FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

BELGRADE, 24 March 2000 No. 2969

S P E C I A L I S S U E

ADDRESS OF FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "CONSEQUENCES OF
THE NATO AGGRESSION AGAINST F.R. YUGOSLAVIA"
(Belgrade, 24 March 2000.)

Dear friends,
Distinguished guests,

It is my great pleasure and honor to greet you and wish all participants
of today's meeting a fruitful exchange of views and enjoyable stay in
Yugoslavia.
Today, exactly a year ago, the eyes of the world public were on the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia because the NATO military machine
spearheaded by the United States, launched a brutal aggression against
the
FR of Yugoslavia, an independent and sovereign country, a founding
member
of the United Nations and of other international organizations.
The aggression was perpetrated because Yugoslavia, as a sovereign
country,
with deep freedom-loving roots, did not want to accept the disgraceful
diktat of Rambouillet and Paris based on the deception of an alleged
violation of human rights. Yugoslavia rejected the diktat which demanded
the capitulation and occupation of the entire country.
If the eyes of the world were on Yugoslavia a year ago because of the
outset of aggression looking with apprehension and uncertainty as to
whether this country and its people will succeed in defending freedom,
whether David will overpower the Goliath of the post-industrialist era,
than there is no longer such a dilemma. Yugoslavia succeeded in
defending
dignity, it confirmed its freedom-loving traditions and gave hope to
others
that there is no force which can defeat a nation which is united and
determined to defend its own at any cost.
We believe that today, a year later, the eyes of the world public are
again on Belgrade and on this meeting, but now in recognition of courage
and support for rebuilding what was destroyed, for building new and
modern.
Many eyes are precisely on this high meeting in which the most famous
creators from all parts of the world take part, those who represent the
conscious of mankind and its noblest humanistic values. The people in
this
hall in the heart of freedom-loving Belgrade expect fresh encouragement
and
an inspiration for a better future.

Distinguished guests,
How come that it was the FR of Yugoslavia that was chosen to be the
proving ground for testing the model of the "New World Order"? First, in
the analysis of the strategists of the New World Order, Yugoslavia is
treated as a "real problem", as a physical obstacle standing in the way
of
achievement of the goal of expansion into Eastern Europe and of
mastering
natural resources and sources of energy in the rich regions of the
Middle
East, the Caucasus and Central Asia which is a key to Europe and
Euroasia
and an access to Russia and China from the West. Second, if it is true
that
during the period of the bloc division of the world Yugoslavia was seen
as
a buffer zone and that it valorized its geostrategic importance on that
basis, then it is also true that today, at a time of integration
processes
Yugoslavia with its known geostrategic advantages is becoming a bridge
linking north and south, eastern and western Europe. Third, Yugoslavia
was
chosen as a target of aggression, because by "bringing to its knees" of
countries which on a world scale symbolize freedom and independence it
was
meant to intimidate all other countries and peoples and to discourage
their
opposition to hegemony and imperialism. NATO and the US administration
mind
even the very existence of Yugoslavia and what it stands for today - a
multiethnic, multicultural State, which is, despite the pressures and
sanctions and despite a million refugees, developing faster and more
comprehensively than its neighbors which, at least in words, enjoy every
assistance and support of the rich NATO members, the United States in
particular.
The NATO aggression against the FR of Yugoslavia was a culmination of
the
American aspirations to establish, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a
new
unipolar world order in which the United States will be the pivot and
the
NATO alliance its chief instrument. In conditions when NATO has lost its
global adversary and any national justification for its existence, the
aggression should have assigned a new role for NATO and confirmed the
global supremacy of the United States. It was an arrogant demonstration
of
the fact that the new masters of the world are making their own rules
and
taking into their own hands the role of the judge, the jury and
executioner.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Distinguished guests,

The consequences of the NATO aggression may be viewed at several levels.
The first level is Yugoslavia as a direct victim of crimes and
destruction.
The second is a regional one as part of South Eastern Europe. The third
is
a European one, the fourth global or the world level.
Although they are all mutually closely related, it is difficult to
analyze
them in isolation. However, for this occasion the basic facts should be
recalled about the consequences at each individual level.
NATO has caused a humanitarian, economic and environmental disaster in
Yugoslavia by using the most destructive means, including cluster bombs,
depleted uranium ammunition, carbon fiber bombs. Leaders of NATO
countries,
the US administration in the first place, are responsible for the
killing
of several thousand inhabitants of Yugoslavia, including women,
children,
babies, refugees, travelers on the busses and international passenger
trains, for the destruction of hospitals, schools, the water supply
system,
the power system, heating of larger cities, residential areas, bridges,
railways and roads. The damage caused by war is estimated at more than
US$
100 billion. Such losses and civilian destruction cynically explained by
the NATO propaganda as "collateral damage" were the core of the NATO
strategy, especially after promises made in public that Serbia will be
brought to its knees within 3 or 7 days at the latest, proved to be at
least narrow-minded arrogance. By systematically bombing civilian
targets
and causing a massive loss of human life, NATO targeted the people and
its
morale, to which it obviously paid very little attention in its
calculations. In particular, they underestimated the determination,
patriotic feelings and unity of the people and leadership of the
country.
At the regional level, the aggression drastically halted and set back
the
processes of normalization, the development of good-neighborly relations
and promotion of both bilateral and multilateral cooperation in South
Eastern Europe, whose prospects were opened up by the signing of the
Dayton/Paris Peace Agreement in 1995, by the Royaumont initiative and
the
Crete Summit in 1997. By combining the dirtiest methods of pressure and
promises, the US administration drew Yugoslavia's neighbors to take part
in
one way or another in the aggression. Through the policy of divide and
rule
and by encouraging even territorial claims of some neighbors against
Yugoslavia, the US administration not only undermined the important
results
of the regional cooperation and all known regional initiatives, but
attempted to sow as much division and as much mistrust in the region as
possible by involving the neighboring countries in the criminal
aggression.
In this way, it clearly revealed that its real purpose was longer term
destabilization of the region aimed at justifying the movement of its
troops from Central to South Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe through
the
establishment and interconnection of the new chain of its military
bases.
What the pro-American governments in neighboring countries did not or
dared
not understand was very well understood by the broadest public in these
countries namely that the goal of the American policy was total
domination
and colonialization of the peoples and countries of South Eastern
Europe,
exploitation of their human and economic resources, provision of a
bridge
head to the Caspian region, Central Asia and western borders of Russia
and
China.
The model of an alliance between NATO and the separatist and terrorist
organization such as the so called "KLA" - in which the roles were so
assigned that the criminal, mafia and terrorist gangs acted as the foot
soldiers to NATO and conversely in which NATO served as an air support
to
the terrorists - is very important for understanding not only regional
but
also less European and global consequences of the aggression. It remains
for military analysts to study such pearls of NATO strategists as
provision
of protection to terrorist gangs by a squadron of B-52 strategic bombers
in
their attempts to infiltrate from Albania into Serbia in the regions of
Mt.
Pa{trik and Ko{are. This alliance was created even during the so called
Rambouillet and Paris talks, at Thaci-Clark meetings and even much
earlier
at the meetings of US representatives with the seasoned terrorists and
criminals at Junik, Davos and London. These are only the most drastic
forms
of abuse of separatism and terrorism which are incidentally resorted to
by
US intelligence and administration in one way or the other, ranging from
South Eastern Asia, Tibet, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Dagestan,
Kosovo
and Metohija to Gibraltar and from the North Sea to the Cape of Good
Hope.
To force on Europe attrition, to slow down the process of its
integration
and access of the developed West and to resources of rich Russia is the
strategic goal of the US administration in order to preserve its
economic
and technological domination over the whole world. That goal was
reflected
even during the work of the so called Contact Group which served the
United
States gradually to draw Europe into the preparations for and later on
the
perpetration of the aggression itself. This was testified to by the
destruction of transport routes on Europe's corridor E-10, the bridges
over
the Danube near Novi Sad so as to prevent the use of economic lifelines,
especially important for the profitability and competitiveness of
European
products and services, for links between northern and southern parts of
the
European Union, between Europe and the Caspian Basin, between the Middle
East and Central Asia. The NATO aggression against Yugoslavia inflicted
enormous long-term damage on Europe, both economically and politically
as
well as security and culture-wise. It revealed the major weaknesses of
Europe, and a striking lack of political leaders who care about breaking
away from American blackmail and projecting their own vision of European
identity. This is borne out, for instance, by the fact that neither the
parliaments nor the governments of Italy, France, Germany, Britain or
Spain
and many other European countries respected their own constitutions in
deciding to take part in the aggression, whereas the parliaments and
governments of some of them like Italy never had the issue of
participation
in the aggression on its agenda. If these are democratic societies, than
the question arises as to who made the decisions in the first place and
who
committed these countries to rain destruction on Yugoslavia and to kill
its
citizens? Or is it not that important for the quality of democracy to
decide on the participation in aggression against a sovereign country.
Whereas it is more or less clear that the US administration made
political
decisions on the participation of European countries in the aggression
against Yugoslavia, more and more facts come to light confirming that
the
American diktat in the decisions taken within NATO itself during the
aggression was effectively accepted as a fait accompli. Clearly, such
experiences and treatment of the allies will not strengthen NATO nor
will
it open up the prospect of its development. Quite the opposite. Only
some
newly admitted members and those from Eastern Europe who lack confidence
in
their own people and look for a bulwark in their NATO masters have faith
in
NATO and vow to it.
There are signs that there is a growing awareness in Europe of an
increasing violation of European interests due to the blind following of
the US administration. It is a fact, however, that such trends of
concern
and readiness for greater attention to the European interests, if the
impression is not wrong, are more present in public opinion in Europe
than
in its administrative structures which grew accustomed to US blackmail
and
drawing very often personal benefits from it. We hope that Europe will
finally find the strength to put together its own European, rather than
the
now prevailing US agenda. We believe that this is an inevitable trend
although we harbor no illusions that it will be a fast and easy process.
Europe has not yet given a clear answer to the share of responsibilities
according to the American prescription: we destroyed by the bombs and
aircraft, so it is now up to you, the Europeans, to build what was
destroyed and to repair the consequences, if you have any use of it!
As far as the global consequences of the NATO aggression are concerned,
they are simply though understandably not sufficiently concretely
reflected
in an assessment made during the aggression itself: after the aggression
the world and world relations will in no way be the same after 24 March
1999. The NATO alliance called its game by the aggression - instead of
the
criterion of equality, the criterion of hierarchy is forced upon the
world.
Forces above the law, above the principles and the UN Charter
consequently,
NATO is above the UN Security Council and the United States above NATO
and
Europe.
The architects of such a strategy gave a special place to the right to a
so-called "humanitarian intervention". By establishing a monopoly over
judging where and how human rights are violated, the US administration
opens the door wide for gross interference in the internal affairs of
other
countries even for military intervention using its monopoly of the most
influential global media. Thus, the US administration has developed a
technology of indoctrinating the American and world public in order to
justify by its care for human rights and the lofty democratic ideals
interference in internal affairs, arbitrary proclamation of certain
areas
in the world the "zones of US vital interest" and preparations for armed
aggression by covering up its true hegemonistic and colonialist goals
such
as control over energy sources, strategic resources, large markets and
important geopolitical regions. It goes without saying that the
arrogance
of the proponents of this policy leaves no scope for asking questions
about
the massive violation of basic human rights in the United States itself
and
the world at large through an arbitrary imposition of US sanctions which
have at this very moment been in place for 87 countries or for 42 per
cent
of the population on this planet. An accompanying lever of this
hegemonistic strategy is the doctrine of limited sovereignty which is
attempted to be imposed, above all on the non-aligned and developing
countries.
The proponents of this doctrine do not mind seeing and reacting by
threats
even to the non-existent and imagined interference in US internal
affairs,
demanding absolute respect for its hyper-sovereignty. At the same time,
the
sovereignty of other countries has no worth to them. They adopt a racist
attitude towards developing countries, maintaining that they are
conservative and that they do not understand that limitation of their
sovereignty is in the interest of their modern democratic development.
The fact is that the global messages and dangers of the NATO aggression
against Yugoslavia are understood well in the world. An overwhelming
majority of the Member States of the World organization strongly rejects
the concept of interventionism, the doctrine of limited sovereignty and
the
American pretension to act as the world policeman. This was clearly
demonstrated on numerous occasions so far, including at the 54th session
of
the UN General Assembly.
By its successful defense from the aggression, Yugoslavia has made a
historic contribution to the protection of the rights and principles of
international relations in confrontation with the brute force. It has
thus,
at the same time, restored confidence in the lasting values of the UN
Charter and in the sustainability of the system of international
relations
based on the equality, sovereignty, territorial integrity and
non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States. What
seemed
impossible or highly unlikely before the NATO aggression, Yugoslavia
proved
not only possible but a must: it resolutely resisted the most powerful
military machine and the strategy of bringing other peoples into
submission, and it succeeded in defending its freedom, dignity and
independence.

Distinguished guests,

All hopes that the Cold War era will be followed by the democratization
of
international relations and that we shall enter a period of a stable and
durable peace, have been betrayed. Unfortunately, we are witness to the
opposite processes of a radical revision of the system of international
relations established after the Second World War of a conscious and
intentional violation of the fundamental principles enshrined in the
Charter of the United Nations and attempts at imposing the New World
Order
and "globalization" of international relations. This trend is followed
by
attempts at sociological and cultural globalization, that is of basing
the
whole world on the same type of a society, namely on liberal democratic
capitalism of the West through a kind of "liberal imperialism" and a new
totalitarianism. The stories of a free trade, free circulation of goods
and
capital is only a cover for the imposition of a global economic order in
which to ensure complete control over markets, most important
geostrategic
regions, raw materials and resources. The bottom line is to ensure the
right to prosperity and riches for an exclusive group of countries and
to
condemn the rest of them to the role of colonies, vassals and permanent
impoverishment.
The policy pursued by the US administration and by NATO Member States,
based on its economic and military power and on control of the money
flows,
is a dangerous one because it leads to the rich getting richer and the
poor
getting poorer. There is a conscious effort to disrupt the entire system
of
international relations, to produce destabilization and fragmentation of
independent countries. The United Nations and its Security Council have
been further marginalized while senior US representatives openly issue
threats that they will finance the United Nations only if it works in
its,
that is, US interest. We have come to the situation where delegations of
the Security Council negotiate with lower-rank US officials only because
they are threatening to tighten the screws on the finances of the UN.
The chief protagonist of the new world unipolar order is the Anglo-Saxon
axis. It is not accidental at all that the United Kingdom appears to be
the
most ardent executor of the US policy and a country which is always
ready
to block any more independent action of the EU and to prevent it from
acting as an independent political factor. It is not an exaggeration to
say
that basically one of the main activities of the Anglo-Saxon axis is
directed precisely against the idea of unification of Europe which along
with China, Russia and India could be a serious counter-weight and a
factor
of curbing the uncontrolled power of the new world supreme power.
In this so called "New World Order", through permanent destabilization
and
civil wars as well as through creation and management and regional
crises,
encouragement of separatism and terrorism, force as the only criterion
in
international relations is being promoted and excuses are being found
for
domination and rule over less developed and smaller States and peoples.
The
aggressive policy of the United States is particularly focused on the
ethnically mixed communities and countries through an undisguised
encouragement of separatism, religious and ethnic exclusiveness and
production of terrorists, through arbitrary interpretation and abuse of
such categories as human and minority rights. Organized campaigns of
"public lies" and creation of realities by the use of the enormous newly
created power of the world media is in the function of domination of the
world. The tendum of world power centers and the world media has created
a
"virtual reality" which is then presented as the final truth all over
the
world. As part of regular preparations for the conduct of an aggressive
policy towards a particular region is also a systematic demonization of
the
whole nations and individual cultures. The example of the FR of
Yugoslavia
is the best illustration of it, since in the last ten years a nation
which
has made an enormous contribution to the struggle against Fascism and
for
the freedom of Europe and the world has been portrayed in the most
influential world media as an uncivilized criminal nation whose victims
are
unworthy of sympathy.

Distinguished guests,

It should be recalled that until the spring of 1998 the situation in the
southern Serbian Province of Kosovo and Metohija was calm irrespective
of
the problems which existed as a result of the boycott of the State
institutions by a part of the Albanian separatists. The separatist
movement
was not caused by any repression or violation of human or minority
rights
of the Albanian ethnic minority, but primarily by constant outside
encouragement with a view to weakening opposition to the spread of
hegemony
and the new NATO strategy. By separating Kosovo and Metohija from the
Republic of Serbia as its integral part and the creation of the so
called
"Greater Albania" from parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and
Greece,
NATO aims to reshape international borders and cause longer term
destabilization of the entire South Eastern Europe and thus justify its
movement from Central Europe and the expansion to the East.
It is indicative that parallel with prospects for improved relations
between Yugoslavia and Albania following the Crete meeting between
President Milosevic and Prime Minister Nano and later for the solution
of
an important segment of outstanding issues in Kosovo and Metohija that
is
an understanding on the implementation of the Education agreement that
would provide an opportunity for the resolution of other open issues as
well - there emerged all of a sudden in early spring 1998 the so called
"Kosovo Liberation Army". Through intimidation and by employing other
proven methods of terrorists, the so called "KLA" took all the
population
of Kosovo and Metohija practically hostage and rendered more difficult
political settlement of unresolved issues and afforded an excuse for
internationalization and an interference of the so called "international
community".
Equipped and funded by the secret service of Albania, the US, Germany
and
the United Kingdom, with the great assistance of the international narco
mafia and Islamic terrorists and extremists, the so called "KLA" killed
several hundred citizens and committed scores of terrorist attacks
during
the course of 1998 and 1999.
"KLA" terrorism was an excuse to step up pressure on Serbia and the FR
of
Yugoslavia, which accepted even the deployment of OSCE monitors in
Kosovo
and Metohija and the opening of negotiations with the participation of
foreign mediators concerning a substantial future autonomy for the
Province, all in good faith and the hope that it would be possible to
find
a just and durable solution to all open issues. Regrettably, very soon
it
turned out that some western countries above all the United States,
regardless of the fact that immediately prior to that it publicly
declared
the so called "KLA" as a terrorist organization, directly stood behind
the
terrorists and bandits and that their real goal was not to arrive at any
just and acceptable political solution but to occupy Kosovo and Metohija
militarily and to fragment the FR of Yugoslavia further.
Parallel with these activities directed towards the "KLA", the US and
its
allies continued to exercise ever more blunt pressure and threats
against
the FR of Yugoslavia, offering more and more unacceptable frameworks for
a
political settlement of issues in Kosovo and Metohija culminating in the
shameful and unprecedented ultimatum at Rambouillet, calculating in
advance
that it would not be accepted and being so designed as to make it
unacceptable to any country.
The so-called "negotiations" in Rambouillet and Paris in fact never took
place. The US did not allow any direct talks between the delegations
which
never met and talked. The draft agreement was kept by the US delegation
as
top secret and was not known even to the international mediators or the
other delegations of Contact Group countries which were supposed to
mediate
in the negotiations. The very draft document was badly disguised prelude
in
the legalization of secession of Kosovo and Metohija with simultaneous
provision of a massive military presence and occupation of all territory
of
the FR of Yugoslavia by the NATO forces. This was actually a tactic of
buying time in order to prepare the public for the aggression on which
decisions were made even before the simulation of talks in Rambouillet
and
Paris.
Upon rejection of the ultimatum, there followed NATO's military
aggression
which was presented to the public as preventing a "humanitarian crisis"
in
Kosovo and Metohija.

