Informazione
"Come medico e capo dell'amministrazione del Kosovo, sarei un derelitto
se lasciassi continuare questo rischio per la salute dei bambini e delle
donne incinte per un solo giorno di piu'": questa la nobile
dichiarazione con la quale il capo della missione civile dell'ONU
(UNMIK) in Kosmet Bernard Kouchner ha giustificato la occupazione della
parte di Kosovska Mitrovica non ancora "etnicamente ripulita" ed il
sequestro dell'impianto metallurgico di Trepca.
Poiche' gli veniva troppo da ridere, la dichiarazione l'ha resa per
iscritto.
Le altre puntate su:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/292
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/231
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/219
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/218
> Bernard Kouchner, Kosovo's top U.N. administrator, stressed that the closure
> was only temporary, and workers would return to work ``as soon as possible.''
>
> Kouchner said the takeover was necessary to end a health risk, adding 160
> people had been hospitalized in the past year for treatment for lead
> poisoning. Last week, U.N. officials said lead levels from the plant were 200
> times World Health Organization norms.
>
> ``As a doctor and as chief administrator of Kosovo, I would be derelict if I
> let this threat to the health of children and pregnant women continue for one
> more day,'' Kouchner said in a written statement.
NATO Takes Over Kosovo Mine Complex
BY ALISON MUTLER, ZVECAN, Yugoslavia, 14/8/00 (AP)
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a cura della redazione de La Nuova Alabarda - Trieste.
E da un paio danni che il nostro periodico, trattando dei
problemi collegati alla rinascita del nazifascismo, si occupa di
analizzare le posizioni e le attivita dellorganizzazione Forza Nuova.
Ne denunciammo gia due anni or sono la pericolosita (diversa da quella
che puo essere la pericolosita della Fiamma tricolore o di altre
organizzazioni dellestrema destra): ben prima quindi che lopinione
pubblica di sinistra si accorgesse di Forza Nuova quando questa
organizzazione espresse la propria solidarieta a Haider definendolo
speranza dEuropa...
In questo dossier intendiamo ricostruire un po la storia di
Forza Nuova, analizzare quanto da loro pubblicato (sia nel loro sito
Internet che su carta) e le loro attivita correnti, con particolare
riguardo a cio che avviene a Trieste, citta peculiare per molti
aspetti e che non a torto il poeta Umberto Saba defini la piu
fascista dItalia.
In una lettera apparsa sul quotidiano triestino Il Piccolo
(25.2.2000) il responsabile provinciale della sezione triestina di Forza
Nuova, Fabio Bellani, defini evidente mistificazione quanto scritto
dallo stesso quotidiano in occasione della manifestazione di
contestazione della trasmissione Circus di Santoro (presente a
Trieste, ricordiamo, per dibattere del caso Haider), ossia lavere
rilevato la presenza di Terza posizione. Che non esiste piu da 20
anni, scrive Bellani, ed e anche vero, pero se Forza Nuova non
desidera essere confusa con Terza posizione dovrebbe evitare di
scrivere, come invece fa nei suoi bollettini e documenti Forza Nuova
per la Terza posizione. Ma cosera Terza Posizione?
Scrive Gianni Flamini (Lombra della piramide, Teti editore):
< ... Francesco Mangiameli, Roberto Fiore, Gabriele Adinolfi (...)
stavano fondando una nuova organizzazione e dando alle stampe un
giornale. Si sarebbero chiamati entrambi Terza posizione >. Era il
1979, e Flamini cita un brano dei loro scritti: < Terza posizione
rimuove le stagnanti acque della rassegnazione e si manifesta come polo
per tutti coloro che vogliono disegnare con noi il futuro del nostro
sistema. Dobbiamo considerarci naturali alleati dellIslam, a cui non
puo non andare la nostra stima >. Il 14.12.1979, in una sede romana
del movimento vengono arrestati tre esponenti di Terza posizione, colti
nel bel mezzo del trasporto di una cassa piena di bombe a mano. Nella
perquisizione successiva la DIGOS trovera divise da carabiniere e
guardia di finanza, documenti rubati e falsi, fucili ed esplosivi vari.
Gli ideologi del gruppo riparano allestero: tra essi pure
Roberto Fiore, che dopo quasi ventanni di esilio a Londra
ricomincera a costruire un altro gruppo di estrema destra, Forza Nuova
appunto, che si avvarra anche di contatti con molti altri movimenti
simili che stanno nascendo un po qua e un po la in Europa.
Un articolo a firma Silvio Maranzana sul Piccolo del
27.11.1997 scrive: < Due terroristi dei NAR stanno orchestrando da
Londra lo sbarco in Italia di un nuovo movimento fascista >. Larticolo
ricostruisce lattivita di Fiore e del suo camerata, il cantautore
Massimo Morsello (detto anche il De Gregori di destra) latitanti nella
compiacente Londra, dove sono diventati imprenditori di successo,
titolari della Meeting point, unazienda che organizza concerti e
turismo scolastico, soggiorni e prevendite di biglietti per partite.
Cosi pure, scrive Maranzana, secondo la polizia inglese i Nostri
avrebbero organizzato attraverso la societa Trust of St. Michael the
Archangel delle vendite di beneficienza per raccogliere fondi
destinati a fondare in Spagna un villaggio fascista. Un progetto per
un villaggio spagnolo dove i nazionalisti di tutta Europa possano
vivere nel nuovo ordine appare anche, prosegue Maranzana, nel
bollettino interno dellorganizzazione neonazista Third position
international, tanto per riprendere le solite sigle. Allidea di questo
villaggio < Morsello se la ride. Una citta nera? Magari si potesse
costruire, me ne andrei la di corsa. Purtroppo pero sono tutte
invenzioni di un giornalista >. Pero nel novembre 1999 il quotidiano
Liberazione riprendera un articolo di El pais nel quale si legge
che il gruppo neonazista britannico Terza posizione internazionale
(toh! coincidenza?) si appresta a ricostruire un villaggio abbandonato
che ha comprato interamente due anni fa (...) nella regione di
Valencia.
Quanto alla permanenza a Londra dei due condannati per
associazione sovversiva in Italia, troviamo che il quotidiano Il
Manifesto del 5.11.1998 riprende un articolo dellinglese Guardian,
il quale avrebbe sostenuto sulla base di nuove informazioni di unex
agente della CIA in Europa che Fiore e Morsello sarebbero stati
reclutati in Libano nei primi anni 80 (si erano li rifugiati dopo
essere scappati dallItalia) dal sevizio segreto inglese Mi6 e che per
questo motivo la Gran Bretagna non concesse mai la loro estradizione
allItalia.
Non siamo riusciti pero a verificare se queste notizie siano
poi state confermate o smentite o semplicemente ignorate.
Morsello che, secondo Gianni Barbacetto in un articolo sul
Diario del 19.5.1999, si autodefinisce fascista, cattolico, latitante
e cantautore politicamente scorretto e rientrato in Italia nella
primavera del 99 grazie alla legge Simeone perche gravemente ammalato
(si parlo di cancro in fase terminale). Ma piu di un anno dopo
Morsello pare avere riacquistato la salute, difatti va in giro a fare
concerti e comizi ed e intervenuto pure ad una manifestazione a Trieste
nel maggio scorso.
Sempre Barbacetto ricostruisce cosi la genesi di Forza Nuova,
nata allinizio come una sorta di movimento dopinione allinterno della
Fiamma tricolore dove coagulava i militanti attorno al proprio
bollettino, il Foglio di lotta (che esce tuttora). Nel 1997 lo stesso
Rauti decise di mettere fine a questa fronda impedendo la diffusione del
Foglio e richiamando i camerati alla disciplina. Ma a quel punto ci
fu la scissione vera e propria e < Fiore e Morsello, da Londra,
indicarono la data - il 29 settembre, San Michele Arcangelo, protettore
della Guardia di Ferro di Codreanu, il leader del fascismo romeno - in
cui, gettate alle ortiche le vecchie prudenze rautiane, sarebbe
finalmente nata una forza nuova >. In contemporanea si formo, attorno
ad un gruppo di giornalisti di estrema destra (Mario Consoli, Piero
Sella, Sergio Gozzoli, fondatori del giornale Uomo Nuovo) un gruppo
che, avendo un rapporto privilegiato con Le Pen, cercava di costruire un
Fronte nazionale anche in Italia.
Parte del nucleo dirigente di Forza Nuova e stato coinvolto
nellinchiesta sugli Hammerskin italiani, facenti parte di quella rete
neonazista internazionale fondata una decina danni fa in Texas e poi
diffusasi in Europa, presentantesi come lelite dellelite degli
skinheads. Il loro simbolo sono due martelli in marcia (quelli che
appaiono nel film The wall dei Pink Floyd), e si ritengono < nuovi
cavalieri di un medioevo postmoderno, crociati schierati in difesa
dellEuropa bianca >. Sia il leader milanese degli Hammerskin Duilio
Canu che quello di Padova Alessandro Ambrosino sarebbero poi diventati
dirigenti locali di Forza Nuova.
Viste queste premesse e vista la presenza assidua che Forza
Nuova ha a Trieste da due anni in qua (precisiamo subito che quanto a
presenza numerica alle manifestazioni contano dalle cinque alle trenta
persone al massimo) siamo andati a cercare notizie su di loro, ed ecco
quanto abbiamo tratto dal materiale da essi stessi fornito (sia su
volantini e riviste che sul sito Internet www. forzanuova.org).
Cose dunque Forza Nuova? Sono fascisti, palesemente fascisti,
non quelle cose addomesticate come A.N. di oggi. Sono corporativisti,
cattolici integralisti, antiabortisti, odiano gli immigrati e i non
europei (dove tra questi includono pure, non si capisce a quale titolo,
tutti gli ebrei); sono contrari al divorzio e favorevoli alla
famiglia; propugnano uno stile di vita legionario, cantano le lodi
della Decima Mas di Borghese come della Falange spagnola di de Rivera,
come della legione romena Arcangelo Michele (toh! chi si rivede) di
Codreanu.
Sono contrari al bilinguismo (dove per esso intendono ogni
forma di tutela di qualsivoglia minoranza etnica) e
nellipernazionalista Trieste trovano consenso tra tutti coloro che
negano alla comunita etnica slovena il diritto di esprimersi nella
propria lingua; cosi pure sono contrari alla legge Mancino che
proibisce di dire sciavo (epiteto dispregiativo che i razzisti
triestini usano per gli sloveni) ed altri insulti di marchio razzista.
Sono contrari alla massoneria ed alle organizzazioni internazionali come
la Trilateral ed il Bilderberg, quali esponenti del mondialismo
capitalista. Che certe frange del terrorismo nero siano state usate in
passato da certa massoneria (P2) non sembra creare loro problemi di
coscienza. O forse e anche a cose come queste che si riferiscono quando
parlano di esempi di machiavellismo negativi quali collusioni ambigue
in funzioni di golpe (vero o presunto) in un articolo sul nuovo ruolo
di A.N. (vedasi il n° 20 del loro bollettino Foglio di lotta, che
appare anche nel sito Internet).
Sono populisti, e lo dimostrano con tre delle loro piu
importanti attivita: la campagna compra italiano, la Befana
tricolore e lassociazione Italica che organizza campeggi estivi per
bambini provenienti da famiglie bisognose.
Nel Bollettino n° 13 vediamo come si strutturano queste
attivita.
< Dal popolo per il popolo: la Befana tricolore.
Viene scelta la zona adatta ... un quartiere proletario o povero
... si contattano con una lettera le famiglie dove il capofamiglia e
senza lavoro o sottoccupato... vengono poi coinvolti tutti i militanti
ed i simpatizzanti del movimento in raccolta di fondi, vestiario,
giocattoli ... viene annunciata la Befana Tricolore con volantini e
manifesti ... si diramano poi comunicati ... le manifestazioni vanno
tenute preferibilmente nelle sedi di Forza Nuova. Il tutto deve essere
poi concluso con unappello alla popolazione ... per la ricostruzione
del Patrimonio tradizionale e del tessuto sociale della citta o del
quartiere >.
A parte la strumentalizzazione politica che traspare da questo
modo di fare carita pelosa svolgendo le iniziative di beneficienza
(?) nelle sedi del movimento, ce anche altro che da da pensare.
Lindividuazione delle famiglie che vanno contattate a questo modo
richiede una forte presenza di controllo sul territorio da parte dei
forzanovisti, che del resto strutturano le proprie sedi in maniera molto
funzionale, quasi militarista, a leggere le loro indicazioni per i
militanti. Ma fino a che punto si spinge la loro attivita? Fino ad una
sorta di schedatura della popolazione dei quartieri? E cosa puo
accadere ad una famiglia, che pure bisognosa, magari decida per
convinzione antifascista di rifiutare la Befana tricolore? In quale
schedatura potra incorrere?
Il progetto Compra italiano (del quale sarebbe tra i maggiori
organizzatori lex Hammerskin padovano Ambrosino) invece funziona cosi:
< e ... una campagna lanciata recentemente dalla Corporazione Lucana
... i contadini riuniti sotto la Corporazione Lucana spediscono il loro
camion carico di arance verso le varie citta dItalia dove vengono
gestite in modo autonomo da individui o gruppi legati alle sezioni di
Forza Nuova ... le arance passano di mano una volta sola e vengono
distribuite direttamente dai piccoli distributori sparsi nelle varie
citta > (logicamente tutti membri di Forza Nuova...).
E cosa fa invece lassociazione Italica? Organizza i pionieri
dItalia la cui struttura e attualmente suddivisa in reparti,
composti da quattro o sei squadriglie con bambini da 6 a 14 anni,
suddivisi in maschili e femminili; a capo di questi reparti vi e un
consiglio-capi composto prevalentemente da ex appartenenti ad
associazioni scoutistiche preesistenti. Attualmente si sta pensando di
creare anche un reparto di ragazzi piu adulti, quale scuola di
preparazione per la formazione dei consigli capi di tutta Italia >.
Segue (Bollettino n° 17 del settembre 98) una descrizione delle
uscite di questi reparti e di queste squadriglie, < in
preparazione del campo estivo che si svolgera in Francia ... il
progetto ... e stato perfezionato durante le colonie estive Evita Peron
1998 con le quali si e potuto sperimentare il metodo che verra
utilizzato nelle attivita pionieristiche >: Colonie queste che Forza
Nuova avrebbe organizzato per venire incontro alle famiglie bisognose
(anche qui vediamo una ricerca selettiva delle famiglie cui proporre un
soggiorno estivo per i figli). Iniziativa lodevolissima? Ma la
giornalista Cristiana Mangani del Messaggero ha raccolto alcune
testimonianze che sono state pubblicate in un articolo nel giugno 98. I
ragazzini da lei sentiti sarebbero stati reclutati nelle case ex
Bastogi dalla sezione di Forza Nuova di Cave dei Tirreni, per un
soggiorno gratuito a Gressoney. I genitori, dopo avere inviato i figli
in montagna, allarmati dal tono di una delle telefonate a casa fatta da
un bambino, < hanno preteso che il gruppo tornasse a Roma e si sono
trovati davanti dei ragazzini spaventati, arrabbiati, pieni di graffi e
lividi. Ieri hanno chiamato la polizia e denunciato lassociazione Forza
Nuova ... >. Raccontano i ragazzini: < una volta due di noi sono stati
portati nel bosco perche non volevano dormire ... siamo dei bambini
piuttosto vivaci, ma loro ci hanno trattato come rifiuti. Dovete
imparare a vivere, ci dicevano. Vi mettiamo a posto noi >. E un altro: <
Uno di noi ha reagito per la pasta che faceva schifo, lo hanno preso e
sbattuto contro il muro. Se non ti sta bene, gli hanno detto, te ne puoi
anche andare. E hanno aggiunto: vai a fare del bene a persone come
queste >. E via di seguito con racconti simili. Cosi conclude la
giornalista: < nessuno pensava di trovare piccoli lord sulle montagne di
Gressoney. Tantomeno pero di imbattersi in una scuola di addestramento
per marines >.
Un altro dei cavalli di battaglia di Forza Nuova e
lopposizione allanticultura (in effetti il loro linguaggio e molto
contro, si dichiarano molto antagonisti, ricalcando sia vecchie
parole dordine di certa sinistra che di altri vecchi fascisti alla
Freda e Ventura). Sostengono ad esempio (e purtroppo non hanno tutti i
torti...) che linsegnamento umanistico nelle scuole, oltre a fare
schifo, viene pure ridimensionato dalle riforme scolastiche per lasciare
piu spazio ad altre materie scientifiche. Si preoccupano molto
dellinsegnamento della storia, sostenendo che lo studio di essa e
subordinato alle logiche del potere e che essendo questo in mano alla
sinistra vengono insegnati dei falsi storici funzionali a chi sta al
potere (tenendo presente che i libri di storia sono piu o meno sempre
quelli da trentanni a questa parte e che la sinistra e al potere da
solo quattro, tutto il discorso ci pare un po forzato...).
Ad ogni modo la loro risposta e di organizzare < corsi di
Storia da tenere nei propri locali ... tenuti da professori del
movimento o darea, che ricalchino la struttura dei normali corsi
scolastici e che quindi si rivelino utili agli studenti nei loro studi.
Al termine di questi corsi ... verranno stilate e distribuite dispense
del corso >.
Ci troviamo quindi di fronte ad un movimento politico che e
organizzato in maniera quasi militarista e che si autogestisce (o
quantomeno ha in programma di fare) un mucchio di cose: dalla scuola
alle colonie estive (che sembrano piuttosto campi paramilitari), dalla
distribuzione diretta di generi alimentari al controllo nei quartieri.
Sotto questa luce assume un aspetto particolare anche il nome del loro
progetto Contropotere: cosa intendono per contropotere? La creazione
di uno stato allinterno dello Stato?
Se ci limitiamo a leggere sui giornali e sui loro bollettini
ufficiali, vediamo che il progetto Contropotere appare sostanzialmente
come la creazione di una sorta di centri sociali ideologicamente
schierati allestrema destra. Uno spazio per iniziative culturali
(secondo il concetto che di cultura ha quel tipo di persone,
ovviamente), di socializzazione, per dibattiti, per i loro progetti
compraitaliano eccetera.
Nel sito Internet, invece, il progetto Contropotere viene
descritto in ben altro modo.
< Lesperienza degli ultimi anni ci insegna che se pur necessario,
concentrarsi su tematiche politiche del momento puo non essere
sufficiente; va compiuto uno sforzo continuo per creare strutture
durature che garantiscano la continuita del movimento in caso di
attacchi, tradimenti e atti repressivi ... alcuni movimenti europei si
sono adoperati negli ultimi anni nel gettare semi di contropotere ...
abbiamo visto il progetto villaggio in Spagna, progetto che potrebbe
essere seguito presto da nuove iniziative simili in altri paesi... >.
Domanda: ma se qui Forza Nuova rivendica il progetto villaggio in
Spagna come mai Morsello sera tanto preoccupato di negare che
esistessero dei progetti simili, se questi villaggi sono iniziative
del tutto innocenti?
Vengono poi descritti tre esempi di queste nuove iniziative in
Inghilterra, Normandia ed Irlanda, dove < vi sono tre proprieta aventi
in comunte le seguenti caratteristiche:
1) la presenza di vasti appezzamenti di terra;
2) lappartenenza delle proprieta a militanti o associazioni non
lucrative gestite da militanti;
3) la presenza di attivita economiche, di struttrue politico-culturali,
di piccole Cappelle >.
In queste proprieta (quella inglese comprende 10 ettari di
terreno ed una casa di notevoli dimensioni che oltre al resto
comprende anche 5 stanze per i residenti e gli ospiti) le strutture
economiche consisterebbero in uno studio per la produzione di video e
di edizione, produzione e distribuzione di libri.
Dulcis in fundo questa considerazione sullimportanza
dellacquisto di queste proprieta: < anche nei casi piu estremi di
repressione le strutture sono li a disposizione di chi continuera la
lotta politica. A questo proposito e di particolare importanza la
fisionomia giuridica delle associazioni non a scopo di lucro che
garantiscono luso delle proprieta per fini prestabiliti stabiliti
negli statuti e che proteggono il tutto da possibili atti persecutori >.
Il progetto Contropotere cosi come descritto somiglia piu
alla creazione di una serie di basi logistiche che non ad un <
laboratorio di idee dove poter coniugare pensiero ed azione al di fuori
degli schemi imposti dai burattinai del sistema >, come dichiarato da
Fabio Bellani al Piccolo del 26.5.1999.
Un altro punto da tenere presente si ricollega a questa
affermazione apparsa nel n° 20 del loro bollettino (estate 1999): < ...
il fenomeno forse piu interessante (delle elezioni europee, n.d.r.) e
il crollo verticale della Lega dellormai screditatato Bossi. Forza
Nuova e pronta ad accogliere tra le sue fila la base di quel partito
costituita da uomini da sempre anticomunisti, attaccati alle tradizioni
e nemici dei poteri forti sovrannazionali >. In seguito, il 16.10.1999
Haider e intervenuto a sorpresa al comizio che Bossi stava tenendo a
Vicenza e tale notizia e stata data dal periodico Padania. Lega Nord
(dicembre 1999) con questo titolo < Il pendolo della storia sta andando
verso la riscoperta dei valori della famiglia e delle radici.
