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TIM 2000/3-1 ----------------------------------------
IL POPE ARTEMIJE - AMBASCIATORE DI CHI E DI CHE COSA?
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 – “This morning (Feb. 25) Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright met with Kosovo Serb leaders Bishop Artemije
Radosavljevic and Father Sava Janjic to discuss the situation of the
Serb community in Kosovo and to continue a process of engagement with
moderate opposition leadership,” a State Department press release
stated.
TiM Ed.: Correction. “Kosovo Serb Leaders?” Neither Bishop Artemije,
nor any other Serb vassal who has ever accompanied him in his visits at
the State Dept., are “Serb leaders” by any stretch of the imagination.
They have been neither elected nor appointed as such, neither in Kosovo
nor anywhere else in Serbia. They may be “Serb leaders,” therefore,
only by a State Department’s effort to assign them a higher rank than
they deserve. Or by their own exaggerated and self-congratulatory
claims.
Take a look at the caption under a photo at the Decani web site
(http://www.decani.yunet.com/ ), maintained by Artemije’s close aide,
Fr. Sava Janjic, who, as you saw from the above State Department
release, was also present at their Feb. 25 meeting with Albright. The
caption reads: “Bishop Artemije - the missionary of peace again in US
to speak on behalf of his people.” The photo was taken in Washington,
DC, Feb/99.
“On behalf of his people?” His Disgrace would be well advised to speak
only on his own behalf. And to remember how “his people,” the Serbs of
Kosovo, jeered him and Albright the last time around when he cavorted
with the enemy during the U.S. Secretary of State’s visit to Kosovo in
July 1999 (see "Albright, Artemije Jeered by Serbs, Cheered by Serbs,
Cheered by Albanians" - S99-131, "Peace" 25, Item 1, July 31). We
understand that the Serb media have also published photos of Artemije
and Albright taken on Feb. 25, though we have not yet been able to
obtain one. For the time being, here’s a photo from an earlier visit by
Artemije et.al. to the State Dept.
As if cavorting with the person whom the London Telegraph dubbed “the
West's most influential anti-Serb hawk” in its Feb. 27 “post mortem” to
the Kosovo war weren’t bad enough, His Disrace also joined Albright in
reaffirming “their strong commitment to a multiethnic, democratic Kosovo
and their rejection of partition,” according to the Feb. 25 State Dept.
release. “The Secretary and Bishop Artemije strongly endorsed Special
Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Bernard Kouchner's Agenda
for Coexistence and agreed that it provided a basis for moving forward
toward participation of the Serb community in Kosovo's democratization.”
Raymond Kent, a former history professor at the Berkeley University in
California, described this French Jew as “France's most vocal and
opinionated Serbophobe,” in a Feb. 18 letter of protest against the
PBS/Jim Lehrer anti-Serbian bias (you can see the full text of his
letter in Item 6 below). Prof. Kent added, “this writer has personally
listened to him on the French TV on a dozen occasions spewing his
anti-Serb venom.
And so, His Grace stumbles from one disgraceful act to another… From
posing with the “the West's most influential anti-Serb hawk,” to
“strongly endorsing” the “France's most vocal and opinionated
Serbophobe.” Both gestures represent another act of Artemije’s
subservience to the New World Order, and another act of disservice to
the Serb people.
In a December 1999 TiM Bulletin, “Cavorting with the Enemy”, we also
condemned similar actions of some pro-western Serb opposition leaders
who traveled to Berlin to kiss up to Albright. Here’s the opening
paragraph:
“Can you imagine a Serb leader posing for reporters with one of Hitler's
top aides - after the Luftwaffe's April 6, 1941 bombing of Belgrade
which killed hundreds of civilians? Not if he hoped to be a Serb leader
for long, right?
Well, on Dec. 17, three would-be Serb leaders - Zoran Djindjic, Milo
Djukanovic and Vuk Draskovic did just that at a Berlin (how
appropriate!) Dec. 17 meeting with an unindicted war criminal, Madeleine
Albright, the U.S. Secretary of State. Or Hate, to be more accurate.
Take a look at the photo posted at our Web site. What are these people
smiling about? The thousands of Serb civilians killed or maimed by the
bombs in, what TIME magazine called, "Madeleine's War?" (see S99-81, Day
55, Item 2, May 17).”
More than 2,000 Serb civilians were killed by NATO under the auspices of
the war criminals, like Albright. Nearly 1,000 other Serb civilians
killed under the watchful eyes of Kouchner. Over 200,000 Serbs who were
driven from their ancestral homes in Kosovo during the NATO/KFOR “peace
farce.” And after all that, Artemije et. al. and the pro-western
vassals among the Serb opposition meet with, and pose for photographs,
with
the NATO war criminals?
[Text Box: Artemije with Clinton (Nov/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava
with Holbrooke (Aug/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava with Thaci (summer
1999)]
Nor are we talking only about Artemije-Albright tête-à-tête sessions.
Take at a look at the Decani web site. It’s full of boastful
photographs of this Serb bishop posing with leading New World Order
criminals. Artemije with Clinton… Artemije with Richard Holbrooke…
Artemije with Hashim Thaci… Artemije at the Council on Foreign Relations
(in New York), etc.
Such a disgraceful behavior by a Serb bishop, [Text Box: Artemije at
the CFR (Feb/99)] especially after the NATO bombing of Serbia, dishonors
all Serb victims of the New World Order crimes. If Artemije plans to
keep on acting as a quisling of the western powers that be, which he is
free to do as an individual, at least he should have enough decency to
take off his clerical robes when he cavorts with the war criminals.
For, his behavior can be also construed by uninitiated or malicious
people as the Serbian Orthodox Church’s endorsement of his shameful
missions. We don’t know who is paying for his trips to Washington and
New York, butas far as TiM is aware, Bishop Artemije only represents
himself, not the Serbian Orthodox Church, which has publicly denounced
Slobodan Milosevic, the NATO bombings, and the KFOR “peace farce.”
Artemije’s recent actions have rightly earned him the epithet – His
Disgrace. May he wear it in shame.
B92 1/3/2000 ------------------
FERITO UN PARA' RUSSO IN KOSMET
Russian paratrooper wounded
PRISTINA, Wednesday - A Russian KFOR paratrooper was wounded in a
firearm incident in Srbica yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defence
announced today. The soldier has undergone surgery following what the
ministry describes as an accident which occurred while he was on guard
duties. His condition is reported to be stable..
IL POPE ARTEMIJE NEGLI USA
Kosovo cleric in US
WASHINGTON, Wednesday - Orthodox Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren
today told the US Congress Helsinki Committee that the status of Kosovo
should remain frozen until violence had been eliminated and democratic
processes begun not only in Kosovo but in the rest of Serbia and
Yugoslavia. Bishop Artemije also called on the international community
to take more resolute action in Kosovo as prescribed by UN Security
Council Resolution 1244. He emphasised that moderate Serbs in Kosovo
needed media access and better communication between their enclaves so
that their voices could be heard by all Kosovo Serbs.
REUTERS 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
QUINDICIMILA IN PIAZZA A SKOPJE CONTRO LA POLITICA
ECONOMICA DEL GOVERNO DI DESTRA
Thousands Attend Macedonian Union Rally
SKOPJE, Mar 1, 2000 -- (Reuters) Around 15,000
Macedonian workers took to streets in the capital
Skopje on Tuesday to protest against high unemployment
and the economic policies of the center-right
government.
The demonstration was organized by the blue-collar
Alliance of Macedonian Unions.
Its president, Zivko Tolevski, called on the
center-right government to start a dialogue with
unions.
He urged it to not accept "blackmail from the
international financial institutions, especially the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund".
"Should we close down all big companies? We are
opposed to that," he told the crowd.
"If they close down the loss-making companies so many
people would be left with no jobs. We are sure that
other solutions could be envisaged," he said.
Tolevski said the former Yugoslav republic, which
became independent in 1991, had one of Europe's
highest unemployment rates, 36 percent.
"We have a right to send a powerful message to the
international community and Europe that Macedonia can
not overcome its economic crisis with all these
barriers and blockades," said Tolevski, referring to
sanctions against its northern neighbour Serbia.
AP 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
SERBI-KOSOVARI INFURIATI CONTRO I SOLDATI USA
http://www.newsday.com/ap/topnews/ap882.htm
Angry Serbs Surround U.S. Soldiers
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A crowd of chanting Serb
civilians surrounded a platoon of U.S. soldiers for
six hours in a small village in eastern Kosovo,
angrily insisting they hand over a Serb suspect
detained in a weapons search, U.S. officials said
Thursday.
The standoff in Gornje Kusce, two miles north of the
town of Gnjilane, ended only after the 15 soldiers
conducting a weapons search sought reinforcements and
the Serbs let them leave, said Maj. Debbie Allen, a
spokeswoman for U.S. forces.
No injuries were reported, but the government-run
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said American troops beat
up three Serbs and arrested one. U.S. officials could
not be reached for comment.
The standoff began Wednesday evening when soldiers
conducting a weapons search detained a Serb man after
finding two AK-47s and several hundred rounds of
ammunition in his home. Some 200 Serbs gathered, and
refused to disperse despite efforts by the soldiers to
negotiate their way out.
After three hours, the troops called for
reinforcements. About 60 soldiers arrived, but could
not extricate the platoon. More reinforcements were
called, but the situation was defused only when the
crowd permitted the soldiers to leave with the
suspect.
About 100 soldiers had converged on the tiny village
by the time the standoff was over.
The village was the site of a massive funeral for a
Serb doctor slain last week.
Tanjug said the standoff occurred because U.S. troops
conducted a ''brutal'' search in the village. Serbs
were especially angered by the appearance of
''uniformed ethnic Albanians together with the
Americans.''
It was unclear who the ''uniformed ethnic Albanians''
were but ethnic Albanian interpreters who accompany
American troops wear green camouflage fatigues and
helmets like the U.S. soldiers.
REUTERS 2/3/2000 --------------------------
MUORE IL PARA' RUSSO IN SEGUITO ALLE FERITE
Russian Kosovo Soldier Dies Of Wounds
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Mar 2, 2000 -- (Reuters) A Russian
soldier serving with the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo died of his
wounds after being shot in an ethnic Albanian town, the French army said
on Thursday.
"The Russian soldier died of internal bleeding overnight," said Major
Philippe Maurin, a spokesman for the French KFOR forces stationed in the
north of the turbulent province.
The Russian soldier, whose name was withheld pending notification of his
family, was shot on Tuesday in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of
Srbica.
The town is about 20 km (12 miles) south of Kosovska Mitrovica, the
mining city which has become the frontline of continuing ethnic tension
between Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and the dwindling Serb minority.
French officials said the incident was under investigation and have
declined to comment on a motive for the shooting.
The soldier, a driver, was hit once in the chest in broad daylight in
the center of Srbica, where he had taken his commanding officer for a
meeting with local officials.
Srbica is just north of the area of Kosovo usually patrolled by Russian
KFOR troops, who are distrusted and feared by ethnic Albanians who see
the Russians as natural allies of their fellow Orthodox co-religionists,
the Serbs
B92 2/3/2000 ------------------
SERBI AFFRONTANO LE TRUPPE KFOR
Serbs harass KFOR troops
PRISTINA, Thursday - The Serbian population of the Kosovo village of
Gornje
Kusce last night held off US troops with pitchforks and hoes, KFOR
spokesman
Hoening Philip told media today. According to Philip the incident
occurred
when the troops arrested a Serb after finding three automatic rifles in
his
house. Amateur radio operators reported that there had been six
Albanians
among the international troops and the Gornje Kusce residents had called
Russian soldiers from Kamenica to determine their identity. The crowd
eventually allowed the troops to leave with the arrested man after an
additional sixty soldiers were called.
LA FINANZA TEDESCA PER IL MONTENEGRO
German finance for Montenegro
BERLIN, Thursday - The German Government has approved a loan of 40
million
Deutsche Marks to Montenegro. The deal, which involves cooperative
projects
with German businesses, was announced after discussions today between
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and German Foreign Minister Joscha
Fischer in Berlin.
PROTESTE SERBE A MITROVICA
Up again down again bridge
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Thursday - Several hundred Serbs gathered today on
the
northern bank of the Ibar river in Kosovska Mitrovica in a protest
against a
pontoon bridge installed this morning by KFOR. The protesters told media
that
they had assembled to oppose KFOR attempts to transport a group of
Albanians
across the river from the southern part of the town into the Serb zone.
KFOR
eventually abandoned the attempt to move the Albanians. KFOR Northern
Centre
Command told Beta agency that the bridge would be open every day from
8.00 am
to 6.00 p.m. for pedestrian passage.
However KFOR troops later this afternoon dismantled the bridge less than
twelve hours after setting it up. The official reason given was "a rise
in
the water level of the river".
B92 3/3/2000 ----------------------------------------------
SCONTRI A MITROVICA IN SEGUITO ALLA PROVOCAZIONE DELLA KFOR
CHE FORZA IL "RIENTRO" DI ALBANESI NEL QUARTIERE
ZEPPO DI PROFUGHI SERBI
Repatriation "invasion" in northern Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday -- Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica today
clashed violently with KFOR troops as international forces returned the
first
contingent of Albanian families to their homes in the Serbian zone of
the
divided town. After a crowd of several hundred Serbs stoned troops
stationed
on the bridge to protect the first group of Albanians, French KFOR
troops
dispersed the protesters with mace cartridges. France Press reports that
at
least six Serbs were hurt during the conflict and several KFOR vehicles
damaged.
The group of 38, mainly elderly Albanians reached the northern zone
shortly
before 4.00 p.m. A convoy of armed vehicles crossed the bridge and set
off
for Bnjaca mahal, the northern area where the Albanians lived.
KFOR confirmed yesterday that it had noted the emergence of a group of
armed
Albanians in Kosovo who were making incursions into the southern
municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in Serbia proper. A
spokesman for KFOR Commander Klaus Reinhardt said today that KFOR had no
jurisdiction to intervene outside Kosovo but was patrolling the
administrative border in order to prevent illegal crossings.
MANOVRE NATO IN VISTA, ARTEMIJE LE APPOGGIA
NATO exercises "no cause for alarm"
BRUSSELS, Friday -- NATO's Dynamic Response 2000 manoeuvres, which are
planned to begin in two weeks in Kosovo, in no way represent a new
threat,
and nor did they celebrate a year from the beginning of the air strikes
against Yugoslavia, Belgrade daily Glas javnosti quotes sources in
NATO's
Brussels headquarters as saying today. An unnamed NATO source said that
the
exercises were only simulations of the supply of strategic support to
KFOR
and SFOR forces in the region. The same source added that the rumours
and
concerns in Yugoslavia that a new round of bombing could occur were
completely unfounded and unjustified, and that such stories were pure
political science fiction.
Bishop Artemije of the Kosovo diocese of Raska and Prizren expressed the
hope
today that the NATO manoeuvres would be the beginning of a more active
engagement of KFOR in protecting the remaining Serb other non-Albanian
population in the province. Bishop Artemije, speaking on his return from
the
US, said that US officials had shown great readiness to work on securing
conditions for the return of non-Albanians to Kosovo.
"WANTED" PER MILOSEVIC, KARADZIC E MLADIC
SECONDO IL MIGLIOR STILE DEL FAR WEST
"Wanted" posters of Milosevic, Kardzic and Mladic in Bosnia
WASHINGTON, Friday -- The US will display about 10,000 "wanted" posters
throughout Bosnia offering a five million dollar reward for information
leading to the capture of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, former
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and wartime Bosnian Serb army
leader
General Ratko Mladic. The US State Department said today that the reward
offer stood also applied to another 27 indicted war crime suspects, but
the
posters would carry photos only of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic.
ALBRIGHT, KOUCHNER: FINALMENTE IL KOSOVO E' RIPULITO,
POSSIAMO TENERE DELLE BELLE ELEZIONI DEMOCRATICHE
International community calls for Kosovo elections
LISBON, Friday -- The foreign ministers of the European Union, meeting
with
their Russian and US counterparts in Lisbon today declared that the
prompt
organisation of local elections in Kosovo was necessary as part of
efforts to
re-establish peace in the region. The US Secretary of State, Madeleine
Albright, and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said that the
organisation
of elections didn't need an increase in KFOR troops but work on the
preparation of election conditions so that the polls could be fair.
Albright
called on the international community to secure appropriate financial
conditions so that the elections could be held under appropriate
conditions.
Albright said yesterday that the guiding principle in Kosovo could be
respect
for minority rights, rather than the establishment of the multiethnic
society
demanded by Western leaders so far. Speaking to a US Senate
sub-committee,
the secretary for state said that the international community was moving
towards a multi-ethnic ideal in Bosnia, but added that it was difficult
to
use that term in Kosovo because Serbs there were in the minority and so
their
interests were in the respect of minority rights.
Meanwhile, United Nations Kosovo mission chief Bernard Kouchner is on
his way
to New York where he will submit a report on Kosovo the United Nations
Security Council on Monday, a report which pays particular attention to
plans
for the stabilisation of Kosovska Mitrovica. KFOR Commander Klaus
Reinhardt
will accompany Kouchner. Kosovska Mitrovica Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic
said
today that Kouchner would convey to the Security Council the comments of
the
Serb community on his Strategy for Peaceful Co-existence in Mitrovica.
AFP 6/3/2000 ---------------------------------------------
SADDAM HUSSEIN AIUTEREBBE MILITARMENTE LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
Saddam Ready To Send Troops To Aid Serbia
BAGHDAD, Mar 6, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Iraq is prepared to send
troops to Serbia, President Saddam Hussein has told a Serbian envoy,
Monday's official press reported.
"We are against the aggression against you," Saddam told the speaker of
Serbia's parliament, Dragan Tomic.
"Our position is voiced not only in words but by any means you consider
useful, including our presence at your side to fight the aggression," he
told Tomic, who is a senior official of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia.
"We oppose all those who want to divide your country because we are on
the side of good and against evil," Saddam vowed.
He also seized the occasion to predict, once again, the defeat of the
United States.
"The arm used by the United States against Iraq, against Yugoslavia and
which they will probably use against others, will surely tire," the
president told the delegation, which included Yugoslav minister without
portfolio Zoran Vujovic.
"They will weaken more and more and will be defeated."
Saddam branded as "dogs" NATO forces which attacked Serbia last year and
condemned "the Arabs who sided with the dogs against you".
He urged "the people of the whole world to unite in strength to show
America its limits."
"It's the Zionists and not the Christians who set the American policy of
killing Muslims throughout the world," Saddam said.
The Iraqi strongman said he opposed the break up of countries into
ethnic or religious groupings and predicted that the United States,
which he said encouraged the process, would also break up one day.
"One day this will turn against America which is playing the role of
sorcerer's apprentice and I believe all the countries of the world will
rejoice when America breaks up."
Iraq, repeatedly bombed by the United States and Britain since 1991
following Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait, backed Belgrade against NATO.
Links between the two have strengthened in recent months. ((c) 2000
Agence France Presse)
VOICE OF RUSSIA 6/3/2000 -----------------------
DI CHI LA COLPA PER LA PULIZIA ETNICA IN KOSOVO?
Voice of Russia March 6, 2000
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR ETHNIC CLEANSINGS IN KOSOVO?
Exactly one year since the start of NATO's aggression against
Yugoslavia, Petr Iskenderov looks back at where things stood right
before it all happened…
A few days ago, the Albanian separatist leader Hashim Thaqi unveiled
some secret details of KLA operations in the period immediately
preceding last year's allied military operation.
The then KLA leader said that his organization was working flat out
using hit and run tactics against Serbian police officers and the
Yugoslav military with an eye to provoking retaliation from Belgrade.
This, he said, would give the separatists a chance to bring repression
charges against Yugoslavia and appeal for Western interference to end
alleged human rights abuses by Belgrade.
Apparently carried away, Mr. Thaqi also mentioned the tragedy in the
Serbian village of Racak where dozens of dead bodies have recently been
unearthed by OSCE experts who identified them as KLA fighters apparently
killed in action. And still, people at the NATO headquarters in Brussels
put the blame for the killings of peaceful Albanian peasants squarely on
Belgrade. The charge provided a comfortable justification for NATO's
subsequent aggression against Yugoslavia.
Making a clean breast on what really had happened, Mr. Thaqi admitted
that his militants had intentionally killed four Serb police officers at
Racak knowing that the Serbs would not take long retaliating for the
attack. The Serbs retaliated all right, but not against peaceful land
tillers. What they did was a large-scale operation against armed
Albanian paramilitaries who had turned the village into a major
stronghold. It was exactly their dead bodies, which were later found,
something that is now admitted even by the then KLA supremo who has
absolutely no reason to lie.
Which means that NATO launched its unprecedented aggression against a
sovereign state responding to a sheer provocation by the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army. Moreover, none of the other much-trumpeted cases
of allegedly Serb-organized ethnic cleansings of local Albanians has
proved correct even though they have been investigated by experts from
such respected international organizations as the U. N., the OSCE and
even the British parliament. Not 50,000 massacred civilians but just a
few hundred fighters killed in action - that's the unanimous conclusion
made by American, British and Spanish experts, all of whom, as we can
see, come from NATO countries.
To err is human, of course, but when an ill-intentioned provocation
results in 78 days and nights of all out war then the whole thing is
just a perfect case for a military tribunal to mete out equal justice
for Hashim Thaqi, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Xavier Solana and other
"scriptwriters" .
03.06. 2000
REUTERS 6/3/2000 --------------------------------------
APPENA PRESO "SCAPPA" IL QUINDICENNE UCCISORE DEL PARA'
Suspect In Death Of Russian Kosovo Soldier Escapes PRISTINA, Yugoslavia,
Mar 6, 2000 -- (Reuters) A suspect in the killing of a Russian
peacekeeping soldier in Kosovo escaped from prison just two days after
he was arrested, a spokesman for the KFOR peacekeeping force said on
Sunday.
"The 15-year-old who was arrested for the killing of the Russian soldier
escaped," said Major Kristian Kahrs, a spokesman for the peacekeeping
force. He said he had no further details, including the suspect's name
or from which prison he escaped and how he got out. Private Igor
Korshunov, 31, was shot once in the chest in broad daylight by a gunman
in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of Srbica, 40 km (25 miles)
northwest of Pristina, on Tuesday.
French gendarmes in the French-controlled northern zone of Kosovo have
been investigating the incident but have not so far revealed the reason
for the shooting.
Korshunov is the third Russian soldier shot on peacekeeping duties in
Kosovo but the first to die. Russians have not been welcome in ethnic
Albanian areas of the predominantly Albanian province because of their
perceived sympathies for Orthodox co-religionist Serbs.
AFP 7/3/2000 ---------------------------------
AUMENTANO LE CRITICHE DA MOSCA PER LA CONDOTTA
INTERNAZIONALE IN KOSMET
Russian Official Accuses UN Of Failing To Fulfil
Kosovo Mission
MOSCOW, Mar 7, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) A
high-ranking Russian defense official on Monday
accused the United Nations and NATO of failing to
fulfil their obligations in Kosovo.
General Leonid Ivashov, in charge of international
cooperation at the defense ministry, singled out the
head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner,
for criticism.
His "categorical refusal to work with the Yugoslav
government" was one reason for the deterioration of
the situation in Kosovo, Ivashov said in a television
interview.
The NATO forces, in particular the United States want
Kosovo to cede completely from Yugoslavia, regardless
of UN resolutions to keep it within the rump
federation, he added.
The Alliance has taken the role of defending the
Kosovo Liberation Army -- the rebel group which has
been formally disbanded -- he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said last
Thursday that Moscow would re-examine its
participation in KFOR if Yugoslavia's integrity was
not guaranteed. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)
REUTERS 7/3/2000 -----------------------
SCONTRI CON DECINE DI FERITI A MITROVICA
WIRE:03/07/2000 09:31:00 ET
French, Serbs, Albanians Hurt in Kosovo Clash
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - At least seven French
KFOR soldiers, 20 Serbs and three Albanians were injured Tuesday in
the predominantly Serb part of the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica.
A Reuters reporter at the scene said he saw at least six French
soldiers and one captain injured when Albanians threw two explosive
devices at soldiers who had surrounded an Albanian house from which
there had been shooting.
Some of the soldiers were evacuated to a nearby French military
hospital.
Philippe Paco, a spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo,
said he had heard that the incident started with a quarrel between
Albanian and Serb youths.
"One Albanian fired a hunting rifle on a young man and wounded him
and immediately after that Albanians from a courtyard fired two hand
grenades," Paco said.
A doctor at the hospital in northern Mitrovica, Marko Jaksic, said 20
Serbs had been injured.
"Twenty injured Serbs have been received in the hospital for
treatment and two of them are seriously wounded," said Jaksic, head
of the surgical ward of the Mitrovica hospital.
KFOR spokesman Lieutenant Christian Lindmeier said by telephone from
the Kosovo capital Pristina that he could confirm that 10 Serbs and
three Albanians had been wounded and "several" French soldiers had
received grenade injuries.
He said the French were not badly hurt.
The northern Mitrovica district where the firing broke out was
heavily fortified by KFOR last week when it managed to return some
Albanians to their homes there after a two-day standoff with angry
Serbs.
KFOR and the United Nations, anxious to demonstrate their backing for
a multi-ethnic Kosovo, put on a huge show of force to get the
Albanians back home through a gauntlet of Serbs, who said having
Albanians in their part of town was a threat to their safety.
The Albanians had fled to the purely Albanian southern part of the
town, which is divided by the River Ibar, last month after ethnic
violence drove them from their homes.
The shooting later died down. French KFOR spokesman Colonel Patrick
Chanliau said French soldiers were still surrounding the house where
the shooting had started. He also said two cars were burning and that
a child was among the injured.
Troops and U.N. police had reinforced the bridges dividing the town
where Serbs and Albanians had gathered on their respective sides of
the river. The atmosphere remained extremely tense but was quiet
after the shooting finished.
AP 8/3/2000 -------------------------------
SCOMODO "BENVENUTO" ALLA ALBRIGHT IN BOSNIA
New York Times/AP March 8, 2000
Serbs Protest Albright in Bosnia
Filed at 11:18 a.m. EST
By The Associated Press
BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Hundreds of Serbs chanted
``killers´´ as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright drove by today,
marring her visit to a Bosnian city meant to serve as an example of
ethnic harmony for Kosovo´s residents.