Dear friends,

In its barbarian aggression, NATO has committed serious crimes against
humanity, violated virtually all rules of international law: from the UN
Charter banning a war of aggression and the use of force without the
authorization of the Security Council to all more important
international
conventions. The total war imposed on the FR of Yugoslavia and
calculated
to destroy completely its economic potential, to cause the mass killing
of
its population and genocide, is amoral and illegal by all standards -
according to international law, according to the founding act of NATO as
a
"defensive organization" and according to the constitutions of the NATO
Member States themselves. True, the NATO aggression, by its barbarity
and
massacre of civilians is more horrible, in many ways than the crimes of
W.W.II. NATO member States have committed serious international crimes:
crimes against peace through aggression and unauthorized use of armed
force; crimes against humanity, a crime of genocide and war crimes
through
the use of prohibited means such as cluster and depleted uranium
munitions,
chemical weapons and massive killing of civilians. The FR of Yugoslavia
has
instituted proceedings before the International Court of Justice, for
determination of the responsibility of States participating in the
aggression as well as before the national courts of the aggressor States
for determination of responsibility of individuals and governments of
these
States for violation of the constitutional and criminal law of these
very
States. In the States taking part in the aggression people's courts
consisting of individuals and non-governmental organizations have been
spontaneously set up to condemn morally individuals bearing the greatest
responsibility for these crimes.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The heroic defense and resistance of Yugoslavia to the aggression was a
serious moral and political defeat for the aggressor which was prevented
in
its intention to impose its own will as a fait accmpli and to prove its
power in the world. Once again, Yugoslavia has demonstrated that no
power,
however technologically superior in weapons, is capable of defeating the
numbers and the equipment of a people determined and united to defend
its
freedom. NATO has achieved none of its military and political goals and
the
doctrine of the "right to a humanitarian intervention", which was to be
triumphantly inaugurated at the current session of the UN General
Assembly
after the aggression on the FR of Yugoslavia, was condemned in general
terms by the Member States of the World organization. Instead of
contributing to the prestige of NATO and of scaring the world of the
enormous military and political machine, the aggression has had an
opposite
effect. It encouraged the countries true to their freedom and policy of
independence to join their efforts in fighting more effectively this
hegemonistic neo-imperialist and neo-colonialist policy.
Yugoslavia has succeeded in returning the resolution of the Kosovo
problem
to the framework of the United Nations, insisting that the UN only has
the
mandate to maintain international peace and security. By the Belgrade
peace
document, the Military-Technical Agreement of Kumanovo and ultimately
its
resolution 1244 (1999), the UN Security Council temporarily took
responsibility for the security situation in Kosovo and Metohija. At the
same time, the Security Council reaffirmed guarantees of the sovereignty
and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, a political solution
on
the basis of equality of citizens and all ethnic communities within the
framework of an autonomy. The international community has established
its
presence in the province through the UNMIK and KFOR missions entrusted
with
a task of ensuring the security of the population. It is clear that a
political settlement for Kosovo and Metohija must be based on an
autonomy
within the Republic of Serbia guaranteeing the equality of all citizens,
and ethnic communities in the southern Serbian province.
Regretfully, the situation in the Province is characterized by the daily
terror of the so called "KLA", killings, an ethnic cleansing of Serbs,
Roma, Muslims, Goranci and non-Albanians in general as well as by total
lawlessness. The Province has thus been turned into a center of
terrorism
and organized international crime in Europe. This clearly shows that the
missions mandated by the United Nations have not fulfilled their basic
task
of guaranteeing a safe environment, public order and peace and return of
refugees and displaced persons almost nine months from their deployment.
The terrorist "KLA", instead of being disarmed and disbanded, has been
renamed into the so-called "Kosovo Protection Corps", with which
international representatives closely cooperate. These decisions, which
are
in direct violation of UN Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), are a
clear indication of open links between the leadership of the UN civil
mission and KFOR on the one hand, and terrorists and separatists on the
other.
The consequence of such an attitude of international civil and security
presences is the exodus of about 350,000 non-Albanians, close to 5,000
terrorist attacks made since 12 June 1999, of which more than 4,000
against
the non-Albanian population. Since the deployment of international
representatives, over 933 persons (more than 800 Serbs and Montenegrins)
have been killed, over 800 have been kidnapped and more than 50,000
homes
have been destroyed or burned down, 85 Christian churches and
monasteries
as well as cultural monuments have been destroyed.
More than 200,000 foreign nationals are currently illegally present in
Kosovo and Metohija. The terrorists from Albania walk the length and
breath
of Kosovo and Metohija. Islamic extremists arrive from various parts of
the
world and the whole province is in the hands of mafia clans and
terrorists.
The government of the FR of Yugoslavia has addressed more than 50
communications to the Security Council drawing attention to the
deterioration of the general situation in Kosovo and Metohija and
calling
for the taking of appropriate measures, including determination of the
responsibility for the continued genocide of the Serbian and
non-Albanian
population in Kosovo and Metohija perpetrated under the auspices of the
UN.
All this is confirmation that the aggression against the FR of
Yugoslavia
continues by other means - through sanctions and attempts at wearing out
and exhausting the Yugoslav economy and halting the economic development
of
the FR of Yugoslavia through subversive activity and attempted
destabilization of Serbia and the FRY, through fresh military threats,
all
the way to the media aggression and deliberate sabotage and violation of
the UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo and Metohija.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Clearly, Yugoslavia as the victim of a brutal aggression, cannot nor has
it the right to forget the crimes for which the leaders of the US
administration and NATO are responsible. No one can forget nor has he
the
right to forget the responsibility of those who have in any way
participated in the preparation or the perpetration of aggression.
Thousands of innocent human losses, including women, elderly people,
children, even babies on the maternity wards make us bound not to
forget.
We insist on the identification of every responsibility of the
aggressors
for the crimes against peace and humanity as well as on the compensation
for the damage caused by war, in respect of which the government of the
FR
of Yugoslavia submitted a Memorial to the International Court of Justice
in
the Hague. Just as we heroically defended our freedom and dignity, we
say
to the aggressors' forces that we will be equally successful in
defending
ourselves from all forms of an extended aggression through sanctions,
interference in the internal affairs, encouragement of separatism and
destabilization and systematic violation of the decisions of the
Security
Council concerning the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. We
continue
equally united and efficiently with our reconstruction and economic
development that you will, we hope, have the opportunity to see
firsthand
at least partly.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Distinguished guests,

Yugoslavia has a long tradition of openness for equitable cooperation
with
respect for the common interests of all our partners and
non-interference
in the internal affairs. With such a policy it has been and remains to
be
an indispensable constructive factor of peace, stability and cooperation
in
the Balkans, in Europe and the world.
Allow me to say a few words now about the priorities of Yugoslavia's
policy.
The foremost priority is the protection of the sovereignty and
territorial
integrity of Yugoslavia, i.e. prevention of any separatism and
terrorism,
removal of all threats, pressure and outside interference.
Second, ensuring conditions for the reconstruction and rebuilding of the
country, encouragement of the participation of foreign partners.
Third, strengthening of the reputation and international position of
Yugoslavia on the international scene by developing cooperation on an
equal
basis and friendly relations with all countries respecting Yugoslavia as
an
equal partner.
Fourth, normalization of its membership status in international,
political, economic and other organizations and the lifting of
sanctions.
In our neighborhood and in South Eastern Europe, we continue to pursue
an
active, open and principled policy of normalization of relations with
the
former Yugoslav republics, development of good-neighborliness with all
our
neighbors while respecting the principle of sovereignty and territorial
integrity as well as respect for mutual interests and non-interference
in
the internal affairs.
This implies that all countries of the region should respect the rights
of
ethnic minorities in accordance with the European standards, notably the
right to use one's own language, to education in one's native language,
to
foster one's own cultural heritage on a national identity and customs.
We are in favor of strengthening in economic integration processes
dismantling all customs, administrative and other barriers to free
movement
of people, capital, goods, services, scientific, cultural and other
values,
including the creation of free trade areas.
The development of a multilateral regional cooperation with an equal
participation of all countries and respect for the original interests of
peoples and States of the region is our major commitment. The more so
since
the process of this cooperation was inaugurated in Belgrade in 1988 at
the
First Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Balkan countries.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The people of Yugoslavia aspires for peace and cooperation with its
neighbors, wishing a developed and upright Balkans, which will not serve
as
a testing ground for inhuman experiments of the architects of the New
World
Order, desirous of a Europe and a world where common sense and
understanding among people and nations will prevail. We are aware of all
the dangers and challenges on that road just as we are aware of the fact
that this was not going to be an easy struggle. In our efforts for a
better
and happier future of all the world, all the people and all nations, we
are
ready to cooperate with all those who care about equality, peace and
understanding among people. We are convinced that a large majority of
mankind shares our goals and convictions.
Therefore, if it is true that the NATO aggression has had global
hegemonistic aims, then it is equally true that the defense of
Yugoslavia
from that aggression has had global freedom values.
Thank you.








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CAMPI PROFUGHI

"La NATO usava i campi profughi come base per i riservisti dell'UCK".