Mitteleuropa: incontro Bossi, Haider. Una lotta comune contro la
globalizzazione dellUnione Europea e a favore dellEuropa dei popoli >
. Nellarticolo vengono anche riportate le posizioni del leader
austriaco, in sintesi che egli intende lavorare, a livello europeo, solo
con la Lega, alle quali Bossi avrebbe risposto affermando il bisogno di
costruire una casa comune mitteleuropea allo scopo di difendere i
popoli dai pericoli della globalizzazione. Ed ancora dallarticolo
citato: < ... la stampa di regime cerca in tutti i modi di demonizzare
questo nuovo flusso che porta il pendolo della storia ad oscillare nella
direzione dei valori cioe della salvaguardia della famiglia e delle
radici dei popoli (....) la Mitteleuropa ha in comune una storia
significativa e comuni valori cristiani... >.
Europa dei popoli, famiglia, cristianita: gli stessi valori
che abbiamo sentito porre come fondamentali anche da Forza Nuova: in una
conferenza indetta da Forza Nuova e tenutasi a Trieste il 6.11.1999, il
direttore della rivista Uomo libero Gozzoli (ve lo ricordate?) ha
ribadito la necessita di portare avanti un concetto di Europa quale
ordine etnico tra popoli affini per radici di lingua e di sangue, di
affinita storiche e di un ordine ideale di Europa come civilta da
contrapporre alla globalizzazione imposta dagli Stati Uniti. Cosi Forza
Nuova e Lega Nord hanno in comune le posizioni in materia di
immigrazione e sono da subito scese in piazza assieme in molte citta
(prime fra tutte Padova e Como) per esprimere il loro sostegno a Haider.
Passando alla situazione specificatamente locale, a Trieste
Forza Nuova ha un cavallo di battaglia in piu da portare avanti: la
lotta contro il cosiddetto bilinguismo (piu correttamente la legge di
tutela per la comunita etnica slovena che e presente nelle provincie
di Trieste e Gorizia storicamente da diversi secoli). Nel corso di
questa battaglia Forza Nuova ha trovato ladesione di uno strano
personaggio, tale Giorgio Rustia, triestino vissuto per trentanni a
Milano prima di rientrare nella citta natale agli inizi degli anni 90.
Rustia, che si e avvicinato a Forza Nuova dopo avere fondato un
Comitato di triestini che non parlano lo sloveno e diventato il
referente locale di Contropotere per il quale tiene regolarmente
conferenze pseudo-storiche dove tratta della storia recente di Trieste.
In realta egli non e uno storico, e laureato in scienze biologiche,
ma sulle pagine dei giornali locali appaiono spesso sue lettere in
merito alla questione delle foibe e ai rapporti tra italiani e sloveni
in queste terre. Il modo che ha Rustia di fare controinformazione su
questi argomenti e quello di estrapolare frasi e spezzoni da vari
documenti per darne poi uninterpretazione di parte (come si suol dire,
prendendo una frase di qua ed una di la si puo riuscire a dimostrare
che il Papa ha celebrato anche una messa nera...). Il tutto e teso a
dimostrare una presunta cattiveria del popolo sloveno che da decenni
non ha pensato ad altro che cercare di eliminare litalianita di
queste terre; che Rustia faccia cio in perfetta malafede e dimostrato
dal fatto che, piu di una volta, sulle pagine dei giornali sono apparse
chiarificazioni e smentite delle interpretazioni da lui date a frasi
stralciate di qua e di la, ciononostante Rustia insiste nel riscrivere
sempre gli stessi concetti.
Questo personaggio a Trieste rappresenta anche il Centro di
studi storici della Guardia Civica (la Guardia Civica fu un gruppo
militare creato dai nazisti dopo l8 settembre 43), pur non avendo
militato nel suddetto Corpo ed e anche segretario dellAssociazione
Congiunti Deportati in Jugoslavia, pur non essendo, a quanto e dato
sapere, imparentato con alcun deportato (a Trieste si usa questo
termine impropriamente per definire i prigionieri di guerra che furono
condotti in Jugoslavia subito dopo la liberazione della citta nel
maggio 45); ha inoltre stretti contatti con le varie associazioni
combattentistiche comprese quelle dei reduci della Repubblica di Salo,
unite nellAssociazione Grigioverde.
Sempre riguardo la questione slovena, Forza Nuova ha rilevato
che < allinterno della stessa minoranza ci sono delle divisioni:
infatti, PDS e RC mantengono il monopolio come interlocutori per la
minoranza, mentre vengono sistematicamente fatti da parte quelli che
fanno parte ad altre organizzazioni>. Sorvolando sul fatto che gli
italianissimi forzanovisti non sanno scrivere in italiano, vediamo che
nella primavera del 2000 il consiglio regionale ha stanziato 11 miliardi
di finanziamenti ad un Istituto per gli sloveni del Friuli Venezia
Giulia, iniziativa che ha visto il plauso di ununica associazione
slovena, la Comunita economico culturale slovena che fa capo a tale
Boris Gombac (e che si richiama politicamente a Lega Nord e Forza
Italia); Gombac e la sua associazione a sua volta starebbero prendendo
contatti con un altro istituto per le minoranze etniche, analogamente
promosso dalla Regione Carinzia, ed alla cui presentazione hanno
partecipato uno stretto collaboratore di Haider, Karl Anderwald,
vicedirettore dellufficio di presidenza della Regione Carinzia e lo
stesso Gombac.
Leggiamo tutto questo tenendo presenti le avances di Haider per
una grande Carinzia, macroregione (termine questo caro pure alla
Lega Nord) che comprenda anche il Nordest italiano e la Slovenia.
Andando indietro nel tempo possiamo trovare delle interessanti
analogie tra Forza Nuova (che e stata fondata ufficialmente, lo
ricordiamo, nel settembre 1997) e la meno nota associazione denominata
Nuova Acropoli, della quale ha parlato la rivista Cuore nel numero
del 3.12.1994.
Nuova Acropoli fu fondata in Argentina nel 1957 e si diffuse in
Italia allinizio degli anni 80; cosi viene descritta nellarticolo
sopra citato.
< ... 5mila membri nel 1989 (500 solo in Italia) ed un
patrimonio dichiarato di oltre 8 milioni di dollari, Nuova Acropoli e
esteriormente unorganizzazione culturale e umanistica, ma nasconde
(...) una struttura piramidale molto rigida ed occulta ai propri adepti
di base (dal Manuale del Dirigente riservato ai livelli superiori del
gruppo). Al vertice della piramide ce un Comandante Mondiale, dal
potere assoluto, che governa per decreti >.
(E interessante a questo punto rilevare come il termine
comandante sia duso ricorrente in certi ambienti: comandante era,
per i suoi adepti, Junio Valerio Borghese, il principe nero della
Decima Mas; Marco Pirina, lo pseudostorico revisionista di Pordenone che
si dedica da anni a stampare libri pieni di falsita storiche allo scopo
di infangare la Resistenza ed il movimento partigiano sostenne, una
volta, di essere stato inquisito per il fallito golpe Borghese solo
perche il suo nome si trovava nellagendina del comandante Sandro
Saccucci; Giorgio Rustia, il leader triestino di Contropotere, ha una
volta definito Roberto Fiore, in una conferenza pubblica comandante
fondatore).
Continuiamo con larticolo di Cuore.
< Il gruppo dirigente della setta e formato dall elite degli
asciati, gli unici a poter vantare un contatto diretto con il
comandante mondiale. Vengono quindi i semplici membri, suddivisi in tre
strutture dai toni tipicamente hitleriani. Ce innanzitutto il Corpo
di sicurezza. Indossa divise nere che si richiamano alle SS, simbolo
della folgore compreso e svolge una funzione piu o meno mascherata
(...) di vigilanza e di pronto intervento. In Italia ha preso da qualche
anno - subito dopo la svolta ambientalista avvenuta nei primi anni 80
- il nome di Dipartimento di protezione civile. ... si affiancano le
Brigate Maschili (...) e le Brigate Femminili (...) >.
Vediamo ora se quanto segue ricorda qualcosa di cui abbiamo
parlato prima.
< Nuova Acropoli nel proprio sistema educativo prevede strutture
anche per i piu piccoli: ledificazione dellUomo Nuovo ha inizio sin
dalla prima infanzia attraverso (...) una sorta di asilo nido in cui tra
laltro si insegna la tecnica per riuscire a vedere Gnomi, elfi e
fate; quindi, dai 7 ai 14 anni, i bambini vengono divisi tra la
struttura maschile dei Cavalieri della tavola rotonda e quella
femminile della Tavola di Iside. (...) Nuova Acropoli insegna una
dottrinaccia filosofeggiante in cui lumanita si divide in razze
superiori ed inferiori (...) si associa una malsana etica delluomo
forte, che comporta lobbligo di evitare liperprotezione dei piu
deboli a danno delle persone piu importanti... > eccetera eccetera.
Nuova Acropoli, spiega ancora larticolo, negli anni Ottanta, al
seguito della moda ecologista, si diffuse come associazione
ambientalista che organizzava incontri, seminari, corsi ed attivita
varie, spesso con il patrocinio delle istituzioni (nel 1989 a Genova, ad
esempio, le Ferrovie affidarono alla locale sezione di Nuova Acropoli la
gestione di un corso per annunciatori nelle stazioni). Ma anche gite per
anziani a Venezia col patrocinio del Comune e la partecipazione del
sindaco; un campo di addestramento per lecologia attiva nel parco
dAbruzzo, sotto legida dellEnte parco, dellaeroclub dellAquila, del
Corpo forestale dello Stato e della Regione Abruzzo e via di seguito.
Infine, nellottobre del 1989 un campo di Nuova Acropoli (una
cascina acquistata qualche anno prima: ricorda niente?) fu perquisito
dai carabinieri della stazione di Montefiascone che vi trovarono
gagliardetti, labari, coltelli, una radio ricetrasmittente priva di
licenza e numerosi bossoli di pistola e vi arrestarono un giovane del
Corpo di sicurezza. Armi da fuoco furono invece trovate in altre
sezioni non italiane: a Madrid e ad Atene (dove la responsabile fu
condannata a 12 anni di carcere).
Vediamo infine i referenti internazionali di questi militanti.
< Il fondatore, Livraga Rizzi, ha rivendicato negli anni 70 i
propri rapporti con i circoli golpisti argentini ed uruguagi, con i
cileni di Patria y libertad, con la Falange spagnola. Ed anche la
sezione italiana, almeno agli inizi, sfoggia stretti rapporti di
amicizia con questarea: fondata a Roma nel 1975 (tra il 1976 ed il 1979
aprira filiali in quindici citta) viene inzialmente aiutata da
Serafini Di Luia, fondatore della nazi-maoista Lotta di Popolo, mentre
Gabriele Adinolfi (toh! chi si rivede) uno dei padri di Terza Posizione
incoraggia i propri camerati a frequentare lorganizzazione >.
Infine vediamo come e diffusa sul territorio nazionale Forza
Nuova. Nel febbraio 2000 era presente in 10 regioni (Sicilia, Piemonte,
Lombardia, Veneto, Toscana, Abruzzo, Lazio, Campania, Basilicata e
Puglia), un anno dopo le regioni erano diventate 14, con in piu Marche,
Umbria, Friuli Venezia Giulia ed Emilia Romagna.
Vediamo la situazione regione per regione. In Piemonte cera una
sezione a Torino nel 99 ed e rimasta nel 2000; in Lombardia nel
febbraio 1999 erano aperte le sezioni di Milano, Brescia, Bergamo e
Gallarate; nel 2000 risultano in piu una a Campione dItalia ed una a
Lodi, mentre non ce piu quella di Brescia; Veneto: nel 1999 Vicenza,
Padova e Schio, nel 2000 Padova e Verona; Toscana: nel 1999 Lucca,
Casteldelpiano e Grosseto, questultima non risulta nel 2000; Abruzzo
nel 1999 una sede a Pescara e nel 2000 una a Vasto; Lazio: nel 1999
Roma, Cave, Viterbo, Santa Marinella, Sora e Latina, nel 2000 non
appaiono queste ultime tre mentre abbiamo in piu Gaeta e Montelanico;
Campania: nel 1999 Napoli, Salerno e Fratta Maggiore, questultima non
ce nel 2000 ma ci sono in piu Pianura e Caserta; Basilicata: nel 1999
Bernalda e nel 2000 Metaponto; Puglia: nel 1999 Bari, Fasano, Brindisi e
Taranto, la quale non ci sara piu nel 2000, pero abbiamo in piu le
seguenti sezioni: San Michele Salentino, S. Vito dei Normanni, Lecce,
Carmiano, Martina Franca e Santeramo in colle; Sicilia: Palermo nel 1999
come nel 2000; infine nel 2000 abbiamo in piu le seguenti sedi:
Falconara nelle Marche; Trieste nel Friuli Venezia Giulia, Bologna in
Emilia Romagna; Perugia in Umbria.
Come si puo vedere il massimo dello sviluppo lorganizzazione
lha visto nelle Puglie, regione che negli ultimi anni ha assunto due
peculiarita, collegate tra di loro dai traffici degli scafisti:
lingresso di clandestini in Italia e lattivita di contrabbando che
si e trasformata in una e vera propria guerra contro lo Stato.
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L'ENCLAVE NON ANCORA "ETNICAMENTE RIPULITA" DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA.
Finalita' della operazione:
1. mettere definitivamente a tacere le voci che contestano la politica
razzista e di appoggio al progetto nazionalista pan-albanese, come
"Radio S";
2. intimidire e reprimere la resistenza dei serbi, delle altre
nazionalita' minoritarie e degli albanesi democratici e jugoslavisti per
sgombrare il terreno da ogni ostacolo in vista delle elezioni
illegittime indette dalla amministrazione coloniale per il 28 ottobre;
3. indurre alla fuga i gruppi minoritari che hanno resistito per tutti
questi mesi alla violenza degli alleati KFOR ed UCK, in vista della
annessione della cosiddetta "Kosova" alla Grande Albania nei confini del
nazifascismo;
4. prendere il controllo e rubare le risorse dello stato Jugoslavo,
specialmente le preziose miniere del complesso di Trepca presso
Mitrovica.
L'ITALIA PARTECIPA ATTIVAMENTE ALLA OCCUPAZIONE COLONIALE E SPOLIAZIONE
DEL KOSMET ED APPOGGIA LE POLITICHE RAZZISTE DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE
KOUCHNER, IN PERFETTA CONTINUITA' CON L'OPERATO DEL FASCISMO TRA IL 1941
ED IL 1943.
Ma il Kosmet era e rimarra' JUGOSLAVIA!
FUORI TUTTE LE TRUPPE STRANIERE DAL KOSMET!
VIVA LA JUGOSLAVIA MULTINAZIONALE ED INDIPENDENTE!
FUORI L'ITALIA DALLA NATO - FUORI LA NATO DALL'ITALIA!
SMRT FASIZMU - SLOBODA NARODU!
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NATO ATTACK ON NORTHERN MITROVICA MOVES TOWARDS NEW WAR
www.tenc.net
Early Monday morning, squads of NATO troops seized Northern Mitrovica,
the
only remaining multiethnic part of Kosovo.
Northern Mitrovica, where thousands of Serbs, "Gypsies," Slavic Muslims
and
others driven from the rest of Kosovo lived side by side with local
Serbs,
Albanians and others, was defended by mass, non-violent action from UN
police
abuses and vicious armed assaults by Kosovo 'Liberation Army' forces
trying
to take control.
This popular movement infuriated the NATO humanitarians; hence today's
invasion by French and British NATO troops.
The excuse: to curb 'violence' (that is, the unarmed, non-violent
movement)
and, of all things, to limit pollution at a smelter. Amazing. The same
NATO
that has dropped thousands of deadly cluster (time) bombs on Kosovo's
children, the same NATO, which, as Prof. Chossudovsky has proven,
deliberately created an environmental disaster at Pancevo (1), now is
worried
about...a smelter.
These fabrications insult our intelligence. NATO's real goals: a) to
crush
resistance to KLA fascism, which NATO and the UN have installed
elsewhere in
Kosovo (2) and b) to position NATO troops close to the administrative
border
between Kosovo and inner Serbia, an area that has for months been under
attack by NATO proxy troops of the KLA variety. (3)
Recently Al Gore announced that Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be his Vice
Presidential running mate. This is the same Lieberman who said, while
attending a pro-war rally in Washington last April:
"The "United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for
the
same human values and principles...Fighting for the KLA is fighting for
human
rights and American values." ('Washington Post, April 28, 1999)
Recently, George Bush commented that if elected he will immediately
issue an
arrest warrant for Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic. Amazing isn't it how
casually
these men, even half-wits like little-Bush, how casually these men, no
matter
how limited their abilities, assume Imperial Rights. Thus - poof! - and
little Bush issues his threat to arrest - arrest? - the President of a
sovereign country. How does one arrest somebody else's President? No
problem,
didn't big daddy once pulverize a smaller country, Panama, supposedly to
arrest its President? This is Rome, complete with cruelty and greed. All
that's missing is brains.
The Lieberman announcement and the threat by Little Bush, as well as and
today's attack on Mitrovica, make eminently clear that the American
establishment is not through with Yugoslavia. It wishes to escalate the
attack. The Serbs, for a century the obstacle to Imperial conquest of
the
strategic Balkans, must be crushed as a politically coherent force.
By sending British and French troops to seize Northern Mitrovica the
United
States has positioned NATO troops close to the administrative border
with
inner Serbia. This would make it easier for NATO troops (after a
suitable
provocation is invented) to attack inner Serbia from the south and,
simultaneously, to support provocative actions by the weak,
gangster-ridden
quisling regime in Montenegro, where British SAS (Special Forces) are
currently training whatever rifraff they can scrape together (they call
it a
police force) to be used as provocateurs to a) assassinate Yugoslav
officials
and b) provide some incident9s) to 'justify' NATO intervention.
The line, put forward by NATO, that it is Milosevic who wishes to
destabilize
Montenegro and Mitrovica, etc., etc., is ridiculous on the face. Do they
take
us for fools? Are we to accept a comic book vision of world politics in
which
Milosevic plays "Super Bad Guy" to the US "Super Good Guy," where "Super
Bad
Guy" does absurdly self-destructive things for no reason but
irrepressible
malice.
In reality, it is Yugoslavia (its people AND government) who have
suffered
NATO's cruel and unwarranted assaults. It was Yugoslavia which tried,
prior
to last year's bombing, to work out some kind of peace accord and it was
NATO
which presented Yugoslavia with an agreement (which would have
legalizedthe
occupation of all Yugoslavia by NATO troops!) - a proposal designed
precisely
to ensure Yugoslav rejection. It was only Yugoslavia whose parliament
actually discussed this (anti-)peace proposal. Not one of the NATO
democracies voted, by plebiscite or even in parliament, before
initiating the
brutal 78 day bombing of Yugoslav civilians and infrastructure and the
subsequent invasion and ethnic decimation of Kosovo.
We are now attempting to get direct information from Mitrovica. We will
post
whatever we find out as soon as possible.
-- editorial staff, Emperor's Clothes.
1) 'NATO Willfully Triggered Environmental Catastrophe In Yugoslavia' by
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm
2) 'Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm
3) On NATO's proxy attacks on inner Serbia, please see 'Boggling the
mind
department - Report from a UN Website' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/kilibarda/boggling.htm
and see also: 'Terrorism in southern 'Serbia Proper'' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/fighting.htm
www.tenc.net
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Early this morning on the 14th of August, forces of NATO's Kosovo Force
swept
into Kosovska Mitrovica and took control of the Trepca Mining Complex.
As I
write this Yugoslav workers are resisting the encroachment of
international
forces. This move is a cynical move designed to cow the Serbian, Roma,
Turk,
Montenegrin, and some of the Albanian population that have refused to
participate in NATO organized elections. Mitrovica is the ONLY city in
Kosovo were these groups live with a measure of security thanks to a
strong
BUT COMPLETELY NON-VIOLENT opposition to KFOR in the city. I have
spoken to
Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Serbian community and the city, who has
categorically condemned ALL violence in the city. The Serbs,
Montenegrins
and Roma in Mitrovica have been subjected to beatings, bombings, grenade
attacks, kidnappings, etc. yet this is the SAFEST place for these
people in
KLA/NATO controlled Kosovo!!!!! Most minorities in Kosovo live in
ETHNIC
GHETTOES surrounded by BARBED WIRE and NATO forces. Supplies are
limited by
KLA formations which interupt supply routes and threaten to kill groups
attempting to bring assistance to Yugoslav civilians. I will keep you
posted
on developments....
French troops and Serbs clash in Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A group of 250 Serbian workers
clashed on Monday with French riot police at the lead smelter in
northern
Mitrovica which was earlier seized by NATO peacekeepers, a French
spokesman
said.
``They are stoning the gendarmes,'' French spokesman Colonel Henri
Aussavy
told reporters.
British, French and Danish troops swept in force into Serb-held
Mitrovica
around dawn to shut down the lead smelter that had been pumping toxic
fumes
into the air.
Aussavy said the NATO operation faced further resistance inside the
plant,
where a group of 30 to 40 engineers had locked themselves inside an
administration building, refusing to leave or help U.N. experts shut
down the
smelter.
01:50 08-14-00
NATO troops sweep into Serb-held Mitrovica
MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - British and French forces
swept
into Serb-held northern Mitrovica early on Monday to stamp NATO's
authority
on the area and try to shut down a heavily polluting lead smelter,
witnesses
said.