Meanwhile, in Kiseljak, about 60 miles to the south, a demonstration by
close to 10,000 Bosnian Croats also turned into an anti-U.S. protest.
Albright, who earlier today concluded a sentimental visit to her Czech
homeland, arrived in Brcko for an announcement formally making the
northern city a multiethnic district.
Brcko already has a multiethnic government approved by the international
officials running the city. Its residents are exempt from the draft, a
symbolic gesture meant to demonstrate the importance of peace.
But as Albright's motorcade drove up to the municipal building where the
announcement and ceremony making the city a district was to take place,
about 300 Serbs began chanting ``killers,´´ ``thieves´´ and
obscenities.
One of the vehicles was hit by an egg, and many protesters waved three
fingers in the air in the traditional Serb salute. Some in the crowd
also chanted, ``Dodik, traitor´´ -- a reference to Milorad Dodik,
the pro-Western premier of the Serb half of Bosnia.
Nationalist Serbs still resent the United States for its support of
Muslims during the Bosnian war, which ended in 1995 after NATO bombing
helped force the Serbs to seek peace.
But Serbs aren't the only ethnic group in Bosnia angry at Americans.
In Kiseljack, protesters accused the West of being anti-Croat because of
the U.N. war crimes tribunal's recent decision to sentence Gen. Tihomir
Blaskic to 45 years in prison for atrocities against Muslims. They
burned a U.S. flag and whistled each time Albright's name was mentioned.
The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo advised Americans to stay away from
Kiseljak, some 25 miles west of Sarajevo, and the southern city of
Mostar, where more demonstrations were expected.
The status of Brcko was the only territorial issue left unresolved in
the 1995 Dayton peace agreement.
Brcko had been under sole control of Bosnian Serbs until last year, when
it was placed under joint administration of the Serb republic and the
Muslim-Croat Federation.
Bosnian Serbs insisted on maintaining control because Brcko is on a
narrow corridor linking Serb-held lands in the east and west of the
country.
But the Muslim-Croat federation wanted access to the river and rail
facilities. The federation also wanted the thousands of mostly Muslim
refugees to be able to return to their homes in Brcko.
International mediators twice postponed a decision on Brcko's future
because of the sensitivity of the issue and the strong claims by both
sides. After the international decision in March 1999 removed it from
exclusive Serb control, hundreds of Bosnian Serbs demonstrated in the
Serb half of the country, refusing to accept its neutrality. The
protests eventually died down.
In a speech Tuesday in the Czech capital, Prague, Albright noted that
critics once feared the Brcko issue could derail the entire peace
process but said ``those predictions were wrong.´´ Albright said
that gives rise to hope that the same level of cooperation can be
reached eventually in Kosovo, especially in the explosive city of
Kosovska Mitrovica, where dozens were injured in ethnic clashes Tuesday.
During her two-day visit here, Albright is to meet with representatives
of all three ethnicities -- Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
Upon arriving in Sarajevo from Prague, Albright headed to the U.S.
Embassy for a meeting with Bosnian opposition leaders.
Albright was to return to Sarajevo today for meetings with the national
leaders before traveling to the Bosnian Serb capital, Banja Luka, for
talks with Dodik, the Bosnian Serb prime minister, and other moderate
leaders at odds with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The United States and others accuse Milosevic of continuing to foment
ethnic conflict, not only in Kosovo but in Bosnia through efforts to
undermine pro-Western Bosnian Serb politicians.
YDS 8/3/2000 --------------------------------------
TERMINATA LA VISITA NEL LAOS DEL MINISTRO JUGOSLAVO
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDED VISIT TO LAOS
VIENTIANE, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
Jovanovic
ended on Tuesday his three-day official visit to Laos during which he
had
met with the country's top officials.
Laos President Khamtay Siphandon received Jovanovic on Sunday, on Monday
he was received by Prime Minister Sisavat Keobounphanh, while on Tuesday
he
met with Parliament Speaker Saman Vignaket.
The country's military leadership showed interest in learning the causes
and consequences of NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 aggression on
Yugoslavia.
Jovanovic's meetings with the Laos officials showed that they shared
Yugoslavia's positions on and assessments of the NATO crime.
Vignaket said that the NATO aggression was a warning to all nations and
that the Yugoslav people and leadership's heroic resistance to it served
as
an example to other countries fighting for freedom and independence.
Jovanovic and Vignaket discussed the promotion of all-round cooperation
between the two countries, agreeing to ensure the exchange of visits by
the
two countries' parliamentary delegations and their joint activity within
the Interparliamentary Union.
LA JUGOSLAVIA VUOLE LA VERITA' DALL'ONU
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN
YUGOSLAV U.N. AMBASSADOR URGED TRUTH ABOUT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
NEW YORK, March 7 (Tanjug) - For nine months, the U.N. Security Council
has been in a blockade which prevents it from doing its duty in the
right
way and opening a debate on the true problems such as security in
Kosovo-Metohija and the inefficacy of the international mission there,
according to Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic was making a critical appraisal of
Monday's
closed-door consultations in the Security Council, at which the civilian
and security mission chiefs to the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav)
Kosovo-Metohija province, Bernard Kouchner and Klaus Reinhardt,
submitted
their reports.
Speaking at a news conference, Jovanovic said the Monday debate again
had
completely ignored the burning questions concerning Kosovo-Metohija,
where
he said there was chaos and where ethnic Albanian terrorist operations
were
continuing unabated.
He said the alarming nature of the situation was evident also from
Tuesday's reports about the latest wave of terrorist attacks in Kosovska
Mitrovica, in which a score of people were wounded, including
international
KFor force troops.
Regrettably, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's report, published on
the
eve of the arrival of Kouchner and Reinhardt at U.N. headquarters, had
done
the same as the Council debate - viz., distracted attention from the
true
problems and causes of the chaos in Kosovo-Metohija to quite tangential
ones.
His report, too, avoided pointing the finger at the true culprits for
the
ethnic cleansing of Kosovo-Metohija of its Serbs and other
non-Albanians,
and made no mention of the genocide committed thereby, Jovanovic said.
Although Annan did present some facts objectively, he yet buried the
complete picture and the truth under an avalanche of unimportant details
without making a right and comprehensive statement about the situation
in
Kosovo-Metohija or the true reasons for the difficult situation in the
province, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say that the international mission officials had done
nothing to discharge their mandate.
Turning a blind eye to what the terrorists are doing is the same as
siding
with them, according to Jovanovic, who said this only encouraged the
separatists and fed their belief that one day they might detach
Kosovo-Metohija from the parent state.
If U.N. Resolution 1244 clearly provides for an autonomous status and
self-rule for Kosovo-Metohija, then clearly Kouchner, with decisions
that
are at odds with it, is trying to open scope for wrong interpretations
and
distortions of the Resolution, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say this was the first time that the U.N. flag had been
abused for the purposes of ethnic cleansing.
The truth and only the truth is the way to speak about Kosovo- Metohija,
he stressed.
Facts and only facts must be the language in which to talk about the
situation in that U.N.-administered southern province of the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia and the true competencies of the international
presence
there, he emphasised.
ANNAN IN BILICO TRA FATTI E MENZOGNE
ANNAN BALANCING BETWEEN FACTS AND KOUCHNER'S LIES
NEW YORK, March 8 (Tanjug) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
held a press conference at the U.N. New York headquarters on Tuesday
which
was mostly devoted to Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
Reporters linked their questions with two events - Monday's
consultations
of the U.N. Security Council when Annan's special envoy Bernard Kouchner
presented a series of unobjective assessments and excuses for the
failure
of the Kosovo U.N. mission, and, second, Tuesday's press conference by
Yugoslav U.N. mission head Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic and his
evaluation of the failure of the international mission and the Security
Council's inability objectively and comprehensively to discuss Kosovo
and
Metohija.
Annan reiterated his concern over the situation in the southern Serbian
province. He also said that it was not possible to deal with the
situation
in Kosovo separately from the rest of the region. Speaking about the
announced elections in the province, he said it was necessary that the
civilian mission UNMIK cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
The secretary-general tried to make an artificial balance between hard
facts and the lies relentlessly launched by his envoy Kouchner.
Asked to comment Kouchner's countless illegal moves in the province,
Annan
tried to present them as practical measures and steps without which it
would be difficult to manage the administration of the province.
Annan said he was aware that Yugoslavia saw these moves by Kouchner as
preparations for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija, but failed to
mention that other council members, primarily Russia and China, share
this
opinion and the critical evaluations presented by Yugoslavia, and that
they
also warn against Kouchner's dangerous activities.
Asked about Yugoslavia's criticisms of the inefficiency of the
international mission, Annan said he was familiar with these criticisms.
He
then admitted that the international mission faced great problems from
its
very start and that the United Nations had a very difficult mandate from
the very beginning.
KFOR ED UNMIK FATTO IL CONTRARIO DI QUANTO PREVISTO
NELLA RISOLUZIONE DELL'ONU 1244
KFOR, UNMIK FAIL TO IMPLEMENT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA RESOLUTION
VIENNA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav ambassador in Vienna Rados
Smiljkovic said here Tuesday that the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR and
the
U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) did not implement
and
even greatly violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244.
Presenting the Yugoslav government's memorandum on the resolution,
Smiljkovic said that the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
southern province was deteriorating and that violence committed by
ethnic
Albanian extremists had begun spreading outside the province.
Attacks on Serbian authorities and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
are used to conceal the international factor's failure, while elections
in
Kosovo and Metohija are placed in the focus of the world public's
attention, he said.
He said that no elections would be possible as long as the remaining
non-Albanians in the province and loyal ethnic Albanians were killed on
a
daily basis by the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
He said that pressure on Yugoslavia was exerted through open attempts to
trigger a conflict between the country's two federal entities, Serbia
and
Montenegro, to divide and radicalise political forces in Yugoslavia and
to
use them in ousting the country's authorities ahead of the coming local
and
federal elections.
The further tightening of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, instead of
their lifting and the creation of conditions for a speedy economic
development and cooperation in the region, serves the same purpose, he
said.
He said that ethnic Albanian terrorists were used as an instrument to
destabilise not only Kosovo and Metohija but also the entire region in
order to conceal the United Nations' failure and justify NATO's further
presence in the region.
He said that there were indications that the retailoring of Balkan
borders, which had begun in 1991, had not been finished, warning that
another war might break out if certain countries continued to pursue
such a
policy.
Independence for Kosovo and Metohija automatically leads to further
retailoring of borders in the Balkans, he said. He stressed that
Yugoslavia
was doing all within its power to prevent another war, saying, however,
that certain other parties were trying to provoke the country.
"LIBERARE" MITROVICA (DAGLI ULTIMI JUGOSLAVI RIMASTI)
TERRORIST SCENARIO OF "LIBERATING" KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
PRISTINA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav committee for cooperation with
the U.N. mission in Kosovo and Metohija and the provisional executive
council of the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija assessed
Tuesday
evening that the development of that day in Kosovska Mitrovica, in which
scores of civilians were injured, but also KFOR troops, represents a
"planned and precise scenario recently made public" by Albanian
terrorists
on the "liberation" of the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
The statement said that "only two days ago the leader of Albanian
terrorists who is favoured by a part of the international community,
Hashim
Tachi, announced when he spoke in the village of Donji Prekaz, 40 km
south-east of Pristina, the "liberation" of the northern part of
Kosovska
Mitrovica that was to be carried out by the "Kosovo Liberation Army,"
non-existent for the West.
Also present in Donji Prekaz, when the new wave of terror was announced,
were representatives of the international community, who did not react
to
the threats of violence, the statement said.
"Western ideologists of crime against Serbs intend to continue in the
same
way, along with the terrorists, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs also from
north Kosovo and Metohija."
Developments in Kosovska Mitrovica have revealed the true face of the
representatives of the international community, of resolve to complete
the
ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, the
statement said among other things.
KOUCHNER NON RISPETTA IL MANDATO ONU
YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL ACCUSED KOUCHNER OF IGNORING U.N. MANDATE
PRISTINA, Serbia, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's official liaising with
the U.N. mission to Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) said on Tuesday that UNMIK
chief Bernard Kouchner's plan to draw up a provisional constitution for
that Serbian (Yugoslav) province was another instance of a wrong and
biased
policy.
In connection with Kouchner's request to the U.N. Security Council on
Monday to be allowed to draw up a provisional constitution of
Kosovo-Metohija, Ambassador Stanimir Vukicevic said the latest request
by
the UNMIK chief was another proof that he is acting outside the mandate
given him by the Security Council. "The U.N. Security Council's
Resolution
1244 envisages for autonomy for Kosovo-Metohija, nothing more,"
Vukicevic,
who chairs the Yugoslav committee liaising with UNMIK, said in Kosovo-
Metohija's city of Pristina.
He warned that, by promulgating a "constitution," Kouchner was seeking
to
endorse all his decisions taken so far, i.e., to sever all
Kosovo-Metohija's ties with Serbia and Yugoslavia.
"We expected Kouchner to put the true problem to the Council, i.e., to
brief the Council members on inadequate security for the Serbs,
Montenegrins and other non-Albanians, not to conceal the truth from them
by
asking for a provisional constitution for Kosovo-Metohija," Vukicevic
said.
He wondered who would vote for such a constitution in a situation where
more than 360,000 people from Kosovo-Metohija are living outside the
province.
"Kouchner is obviously in a hurry to rush through a constitution in
their
absence, a legal document that would seriously upset plans for the
return
of the more than 360,000 people to their homes in Kosovo-Metohija,"
Vukicevic said.
He said he hoped the international community had finally realised that
the
policy being pursued in that U.N.-ruled province of the Yugoslav
republic
of Serbia was not one that would solve the problem but rather one that
would prolong the Kosovo-Metohija crisis.
SUGLI ATTACCHI TERRORISTICI A MITROVICA
IVANOVIC: TERRORIST ATTACK - LARGE SPECTACLE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The terrorist attack on Serbs on
Tuesday is nothing but a large spectacle ahead of the arrival of Wesley
Clark in Kosovska Mitrovica, said a local Serb official.
Oliver Ivanovic, who heads the Serbian National Assembly in Kosovska
Mitrovica, said that Albanian terrorists acted on Tuesday in conformity
with "their doctrine" that prescribes as many wounded Serbs as possible
and
the greatest possible pressure on them.
Such a large number of wounded Serbs has not been registered since
October
12 when Albanian terrorists threw four grenades on Serbs gathered near
the
bridge on Ibar river and when 33 Serbs were wounded, Ivanovic said.
At least 14 French troops were seriously wounded when they intervened
during the afternoon to stop the Albanians who attacked Serbs in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
In the attacks were wounded 22 Serbs, two of them seriously.
Albanians attacked with two grenades the French after troops surrounded
the house of Dzeljalja Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, in the northern
(Serbian)
part of town.
A large number of French, German and Danish troops are patrolling in
armoured cars the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and helicopters
are
overflying the town.
THIRTY-SIX PERSONS WOUNDED IN ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Twenty-two
Serbs and 14 French peacekeepers, including an officer, were wounded
Tuesday in a series of attacks launched by ethnic Albanian terrorists in
the Bosnjacka district of Kosovska Mitrovica's northern section.
According to head of the town hospital's surgical and orthopaedic
department Marko Jaksic, two Serbs were seriously wounded, while 17
other
Serbs also had to remain in hospital.
Most of the Serbs wounded in the attacks, which began just before noon
and
lasted for two hours, are secondary school pupils. The terrorists used
hand
grenades and opened fire with small arms and heavy weapons in the
attacks.
The violence broke out when Ljuan Muftari, an ethnic Albanian who was
later arrested, approached a group of four Serb youths hitting one of
them
with an iron bar without any reason. After that, an ethnic Albanian came
out of his house with a rifle and opened fire on the Serb youths,
wounding
one them in the thigh.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists threw four hand grenades on another group of
Serbs. All this was happening in the presence of German troops
participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR who did nothing to
prevent the violence.
French KFOR troops arrested Dzeljaj Ademi, an ethnic Albanian from whose
house terrorists opened fire. Ademi, who up to this point worked with
Serbs
in Kosovska Mitrovica's northern, Serb-populated section, threw two hand
grenades on a group of Serbs and a cordon of French KFOR troops.
Around 1.30 p.m. local time, French peacekeepers surrounded the house
ordering the terrorists to surrender. The terrorists responded by
throwing
two hand grenades on them.
Strong KFOR troops guarded all three bridges dividing the town into its
northern and southern, ethnic Albanian-populated section, while the
town's
streets were patrolled by a large number of armoured personnel carriers
with French, German and Danish peacekeepers.
KFOR helicopters flew over the town's northern section for two hours.
Ethnic Albanian terrorist attacks on Serbs ahead of every international
official's visit to Kosovo and Metohija, including Tuesday's visit to
Kosovska Mitrovica by NATO Supreme Commander Europe Wesley Clark, are no
coincidence. They are part of the ethnic Albanian terrorists' plans to
provoke Serbs and pin the blame on them for unrest and clashes.
Tuesday's
terrorist attacks have also greatly resulted from KFOR's inefficiency
because the force has been informed that members of the ethnic Albanian
terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) live
in
the Bosnjacka district.
RAZZIATE LE CASE DEI SERBI DI OBILIC
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STORM SERB HOUSES IN OBILIC
OBILIC, March 8 (Tanjug) - About 1,000 ethnic Albanian extremists
stormed
a block of houses with exclusively Serb tenants in the Kosovo and
Metohija
town of Obilic on Tuesday evening, said the local Committee for
Protection
and Human Rights.
There are no reports yet about possible casualties or damage.
Ethnic Albanians hurled stones at six houses built within the Yugoslav
program for settling Serbs and Montenegrins in the southern Serbian
province. Serbs have lived here in constant fear of terrorist actions by
ethnic Albanians, the sources said.
Almost all windows on the houses were broken, and the attackers also
used
firearms.
Ethnic Albanian extremists also went on a rampage in streets in downtown
Obilic, the committee representatives said.
The rampage went on for almost an hour. The local international force
KFOR
Norwegian contingent reacted only after the height of the violence
abated,
the committee said.
L'ONU PREPARA UN CENSIMENTO-TRUFFA NEL KOSOVO SETTENTRIONALE
UN TRIES TO CONDUCT ILLEGAL CENSUS IN NORTHERN KOSOVO
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The United Nations population
agency UNFPA is secretly distributing forms in northern Kosovo and
Metohija
in an effort to collect data for an illegal census, within the illegal
decisions of U.N. Kosovo and Metohija mission chief Bernard Kouchner,
and
in direct violation of Security Council Resolution 1244.
The distribution of these forms began recently in the Serb-populated
municipalities of Zubin Potok and Leposavic. The questionnaires are
headed
- demographic and socio-economic studies, and allegedly serve
exclusively
for statistical purposes. The U.N. civilian mission UNMIK administrators
in
Zubin Potok, a U.S. citizen, and in Leposavic, a Dane, are behind these
illicit activities.
The local Serb population who were given the questionnaires reacted by
addressing the municipal authorities, which took the united stand that
this
was yet another manipulation and provocation by the international
community, led by Kouchner. The authorities said Serbs should not
respond
to these actions.
TERRORISTI PAN-ALBANESI VIAGGIANO SUI MEZZI STATUNITENSI
Ethnic Albanian terrorists in U.S. personnel carriers
March 08, 2000
Bujanovac, March 7 - That ethnic Albanian terrorists
in Kosovo and Metohija act in close conjunction with members of the
international forces (KFOR) has been confirmed by the action of
separatists who, accompanied by U.S. personnel carriers, arrived on
March 4 in the village of Rejanovac, municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica, and in the hamlet of Borovac opened automatic gun
fire on the defenders of Serbian houses.
This is what foreign reporters in Bujanovac learned
from a Serb who managed to get away from Borovac, a hamlet near Kosovska
Kamenica. He described the event which took place on Saturday, March 4.
In the action took part seven American armored personnel carriers.
While ethnic Albanian terrorists opened fire from the
direction of the village, U.S. KFOR troops were silent observers and
only filmed the scene, the man said. Ethnic Albanian terrorists were
wearing uniforms of U.S.KFOR troops, and came from the direction of
Rejanovac although that terrain is in the zone of responsibility of
Russian units.
From Rejanovac, ethnic Albanian terrorists previously
expelled 50 Roma and six Serbian families, but did not manage to
complete the ethnic cleansing.
When the shooting ceased, the terrorists climbed into
two U.S. personnel carriers, parked in the fields, and then withdrew,
failing to detect Serb defense positions.
The man who managed to get to Bujanovac said that KFOR
helicopters overflew Rejanovac only two meters above house roofs. Masked
terrorists stormed into undefended Serbian houses, grabbing money,
valuables and livestock.
Some twenty days ago, terrorists even dared attack
Russian KFOR troops, who returned fire. The Russians managed to seize
from the terrorists an anti-tank mine and three hand grenades.
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SERBI FERITI IN SCONTRI CON LA KFOR
Serbs injured in clash with KFOR
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday - Three Serbs were injured yesterday in a
clash
with Danish KFOR troops in the village of Grabovac, near Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Villagers today complained that the Danish soldiers had treated them
roughly
during a search for illegal weapons, smashing furniture and scattering
firewood.
LA SIGNORA DAL PONTE INSABBIA L'INCHIESTA SULLA NATO
MA SARA' "SEVERISSIMA" CONTRO I CRIMINALI DI GUERRA CHE VUOLE LEI
Hague prosecutor wants to make life tough for accused
THE HAGUE, Friday - The Hague Tribunal's chief prosecutor said today
that she
intended to make life difficult for Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic and
others accused of war crimes. Carla del Ponte said that her absolute
priority
was the arrest of remaining suspects, adding that she particularly
sought the
arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and
former
head of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic, whom she considered
responsible
for the worst crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.
IL MONTENEGRO PRONTO ALL'INDIPENDENZA
Montenegro preparing to protect statehood
PODGORICA, Friday - Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic said today
that
Yugoslavia's southern republic was investing maximum effort to prepare
state
bodies and the public to protect statehood and freedom in Montenegro.
Djukanovic, speaking at a joint press conference with EU Foreign Affairs
Commissioner Chris Patten in Podgorica, said that a new crisis in the
Balkans
was not desirable but that if the Belgrade regime began open
destruction,
Montenegro would be prepared.
The Montenegrin President also announced today that local elections
would be
held in Podgorica and Herceg Novi on June 11. The reason for this, he
said,
was that the municipal assemblies in these cities were not functioning
since
the ruling Better Life coalition had lost its majority.
YDS 9/3/2000 ---------------------------------------
JOVANOVIC IN VISITA IN INDONESIA DOPO COREA DEL NORD,
BIRMANIA, LAOS E CINA
TALKS IN JAKARTA
JAKARTA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The foreign ministers of Yugoslavia and of
Indonesia Zivadin Jovanovic and Alwi Abdurrahman Shihab held talks in
Jakarta on Wednesday.
It was mutually assessed in the talks, the first meeting of the two
foreign
ministers after a number of years, that regardless of some oscillations
the
half-a-century long friendship of the two countries had withstood the
test
of time, and that dialogue was maintained even in the most difficult
conditions. The embassies of the two countries worked continuously,
contacts were kept up between the representatives of the two ministries,
and Yugoslavia was visited last year by an Indonesian parliamentary
delegation.
The Yugoslav foreign minister visited Jakarta on his way back to
Belgrade
after official visits to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
Myanmar
and Laos and a stop-over in China.
The talks between Ministers Jovanovic and Shihab were held in a friendly
atmosphere and with a constructive approach of both sides to the
expansion
of bilateral relations. It was agreed that dialogue be continued and
promoted, and that visits be exchanged by businessmen, delegations of
chambers of commerce and social organizations.
It was agreed that the legal frames of cooperation be analyzed in detail
with a view to streamlining and completing them.
The Ministers talked about the cooperation of the two countries in
international organizations, and about the need to reactivate Yugoslavia
as
a full-fledged member of the U.N. and of the nonaligned movement.
Information was exchanged about the internal development of Yugoslavia,
and
Indonesia, about reform processes and economic-technological
development.
Jovanovic informed his counterpart about the results of renewal and
reconstruction in Yugoslavia and the importance of the Yugoslav economy
for
integration processes in the region, and about the concerning situation
in
Kosovo and Metohija.
He stressed that Yugoslavia insisted on the respect of its sovereignty
and
territorial integrity, on countering separatist and terrorist
activities,
and consistent compliance with Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija.
Yugoslavia is interested in open cooperation on an equal footing, both
with
neighbouring countries and with other countries who accept us as an
equal
partner, Jovanovic said, and invited Shihab to visit Yugoslavia, which
was
accepted by the Indonesia foreign minister with pleasure. Indonesia is
the
largest Islamic country with a population of 214 million and as an
influential member of a number of important international organizations,
it
is considered of key importance in southeastern Asia. As an exporter of
oil
it is an OPEC member and very active in ASEAN and OIC.
Jovanovic gave interviews in Jakarta to the newspaper Indonesia Observer
and to a popular T.V. station, Anteve.
GLI OBIETTIVI DEGLI USA
SECONDO IL MINISTRO DELL'INFORMAZIONE DELLA RFJ
MATIC: U.S. OBJECTIVES - ECONOMIC DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION
BELGRADE, March 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic
said
in a Serbian Radio Television RTS live broadcast late Wednesday that the
so-called new world order presented the aspiration of the U.S.
administration to enforce such an order on the whole world using any
means
possible.
Speaking about media and the new world order on "Open Studio," Matic
said
he agreed with statements by U.S. analysts who said that the United
States
was using its air force to finish what its media could not accomplish in
order to realize its interests through the implementation of the new
world
order.
This situation is not new, Matic said. It has been created repeatedly in
the whole 20th century. The United States always found it necessary to
create new crises in the world in order to realize its imperialist and
economic interests, since the U.S. interests are primarily economic
domination and exploitation, he said.
UNA TORTA IN FACCIA AL BUGIARDO PORTAVOCE DELLA NATO JAMIE SHEA
NATO SPOKESMAN SHEA GETS PIE IN THE FACE FOR SPREADING LIES
BRUSSELS, March 9 (Tanjug) - NATO spokesman Jamie Shea late Wednesday
had
yet another unpleasant encounter because of the lies he spread during
the
alliance's aggression on Yugoslavia last year in an effort to justify
the
bombing of civilians.
