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Oggetto: Syrien: USA torpedieren friedliche Lösung

Data: 01 giugno 2012 18.56.04 GMT+02.00


Wie schon in den 90-er Jahren in Jugoslawien betreiben die USA in Syrien eine Politik der Torpedierung aller Friedensbemühungen (siehe Artikel unten). Vordergründig zeigt man sich sehr besorgt über die Entwicklung in diesem multi-ethnischen Staat. Wie damals Milosevic, steht nun Assad - beides Repräsentanten einer nicht voll auf die USA ausgerichteten Politik - auf der Abschussliste der Amerikaner. Während man bei G.W.Bush wenigstens wusste woran man war, betreibt Obama, wie vorher Clinton, eine perfid-geheuchelte Aggressionspolitik gegen jegliche Überreste aus der Entkolonialisierungspolitik des 20-Jh. Nicht dass ein offener Faschismus einem getarnten vorzuziehen ist, die Konturen wären jedoch für jedermann erkennbar. Die kritische westliche Öffentlichkeit ist leider so eingelullt, dass die von den gleichgeschalteten Medien servierten Gräuel-Geschichten immer wieder akzeptiert werden (sonst hätte z.B. der Tagesanzeiger nicht so eine hohe Auflage). Ob sich der Westen diesmal eine Ignorierung der klaren Positionen Russlands und Chinas leisten kann wird sich zeigen.
K.Trümpy, ICDSM Schweiz
 
 
 
 
USA torpedieren friedliche Lösung
 
Hans Springstein
 
Der Doppelanschlag in Damaskus vom 10. Mai mit etwa 70 Toten gilt gemeinhin als Zeichen dafür, daß Kofi Annans Friedensplan und jeglicher Versuch einer friedlichen Lösung des syrischen Konfliktes zum Scheitern verurteilt sind. Das überrascht nicht.
DeutschlandRadio Kultur sendete einen Tag später in der Reihe »Ortszeit« einen interessanten Beitrag zum Thema »Wer steckt hinter dem Anschlag von Damaskus?« Der libanesische Ex-General Hisham Jaber sagte in dem Radio-Beitrag, daß die Täter keine Amateure aus der Opposition gewesen sein können. Dazu seien nur gut ausgebildete Profis fähig. Und er fügte hinzu: »Ich spreche nicht von Al-Qaida.« Aber es gebe eine ganze Reihe von Gruppen mit ähnlichen Motiven und Zielen und mit »800 bis 1.000 Leuten in Syrien«. »Die kommen aus Libyen, Jemen, Nordlibanon und Irak« und haben keine Verbindungen zur syrischen Opposition. Jaber bezeichnete Behauptungen, der syrische Geheimdienst stecke hinter den mehrfachen Bombenanschlägen seit Dezember 2011, um sie der Opposition in die Schuhe zu schieben, als »abwegig«. Die syrische Regierung habe kein Interesse daran zu zeigen, daß sie die Kontrolle über Damaskus verliere. Ihr nutzten diese Anschläge nicht: »Nein, das Regime hat keinerlei Interesse an solchen Operationen.« Jaber befürchtet ein Zunahme derartiger Anschläge. Der Annan-Plan für eine friedliche Lösung könne praktisch abgeschrieben werden.
Wer kein Interesse an dem Friedensplan des ehemaligen UN-Generalsekretärs hat, zeigte sich schon Tage zuvor. Am 4. Mai meldete AP, daß die US-Regierung den Versuch Annans, den Frieden in Syrien wiederherzustellen, für gescheitert erklärt. Jay Carney, Sprecher des US-Präsidenten Barack Obama, sagte laut Agenturmeldung, die Gewalt in Syrien müsse nun auf andere Weise gestoppt werden. Die Verantwortung dafür trage das Regime des Präsidenten Baschar al-Assad. AP erinnerte daran, daß die US-Regierung dem Annan-Plan von Anfang an skeptisch gegenüber gestanden hatte.
Dazu paßte dann der Bericht der Washington Post vom 16. Mai: Die bewaffneten syrischen »Rebellen« erhalten mit Hilfe der USA neue und bessere Waffen. Das geschehe über Saudi-Arabien und Katar. Diese Partner Washingtons hatten schon im April, kurz nachdem Kofi Annan seinen Friedensplan vorgestellt hatte, erklärt, daß sie die bewaffneten »Rebellen« mit 100 Millionen Dollar unterstützen werden. Die USA hätten Kontakt zu jenen, die sie mit Waffen versorgen lassen, schrieb das Blatt. Die Lieferungen stärkten die Positionen der »Rebellen« gegenüber der syrischen Armee, die seit einiger Zeit die Lage unter Kontrolle zu haben schien. Die Obama-Administration habe sogar mit syrischen Kurden über die Möglichkeit einer zweiten Front gegen die syrische Armee gesprochen, schrieb Washington Post. Inzwischen bereite das Pentagon auch mögliche Luftschläge gegen die syrische Luftverteidigung vor.
Beleg für die Einmischung der USA in den syrischen Konflikt ist auch die AP-Meldung vom 26. April über einen Besuch von syrischen »Rebellen« im Kosovo, um von der UCK zu lernen und sich von der Terrortruppe beraten zu lassen. »We are here to learn«, sagte der Exilsyrer Ammar Abdulhamid der Nachrichtenagentur in Pristina. Wer ihn nach Kosovo schickte, stand nicht dabei, nur daß Abdulhamid seit 2005 in den USA lebt. Daß es nicht nur ums Lernen und Beraten gehen könnte, zeigte eine Meldung von RIA Novosti vom 14. Mai: »Das Kosovo will nach Angaben des russischen Außenministeriums Kämpfer für die syrische Opposition ausbilden. Dabei könnten die Trainingslager der ehemaligen paramilitärischen Organisation UCK in Anspruch genommen werden.«
Im Kosovo läuft seit dem NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien 1999 nichts ohne die USA und die führenden EU-Staaten. Die USA wollen dem selbsternannten unabhängigen Staat nun auch helfen, Mitglied der EU und der NATO zu werden, erklärte US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton am 5. April in Washington. Ihr Gesprächspartner an diesem Tag war der ehemalige UCK-Terrorist und jetzige Kosovo-»Premierminister« Hashim Thaci. Auf die Rolle des Kosovo in der US-Strategie machte eine Woche später der Publizist F. William Engdahl auf der Website GlobalResearch.ca aufmerksam: »Das Kosovo ist zwar ein winziges Ländchen, gehört aber wegen seiner geopolitischen Bedeutung zu den strategisch wichtigsten Positionen in ganz Europa; von dort aus kann das US-Militär die Ölströme und die politischen Entwicklungen vom ölreichen Mittleren Osten bis nach Rußland und Westeuropa kontrollieren.« (zitiert nach der deutschen Übersetzung auf www.luftpost-kl.de)
Zu erinnern ist in diesem Zusammenhang daran, daß die USA 1998 die UCK von der terroristischen Vereinigung, als welche sie bis dahin galt, zu einer Vereinigung von »Freiheitskämpfern« werden ließ und diese zu unterstützen begann. Alles deutet darauf hin, daß der Aufenthalt der syrischen »Rebellen« im Kosovo und die zugesagte Unterstützung durch die UCK kein Zufall oder nur ein solidarischer Akt unter »Freiheitskämpfern« sind. RIA Novosti hatte im Februar Leonid Iwaschow, Präsident der Moskauer Akademie für geopolitische Probleme, zitiert: »Die USA wollten ihre Ziele ›mit fremden Händen‹ erreichen ... Hierfür würden sie die innersyrischen Kräfte, vor allem die Opposition, ausnutzen.« Damit diese Hände ihren Job richtig machen, werden sie vorher ins Kosovo geschickt.
Während die Obama-Administration heuchelt, sie würde Annans Friedensplan unterstützen, fördert sie aktiv jene, die kein Interesse an einer friedlichen Lösung haben. Deshalb sei daran erinnert, was in Annans Sechs-Punkte-Plan steht: »Der vereinbarte Waffenstillstand soll durch die Vereinten Nationen überwacht werden. Zum Schutz der Zivilbevölkerung und zur Stabilisierung des Landes sollen alle Beteiligten die bewaffnete Gewalt in jeglicher Form beenden. Die Armee soll Truppenbewegungen beenden, den Einsatz schwerer Waffen in Wohnvierteln einstellen und mit der Verlegung der Soldaten zurück in die Kasernen beginnen.« Während die UNO-Beobachter in Syrien unterwegs sind, ignoriert die US-Regierung die UNO und alle Bemühungen für eine friedliche Lösung. Verwunderlich ist das nicht, hatte doch Obama Anfang März erklärt, die Tage des syrischen Präsidenten Assad seien gezählt: »Das ist keine Frage des Ob, sondern des Wann.«
 
