravica
and
> KFOR representative. Mr. Mulaj can take and carry the trees for free from
> the forest.
>
> Helina Kokarinen
> Municipal administrator Municipality of Decan/Decani
>
> >--------------------------------------------
> With this letter which was shown by KFOR to the Monastery Authorities
> (we have a copy) it is evident that UNMIK administrator knew all from
> the beginning and in fact issued a blank permission to Kosovo Albanians to
> cut as many trees as they like. From COOPI authorities the Monastery
> learned that the location for this water tower was chosen by Albanians and
> that from the technical point of view the tower may have been constructed
> on another location. The monastery authorities think that the local
> Albanians deliberately chose this location in order to make a pressure on
> the monastery, violate its property and steal the valuable pine trees
free.
> It is sad that UNMIK and KFOR played such a deplorable role in all this.
>
> Fr. Sava
>
>
> >--
> Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
> Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
> Kosovo and Metohija
>
> http://www.decani.yunet.com
> http://www.kosovo.com
>
> decani@...
> Sat phone:: +870-762-146-565
> Mobile phone: +381-63-371-909
> Fax (voice mail) +44-207-681-2601
>
>
>
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L'ANALISI DELLA SITUAZIONE SECONDO L'ISTITUTO CATO
Cato Policy Analysis No. 373
June 10, 2000
Dubious Anniversary: Kosovo One Year Later
by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz
Christopher Layne is a visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the
Cato Institute. Benjamin
Schwarz is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly
Executive Summary
One year after NATO ended its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, the
Clinton
administration’s Kosovo policy is a conspicuous failure. Kosovo is now
the scene of a brutal ethnic
cleansing campaign carried out by NATO’s erstwhile de facto ally, the
Kosovo Liberation Army,
an organization profoundly inimical to America’s interests and professed
values. The KLA is also
currently fomenting an insurgency elsewhere in Serbia, which promises to
destabilize the Balkans
even further.
The Clinton administration has embarked on yet another
multi-billion-dollar nation-building
adventure, which many analysts suggest will entangle the U.S. military
for a decade or longer.
This situation could have been avoided. Because of its inept diplomacy
and strategic
miscalculation, the administration bears a large measure of
responsibility for both Kosovo’s
humanitarian crisis a year ago and the KLA’s postwar thuggery. It is now
clear that the
administration’s claims of "horrific slaughter" and attempts at
"genocide" by the Serbs were gross
exaggerations designed to whip up
support for intervention from a skeptical Congress and public.
Confronting Kosovo’s depressing prospects, the administration consoles
itself that, as President
Clinton says, it "did the right thing in the right way" when it
intervened. Even granting that
doubtful premise, this is not enough to exonerate policymakers from
their responsibility for the
situation the United States confronts today. In the real world,
policymakers are judged by the
consequences of their actions, not by their intentions. The Kosovo war
has not vindicated the
administration’s doctrine of "virtuous power." By waging an avoidable
war, the Clinton
administration has saddled
the United States with a host of intractable problems.
Full Text of Policy Analysis No. 373 (PDF, 19 pgs, 79 Kb)
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KOSOVO UN ANNO DOPO: MENZOGNE ED OMERTA'
>Original message:
>From: "robert rodvik" <robrod@...>
>To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
>Subject: Fw: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:13:43 -0700
>
>
>
>
>Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:07 PM
>Subject: KOSOVO ONE YEAR ON - LIES AND DECEIT
>
>
> In keeping with its propaganda role, CBC-TV continues the distortions
>and spin that characterized its coverage during NATO's bombing spree. The
>Ministry of Truth indicates that tonight, Friday June 23, 2000 that it is
>going to once again reprise the situation in Kosovo and surrounding
>environs. You can tune in to The National at 10p.m. and get all the latest
>spin on the National Magazine, which will most likely reiterate that the
>crimes of the Serbs were so evil that NATO had no other choice.
> The sad part of all this is that the Canadian taxpayer funds this
>propaganda operation.
