Informazione
* Coordinamento Nazionale "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"
* Progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
* Richiesta informazioni sulle elezioni nella RFJ
* LIBRI SEGNALATI in francese ed in tedesco
* PROGRAMMINO ANTI-SPIE
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* Coordinamento Nazionale "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"
L?embargo uccide come le bombe, come l?uranio,
come l?indifferenza
Rompiamo l?embargo contro la Jugoslavia!
Con pretesti vergognosamente definiti ?umanitari? gli USA e la NATO
hanno aggredito la
Jugoslavia, paese sovrano non disposto ad accettare le ricette del Fondo
Monetario
Internazionale, allo scopo di imporre il proprio dominio coloniale sui
Balcani.
La Jugoslavia è stata prima sottoposta, da USA ed Unione Europea, ad 8
anni di sanzioni
economiche ed infine bombardata.
Fabbriche, ponti, centrali elettriche, scuole, ospedali ed abitazioni
civili sono stati distrutti, mentre
a causa dell?inquinamento di aria, acque e terreni agricoli c?è una
crescente diffusione di turbe
psichiche e gravi malattie che colpiscono particolarmente i più deboli,
ad iniziare dai bambini.
La popolazione jugoslava, come quella irachena, oltre ad aver subito gli
effetti di nuove micidiali
armi di distruzione di massa, sta tuttora scontando un infame embargo
che la priva di beni e
strumenti indispensabili alla propria sopravvivenza.
Questo embargo rappresenta un vero e proprio atto di guerra il cui fine
è quello di ottenere la resa
dei cittadini jugoslavi costringendoli a scelte politiche allineate ai
diktat del nuovo ordine mondiale
dell?imperialismo USA-NATO.
Di fronte alla disinformazione strategica, alla criminale partecipazione
del governo italiano all?
aggressione con basi militari, uomini e mezzi per la guerra prima e per
l?occupazione del Kosovo
poi, all?ambiguità di parte della sinistra e dei movimenti pacifisti,
molti comitati contro la guerra ed
associazioni di solidarietà con il popolo jugoslavo si sono costituiti
nel:
Coordinamento Nazionale ?La Jugoslavia vivrà?
Difendiamo l?integrità territoriale e la multietnicità della Repubblica
Federale di Jugoslavia!
Basta con le aggressioni contro gli stati che non si allineano al nuovo
ordine mondiale!
La Jugoslavia vivrà!
-
Il Coordinamento Nazionale invita ad aderire alle seguenti iniziative
per rompere l?embargo
- A partire dall?inizio del mese di settembre, presidi cittadini di
controinformazione e raccolta di materiali (medicinali, viveri, beni
sottoposti a regime di embargo) per la Jugoslavia
- 21/22 ottobre giornate internazionali di lotta contro l?embargo e la
NATO
- inizio novembre partenza della nave di solidarietà contro tutti gli
embarghi dal porto di Bari verso il Montenegro e prosecuzione della
carovana fino a Belgrado
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* PANCEVO CHIAMA ITALIA
Subject: progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:14:34 +0200
Resent-From: pck-yugoslavia@...
From: "Abcsolidarieta" <abcsolidarieta@...>
Gentili amici,
Vogliamo informarvi che il progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia" va avanti.
Durante il nostro ultimo viaggio in Serbia per la consegna delle quote
dei
primi quattro mesi dell'anno ai bambini serbi e bosniaci affidati a
distanza, abbiamo incontrato la dott.ssa Mica Saric Tanaskovic,
responsabile
dell'Istituto d'igiene e tutela ambientale del Banato del sud. Siamo
così
riusciti, dopo tre mesi e più di lavoro, aiutati in questo anche da
molti
soci, a definire un elenco preciso di quanto è necessario al laboratorio
di
Pancevo.
Strumenti e materiali di consumo serviranno all'équipe della Tanaskovic
per
capire quello che bambini e genitori debbono fare per non morire di
"inquinamento". Parliamo dei bambini perché sono il nostro interesse
preminente, ma è chiaro che tutti gli abitanti della regione, dai
cittadini
di Pancevo ai contadini che hanno visto i loro terreni resi improduttivi
perché contaminati, ai pescatori che sopravvivevano grazie ai pesci del
fiume Danubio, agli operai delle fabbriche rimasti senza lavoro,
vorrebbero
sapere...
Finora per quest'iniziativa, realizzata in collaborazione con "il
manifesto", sono stati raccolti circa 16 milioni di lire.
In questi giorni abbiamo avviato i primi contatti, che intensificheremo
da
settembre, per "proporre" ad organizzazioni, sindacati, associazioni
professionali, singole persone, ecc. di intervenire a sostegno del
progetto
finanziando l'acquisto, tutto o in parte, di uno strumento o dei
materiali
d'uso necessari. Faremo anche presente a tutti che eventuali donazioni
dovranno riguardare strumenti revisionati (perfettamente funzionanti) e
materiali di consumo ben conservati.
Nelle prossime settimane definiremo l'acquisto, presso la "Camag", unica
distributrice di quel che la dott.sa Mica Saric Tanaskovic ha chiesto
per la
gascromatografia, di uno strumento e di alcuni accessori.
Sul sito di "ABC" è possibile consultare e scaricare l'elenco di tutti
gli
strumenti e dei materiali di consumo richiesti dall'Istituto d'igiene
ambientale del Banato del sud. Desideriamo però far presente che
l'elenco
potrà subire delle variazioni e che ai prezzi indicati sarà applicato
uno
sconto che andrà dal 10 al 20%. Un'ultima informazione: il costo totale
del
progetto è di circa 67.000.000 di lire ai quali si aggiungeranno le
spese di
trasporto e doganali ancora non definite.
Grazie per la Vostra attenzione e cordiali saluti.
p. A,B,C, solidarietà e pace
Franco Della Marra
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* RICHIESTA INFORMAZIONI SULLE ELEZIONI NELLE RFJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Collon"
To: "wpb" <wpb@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: Urgent: Do you have Info abou Yugo elections?
Dear,
I am looking for information about next elections in Yugoslavia,
specially
Kustanovic, Mihailovic and expectations. and the "poll presenting
Kustanovic
as favorite".
Also the questions you might have on this topic.
Thank you very much in advance!
Je recherche des infos sur les candidats de l'opposition,
Kustanovic et Mihailovic,
ainsi que des analyses des élections, y compris le "sondage Kustanovic
est
favori.
Et aussi les questions que vous vous posez à ce sujet.
Merci beaucoup d'avance.
Michel Collon
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* LIBRI SEGNALATI
1.
Alexandre Del Vallee
GUERRES CONTRE L' EUROPE: BOSNIE - KOSOVO - TCHETCHNIE
Editions: "Des Syrtes"
Paris, 2000
2.
Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*,
Paris, Editions 1, $$$ p., 110 FF, parution juin 2000.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377
3.
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM,
KONKRET-Verlag Hamburg)
-
Jürgen Elsässer
c/o Redaktion KONKRET
Tel. 040/8512530, Fax. 040/8512514
Mobil 0171/1720368
Email: J.Elsasser@...
www.juergen-elsaesser.de
betr. Buch-Neuerscheinung
Veranstaltungsangebot
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
liebe Freunde aus der Friedensbewegung,
am 15. Oktober erscheint mein neues Buch
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit
einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM, KONKRET-Verlag
Hamburg)
Die Buchpremiere wird am 20. Oktober auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse sein,
der
(von Scharping mittlerweile geschaßte) deutsche OSZE-Offizier Heinz
Loquai
und
der Hamburger Friedensforscher Dieter S. Lutz haben ihre Teilnahme
bereits
zugesagt. Gerne würde ich das Buch auch in Ihrer Stadt vorstellen -
entweder
im
Rahmen einer Lesung oder einer Vortragsveranstaltung oder einer
Podiumsdiskussion mit anderen Teilnehmern.
Über mein letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das
Kosovo
und
die neue deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage
November
1999) schrieb die Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein hervorragender Band, im
Zorn
geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus, Enttäuschung über Linke
und
Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«
Zwar gibt es mittlerweile eine ganze Reihe guter Veröffentlichungen zum
Kosovo-Krieg. Doch mein aktuelles Buch steuert nicht nur zu bereits
behandelten
Themen - Rambouillet, Racak, Hufeisenplan - neues Material bei, das ich
in
Brüssel, Wien und Belgrad recherchiert habe.
Vor allem packt es als erstes heiße Eisen an, die bisher von
Kriegsgegnern
sträflich vernachlässigt wurden:
* Srebrenica, wo die Truppen der bosnischen Serben im Juli 1995 7.000
bis
8.000
Muslime massakriert haben sollen. „Für mich war das die Wende“ (J.
Fischer).
* Die Behauptung von den angeblich 100.000 ermordeten Kosovo-Albaner,
mit
der
während des Krieges - und danach! - die Politik Milosevics als
„genozidal
(Goldhagen) dargestellt wurde.
* Das Kosovo im ersten Jahr nach dem Nato-Einmarsch: Der Durchbruch des
albanischen Faschismus.
Falls Sie an meinem Angebot einer Lesung/Veranstaltung interessiert
sind,
bitte
ich um rechtzeitige Kontaktaufnahme - von Mitte August bis Mitte
September
bin
ich in Übersee und schwer zu erreichen. Die Konditionen würden in etwa
denen
des
letzten Jahres entsprechen.
Rezensionsexemplare des Buches fordern Sie bitte direkt bei KONKRET an
(Marit
Hofmann/Katrin Gremliza, Tel 040/8512531 bzw. Fax 040/8512514)
Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse,
mit freundlichen Grüßen
J. Elsässer
Es folgt: Exposé mit inhaltlichem Profil
Inhaltsübersicht, Kurzbiographie und Bibliographie
-
Exposé
Jürgen Elsässer
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica
»Noch nie haben so wenige so viele so gründlich belogen wie im
Zusammenhang
mit
dem Kosovo-Krieg«, sagt der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Willy Wimmer.
»Dafür
sind
Menschen gestorben.«
Keine Lüge war zu grotesk, das Schlachten in Gang zu bringen und am
Laufen
zu
halten. : Milosevic als Hitler, ein KZ in Pristina, Auschwitz auf dem
Amselfeld.
Während Nato und CNN sich die Mühe machten, Video-Aufnahmen zu fälschen,
beeindruckte der deutsche Verteidigungsminister durch nackte Wortgewalt:
Scharpings Serben, die mit abgeschnittenen Albanerköpfen Fußball spielen
und
Föten grillen, werden in die Geschichte der Psychopathologie eingehen.
Schließlich Wunder von biblischer Dimension: Massakrierte albanische
Intellektuelle, die post mortem Pressekonferenzen in westlichen
Hauptstädten
geben; Geisterzüge, die plötzlich auf wenig befahrenen Brücken
erscheinen
und
sich in Nato-Raketen bohren; Massengräber, die so leer sind wie jenes
von
Jesus
nach der Himmelfahrt.
Was ist daraus geworden? »Neun Monate nach der Stationierung der KFOR im
Kosovo
stützt nichts die Anschuldigung eines ›Völkermordes‹« (Le Monde
Diplomatique,
März 2000). Jürgen Elsässer hat die Rechtfertigungen der Nato im Lichte
neuer
Fakten und bisher unzugänglicher Dokumente geprüft.
Elsässer widerlegt die Behauptung, das erste Opfer im Krieg sei die
Wahrheit.
Die Wahrheit stirbt nämlich bereits lange vor dem Krieg: Mit den Lügen
über
Srebrenica, über Racak, über Rambouillet, über die sogenannte
Apartheidpolitik
im Kosovo wurden Parlamentarier und Bürger in den westlichen Staaten
getäuscht
und in ein blutiges Abenteuer gelockt. Die Nato ließ sich zur "Luftwaffe
im
ethnischen Krieg" (Henry Kissinger) machen und hat der UCK zur Macht
verholfen.
Resultat: Pristina ist judenfrei, die Volksfremden sind vertrieben, auf
den
Straßen wütet der Mob, die UCK-Geheimpolizei ist überall, die wenigen
Überlebenden zittern in Ghettos um ihr Leben. Allerdings: Jetzt spricht
niemand
von "humanitärer Katastrophe", "ethnischer Säuberung" und "Völkermord".
Kein
Wunder: Die Blamage des letzten würde die Vorbereitung des nächsten
Krieges
erschweren.
Darum ist diese vollständige, nüchterne und rücksichtslose Bilanz des
Kosovo-Krieges so wichtig.
Elsässers Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Enzyklopädie für alle, die nach
überprüfbaren Fakten gegen die tödliche Propaganda suchen.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1) Vor dem Krieg
1a) Die Mutter aller Lügen
Die "Rampe von Srebrenica" als Abschußrampe in den Krieg
*** Schwerpunktkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen
1b) Die verschwiegenen Morde
Der Terror der UCK vor dem Krieg und die Desinformation der westlichen
Öffentlichkeit
Ca. 25.000 Zeichen
1c)Geheimakte Racak
Die bisher geheimen Autopsieprotokolle der 40 Racak-Leichen dementieren
die
Nato-Version von einem serbischen Massaker
Ca. 18.000 Zeichen
1d)Hineingefingert
Die Memoiren des Wiener Diplomaten: Petritsch als deutscher Frontmann in
Rambouillet
Ca. 20.000 Zeichen
1e)Scharpings Hufschmied
"Operation Potkova" - eine stümperhafte Fälschung der
Geheimdienstconnection
Berlin-Wien
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen
2) Im Krieg
2a) Sex, Lügen und Video
Wie man mit manipulierten Fotos und sexuell konnotiertem Horror
Kriegsstimmung
erzeugt
Ca. 14.000 Zeichen
2b) Legal, illegal, kollateral
Legende und Fakten über den Bombenkrieg
Ca. 19.000 Zeichen
2c) Killing Fields und Deadly Lies
Was bleibt von den 100.000 Toten in Massengräbern?
***Schwerpunkkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen
3) Nach dem Krieg
3a) Prizren ist serbenfrei
Die Lüge von der sauberen Bundeswehr
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen
3b) Albanischer Faschismus
Das Nato-Märchen von der multiethnischen Zukunft des Kosovo-Protektorats
***Schwerpunktartikel*** Ca. 40.000 Zeichen
4) Nachwort
Faktenmüll im Cyberspace
Die Zerstörung der Vernunft durch die Postmoderne oder: Fragen eines
arbeitenden
Lesers
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen
5) Anhang
5a) Internationale Pressestimmen zur Lage im Kosovo in den 80er Jahren
Ca. 10.000 Zeichen
5b) Milosevics Rede auf dem Amselfeld (ungekürzt)
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen
5c) Überblick über die Lügen des bosnischen Krieges
Ca.50.000 Zeichen
Der Autor
Jürgen Elsässer, Jahrgang 1957, war bis Juni 1997 leitender Redakteur
der
Berliner Tageszeitung „junge Welt“ und wurde im April 1999 Redakteur des
Monatsmagazins KONKRET, seit 1957 die bedeutendste Zeitschrift der
parteiunabhängigen Linken in der Bundesrepublik. Daneben arbeitet er
unregelmäßig unter anderem für die „Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung“,
die
„Süddeutsche Zeitung“, den WDR und das „Kursbuch“.
Im Kosovo-Krieg popularisierte er den Slogan "Kein Blut für Joschka"
(eine
Anspielung auf den Slogan "Kein Blut für Öl", den die Grünen im
Golfkrieg
1991
skandiert hatten) und wurde daraufhin vom SPIEGEL als „Berufszyniker
mit „altlinken Klischees“ geschmäht. Andere urteilten freundlicher: Über
sein
letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das Kosovo und die
neue
deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage November
1999)
schrieb die renommierte Tageszeitung Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein
hervorragender
Band, im Zorn geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus,
Enttäuschung
über
Linke und Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«
Bibliographie
Jürgen Elsässer/Andrei S. Markovits (Hrsg)
Die Fratze der eigene Geschichte
Von der Goldhagen-Debatte zum Jugoslawienkrieg. Berlin
(Elefantenpress) September 1999, 208 Seiten, 29.90 DM
Jürgen Elsässer (Hrsg.)
Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns
Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche Geopolitik. Hamburg
(Konkret)
Juni
1999, 165 Seiten, 22.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer
Braunbuch DVU
Eine deutsche Arbeiterpartei und ihre Freunde. Hamburk
(Konkret)
September 1998, 152 Seiten, 19.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer/Sahra Wagenknecht
Vorwärts und vergessen?
Ein Streit über Marx, Lenin, Ulbricht und die verzweifelte
Aktualität des Kommunismus. Hamburg (Konkret) Juni 1996, 140
Seiten,
19.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer
Wenn das der Führer hätte erleben dürfen
29 Glückwünsche zum deutschen Sieg über die Alliierten.
Hamburg
(Konkret) Mai 1995, 112 Seiten, 14.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer
Antisemitismus - das alte Gesicht des neuen Deutschland
Analysen nach der Wiedervereinigung. Berlin (Dietz)
September
1992,
145 Seiten, 19.80 DM
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* Progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
* Richiesta informazioni sulle elezioni nella RFJ
* LIBRI SEGNALATI in francese ed in tedesco
* PROGRAMMINO ANTI-SPIE
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* Coordinamento Nazionale "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"
L?embargo uccide come le bombe, come l?uranio,
come l?indifferenza
Rompiamo l?embargo contro la Jugoslavia!
Con pretesti vergognosamente definiti ?umanitari? gli USA e la NATO
hanno aggredito la
Jugoslavia, paese sovrano non disposto ad accettare le ricette del Fondo
Monetario
Internazionale, allo scopo di imporre il proprio dominio coloniale sui
Balcani.
La Jugoslavia è stata prima sottoposta, da USA ed Unione Europea, ad 8
anni di sanzioni
economiche ed infine bombardata.
Fabbriche, ponti, centrali elettriche, scuole, ospedali ed abitazioni
civili sono stati distrutti, mentre
a causa dell?inquinamento di aria, acque e terreni agricoli c?è una
crescente diffusione di turbe
psichiche e gravi malattie che colpiscono particolarmente i più deboli,
ad iniziare dai bambini.
La popolazione jugoslava, come quella irachena, oltre ad aver subito gli
effetti di nuove micidiali
armi di distruzione di massa, sta tuttora scontando un infame embargo
che la priva di beni e
strumenti indispensabili alla propria sopravvivenza.
Questo embargo rappresenta un vero e proprio atto di guerra il cui fine
è quello di ottenere la resa
dei cittadini jugoslavi costringendoli a scelte politiche allineate ai
diktat del nuovo ordine mondiale
dell?imperialismo USA-NATO.
Di fronte alla disinformazione strategica, alla criminale partecipazione
del governo italiano all?
aggressione con basi militari, uomini e mezzi per la guerra prima e per
l?occupazione del Kosovo
poi, all?ambiguità di parte della sinistra e dei movimenti pacifisti,
molti comitati contro la guerra ed
associazioni di solidarietà con il popolo jugoslavo si sono costituiti
nel:
Coordinamento Nazionale ?La Jugoslavia vivrà?
Difendiamo l?integrità territoriale e la multietnicità della Repubblica
Federale di Jugoslavia!
Basta con le aggressioni contro gli stati che non si allineano al nuovo
ordine mondiale!
La Jugoslavia vivrà!
-
Il Coordinamento Nazionale invita ad aderire alle seguenti iniziative
per rompere l?embargo
- A partire dall?inizio del mese di settembre, presidi cittadini di
controinformazione e raccolta di materiali (medicinali, viveri, beni
sottoposti a regime di embargo) per la Jugoslavia
- 21/22 ottobre giornate internazionali di lotta contro l?embargo e la
NATO
- inizio novembre partenza della nave di solidarietà contro tutti gli
embarghi dal porto di Bari verso il Montenegro e prosecuzione della
carovana fino a Belgrado
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* PANCEVO CHIAMA ITALIA
Subject: progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:14:34 +0200
Resent-From: pck-yugoslavia@...
From: "Abcsolidarieta" <abcsolidarieta@...>
Gentili amici,
Vogliamo informarvi che il progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia" va avanti.
Durante il nostro ultimo viaggio in Serbia per la consegna delle quote
dei
primi quattro mesi dell'anno ai bambini serbi e bosniaci affidati a
distanza, abbiamo incontrato la dott.ssa Mica Saric Tanaskovic,
responsabile
dell'Istituto d'igiene e tutela ambientale del Banato del sud. Siamo
così
riusciti, dopo tre mesi e più di lavoro, aiutati in questo anche da
molti
soci, a definire un elenco preciso di quanto è necessario al laboratorio
di
Pancevo.
Strumenti e materiali di consumo serviranno all'équipe della Tanaskovic
per
capire quello che bambini e genitori debbono fare per non morire di
"inquinamento". Parliamo dei bambini perché sono il nostro interesse
preminente, ma è chiaro che tutti gli abitanti della regione, dai
cittadini
di Pancevo ai contadini che hanno visto i loro terreni resi improduttivi
perché contaminati, ai pescatori che sopravvivevano grazie ai pesci del
fiume Danubio, agli operai delle fabbriche rimasti senza lavoro,
vorrebbero
sapere...
Finora per quest'iniziativa, realizzata in collaborazione con "il
manifesto", sono stati raccolti circa 16 milioni di lire.
In questi giorni abbiamo avviato i primi contatti, che intensificheremo
da
settembre, per "proporre" ad organizzazioni, sindacati, associazioni
professionali, singole persone, ecc. di intervenire a sostegno del
progetto
finanziando l'acquisto, tutto o in parte, di uno strumento o dei
materiali
d'uso necessari. Faremo anche presente a tutti che eventuali donazioni
dovranno riguardare strumenti revisionati (perfettamente funzionanti) e
materiali di consumo ben conservati.
Nelle prossime settimane definiremo l'acquisto, presso la "Camag", unica
distributrice di quel che la dott.sa Mica Saric Tanaskovic ha chiesto
per la
gascromatografia, di uno strumento e di alcuni accessori.
Sul sito di "ABC" è possibile consultare e scaricare l'elenco di tutti
gli
strumenti e dei materiali di consumo richiesti dall'Istituto d'igiene
ambientale del Banato del sud. Desideriamo però far presente che
l'elenco
potrà subire delle variazioni e che ai prezzi indicati sarà applicato
uno
sconto che andrà dal 10 al 20%. Un'ultima informazione: il costo totale
del
progetto è di circa 67.000.000 di lire ai quali si aggiungeranno le
spese di
trasporto e doganali ancora non definite.
Grazie per la Vostra attenzione e cordiali saluti.
p. A,B,C, solidarietà e pace
Franco Della Marra
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* RICHIESTA INFORMAZIONI SULLE ELEZIONI NELLE RFJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Collon"
To: "wpb" <wpb@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: Urgent: Do you have Info abou Yugo elections?
Dear,
I am looking for information about next elections in Yugoslavia,
specially
Kustanovic, Mihailovic and expectations. and the "poll presenting
Kustanovic
as favorite".
Also the questions you might have on this topic.
Thank you very much in advance!
Je recherche des infos sur les candidats de l'opposition,
Kustanovic et Mihailovic,
ainsi que des analyses des élections, y compris le "sondage Kustanovic
est
favori.
Et aussi les questions que vous vous posez à ce sujet.
Merci beaucoup d'avance.
Michel Collon
---
* LIBRI SEGNALATI
1.
Alexandre Del Vallee
GUERRES CONTRE L' EUROPE: BOSNIE - KOSOVO - TCHETCHNIE
Editions: "Des Syrtes"
Paris, 2000
2.
Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*,
Paris, Editions 1, $$$ p., 110 FF, parution juin 2000.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377
3.
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM,
KONKRET-Verlag Hamburg)
-
Jürgen Elsässer
c/o Redaktion KONKRET
Tel. 040/8512530, Fax. 040/8512514
Mobil 0171/1720368
Email: J.Elsasser@...
www.juergen-elsaesser.de
betr. Buch-Neuerscheinung
Veranstaltungsangebot
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
liebe Freunde aus der Friedensbewegung,
am 15. Oktober erscheint mein neues Buch
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit
einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM, KONKRET-Verlag
Hamburg)
Die Buchpremiere wird am 20. Oktober auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse sein,
der
(von Scharping mittlerweile geschaßte) deutsche OSZE-Offizier Heinz
Loquai
und
der Hamburger Friedensforscher Dieter S. Lutz haben ihre Teilnahme
bereits
zugesagt. Gerne würde ich das Buch auch in Ihrer Stadt vorstellen -
entweder
im
Rahmen einer Lesung oder einer Vortragsveranstaltung oder einer
Podiumsdiskussion mit anderen Teilnehmern.
Über mein letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das
Kosovo
und
die neue deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage
November
1999) schrieb die Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein hervorragender Band, im
Zorn
geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus, Enttäuschung über Linke
und
Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«
Zwar gibt es mittlerweile eine ganze Reihe guter Veröffentlichungen zum
Kosovo-Krieg. Doch mein aktuelles Buch steuert nicht nur zu bereits
behandelten
Themen - Rambouillet, Racak, Hufeisenplan - neues Material bei, das ich
in
Brüssel, Wien und Belgrad recherchiert habe.
Vor allem packt es als erstes heiße Eisen an, die bisher von
Kriegsgegnern
sträflich vernachlässigt wurden:
* Srebrenica, wo die Truppen der bosnischen Serben im Juli 1995 7.000
bis
8.000
Muslime massakriert haben sollen. „Für mich war das die Wende“ (J.
Fischer).
* Die Behauptung von den angeblich 100.000 ermordeten Kosovo-Albaner,
mit
der
während des Krieges - und danach! - die Politik Milosevics als
„genozidal
(Goldhagen) dargestellt wurde.
* Das Kosovo im ersten Jahr nach dem Nato-Einmarsch: Der Durchbruch des
albanischen Faschismus.
Falls Sie an meinem Angebot einer Lesung/Veranstaltung interessiert
sind,
bitte
ich um rechtzeitige Kontaktaufnahme - von Mitte August bis Mitte
September
bin
ich in Übersee und schwer zu erreichen. Die Konditionen würden in etwa
denen
des
letzten Jahres entsprechen.
Rezensionsexemplare des Buches fordern Sie bitte direkt bei KONKRET an
(Marit
Hofmann/Katrin Gremliza, Tel 040/8512531 bzw. Fax 040/8512514)
Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse,
mit freundlichen Grüßen
J. Elsässer
Es folgt: Exposé mit inhaltlichem Profil
Inhaltsübersicht, Kurzbiographie und Bibliographie
-
Exposé
Jürgen Elsässer
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica
»Noch nie haben so wenige so viele so gründlich belogen wie im
Zusammenhang
mit
dem Kosovo-Krieg«, sagt der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Willy Wimmer.
»Dafür
sind
Menschen gestorben.«
Keine Lüge war zu grotesk, das Schlachten in Gang zu bringen und am
Laufen
zu
halten. : Milosevic als Hitler, ein KZ in Pristina, Auschwitz auf dem
Amselfeld.
Während Nato und CNN sich die Mühe machten, Video-Aufnahmen zu fälschen,
beeindruckte der deutsche Verteidigungsminister durch nackte Wortgewalt:
Scharpings Serben, die mit abgeschnittenen Albanerköpfen Fußball spielen
und
Föten grillen, werden in die Geschichte der Psychopathologie eingehen.
Schließlich Wunder von biblischer Dimension: Massakrierte albanische
Intellektuelle, die post mortem Pressekonferenzen in westlichen
Hauptstädten
geben; Geisterzüge, die plötzlich auf wenig befahrenen Brücken
erscheinen
und
sich in Nato-Raketen bohren; Massengräber, die so leer sind wie jenes
von
Jesus
nach der Himmelfahrt.
Was ist daraus geworden? »Neun Monate nach der Stationierung der KFOR im
Kosovo
stützt nichts die Anschuldigung eines ›Völkermordes‹« (Le Monde
Diplomatique,
März 2000). Jürgen Elsässer hat die Rechtfertigungen der Nato im Lichte
neuer
Fakten und bisher unzugänglicher Dokumente geprüft.
Elsässer widerlegt die Behauptung, das erste Opfer im Krieg sei die
Wahrheit.
Die Wahrheit stirbt nämlich bereits lange vor dem Krieg: Mit den Lügen
über
Srebrenica, über Racak, über Rambouillet, über die sogenannte
Apartheidpolitik
im Kosovo wurden Parlamentarier und Bürger in den westlichen Staaten
getäuscht
und in ein blutiges Abenteuer gelockt. Die Nato ließ sich zur "Luftwaffe
im
ethnischen Krieg" (Henry Kissinger) machen und hat der UCK zur Macht
verholfen.
Resultat: Pristina ist judenfrei, die Volksfremden sind vertrieben, auf
den
Straßen wütet der Mob, die UCK-Geheimpolizei ist überall, die wenigen
Überlebenden zittern in Ghettos um ihr Leben. Allerdings: Jetzt spricht
niemand
von "humanitärer Katastrophe", "ethnischer Säuberung" und "Völkermord".
Kein
Wunder: Die Blamage des letzten würde die Vorbereitung des nächsten
Krieges
erschweren.
Darum ist diese vollständige, nüchterne und rücksichtslose Bilanz des
Kosovo-Krieges so wichtig.
Elsässers Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Enzyklopädie für alle, die nach
überprüfbaren Fakten gegen die tödliche Propaganda suchen.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1) Vor dem Krieg
1a) Die Mutter aller Lügen
Die "Rampe von Srebrenica" als Abschußrampe in den Krieg
*** Schwerpunktkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen
1b) Die verschwiegenen Morde
Der Terror der UCK vor dem Krieg und die Desinformation der westlichen
Öffentlichkeit
Ca. 25.000 Zeichen
1c)Geheimakte Racak
Die bisher geheimen Autopsieprotokolle der 40 Racak-Leichen dementieren
die
Nato-Version von einem serbischen Massaker
Ca. 18.000 Zeichen
1d)Hineingefingert
Die Memoiren des Wiener Diplomaten: Petritsch als deutscher Frontmann in
Rambouillet
Ca. 20.000 Zeichen
1e)Scharpings Hufschmied
"Operation Potkova" - eine stümperhafte Fälschung der
Geheimdienstconnection
Berlin-Wien
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen
2) Im Krieg
2a) Sex, Lügen und Video
Wie man mit manipulierten Fotos und sexuell konnotiertem Horror
Kriegsstimmung
erzeugt
Ca. 14.000 Zeichen
2b) Legal, illegal, kollateral
Legende und Fakten über den Bombenkrieg
Ca. 19.000 Zeichen
2c) Killing Fields und Deadly Lies
Was bleibt von den 100.000 Toten in Massengräbern?
***Schwerpunkkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen
3) Nach dem Krieg
3a) Prizren ist serbenfrei
Die Lüge von der sauberen Bundeswehr
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen
3b) Albanischer Faschismus
Das Nato-Märchen von der multiethnischen Zukunft des Kosovo-Protektorats
***Schwerpunktartikel*** Ca. 40.000 Zeichen
4) Nachwort
Faktenmüll im Cyberspace
Die Zerstörung der Vernunft durch die Postmoderne oder: Fragen eines
arbeitenden
Lesers
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen
5) Anhang
5a) Internationale Pressestimmen zur Lage im Kosovo in den 80er Jahren
Ca. 10.000 Zeichen
5b) Milosevics Rede auf dem Amselfeld (ungekürzt)
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen
5c) Überblick über die Lügen des bosnischen Krieges
Ca.50.000 Zeichen
Der Autor
Jürgen Elsässer, Jahrgang 1957, war bis Juni 1997 leitender Redakteur
der
Berliner Tageszeitung „junge Welt“ und wurde im April 1999 Redakteur des
Monatsmagazins KONKRET, seit 1957 die bedeutendste Zeitschrift der
parteiunabhängigen Linken in der Bundesrepublik. Daneben arbeitet er
unregelmäßig unter anderem für die „Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung“,
die
„Süddeutsche Zeitung“, den WDR und das „Kursbuch“.
Im Kosovo-Krieg popularisierte er den Slogan "Kein Blut für Joschka"
(eine
Anspielung auf den Slogan "Kein Blut für Öl", den die Grünen im
Golfkrieg
1991
skandiert hatten) und wurde daraufhin vom SPIEGEL als „Berufszyniker
mit „altlinken Klischees“ geschmäht. Andere urteilten freundlicher: Über
sein
letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das Kosovo und die
neue
deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage November
1999)
schrieb die renommierte Tageszeitung Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein
hervorragender
Band, im Zorn geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus,
Enttäuschung
über
Linke und Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«
Bibliographie
Jürgen Elsässer/Andrei S. Markovits (Hrsg)
Die Fratze der eigene Geschichte
Von der Goldhagen-Debatte zum Jugoslawienkrieg. Berlin
(Elefantenpress) September 1999, 208 Seiten, 29.90 DM
Jürgen Elsässer (Hrsg.)
Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns
Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche Geopolitik. Hamburg
(Konkret)
Juni
1999, 165 Seiten, 22.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer
Braunbuch DVU
Eine deutsche Arbeiterpartei und ihre Freunde. Hamburk
(Konkret)
September 1998, 152 Seiten, 19.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer/Sahra Wagenknecht
Vorwärts und vergessen?
Ein Streit über Marx, Lenin, Ulbricht und die verzweifelte
Aktualität des Kommunismus. Hamburg (Konkret) Juni 1996, 140
Seiten,
19.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer
Wenn das der Führer hätte erleben dürfen
29 Glückwünsche zum deutschen Sieg über die Alliierten.
Hamburg
(Konkret) Mai 1995, 112 Seiten, 14.80 DM
Jürgen Elsässer
Antisemitismus - das alte Gesicht des neuen Deutschland
Analysen nach der Wiedervereinigung. Berlin (Dietz)
September
1992,
145 Seiten, 19.80 DM
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YUGO ! L'UTILITARIA CHE STA ENTRANDO NELLA LEGGENDA !
> http://www.knowitall.com/people/mag/Graphics/YugoArt/
YUGO ART
> http://www.carsurvey.org/manufacturer_Yugo.html
Reviews of Yugo vehicles by their owners...people either love 'em or
hate 'em...
> http://www.igc.apc.org/balkans/yugocar.html
> http://www.web-cars.com/humor/
Barzellette
> http://www.middlemill.freeserve.co.uk/yugo/index.htm
Another Yugo page
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------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.knowitall.com/people/mag/Graphics/YugoArt/
YUGO ART
> http://www.carsurvey.org/manufacturer_Yugo.html
Reviews of Yugo vehicles by their owners...people either love 'em or
hate 'em...
> http://www.igc.apc.org/balkans/yugocar.html
> http://www.web-cars.com/humor/
Barzellette
> http://www.middlemill.freeserve.co.uk/yugo/index.htm
Another Yugo page
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MILOSEVIC RICEVE I DIPLOMATICI STRANIERI
MILOSEVIC RECEIVES HEADS OF YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES
BELGRADE, August 5 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
on Saturday received a group of heads of Yugoslav diplomatic and
consular
representative offices in several dozen countries and international
organizations.
In the talks, Milosevic stressed that Yugoslavia sets great
importance on the intensive development of equal relations and open
cooperation with all countries of the world, in which the successful
work
of Yugoslav diplomatic consular representative offices has an important
role and responsibility.
Yugoslavia firmly urges the affirmation of the policy of peace
and
stability, and due respect of all fundamental international principles,
which inevitably includes respect of sovereignty, territorial integrity
and
independence of all countries, and noninterference in their internal
affairs. Yugoslavia appears everywhere in the world with such an
approach
and that is why it enjoys great renown and wide international support,
and
why all attempts to isolate Yugoslavia have failed.
Yugoslavia realizes comprehensive bilateral ties with the vast
majority of world countries, ties which are based on longterm
cooperation,
mutual respect and understanding, which presents an example of building
international relations and the best way in which a country's own
interests
should be realized and protected, Milosevic said.
With its heroic defense from the NATO aggression (MarchJune,
1999)
and impressive results in national renewal, Yugoslavia has joined the
frontline in the struggle against the new colonialism, in which the
truth
about Yugoslavia and the defense of its freedom are becoming fully
expressed, awakening the conscience of millions of people who refuse to
be
reconciled and are also resisting the policy of hegemony and dictate.
Milosevic spoke to the Yugoslav diplomats about the most
important
issues of the national home and foreign policies.
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic took part in the
talks.
---
CHI HA DISTRUTTO DEVE PAGARE I DANNI
BELGRADE BRIEFS FOREIGN DIPLOMATS ON DAMAGE FROM SANCTIONS, NATO WAR
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) There can be no reconstruction or
development of southeast Europe if Yugoslavia is left out of the
development projects, according to Yugoslavia's Assistant Foreign
Minister
at a briefing on Friday. Zoran Jeremic briefed foreign diplomats in
Belgrade on the damage sustained by Yugoslavia through the application
of
international antiYugoslav sanctions and last year's NATO aggression.
Jeremic was quoting data submitted to U.N. Secretary General
Kofi
Annan on July 31 and published as a U.N. document. Annan has requested
similar information from the other countries in the region.
Jeremic said that experts of the U.N. Economic Commission for
Europe attach great importance to the inclusion of Yugoslavia in the
process of regional reconstruction, believing that it has a central part
to
play in the process.
"As a relatively large economy, located on strategic routes
leading to Western Europe, the Yugoslav economy is important both as a
market for neighbouring countries and as a country of transit.
"In the opinion of the Commission, the FR of Yugoslavia plays a
decisive role in the reconstruction plans for the region and the
prevention
of the FR of Yugoslavia to play that role would threaten the economy and
political stability of entire Europe", he said. He added that, until the
outbreak of the Balkan crisis, Yugoslavia had been in the forefront of
the
transitional economies in economic and social reform.
Overall direct and indirect damage caused by NATO's
antiYugoslav
aggression is estimated at 100 billion dollars plus, according to
Jeremic.
---
SPARITI TRE PRIGIONIERI POLITICI SERBI DALL'OSPEDALE DI MITROVICA
SERB PRISONERS GO MISSING FROM KOSOVSKA MITROVICA HOSPITAL
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) Three Serb prisoners
disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run Kosovska Mitrovica during the
night
between Thursday and Friday, Serbs sources in the divided city confirmed
to
TANJUG on Friday.
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peica were
being
treated after a protracted hunger strike in prison in Kosovska
Mitrovica,
where they had been held unlawfully for between 10 and 13 months without
a
trial.
They disappeared overnight while under U.N. mission (UNMIK)
police
guard.
SERBIAN OFFICIAL DOUBTS SERBS ESCAPED FROM KOSOVOMETOHIJA HOSPITAL
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's
Deputy Justice Minister on Friday expressed doubt that three Serb
detainees, who disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run divided Kosovska
Mitrovica overnight, escaped of their own accord.
Zoran Bilinovac said that "the confused statement issued by the
UNMIK (U.N. KosovoMetohija mission) police saying that Dragan Jovanovic,
Dragisa Peica, and Vlastimir Aleksic three innocent Serbs whom the
socalled UNMIK justice department has kept in detention for a
year disappeared from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica today, arouses
serious doubts about what really happened to them.
"The three were arrested a year ago on the sayso of the (ethnic
Albanian) socalled Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and during the
investigation have been threatened with being handed over to KLA
terrorists
unless they confessed their alleged crimes.
"In early June this year, (another Serb) Arsenije Vitosevic had
also disappeared from the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital. He was arrested
only
because his name was on a list submitted to (international force) KFor
on
June 18, 1999, by socalled KLA Commander Ismet Tari.