Ossietzky, 11/2012



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Kosovo Serbs still targets of NATO fire

1) February 25: Kosovo Serbs Caught in Crossfire from Three Points
2) Fine marzo: Arresti di serbi e di albanesi kosovari
3) 5 aprile: Scritte intimidatorie ed aggressioni contro i serbi-kosovari
4) April 5: Remains of Serbs murdered in Kosovo handed over
5) 10 avril: Nouvelles tensions à Mitrovica
6) 12 maggio: Bruciano i boschi in Metochia
7) May 23: Homes of Serb returnees set on fire
8) Forming of the Kosovo government's Administrative Office for the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica is a provocation
9) NATO Fires On Serb Protesters, Four Injured
10) Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Konuzin warns about "Greater Albania" project

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Kosovo Serbs Caught in Crossfire from Three Points

75% reject the institutions of the so-called Republic of Kosovo

By Pyotr Iskenderov

Global Research, February 25, 2012

The debates over Serbia's bid for the status of a EU candidate, which are due to open in Brussels in March, will likely provoke a new round of destabilization in the Serbian districts of the province. The February 14-15 referendum in four Serbian communities in northern Kosovo confirmed the obvious: their populations continue to overwhelmingly reject the Albanian ethnic rule. A total of 99.74% of those who attended the poll in which the turnout reached 75% replied “No” to the question whether they accepted the institutions of the so-called Republic of Kosovo headquartered in Pristina. 
 
The official Belgrade was clearly allergic to the initiative spinning off in northern Kosovo as president B. Tadic charged that the referendum organized by the leaders of the Serbian municipalities of Kosovo was harming both Serbia and the Serbian communities in the province. No doubt, Belgrade's already permanent pressure on the Kosovo Serbs will peak if the EU Council which is so far divided over Serbia's aspirations manages to hammer out a compromise and Belgrade is allowed to buy the official EU candidate status at the cost of new concessions on Kosovo. 
 
According to Kosovo Serbian leader Marko Jaksic, the unprecedented turnout at the northern Kosovo referendum meant that the Serbs defied Belgrade's call to refrain from getting involved. ”The people felt that not showing up would have been a form of betrayal”, explained Jaksic who also stressed that for Tadic the vote came as a political slap in the face for acknowledging an ever-widening array of Kosovo statehood attributes like passports, driver licenses, college transcripts, etc. and that the Kosovo Serbs who cast the ballots made it clear how they felt about Tadic's increasingly connecting to Pristina. Kosovska Mitrovica mayor Krstimir Pantic expressed the same view when he said that, given the outcome of the referendum, those at the helm in Belgrade along with the Kosovo Albanians and the international community have to realize with utmost clarity the extent of the determination across the Serbian community of northern Kosovo not to bow to Pristina. “We are defending Serbia in Kosovo”, said Pantic. 
 
The geopolitical implications of the referendum in northern Kosovo may prove far-reaching. One gets a distinct impression that the Kosovo Serbs are in the process of switching to a completely independent role in the Balkan politics, challenging Pristina, Brussels or, if necessary, Belgrade. 
 
The recent referendum was not the first Serbian attempt to place their resistance to Albanian separatism into a legislative framework. In May, 2008, three months since the unilateral proclamation of Kosovo independence, north Kosovo Serbs voted in favor of establishing the Assembly of the Community of Municipalities of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija based on the constitution of Serbia. Until some time ago, the Assembly had been politically supported by Belgrade. 
 