This latest incident occurred in the southern Belgian town of Gent,
where a
debate on the role of media during the NATO aggression was organized at
the
local university.
One of the participants in this event hurled a pie at Shea in protest
against the lies launched by the NATO propaganda, the Belgian news
agency
Belga said.
Already on entering the university building, Shea encountered about a
dozen
young people protesting against the NATO propaganda, of which Shea was
the
main mouthpiece.
The protesters chanted anti-NATO slogans and shouted that NATO used lies
and hypocrisy to present air strikes on civilians as some alleged
humanitarian mission.
INTERVISTA AL NUOVO CAPO DI STATO MAGGIORE DELLA RFJ
YUGOSLAV ARMY CHIEF: EFFICACIOUS DEFENCE FORCE BEING BUILT
BELGRADE, March 8 (Tanjug) - Reorganisation of the Yugoslav army will
produce a modern, numerically smaller, mobile army, whose capacitation
and
combat capability will be a deterrent to aggression, the chief of staff
is
quoted on Wednesday as saying.
Speaking for Vojska magazine in an interview due to appear on Thursday,
General Nebojsa Pavkovic said this means the Yugoslav army should have a
powerful and modern air defence and a significant special rapid reaction
strike force.
Also being considered, according to Pavkovic, are ways and means of
hitting
back at aggressors.
Speaking about the command staff's priorities, he said the big tasks
lying
ahead of the army were being complicated by the current military,
political
and security situation in the neighbourhood.
"It is up to us to monitor carefully all that is happening, to
anticipate
events and take the necessary measures," he said, adding the army would
maintain such a level of defence alert as would allow it to carry out
all
tasks set to it.
"The level of combat alert depends on the kind of threat to the country
and
is not set by the army on its own," he said, stressing that work would
continue on modernising and reorganising the army in line with the
country's economic and other capabilities and defence needs.
He said that the job of organising life and work in the new
circumstances
(following NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last spring) would soon be
completed.
Also, he added, the remaining military infrastructure damaged or
destroyed
in the air strikes and not yet repaired would be rebuilt, first of all
personnel accommodation facilities, and after them the arsenals and
materiel storage facilities.
He stressed that "combat training will remain high on the list of
priorities, with the necessary innovations and the application of the
rich
war experience.
"In light of the results achieved in the armed struggle against the
aggressors, this is the best army in our history, and analyses by
foreign
and domestic authorities confirm its high quality."
He added that the command staff aspires for the army to be a factor of
security and unity of all nations and ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia
and,
as such, a key factor of stability in the troubled region.
He then spoke about the military-political situation in the immediate
neighbourhood, which he described as "extremely complex".
"The western military alliance, spearheaded by the United States, is
striving to achieve global control and to this end seeks to secure
permanent control of the processes in the Balkans, which is a crossroads
of
key strategic importance.
"This is why they are keeping up the pressure on our country," he
explained.
He went on to say that NATO's non-military aggression, which was
constantly
intensifying, was taking all kinds of shapes and forms, among which
efforts
to economically exhaust Yugoslavia by keeping up the sanctions.
Also, he added, they were deepening the crisis and trying to cause
social
unrest, stoking separatism in multiethnic communities, trying to weaken
the
morale and defence capability of the army, giving open support to the
separatists, all with the purpose of dismembering Yugoslavia into a host
of
stateless easy to control.
"The greatest threat to our country, as well as to the whole world,
comes
from the fact that the countries of the new world order have
incorporated
terrorism in their low-intensity strategies and that terrorism is the
first
echelon in the onslaught of the imperialist world.
"This is violence more brutal than classical warfare, which takes no
heed
of ethics or humanism, causing internal unrest in some countries which
grows into internal aggression, which is becoming the rule, with
external
aggression being the exception," he explained.
Pavkovic assessed that the interests for the Yugoslav region never
ceased
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IL POPE ARTEMIJE - AMBASCIATORE DI CHI E DI CHE COSA?
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 – “This morning (Feb. 25) Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright met with Kosovo Serb leaders Bishop Artemije
Radosavljevic and Father Sava Janjic to discuss the situation of the
Serb community in Kosovo and to continue a process of engagement with
moderate opposition leadership,” a State Department press release
stated.
TiM Ed.: Correction. “Kosovo Serb Leaders?” Neither Bishop Artemije,
nor any other Serb vassal who has ever accompanied him in his visits at
the State Dept., are “Serb leaders” by any stretch of the imagination.
They have been neither elected nor appointed as such, neither in Kosovo
nor anywhere else in Serbia. They may be “Serb leaders,” therefore,
only by a State Department’s effort to assign them a higher rank than
they deserve. Or by their own exaggerated and self-congratulatory
claims.
Take a look at the caption under a photo at the Decani web site
(http://www.decani.yunet.com/ ), maintained by Artemije’s close aide,
Fr. Sava Janjic, who, as you saw from the above State Department
release, was also present at their Feb. 25 meeting with Albright. The
caption reads: “Bishop Artemije - the missionary of peace again in US
to speak on behalf of his people.” The photo was taken in Washington,
DC, Feb/99.
“On behalf of his people?” His Disgrace would be well advised to speak
only on his own behalf. And to remember how “his people,” the Serbs of
Kosovo, jeered him and Albright the last time around when he cavorted
with the enemy during the U.S. Secretary of State’s visit to Kosovo in
July 1999 (see "Albright, Artemije Jeered by Serbs, Cheered by Serbs,
Cheered by Albanians" - S99-131, "Peace" 25, Item 1, July 31). We
understand that the Serb media have also published photos of Artemije
and Albright taken on Feb. 25, though we have not yet been able to
obtain one. For the time being, here’s a photo from an earlier visit by
Artemije et.al. to the State Dept.
As if cavorting with the person whom the London Telegraph dubbed “the
West's most influential anti-Serb hawk” in its Feb. 27 “post mortem” to
the Kosovo war weren’t bad enough, His Disrace also joined Albright in
reaffirming “their strong commitment to a multiethnic, democratic Kosovo
and their rejection of partition,” according to the Feb. 25 State Dept.
release. “The Secretary and Bishop Artemije strongly endorsed Special
Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Bernard Kouchner's Agenda
for Coexistence and agreed that it provided a basis for moving forward
toward participation of the Serb community in Kosovo's democratization.”
Raymond Kent, a former history professor at the Berkeley University in
California, described this French Jew as “France's most vocal and
opinionated Serbophobe,” in a Feb. 18 letter of protest against the
PBS/Jim Lehrer anti-Serbian bias (you can see the full text of his
letter in Item 6 below). Prof. Kent added, “this writer has personally
listened to him on the French TV on a dozen occasions spewing his
anti-Serb venom.
And so, His Grace stumbles from one disgraceful act to another… From
posing with the “the West's most influential anti-Serb hawk,” to
“strongly endorsing” the “France's most vocal and opinionated
Serbophobe.” Both gestures represent another act of Artemije’s
subservience to the New World Order, and another act of disservice to
the Serb people.
In a December 1999 TiM Bulletin, “Cavorting with the Enemy”, we also
condemned similar actions of some pro-western Serb opposition leaders
who traveled to Berlin to kiss up to Albright. Here’s the opening
paragraph:
“Can you imagine a Serb leader posing for reporters with one of Hitler's
top aides - after the Luftwaffe's April 6, 1941 bombing of Belgrade
which killed hundreds of civilians? Not if he hoped to be a Serb leader
for long, right?
Well, on Dec. 17, three would-be Serb leaders - Zoran Djindjic, Milo
Djukanovic and Vuk Draskovic did just that at a Berlin (how
appropriate!) Dec. 17 meeting with an unindicted war criminal, Madeleine
Albright, the U.S. Secretary of State. Or Hate, to be more accurate.
Take a look at the photo posted at our Web site. What are these people
smiling about? The thousands of Serb civilians killed or maimed by the
bombs in, what TIME magazine called, "Madeleine's War?" (see S99-81, Day
55, Item 2, May 17).”
More than 2,000 Serb civilians were killed by NATO under the auspices of
the war criminals, like Albright. Nearly 1,000 other Serb civilians
killed under the watchful eyes of Kouchner. Over 200,000 Serbs who were
driven from their ancestral homes in Kosovo during the NATO/KFOR “peace
farce.” And after all that, Artemije et. al. and the pro-western
vassals among the Serb opposition meet with, and pose for photographs,
with
the NATO war criminals?
[Text Box: Artemije with Clinton (Nov/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava
with Holbrooke (Aug/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava with Thaci (summer
1999)]
Nor are we talking only about Artemije-Albright tête-à-tête sessions.
Take at a look at the Decani web site. It’s full of boastful
photographs of this Serb bishop posing with leading New World Order
criminals. Artemije with Clinton… Artemije with Richard Holbrooke…
Artemije with Hashim Thaci… Artemije at the Council on Foreign Relations
(in New York), etc.
Such a disgraceful behavior by a Serb bishop, [Text Box: Artemije at
the CFR (Feb/99)] especially after the NATO bombing of Serbia, dishonors
all Serb victims of the New World Order crimes. If Artemije plans to
keep on acting as a quisling of the western powers that be, which he is
free to do as an individual, at least he should have enough decency to
take off his clerical robes when he cavorts with the war criminals.
For, his behavior can be also construed by uninitiated or malicious
people as the Serbian Orthodox Church’s endorsement of his shameful
missions. We don’t know who is paying for his trips to Washington and
New York, butas far as TiM is aware, Bishop Artemije only represents
himself, not the Serbian Orthodox Church, which has publicly denounced
Slobodan Milosevic, the NATO bombings, and the KFOR “peace farce.”
Artemije’s recent actions have rightly earned him the epithet – His
Disgrace. May he wear it in shame.
B92 1/3/2000 ------------------
FERITO UN PARA' RUSSO IN KOSMET
Russian paratrooper wounded
PRISTINA, Wednesday - A Russian KFOR paratrooper was wounded in a
firearm incident in Srbica yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defence
announced today. The soldier has undergone surgery following what the
ministry describes as an accident which occurred while he was on guard
duties. His condition is reported to be stable..
IL POPE ARTEMIJE NEGLI USA
Kosovo cleric in US
WASHINGTON, Wednesday - Orthodox Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren
today told the US Congress Helsinki Committee that the status of Kosovo
should remain frozen until violence had been eliminated and democratic
processes begun not only in Kosovo but in the rest of Serbia and
Yugoslavia. Bishop Artemije also called on the international community
to take more resolute action in Kosovo as prescribed by UN Security
Council Resolution 1244. He emphasised that moderate Serbs in Kosovo
needed media access and better communication between their enclaves so
that their voices could be heard by all Kosovo Serbs.
REUTERS 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
QUINDICIMILA IN PIAZZA A SKOPJE CONTRO LA POLITICA
ECONOMICA DEL GOVERNO DI DESTRA
Thousands Attend Macedonian Union Rally
SKOPJE, Mar 1, 2000 -- (Reuters) Around 15,000
Macedonian workers took to streets in the capital
Skopje on Tuesday to protest against high unemployment
and the economic policies of the center-right
government.
The demonstration was organized by the blue-collar
Alliance of Macedonian Unions.
Its president, Zivko Tolevski, called on the
center-right government to start a dialogue with
unions.
He urged it to not accept "blackmail from the
international financial institutions, especially the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund".
"Should we close down all big companies? We are
opposed to that," he told the crowd.
"If they close down the loss-making companies so many
people would be left with no jobs. We are sure that
other solutions could be envisaged," he said.
Tolevski said the former Yugoslav republic, which
became independent in 1991, had one of Europe's
highest unemployment rates, 36 percent.
"We have a right to send a powerful message to the
international community and Europe that Macedonia can
not overcome its economic crisis with all these
barriers and blockades," said Tolevski, referring to
sanctions against its northern neighbour Serbia.
AP 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
SERBI-KOSOVARI INFURIATI CONTRO I SOLDATI USA
http://www.newsday.com/ap/topnews/ap882.htm
Angry Serbs Surround U.S. Soldiers
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A crowd of chanting Serb
civilians surrounded a platoon of U.S. soldiers for
six hours in a small village in eastern Kosovo,
angrily insisting they hand over a Serb suspect
detained in a weapons search, U.S. officials said
Thursday.
The standoff in Gornje Kusce, two miles north of the
town of Gnjilane, ended only after the 15 soldiers
conducting a weapons search sought reinforcements and
the Serbs let them leave, said Maj. Debbie Allen, a
spokeswoman for U.S. forces.
No injuries were reported, but the government-run
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said American troops beat
up three Serbs and arrested one. U.S. officials could
not be reached for comment.
The standoff began Wednesday evening when soldiers
conducting a weapons search detained a Serb man after
finding two AK-47s and several hundred rounds of
ammunition in his home. Some 200 Serbs gathered, and
refused to disperse despite efforts by the soldiers to
negotiate their way out.
After three hours, the troops called for
reinforcements. About 60 soldiers arrived, but could
not extricate the platoon. More reinforcements were
called, but the situation was defused only when the
crowd permitted the soldiers to leave with the
suspect.
About 100 soldiers had converged on the tiny village
by the time the standoff was over.
The village was the site of a massive funeral for a
Serb doctor slain last week.
Tanjug said the standoff occurred because U.S. troops
conducted a ''brutal'' search in the village. Serbs
were especially angered by the appearance of
''uniformed ethnic Albanians together with the
Americans.''
It was unclear who the ''uniformed ethnic Albanians''
were but ethnic Albanian interpreters who accompany
American troops wear green camouflage fatigues and
helmets like the U.S. soldiers.
REUTERS 2/3/2000 --------------------------
MUORE IL PARA' RUSSO IN SEGUITO ALLE FERITE
Russian Kosovo Soldier Dies Of Wounds
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Mar 2, 2000 -- (Reuters) A Russian
soldier serving with the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo died of his
wounds after being shot in an ethnic Albanian town, the French army said
on Thursday.
"The Russian soldier died of internal bleeding overnight," said Major
Philippe Maurin, a spokesman for the French KFOR forces stationed in the
north of the turbulent province.
The Russian soldier, whose name was withheld pending notification of his
family, was shot on Tuesday in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of
Srbica.
The town is about 20 km (12 miles) south of Kosovska Mitrovica, the
mining city which has become the frontline of continuing ethnic tension
between Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and the dwindling Serb minority.
French officials said the incident was under investigation and have
declined to comment on a motive for the shooting.
The soldier, a driver, was hit once in the chest in broad daylight in
the center of Srbica, where he had taken his commanding officer for a
meeting with local officials.
Srbica is just north of the area of Kosovo usually patrolled by Russian
KFOR troops, who are distrusted and feared by ethnic Albanians who see
the Russians as natural allies of their fellow Orthodox co-religionists,
the Serbs
B92 2/3/2000 ------------------
SERBI AFFRONTANO LE TRUPPE KFOR
Serbs harass KFOR troops
PRISTINA, Thursday - The Serbian population of the Kosovo village of
Gornje
Kusce last night held off US troops with pitchforks and hoes, KFOR
spokesman
Hoening Philip told media today. According to Philip the incident
occurred
when the troops arrested a Serb after finding three automatic rifles in
his
house. Amateur radio operators reported that there had been six
Albanians
among the international troops and the Gornje Kusce residents had called
Russian soldiers from Kamenica to determine their identity. The crowd
eventually allowed the troops to leave with the arrested man after an
additional sixty soldiers were called.
LA FINANZA TEDESCA PER IL MONTENEGRO
German finance for Montenegro
BERLIN, Thursday - The German Government has approved a loan of 40
million
Deutsche Marks to Montenegro. The deal, which involves cooperative
projects
with German businesses, was announced after discussions today between
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and German Foreign Minister Joscha
Fischer in Berlin.
PROTESTE SERBE A MITROVICA
Up again down again bridge
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Thursday - Several hundred Serbs gathered today on
the
northern bank of the Ibar river in Kosovska Mitrovica in a protest
against a
pontoon bridge installed this morning by KFOR. The protesters told media
that
they had assembled to oppose KFOR attempts to transport a group of
Albanians
across the river from the southern part of the town into the Serb zone.
KFOR
eventually abandoned the attempt to move the Albanians. KFOR Northern
Centre
Command told Beta agency that the bridge would be open every day from
8.00 am
to 6.00 p.m. for pedestrian passage.
However KFOR troops later this afternoon dismantled the bridge less than
twelve hours after setting it up. The official reason given was "a rise
in
the water level of the river".
B92 3/3/2000 ----------------------------------------------
SCONTRI A MITROVICA IN SEGUITO ALLA PROVOCAZIONE DELLA KFOR
CHE FORZA IL "RIENTRO" DI ALBANESI NEL QUARTIERE
ZEPPO DI PROFUGHI SERBI
Repatriation "invasion" in northern Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday -- Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica today
clashed violently with KFOR troops as international forces returned the
first
contingent of Albanian families to their homes in the Serbian zone of
the
divided town. After a crowd of several hundred Serbs stoned troops
stationed
on the bridge to protect the first group of Albanians, French KFOR
troops
dispersed the protesters with mace cartridges. France Press reports that
at
least six Serbs were hurt during the conflict and several KFOR vehicles
damaged.
The group of 38, mainly elderly Albanians reached the northern zone
shortly
before 4.00 p.m. A convoy of armed vehicles crossed the bridge and set
off
for Bnjaca mahal, the northern area where the Albanians lived.
KFOR confirmed yesterday that it had noted the emergence of a group of
armed
Albanians in Kosovo who were making incursions into the southern
municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in Serbia proper. A
spokesman for KFOR Commander Klaus Reinhardt said today that KFOR had no
jurisdiction to intervene outside Kosovo but was patrolling the
administrative border in order to prevent illegal crossings.
MANOVRE NATO IN VISTA, ARTEMIJE LE APPOGGIA
NATO exercises "no cause for alarm"
BRUSSELS, Friday -- NATO's Dynamic Response 2000 manoeuvres, which are
planned to begin in two weeks in Kosovo, in no way represent a new
threat,
and nor did they celebrate a year from the beginning of the air strikes
against Yugoslavia, Belgrade daily Glas javnosti quotes sources in
NATO's
Brussels headquarters as saying today. An unnamed NATO source said that
the
exercises were only simulations of the supply of strategic support to
KFOR
and SFOR forces in the region. The same source added that the rumours
and
concerns in Yugoslavia that a new round of bombing could occur were
completely unfounded and unjustified, and that such stories were pure
political science fiction.
Bishop Artemije of the Kosovo diocese of Raska and Prizren expressed the
hope
today that the NATO manoeuvres would be the beginning of a more active
engagement of KFOR in protecting the remaining Serb other non-Albanian
population in the province. Bishop Artemije, speaking on his return from
the
US, said that US officials had shown great readiness to work on securing
conditions for the return of non-Albanians to Kosovo.
"WANTED" PER MILOSEVIC, KARADZIC E MLADIC
SECONDO IL MIGLIOR STILE DEL FAR WEST
"Wanted" posters of Milosevic, Kardzic and Mladic in Bosnia
WASHINGTON, Friday -- The US will display about 10,000 "wanted" posters
throughout Bosnia offering a five million dollar reward for information
leading to the capture of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, former
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and wartime Bosnian Serb army
leader
General Ratko Mladic. The US State Department said today that the reward
offer stood also applied to another 27 indicted war crime suspects, but
the
posters would carry photos only of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic.
ALBRIGHT, KOUCHNER: FINALMENTE IL KOSOVO E' RIPULITO,
POSSIAMO TENERE DELLE BELLE ELEZIONI DEMOCRATICHE
International community calls for Kosovo elections
LISBON, Friday -- The foreign ministers of the European Union, meeting
with
their Russian and US counterparts in Lisbon today declared that the
prompt
organisation of local elections in Kosovo was necessary as part of
efforts to
re-establish peace in the region. The US Secretary of State, Madeleine
Albright, and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said that the
organisation
of elections didn't need an increase in KFOR troops but work on the
preparation of election conditions so that the polls could be fair.
Albright
called on the international community to secure appropriate financial
conditions so that the elections could be held under appropriate
conditions.
Albright said yesterday that the guiding principle in Kosovo could be
respect
for minority rights, rather than the establishment of the multiethnic
society
demanded by Western leaders so far. Speaking to a US Senate
sub-committee,
the secretary for state said that the international community was moving
towards a multi-ethnic ideal in Bosnia, but added that it was difficult
to
use that term in Kosovo because Serbs there were in the minority and so
their
interests were in the respect of minority rights.
Meanwhile, United Nations Kosovo mission chief Bernard Kouchner is on
his way
to New York where he will submit a report on Kosovo the United Nations
Security Council on Monday, a report which pays particular attention to
plans
for the stabilisation of Kosovska Mitrovica. KFOR Commander Klaus
Reinhardt
will accompany Kouchner. Kosovska Mitrovica Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic
said
today that Kouchner would convey to the Security Council the comments of
the
Serb community on his Strategy for Peaceful Co-existence in Mitrovica.
AFP 6/3/2000 ---------------------------------------------
SADDAM HUSSEIN AIUTEREBBE MILITARMENTE LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
Saddam Ready To Send Troops To Aid Serbia
BAGHDAD, Mar 6, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Iraq is prepared to send
troops to Serbia, President Saddam Hussein has told a Serbian envoy,
Monday's official press reported.
"We are against the aggression against you," Saddam told the speaker of
Serbia's parliament, Dragan Tomic.
"Our position is voiced not only in words but by any means you consider
useful, including our presence at your side to fight the aggression," he
told Tomic, who is a senior official of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia.
"We oppose all those who want to divide your country because we are on
the side of good and against evil," Saddam vowed.
He also seized the occasion to predict, once again, the defeat of the
United States.
"The arm used by the United States against Iraq, against Yugoslavia and
which they will probably use against others, will surely tire," the
president told the delegation, which included Yugoslav minister without
portfolio Zoran Vujovic.
"They will weaken more and more and will be defeated."
Saddam branded as "dogs" NATO forces which attacked Serbia last year and
condemned "the Arabs who sided with the dogs against you".
He urged "the people of the whole world to unite in strength to show
America its limits."
"It's the Zionists and not the Christians who set the American policy of
killing Muslims throughout the world," Saddam said.
The Iraqi strongman said he opposed the break up of countries into
ethnic or religious groupings and predicted that the United States,
which he said encouraged the process, would also break up one day.
"One day this will turn against America which is playing the role of
sorcerer's apprentice and I believe all the countries of the world will
rejoice when America breaks up."
Iraq, repeatedly bombed by the United States and Britain since 1991
following Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait, backed Belgrade against NATO.
Links between the two have strengthened in recent months. ((c) 2000
Agence France Presse)
VOICE OF RUSSIA 6/3/2000 -----------------------
DI CHI LA COLPA PER LA PULIZIA ETNICA IN KOSOVO?
Voice of Russia March 6, 2000
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR ETHNIC CLEANSINGS IN KOSOVO?
Exactly one year since the start of NATO's aggression against
Yugoslavia, Petr Iskenderov looks back at where things stood right
before it all happened…
A few days ago, the Albanian separatist leader Hashim Thaqi unveiled
some secret details of KLA operations in the period immediately
preceding last year's allied military operation.
The then KLA leader said that his organization was working flat out
using hit and run tactics against Serbian police officers and the
Yugoslav military with an eye to provoking retaliation from Belgrade.
This, he said, would give the separatists a chance to bring repression
charges against Yugoslavia and appeal for Western interference to end
alleged human rights abuses by Belgrade.
Apparently carried away, Mr. Thaqi also mentioned the tragedy in the
Serbian village of Racak where dozens of dead bodies have recently been
unearthed by OSCE experts who identified them as KLA fighters apparently
killed in action. And still, people at the NATO headquarters in Brussels
put the blame for the killings of peaceful Albanian peasants squarely on
Belgrade. The charge provided a comfortable justification for NATO's
subsequent aggression against Yugoslavia.
Making a clean breast on what really had happened, Mr. Thaqi admitted
that his militants had intentionally killed four Serb police officers at
Racak knowing that the Serbs would not take long retaliating for the
attack. The Serbs retaliated all right, but not against peaceful land
tillers. What they did was a large-scale operation against armed
Albanian paramilitaries who had turned the village into a major
stronghold. It was exactly their dead bodies, which were later found,
something that is now admitted even by the then KLA supremo who has
absolutely no reason to lie.
Which means that NATO launched its unprecedented aggression against a
sovereign state responding to a sheer provocation by the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army. Moreover, none of the other much-trumpeted cases
of allegedly Serb-organized ethnic cleansings of local Albanians has
proved correct even though they have been investigated by experts from
such respected international organizations as the U. N., the OSCE and
even the British parliament. Not 50,000 massacred civilians but just a
few hundred fighters killed in action - that's the unanimous conclusion
made by American, British and Spanish experts, all of whom, as we can
see, come from NATO countries.
To err is human, of course, but when an ill-intentioned provocation
results in 78 days and nights of all out war then the whole thing is
just a perfect case for a military tribunal to mete out equal justice
for Hashim Thaqi, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Xavier Solana and other
"scriptwriters" .
03.06. 2000
REUTERS 6/3/2000 --------------------------------------
APPENA PRESO "SCAPPA" IL QUINDICENNE UCCISORE DEL PARA'
Suspect In Death Of Russian Kosovo Soldier Escapes PRISTINA, Yugoslavia,
Mar 6, 2000 -- (Reuters) A suspect in the killing of a Russian
peacekeeping soldier in Kosovo escaped from prison just two days after
he was arrested, a spokesman for the KFOR peacekeeping force said on
Sunday.
"The 15-year-old who was arrested for the killing of the Russian soldier
escaped," said Major Kristian Kahrs, a spokesman for the peacekeeping
force. He said he had no further details, including the suspect's name
or from which prison he escaped and how he got out. Private Igor
Korshunov, 31, was shot once in the chest in broad daylight by a gunman
in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of Srbica, 40 km (25 miles)
northwest of Pristina, on Tuesday.
French gendarmes in the French-controlled northern zone of Kosovo have
been investigating the incident but have not so far revealed the reason
for the shooting.
Korshunov is the third Russian soldier shot on peacekeeping duties in
Kosovo but the first to die. Russians have not been welcome in ethnic
Albanian areas of the predominantly Albanian province because of their
perceived sympathies for Orthodox co-religionist Serbs.