Dichiarazione di Rony Brauman, responsabile di "Medici senza frontiere",
intervistato su "24 heures" (Losanna); in italiano su "Il Manifesto",
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>
>
> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 08:38:47 -0500
>
>
>
>MEMORANDUM
>OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA ON THE
>IMPLEMENTATION OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1244 (1999)
>
>
> I COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESSED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FR OF
>YUGOSLAVIA TO THE
> UN SECURITY COUNCIL, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL,
>KFOR, UNMIK AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
>
>1. Persistent warnings to the violations of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999)
>
> Since the adoption of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) and the
>establishment
>of international security (KFOR) and civilian (UNMIK) presences in
>Kosovo
>and Metohija, under the auspices of the United Nations, the Government
>of
>the FR of Yugoslavia has continuously warned the responsible
>representatives of the UN, above all the Security Council, to the
>drastic
>violation of key provisions of the Resolution and insisted that all
>measures from its competencies be undertaken with a view to its
>consistent
>implementation.
>
> - Memorandums of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia: By its
>Memorandums of 27 July and 4 November 1999, containing examples
>described
>in detail of flagrant violations of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) and its
>
>related documents, the Yugoslav Government warned the Security Council
>of
>the worrisome developments in Kosovo and Metohija since the deployment
>of
>KFOR and UNMIK in the southern Serb Province.
>
> On the basis of clear examples on the failures, i.e. on illegal
>conduct
>and direct violations of the key provisions of the Resolution and its
>related documents by KFOR and UNMIK, the Government of the FR of
>Yugoslavia
>demanded the Security Council, as an organ with primary responsibility,
>to
>undertake energetic and immediate measures towards strict implementation
>of
>UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) and the Military Technical Agreement (MTA),
>in
>order to put an end to dramatic deterioration of the situation, to
>ensure
>the normalization of security situation, as well as full safety of
>person
>and property of the entire population in the Province.
>
> - The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia, in more than its 50
>communications to the Security Council, continuously pointed to the
>drastic
>examples of non-compliance with or gross violations of the mandate of
>KFOR
>and UNMIK, particularly related to the violation of the sovereignty and
>territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia in Kosovo and Metohija, as
>
>well as to the continuation of terror, ethnic cleansing and genocide of
>Albanian terrorists and separatists against the Serbs, Montenegrins,
>Roma,
>Turks, Goranci and other non-Albanian population in the Province.
>
> - Through its Committee for Cooperation with the UN Mission in
>Pri?tina,
>the Yugoslav Government has forwarded more than 100 letters, protests
>and
>demands to the head of UNMIK and KFOR commander, in connection with the
>implementation of their mandate, clearly established by UN SC resolution
>
>1244 (1999).
>
> 2. Passive attitude of UN SC and other bodies of international
>community
>
> - Despite its clear obligations arising from UN SC resolution
>1244 (1999)
>and its related documents, the Security Council has failed so far to
>undertake the measures to ensure its strict implementation seriously
>undermining the authority of the United Nations and thus eroding the
>credibility in genuine readiness of the world Organization to live up to
>
>its obligations.
>
> - In view of the continuous and dramatic deterioration of the
>situation
>and drastic violations of fundamental human rights, as well as of
>destruction of historical and cultural monuments, constituting an
>integral
>part of the world cultural heritage, the Government of the FR of
>Yugoslavia
>has informed timely and in a well-documented way other international
>organizations engaged in Kosovo and Metohija (UNHCR, UNHCHR, UNESCO,
>ICRC,
>OSCE, EU, Council of Europe, etc.) about the continued worsening of the
>situation in the Province and demanded that they fulfil their share of
>responsibility in accordance with SC resolution 1244 (1999) and other
>relevant international legal instruments within their field of activity.
>
>II SYSTEMATIC VIOLATIONS OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1244 (1999)
>AND
>MILITARY TECHNICAL AGREEMENT
>
>1. Systematic violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
>the
>FR of Yugoslavia and the mandate of UN Security Council
>
> a) UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) unambiguously confirms the
>sovereignty and
>territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia in Kosovo and Metohija
>(preambular para 10; subpara 8, Annex 2)
>
> - Decisions of UNMIK and KFOR: Regulations of UN Secretary
>General Special
>Representative and head of UNMIK B. Kouchner lack basis in the
>resolution
>and are aimed at severing all ties between Kosovo and Metohija and the
>Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, i.e. totally separating
>the
>Province from the constitutional, legal, economic, monetary, financial,
>banking, customs, visa, administrative and other systems of the FR of
>Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia.
>
> - Regulations and decisions of the UN SG Special Representative
>for Kosovo
>and Metohija B. Kouchner, systematically and directly undermine the
>State
>sovereignty of the FRY in Kosovo and Metohija as a basic principle
>guaranteed by SC resolution 1244 (1999) and bring into question the
>legal
>basis and attributes of statehood of the State of Serbia and the FR of
>Yugoslavia, in the southern Serb Province, as an integral part of the
>sovereign territory of the Republic of Serbia and of the FR of
>Yugoslavia.
>
> - Special Representative Kouchner has, without consulting legal
>representatives of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia,
>illegally established the so-called Interim Administration Council, de
>facto Provincial "Government", composed exclusively of Albanians, mostly
>
>from the ranks of the terrorist so-called KLA and separatist Albanian
>political parties, which represent an attempt of legalizing ethnic
>supremacy of Albanians, with a view to creating an ethnically pure
>Kosovo
>and Metohija.
>
> - The developments in the Province unambiguously confirm that
>the claims
>of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia to the effect that the UNMIK
>decision on the transformation of the terrorist KLA in an alleged
>civilian
>organization - "Kosovo Protection Corps" are justified. This decision is
>
>not only illegal as it lacks basis whatsoever in SC resolution 1244
>(1999)
>and its related documents. It is also one of the main generators of
>exacerbating the situation and the crisis in the Province. The attack of
>
>well-armed members of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps on a patrol
>of
>the Republican Ministry of the Interior near Bujanovac, outside the
>administrative area of Kosovo and Metohija, unambiguously confirms that
>the
>so-called Kosovo Protection Corps is not any "civilian" creation - its
>members are re-cycled terrorists of the so-called KLA, whose combat
>structure and command personnel have been fully kept, creating a core of
>a
>future Albanian army in Kosovo and Metohija, as has been publicly
>pointed
>out by its "commander", notorious terrorist A. Cheku.
>
> In that connection, the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia
>recalls to its
>clear position presented in a letter to the President of the Security
>Council of 22 September 1999, stating that failure to demilitarize the
>so-called KLA and the establishment of the "Kosovo Protection Corps" was
>a
>farce and a manipulation.
>
> - Building of military bases: The Government of the FR of
>Yugoslavia most
>energetically opposes the building of military bases of KFOR in a part
>of
>its sovereign territory, without its approval. It represents the most
>flagrant violation of its sovereignty and provisions of UN SC resolution
>
>1244 (1999), as well as the existing laws of the Republic of Serbia and
>the
>FR of Yugoslavia. The building of foreign bases without the approval of
>the
>receiving State is contrary to the character and spirit of peace
>missions
>under the auspices of the United Nations and represents a dangerous
>precedent, contrary to the fundamental principles and purposes of the
>United Nations.
>
> - Military exercises of NATO/KFOR: Possible military exercises
>of NATO and
>KFOR in the Province, which are according to the international media due
>in
>March, represent the most flagrant threat to the territorial integrity
>and
>sovereignty of the FR of Yugoslavia and is in the function of direct
>support to the Albanian separatism and terrorism. Such provocative
>conduct
>on the part of KFOR represents a factor of serious destabilization of
>the
>region and directly threatens peace and stability in Europe.
>
> UN Security Council is obliged to prevent any act of violation
>of UN SC
>resolution 1244 (1999) and to eliminate a source of instability in the
>region.
>
> - Representation of some countries: Tolerating the establishment
>of
>foreign missions in the Province, without consultations and approval of
>the
>Government of the FR of Yugoslavia, represents a gross violation of the
>principle of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of
>Yugoslavia. In line with that, Kouchner's draft regulation on
>"immunities
>and privileges of the liaison offices of foreign Governments in Kosovo"
>is
>totally unacceptable, since it grossly violates the principles of the UN
>
>Charter, provisions of the Vienna Conventions on diplomatic and consular
>
>relations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the
>United
>Nations as well as prevailing international practice.
>
> - The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of
>Yugoslavia are
>inviolable: overall conduct, decisions of KFOR and UNMIK particularly of
>
>the UN SG Special Representative and head of UNMIK B. Kouchner,
>disregarding or violating the principle of sovereignty and territorial
>integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, as well as all measures, acting and
>failing to act, contrary to the UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) or MTA, or
>represent an attempt at their revision, the FR of Yugoslavia considers
>illegal and they cannot have any legal effect or be binding on the FR of
>
>Yugoslavia or its organs in any way.
>
> The FR of Yugoslavia warns that it has never ceded or
>intends to cede the
>sovereignty over any part of its territory and resolutely rejects the
>tactics of manipulating or diverting the attention from the alliance of
>UNMIK and KFOR with the terrorist so-called KLA. It particularly refuses
>
>all moves in line with fait accompli acts.
>
> 2. Massive violations of human rights
> Terror and violence : Albanian terror and violence, ethnic
>cleansing and
>genocide against non-Albanian population, above all the Serbs and
>Montenegrins, but also Roma, Muslims, Turks, Goranci and others,
>destruction of their homes, usurpation and destruction of private and
>State-owned property, rampant crime and chaos in the Province, continue
>despite the presence of almost 50,000 armed members of KFOR and around
>2,200 UNMIK policemen. That speaks convincingly that KFOR and UNMIK do
>not
>fulfil their basic obligations arising from their mandate, particularly
>in
>terms of guaranteeing full personal and property security and safety of
>all
>citizens in the Province, above all the Serbs and Montenegrins, who have
>
>been exposed to systematic ethnic cleansing, terror, killings and
>abductions.
>
> The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia insists that KFOR and
>UNMIK fulfil
>without delay all their obligations and create as soon as possible the
>conditions for a safe return of all expelled persons to Kosovo and
>Metohija.
>
> Ethnic cleansing: Since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK, more
>than
>350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Turks, Goranci and other
>non-Albanians were forcibly driven out of the Province. Terrorists are
>increasingly targeting Albanians, loyal citizens of the Republic of
>Serbia
>and the FR of Yugoslavia, who refused to obey the demands of Albanian
>terrorists and criminals.
>
> - It is worrying that during the course of last week only an
>additional
>more than 16,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Turks, Goranci and
>other non-Albanians were driven out of the Province.
>
> The latest instances of intimidation of Serbs in Kosovska
>Mitrovica, in
>which KFOR directly played a part, are yet another example of the policy
>of
>pressure brought to bear on Serbs, which proves to work, with a view to
>completing the ethnic cleansing of the Province.
>
> - Terrorism: In the period from 12 June 1999 through 27 February
>2000,
>there was a total of 4,354 terrorist attacks (4,121 against Serbs and
>Montenegrins); 910 persons (811 Serbs and Montenegrins) were killed; 802
>
>(751 Serbs and Montenegrins) were wounded; and 821 (757 Serbs and
>Montenegrins) were abducted. More than 50,000 homes, mostly those
>belonging
>to Serbs, Montenegrins and Roma, were destroyed, burned down or severely
>
>damaged.
>
> - The latest serious crimes: Those which were particularly
>gruesome and
>which stuck out by their motive were the following: the shelling of the
>Serbian village of Gora?devac (on 7 January); the brutal murders of the
>Muslim Skenderi family of four in Prizren (on 11 January); the murders
>of
>three Serbs who returned to the village Pasjane (on 16 January); the
>rape
>and murder of an 11-year old Albanian girl from Vitina by a KFOR soldier
>
>(on 11 January); a RPG attack on a UNHCR bus (on 2 February) in which
>two
>Serbs died and several other sustained injuries; a hand grenade attack
>on
>the cafe "Belamy" in Kosovska Mitrovica (on 3 February) injuring 30
>Serbs,
>8 of them seriously; armed attacks against the Serbian villages of
>Banje,
>Svinjare and Suvo Grlo (on 5 February), Lipljan and Bresje (on 7
>February);
>tearing down of the memorial to the Serbian hero Milo? Obili? in a small
>
>town also called Obili? (on 7 February); the murder of doctor Josif
>Vasi?
>and wounding of doctor Vjenceslav Grozdanovi? from Gnjilane (on 26
>February).
>
> - Terrorists attacks outside the Province: In the belief that
>the
>destabilization of the situation on the widest possible territory
>facilitates the achievement of their separatist goals, Albanian
>terrorists
>are increasingly launching attacks on civilians and law enforcement
>officials outside the administrative boundaries of the Province. The
>most
>recent instance of spilling over terrorism beyond Kosovo and Metohija is
>
>the attack against a Serbian police patrol on road between Bujanovac and
>
>Gnjilane, on 26 February 2000. Police major Slavi?a Dimitrijevi? was
>killed
>in the attack and three other police officers were hurt. One of the
>attacking terrorists by the name Fatmir Ibi?i got killed. He was a
>member
>of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), which is a clear
>indication
>that the so-called KPC has continued to act as a legalized so-called
>KLA.
>
> - "Labour camps" for Serbs: The prisons, run by the terrorist
>so-called
>KLA throughout Kosovo and Metohija, house several hundred abducted
>Serbian
>civilians, who have been placed in "labour camps" controlled by the
>so-called KLA. The abductees have been subjected to extremely cruel and
>inhuman treatment in these "labour camps" located in the village of
>Mati?ane, 15 kilometres away from Pri?tina, as well as in the village of
>
>Du?anovo near Prizren and in Drenica. Access to these people is strictly
>
>forbidden, even by ICRC representatives.
>
> Additionally, another some 350 Serbs, who have been abducted in
>Kosovo and
>Metohija, are now in the Republic of Albania.
>
> The international forces in Kosovo and Metohija are aware of the
>existence
>of such prisons for the abducted Serbs, but no steps or actions have
>been
>taken to get them released. All this, despite the fact that it
>represents
>the most inhuman violation of individual human rights and freedoms.
>
> - Destruction of cultural and historic sites: The genocidal
>crusade
>against Orthodox Christianity, holy places and memorials at the time
>when a
>thousand years of Christianity is observed, resulted in the destruction,
>
>burning or extensive damage to 84 churches and monasteries. The burning
>and
>destruction of the churches, monasteries and cultural and historic sites
>
>are also aimed at wiping out the historic traces of Serbian spirituality
>
>and statehood, all serving the purpose of denying the State sovereignty
>and
>territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia over Kosovo
>and
>Metohija, in outright violation of UN Security Council resolution 1244
>(1999) and its related documents.
>
> - Discrimination against Serbs and a cultural and spiritual
>genocide of
>Serbs is particularly manifest through the closure of universities,
>schools, theatres and media outlets in Serbian language on the pretext
>of
>alleged efforts to keep the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and
>multi-religious structures in the Province. The fact that this is done
>where the Serbs have managed to live in larger numbers clearly shows
>that
>KFOR and UNMIK directly encourage the aspirations of Kosovo Albanian
>terrorists towards breaking apart the ethnically solid Serbian
>communities,
>and that they openly pressurize Serbs into leaving their ancestral
>homes.
>
> - The policy of double standards applied by UNMIK has deprived
>not only
>Serbs but also Roma, Muslims, Turks and Goranci of their jobs in favour
>of
>Albanians, constituting a gross violation of the principle of equality
>and
>multi-ethnicity.
>
> - KFOR and UNMIK bear sole responsibility for massive violation
>of human
>rights in the Province, for lawlessness, chaos and breaches of the
>provisions of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), relating to the
>preservation of the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional and multi-cultural
>character of the Province, by becoming outright accessory to ethnic
>cleansing and genocide.
>
> 3. Disarming of the terrorist so-called KLA
>
> - Daily terrorization, violence, killings and destruction of
>Serbian homes
>and settlements, cafes and other places frequented by Serbs in massive
>numbers in those remaining Serbian enclaves, as well as attacks on
>civilians and Yugoslav security forces beyond the boundaries of the
>Province, with the use of heavy ordnance even, all testify to the fact
>that
>the terrorist so-called KLA has not been disarmed.
>
> - Leaders of these terrorist/separatist formations, Hashim
>Thaqi, Agim
>Cheku and others, make no bones that one of their separatist aims is to
>establish an Albanian army in Kosovo and Metohija with the so-called KPC
>as
>its core, meaning nothing else that it would be a "transformed"
>terrorist
>so-called KLA.
>
> The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia recalls once again its
>position,
>expressed in the letter of 22 September 1999 to the President of the
>Security Council, that purported transformation of the terrorist
>so-called
>KLA into the so-called "Kosovo Protection Corps" was a sham and a
>manipulation, so as to avoid the obligation of a genuine
>demilitarization
>and disarming of this illegal terrorist organization, a fact
>increasingly
>openly admitted even by the biased media and some Western politicians.
>
> - KFOR and UNMIK, in particular Bernard Kouchner, bear full
>responsibility
>that the so-called KLA has not yet been disarmed, and that with their
>blessing, an illegal Albanian armed formation was created, composed
>mostly
>of proven Albanian but also of international terrorists recruited in
>neighbouring and other States known for sponsoring international
>terrorism.
>There is information that Islamic extremists from Chechenya are
>sheltering
>in large numbers in Kosovo and Metohija where they enjoy the protection
>of
>KFOR and UNMIK.
>
> - Thriving crime in the Province: Another direct proof that KFOR
>and UNMIK
>have failed to discharge their mandates strictly, notably with respect
>to
>securing the international borders of the FR of Yugoslavia with Albania
>and
>Macedonia, is their patronizing attitude towards Albanian terrorists and
>
>separatists who enter the FR of Yugoslavia without hindrance, which is
>the
>main cause for the thriving crime and chaos in the Province.
>
> - As a result of an unprotected border, in flagrant violation of
>Security
>Council resolution 1244 (1999), KFOR and UNMIK have allowed illegal
>entry
>into the Province of several hundred thousand criminals and looters from
>
>Albania, aimed at spilling over the chaos from Albania into Kosovo and
>Metohija. Kosovo and Metohija have, thus, been turned into a stronghold
>of
>organized international crime, terrorism, narco mafia, illicit arms
>trafficking, white slavery, juvenile crime and prostitution rackets in
>Central and Western Europe, with a view to rampant crime and
>destabilization of Europe and preventing the ongoing integration
>processes.
>
> 4. Civil registration and elections in Kosovo and Metohija
>
> - Against a background of continuing terror, final stages of the
>ethnic
>cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanian population in the Province,
>absence of conditions for the return of over 350,000 expellees and a
>presence of a couple of hundred thousand illegal foreign citizens in
>Kosovo
>and Metohija, it is evident that there are not even the basic conditions
>
>for civil registration in the context of the preparations for the
>elections
>to be held in near future. Ignoring these facts and insistence by OSCE
>and
>UNMIK to proceed to civil registration in the circumstances described
>represent an attempt at the policy of fait accompli and at encouraging
>the
>further destabilization of the Province along the lines of achieving the
>
>separatist goals of Albanian extremists.
>
> The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia strongly rejects any
>attempt at
>calling for early elections in the Province until basic conditions are
>not
>met, i.e. consolidated peace and stability on the basis of Security
>Council
>resolution 1244 (1999) implying first of all a free and safe return of
>all
>expelled Serbs and other non-Albanian population, and until basic
>parameters for the political settlement in Kosovo and Metohija are
>agreed
>with the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia.
>
> 5. Delaying the return of Yugoslav Army (VJ) and police (MUP)
>
> - In a situation in which KFOR and UNMIK do not carry out their
>mandate of
>guaranteeing full personal safety and safety of property for all the
>population and of providing conditions for a safe and unimpeded return
>of
>all displaced persons and refugees, undue delays in the implementation
>of
>the provisions of the Military Technical Agreement relating to the
>return
>of VJ and MUP (UNSCR 1244, op. para 4; Annex 2, subpara 6 and 10; MTA
>paragraph 4) additionally encourage Albanian terrorists to continue with
>
>their daily terrorization of Serbs and other non-Albanians with the aim
>at
>completing the ethnic cleansing of the Province.
>
> The Yugoslav Government insists that this obligation is
>fulfilled
>immediately and without any conditions.
>
> 6. Responsibility of the United Nations Security Council
>
> The Security Council, as guarantor for its resolution 1244
>(1999), is
>responsible for strict compliance with all provisions of the resolution
>and
>its related documents, primarily those reaffirming the sovereignty and
>territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia on all its territory, as
>well
>as for the respect of general standards in the implementation of UN
>peace-keeping operations, above all the universal principles of the
>United
>Nations Charter, International Covenants on human rights, etc. This
>responsibility includes the obligation of the Council to prevent any
>departing from, delaying of the implementation or arbitrary
>interpretation
>of the provisions of its resolution 1244 (1999) and its related
>documents.
>Only the Security Council has the authority to give a binding
>interpretation of the provisions of its resolutions. Continued gross
>violations of the provisions of the Resolution and its related documents
>by
>KFOR and UNMIK which brought about an alarming development of the
>situation
>in the Province, have not been responded to by adequate measures of the
>Security Council to put an end to such dangerous developments. This
>confirms that the Security Council has not fulfilled its obligations and
>
>therefore it is held directly accountable for the detrimental
>consequences
>caused by such conduct.
>
> Proceeding from the fact that it has fulfilled all its
>obligations under
>Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents, the
>Government of the FR of Yugoslavia insists that all other responsible
>factors, and primarily the Security Council as the most responsible
>organ,
>carry out immediately and unconditionally their share of responsibility
>
>
> III ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITUATION
> IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
>1. Overall performance of KFOR and UNMIK
>
> The results of the nine-month long international security (KFOR)
>and
>civilian (UNMIK) presence in the south Serbian Province are extremely
>weak.
>The utterly disturbing situation is characterized by wide-spread crime
>and
>terror, chaos and lawlessness, genocide and ethnic cleansing of Serbian
>and
>other non-Albanian population, destruction of their private property,
>looting and usurpation of the property of the State and of private
>firms,
>carried out by armed Albanian extremists, members of the terrorist
>so-called KLA in particular.
>
> - Multiethnic Kosovo and Metohija - hypocrisy of KFOR and UNMIK:
>In spite
>of verbal pledges of KFOR and UNMIK to preserve multiethnic character of
>
>the Province, the activities and behaviour of international presence in
>Kosovo and Metohija are quite opposite. The fact that over 350 thousand
>citizens of the Province, out of whom 270 thousand Serbs and
>Montenegrins,
>have been forcibly driven out of Kosovo and Metohija in the presence of
>international force and under its auspices and mandate, is totally
>alarming
>and disastrous for the reputation of the world Organization.
>
> - Ethnic cleansing of Serbs and Montenegrins in the largest part
>of the
>Province has been already accomplished. Now, the remaining isolated
>Serbian
>enclaves, above all Kosovska Mitrovica as the largest one, have become
>the
>target of Albanian terrorists and of sensless moves of KFOR and UNMIK
>which
>add more fuel to the flames.
>

> The insisting of KFOR and UNMIK on the establishment of
>multiethnic
>communities in the remaining Serbian enclaves in particular is both
>unconvincing and cynical, since at the same time no one is even
>mentioning
>for example Pri?tina in which about 40 thousand Serbs and Montenegrins
>used
>to live before the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, and now less than two or
>three hundred of them remain. There is not a word about the situation in
>
>Prizren, Pe?, Orahovac, Djakovica, Glogovac and many other towns,
>villages
>and areas in Kosovo and Metohija, like Kosovo Pomoravlje, which are also
>
>completely ethnically cleansed of Serbs and Montenegrins, while the
>issue
>of their return to their homes is not even the subject of at least
>formal
>rhetoric of responsible KFOR and UNMIK representatives.
>
> The action of searching the houses of Serbs in Kosovska
>Mitrovica brutally
>carried out by the members of American and German contingent of KFOR,
>which
>coincided with unhampered arrival of thousands of Albanian extremists
>led
>by terrorists of the so-called KLA to Kosovska Mitrovica in order to
>threaten and frighten the remaining Serbs irrefutably testifies to the
>cooperation and collusion of KFOR and UNMIK with Albanian terrorists, as
>
>well as of their active engagement in the concept of changing borders in
>
>the Balkans to create the so-called Greater Albania. At the same time,
>this
>is the latest confirmation of the proven policy of demonizing Serbs in
>order to justify the real goals -the ending of the campaign of ethnic
>cleansing of Serbs in the Province, and to conceal the facts that the
>members of the so-called KLA have been neither demilitarized nor
>disarmed.
>This is the main reason why, the OSCE condemned in its report of 21
>February the house searching operations pointing out that KFOR has
>violated
>thereby the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and
>Political
>Rights and establishing that the action was illegal which was also
>brought
>to the attention of the head of UNMIK, Bernard Kouchner.
>
> - Non-compliance and gross violations of the basic provisions of
>Security
>Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents by KFOR and
>UNMIK,
>has resulted directly in the dramatic security and general situation in
>the
>Province, above all in the continuation of Albanian terrorism, violence
>and
>ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanian population and wide
>scale
>crime and lawlessness in the Province. Thus KFOR and UNMIK have become
>accomplices in the most serious crimes committed against Serbs and other
>
>non-Albanian population and they are responsible mostly for the
>non-existence of elementary security of Serbs and non-Albanian
>population
>in the Province.
>
> The tested tactics of deluding the world public and of diverting
>the
>attention from the complete fiasco of international mission under the
>auspices of the United Nations is being applied in Kosovo and Metohija.
>After practically completed ethnic cleansing and destruction of
>everything
>that is related to Serbs and non-Albanians, any attempt to look for the
>guilty ones among few Serbs who remained is not only a cynicism but also
>a
>proof of direct protection of terrorists and separatists, of organized
>international crime and of the continuation of a new form of aggression
>against the FR of Yugoslavia which characterizes the alliance between
>NATO
>and terrorist so-called KLA. Such activity is obviously aimed at
>spreading
>the destabilization over the entire region of southeastern Europe. In
>this
>way Kosovo and Metohija is being transformed into a centre of prolonged
>destabilization of Europe, and the entire region into a centre for the
>concentration and spreading of international terrorism which deeply
>penetrated into the tissue of Europe and through Kosovo and Metohija
>should
>be spread and jeopardize the process of integration.
>
> The continuous deterioration of the overall situation in the
>Province is
>in line with the efforts to provoke artificially the prolonged
>destabilization in the region which should justify the existence of NATO
>
>and to rehabilitate its prestige and credibility which have been
>seriously
>brought into question by its illegal aggression against the FR of
>Yugoslavia.
>
> Therefore, the statements of KFOR and UNMIK representatives of
>alleged
>success of the international mission in the Province are unacceptable
>and
>completely biased, since it is clear that they are not founded on real
>situation on the ground and consequently this can lead to the conclusion
>
>that they are based on the assessment of some other goals which are
>different from those set up in Security Council resolution 1244 and its
>related documents. The statements that the number of crimes has been
>reduced in absolute terms are unacceptable because this is the result
>only
>of a continuous reduction of the number of Serbs and other non-Albanian
>population who are the victims of Albanian terrorists.
>
> - Cooperation of KFOR and UNMIK with separatists and terrorists
>in
>jeopardizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a sovereign
>Member State of the United Nations, in systematic violation of the
>Charter
>of the United Nations, international law, Security Council resolution
>1244
>and Military Technical Agreement, incites not only the security and
>legal
>chaos in the Province but dangerously undermines the security
>foundations
>in the entire region. Such behaviour of international forces under the
>auspices of the Untied Nations is without a precedent in the history of
>United Nations peace-keeping missions, whereby the reputation and
>authority
>of the United Nations are seriously brought into question.
>
> - Strict implementation of the Resolution and its related
>documents is
>the main precondition for the normalization of the overall situation in
>the
>Province and the obligations of all to unconditionally observe that.
>2. An imperative to normalize the situation in Kosovo and Metohija
>
> All parameters unambiguously confirm that the developments in
>the Province
>are moving towards the further worsening of the overall situation which
>will become even more complex and dangerous with possible far-reaching
>adverse consequences on the entire region. By the gross violation of the
>
>provisions of the Resolution and by their overall conduct, KFOR and
>UNMIK
>have unambiguously confirmed that the presence of international forces
>under the auspices of the United Nations in Kosovo and Metohija is a
>complete fiasco. The United Nations Security Council bear primary
>responsibility for this since it failed to undertake necessary and
>energetic measures it was bound to under the Resolution, and to ensure a
>
>strict implementation of the provisions of the Resolution and its
>related
>documents.
>
> Therefore, it is necessary to put an end as soon as possible to
>this
>shameless mission of the so-called international community in Kosovo and
>
>Metohija since it is obvious that it could not or did not want to
>implement
>the mandate entrusted upon it by Security Council resolution 1244
>(1999),
>and to let the competent authorities of the FR of Yugoslavia and
>Republic
>of Serbia to restore in the Province: order and peace, rule of law and
>legality; personal protection and the protection of the property of all
>its
>citizens irrespective of their ethnic origin or religion, as well as to
>ensure normal functioning of all commercial entities and local
>authorities
>and normalization of entire life in the Province, as a necessary
>prerequisite for launching political dialogue between the
>representatives
>of the State and ethnic communities in Kosovo and Metohija about the
>parameters of autonomy and self-governance in the Province.
>
> IV DEMANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> Proceeding from its sovereign rights, guaranteed by Security
>Council
>resolution 1244 (1999), Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin document and Military
>Technical Agreement, the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia reiterates
>its
>demand:
>
> - that the Security Council undertake urgently energetic
>measures to
>ensure strict respect of all provisions of the Resolution and its
>relevant
>documents, above all those which confirm sovereignty and territorial
>integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia on its entire territory;
>
> In this context, the Yugoslav Government insists in particular :
>
>
> - that UNMIK and KFOR unconditionally and without delay respect
>and
>implement the mandate set up in the Resolution and its relevant
>documents;
>
> - that sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of
>Yugoslavia and
>the Republic of Serbia be strictly respected in Kosovo and Metohija and
>in
>this context full normalization of functioning of customs, border
>regime,
>public services (PTT, power supply system, railway, banking system) be
>ensured in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Serbia and the FR
>of
>Yugoslavia and principles of market-oriented economy in view of
>restoring
>the ties of the Province with the Republic of Serbia and the FR of
>Yugoslavia which have been artificially broken and of guaranteeing the
>unconditional return of Yugoslav border authorities, customs and
>passport
>control to the State border of the FR of Yugoslavia with Albania and
>Macedonia;
>
> - that all regulations and other decisions of UNMIK and KFOR
>which violate
>territorial integrity and sovereignty of the FR of Yugoslavia and the
>Republic of Serbia be revoked, that the respect for the laws in force of
>
>the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia be ensured on their
>entire
>territory;
>
> - that all illegally seized State, public, socially-owned and
>private
>property primarily PTT, power supply system, railway, banks, mines,
>factories, firms, be returned to legal owners.
>
> - that immediately a safe environment for all citizens and their
>full
>personal safety and safety of their property be ensured;
>
> - that energetic measures be taken to end terrorization,
>intimidation and
>ill-treatment of the population belonging to the Serbian, Roma, Muslim,
>Goranci, Turk and other non-Albanian ethnic communities, as well as a
>halt
>to the use of force resulting in the violation of their fundamental
>human
>rights and an immediate end to the ethnic cleansing of the Province of
>its
>non-Albanians;
>
> - that a free and safe return to the Province be ensured to more
>than
>350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Goranci, Turks, Egyptians and other
>inhabitants expelled in a campaign of ethnic cleansing after UNMIK and
>KFOR
>came to the Province;
>
> - that immediately several hundred thousand citizens of Albania
>who have
>illegally entered the Province be expelled;
>
> - that the combat structures of the terrorist so-called KLA be
>disbanded
>and all its members disarmed as well as other Albanian armed gangs, that
>
>all their weapons be destroyed, which is the main reason for the lack of
>
>security in the Province and for overall thriving crime, and in
>particular
>to declare null an void the document on the "transformation" of the
>so-called KLA;
>
> - that, without delay, an unhampered return of the mebers of VJ
>and MUP to
>Kosovo and Metohija be allowed, in compliance with the MTA, in the
>interest
>of normalizing security and preventing further massive expulsions of the
>
>remaining Serbs and other non-Albanian population from the Province;
>
> - that full freedom of movement on the entire territory of the
>Province be
>ensured and that all existing ghettos, detention camps, blockading of
>towns
>and villages, such as Kosovska Mitrovica, Orahovac, Gnjilane and others,
>
>where the remaining Serbs now live, be removed;
>
> - that an unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance be
>enabled;
>
> - that normal functioning of education, respect for the autonomy
>of
>university and other educational and cultural institutions and the
>media,
>especially those in Serbian language and wherever Serbs are predominant
>(Kosovska Mitrovica, etc.) be ensured;
>
> - that full and permanent protection of remaining cultural and
>historic
>monuments, medieval monasteries, churches and cemeteries be ensured;
>that
>without delay, the leaders of the so-called KLA, H. Thaqi and A. Cheku
>in
>the first place, as well as all other instigators of serious crimes,
>genocide, ethnic cleansing and terrorist acts against the non-Albanian
>population, their property and State and public property, and against
>cultural and historic sites, educational, health, commercial and other
>institutions and facilities, be held accountable and punished in an
>exemplary fashion;
>
> - that without any further delay, a comprehensive agreement
>between the FR
>of Yugoslavia and the United Nations on regulating the status of the
>international presence under the auspices of the United Nations in
>Kosovo
>and Metohija and on other relevant issues, be concluded without further
>delay.
>
>
> Belgrade, 1
>March 2000
>
>
>