The parameters of the situation began to drift in the fall of 2011 when the Kosovo Serbs resorted to force to prevent the agreements, which Belgrade and Pristina sealed without taking their position into account, from being put into practice, while the European Commission dished out the first ever more or less positive assessment of Serbia's application for the EU membership. When the December EU summit shifted its further review to March, 2012,Belgrade was left to face the dilemma of choosing between some sort of an urgent accord with Pristina or a collapse of its plan to sneak into the EU. Moreover, Germany, which, as a relatively healthy economy, emerged as an informal leader of the crisis-ridden Europe, demanded that Serbia not only drop its objections to Kosovo's participation in international forums under its own flag but also assist the Albanian administration of the province in erasing all forms of Serbian self-government in the northern part of Kosovo.
 
Judging by the scarce information displayed, at the moment Belgrade remains undecided over the de fact ultimatum issued by Brussels and Berlin, and there are indications that cracks appeared in Serbia's ruling coalition over handling the problem. In the run-up to the referendum KFOR commander Gen. Erhard Drews bluntly warned in an interview to Focus that Albanian nationalists would possibly be led to target the Serbian minorities in isolated enclaves outside of northern Kosovo in response but, seriously speaking, no radicals in the province would dare to commit outrageous acts unless blessed by the EU and NATO. The latter may be the reason why Kosovo Albanian top commentator Adrian Collaku slammed the Pristina administration as “impotent”, saying that "this referendum reconfirms for the umpteenth time that Kosovo cannot establish control over all its territory". The paradox, therefore, is that the biggest threat to the Serbian statehood in Kosovo currently emanates from Belgrade and the Kosovo Serbs locked in the Belgrade-Pristina-Brussels geopolitical triangle can only rely on themselves. 
 
A somewhat predictable twist in Serbian politics was observed just days ago when, in a clear attempt to blackmail the EU, the first deputy premier and internal affairs minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic took to citing Russia in the context of the republic's Eurointegration hopes. The point made by the Serbian official was that Europe would make a huge mistake if it turns down the Serbian bid for a candidate status next March since under the scenario “it would be normal to expect that a political faction directed more toward Russia would come into power”. The statement unequivocally signals a sense of crisis within the ruling coalition. It should be borne in mind considering Tadic's standing that in 2008 the West lent him a hand to derail the formation of a patriotic coalition in Serbia, but these days much more pressing problems can push Serbian affairs to a fairly low line on the EU and NATO agendas. Symptomatically, a fresh statement released by Lithuanian foreign ministry spokeswoman Margarita Butkiene contained a biting remark that Belgrade failed to comply in full with any of the preconditions set forth by the December EU summit, though up to date Lithuania, in contrast to Germany, Austria, or Finland, was not seen in the camp opposing the admission of Serbia to the EU. 
 
Overall, Belgrade with its current geopolitical course increasingly steers Serbia into dire straits, and chances are that in the next elections Serbian voters would deliver to the poling booths immensely soberer views on how to shape the future of their own statehood.


© Copyright Pyotr Iskenderov, Strategic Culture Foundation, 2012 

The url address of this article is: www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=29491


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ARRESTI IN KOSOVO

Da www.glassrbije.org

Coper: Belgrado e Pristina sono responsabili

30. 03. 2012. - Reagendo agli arresti in Kosovo, il mediatore europeo nelle trattative tra Belgrado e Pristina Robert Coper ha invitato entrambe le parti a dimostrare responsabilità, ed ha avvertito che i probemi politici non possono essere risolti con gli arresti. L’Unione europea si augura che entrambe le parti adempieranno agli obblighi assunti nel corso delle trattative. L’Unione europea ritiene che i problemi politici devono essere risolti con dialogo e negozi e non con le azioni che hanno leggi come pretesto, ha valutato Coper. Il suo comunicato è stato diffuso dopo il recente arresto di un gruppo di serbi in Kosovo. Le autorità kosovare li hanno acusati di aver messo a repentaglio la sicurezza nella regione. In seguito al valico amministrativo Konculj sono stati arrestati due albanesi kosovari. Il Ministro dell’Interno della Serbia Ivica Dacic ha detto che loro sono accusati di traffico di stupefacienti e di spionaggio.

Dacic: I serbi arrestati in Kosovo devono essere liberati

30. 03. 2012. - Il vice premier e il Ministro dell’Interno della Serbia Ivica Dacic ha dichiarato che saranno continuate le pressioni sulla comunità internazionale, affinché siano liberati due serbi che sono stati arrestati in Kosovo. Dacic ha ripetuto che ognuno che non rispetterà l’ordine guridico della Serbia sarà arrestato. I serbi che sono stati arrestati in Kosovo non hanno commesso nessun reato. Il loro arresto ha aperto una brutta pagina della storia, nella quale ognuno ha la paura di poter essere arrestato, ha detto Dacic. Egli ha criticato la comunità internazionale, perché nessuno dei suoi rappresentante ha reagito quando ai serbi arrestati è stato imposto il fermo. Dall’altra parte, quando sono stati arrestati due albanesi contro i quali sono stati spiccati mandati di cattura, l’intera comunità internazionale e le organizzazioni non governative hanno reagito subito, ha dichiarato Ivica Dacic.


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Da www.glassrbije.org

Le parole offensive e la scritta UCK sulla chiesa serba

05. 04. 2012. - Le parole offensive e la scritta UCK sono state scritte sulla chiesa dei Santi apostoli Pietro e Paolo nel villaggio Brod nel comune di Strpce, nel Kosovo meridionale, ha riportato la radio serba KIM di Caglavica. Non si sa quando queste parole sono state scritte, perché la popolazione serba ha abbandonato il villaggio molto tempo fa. I serbi visitano la chiesa soltanto in occasione delle importanti festività religiose. Nell’anno passato, alla vigilia dela festa della chiesa il 12 luglio, è stata ricostruita la fontana che si trovava nel cortile. Alcuni giorni dopo gli albanesi l’hanno distrutta, ha riportato la radio serba KIM di Caglavica.