"The suspicion that KFor and UNMIK have handed over the four
Serbs
to their allies should not be entirely ruled out.
"It is, however, more probable that KFor and UNMIK have
stagemanaged events so as to bring additional pressure to bear on Serb
detainees to give up their demands for a swift and fair trial and
release
from detention, or in order to justify the transfer of detained Serbs
from
Kosovska Mitrovica deeper inside KosovoMetohija where they would not be
able to receive visits from relatives or attorneys, thereby making it
difficult for them to prove their innocence," Bilinovac said.
PEACE AND TOLERANCE CENTRE SEEKS EXPLANATION OF SERBS' DISAPPEARANCE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) The Centre for Peace and
Tolerance in divided Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday asked the U.N. mission
UNMIK and the international force KFor to explain how Serb prisoners
disappeared from a local hospital overnight.
The Centre issued a statement to say it "learned today that
three
Serbs, who had been detained in the Kosovska Mitrovica prison,
disappeared
from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica early this morning. "They are
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peic.
"Since neither UNMIK nor KFor have given a valid and serious
explanation of what has happened to them, the Centre for Peace and
Tolerance shares the concern of their families and awaits an explanation
of
the circumstances under which the three Serbs disappeared from the
hospital
in Kosovska Mitrovica.
"Concern is all the greater in view of the fact that there has
been no explanation to this day of the recent disappearance from the
same
hospital of Serb detainee Arsenije Vitosevic, of whom nothing is known
at
this time."
The UNMIK office in this city in the Yugoslav Republic of
Serbia's
U.N.administered province of KosovoMetohija said on Friday UNMIK was
investigating the disappearance of the three prisoners.
---
SLAVO-MACEDONI ABBANDONANO LA FYROM OCCIDENTALE CAUSA NAZIONALISMO
PAN-ALBANESE
MACEDONIANS LEAVING WESTERN MACEDONIA
SKOPJE, August 5 (Tanjug) More and more Macedonians are
permanently leaving the western parts of their country for other parts
or
destinations abroad because ethnic Albanians have long been predominant
in
these parts, the Skopje daily Makedonija Denes warned on Saturday.
In Gostivar alone, Macedonians are currently selling some 400
apartments or houses, the daily said, underscoring that they are now
treated in this western town as secondclass citizens.
The inflow of ethnic Albanians into western Macedonian towns
began
several years ago when they started offering Macedonians large sums of
Dmarks for real estate. As a result of tense interethnic relations, but
also because they had been unable to find employment or become more
successfully engaged in private businesses, Macedonians had decided to
sell
their property and then leave permanently, the daily said.
In addition to houses and apartments, ethnic Albanian
businessmen
have purchased all business premises, department stores and main stores
in
Gostivar and Tetovo which had earlier been social property. The son of
former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman has also invested in business
premises in Gostivar, since he has close business ties with ethnic
Albanian
businessmen, Makedonija Denes said.
The Macedonian municipality of Gostivar has a population of
45,000. The majority population were formerly Macedonians, but they have
now dropped to a mere 18 percent. Consequently, Macedonians now make up
the
bulk of the 11,000 unemployed persons in Gostivar, the daily said.
---
OLANDESI, CANADESI E BRITANNICI ARRESTATI IN JUGOSLAVIA.
L'ACCUSA E' TERRORISMO
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20000805/361600.html
NATIONAL POST, Saturday, August 5, 2000
Yugoslavia facing pressure over 'terrorist' arrests
Canadians held by army: Axworthy blasts treatment of men as unacceptable
Stewart Bell
National Post
As Yugoslavia faced mounting international pressure over its arrest of
two Canadians and their British travel companions, Lloyd Axworthy, the
Foreign Affairs Minister, demanded his envoy be allowed to visit the
men, and called their treatment unacceptable.
A Canadian diplomat dispatched to the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro to
meet the detained Albertans, Shaun Going, 45, and his nephew, Liam Hall,
19, has been refused access to the men, who are being held in the town
of Andrijevica by the Yugoslav military...
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/080400yugo-arrest.html
August 4, 2000
Yugoslavs Hold 4 Westerners in Arms Case
By STEVEN ERLANGER
PRAGUE, Aug. 3 -- The Yugoslav Army said today that it had arrested two
Britons and two
Canadians in Montenegro, accusing them of possessing weapons and
explosives, in what
appeared to be another effort to stimulate fears of Western encirclement
before elections next
month.
It was the second arrest of four foreigners reported this week by
Yugoslav authorities. Four
Dutchmen whose detention was disclosed on Monday were seized last month
on Serbia's border
with Montenegro, reportedly because they were trying to kill President
Slobodan Milosevic.
The army said today that the Britons and Canadians were employees of the
NATO-led forces in
Kosovo and were suspected of training pro-Western secessionists in
Montenegro, Serbia's tiny
sister republic, to commit "terrorist actions." ...
YUGOSLAV ARMY ARRESTS FOUR ARMED FOREIGN NATIONALS
BELGRADE, Aug 3 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army has arrested four
armed foreign nationals carrying military equipment and demolition gear,
the Army Command said on Thursday.
The arrests were made in the border belt beyond the border
crossing in the northeast of the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro in the
night between Aug. 1 and 2.
The arrested persons are British nationals Adrian Michael
Prangnel
and John Connon Bredley Yore, and Canadian nationals Shuan Gerald Going
and
Liam Patrick Hall.
They were not authorised by the competent Yugoslav bodies to be
present in the area.
There are indications that the arrested foreign nationals have
been training Montenegrin interior ministry special troops and are
specialists in demolition and terrorist operations.
The competent Yugoslav Army authorities have information that
one
of the arrested is a member of the socalled Kosovo Protection Corps. The
authorities have also voluminous documents which clearly indicate the
true
plans and intentions of the arrested.
Investigation results will be made public in due course, the
army
statement said.
Yugoslavia suspects 4 Britons of spying
The Associated Press
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (August 3, 2000 7:03 a.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Yugoslav military has
detained four British citizens on suspicion of spying,
the private Montena-fax news agency reported Thursday.
It said the four unidentified Britons were arrested
Tuesday on Mount Cakor, on the border between
Montenegro and Kosovo. They were tourists, but arms
were allegedly found in their possession, Montena-fax
said.
"They were taken to military barracks under the
suspicion that they were conducting a hostile act of
spying," the Montenegrin news agency said, without
elaborating.
The British Foreign Office said Thursday it had no
reports of the arrests.
Yugoslav authorities said Monday that four Dutchmen
were arrested in July for allegedly plotting to
assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic.
The arrests follow allegations that NATO has hired
mercenaries to snatch fugitive war crimes suspects on
Yugoslav territory, tightening the noose around
indicted Serb leaders.
The Dutch government has demanded access to the
detainees, in accordance with international
conventions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bart Jochems
said Thursday. But he said a Yugoslavia official in
The Hague would not tell details of the charges, where
they were being held or their medical condition.
DUTCH ESPIONAGE TERRORIST GANG ARRESTED IN YUGOSLAVIA - MINISTER
BELGRADE,
July 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Information Minister said on Monday
state
security forces have arrested four Dutch special force troops who have
come
to Yugoslavia with the job of trying to assassinate President Slobodan
Milosevic. Briefing domestic and foreign reporters, Minister Goran Matic
said the espionage and terrorist gang was arrested while attempting to
enter Serbia from the other Yugoslav republic, Montenegro, via Serbia's
U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province. One of the four is a professional
soldier and they have all been trained by the British SAS. State
security
troops have seized some of the weapons and equipment found in the gang's
possession, Matic said, adding that the four, posing as war adventurers
and
weekend soldiers, have been organised and trained for subversive
operations
and assassinations. He went on to say that, by their own admission, the
gang had tried to get in touch with the Dutch KFor (international Force
in
Kosovo-Metohija) battalion and had planned to try to assassinate
Milosevic
or commit acts of terrorism on Yugoslav territory. Matic said the four
had
visited the territory of the former Yugoslavia on several occasions, as
evident from visas for (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska, Croatia and
Slovenia stamped on their passports, and prepared terrorist operations.
"Yugoslavia has an organised system of security, which is capable of
providing adequate protection to the people, the state and the political
system of the country. "No hired guns, military adventurers, special
troops
or gangs will ever penetrate our system of security and protection", he
vowed. The reporters were shown video footage of the arrested Dutchmen,
identified as Gotfrides Johannes Antonijus de Ri, Samrordijan Tjetje,
Johannes van Iersel and Ian van Stajk, who spoke about their arrival in
Yugoslavia and their terrorist plans. Asked by reporters who trains the
Montenegrin police, Matic said this is done by Great Britain, and that a
group of Montenegrin police officers has undergone training in U.S.
police
structures. "The truth is that the British provide some of the training
of
Montenegro's special forces, while Montenegro's interior ministry, for
all
the protestations of peace of its officials, has lately been busily
buying
various arms with Croatia's help", he said. "One cannot talk of peace
while
amassing weapons, the way Montenegrin President Djukanovic is doing",
Matic
added.
'This Is Fiction'
U.N. Tribunal, Dutch Govt. Deny Links to Milosevic's Alleged Assassins
The Yugoslav government showed a film of a Dutch citizen who was
arrested in Yugoslavia along with three other Dutchmen. All are accused
of planning to kidnap or kill President Slobodan Milosevic. (Reuters)
A M S T E R D A M, Netherlands, Aug. 1 — The International Criminal
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia today strongly denied links to a group of
Dutchmen being held in Serbia on suspicion of plotting to assassinate
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Yugoslavia said Monday it had arrested four Dutchmen,
allegedly sent by Western intelligence agencies, who were planning to
kidnap Milosevic and other alleged war criminals indicted by The Hague
tribunal.
"I would call it pretty good fiction," said Paul Risley,
spokesman for the tribunal. "This story is fiction and nothing more."
With pictures of the four and their alleged cache of
weapons spread across most Dutch newspapers, the Dutch government raised
the tempo of its own denials and said it was trying to find out more
about the incident.
"We deny any military operation," said a Dutch Foreign
Ministry spokesman. He said Dutch diplomats were trying to make contact
with their Yugoslav counterparts in The Hague and in Belgrade to find
out more about the incident.
Friends and colleagues of one of those detained, Godfried
de Rie, reacted to the news with shock.
"He is a dead honest, hardworking man who never planned to
kidnap President Milosevic," Jaap Havik, the owner of a Mercedes
restoration firm that employed de Rie, told Dutch television. "He's
always working on cars and motorbikes."
A next-door neighbor of de Rie's described him as a
perfectly normal person who once worked as a postman.
'Weekend Warriors'
Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic said the men were posing as
amateur "weekend warriors" but were in fact assassins sent by the West.
He said the men had been caught in Mehov Krs, an isolated
corner of Serbia near Kosovo and Montenegro, about 300 miles south of
Belgrade.
Matic showed a film in which one of the four, identified as
Jeroen van Iersel, told an unidentified questioner that he and his
friends had been looking for people indicted by the U.N. tribunal.
The Dutch spokesman said the Foreign Ministry was
investigating reports that the group was arrested as long as two weeks
ago.
"We will continue our efforts and go to the [Yugoslav]
Foreign Ministry to ask why we were not told earlier of their arrest,"
the spokesman said.
He added that de Rie had done his military service in the
army in 1989. "But he was an administrator, hardly a paratrooper."
The Dutch Foreign Ministry named the others as Bas van
Schaik, Sander Zeitsen and van Iersel. All are aged between 28 and 32.
"We are pretty sure that they are neither military nor
involved in military things," the spokesman said.
The United States has offered a reward of up to $5 million
for information leading to the arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who commanded Bosnian Serb
forces during the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia.
In the film shown to journalists in Belgrade, van Iersel
said he knew Milosevic and Mladic were among those indicted. He said
that if he met the Yugoslav leader he would have been put in a box on
top of a car and driven out of the country.
'These Are No Pros'
Military specialists appeared in the Dutch media this morning to say it
was extremely unlikely that the four are professional militiamen.
If they were what the Yugoslavs claim they are —
SAS-trained assassins — then they would never have told their plans,
the experts argued. Those same specialists pointed out that Dutch
mercenaries fought in Croatia, mostly on the Croatian side.
Most of them came from extreme right-wing organizations,
they said.
They also pointed out that the $5 million bounty is for
information — not for kidnapping, much less delivering a human head.
One NATO source was reported as dismissing the whole
incident as "bizarre."
The Dutch anti-fascist group Kakfa, which monitors rightist
activity, believes the men could be former members of the ultra-right
CP'86 group, which was ordered dismantled last year by a Dutch court.
Like many other small skinhead groups, CP'86 played survival games on
the weekends.
Like most other European countries, the Netherlands has its
fringe groups of ultra-rightists and neo-Nazis — many of whom are also
hardcore soccer hooligans. They are closely monitored by the
intelligence services.
A Milosevic Stunt?
In Belgrade, the opposition dismissed the arrests as a propaganda stunt.
"Matic is crazy about conspiracy theories," said Bogdan
Grubacic, editor of the independent English language newsletter VIP. He
said the arrests are part of the propaganda war launched by the
Milosevic regime ahead of early elections, scheduled for Sept. 24.
And the alleged location of the arrests, on the border to
Montenegro, could serve the dual purpose of helping Milosevic to fuel
his war of words with the smaller, anti-Milosevic partner in the
Yugoslav federation.
The Milosevic regime says Montenegro is behind repeated
assassinations. Montenegro, in return, regularly accuses Milosevic of
sending his hit-men there.
Montenegro is boycotting the upcoming elections, saying the
laws had been changed by the Yugoslav government to favor the
re-election of Milosevic and his partners.
ABCNEWS.com's Sue Masterman and Reuters contributed to this report.
DATE: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 19:59:00
From: Herman de Tollenaere <hermantl@...>
To: right-left@...
On 31 July, Dutch TV rebroadcast Serbian TV tapes of four Dutchmen,
arrested in Yugoslavia. On those tapes, they claimed to be an armed
"special unit" with violence and abduction plans.
For whatever it is worth:
Dutch daily NRC-Handelsblad ["NRC-Business Paper"] of Tuesday 1 August
on
one of the arrested, Godfried de Rie:
"According to the Group for Anti-Fascist Research, KAFKA, his name, with
the same initials and place of residence, is on the list of members for
1995 of the extreme Rightist [political party] CP'86. The [Dutch]
Ministry
of Defence confirms that De Rie was a conscript Army lance corporal, of
1989/8."
The CP'86 ["Center" Party, founded in 1986] political party was
notorious
for racism, violence, and open propaganda for Nazis like Adolf Hitler
and
Rudolf Hess. In the 1990s, they sent Dutch mercenaries to Yugoslavia, to
fight in extreme Right Croat units in Croatia and Bosnia.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
BLIC
English Edition
Goran Matic, the Federal Minister about the arrest of
Holland citizens
They planned assault on Slobodan Milosevic
Belgrade (Beta)- Goran Matic, the Federal Information
Minister said that
Yugoslav police had arrested four Holland citizens who had
planned an
assault on Slobodan Milosevic. Matic added that they had
been arrested on
Mehov Krs, at the Serbia-Montenegro border, just before the
Group of Eight
summit in Japan.
Names of the arrested are Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de
Rij, Samvordian
Tjetje, Johanes Andrianus Kornelius van Irshel and Ian van
Stajk Bastien.
(That's how the names were told to the journalists.)
Journalists could watch videotaped statements of the
arrested. One of them
said that the group's aim was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic
and take him
abroad or to some foreign embassy in order to obtain the
warrant prize. "Our
plan was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic, to kill him, cut off
his head, put it
in a box and send it," he added.
The arrested said that they had traveled from Slovenia, via
Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina and Montenegro. They added that they had
planned to go to
Kosovo and join the Holland KFOR battalion. The Holland
KFOR members were to
provide firearms for them.
Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de Rij said that his rank was
"Soldier number
one" and that his identification number was 690816197.
We intended to come to Yugoslavia to see the situation. We
planned to go to
the war zone, to Kosovo. We planned to fight against Serbs
there. We also
planned to visit the Holland battalion in Kosovo," he said.
He added that
they had entered the country through Montenegro, in a car.
"Situation at the check-point was very unusual. They didn't
ask us anything.
We were told that we had to pay car insurance and that
every person was
allowed to take in 5 grams of drug," he added. He mentioned
that they
possessed "special knifes, handcuffs, and a saw". They had
five cameras for
shooting military bases, nature and customs checkpoints.
They also had a dog
that guarded the car.
"Part of the plan was to kidnap an important person. I
cannot say the name,
but we could earn a lot of money with that person," the
arrested said.
Samvordian Tjetje said that they had planned to collect
information about
Milosevic, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other persons
indicted by The
Hague Tribunal.
Matic said that this group was a part of American
subversive activities
directed against Yugoslavia. Matic accused the Montenegrin
Ministry of Home
Affairs and Montenegrin President of purchasing
anti-aircraft and
anti-helicopter arms with the help of Croatia. He said that
the Montenegrin
police had been trained by members of special British SAS
units and members
of American intelligence service.
"In this case, Croatia is not benign. It's obvious that
there is space for
terrorist acts against Yugoslavia," Matic added.
Holland doesn't have information about arrested Holland
citizens
The Hague (Beta-AFP)- Yesterday, the Holland Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
announced that it didn't possess information about four
Holland citizens,
arrested in Yugoslavia and accused of planning to kidnap
and murder
President Milosevic.
"We don't know anything. We are not sure about their
nationality," spokesman
of the Ministry said for France Press. He added that
Holland authorities
were searching for "Credible information and affirmations".
"We are trying to gain some information through our embassy
in Belgrade. In
this moment, we don't have any information from Yugoslav
authorities," the
spokesman added.
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SUL RIPRISTINO DELLA NAVIGABILITA' DEL DANUBIO BLOCCATA DALLA NATO
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ISSUES STATEMENT ON CLEARING OF DANUBE WATERWAY
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Recent complex talks with the
Danube
Commission on clearing the waterway of debris from NATOdemolished
bridges
has produced results of interest to Yugoslavia and other Danube
Commission
members, the Yugoslav Government said on Thursday.
Navigation in the River Danube through Yugoslavia has been
blocked
by debris of bridges smashed by NATO in its aggression on Yugoslavia
last
year.
At the session chaired by Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, the
Government reviewed a report on the results of the negotiations, the
Government statement said.
Documents adopted by the Danube Commission incorporated the
positions set down in the Yugoslav Government's Memorandum that the
resumption of international navigation in the Danube through Yugoslavia
must be done with full respect for Yugoslavia's territorial integrity
and
sovereignty, its laws and regulations.
In the first stage of the navigation route rehabilitation, the
project envisages for building a new bridge across the Danube at Novi
Sad,
to replace the pontoon bridge erected after NATO planes had demolished
all
three bridges in this northern city.
The Yugoslav Government recommended that the Commission appoint
Radisa Djordjevic, director of the Yugoslav Institute for the
Maintenance
and Development of Inland Waterways, to head the project.
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VERSO LE ELEZIONI DI SETTEMBRE NELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
YUGOSLAVIA - GENERAL ELECTIONS
YUGOSLAV PREMIER CONFIDENT MONTENEGRO WILL JOIN IN SEPTEMBER POLLS
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's Prime Minister said
on
Thursday that general elections called for September would be held also
in
Montenegro, because that Republic too is part of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
Elections are a right, not an obligation, Momir Bulatovic told
reporters during a recess at the 2nd Diaspora 2000 convention of
Yugoslav
expatriates, being held in Belgrade. He added he would personally feel
very
happy if all people exercised this right.
Bulatovic noted that Montenegro is a single constituency in the
election of deputies to both chambers of the Yugoslav Federal
Parliament.
He said that the Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro,
which he heads and which is in opposition in Montenegro, would contest
the
elections.
On the other hand, the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro,
the
senior partner in Montenegro's ruling coalition, is threatening to
boycott
the polls, called for September 24.
He hoped a way would be found, in cooperation with Montenegro's
Government, to make it possible for the people of Montenegro to vote in
the
polls if they want to, and added this would be a test of the democratic
character of the present regime in Montenegro.
YUGOSLAV MEDIA, PARTIES SIGN ACCORD ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) State radio and television
stations
in Yugoslavia, the Governments of Yugoslavia and its republics of Serbia
and Montenegro, and political parties contesting upcoming elections
agreed
on Wednesday on criteria for the contestants' fair and equal media
presentation during the election campaign. On behalf of the Yugoslav
Government, the accord was signed by Minister of Information Goran
Matic.
Elections for president of state and both houses of the Federal
Parliament have been called for September 24. Serbia will have local
elections on the same day.
Matic said the accord was open to all political parties
planning
to take part in the polls.
The accord determines the number and length of radio and
television appearances by the contestants on state radio and television
channels, according to Matic.
Under the election laws, state electronic media, both at the
federal level and at the level of the republics, are obliged to give
equal
coverage to all candidates in the information programmes during the
election campaign, he said.
The accord was signed on Wednesday by Radio Yugoslavia,
Yugoslav
Television, Serbian Radio and Television and Studio B.
About 30 parties have also signed the accord.
YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL COMMISSION ADOPTS REGULATIONS FOR COMING POLLS
BELGRADE, August 2 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Central Electoral
Commission met on Wednesday and adopted rules and regulations for
activities leading up to federal presidential and parliamentary
elections
scheduled for September 24, a Parliament statement said.
At its second session, held at the Federal Parliament and
chaired
by Commission Chairman Borivoje Vukicevic, the body defined uniform
rules
and standards for the coming elections. The rules are fully in line with
the laws that regulate presidential elections and elections to the
Chambers
of Citizens (lower house) and Republics of the Yugoslav Parliament.
The Commission further adopted rules and regulations for the
attendance of the presidential and parliamentary elections by foreign
observers.
It also appointed chairmen, secretaries and members of local
electoral commissions and their deputies in the constituencies in the
Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, the statement said.
YUGOSLAV MINISTRY OFFERS AGREEMENT ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Information Ministry
on
Tuesday invited state media and parties contesting forthcoming general
elections to come to a consultation about election campaign terms on
Wednesday.
The Ministry said that, under the relevant regulations, the
radio
and television stations whose founders are the Yugoslav Federation or
either of its republics (Serbia, Montenegro), representatives of the
founders and parties taking part in elections should together decide
about
the number and duration of radio and television appearances of the
contestants during the election campaign.
The purpose of such an agreement is to give equal access to the
media to all parties and all candidates, and to give a balanced media
presentation and an equal treatment of the contestants in the election
campaign.
The agreement, to be reached on Wednesday, will be open to all
political parties contesting the elections.
Yugoslav presidential and parliamentary elections have been
called
for Sept. 24.
ELECTIONS - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
DINI AND ALBRIGHT AGREE OVER MONTENEGRO
ROME, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - The United States and Italy agree that Montenegro
should take part at the Sept 24 elections in Yugoslavia. U.S. Secretary
of
State Madeleine Albright and Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini
reached
agreement on this issue during their meeting in Rome on Tuesday. In a
brief
statement after talks at the Italian Foreign Ministry, Albright said the
main subject at her talks with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in
Rome later today would be preparations for the Yugoslav elections, which
the United States considers of extreme importance. Italy, for its part,
believes it is necessary to urge the Montenegrin authorities not to
boycot
the elections, which Minister Dini also described as very important.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/01/montenegro.albright/index.html
Albright to ask Montenegro to reconsider election boycott
August 1, 2000
Web posted at: 4:43 a.m. EDT (0843 GMT)
From staff and wire reports
ROME -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is to ask
Montenegro's president to
reconsider a planned boycott of Yugoslavia's presidential, parliamentary
and municipal elections
scheduled for September....
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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RF JUGOSLAVIA - IRAN
YUGOSLAVIA'S MILOSEVIC SENDS MESSAGE TO IRAN'S KHATAMI
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Tanjug) Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zoran
Novakovic met in Tehran on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Gharazi to whom he gave a personal message from Yugoslav President
Slobodan
Milosevic for Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Novakovic is paying a severalday official visit to Iran.
During the cordial and frank discussion on the first day, the
two
sides exchanged views on the current situation in bilateral relations
and
supported new initiatives for cooperation, especially in the economy and
information.
Meeting separately with his host, Deputy Foreign Minister
Mortez
Sarmadi, Novakovic expressed pleasure at the attained degree of accord
on
most important international matters and at a mutually declared
readiness
to promote bilateral cooperation in all areas of mutual interest.
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NUOVE MISURE PER IL SISTEMA SANITARIO IN SERBIA
SERBIAN HEALTH MINISTER PRESENTS NEW MEASURES IN HEALTH SERVICE
BELGRADE, Aug 2 (Tanjug) The Serbian Medical Society will play
an
important part in the efforts to enhance health services, especially in
a
consulting capacity, according to the Serbian minister of health on
Wednesday.
Minister Milovan Bojic, who is also vice premier of this
Yugoslav
republic, was meeting with the Society's Executive Board. Bojic
explained
that medical professionals would in the future be given a greater role
to
play in shaping the policy of the health service, especially through
special commissions that are to be set up within the Ministry of Health.
He went on to say that doctors would be given a chance to
supplement their incomes by putting in additional work at state medical
facilities.
He said the government would set aside funds for building at
least
1,000 homes for young doctors, as one of the measures aimed at
preventing a
drain of highly qualified young professionals.
In future, greater attention would be paid to research projects
in
the health department, Bojic said, announcing tighter supervision at
medical institutions to replace the present slackness and even chaos in
some segments of the health protection system.
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IL PIANO DI RICOSTRUZIONE ECONOMICA DELLA SERBIA
SERBIAN PREMIER SAYS GOVERNMENT RESOLUTE TO BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH
KANJIZA, August 1 (Tanjug) Serbia's premier said on Tuesday
the
Government was committed to boosting economic growth and development in
order that this Yugoslav Republic should as soon as possible recover the
lost domestic product and repair the huge damage done by last year's
NATO
aggression.
Visiting the industrial town of Kanjiza in Serbia's northern
Vojvodina province, Premier Mirko Marjanovic inaugurated a new modern
plant
at the Potisje brickyard.
Marjanovic said Serbia was looking ahead to a period of brisk
development, with a twodigit domestic product growth rate.
According to him, the primary strategic project in the year
2000
is to build 10,000 homes at low cost and with all modern amenities as
the
first stage of a project for building 100,000 homes over the next ten
years.
The intensive housing development should boost the construction
industry, which had doubled its performance this year, and should
stimulate
the industry of building materials and other ancillary industries, he
said.
He added that the first half of the year had seen the
attainment
of the key goals of brisk economic growth and maintenance of
macroeconomic
and price stability.
In the period, industrial production had risen by 21.2 percent
over the same period in 1999, in line with the projected economic policy
for the year 2000 of increasing industrial production by 15 percent and
the
domestic product by 14 percent, he said.
The Government was, meanwhile, continuing its policy of firm
budget restrictions, i.e., of financing public spending solely from real
sources, which was the chief factor of price stability, Marjanovic said.
"Sanctions and other forms of outside pressure have not stopped
us
implementing reforms, building modern market institutions and adopting
major systemic laws: on companies, on concessions, on ownership
transformation, on value added tax, and others," he said.
He added the programme was a continuation of a policy that
meant
protecting the country's freedom, independence and integrity, settling
the
problem of KosovoMetohija politically, ending the missions of KFor and
UNMIK and returning that Serbian province under the full jurisdiction of
Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Also, he said, this policy meant a Yugoslavia as a state of
equal
people, nations and republics, economic and cultural development,
constant
growth of production and living standards, free education and medical
services, social security, affirmation of the policy of national unity,
development of democratic institutions, freedom of the media, national
and
religious equality, openness to economic, political and cultural
cooperation with all countries on an equal footing with respect for the
fundamental principles of international relations and international law.
Upcoming general elections, according to Marjanovic, will give
full support to the policy of heroic defence of the country against
aggressors, to reconstruction and the building of development projects,
and
will marginalise those who would like to come to power as exponents of
the
aggressors, betraying their country, sabotaging reconstruction and
justifying the crimes of the aggressors.
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VUCIC: LA SERBIA E' UN AVAMPOSTO DI LIBERTA'
VUCIC: SERBIA BASTION OF FREEDOM
VRANJE, August 2 (Tanjug) Serbian Information Minister and
ranking official of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Aleksandar Vucic
said
in Vranje late on Tuesday that Serbia is a bastion of freedom and the
only
unsubdued country in Europe even though part of its territory is
occupied,
referring to Kosovo and Metohija province which is currently under de
facto
administration of the United Nations.
Speaking in a broadcast by the local TV station in this
southern
Serbian town, Vucic spoke about the upcoming local and federal elections
and the current political situation in Yugoslavia.
He said he believed citizens would decide well and that
patriotic,
nationallyoriented political forces would triumph.
Vucic strongly criticized political parties of prowestern
orientation.
Fifthcolumn activities by opposition parties in Serbia
demonstrate
the senselessness of propaganda activities which urge "the options of
those
who killed our children" in comparison with activists who "never left
the
country and want to preserve the common state of Serbia and Montenegro."
Vucic underscored that Kosovo and Metohija province "is not
lost,
but only temporarily occupied." Serbia is the only unsubdued state in
Europe and a nucleus of freedom, he reiterated.
Commenting on the upcoming elections for Yugoslav president,
Vucic
said opposition parties were proU.S. oriented and that all those who
support the policy of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic advocate
turning Montenegro, and even Yugoslavia, into an ethnic Albanian and
Muslim
country.
It is all the same to the west which opposition figure they
will
appoint "since they are all the same and all servants," Vucic said.
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UCKFOR: KFOR PERQUISISCE LA CASA DI UN TESTIMONE DEI CRIMINI DELL'UCK
KFOR RAIDS HOME OF WITNESS AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIAN MURDER SUSPECT
GNJILANE, August 1 (Tanjug) International force Kfor and
ethnic
Albanian police troops in U.N.run KosovoMetohija have raided the house
of a
Serb witness against an ethnic Albanian murder suspect, amateur radio
operators reported on Tuesday.
The ethnic Albanian, Afrim Zeqiri, is accused of murdering
three
people, including a fouryearold child, and wounding two Serbs in the
multiethnic village of Cernica near Gnjilane, in the east of the
Yugoslav
Republic of Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
Kfor and ethnic Albanian police troops searched the house of
the
Serb, chief witness and one of two survivors of Zeqiri's attack.
The Serb, Zoran Stolic, sustained seven wounds at Zeqiri's
hands
and was hospitalised. After being discharged from hospital, he had gone
to
Smederevo, central Serbia, for further medical treatment and to
recuperate
with relatives.
A day after his departure, Kfor and ethnic Albanian police
troops
broke down the door to his home and turned the place upside down,
smashing
everything in sight.
Stolic returned home on Monday to find the place ransacked and
his
savings of 6,500 German marks gone, according to amateur radio
operators.
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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ - UCRAINA
UKRAINIAN MP VISITS YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) A senior Yugoslav Parliament
official
received on Tuesday a visiting Ukrainian parliamentarian who heads his
country's parliamentary working group on cooperation with the Yugoslav
Parliament.
Ljubisa Ristic, who chairs the Foreign Policy Committee of the
Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber of Citizens (lower house), briefed the
guest
from Ukraine, Sergei Kiashko, on recent amendments to the Yugoslav
constitution.
Ristic said that procedures for electing MPs to the Chamber of
Republics (upper house) and for electing president of state had been
changed.
He explained that the 350,000 Serbs and other nonAlbanians who
have fled KosovoMetohija would be able to vote in forthcoming elections,
as
would the Serbs remaining in that U.N.administered province of the
Yugoslav
republic of Serbia.
The same applies to all other Yugoslav citizens in
KosovoMetohija,
according to Ristic.
"Forces of occupation in KosovoMetohija have carried out a sham
census in an effort to set the stage for unlawful elections without
Serbs,"
said Ristic, adding that such elections would be an attempt to legalize
KosovoMetohija's secession.
He went on to say that foreign observers would be invited to
the
elections, but they would not be from the countries that had launched
last
year's aggression on Yugoslavia.
"We maintain no contacts with the parliaments of these
countries,
as they will not have most of our MPs in their countries," Ristic
explained.
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LA RFJ VERSO LA RATIFICA DELLA CONVENZIONE DI RIO SULLA BIODIVERSITA'
YUGOSLAVIA FOR PRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BELGRADE, Aug 1
(Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government has prepared for the federal
parliament
a draft law ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity whose
objective is the preserved and balanced use of biological diversity.
This
Convention implies that states have the sovereign right, in keeping with
the United Nations Charter and principles of international law, to
exploit
their own resources according to their own ecological policy, but also
the
responsibility not to cause damage to the environment and biological
diversity of other states or areas which are outside their jurisdiction,
said a statement by the federal government. Having in mind Yugoslavia's
central position in the Balkans, the high degree of biological
diversity,
and the need to follow the long-term effects of last year's (March-June)
NATO aggression on the environment, the draft law is also aimed at
preserving biological diversity in the wider region of the Balkans. The
international Convention on Biological Diversity, of which Yugoslavia is
a
signatory, was drawn up in Rio De Janeiro on June 5, 1992, and it
regulates
the area of the use of biodiversity along with securing conditions for
an
equal division of benefits from genetic resources and development.
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LE CONCLUSIONI DEL CAMPEGGIO INTERNAZIONALE DI SIROGOJNO
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CAMP IN ZLATIBOR INTERNATIONAL CAMP URGES
SOLIDARITY WITH YUGOSLAVIA SIROGOJNO, Yugoslavia, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - An
international friendship camp in Sirogojno on Mt Zlatibor, west-central
Serbia (Yugoslavia), on Tuesday adopted a declaration urging solidarity
with Yugoslavia in its resistance to the new world order. Some sixty
representatives of various organisations from 21 countries have come to
Yugoslavia to analyze the current situation and consequences of last
year's
NATO aggression and sanctions, and have been the extent of the
devastation
at first hand. They also inquired into the situation in the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered province of Kosovo-Metohija.
According to the Declaration, reasons offered by foreign powers
notwithstanding, the March-June 1999 war against Yugoslavia had nothing
to
do with the situation in the country, since the government in Belgrade
had
never tried to expel, let alone commit a genocide of, the ethnic
Albanian
population in Kosovo-Metohija. The conflict between the Yugoslav
government
and the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was the
result of numerous crimes committed by ethnic Albanian separatists, and
was
stoked by the super-powers, which took the side of the KLA and launched
an
aggressive policy towards Yugoslavia, the document says. It goes on to
say
that the pressure culminated at Rambuillet, France, talks in early 1999,
where Yugoslavia was forced to reject an unacceptable ultimatum which,
if
accepted, would have stripped it of its sovereignty. The refusal
furnished
a pretext for NATO's air strikes, which in fact gave air support to the
KLA, the paper avers. The Declaration says that the current situation in
Kosovo- Metohija, which is now administered by the international force
KFor
and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, is disastrous. The missions have
done
next to nothing to prevent crimes: 1,100 Serbs, Romanies and other
non-Albanians have been murdered along with 290 ethnic Albanians, 960
people have disappeared, 90 Serbian churches and monasteries have been
damaged or destroyed, it adds. More than 350,000 people have been forced
out of Kosovo-Metohija, the Declaration says. Yugoslavia, it adds, is a
hub
of telecommunications networks, oil pipelines, roads, railways that
transport raw materials, information and labour between the Caucasus,
the
Far East, the Middle East and Western Europe. According to the document,
the true reason for the so-called humanitarian war against Yugoslavia
lay
in its being seen as an obstacle in the way of multinational companies
attaining their objectives and increasing profits. The paper goes on to
call for solidarity with Yugoslavia and for lifting all anti-Yugoslav
sanctions and implementing the U.N. Security Council's Resolution No.
1244
on Kosovo-Metohija. The Friendship Camp participants urge
indemnification
of Yugoslavia for war damages and losses sustained through the
sanctions,
for prosecuting NATO politicians for war crimes, and for putting an end
to
the demonisation of Yugoslavia in western media. They also urge support
for
the forces in Yugoslavia that want dialogue between the ethnic
communities
and that oppose war, urge respect for the country's sovereignty and
international law and the disbanding of NATO.
INITIATIVE FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
BELGRADE, July 30 (Tanjug) Prominent Norwegian politicians and
public figures will launch in their country an initiative for lifting
the
international economic sanctions imposed on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Norwegian author Jo Eggen told Tanjug.
Eggen is taking part in the work of the International camp of
Friendship held in the village of Sirogojno on Mt. Zlatibor, western
Serbia.
Eggen has discussed this action, which is gaining in intensity
in
Norway, with certain members of the Norwegian parliament and government
all
of whom expressed readiness to support the demand for lifting this
inhuman
form of pressure on the people of Yugoslavia.
According to Eggen, the initiative will be joined by many
public
figures in Norway, trade union leaders and senior church dignitaries.
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IN BOSNIA SI PRIVATIZZA QUANTO SI E' COSTRUITO IN 50 ANNI DI SFRJ CON IL
SUDORE E L'IMPEGNO DEI LAVORATORI JUGOSLAVI DI OGNI NAZIONALITA'
Bosnia to sell 51 pct stakes in 86 large firms
SARAJEVO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Bosnia's Moslem-Croat federation will
offer 51
percent stakes in 86 of its largest firms to strategic investors and 49
percent stakes to citizens through public share offerings, an official
said
on Tuesday.
Nedim Lulo, deputy head of the federation privatisation agency, also
said
that a swap of privatisation vouchers for shares in state firms in the
federation would start on September 29 after a three-month delay.
Lulo said that 51 percent share stakes would be offered to strategic
foreign
and local investors via tenders and solely for cash while the remaining
49
percent would be offered to citizens in exchange for privatisation
vouchers.
The list of firms, seen as of strategic importance for the state and
including two federation power and telecommunication companies, was
proposed
by an international group of experts.
In another list of 206 firms proposed by the federation's ten cantonal
privatisation agencies, 10 percent of shares would be offered for cash
with
the remaining 90 percent privatised in exchange for vouchers.
Lulo said that cantonal privatisation bodies should decide next week
whether
the state would keep 51 percent of shares in infrastructure firms, such
as
waterworks and sewage systems, and offer remaining shares via public
share
offerings.
He said that the federation privatisation agency is obliged to publicly
announce the final list of firms to be privatised by the end of August.
He
added that the exchange of vouchers for shares should be complete in 45
days.
The vouchers are granted to citizens as a compensation for war-related
debts,
such as unpaied salaries and pensions and frozen foreign currency bank
accounts. Their total value was estimated at 15 billion Bosnian marka
($7.09
billion).
Post-war Bosnia also comprises the Serb republic, where the distribution
of
vouchers to citizens has only just begun.
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MILOSEVIC RECEIVES HEADS OF YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES
BELGRADE, August 5 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
on Saturday received a group of heads of Yugoslav diplomatic and
consular
representative offices in several dozen countries and international
organizations.
In the talks, Milosevic stressed that Yugoslavia sets great
importance on the intensive development of equal relations and open
cooperation with all countries of the world, in which the successful
work
of Yugoslav diplomatic consular representative offices has an important
role and responsibility.
Yugoslavia firmly urges the affirmation of the policy of peace
and
stability, and due respect of all fundamental international principles,
which inevitably includes respect of sovereignty, territorial integrity
and
independence of all countries, and noninterference in their internal
affairs. Yugoslavia appears everywhere in the world with such an
approach
and that is why it enjoys great renown and wide international support,
and
why all attempts to isolate Yugoslavia have failed.