AFP 7/3/2000 ---------------------------------
AUMENTANO LE CRITICHE DA MOSCA PER LA CONDOTTA
INTERNAZIONALE IN KOSMET
Russian Official Accuses UN Of Failing To Fulfil
Kosovo Mission
MOSCOW, Mar 7, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) A
high-ranking Russian defense official on Monday
accused the United Nations and NATO of failing to
fulfil their obligations in Kosovo.
General Leonid Ivashov, in charge of international
cooperation at the defense ministry, singled out the
head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner,
for criticism.
His "categorical refusal to work with the Yugoslav
government" was one reason for the deterioration of
the situation in Kosovo, Ivashov said in a television
interview.
The NATO forces, in particular the United States want
Kosovo to cede completely from Yugoslavia, regardless
of UN resolutions to keep it within the rump
federation, he added.
The Alliance has taken the role of defending the
Kosovo Liberation Army -- the rebel group which has
been formally disbanded -- he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said last
Thursday that Moscow would re-examine its
participation in KFOR if Yugoslavia's integrity was
not guaranteed. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)
REUTERS 7/3/2000 -----------------------
SCONTRI CON DECINE DI FERITI A MITROVICA
WIRE:03/07/2000 09:31:00 ET
French, Serbs, Albanians Hurt in Kosovo Clash
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - At least seven French
KFOR soldiers, 20 Serbs and three Albanians were injured Tuesday in
the predominantly Serb part of the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica.
A Reuters reporter at the scene said he saw at least six French
soldiers and one captain injured when Albanians threw two explosive
devices at soldiers who had surrounded an Albanian house from which
there had been shooting.
Some of the soldiers were evacuated to a nearby French military
hospital.
Philippe Paco, a spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo,
said he had heard that the incident started with a quarrel between
Albanian and Serb youths.
"One Albanian fired a hunting rifle on a young man and wounded him
and immediately after that Albanians from a courtyard fired two hand
grenades," Paco said.
A doctor at the hospital in northern Mitrovica, Marko Jaksic, said 20
Serbs had been injured.
"Twenty injured Serbs have been received in the hospital for
treatment and two of them are seriously wounded," said Jaksic, head
of the surgical ward of the Mitrovica hospital.
KFOR spokesman Lieutenant Christian Lindmeier said by telephone from
the Kosovo capital Pristina that he could confirm that 10 Serbs and
three Albanians had been wounded and "several" French soldiers had
received grenade injuries.
He said the French were not badly hurt.
The northern Mitrovica district where the firing broke out was
heavily fortified by KFOR last week when it managed to return some
Albanians to their homes there after a two-day standoff with angry
Serbs.
KFOR and the United Nations, anxious to demonstrate their backing for
a multi-ethnic Kosovo, put on a huge show of force to get the
Albanians back home through a gauntlet of Serbs, who said having
Albanians in their part of town was a threat to their safety.
The Albanians had fled to the purely Albanian southern part of the
town, which is divided by the River Ibar, last month after ethnic
violence drove them from their homes.
The shooting later died down. French KFOR spokesman Colonel Patrick
Chanliau said French soldiers were still surrounding the house where
the shooting had started. He also said two cars were burning and that
a child was among the injured.
Troops and U.N. police had reinforced the bridges dividing the town
where Serbs and Albanians had gathered on their respective sides of
the river. The atmosphere remained extremely tense but was quiet
after the shooting finished.
AP 8/3/2000 -------------------------------
SCOMODO "BENVENUTO" ALLA ALBRIGHT IN BOSNIA
New York Times/AP March 8, 2000
Serbs Protest Albright in Bosnia
Filed at 11:18 a.m. EST
By The Associated Press
BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Hundreds of Serbs chanted
``killers´´ as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright drove by today,
marring her visit to a Bosnian city meant to serve as an example of
ethnic harmony for Kosovo´s residents.
Meanwhile, in Kiseljak, about 60 miles to the south, a demonstration by
close to 10,000 Bosnian Croats also turned into an anti-U.S. protest.
Albright, who earlier today concluded a sentimental visit to her Czech
homeland, arrived in Brcko for an announcement formally making the
northern city a multiethnic district.
Brcko already has a multiethnic government approved by the international
officials running the city. Its residents are exempt from the draft, a
symbolic gesture meant to demonstrate the importance of peace.
But as Albright's motorcade drove up to the municipal building where the
announcement and ceremony making the city a district was to take place,
about 300 Serbs began chanting ``killers,´´ ``thieves´´ and
obscenities.
One of the vehicles was hit by an egg, and many protesters waved three
fingers in the air in the traditional Serb salute. Some in the crowd
also chanted, ``Dodik, traitor´´ -- a reference to Milorad Dodik,
the pro-Western premier of the Serb half of Bosnia.
Nationalist Serbs still resent the United States for its support of
Muslims during the Bosnian war, which ended in 1995 after NATO bombing
helped force the Serbs to seek peace.
But Serbs aren't the only ethnic group in Bosnia angry at Americans.
In Kiseljack, protesters accused the West of being anti-Croat because of
the U.N. war crimes tribunal's recent decision to sentence Gen. Tihomir
Blaskic to 45 years in prison for atrocities against Muslims. They
burned a U.S. flag and whistled each time Albright's name was mentioned.
The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo advised Americans to stay away from
Kiseljak, some 25 miles west of Sarajevo, and the southern city of
Mostar, where more demonstrations were expected.
The status of Brcko was the only territorial issue left unresolved in
the 1995 Dayton peace agreement.
Brcko had been under sole control of Bosnian Serbs until last year, when
it was placed under joint administration of the Serb republic and the
Muslim-Croat Federation.
Bosnian Serbs insisted on maintaining control because Brcko is on a
narrow corridor linking Serb-held lands in the east and west of the
country.
But the Muslim-Croat federation wanted access to the river and rail
facilities. The federation also wanted the thousands of mostly Muslim
refugees to be able to return to their homes in Brcko.
International mediators twice postponed a decision on Brcko's future
because of the sensitivity of the issue and the strong claims by both
sides. After the international decision in March 1999 removed it from
exclusive Serb control, hundreds of Bosnian Serbs demonstrated in the
Serb half of the country, refusing to accept its neutrality. The
protests eventually died down.
In a speech Tuesday in the Czech capital, Prague, Albright noted that
critics once feared the Brcko issue could derail the entire peace
process but said ``those predictions were wrong.´´ Albright said
that gives rise to hope that the same level of cooperation can be
reached eventually in Kosovo, especially in the explosive city of
Kosovska Mitrovica, where dozens were injured in ethnic clashes Tuesday.
During her two-day visit here, Albright is to meet with representatives
of all three ethnicities -- Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
Upon arriving in Sarajevo from Prague, Albright headed to the U.S.
Embassy for a meeting with Bosnian opposition leaders.
Albright was to return to Sarajevo today for meetings with the national
leaders before traveling to the Bosnian Serb capital, Banja Luka, for
talks with Dodik, the Bosnian Serb prime minister, and other moderate
leaders at odds with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The United States and others accuse Milosevic of continuing to foment
ethnic conflict, not only in Kosovo but in Bosnia through efforts to
undermine pro-Western Bosnian Serb politicians.
YDS 8/3/2000 --------------------------------------
TERMINATA LA VISITA NEL LAOS DEL MINISTRO JUGOSLAVO
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDED VISIT TO LAOS
VIENTIANE, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
Jovanovic
ended on Tuesday his three-day official visit to Laos during which he
had
met with the country's top officials.
Laos President Khamtay Siphandon received Jovanovic on Sunday, on Monday
he was received by Prime Minister Sisavat Keobounphanh, while on Tuesday
he
met with Parliament Speaker Saman Vignaket.
The country's military leadership showed interest in learning the causes
and consequences of NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 aggression on
Yugoslavia.
Jovanovic's meetings with the Laos officials showed that they shared
Yugoslavia's positions on and assessments of the NATO crime.
Vignaket said that the NATO aggression was a warning to all nations and
that the Yugoslav people and leadership's heroic resistance to it served
as
an example to other countries fighting for freedom and independence.
Jovanovic and Vignaket discussed the promotion of all-round cooperation
between the two countries, agreeing to ensure the exchange of visits by
the
two countries' parliamentary delegations and their joint activity within
the Interparliamentary Union.
LA JUGOSLAVIA VUOLE LA VERITA' DALL'ONU
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN
YUGOSLAV U.N. AMBASSADOR URGED TRUTH ABOUT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
NEW YORK, March 7 (Tanjug) - For nine months, the U.N. Security Council
has been in a blockade which prevents it from doing its duty in the
right
way and opening a debate on the true problems such as security in
Kosovo-Metohija and the inefficacy of the international mission there,
according to Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic was making a critical appraisal of
Monday's
closed-door consultations in the Security Council, at which the civilian
and security mission chiefs to the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav)
Kosovo-Metohija province, Bernard Kouchner and Klaus Reinhardt,
submitted
their reports.
Speaking at a news conference, Jovanovic said the Monday debate again
had
completely ignored the burning questions concerning Kosovo-Metohija,
where
he said there was chaos and where ethnic Albanian terrorist operations
were
continuing unabated.
He said the alarming nature of the situation was evident also from
Tuesday's reports about the latest wave of terrorist attacks in Kosovska
Mitrovica, in which a score of people were wounded, including
international
KFor force troops.
Regrettably, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's report, published on
the
eve of the arrival of Kouchner and Reinhardt at U.N. headquarters, had
done
the same as the Council debate - viz., distracted attention from the
true
problems and causes of the chaos in Kosovo-Metohija to quite tangential
ones.
His report, too, avoided pointing the finger at the true culprits for
the
ethnic cleansing of Kosovo-Metohija of its Serbs and other
non-Albanians,
and made no mention of the genocide committed thereby, Jovanovic said.
Although Annan did present some facts objectively, he yet buried the
complete picture and the truth under an avalanche of unimportant details
without making a right and comprehensive statement about the situation
in
Kosovo-Metohija or the true reasons for the difficult situation in the
province, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say that the international mission officials had done
nothing to discharge their mandate.
Turning a blind eye to what the terrorists are doing is the same as
siding
with them, according to Jovanovic, who said this only encouraged the
separatists and fed their belief that one day they might detach
Kosovo-Metohija from the parent state.
If U.N. Resolution 1244 clearly provides for an autonomous status and
self-rule for Kosovo-Metohija, then clearly Kouchner, with decisions
that
are at odds with it, is trying to open scope for wrong interpretations
and
distortions of the Resolution, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say this was the first time that the U.N. flag had been
abused for the purposes of ethnic cleansing.
The truth and only the truth is the way to speak about Kosovo- Metohija,
he stressed.
Facts and only facts must be the language in which to talk about the
situation in that U.N.-administered southern province of the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia and the true competencies of the international
presence
there, he emphasised.
ANNAN IN BILICO TRA FATTI E MENZOGNE
ANNAN BALANCING BETWEEN FACTS AND KOUCHNER'S LIES
NEW YORK, March 8 (Tanjug) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
held a press conference at the U.N. New York headquarters on Tuesday
which
was mostly devoted to Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
Reporters linked their questions with two events - Monday's
consultations
of the U.N. Security Council when Annan's special envoy Bernard Kouchner
presented a series of unobjective assessments and excuses for the
failure
of the Kosovo U.N. mission, and, second, Tuesday's press conference by
Yugoslav U.N. mission head Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic and his
evaluation of the failure of the international mission and the Security
Council's inability objectively and comprehensively to discuss Kosovo
and
Metohija.
Annan reiterated his concern over the situation in the southern Serbian
province. He also said that it was not possible to deal with the
situation
in Kosovo separately from the rest of the region. Speaking about the
announced elections in the province, he said it was necessary that the
civilian mission UNMIK cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
The secretary-general tried to make an artificial balance between hard
facts and the lies relentlessly launched by his envoy Kouchner.
Asked to comment Kouchner's countless illegal moves in the province,
Annan
tried to present them as practical measures and steps without which it
would be difficult to manage the administration of the province.
Annan said he was aware that Yugoslavia saw these moves by Kouchner as
preparations for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija, but failed to
mention that other council members, primarily Russia and China, share
this
opinion and the critical evaluations presented by Yugoslavia, and that
they
also warn against Kouchner's dangerous activities.
Asked about Yugoslavia's criticisms of the inefficiency of the
international mission, Annan said he was familiar with these criticisms.
He
then admitted that the international mission faced great problems from
its
very start and that the United Nations had a very difficult mandate from
the very beginning.
KFOR ED UNMIK FATTO IL CONTRARIO DI QUANTO PREVISTO
NELLA RISOLUZIONE DELL'ONU 1244
KFOR, UNMIK FAIL TO IMPLEMENT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA RESOLUTION
VIENNA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav ambassador in Vienna Rados
Smiljkovic said here Tuesday that the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR and
the
U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) did not implement
and
even greatly violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244.
Presenting the Yugoslav government's memorandum on the resolution,
Smiljkovic said that the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
southern province was deteriorating and that violence committed by
ethnic
Albanian extremists had begun spreading outside the province.
Attacks on Serbian authorities and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
are used to conceal the international factor's failure, while elections
in
Kosovo and Metohija are placed in the focus of the world public's
attention, he said.
He said that no elections would be possible as long as the remaining
non-Albanians in the province and loyal ethnic Albanians were killed on
a
daily basis by the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
He said that pressure on Yugoslavia was exerted through open attempts to
trigger a conflict between the country's two federal entities, Serbia
and
Montenegro, to divide and radicalise political forces in Yugoslavia and
to
use them in ousting the country's authorities ahead of the coming local
and
federal elections.
The further tightening of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, instead of
their lifting and the creation of conditions for a speedy economic
development and cooperation in the region, serves the same purpose, he
said.
He said that ethnic Albanian terrorists were used as an instrument to
destabilise not only Kosovo and Metohija but also the entire region in
order to conceal the United Nations' failure and justify NATO's further
presence in the region.
He said that there were indications that the retailoring of Balkan
borders, which had begun in 1991, had not been finished, warning that
another war might break out if certain countries continued to pursue
such a
policy.
Independence for Kosovo and Metohija automatically leads to further
retailoring of borders in the Balkans, he said. He stressed that
Yugoslavia
was doing all within its power to prevent another war, saying, however,
that certain other parties were trying to provoke the country.
"LIBERARE" MITROVICA (DAGLI ULTIMI JUGOSLAVI RIMASTI)
TERRORIST SCENARIO OF "LIBERATING" KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
PRISTINA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav committee for cooperation with
the U.N. mission in Kosovo and Metohija and the provisional executive
council of the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija assessed
Tuesday
evening that the development of that day in Kosovska Mitrovica, in which
scores of civilians were injured, but also KFOR troops, represents a
"planned and precise scenario recently made public" by Albanian
terrorists
on the "liberation" of the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
The statement said that "only two days ago the leader of Albanian
terrorists who is favoured by a part of the international community,
Hashim
Tachi, announced when he spoke in the village of Donji Prekaz, 40 km
south-east of Pristina, the "liberation" of the northern part of
Kosovska
Mitrovica that was to be carried out by the "Kosovo Liberation Army,"
non-existent for the West.
Also present in Donji Prekaz, when the new wave of terror was announced,
were representatives of the international community, who did not react
to
the threats of violence, the statement said.
"Western ideologists of crime against Serbs intend to continue in the
same
way, along with the terrorists, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs also from
north Kosovo and Metohija."
Developments in Kosovska Mitrovica have revealed the true face of the
representatives of the international community, of resolve to complete
the
ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, the
statement said among other things.
KOUCHNER NON RISPETTA IL MANDATO ONU
YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL ACCUSED KOUCHNER OF IGNORING U.N. MANDATE
PRISTINA, Serbia, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's official liaising with
the U.N. mission to Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) said on Tuesday that UNMIK
chief Bernard Kouchner's plan to draw up a provisional constitution for
that Serbian (Yugoslav) province was another instance of a wrong and
biased
policy.
In connection with Kouchner's request to the U.N. Security Council on
Monday to be allowed to draw up a provisional constitution of
Kosovo-Metohija, Ambassador Stanimir Vukicevic said the latest request
by
the UNMIK chief was another proof that he is acting outside the mandate
given him by the Security Council. "The U.N. Security Council's
Resolution
1244 envisages for autonomy for Kosovo-Metohija, nothing more,"
Vukicevic,
who chairs the Yugoslav committee liaising with UNMIK, said in Kosovo-
Metohija's city of Pristina.
He warned that, by promulgating a "constitution," Kouchner was seeking
to
endorse all his decisions taken so far, i.e., to sever all
Kosovo-Metohija's ties with Serbia and Yugoslavia.
"We expected Kouchner to put the true problem to the Council, i.e., to
brief the Council members on inadequate security for the Serbs,
Montenegrins and other non-Albanians, not to conceal the truth from them
by
asking for a provisional constitution for Kosovo-Metohija," Vukicevic
said.
He wondered who would vote for such a constitution in a situation where
more than 360,000 people from Kosovo-Metohija are living outside the
province.
"Kouchner is obviously in a hurry to rush through a constitution in
their
absence, a legal document that would seriously upset plans for the
return
of the more than 360,000 people to their homes in Kosovo-Metohija,"
Vukicevic said.
He said he hoped the international community had finally realised that
the
policy being pursued in that U.N.-ruled province of the Yugoslav
republic
of Serbia was not one that would solve the problem but rather one that
would prolong the Kosovo-Metohija crisis.
SUGLI ATTACCHI TERRORISTICI A MITROVICA
IVANOVIC: TERRORIST ATTACK - LARGE SPECTACLE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The terrorist attack on Serbs on
Tuesday is nothing but a large spectacle ahead of the arrival of Wesley
Clark in Kosovska Mitrovica, said a local Serb official.
Oliver Ivanovic, who heads the Serbian National Assembly in Kosovska
Mitrovica, said that Albanian terrorists acted on Tuesday in conformity
with "their doctrine" that prescribes as many wounded Serbs as possible
and
the greatest possible pressure on them.
Such a large number of wounded Serbs has not been registered since
October
12 when Albanian terrorists threw four grenades on Serbs gathered near
the
bridge on Ibar river and when 33 Serbs were wounded, Ivanovic said.
At least 14 French troops were seriously wounded when they intervened
during the afternoon to stop the Albanians who attacked Serbs in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
In the attacks were wounded 22 Serbs, two of them seriously.
Albanians attacked with two grenades the French after troops surrounded
the house of Dzeljalja Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, in the northern
(Serbian)
part of town.
A large number of French, German and Danish troops are patrolling in
armoured cars the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and helicopters
are
overflying the town.
THIRTY-SIX PERSONS WOUNDED IN ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Twenty-two
Serbs and 14 French peacekeepers, including an officer, were wounded
Tuesday in a series of attacks launched by ethnic Albanian terrorists in
the Bosnjacka district of Kosovska Mitrovica's northern section.
According to head of the town hospital's surgical and orthopaedic
department Marko Jaksic, two Serbs were seriously wounded, while 17
other
Serbs also had to remain in hospital.
Most of the Serbs wounded in the attacks, which began just before noon
and
lasted for two hours, are secondary school pupils. The terrorists used
hand
grenades and opened fire with small arms and heavy weapons in the
attacks.
The violence broke out when Ljuan Muftari, an ethnic Albanian who was
later arrested, approached a group of four Serb youths hitting one of
them
with an iron bar without any reason. After that, an ethnic Albanian came
out of his house with a rifle and opened fire on the Serb youths,
wounding
one them in the thigh.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists threw four hand grenades on another group of
Serbs. All this was happening in the presence of German troops
participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR who did nothing to
prevent the violence.
French KFOR troops arrested Dzeljaj Ademi, an ethnic Albanian from whose
house terrorists opened fire. Ademi, who up to this point worked with
Serbs
in Kosovska Mitrovica's northern, Serb-populated section, threw two hand
grenades on a group of Serbs and a cordon of French KFOR troops.
Around 1.30 p.m. local time, French peacekeepers surrounded the house
ordering the terrorists to surrender. The terrorists responded by
throwing
two hand grenades on them.
Strong KFOR troops guarded all three bridges dividing the town into its
northern and southern, ethnic Albanian-populated section, while the
town's
streets were patrolled by a large number of armoured personnel carriers
with French, German and Danish peacekeepers.
KFOR helicopters flew over the town's northern section for two hours.
Ethnic Albanian terrorist attacks on Serbs ahead of every international
official's visit to Kosovo and Metohija, including Tuesday's visit to
Kosovska Mitrovica by NATO Supreme Commander Europe Wesley Clark, are no
coincidence. They are part of the ethnic Albanian terrorists' plans to
provoke Serbs and pin the blame on them for unrest and clashes.
Tuesday's
terrorist attacks have also greatly resulted from KFOR's inefficiency
because the force has been informed that members of the ethnic Albanian
terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) live
in
the Bosnjacka district.
RAZZIATE LE CASE DEI SERBI DI OBILIC
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STORM SERB HOUSES IN OBILIC
OBILIC, March 8 (Tanjug) - About 1,000 ethnic Albanian extremists
stormed
a block of houses with exclusively Serb tenants in the Kosovo and
Metohija
town of Obilic on Tuesday evening, said the local Committee for
Protection
and Human Rights.
There are no reports yet about possible casualties or damage.
Ethnic Albanians hurled stones at six houses built within the Yugoslav
program for settling Serbs and Montenegrins in the southern Serbian
province. Serbs have lived here in constant fear of terrorist actions by
ethnic Albanians, the sources said.
Almost all windows on the houses were broken, and the attackers also
used
firearms.
Ethnic Albanian extremists also went on a rampage in streets in downtown
Obilic, the committee representatives said.
The rampage went on for almost an hour. The local international force
KFOR
Norwegian contingent reacted only after the height of the violence
abated,
the committee said.
L'ONU PREPARA UN CENSIMENTO-TRUFFA NEL KOSOVO SETTENTRIONALE
UN TRIES TO CONDUCT ILLEGAL CENSUS IN NORTHERN KOSOVO
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The United Nations population
agency UNFPA is secretly distributing forms in northern Kosovo and
Metohija
in an effort to collect data for an illegal census, within the illegal
decisions of U.N. Kosovo and Metohija mission chief Bernard Kouchner,
and
in direct violation of Security Council Resolution 1244.
The distribution of these forms began recently in the Serb-populated
municipalities of Zubin Potok and Leposavic. The questionnaires are
headed
- demographic and socio-economic studies, and allegedly serve
exclusively
for statistical purposes. The U.N. civilian mission UNMIK administrators
in
Zubin Potok, a U.S. citizen, and in Leposavic, a Dane, are behind these
illicit activities.
The local Serb population who were given the questionnaires reacted by
addressing the municipal authorities, which took the united stand that
this
was yet another manipulation and provocation by the international
community, led by Kouchner. The authorities said Serbs should not
respond
to these actions.
TERRORISTI PAN-ALBANESI VIAGGIANO SUI MEZZI STATUNITENSI
Ethnic Albanian terrorists in U.S. personnel carriers
March 08, 2000
Bujanovac, March 7 - That ethnic Albanian terrorists
in Kosovo and Metohija act in close conjunction with members of the
international forces (KFOR) has been confirmed by the action of
separatists who, accompanied by U.S. personnel carriers, arrived on
March 4 in the village of Rejanovac, municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica, and in the hamlet of Borovac opened automatic gun
fire on the defenders of Serbian houses.
This is what foreign reporters in Bujanovac learned
from a Serb who managed to get away from Borovac, a hamlet near Kosovska
Kamenica. He described the event which took place on Saturday, March 4.
In the action took part seven American armored personnel carriers.
While ethnic Albanian terrorists opened fire from the
direction of the village, U.S. KFOR troops were silent observers and
only filmed the scene, the man said. Ethnic Albanian terrorists were
wearing uniforms of U.S.KFOR troops, and came from the direction of
Rejanovac although that terrain is in the zone of responsibility of
Russian units.
From Rejanovac, ethnic Albanian terrorists previously
expelled 50 Roma and six Serbian families, but did not manage to
complete the ethnic cleansing.
When the shooting ceased, the terrorists climbed into
two U.S. personnel carriers, parked in the fields, and then withdrew,
failing to detect Serb defense positions.
The man who managed to get to Bujanovac said that KFOR
helicopters overflew Rejanovac only two meters above house roofs. Masked
terrorists stormed into undefended Serbian houses, grabbing money,
valuables and livestock.
Some twenty days ago, terrorists even dared attack
Russian KFOR troops, who returned fire. The Russians managed to seize
from the terrorists an anti-tank mine and three hand grenades.
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SERBI FERITI IN SCONTRI CON LA KFOR
Serbs injured in clash with KFOR
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday - Three Serbs were injured yesterday in a
clash
with Danish KFOR troops in the village of Grabovac, near Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Villagers today complained that the Danish soldiers had treated them
roughly
during a search for illegal weapons, smashing furniture and scattering
firewood.
LA SIGNORA DAL PONTE INSABBIA L'INCHIESTA SULLA NATO
MA SARA' "SEVERISSIMA" CONTRO I CRIMINALI DI GUERRA CHE VUOLE LEI
Hague prosecutor wants to make life tough for accused
THE HAGUE, Friday - The Hague Tribunal's chief prosecutor said today
that she
intended to make life difficult for Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic and
others accused of war crimes. Carla del Ponte said that her absolute
priority
was the arrest of remaining suspects, adding that she particularly
sought the
arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and
former
head of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic, whom she considered
responsible
for the worst crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.
IL MONTENEGRO PRONTO ALL'INDIPENDENZA
Montenegro preparing to protect statehood
PODGORICA, Friday - Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic said today
that
Yugoslavia's southern republic was investing maximum effort to prepare
state
bodies and the public to protect statehood and freedom in Montenegro.
Djukanovic, speaking at a joint press conference with EU Foreign Affairs
Commissioner Chris Patten in Podgorica, said that a new crisis in the
Balkans
was not desirable but that if the Belgrade regime began open
destruction,
Montenegro would be prepared.
The Montenegrin President also announced today that local elections
would be
held in Podgorica and Herceg Novi on June 11. The reason for this, he
said,
was that the municipal assemblies in these cities were not functioning
since
the ruling Better Life coalition had lost its majority.