>NIL ILLIGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM
>RR
>____________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>
>
>KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO
>NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
>Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
>
>Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's
>78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato
>control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media
>have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public
>serious retrospectives on the war and its aftermath. One
>reason for this may be that Nato's bombing campaign and
>year-long occupation not only failed to realize most of
>Nato's proclaimed objectives, but the intervention also
>produced a far higher level of ethnic violence than had
>existed previously--first against ethnic Albanians, then
>later against all ethnic minorities. As the Norwegian
>foreign affairs analyst Jan Oberg notes, "the largest ethnic
>cleansing in the Balkans [in percentage that fled] has
>happened under the very eyes of 45,000 Nato troops" in
>occupied Kosovo.
>
>True, Nato did eventually succeed in getting Belgrade to
>withdraw the Serb army from Kosovo. But in the process,
>Nato's bombing campaign triggered a Serb military response
>against ethnic Albanians that Nato officials themselves had
>predicted would occur; a response that was based not on the
>unprovoked nastiness of Serbs but rather on rational
>military calculations. Expulsions were greatest where
>fighting was heaviest, mainly in territories controlled by
>the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Indeed, in the words of
>the OSCE, much of the refugee flow was designed "to keep
>main communications routes open to supply Serb forces with
>material, fuel, and food." Moreover, although Nato had
>denied any collaboration with rebel forces during the
>bombing, top Nato officials now admit that KLA guerrillas
>were "constantly on the phone to Nato," and that Nato had
>"instigated" a major KLA offensive (Paul Richter, LA Times,
>June 10, 2000). President Clinton may have announced that
>the main purpose of bombing was "to deter an even bloodier
>offensive against innocent civilians in Kosovo" (March 24,
>1999), but as the bombing increased it exponentially (as
>well as adding Nato's contribution to Albanian pain), that
>aim was clearly not met.
>
>With the increase in violence following the bombing, Nato
>officials quickly announced that the Serb attacks and
>expulsions would have taken place anyway, under a
>pre-arranged plan the Serbs allegedly called "Operation
>Horseshoe." But no mention had ever been made of such a plan
>prior to the bombing, and a pre-war German Foreign Office
>report had even denied that Serb actions in Kosovo
>constituted "ethnic cleansing;" instead, the report found
>that the Serb military campaign was designed to quell an
>insurgency. UN Special Envoy Jiri Dienstbier says the same:
>"Before the bombing Albanians were not driven away on the
>basis of ethnic principle. [They were] victims of the brutal
>war between the Yugoslav army and the Kosovo Liberation
>Army" (CTK National News Wire, April 20, 2000). The fact
>that Belgrade was willing to allow 2,000 OSCE observers into
>Kosovo (although the OSCE contingent never exceeded 1,400),
>and that it objected strongly to their removal before Nato
>launched its bombing, is also inconsistent with a planned
>"Operation Horseshoe." As the retired German Brigadier
>General, and now a consultant with the OSCE, D. Heinz Loquai
>argues in his recent book, Der Kosovo-Konflikt Wege in einen
>Vermeidbaren Krieg ("The Kosovo Conflict: The Road to an
>Avoidable War"), the German Foreign Ministry's revelation
>two weeks into the war that it possessed intelligence
>confirming the existence of "Operation Horseshoe" was an
>outright fabrication culled from Bulgarian intelligence
>reports and the imagination of Nato military propagandists.
>None of this, however, has prevented apologists for Nato's
>war from repeating the lie that Operation Allied Force was
>justified by the imminent implementation of this mythical
>plan to "ethnically cleanse" Kosovo of its Albanian
>population. (On June 11, 2000, the ineffable George
>Robertson asked Jonathan Dimbleby on Britain's ITV to
>"imagine if almost 2 million refugees had been expelled...if
>Milosevic had succeeded with that ethnic cleansing.")