Yugoslavia realizes comprehensive bilateral ties with the vast
majority of world countries, ties which are based on longterm
cooperation,
mutual respect and understanding, which presents an example of building
international relations and the best way in which a country's own
interests
should be realized and protected, Milosevic said.
With its heroic defense from the NATO aggression (MarchJune,
1999)
and impressive results in national renewal, Yugoslavia has joined the
frontline in the struggle against the new colonialism, in which the
truth
about Yugoslavia and the defense of its freedom are becoming fully
expressed, awakening the conscience of millions of people who refuse to
be
reconciled and are also resisting the policy of hegemony and dictate.
Milosevic spoke to the Yugoslav diplomats about the most
important
issues of the national home and foreign policies.
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic took part in the
talks.
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CHI HA DISTRUTTO DEVE PAGARE I DANNI
BELGRADE BRIEFS FOREIGN DIPLOMATS ON DAMAGE FROM SANCTIONS, NATO WAR
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) There can be no reconstruction or
development of southeast Europe if Yugoslavia is left out of the
development projects, according to Yugoslavia's Assistant Foreign
Minister
at a briefing on Friday. Zoran Jeremic briefed foreign diplomats in
Belgrade on the damage sustained by Yugoslavia through the application
of
international antiYugoslav sanctions and last year's NATO aggression.
Jeremic was quoting data submitted to U.N. Secretary General
Kofi
Annan on July 31 and published as a U.N. document. Annan has requested
similar information from the other countries in the region.
Jeremic said that experts of the U.N. Economic Commission for
Europe attach great importance to the inclusion of Yugoslavia in the
process of regional reconstruction, believing that it has a central part
to
play in the process.
"As a relatively large economy, located on strategic routes
leading to Western Europe, the Yugoslav economy is important both as a
market for neighbouring countries and as a country of transit.
"In the opinion of the Commission, the FR of Yugoslavia plays a
decisive role in the reconstruction plans for the region and the
prevention
of the FR of Yugoslavia to play that role would threaten the economy and
political stability of entire Europe", he said. He added that, until the
outbreak of the Balkan crisis, Yugoslavia had been in the forefront of
the
transitional economies in economic and social reform.
Overall direct and indirect damage caused by NATO's
antiYugoslav
aggression is estimated at 100 billion dollars plus, according to
Jeremic.
---
SPARITI TRE PRIGIONIERI POLITICI SERBI DALL'OSPEDALE DI MITROVICA
SERB PRISONERS GO MISSING FROM KOSOVSKA MITROVICA HOSPITAL
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) Three Serb prisoners
disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run Kosovska Mitrovica during the
night
between Thursday and Friday, Serbs sources in the divided city confirmed
to
TANJUG on Friday.
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peica were
being
treated after a protracted hunger strike in prison in Kosovska
Mitrovica,
where they had been held unlawfully for between 10 and 13 months without
a
trial.
They disappeared overnight while under U.N. mission (UNMIK)
police
guard.
SERBIAN OFFICIAL DOUBTS SERBS ESCAPED FROM KOSOVOMETOHIJA HOSPITAL
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's
Deputy Justice Minister on Friday expressed doubt that three Serb
detainees, who disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run divided Kosovska
Mitrovica overnight, escaped of their own accord.
Zoran Bilinovac said that "the confused statement issued by the
UNMIK (U.N. KosovoMetohija mission) police saying that Dragan Jovanovic,
Dragisa Peica, and Vlastimir Aleksic three innocent Serbs whom the
socalled UNMIK justice department has kept in detention for a
year disappeared from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica today, arouses
serious doubts about what really happened to them.
"The three were arrested a year ago on the sayso of the (ethnic
Albanian) socalled Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and during the
investigation have been threatened with being handed over to KLA
terrorists
unless they confessed their alleged crimes.
"In early June this year, (another Serb) Arsenije Vitosevic had
also disappeared from the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital. He was arrested
only
because his name was on a list submitted to (international force) KFor
on
June 18, 1999, by socalled KLA Commander Ismet Tari.
"The suspicion that KFor and UNMIK have handed over the four
Serbs
to their allies should not be entirely ruled out.
"It is, however, more probable that KFor and UNMIK have
stagemanaged events so as to bring additional pressure to bear on Serb
detainees to give up their demands for a swift and fair trial and
release
from detention, or in order to justify the transfer of detained Serbs
from
Kosovska Mitrovica deeper inside KosovoMetohija where they would not be
able to receive visits from relatives or attorneys, thereby making it
difficult for them to prove their innocence," Bilinovac said.
PEACE AND TOLERANCE CENTRE SEEKS EXPLANATION OF SERBS' DISAPPEARANCE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) The Centre for Peace and
Tolerance in divided Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday asked the U.N. mission
UNMIK and the international force KFor to explain how Serb prisoners
disappeared from a local hospital overnight.
The Centre issued a statement to say it "learned today that
three
Serbs, who had been detained in the Kosovska Mitrovica prison,
disappeared
from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica early this morning. "They are
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peic.
"Since neither UNMIK nor KFor have given a valid and serious
explanation of what has happened to them, the Centre for Peace and
Tolerance shares the concern of their families and awaits an explanation
of
the circumstances under which the three Serbs disappeared from the
hospital
in Kosovska Mitrovica.
"Concern is all the greater in view of the fact that there has
been no explanation to this day of the recent disappearance from the
same
hospital of Serb detainee Arsenije Vitosevic, of whom nothing is known
at
this time."
The UNMIK office in this city in the Yugoslav Republic of
Serbia's
U.N.administered province of KosovoMetohija said on Friday UNMIK was
investigating the disappearance of the three prisoners.
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SLAVO-MACEDONI ABBANDONANO LA FYROM OCCIDENTALE CAUSA NAZIONALISMO
PAN-ALBANESE
MACEDONIANS LEAVING WESTERN MACEDONIA
SKOPJE, August 5 (Tanjug) More and more Macedonians are
permanently leaving the western parts of their country for other parts
or
destinations abroad because ethnic Albanians have long been predominant
in
these parts, the Skopje daily Makedonija Denes warned on Saturday.
In Gostivar alone, Macedonians are currently selling some 400
apartments or houses, the daily said, underscoring that they are now
treated in this western town as secondclass citizens.
The inflow of ethnic Albanians into western Macedonian towns
began
several years ago when they started offering Macedonians large sums of
Dmarks for real estate. As a result of tense interethnic relations, but
also because they had been unable to find employment or become more
successfully engaged in private businesses, Macedonians had decided to
sell
their property and then leave permanently, the daily said.
In addition to houses and apartments, ethnic Albanian
businessmen
have purchased all business premises, department stores and main stores
in
Gostivar and Tetovo which had earlier been social property. The son of
former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman has also invested in business
premises in Gostivar, since he has close business ties with ethnic
Albanian
businessmen, Makedonija Denes said.
The Macedonian municipality of Gostivar has a population of
45,000. The majority population were formerly Macedonians, but they have
now dropped to a mere 18 percent. Consequently, Macedonians now make up
the
bulk of the 11,000 unemployed persons in Gostivar, the daily said.
---
OLANDESI, CANADESI E BRITANNICI ARRESTATI IN JUGOSLAVIA.
L'ACCUSA E' TERRORISMO
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20000805/361600.html
NATIONAL POST, Saturday, August 5, 2000
Yugoslavia facing pressure over 'terrorist' arrests
Canadians held by army: Axworthy blasts treatment of men as unacceptable
Stewart Bell
National Post
As Yugoslavia faced mounting international pressure over its arrest of
two Canadians and their British travel companions, Lloyd Axworthy, the
Foreign Affairs Minister, demanded his envoy be allowed to visit the
men, and called their treatment unacceptable.
A Canadian diplomat dispatched to the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro to
meet the detained Albertans, Shaun Going, 45, and his nephew, Liam Hall,
19, has been refused access to the men, who are being held in the town
of Andrijevica by the Yugoslav military...
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/080400yugo-arrest.html
August 4, 2000
Yugoslavs Hold 4 Westerners in Arms Case
By STEVEN ERLANGER
PRAGUE, Aug. 3 -- The Yugoslav Army said today that it had arrested two
Britons and two
Canadians in Montenegro, accusing them of possessing weapons and
explosives, in what
appeared to be another effort to stimulate fears of Western encirclement
before elections next
month.
It was the second arrest of four foreigners reported this week by
Yugoslav authorities. Four
Dutchmen whose detention was disclosed on Monday were seized last month
on Serbia's border
with Montenegro, reportedly because they were trying to kill President
Slobodan Milosevic.
The army said today that the Britons and Canadians were employees of the
NATO-led forces in
Kosovo and were suspected of training pro-Western secessionists in
Montenegro, Serbia's tiny
sister republic, to commit "terrorist actions." ...
YUGOSLAV ARMY ARRESTS FOUR ARMED FOREIGN NATIONALS
BELGRADE, Aug 3 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army has arrested four
armed foreign nationals carrying military equipment and demolition gear,
the Army Command said on Thursday.
The arrests were made in the border belt beyond the border
crossing in the northeast of the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro in the
night between Aug. 1 and 2.
The arrested persons are British nationals Adrian Michael
Prangnel
and John Connon Bredley Yore, and Canadian nationals Shuan Gerald Going
and
Liam Patrick Hall.
They were not authorised by the competent Yugoslav bodies to be
present in the area.
There are indications that the arrested foreign nationals have
been training Montenegrin interior ministry special troops and are
specialists in demolition and terrorist operations.
The competent Yugoslav Army authorities have information that
one
of the arrested is a member of the socalled Kosovo Protection Corps. The
authorities have also voluminous documents which clearly indicate the
true
plans and intentions of the arrested.
Investigation results will be made public in due course, the
army
statement said.
Yugoslavia suspects 4 Britons of spying
The Associated Press
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (August 3, 2000 7:03 a.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Yugoslav military has
detained four British citizens on suspicion of spying,
the private Montena-fax news agency reported Thursday.
It said the four unidentified Britons were arrested
Tuesday on Mount Cakor, on the border between
Montenegro and Kosovo. They were tourists, but arms
were allegedly found in their possession, Montena-fax
said.
"They were taken to military barracks under the
suspicion that they were conducting a hostile act of
spying," the Montenegrin news agency said, without
elaborating.
The British Foreign Office said Thursday it had no
reports of the arrests.
Yugoslav authorities said Monday that four Dutchmen
were arrested in July for allegedly plotting to
assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic.
The arrests follow allegations that NATO has hired
mercenaries to snatch fugitive war crimes suspects on
Yugoslav territory, tightening the noose around
indicted Serb leaders.
The Dutch government has demanded access to the
detainees, in accordance with international
conventions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bart Jochems
said Thursday. But he said a Yugoslavia official in
The Hague would not tell details of the charges, where
they were being held or their medical condition.
DUTCH ESPIONAGE TERRORIST GANG ARRESTED IN YUGOSLAVIA - MINISTER
BELGRADE,
July 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Information Minister said on Monday
state
security forces have arrested four Dutch special force troops who have
come
to Yugoslavia with the job of trying to assassinate President Slobodan
Milosevic. Briefing domestic and foreign reporters, Minister Goran Matic
said the espionage and terrorist gang was arrested while attempting to
enter Serbia from the other Yugoslav republic, Montenegro, via Serbia's
U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province. One of the four is a professional
soldier and they have all been trained by the British SAS. State
security
troops have seized some of the weapons and equipment found in the gang's
possession, Matic said, adding that the four, posing as war adventurers
and
weekend soldiers, have been organised and trained for subversive
operations
and assassinations. He went on to say that, by their own admission, the
gang had tried to get in touch with the Dutch KFor (international Force
in
Kosovo-Metohija) battalion and had planned to try to assassinate
Milosevic
or commit acts of terrorism on Yugoslav territory. Matic said the four
had
visited the territory of the former Yugoslavia on several occasions, as
evident from visas for (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska, Croatia and
Slovenia stamped on their passports, and prepared terrorist operations.
"Yugoslavia has an organised system of security, which is capable of
providing adequate protection to the people, the state and the political
system of the country. "No hired guns, military adventurers, special
troops
or gangs will ever penetrate our system of security and protection", he
vowed. The reporters were shown video footage of the arrested Dutchmen,
identified as Gotfrides Johannes Antonijus de Ri, Samrordijan Tjetje,
Johannes van Iersel and Ian van Stajk, who spoke about their arrival in
Yugoslavia and their terrorist plans. Asked by reporters who trains the
Montenegrin police, Matic said this is done by Great Britain, and that a
group of Montenegrin police officers has undergone training in U.S.
police
structures. "The truth is that the British provide some of the training
of
Montenegro's special forces, while Montenegro's interior ministry, for
all
the protestations of peace of its officials, has lately been busily
buying
various arms with Croatia's help", he said. "One cannot talk of peace
while
amassing weapons, the way Montenegrin President Djukanovic is doing",
Matic
added.
'This Is Fiction'
U.N. Tribunal, Dutch Govt. Deny Links to Milosevic's Alleged Assassins
The Yugoslav government showed a film of a Dutch citizen who was
arrested in Yugoslavia along with three other Dutchmen. All are accused
of planning to kidnap or kill President Slobodan Milosevic. (Reuters)
A M S T E R D A M, Netherlands, Aug. 1 — The International Criminal
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia today strongly denied links to a group of
Dutchmen being held in Serbia on suspicion of plotting to assassinate
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Yugoslavia said Monday it had arrested four Dutchmen,
allegedly sent by Western intelligence agencies, who were planning to
kidnap Milosevic and other alleged war criminals indicted by The Hague
tribunal.
"I would call it pretty good fiction," said Paul Risley,
spokesman for the tribunal. "This story is fiction and nothing more."
With pictures of the four and their alleged cache of
weapons spread across most Dutch newspapers, the Dutch government raised
the tempo of its own denials and said it was trying to find out more
about the incident.
"We deny any military operation," said a Dutch Foreign
Ministry spokesman. He said Dutch diplomats were trying to make contact
with their Yugoslav counterparts in The Hague and in Belgrade to find
out more about the incident.
Friends and colleagues of one of those detained, Godfried
de Rie, reacted to the news with shock.
"He is a dead honest, hardworking man who never planned to
kidnap President Milosevic," Jaap Havik, the owner of a Mercedes
restoration firm that employed de Rie, told Dutch television. "He's
always working on cars and motorbikes."
A next-door neighbor of de Rie's described him as a
perfectly normal person who once worked as a postman.
'Weekend Warriors'
Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic said the men were posing as
amateur "weekend warriors" but were in fact assassins sent by the West.
He said the men had been caught in Mehov Krs, an isolated
corner of Serbia near Kosovo and Montenegro, about 300 miles south of
Belgrade.
Matic showed a film in which one of the four, identified as
Jeroen van Iersel, told an unidentified questioner that he and his
friends had been looking for people indicted by the U.N. tribunal.
The Dutch spokesman said the Foreign Ministry was
investigating reports that the group was arrested as long as two weeks
ago.
"We will continue our efforts and go to the [Yugoslav]
Foreign Ministry to ask why we were not told earlier of their arrest,"
the spokesman said.
He added that de Rie had done his military service in the
army in 1989. "But he was an administrator, hardly a paratrooper."
The Dutch Foreign Ministry named the others as Bas van
Schaik, Sander Zeitsen and van Iersel. All are aged between 28 and 32.
"We are pretty sure that they are neither military nor
involved in military things," the spokesman said.
The United States has offered a reward of up to $5 million
for information leading to the arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who commanded Bosnian Serb
forces during the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia.
In the film shown to journalists in Belgrade, van Iersel
said he knew Milosevic and Mladic were among those indicted. He said
that if he met the Yugoslav leader he would have been put in a box on
top of a car and driven out of the country.
'These Are No Pros'
Military specialists appeared in the Dutch media this morning to say it
was extremely unlikely that the four are professional militiamen.
If they were what the Yugoslavs claim they are —
SAS-trained assassins — then they would never have told their plans,
the experts argued. Those same specialists pointed out that Dutch
mercenaries fought in Croatia, mostly on the Croatian side.
Most of them came from extreme right-wing organizations,
they said.
They also pointed out that the $5 million bounty is for
information — not for kidnapping, much less delivering a human head.
One NATO source was reported as dismissing the whole
incident as "bizarre."
The Dutch anti-fascist group Kakfa, which monitors rightist
activity, believes the men could be former members of the ultra-right
CP'86 group, which was ordered dismantled last year by a Dutch court.
Like many other small skinhead groups, CP'86 played survival games on
the weekends.
Like most other European countries, the Netherlands has its
fringe groups of ultra-rightists and neo-Nazis — many of whom are also
hardcore soccer hooligans. They are closely monitored by the
intelligence services.
A Milosevic Stunt?
In Belgrade, the opposition dismissed the arrests as a propaganda stunt.
"Matic is crazy about conspiracy theories," said Bogdan
Grubacic, editor of the independent English language newsletter VIP. He
said the arrests are part of the propaganda war launched by the
Milosevic regime ahead of early elections, scheduled for Sept. 24.
And the alleged location of the arrests, on the border to
Montenegro, could serve the dual purpose of helping Milosevic to fuel
his war of words with the smaller, anti-Milosevic partner in the
Yugoslav federation.
The Milosevic regime says Montenegro is behind repeated
assassinations. Montenegro, in return, regularly accuses Milosevic of
sending his hit-men there.
Montenegro is boycotting the upcoming elections, saying the
laws had been changed by the Yugoslav government to favor the
re-election of Milosevic and his partners.
ABCNEWS.com's Sue Masterman and Reuters contributed to this report.
DATE: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 19:59:00
From: Herman de Tollenaere <hermantl@...>
To: right-left@...
On 31 July, Dutch TV rebroadcast Serbian TV tapes of four Dutchmen,
arrested in Yugoslavia. On those tapes, they claimed to be an armed
"special unit" with violence and abduction plans.
For whatever it is worth:
Dutch daily NRC-Handelsblad ["NRC-Business Paper"] of Tuesday 1 August
on
one of the arrested, Godfried de Rie:
"According to the Group for Anti-Fascist Research, KAFKA, his name, with
the same initials and place of residence, is on the list of members for
1995 of the extreme Rightist [political party] CP'86. The [Dutch]
Ministry
of Defence confirms that De Rie was a conscript Army lance corporal, of
1989/8."
The CP'86 ["Center" Party, founded in 1986] political party was
notorious
for racism, violence, and open propaganda for Nazis like Adolf Hitler
and
Rudolf Hess. In the 1990s, they sent Dutch mercenaries to Yugoslavia, to
fight in extreme Right Croat units in Croatia and Bosnia.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
BLIC
English Edition
Goran Matic, the Federal Minister about the arrest of
Holland citizens
They planned assault on Slobodan Milosevic
Belgrade (Beta)- Goran Matic, the Federal Information
Minister said that
Yugoslav police had arrested four Holland citizens who had
planned an
assault on Slobodan Milosevic. Matic added that they had
been arrested on
Mehov Krs, at the Serbia-Montenegro border, just before the
Group of Eight
summit in Japan.
Names of the arrested are Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de
Rij, Samvordian
Tjetje, Johanes Andrianus Kornelius van Irshel and Ian van
Stajk Bastien.
(That's how the names were told to the journalists.)
Journalists could watch videotaped statements of the
arrested. One of them
said that the group's aim was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic
and take him
abroad or to some foreign embassy in order to obtain the
warrant prize. "Our
plan was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic, to kill him, cut off
his head, put it
in a box and send it," he added.
The arrested said that they had traveled from Slovenia, via
Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina and Montenegro. They added that they had
planned to go to
Kosovo and join the Holland KFOR battalion. The Holland
KFOR members were to
provide firearms for them.
Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de Rij said that his rank was
"Soldier number
one" and that his identification number was 690816197.
We intended to come to Yugoslavia to see the situation. We
planned to go to
the war zone, to Kosovo. We planned to fight against Serbs
there. We also
planned to visit the Holland battalion in Kosovo," he said.
He added that
they had entered the country through Montenegro, in a car.
"Situation at the check-point was very unusual. They didn't
ask us anything.
We were told that we had to pay car insurance and that
every person was
allowed to take in 5 grams of drug," he added. He mentioned
that they
possessed "special knifes, handcuffs, and a saw". They had
five cameras for
shooting military bases, nature and customs checkpoints.
They also had a dog
that guarded the car.
"Part of the plan was to kidnap an important person. I
cannot say the name,
but we could earn a lot of money with that person," the
arrested said.
Samvordian Tjetje said that they had planned to collect
information about
Milosevic, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other persons
indicted by The
Hague Tribunal.
Matic said that this group was a part of American
subversive activities
directed against Yugoslavia. Matic accused the Montenegrin
Ministry of Home
Affairs and Montenegrin President of purchasing
anti-aircraft and
anti-helicopter arms with the help of Croatia. He said that
the Montenegrin
police had been trained by members of special British SAS
units and members
of American intelligence service.
"In this case, Croatia is not benign. It's obvious that
there is space for
terrorist acts against Yugoslavia," Matic added.
Holland doesn't have information about arrested Holland
citizens
The Hague (Beta-AFP)- Yesterday, the Holland Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
announced that it didn't possess information about four
Holland citizens,
arrested in Yugoslavia and accused of planning to kidnap
and murder
President Milosevic.
"We don't know anything. We are not sure about their
nationality," spokesman
of the Ministry said for France Press. He added that
Holland authorities
were searching for "Credible information and affirmations".
"We are trying to gain some information through our embassy
in Belgrade. In
this moment, we don't have any information from Yugoslav
authorities," the
spokesman added.
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SUL RIPRISTINO DELLA NAVIGABILITA' DEL DANUBIO BLOCCATA DALLA NATO
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ISSUES STATEMENT ON CLEARING OF DANUBE WATERWAY
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Recent complex talks with the
Danube
Commission on clearing the waterway of debris from NATOdemolished
bridges
has produced results of interest to Yugoslavia and other Danube
Commission
members, the Yugoslav Government said on Thursday.
Navigation in the River Danube through Yugoslavia has been
blocked
by debris of bridges smashed by NATO in its aggression on Yugoslavia
last
year.
At the session chaired by Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, the
Government reviewed a report on the results of the negotiations, the
Government statement said.
Documents adopted by the Danube Commission incorporated the
positions set down in the Yugoslav Government's Memorandum that the
resumption of international navigation in the Danube through Yugoslavia
must be done with full respect for Yugoslavia's territorial integrity
and
sovereignty, its laws and regulations.
In the first stage of the navigation route rehabilitation, the
project envisages for building a new bridge across the Danube at Novi
Sad,
to replace the pontoon bridge erected after NATO planes had demolished
all
three bridges in this northern city.
The Yugoslav Government recommended that the Commission appoint
Radisa Djordjevic, director of the Yugoslav Institute for the
Maintenance
and Development of Inland Waterways, to head the project.
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VERSO LE ELEZIONI DI SETTEMBRE NELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
YUGOSLAVIA - GENERAL ELECTIONS
YUGOSLAV PREMIER CONFIDENT MONTENEGRO WILL JOIN IN SEPTEMBER POLLS
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's Prime Minister said
on
Thursday that general elections called for September would be held also
in
Montenegro, because that Republic too is part of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
Elections are a right, not an obligation, Momir Bulatovic told
reporters during a recess at the 2nd Diaspora 2000 convention of
Yugoslav
expatriates, being held in Belgrade. He added he would personally feel
very
happy if all people exercised this right.
Bulatovic noted that Montenegro is a single constituency in the
election of deputies to both chambers of the Yugoslav Federal
Parliament.
He said that the Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro,
which he heads and which is in opposition in Montenegro, would contest
the
elections.
On the other hand, the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro,
the
senior partner in Montenegro's ruling coalition, is threatening to
boycott
the polls, called for September 24.
He hoped a way would be found, in cooperation with Montenegro's
Government, to make it possible for the people of Montenegro to vote in
the
polls if they want to, and added this would be a test of the democratic
character of the present regime in Montenegro.
YUGOSLAV MEDIA, PARTIES SIGN ACCORD ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) State radio and television
stations
in Yugoslavia, the Governments of Yugoslavia and its republics of Serbia
and Montenegro, and political parties contesting upcoming elections
agreed
on Wednesday on criteria for the contestants' fair and equal media
presentation during the election campaign. On behalf of the Yugoslav
Government, the accord was signed by Minister of Information Goran
Matic.
Elections for president of state and both houses of the Federal
Parliament have been called for September 24. Serbia will have local
elections on the same day.
Matic said the accord was open to all political parties
planning
to take part in the polls.
The accord determines the number and length of radio and
television appearances by the contestants on state radio and television
channels, according to Matic.
Under the election laws, state electronic media, both at the
federal level and at the level of the republics, are obliged to give
equal
coverage to all candidates in the information programmes during the
election campaign, he said.
The accord was signed on Wednesday by Radio Yugoslavia,
Yugoslav
Television, Serbian Radio and Television and Studio B.
About 30 parties have also signed the accord.
YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL COMMISSION ADOPTS REGULATIONS FOR COMING POLLS
BELGRADE, August 2 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Central Electoral
Commission met on Wednesday and adopted rules and regulations for
activities leading up to federal presidential and parliamentary
elections
scheduled for September 24, a Parliament statement said.
At its second session, held at the Federal Parliament and
chaired
by Commission Chairman Borivoje Vukicevic, the body defined uniform
rules
and standards for the coming elections. The rules are fully in line with
the laws that regulate presidential elections and elections to the
Chambers
of Citizens (lower house) and Republics of the Yugoslav Parliament.
The Commission further adopted rules and regulations for the
attendance of the presidential and parliamentary elections by foreign
observers.
It also appointed chairmen, secretaries and members of local
electoral commissions and their deputies in the constituencies in the
Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, the statement said.
YUGOSLAV MINISTRY OFFERS AGREEMENT ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Information Ministry
on
Tuesday invited state media and parties contesting forthcoming general
elections to come to a consultation about election campaign terms on
Wednesday.
The Ministry said that, under the relevant regulations, the
radio
and television stations whose founders are the Yugoslav Federation or
either of its republics (Serbia, Montenegro), representatives of the
founders and parties taking part in elections should together decide
about
the number and duration of radio and television appearances of the
contestants during the election campaign.
The purpose of such an agreement is to give equal access to the
media to all parties and all candidates, and to give a balanced media
presentation and an equal treatment of the contestants in the election
campaign.
The agreement, to be reached on Wednesday, will be open to all
political parties contesting the elections.
Yugoslav presidential and parliamentary elections have been
called
for Sept. 24.
ELECTIONS - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
DINI AND ALBRIGHT AGREE OVER MONTENEGRO
ROME, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - The United States and Italy agree that Montenegro
should take part at the Sept 24 elections in Yugoslavia. U.S. Secretary
of
State Madeleine Albright and Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini
reached
agreement on this issue during their meeting in Rome on Tuesday. In a
brief
statement after talks at the Italian Foreign Ministry, Albright said the
main subject at her talks with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in
Rome later today would be preparations for the Yugoslav elections, which
the United States considers of extreme importance. Italy, for its part,
believes it is necessary to urge the Montenegrin authorities not to
boycot
the elections, which Minister Dini also described as very important.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/01/montenegro.albright/index.html
Albright to ask Montenegro to reconsider election boycott
August 1, 2000
Web posted at: 4:43 a.m. EDT (0843 GMT)
From staff and wire reports
ROME -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is to ask
Montenegro's president to
reconsider a planned boycott of Yugoslavia's presidential, parliamentary
and municipal elections
scheduled for September....
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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RF JUGOSLAVIA - IRAN
YUGOSLAVIA'S MILOSEVIC SENDS MESSAGE TO IRAN'S KHATAMI
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Tanjug) Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zoran
Novakovic met in Tehran on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Gharazi to whom he gave a personal message from Yugoslav President
Slobodan
Milosevic for Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Novakovic is paying a severalday official visit to Iran.
During the cordial and frank discussion on the first day, the
two
sides exchanged views on the current situation in bilateral relations
and
supported new initiatives for cooperation, especially in the economy and
information.
Meeting separately with his host, Deputy Foreign Minister
Mortez
Sarmadi, Novakovic expressed pleasure at the attained degree of accord
on
most important international matters and at a mutually declared
readiness
to promote bilateral cooperation in all areas of mutual interest.
---
NUOVE MISURE PER IL SISTEMA SANITARIO IN SERBIA
SERBIAN HEALTH MINISTER PRESENTS NEW MEASURES IN HEALTH SERVICE
BELGRADE, Aug 2 (Tanjug) The Serbian Medical Society will play
an
important part in the efforts to enhance health services, especially in
a
consulting capacity, according to the Serbian minister of health on
Wednesday.
Minister Milovan Bojic, who is also vice premier of this
Yugoslav
republic, was meeting with the Society's Executive Board. Bojic
explained
that medical professionals would in the future be given a greater role
to
play in shaping the policy of the health service, especially through
special commissions that are to be set up within the Ministry of Health.
He went on to say that doctors would be given a chance to
supplement their incomes by putting in additional work at state medical
facilities.
He said the government would set aside funds for building at
least
1,000 homes for young doctors, as one of the measures aimed at
preventing a
drain of highly qualified young professionals.
In future, greater attention would be paid to research projects
in
the health department, Bojic said, announcing tighter supervision at
medical institutions to replace the present slackness and even chaos in
some segments of the health protection system.
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IL PIANO DI RICOSTRUZIONE ECONOMICA DELLA SERBIA
SERBIAN PREMIER SAYS GOVERNMENT RESOLUTE TO BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH
KANJIZA, August 1 (Tanjug) Serbia's premier said on Tuesday
the
Government was committed to boosting economic growth and development in
order that this Yugoslav Republic should as soon as possible recover the
lost domestic product and repair the huge damage done by last year's
NATO
aggression.
Visiting the industrial town of Kanjiza in Serbia's northern
Vojvodina province, Premier Mirko Marjanovic inaugurated a new modern
plant
at the Potisje brickyard.
Marjanovic said Serbia was looking ahead to a period of brisk
development, with a twodigit domestic product growth rate.
According to him, the primary strategic project in the year
2000
is to build 10,000 homes at low cost and with all modern amenities as
the
first stage of a project for building 100,000 homes over the next ten
years.
The intensive housing development should boost the construction
industry, which had doubled its performance this year, and should
stimulate
the industry of building materials and other ancillary industries, he
said.
He added that the first half of the year had seen the
attainment
of the key goals of brisk economic growth and maintenance of
macroeconomic
and price stability.
In the period, industrial production had risen by 21.2 percent
over the same period in 1999, in line with the projected economic policy
for the year 2000 of increasing industrial production by 15 percent and
the
domestic product by 14 percent, he said.
The Government was, meanwhile, continuing its policy of firm
budget restrictions, i.e., of financing public spending solely from real
sources, which was the chief factor of price stability, Marjanovic said.
"Sanctions and other forms of outside pressure have not stopped
us
implementing reforms, building modern market institutions and adopting
major systemic laws: on companies, on concessions, on ownership
transformation, on value added tax, and others," he said.
He added the programme was a continuation of a policy that
meant
protecting the country's freedom, independence and integrity, settling
the
problem of KosovoMetohija politically, ending the missions of KFor and
UNMIK and returning that Serbian province under the full jurisdiction of
Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Also, he said, this policy meant a Yugoslavia as a state of
equal
people, nations and republics, economic and cultural development,
constant
growth of production and living standards, free education and medical
services, social security, affirmation of the policy of national unity,
development of democratic institutions, freedom of the media, national
and
religious equality, openness to economic, political and cultural
cooperation with all countries on an equal footing with respect for the
fundamental principles of international relations and international law.
Upcoming general elections, according to Marjanovic, will give
full support to the policy of heroic defence of the country against
aggressors, to reconstruction and the building of development projects,
and
will marginalise those who would like to come to power as exponents of
the
aggressors, betraying their country, sabotaging reconstruction and
justifying the crimes of the aggressors.
---
VUCIC: LA SERBIA E' UN AVAMPOSTO DI LIBERTA'
VUCIC: SERBIA BASTION OF FREEDOM
VRANJE, August 2 (Tanjug) Serbian Information Minister and
ranking official of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Aleksandar Vucic
said
in Vranje late on Tuesday that Serbia is a bastion of freedom and the
only
unsubdued country in Europe even though part of its territory is
occupied,
referring to Kosovo and Metohija province which is currently under de
facto
administration of the United Nations.
Speaking in a broadcast by the local TV station in this
southern
Serbian town, Vucic spoke about the upcoming local and federal elections
and the current political situation in Yugoslavia.
He said he believed citizens would decide well and that
patriotic,
nationallyoriented political forces would triumph.
Vucic strongly criticized political parties of prowestern
orientation.
Fifthcolumn activities by opposition parties in Serbia
demonstrate
the senselessness of propaganda activities which urge "the options of
those
who killed our children" in comparison with activists who "never left
the
country and want to preserve the common state of Serbia and Montenegro."
Vucic underscored that Kosovo and Metohija province "is not
lost,
but only temporarily occupied." Serbia is the only unsubdued state in
Europe and a nucleus of freedom, he reiterated.
Commenting on the upcoming elections for Yugoslav president,
Vucic
said opposition parties were proU.S. oriented and that all those who
support the policy of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic advocate
turning Montenegro, and even Yugoslavia, into an ethnic Albanian and
Muslim
country.
It is all the same to the west which opposition figure they
will
appoint "since they are all the same and all servants," Vucic said.
---
UCKFOR: KFOR PERQUISISCE LA CASA DI UN TESTIMONE DEI CRIMINI DELL'UCK
KFOR RAIDS HOME OF WITNESS AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIAN MURDER SUSPECT
GNJILANE, August 1 (Tanjug) International force Kfor and
ethnic
Albanian police troops in U.N.run KosovoMetohija have raided the house
of a
Serb witness against an ethnic Albanian murder suspect, amateur radio
operators reported on Tuesday.
The ethnic Albanian, Afrim Zeqiri, is accused of murdering
three
people, including a fouryearold child, and wounding two Serbs in the
multiethnic village of Cernica near Gnjilane, in the east of the
Yugoslav
Republic of Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
Kfor and ethnic Albanian police troops searched the house of
the
Serb, chief witness and one of two survivors of Zeqiri's attack.
The Serb, Zoran Stolic, sustained seven wounds at Zeqiri's
hands
and was hospitalised. After being discharged from hospital, he had gone
to
Smederevo, central Serbia, for further medical treatment and to
recuperate
with relatives.
A day after his departure, Kfor and ethnic Albanian police
troops
broke down the door to his home and turned the place upside down,
smashing
everything in sight.
Stolic returned home on Monday to find the place ransacked and
his
savings of 6,500 German marks gone, according to amateur radio
operators.
---
RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ - UCRAINA
UKRAINIAN MP VISITS YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) A senior Yugoslav Parliament
official
received on Tuesday a visiting Ukrainian parliamentarian who heads his
country's parliamentary working group on cooperation with the Yugoslav
Parliament.
Ljubisa Ristic, who chairs the Foreign Policy Committee of the
Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber of Citizens (lower house), briefed the
guest
from Ukraine, Sergei Kiashko, on recent amendments to the Yugoslav
constitution.
Ristic said that procedures for electing MPs to the Chamber of
Republics (upper house) and for electing president of state had been
changed.
He explained that the 350,000 Serbs and other nonAlbanians who
have fled KosovoMetohija would be able to vote in forthcoming elections,
as
would the Serbs remaining in that U.N.administered province of the
Yugoslav
republic of Serbia.
The same applies to all other Yugoslav citizens in
KosovoMetohija,
according to Ristic.
"Forces of occupation in KosovoMetohija have carried out a sham
census in an effort to set the stage for unlawful elections without
Serbs,"
said Ristic, adding that such elections would be an attempt to legalize
KosovoMetohija's secession.
He went on to say that foreign observers would be invited to
the
elections, but they would not be from the countries that had launched
last
year's aggression on Yugoslavia.
"We maintain no contacts with the parliaments of these
countries,
as they will not have most of our MPs in their countries," Ristic
explained.
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LA RFJ VERSO LA RATIFICA DELLA CONVENZIONE DI RIO SULLA BIODIVERSITA'
YUGOSLAVIA FOR PRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BELGRADE, Aug 1
(Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government has prepared for the federal
parliament
a draft law ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity whose
objective is the preserved and balanced use of biological diversity.
This
Convention implies that states have the sovereign right, in keeping with
the United Nations Charter and principles of international law, to
exploit
their own resources according to their own ecological policy, but also
the
responsibility not to cause damage to the environment and biological
diversity of other states or areas which are outside their jurisdiction,
said a statement by the federal government. Having in mind Yugoslavia's
central position in the Balkans, the high degree of biological
diversity,
and the need to follow the long-term effects of last year's (March-June)
NATO aggression on the environment, the draft law is also aimed at
preserving biological diversity in the wider region of the Balkans. The
international Convention on Biological Diversity, of which Yugoslavia is
a
signatory, was drawn up in Rio De Janeiro on June 5, 1992, and it
regulates
the area of the use of biodiversity along with securing conditions for
an
equal division of benefits from genetic resources and development.
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LE CONCLUSIONI DEL CAMPEGGIO INTERNAZIONALE DI SIROGOJNO
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CAMP IN ZLATIBOR INTERNATIONAL CAMP URGES
SOLIDARITY WITH YUGOSLAVIA SIROGOJNO, Yugoslavia, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - An
international friendship camp in Sirogojno on Mt Zlatibor, west-central
Serbia (Yugoslavia), on Tuesday adopted a declaration urging solidarity
with Yugoslavia in its resistance to the new world order. Some sixty
representatives of various organisations from 21 countries have come to
Yugoslavia to analyze the current situation and consequences of last
year's
NATO aggression and sanctions, and have been the extent of the
devastation
at first hand. They also inquired into the situation in the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered province of Kosovo-Metohija.
According to the Declaration, reasons offered by foreign powers
notwithstanding, the March-June 1999 war against Yugoslavia had nothing
to
do with the situation in the country, since the government in Belgrade
had
never tried to expel, let alone commit a genocide of, the ethnic
Albanian
population in Kosovo-Metohija. The conflict between the Yugoslav
government
and the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was the
result of numerous crimes committed by ethnic Albanian separatists, and
was
stoked by the super-powers, which took the side of the KLA and launched
an
aggressive policy towards Yugoslavia, the document says. It goes on to
say
that the pressure culminated at Rambuillet, France, talks in early 1999,
where Yugoslavia was forced to reject an unacceptable ultimatum which,
if
accepted, would have stripped it of its sovereignty. The refusal
furnished
a pretext for NATO's air strikes, which in fact gave air support to the
KLA, the paper avers. The Declaration says that the current situation in
Kosovo- Metohija, which is now administered by the international force
KFor
and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, is disastrous. The missions have
done
next to nothing to prevent crimes: 1,100 Serbs, Romanies and other
non-Albanians have been murdered along with 290 ethnic Albanians, 960
people have disappeared, 90 Serbian churches and monasteries have been
damaged or destroyed, it adds. More than 350,000 people have been forced
out of Kosovo-Metohija, the Declaration says. Yugoslavia, it adds, is a
hub
of telecommunications networks, oil pipelines, roads, railways that
transport raw materials, information and labour between the Caucasus,
the
Far East, the Middle East and Western Europe. According to the document,
the true reason for the so-called humanitarian war against Yugoslavia
lay
in its being seen as an obstacle in the way of multinational companies
attaining their objectives and increasing profits. The paper goes on to
call for solidarity with Yugoslavia and for lifting all anti-Yugoslav
sanctions and implementing the U.N. Security Council's Resolution No.