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>
>
> O V E R V I E W
>of terrorist and other acts of violence and of certain violations of
>Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) in the Province of Kosovo and
>Metohija since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in the period from 12 June
>1999 to 27 February 2000
>
>
>(1) Number of terrorist attacks: 4,354
>
>Out of which 4,121 were committed against Serbs and Montenegrins, 96
>against Albanians and 137 against Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and
>members
>of other nationalities.
>
>(2) Number of killed persons: 910
>
>Out of whom 811 were Serbs and Montenegrins, 71 were Albanians and 28
>members of other nationalities in Kosovo and Metohija.
>
>(3) Number of abducted and missing persons: 821
>
>Out of whom 757 were Serbs and Montenegrins, 37 Albanians and 27 members
>of
>other nationalities.
>The fate of 716 persons is still unknown; 76 abducted persons were
>killed,
>4 persons escaped while 25 were released.
>
>(4) The latest brutal crimes: shelling of Serbian village Goracevac
>(7
>January); brutal murder of the Skenderis, a four member Muslim family,
>in
>Prizren (11 January 2000); murder of three Serb refugees in the village
>of
>Pasjane (16 January); rape and killing of an 11-year old Albanian girl
>by a
>KFOR member near Vitina (11 January 2000); RPG attack on an UNHCR bus (2
>
>February) killing two and wounding several Serbs; hand-grenade attack on
>
>"Belami" cafe in Kosovska Mitrovica (3 February), wounding 30 Serbs,
>several seriously; attack on the building of the Committe on Human
>Rights
>in downtown Obilic (3 February), armed attacks on villages Banje,
>Svinjare
>and Suvo Grlo (5 February), Lipljan and Bresje (7 February); destruction
>of
>a monument to the Serb hero Milos Obilic in the town under the same name
>(7
>February); terrorist attack on a police patrol in the vicinity of
>Konculj
>village near Bujanovac, killing one and wounding three police officers;
>killing Dr. Josif Vasic who was a member of the Serb National Council in
>
>the centre of Gnjilane (26 February).
>
>(5) New forms of terror against Serbs and other non-Albanian population:
>
>KFOR's security actions against Serbian and other non-Albanian
>population
>increasingly demonstrate force, harassment, physical violence, including
>
>causing damage to Serb property. Drastic incidents occurred in Kosovska
>Mitrovica (on 20-25 February) as well as in the villages of Mogila (on
>25
>February), in which Serbian houses were searched by using the method of
>most brutal physical violence, Draganovac (Gnjilane municipality) and
>Miolice (Leposavic municipality). The seraches were conducted by KFOR
>jointly with the terrorists of the so-called KLA, who wore international
>
>security forces uniforms, thus proving the co-ordination between KFOR
>and
>Albanian terrorists.
>
>(6) Situation in Kosovska Mitrovica:
>
>Since KFOR and UNMIK were deployed in Kosovo and Metohija, the security
>situation is particularly serious in and around Kosovska Mitrovica,
>characterized by:
>
>- the looting and destruction of 2,365 homes belonging to Serbs,
>Montengrins and other non-Albanians (1,200 in Kosovska Mitrovica; 1,060
>in
>Vucitrn; and 105 in Srbica);
>- 700 Serbian families being thrown out of their flats (500 in Kosovska
>Mitrovica; 150 in Vucitrn; and 50 in Srbica);
>- the looting and destruction of the property of the following
>companies:
>
> 1. In Kosovska Mitrovica: Socially-owned companies
>"Kosovo-Sirovina", DP
>"Betonjerka", "Lux", "AMD", "Kosmet-Prevoz", "Trans-Kosovo", Duvanska,
>Minel, Zemljoradnicka zadruga (cooperative), Hortikultura, Mitrov~anka,
>DES, "Ibar-Rozaje" warehouse, the utility company "Vodovod" (water), the
>
>printing company "Progres", the public company "Elektro-Kosovo", PTT and
>a
>larger number of bars and cafes owned by non-Albanian residents.
> 2. In Vucitrn: Socially-owned companies "Sartid",
>"Vucitrn-Prevoz",
>"Ratar", the local cooperative, the paints and coatings factory
>"Ekstra",
>the cponstruction company "Kosovo", the utility company "Sitnica", the
>private company "Cicavica", the Labour Exchange, the local community
>centre, the municipal authorities of Vucitrn, the Building Land Fund,
>the
>local department store, the Auditing Office building, Jugobanka, primary
>
>and secondary schools, Jugopetrol, Beopetrol, the public company
>"Elekro-Kosovo", PTT.
>
> 3. In Srbica: Hunting munitions factory, plastics factory, the
>socially-owned company "Budu}nost", local cooperative, the public
>utility
>company, the socially-owned company "Dijamant-produkt", the local
>community
>centre, the local self-managing community of intrest, the socially-owned
>
>company "Zitopromet" and its silos.
>
>(7) Prison and labour camps run by the so-called "KLA" for abucted
>Serbs:
>
>The abducted Serb civilians are detained by the so-called "KLA" in the
>labour camps located in the village of Mati~ane and in the wider area of
>
>Prizren and in Drenica.
>The prisons run by the so-called "KLA" for Serbs, Montenegrin and other
>residents who are not supportive of Albanian terrorists are also
>situated
>around the village of Brod, Dragas municipality, and along the Djakovica
>
>road towards the village of Junik, Decani municipality.
>
>(8) Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR and UNMIK: 185
>
>Arrested Serbs are detained in prisons in Pri?tina, Prizren, Sojevo near
>
>Uro?evac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Lipljan and Kolokot Banja.
>
>They have been arrested without any explanation or charges, only on the
>ground of information provided by the Albanians, most frequently by the
>members of the terrorist so-called "KLA".
>
>(9) Recent killings of Albanians loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia:
>
>The terrorist so-called "KLA" has stepped up execution of Albanians who
>do
>not back it, in particular in the areas of Pri{tina, Podujevo and Pec.
>The
>most drastic examples are: the murder of Hejdi Sejdiu, a member of the
>Serbian Socialist Party Committee in the province, in his hometown of
>Urosevac in front of his wife and three children (on 10 February), the
>killing of Danus Januzi in Vitina (on 10 February); the massacre of
>Tahir
>Bekim, who was abducted and later killed by the terrorists of the
>so-called
>"KLA" (parts of his mutilated body were found on 24 February).
>Besides Serbs, the terrorist so-called "KLA" also round up Albanians
>loyal
>to the State of the FR of Yugoslavia and bring them to their prison
>camps
>(around the village of Brod, Dragas municipality)
>
>(10) Number of wounded persons: 802
>751 Serbs and Montenegrins, 20 Albanians and 31 persons of other
>nationalities.
>
>(11) Reported cases of physical assault, harassment and inflicted
>grave
>bodily harm: 424
>
>
>(12) Registered cases of serious threats in Pristina: 356
>
>
>(13) Registered number of private dwellings broken into and forcibly
>taken
>occupancy of: 776 in Pristina, over 700 in Kosovska Mitrovica, 190 in
>Gnjilane, 124 in Orahovac, a large number in Kosovo Polje and Lipljan.
>
>(14) Ethnic cleansing: In the campaign of ethnic cleansing following
>the
>deployment of KFOR and UNMIK over 350 000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma,
>Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians were expelled from
>Kosovo
>and Metohija, of whom 270 000 are Serbs.
>
>The following towns and villages are ethnically cleansed of Serbs, Roma,
>
>Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians:
>
>Pristina (all Serbs have been driven from its largest surburbs of
>Ulpijana,
>Suncani Breg, Dardanija, Univerzitetsko Naselje), Gnjilane, Uro{evac,
>Prizren (only 100 Serbian families remained), Djakovica, Pec, Srbica,
>Podujevo, Vucitrn, Glogovac, as well as the the wider areas of Kosovska
>
>Mitrovica, Lipljan, Kosovo Polje, from which 80 per cent of Serb
>residents
>were expelled (their homes are burned, looted and property is seized
>from
>the owners of cafes and shops, while Albanian terrorists brutalize and
>mistreat those Serbs who refuse to sell their homes and leave Kosovo and
>
>Metohija, in the presence of KFOR), the villages in the municipality of
>Istok; Djakovo, Osojane, Tucepom, Koc, Zac, Belica, Krnjine, Maticane,
>Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovacka Vrbica, the surroundings of Urosevac,
>Slivovo,
>Nedakovac, Nevoljane, Vrpica, Ljestar, Cegra (municipality of Gnjilane),
>
>Citnje, Pozaranje, Grmovo, Drobec, Kabac and Binac (municipality of
>Vitina), the area of Kosovska Kamenica (villages of Bratilovce, Fireceja
>
>and others), the area around Vitina and Kosovsko Pomoravlja, as well as
>the
>villages of Toplicane, Rujice, Magure, Slovinja, Staro Gracko, Klobukar
>-
>Novo Brdo. (All Serb houses have been burned down and all its owners
>forced
>to leave.)
>
>Members of the terrorist "KLA" exercise particularly strong pressure on
>the
>region of Gora populated by an indigenous ethnic group - Goranci, who
>are
>not allowed to use their mother tongue, i.e. the Serbian language, in
>schools and in everyday life, in an attempt to misrepresent this ethnic
>group as members of Albanian nationality.
>
>In the area of Istok municipality, expulsion of the Muslim ethnic
>community, who are loyal citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia, has been
>particularly intensified.
>
>(15) Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural monuments:
>
> About 84 churches, monasteries and other cultural monuments were
>burned
>down, demolished or seriously damaged including the following: the
>Church
>of Assumption of Our Lady in Dolac, monastery of St. Marco in Kori?a
>from
>1467, monastery of Prophets Kosmo and Damien in Zociste from 14th
>century,
>the church in Kijevo from the 14th century, the Holy Trinity monastery
>from
>the 14th century near Musuti?te, monastery Devic built in 1440, Church
>of
>St. Paraskeva in Drenik from the 16th century, Church of St. Dimitri
>near
>Pe?, the Orthodox church in Grmovo near Vitina, Church of St. Ilija in
>?egra near Gnjilane, church of Holy Mother in Mu?uti?te from 1315,
>Church
>of St. Prophet Ilija in Bistri`in, Church of Apostles Peter and Paul in
>Suva Reka, monastery of St. Uros in Nerodimlje, monastery of St.
>Archangel
>Gabriel from the 14th century in Bina~, Church of the Holy Virgin from
>the
>16th century in Belo Polje, Church of St. John the Baptist in Peca
>Banja,
>churches in the villages of Naklo, Vucitrn, Petrovac, Urosevac,
>Podgorce,
>Djurakovac, Kru{evo, Osojane, Samodreca, Dresna near Klina, Rekovac,
>Petric, monastery Binac near Vitina, Holy Trinity Cathedral in
>Djakovica,
>St. Nicholas' Church in Gnjilane.
>
>Clergy, monks were terrorized and persecuted. More than 150 parish
>residences were destroyed or damaged. Over 10,000 icons and other sacred
>
>objects, most of which are cultural monuments and landmarks under the
>special protection of the State, were stolen or destroyed.
>
>Assaults on members of the Catholic religious community by the
>terrorists
>of the so-called "KLA" have become more and more frequent in Prizren and
>
>Pec, particularly assaults on clergymen (The homes of two Franciscan
>priests were burned down.).
>
>The following cultural monuments were damaged and demolished:
>
>- monuments in memory of the giants of Serbian and Montenegrin
>literature
>Vuk Karadzic and Petar Petrovic Njegos in the very centre of Pri?tina;
>
>- monuments in memory of King Uros in Urosevac and King Dusan in
>Prizren;
>
>- memorial to Prince Lazar in Gnjilane and the memorial to Serbian
>rulers
>from the Nemanjic dynasty in the village of Gornje Nerodimlje.
>
>- memorial to Milos Obilic which was the symbol of the town of Obilic.
>
>Many of destroyed monuments are outstanding examples of the Serbian
>cultural heritage and are on the list of the monuments of exceptional
>cultural value under the protection of UNESCO.
>
>(16) Forced and illegal taking over of public institutions:
>
>- Forcible and illegal take-overs of premises and buildings of post
>offices, banks, medical institutions, water and power supply systems,
>university, elementary and secondary schools, municipal and other
>authorities of local administration, local communes, buildings of the
>Ministry of the Interior and the Army of Yugoslavia, factories,
>enterprises, cooperatives, etc. in Pri?tina (premises of the Clinical
>centre "Pristina" and the health station, the Federal Customs
>Administration, the Public Housing Company, Institute for Urban
>Planning,
>the public enterprise "Vodovod", thermal power plant "Kosovo B", depots
>and
>petrol stations of "Jugopetrol", the shareholding companies
>"Kosmet-Pristina", "Kosovo-Trans", the public enterprise "Energoinvest",
>
>the public enterprise "Autopristina", the Car shock absorbers factory,
>"Jugotrans", etc.) as well as in Prizren, Dragas, Podujevo, Lipljan,
>?trpci, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje (with the assistance of KFOR),
>Djakovica (with the assistance of KFOR).
>
>- By forced and illegal taking over of public enterprises and
>institutions
>over 20,000 employed Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks
>and
>other non-Albanians were sacked and left with no means to support
>themselves.
>
>(17) Registered armed attacks on villages: Slovinj, Maticane, Orahovac,
>Konjuh, Berivojce, Gornja Brnjica, the villages around Kosovska
>Kamenica:
>Grncar, Magila, Ajvalija, all the villages of the Istok-Klina region,
>Gorazdevac near Pec, Svinjare, Klokot, Novo Brdo, Zjum, Donja and Gornja
>
>Gu{terica, Susica, Badavac, Bresje, Vrbovac, Vitina, Cernice,
>(municipality
>of Gnjilane), Dobruca, Veliko Ropotovo (municipality of Kosovska
>Kamenica),
>Partec, Podgrdje, Mali{evo and Pasjane (municipality of Gnjilane),
>Ljestar,
>Budriga, Dobrotin (municipality of Lipljan), Grn~ar, Binac, Ranilug,
>[ilovo, Odovce, Rajanovce, Bosce, Caglavica, Paravolo, Lebane, Gojbulja,
>
>Suvo Grlo and Banje (municipality of Srbica), in the following villages
>in
>the area covered by the municipality of Gora: Brodosavce, Belobrod,
>Kukavce
>- frequent attacks against the houses of Goranci, Muslims and Albanians
>who
>are loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia.
>
>All Serb houses in the villages of Donji Livoc, Kmetova Vrbica, Lipovica
>
>and Cernice in the municipality of Gnjilane, and in the villages of
>Vaganes, Gradjenik and Orahovica in the municipality of Kosovska
>Kamenica,
>all forming part of Kosovsko Pomoravlje, were set on fire and destroyed
>by
>mortars or explosives.
>
>All this runs counter to assertions by KFOR and UNMIK that the terrorist
>
>"KLA" has been disarmed.
>
>(18) Sieges of towns and villages: Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika Hoca,
>Koretin, villages around Gnjilane, Priluzje, Gornja Srbica, Gora`devac.
>About 3,500 Serb residents of Orahovac have been living for more than
>eight
>months since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the first concentration
>
>camp in Europe after the Second World War, besieged by the terrorist
>"KLA".
>
>(19) Armed threats against villages and terror committed on a daily
>basis
>against non-Albanian population: Ugljari, Srpski Babus, [timlje, Novo
>Selo,
>Bresje, Obilic, the area around Kosovo Polje, Milosevo (against which
>the
>armed attack was carried out), village of Zebnice (dramatic humanitarian
>
>situation), the majority of the mainly Catholic Croatian population who
>lived in the villages of Letinice, Vrnez, Vrnavo Kolo and Csare have
>moved
>out, Drenovac (50 Serbs massacred), village of Cernice (a series of
>incidents in which US KFOR soldiers maltreated Serbs), Pozaranje,
>Gotovuza, Gatnje, Zubin Potok, Veliki Ala{, Vrelo and Radevo, Plemetin
>and
>Slatina (municipality of Vucitrn), Crkolez (municipality of Istok),
>Ogo{e -
>municipality of Kosovska Kamenica (where almost all Roma families have
>been
>driven out).
>
>(20) The looted Serb villages from which the residents were forced out:
>Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo Polje,
>Livadice, Mirovac, Sirinicka Zupa, Medregovac, Grace, Zociste, Sofalija,
>
>Dragoljevac, Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja Cipacnica.
>
>(21) Serb neighbourhoods set on fire: Istok, Klina, Donja Lapa{tica,
>Obrandza, Velika Reka, Perane, Lause, the villages around Podujevo,
>Grace,
>Donja Dubica, Zociste, Orahovac, Naklo, Vitomirice, Belo Polje,
>Kojlovice,
>Alos-Toplicane, Krajiste, Rudnik, Donji Strmac, Goles (municipality of
>Lipljan), Orlovic (municipality of Pristina), Krpimej and Lausa
>(municipality of Podujevo), Muzicane (all Serbian houses burned down),
>Zaimovo, Denovac, Lesjane, Gornje and Donje Nerodimlje (all Serbian
>houses
>looted and then burned down), Sinaje (municipality of Istok), Balovac,
>Mali
>Talinovac, Ljubi`da, Klobuka (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Zaskok
>
>and Novi Miros (municipality of Urosevac).
>
>(22) Registered number of homes burned down: About 50,000 houses of
>Serbs,
>Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians were burned down in
>Kosovo
>and Metohija.
>
>(23) Registered number of illegal entries of foreign citizens into
>the FR
>of Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Metohija) without the necessary papers (visas
>and
>registration of stay with the competent authorities): 748
>
>Over 200,000 foreigners have illegally entered into the Province with
>the
>consent of UNMIK and KFOR. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia has
>officially requested their expulsion on several occasions. These
>requests
>have not been met, although those persons are international terrorists,
>criminals, mafia members, women and child traders, organizers of
>brothels
>and other forms of international crime.
>
>(24) Registered number of stolen vehicles: over 12,000
>
>As a result of open borders with Macedonia and Albania 250,000 vehicles
>were brought into Kosovo and Metohija without the payment of customs
>duties
>and most of these vehicles were stolen.
>
>(25) Registered number of cases of violation of the ground security
>zone by
>KFOR: 266
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>REVIEW OF TERRORIST AND OTHER ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND OF CERTAIN VIOLATIONS
>OF
>SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1244 (1999) IN THE PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND
>METOHIJA SINCE THE DEPLOYMENT OF KFOR AND UNMIK IN THE PERIOD FROM 12
>JUNE
>1999 TO 27 FEBRUARY 2000
>
>
>Terrorism of Albanian separatists
>
>Total number of terrorist attacks 4,354
>- Serbs and Montenegrins 4,121
>- Albanians 96
>- members of other nationalities 137
>
>A. Killed 910
>- Serbs and Montenegrins 811
>- Albanians 71
>- members of other nationalities 28
>
>B. Wounded 802
>- Serbs and Montenegrins 751
>- Albanians 20
>- members of other nationalities 31
>
>
>C. Kidnapped and missing 821
>- Serbs and Montenegrins 757
>- Albanians 37
>- members of other nationalities 27
>
>
>Fate of kidnapped and missing
>1. Killed 76
>2. Escaped 4
>3. Unaccounted-for 716
>4. Released 25
>
>
>
>