YDS 9/3/2000 ---------------------------------------
JOVANOVIC IN VISITA IN INDONESIA DOPO COREA DEL NORD,
BIRMANIA, LAOS E CINA
TALKS IN JAKARTA
JAKARTA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The foreign ministers of Yugoslavia and of
Indonesia Zivadin Jovanovic and Alwi Abdurrahman Shihab held talks in
Jakarta on Wednesday.
It was mutually assessed in the talks, the first meeting of the two
foreign
ministers after a number of years, that regardless of some oscillations
the
half-a-century long friendship of the two countries had withstood the
test
of time, and that dialogue was maintained even in the most difficult
conditions. The embassies of the two countries worked continuously,
contacts were kept up between the representatives of the two ministries,
and Yugoslavia was visited last year by an Indonesian parliamentary
delegation.
The Yugoslav foreign minister visited Jakarta on his way back to
Belgrade
after official visits to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
Myanmar
and Laos and a stop-over in China.
The talks between Ministers Jovanovic and Shihab were held in a friendly
atmosphere and with a constructive approach of both sides to the
expansion
of bilateral relations. It was agreed that dialogue be continued and
promoted, and that visits be exchanged by businessmen, delegations of
chambers of commerce and social organizations.
It was agreed that the legal frames of cooperation be analyzed in detail
with a view to streamlining and completing them.
The Ministers talked about the cooperation of the two countries in
international organizations, and about the need to reactivate Yugoslavia
as
a full-fledged member of the U.N. and of the nonaligned movement.
Information was exchanged about the internal development of Yugoslavia,
and
Indonesia, about reform processes and economic-technological
development.
Jovanovic informed his counterpart about the results of renewal and
reconstruction in Yugoslavia and the importance of the Yugoslav economy
for
integration processes in the region, and about the concerning situation
in
Kosovo and Metohija.
He stressed that Yugoslavia insisted on the respect of its sovereignty
and
territorial integrity, on countering separatist and terrorist
activities,
and consistent compliance with Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija.
Yugoslavia is interested in open cooperation on an equal footing, both
with
neighbouring countries and with other countries who accept us as an
equal
partner, Jovanovic said, and invited Shihab to visit Yugoslavia, which
was
accepted by the Indonesia foreign minister with pleasure. Indonesia is
the
largest Islamic country with a population of 214 million and as an
influential member of a number of important international organizations,
it
is considered of key importance in southeastern Asia. As an exporter of
oil
it is an OPEC member and very active in ASEAN and OIC.
Jovanovic gave interviews in Jakarta to the newspaper Indonesia Observer
and to a popular T.V. station, Anteve.
GLI OBIETTIVI DEGLI USA
SECONDO IL MINISTRO DELL'INFORMAZIONE DELLA RFJ
MATIC: U.S. OBJECTIVES - ECONOMIC DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION
BELGRADE, March 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic
said
in a Serbian Radio Television RTS live broadcast late Wednesday that the
so-called new world order presented the aspiration of the U.S.
administration to enforce such an order on the whole world using any
means
possible.
Speaking about media and the new world order on "Open Studio," Matic
said
he agreed with statements by U.S. analysts who said that the United
States
was using its air force to finish what its media could not accomplish in
order to realize its interests through the implementation of the new
world
order.
This situation is not new, Matic said. It has been created repeatedly in
the whole 20th century. The United States always found it necessary to
create new crises in the world in order to realize its imperialist and
economic interests, since the U.S. interests are primarily economic
domination and exploitation, he said.
UNA TORTA IN FACCIA AL BUGIARDO PORTAVOCE DELLA NATO JAMIE SHEA
NATO SPOKESMAN SHEA GETS PIE IN THE FACE FOR SPREADING LIES
BRUSSELS, March 9 (Tanjug) - NATO spokesman Jamie Shea late Wednesday
had
yet another unpleasant encounter because of the lies he spread during
the
alliance's aggression on Yugoslavia last year in an effort to justify
the
bombing of civilians.
This latest incident occurred in the southern Belgian town of Gent,
where a
debate on the role of media during the NATO aggression was organized at
the
local university.
One of the participants in this event hurled a pie at Shea in protest
against the lies launched by the NATO propaganda, the Belgian news
agency
Belga said.
Already on entering the university building, Shea encountered about a
dozen
young people protesting against the NATO propaganda, of which Shea was
the
main mouthpiece.
The protesters chanted anti-NATO slogans and shouted that NATO used lies
and hypocrisy to present air strikes on civilians as some alleged
humanitarian mission.
INTERVISTA AL NUOVO CAPO DI STATO MAGGIORE DELLA RFJ
YUGOSLAV ARMY CHIEF: EFFICACIOUS DEFENCE FORCE BEING BUILT
BELGRADE, March 8 (Tanjug) - Reorganisation of the Yugoslav army will
produce a modern, numerically smaller, mobile army, whose capacitation
and
combat capability will be a deterrent to aggression, the chief of staff
is
quoted on Wednesday as saying.
Speaking for Vojska magazine in an interview due to appear on Thursday,
General Nebojsa Pavkovic said this means the Yugoslav army should have a
powerful and modern air defence and a significant special rapid reaction
strike force.
Also being considered, according to Pavkovic, are ways and means of
hitting
back at aggressors.
Speaking about the command staff's priorities, he said the big tasks
lying
ahead of the army were being complicated by the current military,
political
and security situation in the neighbourhood.
"It is up to us to monitor carefully all that is happening, to
anticipate
events and take the necessary measures," he said, adding the army would
maintain such a level of defence alert as would allow it to carry out
all
tasks set to it.
"The level of combat alert depends on the kind of threat to the country
and
is not set by the army on its own," he said, stressing that work would
continue on modernising and reorganising the army in line with the
country's economic and other capabilities and defence needs.
He said that the job of organising life and work in the new
circumstances
(following NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last spring) would soon be
completed.
Also, he added, the remaining military infrastructure damaged or
destroyed
in the air strikes and not yet repaired would be rebuilt, first of all
personnel accommodation facilities, and after them the arsenals and
materiel storage facilities.
He stressed that "combat training will remain high on the list of
priorities, with the necessary innovations and the application of the
rich
war experience.
"In light of the results achieved in the armed struggle against the
aggressors, this is the best army in our history, and analyses by
foreign
and domestic authorities confirm its high quality."
He added that the command staff aspires for the army to be a factor of
security and unity of all nations and ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia
and,
as such, a key factor of stability in the troubled region.
He then spoke about the military-political situation in the immediate
neighbourhood, which he described as "extremely complex".
"The western military alliance, spearheaded by the United States, is
striving to achieve global control and to this end seeks to secure
permanent control of the processes in the Balkans, which is a crossroads
of
key strategic importance.
"This is why they are keeping up the pressure on our country," he
explained.
He went on to say that NATO's non-military aggression, which was
constantly
intensifying, was taking all kinds of shapes and forms, among which
efforts
to economically exhaust Yugoslavia by keeping up the sanctions.
Also, he added, they were deepening the crisis and trying to cause
social
unrest, stoking separatism in multiethnic communities, trying to weaken
the
morale and defence capability of the army, giving open support to the
separatists, all with the purpose of dismembering Yugoslavia into a host
of
stateless easy to control.
"The greatest threat to our country, as well as to the whole world,
comes
from the fact that the countries of the new world order have
incorporated
terrorism in their low-intensity strategies and that terrorism is the
first
echelon in the onslaught of the imperialist world.
"This is violence more brutal than classical warfare, which takes no
heed
of ethics or humanism, causing internal unrest in some countries which
grows into internal aggression, which is becoming the rule, with
external
aggression being the exception," he explained.
Pavkovic assessed that the interests for the Yugoslav region never
ceased
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* "The London Observer": ASSASSINII, TORTURE ED ESTORSIONI DI CUI E'
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THEY HAVE ADMITTED EVERYTHING! LONDON TIMES CONFIRMATION FOLLOWS OUR
INTRODUCTION! SEE TENC.NET FOR MORE!!
In HUMANITARIAN SPIES we charged that the OSCE (Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe) Verification mission in Kosovo that was in place
from
fall, 1998 until NATO started bombing in March, 1999 - that this was a
cover
for a) spies and b) establishment of liason between US covert agencies
and
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Here's an excerpt from HUMANITARIAN SPIES:
"'Negotiated' (that is, 'coerced') under threat of NATO bombing last
October,
the Verification agreement let the OSCE send unarmed mediators into
Kosovo,
supposedly to help defuse tensions. However everything about the
Verification
mission suggests military intelligence, not mediation.
"It was run by William Walker. Walker had no background as a mediator.
He
wasn't even an expert in Balkans history or current politics. What he
did
know about was counter-insurgency and black ops. His role in Iran-Contra
and
his achievements in apologizing for the murderous El Salvador death
squads
all but prove he is a high-placed intelligence operative. (See "MEET MR.
MASSACRE at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm
"The U.S. verification team was composed of employees of Dyncorp, a
Virginia
company that has grown rich off Government work. At the 1992 Senate
hearings
on R. James Woolsey's appointment as head of the CIA, Woolsey commented:
"I
own less than one-quarter of one percent of the -- diluted shares of a
company named Dyncorp here in the Washington, D.C. area. And the
corporation
has, from time to time, had a handful of very small contracts with the
Central Intelligence Agency." Ahh, sweet understatement. Dyncorp's "very
small contracts" have included covert work for the Company in Columbia
and
Peru.
"...Given this command structure, doesn't it stand to reason that the
U.S.
goal was a) to gather military intelligence and b) to establish
command-relations with the Kosovo Liberation Army? The goal was to bond
with
the KLA which killed and is still killing ethnic Serbs and ethnic
Albanian
"collaborators" Serbian State policemen, power line repairmen, school
officials, Yugoslav troops, even state-employed wood gatherers - just
like
the Latin American death squads Walker "observed" during previous CIA
assignemnts. " (END OF EXCERPT from Humanitarian Spies at
www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/humanita.htm )
Now the (London) Sunday Times has confirmed our charges. The OSCE
Verification Mission in Kosovo for 6 months prior to the bombing of
Yugoslavia was indeed a phony, a cover for the CIA to set up liason with
the
KLA and spy on Yugoslavia. Walker was indeed creating another death
squad
operation - just as he did in El Salvador. Dyncorps, which supplied the
'verifiers', is indeed a 'Company' company. The US horror-show
government has
made fools of the 'honest broker' Euro leaders - that is, if there are
any
honest Euro leaders.
NATO MUST GET OUT OF KOSOVO NOW!
Here's the SUNDAY TIMES:
CIA aided Kosovo guerrilla army
Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty (posted 3-12-00)
>From the Sunday Times (London)
AMERICAN intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the
Kosovo
Liberation Army before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. The disclosure
angered
some European diplomats, who said this had undermined moves for a
political
solution to the conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Central
Intelligence
Agency officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999,
developing ties with the KLA and giving American military training
manuals
and field advice on fighting the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.
When the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),
which
co-ordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week before airstrikes began
a
year ago, many of its satellite telephones and global positioning
systems
were secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that guerrilla commanders
could
stay in touch with Nato and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the
mobile
phone number of General Wesley Clark, the Nato commander.
European diplomats then working for the OSCE claim it was betrayed by an
American policy that made airstrikes inevitable. Some have questioned
the
motives and loyalties of William Walker, the American OSCE head of
mission.
"The American agenda consisted of their diplomatic observers, aka the
CIA,
operating on completely different terms to the rest of Europe and the
OSCE,"
said a European envoy.
Several Americans who were directly involved in CIA activities or close
to
them have spoken to the makers of Moral Combat, a documentary to be
broadcast
on BBC2 tonight, and to The Sunday Times about their clandestine roles.
Walker dismissed suggestions that he had wanted war in Kosovo, but
admitted
the CIA was almost certainly involved in the countdown to airstrikes.
Initially some "diplomatic observers" arrived, followed in October by a
much
larger group that was eventually swallowed up into the OSCE's "Kosovo
Verification Mission".
Walker said: "Overnight we went from having a handful of people to 130
or
more. Could the agency have put them in at that point? Sure they could.
It's
their job. But nobody told me."
Walker, who was nominated by Madeleine Albright, the American secretary
of
state, was intensely disliked by Belgrade. He had worked briefly for the
United Nations in Croatia. Ten years earlier he was the American
ambassador
to El Salvador when Washington was helping the government there to
suppress
leftist rebels while supporting the contra guerrillas against the
Sandinista
government in Nicaragua.
Some European diplomats in Pristina, Kosovo's capital, concluded from
Walker's background that he was inextricably linked with the CIA. The
picture
was muddied by the continued separation of American "diplomatic
observers"
from the mission. The CIA sources who have now broken their silence say
the
diplomatic observers were more closely connected to the agency.
"It was a CIA front, gathering intelligence on the KLA's arms and
leadership," said one.
Another agent, who said he felt he had been "suckered in" by an
organisation
that has run amok in post-war Kosovo, said: "I'd tell them which hill to
avoid, which wood to go behind, that sort of thing."
The KLA has admitted its long-standing links with American and European
intelligence organisations. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander now involved
in
attempts to destabilise majority Albanian villages beyond Kosovo's
border in
Serbia proper, claimed he had met British, American and Swiss agents in
northern Albania in 1996.
Belgrade has alleged the CIA also helped to arm the KLA, but this was
denied
by the guerrillas and agency sources.
"It was purely the Albanian diaspora helping their brothers," said
Florin
Krasniqi, a New York builder and one of the KLA's biggest financiers. He
described how sniper rifles were exported from America using a loophole
in
federal law that allowed them to be shipped to "hunting clubs".
Armour-piercing Barratt rifles made their way to the KLA's "hunting
club" in
Albania.
Agim Ceku, the KLA commander in the latter stages of the conflict, had
established American contacts through his work in the Croatian army,
which
had been modernised with the help of Military Professional Resources
Inc, an
American company specialising in military training and procurement. This
company's personnel were in Kosovo, along with others from a similar
company,
Dyncorps, that helped in the American-backed programme for the Bosnian
army.
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The London Observer's summary of a non-public report on the Kosovo
situation
to Kofi Annan merely confirms what the anti-war movement has been saying
for
months. But now we have proof: UN leaders KNOW what they created in
Kosovo.
The UN report admits everything but the name, Fascism. Kofi Annan is, by
virute of receiving this report and not firing Bernard Kouchner, head of
his
Kosovo operation, an accomplice to fascist terror. Period. When Anan is
put
on trial for abetting monstrous crimes against all ethnic minorities in
Kosovo will be plead that he was only following U.S. orders?The UN and
NATO
exit Kosovo NOW! Only the Yugoslav Army can re-establish civil society
in
Kosovo - NOW!
Here is the London Observer -
Revealed: UN-backed unit's reign of terror
Kosovo 'disaster response service' stands accused of murder and torture
John Sweeney and Jens Holsoe
Sunday March 12, 2000
The Observer (lONDON)
Murder, torture and extortion: these are the extraordinary charges made
against the UN's own Kosovo Protection Corps in a confidential United
Nations
report written for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on 29 February, of
'criminal
activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of
authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and
hate-speech'.
The 5,000-strong corps, funded by UN members including Britain, has a
£30
million aid budget for Kosovo. It was set up to provide 'disaster
response
services'; instead, says the UN, it has been murdering and torturing
people.
The UN's own damning verdict on its newly created civil defence force is
fresh evidence of the failure of Special Representative Bernard Kouchner
to
establish the rule of law in Kosovo. Many of the corps's recruits came
straight from the Kosovo Liberation Army, set up to meet the violence of
Slobodan Milosevic's police with violence.
Nato's intervention last June saw the departure of armed Serbs from
Kosovo,
but violence and gangsterism by Albanian extremists has not stopped. The
report's grim message is that the UN is paying the salaries of many of
the
gangsters.
The report covers the period from 21 January, when the corps formally
came
into being. Under the heading 'killings', the UN says: 'Dragash: two
members
of the KPC and three others were arrested by UN police in connection
with the
killing of an ethnic Gorani (11 February).'
There are three charges of ill-treatment and torture: in Pec, a man was
beaten senseless in the KPC's headquarters, suffering head injuries and
severe bruising from a rifle butt. The victim had been attacked in a
newspaper article, written by a former fighter in the KLA. In Prizren, a
man
from the Torbesh minority - a group of Muslim Turks suspected by the
Albanians of collaborating with the Serbs - was kidnapped and beaten up
by a
KPC member and three other men.
Also in Prizren, the KPC stands accused of using torture to obtain
confessions. After two men arrested on suspicion of stealing cars were
handed
over to UN police, they 'complained they had been severely ill-treated.
Subsequent medical examinations corroborated the victims' allegations'.
Troops from K-For, the multi-national force, suspended the two alleged
torturers from the KPC on 4 February.
The KPC is not a police force, and yet one of the grave concerns raised
by
the UN report, drawn up by Kouchner's own office, is that mem bers of
the KPC
are behaving as if they were above the law. The report lists complaints
from
UN police working for its mission in Kosovo, Unmik.
The KPC has been running protection rackets across Kosovo - in Pristina,
Suva
Reka, Dragash, Istok and Prizren - demanding 'contributions' from
shopkeepers, businessmen and contractors. In Suva Reka, KPC members are
alleged to have forced petrol stations to accept coupons rather than
money
for fuel.
In Vucitrn, the KPC reportedly demanded protection money from members of
an
ethnic minority, the Ashkali, originally from India. One family member
had
previously been kidnapped and the family had been bombed.
The KPC has a nice line in death threats, says the UN. Two members
threatened
to kill K-For interpreters after being arrested by Nato troops in
Kosovo.
Following the arrests, 20 KPC men mobbed the police station and demanded
their release. They were freed the next day.
The KPC may be running prostitution rackets, says the UN. A report was
received on 14 February that a high-ranking KPC officer may be
supervising a
forced prostitution racket running out of the Drenica Bar, close to the
Srbica KPC training camp.
The KPC is led by General Agim Ceku, who comes in for fierce criticism
from
the report. His earlier pledges not to tolerate any criminal behaviour
by KPC
members and to expel anyone who violates the law are mocked by the
report,
and Ceku, who was formerly a senior commander in the KLA, comes in for
personal criticism.
Under the heading 'Activities against minorities, including hate
speech',
Ceku is criticised for being present at a walk-out staged by Albanian
members
of the KPC when a speech was translated into Serbo-Croat - the language
of
the Muslim Slav minority suspected by the Albanians of collaboration
with the
Serbs.
The report comments: 'It was the clear opinion of those present that
this was
a premeditated action. The speeches of General Ceku and that of the
regional
KPC commander were not those agreed upon in advance. The men spoke of
the war
and loyalty to the "country" - 10 February.' Such a speech would
contradict
the policy of the UN, the general's paymaster.
Further Reading...
* The KLA is operating as the proxy arm of the U.S. government in
Kosovo. See
Why is the KLA SHooting at KFOR? at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisthe.htm
* We now have documented proof of our charge that the CIA is behind the
KLA
and was behind it BEFORE the bombing started - that the OSCE verifier
mission
was a cover for spying and death squad liason work. See The Cat's Outta
the
Bag! at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ciaaided.htm
* One of the worst examples of UN/NATO creation of horror in Kosovo is
what
they have done to Orahovac:
The article, The Women of Orahovac answer the Colonel , deals with
claims
made by Dutch KFOR (NATO) Commander van Loon that his troops are doing a
good
job in the Kosovo town of Orahovac. In this article, women with intimate
knowledge of conditions in Orahovac answer Col. van Loon.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm
The article, Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak includes
in-depth
interviews with women from Orahovac.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
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USA - KLA CONSPIRACY IN KOSOVO
London, February 27th - Tanjug -
The aggression on Yugoslavia and the NATO
involvement in Kosovo are the result of a joint
conspiracy of the American State Department and
the Albanian leaders of the KLA, reported today
the London "Sunday Telegraph".
The manipulations and the conspiracy were, as the
daily suggests, led by the American State Secretary,
Madeleine Albright, who is also described by the
"Sunday Telegraph" as "one of the West's leading
anti-Serb hawks".
The American State Secretary, the State Department
spokesman, James Rubin, and the leader of the
KLA, Hashim Thaci, admitted to this conspiracy in
their interviews given to the BBC, which is
preparing a broadcast on the occasion of marking
the first anniversary of the aggression, based on
which the London daily made its analysis.
The beginning of a realization of this conspiracy
were, it was reminded, the events in the village of
Racak, in December of 1998.
Thaci has, in his interview given to the BBC, quoted
by the "Sunday Telegraph", admitted that the
Albanians killed the four policemen in Racak
practically on purpose, because they knew that this
would trigger a conflict.
The Albanian terrorists, as Thaci admitted,
sacrificed the lives of common citizens
intentionally, because they
knew that thus they could win over the international
opinion.
Such a strategy, reminded the London daily, was
created with the help of the Albanian political
backers in Washington.
After the corpses of 45 ethnic-Albanians were found
in the village of Racak, the American State Secretary
started a campaign of pressuring the European allies.
She also admitted to this in her interview to the BBC
while saying that this event had to be developed and
"livened" in order to keep the pressure on the
allies.
This was why, according to the daily, the OSCE
Monitoring Mission was used.
FR Yugoslavia and Serbia, reported the London daily,
fulfilled all the obligations specified in the
October agreement, but the OSCE monitors failed to
make any moves towards the KLA, which used this
period for additional arming, regrouping and further
attacks on the police and army units.
The anti-Serb campaign started, as the daily pointed
out, even though the official document of the NATO
Council dated November 13th 1998 stated that the
KLA was "the main initiator of the violence which is
threatening the cease-fire arrangements".
The European countries opposed the US aggressive
campaign and the plans Washington made for the
applying of force in Kosovo, so a compromising
solution was given that the Rambouillet talks be
held.
Nonetheless, Madeleine Albright and the State
Department, the daily specified, did everything in
their power for these talks to fail.
For Ms Albright, reported the daily, the failure of
the Rambouillet talks was a triumph.
The State Department spokesman, James Rubin, also
admitted to this, by stating that the US did
everything in order for the Rambouillet talks to
fail. "Obviously, publicly, we had to make clear
that we were seeking an agreement", said Rubin, but
that their goal was for the agreement to be refused
by the Serbs and to be accepted by the Albanians.
In this way, reminded the "Sunday Telegraph", a small
group of Albanians and the State Department
maneuvered NATO into the Kosovo war.
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CONSPIRATION USA-UCK AU KOSOVO: QUEL TRIBUNAL INTERNATIONAL JUGERA DONC
CES
FAUTEURS et CRIMINELS de GUERRE ?
L'agression en Yougoslavie et l'empêtrement de l'OTAN au Kosovo sont le
résultat d'une conspiration commune du Département d'Etat américain et
des
dirigeants de l'UCK, rapporte récemment le "Sunday Telegraph" de
Londres.
Les manipulations et la conspiration ont été, comme le suggère le
quotidien,
menées par la Secrétaire d'Etat, qui est aussi située par le "Sunday
Telegraph comme étant parmi les faucons anti-serbes occidentaux.
La Secrétaire d'Etat américaine, le porte-parole du Département d'Etat,
James Rubin, et le leader de l'UCK, Hashim Thaci, ont admis cette
conspirattion dans leurs iintervews données à la BBC, à l'occasion de la
préparation d'une émission consacrée au premier anniversaire de
l'agression,
sur les bases de laquelle le qutotidien londonien fait ses analyses.
Le début de la réalisation de cette conspiration était, c'est rappelé,
les
événements dans le village de Racak, en décembre 1998.
Thaci a, dans son interview, donnée à la BBC, citée par le the "Sunday
Telegraph", admis que les Albanais ont tué les quatre policiers à Racak
pratiquement exprès, parce qu'ils savaient que cela déclencherait un
conflit.
Les terroristes albanais, comme Thaci l'a admis, ont sacrifié les vies
de
citoyens ordinaires, parce qu'ils savaient que ainsi ils pouvaient
gagner
l'opinion internationale à leur cause.
Une telle stratégie, rappelle le quotidien londonien, a été créée avec
l'aide des appuis politiques albanais à Washington.
Après que les 45 corps appartenant à l'ethnie albanaise furtent trouvés
dans
le village de Racak, la Secrétaire d'Etat américaine mena une campagne
de
pressions sur les alliés européens.
Elle a aussi admis pendant son interview à la BBC que cet événement
avait
été développé et entretenu dans le but de maintenir la pression sur les
alliés.
C'est aussi pourquoi, suivant le quotidien, la mission de contrôle de
l'OSCE
fut utilisée.
La RF de Yougoslavie et la Serbie, rapporte le quotidien londonien,
remplissaient toutes les obligations contenues dans l'accord d'octobre,
mais
la mission de contrôle échoua en raison des manoeuvres de l'UCK qui
profita
de cette période pour renforcer son armement et son regroupement et
ensuite
ses attaques contre la police et les unités de l'armée.
La campagne anti-serbe débuta, comme le montre le quotidien, bien que
le
document officiel du Conseil de l'OTAN daté du 13 novembre 1998
déclarait
que l'UCK était "le principal intiateur de la violence qui menaçait les
règlements de cessez-le-feu".
Les pays européens opposèrent à la campagne agressive et aux plans de
Washington l'application d'une force de paix au Kosovo, ainsi une
solution
de compromis était donnée aux pourparlers de Rambouillet.
Néanmoins, Madeleine Albright et le Département d'Etat, spécifie le
quotidien, firent tout en leur pouvoir pour faire échouer ces
pourparlers.
Pour Madame Albright, rapporte le quotidien, l'échec de Rambouillet fut
un
triomphe.
Le porte-parole du Département d'Etat, James Rubin, a aussi admis le
fait
que les USA firent tout en vue de faire échouer les pourparlers de
Rambouillet. "Evidemment, publiquement, nous devions éclaircir que nous
cherchions un arrangement, a dit Rubin, mais leur objectif était que
l'accord soit refusé par les Serbes et accepté par les Albanais.
Dans ce but, rappelle le "Sunday Telegraph", un petit groupe d'Albanais
et
le Département d'Etat ont manoeuvré dans la guerre du Kosovo.