1244
on Kosovo-Metohija. The Friendship Camp participants urge
indemnification
of Yugoslavia for war damages and losses sustained through the
sanctions,
for prosecuting NATO politicians for war crimes, and for putting an end
to
the demonisation of Yugoslavia in western media. They also urge support
for
the forces in Yugoslavia that want dialogue between the ethnic
communities
and that oppose war, urge respect for the country's sovereignty and
international law and the disbanding of NATO.
INITIATIVE FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
BELGRADE, July 30 (Tanjug) Prominent Norwegian politicians and
public figures will launch in their country an initiative for lifting
the
international economic sanctions imposed on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Norwegian author Jo Eggen told Tanjug.
Eggen is taking part in the work of the International camp of
Friendship held in the village of Sirogojno on Mt. Zlatibor, western
Serbia.
Eggen has discussed this action, which is gaining in intensity
in
Norway, with certain members of the Norwegian parliament and government
all
of whom expressed readiness to support the demand for lifting this
inhuman
form of pressure on the people of Yugoslavia.
According to Eggen, the initiative will be joined by many
public
figures in Norway, trade union leaders and senior church dignitaries.
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IN BOSNIA SI PRIVATIZZA QUANTO SI E' COSTRUITO IN 50 ANNI DI SFRJ CON IL
SUDORE E L'IMPEGNO DEI LAVORATORI JUGOSLAVI DI OGNI NAZIONALITA'
Bosnia to sell 51 pct stakes in 86 large firms
SARAJEVO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Bosnia's Moslem-Croat federation will
offer 51
percent stakes in 86 of its largest firms to strategic investors and 49
percent stakes to citizens through public share offerings, an official
said
on Tuesday.
Nedim Lulo, deputy head of the federation privatisation agency, also
said
that a swap of privatisation vouchers for shares in state firms in the
federation would start on September 29 after a three-month delay.
Lulo said that 51 percent share stakes would be offered to strategic
foreign
and local investors via tenders and solely for cash while the remaining
49
percent would be offered to citizens in exchange for privatisation
vouchers.
The list of firms, seen as of strategic importance for the state and
including two federation power and telecommunication companies, was
proposed
by an international group of experts.
In another list of 206 firms proposed by the federation's ten cantonal
privatisation agencies, 10 percent of shares would be offered for cash
with
the remaining 90 percent privatised in exchange for vouchers.
Lulo said that cantonal privatisation bodies should decide next week
whether
the state would keep 51 percent of shares in infrastructure firms, such
as
waterworks and sewage systems, and offer remaining shares via public
share
offerings.
He said that the federation privatisation agency is obliged to publicly
announce the final list of firms to be privatised by the end of August.
He
added that the exchange of vouchers for shares should be complete in 45
days.
The vouchers are granted to citizens as a compensation for war-related
debts,
such as unpaied salaries and pensions and frozen foreign currency bank
accounts. Their total value was estimated at 15 billion Bosnian marka
($7.09
billion).
Post-war Bosnia also comprises the Serb republic, where the distribution
of
vouchers to citizens has only just begun.
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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE,18 July 2000 No.3112
INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
TO THE QATAR TELEVISION AL-DZAZIRA
Announcement: Meeting of the day
What are the effects of embargo imposed by the West on Yugoslavia - it
is
one of the questions that Jumana Tammur asks the Foreign Minister of
Yugoslavia in the "Meeting of the day", which is currently on the air
Meeting of the day
Dear viewers, welcome to our today's show "Meeting of the day". This is
a
meeting with the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Mr. Zivadin Jovanovic. The
topics we shall address will include internal political and economic
situation in Yugoslavia, the attitude towards the opposition and his
views
on the future of Kosovo and Metohija, Yugoslavia, Montenegro and the
Balkans in general.
Q: Mr. Jovanovic, welcome to TV Al-Dzazira show. First of all, what are
the
factors that have determined and are determining your Government's
position
concerning the crisis in Kosovo and in the Balkans in general?
A: The Kosovo problem is one of separatism and terrorism. It has been
present for some time, but it has been intensified in the last few
years.
Separatism has been supported from the outside to destabilize the region
and aggravate the situation in the region in pursuit of their own global
interests in Europe, Asia and the world at large. Province of Kosovo and
Metohija has been the birthplace of the statehood of Serbia. Medieval
Serbian State was situated in Kosovo and Metohija. Some cultural
monuments
still testify to that. Separatist movement caused chaos in the region,
endangering international principles and stability.
Q: You say terrorism, separatism but the people there say they want
independence.
A: First of all, people in Kosovo and Metohija are not of one ethnic
national community. Serbs, Albanians, Muslims, Turks, Egyptians,
Goranci,
and members of other nationalities have been living there for centuries.
Q: What about the majority? Can you illustrate that?
A: Majority in Serbia are Serbs and Kosovo has always been in Serbia.
So,
you cannot take a city or a district and say majority in this city are
those and those and claim separation of the city or a district. One
should
not simplify the situation. Kosovo and Metohija is a multi-ethnic,
multi-cultural, multi-religious region of Serbia and Yugoslavia and
solution over there has always been community and tolerance, solidarity
of
all. Albanians make most of the population in Kosovo and Metohija, this
is
true. But they are citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia and there they are
a
national minority. These are international standards. Why would
Albanians
live outside prosperous Serbia and Yugoslavia, which is better than any
other in the region? Who would take Albania as a model anyway and in
what
respect, with chaos, crime and instability over there?
Q: You are giving a nice picture of the situation, while most analysts
say
that you handled roughly the crisis in Kosovo and Metohija?
A: All depends who the analysts are. If you had been in Yugoslavia, in
Kosovo and Metohija you would have seen quite a different picture from
the
one presented in Western media. NATO was no longer necessary in Europe.
With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, as a global
factor NATO remained without a global adversary, without a global
threat.
Linked with military-industrial complex, it had to justify its existence
and even expand to the East although there is no reason for that in the
newly-created conditions. Therefore, it started to openly encourage
separatism and terrorism, to create problems and crises to justify its
expansion to the south and south-east of Europe, towards the Caspian
basin,
central Asia, region of the Middle East, towards the sources of energy,
strategic raw materials and big markets.
Q: Then, you are saying that foreign interference has led to that. But
if
you really think so why did you allow the soldiers to kill civilians? We
saw on TV that women were slaughtered, just like that.
A: Pictures have been falsified on TV. You could see pictures from
Kosovo
and Metohija from the winter while it was spring. Many pictures were not
from Kosovo at all, and cars or vehicles were from other countries. This
is
simply technology they use to prepare and justify the aggression.
Q: But we saw Albanians talking about their relatives, fathers, mothers,
or
daughters and it was confirmed by independent journalists, as seen on
TV.
A: Those pictures appeared after the aggression of NATO and what
happened
happened only after 24 March 1999. There have been no refugees in
Macedonia, Albania or any other country before the aggression but only
after the aggression. Can you blame the people running from NATO bombs,
cruise missiles, cluster bombs, bombs with depleted uranium. Even the
western media now admit that they have been manipulated, and even
subjected
to censorship.
Q: Are you saying that the Albanians ran to Macedonia because they were
afraid of NATO?
A: They were running because and after NATO bombing because Pristina was
a
centre of bombings. Bombs were falling all over Pristina and other towns
in
Kosovo and Metohija. How can you expect the people to stay in towns and
villages with NATO bombs falling and hundreds of civilians getting
killed?
Q: What about massacres that happened before?
A: Which massacres? Where did you get these information?
Q: From agencies.
A: What agencies, whose agencies? News agencies, intelligence, NATO.
There
are a lot of agencies, you will agree. There were no massacres at all in
Kosovo and Metohija. There were provocations by a terrorist organization
calling themselves Kosovo Liberation Army, ambushing and killing Serbian
policemen and people. Police responded in accordance with the law and
their
authority to stop the terror from being spread, to protect the law,
public
peace and order. Fighting terrorists is an obligation, and it is in the
interest of peace and stability, and life in peace of all citizens.
Q: How did they react, the police?
A: Police reacted proportionate to the situation and the danger. Serbia
tried to get rid of the terrorist organization KLA. You have to know
that
this terrorist organization was on a list of terrorist organizations in
Washington but they removed it when they considered that it can be
useful
as a tool for destabilization of the region, they proclaimed it a
liberation organization, although it was all along the same
organization.
Q: You call it terrorist, maybe the Americans used to call it terrorist
but
for Kosovars they are heroes. They are heroes, they are working for
independence, they are working for a better life of Kosovars.
A: No State in the world, including ours, can legitimize terrorist and
separatist objectives, nor should we identify their aims with ordinary
people, citizens. Even today, regardless of NATO foul play and its links
with terrorist "KLA", hundreds of thousands of people of Albanians link
their future with Serbia and Yugoslavia. They understand that terrorism
and
separatism are a disaster for Albanians, that secession is a great
deception of NATO, that they have been manipulated and that they can
have
peace and prosperity only in Serbia and Yugoslavia as equal citizens.
Q: Do you really think that you have the support of the Serbian people?
A: Who is we?
Q: Your Government and your regime, of course.
A: How do you think I became Minister, that I was imposed? You should
come
to Serbia and Yugoslavia and hear what the people have to say, their
opinion on the Government defence, reconstruction, reforms. You should
not
be relying too much on the CNN and the like, they are a part of NATO war
propaganda!
Q: It is not just listening to the news. I saw thousands of people
gathering, saying no to Milosevic, no this Government, they said they
wanted early elections. Why don't you go?
A: We shall have regular elections this year. Why do you think we should
have them couple of months in advance? Who would want that?
Q: Why not? If people like you and people want you. Then you would be
able
to say to the opposition, OK we did it and we came back because people
wanted it.
A: This is what will happen at regular elections. We have no reason to
please minority. We have to care about majority. That is why we were
elected. Majority is with the Government, with the leadership of
President
Milosevic. This is a reality and you can see that for yourself. You
mentioned demonstrations. If they gather and express their views that is
O.K. What about millions who feel differently?
Q: You are saying that they are paid from the outside, that the tell
them
to say that they want a better life.
A: Search on INTERNET you will find that the USA allocates 25 million
dollars for opposition in Belgrade. If Americans are publicly saying
that
they are paying, those who are receiving they are paid, are they not?
And,
do you know how the Western countries react if somebody interferes in
their
elections by payments from outside? They say it is a gross violation of
democratic principles. But how do they dare to pay political parties in
my
country? Everybody knows that they are doing it for their own benefit,
not
for the benefit of Serbia.
Q: Let us talk about the opposition. The opposition in your country
complained bitterly about the censorship and sometimes even harsh
measures
against journalists. What would make your Government more lenient
towards
this opposition?
A: Media in Serbia, in Belgrade, are the most developed in south-eastern
Europe, in terms of quality, in terms of number, circulation and so on.
We
in Serbia have more than 650 radio and TV channels and stations. We also
have more than 3,000 dailies, weeklies and publications. For example, we
have some 15 TV channels.
Q: It is not the number that counts, what about the freedom of speech
and
freedom to act and to move?
A: Listen, 12 TV channels in Belgrade are private, opposition,
independent
and they are responsible only to those who are paying them, as private
owners. There is no censorship. There is no discrimination or dismissals
speaking of the freedom of the press. If you were referring to
transferring
ownership from one TV to the State, the reason is that they were calling
for the uprising in Serbia, liquidation of leadership and so on. Is
there a
responsible Government that considers such activity as a democratic
method
or would tolerate that.
Q: But some observers went as far as accusing your Government of some
complicity in assassination attempt on Vuk Draskovic? Why did they
accuse
you of that?
A: Those observers, where do they come from? This question should be
posed
to them, on what basis do they level charges? It is easy to publish
false
information. It is more difficult to, but the only right thing to do to
stick to the facts and rely on analyses not on observers.
Q: Is there anything new concerning assassinations in Yugoslavia?
A: Those were terrorist acts as you know, one of our Ministers was
killed
and a representative from one of the Serb Provinces while he was
attending
an international fair. These were terrorist acts aimed at destabilizing
the
country from the inside.
You should know that the last year's aggression of NATO on
Yugoslavia contributed only to the strengthening of solidarity and
strength
of the people of in defence of its freedom. The aggressors know that
they
did not succeed, so they are continuing by other methods to destabilize
Yugoslavia, seeking to portray Yugoslavia as a problematic country. But
they cannot succeed because the truth is increasingly prevailing.
Q: Let us go back to the accusations against you. Don't you think that
those accusations cast a shadow of distrust against your government?
A: I know that the aim of certain foreign factors is to provoke distrust
against our Government, but I know that the trust in the Government is
strengthened. The Government is reconstructing what NATO had destroyed
and
is building even better. In a short period, it repaired electricity,
roads,
highways, bridges, railways, hospitals, kindergartens. People in
Yugoslavia
and all over the world know that we are not weak, that we are stronger
now.
Q: But you have many economic problems, don't you?
A: What country does not have economic problems? Our problems come from
sanctions which are illegal, totally inhuman. It is inadmissible that
children and people suffer because someone in the world does not like
their
regime. We lost 150 billion dollars. Consequences of NATO aggression
left
Yugoslavia with losses of 100 billion dollars. Sanctions and aggression
in
the amount of 250 billion dollars for a nation of the size and capacity
of
Yugoslavia is too much. Despite of all this, you talk about economic
problems of Yugoslavia. We have 1 million refugees in Yugoslavia now. In
addition, we have no access to the World Bank and IMF.
Q: But thanks to the policy of Milosevic, you have no foreign donor, you
have been denied international financial assistance, because of your
policy.
A: It is true that we conduct an independent policy. It is true that it
does not suit the forces that seek domination. Despite that, Yugoslavia
is
a free and independent country. Yugoslavia has not given in to NATO
despite
enormous force employed to destroy a sovereign country. Our current
problems are not due to a wrong policy but to the NATO aggression and
sanctions.
Despite that, Yugoslavia is economically a leading country in
the
region. In the last five years, we have had an average of 5-6 per cent
of
GNP rise compared to all our neighbours which have only 1.7 per cent.
And
they did not have refugees, sanctions and embargo and other
limitations. This can be done only by the people and the Government
which
are united.
Q: You talked a lot of sanctions. Don't you think that handing over
Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic and cooperation with Montenegro, The Hague
Tribunal might enhance your respect and reputation and will help ease
the
sanctions.
A: We are not ready to deceive our people and State to be patted on the
shoulder. We do not care much compliments from others, especially we
don't
need compliments from aggressors, from NATO countries. As for Karadzic,
he
is not a citizen of Yugoslavia and he is not in Yugoslavia. Let us not
forget that The Hague Tribunal is an extended arm of NATO, and creation
of
NATO, serving its interests and not the interests of justice. The
Amnesty
International in its last report stated that NATO committed war crimes
against humanity against peace in Yugoslavia, particularly by bombing
RTS
television in Belgrade, killing 16 of its employees. Is International
Tribunal to be trusted when in the case of certain personalities it
justified killing journalists, destroying bridges, destroying
international
train in and they say it is legitimate military objective.
Q: But isn't Slobodan Milosevic an instigator or maybe rather
protagonist
in this whole Balkan conflict from the first, and his campaign in
1990ies
it was along purely ethnic lines?
A: Yugoslavia, that is previous Yugoslavia was destroyed because it
represented an obstacle to hegemonism and an obstacle to domination.
This
is the essence. And those who were destroying Yugoslavia were playing on
separatism to disintegrate it into small states and peoples in order to
rule over them. Slobodan Milosevic has always been an advocate of the
Yugoslav federation. He had nothing to do that Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Macedonia decided to go it alone and resort to force. We have
normalized relations with Macedonia, Croatia we are to normalize
relations
with Bosnia and Slovenia. We are an open country. But, attributing to
the
victim responsibility for destruction, responsibility for civil wars in
Bosnia and Croatia, etc, is aimed at diverting the attention from those
who
are responsible. They need a scape goat and they need to divert
attention
from those who are really responsible. They want a scape goat to divert
attention from themselves and from their own people. We filed charges
with
the International Court of Justice in the Hague, we accused them of
crimes
against peace and humanity, for genocide against Yugoslavia and we asked
for compensation. Many peoples from all European countries are accusing
NATO and leaders leading the aggressive the war against. That wave of
protest and clear condemnation is growing.
Q: In the end, Mr. Jovanovic, what is the scenario regarding the future
of
Kosovo, Yugoslavia and Montenegro and the Balkans in general?
A: I see the solution, peace and stability and progress in that part of
Europe under by respecting Yugoslavia as an equal partner and as a key
factor of peace, stability and development in the region. Second, to
abolish and remove all sanctions and measures of isolation which are
illegal from the point of view of international law. The third, to
immediately resume Yugoslavia's full legitimate role in European and
international organizations and institutions, including the United
Nations
and Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The fourth, to solve Kosovo and
Metohija respecting territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia and
Yugoslavia, and that the Serb province be granted autonomy within
Serbia,
based on equality of all national communities and all citizens living
there. The doors to cooperation in the Balkans should be fully opened.
The
Balkan states have a prosperous future only if they are integrated at
the
regional level. In that respect, Yugoslavia is of importance in
promoting
economic, cultural, information, scientific integration and development.
Yugoslavia considers that the future of countries of the size and
history
as is the case is in trans-border links, mutual respect and integration.
On
this basis, the whole of the Balkans would secure modern economic and
technological development and integration with other developed European
countries.
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BELGRADE,18 July 2000 No.3112
INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
TO THE QATAR TELEVISION AL-DZAZIRA
Announcement: Meeting of the day
What are the effects of embargo imposed by the West on Yugoslavia - it
is
one of the questions that Jumana Tammur asks the Foreign Minister of
Yugoslavia in the "Meeting of the day", which is currently on the air
Meeting of the day
Dear viewers, welcome to our today's show "Meeting of the day". This is
a
meeting with the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Mr. Zivadin Jovanovic. The
topics we shall address will include internal political and economic
situation in Yugoslavia, the attitude towards the opposition and his
views
on the future of Kosovo and Metohija, Yugoslavia, Montenegro and the
Balkans in general.
Q: Mr. Jovanovic, welcome to TV Al-Dzazira show. First of all, what are
the
factors that have determined and are determining your Government's
position
concerning the crisis in Kosovo and in the Balkans in general?
A: The Kosovo problem is one of separatism and terrorism. It has been
present for some time, but it has been intensified in the last few
years.
Separatism has been supported from the outside to destabilize the region
and aggravate the situation in the region in pursuit of their own global
interests in Europe, Asia and the world at large. Province of Kosovo and
Metohija has been the birthplace of the statehood of Serbia. Medieval
Serbian State was situated in Kosovo and Metohija. Some cultural
monuments
still testify to that. Separatist movement caused chaos in the region,
endangering international principles and stability.
Q: You say terrorism, separatism but the people there say they want
independence.
A: First of all, people in Kosovo and Metohija are not of one ethnic
national community. Serbs, Albanians, Muslims, Turks, Egyptians,
Goranci,
and members of other nationalities have been living there for centuries.
Q: What about the majority? Can you illustrate that?
A: Majority in Serbia are Serbs and Kosovo has always been in Serbia.
So,
you cannot take a city or a district and say majority in this city are
those and those and claim separation of the city or a district. One
should
not simplify the situation. Kosovo and Metohija is a multi-ethnic,
multi-cultural, multi-religious region of Serbia and Yugoslavia and
solution over there has always been community and tolerance, solidarity
of
all. Albanians make most of the population in Kosovo and Metohija, this
is
true. But they are citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia and there they are
a
national minority. These are international standards. Why would
Albanians
live outside prosperous Serbia and Yugoslavia, which is better than any
other in the region? Who would take Albania as a model anyway and in
what
respect, with chaos, crime and instability over there?
Q: You are giving a nice picture of the situation, while most analysts
say
that you handled roughly the crisis in Kosovo and Metohija?
A: All depends who the analysts are. If you had been in Yugoslavia, in
Kosovo and Metohija you would have seen quite a different picture from
the
one presented in Western media. NATO was no longer necessary in Europe.
With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, as a global
factor NATO remained without a global adversary, without a global
threat.
Linked with military-industrial complex, it had to justify its existence
and even expand to the East although there is no reason for that in the
newly-created conditions. Therefore, it started to openly encourage
separatism and terrorism, to create problems and crises to justify its
expansion to the south and south-east of Europe, towards the Caspian
basin,
central Asia, region of the Middle East, towards the sources of energy,
strategic raw materials and big markets.
Q: Then, you are saying that foreign interference has led to that. But
if
you really think so why did you allow the soldiers to kill civilians? We
saw on TV that women were slaughtered, just like that.
A: Pictures have been falsified on TV. You could see pictures from
Kosovo
and Metohija from the winter while it was spring. Many pictures were not
from Kosovo at all, and cars or vehicles were from other countries. This
is
simply technology they use to prepare and justify the aggression.
Q: But we saw Albanians talking about their relatives, fathers, mothers,
or
daughters and it was confirmed by independent journalists, as seen on
TV.
A: Those pictures appeared after the aggression of NATO and what
happened
happened only after 24 March 1999. There have been no refugees in
Macedonia, Albania or any other country before the aggression but only
after the aggression. Can you blame the people running from NATO bombs,
cruise missiles, cluster bombs, bombs with depleted uranium. Even the
western media now admit that they have been manipulated, and even
subjected
to censorship.
Q: Are you saying that the Albanians ran to Macedonia because they were
afraid of NATO?
A: They were running because and after NATO bombing because Pristina was
a
centre of bombings. Bombs were falling all over Pristina and other towns
in
Kosovo and Metohija. How can you expect the people to stay in towns and
villages with NATO bombs falling and hundreds of civilians getting
killed?
Q: What about massacres that happened before?
A: Which massacres? Where did you get these information?
Q: From agencies.
A: What agencies, whose agencies? News agencies, intelligence, NATO.
There
are a lot of agencies, you will agree. There were no massacres at all in
Kosovo and Metohija. There were provocations by a terrorist organization
calling themselves Kosovo Liberation Army, ambushing and killing Serbian
policemen and people. Police responded in accordance with the law and
their
authority to stop the terror from being spread, to protect the law,
public
peace and order. Fighting terrorists is an obligation, and it is in the
interest of peace and stability, and life in peace of all citizens.
Q: How did they react, the police?
A: Police reacted proportionate to the situation and the danger. Serbia
tried to get rid of the terrorist organization KLA. You have to know
that
this terrorist organization was on a list of terrorist organizations in
Washington but they removed it when they considered that it can be
useful
as a tool for destabilization of the region, they proclaimed it a
liberation organization, although it was all along the same
organization.
Q: You call it terrorist, maybe the Americans used to call it terrorist
but
for Kosovars they are heroes. They are heroes, they are working for
independence, they are working for a better life of Kosovars.
A: No State in the world, including ours, can legitimize terrorist and
separatist objectives, nor should we identify their aims with ordinary
people, citizens. Even today, regardless of NATO foul play and its links
with terrorist "KLA", hundreds of thousands of people of Albanians link
their future with Serbia and Yugoslavia. They understand that terrorism
and
separatism are a disaster for Albanians, that secession is a great
deception of NATO, that they have been manipulated and that they can
have
peace and prosperity only in Serbia and Yugoslavia as equal citizens.
Q: Do you really think that you have the support of the Serbian people?
A: Who is we?
Q: Your Government and your regime, of course.
A: How do you think I became Minister, that I was imposed? You should
come
to Serbia and Yugoslavia and hear what the people have to say, their
opinion on the Government defence, reconstruction, reforms. You should
not
be relying too much on the CNN and the like, they are a part of NATO war
propaganda!
Q: It is not just listening to the news. I saw thousands of people
gathering, saying no to Milosevic, no this Government, they said they
wanted early elections. Why don't you go?
A: We shall have regular elections this year. Why do you think we should
have them couple of months in advance? Who would want that?
Q: Why not? If people like you and people want you. Then you would be
able
to say to the opposition, OK we did it and we came back because people
wanted it.
A: This is what will happen at regular elections. We have no reason to
please minority. We have to care about majority. That is why we were
elected. Majority is with the Government, with the leadership of
President
Milosevic. This is a reality and you can see that for yourself. You
mentioned demonstrations. If they gather and express their views that is
O.K. What about millions who feel differently?
Q: You are saying that they are paid from the outside, that the tell
them
to say that they want a better life.
A: Search on INTERNET you will find that the USA allocates 25 million
dollars for opposition in Belgrade. If Americans are publicly saying
that
they are paying, those who are receiving they are paid, are they not?
And,
do you know how the Western countries react if somebody interferes in
their
elections by payments from outside? They say it is a gross violation of
democratic principles. But how do they dare to pay political parties in
my
country? Everybody knows that they are doing it for their own benefit,
not
for the benefit of Serbia.
Q: Let us talk about the opposition. The opposition in your country
complained bitterly about the censorship and sometimes even harsh
measures
against journalists. What would make your Government more lenient
towards
this opposition?
A: Media in Serbia, in Belgrade, are the most developed in south-eastern
Europe, in terms of quality, in terms of number, circulation and so on.
We
in Serbia have more than 650 radio and TV channels and stations. We also
have more than 3,000 dailies, weeklies and publications. For example, we
have some 15 TV channels.
Q: It is not the number that counts, what about the freedom of speech
and
freedom to act and to move?
A: Listen, 12 TV channels in Belgrade are private, opposition,
independent
and they are responsible only to those who are paying them, as private
owners. There is no censorship. There is no discrimination or dismissals
speaking of the freedom of the press. If you were referring to
transferring
ownership from one TV to the State, the reason is that they were calling
for the uprising in Serbia, liquidation of leadership and so on. Is
there a
responsible Government that considers such activity as a democratic
method
or would tolerate that.
Q: But some observers went as far as accusing your Government of some
complicity in assassination attempt on Vuk Draskovic? Why did they
accuse
you of that?
A: Those observers, where do they come from? This question should be
posed
to them, on what basis do they level charges? It is easy to publish
false
information. It is more difficult to, but the only right thing to do to
stick to the facts and rely on analyses not on observers.
Q: Is there anything new concerning assassinations in Yugoslavia?
A: Those were terrorist acts as you know, one of our Ministers was
killed
and a representative from one of the Serb Provinces while he was
attending
an international fair. These were terrorist acts aimed at destabilizing
the
country from the inside.
You should know that the last year's aggression of NATO on
Yugoslavia contributed only to the strengthening of solidarity and
strength
of the people of in defence of its freedom. The aggressors know that
they
did not succeed, so they are continuing by other methods to destabilize
Yugoslavia, seeking to portray Yugoslavia as a problematic country. But
they cannot succeed because the truth is increasingly prevailing.
Q: Let us go back to the accusations against you. Don't you think that
those accusations cast a shadow of distrust against your government?
A: I know that the aim of certain foreign factors is to provoke distrust
against our Government, but I know that the trust in the Government is
strengthened. The Government is reconstructing what NATO had destroyed
and
is building even better. In a short period, it repaired electricity,
roads,
highways, bridges, railways, hospitals, kindergartens. People in
Yugoslavia
and all over the world know that we are not weak, that we are stronger
now.
Q: But you have many economic problems, don't you?
A: What country does not have economic problems? Our problems come from
sanctions which are illegal, totally inhuman. It is inadmissible that
children and people suffer because someone in the world does not like
their
regime. We lost 150 billion dollars. Consequences of NATO aggression
left
Yugoslavia with losses of 100 billion dollars. Sanctions and aggression
in
the amount of 250 billion dollars for a nation of the size and capacity
of
Yugoslavia is too much. Despite of all this, you talk about economic
problems of Yugoslavia. We have 1 million refugees in Yugoslavia now. In
addition, we have no access to the World Bank and IMF.
Q: But thanks to the policy of Milosevic, you have no foreign donor, you
have been denied international financial assistance, because of your
policy.
A: It is true that we conduct an independent policy. It is true that it
does not suit the forces that seek domination. Despite that, Yugoslavia
is
a free and independent country. Yugoslavia has not given in to NATO
despite
enormous force employed to destroy a sovereign country. Our current
problems are not due to a wrong policy but to the NATO aggression and
sanctions.
Despite that, Yugoslavia is economically a leading country in
the
region. In the last five years, we have had an average of 5-6 per cent
of
GNP rise compared to all our neighbours which have only 1.7 per cent.
And
they did not have refugees, sanctions and embargo and other
limitations. This can be done only by the people and the Government
which
are united.
Q: You talked a lot of sanctions. Don't you think that handing over
Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic and cooperation with Montenegro, The Hague
Tribunal might enhance your respect and reputation and will help ease
the
sanctions.
A: We are not ready to deceive our people and State to be patted on the
shoulder. We do not care much compliments from others, especially we
don't
need compliments from aggressors, from NATO countries. As for Karadzic,
he
is not a citizen of Yugoslavia and he is not in Yugoslavia. Let us not
forget that The Hague Tribunal is an extended arm of NATO, and creation
of
NATO, serving its interests and not the interests of justice. The
Amnesty
International in its last report stated that NATO committed war crimes
against humanity against peace in Yugoslavia, particularly by bombing
RTS
television in Belgrade, killing 16 of its employees. Is International
Tribunal to be trusted when in the case of certain personalities it
justified killing journalists, destroying bridges, destroying
international
train in and they say it is legitimate military objective.
Q: But isn't Slobodan Milosevic an instigator or maybe rather
protagonist
in this whole Balkan conflict from the first, and his campaign in
1990ies
it was along purely ethnic lines?
A: Yugoslavia, that is previous Yugoslavia was destroyed because it
represented an obstacle to hegemonism and an obstacle to domination.
This
is the essence. And those who were destroying Yugoslavia were playing on
separatism to disintegrate it into small states and peoples in order to
rule over them. Slobodan Milosevic has always been an advocate of the
Yugoslav federation. He had nothing to do that Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Macedonia decided to go it alone and resort to force. We have
normalized relations with Macedonia, Croatia we are to normalize
relations
with Bosnia and Slovenia. We are an open country. But, attributing to
the
victim responsibility for destruction, responsibility for civil wars in
Bosnia and Croatia, etc, is aimed at diverting the attention from those
who
are responsible. They need a scape goat and they need to divert
attention
from those who are really responsible. They want a scape goat to divert
attention from themselves and from their own people. We filed charges
with
the International Court of Justice in the Hague, we accused them of
crimes
against peace and humanity, for genocide against Yugoslavia and we asked
for compensation. Many peoples from all European countries are accusing
NATO and leaders leading the aggressive the war against. That wave of
protest and clear condemnation is growing.
Q: In the end, Mr. Jovanovic, what is the scenario regarding the future
of
Kosovo, Yugoslavia and Montenegro and the Balkans in general?
A: I see the solution, peace and stability and progress in that part of
Europe under by respecting Yugoslavia as an equal partner and as a key
factor of peace, stability and development in the region. Second, to
abolish and remove all sanctions and measures of isolation which are
illegal from the point of view of international law. The third, to
immediately resume Yugoslavia's full legitimate role in European and
international organizations and institutions, including the United
Nations
and Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The fourth, to solve Kosovo and
Metohija respecting territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia and
Yugoslavia, and that the Serb province be granted autonomy within
Serbia,
based on equality of all national communities and all citizens living
there. The doors to cooperation in the Balkans should be fully opened.
The
Balkan states have a prosperous future only if they are integrated at
the
regional level. In that respect, Yugoslavia is of importance in
promoting
economic, cultural, information, scientific integration and development.
Yugoslavia considers that the future of countries of the size and
history
as is the case is in trans-border links, mutual respect and integration.
On
this basis, the whole of the Balkans would secure modern economic and
technological development and integration with other developed European
countries.
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IVAN CUKALOVIC, DEPUTY LEGAL ADVISOR AT YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTRY:
GROUNDLESS REFUTATIONS
BELGRADE, July 18 (Tanjug) Diplomatic and political circles
question the right of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to act as the
successor of the exYugoslavia, in order to exert additional political
pressure and destabilize its position.
The Constitutional Declaration of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
of
April 27, 1992, clearly defines the country's standpoint concerning this
issue: "While preserving the continuity of the exYugoslavia related to
the
international law, its political position, and its integrity as a state,
Yugoslavia will ensure strict fulfilment of all international
obligations
binding the exYugoslavia in the past.
The analysis of Yugoslavia's legal status that follows will
provide an answer to the question of its legal position. Most countries
that are members of the international community see Yugoslavia as a
state
that has established continuity to the former Yugoslavia, whereas the
United States, and some Western countries, tend to deny this standpoint
thus refuting a range of other standpoints related to continuity, such
as
the position of Yugoslavia in the U.N., negotiations on the division of
the
property of the former Yugoslavia, and so on.
First we must make a theoretical distinction between the issue
of
succession and the issue of continuity. Succession is an institution
related to changes in territorial sovereignty through which a state that
has gained a certain territory takes over the rights and obligations of
the
former state, i.e. the state to which the previously territory belonged.
Therefore, succession is a legal institution the purpose of
which
is to alleviate the consequences resulting from the break up of a
country,
or the decrease of its territory, and to provide a solution to the
problems
of inheriting debts, contracts, public property, legal obligations
concerning individuals, and so on.
The principle of succession appears in cases of fusion of two
countries into one (e.g. fusion of Syria and Egypt in 1958, and Serbia
and
Montenegro in 1918), or in cases of separation (e.g. of the
AustroHungarian
Empire in 1918, of Norway and Sweden 1905, Pakistan and Bangladesh, USSR
and the Commonwealth of Independent States.)
As opposed to the principle of succession, regulating the
validity
of privileges and obligations of a state that has ceased to exist, the
principle of continuity is legitimate only when a state that is
acknowledged by international law, adheres to all valid regulations and
maintains its membership in all international organizations after
certain
territorial changes.
It is of no relevance whatsoever, to what extent the
territorial
loss reduces the size of the previous state. The emphasis is on the fact
that territorial losses do not affect the identity of a state, and on
the
fact that the core territory is maintained. In the history of
international
relations there were many examples showing that certain states preserved
their integrity and continuity, despite substantial territorial losses.
For
example, Great Britain, Turkey, or France, continued to exist as states,
even after considerable territorial losses. This happened with Russia,
which established the continuity of the USSR. Serbia and Montenegro,
countries that had sacrificed their sovereignty, thus contributing to
the
creation of Yugoslavia in 1918, are a continuation of the exYugoslavia,
the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the State of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
Members of the international community have given both de iure
and
de facto recognition of Yugoslavia's continuity. Explicit de iure
recognition came from the exYugoslav republics, the very ones which most
frequently refute the continuity of Yugoslavia.
Thus, Article 5 of the contract normalizing relations between
Yugoslavia and Croatia, signed on August 23, 1996 in Belgrade, says: "It
is
a historical fact that Serbia and Montenegro existed as independent
states
before the creation of Yugoslavia, therefore, bearing in mind that
Yugoslavia maintains the position of these states, related to
international
law, the Republic of Croatia recognizes the continuity of Yugoslavia."
An identical formulation was used in Article 4 of the contract
regulating YugoslavMacedonian relations, signed in Belgrade on April 8,
1996 (...the Republic of Macedonia recognizes the continuity of FR
Yugoslavia...)
Paragraph 1 of the joint declaration, signed by Presidents
Slobodan Milosevic and Alija Izetbegovic in Paris on October 3, 1996
says:"BosniaHerzegovina accepts the continuity of Yugoslavia."
Officials of some Western countries have also made statements
confirming the continuity of Yugoslavia.
At a debate between European foreign ministers in Brussels on
January 29, 1996 aimed at solving the problem of the formal recognition
of
Yugoslavia, French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said that France
had
never severed diplomatic relations with Belgrade, and consequently, does
not need to recognize Belgrade. "That is the standpoint of some E.U.
countries, but not the official standpoint of the French government."
In a comment on the decision of the French government to raise
diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia to the highest level, the spokesman
of
the French Foreign Ministry said on February 22, 1996 that "France never
cut off diplomatic relations with Belgrade. France recognizes states,
not
governments."
Upon the normalization of YugoslavBritish relations, Malcolm
Rifkind sent a message to Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic saying: "We
have
decided to raise diplomatic relations with Belgrade to the highest
level...
we will adhere to all valid contracts and treaties signed by Great
Britain
and the exYugoslavia."
Spanish Foreign Minister Carlos Westendorp, after his visit to
Yugoslavia, said on March 16, 1996: "The problem of recognizing
Yugoslavia
is not an issue for Spain, because diplomatic relations between the two
countries were never severed."
The above statements, made by representatives of E.U.
countries,
reflect their views on the recognition of Yugoslavia in an indirect way.
Although there was no explicit mention of continuity, the very fact that
they maintained diplomatic relations, and were willing to adhere to the
contracts signed with the exYugoslavia, is proof of de facto
recognition.
The United States, the biggest opponent of the recognition of
Yugoslavia, recognized Yugoslavia in a similar way.
Namely, the American embassy in Belgrade, in note S42 issued on
May 5, 1998 requested from Yugoslavia the extradition of ethnicAlbanian
Rifat Etej for felonies committed in the USA. This request was based on
the
Extradition Agreement of 1901, signed by the Kingdom of Serbia and the
USA.
Thus, the USA recognized the continuity of Yugoslavia, not only
regarding
the exYugoslavia, but also the Kingdom of Serbia, as the nucleus of all
other subsequent Yugoslav states. This confirms the theory, as well as
the
practice, of international law, according to which territorial loss does
not affect a country's continuity if its nucleus is preserved.
The continuity of Yugoslavia, as we can see, is legally
undeniable. Nevertheless, the following example shows how this matter
can
serve as a means of exerting political pressure on Yugoslavia. In
paragraph
297 of his report, (Summary of Practice of Secretary General as
Depositary
of Multilateral Treaties) the U.N. Secretary General explains the legal
position of the Russian Federation and Yugoslavia in the following way:
"After the secession of some parts of the USSR, which became
independent states, the USSR (as the Russian Federation) continued to
exist
as the presuccessor and all the rights and obligations resulting from
contracts remain valid. The same applies to Yugoslavia (Serbia and
Montenegro), which remains the presuccessor, although a part of the
territory of the exYugoslavia has broken away."
The U.N. Secretary General quite appropriately drew a parallel
between the legal position of the Russian Federation and the position of
Yugoslavia. Regretfully, after the intervention of several countries,
which
submitted a letter, the U.N. Legal Advisor submitted a corrigendum (LA
41
TR/220), in which the section referring to Yugoslavia was deleted, while
the one referring to the Russian Federation remained. This shows that
neither the Secretary General, nor his legal advisor are immune to
political pressure.
The majority of countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and
Eastern Europe, as well as Russia, China and India, have passed acts of
either de iure or de facto recognition of Yugoslavia. As far as Latin
America is concerned, Yugoslavia has been recognized by Cuba, Argentina
and
Brazil. The other countries of the region have recognized Yugoslavia
tacitly, by maintaining the level of diplomatic relations, by raising
them
to a higher level, or by issuing statements that were a confirmation of
their willingness to maintain the practice of friendly relations and
cooperation with Yugoslavia.
The legal consequences of continuity are reflected by the fact
that Yugoslavia is a continuation of the exYugoslavia, and that it
maintains its membership in all organizations, while all international
contracts signed by the exYugoslavia remain valid. Therefore, claims
according to which Yugoslavia must appeal for membership in the U.N. are
quite absurd. Such requests are merely a form of political pressure,
with
no foundation in legal theory, or practice.