FONTE: Min. Affari Esteri RF di Jugoslavia
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BRATSTVO I JEDINSTVO


La Unita' e la Fratellanza tra i popoli in generale, e balcanici in
particolare, sono molto care alla Comunita' Internazionale ed alle
strutture NATO soprattutto: e' noto infatti che per difendere quei
valori contro il nazionalismo e le pulizie etniche costoro hanno
sostenuto, finanziato e riconosciuto formalmente tutte le secessioni su
base etnica nello spazio della RFSJ. Adesso tocca al Kosovo - anzi:
"alla Kosova", al femminile, in omaggio ai diritti della donne - e
allora, oltre ad armare ed addestrare gli irredentisti pan-albanesi e'
necessario anche compiere degli atti simbolici inequivocabili. E' per
questo che alla fine della scorsa estate una esplosione ha gravemente
danneggiato il monumento alla Unita' ed alla Fratellanza al centro di
Pristina, mentre lo scorso gennaio un incendio e' stato appiccato nel
Palazzo dello Sport, sempre a Pristina, intitolato a "Boro e Ramiz" -
dal nome di due ragazzi kosovari (uno slavo, l'altro schipetaro) uccisi
insieme dai nazisti... un po' come lo scorso anno le bombe della NATO
uccidevano insieme passeggeri serbi ed albanesi sugli autobus di linea.


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Il comitato Scienziate e Scienziati contro la guerra,
in collaborazione con il Politecnico di Torino, organizza il convegno

CULTURA, SCIENZA e INFORMAZIONE DI FRONTE ALLE NUOVE GUERRE

- I lavori si svolgeranno presso il Politecnico di Torino nei giorni
22-23 giugno 2000, con il supporto logistico di Alternativa Sindacale
Piemonte.

- Scopo del convegno è favorire uno scambio tra esperte ed esperti di
discipline diverse intorno ai temi della guerra, nella consapevolezza
che, nonostante taluni scienziati abbiano spesso collaborato in modo
determinante alla realizzazione di strumenti di distruzione e di
morte,
l'impegno di chi opera nei campi della ricerca, dell'educazione e
dell'informazione può contribuire a prevenire l'insorgere di nuove
guerre.

- Allo stesso tempo questa iniziativa vuole essere una occasione di
incontro e comunicazione tra scienziate/i e società, con l'auspicio
che
l'interazione di diverse componenti dia origine a una cooperazione
fattiva e concreta per il perseguimento di obiettivi comuni. Pertanto,
ampi spazi saranno riservati al dibattito aperto ai contributi di
tutte/i.

- Al termine dei lavori avrà luogo la riunione nazionale del Comitato
Scienziate e Scienziati contro la guerra; chi è interessato a
partecipare a questo incontro potrà formalizzare la propria adesione
al
Comitato nel corso del Convegno.


TEMI DEL CONVEGNO

Sezione 1 - Informazione e disinformazione: cultura, scienza e guerre

Gestione della comunicazione, accesso all'informazione, costruzione del
consenso. Responsabilità della scienza e degli scienziati, accesso al
sapere. Nonviolenza, prevenzione dei conflitti.


Sezione 2 - Conseguenze ecologiche e sanitarie delle guerre

Effetti delle nuove armi, nuovi (e vecchi) inquinamenti, con particolare
riguardo alle conseguenze ambientali dovute alla guerra del Golfo ed
alle guerre nei Balcani.


Sezione 3 - Questioni strategico-militari; diritto internazionale e
ingerenza umanitaria

Scenari strategici, crisi politiche e ambientali; gestione dei
conflitti; negoziati UN. Industria bellica; vecchie e nuove armi,
militarizzazione del territorio.


COMITATO SCIENTIFICO

Angelo Baracca, Giulia Barone, Chiara Cavallaro, Mauro Cristaldi,
Alberto Di Fazio, Elisabetta Donini, Anna Gigli, Andrea Martocchia,
Angelo Raffaele Meo, Franco Nebbia, Carlo Pona, Giovanni Salio, Massimo
Zucchetti.

COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE

Luisella Caire, Valeria Chiado' Piat, Marina Clerico, Rino Lamonaca,
Angelo Raffaele Meo, Massimo Zucchetti, del Politecnico di Torino; Hisao
Fujita Yashima, Margherita Roggero, dell'Università di Torino.

CONTRIBUTI

Le conferenze generali sono ad invito.

Brevi comunicazioni sono benvenute, previa sottomissione di un riassunto
(massimo 1 pagina), che verrà esaminato dal Comitato Scientifico.

I riassunti dovranno essere inviati per posta elettronica in due copie a
ciascuno dei due seguenti indirizzi:

luisella@... zucchetti@...

IL TERMINE PER L'INVIO DEI RIASSUNTI è IL 25 APRILE 2000.


INFORMAZIONI

Ulteriori informazioni sul convegno possono essere richieste a
Margherita Roggero (Università di Torino) all'indirizzo:

roggero@...

Si rimanda inoltre alla home page di Scienzaepace, al sito:

http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~marco/SP/



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DICHIARAZIONE COMUNE
DEI COMITATI EUROPEO E STATUNITENSE DEL
TRIBUNALE INTERNAZIONALE SULLA GUERRA DELLA NATO CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA


Common Declaration of
The European and the US American Preparatory Committees for the
International
Tribunals concerning the NATO War against Yugoslavia
March 24, 2000 marks the first anniversary of the day the US-led North
Atlantic
Treaty Organization, with the participation of 18 member states,
treacherously
and brutally attacked the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in violation
of the
Charter of the United Nations and all basic norms of international law.
Under the
pretext of protecting human rights, the aggressors placed the lives of
millions
of inhabitants in danger and disregarded their fundamental human rights.
Seventy-eight days and nights the gigantic NATO aerial armada bombarded
cities
and villages. These bombings killed and maimed thousands of women, men
and
children, destroyed a large part of the Yugoslavian infrastructure as
well as its
industrial foundation, poisoned the environment and set the country back
many
years in its development.
With the terror attacks against civilian targets, hospitals, schools,
residential
areas, television studios and transmitters, against the chemical
industry, the
electrical works and heating factories as well as with the deployment of
internationally banned weapons such as 156 containers with approx.
35,000 cluster
bombs as well as with munition using radioactive depleted uranium, the
NATO
committed a flagrant violation even of the laws of war.
All assertions that NATO waged this war for humanitarian reasons have
been
disproved by the aggression, that had been planned long in advance and
prepared
down to the minutest detail, by the barbaric way of waging the war as
well as by
the developments in Kosovo and Metohija subsequent to this aggression:
This
includes the harassment, murder and the expulsion of the non-Albanian
population
as well as of those Albanians, who do not adhere to the objectives of
the KLA,
before the eyes of the KFOR NATO units. The objective of that war was
the war
itself, as a means of rendering the UN Security Council powerless, of
replacing
the equality of states in international law with the law of the jungle
and of
testing out and establishing the new NATO doctrine, which threatens
world peace.

The war of aggression and the war crimes of NATO must not be allowed to
go
unpunished - for the sake of preventing new wars, for the sake of peace.
These
are the objectives of the International Tribunals that will be convened
June 2nd
and 3rd in Berlin and June 10th 2000 in New York. We want to contribute
to the
dissemination of the truth about the war and to having those liable
civilian and
military leaders of the USA, Germany, Great Britain, and the other NATO
states
brought to justice. The truth cannot be allowed to be hidden, nor the
guilty to
go with impunity.
NATO wreaked immense sorrow, suffering and destitution on the people of
Yugoslavia. Through the destruction of industry and other economic
assets alone,
600,000 people lost their work places and another 2.5 million their
means of
subsistence. As a result of the expulsions from Kosovo the number of
refugees in
Serbia - with its population of 10 million - has been raised to 1
million. The
aged, the chronically ill and those traumatized by the war - including
more than
300,000 children - are suffering particularly due to an enormous deficit
in
medicines and medical equipment created by sanctions and war
devastation. The
mortality rate has rapidly risen. Today, as a result of this war, in the
heart of
Europe, the population of a country, known for its heroic, costly and
victorious
struggle against the German Wehrmacht in the Second World War is being
forced to
struggle for its life.
Rather than offering at least immediate humanitarian aide - let alone
paying
damages, and reparations - the NATO leaders, who claimed to be human
rights
warriors during the aggression, are maintaining the strangling sanctions
against
an entire people. Even worse: by demanding the overthrow of the present
government - a demand in blatant violation of international law, and an
unprecedented interference in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state
not seen
in Europe since 1945 - as prerequisite for the loosening of sanctions,
an entire
people is being held hostage and all considerations of fraternity and
humanism
disregarded. New conflicts are being provoked and Yugoslavia's
territorial
integrity is being further threatened.
In light of these and other obscured forms of the continued war against
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, we emphatically demand that the NATO
states
immediately lift the illegal and inhumane sanctions against Yugoslavia,
cease the
interference in her domestic affairs, cease the discrimination against
Yugoslavia
in international relations, respect her sovereignty and territorial
integrity,
put a stop to the harassment and banishment of the non-Albanian
population of
Kosovo and Metohija, grant the whole of Yugoslavia rapid assistance in
overcoming
the sequels of the NATO aggression as well as the initiation of payment
of
comprehensive war damages.
The debt that the governments of the USA and its allies owe Yugoslavia
grow with
each passing day in which these fundamental demands are disregarded. But
the day
will come where these governments will be brought to justice. We appeal
to all
people of good will, regardless of their political, ideological,
religious views
to contribute to the advent of that day, and to help in the further
preparation
and support these tribunals concerning the NATO War against Yugoslavia.

===================================================================

VIENNA

Yesterday about 1500 people, mainly Yugoslavs, demonstrated against the
ongoing NATO aggression against Yugoslavia on the occasion of the first
anniversary of the NATO war.

The opening meeting was hold in front of the parliament and was centered
around following questions:

No to any military pact, no to WEU and NATO!

No social cuts for armament!

Keep neutraliy!

The final ralley in front of the opera had as its motto:

Stop the displacements by UCK/KLA and NATO!

NATO out of Kosovo!

Stop the blockade against Yugoslavia!

It is worth to note that both the Vienna branch of Draskovic's SPO as
well
as the Serbian-Orthodox church called to boycott the demonstration.
Therefore the organisers of the Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity Movement
(JÖSB)
regard the strength of the mobilisation as a success which was also
proven
by the combative morale of the demonstrators.

International Leninist Current (ILC)
Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI)
PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria
Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10
ilc@...

---

Von der Presse verschwiegen - dennoch ein Erfolg
(rkl, 25.3.00)

Gestern demonstrierten in Wien rund 1.500 Menschen, überwiegend
jugoslawischer Herkunft, anläßlich des ersten Jahrestages des
Nato-Krieges
gegen Jugoslawien gegen die andauernde Aggression.

Bei der Auftaktundgebung vor dem Parlament standen österreichische
Fragen im
Vordergrund

Nein zu Beistandspflicht, WEU und NATO!

Kein Sozialabbau für Aufrüstung!

Erhalt der Neutralität!

während die Abschlußveranstaltung bei der Oper zum Motto hatte:

Stoppt die Vertreibungen durch UCK und NATO!

NATO raus aus dem Kosovo!

Schluss mit der Blockade gegen Jugoslawien!

Hinzuweisen ist darauf, dass der Wiener Ableger der SPO Draskovics zum
Boykott der Demonstration aufgerufen hatte und diese als "kommunistisch
vereinnahmt" bezeichnete. Das ist angesichts der breiten Beteiligung
sowohl
von regierungstreuen, als auch regierungskritischen jugoslawischen
Kräften,
die beide keineswegs als kommunistisch zu bezeichnen sind, völlig aus
der
Luft gegriffen, um so mehr als die übergroße Mehrheit der Wiener Serben
politisch nicht organisiert sind. Dass bei den österreichischen
Unterstützern verschiedene kommunistische Kräfte überwogen, ist
zweifellos
richtig -- doch es liegt in der Natur des Konfliktes, dass sich vor
allem
Kommunisten gegen die konkrete Politik des kapitalistischen Imperiums,
dessen Teil Österreich ist, stellen. Die Organisatoren von der
"Jugoslawisch-Österreischen Solidaritätsbewegung" JÖSB jedenfalls
verstehen
sich auf der Basis des Antiimperialismus als strikt überparteilich!

Weiters hat auch die serbisch-orthodoxe Kirche zum gleichen Zeitpunkt
eine
Gedenkveranstaltung abgehalten, um so die Teilnahme an der Demonstration
zu
schwächen.

Die Veranstalter von der JÖSB sehen die Mobilisierungen deswegen als
Erfolg
an. Nach wie vor manifestiert sich ein starker Haß auf die NATO und den
Westen, der trotz der schwierigen Lage noch nicht in Resignation
umgeschlagen ist -- daher auch die gute Beteiligung.

Dennoch waren die politischen Spannungen innerhalb serbischen Gemeinde
stark
zu spüren.

Obwohl jedem kritischen Menschen bekannt, wollen wir dennoch auf den
totalen
Medienboykott hinweisen. Während von mikroskopischen Manifestationen in
aller Welt, die dem neoliberalen Einheitsdenken ins Konzuept passen,
ausgiebig berichtet wird, ist diese außerordentliche Mobilisierung den
"freien Medien" keine Zeile wert. Während in aller Welt die Kritik an
der
kriegstreiberischen Rolle der Medien immer lauter wird, entblödet sich
der
öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk ORF im Mittagsjournal vom 24.3.00 nicht,
als
einzige Kritik am Nato-Krieg das öffentliche Ausschließen eines
Einsatzes
von Bodentruppen zu nennen!

=================================================================

GERMANIA: VERITA' E MENZOGNE SULLA GUERRA

Betreff: Hamburger Abendblatt: Das späte Eingeständnis -
Verteidigungsminister Scharping unter Druck

http://www.abendblatt.de/contents/ha/news/politik/html/220300/22AUFMA1.HTM

Datum: Mittwoch, 22. März 2000 20:44
Betreff: Hamburger Abendblatt: Was Scharping nicht wusste



http://www.abendblatt.de/contents/ha/news/politik/html/220300/BUWEHR15.HTM











Der NATO-Angriffskrieg

NATO-Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

(von Rainer Rupp)

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO beriefen sich als Rechtfertigung ihres
Angriffskrieges auf
eine angeblich ungeschriebene Fortbildung der Menschenrechte.

Fakt ist, daß sie mit dem Angriff eklatant so gut wie gegen alle
geschriebenen internationalen
Verträge verstoßen haben: gegen die Charta der Vereinten Nationen, gegen
die Schlußakte von
Helsinki, gegen die Genfer Konvention zum Schutz von Zivilpersonen im
Krieg und gegen viele
andere internationale Abkommen und Rechtsnormen der zivilisierten Welt
verstoßen, ja sogar
gegen Artikel 1 der eigenen NATO-Charta. Darüber hinaus hat speziell die
Bundesregierung
gegen das Grundgesetz und den 2+4 Vertrag verstoßen.

Die NATO und vornweg Bundesverteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping führen
zur Rechtfertigung
des Angriffs die Existenz von serbischen Konzentrationslager und den
Genozid an ethnischen
Albanern im Kosovo an, der mit allen Mitteln hätte gestoppt werden
müssen. Die NATO sprach
erst von Hunderttausenden, später - als sie ins Kosovo einmarschierte -
jedoch nur noch von
zehn Tausend Ermordeten.

Fakt ist, daß im Kosovo kein Genozid statt gefunden hat. Dies belegen
die Untersuchungen des
Internationalen Gerichtshofs für Kriegsverbrechen im ehemaligen
Jugoslawien (ITCY). Im
November letzten Jahres präsentierte das Tribunal dem UNO-Sicherheitsrat
das vorläufige
Endergebnis der Untersuchungen von 200 angeblichen Massengräbern im
Kosovo. Trotz
intensiver Unterstützung durch die NATO wurden insgesamt 2018 Tote
gefunden, exhumiert und
gerichtsmedizinisch untersucht. Die Information, ob es sich bei den
Opfern um Kriegstote oder
Opfer von Exekutionen handelt, oder um Albaner oder Serben, wird vom
Tribunal ohne Angabe von
Gründen als geheim eingestuft. Nach Aussagen des NATO-Sprechers ist die
NATO ein Freund
des Tribunals, das hauptsächlich von der NATO finanziert wird.

Die NATO und die Bundesregierung behaupten, durch ihren Angriffskrieg
sei die Vertreibung der
Kosovo-Albaner gestoppt und die Rückkehr der Vertriebenen erst
ermöglicht worden.

Fakt ist, daß die große Flüchtlingswelle aus dem Kosovo überhaupt erst
durch den NATO-Angriff
provoziert wurde. Das UNO-Flüchtlingshilfswerk hatte unmittelbar vor dem
NATO-Angriff etwa
14.500 Flüchtlinge aus dem Kosovo in den angrenzenden Ländern
registriert. Am Ende des
NATO-Angriffs sollen es zwischen 700.000 und 800.000 gewesen sein. Nach
Aussagen von
General Clark, NATO-Oberbefehlshabers Europa, (gegenüber der New York
Times am 27.3.99
und Newsweek am 12.4.99) hatte die NATO als Reaktion auf ihre
Luftangriffe mit großen
Flüchtlingsströmen aus dem Kosovo gerechnet ( Clark: this was "entirely
predictable"), zumal zu
erwarte war, daß sich unter dem NATO-Bombenhagel auch die ethnischen
Probleme zwischen
Albanern und Serben zuspitzen würden. Eine seltsame Art der humanitären
NATO-Hilfe, die die
NATO den Menschen im Kosovo da gebracht hat!