>
>In the face of the Nato-induced surge in violence in March
>and April 1999, Nato officials changed course and proclaimed
>that their new main objective was returning the Kosovo
>Albanians to their homes quickly and safely; and with the
>help of the media Nato successfully portrayed the bombing as
>a response to the mass exodus rather than its cause. But
>even this new objective was met only in part--the Albanians
>who had fled Kosovo did return quickly, but their safety and
>welfare were compromised by several factors. One was that
>Nato bombs had killed and seriously injured many hundreds of
>fleeing Albanians. Nato also used both deadly cluster bombs
>and depleted uranium munitions in Kosovo, a choice of
>weapons not conducive to the long-run safety of the
>returnees. To date, an estimated 100 people have been killed
>and many hundreds injured by exploding fragmentation bombs.
>The toll from depleted uranium-- radiation-induced
>illness--will come later, as it has in Iraq.
>
>Nato's bombing also contributed heavily to infrastructure
>damage, and reconstruction has been slow. Nato's generosity
>was largely exhausted in providing resources to destroy and
>kill--the estimated cost of the military operations against
>Yugoslavia has run in excess of $10 billion, whereas the
>resources spent for humanitarian aid and reconstruction in
>Kosovo have been well under $1 billion. Thus, hundreds of
>thousands remain homeless, jobless, and lacking in basic
>facilities.
>
>Nato's occupation also failed to bring law and order to
>Kosovo. This was partly a consequence of the destruction,
>poverty, and exacerbated hatred produced by the war. But it
>was also a result of the fact that, in direct violation of
>UN Resolution 1244 which called for the "demilitarization"
>of the KLA, under Nato authority the KLA has been
>incorporated into a "Kosovo Protection Corps," thereby
>legalizing and legitimating what until then had been an
>armed rebel force. This, plus the Nato bias in favor of the
>KLA and against the Serbs, has helped institutionalize a
>system of violence and pervasive fear, mainly damaging to
>the minority Serbs, Roma and Turks, but also adversely
>affecting most Kosovo Albanians. On top of this, organized
>crime has soared throughout the region. The British-based
>Jane's Intelligence Review reports that "large numbers of
>international criminals are now seeking refuge in Kosovo"
>(Paul Harris, June 1, 2000). According to a study by the
>International Crisis Group, the areas of southwest Serbia
>(both Kosovo and parts of Serbia proper) where the KLA's
>influence remains greatest have become the preferred "Balkan
>route" for the "heroin trail" between Turkey and Western
>Europe ("What Happened to the KLA," March 3, 2000).
>
>It must be admitted, however, that Nato did succeed in
>"teaching the Serbs a lesson." But what exactly was that
>lesson? Certainly not that ethnic cleansing is unacceptable
>to the Western conscience. Although Nato allegedly waged war
>to terminate ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and although an
>agreement of June 9, 1999, stipulated that Nato would
>"establish and maintain a secure environment for all
>citizens of Kosovo," under Nato's occupation somewhere
>between 60 and 90 percent of Serbs and Roma have left
>Kosovo, mainly because of KLA harassment, home burnings, and
>killing, and a large fraction of Kosovo's Jews and Turks
>have also fled. Thus the biggest story of Nato's 12-month
>occupation is that under Nato's watch, Kosovo's ethnic
>minorities have been subjected to a truly massive
>multi-ethnic cleansing. For the media, however, Nato is
>trying to do its best under difficult circumstances, and
>Milosevic remains the only villain in sight. And they fail
>to see that the only lesson taught the Serbs by Nato has
>been "Don't mess with us"--a lesson devoid of moral content.
>
>Now one year later, Nato's policies have not brought peace
>and stability to Kosovo and the Balkans. Kosovo is still
>legally a part of Yugoslavia, but while a Nato protectorate
>it has been turned over to the Albanians and KLA. This has
>allowed them to do a fine job of ethnic cleansing, but has
>made Kosovo a cauldron of hatred and violence and a likely
>base for further instability and warfare. Unwilling to
>provide large resources for rebuilding, Nato has no
>solutions and no evident "exit strategy." This was not
>"humanitarian intervention," it has been an irresponsible
>misuse of power that made a bad situation worse, gilded over
>with lofty rhetoric.
>
>Edward Herman is co-editor, with Philip Hammond, of Degraded
>Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis (Pluto, 2000);
>David Peterson is a Chicago-based researcher and journalist.