Dozens of vehicles with British and French troops moved across the River
Ibar, which marks the divide between ethnic Albanian dominated Kosovo
and
northern Mitrovica, the last major urban concentration of Serbs in the
Yugoslav province....
UNMIK TARGETS ZVECAN SMELTING WORKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 9 (Tanjug) The United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Tuesday issued pamphlets
warning citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica against an alleged threat of an
increased level of lead in the atmosphere and an "epidemiological
crisis."
Director General Novak Bijelic of the Trepca mining complex,
which
includes a smelting works, reacted with a statement saying this was an
attempt to prepare public opinion in favor of closing down the Zvecan
smelting works near Pristina which employs Serbs. This action would
jeopardize the survival of the remaining Serb workers in this area,
Bijelic
said.
UNMIK can close down the smelting works "by force only,"
Bijelic
said, underscoring that air pollution is checked on a daily basis and
that
there are no indications of any contamination. Trepca invested over 10
million Dmarks in the most uptodate filters for a safe environment in
1991,
he said.
"The workers will not sit idle while someone tries to push them
out of their ancestral homes and jobs," Bijelic said.
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Kosovo Mining Complex Taken Over
.c The Associated Press
ZVECAN, Yugoslavia (AP) - NATO-led peacekeepers took control of a
Serb-run
mining complex in the northern part of Kosovo in a pre-dawn raid Monday.
British peacekeepers acting in support the U.N. mission seized the
premises
of the lead smelter near Kosovoska Mitrovica. The United Nations said
last
week the plant was spewing pollution into the air, raising lead levels
to 200
times the accepted norms.
U.N. spokesman Michael Keats confirmed the operation was under way.
News of the lead levels sparked a rare moment of solidarity in the
divided
city of Kosovoska Mitrovica, prompting Serb and ethnic Albanian leaders
to
join U.N. personnel in publicly having their blood tested.
Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic claimed the lead scare was a ruse,
however, to be used as an excuse for the United Nations to take over the
Zvecan plant...
UNMIK UMESTO CINJENICA NUDI NEISTINE
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) CIVILNA MISIJA
> UJEDINJENIH NACIJA LANSIRANJEM NETACNIH I UZNEMIRAVAJUCIH PODATAKA O
> NAVODNO ENORMOM ZAGADJIVANJU COVEKOVE OKOLINE U KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI
> "ZELI
> DA POSTIGNE SAMO JEDAN CILJ DA ONEMOGUCI RAD
> RUDARSKOHEMIJSKOMETALURSKOG
> KOMBINATA "TREPCA" KOJI PREDSTAVLJA TEMELJ EGZISTENCIJE OGROMNOM BROJU
> GRADJANA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE I SIRE",
> OVO SE ISTICE U DANASNJEM OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA
> MITROVICE
> I, KAKO SE KAZE, "UVAZENIM GOSTIMA KOJI PRIVREMENO BORAVE NA OVIM
> PROSTORIMA", A POVOD JE NEDAVNO DISTRIBUIRANJE PAMFLETA UNMIKA IZ
> PRISTINE
> O PREKOMERNOJ ZAKADJENOSTI VAZDUHA, VODE I TLA OLOVOM IZ TOPIONICE U
> ZVECANU.
> "NAZIVAMO TO PAMFLETOM, JER UMESTO CINJENICA UNMIK NUDI
> NEISTINE I
> LAZNO DUSEBRIZNISTVO ZA NASE ZDRAVLJE I NASU SUDBINU", STOJI U LETKU
> "TREPCE".
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> 1991.
> GODINE, KAKO TVRDE UNMIKOVI ZNALCI I RADI U KONTINUITETU. AKO NE
> RACUNAMO
> AGRESIJU NATO ALIJANSE, TOPIONICA JE ZAUSTAVLJANA SAMO RADI POVREMENOG
> REMONTA. VELIKI DIMNJAK, VISOK 306 METARA, KOJI JE PODIGNUT 1972.GODINE
> KAO
> I OPREMA I POSTROJENJA ZA PRECISCAVANJE OTPADNIH GASOVA U KOJU SMO
> ULOZILI
> PREKO 10 MILIONA NEMACKIH MARAKA NAJBOLJI SU DOKAZ DA SE O NASEM
> ZDRAVLJU
> VODILO I VODI RACUNA JOS MNOGO PRE DOLASKA UNMIKA. NA HILJADE RADNIKA,
> STRUCNJAKA I NAJVISIH RUKOVODILACA "TREPCE" ZIVE I RADE TIK UZ TOPIONICU
>
> OLOVA I SVAKAKO BRINU O SVOM ZDRAVLJU, SASVIM SIGURNO MNOGO VISE OD
> UNMIKA,
> STOJI U OBRACANJU "TREPCE".
> DA NEMA RAZLOGA ZA TOBOZNJU "ZABRINUTOST" UNMIKA POTVRDJUJU
> SVAKODNEVNE ANALIZE NASEG INSTITUTA ZA ISTRAZIVANJE I RAZVOJ, KOJE
> UKAZUJU
> DA SU NAS VAZDUH, VODA I ZEMLJA ZASTICENI OD ZAGADJIVANJA OLOVOM,
> GASOVIMA
> I PRASINOM.
> U SVOM OBRACANJU "TREPCA" JE PONUDILA "REZULTATE KONTROLE
> PRISUSTVA TESKIH METALA U VAZDUHU NA VISE KONTROLNIH PUNKTOVA U
> KOSOVSKOJ
> MITROVICI U PERIODU JUNJULI" PA TAKO NAVODE DA JE OLOVA IZMERENO 0,12
> MILIGRAMA PO METRU KUBNOM, A MAKSIMALNO DOZVOLJENA KONCENTRACIJA JE
> 0,15,
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>
> GVOZDJA 0,002 A DOZVOLJENO 0,2 I TD.
> AKO VEC BRINU O DECI I TRUDNICAMA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE,
> STRUCNJACI
> UNMIKA BI MORALI NAJPRE DA SAGLEDAJU POSLEDICE KOJE IZAZIVAJU IZDUVNI
> GASOVI IZ NJIHOVIH TESKIH VOZILA KOJA DANONOCNO SPARTAJU NASIM ULICAMA I
>
> DRUMOVIMA I BEZOBZIRNO TRUJU NEDUZNE GRADJANE, STOJI U OBRACANJU.
> NA DRUGOJ STRANI, OPSTE JE POZNATA CINJENICA DA JE BESOMUCNO
> BOMBARDOVANJE KOSOVA I METOHIJE OD NATO AGRESORA, A POSEBNO KORISCENJE
> ZABRANJENIH ORUZJA KAO STO SU OSIROMASENI URANIJUM, KASETNE BOMBE I
> SLICNO,
> UZROKOVALO EKOLOSKU KATASTROFU SA TRAJNIM I NESAGLEDIVIM POSLEDICAMA,
> STOJI
> U OBRACAJU.
> UNMIK, NAZALOST, NE POKAZUJE NI NAJMANJU ZABRINUTOST OD
> POSLEDICA
> RATNIH STRAHOTA KOJA JE POSEJANA NA NASIM PROSTORIMA, ZAKLJUCUJE SE U
> OBRACAJU "TREPCE" GRADJANIMA I GOSTIMA KOSOVKE MITROVICE.
>
UNMIK IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA OFFERS UNTRUTHS RATHER THAN FACTS TREPCA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 13 (Tanjug) The U.N. civilian mission
to
KosovoMetohija (UNMIK) is spreading disturbing untruths about pollution
from the Trepca mining complex in order to put Trepca out of commission,
according to a statement from Trepca on Sunday.
The sole purpose of UNMIK's allegations about high levels of
pollution in Kosovska Mitrovica is "to prevent Trepca, which gives their
livelihood to a large number of people in Kosovska Mitrovica and beyond,
to
go on working", the statement said.
The statement was prompted by a recent UNMIK pamphlet
distributed
in Pristina and alleging excessive air, water and soil pollution with
lead
from the Trepca smelting plant in Zvecan, in the Yugoslav republic of
Serbia's U.N.run KosovoMetohija province.
"We call this a pamphlet, because UNMIK offered untruths and
false
care for our health and our fate instead of giving the true facts", said
the statement, addressed by the mining, chemical and metallurgical
complex
to the people in divided Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Zvecan lead smelting plant has been in operation since
1939,
not 1991, as claimed by UNMIK, and has stopped work only for occasional
overhauls and during NATO's aggression from March to June 1999.
The 306metre smokestack, built in 1972, as well as equipment
and
installations for purifying waste gases, in which more than 10 million
German marks have been invested, are best evidence that the people's
health
was a consideration long before UNMIK's deployment.
Thousands of Trepca's employees workers, experts and
executives work at and live in the immediate vicinity of the Zvecan
lead
smelting plant, and they certainly care much more about their own health
than UNMIK ever could, the Trepca statement said.
Daily sampling of the air, water and soil shows that these are
protected from pollution by lead, gas and dust and that there is no
reason
for UNMIK's socalled "concern".
In its statement, Trepca quoted results of tests for the
presence
of heavy metals in the air at several checkpoints in Kosovska Mitrovica
in
the JuneJuly period.
According to these results, there was .12 milligrams of lead
per
cubic metre (permitted level .15 mg), .019 mg of zinc (permitted level
.4
mg), copper .004 mg (permitted level .01 mg), iron .002 mg (permitted
level
.2 mg), etc.
"If UNMIK experts are concerned for the children and pregnant
women in Kosovska Mitrovica, they should take care of the waste gases
from
their own heavyduty vehicles that throng our roads at all hours and
poison
the people", the statement said.
On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that NATO's merciless
bombing of KosovoMetohija last year and use of banned weapons, such as
depleted uranium and cluster bombs, have caused an environmental
disaster
with unforeseeable longterm consequences, it added.
Regrettably, UNMIK has shown not the least concern for the
people
suffering the consequences of the horrors of war strewn all over our
land,
Trepca said in Kosovska Mitrovica.
---
LIBERTA' DI STAMPA IN JUGOSLAVIA:
"RADIO S" DAVA TROPPO FASTIDIO
ORA LA NATO PUO' FINALMENTE ELIMINARLA DALL'ETERE!
Serb radio in Kosovo defies U.N. shutdown
order
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A hardline Kosovo
Serb
radio station said on Sunday it was defying a United Nations order to
shut
down its broadcasts from the north of the ethnically-divided city of
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
U.N. administrators, who run Kosovo as a de facto protectorate, issued
Radio
S with the closure order late on Saturday, citing licensing
irregularities....
*** A chi da fastidio la Radio S ....erba?
> KOMESARU OEBSA SMETA "RADIO S"
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) PRIVREMENI KOMESAR
>
> OEBS-A ZA MEDIJE SIMON HADELON URUCIO JE ZAHTEV PREDSTAVNIKU "RADIJA S"
> U
> KOSOVSKOJ MITROVICI DA PRESTANE EMITOVANJE PROGRAMA, UZ OBRAZLOZENJE DA
> JE
> DOKUMENTACIJA TOG RADIJA NAVODNO NEPOTPUNA ZA DOBIJANJE DOZVOLE ZA RAD.
> RADIO S JE TREBALO, PREMA TOJ ODLUCI, DA PRESTANA DA EMITUJE
> PROGRAM SINOC, U 19.00 CASOVA, ALI JE NASTAVIO RAD.
> ODGOVORNI UREDNIK "RADIJA S" RADOVAN GLIGOVIC OCENIO JE DANAS,
> U
> RAZGOVORU S NOVINARIMA, DA JE ZAHTEV HADELONA POKUSAJ DA SE UGASI JOS
> JEDAN
> SRPSKI MEDIJ NA KOSMETU, DODAVSI DA "MIROVNJACI I DEMOKRATE" POKUSAVAJU
> DA
> UGASE GOTOVO SVE MEDIJE U SRPSKOJ JUZNOJ POKRAJINI,STO SU NJIHOVI
> RADNICI
> ODBILI DA PRIMENE.
---
Kfor non vede vandalismo albanese nel Cimitero ortodosso di Kosovska
Mitrovica che si trova nella parte sud, albanese
> SRUSENO 500 SPOMENIKA NA PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU
> K O S O V S K A M I T R O V I C A (TANJUG) SRBI IZ SEVERNOG
> DELA
> KOSOVSKE MITROVICE, NJIH 120, KOJI SU DANAS, U PRATNJI KFORA, POSETILI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM, ALBANSKOM DELU GRADA, NAISLI SU NA
> NEVIDJEN
> VANDALIZAM ALBANSKIH EKSTREMISTA.
> NASLI SU NOVIH 300 POLOMLJENIH NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA, A SA NEKIH
>
> SPOMENIKA SU POSKIDANA MESINGANA SLOVA I ODNETE BISTE OD BRONZE.
> OGORCENI I REVOLTIRANI ZBOG OVOG VANDALIZMA, SRBI SU OSTRO
> PROTESTOVALI KOD KFORA KOJI NISTA NE CINI, I PORED OBECANJA, DA ZASTITI
> PRAVOSLAVNO GROBLJE U JUZNOM DELU KOSOVSKE MITROVICE U KOME ZIVI
> ALBANSKO
> STANOVNISTVO.
> DANASNJA POSETA SRBA IZ SEVERNOG DELA KOSOVSKE MITROVICE
> PRAVOSLAVNOM GROBLJU U JUZNZOM DELU GRADA PRVA JE POSLE ZADUSNICA, A VEC
>
> TADA JE BILO PORUSENO 200 NADGROBNIH SPOMENIKA.
ALTRI ATTI DI VIOLENZA E TERRORISMO CHE LA KFOR APPOGGIA
> OTETA DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
>
> K O S O V S K A K A M E N I C A (TANJUG) DVA SRPSKA MLADICA
> IZ
> OKOLINE KOSOVSKE KAMENICE SU OTETA, ZAJEDNO SA SVOJIM TRAKTOROM, NA
> BENZINSKOJ PUMPI "ISMAILPETROL" U SUSEDNOM ALBANSKOM SELU ODANOVCE, GDE
> SU
> JUCE OKO 13.00 SATI OTISLI DA NATOCE GORIVO ZA TRAKTOR.
> KAKO JE DANAS SAOPSTIO KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I LJUDSKA PRAVA
> KOSOVSKE
> KAMENICE, REC JE O 20GODISNJEM GORANU STANKOVICU IZ SELA DOMOROVCA KOD
> KOSOVSKE KAMENICE I NJEGOVOM NESTO MLADJEM BRATU OD TETKE IZ
> BUJANOVACKOG
> SELA LOPARDINCE, CIJE IME NIJE NAVEDENO.
> CIM JE JUCE ALARMIRAN NJIHOV NESTANAK, U DOMOROVCU SE OKUPILO
> OKO
> 500 SRBA IZ TOGSELA I IZ SUSEDNOG KORMINJANA, KOJI SU U ZNAK PROTESTA
> BLOKIRALI LOKALNI PUT DOMOROVCE OGOSTE.
> VOJNICI KFORA, IZ AMERICKOG I RUSKOG SASTAVA, U POTRAZI SU ZA
> KIDNAPOVANIM SRBIMASU OD JUTROS BLOKIRALI PUT GNJILANE BUJANOVACI I
> KOSAVSKA KAMENICA BUJANOVAC KOD MESTA BELA ZEMLJA, GDE SE INACE NALAZI
> NJIHOV PUNKT. ONI CINE NAPORE DA PRONADJU KIDNAPOVANE SRPSKE MLADICE.
> RODBINA KIDNAPOVANIH MLADICA I VOJNICI KFORA SU KASNO SINOC
> RAZGOVARALI SA VLASNIKOM BENZINSKE PUMPE"ISMAILPETROL" U SELU ODANOVCE,
> GDE
> SE MLADICIMA IZGUBIO TRAG, ALI RADNICI TE PUMPE NISU POKAZALI SPREMNOST
> ZA
> SARADNJU SA ISLEDNICIMA IZ KFORA, SAOPSTIO JE DANAS KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
>
> LJUDSKA PRAVA KOSOVSKE KAMENICE.
>
> ALBANSKI BANDITI UKRALI OKO 250 VAGONA JZ
> K O S O V O P O LJ E, D O B R E V O (TANJUG) ABANSKI
> PLJACKASI U
> SARADNJI SA CELNICIMA KFORA VEC VISE OD MESEC DANA ODVLACE TRANSPORTNE
> VAGONE IZ KOSOVA POLJA KA ZELEZARI SKOPLJE, GDE CE IH, NAJVEROVATNIJE,
> PRODATI KAO STARO GVOZDJE, OSTECUJUCI TAKO IMOVINU JUGOSLOVENSKIH
> ZELEZNICA, JAVILI SU DANAS RADIOAMATERI SA KRIZNIH PODRUCJA KOSMETA.
> VISE OD 450 STARIH I POKVARENIH, ODNOSNO, NEREGISTROVANIH
> VAGONA,
> BILO JE SMESTENO NA DEONICI PRUGE OD DOBREVA PREMA RUDNIKU KISNICA, TAKO
> DA
> SE KOLONA VAGONA PROTEZALA SVE DO LAPLJEG SELA, ALI JE OD TOG BROJA DO
> SADA
> VEC ODVEZENO VISE OD POLOVINE VAGONA.
> KAKO GRANICU SA MAKEDONIJOM KONTROLISU PRIPANICI KFORA, NAJVECU
>
> ODGOVORNOST ZA OVU VELIKU KRADJU I OTIMACINU, SNOSE UPRAVO PRIPADNICI
> MEDJUNARODNIH MIROVNIH SNAGA.
>
ETHNIC ALBANIANS STEEL 250 WAGGONS FROM YUGOSLAV RAILWAYS
KOSOVO POLJE/DOBREVO, Serbia, Aug 13 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
bandits, in collusion with international force KFor officials, have for
more than a month been hauling off rolling stock from U.N.run
KosovoMetohija to Macedonia, according to reports on Sunday.
Amateur radio operators in that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province say that railway waggons are being taken from Kosovo Polje to
the
iron works in Skopje, probably to be sold as scrap iron, thus causing
heavy
losses to the Yugoslav railway company.
More than onehalf of the 450plus old and decommissioned waggons
parked on the track between Dobrevo and the Kisnica mine have been
hauled
away.
Since the KosovoMetohija section of the YugoslavMacedonian
border
is controlled by KFor, the greatest responsibility for the theft rests
with
the international force.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS START FOREST FIRES IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
NOVO BRDO, Serbia, August 12 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian
extremists
on Friday set fire to the woods in the vicinity of a Serb village in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.administered KosovoMetohija province,
according to reports.
Amateur radio operators inform that the socalled international
force KFor fire brigade, made up solely of ethnic Albanians, never even
tried to put out the fires, which are raging around the village of Izvor
in
the Novo Brdo municipality in east KosovoMetohija.
The fires are ravaging the forests of Lazovi, Glog and Vrbina,
which were the source of highquality firewood for the local Serb.
After villagers of Izvor reported the fires, KFor troops
quickly
came out to inspect the scene, together with the fire brigade, but then
equally quickly left, without having tried to intervene at all.
The people in Izvor suspect that the fires were set by their
neighbours in the purely ethnic Albanian populated village of Vlasce,
according to amateur radio operators.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERB CONVOY
PASJANE, August 8 (Tanjug) Ethnic Albanian terrorists fired
shots
at Serbs travelling late on Monday in a convoy of cars from the
southSerbian town of Presevo to the village of Pasjane, near the town of
Gnjilane, situated in the east of the KFORadministered Serbian province
of
Kosovo and Metohija.
Serb Ljubisa Cuparevic from the village of Donje Budrige
sustained
injuries in the incident that occurred near the permanent checkpoint of
the
KFOR U.S. contingent, local radio operators said.
> SRBIMA UNISTENO 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM
> G NJ I L A N E (TANJUG) U ATARU MULTIETNICKOG SELA PONESA, KOD
>
> GNJILANA, ALBANSKI STOCARI SU, NAGONECI SVOJU STOKU NA SRPSKE NJIVE,
> UNISTILI 30 HEKTARA POD KUKURUZOM, SAOPSTIO JE KOMITET ZA ZASTITU I
> LJUDSKA
> PRAVA GNJILANE
> LOKALNI ALBANCI SVAKODNEVNO NAGONE CITAVO STADO OD PEDESETAK
> GRLA
> KRUPNE STOKE, NA TE NJIVE ILI SEKIROM SEKU KUKURUZNE STABLJIKE I NJIME
> HRANE DOMACE ZIVOTINJE.
> U TOM POHODU NAJVISE SU STRADALI POTEZI IZNAD SELA PREMA
> LIVOCKOM
> JEZERU, GDE SVOJE NJIVE POD KUKURUZOM IMAJU MOMCILO STOJANOVIC, BRACA
> DIMITRIJE, DOBRIVOJE I ZARKO CVEJIC, PETAR SAVIC, STAJKO STAJIC, TRAJA
> PAUNOVIC, STANKO SIMIC I MNOGI DRUGI SRBI.
> SRBIMA U PONESU NA ISTI NACIN UNISTENO JE I DESETAK HEKTARA
> USEVA
> OVSA I JECMA, DOK SE DRVO SA OKO 500 HEKTARA HRASTOVE SUME I DALJE
> NESMETANO SECE I UNISTAVA.