The U.N. General Assembly, in Resolution 52/215 of December 22,
1997 has determined the budget quotas for all countries in the period of
19982000, including Yugoslavia, which is clear proof of Yugoslavia's
membership in the U.N., and any denial of its status is just an aspect
of
political manipulation.
The problem of succession, i.e. the division of gold and frozen
hard currency reserves abroad, the inheriting of the embassy buildings
will
be solved through negotiations between its successors Yugoslavia, the
state which is the continuation of the exYugoslavia, and the exYugoslav
republics, with cooperation from the Peace Implementation Council, and
Arthur Watts as the mediator.
The Yugoslav Mission in New York sent a message to the
President
of the Security Council on December 13, 1999 informing him of
Yugoslavia's
willingness to continue the negotiations on succession, according to
international laws regulating the problem of succession, and the joint
declaration signed by Presidents Slobodan Milosevic and Alija
Izetbegovic,
signed in Paris on October 3, 1996, as well as the contracts normalizing
relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia, signed in Belgrade on August
23,
1996 and between Yugoslavia and Macedonia, signed on April 8, 1996.
In the message, the Mission described the draft of the
agreement
proposed by Watts, as acceptable, saying that, if the negotiations
continue, an agreement could be reached soon. Unfortunately, despite
this
intervention, there has been no continuation of the negotiations, as
Watts
has failed to schedule them. This is a confirmation of the claims that
those who have committed the act of aggression on Yugoslavia have no
interest whatsoever in solving any of the problems related to this
region,
as they strive to continue the practice of pressure and groundless
accusations against Yugoslavia.
This review of the theory of international law and practice,
focusing on the legal position of Yugoslavia, is an undeniable proof of
the
fact that Yugoslavia is a continuation of the exYugoslavia, because,
regardless of territorial losses, the nucleus of the territory (Serbia
and
Montenegro) remained, which is the decisive factor for the
acknowledgement
of continuity. In any case, similar analyses carried out by other
members
of the international community, show that most countries have recognized
the continuity of Yugoslavia, either by acts of explicit de iure
recognition, or by taking certain actions (such as the ones taken by the
United States of America) that are an example of de facto recognition.
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- SULLA AUTOPROCLAMATA MISSIONE DIPLOMATICA MONTENEGRINA ALL'ONU
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- LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA E' ISOLATA A LIVELLO INTERNAZIONALE - OPPURE NO?
- ALLE NAZIONI UNITE GLI U.S.A IMPONGONO L'ESCLUSIONE DEL RAPPRESENTANTE
DELLA REPUBBLICA FEDERALE DI JUGOSLAVIA (IL MAGGIORE PAESE BALCANICO PER
NUMERO DI ABITANTI) DA UN DIBATTITO SULLA SITUAZIONE NEI BALCANI.
I RAPPRESENTANTI RUSSO E CINESE ESCONO DALL'AULA PER PROTESTA.
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RF di Jugoslavia Zivadin Jovanovic
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INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
TO THE QATAR TELEVISION AL-DZAZIRA
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Yugoslav Daily Survey 20 July 2000 No.3114
INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA, MR. ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC,
TO "AL ARAB AL YAWM" DAILY
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http://www1.mfa.gov.yu/
http://www.smip.sv.gov.yu/
http://www.mfa.gov.yu/
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Institute of International Politics and Economics Belgrade
http://www.diplomacy.bg.ac.yu/
Balkan Journal of International Law
International Law and Kosovo
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/benin/260/
Association for the Study of Foreign Policy Kotor Montenegro
http://www.diplomacy.cg.yu/
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http://www.diplomacy.cg.yu/doc13.htm
Udruzenje za istrazivanje spoljne politike Kotor
Association for the Study of Foreign Policy Kotor
Konferencija:
SAVREMENA DIPLOMATIJA I CRNA GORA
Kotor, 27. juna 1998.
Prof. Dr Predrag Simic*, Institute of International Politics and
Economics, Belgrade
REGIONAL COOPERATION IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE:
THE ROLE OF FR YUGOSLAVIA
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IVAN CUKALOVIC, DEPUTY LEGAL ADVISOR AT YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTRY:
GROUNDLESS REFUTATIONS
BELGRADE, July 18 (Tanjug) Diplomatic and political circles
question the right of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to act as the
successor of the exYugoslavia, in order to exert additional political
pressure and destabilize its position.
The Constitutional Declaration of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
of
April 27, 1992, clearly defines the country's standpoint concerning this
issue: "While preserving the continuity of the exYugoslavia related to
the
international law, its political position, and its integrity as a state,
Yugoslavia will ensure strict fulfilment of all international
obligations
binding the exYugoslavia in the past.
The analysis of Yugoslavia's legal status that follows will
provide an answer to the question of its legal position. Most countries
that are members of the international community see Yugoslavia as a
state
that has established continuity to the former Yugoslavia, whereas the
United States, and some Western countries, tend to deny this standpoint
thus refuting a range of other standpoints related to continuity, such
as
the position of Yugoslavia in the U.N., negotiations on the division of
the
property of the former Yugoslavia, and so on.
First we must make a theoretical distinction between the issue
of
succession and the issue of continuity. Succession is an institution
related to changes in territorial sovereignty through which a state that
has gained a certain territory takes over the rights and obligations of
the
former state, i.e. the state to which the previously territory belonged.
Therefore, succession is a legal institution the purpose of
which
is to alleviate the consequences resulting from the break up of a
country,
or the decrease of its territory, and to provide a solution to the
problems
of inheriting debts, contracts, public property, legal obligations
concerning individuals, and so on.
The principle of succession appears in cases of fusion of two
countries into one (e.g. fusion of Syria and Egypt in 1958, and Serbia
and
Montenegro in 1918), or in cases of separation (e.g. of the
AustroHungarian
Empire in 1918, of Norway and Sweden 1905, Pakistan and Bangladesh, USSR
and the Commonwealth of Independent States.)
As opposed to the principle of succession, regulating the
validity
of privileges and obligations of a state that has ceased to exist, the
principle of continuity is legitimate only when a state that is
acknowledged by international law, adheres to all valid regulations and
maintains its membership in all international organizations after
certain
territorial changes.
It is of no relevance whatsoever, to what extent the
territorial
loss reduces the size of the previous state. The emphasis is on the fact
that territorial losses do not affect the identity of a state, and on
the
fact that the core territory is maintained. In the history of
international
relations there were many examples showing that certain states preserved
their integrity and continuity, despite substantial territorial losses.
For
example, Great Britain, Turkey, or France, continued to exist as states,
even after considerable territorial losses. This happened with Russia,
which established the continuity of the USSR. Serbia and Montenegro,
countries that had sacrificed their sovereignty, thus contributing to
the
creation of Yugoslavia in 1918, are a continuation of the exYugoslavia,
the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the State of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
Members of the international community have given both de iure
and
de facto recognition of Yugoslavia's continuity. Explicit de iure
recognition came from the exYugoslav republics, the very ones which most
frequently refute the continuity of Yugoslavia.
Thus, Article 5 of the contract normalizing relations between
Yugoslavia and Croatia, signed on August 23, 1996 in Belgrade, says: "It
is
a historical fact that Serbia and Montenegro existed as independent
states
before the creation of Yugoslavia, therefore, bearing in mind that
Yugoslavia maintains the position of these states, related to
international
law, the Republic of Croatia recognizes the continuity of Yugoslavia."
An identical formulation was used in Article 4 of the contract
regulating YugoslavMacedonian relations, signed in Belgrade on April 8,
1996 (...the Republic of Macedonia recognizes the continuity of FR
Yugoslavia...)
Paragraph 1 of the joint declaration, signed by Presidents
Slobodan Milosevic and Alija Izetbegovic in Paris on October 3, 1996
says:"BosniaHerzegovina accepts the continuity of Yugoslavia."
Officials of some Western countries have also made statements
confirming the continuity of Yugoslavia.
At a debate between European foreign ministers in Brussels on
January 29, 1996 aimed at solving the problem of the formal recognition
of
Yugoslavia, French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said that France
had
never severed diplomatic relations with Belgrade, and consequently, does
not need to recognize Belgrade. "That is the standpoint of some E.U.
countries, but not the official standpoint of the French government."
In a comment on the decision of the French government to raise
diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia to the highest level, the spokesman
of
the French Foreign Ministry said on February 22, 1996 that "France never
cut off diplomatic relations with Belgrade. France recognizes states,
not
governments."
Upon the normalization of YugoslavBritish relations, Malcolm
Rifkind sent a message to Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic saying: "We
have
decided to raise diplomatic relations with Belgrade to the highest
level...
we will adhere to all valid contracts and treaties signed by Great
Britain
and the exYugoslavia."
Spanish Foreign Minister Carlos Westendorp, after his visit to
Yugoslavia, said on March 16, 1996: "The problem of recognizing
Yugoslavia
is not an issue for Spain, because diplomatic relations between the two
countries were never severed."
The above statements, made by representatives of E.U.
countries,
reflect their views on the recognition of Yugoslavia in an indirect way.
Although there was no explicit mention of continuity, the very fact that
they maintained diplomatic relations, and were willing to adhere to the
contracts signed with the exYugoslavia, is proof of de facto
recognition.
The United States, the biggest opponent of the recognition of
Yugoslavia, recognized Yugoslavia in a similar way.
Namely, the American embassy in Belgrade, in note S42 issued on
May 5, 1998 requested from Yugoslavia the extradition of ethnicAlbanian
Rifat Etej for felonies committed in the USA. This request was based on
the
Extradition Agreement of 1901, signed by the Kingdom of Serbia and the
USA.
Thus, the USA recognized the continuity of Yugoslavia, not only
regarding
the exYugoslavia, but also the Kingdom of Serbia, as the nucleus of all
other subsequent Yugoslav states. This confirms the theory, as well as
the
practice, of international law, according to which territorial loss does
not affect a country's continuity if its nucleus is preserved.
The continuity of Yugoslavia, as we can see, is legally
undeniable. Nevertheless, the following example shows how this matter
can
serve as a means of exerting political pressure on Yugoslavia. In
paragraph
297 of his report, (Summary of Practice of Secretary General as
Depositary
of Multilateral Treaties) the U.N. Secretary General explains the legal
position of the Russian Federation and Yugoslavia in the following way:
"After the secession of some parts of the USSR, which became
independent states, the USSR (as the Russian Federation) continued to
exist
as the presuccessor and all the rights and obligations resulting from
contracts remain valid. The same applies to Yugoslavia (Serbia and
Montenegro), which remains the presuccessor, although a part of the
territory of the exYugoslavia has broken away."
The U.N. Secretary General quite appropriately drew a parallel
between the legal position of the Russian Federation and the position of
Yugoslavia. Regretfully, after the intervention of several countries,
which
submitted a letter, the U.N. Legal Advisor submitted a corrigendum (LA
41
TR/220), in which the section referring to Yugoslavia was deleted, while
the one referring to the Russian Federation remained. This shows that
neither the Secretary General, nor his legal advisor are immune to
political pressure.
The majority of countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and
Eastern Europe, as well as Russia, China and India, have passed acts of
either de iure or de facto recognition of Yugoslavia. As far as Latin
America is concerned, Yugoslavia has been recognized by Cuba, Argentina
and
Brazil. The other countries of the region have recognized Yugoslavia
tacitly, by maintaining the level of diplomatic relations, by raising
them
to a higher level, or by issuing statements that were a confirmation of
their willingness to maintain the practice of friendly relations and
cooperation with Yugoslavia.
The legal consequences of continuity are reflected by the fact
that Yugoslavia is a continuation of the exYugoslavia, and that it
maintains its membership in all organizations, while all international
contracts signed by the exYugoslavia remain valid. Therefore, claims
according to which Yugoslavia must appeal for membership in the U.N. are
quite absurd. Such requests are merely a form of political pressure,
with
no foundation in legal theory, or practice.
The U.N. General Assembly, in Resolution 52/215 of December 22,
1997 has determined the budget quotas for all countries in the period of
19982000, including Yugoslavia, which is clear proof of Yugoslavia's
membership in the U.N., and any denial of its status is just an aspect
of
political manipulation.
The problem of succession, i.e. the division of gold and frozen
hard currency reserves abroad, the inheriting of the embassy buildings
will
be solved through negotiations between its successors Yugoslavia, the
state which is the continuation of the exYugoslavia, and the exYugoslav
republics, with cooperation from the Peace Implementation Council, and
Arthur Watts as the mediator.
The Yugoslav Mission in New York sent a message to the
President
of the Security Council on December 13, 1999 informing him of
Yugoslavia's
willingness to continue the negotiations on succession, according to
international laws regulating the problem of succession, and the joint
declaration signed by Presidents Slobodan Milosevic and Alija
Izetbegovic,
signed in Paris on October 3, 1996, as well as the contracts normalizing
relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia, signed in Belgrade on August
23,
1996 and between Yugoslavia and Macedonia, signed on April 8, 1996.
In the message, the Mission described the draft of the
agreement
proposed by Watts, as acceptable, saying that, if the negotiations
continue, an agreement could be reached soon. Unfortunately, despite
this
intervention, there has been no continuation of the negotiations, as
Watts
has failed to schedule them. This is a confirmation of the claims that
those who have committed the act of aggression on Yugoslavia have no
interest whatsoever in solving any of the problems related to this
region,
as they strive to continue the practice of pressure and groundless
accusations against Yugoslavia.
This review of the theory of international law and practice,
focusing on the legal position of Yugoslavia, is an undeniable proof of
the
fact that Yugoslavia is a continuation of the exYugoslavia, because,
regardless of territorial losses, the nucleus of the territory (Serbia
and
Montenegro) remained, which is the decisive factor for the
acknowledgement
of continuity. In any case, similar analyses carried out by other
members
of the international community, show that most countries have recognized
the continuity of Yugoslavia, either by acts of explicit de iure
recognition, or by taking certain actions (such as the ones taken by the
United States of America) that are an example of de facto recognition.
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Sullo stesso argomento si veda anche:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/318
- SULLA AUTOPROCLAMATA MISSIONE DIPLOMATICA MONTENEGRINA ALL'ONU
(COMPOSTA DAL SOLO SIGNOR PEROVIC ZELJKO)
- LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA E' ISOLATA A LIVELLO INTERNAZIONALE - OPPURE NO?
- ALLE NAZIONI UNITE GLI U.S.A IMPONGONO L'ESCLUSIONE DEL RAPPRESENTANTE
DELLA REPUBBLICA FEDERALE DI JUGOSLAVIA (IL MAGGIORE PAESE BALCANICO PER
NUMERO DI ABITANTI) DA UN DIBATTITO SULLA SITUAZIONE NEI BALCANI.
I RAPPRESENTANTI RUSSO E CINESE ESCONO DALL'AULA PER PROTESTA.
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Due recenti interviste al Ministro degli Esteri della
RF di Jugoslavia Zivadin Jovanovic
* http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/384
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY BELGRADE,18 July 2000 No.3112
INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
TO THE QATAR TELEVISION AL-DZAZIRA
* http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/368
Yugoslav Daily Survey 20 July 2000 No.3114
INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA, MR. ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC,
TO "AL ARAB AL YAWM" DAILY
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IL SITO INTERNET DEL MINISTERO DEGLI ESTERI DELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
http://www1.mfa.gov.yu/
http://www.smip.sv.gov.yu/
http://www.mfa.gov.yu/
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Institute of International Politics and Economics Belgrade
http://www.diplomacy.bg.ac.yu/
Balkan Journal of International Law
International Law and Kosovo
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/benin/260/
Association for the Study of Foreign Policy Kotor Montenegro
http://www.diplomacy.cg.yu/
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http://www.diplomacy.cg.yu/doc13.htm
Udruzenje za istrazivanje spoljne politike Kotor
Association for the Study of Foreign Policy Kotor
Konferencija:
SAVREMENA DIPLOMATIJA I CRNA GORA
Kotor, 27. juna 1998.
Prof. Dr Predrag Simic*, Institute of International Politics and
Economics, Belgrade
REGIONAL COOPERATION IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE:
THE ROLE OF FR YUGOSLAVIA
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ZDRAVO DRUZE!
Si sono tenuti ieri 5 agosto 2000 a Pola i funerali del compagno Antun
Kapuralin, comunista jugoslavista e combattente per la liberta'.
Kapuralin partecipo' attivamente ai fatti epici della "Comune di Albona"
durante il biennio rosso (1921-'22) e fu tra i fondatori del Partito
Comunista d'Italia in Istria negli anni Venti. Militante antifascista,
fu incarcerato e sconto' la pena presso Cuneo; tuttavia in anni recenti
la cittadinanza onoraria della citta' gli e' stata negata da una giunta
democristiana.
Nel dopoguerra, dopo aver patito le violenze del fascismo e del nazismo,
la sua terra istriana divenne parte della Repubblica Federativa
Socialista di Jugoslavia, della quale Antun fu instancabile costruttore
insieme a tanti altri comunisti croati ed italiani della regione.
Alcuni anni fa Kapuralin fu intervistato su "Liberazione" dal compianto
Jure Canciani, nel ben diverso clima della Croazia indipendente. Nemmeno
la svolta reazionaria della Croazia ne aveva potuto fiaccare l'impegno e
la lucidita' politica.
Antun si e' spento a Pola per un ictus cerebrale all'eta' di
novantaquattro anni, sorprendendo tutti quelli che lo vedevano attivo e
pieno di energie partecipare sempre alle iniziative degli antifascisti
locali, ed a Trieste agli incontri del PRC e dei reduci partigiani
insieme al figlio Vlado e ad altri esponenti del Partito Socialista
Operaio e della sinistra. A loro ed a noi il compito di proseguire sulla
strada tracciata da Antun.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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Si sono tenuti ieri 5 agosto 2000 a Pola i funerali del compagno Antun
Kapuralin, comunista jugoslavista e combattente per la liberta'.
Kapuralin partecipo' attivamente ai fatti epici della "Comune di Albona"
durante il biennio rosso (1921-'22) e fu tra i fondatori del Partito
Comunista d'Italia in Istria negli anni Venti. Militante antifascista,
fu incarcerato e sconto' la pena presso Cuneo; tuttavia in anni recenti
la cittadinanza onoraria della citta' gli e' stata negata da una giunta
democristiana.
Nel dopoguerra, dopo aver patito le violenze del fascismo e del nazismo,
la sua terra istriana divenne parte della Repubblica Federativa
Socialista di Jugoslavia, della quale Antun fu instancabile costruttore
insieme a tanti altri comunisti croati ed italiani della regione.
Alcuni anni fa Kapuralin fu intervistato su "Liberazione" dal compianto
Jure Canciani, nel ben diverso clima della Croazia indipendente. Nemmeno
la svolta reazionaria della Croazia ne aveva potuto fiaccare l'impegno e
la lucidita' politica.
Antun si e' spento a Pola per un ictus cerebrale all'eta' di
novantaquattro anni, sorprendendo tutti quelli che lo vedevano attivo e
pieno di energie partecipare sempre alle iniziative degli antifascisti
locali, ed a Trieste agli incontri del PRC e dei reduci partigiani
insieme al figlio Vlado e ad altri esponenti del Partito Socialista
Operaio e della sinistra. A loro ed a noi il compito di proseguire sulla
strada tracciata da Antun.
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RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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6 AGOSTO
1990: inizia l'embargo ai danni della popolazione irachena, con
decisione del Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'ONU su istigazione
statunitense - dopo che gli USA avevano boicottato ogni possibilita' di
soluzione politico-diplomatica della crisi del Kuwait - e con
l'opposizione di Cuba e dello Yemen.
Il conflitto vero e proprio, noto come "Guerra del Golfo", sara'
scatenato il 17 gennaio 1991. L'embargo proseguira' anche dopo la sua
conclusione con il ritiro delle truppe irachene dal Kuwait. Negli anni
successivi, aerei britannici e statunitensi continueranno a bombardare
sporadicamente di propria iniziativa il territorio iracheno.
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COMUNICATO STAMPA
Consegnate a Violante 30.211 firme per chiedere che l'Italia si dissoci
unilateralmente dall'embargo all'Iraq.
Venerdì 21 luglio 2000, alle ore 11, una delegazione della Campagna
"Rompere
l'embargo" ha incontrato il Presidente della Camera dei Deputati,
On.Luciano
Violante, al quale ha consegnato l'ultima parte delle oltre 30.000 firme
raccolte sulla petizione popolare che chiede al Parlamento italiano di
rompere unilateralmente l'embargo contro l'Iraq, abrogandone la legge di
attuazione.
La delegazione, composta dai rappresentanti di alcune delle principali
associazioni fra le centinaia che hanno aderito alla Campagna. ("Un
ponte
per…", che l'ha promossa assieme al Comitato Golfo, l'Associazione per
la
pace, il COCIS-coordinamento delle ONG, Mani Tese, il Servizio Civile
Internazionale, la UISP e altre), ha ricordato al presidente Violante la
tragedia del popolo iracheno e l'importanza che un paese come l'Italia
compia un passo coraggioso di dissociazione dal genocidio che ha ucciso
in
dieci anni oltre un milione di civili innocenti, in maggioranza bambini
sotto i cinque anni.
Una richiesta - dicono i promotori della Campagna - che oggi arriva da
una
parte largamente maggioritaria della società civile italiana.
Il Presidente della Camera si è dimostrato molto sensibile alle ragioni
della petizione, e ne ha assicurato che la trasmissionie immediata alla
Commissione Esteri perché venga messa in calendario per la discussione.
Violante ha aggiunto che intende recarsi in Iraq in autunno,
reciprocando la
recente visita in Italia del presidente del Parlamento iracheno Sadoon
Hammadi.
La Campagna "Rompere l'embargo" ha intanto annunciato come prossima
iniziativa la convocazione di una Convenzione Nazionale a Roma per metà
ottobre, che radunerà tutti i firmatari e le associazioni che hanno
sottoscritto la petizione. L'occasione sarà lo scadere dei tre mesi
previsti
nell'ultima risoluzione approvata dalla Camera dei Deputati, che impegna
il
governo ad operare in modo concreto ed esplicito nelle sedi
internazionali
per arrivare alla revoca delle sanzioni contro l'Iraq.
Per contatti e informazioni:
rompere-lembargo@...
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L'ESASPERAZIONE E L'ORGOGLIO DEGLI IRACHENI
Il Sole 24 Ore di giovedì 29/6:
Uccisi due funzionari della Fao a Baghdad.
Per protestare contro l'embargo Onu verso l'Irak, un uomo armato ha
preso in ostaggio oltre 40 persone negli uffici Fao di
Baghdad, uccidendo due persone e ferendone sette prima di essere
arrestato dalla polizia.
IRAQI AMBASSADOR: PEOPLE OF IRAQ HAVE NOT GIVEN UP
BELGRADE, July 18 (Tanjug) The people of Iraq have not given up,
they are continuing their struggle and will fight until the final
victory,
Iraqi ambassador to Yugoslavia, Sami Sadoun Gatie Al Kinami, said in an
interview to Radio Yugoslavia on the occasion of Iraqi National Day
(July 17).
Speaking about IraqiYugoslav bilateral relations, whose trade has
reached dozens of millions of dollars in the past few years and is
expected
to reach one billion dollars this year, the Iraqi ambassador set out
that
relations between these countries have been traditional and firm for
years
and are based on joint interests.
"We want this exchange to exceed one billion dollars during this
year and in the coming period within the U.N. oil for food program which
enables Iraq to import food and medications to cover its basic
requirements," he said.
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1999: ANNO-RECORD DEI BOMBARDAMENTI BRITANNICI SULL'IRAQ
http://www.the-times.co.uk (Britai)
The Times (UK)
June 8 2000
BRITAIN
Sharp rise in RAF attacks on Iraq
BY MICHAEL EVANS
RAF bombing of Iraqi air defence sites has increased sharply in the past
18 months, according to the latest figures published by the Ministry of
Defence.
Since mid-December 1998 RAF bombers have dropped 78 tonnes of bombs on
Iraqi military targets; that compares with 2.5 tonnes between April
1991, after the Gulf War, and mid-December 1998.
The MoD's figures show that the average monthly release of bombs has
risen from 0.025 tonnes to five tonnes.
Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Foreign Affairs and
Defence, who acquired the figures from parliamentary answers, said
yesterday: "The number of occasions on which ordnance has been released
together with the total tonnage raises questions about the true purpose
of these operations."
He added: "There is persuasive evidence that there is an attritional
campaign against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems. This
represents a significant policy shift which has never been explained to
Parliament."
The MoD said yesterday that the reason for the increase was "because
we've been shot at and threatened far more since December 20, 1998, than
in the previous period."
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
The following article appeared in today's Guardian. It incorrectly
states
that the no-fly zones were "agreed by the UN" after the 1991 Gulf war,
despite the fact that previous articles in the Guardian (e.g.
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/311.html) have stated that
the
no-fly zones have no legal basis.
The following discussion list posting discusses the legality
of the no-fly zones:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/357.html (also see 352.html).
People might like to write to the Guardian to correct them on this
matter?
(letters@...)
seb
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,329490,00.html
Step-up in bombing of Iraq questioned
Iraq: special report
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday June 8, 2000
British bomber pilots have dramatically increased their strikes on Iraq
in
the "secret war" against Saddam Hussein, official figures reveal.
An estimated 150 bombs - 78 tonnes of weapons - have been dropped on
southern Iraq by British aircraft since December 1998. This compares
with
2.5 tonnes over the previous six years.
"There is now persuasive evidence that there is an attritional campaign
against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems that has gone way
beyond the original purpose of the no-fly zones," Menzies Campbell, the
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said yesterday. "This
represents a significant policy shift, which has never been announced or
explained to parliament."
Mr Campbell was given the figures by Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary,
in
response to a series of written parliamentary questions. Mr Hoon
admitted
that on two occasions since December 1998, ordnance unleashed by British
aircraft "appears to have hit unintended targets".
He also disclosed that the British commander in the southern no-fly zone
had asked the government to "attack targets beyond his delegated
authority".
He refused to explain the circumstances but sources suggested yesterday
that permission was sought to hit Iraqi aircraft moving north, away from
the no-fly zone.
In military action which is rarely reported, Mr Hoon says that while
Iraqi
aircraft violating the no-fly zone accounted for 51% of the "threats" to
British and US war planes, 95% of the targets attacked consisted of
ground-based air defence systems.
Two no-fly zones, policed by British and American planes, were agreed by
the UN after the 1991 Gulf war. They were established to protect the
Shia
minority in southern Iraq and Kurds in the north.
"It's very good training but it is not achieving anything," Andrew
Brookes, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said
yesterday. He described it as a "sterile political mission of people who
can't think of anything better to do".
Mr Hoon said Britain and the US went to "exceptional lengths to ensure
that the right target is hit, including the employment of very strict
target clearance procedures and precision-guided munitions". However, he
acknowledged: "In practice, it is extremely difficult to give estimates
of
civilian casualties despite the painstaking battle damage assessment
that
the coalition routinely carries out".
Britain has 14 Tornado bombers stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain, and four
Jaguars based at Incirlik in Turkey.
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QUALE STRATEGIA PER IL MOVIMENTO INTERNAZIONALE CONTRO L'EMBARGO?
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Which way for the anti-sanctions movement
By Brian Becker
It’s no surprise that there is increasing
worldwide opposition to the U.S.-imposed economic
sanctions against Iraq. Five thousand perfectly
blameless infants and children perish each month
in Iraq because they are unable to get clean
drinking water, adequate food and even the most
basic medicines.
There is now a worldwide movement demanding an
end to sanctions. Unfortunately, one sector of
this growing movement has injected a new demand
into its slogans: calling for the continuation of
“military sanctions” against Iraq.
Some of these same groups actually raised the
slogan “sanctions not war” back in 1990.
The International Action Center, which has
campaigned relentlessly for the last 10 years
against sanctions, has issued a powerful statement
explaining the disastrous effects of adopting a
demand that sanctions be reshaped instead of
immediately terminated (on the World Wide Web at
http://www.iacenter.org/delink.htm).
Unless this slogan is repudiated it could
seriously weaken and derail the movement.
“Those who want to stop the Iraqi people’s
suffering must direct their demand at the
aggressors, at the U.S. and Britain whose war
planes bomb Iraq routinely, almost daily, who have
dropped thousands of bombs on Iraq in the last
year,” says Sara Flounders, co-director of the IAC.
The United States and Britain are bombing Iraq.
Iraq has never bombed the cities of the United
States. The progressive movement must ask itself:
Does Iraq have the right to defend itself against
such attacks? Shouldn’t anti-war forces in the
United States call for demilitarizing the Pentagon
instead of demilitarizing the victims of U.S.
aggression?
A tactic in a larger war
Why does the United States maintain the sanctions
and blockade of Iraq?
Is it just a mistaken policy by U.S. political
leaders that needs some “humanitarian” fine-
tuning? Or should sanctions be understood as a
tactic in a larger multi-pronged war to return
Iraq to the status of semi-colonial slavery?
Should the progressive movement oppose sanctions
because that tactic causes undue harm to
civilians? Or should it also reject the
imperialist goals and objectives that are the real
motivation for a destabilization strategy that
includes economic sanctions, routine bombings of
the country, CIA covert operations, plans to
assassinate the Iraqi leadership, creating no-
flight zones over most of the country, and placing
tens of thousands of U.S. troops, warships,
aircraft and advanced missiles on the outer
perimeters of Iraq?
The sanctions against Iraq began 10 years ago, in
August 1990. The Bush administration bullied the
United Nations into imposing economic sanctions as
a prelude to the full-scale 1991 air war against
Iraq.
The sanctions were initially put into place to
help evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait, according to
the propaganda of the Bush administration. Iraq
had invaded Kuwait, an oil-rich territory under
the domination of an U.S.-backed monarchy, in
August 1990, after a protracted and complicated
dispute between the two countries.
The original pretext for the economic sanctions
was a lie. It was purely for public consumption.
If the sanctions were meant only to drive Iraqi
troops from Kuwait then why, nearly a decade after
the last Iraqis left, does the United States
still impose the “most complete embargo of any
country in modern times,” in the words of Samuel
Berger, President Bill Clinton’s national
security adviser?
Two blockades: Iraq and Cuba
The unstated but fairly obvious reason that
Washington carries out the economic blockade of
Iraq is that it wants to destabilize the country,
overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein and
replace it with a pro-U.S. regime. The United
States has tried the same thing against socialist
Cuba.
The political leaderships in Iraq and Cuba are
very different. Cuba’s leadership is communist and
the Iraqi government is anti-communist. But both
governments have one thing in common. Iraq and
Cuba both suffered the impoverishment and
humiliation of colonialism and neo-colonialism
imposed by U.S. and British imperialism.
Both countries had far-reaching revolutions
within a year of each other–1958 and–1959. Both
revolutions immediately came under direct
aggression from the imperialist overlords who had
colonized or enslaved their countries.
The Iraqi Revolution in 1958 prompted Britain to
rush thousands of troops to fortify its hold on
tiny but oil-rich Kuwait. As it had with Hong Kong
in China, British colonialism sliced the key port
area of Kuwait out of Iraq and declared it a
British protectorate. While British troops secured
Kuwait in 1958, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower
dispatched 10,000 U.S. marines to Lebanon the very
next day to shore up Washington’s own interests.
In the case of the Cuban Revolution in 1959,
Eisenhower ordered the CIA to begin planning the
assassination of Fidel Castro. Two years later,
under John F. Kennedy, the U.S. government
organized a mercenary invasion of Cuba by CIA-
trained counter-revolutionaries.
Cuba used socialist economic methods to bring
literacy, full employment and free universal
health care to its people. It was able to free
itself of economic neocolonial enslavement by
integrating into the trading bloc with the Soviet
Union, East Germany and the other socialist
countries.
Although Iraq nationalized its oil industry and
other economic sectors, its revolution never went
beyond the boundaries of capitalist property
rights. But because of its vast oil wealth and the
nationalist development model adopted by the
leadership, Iraq too was able to effect rapid
social and economic progress for the mass of the
population after the 1958 revolution.
Official U.S. policy has been hostile to both
Iraq and Cuba since their revolutions. The
“hostility” was remarkably consistent regardless
of whether a Republican or Democrat occupied the
White House.
The only exception to the policy of unmitigated
hostility was during the Iran-Iraq war between
1980 and 1988. The United States supplied weapons
to Iraq and encouraged Iraq’s initial military
actions against Iran in 1980. But this should be
understood for what it was: a cynical ploy to
weaken and exhaust the 1979 Iranian mass
revolution that had swept out the dynastic rule of
the shah—whose army had served as proxy and
gendarme for the Pentagon and CIA in the Persian
Gulf.
The United States armed Iraq to fight Iran in the
early 1980s—but it also sent arms to Iran, as was
revealed during the 1986 Iran-Contra hearings in
Congress. In the words of former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, “We wanted them to kill
each other.”
Once Washington had accomplished its objective of
weakening the Iranian Revolution through the war
between Iran and Iraq, Pentagon war doctrine was
reconfigured to target Iraq as the next “potential
enemy.” Plans and complex war games for a U.S.
war with Iraq were drafted in 1988, immediately
after the close of the Iran-Iraq war and two
years before Iraq fatefully sent its troops
against the Kuwaiti mon archy in August 1990.
(“The Fire This Time,” Ramsey Clark,
Thundersmouth Press, 1992)
Slogans should be consistently anti-imperialist
The U.S. government represents the interests of
Big Oil and the biggest imperialist banks. It
seeks to dominate the Middle East not to bring
“human rights” and “democracy” but to possess and
profit from the fabulous oil wealth
under the soil.
Iraq has 10 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. Combined with
Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and Iran, this region contains the largest share of oil
on the
planet.
Effective sanctions of any type, be they for economic or military
commodities,
require the sanctioning countries to position military forces around
the
targeted country so that ships, trucks and airplanes can be interdicted
and
searched. Thus, calling for the United States or UN to maintain
military
sanctions on Iraq provides a political and even “legal” justification
for the
continued military occupation of the Gulf region by U.S. military
forces.
>From a practical point of view, if the demand for U.S./UN economic sanctions
to be replaced by “military sanctions” were realized, it would still
have a
devastating impact on Iraq’s civilian population. The United States
would
claim that almost anything that the civilian economy imports could
also be
used for military applications.
Referring to these items as “dual use” commodities, the United States
has
already halted or postponed 450 out of every 500 contracts that were
approved
by the UN Sanctions Committee under the much touted Oil-for-Food
program.
Washington will use the category of “military sanctions” as a technical
method
to prevent Iraq from acquiring commodities that are essential for
sustaining
civilian economy and human life. For example, the United States has
banned
pencils for schoolchildren because these pencils contain graphite,
which is
also a lubricant. It has banned batteries, X-ray machines and
ambulances
because they could be used in military conflicts.
Iraq is now barred from importing adequate supplies of chlorine to
purify its
water. Why chlorine? It could be used as a component in a chemical
weapon.
Computers too have potential military uses. So importing computers has
been
prohibited for 10 years.
It can only miseducate the broad public about the
real issues in the Middle East if the progressive
movement supports the imperialist powers in
demanding the demilitarization of Iraq. The
movement cannot be consistently progressive
without thoroughly exposing the true dynamics of
imperialist military and political strategy that
tries to re-colonize the Arab people.
International Action Center
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VERSO NUOVI MASSICCI BOMBARDAMENTI SULL'IRAQ?
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIXHWTKGBC.html
Aug 3, 2000 - 11:37 AM
Officer: U.S. Suspects Iraq Has Resumed Arms Program
By Hamza Hendawi
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The United States suspects that Iraq has taken
advantage of the absence of U.N. arms inspectors to rebuild its arsenal
of mass-destruction weapons, a senior U.S. officer said Thursday...
Subject: [iac-disc.] ACTION ALERT! - Stop the U.S. from Bombing
Iraq in Aug.!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:42:48 -0400
From: "Ramsey Kysia" <mbakery@...>
To: Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.
***please distribute widely***
ACTION ALERT – Stop the U.S. from bombing Iraq in August 2000!
1. Background
2. Mailing Address
3. Sample Letter
BACKGROUND:
On Aug. 6th ‘90, the UN imposed broad, economic
sanctions on Iraq for invading Kuwait. Sanctions were
re-imposed on April 3rd 1991, after the Gulf War, to
force Iraq to destroy its “weapons of mass destruction.”
However, the Gulf War bombings of Iraq’s civilian
infrastructure & the ongoing sanctions blockade have
instead resulted in widespread poverty & skyrocketing
childhood mortality. The UN estimates that between
500,000 & 720,000 children have died because of the
sanctions. According to UNICEF, a child dies every
10 minutes in Iraq due to sanctions.
In Dec. ‘98, a series of confrontations between
UNSCOM weapons inspectors & the Iraqi government
resulted in “Desert Fox,” a U.S. bombing campaign
that killed 10,000 people according to Pentagon
estimates. One month after the bombings, the
Washington Post & the Boston Globe both reported
that Iraq’s main objection to the weapons inspectors,
namely that they U.S. spies, was in fact true. The
ensuing scandal over U.S. infiltration of UNSCOM led
to a year-long deadlock at the UN. In Dec. ‘99, the
Security Council passed (with France, Russia & China
abstaining) Resolution 1284, creating UNMOVIC, a
new inspection team. This team will be ready to begin
new inspections next month.
Since “Desert Fox,” the U.S. has continued regular
bombings of Iraq on the average of 3-4 times a week:
the longest running U.S. air war since Vietnam.
However, both Richard Butler, former head of UNSCOM,
and Scott Ritter, former chief weapons inspector, have
predicted that Iraq’s refusal to allow UNMOVIC into the
country next month will likely create a new crisis that
could result in an intensified U.S. bombing campaign
against Iraq – with thousands of casualties. Says Scott
Ritter, “The new commission, UNMOVIC, will not be
allowed into Iraq in August, three months away from the
election. You have got a Vice-President, Al Gore,
trailing behind in the polls and what better way to appear
tough and switch attention away to a so-called foreign
threat. The UN Security Council did not vote on Desert
Fox and we can expect the same thing to happen again.”
We MUST not let this happen again. Please take a few
minutes to write Sandy Berger, the U.S. National
Security Advisor & Clinton’s principle foreign policy
strategist, & demand that the U.S. stop killing civilians
in Iraq and end sanctions & bombings against Iraq –
rather than increase them.
For more information on a possible August bombing, please visit:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/sanction230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/saddam230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/usarms280600.shtml
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j071000.html
For more information on the Iraq crisis, please visit:
http://www.iraqaction.org
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1990: inizia l'embargo ai danni della popolazione irachena, con
decisione del Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'ONU su istigazione
statunitense - dopo che gli USA avevano boicottato ogni possibilita' di
soluzione politico-diplomatica della crisi del Kuwait - e con
l'opposizione di Cuba e dello Yemen.
Il conflitto vero e proprio, noto come "Guerra del Golfo", sara'
scatenato il 17 gennaio 1991. L'embargo proseguira' anche dopo la sua
conclusione con il ritiro delle truppe irachene dal Kuwait. Negli anni
successivi, aerei britannici e statunitensi continueranno a bombardare
sporadicamente di propria iniziativa il territorio iracheno.
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COMUNICATO STAMPA
Consegnate a Violante 30.211 firme per chiedere che l'Italia si dissoci
unilateralmente dall'embargo all'Iraq.
Venerdì 21 luglio 2000, alle ore 11, una delegazione della Campagna
"Rompere
l'embargo" ha incontrato il Presidente della Camera dei Deputati,
On.Luciano
Violante, al quale ha consegnato l'ultima parte delle oltre 30.000 firme
raccolte sulla petizione popolare che chiede al Parlamento italiano di
rompere unilateralmente l'embargo contro l'Iraq, abrogandone la legge di
attuazione.