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, sie hätten keinen Krieg
gegen das serbische Volk
geführt.

Fakt ist, daß NATO-Bomben etwa 2000 Zivilisten zerfetzt oder verbrannt
haben, zum größten
Teil Frauen und Kinder. Viele Tausende wurden schwer verletzt und werden
für Lebzeiten - ohne
Entschädigung durch die NATO - verkrüppelt bleiben. Die jugoslawische
Bundesarmee blieb
durch die NATO-Angriffe so gut wie unberührt. Zu den Opfern, die die
Bundesregierung und die
NATO auf dem Gewissen hat, muß auch die ständig wachsende Zahl der
Kinder gerechnet
werden, die von den Blindgängern der von der NATO völkerrechtswidrig
eingesetzten Cluster
Bomben zerrissen werden.

Die Bundesrepublik und die NATO behaupten, die weitgehende Zerstörung
der jugoslawischen
Wirtschaft, der zivile Infrastruktur, der Krankenhäuser, Wohnkomplexe,
Kindergärten und
Altenheime sei ein Ergebnis von nicht beabsichtigtem sogenannten
Kollateralschaden. Die
Bundesregierung und die NATO bestreiten, absichtlich zivile Ziele
angegriffen zu haben.

Fakt ist, daß der Stabschef der britischen Streitkräfte, General Sir
Charles Guthrie, im britischen
Fernsehen (BBC) unumwunden zuzugeben, daß die Bombenangriffe der NATO
auf zivile Ziele in
Jugoslawien beabsichtigt und Teil der militärischen NATO-Strategie
gewesen sind. Nach seinen
Worten waren "Angriffe auf beide Zielgruppen (militärische und zivile,
Anm.RR) notwendig" den
die Luftangriffe allein auf militärische Ziele hätten der NATO nicht den
gewünschten Sieg
gebracht hätten.





Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, im Kosovo sei mit dem
Einmarsch der NATO der
Frieden eingekehrt.

Fakt ist, daß seit dem Einmarsch der NATO im Kosovo die
durchschnittliche Zahl der monatlich
registrierten, ethnisch motivierten Morde im Vergleich zur Zeit vor dem
NATO Angriff nicht
zurück gegangen ist; über 500 Menschen wurden seit Juli 1999 ermordet.
Der Unterschied zu
früher liegt darin, daß es sich diesmal fast ausschließlich um Opfer der
kosovo-albanischen
Terrorgruppe UCK handelt. In den Jahren vor dem NATO-Überfall, bis zum
24.März 1999 waren
im Kosovo insgesamt fast 2.000 Menschen den ethnischen Unruhen zum Opfer
gefallen. Etwa die
Hälfte waren Serben und serben-loyal eingestufte Albaner, die von der
sezessionistischen UCK
umgebracht worden waren. Die andere Hälfte setzte sich teils aus
UCK-Terroristen zusammen,
teils aus unschuldigen Menschen, die den serbischen Gegenmaßnahmen zum
Opfer fielen.



Die Bundesregierung und die NATO haben nach eigenen Angaben den Krieg
geführt, um im
Kosovo die angeblichen ethnischen "Säuberungen" zu unterbinden und
behaupten, nun im Kosovo
mit Hilfe der K-FOR und UNMIK eine multi-ethnische demokratische
Gesellschaft aufzubauen.

Fakt ist, daß die unter den Augen der K-FOR und mit deren
stillschweigender Duldung die
ethnische Vertreibung von Serben, Roma, Juden und anderen
nicht-albanischen Minderheiten aus
dem Kosovo eingesetzt hat. Das Kosovo ist heute so gut wie "serbenrein".

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, die UCK existiere nicht mehr
und ihre
Nachfolgeorganisation, das Kosovo Schutz Korps, sei demilitarisiert und
habe lediglich den
Katastrophenschutz zur Aufgabe.

Fakt ist, daß ein UNO-Bericht vom 29.2. dem von K-FOR und UNMIK
gegründeten Kosovo
Schutz Korps (KSK) vorwirft, statt bei Katastrophen zu helfen, Menschen
zu ermorden und zu
foltern. Zugleich warnt der Bericht, daß die ungezügelten Aktivitäten
des kriminellen KSK drohen,
das Kosovo ins Chaos zu stürzen.

Bundesregierung und NATO behaupten, im Kosovo die Herrschaft des Rechtes
zu etablieren.

Fakt ist, daß Amnesty International (AI) in ihrem jüngsten Bericht der
K-FOR und UNMIK
vorwirft, sich im Kosovo nicht einmal an die von ihnen selbst gesetzten
Standards zu halten. AI
beschuldigt in dem Bericht sowohl K-FOR als auch UNMIK grober
Menschenrechtsverletzungen
im Kosovo.



Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupten, sie hätten alle
diplomatischen Verhandlungswege
erschöpft und es hätte keine Alternative mehr zum Krieg gegeben.

Fakt ist, daß weder die USA noch die NATO überhaupt ein
Verhandlungsergebnis gewollt haben.
Die angeblichen "Friedensverhandlungen" von Rambouillet waren nichts
anders als ein
erpresserischer Versuch, mit Hilfe von Gewaltandrohung die mißliebige
jugoslawische Regierung
dazu zu zwingen, ihre Souveränität aufzugeben. Der Anhang II zum
Rambouillet "Vertrag", zu
dessen Annahme die NATO die jugoslawische Regierung mit dem Ultimatum
der Luftangriffe
zwingen wollte, verlangte von der Regierung in Belgrad, ihre
Souveränität nicht nur über das
Kosovo sondern auch über den Rest Jugoslawiens aufzugeben. Im Anhang II
forderte die NATO
für ihre Truppen freien Zugang zu allen Regionen und Anlagen in ganz
Jugoslawien. Wie auch
Abgeordnete von "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" später eingestehen mußten: Keine
Regierung der Welt
hätte einen solche Vertrag unterzeichnen können. Die
"Friedensverhandlungen" waren von vor
herein darauf angelegt zu scheitern. Der Krieg war gewollt.

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO behaupteten, daß es im Kosovo um die
"Verteidigung der
Menschenrechte" gegangen sei.

Fakt ist, daß viele Menschen, die in gutem Glauben einen Völkermord zu
verhindern, den
NATO-Angriff unterstützt haben, nichts anderes taten als der NATO zu
erlauben, ohne
demokratische Diskussion zum ersten Mal ihr Neues Strategisches Konzept
in die Tat
umzusetzen. Ohne auch nur in den nationalen Parlamente debattiert worden
zu sein, ist es der
NATO-Führung auf diese Weise gelungen, das ursprüngliche Bündnis zur
Verteidigung der
territorialen Grenzen der NATO-Mitgliedsländer in eine Allianz zu
verwandeln, die in Zukunft ihre
politischen, wirtschaftlichen und geo-strategischen
Sicherheitsinteressen offensiv und weltweit
"verteidigen" will, einschließlich in des Zugangs zu den ölreichen
Regionen am Golf und am
Kaspischen Meer. Darüber hinaus ging es bei dem Krieg auch innerhalb der
NATO sowohl um ein
transatlantisches als auch um ein innereuropäisches Gerangel um
Positionen und Macht bei der
Neuordnung Europas. Mit anderen Worten: es war der erste
Neuordnungskrieg in Europa nach
dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion.

Die Bundesregierung und die NATO werden nicht müde, sich öffentlich zum
erfolgreichen
Angriffskrieg zu gratulieren, den sie als die "vornehmste Stunde der
Allianz" feiern.

Fakt ist, daß immer mehr Menschen beginnen, die "humanitäre" Propaganda
Lügen der NATO zu
entlarven. Das zeigen zunehmend kritische Medienberichte, auch in
konservativen Blättern der
NATO-Länder. Die Tatsache daß sogar ein Abgeordneter des amerikanischen
Kongresses, der
Republikaner Ron Paul aus Texas, kürzlich in einem im Internet
veröffentlichten Schreiben
(http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2000/tst031300.htm) die NATO-Lügen mit
denen des
NAZI-Propagandachefs Josef Goebbels gleich setzt, gibt Hoffnung, daß die
Wahrheit auf Dauer
nicht unterdrückt werden kann. Die Tatsache, daß die NATO außerdem im
Kosovo vor dem
Scherbenhaufen ihrer Kriegspolitik steht, läßt hoffen, daß Menschen in
Deutschland und den
anderen NATO-Ländern sich in Zukunft nicht wieder vor den Karren
"humanitärer"
NATO-Kriege spannen lassen.

SBR. den 21.3.00

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L'ANNIVERSARIO DELLA VERGOGNA

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j032200.html

ANTIWAR, Wednesday, March 22, 2000

Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com

ANNIVERSARY OF SHAME

This Friday it will be exactly one year since the mightiest military
power on earth decided to pulverize one of the smallest and weakest -
all in the name of "humanitarianism." And what has been the result of
this mission of mercy? It's time to take stock.

NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE . . .

What do the NATO-crats have to say for themselves? "A year ago, NATO
launched its airpower to end the repression in Kosovo," says NATO
Secretary General George Robertson, "and succeeded. In the blizzard of
words that has followed it is easy to overlook that simple fact." A
blizzard not only of words, but of casualties - over 800 Serbs
slaughtered by the Kosovo Liberation Army fanatics since the NATO
"liberation," and 150,000-plus driven out of the region - right under
the noses of the so-called peacekeepers. This, to the NATO-crats, is
success.

NO ILLUSIONS - AND NO SERBS

But we shouldn't rest on our laurels. "However there should be no
illusions," avers the evil Robertson, "the task remaining is
formidable." Yeah, I hear there are still a few Serbs left in Mitrovica.
But we needn't worry about that - the "peacekeepers" are being kept busy
"escorting" Albanians into the last remaining Serb neighborhood.

COSA NATO

"Liberated" Kosovo, one year later, is - in the words of Kiri
Dienstbier, the UN's special human rights investigator for the former
Yugoslavia - "a paradise for different mafias." "There are very
different private structures of power...It is a paradise for different
mafias which not only control certain regions and villages, they even
fight each other." What he doesn't say is that all these little mafias
are operating under the protection of the Biggest Mafia of Them All,
headquartered in Brussels, and known by its acronym: NATO.

IN THE CROSSFIRE

So, the Albanian Kosovars are "even fighting among themselves" - what a
surprise! For centuries, the rural northern Ghegs - who were heavily
recruited into the Skanderberg Division of the Nazi SS during World War
II - have been fighting the southern Tosks, who live in the plains area
and were big supporters of Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Stalin. The Kosovo
war forged a temporary unity, but now the long-running feud between the
Albanian version of the Hatfields and the McCoys is on again - with NATO
caught in the crossfire.

TURNING POINT

The London Guardian reports that military planners are already preparing
for the inevitable showdown with the KLA, and headlined the story:
"Pentagon braced for bloodshed after raids on guerrillas." The Pentagon
has "formally alerted" US troops in the field that they will no doubt be
facing their former "allies." A year after State Department spokesman
Jamie Rubin praised the KLA as "freedom-fighters," they are getting
ready to start shooting at us - now that's what I call gratitude,
Albanian style. A recent raid on the arm caches built up by the 800-man
Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB) - named after
the three Albanian-inhabited towns in southern Serbia's Presevo valley -
is the first major action in what will be an ongoing conflict. "We have
now fired the first shot at the Albanian insurgents - and insurgents
have a tendency to carry a grudge," says one Pentagon official. "If they
come to see us as an enemy then [the raid] will be seen as a turning
point."

KOSOVO, THE SEQUEL

Oh, but not to worry, says the KLA's man in the State Department: Rubin,
just back from a trip to Kosovo, said: "We do not believe we are
drifting towards a conflict with Kosovo Albanian insurgents." Why, those
Albanian pussycats would never harm a hair on an American head due to
the "deep reservoir of respect, thanks and goodwill towards the United
States." Would he care to go over there himself, and go on patrol with
American troops? Perhaps his lovely wife, KLA propagandist Christiane
Amanpour, would like to accompany him: together they could do a CNN
documentary, "Return to Kosovo," where they could confront - and perhaps
even answer for - the results of their handiwork, a land that, as
Dienstbier put it, is "a paradise of mafias."

OOOPS!

But Dienstbier is either unbelievably naïve or else utterly disingenuous
when he avers: "I see that what is happening in Kosovo now is the result
of a mistake of policy of the international community... bombing
Yugoslavia without knowing what will be next. Meanwhile, Kosovo
Liberation Army weapons came and they took over control and are now
cleansing non-Albanians." Mistake? He can't be serious. Here is a
sophisticated man, the former Czech foreign minister, who believes (or
pretends to believe) that the bombing, the murder and ethnic cleansing
of Serbs, the rising dictatorship of the KLA, the continued provocations
aimed at destabilizing what is left of Yugoslavia - it was all an
accident, a terrible "mistake." Is this what the UN has to say about an
action endorsed by its Security Council and personally approved by the
Secretary General: "Ooops!"? Gee, I tried to call The Hague to report a
war crime - but the line seem always to be busy.

REMEMBER NAPALM?

To call what happened to Kosovo a "mistake" would be laughable, but only
to someone given to the blackest humor. This is especially true in light
of the recent confirmation that the US used radioactive bullets against
the Serbs. According to a letter from the UN task force on Kosovo war
damage to Secretary General Kofi Annan, areas hit by radioactive
ammunition - used during approximately 100 bombing missions - are
dangerously contaminated. With a half-life of 4.5 billion years, twice
as dense as lead, depleted uranium is radioactive and ultra-toxic. The
San Francisco Examiner, which broke the story, informs us that "depleted
uranium burns when it hits a target, contaminating the tank and the
surrounding area." Depleted uranium - the napalm of America's
post-millennial Vietnam.

WHAT, ME WORRY?

As the Examiner story goes on, it all has a very familiar ring to it:
"The Pentagon has tried to downplay the risks of exposure to depleted
uranium dust and debris since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, when it was
used for the first time in combat." I wonder how many vets of that war
are now wandering the streets, irreparably damaged, inevitably homeless,
and invariably hopeless - and all because of the Pentagon's
"downplaying"? And how many more on the way? "However," the article
continues, "independent scientists say the substance has been linked to
skin, kidney and respiratory disorders, and can damage any part of the
body in which it is stored, including the lungs, lymph nodes, liver,
kidneys, muscle and bone." Ah, but not too worry, says the UN panel in
their letter to Annan, this "should not be a cause of widespread alarm"!
Unless you happen to live in Kosovo, of course - or if you happen to be
an American soldier on patrol.

THE COVEN

Was it stupidity or evil that poisoned the very land the NATO-crats
claimed to be "liberating"? Is this, too, a "mistake"? I don't think so.
Do you? What we are dealing with, in the current leaders of the Western
world, is not a gang of Keystone Kops, but a coven of sadistic
assassins, the kind who like to torture their victims before they put
them out of their misery. This is precisely what they are doing in
Kosovo, and throughout the former Yugoslavia. An example must be made:
the great enemy, nationalism, must be finally humbled and wiped out, so
that the "European spirit" can wash over the land, cleansing it of any
and all undesirable elements. Kosovo was no mistake, from the
NATO-cratic point of view, but a model of the wars of the future. For
Kosovo is only the first item on the pan-European agenda. Montenegro is
next, and then Vojivodina, and then eastward, to Macedonia, and on to
the Ukraine. Soon we will be at the very gates of Moscow.

TO ELBA

The ambition of the NATO-crats is positively Napoleonic: we can only
hope that it meets a similar fate. In which case more than a few of them
will be exiled to Elba, or some similarly desolate isle, where they will
be free to write their memoirs and brood on the enormity of their
crimes. It is something to look forward to, anyway.


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WANTED


Quando nel giugno dello scorso anno, qualche settimana dopo la
cessazione dei bombardamenti dei paesi NATO sulla RFJ, gli Stati Uniti
d'America imposero una "taglia" sul capo del presidente jugoslavo
(nell'ambito di una serie di misure atte a criminalizzare quel paese
dichiarando in toto la Serbia "Stato terrorista") il vignettista del
"Manifesto" Vauro disegno' un pinco pallino che reclamava i milioni di
dollari di ricompensa poiche' "Milosevic e' a Belgrado" - lo sanno
tutti!
Circa un mese fa le truppe americane della SFOR in Bosnia hanno
tappezzato le strade con manifesti in perfetto stile Far West, nei quali
sono ritratti Karadzic, Mladic e Milosevic - "WANTED". Mentre la
stupidita' intrinseca della subcultura statunitense dilaga nel nostro
continente, il senso del ridicolo si va perdendo anche nelle piu' alte
istituzioni: un dispaccio Reuters del 23/3 ci informa che persino sul
sito dell'Interpol http://www.interpol.int appare da qualche giorno
una foto di Slobodan Milosevic "ricercato per crimini contro
l'umanita'".
Quindi, se vi capita di incontrare dal droghiere uno che assomiglia alla
fotografia, chiamate subito i carabinieri.


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* CECENIA: e' "scoppiata" la disinformazione strategica - proprio come
nei Balcani
* PARLAMENTARI KUWAITIANI commemorano i mercenari arruolati nelle fila
dei separatisti
* SELEZIONE DI LINK ad articoli sulle cause concrete del conflitto in
Caucaso e sulla posizione dei comunisti a riguardo


I SITI DEI SEPARATISTI:
http://www.chechnya.net
http://www.qoqaz.net/


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WAR CRIMES - OR FAKED NEWS?
By Igor Shrurenko (posted 3-10-00)

*** Is Russia the newest victim of Western media demonization? Or is the
anti-Russian news coverage we're seeing in fact nothing new? ***

Emperors-clothes www.tenc.net


DURHAM -- No news is good news. Lately, this formula seems to be a tacit
rule-of-the-thumb on presenting Russia in major publications and on TV
news
networks. According to the mainstream media, the only things now coming
from
Russia are new atrocities the Russians are practicing just for the sport
of
it.

The most recent example came last week, when major world TV networks
provided
us with a vivid picture of mutilated bodies being dumped into a pit.
Commentaries said the pit contained the bodies of Chechen civilians
detained
for interrogation by Russian troops. It was said also that the bodies
showed
the signs of torture.

The report came from German N-24 Television; correspondent Frank Hoefler
said
he had witnessed and documented war crimes. The BBC broadcast the film,
provoking indignation all over the globe.

But it seemed that no one in the U.S. media questioned the authenticity
of
what was shown. The Russians have been bad guys for decades, after all.
For
the Western media, reinforcing negative stereotypes about Russia is one
of
the easiest things to do.

Human rights activists demanded a full-scale investigation. The U.S.
Department of State expressed concern. European Parliament members
called to
add new sanctions against Russia to those now in place.

But the balloon has blown up unexpectedly. Hoefler, the Moscow
correspondent
of N-24, admitted that the film was in fact bought from a Russian
journalist,
Oleg Blotsky. Blotsky said that the film actually showed a mass burial
of
Chechen rebels killed in fighting with Russian troops. Blotsky was going
to
sue N-24, he said.

Then N-24 sacked Hoefler. According to Deutsche Presse-Agentur news
service,
the director of N-24 said that Hoefler distorted the footage and passed
it
off as his own documentation of war crimes.

What came in the West's mainstream media the morning after? Apologies?
No.
Calls for more objective coverage of Russia? Missed again.

Mud sticks, and the faked media event shown on major networks has had a
real
effect. The European Union imposed new sanctions on Russia, putting
another
trade barrier on Russian steel exports to the EU. As a result of this
pseudo-event, the negative stereotype of Russia had been sustained,
allowing
more negative coverage in the future.