> SRPSKI PREDSTAVNIK TOGA SELA ALEKSANDAR RISTIC SE, KAKO SE
> NAVODI
> U SAOPSTENJU, OTVORENO ZALI NA KFOR, KOJI NISTA NE CINI DA ZASTITI SRBE
> OD
> UNISTAVANJA LETINE.
> RISTIC KAZE DA "ALBANSKI STOCARI I BANDITI IMAJU PRECUTNU
> PODRSKU
> 'MIROVNJAKA' U SVOJIM NECASNIM RADNJAMA, USMERENIM NA PROTERIVANJE I
> IZGON
> SRBA IZ TOGA SELA".
> SELO PONES IMA 180 SRPSKIH DOMOVA I 50 ALBANSKIH I PREDSTAVLJA
> JAKO SRPSKO UPORISTE SEVEROZAPADNO OD GNJILANA.
> POSLE POHARE USEVA I DUGE OVOGODISNJE SUSE SRBI SU VEC POCELI
> DA
> SMANJUJU STOCNI FOND. SRBIMA PRETI HUMANITARNA KATASTROFA OVE JESENI I
> ZIME, JER NEMAJU DOVOLJNO HRANE NI ZA STOKU, NI ZA SEBE, A OSETICE I
> NESTASICU OGREVNOG DRVETA, UPRKOS VELIKIM PROSTRANSTVIMA SVOJIH SUMA,
> KOJIH
> VISE GOTOVO I DA NEMA.
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BULLDOZER DALL'ARABIA SAUDITA PER DISTRUGGERE I CENTRI STORICI KOSOVARI
From: Greek Helsinki Monitor <office@g...>
Date: Tue Aug 8, 2000 4:40pm
Subject: RFE/RL: SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
___________________________________________________________
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 151, Part II, 8 August 2000
SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS
By Jolyon Naegele
The Saudi bulldozing of some of the most historically
valuable architectural monuments in the western Kosova market
town of Djakovica is merely the latest in a series of
iconoclastic activities in the Balkans undertaken in the name
of reconstruction assistance by Arab aid organizations. War-
damaged historic buildings are not repaired, but rather
demolished to make way for what the Arab donors consider to
be more proper Islamic structures.
The destruction is a further blow to Kosova's
architectural heritage, following the destruction by Serbian
forces and civilians in 1998 and 1999 of over 200 mosques and
other Islamic structures--about one-third of the total number
in the province.
Harvard University Fine Arts librarian Andras
Riedlmayer, the co-author of a survey of Kosova's war-damaged
architectural sites, is outraged by the Saudi demolition
program.
"Unfortunately, a Saudi aid agency got permits from the
local reconstruction agency and from the local institute for
the preservation of monuments to work on the restoration, so
to speak, of the Hadum mosque complex in the center of the
historic district."
Riedlmayer says the Saudis began on 24 July by trying to
knock down all the Ottoman-era gravestones in the cemetery of
the Hadum mosque.
"The Saudis were interested in removing them because
they consider gravestones to be idolatrous. They are
followers of Wahhabism, which is an extremist interpretation
of Islam at odds with the practice of most of the Muslim
world."
The Wahhabis are a purist movement founded in the 18th
century by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703-1791). He
converted the Saud tribe, which now rules Saudi Arabia. The
Wahhabis are the largest and most powerful Muslim sect in
Saudi Arabia.
Riedlmayer says the Saudis are obsessed with having all
ancient tombstones, mausoleums, and Sufi shrines located near
mosques eliminated, since--unlike most Muslims in the world
today--the Wahhabis believe these to be "un-Islamic" and
idolatrous. He said: "the Wahhabis, with their wealth and
fanaticism, are a menace to heritage, in some ways more
dangerous than the [Serb paramilitary] Chetniks, since about
the latter, at least, no one harbors any illusions regarding
their uncharitable intentions."
The Saudi Joint Relief Committee for the People of
Kosovo and Chechnya, established by royal decree, has built
mosques, schools, clinics, and shelters for displaced
persons. It has also supplied the province with several
hundred tons of medicine, food, blankets, tents, and clothing
during the last 13 months.
But spreading the message of Wahhabi Islam appears to be
another aim of the committee. The new mosques are white, boxy
structures devoid of detail--a far cry from the centuries-old
Ottoman-style mosques that characterize the urban and village
landscape in much of the Balkans.
Riedlmayer says NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers declined to
intervene in Djakovica after the Saudis showed their
authorized papers.
"Eventually the Department of Culture in UNMIK (the UN
administration) was notified. They spoke with the Saudis on
[27 July] and tried to get them to desist. However, on [28
July], the Saudis sent in a bulldozer [and] knocked down the
buildings around the Hadum mosque, including the library
built in 1733 and ancient gravestones in the graveyard."
The Hadum mosque itself, which survived last year's
fighting largely intact--despite fire damage to its porch and
grenade damage to its minaret--remains endangered. If the
past is prologue, the frescoes could soon be whitewashed by
Wahhabi purists.
Attempts by RFE/RL to contact the UNMIK-Joint Interim
Administration's Department of Culture, the Kosovo Institute
for the Protection of Monuments, or the Saudi Joint Relief
Committee in Kosovo were unsuccessful.
However, Peruvian Alvaro Higueras, from the UNMIK
Culture Department, confirmed in a telephone call to
Riedlmayer on 3 August that the Saudis had razed the library
and Koran school.
Higueras said the Saudis planned to build a reinforced
concrete Islamic center on the cleared site. But the UNMIK
official says the Saudis applied for permission for a
restoration project, not for new construction. Higueras says
an order has now been issued to stop construction
indefinitely. He says the Saudis will have to "undo the
damage" and restore the Ottoman-era buildings using
traditional materials and techniques.
Riedlmayer has documented cases in which the Saudi and
other Arab aid agencies have destroyed other historic Islamic
buildings elsewhere in Kosova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Bulgaria.
Last October, while Riedlmayer was in Kosova conducting
a survey of war-damaged architectural heritage, he witnessed
the destruction of Muslim cemeteries in Vushtrri. He says an
Islamic aid agency from the United Arab Emirates had
pressured local Albanian residents to sledgehammer the graves
of their ancestors, completely clearing two historic
graveyards next to the Gazi Ali Beg and Karamanli mosques of
more than 100 gravestones dating back to the 15th century.
Only the grave marker of Gazi Ali Beg himself remained, as
the locals refused to allow that one to be smashed.
Riedlmayer says the UAE aid agency promised to rebuild
the damaged mosques "twice as big and twice as Islamic," but
only if the gravestones were removed. He says the agency, the
largest aid organization in the town, also made an implicit
threat to withhold humanitarian aid if the donors' request
was ignored.
Riedlmayer notes that during and immediately after the
war in Bosnia (1992-95), a Saudi aid agency took charge of
the restoration of the Gazi Husrev Beg mosque (Begova
dzamija) as well as other historic mosques in Sarajevo and in
many other towns and villages.
At the Beg mosque, the Saudis ordered the Ottoman tile
work and painted wall decorations stripped off and discarded
and had the whole building redone, as Riedlmayer puts it "in
gleaming hospital white, even the minaret slathered in white
plaster." He says that in scores of villages, the Saudis had
war-damaged but restorable historic Ottoman-style Bosnian
mosques demolished and redone Saudi-style. All of the
colorful Balkan-Muslim interior decor was eliminated, and
separate entrances were added to segregate women.
To drive home the significance of the Saudi destruction
in the Balkans, Riedlmayer says, "Imagine, if you will, some
terrible catastrophe affecting the historic churches of Rome
and Tuscany, and then having" modern-day U.S. Christian sects
coming in and insisting that they be redone in "proper
Christian style."
The author is a senior RFE/RL correspondent based in Prague.
To view photos of some of the structures described in the
article go to:
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/08/F.RU.000804130919.html
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SOLDATI BELGI DELLA KFOR PERQUISISCONO E PICCHIANO
RAPPRESENTANTI UFFICIALI JUGOSLAVI PER I RAPPORTI CON L'ONU
HTTP://WWW.KFORMYASS.com
Yugoslav Liaison Committee members harassed
August 11, 2000
Kosovska Mitrovica, August 10 -
Members of the Yugoslav Committee
Liaising with the U.N. mission, Jovica
Jovanovic and Radovan Redzic, were
harassed by Belgian KFOR troops at
a KFOR checkpoint in Donje Jerinje.
According to Jovanovic, the KFOR
troops stopped the Yugoslavs' car,
demanded personal identification papers from the two passengers, and
then proceeded to search the vehicle, including the two Yugoslav
diplomats' personal belongings.
The Belgians then insisted on taking photos of the Yugoslavs, dragged
Redzic to a barrack a few meters away, kicked him, put him up against
the wall and forcefully took his photo.
---
IL TERRORISTA "DEMOCRATICO" THAQI OSPITE DELLA CONVENTION
DI LOS ANGELES!
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
According to Albanian newspaper Zeri Hashim Thaqi will attend
Democratic National Convention starting Monday in LA.
If you are going to be somewhere near, don't forget to give him my
regards! I am too far from LA to throw any eggs on him.
---
VERSO LE ELEZIONI-TRUFFA NEL PROTETTORATO DEL "KOSOVA"
U.N. calls Kosovo election for October 28
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations
administration in
Kosovo has decided to hold municipal elections on October
28, an spokeswoman
said.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo
said UNMIK head
Bernard Kouchner had decided on the date after
consultations with the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
which is
overseeing the first post-war poll. The election had been
expected to take
place sometime in October....
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SCANDALO!
TRUPPE JUGOSLAVE CERCANO DI ENTRARE IN JUGOSLAVIA!?!
Serbs accused of Kosovo raid
Special report: Serbia
Saturday August 12, 2000
The Guardian
Serbian soldiers made a probing incursion into Kosovo two weeks ago in
the worst breach yet of the agreement that ended Nato's bombing campaign
last year, the US forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, said yesterday.
US forces scrambled Apache helicopters to confront the group of armed
and uniformed Serbs in two all-terrain vehicles who retreated across the
dividing line between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, the paper said.
The incident took place on July 28 in the mountains of eastern Kosovo,
near Serbia's Presevo valley, where there have been clashes between
Serbian police and a group of ethnic Albanians seeking independence from
Belgrade.
Shortly after the alleged incursion, peacekeepers said they had stepped
up security in the Presevo area to try to stop the ethnic Albanian UCPMB
group from operating. US forces had reported seeing mortar fire and
other military activity.
Officials of the US military contingent that patrols the area refused to
respond to questions about the incident and Nato spokesman Major Craig
Snow in Pristina said he could not confirm that Serbian forces had
crossed into Kosovo. "We've not been commenting on specific incidents,"
Maj Snow said.
Serb army and police units pulled out of Kosovo in July last year as
part of an agreement that ended Nato's 78-day bombing campaign of
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
The Serb incursion, if confirmed, would be regarded by Nato as a test of
its commitment to control the movement of UCPMB guerrillas who operate
out of Kosovo and have been trying the patience of the Serb military in
Presevo.
Reuters, Pristina
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Il giornalista della BBC John Humphrys ha ricevuto una reprimenda
ufficiale per l'intervista da lui fatta al segretario generale della
NATO, Lord Robertson. L'accusa e' di essere stato troppo aggressivo con
il povero segretario generale, averlo interrotto troppo spesso e con
frasi troppo critiche, facendogli dire in fondo cose che non voleva dire
- non perche' non le pensasse, ma perche' certe cose in TV non si
dicono!...
(dell'intervista al povero segretario generale abbiamo gia' parlato in
una precedente ciliegina: si veda
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/347 )
-
Daily Telegraph
August 2, 2000
Humphrys condemned over Kosovo interview
By Tom Leonard, Media Correspondent
THE BBC has reprimanded John Humphrys after the
Secretary General of Nato complained that the Radio 4
Today presenter used an interview about Kosovo as a
"platform for his own opinions".
The corporation's governors announced yesterday that
they have upheld a complaint by Lord Robertson of
Portellen, the former Defence Secretary, that Humphrys
had "not met proper BBC standards".
Lord Robertson said that during the interview, which
was broadcast in February, Humphrys's repeated
interruptions amounted to a "critical running
commentary". The governors' programmes complaints
committee admitted that the tone of the questioning
was "inappropriate" and the frequency of interruptions
"ill-judged". They said Rod Liddle, the editor of
Today, had spoken to Humphrys about the interview and
warned him not to do it again.
It is the second time in little more than a year that
Humphrys has been criticised over his treatment of
Lord Robertson. In March 1999, he was attacked by
politicians for an interview in which he repeatedly
interrupted the then Defence Secretary and insisted
the war in Kosovo was a "mess".
The governors said: "Although the premises of Mr
Humphrys's questions referred to views expressed by
others rather than opinions of his own, the tone of
the questioning was inappropriate at times and the
frequency of interruption was ill-judged."...
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Ivanovic, leader of the resistance movement (8-14-00)
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
Interview with Nikola --- a Yugoslav prosecutor August 14th, 2000 4:33AM
Washington Time, 10:33AM Yugoslav Time
Nikola: Hallo
Konstanin: hi is Nikola there
Nikola: Yes
Konstanin: Hi this is Konstantin from Emperor's Clothes.com
Nikola: Yes yes yes
Konstanin: Are you in Mitrovica right now?
Nikola: No I am in [name of town in inner Serbia] now, in the middle of
Serbia right now, but if I can help you please ask me
Konstanin: Well I don't know if you've heard about the developments in
Mitrovica, KFOR [i.e., the name for NATO in Kosovo] just moved to seize
the
smelter plant, the mining complex?
Nikola: Yes yes yes it was early morning about half past three o'clock
KFOR
started with the operation, the Second English Royal Platoon are
occupied it
- Desant, you know what is Desant?
Konstanin: No.
Nikola: When they parachute with the helicopters, commandos
Konstanin: Okay yes yes,"descent"
Nikola: They occupied lead factory; after that they occupied the Chapter
Representative offices and after that in the sixth hour and thirty
minutes
[6"30 Yugoslav time] they occupied Radio S in Zvecan.
Konstanin: Which radio, Radio S?
Nikola: Radio S.
Konstanin: That's the one that was recently ordered closed down by the
Internationals, right?
Nikola: Ahhh they claim Yugoslav government are behind that radio. And
now I
know there are some conflicts in Mitrovica and Zvecan because all roads
are
blocked and few people are in
Konstanin: Are the local residents the ones blocking the roads?
Nikola: Yes yes lot of roads between Mitrovica and Zvecan, between
Zvecan and
some other Serb villages and this is conflict between village civilians
and
the British soldiers
Konstanin: Is the threat to all of Mitrovica or is it limited to...
Nikola: Zvecan is three kilometers to the North of Mitrovica, very close
Konstanin: Ahah. And what was the reason for shutting the radio
station??
Nikola: I don't know what will be with the radio. I think that they have
not
any reason to close that radio station, but it is British choice
Konstanin: Here in the West the reports are that it was calling NATO an
occupying army. That was the only thing that they came up with, and this
isn't a crime I don't think? According to the UN resolutions as far as I
know.
Nikola: Yes but that's not the only thing. This [smelter plant] was the
last
one factory in Serbian hands and only one sector of the Trepca
[Emperor's
clothes: the Trepca mining concern - extremel;y valuable] concern who
still
working. All other, every other factory from Trepca concern are in
Albanian
hands and not one working.
Konstanin: Are they also in ZInternational hands?
Nikola: No no Internationals don't work anything. Secessionists supposed
[laughs] must work in that factory. But as you know maybe in the South
side
all mining are under the water, and ah one factory for battery are
burned
before two months in some unknown fire. Today there has been much
conflict
and a few people are injured. British use some you know rubber, rubber
bullets
Konstanin: So no reports of live ammunition, are there any reports of
such
ammunition used by KFOR forces?
Nikola: I don't know. They use the tanks, they use the choppers, they
use too
many troops, and I think that ah these Frenchman wish to stay out from
that;
British soldiers are in the main role.
Konstanin: Okay. And the radio station that was closed, was that the
last
free Serbian radio station in Kosovo?
Nikola: Yes yes yes yes and now on the Kosovo we have two or three radio
station all in the North but that is the some commercial, commercial
radio
station without any news, without any messages political or anything
else.
Konstanin: So basically the KFOR forces have just shut down with one
move the
major economic source for Serbs as well as their major communications
and
news source?
Nikola: Who knows that! Look, this is for the Serbs, that pollution or
economic investment are only excuse for occupation. Because we know very
well
that from that nothing is. Because some company, big company from
Sweden,
from Germany, from America are involved in that.
Konstanin: Thank You, we're going to call Oliver now, or try to get in
touch
with him. Thank you for your information. We will post this unaltered on
the
web to have it circulate around the world. Do you have anything else you
want
to say
Nikola: Just my best wishes for all who try to help us. Thank you. Thank
you.
Konstantin: Bye
Nikola: Bye.
Interview with Oliver Ivanovic August 14th, 5:11 AM Washington time,
11:11AM
Yugoslav time. EC caught Oliver in the middle of a meeting on the
situation.
EC will call back tomorrow to get more detailed description and more
official
reactions.
Konstanin: Hello.
Oliver: Hi, who is it.
Konstanin: This is Konstantin from EC.
Oliver: Okay okay
Konstanin: Can you describe what has just occurred in Kosovska
Mitrovica?
Oliver: In the morning about half past three this morning couple of
hundred
soldiers came in the lead plant and take over this ledd plant in the
Northern
part of Mitrovica. This is the last one factory, Trepca factory, which
works
and only one which are under Serb responsibility. Under Serb control.
And of
course they didn't allow the workers to come in the first shift at seven
o'clock in the morning and now we have couple of hundreds in Zvecan but
also
some people about seven hundred people are waiting in Mitrovica.
Konstanin: Workers?
Oliver: Workers and citizens of course.
Konstanin: Has anything else happened?
Oliver: Nothing for now we have the emergency meeting at the city and we
are
waiting for the next step of the management because they are not allowed
to,
how to say, assistant of general manager are not allowed to make any
kind of
decision and they waiting for the general manager but in the meantime
Konstanin: They can't make a decision without who?
Oliver: First of all the general managers are not allowed to come in
Kosovo
because of the special regulation of Mr. Kouchner. He expelled him from
Kosovo. And his assistants are not allowed to make any kind of
negotiations
or decision and now we are in bad position.
Konstanin: We heard about the involvement of Swedish, German, US
companies in
this, with interests in Trepca?
Oliver: YES we waiting for more detail about both of these agreements
but now
for now I didn't see these agreements.
Konstanin: So the agreement predates the raid?
Oliver: Yeah. This agreement between consortium, US company, French
company
and Swedish company with the UNMIK. They made this agreement yesterday
in the
morning but I didn't see this until now.
Konstanin: We heard of the very heavy involvement of British troops,
were
there any other contingents involved?
Oliver: No just the British, French, Danish, and Pakistani's.
Konstanin: Were weapons used?
Oliver: No, just tear gas.
Konstanin: We heard of other military vehicles, commando raid.
Oliver: Yes helicopters were observing, but it isn't used for any
purpose
now. Now just observing
Konstanin: Okay can you tell us a bit about this radio station that was
closed down.
Oliver: Yes in the 6:30 am this morning Radio plus, or, Radio S was
closed,
and UNMIK police confiscated all their equipment.
Konstanin: What was the official reason for that?
Oliver: They have not permission from OSCE to work. Working, working
license.
Konstanin: But does it contravene any Yugoslav laws?
Oliver: I think they using some kind of regulation, OSCE regulation for
media.
Konstanin: Do you have any official opinion on the actions of KFOR over
the
last day?
Oliver: We think it is not necessary, and we think that behind of that
many
talking of environment and health is exactly political decision to stop
only
one factory in the Serb area, under Serb control. That's the reason,
because
I think high-pressure from Albanian side who made the pressure to
Kouchner,
and Kouchner decided.
Konstanin: So you think Kouchner made the final decision for the forces
to
move in?
Oliver: Yes. Exactly.
Konstanin: So with the radio station shut down and the main source of
employment for Serbs in the region shut down, is there any, how's the
Serbian
population reacting? Is there a sense of panic right now?
Oliver: Ah, no its not a panic but people are very very angry and I
don't
know what will happen. Perhaps we'll have the important meeting this
afternoon or we are waiting, we are just in a meeting and we are
finished
this meeting perhaps we will decide about that.
Konstanin: Can we call you back later or tomorrow when things are more
settled?
Oliver: Of course you can. Of course.
Konstanin: Okay thank you very much for the information currently
Oliver: Okay
Konstanin: Bye
Oliver: Bye
For more on Mitrovica see the following:
1) 'Why is the KLA shooting at KFOR' at
2) Why is the KLA shooting at KFOR? at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisthe.htm
3)Mass Action forces release of Kosovo resistance leader at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/avictory.htm
4)US Police Attack Serbs in Northern Mitrovica at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/us.htm
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
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La principale scusa addotta dalle truppe della KFOR - che e'
sostanzialmente, a parte le sfumature, la missione della NATO in Kosovo
- per occupare oggi 14/8/2000 la parte nord di Kosovska Mitrovica ed il
complesso minerario di Trepca e', ovviamente, umanitaria: la KFOR
sarebbe molto preoccupata per le emissioni nocive!