La delegazione, composta dai rappresentanti di alcune delle principali
associazioni fra le centinaia che hanno aderito alla Campagna. ("Un
ponte
per…", che l'ha promossa assieme al Comitato Golfo, l'Associazione per
la
pace, il COCIS-coordinamento delle ONG, Mani Tese, il Servizio Civile
Internazionale, la UISP e altre), ha ricordato al presidente Violante la
tragedia del popolo iracheno e l'importanza che un paese come l'Italia
compia un passo coraggioso di dissociazione dal genocidio che ha ucciso
in
dieci anni oltre un milione di civili innocenti, in maggioranza bambini
sotto i cinque anni.
Una richiesta - dicono i promotori della Campagna - che oggi arriva da
una
parte largamente maggioritaria della società civile italiana.
Il Presidente della Camera si è dimostrato molto sensibile alle ragioni
della petizione, e ne ha assicurato che la trasmissionie immediata alla
Commissione Esteri perché venga messa in calendario per la discussione.
Violante ha aggiunto che intende recarsi in Iraq in autunno,
reciprocando la
recente visita in Italia del presidente del Parlamento iracheno Sadoon
Hammadi.
La Campagna "Rompere l'embargo" ha intanto annunciato come prossima
iniziativa la convocazione di una Convenzione Nazionale a Roma per metà
ottobre, che radunerà tutti i firmatari e le associazioni che hanno
sottoscritto la petizione. L'occasione sarà lo scadere dei tre mesi
previsti
nell'ultima risoluzione approvata dalla Camera dei Deputati, che impegna
il
governo ad operare in modo concreto ed esplicito nelle sedi
internazionali
per arrivare alla revoca delle sanzioni contro l'Iraq.
Per contatti e informazioni:
rompere-lembargo@...
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L'ESASPERAZIONE E L'ORGOGLIO DEGLI IRACHENI
Il Sole 24 Ore di giovedì 29/6:
Uccisi due funzionari della Fao a Baghdad.
Per protestare contro l'embargo Onu verso l'Irak, un uomo armato ha
preso in ostaggio oltre 40 persone negli uffici Fao di
Baghdad, uccidendo due persone e ferendone sette prima di essere
arrestato dalla polizia.
IRAQI AMBASSADOR: PEOPLE OF IRAQ HAVE NOT GIVEN UP
BELGRADE, July 18 (Tanjug) The people of Iraq have not given up,
they are continuing their struggle and will fight until the final
victory,
Iraqi ambassador to Yugoslavia, Sami Sadoun Gatie Al Kinami, said in an
interview to Radio Yugoslavia on the occasion of Iraqi National Day
(July 17).
Speaking about IraqiYugoslav bilateral relations, whose trade has
reached dozens of millions of dollars in the past few years and is
expected
to reach one billion dollars this year, the Iraqi ambassador set out
that
relations between these countries have been traditional and firm for
years
and are based on joint interests.
"We want this exchange to exceed one billion dollars during this
year and in the coming period within the U.N. oil for food program which
enables Iraq to import food and medications to cover its basic
requirements," he said.
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1999: ANNO-RECORD DEI BOMBARDAMENTI BRITANNICI SULL'IRAQ
http://www.the-times.co.uk (Britai)
The Times (UK)
June 8 2000
BRITAIN
Sharp rise in RAF attacks on Iraq
BY MICHAEL EVANS
RAF bombing of Iraqi air defence sites has increased sharply in the past
18 months, according to the latest figures published by the Ministry of
Defence.
Since mid-December 1998 RAF bombers have dropped 78 tonnes of bombs on
Iraqi military targets; that compares with 2.5 tonnes between April
1991, after the Gulf War, and mid-December 1998.
The MoD's figures show that the average monthly release of bombs has
risen from 0.025 tonnes to five tonnes.
Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Foreign Affairs and
Defence, who acquired the figures from parliamentary answers, said
yesterday: "The number of occasions on which ordnance has been released
together with the total tonnage raises questions about the true purpose
of these operations."
He added: "There is persuasive evidence that there is an attritional
campaign against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems. This
represents a significant policy shift which has never been explained to
Parliament."
The MoD said yesterday that the reason for the increase was "because
we've been shot at and threatened far more since December 20, 1998, than
in the previous period."
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The following article appeared in today's Guardian. It incorrectly
states
that the no-fly zones were "agreed by the UN" after the 1991 Gulf war,
despite the fact that previous articles in the Guardian (e.g.
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/311.html) have stated that
the
no-fly zones have no legal basis.
The following discussion list posting discusses the legality
of the no-fly zones:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/357.html (also see 352.html).
People might like to write to the Guardian to correct them on this
matter?
(letters@...)
seb
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,329490,00.html
Step-up in bombing of Iraq questioned
Iraq: special report
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday June 8, 2000
British bomber pilots have dramatically increased their strikes on Iraq
in
the "secret war" against Saddam Hussein, official figures reveal.
An estimated 150 bombs - 78 tonnes of weapons - have been dropped on
southern Iraq by British aircraft since December 1998. This compares
with
2.5 tonnes over the previous six years.
"There is now persuasive evidence that there is an attritional campaign
against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems that has gone way
beyond the original purpose of the no-fly zones," Menzies Campbell, the
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said yesterday. "This
represents a significant policy shift, which has never been announced or
explained to parliament."
Mr Campbell was given the figures by Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary,
in
response to a series of written parliamentary questions. Mr Hoon
admitted
that on two occasions since December 1998, ordnance unleashed by British
aircraft "appears to have hit unintended targets".
He also disclosed that the British commander in the southern no-fly zone
had asked the government to "attack targets beyond his delegated
authority".
He refused to explain the circumstances but sources suggested yesterday
that permission was sought to hit Iraqi aircraft moving north, away from
the no-fly zone.
In military action which is rarely reported, Mr Hoon says that while
Iraqi
aircraft violating the no-fly zone accounted for 51% of the "threats" to
British and US war planes, 95% of the targets attacked consisted of
ground-based air defence systems.
Two no-fly zones, policed by British and American planes, were agreed by
the UN after the 1991 Gulf war. They were established to protect the
Shia
minority in southern Iraq and Kurds in the north.
"It's very good training but it is not achieving anything," Andrew
Brookes, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said
yesterday. He described it as a "sterile political mission of people who
can't think of anything better to do".
Mr Hoon said Britain and the US went to "exceptional lengths to ensure
that the right target is hit, including the employment of very strict
target clearance procedures and precision-guided munitions". However, he
acknowledged: "In practice, it is extremely difficult to give estimates
of
civilian casualties despite the painstaking battle damage assessment
that
the coalition routinely carries out".
Britain has 14 Tornado bombers stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain, and four
Jaguars based at Incirlik in Turkey.
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Which way for the anti-sanctions movement
By Brian Becker
It’s no surprise that there is increasing
worldwide opposition to the U.S.-imposed economic
sanctions against Iraq. Five thousand perfectly
blameless infants and children perish each month
in Iraq because they are unable to get clean
drinking water, adequate food and even the most
basic medicines.
There is now a worldwide movement demanding an
end to sanctions. Unfortunately, one sector of
this growing movement has injected a new demand
into its slogans: calling for the continuation of
“military sanctions” against Iraq.
Some of these same groups actually raised the
slogan “sanctions not war” back in 1990.
The International Action Center, which has
campaigned relentlessly for the last 10 years
against sanctions, has issued a powerful statement
explaining the disastrous effects of adopting a
demand that sanctions be reshaped instead of
immediately terminated (on the World Wide Web at
http://www.iacenter.org/delink.htm).
Unless this slogan is repudiated it could
seriously weaken and derail the movement.
“Those who want to stop the Iraqi people’s
suffering must direct their demand at the
aggressors, at the U.S. and Britain whose war
planes bomb Iraq routinely, almost daily, who have
dropped thousands of bombs on Iraq in the last
year,” says Sara Flounders, co-director of the IAC.
The United States and Britain are bombing Iraq.
Iraq has never bombed the cities of the United
States. The progressive movement must ask itself:
Does Iraq have the right to defend itself against
such attacks? Shouldn’t anti-war forces in the
United States call for demilitarizing the Pentagon
instead of demilitarizing the victims of U.S.
aggression?
A tactic in a larger war
Why does the United States maintain the sanctions
and blockade of Iraq?
Is it just a mistaken policy by U.S. political
leaders that needs some “humanitarian” fine-
tuning? Or should sanctions be understood as a
tactic in a larger multi-pronged war to return
Iraq to the status of semi-colonial slavery?
Should the progressive movement oppose sanctions
because that tactic causes undue harm to
civilians? Or should it also reject the
imperialist goals and objectives that are the real
motivation for a destabilization strategy that
includes economic sanctions, routine bombings of
the country, CIA covert operations, plans to
assassinate the Iraqi leadership, creating no-
flight zones over most of the country, and placing
tens of thousands of U.S. troops, warships,
aircraft and advanced missiles on the outer
perimeters of Iraq?
The sanctions against Iraq began 10 years ago, in
August 1990. The Bush administration bullied the
United Nations into imposing economic sanctions as
a prelude to the full-scale 1991 air war against
Iraq.
The sanctions were initially put into place to
help evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait, according to
the propaganda of the Bush administration. Iraq
had invaded Kuwait, an oil-rich territory under
the domination of an U.S.-backed monarchy, in
August 1990, after a protracted and complicated
dispute between the two countries.
The original pretext for the economic sanctions
was a lie. It was purely for public consumption.
If the sanctions were meant only to drive Iraqi
troops from Kuwait then why, nearly a decade after
the last Iraqis left, does the United States
still impose the “most complete embargo of any
country in modern times,” in the words of Samuel
Berger, President Bill Clinton’s national
security adviser?
Two blockades: Iraq and Cuba
The unstated but fairly obvious reason that
Washington carries out the economic blockade of
Iraq is that it wants to destabilize the country,
overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein and
replace it with a pro-U.S. regime. The United
States has tried the same thing against socialist
Cuba.
The political leaderships in Iraq and Cuba are
very different. Cuba’s leadership is communist and
the Iraqi government is anti-communist. But both
governments have one thing in common. Iraq and
Cuba both suffered the impoverishment and
humiliation of colonialism and neo-colonialism
imposed by U.S. and British imperialism.
Both countries had far-reaching revolutions
within a year of each other–1958 and–1959. Both
revolutions immediately came under direct
aggression from the imperialist overlords who had
colonized or enslaved their countries.
The Iraqi Revolution in 1958 prompted Britain to
rush thousands of troops to fortify its hold on
tiny but oil-rich Kuwait. As it had with Hong Kong
in China, British colonialism sliced the key port
area of Kuwait out of Iraq and declared it a
British protectorate. While British troops secured
Kuwait in 1958, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower
dispatched 10,000 U.S. marines to Lebanon the very
next day to shore up Washington’s own interests.
In the case of the Cuban Revolution in 1959,
Eisenhower ordered the CIA to begin planning the
assassination of Fidel Castro. Two years later,
under John F. Kennedy, the U.S. government
organized a mercenary invasion of Cuba by CIA-
trained counter-revolutionaries.
Cuba used socialist economic methods to bring
literacy, full employment and free universal
health care to its people. It was able to free
itself of economic neocolonial enslavement by
integrating into the trading bloc with the Soviet
Union, East Germany and the other socialist
countries.
Although Iraq nationalized its oil industry and
other economic sectors, its revolution never went
beyond the boundaries of capitalist property
rights. But because of its vast oil wealth and the
nationalist development model adopted by the
leadership, Iraq too was able to effect rapid
social and economic progress for the mass of the
population after the 1958 revolution.
Official U.S. policy has been hostile to both
Iraq and Cuba since their revolutions. The
“hostility” was remarkably consistent regardless
of whether a Republican or Democrat occupied the
White House.
The only exception to the policy of unmitigated
hostility was during the Iran-Iraq war between
1980 and 1988. The United States supplied weapons
to Iraq and encouraged Iraq’s initial military
actions against Iran in 1980. But this should be
understood for what it was: a cynical ploy to
weaken and exhaust the 1979 Iranian mass
revolution that had swept out the dynastic rule of
the shah—whose army had served as proxy and
gendarme for the Pentagon and CIA in the Persian
Gulf.
The United States armed Iraq to fight Iran in the
early 1980s—but it also sent arms to Iran, as was
revealed during the 1986 Iran-Contra hearings in
Congress. In the words of former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, “We wanted them to kill
each other.”
Once Washington had accomplished its objective of
weakening the Iranian Revolution through the war
between Iran and Iraq, Pentagon war doctrine was
reconfigured to target Iraq as the next “potential
enemy.” Plans and complex war games for a U.S.
war with Iraq were drafted in 1988, immediately
after the close of the Iran-Iraq war and two
years before Iraq fatefully sent its troops
against the Kuwaiti mon archy in August 1990.
(“The Fire This Time,” Ramsey Clark,
Thundersmouth Press, 1992)
Slogans should be consistently anti-imperialist
The U.S. government represents the interests of
Big Oil and the biggest imperialist banks. It
seeks to dominate the Middle East not to bring
“human rights” and “democracy” but to possess and
profit from the fabulous oil wealth
under the soil.
Iraq has 10 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. Combined with
Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and Iran, this region contains the largest share of oil
on the
planet.
Effective sanctions of any type, be they for economic or military
commodities,
require the sanctioning countries to position military forces around
the
targeted country so that ships, trucks and airplanes can be interdicted
and
searched. Thus, calling for the United States or UN to maintain
military
sanctions on Iraq provides a political and even “legal” justification
for the
continued military occupation of the Gulf region by U.S. military
forces.
>From a practical point of view, if the demand for U.S./UN economic sanctions
to be replaced by “military sanctions” were realized, it would still
have a
devastating impact on Iraq’s civilian population. The United States
would
claim that almost anything that the civilian economy imports could
also be
used for military applications.
Referring to these items as “dual use” commodities, the United States
has
already halted or postponed 450 out of every 500 contracts that were
approved
by the UN Sanctions Committee under the much touted Oil-for-Food
program.
Washington will use the category of “military sanctions” as a technical
method
to prevent Iraq from acquiring commodities that are essential for
sustaining
civilian economy and human life. For example, the United States has
banned
pencils for schoolchildren because these pencils contain graphite,
which is
also a lubricant. It has banned batteries, X-ray machines and
ambulances
because they could be used in military conflicts.
Iraq is now barred from importing adequate supplies of chlorine to
purify its
water. Why chlorine? It could be used as a component in a chemical
weapon.
Computers too have potential military uses. So importing computers has
been
prohibited for 10 years.
It can only miseducate the broad public about the
real issues in the Middle East if the progressive
movement supports the imperialist powers in
demanding the demilitarization of Iraq. The
movement cannot be consistently progressive
without thoroughly exposing the true dynamics of
imperialist military and political strategy that
tries to re-colonize the Arab people.
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VERSO NUOVI MASSICCI BOMBARDAMENTI SULL'IRAQ?
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIXHWTKGBC.html
Aug 3, 2000 - 11:37 AM
Officer: U.S. Suspects Iraq Has Resumed Arms Program
By Hamza Hendawi
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The United States suspects that Iraq has taken
advantage of the absence of U.N. arms inspectors to rebuild its arsenal
of mass-destruction weapons, a senior U.S. officer said Thursday...
Subject: [iac-disc.] ACTION ALERT! - Stop the U.S. from Bombing
Iraq in Aug.!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:42:48 -0400
From: "Ramsey Kysia" <mbakery@...>
To: Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.
***please distribute widely***
ACTION ALERT – Stop the U.S. from bombing Iraq in August 2000!
1. Background
2. Mailing Address
3. Sample Letter
BACKGROUND:
On Aug. 6th ‘90, the UN imposed broad, economic
sanctions on Iraq for invading Kuwait. Sanctions were
re-imposed on April 3rd 1991, after the Gulf War, to
force Iraq to destroy its “weapons of mass destruction.”
However, the Gulf War bombings of Iraq’s civilian
infrastructure & the ongoing sanctions blockade have
instead resulted in widespread poverty & skyrocketing
childhood mortality. The UN estimates that between
500,000 & 720,000 children have died because of the
sanctions. According to UNICEF, a child dies every
10 minutes in Iraq due to sanctions.
In Dec. ‘98, a series of confrontations between
UNSCOM weapons inspectors & the Iraqi government
resulted in “Desert Fox,” a U.S. bombing campaign
that killed 10,000 people according to Pentagon
estimates. One month after the bombings, the
Washington Post & the Boston Globe both reported
that Iraq’s main objection to the weapons inspectors,
namely that they U.S. spies, was in fact true. The
ensuing scandal over U.S. infiltration of UNSCOM led
to a year-long deadlock at the UN. In Dec. ‘99, the
Security Council passed (with France, Russia & China
abstaining) Resolution 1284, creating UNMOVIC, a
new inspection team. This team will be ready to begin
new inspections next month.
Since “Desert Fox,” the U.S. has continued regular
bombings of Iraq on the average of 3-4 times a week:
the longest running U.S. air war since Vietnam.
However, both Richard Butler, former head of UNSCOM,
and Scott Ritter, former chief weapons inspector, have
predicted that Iraq’s refusal to allow UNMOVIC into the
country next month will likely create a new crisis that
could result in an intensified U.S. bombing campaign
against Iraq – with thousands of casualties. Says Scott
Ritter, “The new commission, UNMOVIC, will not be
allowed into Iraq in August, three months away from the
election. You have got a Vice-President, Al Gore,
trailing behind in the polls and what better way to appear
tough and switch attention away to a so-called foreign
threat. The UN Security Council did not vote on Desert
Fox and we can expect the same thing to happen again.”
We MUST not let this happen again. Please take a few
minutes to write Sandy Berger, the U.S. National
Security Advisor & Clinton’s principle foreign policy
strategist, & demand that the U.S. stop killing civilians
in Iraq and end sanctions & bombings against Iraq –
rather than increase them.
For more information on a possible August bombing, please visit:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/sanction230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/saddam230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/usarms280600.shtml
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j071000.html
For more information on the Iraq crisis, please visit:
http://www.iraqaction.org
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NOMI E COGNOMI DEGLI HACKERS DI "ANTIWAR.COM"
Sull'episodio si veda anche:
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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j080400.html
Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
August 4, 2000
BOSNIAN CYBERTHUGS HACK ANTIWAR.COM
It was a quiet Sunday, the morning of July 30th, when I logged onto
Antiwar.com and got the
following error message: URL NOT FOUND ON THIS SERVER. Huh? What's up
with that? (...)
SPEAK YOUR MIND
Now that they have been so ignominiously busted, it will be extremely
interesting to see how these cretins react. And you can get a reaction
out of them – by emailing or phoning and telling them directly just what
you think of their unethical and illegal methods of political struggle.
Nedim Dzaferovic (phone) +387 71 264 080 (fax) +387 71 650 211 – e-mail:
nedim@...
Samir Mekic (phone) + 387 71 230 287 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
Mekic@... (or you can try: mekic@...).
Nihad Borovina (phone) + 387 71 230 285 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
nihad@...
I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. . . .
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http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/354
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j080400.html
Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
August 4, 2000
BOSNIAN CYBERTHUGS HACK ANTIWAR.COM
It was a quiet Sunday, the morning of July 30th, when I logged onto
Antiwar.com and got the
following error message: URL NOT FOUND ON THIS SERVER. Huh? What's up
with that? (...)
SPEAK YOUR MIND
Now that they have been so ignominiously busted, it will be extremely
interesting to see how these cretins react. And you can get a reaction
out of them – by emailing or phoning and telling them directly just what
you think of their unethical and illegal methods of political struggle.
Nedim Dzaferovic (phone) +387 71 264 080 (fax) +387 71 650 211 – e-mail:
nedim@...
Samir Mekic (phone) + 387 71 230 287 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
Mekic@... (or you can try: mekic@...).
Nihad Borovina (phone) + 387 71 230 285 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
nihad@...
I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. . . .
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STRAGI DI STATO - STRAGI DELLA N.A.T.O.
In seguito al nostro messaggio "Un 'traditore' nella NATO" sul
caso Bunel ( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377 )
abbiamo ricevuto da M. Cristaldi il seguente commento:
> Constatata la mancata resurrezione delle BR, richiesta a gran voce dai
> responsabili di governo, siamo in attesa di un traditore della CIA che ci
> chiarisca altrettanto bene la vicenda dell'omicidio D'Antona eseguito a
> Roma durante l'attacco bellico alla Jugoslavia.
Sulla strategia della tensione a venti anni dalla strage della stazione
di Bologna segnaliamo invece da "La Repubblica" di oggi:
http://www.repubblica.it/quotidiano/repubblica/20000804/interni/06malet.html
Maletti, la spia latitante
"La Cia dietro quelle bombe"
"Andreotti, Leone e i silenzi interessati della politica"
Dal Sudafrica parla l'uomo del Sid condannato per depistaggio. "Saldo il
mio
debito di verità con l'Italia"
dal nostro inviato DANIELE MASTROGIACOMO
JOHANNESBURG - "Sono stanco di pagare per altri. Obbligato all'esilio,
condanne per 31 anni, nove ancora da scontare. Mi sembra un po'
troppo... so
di avere un debito di verità nei confronti dell'Italia". Gli occhi della
vecchia spia si perdono oltre il parco del quartiere residenziale di
Rosebank, Sudafrica. Bugie, misteri, faide e lotte intestine. E poi quei
morti, gli attentati, nelle banche, sui treni, nelle piazze. Gianadelio
Maletti, classe 1921, generale di divisione, cittadino sudafricano dal
1980,
assistito dall'avvocato Michele Gentiloni, è disposto a rivelare ciò che
sa.
La sua verità. Di sicuro ci sono le sue condanne: per depistaggio, per
avere
aiutato i neofascisti Giannettini e Pozzan, per avere deviato le
indagini
sulla bomba di Bertoli alla questura di Milano. Propone la sua verità
vista
"da dentro". Nel 1971 è nominato capo del reparto D: punta di diamante
del
nostro controspionaggio militare.
Generale, avrà saputo della relazione di minoranza della Commissione
Stragi.
Si afferma che la strategia della tensione fu di stampo atlantista.
"Ho saputo e letto qualcosa. E immagino che quall'atlantista stia per
americano. Usa".
Sì. Lei cosa ne pensa?
"Era una necessità della Nato raccogliere notizie ed elaborarne il più
possibile. Ma chi le usava e le manipolava era il Servizio americano, la
Cia".
Ne ebbe prova diretta?
"Avevo personalmente rapporti con la Cia. Con Stone, detto Rocky, capo
della
stazione di Roma e Mike Sedinuoui, un agente di origini algerine.
Eravamo in
contatto per motivi di controspionaggio".
Lei sospettava che la strategia delle bombe avesse una regia
internazionale?
"Sospettavo, senza precisi riscontri".
E questo non era sufficiente per allarmarsi, per avviare un lavoro di
intelligence?
"Noi, come Sid, non eravamo in condizioni di fare nulla. Almeno nei
confronti degli americani. Poi il tempo ci portò le prime conferme. La
Cia,
in Italia, aveva la più importante sezione sulla sicurezza di tutta
l'Europa
occidentale. Le informazioni venivano poi confrontate con l'altra
potentissima centrale presente in Germania".
Germania?
"Sì, la Germania era stato un paese di reclutamento sin dalla fine della
seconda guerra mondiale. La Cia voleva creare, attraverso la rinascita
di
una nazionalismo esasperato e con il contributo dell'estrema destra,
Ordine
nuovo in particolare, l'arresto di questo scivolamento verso sinistra.
Questo è il presupposto di base della strategia della tensione".
In che modo?
"Lasciando fare".
E i nostri servizi ne erano consapevoli o addirittura complici?
"Non c'era piena consapevolezza. Ma esisteva un orientamento nei servizi
favorevole a questo progetto".
In che modo la Cia utilizzò Ordine nuovo?
"Con i suoi infiltrati e con i suoi collaboratori. In varie città
italiane e
in alcune basi della Nato: Aviano, Napoli... La Cia aveva funzioni di
collegamento tra diversi gruppi di estrema destra italiani e tedeschi e
dettava le regole di comportamento. Fornendo anche il materiale".
Esplosivi, armi?
"Numerosi carichi di esplosivo arrivavano dalla Germania via Gottardo
direttamente in Friuli e in Veneto".
E il Sid cosa faceva? Assisteva inerte o subiva?
"Ne parlavo spesso con i collaboratori. Ma non tutti dimostravano di
essere
consapevoli di questa situazione. O erano favorevoli al progetto".
E i suoi referenti politici?
"Li ho contattati, spesso scavalcando il mio capo, il generale Miceli.
Tanassi, Andreotti, Gui. Ma trovavo anche con loro un certo interesse
distaccato. Solo Andreotti...".
Cosa, Andreotti?
"Andreotti no, lui era invece molto interessato. Soprattutto del
terrorismo
di destra e dei tentativi di golpe in Italia. Anche se ogni mia
iniziativa
era vista come una fastidiosa ingerenza".
Ma avrà pure trasmesso, come capo ufficio D, una informativa al governo.
"Tantissime. Che restavano sempre lettera morta. Il Sid era visto con
diffidenza".
Forse perché anche il Sid sapeva ma faceva finta di niente.
"Ad Andreotti parlai personalmente dei tentativi di golpe. Miceli non
voleva
che il rapporto sul golpe Borghese finisse nelle sue mani e mi dissuase
dal
consegnarglielo. Aveva paura di quel rapporto perché risultava essere
stato
in contatto con alcuni uomini del golpe. Io mi resi conto che nel
dossier
figuravano nomi di alti ufficiali seduti in posti di comando e che se
fosse
stato trasmesso alla magistratura avrebbe provocato un terremoto".
E lei, lo nascose.
"Io lo portai ad Andreotti e gli spiegai le mie perplessità".
In quel rapporto c'era una prima prova del coinvolgimento Usa nei
tentativi
di golpe.
"C'era la prova del coinvolgimento di alti uffciali delle nostre forze
armate".
C'era stata piazza Fontana da poco. Lei credette alla pista di sinistra?
"Tutto lasciava pensare questo. Ma io sapevo benissimo che la matrice
era di
destra".
Ma continuò a svolgere il suo lavoro di intelligence e di infiltrazione
a
sinistra.
"La sinistra andava comunque controllata. Della destra sapevamo tutto".
Infiltravate anche Ordine nuovo?
"Certo. Bisognava ottenere quelle informazioni che la Cia conosceva
benissimo ma che noi ignoravamo".
Ma Ordine nuovo infiltrava anche voi del Sid. Chi, dunque, infiltrava
chi?
"Ebbi la sensazione di lavorare in un vero e proprio verminaio. Ma me ne
resi conto troppo tardi".
I suoi centri non le segnalarono mai niente su Ordine Nuovo?
"Molto spesso. Il problema era capire se le notizie erano vere o false.
Nel
1972 mi resi conto della gravità della situazione. Il centro di Padova
ci
segnala che dalla Germania, via Gottardo, arrivavano carichi di
esplosivi
destinati a Ordine nuovo. Lo segnalammo a livelli più alti".
E cosa accadde?
"Niente. Ma scoprimmo e segnalammo anche che l'esplosivo usato a piazza
Fontana proveniva da uno di questi carichi".
Quindi è logico sostenere che il mandante di piazza Fontana sia la Cia?
"Non ci sono le prove dirette, ma è così".
E voi del Sid, lei generale Maletti, cosciente di questa strategia ha
accettato la sudditanza dei nostri servizi alla volontà della Cia. Anche
davanti alle bombe e ai morti innocenti?
"Abbiamo attivato le nostre fonti e abbiamo fatto tutto quello che si
poteva
fare Il potere politico, che non poteva non sapere, non ci ha mai dato
una
direttiva".
Non sarebbe stato meglio dimettersi?
"Mi hanno accusato di simpatie verso Israele. Ma la cattura dei 5
palestinesi a Ostia decisi a far saltare in aria un aereo della El Al
evitò
altre centinaia di morti".
Salvava alcune vite, ma ne sacrificava altre. Anche lei prigioniero del
suo
potere dentro il Sid?
"Io sento un peso fortissimo, come italiano, di quello che è successo.
Mi
sento quasi umiliato di ciò che non abbiamo fatto per impedire tanti
morti.
Chi ha portato avanti questo progetto, che ha ucciso tanti italiani è
italiano. E lo ha fatto, aderendo ad un progetto portato avanti da un
servizio straniero, per ottenere un proprio vantaggio. Di potere".
Ma i politici dominanti del momento, sapevano?
"E' ovvio che sapevano. Anche se non ci saranno mai le prove per
incastrarli. Se i vari capi dei servizi, da Miceli a Casardi, hanno
informato i politici, come era loro interesse, lo hanno fatto anche
attraverso riunioni informali".
Un silenzio che conveniva?
"Da parte dei politici? No, sarebbe criminale. La vera responsabilità
politica nella strategia della tensione è che nessuno ha mai preso delle
decisioni, mai nessun uomo politico ha parlato e agito in termini
politici.
Forlani, l'ho conosciuto troppo poco e mi ha silurato quando ero
diventato
un fastidio. Andreotti, è un uomo intelligente e furbo. Due qualità che
raramente si incontrano assieme, nello stesso individuo. Mi ricorda il
grande vecchio creato da una certa pubblicistica".
E oggi cosa pensa?
"E' un ruolo che gli si addice".
Ma come poteva continuare ad avere i contatti con la Cia, generale, pur
sapendo cosa tramava?
"Non si può dire che la Cia avesse un ruolo attivo e diretto nelle
stragi.
Ma che sapessero e conoscessero obiettivi e autori è vero".
La loro strategia, che puntava a fronteggiare il pericolo comunista, era
talmente cinica da passare sopra centinaia di morti innocenti?
"La Cia ha cercato di fare ciò che aveva fatto in Grecia nel '67 quando
il
golpe mise fuori gioco Papandreu. In Italia, le è sfuggita di mano la
situazione. L'effetto che alcuni attentati dovevano produrre è andato
oltre.
Per piazza Fontana, che io sappia, è andata così. Devo presumere anche
per
piazza della Loggia, per l'Italicus, per Bologna. Riguardo ai politici,
voglio aggiungere una sensazione che per me è quasi una certezza. A quel
tempo, molti di loro, compreso il Capo dello Stato, Leone, furono
costretti
ad accettare il gioco. Perché ognuno aveva avuto la garanzia che il
gioco
non avrebbe superato certi limiti".
E lei, oggi, si sente con la coscienza a posto? Anche per Argo 16,
l'aereo
del Sid precipitato a Marghera?
"Su quell'aereo sono morte persone che conoscevo benissimo".
E' stato sabotato?
"Quando i 5 palestinesi presi ad Ostia vennero rinchiusi nel carcere di
Viterbo, il capo della stazione del Mossad a Roma, Asa Leven, mi venne a
trovare. Mi disse di aver saputo che il governo italiano aveva
intenzione di
restituirli alla Libia. Lui mi chiese di agire assieme, noi e loro, per
sequestrarli".
Nel carcere?
"Sì. Avevano già messo a punto un piano. Noi dovevamo procurarci un
documento giudiziario falso e con una scusa trasferirli dal carcere
verso un
presunto Tribunale. Loro, il Mossad, avrebbero pensato al resto.
Avrebbero
assaltato il furgone, addormentato con un narcotico i 5, li avrebbero
bendati, caricati su un aereo pronto a decollare e trasferiti a Tel
Aviv".
E lei?
"Non se ne fa nulla. I 5, dopo un sommario processo, vengono trasferiti
in
Libia ma l'aereo fa uno scalo a Malta. Qui, tutti si fanno una bella
mangiata di pesce, e vengono notati da degli agenti del Mossad. Una
sosta
infelice. Forse, è stata la conferma definitiva, se ce n'era bisogno,
che i
5 avevano preso il volo. Lungo la rotta di ritorno, Argo 16 precipita".
Altri morti innocenti...
"Una sequela di morti. In un clima da scontro tra servizi che non si
sopportavano e non si fidavano l'uno dell'altro".
Ma le bombe continuavano a esplodere. E voi, del Sid, niente.
"Non c'era più alcuna strategia. I gruppi di estrema destra si erano
sganciati. Ormai c'era solo terrore".
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In seguito al nostro messaggio "Un 'traditore' nella NATO" sul
caso Bunel ( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377 )
abbiamo ricevuto da M. Cristaldi il seguente commento:
> Constatata la mancata resurrezione delle BR, richiesta a gran voce dai
> responsabili di governo, siamo in attesa di un traditore della CIA che ci
> chiarisca altrettanto bene la vicenda dell'omicidio D'Antona eseguito a
> Roma durante l'attacco bellico alla Jugoslavia.
Sulla strategia della tensione a venti anni dalla strage della stazione
di Bologna segnaliamo invece da "La Repubblica" di oggi:
http://www.repubblica.it/quotidiano/repubblica/20000804/interni/06malet.html
Maletti, la spia latitante
"La Cia dietro quelle bombe"
"Andreotti, Leone e i silenzi interessati della politica"
Dal Sudafrica parla l'uomo del Sid condannato per depistaggio. "Saldo il
mio
debito di verità con l'Italia"
dal nostro inviato DANIELE MASTROGIACOMO
JOHANNESBURG - "Sono stanco di pagare per altri. Obbligato all'esilio,
condanne per 31 anni, nove ancora da scontare. Mi sembra un po'
troppo... so
di avere un debito di verità nei confronti dell'Italia". Gli occhi della
vecchia spia si perdono oltre il parco del quartiere residenziale di
Rosebank, Sudafrica. Bugie, misteri, faide e lotte intestine. E poi quei
morti, gli attentati, nelle banche, sui treni, nelle piazze. Gianadelio
Maletti, classe 1921, generale di divisione, cittadino sudafricano dal
1980,
assistito dall'avvocato Michele Gentiloni, è disposto a rivelare ciò che
sa.
La sua verità. Di sicuro ci sono le sue condanne: per depistaggio, per
avere
aiutato i neofascisti Giannettini e Pozzan, per avere deviato le
indagini
sulla bomba di Bertoli alla questura di Milano. Propone la sua verità
vista
"da dentro". Nel 1971 è nominato capo del reparto D: punta di diamante
del
nostro controspionaggio militare.
Generale, avrà saputo della relazione di minoranza della Commissione
Stragi.
Si afferma che la strategia della tensione fu di stampo atlantista.
"Ho saputo e letto qualcosa. E immagino che quall'atlantista stia per
americano. Usa".
Sì. Lei cosa ne pensa?
"Era una necessità della Nato raccogliere notizie ed elaborarne il più
possibile. Ma chi le usava e le manipolava era il Servizio americano, la
Cia".
Ne ebbe prova diretta?
"Avevo personalmente rapporti con la Cia. Con Stone, detto Rocky, capo
della
stazione di Roma e Mike Sedinuoui, un agente di origini algerine.
Eravamo in
contatto per motivi di controspionaggio".
Lei sospettava che la strategia delle bombe avesse una regia
internazionale?
"Sospettavo, senza precisi riscontri".
E questo non era sufficiente per allarmarsi, per avviare un lavoro di
intelligence?
"Noi, come Sid, non eravamo in condizioni di fare nulla. Almeno nei
confronti degli americani. Poi il tempo ci portò le prime conferme. La
Cia,
in Italia, aveva la più importante sezione sulla sicurezza di tutta
l'Europa
occidentale. Le informazioni venivano poi confrontate con l'altra
potentissima centrale presente in Germania".
Germania?
"Sì, la Germania era stato un paese di reclutamento sin dalla fine della
seconda guerra mondiale. La Cia voleva creare, attraverso la rinascita
di
una nazionalismo esasperato e con il contributo dell'estrema destra,
Ordine
nuovo in particolare, l'arresto di questo scivolamento verso sinistra.
Questo è il presupposto di base della strategia della tensione".
In che modo?
"Lasciando fare".
E i nostri servizi ne erano consapevoli o addirittura complici?
"Non c'era piena consapevolezza. Ma esisteva un orientamento nei servizi
favorevole a questo progetto".
In che modo la Cia utilizzò Ordine nuovo?
"Con i suoi infiltrati e con i suoi collaboratori. In varie città
italiane e
in alcune basi della Nato: Aviano, Napoli... La Cia aveva funzioni di
collegamento tra diversi gruppi di estrema destra italiani e tedeschi e
dettava le regole di comportamento. Fornendo anche il materiale".
Esplosivi, armi?
"Numerosi carichi di esplosivo arrivavano dalla Germania via Gottardo
direttamente in Friuli e in Veneto".
E il Sid cosa faceva? Assisteva inerte o subiva?
"Ne parlavo spesso con i collaboratori. Ma non tutti dimostravano di
essere
consapevoli di questa situazione. O erano favorevoli al progetto".
E i suoi referenti politici?
"Li ho contattati, spesso scavalcando il mio capo, il generale Miceli.
Tanassi, Andreotti, Gui. Ma trovavo anche con loro un certo interesse
distaccato. Solo Andreotti...".
Cosa, Andreotti?
"Andreotti no, lui era invece molto interessato. Soprattutto del
terrorismo
di destra e dei tentativi di golpe in Italia. Anche se ogni mia
iniziativa
era vista come una fastidiosa ingerenza".
Ma avrà pure trasmesso, come capo ufficio D, una informativa al governo.
"Tantissime. Che restavano sempre lettera morta. Il Sid era visto con
diffidenza".
Forse perché anche il Sid sapeva ma faceva finta di niente.
"Ad Andreotti parlai personalmente dei tentativi di golpe. Miceli non
voleva
che il rapporto sul golpe Borghese finisse nelle sue mani e mi dissuase
dal
consegnarglielo. Aveva paura di quel rapporto perché risultava essere
stato
in contatto con alcuni uomini del golpe. Io mi resi conto che nel
dossier
figuravano nomi di alti ufficiali seduti in posti di comando e che se
fosse
stato trasmesso alla magistratura avrebbe provocato un terremoto".
E lei, lo nascose.
"Io lo portai ad Andreotti e gli spiegai le mie perplessità".
In quel rapporto c'era una prima prova del coinvolgimento Usa nei
tentativi
di golpe.
"C'era la prova del coinvolgimento di alti uffciali delle nostre forze
armate".
C'era stata piazza Fontana da poco. Lei credette alla pista di sinistra?
"Tutto lasciava pensare questo. Ma io sapevo benissimo che la matrice
era di
destra".
Ma continuò a svolgere il suo lavoro di intelligence e di infiltrazione
a
sinistra.
"La sinistra andava comunque controllata. Della destra sapevamo tutto".
Infiltravate anche Ordine nuovo?
"Certo. Bisognava ottenere quelle informazioni che la Cia conosceva
benissimo ma che noi ignoravamo".
Ma Ordine nuovo infiltrava anche voi del Sid. Chi, dunque, infiltrava
chi?
"Ebbi la sensazione di lavorare in un vero e proprio verminaio. Ma me ne
resi conto troppo tardi".
I suoi centri non le segnalarono mai niente su Ordine Nuovo?
"Molto spesso. Il problema era capire se le notizie erano vere o false.
Nel
1972 mi resi conto della gravità della situazione. Il centro di Padova
ci
segnala che dalla Germania, via Gottardo, arrivavano carichi di
esplosivi
destinati a Ordine nuovo. Lo segnalammo a livelli più alti".
E cosa accadde?