>
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DISCORSO DI CEDOMIR PRLINCEVIC, LEADER DELLA COMUNITA' EBRAICA
IN KOSMET, SCACCIATO DALL'UCKFOR, AD AMSTERDAM NELL'OTTOBRE SCORSO
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
SOLDIERS FOR THE TRUTH
"DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER"
14 June 2000 - FLAG DAY
"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
General George Washington, New York Legislature, 1775
Soldiers For The Truth Foundation, PO Box 63840, Colorado Springs, CO
80962-3840
HTTP://WWW.SFTT.ORG
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"Terror in Kosovo"
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Ed.: The truth about Kosovo is still elusive. Was there a War? Did we
really win it? Are we supporting the right people? The following piece
offers a different perspective and questions our current understanding.
Introduced by Ben Works, Balkan scholar and one of our SFTT Trustees,
BenWorks@....
Last October, Colleagues of mine tracked down the head of the small
Jewish
community in Pristina, Kosovo for an interview. Mr Cedemir Prlincevic
confirmed that the Jewish community had been ethnically cleansed by the
KLA
and associated gangsters from Albania who overwhelmed Kosovo as they
flooded
into the province in tandem with NATO's occupation troops.
Today, our troops are surrounded by hostile KLA gunmen determined to
wrest
Kosovo from its native communities, and by sullen Serbs who have about
reached their limit of patience. It is an out-of-control situation.
A longer interview with Mr. Prlincevic is accessible at Mr. Israel's
website
"The Emperors Clothes":
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm,
or www.tenc.net
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By Cedomir Prlincevic
Archivist & head of the Jewish community of Pristina and Jared Israel 24
October 1999
I appreciate very much the invitations from Global Reflexion to address
the
meeting held last night in Amsterdam, and the invitation from
"Association
Dialogue" to address the Conference tomorrow in Paris...
For months people in the West, and also, through satellite transmission,
those of us in Yugoslavia, have been bombarded with Western media claims
that NATO, that is the US and Germany, want to create, in Kosovo, a
multiethnic, democratic society.
We tend to believe that other people mean what they say. And therefore
I
and others in Pristina, believed that when KFOR, that is NATO, marched
into
Kosovo, they would protect the rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians.
The KFOR troops and the UCK crossed the border into Kosovo together;
they
entered Pristina together. Immediately the UCK and gangster elements
under
their leadership took over government institutions and fanned out, going
after the homes of non-Albanians and pro-Yugoslav Albanians.
I lived in a large complex of nice apartments inhabited by doctors,
lawyers,
university professors, managers of various institutions, the
intellectual
core of Pristina society. Right after KFOR arrived, the gangster
elements
attacked this section, called Milana. They moved up and down through
the
buildings, banging on doors, breaking down doors, throwing tear gas into
people's apartments, forcing them out on pain of death.
The Western media claims that KFOR has been "unable" to control the
action
of "mysterious gangs" who unfortunately have targeted Serbs, nor have
they
the manpower needed to prevent ethnic Albanians from Kosovo from
exacting
revenge. This is simply untrue.
When the Albanians attacked, one of my neighbors (a doctor) called
KFOR. An
English Major arrived with his squad. But the Albanians did not flee.
I
spoke to this Major. I asked him why he didn't do anything. He said
"This
is a job for the Civil Authorities." But you see, by then there were no
civil authorities other than the UCK. He said KFOR was only interested
in
cases of murder.
I showed him documents, confirming that I was the President of the
Jewish
community in Pristina. He replied: "Later." He didn't have time to
examine these papers. While the Major and his squad were there - before
their eyes - the gangsters continued their work. In some cases, when
residents
appealed to these British KFOR troops, the KFOR people took the part of
modern day Solomons. The Albanians explained their plight: "We have no
place to stay tonight." So the KFOR people said, "Why don't you share
this
apartment amongst yourselves!" - in other words, the gangsters were to
move
in with the prey.