La KFOR e la NATO dall'inizio tacciono sull'uranio impoverito da loro
stessi sparso sul territorio, sulla distruzione di centinaia di ettari
di terreno agricolo e boschi da parte dei loro alleati terroristi e
fascisti panalbanesi, sugli effetti dei bombardamenti sul petrolchimico
di Pancevo ed altre prodezze cancerogene e venefiche da loro stessi
effettuate, ma sono MOLTO preoccupate per le emissioni nocive dei serbi
di Kosovska Mitrovica!
Cosicche', oltre a rappresentare ormai l'organizzazione nonviolenta (in
senso pannelliano) piu' famosa del mondo, la NATO sta praticamente
diventando una specie di "Protezione Civile globale": pace, sicurezza,
tranquillita', benessere e pure qualita' dell'aria! Pronto soccorso e
pompieri del pianeta, il tutto con disinteressata generosita'...
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STANNO GESTENDO IL TRAFFICO DELLA PROSTITUZIONE IN KOSOVO
(sullo stesso argomento:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/246 )
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Subject: Forced prostitution, Pristina; request from Ukraine, DANA
[fwd]
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:00:16 +0200
From: "Elena Kabashnaya" <elena@...> (by way of Herman de
Tollenaere <hermantl@...>)
To: office@...
DEAR LADIES and GENTLEMEN, ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL !
This appeal is to those, who we not indifferent to
fates
of hundreds of women got into trouble and desperately
seeking for our assistance and defense.
All of them refer to lawyer's services to protect their
out
raged honour and damaged health. In most cases these
women
have no money to pay off a lawyer's fee, which is $100
just
for the beginning of a process.
There is a striking case of Larisa K. who was hired by
recruiters to work in Greece and Pristina {Kosovo] of a
promised job, she was made to be a prostitute.
Penniless,
with risk to her life, she managed to escape to
Ukraine.
Right now Larisa K. is trying to sue the recruiters, who
had damaged her morally and physically, but she has no
money to protect her rights in the court.
Every little contribution will help Larisa and many
other
women in her position to get out of predicament,
restore
their rights and start life anew. We would be very
grateful
to people, who will join "DANA" - NGO from Nikolaev,
Ukraine,
and give a helping hand to these women.
Thank you for your help !
Sincerely yours
Elena Kabashnaya
President "DANA"
P.O.Box 104, Nikolaev 54015 Ukraine
35, Admiralskaya St,. Nikolaev 54001
Tel/Fax (38-0512) 335-108
elena@...
ken@mksat,net
DETAILS OF PAYMENTS:
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IN FAVOR acc. 26206791707001/858
Kabashnaya Elena
BENEFICIARY : NIKOLAEV BRANCH CB "PRIVATBANK"
ADDRESS: 27, FRUNZE Str., NIKOLAEV UKRAINE
ACCOUNT: 3901 9 004017 003
BANK OF THE BENEFICIARY : COMMERCIAL BANK "PRIVATBANK"
ADDRESS: DNEPROPETROVSK, UKRAINE
SWIFT : PBAN UA 2X
CORRESPONDENT ACCOUNT : 890-0085-754
INTERMEDIARY BANK :THE BANK OF NEW YORK
ADDRESS: Eastern Europe Division
One Wall St., 9-th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10286,USA
SWIFT: IRVT US 3N
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INFORMATION :
"DANA" is a Women's organization, non-government,
non-commercial organization, founded in 1995. It
is registered by Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
Certificate namber is 98.
We run the following projects :
- "Against Trafficking in Women",
- "Women and poverty",
- "Army of saving" - posts of disribution of
clothes and hot food,
- "Homelessness"
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http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 3, 2000
East European Girls Face Rape, Violence in Albania
VLORA - Women from Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria face
beatings, rape and prostitution when they arrive in
Albania, which has become a centre for international
trafficking in young females.
Many of the women dreamed of a European Eldorado and
did not know they were to be sold into prostitution,
but their final destination is often the mental
hospital in the port town of Vlora in southern
Albania.
For the hundreds of young women, some of them still
adolescent, the Albanian port of Vlora is an
obligatory transit point on the way to western Europe.
Some of them have refused to be broken by their
ill-treatment while others have given up and can go no
further.
Alina, 18, is one of the latter. Huddled in a corner
of a police station in Vlora, her face bruised and
swollen, she jumps at the slightest noise. Repeating
that she is Romanian, she says that her passport was
confiscated long ago by the pimp who abused her.
Police found her naked in a nearby forest, where she
had been beaten and raped.
"At least she is alive. Last night, we found the body
of a 14-year-old girl in a back street," one of the
policemen said.
Alina will be kept for a few days in a cell here
before being handed over to the port city's
psychiatric hospital. There she is likely to face
worse treatment. Reliable sources said she would
probably be drugged and raped by other inmates.
Three other Romanian women and a Moldovan share a cell
next to Alina's - two women from Bucharest, Loredana,
18, and her sister Mihaela, 16, and 15-year-old Bianca
from Mirsa in central Romania, along with Angela, a
16-year-old Moldovan.
The four were arrested as they prepared to leave for
Italy, where they had been promised well-paid jobs, a
rich wedding and a life of ease. The women also
believed they would be able to send money to help
their poverty-stricken families.
The promises bear no relation to reality and the
women's planned final destination was the brothels of
Europe's major capital cities.
"Trafficking in women is booming in the Balkans and
the former Communist countries," said Fitore Palushi,
an Albanian woman police officer. "Whether they admit
it or not, they are all for sale and they all have
their regular pimps, even though some of them do not
know it."
>From Vlora, at least a dozen women are smuggled into
Italy every night, headed for prostitution, and the
traffic is constantly increasing.
The traffic is also lucrative for the smugglers. For
just one woman handed over personally to pimps in
Italy, the smuggler will be paid 3,000 dollars, three
times the normal tariff for an ordinary illegal
immigrant.
A recent report released in France said that transit
camps exist in Albania, where women are trained to
submit to their future punters by repeated rapes and
beatings, before being sent to western Europe.
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Frankfurter Rundschau
June 5, 2000
Kosovo-Prostitutes
WHEN THE WAITRESSING JOB IS A TRAP
Sexual slave trade a problem in Kosovo
By Stephan Israel
Pristina - The dubious clubs that spring up overnight with names like
Miami Beach, Manhattan or International Club often do not remain in
business very long. A raid by Italian carabinieri first brought the
miserable situation to light in January, when the UN peacekeepers burst
into one club to find a dozen desperate women staring back at them.
"The women were treated like slaves," said one of the investigators on
the case. Since then about 60 women have been freed from similiar
conditions. Trafficking in sexual slaves and forced prostitution have
become serious problems in Kosovo.
The women come from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria: the poorest
regions of eastern Europe. A monthly salary of 50 to 100 dollars is
normal in all of those countries. Some of the women fell prey to
seemingly innocuous newspaper adverts promising lucrative jobs in the
West as waitresses or dancers. Some of them wound up part of a sex trade
ring after being kidnapped. Still others knew about the nightclub and
the job as a prostitute that awaited them, but not about the horrifying
conditions.
None of the 60 women were still in possession of their identification
documents when they were discovered, according to investigators in
Pristina. Passports are usually collected by the "carers" while the
women are still in their native countries; sometimes, their "escorts"
issue them false documents. It usually takes a while before the trip
gets underway, with long waiting periods par for the course.
The sex traders command a well-organised network of contacts across the
entire region. Inconspicuous motels are the scenes of out-and-out
auctions, where the women are sold for the highest bid to pimps and bar
owners.
On the way to Kosovo, the actual trafficking occurs in Struga on the
Macedonian-Albanian border and several villages around the capital,
Skopje, that are well-known for their role in illegal prostitution.
Until now Macedonian officials have shown little interest in
co-operating with the UN, says one UN investigator, who suspects that
Macedonian police are involved in the trade in women.
Kosovar club owners and pimps pay around 1,500 dollars for each woman.
The women are confined to the bars day and night and made to endure
cramped and unhygenic conditions. They are usually told that they have
to "work off" the cost of transporting them.
However, none of the women found in forced prostitution in Kosovo had
ever seen any money. Anyway, in most cases the women are auctioned off
to another club in some other region after a few weeks or months.
Contributing to the problem is the massive international presence
brought by the arrival of Nato peacekeeping forces, and the large
amounts of money now in circulation. At present more than 40,000
soldiers from all over the world are stationed in Kosovo, plus another
7,000 UN administrators and aid workers from public and private
international relief organisations.
Many of the prospective customers perusing the bars and nightclubs are
members of the international mission in Kosovo, reports one aid worker
with an international organisation. "This business is determined by
supply and demand," says the woman, who gets her information from
talking to victims. It is, she says, a cheap investment for the
traffickers, who are attracted by the low risk and the potential for
making enormous profits.
But, she adds, for the women and girls - sometimes as young as 15 - the
sex trade is an extreme form of sexual and economic exploitation. Once
they come under the slave traders' control and end up in one of the
clubs, the women have no freedom whatsoever to decide their fate,
according to the aid worker.
A campaign is now being planned for the coming weeks that is aimed above
all at the nightclubs' international "clientele." The campaign is
supposed to make it clear to these men that the women in the clubs are
not "normal" prostitutes. "You pay once, she pays her whole life long,"
one of the slogans goes.
The situation in Kosovo is not without precedent. Nightclubs and bars
sprouted up like mushrooms near the former frontline after the war in
Bosnia. Kosovo is simply the latest market in a network that is part of
a booming business. Most local women stay away from the clubs.
Kosovo, like neighbouring Albania, is both a recruiting ground and a
transit area for traffic in women. Experts estimate that around 30,000
Albanian women are currently working as prostitutes, most of them in
Italy. For eastern European women, the road also stops in Serbia or
Belgrade en route to final destinations in Bosnia, Montenegro or western
Europe.
Recently seven Ukranian women were rescued from a club in the
Montenegrin capital of Podgorica, thanks to leads provided by a
development organisation based in their home country. Aid organisations
allege that, once the women are freed from forced prostitution,
officials treat them no better than criminals, arresting them and then
deporting them. Pimps and "nightclub" owners, however, generally get off
scot-free.
In April a Serbian court in the northern section of the divided city of
Mitrovica sentenced two Moldovan women to 30 days in jail for
prostitution, and issued a three-year ban on their re-entering the
country. The UN administration, which is formally responsible for
Kosovo, did not see fit to intervene. The women usually have no
identifying papers to show police when they arrived. In what human
rights observers see as a clear case of criminalising the victim, the
women are generally taken into custody like illegal immigrants to await
their deportation. The carabinieri working for the UN in Kosovo who made
the initial nightclub raid did not know what to do at first with the 12
women they discovered.
In the meantime, local and international aid organisations in Pristina
have quietly opened a temporary refuge for women at a secret location.
The "safe house" with room for 20 women has already been full on
occasion.
Workers from the non-profit International Organisation for Migration
(IOM) assist women who want to return to their countries of origin. The
organisation locates people they can turn to and also procures new
identity documents for the women. IOM is active in some of the women's
home countries as well, working, for example, in Ukraine and Moldova in
conjunction with local charities, counselling centres and women's
shelters so that the women have somewhere to turn once they arrive home.
No one, however, is forced to return. Once back in their hometowns, the
women often fear acts of revenge by the traffickers, who feel cheated
out of their profits.
UN investigators and aid workers believe the trend in illegal
prostitution is likely to continue. "If we close a nightclub one day, a
new one is certain to open up somewhere else the next day," says one
official resignedly. The attention international organisations are now
giving to the problem could result in the unintended consequence that
the lucrative business will increasingly be driven underground, where
the women will be forced to work in anonymous, private apartments.
---
http://www.msnbc.com/news/416095.asp?cp1=1
Sex-slave trade flourishes in Kosovo
The seedy side
of peacekeeping
in a war-torn region
NBCs Kevin Tibbles reports there is a new battle in
Kosovo; an illegal sex slave trade.
By Kevin Tibbles
NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia A year after NATOs bombing
campaign and occupation saved Kosovos Albanians from
persecution and death,a new kind of human abuse has
emerged: forced prostitution, organized by the
Albanian mob. More than 1,000 women have been smuggled
into the war-ravaged region to serve as sex slaves.
THE WOMEN in Kosovos sex business
estimated by police to number more than 1,000 come
from all over Eastern Europe, funneled into the region
by well-organized crime gangs using regular trade
routes.
The former Soviet states have become prime
suppliers of women for the multimillion-dollar sex
trade. Moldova, Ukraine and Russia, as well as
Bulgaria and Romania, are the hunting grounds for men
who deal in the seedy business of so-called white
slavery. Many young women, seeking to escape the
shackles of collapsed economies and high rates of
unemployment, are easy targets for the sophisticated
traffickers.
In Bulgaria, for example, women are offered
better lives in Western countries working as nannies
or waitresses. They respond to newspaper ads that
carry a cellular telephone number as a contact. Once
the women accept a job and put their future and
passport in the hands of an employer, things go
horribly different than they planned.
We try to act professionally when we come
here, but it is hard not to be emotional, said Jack
Simmons, a lanky Texas detective on loan to the U.N.
police force in Kosovo. This is slavery, and these
are slaves. They are bought and sold at auctions.
Theyre treated like property.
FEAR AS A TOOL OF SUBMISSION
Melissa Colten, an American working for the
International Office for Migration, a non-governmental
organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, said
traffickers instill a deep fear in the women.
Usually they are locked in a room for between three
and five days. Maybe they will receive water.
Everything is taken away from them. Usually they are
beaten and usually they are raped repeatedly. In some
instances they are kept awake so they lose all sense
of reality and time, and it becomes very, very
disconcerting for them.
The purpose of the brutal treatment is to break
the women down emotionally so traffickers can control
them. Once this training session is over, the women
are ready for sale. Prices start at around $500 in
their country of origin. Each time theyre smuggled
across an international border, the price will
increase. By the time a woman is trafficked into
Kosovo, she could sell for as much as $2,500.
There are bolder ways of obtaining women for
forced prostitution. Many have simply been kidnapped
at gunpoint, outside nightclubs, off trains or on
street corners. Once in the hands of the slave
traders, they become the disappeared.
Theyre paraded. The girls tell us theyre
made to walk around in their underwear while the
buyers from Kosovo examine them, and then they make
their choices. So, its pretty much like a cattle
auction, Simmons said.
Officials from Kosovos international police
force told NBC News that Valeshta, a town in Macedonia
near the border with Albania, is controlled by the
Albanian mob and where many of the young women say
they were sold. Recently, two Macedonian police were
beaten into critical condition simply for setting foot
in the place.
In Valeshta, reporters were immediately
accosted by three armed men who jumped from a car.
They demanded to know the purpose of the visit and
threatened the lives of any journalist venturing
further into the town.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TOLL
Psychologists say that women forced into
prostitution must fight for their survival.
If you put a person on the border between life
and death, then every human being would chose life,
said Nadia Kojouharova, a psychiatrist working in the
Bulgarian capital, Sofia. They are ready to do
everything just to stay alive. This is the situation
the girls are in. They build in their imagination that
their life doesnt mean anything beyond survival, and
to survive each day you must obey what the pimp wants
from you.
What the pimp wants is for the women to have
sex, often unprotected, with as many men as possible.
Records U.N. police have seized from some brothel
owners show hundreds of thousands of dollars being
made in just a few months time. The numbers are
shocking in the context of Kosovo, one of the poorest
areas of Europe.
Women, however, see none of the riches. They
are forced to pay back their purchase price to the
pimp and reimburse him for clothing, and room and
board. In the rare cases when women do pay back pimps,
they find themselves fined for minor infractions
like not smiling at a client or complaining about
treatment and falling back into debt.
Not one girl weve rescued has had any money
on her, Simmons said. They dont have money, they
dont have travel documents ... theyre helpless.
DISORIENTED PRISONERS
Many women become so confused they dont even
know where they are. In some cases, police say,
rescued women actually thought they were in Italy,
when in fact they were being held in a Kosovo bar.
Just across the Kosovo border is the Macedonian
town of Tetovo. It is here that an off-duty Macedonian
police officer takes us on a midnight tour down a
series of broken-down roads. We pass a dozen or so
dingy-looking houses, all with red lights out front.
We dont have any money. I work, but I dont have
any money, because he doesnt pay me.
ANA
Kosovo prostitute Inside one house, Ana, 19,
is from Romania. Natasha, 21, is from Moldavia. They
are slinging beer out front, but they live in a
bare-walled room behind the bar furnished with two
unmade beds and a dirty hand-held shower in the
corner. The girls are prostitutes, although they claim
they came here to work as waitresses.
Do you make good money here? I ask. No, Ana
answers. We dont have any money. I work, but I dont
have any money, because he doesnt pay me.
Sitting out front, smoking Marlboros and
drinking brandy, Carlo, the girls owner, swears he
splits their earnings 50-50.
I buy them on the border with Bulgaria, he
said. They come from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia,
Romania, Greece, and also Albania. I own 30.
Carlo said he often moves the women he buys on
to Kosovo, and that they can go back home if they
like. Still, he holds Ana and Natashas passports,
making it impossible for them to travel. Both girls
say they want to go home.
Back in Kosovo, the police have helped 50 such
women return home this year alone. Working in tandem
with the International Organization for Migration, the
police spirit sex slaves out of the clubs, hide them
from pimps and traders in a safehouse and then take
them over the border. The IOM also tries to help them
resettle.
FREEDOM GONE WRONG
Irina, one freed woman who asked that her real
name not be used, was found working in a Pristina
brothel and asked police to get her out. Her story of
liberation, however, doesnt have a happy ending.
She was repatriated to Bulgaria and provided a
bed in a local womens shelter in Sofia. She even
managed to get a job and make a few friends, usually
difficult for women who have been taken captive and
lived in fear.
People dont make the difference between a
voluntary prostitute and someone who is forced into
prostitution, said the Bulgarian psychiatrist
Kojouharova. If you have been in this business, it
stays with you forever and you cannot do anything to
delete it from your life. Suicide is a common
occurrence, Kojouharova said.
When Irina got home, however, she disappeared,
likely a victim of the long tentacles of organized
crime. One night, after going out with a friend, she
said her good-byes and climbed onto a streetcar. She
has not been seen since.
IOMs Melissa Colten met and helped Irina when
she was pulled from prostitutions grasp. Her face
darkens when asked of Irinas fate.
My fear is that she is being trafficked again,
and that this is the completion of the vicious cycle
that is going around again for her. Colten said she
believes Irinas former pimps tracked her down.
In Giulani, in the heart of the American sector
in Kosovo, an American cop walks the beat. North
Carolinian Steve Dunbar patrols a place where law and
order has been put on hold. The day he found a
pregnant 15-year-old girl working behind the scenes
in a local coffee bar, he made freeing sex slaves his
personal mission.
No kid should be in a business like this, he
said, pointing to the window where the girl used to
ply her trade. Yet with so many Westerners including
NATO peacekeepers the gangs are working overtime to
tempt them with women. U.S. military personnel in the
area have been warned to steer clear of the sex
traders. When off duty, they are confined to a nearby
base.
Im not going to say that everyone is immune
to temptation, said Maj. Debbie Allen. What I am
going to say is that they know it is illegal ... and
that they are aware of the consequences.
SHUTTING DOWN THE SEX TRADE
Dunbar and his fellow officers wind their way
down a dusty alley, along a stagnant canal filled with
debris and stench. Theyre making their way to the Bar
Tirana, already the target of one police raid. On this
visit, they find a young woman from Moldova. Yes, I
was bought and sold, she said. Of course I was.
The police shut Bar Tirana down, forcing the
bartender to padlock the doors. They warn him that he
faces arrest if they find the bar open again.
Dunbar may be light years away from the streets
he usually patrols in Charlotte, N.C., but he said it
wont stop him from laying down the law.
They can go anywhere they want in Europe to do
this kind of business, but it is not going to happen
in the American Sector in Kosovo, and its not going
to happen in the town of Giulani as long as I am
here.
NBCs Kevin Tibbles is on assignment in Kosovo.
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Una delle voci atlantiste piu' guerrafondaie del panorama politico
europeo attuale e' quella di Vaclav Havel, grande sostenitore della
aggressione NATO contro la RFJ nel 1999 ed ora impegnato ad appoggiare
la secessione del Montenegro.
Forse l'attuale presidente della Repubblica Ceca, troppo impegnato a
calare le braghe dinanzi ai ricatti della NATO e della UE - basti
pensare che ha *regalato* a Radio Free Europe l'intero palazzo del
Parlamento di Praga! - dimentica che negli anni in cui era solo un
piccolo drammaturgo "dissidente" sopravvisse grazie all'onorario
passatogli attraverso la moglie Olga da "Atelje 212", una istituzione
culturale legata al Teatro di Belgrado, che spesso e volentieri metteva
le sue opere in cartellone... A quei tempi, nella RFSJ autonoma da
entrambi i blocchi e fautrice del "non allineamento", la tendenza
politica e culturale del "socialismo dal volto umano" e della primavera
di Praga era vista con simpatia da molti. Per tutto ringraziamento, oggi
Havel ovviamente sputa nel piatto in cui mangiava all'epoca.
Sull'argomento sarebbe interessante conoscere l'opinione del direttore
di "Atelje 212", Jovan Cirilov, che peraltro - come ogni bravo incensato
"intellettuale" - e' oggi pure lui probabilmente vicino alla opposizione
filo-occidentale.