Cvetkovic chiede che subito siano avviate le indagini

05. 04. 2012. - Il premier serbo Mirko Cvetkovic ha inviato una nota di protesta all’alto rappresentante dell’Unione europea per la politica estera e la sicurezza Catherine Asthon e i capi dell’Unmik e l’Eulex Farid Zarif e Xavier de Marnack, perché la delegazione dell’esecutivo serbo è stata aggredita in pieno centro a Pristina. Cvetkovic ha chiesto ai capi delle missioni internazionali in Kosovo di avviare subito le indagini che scopriranno i colpevoli e accerteranno i motivi dell’aggressione. Il premier serbo ha sottolineato che quell’attacco è un altro tentativo degli estremisti albanei di incutere timore nella popolazione serba, bloccare il dialogo tra Belgrado e Pristina e impedire l’implementazione degli accordi che sono stati raggiunti finora. Nel comunicato dell’esecutivo serbo è stato precisato che un gruppo di estremisti albanesi ieri pomeriggio in pieno centro a Pristina ha gettato sassi contro due automobili nei quali si trovavano membri della delegazione serba, uno dei quali è stato ferito. La delegazione serba è arrivata in Kosovo per discutere la realizzazione degli accordi che sono stati ottenuti durante le trattative che si conducono a Bruxelles.

Gracanica: un gruppo di albanesi ha aggredito i serbi

05. 04. 2012. - Il comandante della stazione della polizia serba a Gracanica in Kosovo Bratislav Trajkovic ha confermato che nel centro di Gracanica ieri si sono scontrati due gruppi di tifosi serbi e albanesi. Le camere a circuito chiuso che si trovano in tutta Gracanica hanno registrato che un gruppo di albanesi è sceso dal pullman che si è fermato a causa dell’incidente, dopo di che ha aggredito un gruppo di serbi, ha precisato Trajkovic. La polizia ha fermato il pullman nel vicino villaggio di Ajvalija. Tutti i tifosi albanesi sono però scappati. Due tifosi che sono stati fermati dalla polizia sono stati rilasciati presto in libertà. Le fonti serbe hanno comunicato che nello scontro due serbi sono stati feriti e che oggi pomeriggio sono stati rilasciati dall’ospedale di Gracanica nel quale sono stati ricoverati.


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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=04&dd=05&nav_id=79627

Tanjug News Agency - April 5, 2012

Remains of Serbs murdered in Kosovo handed over

MERDARE: The remains of four Serbs, kidnapped and murdered in 1999 by ethnic Albanian terrorists, have been handed over to their families on Thursday.
The handover took place at Merdare, on the administrative line between Kosovo and central Serbia.
The identities of the victims were determined through DNA analyses. 
The families said that their loved ones would be laid to rest tomorrow in towns in central Serbia. 
According to current data of the Serbian government, more than 2,000 Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians have either been kidnapped or are listed as otherwise missing in Kosovo and Metohija.


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B92

Kosovo : nouvelles tensions à Mitrovica


Traduit par Jacqueline Dérens
Mise en ligne : mardi 10 avril 2012


Dimanche, un attentat qui a coûté la vie à un Albanais, lundi, plusieurs centaines de Serbes qui se sont rassemblés dans le quartier des Trois Tours pour empêcher l’érection d’un poste de la police du Kosovo (KPS), la situation se tend dangereusement à Mitrovica.

Lundi 9 avril après midi des policiers de la police du Kosovo ont transporté trois postes mobiles de police de la partie sud de la ville, peuplée majoritairement d’Albanais pour les mettre devant chacune des tours et y mettre des fonctionnaires de la police du Kosovo.

Les policiers de la KPS ont réussi à ériger un seul poste avant que des habitants arrivent et fassent voler les vitres en éclats. Les deux autres postes ont été ramenés au sud de la ville.

Alors que des Serbes se rassemblaient au nord de la ville, les Albanais faisaient de même au sud dans la direction du village de Suvi Do où un Serbe avait été attaqué et blessé la nuit précédente.

Selon l’agence de presse Beta, la situation était tendue mais aucun incident grave n’était à déplorer. Vers 14 heures, heure locale, les habitants rassemblés des deux côtés de la ville ont commencé à se disperser sans incident.

La veille, un Albanais avait été tué et deux de ses enfants blessés par l’explosion d’une bombe placée devant les fenêtres de leur appartement par des inconnus. En représailles, semble-t-il, une Serbe de 66 ans a été attaqué quelques heures plus tard par trois individus non identifiés.

Samuel Zogbar, le représentant de l’Union européenne (UE) au Kosovo, a lancé un appel au calme alors qu’Eulex, la Kfor, et la KPS examinaient les lieux de l’attentat.


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da www.glassrbije.org

Bruciano i boschi in Metochia

12. 05. 2012. - Da due giorni ormai un grande incendio sta devastando i boschi serbi nei pressi del borgo Osojane, nel comune Istok. Finora sono andati distrutti, secondo la valutazione degli abitanti, 150 ettari di bosco, e la fiamma ha raggiunto anche alcuni frutteti e case nei dintorni, recando gravi danni. Servizio di Vukomir Petric.
Gli abitanti del borgo sono convinti che l’incendio sia doloso, perché, evidenziano, hanno visto un gruppo di albanesi passare di lì poco prima dell’incendio. Mihailo Smigic, che ha perso 20 ettari di bosco, la casa e il frutteto, fa sapere di aver riconosciuto e anche parlato con alcuni dei piromani. “Non c’è dubbio che sia un opera degli albanesi, li ho visti. Vivo a Osojane come rimpatriato, avevo intenzione di tornare nella mia casa, ma mi hanno distrutto tutto. Ho chiamato subito la polizia e i vigili del fuco, però sono arrivati in ritardo e non è rimasto più niente. Sono convinto che questo sia un messaggio che non devo tornare sulla mia tenuta, distante solo un paio di chilometri dal centro di Osojane, ma io non voglio lasciare il Kosovo e Metochia”, è deciso Smigic. Solo un paio di anni fa il grande complesso di boschi di Osojane è bruciato completamente nell’incendio.
Il comandante della Polizia kosovara per la regione Istok, Hasan Ceku, ha confermato che il caso è stato denunciato e che la polizia ha le informazioni sugli autori. Lui ha fatto sapere che l’inchiesta è in corso.
La rapina di bestiame, macchinari e altro, la distruzione della semina e dei boschi, negli ultimi anno sono i problemi più gravi dei serbi in Metochia. L’agricoltura, grazie all’aiuto del governo serbo, si è sviluppata molto ed è diventata il pilastro principale della sopravvivenza dei serbi nella provincia meridionale, ma qualcuno sta provando a riportare le cose com’erano prima, quando i serbi dipendevano esclusivamente dalle donazioni e si poneva la questione della loro sopravvivenza. Anche oggi, soprattutto dopo gli incendi dolosi e le rapine, molti si domandano se i serbi avranno mai una vita tranquilla e pacifica nella provincia, ma evidenziano, allo stesso tempo, che rimarranno nei loro focolari.