"Niente. Ma scoprimmo e segnalammo anche che l'esplosivo usato a piazza
Fontana proveniva da uno di questi carichi".
Quindi è logico sostenere che il mandante di piazza Fontana sia la Cia?
"Non ci sono le prove dirette, ma è così".
E voi del Sid, lei generale Maletti, cosciente di questa strategia ha
accettato la sudditanza dei nostri servizi alla volontà della Cia. Anche
davanti alle bombe e ai morti innocenti?
"Abbiamo attivato le nostre fonti e abbiamo fatto tutto quello che si
poteva
fare Il potere politico, che non poteva non sapere, non ci ha mai dato
una
direttiva".
Non sarebbe stato meglio dimettersi?
"Mi hanno accusato di simpatie verso Israele. Ma la cattura dei 5
palestinesi a Ostia decisi a far saltare in aria un aereo della El Al
evitò
altre centinaia di morti".
Salvava alcune vite, ma ne sacrificava altre. Anche lei prigioniero del
suo
potere dentro il Sid?
"Io sento un peso fortissimo, come italiano, di quello che è successo.
Mi
sento quasi umiliato di ciò che non abbiamo fatto per impedire tanti
morti.
Chi ha portato avanti questo progetto, che ha ucciso tanti italiani è
italiano. E lo ha fatto, aderendo ad un progetto portato avanti da un
servizio straniero, per ottenere un proprio vantaggio. Di potere".
Ma i politici dominanti del momento, sapevano?
"E' ovvio che sapevano. Anche se non ci saranno mai le prove per
incastrarli. Se i vari capi dei servizi, da Miceli a Casardi, hanno
informato i politici, come era loro interesse, lo hanno fatto anche
attraverso riunioni informali".
Un silenzio che conveniva?
"Da parte dei politici? No, sarebbe criminale. La vera responsabilità
politica nella strategia della tensione è che nessuno ha mai preso delle
decisioni, mai nessun uomo politico ha parlato e agito in termini
politici.
Forlani, l'ho conosciuto troppo poco e mi ha silurato quando ero
diventato
un fastidio. Andreotti, è un uomo intelligente e furbo. Due qualità che
raramente si incontrano assieme, nello stesso individuo. Mi ricorda il
grande vecchio creato da una certa pubblicistica".
E oggi cosa pensa?
"E' un ruolo che gli si addice".
Ma come poteva continuare ad avere i contatti con la Cia, generale, pur
sapendo cosa tramava?
"Non si può dire che la Cia avesse un ruolo attivo e diretto nelle
stragi.
Ma che sapessero e conoscessero obiettivi e autori è vero".
La loro strategia, che puntava a fronteggiare il pericolo comunista, era
talmente cinica da passare sopra centinaia di morti innocenti?
"La Cia ha cercato di fare ciò che aveva fatto in Grecia nel '67 quando
il
golpe mise fuori gioco Papandreu. In Italia, le è sfuggita di mano la
situazione. L'effetto che alcuni attentati dovevano produrre è andato
oltre.
Per piazza Fontana, che io sappia, è andata così. Devo presumere anche
per
piazza della Loggia, per l'Italicus, per Bologna. Riguardo ai politici,
voglio aggiungere una sensazione che per me è quasi una certezza. A quel
tempo, molti di loro, compreso il Capo dello Stato, Leone, furono
costretti
ad accettare il gioco. Perché ognuno aveva avuto la garanzia che il
gioco
non avrebbe superato certi limiti".
E lei, oggi, si sente con la coscienza a posto? Anche per Argo 16,
l'aereo
del Sid precipitato a Marghera?
"Su quell'aereo sono morte persone che conoscevo benissimo".
E' stato sabotato?
"Quando i 5 palestinesi presi ad Ostia vennero rinchiusi nel carcere di
Viterbo, il capo della stazione del Mossad a Roma, Asa Leven, mi venne a
trovare. Mi disse di aver saputo che il governo italiano aveva
intenzione di
restituirli alla Libia. Lui mi chiese di agire assieme, noi e loro, per
sequestrarli".
Nel carcere?
"Sì. Avevano già messo a punto un piano. Noi dovevamo procurarci un
documento giudiziario falso e con una scusa trasferirli dal carcere
verso un
presunto Tribunale. Loro, il Mossad, avrebbero pensato al resto.
Avrebbero
assaltato il furgone, addormentato con un narcotico i 5, li avrebbero
bendati, caricati su un aereo pronto a decollare e trasferiti a Tel
Aviv".
E lei?
"Non se ne fa nulla. I 5, dopo un sommario processo, vengono trasferiti
in
Libia ma l'aereo fa uno scalo a Malta. Qui, tutti si fanno una bella
mangiata di pesce, e vengono notati da degli agenti del Mossad. Una
sosta
infelice. Forse, è stata la conferma definitiva, se ce n'era bisogno,
che i
5 avevano preso il volo. Lungo la rotta di ritorno, Argo 16 precipita".
Altri morti innocenti...
"Una sequela di morti. In un clima da scontro tra servizi che non si
sopportavano e non si fidavano l'uno dell'altro".
Ma le bombe continuavano a esplodere. E voi, del Sid, niente.
"Non c'era più alcuna strategia. I gruppi di estrema destra si erano
sganciati. Ormai c'era solo terrore".
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
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4 AGOSTO
1995: scatta la "Operazione Tempesta" per la cancellazione definitiva
della Repubblica della Krajna Serba dalle cartine geografiche.
Materialmente realizzata dall'esercito della Croazia indipendente,
l'operazione viene coadiuvata dagli USA e dalla NATO.
In Italia, l'"Operazione Tempesta" non trova che flebili voci critiche,
anche in una sinistra drogata dalla campagna antijugoslava ed antiserba,
e gia' favorevole a tutte le "autodeterminazioni" possibili tranne che
quella dei serbi in Croazia e Bosnia. Un mese dopo, l'Italia concedera'
il suo territorio come base di lancio per gli aerei che andranno a
bombardare la Repubblica Serba di Bosnia.
---
http://www.veritas.org.yu/
REPUBLIKA SRPSKA KRAJINA
1991-1995
---
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/srbe.html#krajna
La nostra pagina su Republika Srpska Krajna e Slavonia Orientale
---
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U.S.-trained forces massacre Serbs
By Gary Wilson
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 1995
issue of Workers World newspaper
Details of a mass slaughter of Serbs in the Krajina region
of Croatia are slowly making their way into the U.S. media.
But the news reports remain strangely subdued. There are
no calls for air strikes against the Croatian capital of
Zagreb, as there are regular calls for bombs against the
Serbs. There are no editorials calling for trying the
Croatian leaders for war crimes.
According to investigators for the United Nations,
"Croatian army and police units allegedly burned 60 percent
of the houses" in the Krajina region, reported the Sept. 30
Washington Post. They also "executed elderly Serbs who
remained in the region." Unlike almost every other report of
genocide in the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, the Post
noted that these reports were "unusual in their first-hand
detail."
An open letter from the Belgrade-based Serbian-Jewish
Friendship Society to the American Jewish Committee says
that "anti-Serbian propaganda" is "a twin sister of anti-
Semitism." The letter states that today in Croatia a policy
of eliminating the Serbs is being carried out. This policy
is so thorough that "in Croatia there are [now] no more
Serbs than there are Jews in Germany or Poland." The letter
is signed by the chief rabbi of Yugoslavia as well as many
other prominent Jews of Yugoslavia. But this letter has not
been referred to in the U.S. media.
What's not widely known in this country is that the
Croatian and Bosnian armies are armed and directed by the
Pentagon. The Croatian offensive against the Krajina was
planned after 15 top U.S. military officers--including the
former head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency--were
put in place as "advisers" to the Croatian military.
The Bosnian Army is being "helped" by U.S. military
advisers, including Gen. John Sewall and Gen. John Galvin, a
former NATO supreme commander. Television viewers may have
noticed that the entire Bosnian Army wears U.S. military
uniforms--provided by U.S. military contractors. In the
September/October issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Gen.
Charles Boyd, the deputy commander in chief of the U.S.
European Command from November 1992 to July 1995, writes
that the much-publicized arms embargo is widely known to be
almost nonexistent. The U.S. discreetly insures a regular
flow of arms to the Bosnian Army.
U.S. media reports are regularly filled with anti-Serb
propaganda. Most refer to the Krajina as a region
"conquered" by the Serbs, implying that the Croatian Army is
simply retaking something that had been taken away.
But the truth is exactly the opposite. The following
exchange shows the propaganda view of the "liberal" media
and gives a response.
On the Aug. 11 broadcast of "All Things Considered" on
National Public Radio, news reader Noah Adams interviewed
author Misha Glenny:
"Adams: Why did Serbia take the Krajina four years ago, if
it is indefensible?
"Glenny: We've got to set one or two things straight here,
Noah, about Serbia taking the Krajina. The Krajina came into
being at the same time as the Croatian republic became
independent when Yugoslavia was collapsing. The Croats
wanted to leave Yugoslavia and the Serbs who lived in the
Krajina wanted to stay in Yugoslavia. So we simply can't use
terms like `Serbia occupying the Krajina' or something like
that. These people had been, until five days ago, living and
farming this territory for over 300 years."
What is happening in Bosnia is nothing like what's being
reported by the big business-controlled media.
It's like the Gulf War against Iraq. Many of the media
stories at that time turned out to be complete fabrications
to support the Pentagon's propaganda needs.
For example, according to Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, "most U.S. news outlets uncritically accepted the
story that 300 premature babies died when Iraqi soldiers
removed them from incubators." But after the war was over,
the New York Times (Feb. 28, 1991) put a two-sentence
retraction deep inside an article saying: "Some of the
atrocities that had been reported, such as the killing of
infants in the main hospitals shortly after the invasion,
are untrue or have been exaggerated, Kuwaitis said. Hospital
officials, for instance, said that stories circulated about
the killing of 300 children were incorrect."
Following is some background information on the history of
Yugoslavia and the officials in Croatia and Bosnia who are
backed by the U.S.
SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA
Yugoslavia was different from almost every other country
in the world in its ethnic diversity. It had no majority
nationality. It was a nation of minorities.
Socialist Yugoslavia had gone a long way toward uniting
the nationalities while recognizing the rights of self-
determination for the different peoples of the region. It
was only during the socialist era that the Balkans were free
from ethnic war.
That's because of the policies of the Yugoslav League of
Communists and its leader, Tito. According to the book "War
in the Shadows" by Robert Asprey, the Communist party's
promise of equal rights for all the nationalities "appealed
to a great many unaligned people who loathed the repressive
pre-war order represented by the [U.S.-backed] government-
in-exile through Mihailovic's Chetniks. The harshness of
German and Italian occupation policies further influenced
the population in favor of the Partisans, who possessed much
wider support than either Western allied observers or
Germans supposed."
The U.S. opposed the Communist government from the
beginning and supported Chetniks in exile for the entire
Cold War period. The Cold War was really a period when the
U.S. government pursued a policy of destroying socialism in
the Soviet Union as well as Eastern Europe, including
Yugoslavia. U.S. overt and covert subversion, sabotage and
treachery were more important factors in the destruction of
Yugoslavia than any ethnic animosities.
U.S. ANTI-MUSLIM POLICIES
The most popular Muslim leader in Bosnia is not Alija
Izetbegovic. By popular vote, Fikret Abdic was the most
widely supported Muslim leader. But he was anti-U.S. and
against the breakup of Yugoslavia. He supported Muslim-
Serbian-Croatian cooperation.
With U.S. support, a narrow grouping around Izetbegovic
forced Abdic out of the Bosnian government, where he was
part of the collective presidency. The media call Abdic the
"renegade Muslim." He led an army opposing the Izetbegovic
regime that was allied with the Bosnian Serbs. Last spring,
he was captured by the Croatian Army in the Bihac region.
ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC
The regime of Alija Izetbegovic is thoroughly backed by
the U.S. government and military. In fact, its foreign
minister, Mohamed Sacirbey, is a U.S. citizen.
The government itself has carried out criminal attacks.
According to an article in The Nation by David Binder, the
two bloodiest bombings of the civilian marketplace in
downtown Sarajevo have been traced to the forces of the
Izetbegovic government.
Izetbegovic is a long-time anti-communist of the type
supported by the U.S. throughout the Cold War.
During World War II, he was a member of a group that
included many collaborators with the Nazi occupiers. In
1949, Izetbegovic was one of the leaders of a revolt against
the Tito government. He and several others were sent to
prison.
Izetbegovic continued his anti-communist activities once
he was out. He maintained close contact with U.S.-backed
exile groups.
In 1970, he published an "Islamic Declaration" that said,
"There can be neither peace nor coexistence between the
Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions."
In 1983, he and 12 others were convicted for counter-
revolutionary acts, including the advocacy of an "ethnically
pure Bosnia-Herzegovina."
FRANJO TUDJMAN
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman is another darling of
the U.S. government. He has received considerable backing
from the Pentagon and State Department. When he spoke at the
opening of the Holocaust Museum in Washington as a Clinton-
invited guest of honor, many in the audience walked out.
This is the man who once declared, "Thank god my wife is
neither a Serb nor a Jew."
Tudjman is a Croatian nationalist and anti-communist. His
government has adopted the flag and currency of the fascist
Ustashe regime during World War II.
His book "Wastelands: Historical Truths" asserts that
"only" 900,000 Jews died in the Holocaust, not 6 million. He
also asserts that no more than 70,000 Serbs were killed in
the Ustashe death camps.
According to Alfred Lipson, a senior researcher at the
Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough
Community College in New York, "more than 60,000 Jews died"
at the death camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, "along with 27,000
Gypsies; the Serbs, the most anti-Nazi ethnic group in
Yugoslavia, suffered the greatest losses--1.2 million."
(Forward, Nov. 11, 1994)
Although the U.S. has brokered a Croatian-Bosnian
federation between Tudjman and Izetbegovic, it is a shaky
alliance at best. Tudjman is violently anti-Muslim, to the
point of even denying the Muslims legitimacy. In an
interview in the Sept. 25 French daily Le Figaro, Tudjman
said that the Muslims are really Croatians who should
eventually be incorporated into Croatia.
Tudjman says in the Le Figaro interview that he sees his
task in the Croatian-Bosnian federation as "Europeanizing"
the Muslims and "bringing them into European civilization."
In his racist ravings, Tudjman sounds like Los Angeles cop
Mark Fuhrman. Except Tudjman heads up a country. According
to an Aug. 19 New York Times profile, Tudjman came to power
"helped by financing from anti-communist Croatian emigres in
the United States and Canada." What the Times doesn't
mention is that these groups are ultimately financed by the
CIA. It was this U.S.-based support that put Tudjman at the
head of the Croatian government.
- END -
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serbian.heritage@...
PRESS RELEASE
REMEMBERING KRAJINA
Join us in commemorating ethnocide and genocide
committed on Serbs in
Krajina , Bosnia and Kosovo.
August 4th is Krajina Dan, the Memorial Day for
Serbian Krajina.
This commemorates the day that Knin, the capital of the
Serbian Krajina
region, fell to invading Croatian forces in 1995. Croatia
continues to
occupy the region today and of more than 250,000 Serbian
people whom the
Croatian Army either killed or ethnically-cleansed out of the
region in
August, 1995, the number who have returned is virtually zero
to this date.
Every August 4th a Krajina Dan Memorial is held to remember
the victims of
this genocide. This year's program is:
Memorial Prayer Service and a wrath laying at the
Human Rights
Memorial, Elgin and Lisgar streets, at 6:00pm - 6: 30pm.
For further information pls. contact Mrs. Radmila Swann
(serbian.heritage@...)
Slobodanka Borojevic, president
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
As Croatian troops launched their assault on August 4 ,
1995, U.S. NATO
aircraft destroyed Serbian radar and anti-aircraft defenses.
American EA-6B
electronic warfare aircraft patrolled the air in support of
the invasion ....
The roads were clogged with Serb refugees, and Croatian
aircraft bombed
and strafed refugee columns....
A Red Cross representative in Banja Luka said, "I've never
seen anything
like it. People are arriving at a terrifying rate." Bosnian
Muslim troops
crossed the border and cut off Serbian escape routes.
Trapped refugees were
massacred as they were pounded by Croatian and Muslim
artillery. Nearly
1,700 refugees simply vanished. (3). ....
Massacres continued for several weeks after the fall of
Krajina, and UN
patrols discovered numerous fresh unmarked graves and bodies
of murdered
civilians. (7)...
UN spokesman Chris Gunness noted that UN personnel
continued to discover
bodies, many of whom had been decapitated. (8) British
journalist Robert
Fisk reported the murder of elderly Serbs, many of whom were
burned alive
in their homes. He adds, "At Golubic, UN officers have
found the
decomposing remains of five people... the head of one of the
victims was
found 150 feet from his body. (11)...
Following the invasion of Krajina, the U.S. rewarded
Croatia with an
agreement "broadening existing cooperation" between MPRI and
the Croatian
military. (18) U.S. advisors assisted in the reorganization
of the Croatian
Army. Referring to this reorganization in an interview with
the newspaper
Vecernji List, Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic said, "We
are building the
foundations of our organization on the traditions of the
Croatian home
guard" - pro-Nazi troops in World War II. (19) ...
This study is based on a paper presented in book "NATO in
the Balkans"
(ISBN 0-9656916-2-4), pages 131 - 140.
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1995: scatta la "Operazione Tempesta" per la cancellazione definitiva
della Repubblica della Krajna Serba dalle cartine geografiche.
Materialmente realizzata dall'esercito della Croazia indipendente,
l'operazione viene coadiuvata dagli USA e dalla NATO.
In Italia, l'"Operazione Tempesta" non trova che flebili voci critiche,
anche in una sinistra drogata dalla campagna antijugoslava ed antiserba,
e gia' favorevole a tutte le "autodeterminazioni" possibili tranne che
quella dei serbi in Croazia e Bosnia. Un mese dopo, l'Italia concedera'
il suo territorio come base di lancio per gli aerei che andranno a
bombardare la Repubblica Serba di Bosnia.
---
http://www.veritas.org.yu/
REPUBLIKA SRPSKA KRAJINA
1991-1995
---
http://www.marx2001.org/crj/srbe.html#krajna
La nostra pagina su Republika Srpska Krajna e Slavonia Orientale
---
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U.S.-trained forces massacre Serbs
By Gary Wilson
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 1995
issue of Workers World newspaper
Details of a mass slaughter of Serbs in the Krajina region
of Croatia are slowly making their way into the U.S. media.
But the news reports remain strangely subdued. There are
no calls for air strikes against the Croatian capital of
Zagreb, as there are regular calls for bombs against the
Serbs. There are no editorials calling for trying the
Croatian leaders for war crimes.
According to investigators for the United Nations,
"Croatian army and police units allegedly burned 60 percent
of the houses" in the Krajina region, reported the Sept. 30
Washington Post. They also "executed elderly Serbs who
remained in the region." Unlike almost every other report of
genocide in the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, the Post
noted that these reports were "unusual in their first-hand
detail."
An open letter from the Belgrade-based Serbian-Jewish
Friendship Society to the American Jewish Committee says
that "anti-Serbian propaganda" is "a twin sister of anti-
Semitism." The letter states that today in Croatia a policy
of eliminating the Serbs is being carried out. This policy
is so thorough that "in Croatia there are [now] no more
Serbs than there are Jews in Germany or Poland." The letter
is signed by the chief rabbi of Yugoslavia as well as many
other prominent Jews of Yugoslavia. But this letter has not
been referred to in the U.S. media.
What's not widely known in this country is that the
Croatian and Bosnian armies are armed and directed by the
Pentagon. The Croatian offensive against the Krajina was
planned after 15 top U.S. military officers--including the
former head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency--were
put in place as "advisers" to the Croatian military.
The Bosnian Army is being "helped" by U.S. military
advisers, including Gen. John Sewall and Gen. John Galvin, a
former NATO supreme commander. Television viewers may have
noticed that the entire Bosnian Army wears U.S. military
uniforms--provided by U.S. military contractors. In the
September/October issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Gen.
Charles Boyd, the deputy commander in chief of the U.S.
European Command from November 1992 to July 1995, writes
that the much-publicized arms embargo is widely known to be
almost nonexistent. The U.S. discreetly insures a regular
flow of arms to the Bosnian Army.
U.S. media reports are regularly filled with anti-Serb
propaganda. Most refer to the Krajina as a region
"conquered" by the Serbs, implying that the Croatian Army is
simply retaking something that had been taken away.
But the truth is exactly the opposite. The following
exchange shows the propaganda view of the "liberal" media
and gives a response.
On the Aug. 11 broadcast of "All Things Considered" on
National Public Radio, news reader Noah Adams interviewed
author Misha Glenny:
"Adams: Why did Serbia take the Krajina four years ago, if
it is indefensible?
"Glenny: We've got to set one or two things straight here,
Noah, about Serbia taking the Krajina. The Krajina came into
being at the same time as the Croatian republic became
independent when Yugoslavia was collapsing. The Croats
wanted to leave Yugoslavia and the Serbs who lived in the
Krajina wanted to stay in Yugoslavia. So we simply can't use
terms like `Serbia occupying the Krajina' or something like
that. These people had been, until five days ago, living and
farming this territory for over 300 years."
What is happening in Bosnia is nothing like what's being
reported by the big business-controlled media.
It's like the Gulf War against Iraq. Many of the media
stories at that time turned out to be complete fabrications
to support the Pentagon's propaganda needs.
For example, according to Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, "most U.S. news outlets uncritically accepted the
story that 300 premature babies died when Iraqi soldiers
removed them from incubators." But after the war was over,
the New York Times (Feb. 28, 1991) put a two-sentence
retraction deep inside an article saying: "Some of the
atrocities that had been reported, such as the killing of
infants in the main hospitals shortly after the invasion,
are untrue or have been exaggerated, Kuwaitis said. Hospital
officials, for instance, said that stories circulated about
the killing of 300 children were incorrect."
Following is some background information on the history of
Yugoslavia and the officials in Croatia and Bosnia who are
backed by the U.S.
SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA
Yugoslavia was different from almost every other country
in the world in its ethnic diversity. It had no majority
nationality. It was a nation of minorities.
Socialist Yugoslavia had gone a long way toward uniting
the nationalities while recognizing the rights of self-
determination for the different peoples of the region. It
was only during the socialist era that the Balkans were free
from ethnic war.
That's because of the policies of the Yugoslav League of
Communists and its leader, Tito. According to the book "War
in the Shadows" by Robert Asprey, the Communist party's
promise of equal rights for all the nationalities "appealed
to a great many unaligned people who loathed the repressive
pre-war order represented by the [U.S.-backed] government-
in-exile through Mihailovic's Chetniks. The harshness of
German and Italian occupation policies further influenced
the population in favor of the Partisans, who possessed much
wider support than either Western allied observers or
Germans supposed."
The U.S. opposed the Communist government from the
beginning and supported Chetniks in exile for the entire
Cold War period. The Cold War was really a period when the
U.S. government pursued a policy of destroying socialism in
the Soviet Union as well as Eastern Europe, including
Yugoslavia. U.S. overt and covert subversion, sabotage and
treachery were more important factors in the destruction of
Yugoslavia than any ethnic animosities.
U.S. ANTI-MUSLIM POLICIES
The most popular Muslim leader in Bosnia is not Alija
Izetbegovic. By popular vote, Fikret Abdic was the most
widely supported Muslim leader. But he was anti-U.S. and
against the breakup of Yugoslavia. He supported Muslim-
Serbian-Croatian cooperation.
With U.S. support, a narrow grouping around Izetbegovic
forced Abdic out of the Bosnian government, where he was
part of the collective presidency. The media call Abdic the
"renegade Muslim." He led an army opposing the Izetbegovic
regime that was allied with the Bosnian Serbs. Last spring,
he was captured by the Croatian Army in the Bihac region.
ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC
The regime of Alija Izetbegovic is thoroughly backed by
the U.S. government and military. In fact, its foreign
minister, Mohamed Sacirbey, is a U.S. citizen.
The government itself has carried out criminal attacks.
According to an article in The Nation by David Binder, the
two bloodiest bombings of the civilian marketplace in
downtown Sarajevo have been traced to the forces of the
Izetbegovic government.
Izetbegovic is a long-time anti-communist of the type
supported by the U.S. throughout the Cold War.
During World War II, he was a member of a group that
included many collaborators with the Nazi occupiers. In
1949, Izetbegovic was one of the leaders of a revolt against
the Tito government. He and several others were sent to
prison.
Izetbegovic continued his anti-communist activities once
he was out. He maintained close contact with U.S.-backed
exile groups.
In 1970, he published an "Islamic Declaration" that said,
"There can be neither peace nor coexistence between the
Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions."
In 1983, he and 12 others were convicted for counter-
revolutionary acts, including the advocacy of an "ethnically
pure Bosnia-Herzegovina."
FRANJO TUDJMAN
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman is another darling of
the U.S. government. He has received considerable backing
from the Pentagon and State Department. When he spoke at the
opening of the Holocaust Museum in Washington as a Clinton-
invited guest of honor, many in the audience walked out.
This is the man who once declared, "Thank god my wife is
neither a Serb nor a Jew."
Tudjman is a Croatian nationalist and anti-communist. His
government has adopted the flag and currency of the fascist
Ustashe regime during World War II.
His book "Wastelands: Historical Truths" asserts that
"only" 900,000 Jews died in the Holocaust, not 6 million. He
also asserts that no more than 70,000 Serbs were killed in
the Ustashe death camps.
According to Alfred Lipson, a senior researcher at the
Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough
Community College in New York, "more than 60,000 Jews died"
at the death camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, "along with 27,000
Gypsies; the Serbs, the most anti-Nazi ethnic group in
Yugoslavia, suffered the greatest losses--1.2 million."
(Forward, Nov. 11, 1994)
Although the U.S. has brokered a Croatian-Bosnian
federation between Tudjman and Izetbegovic, it is a shaky
alliance at best. Tudjman is violently anti-Muslim, to the
point of even denying the Muslims legitimacy. In an
interview in the Sept. 25 French daily Le Figaro, Tudjman
said that the Muslims are really Croatians who should
eventually be incorporated into Croatia.
Tudjman says in the Le Figaro interview that he sees his
task in the Croatian-Bosnian federation as "Europeanizing"
the Muslims and "bringing them into European civilization."
In his racist ravings, Tudjman sounds like Los Angeles cop
Mark Fuhrman. Except Tudjman heads up a country. According
to an Aug. 19 New York Times profile, Tudjman came to power
"helped by financing from anti-communist Croatian emigres in
the United States and Canada." What the Times doesn't
mention is that these groups are ultimately financed by the
CIA. It was this U.S.-based support that put Tudjman at the
head of the Croatian government.
- END -
(Copyright Workers World Service:
Permission to reprint
granted if source is cited. For more
information contact
Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011;
via e-mail:
ww@.... For subscription info
send message to:
ww-info@....)
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PER LA "OPERAZIONE TEMPESTA", E NON SOLO, SI VEDA:
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---
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
3662 Albion Rd. South, Gloucester, Ontario, K1T 1A3,
serbian.heritage@...
PRESS RELEASE
REMEMBERING KRAJINA
Join us in commemorating ethnocide and genocide
committed on Serbs in
Krajina , Bosnia and Kosovo.
August 4th is Krajina Dan, the Memorial Day for
Serbian Krajina.
This commemorates the day that Knin, the capital of the
Serbian Krajina
region, fell to invading Croatian forces in 1995. Croatia
continues to
occupy the region today and of more than 250,000 Serbian
people whom the
Croatian Army either killed or ethnically-cleansed out of the
region in
August, 1995, the number who have returned is virtually zero
to this date.
Every August 4th a Krajina Dan Memorial is held to remember
the victims of
this genocide. This year's program is:
Memorial Prayer Service and a wrath laying at the
Human Rights
Memorial, Elgin and Lisgar streets, at 6:00pm - 6: 30pm.
For further information pls. contact Mrs. Radmila Swann
(serbian.heritage@...)
Slobodanka Borojevic, president
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
As Croatian troops launched their assault on August 4 ,
1995, U.S. NATO
aircraft destroyed Serbian radar and anti-aircraft defenses.
American EA-6B
electronic warfare aircraft patrolled the air in support of
the invasion ....
The roads were clogged with Serb refugees, and Croatian
aircraft bombed
and strafed refugee columns....
A Red Cross representative in Banja Luka said, "I've never
seen anything
like it. People are arriving at a terrifying rate." Bosnian
Muslim troops
crossed the border and cut off Serbian escape routes.
Trapped refugees were
massacred as they were pounded by Croatian and Muslim
artillery. Nearly
1,700 refugees simply vanished. (3). ....
Massacres continued for several weeks after the fall of
Krajina, and UN
patrols discovered numerous fresh unmarked graves and bodies
of murdered
civilians. (7)...
UN spokesman Chris Gunness noted that UN personnel
continued to discover
bodies, many of whom had been decapitated. (8) British
journalist Robert
Fisk reported the murder of elderly Serbs, many of whom were
burned alive
in their homes. He adds, "At Golubic, UN officers have
found the
decomposing remains of five people... the head of one of the
victims was
found 150 feet from his body. (11)...
Following the invasion of Krajina, the U.S. rewarded
Croatia with an
agreement "broadening existing cooperation" between MPRI and
the Croatian
military. (18) U.S. advisors assisted in the reorganization
of the Croatian
Army. Referring to this reorganization in an interview with
the newspaper
Vecernji List, Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic said, "We
are building the
foundations of our organization on the traditions of the
Croatian home
guard" - pro-Nazi troops in World War II. (19) ...
This study is based on a paper presented in book "NATO in
the Balkans"
(ISBN 0-9656916-2-4), pages 131 - 140.
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ANCORA UN LIBRO CHE IN ITALIA NESSUNO RECENSIRA' NE' PUBBLICHERA':
Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*,
Paris, Editions 1, $$$ p., 110 FF, parution juin 2000.
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La seguente INTERVISTA A PIERRE-HENRI BUNEL e' stata
pubblicata dalla rivista marxista tedesca KONKRET n.8/2000
http://www.infolinks.de/medien/konkret/
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Il maggiore Pierre-Henri Bunel ha prestato servizio dal 1972 al 1999
nell'Esercito francese; e' specialista per il terrorismo islamico ed e'
stato ufficiale per le informazioni per 13 anni. Bunel ha partecipato
alla
seconda guerra del Golfo, nel 1995-96 ha fatto parte del Comando delle
truppe di intervento rapido della NATO in Bosnia-Erzegovina e dal 1996
all'autunno 1998 ha lavorato nel Quartier Generale della NATO a
Bruxelles.
All'inizio dell'ottobre 1998 e' stato arrestato ed incriminato per alto
tradimento: avrebbe trasmesso piani segreti della NATO a Belgrado.
Dopo aver scontato 10
mesi di custodia cautelare e' adesso in attesa di processo.
D: Quando le e' stato chiaro che la NATO avrebbe attaccato la
Jugoslavia?
R: Nel settembre 1998. Ho incontrato il primo segretario della missione
jugoslava presso la UE, Milanovic, esclusivamente il 23 luglio ed il
primo
ottobre 1998. Il 23 luglio non era stata ancora presa nessuna decisione.
Ma gli statunitensi gia' lavoravano ai piani operativi. Solo dopo il mio
rientro dalle ferie, nel settembre, venni a sapere di cosa si trattava.
L'ufficiale che da noi si occupava di questo mi ha detto testualmente:
"Gli americani vogliono bombardare la Jugoslavia a qualsiasi costo" e
"ci
troveremo dinanzi ad una nuova catastrofe".
D: Lei ritiene che il governo francese l'abbia usata come "capro
espiatorio"?
R: Si. Il Ministro francese della Difesa disse che le informazioni che
io
trasmisi a Milanovic non potevano in nessun modo compromettere le nostre
operazioni ne' mettere in pericolo le nostre truppe. Purtuttavia mi ha
consegnato alla giustizia.
Io non ho operato di mia iniziativa. A Milanovic telefonai dal mio
ufficio. Io credevo che i francesi si sarebbero rapportati con gli
alleati
e che il fine della mia trasmissione di informazioni sarebbe stato
quello
di indurre Milosevic a ritirare le sue truppe da Kosovo.
D: A quanto pare gli americani non volevano questo.
R: No! Loro avevano bisogno di Milosevic. Avevano bisogno quantomeno di
ottenere una vittoria su di un dittatore. Con Saddam Hussein non aveva
funzionato. Percio' la macchina da guerra americana stavolta doveva
colpire per costringere Milosevic a ritirare le sue truppe.
D: Questo pero' e' avvenuto solo il 24 marzo 1999. Tuttavia nell'ottobre
1998 Milosevic si era mostrato disponibile al ritiro dal Kosovo. Era un
risultato della vostra trasmissione di informazioni?
R: In ottobre Milanovic ha telefonato varie volte nel mio ufficio ma
senza trovarmi. Dunque sapeva bene che ero stato allontanato
dall'incarico
e che cio' che gli avevo trasmesso doveva essere qualcosa di importante.
D: Dopo il ritiro dell'esercito jugoslavo nella meta' di ottobre 1998
l'UCK ha preso le sue posizioni. Ed alla meta' di gennaio si e' arrivati
al cosiddetto massacro di Racak.
R: Nel caso di Racak si e' trattato, cosi' come nel cosiddetto massacro
di
Markale a Sarajevo nell'agosto 1995, di una buona scusa per bombardare i
serbi. Come ex militare io so cos'e' una strage. Ci hanno fatto vedere
le
foto di Racak, sulle quali i cadaveri erano tutti perfettamente
allineati.
Le ferite non erano tutte uguali. Se uno fa una strage, di regola le
vittime vengono uccise tutte allo stesso modo, ed hanno le stesse
ferite.
Percio' sono giunto alla conclusione che i cadaveri fossero stati
riuniti
e messi tutti in fila.
D: L'ambasciata cinese e' stata bombardata intenzionalmente durante la
guerra?
R: Si! E' stata colpita cinque volte da missili comandati con il laser,
cinque volte! Se fosse stato un unico Tomahawk si sarebbe potuto credere
all'errore, perche' questi non hanno una grande precisione sul
bersaglio.
E poi, io durante la guerra del Golfo ho visto come preparano le loro
carte gli americani, e come si procurano le munizioni. Per Belgrado nel
quartiere generale della NATO ci siamo comportati proprio nella stessa
maniera. Percio' io sapevo dove si trovava l'ambasciata cinese, perche'
questa era inclusa nella lista delle rappresentanze diplomatiche a
Belgrado. Questa lista l'ho avuta dal dipartimento informazioni della
NATO.
D: Nel suo libro "Crimini di guerra nella NATO" lei descrive le
differenziazioni all'interno della NATO in Bosnia.
R: Non proprio nel cuore della NATO. I militari americani nel cuore
della
NATO non hanno mai giocato storto. Molto piu' problematico e' stato il
rapporto di tutti, all'interno della NATO, con la CIA.
D: Come si evidenziava questo?
R: Ad esempio nell'affare del campo terrorista musulmano a Pogorelica:
la
nostra operazione contro il campo e' stata tradita. Qualcuno ne deve
avere
fatto menzione. Dopodiche' abbiamo condotto una indagine, per trovare
il
"punto debole" al nostro interno. E pur senza poterlo dire con estrema
sicurezza, tutto ci indirizzava sul servizio segreto statunitense.
D: Lei non parla di crimini di guerra "della" bensi' "nella" NATO. Quale
sarebbe la differenza?
R: Dal 1989 nei Balcani abbiamo fatto grossi errori. Innanzitutto
abbiamo
tollerato Milosevic. Poi - e di questo responsabile e' la Germania - si
e'
sancita la frantumazione della Jugoslavia, riconoscendo Slovenia e
Croazia. Il cancelliere federale Kohl a quel tempo persegui' una nuova
"Ostpolitik". Percio' io parlo di crimini di guerra "nella" NATO, e non
di
crimini di guerra "della" NATO. La NATO e' solo una organizzazione con
funzionari civili e militari. Quelli che hanno commesso crimini di
guerra
sono i responsabili nei governi.
(trad. a cura del CRJ; distributed without permission, for fair use
only)
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http://www.albaniannews.com (Click on Full Edition;
click on Friday, July 28, 2000)
Albanian Daily News
July 28, 2000
French Officer Says NATO Deliberately Bombed China
Embassy
VIENNA - A former French intelligence officer who
served at the headquarters of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) forces during the Kosovo
crisis said in an interview with a German magazine
that the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade in May 1999 was done on purpose.
Maj. Pierre Bunel, who is facing trial for leaking
intelligence material to Yugoslavia while working at
the NATO headquarters, told the German monthly Konkret
that he had seen a NATO intelligence list of
diplomatic missions in Belgrade showing the correct
location of China’s embassy.
The United States, which carried out the bombing
mission, has called the attack a mistake, saying the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency selected the bombing
target using an outdated map that did not show the
embassy on the site bombed by U.S. warplanes.
According to Bunel, preparations for the NATO bombing
operation had been completed by the fall of 1998 and
NATO chose the targets and prepared the ammunition
based on U.S.-supplied maps.
“I know where the Chinese Embassy was located because
it was on...the list I got from the intelligence
department of NATO,” Bunel told Konkret. The magazine
will be on sale Friday.
“The embassy was hit by five laser-guided rockets,
five! If it had been a single Tomahawk (cruise
missile), you could have believed it was a mistake,”
he said.
Bunel was arrested in October 1998 for passing secret
NATO maps to Belgrade. He was released on bail in
September last year pending trial on charges on high
treason. (Kyodo news agency)
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SUJET
La confession d’un "traître", ou l’OTAN vue du dedans.
RESUME
Arrêté en automne 1998 sous l’acccusation d’avoir livré aux Serbes le
plan des
"frappes" de l’OTAN contre la RF de Yougoslavie, le commandant Bunel,
s’estimant
victime d’une accusation injuste, a choisi de s’expliquer publiquement
avant
son
procès. Son livre nous apprend qu’au sein de l’armada démocratique, le
crime de
guerre est un procédé ordinaire et admis, et que la manipulation des
faits,
omniprésente, n’épargne même pas les manipulateurs.
CRITIQUE
Ah! comme le Pacte de Varsovie eût été aimable sans l’URSS! Hypothèse
absurde,
évidemment, mais non moins absurde que de faire croire, aujourd’hui, à
une
fronde antiaméricaine au sein de l’OTAN.
C’est pourtant l’argument que le commandant Bunel a choisi pour fonder
sa
défense dans un livre qui laisse une impression équivoque.
Oui, explique-t-il, il a bien livré des documents aux Serbes. Mais
d’abord, ces
documents n’étaient ni très secrets, ni dangereux. Et ensuite, il ne l’a
pas
fait parce qu’il était proserbe, mais pour servir l’OTAN. Enfin, s’il a
été
dénoncé à tort, c’est qu’il s’est mis en travers du chemin d’un
mastodonte :
les
Etats-Unis, qui tiennent l’OTAN elle-même en esclavage.
A l’heure où Astérix renaît sous les traits de José Bové, un tel
scénario
touchera le public. Certains Européens exaspérés trouveront un
soulagement dans
cet ouvrage où les Américains apparaissent le plus souvent balourds,
fats,
superstitieusement technocrates, impérialement bureaucrates,
maladivement
suspicieux, très lâches et passablement puérils.