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> ASSASSINA E GENOCIDA LA OPERAZIONE CONGIUNTA ONU-NATO-UCK
> IN KOSMET. MAI TANTI CRIMINI CONTRO IL CARATTERE PLURINAZIONALE
> DELLA PROVINCIA JUGOSLAVA COME DAL GIUGNO 1999 AD OGGI
* "The Sunday Times" mette nero su bianco: DALLA CIA LE ARMI PER L'UCK
* "The London Observer": ASSASSINII, TORTURE ED ESTORSIONI DI CUI E'
RESPONSABILE ANCHE LA MISSIONE ONU IN KOSMET, ELENCATE E MESSE SULLA
SCRIVANIA DEL SIGNOR KOFI ANNAN
* "The Sunday Telegraph": A BRACCETTO USA ED UCK IN KOSMET
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THEY HAVE ADMITTED EVERYTHING! LONDON TIMES CONFIRMATION FOLLOWS OUR
INTRODUCTION! SEE TENC.NET FOR MORE!!
In HUMANITARIAN SPIES we charged that the OSCE (Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe) Verification mission in Kosovo that was in place
from
fall, 1998 until NATO started bombing in March, 1999 - that this was a
cover
for a) spies and b) establishment of liason between US covert agencies
and
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Here's an excerpt from HUMANITARIAN SPIES:
"'Negotiated' (that is, 'coerced') under threat of NATO bombing last
October,
the Verification agreement let the OSCE send unarmed mediators into
Kosovo,
supposedly to help defuse tensions. However everything about the
Verification
mission suggests military intelligence, not mediation.
"It was run by William Walker. Walker had no background as a mediator.
He
wasn't even an expert in Balkans history or current politics. What he
did
know about was counter-insurgency and black ops. His role in Iran-Contra
and
his achievements in apologizing for the murderous El Salvador death
squads
all but prove he is a high-placed intelligence operative. (See "MEET MR.
MASSACRE at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm
"The U.S. verification team was composed of employees of Dyncorp, a
Virginia
company that has grown rich off Government work. At the 1992 Senate
hearings
on R. James Woolsey's appointment as head of the CIA, Woolsey commented:
"I
own less than one-quarter of one percent of the -- diluted shares of a
company named Dyncorp here in the Washington, D.C. area. And the
corporation
has, from time to time, had a handful of very small contracts with the
Central Intelligence Agency." Ahh, sweet understatement. Dyncorp's "very
small contracts" have included covert work for the Company in Columbia
and
Peru.
"...Given this command structure, doesn't it stand to reason that the
U.S.
goal was a) to gather military intelligence and b) to establish
command-relations with the Kosovo Liberation Army? The goal was to bond
with
the KLA which killed and is still killing ethnic Serbs and ethnic
Albanian
"collaborators" Serbian State policemen, power line repairmen, school
officials, Yugoslav troops, even state-employed wood gatherers - just
like
the Latin American death squads Walker "observed" during previous CIA
assignemnts. " (END OF EXCERPT from Humanitarian Spies at
www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/humanita.htm )
Now the (London) Sunday Times has confirmed our charges. The OSCE
Verification Mission in Kosovo for 6 months prior to the bombing of
Yugoslavia was indeed a phony, a cover for the CIA to set up liason with
the
KLA and spy on Yugoslavia. Walker was indeed creating another death
squad
operation - just as he did in El Salvador. Dyncorps, which supplied the
'verifiers', is indeed a 'Company' company. The US horror-show
government has
made fools of the 'honest broker' Euro leaders - that is, if there are
any
honest Euro leaders.
NATO MUST GET OUT OF KOSOVO NOW!
Here's the SUNDAY TIMES:
CIA aided Kosovo guerrilla army
Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty (posted 3-12-00)
>From the Sunday Times (London)
AMERICAN intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the
Kosovo
Liberation Army before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. The disclosure
angered
some European diplomats, who said this had undermined moves for a
political
solution to the conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Central
Intelligence
Agency officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999,
developing ties with the KLA and giving American military training
manuals
and field advice on fighting the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.
When the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),
which
co-ordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week before airstrikes began
a
year ago, many of its satellite telephones and global positioning
systems
were secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that guerrilla commanders
could
stay in touch with Nato and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the
mobile
phone number of General Wesley Clark, the Nato commander.
European diplomats then working for the OSCE claim it was betrayed by an
American policy that made airstrikes inevitable. Some have questioned
the
motives and loyalties of William Walker, the American OSCE head of
mission.
"The American agenda consisted of their diplomatic observers, aka the
CIA,
operating on completely different terms to the rest of Europe and the
OSCE,"
said a European envoy.
Several Americans who were directly involved in CIA activities or close
to
them have spoken to the makers of Moral Combat, a documentary to be
broadcast
on BBC2 tonight, and to The Sunday Times about their clandestine roles.
Walker dismissed suggestions that he had wanted war in Kosovo, but
admitted
the CIA was almost certainly involved in the countdown to airstrikes.
Initially some "diplomatic observers" arrived, followed in October by a
much
larger group that was eventually swallowed up into the OSCE's "Kosovo
Verification Mission".
Walker said: "Overnight we went from having a handful of people to 130
or
more. Could the agency have put them in at that point? Sure they could.
It's
their job. But nobody told me."
Walker, who was nominated by Madeleine Albright, the American secretary
of
state, was intensely disliked by Belgrade. He had worked briefly for the
United Nations in Croatia. Ten years earlier he was the American
ambassador
to El Salvador when Washington was helping the government there to
suppress
leftist rebels while supporting the contra guerrillas against the
Sandinista
government in Nicaragua.
Some European diplomats in Pristina, Kosovo's capital, concluded from
Walker's background that he was inextricably linked with the CIA. The
picture
was muddied by the continued separation of American "diplomatic
observers"
from the mission. The CIA sources who have now broken their silence say
the
diplomatic observers were more closely connected to the agency.
"It was a CIA front, gathering intelligence on the KLA's arms and
leadership," said one.
Another agent, who said he felt he had been "suckered in" by an
organisation
that has run amok in post-war Kosovo, said: "I'd tell them which hill to
avoid, which wood to go behind, that sort of thing."
The KLA has admitted its long-standing links with American and European
intelligence organisations. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander now involved
in
attempts to destabilise majority Albanian villages beyond Kosovo's
border in
Serbia proper, claimed he had met British, American and Swiss agents in
northern Albania in 1996.
Belgrade has alleged the CIA also helped to arm the KLA, but this was
denied
by the guerrillas and agency sources.
"It was purely the Albanian diaspora helping their brothers," said
Florin
Krasniqi, a New York builder and one of the KLA's biggest financiers. He
described how sniper rifles were exported from America using a loophole
in
federal law that allowed them to be shipped to "hunting clubs".
Armour-piercing Barratt rifles made their way to the KLA's "hunting
club" in
Albania.
Agim Ceku, the KLA commander in the latter stages of the conflict, had
established American contacts through his work in the Croatian army,
which
had been modernised with the help of Military Professional Resources
Inc, an
American company specialising in military training and procurement. This
company's personnel were in Kosovo, along with others from a similar
company,
Dyncorps, that helped in the American-backed programme for the Bosnian
army.
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The London Observer's summary of a non-public report on the Kosovo
situation
to Kofi Annan merely confirms what the anti-war movement has been saying
for
months. But now we have proof: UN leaders KNOW what they created in
Kosovo.
The UN report admits everything but the name, Fascism. Kofi Annan is, by
virute of receiving this report and not firing Bernard Kouchner, head of
his
Kosovo operation, an accomplice to fascist terror. Period. When Anan is
put
on trial for abetting monstrous crimes against all ethnic minorities in
Kosovo will be plead that he was only following U.S. orders?The UN and
NATO
exit Kosovo NOW! Only the Yugoslav Army can re-establish civil society
in
Kosovo - NOW!
Here is the London Observer -
Revealed: UN-backed unit's reign of terror
Kosovo 'disaster response service' stands accused of murder and torture
John Sweeney and Jens Holsoe
Sunday March 12, 2000
The Observer (lONDON)
Murder, torture and extortion: these are the extraordinary charges made
against the UN's own Kosovo Protection Corps in a confidential United
Nations
report written for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on 29 February, of
'criminal
activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of
authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and
hate-speech'.
The 5,000-strong corps, funded by UN members including Britain, has a
£30
million aid budget for Kosovo. It was set up to provide 'disaster
response
services'; instead, says the UN, it has been murdering and torturing
people.
The UN's own damning verdict on its newly created civil defence force is
fresh evidence of the failure of Special Representative Bernard Kouchner
to
establish the rule of law in Kosovo. Many of the corps's recruits came
straight from the Kosovo Liberation Army, set up to meet the violence of
Slobodan Milosevic's police with violence.
Nato's intervention last June saw the departure of armed Serbs from
Kosovo,
but violence and gangsterism by Albanian extremists has not stopped. The
report's grim message is that the UN is paying the salaries of many of
the
gangsters.
The report covers the period from 21 January, when the corps formally
came
into being. Under the heading 'killings', the UN says: 'Dragash: two
members
of the KPC and three others were arrested by UN police in connection
with the
killing of an ethnic Gorani (11 February).'
There are three charges of ill-treatment and torture: in Pec, a man was
beaten senseless in the KPC's headquarters, suffering head injuries and
severe bruising from a rifle butt. The victim had been attacked in a
newspaper article, written by a former fighter in the KLA. In Prizren, a
man
from the Torbesh minority - a group of Muslim Turks suspected by the
Albanians of collaborating with the Serbs - was kidnapped and beaten up
by a
KPC member and three other men.
Also in Prizren, the KPC stands accused of using torture to obtain
confessions. After two men arrested on suspicion of stealing cars were
handed
over to UN police, they 'complained they had been severely ill-treated.
Subsequent medical examinations corroborated the victims' allegations'.
Troops from K-For, the multi-national force, suspended the two alleged
torturers from the KPC on 4 February.
The KPC is not a police force, and yet one of the grave concerns raised
by
the UN report, drawn up by Kouchner's own office, is that mem bers of
the KPC
are behaving as if they were above the law. The report lists complaints
from
UN police working for its mission in Kosovo, Unmik.
The KPC has been running protection rackets across Kosovo - in Pristina,
Suva
Reka, Dragash, Istok and Prizren - demanding 'contributions' from
shopkeepers, businessmen and contractors. In Suva Reka, KPC members are
alleged to have forced petrol stations to accept coupons rather than
money
for fuel.
In Vucitrn, the KPC reportedly demanded protection money from members of
an
ethnic minority, the Ashkali, originally from India. One family member
had
previously been kidnapped and the family had been bombed.
The KPC has a nice line in death threats, says the UN. Two members
threatened
to kill K-For interpreters after being arrested by Nato troops in
Kosovo.
Following the arrests, 20 KPC men mobbed the police station and demanded
their release. They were freed the next day.
The KPC may be running prostitution rackets, says the UN. A report was
received on 14 February that a high-ranking KPC officer may be
supervising a
forced prostitution racket running out of the Drenica Bar, close to the
Srbica KPC training camp.
The KPC is led by General Agim Ceku, who comes in for fierce criticism
from
the report. His earlier pledges not to tolerate any criminal behaviour
by KPC
members and to expel anyone who violates the law are mocked by the
report,
and Ceku, who was formerly a senior commander in the KLA, comes in for
personal criticism.
Under the heading 'Activities against minorities, including hate
speech',
Ceku is criticised for being present at a walk-out staged by Albanian
members
of the KPC when a speech was translated into Serbo-Croat - the language
of
the Muslim Slav minority suspected by the Albanians of collaboration
with the
Serbs.
The report comments: 'It was the clear opinion of those present that
this was
a premeditated action. The speeches of General Ceku and that of the
regional
KPC commander were not those agreed upon in advance. The men spoke of
the war
and loyalty to the "country" - 10 February.' Such a speech would
contradict
the policy of the UN, the general's paymaster.
Further Reading...
* The KLA is operating as the proxy arm of the U.S. government in
Kosovo. See
Why is the KLA SHooting at KFOR? at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisthe.htm
* We now have documented proof of our charge that the CIA is behind the
KLA
and was behind it BEFORE the bombing started - that the OSCE verifier
mission
was a cover for spying and death squad liason work. See The Cat's Outta
the
Bag! at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ciaaided.htm
* One of the worst examples of UN/NATO creation of horror in Kosovo is
what
they have done to Orahovac:
The article, The Women of Orahovac answer the Colonel , deals with
claims
made by Dutch KFOR (NATO) Commander van Loon that his troops are doing a
good
job in the Kosovo town of Orahovac. In this article, women with intimate
knowledge of conditions in Orahovac answer Col. van Loon.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm
The article, Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak includes
in-depth
interviews with women from Orahovac.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
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USA - KLA CONSPIRACY IN KOSOVO
London, February 27th - Tanjug -
The aggression on Yugoslavia and the NATO
involvement in Kosovo are the result of a joint
conspiracy of the American State Department and
the Albanian leaders of the KLA, reported today
the London "Sunday Telegraph".
The manipulations and the conspiracy were, as the
daily suggests, led by the American State Secretary,
Madeleine Albright, who is also described by the
"Sunday Telegraph" as "one of the West's leading
anti-Serb hawks".
The American State Secretary, the State Department
spokesman, James Rubin, and the leader of the
KLA, Hashim Thaci, admitted to this conspiracy in
their interviews given to the BBC, which is
preparing a broadcast on the occasion of marking
the first anniversary of the aggression, based on
which the London daily made its analysis.
The beginning of a realization of this conspiracy
were, it was reminded, the events in the village of
Racak, in December of 1998.
Thaci has, in his interview given to the BBC, quoted
by the "Sunday Telegraph", admitted that the
Albanians killed the four policemen in Racak
practically on purpose, because they knew that this
would trigger a conflict.
The Albanian terrorists, as Thaci admitted,
sacrificed the lives of common citizens
intentionally, because they
knew that thus they could win over the international
opinion.
Such a strategy, reminded the London daily, was
created with the help of the Albanian political
backers in Washington.
After the corpses of 45 ethnic-Albanians were found
in the village of Racak, the American State Secretary
started a campaign of pressuring the European allies.
She also admitted to this in her interview to the BBC
while saying that this event had to be developed and
"livened" in order to keep the pressure on the
allies.
This was why, according to the daily, the OSCE
Monitoring Mission was used.
FR Yugoslavia and Serbia, reported the London daily,
fulfilled all the obligations specified in the
October agreement, but the OSCE monitors failed to
make any moves towards the KLA, which used this
period for additional arming, regrouping and further
attacks on the police and army units.
The anti-Serb campaign started, as the daily pointed
out, even though the official document of the NATO
Council dated November 13th 1998 stated that the
KLA was "the main initiator of the violence which is
threatening the cease-fire arrangements".
The European countries opposed the US aggressive
campaign and the plans Washington made for the
applying of force in Kosovo, so a compromising
solution was given that the Rambouillet talks be
held.
Nonetheless, Madeleine Albright and the State
Department, the daily specified, did everything in
their power for these talks to fail.
For Ms Albright, reported the daily, the failure of
the Rambouillet talks was a triumph.
The State Department spokesman, James Rubin, also
admitted to this, by stating that the US did
everything in order for the Rambouillet talks to
fail. "Obviously, publicly, we had to make clear
that we were seeking an agreement", said Rubin, but
that their goal was for the agreement to be refused
by the Serbs and to be accepted by the Albanians.
In this way, reminded the "Sunday Telegraph", a small
group of Albanians and the State Department
maneuvered NATO into the Kosovo war.
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CONSPIRATION USA-UCK AU KOSOVO: QUEL TRIBUNAL INTERNATIONAL JUGERA DONC
CES
FAUTEURS et CRIMINELS de GUERRE ?
L'agression en Yougoslavie et l'empêtrement de l'OTAN au Kosovo sont le
résultat d'une conspiration commune du Département d'Etat américain et
des
dirigeants de l'UCK, rapporte récemment le "Sunday Telegraph" de
Londres.
Les manipulations et la conspiration ont été, comme le suggère le
quotidien,
menées par la Secrétaire d'Etat, qui est aussi située par le "Sunday
Telegraph comme étant parmi les faucons anti-serbes occidentaux.
La Secrétaire d'Etat américaine, le porte-parole du Département d'Etat,
James Rubin, et le leader de l'UCK, Hashim Thaci, ont admis cette
conspirattion dans leurs iintervews données à la BBC, à l'occasion de la
préparation d'une émission consacrée au premier anniversaire de
l'agression,
sur les bases de laquelle le qutotidien londonien fait ses analyses.
Le début de la réalisation de cette conspiration était, c'est rappelé,
les
événements dans le village de Racak, en décembre 1998.
Thaci a, dans son interview, donnée à la BBC, citée par le the "Sunday
Telegraph", admis que les Albanais ont tué les quatre policiers à Racak
pratiquement exprès, parce qu'ils savaient que cela déclencherait un
conflit.
Les terroristes albanais, comme Thaci l'a admis, ont sacrifié les vies
de
citoyens ordinaires, parce qu'ils savaient que ainsi ils pouvaient
gagner
l'opinion internationale à leur cause.
Une telle stratégie, rappelle le quotidien londonien, a été créée avec
l'aide des appuis politiques albanais à Washington.
Après que les 45 corps appartenant à l'ethnie albanaise furtent trouvés
dans
le village de Racak, la Secrétaire d'Etat américaine mena une campagne
de
pressions sur les alliés européens.
Elle a aussi admis pendant son interview à la BBC que cet événement
avait
été développé et entretenu dans le but de maintenir la pression sur les
alliés.
C'est aussi pourquoi, suivant le quotidien, la mission de contrôle de
l'OSCE
fut utilisée.
La RF de Yougoslavie et la Serbie, rapporte le quotidien londonien,
remplissaient toutes les obligations contenues dans l'accord d'octobre,
mais
la mission de contrôle échoua en raison des manoeuvres de l'UCK qui
profita
de cette période pour renforcer son armement et son regroupement et
ensuite
ses attaques contre la police et les unités de l'armée.
La campagne anti-serbe débuta, comme le montre le quotidien, bien que
le
document officiel du Conseil de l'OTAN daté du 13 novembre 1998
déclarait
que l'UCK était "le principal intiateur de la violence qui menaçait les
règlements de cessez-le-feu".
Les pays européens opposèrent à la campagne agressive et aux plans de
Washington l'application d'une force de paix au Kosovo, ainsi une
solution
de compromis était donnée aux pourparlers de Rambouillet.
Néanmoins, Madeleine Albright et le Département d'Etat, spécifie le
quotidien, firent tout en leur pouvoir pour faire échouer ces
pourparlers.
Pour Madame Albright, rapporte le quotidien, l'échec de Rambouillet fut
un
triomphe.
Le porte-parole du Département d'Etat, James Rubin, a aussi admis le
fait
que les USA firent tout en vue de faire échouer les pourparlers de
Rambouillet. "Evidemment, publiquement, nous devions éclaircir que nous
cherchions un arrangement, a dit Rubin, mais leur objectif était que
l'accord soit refusé par les Serbes et accepté par les Albanais.
Dans ce but, rappelle le "Sunday Telegraph", un petit groupe d'Albanais
et
le Département d'Etat ont manoeuvré dans la guerre du Kosovo.
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VENTI DI GUERRA (TANTO PER CAMBIARE...)
* MONTENEGRO/ALBANIA: Tutto pronto per nuove ondate di profughi
* TRIESTE: La portaerei Eisenhower in rada nel Golfo
* ALBRIGHT: Avvertimenti di stampo mafioso
* GRECIA: Voci contro i nuovi piani di guerra degli USA
---
Da "il manifesto" del 21 Gennaio 2000:
BALCANI
PER L'ONU PROBABILE UNA GUERRA TRA SERBIA E MONTENEGRO A PRIMAVERA
Albania, riparte il circo "umanitario"
L'Acnur prepara i piani per accogliere migliaia di profughi a Scutari.
Mobilitate le Ong
- CLAUDIO BAZZOCCHI * -
Da alcuni giorni si è cominciato a parlare sulla stampa albanese di una
possibile guerra fra Serbia e Montenegro e delle sue ricadute in termini
di emergenza umanitaria. L'ufficio dell'Alto commissariato Onu per i
rifugiati (Acnur) di Tirana ha avviato una serie di incontri con le Ong
presenti in Albania per verificare la possibilità di creare una
"struttura latente" capace di far fronte per le prime due settimane a un
eventuale afflusso profughi dal Montenegro. L'Acnur dunque si sta
preparando a una nuova crisi umanitaria che potrebbe scaturire da una
guerra fra Serbia e Montenegro in primavera.
Gli scenari sui quali ci si sta preparando sono i seguenti: 1) afflusso
di 10/15mila rifugiati (gli abitanti dei villaggi vicini al confine
albanese; 2) afflusso di 45mila rifugiati (la maggioranza degli albanesi
del Montenegro); 3) afflusso di 80mila rifugiati (tutti gli albanesi più
metà della popolazione slavo-musulmana). A partire dal 28 gennaio
verranno costituiti dall'Acnur in Albania dei gruppi di lavoro sui temi
classici dell'emergenza - riparo, cibo, acqua, trasporto e logistica,
igiene, salute, ecc.). Potranno partecipare a questi gruppi le
organizzazioni che saranno in grado per quella data di offrire risorse e
mezzi propri.
Dalla sede dell'Alto Commissariato a Ginevra sappiamo che questa
esercitazione in Albania viene considerata molto importante, anche se i
segnali che giungono dal Montenegro non inducono a particolare
preoccupazione.
Ma l'eventualità di una crisi in primavera sta già dando i primi
risultati
politici. E' di venerdì scorso la notizia dell'impegno congiunto
albanese-montenegrino per l'apertura dei valichi di frontiera di Hani i
Hoti, Muriqani, e Vermoshi. La settimana scorsa il governo albanese ha
approvato un memorandum di collaborazione economica con il Montenegro
che
prevede la creazione di una commissione ad hoc albanese-montenegrina. La
stampa albanese definisce l'accordo fra i due governi come la mossa
necessaria da parte del Montenegro per entrare nel Patto di Stabilità
nei
Balcani tramite la porta della collaborazione con l'Albania.
Da questo punto di vista l'evento più importante si è verificato martedì
scorso, quando i tre primi ministri di Albania, Macedonia e Montenegro
si sono incontrati a Ohrid in Macedonia. Alcune importanti decisioni
sono state prese durante l'incontro. I tre premier si sono accordati
sulla necessità di allargare al Montenegro il pacchetto di aiuti
previsto dal Patto di Stabilità. Vujanovic, primo ministro montenegrino,
ha inoltre chiesto ai propri partner l'apertura di un corridoio di
comunicazione tra la Macedonia e il Montenegro attraverso il Kosovo.
In un articolo del quotidiano albanese Koha Jone il triplice incontro
viene definito come la prima scintilla dell'allontanamento di Podgorica
da Belgrado. La stampa albanese comincia d'altra parte a dare risalto a
una possibile nuova crisi balcanica. Sempre su Koha Jone di mercoledì
scorso è possibile leggere un ampio resoconto della missione
dell'ufficio Acnur di Tirana a Scutari. I responsabili dell'Alto
Commissariato si sono incontrati lunedì scorso con il sindaco ed il
prefetto di Scutari e hanno valutato assieme le possibilità logistica
per accogliere i profughi provenienti dal Montenegro. Scutari, nelle
parole del corrispondente da quella città, sarà la nuova Kukes della
prossima crisi che appare "ormai inevitabile", dal momento che Podgorica
- scrive il corrispondente - chiederà presto la secessione da Belgrado.
Addirittura nella città si respirerebbe già aria di guerra.
Insomma, i maggiori quotidiani albanesi stanno preparando la propria
opinione pubblica all'eventualità di una nuova guerra nei Balcani e ne
stanno già indicando i possibili vantaggi: ulteriore destabilizzazione
del grande nemico Milosevic, se non la sua caduta definitiva, nuovo
afflusso di aiuti umanitari assieme a quello dei profughi.
C'è chi in Albania sta facendo anche altri conti su una nuova possibile
guerra nell'area. Berisha è sempre pronto a sfruttare l'instabilità
politica che ne deriverebbe, i clan mafiosi preparano nuovi traffici
illeciti ai confini e la maggioranza di governo si aspetta di poter
usare la risorsa del nazionalismo e dell'odio contro i serbi per
rafforzarsi: il ricevimento con tutti gli onori di Thaci, leader
dell'Uck, la settimana scorsa a Tirana lo dimostra con sufficiente
evidenza.
Siamo solo all'inizio di una spirale di conflitto e riscontri oggettivi
in Montenegro di una crisi così estrema al momento non ce ne sono. Certo
è che l'uccisione di Arkan dimostra che forse la resa dei conti a
Belgrado èiniziata e una guerra a primavera può essere una risorsa anche
per il
potere serbo.
* Consorzio italiano di solidarietà (Ics)
---
Da NOTIZIE EST #301 - SERBIA/MONTENEGRO
9 febbraio 2000
(...) Il 14 gennaio, il quotidiano on-line
"Albanian Daily News" ha diffuso la notizia
secondo cui il ministro dell'ordine pubblico
albanese, Spartak Poci, aveva visitato il
giorno precedente due campi profughi, quello
di Rrushkull, a 37 chilometri da Tirana e in
grado di ospitare 5.000 persone, e quello di
Katund i Ri, a 34 chilometri da Tirana.
"Dobbiamo prenderci cura di questi campi,
perché potrebbero servire come centri per
accogliere profughi dal Montenegro,
nell'eventuale scenario peggiore dello
scoppio di un conflitto tra tale repubblica e
la Serbia", ha dichiarato Poci durante la
visita. Uno dei maggiori quotidiani albanesi,
"Koha Jone", ha subito ripreso la notizia con
grande evidenza in prima pagina, mentre un
altro importante quotidiano, "Gazeta
Shqiptare", citava le parole di un
funzionario della compagnia di trasporto
Alaska Cargo Company, che aveva appena
trasportato a Durazzo 6.500 tonnellate di
farina donate dagli Stati Uniti all'Albania
"per i profughi", secondo cui tale primo
contingente è solo una piccola parte degli
aiuti che verranno congelati in attesa della
crisi dei profughi. La società di trasporto
ha un contratto con il Dipartimento di Stato
per il trasporto in Albania di 40.000
tonnellate di grano e 10.000 tonnellate di
farina, riso e olio, ha affermato il
funzionario. Della distribuzione degli aiuti
dovrebbe essere incaricata la ONG Mercy
International. "Gazeta Shqiptare", citando
fonti anonime, ha affermato inoltre che le
due repubbliche jugoslave potrebbero "entrare
in conflitto tra la fine di febbraio e
l'inizio di marzo". Sempre il 14 gennaio, a
Podgorica si sono svolte pacificamente le
celebrazioni per il capodanno serbo, per le
quali molti avevano previsto lo scoppio di
gravi incidenti. Al termine delle
celebrazioni, il premier jugoslavo Bulatovic,
oppositore di Djukanovic, ha dichiarato in
una conferenza stampa: "Grazie alla mia alta
posizione, sono venuto a sapere che si sta
preparando un complotto internazionale per la
preparazione di campi destinati alla
deportazione di montenegrini in Albania"
("Monitor" [Podgorica], 21 gennaio 2000). Il
21 gennaio, infine, "Albanian Daily News"
riportava la smentita del premier Ilir Meta
che l'Albania si stia preparando a ricevere
un'ondata di profughi dal Montenegro. La
notizia è stata il primo della lunga serie di
"allarmi" relativi all'imminente scoppio di
un conflitto tra Serbia e Montenegro.