(Fonte: "Svedok", rivista jugoslava, 25 maggio 1999
>
> YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
>
> BELGRADE, 19 July 2000 No. 3113
>
> C O N T E N T S :
>
> CZECH CITIZENS CONDEMN HAVEL'S WARMONGERING STATEMENTS
> PRAGUE, July 19 (Tanjug) Dozens of Czech citizens addressed the
> Yugoslav Embassy in Prague these days, condemning or expressing deep
> regrets over what they called unseeming, warmongering statements by their
> President Vaclav Havel in the Croatian town of Dubrovnik.
> Czech students of renowned Charles University of Prague were among
> those who came to the Yugoslav Embassy in person to express support to the
> Yugoslav leadership. The students brought a letter for Yugoslav President
> Slobodan Milosevic.
> We condemn and disown the antiSlav policy of the current Czech
> government which is doing everything to win the sympathies of the United
> States and the NATO Pact. That is why the government is doing whatever they
> order, the letter said.
> Many Czechs, from all parts of the country, have telephoned the
> Yugoslav Embassy or sent letters expressing their apologies over their
> president's statements and his open interference in the internal affairs of
> Yugoslavia.
>
> ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF SLAV CULTURES: HAVEL IS AN EVIL AND
> FALSE PROPHET
> CESKE BUDEJOVICE, July 18 (Tanjug) Czech President Vaclav Havel,
> fake prophet of truth and love, speaks about Serbia calling for a
> demonstration of force, said a letter of apology to the Serb people sent by
> the Association of Friends of Slav Cultures and Languages from the city of
> Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
> The Association recalled that Havel is the author of the
> meaningless term "humanitarian bombing" and that the demolished hospitals
> and the graves of thousands of civilians killed during the 1999 NATO air
> raids "are the result of such humanity."
> The Association said that the Serbs had always helped the Czech
> people in difficult times and that this is why its members are ashamed of
> the Czech leader's statements which "are a far cry from morality and common
> sense."
> We apologize on behalf of the majority of honest Czech citizens
> which share our feelings of bitterness and shame and we beg you not to
> attribute Havel's evil statements to the entire Czech nation, the
> Association said.
> The Association is a nonpolitical organization committed to the
> affirmation of the culture of all Slav countries.
>
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Kosmet viene suddiviso in tre zone di occupazione straniera:
una italiana, una tedesca ed una bulgara.
Nell'agosto 1941 l'Italia, che occupa la parte piu' estesa, annette
questo territorio alla "Grande Albania". Tutto il Kosmet, compresa la
zona di Mitrovica, Podujevo e Vucitrn, a maggioranza serba e
formalmente sotto il controllo del governo-fantoccio filotedesco di
Nedic, e' in realta' alla merce' delle bande dei collaborazionisti
albanesi, specialmente quelle di Boletini e Deva, che seminano il
terrore sotto gli auspici della Wehrmacht.
In effetti durante la guerra nella Grande Albania verra' costituita
persino una divisione schipetara delle SS, la "Skanderbeg", cosi'
come in Bosnia la divisione "Handzar", tutta composta da musulmani.
Analogamente a quanto avviene nella Croazia di Pavelic e Stepinac,
anche nel Kosovo panalbanese i diritti di cittadinanza ai serbi sono
negati. Si mira all'annientamento della cultura e della presenza
fisica serba. Svariati villaggi e luoghi di culto vengono rasi al
suolo, e molti crimini vengono commessi contro la popolazione.
(...) Sotto il nazifascismo nella zona viene
ripristinato il sistema di proprieta' feudale: i contadini perdono
cosi' i beni ottenuti grazie alla riforma agraria del 1918, attuata
dal regno jugoslavo. Rispuntano i "bey" e gli "aga" di ottomana
memoria, che tornano a controllare la distribuzione dei prodotti
agricoli e la vita sociale in quanto rappresentanti del nuovo Stato
panalbanese. Le razzie contro il bestiame e la distruzione dei beni
degli ortodossi sono consuetudine.
Kosovo Polje e Pristina vengono abbandonate dalla popolazione
non-schipetara. Fonti tedesche di allora registrano almeno 60mila
fuggiaschi. Persino Neubacher, plenipotenziario del Ministero degli
Esteri hitleriano, deve intervenire perche' gli episodi di terrore
diminuiscano.
L'atteggiamento degli occupanti italiani nei confronti delle violenze
commesse dalle milizie collaborazioniste albanesi e' duplice.
Nell'ottobre del 1941 gli italiani sono corresponsabili della
distruzione del villaggio di Dren. Viceversa, nel dicembre 1942 a
Vitomirica attacchi a sorpresa dei fascisti locali contro la popolazione
cristiano-ortodossa costringono questa a riparare nell'accampamento dei
Carabinieri...
( http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/250399.htm )
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* KOSOVARO-ALBANESI PROGRESSISTI BOICOTTERANNO LE ELEZIONI
* MEMBRI NORVEGESI DELL'UCKFOR RAZZIANO CASA SERBA
* LACRIME DI COCCODRILLO TURCHE PER LA SITUAZIONE IN KOSMET
* ANCORA DIVISIONI DENTRO "MEDICI SENZA FRONTIERE" PER IL TERRORE DELLA
NATO IN KOSMET
* IL RUOLO NEFASTO DEL SENATORE STATUNITENSE LIEBERMAN
* DOVE SONO FINITE LE ARMI DELLA "RIVOLTA DELLE PIRAMIDI"?
* LINK SEGNALATI:
> NATO in Kosovo: in bed with a scorpion
> Noam Chomsky: A review of NATOs war over Kosovo
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* KOSOVARO-ALBANESI PROGRESSISTI BOICOTTERANNO LE ELEZIONI
http://www.serbia-info.com/news
Numerous ethnic Albanians boycotted registration poll and will boycott
Kouchner's elections
August 03, 2000
Ethnic Albanians saw through the intentions as well
Pristina, August 3 - Leader of the Democratic Reform Party of ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, Sokolj Cuse, assessed that numerous
ethnic Albanians would boycott illegal elections prepared by U.N.
mission chief Bernard Kouchner.
"KFOR and UNMIK keep on exerting unprincipled pressures with threats and
blackmails, not only on unlike-minded ethnic Albanians who do not agree
with extremists and separatists, but also on the representatives of
other national communities - Serbs, Turks, Romanies, Goranies and other,
forcing them to register to vote and go to the polls. That is not only a
non-democratic act, but is also direct violation of the U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1244, Cuse said.
Leader of the Democratic Reform Party of ethnic Albanians, which has
been fighting for multiethnic Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia and
Yugoslavia for years, thinks that there will be no democratic elections
in Kosovo and Metohija "because Kouchner has registered some 250,000
Albanians from Albania and Macedonia".
According to Cuse, they have entered Kosovo and Metohija through a
non-secured border crossing, forcefully moved in the houses of expelled
non-Albanian population, committed numerous robberies, murders and other
crime.
"Unfortunately, not only Kouchner, but also terrorist Hashim Thaqui
relies on them. In return, they have received "recognition" of being
Kosovo and Metohija residents on the basis of false, or even none ID-s,
despite the fact that authorized bodies in Serbia have computer records
on each Kosovo and Metohija resident, Cuse said.
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* MEMBRI NORVEGESI DELL'UCKFOR RAZZIANO CASA SERBA
HTTP://www.serbia-info.com/news
Norwegian troops took money and gold
August 11, 2000
KFOR troops took money and gold
Kosovo Polje, August 10 (Tanjug) - During a three-hour search of a Serb
house, Norwegian KFOR troops based in Kosovo Polje took 7,500 DM and
gold, while the house owner Mirka Maksimovic ended in a health center,
spokesman of the Serbian National Assembly in Kosovo Polje Zivomir Vucic
stated.
Norwegian KFOR troops in full battle dress previously surrounded with
several jeeps a vehicle of the Serbian National Assembly chairman
Ratomir Maksimovic, Serbian National Assembly Executive Board vice
chairman Zvonko Mitic and Vucic, on the pretext of exercising a routine
check.
That "routine check has lasted for three hours with arms prepared to
fire. They took our personal data, demanded that we give them our home
phone numbers and took photos of us", Vucic said.
The harassment continued in front of Mirka Maksimovic's house, Ratomir
Maksimovic's mother. Norwegian troops then searched her house.
"Ratomir Maksimovic was in front of the house, Mitic and I were not
allowed to leave the car. They took 7,500 DM and gold from Mirka
Maksimovic's house. Being a serious diabetic, Mirka got sick and
received treatment in the health center", Vucic said.
This Norwegian KFOR troops' behaviour caused spontaneous gathering of
some 200 Serb residents in front of Mirka Maksimovic's house, Vucic
said, adding that the troops have sent off a Serb translator and brought
a uniformed ethnic Albanian one.
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* LACRIME DI COCCODRILLO TURCHE PER LA SITUAZIONE IN KOSMET
http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=184668§ion=default
Ankara Urges UN to Improve Kosovo Turks' Rights
ANKARA, Aug 1, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Turkish
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem urged Monday the head of
the United Nations interim administration in Kosovo,
Bernard Kouchner, to boost the rights of the Turkish
community in the province, a Turkish official said...
-
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/dostinic/turk.htm
Turkey Weeps Crocodile Tears
by Dan Dostinic (8-3-00)
"Ankara urges UN to improve Kosovo Turks' rights." And therein
lies a tale...
www.tenc.net
A July 31 Agence France Presse (AFP) report states that "Turkish
Foreign Minister
Ismail Cem urged Monday the head of the United Nations interim
administration in
Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, to boost the rights of the Turkish community
in the province."
The article cites Huseyin Dirioz, a Turkish foreign ministry official.
Turkey's concern stems from the decision of some 60,000 Kosovo Turks to
boycott
municipal elections because the "UN mission did not issue registration
forms in Turkish."
The article further states that "the Turks enjoyed cultural autonomy
under Belgrade's rule
and did not join the Albanian struggle for independence although the
two communities
have a common faith in Islam."
AFP does not explore the implications of the statement that the Turks,
a minority in
Serbia as are Albanians, "enjoyed cultural autonomy under Belgrade's
rule" during the
period (i.e., the 1990s) when Albanians were fighting for
'independence.'
Didn't Western leaders claim they had no choice but to bomb Yugoslavia
to restore to
ethnic Albanians the cultural autonomy they had been supposedly denied
because the
Serbian "rulers" loathed their Muslim faith? And wasn't the Muslim
faith brought to - and
in many case forced on - the Balkans by...the Turks?
Is something wrong with this picture?
If Serbian officials hate Muslims, why is it that ethnic Turks in
Serbian Kosovo "enjoyed
cultural autonomy under Belgrade's rule"? And why are the Turks
complaining that now,
under enlightened NATO rule, they can't even get the UN to print
Turkish language
election ballots?
Could it be that Belgrade was speaking the truth?
Could it be that Yugoslavia never took away ethnic Albanians' cultural
autonomy, that is,
judicial functions, schools, hospitals and mass media in the Albanian
language? Could it
be that in fact the Albanian secessionist movement organized a boycott
of Albanian
language institutions (such as schools) in order to score propaganda
points with the
West? [See footnote 2]
And consider Turkey. Turkey was a strategic participant in the 78 day
bombing of
Yugoslavia which President Clinton said was necessary in order to
insure "respect for
minority rights." (Clinton, 'New York Times,' Op-ed, May 23, 1999)
And now Turkey has 1,000 troops in Kosovo.
According to recent reports, ethnic Albanians are complaining about
lawlessness in
Kosovo [Footnote 1] Refugees are afraid to return, fearing attacks by
Albanian
extremists. A recent UN report described the UN-created Kosovo
Protection Corps as
engaging in:
"criminal activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal
policing, abuse of
authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and
hate speech." ( From
The UN appoints an alleged war criminal in Kosovo, by Michel
Chossudovsky, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm )
Given these conditions, shouldn't there be a renewal of demands for
inquiries in all
capitals that took part in the bombing of Yugoslavia? The question to
which we need an
answer is: WHY?
The AFP article closes with the following: "Cem warned that Turkey
could limit its
contributions to Kosovo's security if the rights of the Turkish
community were not
rectified."
What "security" Mr. Cem?
Dan Dostinic is a Canadian antiwar activist.
www.tenc.net
Footnotes
1) In "Concentration camps in Kosovo: The KLA Archipelago" Jared Israel
offers the
following amazing description of the brave new civil government which
the UN and
NATO have installed in Kosovo. The following is from the 'New York
Times, ' hardly an
opponent of US policy in Yugoslavia. The excerpt begins with a quote
from the 'Times':
'"Tahir Canolli, 49, ran a furniture store in Pristina for nearly
three decades. He,
like many businessmen, hoped that when he returned to Pristina
from the refugee
camps in Macedonia, the harassment he experienced under Serbs
would end."'
"Note [from Jared Israel] to readers: the "harassment under
Serbs" remark,
pasted onto the article without benefit of support or explanation
(how was he
harassed and how do we know he was?) is an example of the
Obligatory Bash
( http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/obligato.htm ) which can
be found in
virtually all articles about Yugoslavia. No matter what the
subject, and especially
if the subject is KLA terror, the writer or editor offers at
least one anti-Serbian
side-swipe just to remind readers that however awful the KLA and
NATO may
be, 'The Serbs' are worse. Note that 'The Serbs' are here treated
as an
undifferentiated mass, which is only fitting for an Evil People."
'"Instead, a group of KLA fighters arrived at his shop two
weeks ago
with a paper issued from 'The Ministry of Public Order'
demanding the
keys to his 1990 Audi 80 and his store.
''They were arrogant, brutal and rude,' he said, unfolding
the stamped
order that he now carries in his pocket. 'They told me that
if I did not
comply immediately they knew a cellar I might like to
visit."'
"A cellar? As in dungeon?
"The Times report ascends from the horrible to the surreal:
'"Within hours, $50,000 worth of furniture was loaded onto
trucks brought
by the officials who had demanded his keys. The looters not
only stripped
the store of its contents but also ripped out the heaters,
lamps and
mirrors. [!] They carted away 24 large flower boxes that had
been outside
the building. The next day several flower boxes of the same
design and
with the same kinds of plants were placed outside the
building where Mr.
Thaci works."
"Mr. Thaci was indulging his feminine side, yes? Now comes a bit
of humor,
perhaps unintended:
'"Mr. Thaci's appointees said that such confiscations,
especially of
state-owned buildings, were part of their effort to
determine property
ownership. They also defended the decision to begin
collecting money
from businesses, a practice many shop owners have labeled
'extortion.'"
"Ah, those troublesome shop owners! Always throwing around
labels!
"The article continues:
'"Mr. Canolli has spent hours outside Mr. Thaci's ministries
in recent
days in the hope that he can reclaim some of his property or
be
compensated for it. But each attempt has been rebuffed.
"'I saw the K.L.A. police inspector who gave me the
confiscation order
driving my car, although it had no license plates,' he said.
'I went to his
office but was told at the door that I should never come
back or attempt to
speak with him..'"(NY Times, July 29, 1999, my emphasis).
You can read
this article in full at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/reporter.htm
2) In her excellent introduction to the wars of secession in Yugoslavia
during the
1990s, Yugoslavia Seen Through a Dark Glass, Diana Johsnstone refers to
an ICG report
called Kosovo Spring, which talks about the boycott. Johnstone quotes
from the report:
24) "The March 24, 1998 report of the International Crisis Group
entitled 'Kosovo
Spring' notes that: 'In many spheres of life, including politics,
education and
health-care, the boycott by Kosovars of the Yugoslav state is
almost total.' In
particular, 'Kosovars refuse to participate in Serbian or
Yugoslavian political life.
The leading Yugoslav political parties all have offices in Kosovo
and claim some
Kosovar members, but essentially they are 'Serb-only'
institutions. In 1997
several Kosovars accused of collaborating with the enemy (i.e.
the Serbian
State) were attacked, including Charnilj Gasi, head of the
Socialist Party of
Serbia in Glagovac, and a deputy in the Yugoslav Assembly's House
of Citizens,
who was shot and wounded in November. The lack of interest of
Serb political
parties in wooing Kosovars is understandable. Kosovars have
systematically
boycotted the Yugoslav and Serbian elections since 1981,
considering them
events in a foreign country.'"
As Ms. Johnstone notes, the ICG is very much not a pro-Serbian
institution, merely one
that is required on occasion to tell the truth:
"The ICG, while scarcely pro-Serb in its conclusions,
nevertheless provides
information neglected by mainstream media. This is perhaps
because the ICG
addresses its findings to high-level decision-makers who need to
be in
possession of a certain number of facts, rather than to the
general public. Gasi
was not the only target of Albanian attacks on fellow Albanians
in the Glogovse
municipal district, situated in the Drenica region which the
"Kosovo Liberation
Army" (UCK) tried to control in early 1998. Others included
forester Mujo Sejd,
52, killed by machine-gun fire near his home on January 12, 1998;
postman
Mustafa Kurtaj, 26, killed on his way to work by a group firing
automatic rifles;
factory guard Rusdi Ladrovci, ambushed and killed with automatic
weapons
apparently after refusing to turn over his official arm to the
UCK; among others.
On April 10, 1998, men wearing camouflage uniforms and insignia
of the Army of
Albania fired automatic weapons at a passenger car carrying four
ethnic Albanian
officials of the Socialist Party of Serbia including Gugna Adem,
President of the
Suva Reka Municipal Board, who was gravely injured; and Ibro
Vait, member of
the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and President of
the SPS district
board in the city of Prizren. Numerous such attacks have been
reported by the
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, but Western media have shown scant
interest in
the fate of ethnic Albanians willing to live Serbs in
multi-ethnic Serbia." ( Quoted
from Through a Dark Glass at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/1yugo.htm
www.tenc.net
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* ANCORA DIVISIONI DENTRO "MEDICI SENZA FRONTIERE" PER IL TERRORE DELLA
NATO IN KOSMET
NOTA: Tra i fondatori di "Medici senza frontiere", ONG premio Nobel che
ha gia' espulso la sua sezione greca perche' "aiutava i serbi", c'e'
l'attuale amministratore coloniale ONU, il serbofobo Kouchner.
http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/global/story/0,4382,500236922-500346724-502000175-0,00.html
Global: Humanitarian doctors leave Kosovo in protest
The Associated Press
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (August 7, 2000 5:16 p.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Accusing the United
Nations of allowing ethnic cleansing to continue in
Kosovo, the Belgian branch of the humanitarian group
Doctors Without Borders announced Monday it was
leaving the embattled area.
Doctors Without Borders "can no longer tolerate the
serious and continuous deterioration of living
conditions of the ethnic minorities in Kosovo," the
group said in a statement released in Pristina. French
teams from Doctors Without Borders will remain in the
province.
The group said the Belgian doctors had been
"eyewitnesses to the daily harassment and terror
against the Serb minority in (the towns of) Vucitrn
and Srbica and the Albanian minority in (the northern
part of Kosovska) Mitrovica."
The group said life for ethnic minorities was marked
by killings, drive-by shootings, hand grenade attacks,
verbal abuse, threats, robbery and blackmail. Many had
been forced to leave their homes, the group said.
More than a year after NATO and the United Nations
marched into Kosovo, mistrust and violence still
fester between ethnic Albanians, Serbs and other
minority groups. International officials make almost
daily appeals for tolerance, saying ethnic tensions
are preventing the southern Serb province from
achieving economic and social progress.
"Doctors Without Borders questions the appropriateness
of humanitarian medical and psychological assistance
when, in the presence of internationally mandated
protection forces, the fundamental rights of people
are being denied," the statement said.
The Paris-based group, which was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1999, has worked in Kosovo since 1993.
It provides home-based care in the ethnically divided
city of Kosovska Mitrovica.
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* IL RUOLO NEFASTO DEL SENATORE STATUNITENSE LIEBERMAN
HTTP://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,206755,00.html
The Guardian (UK)
April 9, 1999
Democratic US senator Joe Lieberman, who introduced the Kosovo Self
Defence Act on March 25
"If, after extended air strikes, it becomes clear that Mr Milosevic
intends to continue his war of aggression, we must have an answer to the
question of what next? The bill we are proposing provides us with such
an answer, and an opportunity to send an uncompromising message to Mr
Milosevic: we will not stand idly by and allow him to brutalise the
people of Kosovo any longer..."
-
Joseph Lieberman, the KLA and Heroin
http://www.canadianserbs.com/war_stories/kosovo/facts_kosovo_drugkla.htm
Kosovo War: KLA finances war with heroin sales
May 3, 1999 - By Jerry Seper
The Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton administration has
embraced and some members of
Congress want to arm as part of the NATO bombing campaign, is a
terrorist organization that has
financed much of its war effort with profits from the sale of
heroin.
Recently obtained intelligence documents show that drug agents in
five countries, including the
United States, believe the KLA has aligned itself with an
extensive organized crime network
centered in Albania that smuggles heroin and some cocaine to
buyers throughout Western Europe
and, to a lesser extent, the United States.
The documents tie members of the Albanian Mafia to a drug
smuggling cartel based in Kosovo's
provincial capital, Pristina. The cartel is manned by ethic
Albanians who are members of the Kosovo
National Front, whose armed wing is the KLA. The documents show it
is one of the most powerful
heroin smuggling organizations in the world, with much of its
profits being diverted to the KLA to
buy weapons.
The clandestine movement of drugs over a collection of land and
sea routes from Turkey through
Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia to Western Europe and elsewhere is
so frequent and massive that
intelligence officials have dubbed the circuit the "Balkan Route."