When it comes to international coverage, the U.S. media seem not to
recognize
the basic journalistic standards accepted for coverage of domestic
affairs.
At home, no racial, national, gender or minority bias is allowed.
Accusations
need to be substantiated and well-sourced. Any consciously false
reporting,
when spotted, will cause a scandal within the journalistic community.

Abroad, anything goes. The time of such sober and distinguished foreign
correspondents as David Remnick (formerly The Washington Post's Moscow
correspondent) is past. Now correspondents are being posted for much
shorter
periods of time; they have neither time nor, sometimes, the desire to go
deep
into an alien culture and try to understand it. All they want is to
scoop and
move on.

Since U.S. TV networks' international coverage is largely limited to
reporting calamities and major bloodshed, the easiest way to scoop is to
discover an even bigger calamity, even more bloodshed.

And as covering Russia means applying much lower or non-existent
journalistic
standards, reporters feel free to rely on plain rumors and bought
stories,
and on information carefully planted by intelligence services and
special-interest groups.

The N-24 faked story made major news. At the same time the networks did
not
report on the story of Alla Geifman, a 13-year-old Jewish Russian girl
who
was captured by the Chechen rebels and had two fingers cut off. She was
released in a special operation and later was invited to the United
States
for medical treatment. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has denied her a visa
to
enter the U.S.

According to "Kommersant," one of the most respected Russian dailies,
her
father said she was denied a visa because U.S. officials were afraid the
girl, while in the United States, would tell the truth about what is
really
going on in Chechnya. With the only-negative-goes approach to Russia,
this
human story is unlikely to get any coverage.

Likewise, the story of an ITAR-TASS photographer Vladimir Yazina, taken
prisoner and later killed in cold blood by the rebels, has not made it
in the
major U.S. news.

The Chechens are not exactly the good guys the Western media like to
present
them as. And reinforcing negative stereotypes about Russia is easy. To
find
and publish the truth, even if it goes against the grain, has always
been
difficult.

***Igor Shnurenko is a media fellow at the DeWitt Wallace Center for
Communications and Journalism at Duke University. A Russian journalist
and
writer, he has worked in the independent press since 1989.***

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Kuwaiti MP Salutes "Hero" Killed Fighting Alongside Chechen Rebels

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 21, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) An MP has praised as
a "hero" a Kuwaiti killed fighting alongside Chechen rebels during an
attack on Russian forces in the breakaway republic, newspapers reported
Saturday.
Salem al-Ajmi was "a hero who sacrificed his life in the fields of
Jihad," or Islamic holy war, Islamist MP Walid al-Tabtabai said, quoted
by the Arab Times.
Tabtabai, coordinator of a Kuwaiti organization which voices solidarity
for Muslim Chechnya, said that "Ajmi spent four months fighting
alongside Chechen fighters."
Ajmi, two Chechens and a Yemeni national died in an attack on a Russian
army convoy during which "several soldiers" were killed.
The 22-year-old Kuwaiti, whose wife reportedly gave birth to their first
child just three days after his death, was a theology student at Kuwait
university.
He also worked as a muezzin, or a deputy preacher who calls Muslims to
prayer, before leaving Kuwait to fight in Chechnya last November, said
Tabtabai, who congratulated the Ajmi family on his "martyrdom."
Ajmi entered Chechnya through Turkey with four other Kuwaitis, and
joined a Chechen rebel unit headed by warlord Shamil Basayev, according
to local newspapers.
Another Kuwaiti, Mokhled al-Utaibi, was killed by Russian forces last
September in the neighboring republic of Dagestan, where he had been
fighting alongside Islamic insurgents.
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah denied in
September accusations by Russian authorities that his country was
financing Islamic rebels in Dagestan.
The Gulf monarchies have condemned the Russian military campaign in
Chechnya. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)


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SELEZIONE DI ANALISI COMUNISTE DEL CONFLITTO CECENO

Sull'argomento si vedano anche:
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/44.html?
e vari articoli pubblicati recentemente su "L'Ernesto" e "Contropiano"


* NorthStar Compass - http://www.northstarcompass.org
CHECHINYA: What’s the position of Communists to this tragedy?

* Revolutionary Worker 12-19-99 - http://www.mcs.net/~rwor/
PIPELINE OF GREED: U.S. imperialism and the "Great Game" for Caspian Oil

* Workers World 12-2-99 Page8 - http://www.workers.org
NEW 'FREEDOM' - TO EXPLOIT: The link between Chechnya war and Caspian
oil

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Da "Solidaire" - http://www.ptb.be/solidaire.htm

Des communistes du Caucase analysent la guerre

Pour qui se battent les Tchétchènes?

L?Ossétie du Nord est une république russe du Caucase. Elle est située
près de la Tchétchénie où la guerre fait rage
entre armée russe et séparatistes tchétchènes. Nous publions ci-dessous
un résumé de l?analyse qu?en fait la
section d?Ossétie du Nord du Parti communiste des Bolcheviks d?Union
soviétique.

Résumé: Jef Bossuyt

Début août 1999, un groupe important de Tchétchènes armés pénètre au
Daghestan, sans déclaration de guerre préalable.
Cette invasion n?allait amener que larmes et amertume au Daghestan,
profondément meurtri. Rien que dans la région de
Botlich, 20.000 personnes se sont enfuies. L?invasion a été de pair avec
des raids terroristes à Boujnaksk, Moscou,
Volgodonsk, Leningrad et d?autres villes russes.

Le Caucase possède de nombreuses richesses connues, à côté d?autres qui
le sont moins. La région forme un pont reliant la
Russie centrale et l?Ukraine à l?Asie occidentale et centrale, la mer
Noire et la Caspienne. Les Soviétiques y avaient
fortement développé l?industrie, l?agriculture et les infrastructures.
Le Caucase est également un creuset de langues et de
religions où, pendant longtemps, peuples russes et non russes ont
cohabité en toute amitié.

Washington veut affaiblir la Russie

Cette guerre, menée par une formation islamique internationale de 10.000
combattants, vise à créer un Etat islamique dont
la capitale serait Khasavyurt. Certains avancent que la guerre a pu être
déclenchée parce que le Saoudien Ben Laden finance
les combattants tchétchènes. Il est évident qu?Usama Ben Laden a une
relation directe avec cette guerre. Selon les dires de
Joseph Volanski, directeur du service britannique de lutte
antiterroriste, il aurait collecté ´des dizaines, sinon des
centaines de millions de dollars' pour ce conflit. Mais ni Ben Laden, ni
l?Arabie saoudite, ni la Turquie ne peuvent opérer
de leur propre chef dans une région considérée comme une zone d?intérêt
vital par les...Etats - Unis! N?oublions pas que le
gouvernement américain a déclaré au monde entier qu?il s?immiscerait
dans les affaires intérieures de tout peuple ´si les
intérêts des USA étaient menacés'.

Les Etats-Unis sont les principaux coupables, organisateurs et sponsors
de la guerre tchétchéno-daghestanaise. Ils sont
également intéressés plus que quiconque par l?affaiblissement et le
démantèlement de la Russie. Ils craignent plus que
tout le rétablissement du socialisme en Russie et donc de l?Union
soviétique. Ils ont même peur d?une Russie capitaliste
forte!

Pour l?instant, Washington craint de réintervenir avec les troupes de
l?Otan contre la Russie, car cette dernière possède
encore des missiles intercontinentaux. Les USA préfèrent donc dresser
les uns contre les autres les peuples de l?ancienne
Union soviétique. C?est précisément ce qui se passe dans la guerre
tchétchéno-daghestanaise, laquelle étant clairement une
guerre de conquête.

Un gouffre entre riches et pauvres

Cette guerre met également fin aux illusions des travailleurs caucasiens
quant à la possibilité qu?aurait toute nation
caucasienne de garantir sa sécurité et son essor économique sans
s?associer aux travailleurs des autres nations. Cette
possibilité n?existe que si ces travailleurs s?unissent aux travailleurs
de la Russie.

Les détenteurs du pouvoir au Kremlin ne sont que les exécutants d?une
politique pro-américaine et pro-impérialiste, tant
en politique intérieure qu?étrangère. Ils veulent poursuivre cette
politique et ont vraiment intérêt à ce que la majorité des
Russes ne découvre pas le vrai visage de son régime. Ils font tout pour
être agréables aux impérialistes américains en
essayant simultanément de se faire passer pour les partisans d?une
Russie puissante et indépendante.

C?est pourquoi le Kremlin se présente comme l?artisan de la lutte contre
les bandes tchétchènes. Or, le mérite de la
destruction des groupes tchétchènes entrées au Daghestan (en été 1999,
ndlr) revient aux soldats et officiers russes ainsi
qu?aux masses laborieuses daghestanaises.

Les réformes de Gorbatchev et d?Eltsine, c?est-à-dire l?introduction de
l?économie de marché et des rapports
capitalistes, ont provoqué une division en classes sociales dans les
républiques, districts et régions du Caucase. Au
Daghestan, 200 familles ont empoché... 80% des richesses ! C?est là que
réside la cause des conflits à venir au Daghestan. Le
bouillon de culture des conflits entre nationalités existe toujours dans
le Caucase: il est constitué par les rapports
capitalistes au Caucase et par la politique du Kremlin.

L?Otan recherche un nouveau Kosovo

Il ne fait aucun doute que les Etats-Unis et l?Otan veulent appliquer la
voie kosovare au Caucase. Pour ce faire, ils y
envoient d?abord leurs agents et mercenaires. Ensuite, ils réclament une
intervention des troupes de l?Otan.

Jusqu?à présent, ça n?a pas marché, mais c?est inévitable dans un proche
avenir. C?est pourquoi la guerre
tchétchéno-daghestanaise met les peuples caucasiens devant ce choix:
soit devenir une colonie des USA et des impérialistes
à part entière, soit rétablir le pouvoir soviétique.

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Guerre en Tchétchénie


Punir les terroristes, pas la population

Sazji Umalatova est née en 1953 dans la capitale tché-tchène Grozny. De
1973 à 1991, elle était conseillère
communale puis parlementaire pour la Tchétchénie-Ingouchie. Aujourd'hui,
elle est présidente du Parti pour la
Paix et l'Unité qui prône l'amitié entre les peuples de Russie et la
réunification de tous les peuples d'Union
soviétique.

Jef Bossuyt

Pourquoi y a-t-il la guerre en Tchétchénie?
Sazji Umalatova. En septembre, le commandant tchétchène Basaev a agressé
le Daghestan au départ de la Tchétchénie.
Basaev a reçu pour cela d'énormes sommes d'argent de l'étranger. Pour
les Russes, c'était l'occasion de déclencher une
nouvelle guerre, sous prétexte de lutter contre ces bandes de bandits.
Mais l'armée russe n'a pas bombardé Basaev, mais les
villages d'où il était déjà parti. Dans les médias russes, tout le
peuple tchétchène a été accusé de l'invasion au Daghestan et
des attentats à la bombe en Russie. Un militaire russe haut placé disait
récemment qu'on aurait très bien pu éliminer les
chefs des bandes terroristes mais qu'aucun ordre en ce sens n'avait été
donné.
Pourtant, lorsque Basaev s'est mis en guerre contre le Daghestan, toute
la Tchétchénie s'est soulevée contre lui. Nous
avons fait de grandes manifestations, nous l'avons maudit. Mais cela, la
télévision ne l'a pas montré. Au contraire, ils
ont bombardé notre peuple.
Lors des dernières élections présidentielles, 79% des Tchétchènes ont
voté pour le président Mashadov. Il a tenté d'éviter
la guerre, il était prêt à des négociations mais il n'a pas reçu de
réponse. Il est même menacé: par les commandants Basaev et
Chatab d'un côté, par le régime russe de l'autre.

Qui finance ces terroristes?
Sazji Umalatova. Plusieurs forces ont intérêt à ce que la Russie se
disloque. Ce n'est un secret pour personne que le
président américain Clinton mène des entretiens directs avec Basaev et
Oudougov, et avec le banquier du Kremlin,
Berezovski. Le pétrole dans le nord du Caucase présente la meilleure
qualité au monde. Je n'exclus pas que les Etats-Unis
s'ingèrent dans le conflit, sous le prétexte de protéger le peuple
tchétchène.
Les Etats-Unis avaient déjà tout tenté en 1945 pour semer la zizanie en
Union soviétique. Le ministre américain des
Affaires étrangères J.F Dulles disait alors: «Nous trouverons nos
partisans en Russie même et nous cultiverons le
nationalisme et l'hostilité entre les nationalités, surtout la haine
envers le peuple russe.»

Que pensez-vous du président russe, Poutine?
Sazji Umalatova. Sa prétendue 'opération contre les terroristes en
Tchétchénie' fait éclater la Russie. Poutine a partagé
son pays en bonnes et mauvaises gens. Il attise l'extrémisme. La plupart
des Tchétchènes veulent rester avec la Russie.
Mais combien de temps devront-ils encore vivre dans des camps de
réfugiés ? Quelle confiance peuvent-ils encore avoir en
la Russie?

Comment résoudre le problème tchétchène?
Sazji Umalatova. La guerre et les conflits entre nationalités doivent
s'arrêter. Pour détruire les terroristes, il faut
engager des commandos spéciaux et non l'armée régulière qui s'en prend à
toute la population. Nous devons restaurer
la paix entre les nationalités et préserver l'unité de la Russie. Nous
devons réunifier les peuples de l'Union soviétique.



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* I libri:
IL FASCISMO E GLI USTASCIA
TRIBUNALE CLARK VIENNA (in tedesco)
* Le riviste:
AGINFORM
BOLLETTINO DI INFORMAZIONE ANTIIMPERIALISTA
CONTROPIANO
NUOVA UNITA'
* Il video:
JUGOSLAVIA - LA GUERRA EVITABILE (in inglese)

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UN LIBRO SUL SOSTEGNO ITALIANO AGLI USTASCIA

"Il Fascismo e gli Ustascia", di Pasquale Iuso,
professore di Storia dei movimenti sindacali dell'ateneo di Teramo,
e' edito da Gangemi, Roma, 1998, pp.150 circa, prezzo Lit. 28.000.
Il testo tratta delle relazioni tra il fascismo
italiano e gli ustascia di Pavelic dal 1929 al 1941.

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DOCUMENTAZIONE DELLA SEZIONE VIENNESE
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AGINFORM

E' in distribuzione il numero 9 di AGINFORM, FOGLIO DI
CORRISPONDENZA COMUNISTA.

INDICE del Numero 9 (febbraio 2000):

Editoriale: I comunisti e il PRC: premesse per un dibattito.
György Lukács "sul parlamentarismo" (da scritti giovanili).
La destra in Europa.
Francia: la verità sulle 35 ore.
Intervista a Domenico Losurdo sugli scritti «Fuga dalla Storia?».
Cresce il movimento per l'incriminazione dei capi di stato e di
governo dei paesi NATO.
La Jugoslavia non è sola: la partecipazione al Congresso del
Partito Socialista Serbo.
Cina, Corea, Cuba: viaggi di amicizia organizzati dalla Fondazione
Pasti
Lettere:
A proposito del male minore (Giulio Bonali).
Sono intenzionato a diffondere il giornale (Ugo Pisani).
Pensioni minime(Giuseppe bernabini).
La nostra condizione non è peggiore di quella dei nostri padri
(Tommaso Massa)

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IL BOLLETTINO

E' in distribuzione il numero di Marzo/Aprile del Bollettino di
Informazione Antimperialista.
Per riceverne una copia o sottoscrivere un abbonamento, scrivete a :
bollettino@....

In questo numero:
* Editoriale
Una nuova veste per i nostri nuovi compiti

* Dibattito
Trattative di pace, compromessi e refendum

* Europa
I crimini contro l'ambiente della NATO dulla RF di Jugoslavia
Italia: repressione contro il movimento antimperialista
Eurodifesa e nuovi scenari militari

Ex-URSS: Colpo di stato in Ukraina

Germania: Vittoriosa lotta dei prigionieri turchi

* Asia
Agente Orange: il Vietnam avvelenato negli ultimi 30 anni

* Stati Uniti
Solo un'altra forma di imperialismo
Intervista a Safiya Buckari ex militante del Black Panther Party

* Classe operaia internazionale

* America Latina
Cuba: Elian deve tornare a Cuba!

Cuba: Vertice Sud: unità contro unipolarità
Quindicesimo Festival Mondiale della Gioventù
Colombia: Lettera aperta al Presidente Pastrana in apertura dei
negoziati
Albright promette 16 miliardi di dollari al governo colombiano
Vieques: Il popolo portoricano continua a lottare
Ecuador: Il dialogo con il governo
Venezuela: Minacce dal Viceministro USA
Cile: Quale futuro per il paese?

Messico: Giornata internazionale della donna in Chiapas

* Medio Oriente
Intervista a Said Hassan Nasrallah, Segretario Generale di Hezbollah in
Libano
Nel cuore dell'Iraq, a dieci anni da Desert Storm

Chi è il nemico della Nazione Araba?

* Africa
La rivoluzione etiope rivisitata: perché gli imperialisti odiano
Mengistu?Ben Barka, "Le rouge"

Inserto: Dossier Jugoslavia, a cura del Comitato Antimperialista Romano

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CONTROPIANO
Giornale per l'iniziativa politica di classe

anno 8 numero 1 15/2/2000

- Il tramonto dei faraoni
- Il nuovo secolo e' cominciato a Seattle?
- Dobbiamo tornare ad essere una "variabile indipendente"
- Disoccupati soprattutto (G. Gattei)
- Una proposta per i comunisti
- Globalizzazione o competizione globale?
- Cecenia: dietro il conflitto c'e' il "grande gioco" del petrolio
- Autunno russo
- Cina: una sfida alla globalizzazione?
- Come eliminare la disoccupazione in cinque mosse
- Le sanguinose verita' che emergono dal Kossovo

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in rete [n][u] 2/2000
articoli, documenti, contributi, comunicazioni
abbonati e sostieni [n]uova [u]nita'

In questo numero:

- Editoriale
A piccole dosi [di Carla Francone]

- Lavoro/Contratti
Un contratto? No, non lo vogliamo più [Coordinamento delle lavoratrici e
dei
lavoratori comunisti calzaturieri del Riviera del Brenta]

- Primo Piano
Il suicido politico di Rifondazione [di Eraldo Mattarocci]

- Speciale Referendum/Dibattito
"Si mira a liquidare qualsiasi possibilità di riemersione della classe
operaia" [Slai Cobas Ansaldo]
La beffa del sommerso [Redazione di Pisa]

- Attualita'
Craxi [di Tiziano Tussi]

- Cultura
"Il Caso Lysenko", prima parte [di Roberto Zanetti]

- Documenti
Esperienze a confronto [Risoluzione del Seminario Comunista
Internazionale]

- Internazionale, Internazionalismo e Solidarieta'
Cuba: Elian vittima, bottino di guerra [di Gioia Minuti]
Cuba: Brevi dall'Avana [di Gioia Minuti]

- Prigionia Politica
Speciale Mumia Abu-Jamal:
Una Delegazione Internazionale al Dipartimento di Giustizia statunitense
[dal Bollettino "Mumia Abu-Jamal News" ]

- Recensioni
"Death Blossoms", l'ultimo libro di Mumia Abu-Jamal [note]
"La Rivoluzione Negata", l'ultimo libro di Angiolo Gracci [note]
"Teoria & Prassi", una nuova rivista al servizio della lotta di classe
[note]

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PER L'APPUNTO!