Trasmessa prima da un tam-tam di operatori
umanitari, è stata infine raccolta con
svariati giorni di ritardo da "Der Spiegel"
e, piano piano, da vari altri media europei.
Negli USA, gli organi di stampa e i politici
hanno cominciato a parlare di un ipotetico
imminente conflitto solo nei primi giorni di
febbraio. (...)
Il 21 gennaio la Reuters ha pubblicato un
servizio da Londra del suo "diplomatic
editor", Paul Taylor, che di norma scrive i
pezzi politicamente più rilevanti. Nel
servizio Taylor riferisce che un "alto
diplomatico NATO" ha dichiarato che "il
Montenegro non deve attendersi che gli Stati
Uniti o la NATO interverranno per salvarlo se
dichiarerà l'indipendenza dalla Jugoslavia,
scatenando un confronto con la Serbia". Il
diplomatico, prosegue Taylor, ha affermato
che "l'Occidente reagirebbe più probabilmente
limitandosi a rafforzare le sanzioni
economiche contro la Serbia, nel caso in cui
Milosevic dovesse lanciare un attacco contro
la repubblica". Secondo il giornalista della
Reuters, "Djukanovic si trova ad affrontare
pressioni interne sempre più forti per indire
un referendum sull'indipendenza". Il
diplomatico NATO anonimo citato dalla Reuters
ha proseguito dicendo che "il dilemma che
stiamo affrontando è quello di come agire per
prevenire una prova di forza [...]
[Djukanovic] dovrà stare molto attento a non
provocare una prova di forza, perché non
potrà contare su un salvataggio da parte
degli USA o dei suoi alleati". Taylor nota
che si è trattato del secondo avvertimento di
tale tono nel corso della settimana, il primo
essendo stato quello dell'alto inviato
occidentale in Bosnia, Wolfgang Petritsch,
secondo il quale ogni mossa verso
l'indipendenza scatenerebbe una guerra. Il
diplomatico NATO citato da Taylor, tuttavia,
conclude affermando di non vedere nuvole di
tempesta a breve termine in Montenegro,
perché entrambe le parti sono consce dei
rischi (Reuters, 21 gennaio 2000).
Successivamente, le dichiarazioni riguardo ai
possibili scenari di un precipitare della
situazione in Montenegro non si sono più
contate. Da quella di un altro funzionario
anonimo della NATO, citato dall'agenzia
SENSE, secondo cui l'Alleanza "segue la
situazione e non si farà cogliere
impreparata", alle raccomandazioni fatte da
Gran Bretagna e USA, rispettivamente al
presidente Djukanovic e al premier Vujanovic,
affinché non facciano in questo momento mosse
verso l'indipendenza, alla dichiarazione del
capo della CIA Tenet, secondo cui un
confronto tra Milosevic e Djukanovic è quasi
inevitabile - "sia Milosevic che Djukanovic
cercheranno di evitare un confronto serio,
per ora, ma sarà difficile evitare una prova
di forza finale, che ritengo avverrà in
primavera" (AFP, 3 febbraio 2000).
---
TRIESTE: DI NUOVO NAVI STATUNITENSI NEL GOLFO...
Molti giornali italiani hanno parlato delle manovre militari congiunte
che alcuni paesi partecipanti alla missione KFOR terranno in Kosovo alla
fine di marzo. Per queste manovre - che esulano da qualsiasi mandato ONU
e suonano altamente ridicole in una situazione in cui i militari KFOR
"non riescono" nemmeno ad impedire le violenze quotidiane nella
provincia da loro stessi occupata - la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia
ha ripetutamente protestato.
Meno noto e' il programma di esercitazioni congiunte tra esercito
statunitense ed aviazione croata, che dovrebbe partire in questi giorni
ed interessare anche il lembo piu' meridionale della costa
dalmato-croata. Un inquietante segnale di questi movimenti si ha a
Trieste, dove da un paio di giorni e' ferma a poche centinaia di metri
dal centro cittadino la portaerei Eisenhower. Gli abitanti della citta'
si trovano cosi' ad incrociare un po' a tutte le ore drappelli di
marines in divisa o giovanissimi e ben riconoscibili yankees in libera
uscita.
Ma questa atmosfera, per la verita' non troppo nuova per Trieste, viene
vissuta davvero maluccio quest'anno, in particolare dalle migliaia di
lavoratori jugoslavi presenti in citta' e dai militanti della sinistra e
attivisti di iniziative di solidarieta' e contro la guerra, che provano
oggi profonda stizza ed angoscia guardando a questi soldati a causa del
ricordo dello shock della primavera dello scorso anno. Tra l'altro, i
bombardamenti della NATO contro la RFJ nel 1999 erano stati "annunciati"
a Trieste un paio di settimane prima che cominciassero proprio dalla
presenza massiccia di militari statunitensi...
Il gruppo regionale di Rifondazione Comunista ha immediatamente
presentato una interrogazione nella quale si fa presente che, tra le
altre cose, la Eisenhower e' a propulsione nucleare, e dunque la sua
presenza in quelle acque e' contraria ad ogni regolamento visto che
quello di Trieste non e' un porto attrezzato per la presenza del
nucleare - ma non e' nemmeno un porto militare!
Ovviamente di questo gli Stati Uniti d'America se ne fregano, cosi' come
se ne fregano anche i nostri governanti perche', se e' vero che Trieste
e' "italianissima" (?), e' anche vero che l'Italia e' lo zerbino degli
Stati Uniti d'America in Europa. (CRJ 11/3/2000)
Fonti: "Il Piccolo", 8-10/3/2000
---
MESSAGGIO MAFIOSO DA MADELEINE ALBRIGHT:
"La primavera non sempre e' una bella stagione nei Balcani"
FreeB92 News for 03/10/2000
Albright "concerned" over Balkans
BRUSSELS, Friday - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said today
that she was very concerned about the situation in the Balkans region,
adding that spring was not always the best season in the Balkans.
Albright was speaking in Brussels where she will speak to US and EU
officials about lowering the temperature in the Balkans, especially
Kosovo. The US Secretary of State told media that she was in Brussels to
talk about how to help the UN Kosovo mission chief, Bernard Kouchner, to
do his job. The three things which needed to be done in Kosovo, she
said, were to establish self-management, create a broad autonomy and
hold elections.
---
PREOCCUPAZIONE IN GRECIA: "FERMARE GLI AMERICANI"
"The clouds of war are gathering again around the Balkans..."
Democratic Social Movement Party leader Dimitris Tsovolas, minister with
the ruling PASOK party, assessed that Washington was preparing for a new
blow against Yugoslavia, and called for the Greek government not to
allow foreign troops or war material destined for Kosovo to pass through
Greece.
_______________________________________
Greeks Concerned About Kosovo Tensions
By Louis Economopoulos
CNS Correspondent
03 March, 2000
Athens, Greece (CNSNews.com) - Amid media speculation of new NATO
military action in the Balkans, a top Greek military official expressed
concern this week that a new conflict zone may develop in Kosovo, near
the border with the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
Chief of the National Defense General Staff Manousos Paragioudakis told
a press conference on Thursday that tensions were rising in Prezovce
where 70,000 Albanians are situated and large number of Yugoslav
soldiers are reported to have gathered. The area is close to where U.S.,
British and Greek troops are stationed.
This new headache for the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping forces may further
\plain\lang1033\f4\fs23\cf0 destabilize the strife-torn region, already
facing an explosive situation in the divided northern Kosovo town of
Mitrovica.
Paragioudakis said Greek soldiers aboard a passenger train had been
forced to fire warning to prevent a fracas between Serbian passengers
and ethnic Albanian employees on Wednesday.
Such occurrences have become routine and expressed concern that the
situation in Kosovo was "difficult and dangerous."
In the event of a military confrontation in Kosovo, similar to the one
involving NATO airstrikes last year, Greece would consider opting out,
as new NATO policy leaves it up to each member to decide, Paragioudakis
added.
In last year's conflict, Greece held back from actively taking part in
the military action, while allowing its territory to be used for the
transporting of NATO troops and equipment.
Greece has always maintained friendly ties with Yugoslavia, and the
Greek people, virtually all of the Orthodox Christian faith, have
religious ties with the Orthodox Serbs.
The country has sent some 1,200 troops into the Kosovo region as part of
the KFOR operation. A company of 100 Greek soldiers is currently serving
in Mitrovica.
Addressing a Foreign Press Association luncheon, Greek Foreign Minister
George Papandreou said the situation in Kosovo was of grave concern, but
denied reports in the Greek press that the international community was
planning another military confrontation with Yugoslavia.
The U.S.-born and educated minister called on the international
community to send a clear message to Kosovo and the Balkans that it
would not tolerate a change in regional borders and that it would uphold
respect for all ethnic minorities in a multi-cultural Kosovo.
Papandreou called on both sides in Kosovo to assume their
responsibilities for peace in the broader region. "In the Balkans,
either way, we are condemned to live together," he said.
He again urged the international community to allow Yugoslavia to
participate in the process of democratisation and inclusion in European
structures, and said sanctions against the Serbs impeded the process.
The situation in Kosovo remains tense, said Greek government spokesman
Dimitris Reppas, adding that the international presence in the area
guarantees stability and underlining that any flare-up of fighting in
the KFOR-controlled Yugoslav province would be disastrous to all.
The heightened tensions in Kosovo and NATO's plans to increase military
presence have raised concern in the socialist Greek government that
violence in the area could escalate during the election period. General
elections are scheduled for April 9 and the socialists are holding on to
a slim lead in the latest pre-election polls over the conservatives.
This fear has been strengthened by the fact that in the next few days
about 2,000 more NATO troops will be passing through the northern Greek
city of Thessaloniki on their way to Kosovo and could become the focal
point for anti-NATO and anti-government protests.
"The clouds of war are gathering again over the Balkans, and once again
the government is displaying great willingness to add its black
assistance to NATO's efforts," said Greek Communist Party leader Aleka
Papariga in a pre-election campaign speech.
Democratic Social Movement Party leader Dimitris Tsovolas, a former
minister with the ruling socialist PASOK party, assessed that Washington
was preparing a new blow against Yugoslavia and called on the Greek
government not to allow foreign troops or war material destined for
Kosovo to pass through Greece.
A government official told the conservative daily newspaper Kathimerini
that if NATO attacked the Serbs, the Greek opposition political parties
would make the Greek government's life extremely difficult.
"We will face a strong dilemma; either to stop facilitating NATO
operations - which will mess up our relations with the Americans - or to
risk losing the elections," the unnamed official said.
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* MONTENEGRO/ALBANIA: Tutto pronto per nuove ondate di profughi
* TRIESTE: La portaerei Eisenhower in rada nel Golfo
* ALBRIGHT: Avvertimenti di stampo mafioso
* GRECIA: Voci contro i nuovi piani di guerra degli USA
---
Da "il manifesto" del 21 Gennaio 2000:
BALCANI
PER L'ONU PROBABILE UNA GUERRA TRA SERBIA E MONTENEGRO A PRIMAVERA
Albania, riparte il circo "umanitario"
L'Acnur prepara i piani per accogliere migliaia di profughi a Scutari.
Mobilitate le Ong
- CLAUDIO BAZZOCCHI * -
Da alcuni giorni si è cominciato a parlare sulla stampa albanese di una
possibile guerra fra Serbia e Montenegro e delle sue ricadute in termini
di emergenza umanitaria. L'ufficio dell'Alto commissariato Onu per i
rifugiati (Acnur) di Tirana ha avviato una serie di incontri con le Ong
presenti in Albania per verificare la possibilità di creare una
"struttura latente" capace di far fronte per le prime due settimane a un
eventuale afflusso profughi dal Montenegro. L'Acnur dunque si sta
preparando a una nuova crisi umanitaria che potrebbe scaturire da una
guerra fra Serbia e Montenegro in primavera.
Gli scenari sui quali ci si sta preparando sono i seguenti: 1) afflusso
di 10/15mila rifugiati (gli abitanti dei villaggi vicini al confine
albanese; 2) afflusso di 45mila rifugiati (la maggioranza degli albanesi
del Montenegro); 3) afflusso di 80mila rifugiati (tutti gli albanesi più
metà della popolazione slavo-musulmana). A partire dal 28 gennaio
verranno costituiti dall'Acnur in Albania dei gruppi di lavoro sui temi
classici dell'emergenza - riparo, cibo, acqua, trasporto e logistica,
igiene, salute, ecc.). Potranno partecipare a questi gruppi le
organizzazioni che saranno in grado per quella data di offrire risorse e
mezzi propri.
Dalla sede dell'Alto Commissariato a Ginevra sappiamo che questa
esercitazione in Albania viene considerata molto importante, anche se i
segnali che giungono dal Montenegro non inducono a particolare
preoccupazione.
Ma l'eventualità di una crisi in primavera sta già dando i primi
risultati
politici. E' di venerdì scorso la notizia dell'impegno congiunto
albanese-montenegrino per l'apertura dei valichi di frontiera di Hani i
Hoti, Muriqani, e Vermoshi. La settimana scorsa il governo albanese ha
approvato un memorandum di collaborazione economica con il Montenegro
che
prevede la creazione di una commissione ad hoc albanese-montenegrina. La
stampa albanese definisce l'accordo fra i due governi come la mossa
necessaria da parte del Montenegro per entrare nel Patto di Stabilità
nei
Balcani tramite la porta della collaborazione con l'Albania.
Da questo punto di vista l'evento più importante si è verificato martedì
scorso, quando i tre primi ministri di Albania, Macedonia e Montenegro
si sono incontrati a Ohrid in Macedonia. Alcune importanti decisioni
sono state prese durante l'incontro. I tre premier si sono accordati
sulla necessità di allargare al Montenegro il pacchetto di aiuti
previsto dal Patto di Stabilità. Vujanovic, primo ministro montenegrino,
ha inoltre chiesto ai propri partner l'apertura di un corridoio di
comunicazione tra la Macedonia e il Montenegro attraverso il Kosovo.
In un articolo del quotidiano albanese Koha Jone il triplice incontro
viene definito come la prima scintilla dell'allontanamento di Podgorica
da Belgrado. La stampa albanese comincia d'altra parte a dare risalto a
una possibile nuova crisi balcanica. Sempre su Koha Jone di mercoledì
scorso è possibile leggere un ampio resoconto della missione
dell'ufficio Acnur di Tirana a Scutari. I responsabili dell'Alto
Commissariato si sono incontrati lunedì scorso con il sindaco ed il
prefetto di Scutari e hanno valutato assieme le possibilità logistica
per accogliere i profughi provenienti dal Montenegro. Scutari, nelle
parole del corrispondente da quella città, sarà la nuova Kukes della
prossima crisi che appare "ormai inevitabile", dal momento che Podgorica
- scrive il corrispondente - chiederà presto la secessione da Belgrado.
Addirittura nella città si respirerebbe già aria di guerra.
Insomma, i maggiori quotidiani albanesi stanno preparando la propria
opinione pubblica all'eventualità di una nuova guerra nei Balcani e ne
stanno già indicando i possibili vantaggi: ulteriore destabilizzazione
del grande nemico Milosevic, se non la sua caduta definitiva, nuovo
afflusso di aiuti umanitari assieme a quello dei profughi.
C'è chi in Albania sta facendo anche altri conti su una nuova possibile
guerra nell'area. Berisha è sempre pronto a sfruttare l'instabilità
politica che ne deriverebbe, i clan mafiosi preparano nuovi traffici
illeciti ai confini e la maggioranza di governo si aspetta di poter
usare la risorsa del nazionalismo e dell'odio contro i serbi per
rafforzarsi: il ricevimento con tutti gli onori di Thaci, leader
dell'Uck, la settimana scorsa a Tirana lo dimostra con sufficiente
evidenza.
Siamo solo all'inizio di una spirale di conflitto e riscontri oggettivi
in Montenegro di una crisi così estrema al momento non ce ne sono. Certo
è che l'uccisione di Arkan dimostra che forse la resa dei conti a
Belgrado èiniziata e una guerra a primavera può essere una risorsa anche
per il
potere serbo.
* Consorzio italiano di solidarietà (Ics)
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Da NOTIZIE EST #301 - SERBIA/MONTENEGRO
9 febbraio 2000
(...) Il 14 gennaio, il quotidiano on-line
"Albanian Daily News" ha diffuso la notizia
secondo cui il ministro dell'ordine pubblico
albanese, Spartak Poci, aveva visitato il
giorno precedente due campi profughi, quello
di Rrushkull, a 37 chilometri da Tirana e in
grado di ospitare 5.000 persone, e quello di
Katund i Ri, a 34 chilometri da Tirana.
"Dobbiamo prenderci cura di questi campi,
perché potrebbero servire come centri per
accogliere profughi dal Montenegro,
nell'eventuale scenario peggiore dello
scoppio di un conflitto tra tale repubblica e
la Serbia", ha dichiarato Poci durante la
visita. Uno dei maggiori quotidiani albanesi,
"Koha Jone", ha subito ripreso la notizia con
grande evidenza in prima pagina, mentre un
altro importante quotidiano, "Gazeta
Shqiptare", citava le parole di un
funzionario della compagnia di trasporto
Alaska Cargo Company, che aveva appena
trasportato a Durazzo 6.500 tonnellate di
farina donate dagli Stati Uniti all'Albania
"per i profughi", secondo cui tale primo
contingente è solo una piccola parte degli
aiuti che verranno congelati in attesa della
crisi dei profughi. La società di trasporto
ha un contratto con il Dipartimento di Stato
per il trasporto in Albania di 40.000
tonnellate di grano e 10.000 tonnellate di
farina, riso e olio, ha affermato il
funzionario. Della distribuzione degli aiuti
dovrebbe essere incaricata la ONG Mercy
International. "Gazeta Shqiptare", citando
fonti anonime, ha affermato inoltre che le
due repubbliche jugoslave potrebbero "entrare
in conflitto tra la fine di febbraio e
l'inizio di marzo". Sempre il 14 gennaio, a
Podgorica si sono svolte pacificamente le
celebrazioni per il capodanno serbo, per le
quali molti avevano previsto lo scoppio di
gravi incidenti. Al termine delle
celebrazioni, il premier jugoslavo Bulatovic,
oppositore di Djukanovic, ha dichiarato in
una conferenza stampa: "Grazie alla mia alta
posizione, sono venuto a sapere che si sta
preparando un complotto internazionale per la
preparazione di campi destinati alla
deportazione di montenegrini in Albania"
("Monitor" [Podgorica], 21 gennaio 2000). Il
21 gennaio, infine, "Albanian Daily News"
riportava la smentita del premier Ilir Meta
che l'Albania si stia preparando a ricevere
un'ondata di profughi dal Montenegro. La
notizia è stata il primo della lunga serie di
"allarmi" relativi all'imminente scoppio di
un conflitto tra Serbia e Montenegro.
Trasmessa prima da un tam-tam di operatori
umanitari, è stata infine raccolta con
svariati giorni di ritardo da "Der Spiegel"
e, piano piano, da vari altri media europei.
Negli USA, gli organi di stampa e i politici
hanno cominciato a parlare di un ipotetico
imminente conflitto solo nei primi giorni di
febbraio. (...)
Il 21 gennaio la Reuters ha pubblicato un
servizio da Londra del suo "diplomatic
editor", Paul Taylor, che di norma scrive i
pezzi politicamente più rilevanti. Nel
servizio Taylor riferisce che un "alto
diplomatico NATO" ha dichiarato che "il
Montenegro non deve attendersi che gli Stati
Uniti o la NATO interverranno per salvarlo se
dichiarerà l'indipendenza dalla Jugoslavia,
scatenando un confronto con la Serbia". Il
diplomatico, prosegue Taylor, ha affermato
che "l'Occidente reagirebbe più probabilmente
limitandosi a rafforzare le sanzioni
economiche contro la Serbia, nel caso in cui
Milosevic dovesse lanciare un attacco contro
la repubblica". Secondo il giornalista della
Reuters, "Djukanovic si trova ad affrontare
pressioni interne sempre più forti per indire
un referendum sull'indipendenza". Il
diplomatico NATO anonimo citato dalla Reuters
ha proseguito dicendo che "il dilemma che
stiamo affrontando è quello di come agire per
prevenire una prova di forza [...]
[Djukanovic] dovrà stare molto attento a non
provocare una prova di forza, perché non
potrà contare su un salvataggio da parte
degli USA o dei suoi alleati". Taylor nota
che si è trattato del secondo avvertimento di
tale tono nel corso della settimana, il primo
essendo stato quello dell'alto inviato
occidentale in Bosnia, Wolfgang Petritsch,
secondo il quale ogni mossa verso
l'indipendenza scatenerebbe una guerra. Il
diplomatico NATO citato da Taylor, tuttavia,
conclude affermando di non vedere nuvole di
tempesta a breve termine in Montenegro,
perché entrambe le parti sono consce dei
rischi (Reuters, 21 gennaio 2000).
Successivamente, le dichiarazioni riguardo ai
possibili scenari di un precipitare della
situazione in Montenegro non si sono più
contate. Da quella di un altro funzionario
anonimo della NATO, citato dall'agenzia
SENSE, secondo cui l'Alleanza "segue la
situazione e non si farà cogliere
impreparata", alle raccomandazioni fatte da
Gran Bretagna e USA, rispettivamente al
presidente Djukanovic e al premier Vujanovic,
affinché non facciano in questo momento mosse
verso l'indipendenza, alla dichiarazione del
capo della CIA Tenet, secondo cui un
confronto tra Milosevic e Djukanovic è quasi
inevitabile - "sia Milosevic che Djukanovic
cercheranno di evitare un confronto serio,
per ora, ma sarà difficile evitare una prova
di forza finale, che ritengo avverrà in
primavera" (AFP, 3 febbraio 2000).
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TRIESTE: DI NUOVO NAVI STATUNITENSI NEL GOLFO...
Molti giornali italiani hanno parlato delle manovre militari congiunte
che alcuni paesi partecipanti alla missione KFOR terranno in Kosovo alla
fine di marzo. Per queste manovre - che esulano da qualsiasi mandato ONU
e suonano altamente ridicole in una situazione in cui i militari KFOR
"non riescono" nemmeno ad impedire le violenze quotidiane nella
provincia da loro stessi occupata - la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia
ha ripetutamente protestato.
Meno noto e' il programma di esercitazioni congiunte tra esercito
statunitense ed aviazione croata, che dovrebbe partire in questi giorni
ed interessare anche il lembo piu' meridionale della costa
dalmato-croata. Un inquietante segnale di questi movimenti si ha a
Trieste, dove da un paio di giorni e' ferma a poche centinaia di metri
dal centro cittadino la portaerei Eisenhower. Gli abitanti della citta'
si trovano cosi' ad incrociare un po' a tutte le ore drappelli di
marines in divisa o giovanissimi e ben riconoscibili yankees in libera
uscita.
Ma questa atmosfera, per la verita' non troppo nuova per Trieste, viene
vissuta davvero maluccio quest'anno, in particolare dalle migliaia di
lavoratori jugoslavi presenti in citta' e dai militanti della sinistra e
attivisti di iniziative di solidarieta' e contro la guerra, che provano
oggi profonda stizza ed angoscia guardando a questi soldati a causa del
ricordo dello shock della primavera dello scorso anno. Tra l'altro, i
bombardamenti della NATO contro la RFJ nel 1999 erano stati "annunciati"
a Trieste un paio di settimane prima che cominciassero proprio dalla
presenza massiccia di militari statunitensi...
Il gruppo regionale di Rifondazione Comunista ha immediatamente
presentato una interrogazione nella quale si fa presente che, tra le
altre cose, la Eisenhower e' a propulsione nucleare, e dunque la sua
presenza in quelle acque e' contraria ad ogni regolamento visto che
quello di Trieste non e' un porto attrezzato per la presenza del
nucleare - ma non e' nemmeno un porto militare!
Ovviamente di questo gli Stati Uniti d'America se ne fregano, cosi' come
se ne fregano anche i nostri governanti perche', se e' vero che Trieste
e' "italianissima" (?), e' anche vero che l'Italia e' lo zerbino degli
Stati Uniti d'America in Europa. (CRJ 11/3/2000)
Fonti: "Il Piccolo", 8-10/3/2000
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MESSAGGIO MAFIOSO DA MADELEINE ALBRIGHT:
"La primavera non sempre e' una bella stagione nei Balcani"
FreeB92 News for 03/10/2000
Albright "concerned" over Balkans
BRUSSELS, Friday - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said today
that she was very concerned about the situation in the Balkans region,
adding that spring was not always the best season in the Balkans.
Albright was speaking in Brussels where she will speak to US and EU
officials about lowering the temperature in the Balkans, especially
Kosovo. The US Secretary of State told media that she was in Brussels to
talk about how to help the UN Kosovo mission chief, Bernard Kouchner, to
do his job. The three things which needed to be done in Kosovo, she
said, were to establish self-management, create a broad autonomy and
hold elections.
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PREOCCUPAZIONE IN GRECIA: "FERMARE GLI AMERICANI"
"The clouds of war are gathering again around the Balkans..."
Democratic Social Movement Party leader Dimitris Tsovolas, minister with
the ruling PASOK party, assessed that Washington was preparing for a new
blow against Yugoslavia, and called for the Greek government not to
allow foreign troops or war material destined for Kosovo to pass through
Greece.