Mr. Clinton has committed air power and is considering the use of
ground troops to support the
Kosovo rebels against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Last
week, Sen. Mitch McConnell,
Kentucky Republican, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut
Democrat, called on the United
States to arm the KLA so ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could defend
themselves against the Serbs.
Mr. McConnell and Mr. Lieberman introduced a bill that would
provide $25 million to equip 10,000
men or 10 battalions with small arms and anti-tank weapons for up
to 18 months.
In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA -- formally
known as the Ushtria Clirimtare e
Kosoves, or UCK -- as an international terrorist organization,
saying it had bankrolled its
operations with proceeds from the international heroin trade and
from loans from known terrorists
like Osama bin Laden. "They were terrorists in 1998 and now,
because of politics, they're freedom
fighters," said one top drug official who asked not to be
identified.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in a recent report, said
the heroin is smuggled along
the Balkan Route in cars, trucks and boats initially to Austria,
Germany and Italy, where it is routed
to eager buyers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Great
Britain. Some of the white powder, the DEA report said, finds its
way to the United States.
The DEA report, prepared for the National Narcotics Intelligence
Consumer's Committee (NNICC),
said a majority of the heroin seized in Europe is transported over
the Balkan Route. It said drug
smuggling organizations composed of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were
considered "second only to
Turkish gangs as the predominant heroin smugglers along the Balkan
Route." The NNICC is a
coalition of federal agencies involved in the war on drugs.
"Kosovo traffickers were noted for their use of violence and for
their involvement in international
weapons trafficking," the DEA report said.
A separate DEA document, written last month by U.S. drug agents in
Austria, said that while the
war in the former Yugoslavia had reduced the drug flow to Western
Europe along the Balkan Route,
new land routes have opened across Romania, Hungary and the Czech
Republic. The report said,
however, the diversion appeared to be only temporary.
The DEA estimated that between four and six metric tons of heroin
leaves each month from Turkey
bound for Western Europe, the bulk of it traveling over the Balkan
Route.
A second high-ranking U.S. drug official, who also requested
anonymity, said government and
police corruption in Kosovo, along with widespread poverty
throughout the region, had contributed
to an increase in heroin trafficking by the KLA and other ethnic
Albanians. The official said drug
smuggling is "out of control" and little is being done by
neighboring states to get a handle on it.
"This is the definition of the wild, wild West," said the
official. "The bombing has slowed it down, but
has not brought it to a halt. And, eventually, it will pick up
where it left off."
The heroin trade along the Balkan Route has been of concern to
several countries:
The Greek representative of Interpol reported in 1998 that
Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were "the
primary sources of supply for cocaine and heroin in that country."
Intelligence officials in France said in a recent report the KLA
was among several organizations in
southern Europe that had built a vast drug-smuggling network.
France's Geopolitical Observatory
of Drugs said in the report that the KLA was a key player in the
rapidly expanding drugs-for-arms
business and helped transport $2 billion worth of drugs annually
into Western Europe.
German drug agents have estimated that $1.5 billion in drug
profits is laundered annually by Kosovo
smugglers, through as many as 200 private banks or
currency-exchange offices. They noted in a
recent report that ethnic Albanians had established one of the
most prominent drug smuggling
organizations in Europe.
Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales
could have netted the KLA profits in
the "high tens of millions of dollars." The highly regarded
British-based journal noted at the time
that the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the
aid of drug money, along with
donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United States.
Several leading intelligence officials said the KLA has, in part,
financed its purchase of AK-47s,
semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, handguns, grenade launchers,
ammunition, artillery shells,
explosives, detonators and anti-personnel mines through drug
profits -- cash laundered through
banks in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. They also said KLA rebels
have paid for weapons using the
heroin itself as currency.
The profits, according to the officials, also have been used to
purchase anti-aircraft and anti-armor
rockets, along with electronic surveillance equipment.
-
http://www.antiwar.com/szamuely/pf/p-sz081000.html
Decline of The West
by George Szamuely - Antiwar.com
August 10, 2000
Joe Lieberman and the Gangsta State
"Determined to transform a potential liability into a defining asset,
Vice President Al Gore today
formally introduced Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut as his
Democratic running mate
and portrayed his selection of Mr. Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, as a
measure of his devotion to
tolerance and his willingness to break barriers" thus the New York
Times's (8/9/00) entirely
predictable attempt to bully people into voting for Al Gore...
-
http://www.originalsources.com/OS8-00MQC/8-10-2000.1.html
The Medias Inaccurate Report Creates Lieberman "Anti-Semitic" Incident
Milking the "Jewish Connection" Portrays Lieberman as a "Victim"
By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)
August 10, 2000
On Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, Vice President Gore introduced
Connecticut Sen. Joseph I.
Lieberman as his vice presidential running mate and said the inclusion
of the "first Jew on a
national ticket would help tear down a mighty wall of division." ...
-
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/garris/duringthe2.htm
Senator Lieberman - Apologist for the fascist KLA
by Jared Israel and Eric Garris (8-10-00)
"And so this Lieberman, who makes a public spectacle of his
religious beliefs, who
pontificates from a pinnacle higher than Morality, this Lieberman
fronts for the KLA,
self-proclaimed heirs to the Balli Kombëtar, the World War II
Albanian fascists (3) who
are responsible for the deaths of almost all the Jews in Kosovo.
Note that since being put
in power by NATO and the UN, the KLA has driven from Kosovo those
Jews who
escaped the Balli Kombëtar during W.W. II, driven out those
survivors of the Holocaust
and their descendants.(4)" [Excerpt from "Senator Lieberman -
Apologist for the fascist
KLA"]
www.tenc.net
In April, 1999, during the NATO War against Yugoslavia, an attempt was
made in Congress to
officially fund the arming of the Kosovo Liberation (sic!) Army (sic!
again) or KLA. Along with
Sen. John McCain, Sen. Joseph Lieberman sponsored the "Kosovo
Self-Defense Act." The text of
the statement Lieberman made at the time is posted below.
Here are a few observations to help put Lieberman's actions in
perspective.
There is virtually no doubt that at the time Lieberman was calling on
Congress to arm the KLA,
the US was already covertly providing arms and training to that
secessionist-terrorist group. As
early as the fall of 1998 we know that the Kosovo Verification Mission
was setting up tactical
liaison with and providing training for the KLA (1), all under the
guidance of seasoned US death
squad liaison expert, William Walker. (2)
In February a Bosnian Islamist daily published the following:
"TRAINING OF KLA MEMBERS IN US?
"According to Tirana daily newspapers, the Albanian Minister of
Foreign Affairs Paskal
Milo said that KLA members will be trained in the US. During his
meeting with US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Milo was informed that
Albanian guerrilla members
from Kosovo would be sent to the US for training. Milo added that
this was a promise,
which Albright gave him personally." ('NEVNI AVAZ' or 'Daily
Voice,' pro-Islamist
Sarajevo daily, 26 Feb 99)
Does a promise, apparently made by US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright in February, 1999,
to openly train the KLA contradict our assertion that the US was already
covertly training the
KLA long before February?
We don't think so. Rather, the promise of open training represented an
escalation in illegality by
the US government.
Consider, if you will, what it meant for the US to train the KLA.
1) The US was not at war with Yugoslavia in February, 1999.
2) In February, Albright described Kosovo as "a region of
Yugoslavia about the size of
Connecticut," i.e. admitted it was part of a sovereign country.
3) In February, Albright called the KLA a "sometimes brutal and
indiscriminate"
secessionist group devoted to a "simple answer to the tragedy of
Kosovo: independence
from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." (Quotes are from
"Madeleine Albright delivers
remarks on Kosovo at the Institute of Peace," Feb. 4, 1999)
For the US to train the KLA secretly was therefore to secretly violate
national sovereignty, the
cornerstone of international law. But to promise open support for
violent secessionists was to
uphold the US government's right to openly and flagrantly violate
national sovereignty, the
cornerstone of international law.
In another statement in February, Albright described how the
'international community' (led by the
US) would respond if the KLA didn't cooperate with US wishes:
"And if the Kosovar's [i.e., the KLA] crater this, it is obviously
more complicated because
there's not one any center, but they will lose the support of the
international community
and find themselves increasingly isolated and they can't operate
without the
community...('ABC this Week,' Feb. 7. 1999, our emphasis)
Obviously the KLA couldn't "lose the support of the international
community," that is, of the U.S.,
unless it had it to lose. As Albright noted, the KLA "cannot operate
without" this support. So US
Secretary of State Albright was admitting that the US government made it
possible for the KLA to
conduct terrorist attacks on Yugoslavia, a sovereign country. And mind
you, all this was weeks
before the failure of the so-called negotiations at Rambouillet.
Significance of Lieberman's 'Arm-the-KLA' Resolution
The point of the "Kosovo Self-Defense Act" was not that it was needed in
order for the KLA to
get U.S. weapons. Rather, it was intended to openly involve the US
Senate in a crime of war and
to prepare public opinion for viewing the vicious KLA fascists as
freedom fighters deserving
popular support. Lieberman refers to the KLA as "Kosovan military
forces" at a time (April 9,
1999) when the KLA was largely isolated, even among secessionist-minded
Albanians. And note,
that "Kosovan military forces" suggest there is some legitimate nation
of "Kosova" though no
such has ever existed, except as a Nazi creation. Indeed, the very word
"Kosova" is meaningless
in the Albanian language. (5)
And so this Lieberman, who makes a public spectacle of his religious
beliefs, who pontificates
from a pinnacle higher than Morality, this Lieberman fronts for the KLA,
self-proclaimed heirs to
the Balli Kombëtar, the World War II Albanian fascists (3) who are
responsible for the deaths of
almost all the Jews in Kosovo. Note that since being put in power by
NATO and the UN, the KLA
has driven from Kosovo those Jews who escaped the Balli Kombëtar during
W.W. II, driven out
those survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.(4)
Following is the statement Sen. Lieberman gave to 'The Guardian' (UK) on
April 9, 1999.
"If, after extended air strikes, it becomes clear that Mr.
Milosevic intends to continue his
war of aggression, we must have an answer to the question of what
next? The bill we are
proposing provides us with such an answer, and an opportunity to
send an uncompromising
message to Mr Milosevic: we will not stand idly by and allow him
to brutalise the people
of Kosovo any longer.
This bill is premised on our belief that Nato ground forces will
not be put into Kosovo
unless the Serbs and Kosovans reach a peace agreement. If we adopt
that stance, though,
and Serbian aggression continues, we have an obligation to allow
the Kosovans to defend
themselves. Our legislation, by providing aid to the Kosovan
military forces, would give
them a fair chance to fight for their families and their future.
"I am aware that this proposal will raise some concerns. I recall
that when I first raised
the idea of training and equipping the Bosnian army, many critics
told us that we would
destabilise an entire region or accelerate an arms race. In the
end, I think those concerns
were shown to be misguided.
"Training and equipping the Bosnians enhanced the stability of the
area and helped end the
Bosnian war. The situation in Kosovo is different. But that does
not diminish the suffering
of the Kosovan people subjected to Serb aggression, nor negate
their right to defend their
families from the threat of genocide."
***
Further reading...
1) See 'The Cat is Out of the Bag" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ciaaided.htm
2) On William Walker's death squad credentials see 'Meet Mr. Massacre'
at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm
3) On fascism in Kosovo see George Thompson's 'The roots of Kosovo
fascism' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/thompson/rootsof.htm
4) 'Driven from Kosovo: Jewish Leader Blames NATO - Interview With Cedda
Prlincevic' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/prlincevic.htm
(5) '''KosovA' 'KosovO' - What's in a Name?'' by Prof. J. Peter Maher at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/JP%20maher/InAname.html
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* DOVE SONO FINITE LE ARMI DELLA "RIVOLTA DELLE PIRAMIDI"?
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
August 10, 2000
"The Kosovars [KLA] acquired some state-of-the-art
weapons from western European countries and the U.S.,
but they relied for most of the weaponry on smuggling
through Albania's porous mountainous border."
Half of Guns Smuggled Abroad
TIRANA - Government officials say that half of some
700,000 weapons looted from army barracks have been
smuggled into neighbouring countries, while the
complete disarming of the population should take two
more years.
Minister of Public Order Spartak Poci said on Tuesday
that only half of the guns taken from army bases in
the 1997 turmoil still remain in the country.
A considerable amount of weapons that were looted
from the army are not inside Albanias borders, but
were smuggled abroad, Poci said. According to our
estimates, only 50 percent of the guns remain in
Albania, the rest were smuggled abroad.
The minister did not provide any details on how the
government estimated the number of guns smuggling.
Unofficial sources said that this a rough estimate
based on the number of weapons seized and still in
possession in Kosovo, and figures from Italian and
Greek police gun-hunt operations.
Kosovos restive ethnic Albanian population was armed
thanks to a state breakdown in Albania, that made
impossible its control of the borders and army bases.
The Kosovo Liberation Army emerged as an organised
armed force in the second half of 97, a few months
after the riots.
The Kosovars acquired some state-of-the-art weapons
from western European countries and the US, but they
relied for most of the weaponry on smuggling through
Albanias porous mountainous border.
Weapons were also smuggled to Italy and Greece to fuel
the local underworld there.
Albanian police have seized only 130,000 weapons,
mainly through voluntarily handing in, and from
development-for-weapons programmes.
Minister Poci said that a similar operation launched
at the beginning of this year, with the cooperation of
international donor organisations and western
government funds, yielded more than 40,000 weapons in
seven months. In addition, the police seized more than
3.5 million bullets, and military equipment such as
high-power explosives and heavy weapons.
The disarming operation has given some impressive
results, but we will have to postpone the disarming
deadline for two more years, said Poci, in a meeting
on disarmament in the central town of Elbasan.
The new deadline is set for August 13, 2002. The
minister said that the two-year deadline postponement
is a sufficient period of time to complete the
disarming process.
The Albanian will be totally convinced that weapons
are no longer needed for their families, Poci said,
failing to elaborate on his belief that the time
schedule was right.
Earlier this year the police found in one barn seven
air-to air missiles looted from the Gjadri air base.
When the police started the population disarming late
in 97, some people handed over tanks they had parked
in their backyards.
Elbasan, some 50 kilometres from Tirana, and the
surrounding villages are supposed to complete the
disarming by Sunday, August 13, this year but the
police and the local authorities have failed to meet
their target.
Some $1.5 million were invested in infrastructure
improvement, within the framework of a
development-for-weapons programme funded by the UN
Development Programme, and the governments of United
States, Britain and Denmark.
The police chief of Elbasan, Edmond Koseni, said the
police are still continuing to search for weapons, but
the priority is given to voluntarily handing over the
guns.
---
* LINK SEGNALATI
-> http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/Commentary/20000809/COKOSOVO.html
Toronto Globe and Mail
NATO in Kosovo: in bed with a scorpion
The KLA is running drugs and refuelling conflict.
No wonder even innocent tourists can get arrested
SUNIL RAM
Wednesday, August 9, 2000
-> http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/chomskymay2000.htm
Foreign Policy
In Retrospect
A review of NATOs war over Kosovo, Part II
By Noam Chomsky
The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is,
surely,
recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify
the NATO
bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that Serbia
assaulted
Kosovo to squash a separatist Albanian guerrilla movement, but
killed
10,000 civilians and drove 700,000 people into refuge in Macedonia
and
Albania. NATO attacked Serbia from the air in the name of
protecting the
Albanians from ethnic cleansing [but] killed hundreds of Serb
civilians and
provoked an exodus of tens of thousands from cities into the
countryside.
Assuming that order of events, a rationale for the bombing can be
constructed. But uncontroversially, the actual order is the
opposite...
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allarresto del compagno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto (Professor J.), era
scattata il 20 aprile, quando la polizia cilena inviò a quella italiana
una nota con la richiesta della sua cattura in quanto pericoloso
terrorista.
La Polizia italiana sapeva dunque che Jaime sarebbe arrivato in Italia
per partecipare al Campo antimperialista di Assisi. Ma non lha fermato
allaeroporto Leonardo da Vinci, né ha osato farlo durante i lavori del
Campo. La DIGOS di Perugia, sicuramente sulla base di una direttiva
UCIGOS, ha atteso che il Campo fosse finito, colpendoci tutti alle
spalle e ritenendo, a torto, di coglierci un un momento di debolezza.
- E invece la risposta nostra è stata pronta e massiccia. Abbiamo
lanciato una campagna nazionale e internazionale di controinformazione
grazie alla quale sono giunti centinaia di messaggi di solidarietà.
Dalle dieci di questa mattina, in duecento, eravamo sotto il carcere di
Perugia, mentre Jaime veniva interrogato dal Giudice di Corte dAppello.
sapevamo che Jaime avrebbe non solo rifiutato di essere estradato in
Cile, ma anche di essere rispedito in Brasile dove vive da anni. La sua
e la nostra battaglia è stata per la libertà immediata e incondizionata
e lasilo politico. Durante linterrogatorio è giunto in carcere un fax
del Ministro di Grazia e Giustizia Fassino col quale si chiedeva di
mettere in libertà il compagno Jaime in quanto: 1. il reato ascritto ad
Jaime è reato politico e come tale non è perseguibile dalla legge
italiana; 2. in caso di estradizione in Cile (dove vige non la
democrazia ma come dicono i cileni la democradura, un ibrido tra
democrazia e dittatura!
) Jaime sarebbe giudicato non da un tribunale civile ma da quello
Militare, e ciò confligge col codice penale italiano; 3. Il Tribunale
militare cileno condannerebbe Jaime alla pena capitale e ciò è
incompatibile con la nostra Costituzione.
- Quando gli avvocati Innamorati e Crisci (che ringraziamo per il loro
appassionato lavoro) verso le ore 14,00 sono usciti dal carcere
annunciando questo esito straordinario, cè stata in strada una gioia
incontenibile. A tutti era chiara la dimensione della vittoria ottenuta.
La nostra mobilitazione, la solidarietà internazionale hanno obbligato
il Ministro Fassino ha scarcerare Jaime, che ora è non è solo un libero
cittadino, ma gli è riconosciuta la sua dignità come combattente
antifascista.
E una vittoria anzitutto per tutti gli esuli cileni nel mondo, per
tutti i perseguitati dalla Giustizia militare di Santiago; è una
vittoria per tutti i militanti che nel mondo combattono per la
democrazia e la giustizia; è infine una vittoria nostra, organizzatori
del campo antimperialista contro la globalizzazione, che da anni veniamo
perseguitati, controllati (spesso illegalmente), umiliati, trattati da
terroristi.
- Abbiamo vinto una battaglia ma non finisce qui. Come i democratici
cileni che vogliono giustizia e per giustizia intendono anche il castigo
e la punizione assieme a Pinochet dei responsabili dei massacri compiuti
dalla dittatura militare; noi chiediamo che vengano puniti qui in Italia
i responsabili ai più alti livelli che hanno arrestato Jaime Yovanovic
Prieto a partire dal capo della Criminalpol, dal capo dellUCIGOS
Andreassi per finire col Ministro dellInterno G. Bianco che hanno
calpestato la legge italiana, violato la Costituzione repubblicana e
compiuto un gravissimo abuso di potere.
I responsabili dei crimini fascisti compiuti in Cile debbono pagare,
come debbono pagare per laffronto portatoci i responsabili della
polizia italiana.
Moreno Pasquinelli e Alessandro Folghera
per il comitato del Campo Antimperialista contro la Globalizzazione
Assisi 2000
10 agosto, ore 16,30
Campo Antimperialista
www.antiimperialista.com
campo@...
Arrestato alluscita del campo antimperialista di Assisi
il 6 agosto 2000
Considerando che in Cile:
- I recenti precedenti giurisprudenziali di Patricio Ortiz e di Claudio
Molina, cittadini cileni arrestati rispettivamente in Svizzera ed in
Argentina su mandato di cattura emesso dallInterpol (per ordini di
cattura dei tribunali militari cileni) e, successivamente rilasciati con
la motivazione che in Cile non si rispettano i diritti umani e che per i
reati politici esista tuttoggi un accanimento giudiziario,
- A tuttoggi, i reati politici sono di corrispondenza della giustizia
militare che si somma a quella civile, violando apertamente il principio
del non bis in idem,
- Vige tuttora la pena di morte,
- La democrazia cilena nei suoi poteri costitutivi e minata
dallesistenza di un organo superiore, ovvero il Consiglio di Sicurezza
Nazionale (formato dai comandanti delle tre Forze Armate, dal Presidente
della Repubblica e dai Presidenti della Corte Suprema di Giustizia e del
Senato), che ha facolta di porre veto a qualsiasi iniziativa in ambito
legislativo, giudiziario ed esecutivo:
Noi, sottofirmatari del seguente appello, ci rivolgiamo al Governo
italiano affinche al cittadino Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, arrestato ad
Assisi nella giornata di domenica 6 agosto ed attualmente detenuto
presso il carcere di Perugia, sia data liberta immediata e concesso
lasilo politico.
Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, ex militante del Movimento della Sinistra
Rivoluzionaria cilena, e accusato di aver presuntamente partecipato
nellazione che causo la morte del general Carol Urzua, esperto di
controspionaggio militare, il 29 agosto del 1983.
Vale la pena segnalare che il processo non si e mai svolto fino ad
oggi, cosi come segnalare che il procedimento giudiziario e stato
posto in essere in pieno periodo dittatoriale.