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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=05&dd=23&nav_id=80394

Tanjug News Agency - May 23, 2012

Kosovo: Homes of Serb returnees set on fire

PEČ: Two houses belonging to Serb returnees were burnt down in the village of Drenovac in Kosovo and Metohija, late on Tuesday.  
The village is located south of the Ibar River, where Serbs live in isolated enclaves.
Nenad Stašić, who lives in the village, told Tanjug news agency that around midnight fire damaged the houses of Milovan Radosavljević and Arso Stepić, but that no one was inside at that time. 
Firefighters arrived around 01:00, but the fire had already destroyed Radosavljević's house, whereas the second home was damaged to a lesser degree, he said. 
Stašić also said that Serb returnees from the village believe that the houses were set on fire "in order to send a clear message to Serbs that they do not belong in Metohija". 
"Last week it was agreed that another 12 houses for Kosovo Serb returnees will be built. This is the message for those people as well that they are not welcome here," the villager said. 
Last year, first seven Serb families returned to Drenovac, five of which live in the village permanently. 
Kosovo police (KPS) was expected to send "special units to the scene", according to Tanjug. Their role would be to conduct an investigation and determine the cause of the fire.

Ministry for Kosovo condemns attacks on Serbs

The Ministry for Kosovo condemned on Wednesday the burning of the homes of Serb returnees in the village of Drenovac in Kosovo and called on EULEX to find the perpetrators. 
"We call on all relevant international factors in the province to use their authority to compel the so-called Priština institutions and Kosovo Albanian officials to truly ensure the safety of Kosovo Serbs south of the Ibar, instead of pompously announcing their plan for northern Kosovo, and suppress Albanian extremism instead of encouraging it," says the release. 
The ministry notes it has warned representatives of the international community on several occasions about the constant attacks and the difficult position of Serb returnees in Kosovo, and about the deteriorating situation in Klina in particular. 
"The ministry is calling on KFOR to strengthen its presence in returnee villages near Klina and protect Serb lives and property from Albanian extremists. The burning of houses in the village of Drenovac, and other unresolved attacks on returnees reflect Pristina's position and treatment of Serb returnees and IDPs," says the release.


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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=05&dd=24&nav_id=80412

Beta News Agency - May 24, 2012

New provocation from Priština, state secretary says

PRIŠTINA: Forming of the Kosovo government's Administrative Office for the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica is a provocation, Oliver Ivanović has stated.
“There will not be some special reaction from the Serbian government, especially not in this situation, besides condemnation and qualification of the act as a flagrant provocation that is not aimed at calming down the situation but at upsetting the Serbian population and creating a situation in which incidents will be possible,” he said.
The Serbian Ministry for Kosovo state secretary stressed that the Serbs would not accept such offices and that their founding was an attempt to change the situation in the field ahead of the dialogue which is “more than certain”. 
“Such offices will not be accepted by Serbs because they have their local self-government which is functioning solidly. The self-government has its flaws, this could of course be better, but some local self-government imposed by Priština or some international circles certainly will not improve the situation,” Ivanović explained. 
According to him, the forming of the office cannot change the position of northern Kosovo Serbs or the position of the future Serbian government in the negotiations with Priština. 
The Kosovo government decided on Wednesday to form the Administrative Office for northern Kosovska Mitrovica that will provide service to citizens and coordinate investments in this part of Kosovo. 
The Office will include seven directorates and have 55 employees. 
Serbs are the majority population in the north and reject both the authority of the government in Priština, and the unilateral declaration of independence made by ethnic Albanians in early 2008.


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Kosovo: NATO Fires On Serb Protesters

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http://en.rian.ru/world/20120601/173790147.html

Russian Information Agency Novosti - June 1, 2012

Four Injured as Kosovo Serbs Clash with NATO Troops

Moscow: Three Serbs and one KFOR soldier were injured in clashes in northern Kosovo on Friday.
According to Serbia’s RTS TV channel, the three Serbs were injured when KFOR troops fired rubber bullets. One Serb has been hospitalized in serious condition. Local authorities said there was reason to believe KFOR troops had fired live bullets.
Hundreds of Serbs clashed with KFOR troops in armoured vehicles near a barricade outside the town of Zvecan in a Serb-dominated northern area of Kosovo, pelting them with stones.
Kosovo’s ethnic Serb enclave in the north of Kosovo barricaded the main roads after the authorities in Pristina installed customs officers at the Jarinje and Brnjak border crossings with Serbia. Serbia does not recognize Kosovo as a sovereign country.

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B92/Beta News Agency/Tanjug News Agency - June 1, 2012

Serbs clash with KFOR in northern Kosovo

ZVEČAN: KFOR troops removed all barricades near Zvečan, including the concrete barricade in the village of Dudin Krš on Friday.
At least three persons were injured when northern Kosovo Serbs clashed with KFOR at the barricade in the village of Rudare.
KFOR troops threw teargas at Serbs who were trying to get to the barricade in the village of Dudin Krš. 
KFOR helicopters are flying over the area and a KFOR transporter is parked at a bridge in Malo Rudare.
Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvečan local self-government representatives Krstmir Pantić and Dragiša Milović were among the large number of citizens who gathered at the scene. 
Pantić told B92 that he was worried about the fact that KFOR troops were using live ammunition and that there was a large number of injured Serbs. 
“We have managed to transport three young men to the Kosovska Mitrovica Health Center in an ambulance, however, another three young men who are injured are left behind KFOR lines and they do not allow the ambulance to get to the scene and help the injured,” he said. 
Other injured people were treated at the scene. 
According to him, KFOR started shooting at Serbs without any reason or warning. 
He said that there were around 1,000 people near the barricade and that KFOR would start shooting as soon as they saw someone approaching the barricade. 
“They even ignored UNMIK representatives’ warning to allow ambulance to go through,” Pantić explained.
Beta news agency has learnt that three injured men were admitted to the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital. One of them was discharged after he had received the medical help. 
KFOR Spokesman Uwe Nowitzki told Tanjug that one of their soldiers was wounded during today's operation of removing the barricade near Rudare. 
“The soldier was evacuated and his condition is stable,” Nowitzki said. 
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“We will not let the situation to further escalate and we will use adequate force if needed,” the KFOR spokesman concluded. 
The citizens announced earlier on Friday that they would prevent KFOR from removing the barricades.