_______________________________________
Greeks Concerned About Kosovo Tensions
By Louis Economopoulos
CNS Correspondent
03 March, 2000
Athens, Greece (CNSNews.com) - Amid media speculation of new NATO
military action in the Balkans, a top Greek military official expressed
concern this week that a new conflict zone may develop in Kosovo, near
the border with the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
Chief of the National Defense General Staff Manousos Paragioudakis told
a press conference on Thursday that tensions were rising in Prezovce
where 70,000 Albanians are situated and large number of Yugoslav
soldiers are reported to have gathered. The area is close to where U.S.,
British and Greek troops are stationed.
This new headache for the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping forces may further
\plain\lang1033\f4\fs23\cf0 destabilize the strife-torn region, already
facing an explosive situation in the divided northern Kosovo town of
Mitrovica.
Paragioudakis said Greek soldiers aboard a passenger train had been
forced to fire warning to prevent a fracas between Serbian passengers
and ethnic Albanian employees on Wednesday.
Such occurrences have become routine and expressed concern that the
situation in Kosovo was "difficult and dangerous."
In the event of a military confrontation in Kosovo, similar to the one
involving NATO airstrikes last year, Greece would consider opting out,
as new NATO policy leaves it up to each member to decide, Paragioudakis
added.
In last year's conflict, Greece held back from actively taking part in
the military action, while allowing its territory to be used for the
transporting of NATO troops and equipment.
Greece has always maintained friendly ties with Yugoslavia, and the
Greek people, virtually all of the Orthodox Christian faith, have
religious ties with the Orthodox Serbs.
The country has sent some 1,200 troops into the Kosovo region as part of
the KFOR operation. A company of 100 Greek soldiers is currently serving
in Mitrovica.
Addressing a Foreign Press Association luncheon, Greek Foreign Minister
George Papandreou said the situation in Kosovo was of grave concern, but
denied reports in the Greek press that the international community was
planning another military confrontation with Yugoslavia.
The U.S.-born and educated minister called on the international
community to send a clear message to Kosovo and the Balkans that it
would not tolerate a change in regional borders and that it would uphold
respect for all ethnic minorities in a multi-cultural Kosovo.
Papandreou called on both sides in Kosovo to assume their
responsibilities for peace in the broader region. "In the Balkans,
either way, we are condemned to live together," he said.
He again urged the international community to allow Yugoslavia to
participate in the process of democratisation and inclusion in European
structures, and said sanctions against the Serbs impeded the process.
The situation in Kosovo remains tense, said Greek government spokesman
Dimitris Reppas, adding that the international presence in the area
guarantees stability and underlining that any flare-up of fighting in
the KFOR-controlled Yugoslav province would be disastrous to all.
The heightened tensions in Kosovo and NATO's plans to increase military
presence have raised concern in the socialist Greek government that
violence in the area could escalate during the election period. General
elections are scheduled for April 9 and the socialists are holding on to
a slim lead in the latest pre-election polls over the conservatives.
This fear has been strengthened by the fact that in the next few days
about 2,000 more NATO troops will be passing through the northern Greek
city of Thessaloniki on their way to Kosovo and could become the focal
point for anti-NATO and anti-government protests.
"The clouds of war are gathering again over the Balkans, and once again
the government is displaying great willingness to add its black
assistance to NATO's efforts," said Greek Communist Party leader Aleka
Papariga in a pre-election campaign speech.
Democratic Social Movement Party leader Dimitris Tsovolas, a former
minister with the ruling socialist PASOK party, assessed that Washington
was preparing a new blow against Yugoslavia and called on the Greek
government not to allow foreign troops or war material destined for
Kosovo to pass through Greece.
A government official told the conservative daily newspaper Kathimerini
that if NATO attacked the Serbs, the Greek opposition political parties
would make the Greek government's life extremely difficult.
"We will face a strong dilemma; either to stop facilitating NATO
operations - which will mess up our relations with the Americans - or to
risk losing the elections," the unnamed official said.
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SEGNALAZIONE
E' uscito in questi giorni il numero di Febbraio 2000 de "l'Ernesto",
contenente un importante speciale sull'imperialismo. La rivista si
occupa di fornire materiali per un rilancio dell'analisi teorica
nell'ambiente comunista, con particolare attenzione al contesto
internazionale. Nei numeri passati sono stati pubblicati ad esempio
importanti articoli sulle vicende dell'Europa Orientale, dell'Asia
centrale e della Cina, con analisi rigorose - e coraggiose, assai
controcorrente rispetto al "pensiero unico" che paralizza la sinistra
sulle questioni internazionali.
L'ERNESTO - mensile comunista
direttore: Fosco Giannini
redazione: Via Lagrange 26, 28100 Novara, tel. (0321)468511
distribuzione: per abbonamento
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annuale ordinario: lire 30.000
annuale sostenitore: lire 50.000
Dall'ultimo numero riceviamo, e volentieri diffondiamo, il seguente
contributo dedicato alle conseguenze ambientali della aggressione della
NATO contro la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia.
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C'est trop facile quand les guerres sont finies
d'aller gueuler que c'etait la derniere.
Amis bourgeois vous me faites envie,
vous ne voyez donc point vos cimetieres.
(Jacques Brel, 1955)
Durante la guerra aggressiva condotta dal mondo occidentale e ricco
nei confronti della Jugoslavia, i colpi sono stati diretti soprattutto
verso le risorse economiche, gli stabilimenti produttivi, e le fonti
di energia. Evidentemente, gli obiettivi del bombardamento andavano
ben oltre quello dichiarato della difesa dei diritti umani: i nostri
governanti intendevano piegare un paese moderno e sviluppato, e farlo
regredire ad un livello da Terzo Mondo.
I terribili veleni che sono stati liberati nell'ambiente fanno
prefigurare una lenta agonia delle popolazioni balcaniche e del
territorio, ben oltre la durata dell'azione militare propriamente
detta. Con il bombardamento di impianti chimici e raffinerie sono
state immesse nell'aria e nei fiumi grandi concentrazioni di
pericolosi cancerogeni quali cloruro di vinile monomero, benzopirene e
diossine, e di sostanze pericolose per il sistema respiratorio quali
ammoniaca e anidride solforosa. Quest'ultima e' anche la principale
responsabile del fenomeno delle piogge acide, che degradano le
foreste di tutta l'Europa Centrale. Bisogna anche considerare che
tutti questi composti procurano danni enormi alla produzione agricola,
e si inseriscono nella catena alimentare. Ma l'assoluto spregio per le
popolazioni da parte dei paesi della NATO e' simboleggiato dall'uso di
armi contenenti uranio impoverito, metallo debolmente radioattivo che
diventa cancerogeno quando viene inalato, in quanto si fissa per
sempre nei polmoni e nelle ossa, agendo lentamente ma inesorabilmente.
Il primo conflitto dell'era NATO si prefigura quindi come GUERRA
ECOLOGICA.
Inoltre, i bombardamenti incessanti da parte degli Stati Uniti e
dell'Europa, che per tre mesi dello scorso anno hanno martoriato il
territorio balcanico, hanno messo in evidenza la necessita' di
interpretare gli avvenimenti internazionali oltre la scala locale.
Possiamo affermare che gran parte del pubblico non ha gli strumenti
conoscitivi ed ideologici adatti a vedere oltre la sfera piu' interna
degli avvenimenti. Questa visione miope si limita alla questione dei
nazionalismi ("etnie diverse impregnate di odi atavici non possono
convivere"), delle vere o presunte violazioni dei diritti umani
("quanto e' cattivo Milosevic"), degli interessi affaristico-elettorali
dei leader dei paesi coinvolti nelle guerre ("la Russia bombarda la
Cecenia in vista delle prossime elezioni presidenziali") e ad
interpretazioni psicologiche ("gli USA bombardano Bagdad ogni
qualvolta torna alla ribalta il sexygate"). Tutte interpretazioni
estremamente elementari e semplificate, al punto che ci arrivano anche
i giornalisti ed i politicanti. Per chi decide la guerra e la pace,
questi aspetti sono del tutto marginali: essi hanno importanza solo
per la loro funzione psicologica nei confronti dell'opinione pubblica.
Chi e' piu' attento, tuttavia, non ha potuto non estendere la propria
visione per lo meno alla scala regionale. Non lo hanno fatto soltanto
le "frange estremiste" ed i "pacifisti politicizzati": questo passo,
anzi, e' stato compiuto soprattutto dagli strateghi militari, nonche'
dai settori piu' attenti del mondo imprenditoriale e della Farnesina
(insomma, quelli che amano definirsi "i geopolitici"). Con lo sguardo
concentrato sulla scala regionale, la visione cambia radicalmente. I
dati di fatto sono l'affermarsi della Turchia come potenza regionale,
la retrocessione di una Russia umiliata e costretta a cedere uno dopo
l'altro i territori dell'ex-URSS, e l'aggressivita' economica della
Germania riunificata. Emerge cosi' l'importanza fondamentale dei
Balcani come luogo di passaggio per le merci, fra la Mitteleuropa e la
Turchia cosi' come fra il Caucaso ed il Mediterraneo, e diventa
indispensabile prendere in considerazione i vicini pozzi di petrolio
del Mar Caspio, per il controllo dei quali e' in atto una competizione
formidabile che coinvolge stati e grosse imprese petrolifere (si veda,
per esempio, Michel Collon, POKER MENTEUR, Editions EPO, Bruxelles
1998, libro di cui e' in corso di preparazione la traduzione italiana).
Proprio quest'ultima considerazione sul petrolio dovrebbe portare ad
estendere ulteriormente l'orizzonte, dalla sfera regionale a quella
mondiale e globale. Purtroppo questo ulteriore passo viene compiuto di
rado, ed i fenomeni su questa scala vengono sottovalutati o presentati
in forma edulcorata. Eppure essi riguardano argomenti della massima
importanza: il commercio mondiale, il debito estero, i flussi
migratori, le risorse del Pianeta e le materie prime. All'era del
bipolarismo e della guerra fredda e' succeduta non una fase monopolare,
come talvolta fa comodo pensare, bensi' un'epoca multipolare, che vede
affrontarsi (anche se non ancora sul piano militare, e spesso lontano
dai riflettori) colossi come la Cina, l'India, la Russia, l'Europa, e
la superpotenza leader degli Stati Uniti. A questi cinque giganti
(tutti localizzati nell'emisfero Nord) bisogna poi aggiungere le
multinazionali, nonche' tutto il Terzo Mondo, che malgrado sia
estremamente diviso sta prendendo coscienza della propria forza.
Desidero affrontare in particolare la questione delle risorse, e piu'
precisamente dell'energia, traendo spunto dallo studio pubblicato da
Alberto Di Fazio e che raccomando a tutti di leggere (A. Di Fazio, "Le
connessioni fra la guerra dei Balcani e la crisi energetica prossima
ventura", in IMBROGLI DI GUERRA, il libro di "Scienziate e scienziati
contro la guerra", Odradek 1999). Anche limitandoci a questa sola
questione, la situazione appare gia' terrificante. Da una parte, il
dato di fatto e' che non vengono quasi piu' scoperti nuovi giacimenti di
greggio; e che poiche' quelli noti fino ad oggi sono limitati, si
prevede che tra dieci anni circa comincera' il lento ed inesorabile
declino della produzione di petrolio che ci lascera' "a secco" fra
quaranta o cinquanta anni (con conseguente ritorno al carbone).
D'altra parte, bisogna cominciare a considerare anche l'aria come una
risorsa limitata: non tanto l'aria da respirare quanto quella da
inquinare. Il riscaldamento della Terra e la modifica del clima
avanzano sotto l'azione dell'effetto serra, ed aprono la strada a
disastri spaventosi quali l'innalzamento del livello del mare,
l'aumento della frequenza degli uragani, il propagarsi di pericolose
epidemie, la desertificazione, lo squilibrio nella produzione
agricola, eccetera. Il problema, anche se ignorato dal grande
pubblico, e' all'ordine del giorno nelle sedi dell'ONU, dove si
svolgono aspre negoziazioni sulla necessita' di limitare la
combustione, responsabile della maggior parte delle emissioni di
anidride carbonica. Il processo sotto accusa e' proprio quello della
produzione di energia.
Sia la fine delle risorse petrolifere sia le limitazioni alle
emissioni di anidride carbonica colpiscono al cuore il modello di
sviluppo vigente e universalmente celebrato: meno energia, infatti,
significa meno PIL, una conseguenza inaccettabile per un sistema
basato sull'aumento dei consumi e sulla CRESCITA perenne. Se da un
lato la soluzione apparentemente ovvia consiste nella drastica
riduzione del tenore di vita e del sistema di mercato in tutti i paesi
del mondo (in particolar modo in quelli piu' ricchi ed avanzati),
d'altra parte alcuni potrebbero ingenuamente pensare di potersi
"salvare" puntando sulle disuguaglianze e l'esclusione, costringendo
altri alla miseria. Questa sembra in effetti essere la politica
perseguita dagli Stati Uniti d'America, il che ne spiega la
propensione al dominio economico, politico e militare.
Le circostanze che favoriscono lo svilupparsi delle guerre sono
molteplici: e' troppo facile trincerarsi dietro a visioni parziali e
slogan semplicistici, quali quello della "guerra etnica" e della
"guerra per il petrolio". Quest'ultimo, in particolare, non ha
importanza solo per il suo valore economico, bensi' soprattutto per il
suo interesse strategico. Le guerre sono fenomeni complessi e sono
determinate da una serie di cause che agiscono a diversi livelli, come
in un sistema di sfere concentriche: sono le sfere piu' esterne a
determinare il comportamento ai livelli piu' interni (e raramente il
viceversa). La gravita' della situazione a livello di fattori globali
mette in evidenza la posta in gioco nello scontro fra le potenze. Di
fronte ad essa non vi sono diritti umani che tengano, e per i piu'
forti non possono esserci interventi che meritino di essere presi in
considerazione, se non vanno nella direzione della costruzione di una
gerarchia totalitaria di nazioni.
Concludendo, le guerre moderne sono allo stesso tempo la causa e
l'effetto della degradazione dell'ambiente sulla Terra, con la quale
sono avvolte in una pericolosa spirale che potrebbe portare la nave ad
affondare. In un goffo tentativo di salvaguardarsi dalle crisi
ambientali, alcuni stati percepiscono la guerra e l'oppressione come
gli unici strumenti utili per la propria sopravvivenza. E'
indispensabile, oltreche' urgente, sensibilizzare il pubblico sulla
tematica dei problemi globali, da cui viene accuratamente tenuto
all'oscuro. In particolare, bisogna puntare il dito sulla
responsabilita' del mondo scientifico, che invece di dedicarsi ad un
uso piu' razionale delle risorse e ad una piu' giusta distribuzione dei
frutti del lavoro dell'uomo, fornisce all'Impero le armi e le
innovazioni tecnologiche, nonche' l'impostazione di pensiero atta a
giustificarlo in tutte le sue azioni e malefatte (guerre "necessarie",
"chirurgiche" e "supertecnologiche"). La minaccia per l'Umanita' puo'
essere scongiurata soltanto se si prende coscienza del fatto che i
problemi vanno affrontati complessivamente e nell'interesse collettivo
di tutti gli abitanti del Pianeta.
Franco Marenco
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RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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E' uscito in questi giorni il numero di Febbraio 2000 de "l'Ernesto",
contenente un importante speciale sull'imperialismo. La rivista si
occupa di fornire materiali per un rilancio dell'analisi teorica
nell'ambiente comunista, con particolare attenzione al contesto
internazionale. Nei numeri passati sono stati pubblicati ad esempio
importanti articoli sulle vicende dell'Europa Orientale, dell'Asia
centrale e della Cina, con analisi rigorose - e coraggiose, assai
controcorrente rispetto al "pensiero unico" che paralizza la sinistra
sulle questioni internazionali.
L'ERNESTO - mensile comunista
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annuale ordinario: lire 30.000
annuale sostenitore: lire 50.000
Dall'ultimo numero riceviamo, e volentieri diffondiamo, il seguente
contributo dedicato alle conseguenze ambientali della aggressione della
NATO contro la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia.
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C'est trop facile quand les guerres sont finies
d'aller gueuler que c'etait la derniere.
Amis bourgeois vous me faites envie,
vous ne voyez donc point vos cimetieres.
(Jacques Brel, 1955)
Durante la guerra aggressiva condotta dal mondo occidentale e ricco
nei confronti della Jugoslavia, i colpi sono stati diretti soprattutto
verso le risorse economiche, gli stabilimenti produttivi, e le fonti
di energia. Evidentemente, gli obiettivi del bombardamento andavano
ben oltre quello dichiarato della difesa dei diritti umani: i nostri
governanti intendevano piegare un paese moderno e sviluppato, e farlo
regredire ad un livello da Terzo Mondo.
I terribili veleni che sono stati liberati nell'ambiente fanno
prefigurare una lenta agonia delle popolazioni balcaniche e del
territorio, ben oltre la durata dell'azione militare propriamente
detta. Con il bombardamento di impianti chimici e raffinerie sono
state immesse nell'aria e nei fiumi grandi concentrazioni di
pericolosi cancerogeni quali cloruro di vinile monomero, benzopirene e
diossine, e di sostanze pericolose per il sistema respiratorio quali
ammoniaca e anidride solforosa. Quest'ultima e' anche la principale
responsabile del fenomeno delle piogge acide, che degradano le
foreste di tutta l'Europa Centrale. Bisogna anche considerare che
tutti questi composti procurano danni enormi alla produzione agricola,
e si inseriscono nella catena alimentare. Ma l'assoluto spregio per le
popolazioni da parte dei paesi della NATO e' simboleggiato dall'uso di
armi contenenti uranio impoverito, metallo debolmente radioattivo che
diventa cancerogeno quando viene inalato, in quanto si fissa per
sempre nei polmoni e nelle ossa, agendo lentamente ma inesorabilmente.
Il primo conflitto dell'era NATO si prefigura quindi come GUERRA
ECOLOGICA.
Inoltre, i bombardamenti incessanti da parte degli Stati Uniti e
dell'Europa, che per tre mesi dello scorso anno hanno martoriato il
territorio balcanico, hanno messo in evidenza la necessita' di
interpretare gli avvenimenti internazionali oltre la scala locale.
Possiamo affermare che gran parte del pubblico non ha gli strumenti
conoscitivi ed ideologici adatti a vedere oltre la sfera piu' interna
degli avvenimenti. Questa visione miope si limita alla questione dei
nazionalismi ("etnie diverse impregnate di odi atavici non possono
convivere"), delle vere o presunte violazioni dei diritti umani
("quanto e' cattivo Milosevic"), degli interessi affaristico-elettorali
dei leader dei paesi coinvolti nelle guerre ("la Russia bombarda la
Cecenia in vista delle prossime elezioni presidenziali") e ad
interpretazioni psicologiche ("gli USA bombardano Bagdad ogni
qualvolta torna alla ribalta il sexygate"). Tutte interpretazioni
estremamente elementari e semplificate, al punto che ci arrivano anche
i giornalisti ed i politicanti. Per chi decide la guerra e la pace,
questi aspetti sono del tutto marginali: essi hanno importanza solo
per la loro funzione psicologica nei confronti dell'opinione pubblica.
Chi e' piu' attento, tuttavia, non ha potuto non estendere la propria
visione per lo meno alla scala regionale. Non lo hanno fatto soltanto
le "frange estremiste" ed i "pacifisti politicizzati": questo passo,
anzi, e' stato compiuto soprattutto dagli strateghi militari, nonche'
dai settori piu' attenti del mondo imprenditoriale e della Farnesina
(insomma, quelli che amano definirsi "i geopolitici"). Con lo sguardo
concentrato sulla scala regionale, la visione cambia radicalmente. I
dati di fatto sono l'affermarsi della Turchia come potenza regionale,
la retrocessione di una Russia umiliata e costretta a cedere uno dopo
l'altro i territori dell'ex-URSS, e l'aggressivita' economica della
Germania riunificata. Emerge cosi' l'importanza fondamentale dei
Balcani come luogo di passaggio per le merci, fra la Mitteleuropa e la
Turchia cosi' come fra il Caucaso ed il Mediterraneo, e diventa
indispensabile prendere in considerazione i vicini pozzi di petrolio
del Mar Caspio, per il controllo dei quali e' in atto una competizione
formidabile che coinvolge stati e grosse imprese petrolifere (si veda,
per esempio, Michel Collon, POKER MENTEUR, Editions EPO, Bruxelles
1998, libro di cui e' in corso di preparazione la traduzione italiana).
Proprio quest'ultima considerazione sul petrolio dovrebbe portare ad
estendere ulteriormente l'orizzonte, dalla sfera regionale a quella
mondiale e globale. Purtroppo questo ulteriore passo viene compiuto di
rado, ed i fenomeni su questa scala vengono sottovalutati o presentati
in forma edulcorata. Eppure essi riguardano argomenti della massima
importanza: il commercio mondiale, il debito estero, i flussi
migratori, le risorse del Pianeta e le materie prime. All'era del
bipolarismo e della guerra fredda e' succeduta non una fase monopolare,
come talvolta fa comodo pensare, bensi' un'epoca multipolare, che vede
affrontarsi (anche se non ancora sul piano militare, e spesso lontano
dai riflettori) colossi come la Cina, l'India, la Russia, l'Europa, e
la superpotenza leader degli Stati Uniti. A questi cinque giganti
(tutti localizzati nell'emisfero Nord) bisogna poi aggiungere le
multinazionali, nonche' tutto il Terzo Mondo, che malgrado sia
estremamente diviso sta prendendo coscienza della propria forza.
Desidero affrontare in particolare la questione delle risorse, e piu'
precisamente dell'energia, traendo spunto dallo studio pubblicato da
Alberto Di Fazio e che raccomando a tutti di leggere (A. Di Fazio, "Le
connessioni fra la guerra dei Balcani e la crisi energetica prossima
ventura", in IMBROGLI DI GUERRA, il libro di "Scienziate e scienziati
contro la guerra", Odradek 1999). Anche limitandoci a questa sola
questione, la situazione appare gia' terrificante. Da una parte, il
dato di fatto e' che non vengono quasi piu' scoperti nuovi giacimenti di
greggio; e che poiche' quelli noti fino ad oggi sono limitati, si
prevede che tra dieci anni circa comincera' il lento ed inesorabile
declino della produzione di petrolio che ci lascera' "a secco" fra
quaranta o cinquanta anni (con conseguente ritorno al carbone).
D'altra parte, bisogna cominciare a considerare anche l'aria come una
risorsa limitata: non tanto l'aria da respirare quanto quella da
inquinare. Il riscaldamento della Terra e la modifica del clima
avanzano sotto l'azione dell'effetto serra, ed aprono la strada a
disastri spaventosi quali l'innalzamento del livello del mare,
l'aumento della frequenza degli uragani, il propagarsi di pericolose
epidemie, la desertificazione, lo squilibrio nella produzione
agricola, eccetera. Il problema, anche se ignorato dal grande
pubblico, e' all'ordine del giorno nelle sedi dell'ONU, dove si
svolgono aspre negoziazioni sulla necessita' di limitare la
combustione, responsabile della maggior parte delle emissioni di
anidride carbonica. Il processo sotto accusa e' proprio quello della
produzione di energia.
Sia la fine delle risorse petrolifere sia le limitazioni alle
emissioni di anidride carbonica colpiscono al cuore il modello di
sviluppo vigente e universalmente celebrato: meno energia, infatti,
significa meno PIL, una conseguenza inaccettabile per un sistema
basato sull'aumento dei consumi e sulla CRESCITA perenne. Se da un
lato la soluzione apparentemente ovvia consiste nella drastica
riduzione del tenore di vita e del sistema di mercato in tutti i paesi
del mondo (in particolar modo in quelli piu' ricchi ed avanzati),
d'altra parte alcuni potrebbero ingenuamente pensare di potersi
"salvare" puntando sulle disuguaglianze e l'esclusione, costringendo
altri alla miseria. Questa sembra in effetti essere la politica
perseguita dagli Stati Uniti d'America, il che ne spiega la
propensione al dominio economico, politico e militare.
Le circostanze che favoriscono lo svilupparsi delle guerre sono
molteplici: e' troppo facile trincerarsi dietro a visioni parziali e
slogan semplicistici, quali quello della "guerra etnica" e della
"guerra per il petrolio". Quest'ultimo, in particolare, non ha
importanza solo per il suo valore economico, bensi' soprattutto per il
suo interesse strategico. Le guerre sono fenomeni complessi e sono
determinate da una serie di cause che agiscono a diversi livelli, come
in un sistema di sfere concentriche: sono le sfere piu' esterne a
determinare il comportamento ai livelli piu' interni (e raramente il
viceversa). La gravita' della situazione a livello di fattori globali
mette in evidenza la posta in gioco nello scontro fra le potenze. Di
fronte ad essa non vi sono diritti umani che tengano, e per i piu'
forti non possono esserci interventi che meritino di essere presi in
considerazione, se non vanno nella direzione della costruzione di una
gerarchia totalitaria di nazioni.
Concludendo, le guerre moderne sono allo stesso tempo la causa e
l'effetto della degradazione dell'ambiente sulla Terra, con la quale
sono avvolte in una pericolosa spirale che potrebbe portare la nave ad
affondare. In un goffo tentativo di salvaguardarsi dalle crisi
ambientali, alcuni stati percepiscono la guerra e l'oppressione come
gli unici strumenti utili per la propria sopravvivenza. E'
indispensabile, oltreche' urgente, sensibilizzare il pubblico sulla
tematica dei problemi globali, da cui viene accuratamente tenuto
all'oscuro. In particolare, bisogna puntare il dito sulla
responsabilita' del mondo scientifico, che invece di dedicarsi ad un
uso piu' razionale delle risorse e ad una piu' giusta distribuzione dei
frutti del lavoro dell'uomo, fornisce all'Impero le armi e le
innovazioni tecnologiche, nonche' l'impostazione di pensiero atta a
giustificarlo in tutte le sue azioni e malefatte (guerre "necessarie",
"chirurgiche" e "supertecnologiche"). La minaccia per l'Umanita' puo'
essere scongiurata soltanto se si prende coscienza del fatto che i
problemi vanno affrontati complessivamente e nell'interesse collettivo
di tutti gli abitanti del Pianeta.
Franco Marenco
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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