KFOR left, the Albanians moved in, and then the Albanians said, "Now
leave
or we will slaughter you."
Under these circumstances, who would stay? We lost everything, years of
our
lives - our lives, and our community, the only place we can ever be at
home - gone. Stolen. About 30,000 people were driven from this huge
complex
in Milana in a matter of days. I have had to flee to tiny quarters in
Belgrade, I and my family, including my 81 year old mother.
The behavior of a large part of the Albanian population was terrible.
They
lied to support the NATO campaign of lies, inventing tales of harassment
and
mass executions. Secretly, and then openly, they supported the UCK.
These
people would never have done such terrible things were it not for years
of
encouragement from two centers - the United States and Germany.
Albanian culture unfortunately includes a strong strain of intolerance;
it
also has a powerful Clan structure which puts Clan leaders in a
dictatorial
position. These two cultural traits have been utilized by NATO to
provide
foot soldiers for modern-day fascism, complete with a liberal rhetorical
cover.
Recently I have tried to communicate to interviewers why the Albanians
left
for Macedonia and Albania during the war. I told them they didn't
understand the significance of certain features of modern Albanian
culture.
It is very closed off, very self-oriented, and very much under the
control
of the leaders of Clans. The word 'clans' is not used here simply to
describe a formal structural feature of Albanian society. Quite the
contrary, clans are the actual, functioning social unit of vast numbers
of
Albanians.
During the bombing, my neighbor, an ethnic Albanian, left. I asked him
why
are you leaving? We're not getting killed in this housing development,
we're all helping each other, and we're all together in the air raid
shelter - why are you leaving? And he just looked at me, and he
said, "I have to. I've been told to leave now. Everyone will be
leaving
now."
And that was that. This man and his wife, who were sophisticated
intellectuals, whose children played with the Serbian children, whom I
had
considered to be friends - they were leaving.
Many opponents of the war thought the UCK was making a big mistake by
terrorizing Albanians. But it wasn't making a mistake. It was making a
point to the clan leaders: we have the backing of NATO and we will kill
Albanians who buck us. Given the existence of anti-Serb racism among
Albanians, this we're-the-winning-team argument brought the leaders into
line.
Huge numbers of Albanians left Kosovo during the bombing. They did not
leave because Serbs were slaughtering them, which was a made-up story.
They
did not leave because they were getting bombed; though they were getting
bombed. They left because they were told to leave by their clan
leaders.
Vast numbers of people from all over the world have protested the
bombing of
Yugoslavia. In doing so they have created a movement out of the
political
shambles of our world.
And yet it is now, after the cessation of bombing, that we have entered
the
worst hell. This terrible fascist-like invasion has created far worse
suffering than the bombing. Some are driven out, some disappear, some
are
murdered and their murders attributed to forces beyond NATO's control.
Some, like the Serbs and Roma of Orahovac, have been imprisoned in a new
Warsaw Ghetto.
I urge those who care about Justice not to remain silent.
---
IL PRESIDENTE DELLA GRANDE ALBANIA ONORA I MARTIRI DELL'UCK
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 14, 2000
President Honours Albanian KLA Volunteers Killed in Kosovo
TIRANA - Albanian President Rexhep Meidani has honoured two Albanians
killed while fighting for the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
against Serbian forces last year, the presidency said on Tuesday.
Meidani, marking the first anniversary of the entry of NATO troops into
Kosovo, acknowledged for the first time the role played by Albanian
volunteers by awarding Indrit Cara and Astrit Suli the Golden Eagle
medal.
Albania has already honoured former NATO commander Wesley Clark with its
highest award for foreigners. The alliance's former Secretary-General,
Javier Solana, will also receive the Skenderbeg Award.
Cara, originally from Kavaja in western Albania, joined Kosovo Albanian
friends who had been living as immigrants in Britain in signing up for
the KLA.
Many Albanian volunteers, most of them former soldiers, joined the ranks
of the KLA, moved by the atrocities Serbian forces had committed and
were committing in Kosovo, some 90 percent of whose population were
ethnic Albanian, or by the prospect of better pay in the irregular army.
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