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B92/Beta News Agency - June 1, 2012

President, PM hold emergency meeting on Kosovo

BELGRADE: Serbia’s President Tomislav Nikolić, outgoing Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković and several ministers held an emergency meeting on incidents in Kosovo on Friday.
Beta news agency has learned that Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac, Justice Minister Snežana Malović and Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović attended the meeting with the president and the PM.
They left the Serbian Presidency headquarters a little after 12:30 CET but did not give any statements to the media. 
KFOR started removing barricades near Zvečan on Friday morning. At least three Serbs and one KFOR soldier were injured in the incident that broke out. 
The NATO troops removed the barricades in the villages of Rudare and Dudin Krš and blocked all roads leading to the barricades. 
The roadblocks were put up by the citizens after last year's attempt by the Kosovo Albanian government in Priština to take over two administrative checkpoints in the north. 
Serbs are the majority population north of the Ibar River and reject the authority of the government in Priština, as well as the unilateral declaration of independence made over four years ago by Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.

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Tanjug News Agency - June 1, 2012

Minister urges KFOR to refrain from violence

BELGRADE: Serbia's Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović called on KFOR on Friday to refrain from using force.
He also urged KFOR to adhere strictly to its mandate and on the Serbs to stay calm and ignore provocations.
Commenting on an incident near Rudare, northern Kosovo, where there was gunfire and four people were injured, Bogdanović appealed to all sides to refrain from violence. 
"It is very important to reduce tension as soon as possible, normalize the situation and solve all problems through dialogue, and not force," he told Tanjug. 
“Right now, everyone has to understand that the situation is very volatile,” Bogdanović stressed. 
"That is why I call on KFOR, but also on the Serbs in the north, to keep in mind that fact and for each side to show maximum restraint when it comes to taking risky actions. Any escalation of conflict can lead us into a spiral of violence with unimaginable consequences," the minister concluded.

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Voice of Russia - June 1, 2012

KFOR opens fire on Serbs in Northern Kosovo

John Robles

There are reports in the Serbian press and other press that US KFOR troops have opened fire on unarmed Serbs in Northern Kosovo and there are wounded.
The reports are as follows and are being sent to me by my Serbian sources, apparently US KFOR attempted to remove a barricade on a bridge and opened fire on Serb protestors. According to reports by the local Serbian KIM Radio inured civilians are being taken to Kosovska Mitrovica Hospital
According to Reuters at least five Kosovo Serbs and one NATO soldier were wounded in the armed clashes which occurred after NATO (KFOR) forces tried to remove road barricades.
NATO forces fired tear gas and opened fire on Serbian protesters, however, it is not clear if these were just warning shots. There are hundreds of Serbs gathered at the barricades in near Zvecan where the Serbs are the majority.
According to a report in Serbian media a NATO spokesperson in Kosovo, Uwe Nowitzki stated that "If needed KFOR will respond defensively."
A more detailed report transmitted by the Serbian daily Kurir states that all of the roadblocks that lead to Zvecan including the large concrete barricade in Dudino are in rubble and were removed by KFOR this morning. According to the people gathered in Dudino Karst, KFOR used heavy machinery to remove the barricades. Kosovo Serbs have also set up a concrete barricade on the road to the southern Kosovo Mitrovica to prevent the passage of special units of the Kosovo police, The infamous "Rosa" SWAT units.
The Serbian Daily Kurir reports that the Zvecan situation remains extremely tense and that there are a large number of citizens on the bridge that leads to the barricades in Rudare. KFOR is on the other side of the bridge and has set up barbed wire and heavy equipment is not allowing citizens across the bridge. The whole village of Rudare is under a lockdown and citizens are afraid to leave their homes and helicopters constantly fly over the area and drop "infrared bait" to block possible missile attacks from the ground.

12:42 – KIM Radio cites the Director of the Kosovska Mitrovica Hospital, Milan Jakovljevic,  as saying that injured Serbs from Zvecan are still being brought to the hospital. Some have been released and at least 3 are undergoing treatment.

12:40 - Negotiations are currently underway between American KFOR officers and the mayors of Zvecan and Zubin Potok reports KiM radio.

12:12 - The commander of the police station in Gracanica, Bratislav Trajkovic told KIM Radio that the situation in his part of Kosovo is currently calm.

12:08 - The Government of Kosovo has promised to release a statement sometime today regarding the developments in Northern Kosovo but has so far not done so.

12:03 - Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi does not want to comment on developments in the north. KIM Radio said briefly that the information should be sought from KFOR.

11:57 - KFOR broke through the barricade in Malom Rudaru and continued advancing toward the barricade in Velikom Rudaru reports Beta.

11:56 – The Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Goran Bogdanovic called on KFOR to refrain from the use of force and strictly adheres to and operate within its mandate, and asked the Serbs to remain calm and not to fall for provocations.

11:38 - KFOR spokesperson Uwe Nowicki confirmed to Tanjug that during the action of removing the barricades around Rudaru (Miners) one KFOR soldier was injured.

10:49 - An American KFOR officer talked to the mayor of Zvecan, Dragisa Milovic and of Zubin Potok, Slavisa Ristic, and the hospital director Milena Cvetkovic after which the mayors appealed to citizens not to throw stones, because otherwise KFOR would open fire. State Secretary for Kosovo and Metohija Oliver Ivanovic said he did not understand what started the current KFOR action reports (B92).

10:27 - KFOR used tear gas on Serbs gathered around the barricades in place Dudin Kres, KIM Radio has learned.

10:25 - Three injured Serbs from Zvecan were taken to Kosovska Mitrovica Hospital with one of them in serious condition. One has a bullet wound in the thigh and is undergoing surgery KIM Radioreports citing the Head of the Hospital, Milan Jakovljevic.

10:17 - KFOR announced that this morning began an operation to remove the roadblocks in the vicinity of Malo and Veliki Rudaru with the aim of improving freedom of movement. "From 8:40 pm KFOR conducted an operation to remove the roadblocks in the vicinity of the Rudarus. This activity aims to encourage free movement, not only for KFOR, but also international organizations and all citizens of Kosovo", said a statement submitted to KIM Radio by KFOR.