"L'umanitario e il militare si confondono sempre di piu'. Diventa
difficile mantenere la nostra neutralita', soprattutto per quelli che
collaborano con i militari come nel caso del Kosovo"

(W. Claus, esponente di "Medici senza frontiere" in Belgio, su
"De Standaard" del 16/10/1999, citato su "Contropiano", febbraio 2000)


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Remembrance Day

One year ago my country have been attacked. It was warm day, nice day,
we
spend it as usual. But, we knew that war is around the corner. Something
was in the air. In 7.50 PM, while I was talking to my friend I heard
sound
of sirens. Screaming sounds. I stopped talking for a while and then said
"O.K. That's it. War started." No panic, just anger and hate. I remember
all those days, all 78 or 79 days and nights, detonations, sirens,
anti-aircraft artillery, jet's sounds, warms and sunny days, lines for
cigarettes... But there is no panic at all. We took it with pride and
ignorance. We tried to defend bridges - I spend several nights on bridge
and no one pushed me to do that. In Belgrade we had all days rock
concerts,
just to show that we are not cowards as they are. You know that my
friends,
we tried to not go to shelters. I never went to any shelter, shelters
are
for rats not for humans and I am still alive. I'll never forget April 9.
when NATO, maybe US, French, Canadian, Belgium, Spain, Dutch, Italian,
German pilot fighter dropped bomb and killed a young kid, 3 years old
Milica Rakic near Batajnica military airport. I said: "Now they overdone
it!!" I said that several times, when they killed young people on
Varvarin's bridge on market's day, when they dropped bomb or hit train
in
Grdelica canyon, when they hit several buildings in down town of
Belgrade,
when they destroyed all bridges in Novi Sad, when they destroy Serbain
Television Center. I said that when they ever made "collateral damage".
Human being for NATO, and for Bill, Madeleine, James Rubin, Tony Blair,
Javier Solana, Hillary Rodham, Michael Short, Joseph Fisher, Jamie Shea,
Wesley Clark and for all modern NATO war criminals, was collateral
damage.
So much about culture, democracy, international law, humane rights, free
media etc and etc.

During the NATO's aggression I started to use Internet for special
purpose,
to write and to inform people what's going on here, who is right who is
wrong. People around the world understood my "English", and they helped
me
to go through that aggression, to go through the war. Now they are my
friends. I would like to thank you to Robert E. Nordlander, Beatriz
Jarramillo, John Peter Maher, Tom Hutt, Caley Powell, David and
Jelisaveta
Storey, Bill Logan, Lee Rockwell, Chris Fogarty, Diane Hatz, Bill
Friend,
James Lee von Bockman, Dick Sampson, Mike Djurichic, Snezana Vitorovich,
prof. Glazachev from Moscow, Alida and T.V. Weber, Mickey from Serbianna
etc, a people who helped me and who cared for us, who cared from my
country.

There is no more words to express something. Today is Remembrance Day,
the
day we have to remember for all victims of New World Order, for all
victims
of one unsane, stupid genocide politics which destroyed world we used to
know. The Day we have to remember for all victims of NATO's aggression,
for
79 Yugoslavian kids who have been killed by Albright's will, for all
Yugoslavian 1002 soldiers and officers who defended our country with
jets,
tenks, anti-aircraft artillery, rifles, police officers who wanted to do
the same job as its collegues arround the world - "To save and to
protect".

After all we won. No doubt about it. Clinton's bombs didn't resolve
problems.

I have no words, dear friends, just Thank you once again. We will never
forget your anti-war activities, your fight for humane world, for
brotherhood and unity. Maybe, it's time to remember what Peter Handke,
an
Austrian plat writer wrote about March 24. Words talking louder than
bombs.
And for the and is one poem, published in today paper edition of
"Politika". A poem talking about kid Milica Rakic, young kid - victim of
NATO aggression. Poem is on Serbian language, and it was written by
Ljubivoje Rsumovic, famous Serbian and Yugoslavian poet. I am sorry
because
I won't translate this, but I hope that prof. J.P. Maher or Snezana will
do
it translation to English.

KOSOVO IS SERBIA !

Warmest regards from Belgrade

Darko Nadic


The whole planet of Earth's name is Yugoslavia
by Peter Handke
Paris, March 25, 1999

`Thank you NATO. Thanks to a great small writers,
from Garcia Marques to Guenter Grass, from Kenzaburo Oe to
subcommander Marcos, for things they didn't write.
Thanks to the Pope and Vatican for his white
celestial silence.
Great step for mankind! For all those on our planet
who didn't transform into marsians and other green
butchers, yet, their homeland, begining from march
24th 1999., is Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska,
Yugoslavia.
`The Mars attacks`, and with the beginning of
marssian Attacks, the whole Earth's name is Yugoslavia.`
`Mars attacs`, and during the marssian attacs
Helsinki, Madrid, Algerie, Dar es Salaam (the house of peace),
Jerusalem, Jeriho, Baghdad, even London, Paris,
Berlin and Washington will be the part of Yugoslavia.`

Handke dated as `from morning noise of air force
airport Villacouble near Paris`



NECE PESMA

U slavu zauvek trogodisnje Milice Rakic iz Batajnice

Slepe zvezde nad sudbinom brinu
Nece pesma dok nam deca ginu

Crn se oblak nadvio nad pluca
Nema vatre nema nadahnuca

Nigde slike da da vid-nevid prene
Nece pesma dok cvile sirene

Kuce reke i planine gore
Smrt uzima cak i metafore

Tuzno srce slika katakombe
Nece pesma dok padaju bombe

Slepe bombe ne biraju cilja
Protiv dece leptira i bilja

Slepe bombe slepih gospodara
Protiv svega sto lepotu stvara

Laz i rdja dosli su do guse
Nece pesma dok mostove ruse

Nema reci zdrave i svecane
Nece pesma dok ruse Zvecane

Pesma zna sto pesma mora znati
Zato nece dok Srbija pati

Ljubivoje Rsumovic



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L'APPELLO DI BRUXELLES

KOSOVO - CONTRE L'OUBLI - de François HOUTART
Louvain-La-Neuve, 22 mars 2000

Chère Madame, cher Monsieur,

Ci-joint l'Appel de Bruxelles, que je soumets à votre adhésion.

Ceux qui peuvent contribuer à sa diffusion - n'oublions pas la guerre
médiatique qui accompagna la campagne militaire - peuvent le faire au
compte suivant:

Rencontre pour la paix
N° 005-1916606-59 (Caisse d'Epargne, 1000 Bruxelles), avec la mention
Kosovo.


Très cordialement

F. HOUTART
Président de la Ligue internationale pour les Droits des Peuples

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KOSOVO - CONTRE L'OUBLI

L'appel de Bruxelles



Au cours du printemps 1999, la ville de Bruxelles, en sa qualité de
siège
de l'OTAN, était le centre de décision et d'exécution des bombardements
de
la Yougoslavie par les 16 pays membres de cette organisation, au nom du
droit humanitaire. Nous croyons que le premier anniversaire d'un
événement
aussi grave ne peut passer inaperçu et doit, au contraire, susciter chez
tout citoyen une sérieuse réflexion à la mesure de l'enjeu.

La guerre a été préparée, décidée et menée à l'encontre des principes
les
plus fondamentaux du droit international. L'action de l'OTAN suivit
l'échec des négociations de Rambouillet. Or, ces dernières avaient
enregistré des
avancées sérieuses sur les dossiers politiques du conflit, avant que des
conditions de dernière minute, de toute évidence inacceptables pour la
partie serbe, ne précipitent l'impasse.

Sans doute, voulons-nous manifester avec clarté que notre condamnation
sans
réserve de l'action de l'OTAN, n'implique nullement adhésion ni
complaisance envers les autorités de Belgrade et particulièrement envers
leur gestion de la question ethnique. De même, notre réprobation,
toujours
actuelle, de la poursuite sans fondement légal des bombardement de
l'Irak
et de l'embargo contre ce pays, ne peut être interprétée comme une
quelconque allégeance envers le régime de Bagdad.

Ceci dit, les menaces explicites de bombarder la Yougoslavie, proférées
dès
l'été 1998, étaient déjà contraires à l'interdiction de la menace de
l'emploi de la force, inscrite à l'article 2 ' 4 de la Charte des
Nations
Unies. La politique tendant à contraindre Belgrade d'accorder un statut
politique particulier à la province du Kosovo constituait d'ailleurs une
intervention dans des affaires qui, aux termes du droit international,
relèvent toujours de la compétence nationale de la Yougoslavie.

Le déclenchement de la guerre viole à l'évidence la Charte des Nations
Unies, qui n'autorise exceptionnellement le recours à la force qu'en cas
de
légitime défense ou d'autorisation du Conseil de sécurité. La
Yougoslavie
n'ayant au préalable agressé aucun Etat souverain, la légitime défense
ne
peut en tout état de cause être invoquée ; les représailles armées, à
supposer même qu'elles soient motivées par des considérations
humanitaires,
sont et restent strictement interdites. Par ailleurs, les résolutions
adoptées par le Conseil de sécurité au sujet de la guerre civile au
Kosovo
ne contenaient aucune autorisation, explicite ou implicite, de recourir
à
la force, la Russie et la Chine ayant clairement marqué leur opposition
à
toute mesure militaire.
Les Etats membres de l'OTAN n'ont pas non plus saisi l'Assemblée
générale
pour tenter d'obtenir une autorisation qui, dans des cas exceptionnels,
aurait été susceptible de légaliser une intervention de leur part. Dans
ces
circonstances, l'action militaire menée doit juridiquement, être
qualifiée
d'agression, et par conséquent de crime international. La guerre est
par
ailleurs incompatible avec les règles propres à l'OTAN elle-même, règles
qui consacrent clairement le respect de la Charte des Nations Unies et
la
reconnaissance consécutive de l'autorité du Conseil de sécurité.

Enfin, la manière dont les bombardements ont été menés contredit les
règles
de droit international qui régissent la conduite des hostilités. De
manière générale, la destruction systématique de l'infrastructure
économique et des moyens de communication, délibérément destinée à
décourager la population et à provoquer son soulèvement, sont
incompatibles
avec le principe de proportionnalité qui impose que toute attaque
produise
des avantages militaires spécifiques décisifs. Plus particulièrement,
le
choix de cibles comme la radio télévision serbe ou des usines fabriquant
des produits de consommation courante, est incompatible avec
l'interdiction
de viser des objectifs civils. L'utilisation de certaines armes, comme
celles contenant de l'uranium appauvri, contredit par ailleurs le
principe
de précaution imposant à l'attaquant de ne pas causer de dommages
graves,
étendus ou irréversibles.

La violation du droit international par les Etats membres de l'OTAN est
d'autant plus manifeste que ces Etats ont refusé qu'un organe impartial
se
prononce sur la licéité de leurs actions, y compris en analysant leurs
arguments fondés sur les violations préalables du droit international
perpétrées par la Yougoslavie. En dépit de leur déclaration en faveur
du
règne du droit et de la justice, aucune des puissances intervenantes n'a
en
effet accepté que la Cour internationale de Justice se prononce sur ces
questions.

L'action de l'OTAN suivit l'échec des négociations de Rambouillet. Or,
ces
dernières avaient enregistré des avancées sérieuses sur les dossiers
politiques du conflit, avant que des conditions de dernière minute, de
toute évidence inacceptables pour la partie serbe, ne précipitent
l'impasse.

La stratégie de guerre, qui a dévasté la Yougoslavie et rendu non-viable
le
Kosovo, a produit plus de réfugiés et de victimes que n'en aurait causé
tout autre combinaison de force et de diplomatie. Elle mérite d'être
contestée, tant du point de vue politique que du point de vue moral.
Elle
fut accompagnée d'une campagne médiatique visant à légitimer
systématiquement l'opération en cours.

Les dispositions prises après la fin des bombardements tendent à
conditionner l'aide internationale aux résultats électoraux internes en
Yougoslavie et à privilégier l'aide en fonction des options politiques
prises par ses destinataires, ce qui constitue un moyen peu honorable
d'intervention politique dans les affaires internes d'un pays tiers.
Quant
au Kosovo, il est devenu, sous l'administration créée par les forces de
l'OTAN, une région quasiment mononethnique où les minorités non
albanaises,
qu'elles soient serbe, rom, slave, musulmane, juive, turque ou croate,
ont
dû fuir les attentats ou se réfugier dans des ghettos.

Nous voudrions aussi souligner le fait que la guerre menée en
Yougoslavie
revêt une signification qui dépasse de loin le cas de ce pays. En effet,
l'intervention de l'OTAN au Kosovo, sous la direction des Etats-Unis
d'Amérique, s'inscrit dans une série de choix opérés par l'unique
super-puissance du monde aujourd-hui. Le maintien du budget militaire
américain à un niveau de guerre froide, supérieur à l'addition des six
budgets inférieurs en Russie, Japon, France, Allemagne, Royaume-Uni et
Chine
; le choix de maintenir l'OTAN malgré la dissolution du pacte de
Varsovie
et la fin de l'URRS, puis de l'élargir à l'Est de l'Europe ; la
projection
de la force armée sur l'arène mondiale en faisant fi des institutions
internationales ; le refus de ratifier le Traité d'interdiction des
essais
nucléaires; le développement des systèmes antimissiles et la récente
révélation de l'existence d'un système mondial d'écoute des
communications
privées et officielles, tels sont les aspects les plus saillants d'une
politique dessinée progressivement à Washington, qui laisse présager la
naissance d'un nouveau modèle d'exercice du pouvoir, fondé sur la
capacité
de gérer des instruments de destruction et de mort, toujours plus
perfectionnés.

Notre refus, notre réprobation, s'adressent donc à un projet et à des
méthodes qui ne correspondent aucunement aux proclamations démocratiques
ou
humanitaires.

Voilà pourquoi nous invitons tous ceux qui partagent ces inquiétudes et
qui
ne veulent plus que les bombes soient l'alternative à la légalité
internationale, à la négociation, au dialogue démocratique, aux
pressions
diplomatiques et politiques, au droit, à signer cet appel. La liste sera
clôturée en juin, pour la date anniversaire de la fin des bombardements.
Nous proposons également que se tienne une réunion de réflexion à
Rambouillet, à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la fin des bombardements,
pour redonner à cette ville sa valeur de lieu de dialogue et de
tolérance.
Ainsi, Bruxelles et Rambouillet, auront en cette année 2000, une
signification nouvelle, celle d'être jumelées dans une entreprise en
faveur
de la paix et de l'affirmation du droit.

Bruxelles, 24 mars 2000.

Olivier CORTEN, professeur à l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Eric
DAVID, professeur à l'ULB, Barbara DELCOURT, professeur à l'ULB,
François
HOUTART, professeur émérite à l'Université catholique de Louvain (UCL),
Pierre KLEIN, professeur à l'ULB, Paulette PIERSON-MATHY, professeur à
l'ULB, Yves REGISTER, chargé de recherche auprès du CADOP, université de
Liège, François RIGAUX, professeur émérite à l'UCL, Jean SALMON,
professeur
émérite à l'ULB.



Les adhésions peuvent être envoyées aux adresses suivantes:

- action-kosovo@...
-Rencontres pour la paix,
Boulevard Jacques de Dixmude 124
B- 1050 Bruxelles
Les participations aux frais de diffusion de l'appel peuvent être
envoyées à Rencontres pour la Paix, N° 005n1916606n59 (Caisse d=Epargne,
1000 Bruxelles), avec mention: Kosovo.


François Houtart
CETRI
houtart@...

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WORKER'S PARTY OF IRELAND

NEWS RELEASE


Friday, 24th March 2000
For Immediate Use


THE AMERICAN WAR IN EUROPE - 1ST ANNIVERSARY

The Workers' Party of Ireland has marked the first anniversary of the
start
of NATO's bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by
stating that this illegal act of aggression against a sovereign state
has
achieved nothing other than widespread death and destruction.

The International Affairs Committee of The Workers' Party maintains that
the
situation in the Balkans is now much worse than it was a year ago whilst
NATO remains in occupation of Kosovo-Metohija with logistical support
from
troops from supposedly neutral Ireland and under a totally flawed UN
mandate.

"Ireland played a particularly despicable role in the run up to the NATO
attack on Yugoslavia. Former Minister David Andrews' infamous statement
that he was stuck 'between a rock and a hard place' will not easily be
forgotten. We could have then played a pivotal role as a neutral
honest
broker and used that position to encourage positive and genuine
negotiation
instead of NATO's 'settle on our terms or else' Rambouillet deal which
would
have involved free access for NATO troops, not just in Kosovo, but
throughout Yugoslavia, including Belgrade itself."

"Ireland failed to pursue positive neutrality. It sat on the fence
while
NATO tried to force Yugoslavia to accept the unacceptable - the invasion
of
its entire territory by a hostile enemy bent on destroying it. Then
when
the bombing commenced Ireland shamefully jumped off the fence into the
NATO
camp and cheered on the bombers. The Taoiseach stated that the bombing
was
'both necessary and justified' in the face of 'human rights violations'.
Fine words from a man who has publicly advocated detention centres for
asylum seekers."

"Two and a half months of relentless bombing turned a crisis into a
disaster. Innocent civilians, journalists and refugees were murdered in
the
heaviest bombing campaign on European soil since World War II,
reminiscent
of the Nazi bombing of Belgrade during that war. The attack on
Yugoslavia
was in essence an American war against a European country. It was
simplified by the spin-doctors into a tale of 'the world against one
man'
when in fact it was the US military-industrial complex against the
Serbian
people. The people of Serbia and Yugoslavia are well capable of
deciding
for themselves the make up of their sovereign government. A grave
injustice
has been done to the truth, which has been, as always, the first
casualty of
war."

ends.

John Jefferies, Press Officer Tel: +353-1-8740716
The Workers' Party of Ireland,
23 Hill Street,
Dublin 1.

www.workers-party.org


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SELEZIONE DI ARTICOLI

Current Headlines
http://www.serbianna.com/current_headlines.html
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THE GLOBAL TYRANNY

The Balkans:

One Year Ago the Bombing Started - You Never Told us WHY, Mr. President
(by Mary Mostert)
http://www.originalsources.com/OS3-00MQC/3-24-2000.1.html

Between the Lines: A year after the air war (by Joseph Farah )
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/readerservice/printer_friendly.php3?item=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/20000324_xcbtl_a_year_aft.shtml

Diary (by Jamie Shea)
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38dbf9eb5503.htm

A Republic, Not an Empire (by Patrick J. Buchanan)
http://www.gopatgo2000.com/new/speeches/antiwar.htm

"Humanitarian Wars," Realist Geopolitics, and Genocidal Practices:
"Saving the Kosovars" (by Richard Falk)
http://www.algonet.se/~d58155/forum/meet/2000/humanitarianwars.html

Nato ended a nightmare in Kosovo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=001798725956593&rtmo=quJesex9&atmo=tttttttd&pg=/et/00/3/25/wnato25.html

Kosovo Revisited (by Richard Falk)
http://www.thenation.com/issue/000410/0410falk.shtml

Antiwar.com: Keeping an eye on war
http://www.ocregister.com/liberty/articles/antiwar.shtml
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Sanctions to remain until Milosevic goes
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Print/0,3858,3978264,00.html
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British Helsinki Group reports from southern Serbia
http://www.bhhrg.org/balkans/balkans2000.htm

Russian Ultranationalist Offers Troops To Belgrade
http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=145656
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NATO chiefs drop plans to visit Kosovska Mitrovica
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/25worl9.htm

NATO Sets Up Kosovo Neutral Zone (Kosovska Mitrovica)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=wpni/print&articleid=A12112-2000Mar24

Stable Kosovo 'years away'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_688000/688735.stm
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Britain: libel verdict vs. exposé of Bosnia War propaganda bankrupts
independent journal
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/livm-m25_prn.shtml
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Strengthening the United Nations: an Ambitious Agenda
http://www.algonet.se/~d58155/forum/meet/2000/ambitiousagenda.html

Civilian Peace-Keepers - a Future Challenge
http://www.algonet.se/~d58155/forum/meet/2000/peacekeepers.html
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