Sous l’impulsion de ces gens-là, nous explique Bunel, c’est tout l’art
de la
guerre européen qui sombre de conserve avec les souverainetés et les
cultures
nationales. Leur devise: zéro mort. (côté U.S., bien entendu). Leurs
armes: des
canons contre des lièvres. Leur diplomatie: mentir, bombarder, puis
mentir et
mentir encore. Leurs mobiles: l’argent et la domination. Leur outil:
l’OTAN,
alliance dont ils ont dénaturé la finalité et qu’ils ont retournée
contre
elle-même, c’est-à-dire contre l’Europe.
Bunel livre une relation subtile et bien documentée des dissensions
intestines
concernant le problème islamiste en Bosnie, Français et Britanniques
s’efforçant
d’extirper la peste fondamentaliste-terroriste face à une administration
américaine qui, elle, s’ingénie à la couvrir. Il détaille ainsi
l’opération
"Grouse", sommet des audaces européennes, qui permit de démanteler un
camp
d’entraînement islamiste en Bosnie, créant quelque mauvaise presse au
gouvernement de Sarajevo, mais qui n’eut finalement qu’un impact
anecdotique.
Au terme de la première partie de son livre, consacrée au problème
bosniaque,
Bunel assassine à la fois les accords de Dayton et le rôle que les pays
Occidentaux jouent dans ce pays:
"Il faut se souvenir que, pour beaucoup [de Bosniaques, quels qu’ils
soient],
les accords de Dayton n’ont pas plus de valeur que l’armistice de 1940
pour les
patriotes français qui ont résisté pendant l’occupation nazie." (p.
162)
Et le baroudeur du renseignement de conclure, désenchanté:
"J’avais touché du doigt ,une fois de plus, les incohérences des
dirigeants des
grands pays, causes des malheurs des peuples sur le destin desquels ils
interviennent sans qu’on leur ait rien demandé."
Mais c’est dans la seconde partie seulement que l’ouvrage justifie son
titre.
En
comparaison de l’agression qui se trame contre la Serbie, l’époque de
Dayton
paraît un modèle de fair-play. En 1998, escomptant la minable publicité
d’un
"Dayton bis" à domicile, la France se poste en tête de la meute
antiserbe et,
pour prouver sa loyauté, sacrifie publiquement son "traître à l’OTAN".
Elle
obtiendra Rambouillet, où le sordide guet-apens des "accords de paix"
falsifiés
par Mme Albright et ses complices viendra ternir devant l’histoire l’un
des
noms
emblématiques de la civilisation française.
La suite sera, selon Bunel, la seule chose que l’OTAN ait été entraînée
à
faire:
une "opération de guerre totale" (p. 198), préméditée dans le détail au
moins
depuis 1997, dans un climat frénétique:
"Délibérément, les gouvernements des pays de l’OTAN acceptaient l’augure
de
frappes massives et sans nuances sur tout un pays, pour essayer de faire
plier
son dirigeant honni. Une sorte d’hystérie colorait les propos des
participants
aux réunions civiles et militaires lorsqu’ils parlaient des "Serbes".
Manifestement, ils perdaient de vue que s’ils devaient faire "jouer
l’opération", ils feraient frapper des civils, dont beaucoup ne seraient
pas
serbes, et que, parmi les Serbes, tous ne soutenaient pas Milosevic."
(p. 198)
Le crime de guerre est sciemment intégré au programme:
"les plans prévoyaient de commencer par détruire toutes les
infrastructures
civiles stratégiques du pays, avant de s’attaquer ensuite aux forces
militaires"
(ibid.).
Quant aux mobiles réels de l’agression, Bunel avance une explication
stupéfiante
de cynisme: pour être en règle avec les accords START signés avec les
Russes,
"il fallait démanteler, entre autres types d’équipement, un certain
nombre de
missiles de croisière Tomahawk (...) Mais démonter des missiles de
croisière
déjà payés sur les budgets antérieurs est une dépense réellement
stupide. Il
vaut mieux les tirer. Cela fait un exercice pour les militaires et ne
coûte
plus
rien au budget." (p. 184) (1)
D’où, sans doute, les salves tirées sans rime ni raison contre la
Somalie et
l’Afghanistan en été 1998 et la hâte des Américains, cette année-là, à
bombarder
le premier venu. Deux cibles sont toujours à disposition: l’Irak et la
Serbie.
Cette dernière fait l’objet d’un chantage. Bunel mène alors son
opération
fatale
pour tenter de persuader Belgrade que l’affaire est sérieuse. Par son
mérite ou
non, Belgrade s’en tire in extremis en retirant ses forces spéciales du
Kosovo.
On est en octobre 1998. La Serbie a obtenu un sursis capital de cinq
mois
d’hiver. L’Irak essuiera à sa place des mois de bombardements
meurtriers,
injustifiés, si quotidiens que les médias ne les relèveront même plus.
Mais le Tomahawk, ce n’est pas le pire. Parmi les innombrables moyens
mobilisés
pour tuer sans coup férir un petit Etat ruiné, les "monstrueuses bombes
à
fragmentation", parade hypocrite au traité d’interdiction des mines
antipersonnelles:
"...seules les munitions posées par voie terrestre étaient concernées
par le
traité d’Ottawa, et étaient donc désormais interdites. Les bombes à
sous-munitions restaient autorisées. Bel exemple de morale politique:
une
cluster bomb coûte le prix d’une "Clio" Renault, il faut pouvoir se la
payer
(...) Avec cet accord, les pays riches ont donc désarmé les pays
pauvres, mais
restent libres de continuer à assassiner hardiment." (p. 191)
Quelque 1400 de ces containers à mines seront déversés en Yougoslavie:
ils ont
"pour objectif de "polluer" le terrain". Les soldats de l’OTAN
l’apprendront à
leurs dépens au Kosovo, où l’arjmée serbe leur a livré son plan de
minage,
tandis que les mini-bombes de l’OTAN, dispersées au hasard, continuent à
tuer
chaque jour... pour une fois, sans distinction ethnique.
La plupart des crimes exposés dans "Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN" étaient
notoires.
Mais de par leur énormité même, ils échappaient à l’entendement du
public. Une
famille obsédée par la bienséance peine à croire que son rejeton premier
de
classe est un violeur et un malfrat. C’est aussi à cause d’un préjugé
moral de
ce genre, et non uniquement par devoir professionnel, que le procureur
du TPI,
la Suissesse Carla del Ponte, persiste à nier la qualification juridique
évidente des agissements de l’OTAN. Admettre ces faits, c’est précipiter
l’effondrement d’un modèle de société prospère fondé sur l’alliance de
l’exploitation et de la bonne conscience.
C’est le mérite de Pierre-Henri Bunel d’avoir, le premier, crié de
l’intérieur
du palais que le roi est nu. Mais sa clairvoyance même nous inspire le
malaise:
s’il était conscient de servir une alliance perçue comme une force
d’occupation,
aux agissements contraires à l’intérêt des pays qui la financent, qui a
intégré
le crime de guerre à sa stratégie ordinaire, et qui est manipulée par
des
extraterrestres assoiffés de domination, pourquoi clame-t-il sa loyauté
vis-à-vis de l’OTAN?
Pour un officier français, ou pour n’importe quel homme d’honneur,
trahir le
monstre qu'il décrit était le seul moyen de ne pas trahir l’élémentaire
morale
humaine. Bunel le sait, mais le moyen dont il use pour occulter ce
dilemme
moral
n’est pas élégant. En défendant l’OTAN contre elle-même et gonflant
artificiellement un "ennemi" d’outre-Atlantique, il n’est pas sincère..
Dans
son
livre, où chaque accusation contre l’OTAN est motivée, il relaie des
méchancetés
médiatiques gratuites contre les responsables serbes. A plusieurs
reprises, il
loue la distanciation de la politique chiraquienne vis-à-vis des
penchants
traditionnels de la France, selon lui encore valables sous Mitterrand
(vraiment?), au profit d’un alignement sur les volontés américaines.
Pour ne
pas
dire du bien du peuple banni, Bunel force le trait contre l’autre camp,
mais,
soucieux de ménager les susceptibilités françaises, il inscrit le gros
de
l’addition au compte des Américains (rappelons que son éditeur est lié à
Hachette, donc à Matra, donc au pouvoir). Il sait pourtant que l’OTAN
est
désormais un organisme analogue au pacte de Varsovie: il n’y a qu’un
grand
maître, mais la chaîne des responsabilités irrigue sans rupture les
nomenklaturas consentantes des pays affiliés.
Il est tragique que, dans le climat actuel, un témoin aussi crucial
doive se
censurer pour ne pas nuire à la portée de son témoignage. Gageons
qu’après son
procès, lorsque la désillusion ou la catastrophe aura ouvert les yeux
d’un
grand
nombre de ses concitoyens, le commandant Bunel criera son attachement
aux
valeurs humaines universelles plutôt qu’aux consignes de service d’une
organisation déshonorée.
-SLOBODAN DESPOT
A LIRE
Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*, Paris, Editions 1, $$$
p., 110
FF, parution juin 2000.
NOTE
(1) Cette explication est corroborée par un témoignage de première main:
début
1999, l’attaché militaire américain à Belgrade avait confié à un éminent
historien que son pays cherchait un prétexte quelconque à l’agression
pour
pouvoir tirer ses missiles périmés. L’officier en était désolé, car il
sympathisait avec la nation serbe.
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Subject: Urgent: Interview with a Nato-"traitor"
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:43:28 +0200
From: J.Elsasser@... (Juergen Elsaesser)
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www.juergen-elsaesser.de
Dear friends,
in the August issue of KONKRET we print an interview that might interest
you:
With Commandant Pierre Henri Bunel, french liaison officer in the
Nato-Headquarter in Brussels from 1996 until October 1998. Then he was
arrested
because he handed over top secret military documents including attack
plans
against Yugoslavia to the yugoslav embassy. Fifteeen years of jail are
waiting
for him...
In the interview he says that he already in fall 1998 was informed about
the
Nato-plans to attack Yugoslavia. Also he assures that the destroying of
the
chinese embassy in Belgrad was not a mistake, but was intended. He
thinks so
because in the Nato-Headquarter they had - and even he himself had -
accurate
plans of Belgrade which showed the location of the embassy correctly.
In other parts of the interview he talks about the CIA-support for the
bosnian
Muslims (he was in the headquarter of the Rapid Deployment Force in
Bosnia from
1994 till 1996).
Don't you think, this is hot stuff for your newspaper/magazine? Wouldn't
it be
interesting for you to translate and print it?
KONKRET comes out at 29th of July - but you could get it already on
Monday the
17th of July, if you like. So you have enough time to check it, and
we'll easily
agree about the conditions of reprinting.
Please remail me, if you are interested.
Thank you very much,
your sincerely
J.E.
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Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*,
Paris, Editions 1, $$$ p., 110 FF, parution juin 2000.
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La seguente INTERVISTA A PIERRE-HENRI BUNEL e' stata
pubblicata dalla rivista marxista tedesca KONKRET n.8/2000
http://www.infolinks.de/medien/konkret/
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Il maggiore Pierre-Henri Bunel ha prestato servizio dal 1972 al 1999
nell'Esercito francese; e' specialista per il terrorismo islamico ed e'
stato ufficiale per le informazioni per 13 anni. Bunel ha partecipato
alla
seconda guerra del Golfo, nel 1995-96 ha fatto parte del Comando delle
truppe di intervento rapido della NATO in Bosnia-Erzegovina e dal 1996
all'autunno 1998 ha lavorato nel Quartier Generale della NATO a
Bruxelles.
All'inizio dell'ottobre 1998 e' stato arrestato ed incriminato per alto
tradimento: avrebbe trasmesso piani segreti della NATO a Belgrado.
Dopo aver scontato 10
mesi di custodia cautelare e' adesso in attesa di processo.
D: Quando le e' stato chiaro che la NATO avrebbe attaccato la
Jugoslavia?
R: Nel settembre 1998. Ho incontrato il primo segretario della missione
jugoslava presso la UE, Milanovic, esclusivamente il 23 luglio ed il
primo
ottobre 1998. Il 23 luglio non era stata ancora presa nessuna decisione.
Ma gli statunitensi gia' lavoravano ai piani operativi. Solo dopo il mio
rientro dalle ferie, nel settembre, venni a sapere di cosa si trattava.
L'ufficiale che da noi si occupava di questo mi ha detto testualmente:
"Gli americani vogliono bombardare la Jugoslavia a qualsiasi costo" e
"ci
troveremo dinanzi ad una nuova catastrofe".
D: Lei ritiene che il governo francese l'abbia usata come "capro
espiatorio"?
R: Si. Il Ministro francese della Difesa disse che le informazioni che
io
trasmisi a Milanovic non potevano in nessun modo compromettere le nostre
operazioni ne' mettere in pericolo le nostre truppe. Purtuttavia mi ha
consegnato alla giustizia.
Io non ho operato di mia iniziativa. A Milanovic telefonai dal mio
ufficio. Io credevo che i francesi si sarebbero rapportati con gli
alleati
e che il fine della mia trasmissione di informazioni sarebbe stato
quello
di indurre Milosevic a ritirare le sue truppe da Kosovo.
D: A quanto pare gli americani non volevano questo.
R: No! Loro avevano bisogno di Milosevic. Avevano bisogno quantomeno di
ottenere una vittoria su di un dittatore. Con Saddam Hussein non aveva
funzionato. Percio' la macchina da guerra americana stavolta doveva
colpire per costringere Milosevic a ritirare le sue truppe.
D: Questo pero' e' avvenuto solo il 24 marzo 1999. Tuttavia nell'ottobre
1998 Milosevic si era mostrato disponibile al ritiro dal Kosovo. Era un
risultato della vostra trasmissione di informazioni?
R: In ottobre Milanovic ha telefonato varie volte nel mio ufficio ma
senza trovarmi. Dunque sapeva bene che ero stato allontanato
dall'incarico
e che cio' che gli avevo trasmesso doveva essere qualcosa di importante.
D: Dopo il ritiro dell'esercito jugoslavo nella meta' di ottobre 1998
l'UCK ha preso le sue posizioni. Ed alla meta' di gennaio si e' arrivati
al cosiddetto massacro di Racak.
R: Nel caso di Racak si e' trattato, cosi' come nel cosiddetto massacro
di
Markale a Sarajevo nell'agosto 1995, di una buona scusa per bombardare i
serbi. Come ex militare io so cos'e' una strage. Ci hanno fatto vedere
le
foto di Racak, sulle quali i cadaveri erano tutti perfettamente
allineati.
Le ferite non erano tutte uguali. Se uno fa una strage, di regola le
vittime vengono uccise tutte allo stesso modo, ed hanno le stesse
ferite.
Percio' sono giunto alla conclusione che i cadaveri fossero stati
riuniti
e messi tutti in fila.
D: L'ambasciata cinese e' stata bombardata intenzionalmente durante la
guerra?
R: Si! E' stata colpita cinque volte da missili comandati con il laser,
cinque volte! Se fosse stato un unico Tomahawk si sarebbe potuto credere
all'errore, perche' questi non hanno una grande precisione sul
bersaglio.
E poi, io durante la guerra del Golfo ho visto come preparano le loro
carte gli americani, e come si procurano le munizioni. Per Belgrado nel
quartiere generale della NATO ci siamo comportati proprio nella stessa
maniera. Percio' io sapevo dove si trovava l'ambasciata cinese, perche'
questa era inclusa nella lista delle rappresentanze diplomatiche a
Belgrado. Questa lista l'ho avuta dal dipartimento informazioni della
NATO.
D: Nel suo libro "Crimini di guerra nella NATO" lei descrive le
differenziazioni all'interno della NATO in Bosnia.
R: Non proprio nel cuore della NATO. I militari americani nel cuore
della
NATO non hanno mai giocato storto. Molto piu' problematico e' stato il
rapporto di tutti, all'interno della NATO, con la CIA.
D: Come si evidenziava questo?
R: Ad esempio nell'affare del campo terrorista musulmano a Pogorelica:
la
nostra operazione contro il campo e' stata tradita. Qualcuno ne deve
avere
fatto menzione. Dopodiche' abbiamo condotto una indagine, per trovare
il
"punto debole" al nostro interno. E pur senza poterlo dire con estrema
sicurezza, tutto ci indirizzava sul servizio segreto statunitense.
D: Lei non parla di crimini di guerra "della" bensi' "nella" NATO. Quale
sarebbe la differenza?
R: Dal 1989 nei Balcani abbiamo fatto grossi errori. Innanzitutto
abbiamo
tollerato Milosevic. Poi - e di questo responsabile e' la Germania - si
e'
sancita la frantumazione della Jugoslavia, riconoscendo Slovenia e
Croazia. Il cancelliere federale Kohl a quel tempo persegui' una nuova
"Ostpolitik". Percio' io parlo di crimini di guerra "nella" NATO, e non
di
crimini di guerra "della" NATO. La NATO e' solo una organizzazione con
funzionari civili e militari. Quelli che hanno commesso crimini di
guerra
sono i responsabili nei governi.
(trad. a cura del CRJ; distributed without permission, for fair use
only)
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http://www.albaniannews.com (Click on Full Edition;
click on Friday, July 28, 2000)
Albanian Daily News
July 28, 2000
French Officer Says NATO Deliberately Bombed China
Embassy
VIENNA - A former French intelligence officer who
served at the headquarters of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) forces during the Kosovo
crisis said in an interview with a German magazine
that the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade in May 1999 was done on purpose.
Maj. Pierre Bunel, who is facing trial for leaking
intelligence material to Yugoslavia while working at
the NATO headquarters, told the German monthly Konkret
that he had seen a NATO intelligence list of
diplomatic missions in Belgrade showing the correct
location of China’s embassy.
The United States, which carried out the bombing
mission, has called the attack a mistake, saying the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency selected the bombing
target using an outdated map that did not show the
embassy on the site bombed by U.S. warplanes.
According to Bunel, preparations for the NATO bombing
operation had been completed by the fall of 1998 and
NATO chose the targets and prepared the ammunition
based on U.S.-supplied maps.
“I know where the Chinese Embassy was located because
it was on...the list I got from the intelligence
department of NATO,” Bunel told Konkret. The magazine
will be on sale Friday.
“The embassy was hit by five laser-guided rockets,
five! If it had been a single Tomahawk (cruise
missile), you could have believed it was a mistake,”
he said.
Bunel was arrested in October 1998 for passing secret
NATO maps to Belgrade. He was released on bail in
September last year pending trial on charges on high
treason. (Kyodo news agency)
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SUJET
La confession d’un "traître", ou l’OTAN vue du dedans.
RESUME
Arrêté en automne 1998 sous l’acccusation d’avoir livré aux Serbes le
plan des
"frappes" de l’OTAN contre la RF de Yougoslavie, le commandant Bunel,
s’estimant
victime d’une accusation injuste, a choisi de s’expliquer publiquement
avant
son
procès. Son livre nous apprend qu’au sein de l’armada démocratique, le
crime de
guerre est un procédé ordinaire et admis, et que la manipulation des
faits,
omniprésente, n’épargne même pas les manipulateurs.
CRITIQUE
Ah! comme le Pacte de Varsovie eût été aimable sans l’URSS! Hypothèse
absurde,
évidemment, mais non moins absurde que de faire croire, aujourd’hui, à
une
fronde antiaméricaine au sein de l’OTAN.
C’est pourtant l’argument que le commandant Bunel a choisi pour fonder
sa
défense dans un livre qui laisse une impression équivoque.
Oui, explique-t-il, il a bien livré des documents aux Serbes. Mais
d’abord, ces
documents n’étaient ni très secrets, ni dangereux. Et ensuite, il ne l’a
pas
fait parce qu’il était proserbe, mais pour servir l’OTAN. Enfin, s’il a
été
dénoncé à tort, c’est qu’il s’est mis en travers du chemin d’un
mastodonte :
les
Etats-Unis, qui tiennent l’OTAN elle-même en esclavage.
A l’heure où Astérix renaît sous les traits de José Bové, un tel
scénario
touchera le public. Certains Européens exaspérés trouveront un
soulagement dans
cet ouvrage où les Américains apparaissent le plus souvent balourds,
fats,
superstitieusement technocrates, impérialement bureaucrates,
maladivement
suspicieux, très lâches et passablement puérils.
Sous l’impulsion de ces gens-là, nous explique Bunel, c’est tout l’art
de la
guerre européen qui sombre de conserve avec les souverainetés et les
cultures
nationales. Leur devise: zéro mort. (côté U.S., bien entendu). Leurs
armes: des
canons contre des lièvres. Leur diplomatie: mentir, bombarder, puis
mentir et
mentir encore. Leurs mobiles: l’argent et la domination. Leur outil:
l’OTAN,
alliance dont ils ont dénaturé la finalité et qu’ils ont retournée
contre
elle-même, c’est-à-dire contre l’Europe.
Bunel livre une relation subtile et bien documentée des dissensions
intestines
concernant le problème islamiste en Bosnie, Français et Britanniques
s’efforçant
d’extirper la peste fondamentaliste-terroriste face à une administration
américaine qui, elle, s’ingénie à la couvrir. Il détaille ainsi
l’opération
"Grouse", sommet des audaces européennes, qui permit de démanteler un
camp
d’entraînement islamiste en Bosnie, créant quelque mauvaise presse au
gouvernement de Sarajevo, mais qui n’eut finalement qu’un impact
anecdotique.
Au terme de la première partie de son livre, consacrée au problème
bosniaque,
Bunel assassine à la fois les accords de Dayton et le rôle que les pays
Occidentaux jouent dans ce pays:
"Il faut se souvenir que, pour beaucoup [de Bosniaques, quels qu’ils
soient],
les accords de Dayton n’ont pas plus de valeur que l’armistice de 1940
pour les
patriotes français qui ont résisté pendant l’occupation nazie." (p.
162)
Et le baroudeur du renseignement de conclure, désenchanté:
"J’avais touché du doigt ,une fois de plus, les incohérences des
dirigeants des
grands pays, causes des malheurs des peuples sur le destin desquels ils
interviennent sans qu’on leur ait rien demandé."
Mais c’est dans la seconde partie seulement que l’ouvrage justifie son
titre.
En
comparaison de l’agression qui se trame contre la Serbie, l’époque de
Dayton
paraît un modèle de fair-play. En 1998, escomptant la minable publicité
d’un
"Dayton bis" à domicile, la France se poste en tête de la meute
antiserbe et,
pour prouver sa loyauté, sacrifie publiquement son "traître à l’OTAN".
Elle
obtiendra Rambouillet, où le sordide guet-apens des "accords de paix"
falsifiés
par Mme Albright et ses complices viendra ternir devant l’histoire l’un
des
noms
emblématiques de la civilisation française.
La suite sera, selon Bunel, la seule chose que l’OTAN ait été entraînée
à
faire:
une "opération de guerre totale" (p. 198), préméditée dans le détail au
moins
depuis 1997, dans un climat frénétique:
"Délibérément, les gouvernements des pays de l’OTAN acceptaient l’augure
de
frappes massives et sans nuances sur tout un pays, pour essayer de faire
plier
son dirigeant honni. Une sorte d’hystérie colorait les propos des
participants
aux réunions civiles et militaires lorsqu’ils parlaient des "Serbes".
Manifestement, ils perdaient de vue que s’ils devaient faire "jouer
l’opération", ils feraient frapper des civils, dont beaucoup ne seraient
pas
serbes, et que, parmi les Serbes, tous ne soutenaient pas Milosevic."
(p. 198)
Le crime de guerre est sciemment intégré au programme:
"les plans prévoyaient de commencer par détruire toutes les
infrastructures
civiles stratégiques du pays, avant de s’attaquer ensuite aux forces
militaires"
(ibid.).
Quant aux mobiles réels de l’agression, Bunel avance une explication
stupéfiante
de cynisme: pour être en règle avec les accords START signés avec les
Russes,
"il fallait démanteler, entre autres types d’équipement, un certain
nombre de
missiles de croisière Tomahawk (...) Mais démonter des missiles de
croisière
déjà payés sur les budgets antérieurs est une dépense réellement
stupide. Il
vaut mieux les tirer. Cela fait un exercice pour les militaires et ne
coûte
plus
rien au budget." (p. 184) (1)
D’où, sans doute, les salves tirées sans rime ni raison contre la
Somalie et
l’Afghanistan en été 1998 et la hâte des Américains, cette année-là, à
bombarder
le premier venu. Deux cibles sont toujours à disposition: l’Irak et la
Serbie.
Cette dernière fait l’objet d’un chantage. Bunel mène alors son
opération
fatale
pour tenter de persuader Belgrade que l’affaire est sérieuse. Par son
mérite ou
non, Belgrade s’en tire in extremis en retirant ses forces spéciales du
Kosovo.
On est en octobre 1998. La Serbie a obtenu un sursis capital de cinq
mois
d’hiver. L’Irak essuiera à sa place des mois de bombardements
meurtriers,
injustifiés, si quotidiens que les médias ne les relèveront même plus.
Mais le Tomahawk, ce n’est pas le pire. Parmi les innombrables moyens
mobilisés
pour tuer sans coup férir un petit Etat ruiné, les "monstrueuses bombes
à
fragmentation", parade hypocrite au traité d’interdiction des mines
antipersonnelles:
"...seules les munitions posées par voie terrestre étaient concernées
par le
traité d’Ottawa, et étaient donc désormais interdites. Les bombes à
sous-munitions restaient autorisées. Bel exemple de morale politique:
une
cluster bomb coûte le prix d’une "Clio" Renault, il faut pouvoir se la
payer
(...) Avec cet accord, les pays riches ont donc désarmé les pays
pauvres, mais
restent libres de continuer à assassiner hardiment." (p. 191)
Quelque 1400 de ces containers à mines seront déversés en Yougoslavie:
ils ont
"pour objectif de "polluer" le terrain". Les soldats de l’OTAN
l’apprendront à
leurs dépens au Kosovo, où l’arjmée serbe leur a livré son plan de
minage,
tandis que les mini-bombes de l’OTAN, dispersées au hasard, continuent à
tuer
chaque jour... pour une fois, sans distinction ethnique.
La plupart des crimes exposés dans "Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN" étaient
notoires.
Mais de par leur énormité même, ils échappaient à l’entendement du
public. Une
famille obsédée par la bienséance peine à croire que son rejeton premier
de
classe est un violeur et un malfrat. C’est aussi à cause d’un préjugé
moral de
ce genre, et non uniquement par devoir professionnel, que le procureur
du TPI,
la Suissesse Carla del Ponte, persiste à nier la qualification juridique
évidente des agissements de l’OTAN. Admettre ces faits, c’est précipiter
l’effondrement d’un modèle de société prospère fondé sur l’alliance de
l’exploitation et de la bonne conscience.
C’est le mérite de Pierre-Henri Bunel d’avoir, le premier, crié de
l’intérieur
du palais que le roi est nu. Mais sa clairvoyance même nous inspire le
malaise:
s’il était conscient de servir une alliance perçue comme une force
d’occupation,
aux agissements contraires à l’intérêt des pays qui la financent, qui a
intégré
le crime de guerre à sa stratégie ordinaire, et qui est manipulée par
des
extraterrestres assoiffés de domination, pourquoi clame-t-il sa loyauté
vis-à-vis de l’OTAN?
Pour un officier français, ou pour n’importe quel homme d’honneur,
trahir le
monstre qu'il décrit était le seul moyen de ne pas trahir l’élémentaire
morale
humaine. Bunel le sait, mais le moyen dont il use pour occulter ce
dilemme
moral
n’est pas élégant. En défendant l’OTAN contre elle-même et gonflant
artificiellement un "ennemi" d’outre-Atlantique, il n’est pas sincère..
Dans
son
livre, où chaque accusation contre l’OTAN est motivée, il relaie des
méchancetés
médiatiques gratuites contre les responsables serbes. A plusieurs
reprises, il
loue la distanciation de la politique chiraquienne vis-à-vis des
penchants
traditionnels de la France, selon lui encore valables sous Mitterrand
(vraiment?), au profit d’un alignement sur les volontés américaines.
Pour ne
pas
dire du bien du peuple banni, Bunel force le trait contre l’autre camp,
mais,
soucieux de ménager les susceptibilités françaises, il inscrit le gros
de
l’addition au compte des Américains (rappelons que son éditeur est lié à
Hachette, donc à Matra, donc au pouvoir). Il sait pourtant que l’OTAN
est
désormais un organisme analogue au pacte de Varsovie: il n’y a qu’un
grand
maître, mais la chaîne des responsabilités irrigue sans rupture les
nomenklaturas consentantes des pays affiliés.
Il est tragique que, dans le climat actuel, un témoin aussi crucial
doive se
censurer pour ne pas nuire à la portée de son témoignage. Gageons
qu’après son
procès, lorsque la désillusion ou la catastrophe aura ouvert les yeux
d’un
grand
nombre de ses concitoyens, le commandant Bunel criera son attachement
aux
valeurs humaines universelles plutôt qu’aux consignes de service d’une
organisation déshonorée.
-SLOBODAN DESPOT
A LIRE
Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*, Paris, Editions 1, $$$
p., 110
FF, parution juin 2000.
NOTE
(1) Cette explication est corroborée par un témoignage de première main:
début
1999, l’attaché militaire américain à Belgrade avait confié à un éminent
historien que son pays cherchait un prétexte quelconque à l’agression
pour
pouvoir tirer ses missiles périmés. L’officier en était désolé, car il
sympathisait avec la nation serbe.
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Subject: Urgent: Interview with a Nato-"traitor"
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:43:28 +0200
From: J.Elsasser@... (Juergen Elsaesser)
Look at my website:
www.juergen-elsaesser.de
Dear friends,
in the August issue of KONKRET we print an interview that might interest
you:
With Commandant Pierre Henri Bunel, french liaison officer in the
Nato-Headquarter in Brussels from 1996 until October 1998. Then he was
arrested
because he handed over top secret military documents including attack
plans
against Yugoslavia to the yugoslav embassy. Fifteeen years of jail are
waiting
for him...
In the interview he says that he already in fall 1998 was informed about
the
Nato-plans to attack Yugoslavia. Also he assures that the destroying of
the
chinese embassy in Belgrad was not a mistake, but was intended. He
thinks so
because in the Nato-Headquarter they had - and even he himself had -
accurate
plans of Belgrade which showed the location of the embassy correctly.
In other parts of the interview he talks about the CIA-support for the
bosnian
Muslims (he was in the headquarter of the Rapid Deployment Force in
Bosnia from
1994 till 1996).
Don't you think, this is hot stuff for your newspaper/magazine? Wouldn't
it be
interesting for you to translate and print it?
KONKRET comes out at 29th of July - but you could get it already on
Monday the
17th of July, if you like. So you have enough time to check it, and
we'll easily
agree about the conditions of reprinting.
Please remail me, if you are interested.
Thank you very much,
your sincerely
J.E.
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2 AGOSTO
1980: 85 morti e 200 feriti per una bomba fatta esplodere in pieno
giorno alla stazione di Bologna. L'atto piu' sanguinoso tra i tanti
episodi della guerra scatenata da eversione nera, mafia e massoneria,
quadri militari statunitensi e della NATO contro ogni ipotesi di governo
delle sinistre e di svolta democratica nel nostro paese.
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-> http://chat.clarence.com/contents/societa/memoria/
BANCA DATI DELLA MEMORIA:
STRAGE DI USTICA/ ATTI DEL PROCESSO ANDREOTTI/ IL PROCESSO MORO/
VERBALI COMM. ANTIMAFIA/ IL CASO BARALDINI/ MASSONERIA: Piano di
Rinascita democratica, Elenco iscritti alla Loggia P2/ COMMISSIONE
STRAGI/ FASCISMO/ PIAZZA FONTANA/ DON MILANI/ documenti vari
-> http://www.strano.net/stragi/
STRAGI DI STATO:
ipertesto a cura di Stefano Sansavini
dell'Associazione sTRANO nETWORK
versione 3.0 - Dicembre 1998
-> http://members.planet.it/freewww/cipriani/
FONDAZIONE LUIGI CIPRIANI:
Interventi su stragismo, strategie autoritarie, repressive e
antidemocratiche del potere occulto e palese, con particolare attenzione
ad Ustica ed alla strage di Bologna.
-> http://www.repubblica.it/online/fatti/fontana/fontana/fontana.html
PIAZZA FONTANA:
Strage di Piazza Fontana: spunta un agente Usa
Sito web di Repubblica sulla strage di Piazza Fontana.
Contiene il testo integrale della sentenza del giudice Salvini.
-> http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/2agost80/present2.htm
ASSOCIAZIONE FAMILIARI VITTIME STRAGE DI BOLOGNA:
Associazione tra i familiari delle vittime della strage alla stazione di
Bologna del 2 Agosto 1980: Presentazione, Patrimonio documentale, Breve
riassunto di questi anni.
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> Vent'anni fa la strage alla stazione di Bologna
>
> Ci furono 85 morti e 200 feriti provocati da uno dei più feroci
> attentati fascisti della nostra storia. Dopo vent'anni di indagini e
> di depistaggi, i processi non hanno ancora fornito alcuna seria
> ricostruzione dei fatti: la vera identità dei mandanti resta ben
> celata, al sicuro negli intoccabili centri del potere occulto, che dal
> dopoguerra ad oggi ha ordito, al seguito di una feroce repressione,
> trame ed attentati, attentando alle libertà democratiche e politiche
> nate dalla Lotta di Resistenza Partigiana.
> Il compagno Angiolo Gracci (Il Partito-Linea Rossa), già nel 1973-74
> condusse assieme al compagno Alberto Sartori l'inchiesta di
> controinformazione che rivelò la "trama nera" stragista: l'azione
> rivoluzionaria del com.te Partigiano (Carlo) Alberto Sartori, riuscì
> infatti a smascherare il gruppo fascista del Veneto (Freda-Ventura)
> collegato alla centrale imperialista e a fornire le prove necessarie
> alla magistratura che ben avrebbero potuto sventare gli attentati che
> seguirono (*). Il Partito Comunista d'Italia (m.l.) Linea Rossa, combattè
> da solo allora contro le centrali fasciste-imperialiste del complotto
> reazionario capitalista, della provocazione e della strage di stato e
> contro i vergognosi tradimenti dei dirigenti rinnegati revisionisti
> del Pci.
> La verità politica era già chiara allora: il sanguinoso massacro della
> stazione di Bologna si legava alla strategia del terrore ordita
> dall'imperialismo U$A.
> L'Italia era e doveva rimanere un paese a sovranità limitata!
> Nel commemorare le vittime innocenti della stazione di Bologna, La
> Linea Rossa rinnova l'impegno a continuare la lotta anche per loro:
> contro il complotto imperialista e fascista, contro il revisionismo
> politico e storico, per la libertà, per il socialismo e
> l'indipendenza!
> Costruiamo un vasto fronte antifascista- antimperialista, affinchè la
> lotta rivoluzionaria delle masse sconfigga qualsiasi nuovo disegno
> reazionario della borghesia!
>
> La Resistenza Continua!
>
> Linea Rossa
> (Genova)
> mercoledì, 2 agosto 2000
> http://digilander.iol.it/linearossage/index.html
(*) Sull'episodio si veda il volume "Secchia, il PCI ed il '68", di
Ferdinando Dubla (Datanews)
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1980: 85 morti e 200 feriti per una bomba fatta esplodere in pieno
giorno alla stazione di Bologna. L'atto piu' sanguinoso tra i tanti
episodi della guerra scatenata da eversione nera, mafia e massoneria,
quadri militari statunitensi e della NATO contro ogni ipotesi di governo
delle sinistre e di svolta democratica nel nostro paese.
---
-> http://chat.clarence.com/contents/societa/memoria/
BANCA DATI DELLA MEMORIA:
STRAGE DI USTICA/ ATTI DEL PROCESSO ANDREOTTI/ IL PROCESSO MORO/
VERBALI COMM. ANTIMAFIA/ IL CASO BARALDINI/ MASSONERIA: Piano di
Rinascita democratica, Elenco iscritti alla Loggia P2/ COMMISSIONE
STRAGI/ FASCISMO/ PIAZZA FONTANA/ DON MILANI/ documenti vari
-> http://www.strano.net/stragi/
STRAGI DI STATO:
ipertesto a cura di Stefano Sansavini
dell'Associazione sTRANO nETWORK
versione 3.0 - Dicembre 1998
-> http://members.planet.it/freewww/cipriani/
FONDAZIONE LUIGI CIPRIANI:
Interventi su stragismo, strategie autoritarie, repressive e
antidemocratiche del potere occulto e palese, con particolare attenzione
ad Ustica ed alla strage di Bologna.
-> http://www.repubblica.it/online/fatti/fontana/fontana/fontana.html
PIAZZA FONTANA:
Strage di Piazza Fontana: spunta un agente Usa
Sito web di Repubblica sulla strage di Piazza Fontana.
Contiene il testo integrale della sentenza del giudice Salvini.
-> http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/2agost80/present2.htm
ASSOCIAZIONE FAMILIARI VITTIME STRAGE DI BOLOGNA:
Associazione tra i familiari delle vittime della strage alla stazione di
Bologna del 2 Agosto 1980: Presentazione, Patrimonio documentale, Breve
riassunto di questi anni.
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> Vent'anni fa la strage alla stazione di Bologna
>
> Ci furono 85 morti e 200 feriti provocati da uno dei più feroci
> attentati fascisti della nostra storia. Dopo vent'anni di indagini e
> di depistaggi, i processi non hanno ancora fornito alcuna seria
> ricostruzione dei fatti: la vera identità dei mandanti resta ben
> celata, al sicuro negli intoccabili centri del potere occulto, che dal
> dopoguerra ad oggi ha ordito, al seguito di una feroce repressione,
> trame ed attentati, attentando alle libertà democratiche e politiche
> nate dalla Lotta di Resistenza Partigiana.
> Il compagno Angiolo Gracci (Il Partito-Linea Rossa), già nel 1973-74
> condusse assieme al compagno Alberto Sartori l'inchiesta di
> controinformazione che rivelò la "trama nera" stragista: l'azione
> rivoluzionaria del com.te Partigiano (Carlo) Alberto Sartori, riuscì
> infatti a smascherare il gruppo fascista del Veneto (Freda-Ventura)
> collegato alla centrale imperialista e a fornire le prove necessarie
> alla magistratura che ben avrebbero potuto sventare gli attentati che
> seguirono (*). Il Partito Comunista d'Italia (m.l.) Linea Rossa, combattè
> da solo allora contro le centrali fasciste-imperialiste del complotto
> reazionario capitalista, della provocazione e della strage di stato e
> contro i vergognosi tradimenti dei dirigenti rinnegati revisionisti
> del Pci.
> La verità politica era già chiara allora: il sanguinoso massacro della
> stazione di Bologna si legava alla strategia del terrore ordita
> dall'imperialismo U$A.
> L'Italia era e doveva rimanere un paese a sovranità limitata!
> Nel commemorare le vittime innocenti della stazione di Bologna, La
> Linea Rossa rinnova l'impegno a continuare la lotta anche per loro:
> contro il complotto imperialista e fascista, contro il revisionismo
> politico e storico, per la libertà, per il socialismo e
> l'indipendenza!
> Costruiamo un vasto fronte antifascista- antimperialista, affinchè la
> lotta rivoluzionaria delle masse sconfigga qualsiasi nuovo disegno
> reazionario della borghesia!
>
> La Resistenza Continua!
>
> Linea Rossa
> (Genova)
> mercoledì, 2 agosto 2000
> http://digilander.iol.it/linearossage/index.html
(*) Sull'episodio si veda il volume "Secchia, il PCI ed il '68", di
Ferdinando Dubla (Datanews)
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