10:14 - KFOR helicopters are constantly flying over the area above the conflict, and at the end of the bridge to the village of Rudaru a transporter is blocking the road. On the Zvecan side of the bridge a large number of citizens have were gathered along with representatives of the local government in Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan, Krstimir Pantic and Dragisa Milovic.

Members of American KFOR did not allow injured to be taken to the emergency room of Kosovska Mitrovica according to reports. Witnesses, the media and Mayor Milović said KFOR Lieutenant Joseph Lynch did not allow the passage of injured to the emergency room or the passing of local government representatives.

09:56 – A KIM Radio reporter said he saw injured being taken away from the scene by car. Other sources say that at least three people were admitted to the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica.

09:41 – KFOR has placed a roadblock on the bridge between Zvecan and Rudaru.

09:25 - Armoured machinery of KFOR removes a concrete barricade on the bridge in Rudaru. Prior to removing the roadblocks tear gas was fired at about 500 citizens gathered around the bridge reports a KiM radio reporter from the scene who also said they used rubber bullets and live ammunition.

09:10 - The incident began when the KFOR soldiers attempted to remove the barricade near Rudaru and Zvecan.

Reports from independent (VOR) sources, local media, Serbian KIM Radio, and Reuters were used in this report.

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Beta News Agency - June 1, 2012

KFOR operation “aimed at pressuring Nikolić”

BELGRADE: Faculty of Political Sciences professor Predrag Simić says KFOR’s operation in northern Kosovo is aimed at exerting pressure on President Tomislav Nikolić. 
He said that the Friday operation was “absolutely connected” with Nikolić’s oath-taking. 
According to him, the KFOR operation “represents some sort of pressure that should determine Nikolić and the future Serbian government’s bad starting position”. 
“I think this is a baptism of fire of the new president but also a message from Belgrade that things have gone too far and that the new president and the government, once it has been formed, will have to start dealing with Kosovo where the situation will be significantly different than the one which was left by the previous government and the previous president,” Simić told Beta news agency. 
He assessed that tensions had been rising since the election campaign started in Serbia, adding that the situation culminated today. 
“It depends on Belgrade how the situation will develop. KFOR and Priština have made their moves and let us hope that the new president and the future government are ready for the challenges, like they claimed in their campaigns,“ Simić concluded. 
Four northern Kosovo Serbs were wounded in clashes with KFOR on Friday, after KFOR troops started removing barricades near Zvečan. 
Nikolić, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković and several ministers held an emergency meeting over the latest incidents in Kosovo on Friday.


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Beta News Agency/Tanjug News Agency - June 1, 2012

Russian envoy warns about "Greater Albania" project

BELGRADE: Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Konuzin says his country is concerned about the existence of a project to establish a so-called Greater Albania. 
"It's a very dangerous project for the entire Southeastern Europe region, and it would represent a precedent," the top Russian diplomat in Serbia said late on Thursday, adding that his country will "strongly oppose attempts to form a Greater Albania."
Taking part in a panel discussion in Belgrade dedicated to Russo-Serbian relations, Konuzin noted that Russia supported all reconciliation efforts of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, noting that Serbia has been conducting a balanced policy in that respect. 
The ambassador stressed that Russia was also a firm supporter of the positions held by Serbs in the Serb Republic (RS), in Bosnia, and noted that Russia was one of the signatories of the Dayton Peace Accords "which it was not satisfied with, but which must be respected". 
"The goal of the so-called Butmir Process is to form a centralized state out of Bosnia-Herzegovina. We have nothing against that, but only if all peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbs included, agree to it," Konuzin said, underlining that "international law must be respected". 
Speaking about the relations between Serbia and Russia, the diplomat noted that they reached a high level, and that regardless of the composition of a future government in Belgrade, that cannot change. 
He ruled out the possibility that a government could take over in Serbia that would have a negative influence on the ties between the two countries. 
Konuzin also revealed that Russia supported Serbia as a militarily neutral country, "and statements from Belgrade on that subject". 
As for Kosovo, Russia will support any Serbian policy toward the province, he stated. 
Commenting on the February referendum in northern Kosovo - when local Serbs near unanimously rejected the ethnic Albanian authorities in Priština - the ambassador quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's statement that "the position of the Serbs who live in Kosovo must not be ignored". 
Focusing on economic issues, Konuzin noted that trade between Serbia and Russia reached USD 3.5bn last year, and that effort should be made to make that trade "even more intensive - until it returns to the pre-economic crisis level of over USD 4bn". 
"I expect that works on the Serbian part of the South Stream pipeline will begin late next year, and we're also considering building a new heating plant in Pančevo, and possibly in Belgrade and Niš and well," he noted. 
He further stressed that Russia was very interested in the development of infrastructure in Serbia, especially in the energy sector, but also in building a modern railroad system, adding that this also applied to all other former Yugoslav republics. 
"The money is there, we have the funds - help yourselves! But, projects are needed for that," said Konuzin, and added that he was puzzled that it took "so much time" for Serbia to come up with its projects. 
The ambassador explained that the money to fund most Serbian projects would be transferred in the fall, and that he on Monday handed over a harmonized draft agreement on this subject to the Serbian government. 
"If Serbia has an interest in building nuclear power plants here, we will help you with that as well," the diplomat said, adding that the same applied to new hydro power plants in Serbia. 
Finally, Konuzin touched on the nature of the relations between the two nations, saying that Russia was close to many other countries with which it shared its culture, religion and script - but that it nurtured "closest, even intimate ties" only with Serbia.





Annullata la parata del 2 giugno

29 maggio 2012

Questa è la lettera di risposta che Lelio Basso scrisse all’allora ministro della Difesa Arnaldo Forlani che decise di sospendere la parata militare del 2 giugno 1976 dopo il terremoto che sconvolse il Friuli.



Sono personalmente grato al ministro Forlani per avere deciso la sospensione della parata militare del 2 giugno, e naturalmente mi auguro che la sospensione diventi una soppressione.