La situazione di Jaime Yovanovic e gia un caso internazionale per
lItalia: in primo luogo perche Jaime Yovanovic vide la propria vita
salvata grazie allintervento del Papa e del cardinale Agostino
Casaroli, quando chiese asilo presso la nunziatura apostolica di
Santiago (1984), in secondo luogo perche la lezione di calan,
evidentemente, non e servita ad imparare nulla.
La Corte dAppello ha ora 4 giorni per pronunciarsi sulla legittimita
dello stato di arresto di Jaime Yovanovic. Non possiamo tirarci
indietro. Estendiamo quindi linvito alle diverse associazioni,
organizzazioni e cittadini, a sommarsi alla Campagna ed a partecipare al
Sit-In che sara sviluppato nella giornata di mercoledi o giovedi
(domani confermeremo la data e lora esatte) davanti al Tribunale di
Perugia, in occasione del trasferimento di Jaime dal carcere alla Corte
dAppello dove si svolger il suo interrogatorio.
Uniamo le Forze contro la globalizzazione antimperialista per la Pace e
la Giustizia Sociale!
Per la Liberta di Jaime Yovanovic Prieto! Per la Liberta di Tutti i
Prigionieri Politici!
Oralba Castillo-Najera,
presidentessa del Coordinamento Internazionale per i Prigionieri
Politici,
Moreno Pasquinelli ed Alessandro Folghera
per il Comitato Politico del Campo Antimperialista di Assisi
ed Elias Letelier, poeta e presidente della Rete dei Familiari ed Amici
dei Prigionieri Politici del Cile.
Per Adesioni: tel 0742-78828 cel 0349-3650834
Perugia 7 agosto 2000
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>
> ARRESTO ESULE ANTIFASCISTA CILENO:
> INTERROGAZIONE URGENTE DELL'ON. PISAPIA
>
> L'on. Giuliano Pisapia ha presentato un'interrogazione urgente al Ministro
> di Grazia e Giustizia per chiedere un immediato intervento per la
> scarcerazione del professore cileno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, militante della
> sinistra cilena e oppositore del regime dittatoriale del generale Pinochet.
>
> Prieto, che era in Italia con un regolare permesso, è stato arrestato sulla
> base di un mandato di cattura internazionale del tribunale militare cileno
> pur essendo già stato varie volte in Europa - Spagna, Belgio, Svizzera -
> senza aver alcun problema.
>
> Nell'interrogazione si fa presente che, nel caso del prof. Prieto, non è
> concepibile - ai sensi dell'art. 698 del codice di procedura penale -
> l'estradizione, anche qualora fosse richiesta dall'attuale governo cileno,
> in quanto:
> 1) il reato contestato - e in relazione al quale l'interessato si dichiara
> innocente - è indubbiamente reato politico. Ai sensi dell'art. 8 del nostro
> codice penale, infatti, è considerato reato politico ogni "delitto comunque
> determinato, in tutto o in parte, da motivi politici";
> 2) in Cile è prevista, per il reato contestato, la pena di morte e la Corte
> Costituzionale ha anche recentemente ribadito che in tali casi non è
> possibile l'estradizione;
> 3) in Cile - come sancito anche in recenti sentenze relative a casi analoghi
> in altri Paesi (Svizzera e Argentina) - non sono rispettati i diritti umani
> e non è garantito un equo processo, specialmente davanti ad un Tribunale
> Militare;
> 4) se estradato, il prof. Prieto sarebbe sicuramente sottoposto ad atti
> discriminatori per motivi politici.
>
> In tale situazione, Pisapia chiede al Ministro della Giustizia che faccia
> espressa richiesta, come suo potere ai sensi dell'art. 716 c.p.p., di revoca
> della misura coercitiva anche qualora la Corte d'Appello di Perugia
> convalidasse l'arresto provvisorio disposto dalla polizia giudiziaria.
>
> Nell'interrogazione urgente il deputato di Rifondazione Comunista ricorda
> come, nel caso specifico, vi siano tutti i presupposti per la concessione
> dell'asilo politico:
> a) il prof. Prieto, infatti, è stato ripetutamente sottoposto a torture in
> Cile dalla polizia golpista, proprio per la sua militanza politica (ancora
> oggi, a seguito di tali torture, versa in gravi condizioni di salute:
> timpano sinistro completamente fuori uso, timpano destro gravemente
> compromesso, disturbi di deambulazione);
> b) l'esule cileno era riuscito a sfuggire alla morte nel 1984, grazie
> all'intervento del Papa, quando si era rifugiato presso al Nunziatura
> apostolica di Santiago.
>
> Campo Antimperialista
> www.antiimperialista.com
> campo@...
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Liberta¹ perJaime Yovanovic Prieto
Comunicato dell¹ 8 agosto
- Domani mattina sapremo con esattezza se Jaime verrà interrogato dal
Magistrato
domani o dopodomani e a che ora. Da questo dipende l¹indizione della
manifestazione,
che comunque si svolgerà.
- Le adesioni al nostro appello per la libertà di Jaime continuano a
crescere dall¹Italia e
da tutto il mondo, così come alla manifestazione. Segnaliamo quelle
dell¹On. Luigi
Manconi (Verdi), Paolo Ferrero (Segreteria Nazionale del Partito della
Rifondazione
Comunista), Don Vitaliano Della Sala (Parroco di S. Angelo a Scala),
Gianni Tognoni
della Fondazione Internazionale Lelio Basso per i diritti e la
liberazione dei Popoli,
Giorgio Nebbia (ex-deputato della Sinistra Indipendente e Docente
Università di Bari),
Dino Frisullo (Kurdistan Azad). La lista completa delle adesioni giunte
sarà disponibile
da domani mattina alle ore 10,00 sul nostro sito: www.
antiimperialista.com (alla pagina:
prigionieri)
- Ci rivolgiamo a tutti i cittadini democratici e ai compagni che hanno
a cuore la sorte
di Jaime e di tutti gli antifascisti cileni di comunicarci la loro
adesione e, nel caso la
partecipazione alla manifestazione a questo indirizzo:
liberta@...
- Informiamo che l¹Onorevole Giuliano Pisapia ha presentato questa
mattina al Ministro
di Grazia e Giustizia Fassino un¹interrogazione parlamentare (alleghiamo
il testo).
- Nella difesa di Jaime, all¹avvocato Francesco Innamorati
(ex-partigiano), si è
aggiunta, su segnalazione della comunità degli esuli cileni in Italia,
l¹avvocatessa
Simonetta Crisci del foro di Roma patrocinante in Cassazione.
- Segnaliamo che quest¹oggi abbiamo rilasciato interviste a Radio
Popolare di Milano,
Radio Città Aperta di Roma, Onda Rossa di Roma, Onda d¹Urto di Brescia,
Corriere
dell¹Umbria, Metro di Roma, Libero di Milano. La notizia oggi è stata
ritrasmessa dal TG1
delle ore 13,00. Mentre ieri, oltre al TG1 un servizio di 4 minuti è
passato sul TG3
dell¹Umbria. Tutte le Tv privare umbre hanno aperto con servizi
sull¹arresto. Ci hanno
assicurato che domani parleranno del caso il manifesto, Repubblica, e
molti altri
quotidiani.
Comitato Politico del Campo Antimperialista di Assisi 2000
Coordinamento Internazionale per i Prigionieri Politici
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Vendetta di Pinochet nella citta' di S. Francesco
Nella citta' di Assisi (Perugia), il giorno 6 agosto 2000, la UCIGOS
dopo alcuni giorni di
monitoraggio, e' intervenuta per ordine dell'INTERPOL ed ha proceduto
all'arresto del cittadino
cileno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, ex militante del Movimento della Sinistra
Rivoluzionaria, che
presuntamente avrebbe partecipato nell1azione che causo1 la morte del
general Carol Urzua.
Jaime Yovanovic era stato invitato a viaggiare dal Brasile in Italia,
per partecipare all'Incontro
Antimperialista '' No alla Globalizzazione'', dove si scambiavano idee
con altre organizzazioni
progressiste mondiali.
Alla fine dell'evento, il giorno 6 agosto dell'anno 2000, la Digos che
aveva tenuto sotto controllo
l'evento, ha proceduto a detenerlo, quando questo stava per prendere il
treno, diretto a Roma,
procedendo a trasportarlo alla Questura di Perugia e, successivamente,
al carcere del capoluogo
umbro.
Le ragioni dell1arresto sono per omicidio ed in questo momento, 7
agosto, gli avvocati e le
organizzazioni italiane stanno lavorando attorno alla organizzazione e
difesa del nuovo prigioniero
politico cileno, che oggi, soffre lo stesso trattamento di Patricio
Ortiz e di Claudio Molina; cittadini
cileni che hanno affrontato richieste di estradizione per attivita 1
sviluppate durante la dittatura
militare in Cile. Patricio Ortiz in Svizzera, dopo una lunga battaglia
legale, si e 1 visto riconoscere
dal governo svizzero che in Cile nsi violano i diritti umani e quindi e1
stata negata la sua
estradiuzione.
E1 cosi, come la stessa situazione e1 stata imposta al cittadino cileno
Claudio Molina, militante
del Fronte Patriottico Manuel Rodriguez, per il quale la giustizia
militare cilena aveva domandato
l1estradizione al governo argentino, senza ottenere l1obiettivo. Di
fronte a questo fatto, lo stato
argentino, ha riconosciuto l1illegalita1 della giustizia militare
cilena, concedendo l1asilo politico al
lottatore cileno.
Il 16 gennaio del 1984, Jaime Yovanovic Prieto e altri tre cittadini
cileni, aiutati dal viceconsole
francese in Cile; Ivonne Legrand, entro1 nella nunziatura apostolica per
chiedere protezione per la
propria vita. La giustizia militare cilena immediatamente detto1
l1ordine di cattura, senza ottenere
l1obiettivo.
A partire dal 29 agosto del 1983, data in cui e1 stato giustiziato il
generale Urzua, si decreto1
l1esecuzione e la cattura di massa dei militanti del MIR, che venivano
accusati della
responsabilita1 della morte del Generale. Il governo militare ordino1 la
creazione di un piano
strategico che sarebbe servito a terrorizzare la sinistra cilena, che si
batteva in una franca lotta
contro la dittatura cilena.
La Centrale Nazionale del Controspionaggio (CNI), sotto l1esistenza
dello squadrone
antisovversivo della Forza Aerea del Cile, decretarono una operazione
con il nome 3Punto 302,
operazione che implico1 la cattura e la morte dei cittadini:
Alejandro Salgado Troquian, assassinato dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea
Arturo Villabella Arauco;
assassinato dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea Carlos Araneda, arrestato dai
servizi d1intelligenza
Hugo Marchant Moya, arrestato dai servizi d1intelligenza Juan Elias
Espinoza Parra, assassinato
dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea Lucia Vergara, assassinata dalla CNI e
dalla Forza Aerea Sergio
Pena Diaz, assassinato dalla CNI e dalla Forza Aerea
Di fronte alla situazione degli assassinii dei militanti del MIR, Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, Jose1
Aguilera, Elba Duarte e Pameila Cordero, aiutati dalla viceconsole
francese in Cile, Ivonne
Legrand, entrarono alla nunziatura apostolica, con il fine di richiedere
protezione per le loro vite. Il
governo militar cileno si vide obbligato a concedere il salvacondotto
dopo intervento diretto del
Cardinale Agostino Casaroli prima e, poi, di sua Santita1 Giovanni Paolo
II.
Chiediamo alla comunita1 internazionale, alle organizzazioni politiche e
dei diritti umani, di agire
con urgenza per esigere la liberta1 incondizionale ed asilo politico al
cittadino cileno. Chiediamo a
tutti gli esseri liberi della terra di non permettere ai tribunali
militari cileni di continuare nella
persecuzione dei suoi cittadini che solo sognano una democrazia giusta e
degna.
Coordinamento Internazionale per i Prigionieri Politici, Oralba
Castillo-Najera, presidentessa
Comitato Politico del Campo Antimperialista di Assisi, Moreno
Pasquinelli, Alessandro Folghera,
Rete dei Familiari ed Amici dei Prigionieri Politici del Cile, il poeta
Elias Letelier, presidente
Numeri Utili:
Ministero degli Esteri fax 06-3691006
Ministero degli Interni fax 06-46549534
Carcere di Perugia Tel 075-5735640
-
En la Ciudad de Asis, Italia, el día domingo 06 de agosto del año 2000,
la
policía política italiana, (DIGOS), después de algunos días de
monitoreo,
actuó bajo orden de la INTERPOL y procedió al arresto del ciudadano
chileno Jaime Yovanovic Prieto, ex militante del MIR, quien
presuntamente
participara en el ajusticiamiento del general Carol Urzua.
En efecto, Jaime Yovanovic fue invitado a viajar desde Brasil a Italia,
para participar en el encuentro antiimperialista mundial, donde se
intercambiaban ideas con otras organizaciones progresistas mundiales. Al
termino del evento, el día 6 de agosto de año 2000, la Policía Política
italiana, que había moni toreado el evento, procedió a detenerlo cuando
tomaba el tren para viajar a Roma., para trasladarlo a ala Centro
preventivo de Perugia
Las razones de la detención son por homicidio y en estos momentos, 07 de
agosto, los abogados y organizaciones italianas se encuentra trabajando
en
torno a la organización de la defensa de nuevo prisionero político
chileno, quien hoy, sufre el mismo trato que Patricio Ortiz y Claudio
Molina; ciudadanos chilenos que se vieron enfrentados a peticiones de
extradición por actividades desarrolladas durante la dictadura militar
chilena. Patricio Ortiz en Suiza, después de una larga batalla legal, el
gobierno suizo reconoció que en Chile se violan los derechos humanos y
categóricamente negó la extradición. Es así, como la misma situación fue
impuesta al ciudadano chileno Claudio Molina, militante del Frente
Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, por quien la justicia militar chilena
demandara la extradición al gobierno Argentino, sin lograr el objetivo.
Ante este hecho, el estado argentino reconoció la ilegalidad de justicia
militar chilena otorgando asilo políticos al luchador chileno.
El 16 de enero de 1984, Jaime Yovanovic y otros ciudadanos chilenos,
ayudado por la Vicecónsul de Francia en Chile, señora Ivonne Legrand,
entró a la Nunciatura Apostólica para solicitar protección por su vida.
La
justicia Militar chilena inmediatamente dicto orden de captura sin
lograr
su objetivo.
A partir del 29 de Agosto de 1983, fecha en que fue ajusticiado de
General
Urzua, se decreto la ejecución y la captura masiva de los militantes del
MIR, a quienes se sindicaban como responsables de la muerte del General.
El gobierno militar ordenó la creación de un plan estratégico que
sirviera
como escarmiento generalizado contra la izquierda, que se batía en una
franca lucha contra la dictadura chilena.
La Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), bajo la asistencia del
Escuadrón Antisubversivo de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile, decretaron una
operación con el nombre PUNTO 30, la que implico la captura y el
asesinato
de los ciudadanos:
Alejandro Salgado Troquian, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Arturo Villavela Araujo, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Carlos Araneda, detenidos por los servicios de inteligencia.
Hugo Marchant Moya, detenidos por los servicios de inteligencia.
Juan Elías Espinoza Parra, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Lucía Vergara, asesinada por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Sergio Peña Díaz, asesinado por la CNI y la Fuerza Aérea
Ante la situación de los asesinatos los militantes del MIR, Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, José Aguilera, Elba Duarte y Pamela Cordero, ayudados
por la Vicecónsul de Francia en Chile, señora Ivonne Legrand, entraron a
la Nunciatura Apostólica con el fin de solicitar protección por su vida.
El Gobierno militar chileno se vio obligado a otorgar salvoconducto
después de la intervención directa de Su Santidad Juan Pablo II.
Solicitamos a la comunidad Intencional, a las organizaciones políticas y
de derechos humanos, actuar con urgencia para exigir la libertad
incondicional y asilo político al ciudadano chileno. Solicitamos a todos
los seres libres de la tierra no permitir a las cortes militares de
continuar la persecución contra los chilenos que sueñan con una país
democrático y justo.
Coordinadora Internacional por los Presos Políticos, Oralba
Castillo-Najera, presidenta Comité Politico del Campo Antimperialista de
Asis, Moreno Pasquinelli, Alessandro Folghera, Red de Familiares y
Amigos
de Presos Politicos de Chile, Elias Letelier, presidente
Numeros para enviar protestas urgentes:
Ministero de Relaciones Exteriores fax 0039-06-3691006
Ministero degli Interni fax 0039-06-46549534
Carcere di Perugia Tel 0039-075-5735640
-
In Assisi (Umbrien) verhaftete die DIGOS (politische Polizei) am 6.
August
2000, nach tagelanger Überwachung, den chilenischen Staatsbürger Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, ehemaliges Mitglied der Bewegung der Revolutionären
Linken
(MIR), mittels eines Haftbefehls der Interpol, nach dem er angeblich an
der
Aktion teilgenommen haben soll, die zum Tod von General Urzua führte.
Jaime
Yovanovic kam von Brasilen nach Italien um am Antiimperialistischen
Lager
Nein zur Globalisierung teilzunehmen.
Erst nach Abschluss der Veranstaltung am 6. August schritt die DIGOS,
die
das gesamte Treffen genau überwacht hatte, ein und verhaftete ihn als er
den
Zug nach Rom besteigen wollte. Er wurde auf eine Polizeistation in
Perugia
und in der Folge ins Gefängnis Capolungo umbro gebracht.
Anwälte und Solidaritätsorganisationen haben die Kampagne zur
Verteidigung
dieses neuen chilenischen politischen Häftlings bereits begonnen, dem
scheinbar das gleiche Schicksal wie Patricio Ortiz und Claudio Molina
widerfährt: alle sind chilenische Staatsbürger, für die seitens der
chilenischen Behörden Auslieferungsanträge für Taten gestellte, die
unter
der Militärdiktatur begangen wurden. Nach einem langen juristischen
Kampf
mussten die Schweizer Gerichte anerkennen, dass in Chile die
Menschenrechte
verletzt werden. Daher wurde das Auslieferungsansuchen letztendlich
abgelehnt. Ähnlich entwickelte sich der Fall des chilenischen
Staatsbürgers
Claudio Molina, Aktivist der Patriotischen Front Manuel Rodriguez,
dessen
Auslieferung durch Argentinien von der chilenischen Militärjustiz
gefordert,
jedoch schließlich abgelehnt wurde. Der Grund: Argentinien betrachtet
die
chilenische Militärjustiz als illegal und gewährte dem chilenischen
Kämpfer
politisches Asyl.
Ab 29. August 1983, Zeitpunkt der erfolgreichen Hinrichtung des Generals
Urzua, hatte eine Welle der Massenverhaftung von Kämpfern der MIR
eingesetzt, der die Verantwortung für den Anschlag angelastet wurde. Die
chilenische Militärregierung ordnete die Durchführung ihres
Generalplanes
zur Terrorisierung der chilenischen Linken an, die sich im offenen Kampf
mit
der Diktatur befand.
Die Nationale Zentrale für Gegenspionage (CNI) befahl die sogenannte
Operation 3Punto302 durch die Aufstandsbekämpfungseinheiten der
chilenischen Luftwaffe, die folgendermaßen endete: Alejandro Salgado
Troquian (ermordet), Arturo Villabella Arauco (ermordet), Juan Elias
Espinoza Parra (ermordet), Lucia Vergara (ermordet), Sergio Pena Diaz
(ermordet), Carlos Araneda (vom Geheimdienst verhaftet), Hugo Marchant
Moya
(vom Geheimdienst verhaftet).
Angesichts dieser Mordwelle an Aktivisten der MIR flüchteten sich Jaime
Yovanovic Prieto, José Aguilera, Elba Duarte und Pameila Cordero am 16.
Januar 1984 mit Hilfe des französischen Vizekonsuls Ivonne Legrand in
die
Apostolische Nuntiatur, um ihr Leben zu schützen. Die chilenische
Militärjustiz strebte ihre Festnahme an, doch gelang diese nicht.
Die Militärmachthaben mussten nach direkter Intervention des Kardinals
Agostino Casaroli und schließlich des Heiligen Vaters Johannes Paul II.
selbst den sicheres Geleit zugestehen.
Wir rufen die internationale Öffentlichkeit sowie alle politischen und
Menschenrechtsorganisationen sofort Aktionen zu setzen, um die sofortige
und
bedingungslose Freilassung von Jaime zu erzwingen und ihm politisches
Asyl
zu gewähren. Wir rufen alle freien Menschen dazu auf, es den
chilenischen
Militärtribunalen nicht zu erlauben, die Verfolgung all jener
fortzusetzen,
die nichts mehr wünschten als Gerechtigkeit, Demokratie und
Menschenwürde.
Vorsitzende der Internationalen Koordination für Politische Gefangene
Oralba
Castillo Najera (Mexiko)
Politisches Komitee der Antiimperialistischen Lagers von Assisi, Moreno
Pasquinelli, Alessandro Folghera (Italien)
Vorsitzender des Netz der Familienangehörigen und Freunde der
politischen
Gefangenen Chiles, Elias Letelier
Protestschreiben bitte an:
Außenministerium: Fax 0039 06 3691006
Innenministerium: Fax 0039 06 46549534
Gefängnis Perugia: Tel 0039 075 5735640
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