Non avevo mai capito, infatti, perché si dovesse celebrare la festa nazionale del 2 giugno con una parata militare. Che lo si facesse per la festa nazionale del 4 novembre aveva ancora un senso: il 4 novembre era la data di una battaglia che aveva chiuso vittoriosamente la prima guerra mondiale. Ma il 2 giugno fu una vittoria politica, la vittoria della coscienza civile e democratica del popolo sulle forze monarchiche e sui loro alleati: il clericalismo, il fascismo, la classe privilegiata. Perché avrebbe dovuto il popolo riconoscersi in quella sfilata di uomini armati e di mezzi militari che non avevano nulla di popolare e costituivano anzi un corpo separato, in netta contrapposizione con lo spirito della democrazia?

C’era in quella parata una sopravvivenza del passato, il segno di una classe dirigente che aveva accettato a malincuore il responso popolare del 2 giugno e cercava di nasconderne il significato di rottura con il passato, cercava anzi di ristabilire a tutti i costi la continuità con questo passato. Certo, non si era potuto dopo il 2 giugno riprendere la marcia reale come inno nazionale, ma si era comunque cercato nel passato l’inno nazionale di una repubblica che avrebbe dovuto essere tutta tesa verso l’avvenire, avrebbe dovuto essere l’annuncio di un nuovo giorno, di una nuova era della storia nazionale. Io non ho naturalmente nulla contro l’inno di Mameli, che esalta i sentimenti patriottici del Risorgimento, ma mi si riconoscerà che, essendo nato un secolo prima, in circostanze del tutto diverse, non aveva e non poteva avere nulla che esprimesse lo spirito di profondo rinnovamento democratico che animava il popolo italiano e che aveva dato vita alla Repubblica.

La Costituzione repubblicana, figlia precisamente del 2 giugno, aveva scritto nell’articolo primo che l’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro.

Una repubblica in primo luogo. E invece quel tentativo di rinverdire glorie militari che sarebbe difficile trovare nel passato, quel risuonare di armi sulle strade di Roma che avevano appena cessato di essere imperiali, quell’omaggio reso dalle autorità civili della repubblica alle forze armate, ci ripiombava in pieno nel clima della monarchia, quando il re era il comandante supremo delle forze armate, “primo maresciallo dell’impero”. Le monarchie, e anche quella italiana, eran nate da un cenno feudale e la loro storia era sempre stata commista alla storia degli eserciti: non a caso i re d’Italia si eran sempre riservati il diritto di scegliere personalmente i ministri militari, anziché lasciarli scegliere, come gli altri, dal presidente del consiglio. Ma che aveva da fare tutto questo con una repubblica che, all’art. 11 della sua costituzione, dichiarava di ripudiare la guerra come mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie internazionali? Tradizionalmente le forze armate avevano avuto due compiti: uno di conquista verso l’esterno e uno di repressione all’interno, e ambedue sembravano incompatibili con la nuova costituzione repubblicana.

Repubblica democratica in secondo luogo. In una democrazia sono le forze armate che devono prestare ossequio alle autorità civili, e, prima ancora, devono, come dice l’art. 52 della costituzione, uniformarsi allo spirito democratico della costituzione. Ma in questa direzione non si è fatto nulla e le forze armate hanno mantenuto lo spirito caratteristico del passato, il carattere autoritario e antidemocratico dei corpi separati, sono rimaste nettamente al di fuori della costituzione. I nostri governanti hanno favorito questa situazione spingendo ai vertici della carriera elementi fascisti, come il gen. De Lorenzo, ex-comandante dei carabinieri, ex-capo dei servizi segreti ed ex-capo di stato maggiore, e, infine, deputato fascista; come l’ammiraglio Birindelli, già assurto a un comando Nato e poi diventato anche lui deputato fascista; come il generale Miceli, ex-capo dei servizi segreti e ora candidato fascista alla Camera. Tutti, evidentemente, traditori del giuramento di fedeltà alla costituzione che bandisce il fascismo, eppure erano costoro, come supreme gerarchie delle forze armate, che avrebbero dovuto incarnare la repubblica agli occhi del popolo, sfilando alla testa delle loro truppe, nel giorno che avrebbe dovuto celebrare la vittoria della repubblica sulla monarchia e sul fascismo. E già che ho nominato De Lorenzo e Miceli, entrambi incriminati per reati gravi, e uno anche finito in prigione, che dire della ormai lunga lista di generali che sono stati o sono ospiti delle nostre carceri per reati infamanti? Quale prestigio può avere un esercito che ha questi comandanti? E quale lustro ne deriva a una nazione che li sceglie a proprio simbolo?

Infine, non dimentichiamolo, questa repubblica democratica è fondata sul lavoro. Va bene che, nella realtà delle cose, anche quest’articolo della costituzione non ha trovato una vera applicazione. Ma forse proprio per questo non sarebbe più opportuno che lo si esaltasse almeno simbolicamente, che a celebrare la vittoria civile del 2 giugno si chiamassero le forze disarmate del lavoro che sono per definizione forze di pace, forze di progresso, le forze su cui dovrà inevitabilmente fondarsi la ricostruzione di una società e di uno stato che la classe di governo, anche con la complicità di molti comandanti delle forze armate, ha gettato nel precipizio?

Vorrei che questo mio invito fosse raccolto da tutte le forze politiche democratiche, proprio come un segno distintivo dell’attaccamento alla democrazia. E vorrei terminare ancora una volta, anche se non sono Catone, con un deinde censeo: censeo che il reato di vilipendio delle forze armate (come tutti i reati di vilipendio) è inammissibile in una repubblica democratica.

Lelio Basso



(italiano / english)

Pentagon Consolidates Control Over Balkans

1) NATO’S "HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS" 
Dragomir Vučićević - 24 April 2012
2) Balkans To Caspian: U.S. And NATO Continue Cold War 
Rick Rozoff - April 30, 2012
3) British Defence Chief: NATO Absolves Germany Of Nazi Past 
Rick Rozoff - May 4, 2012
4) L’eterna giovinezza della Nato 
Manlio Dinucci - 23 maggio 2012
5) Pentagon Consolidates Control Over Balkans
Rick Rozoff - May 30, 2012


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The Belgrade Forum welcomes initiative of the Head office of the  World Peace Council (WPC), in Athens and the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation to hold this meeting, which we consider very important. The dramatic events in several countries over the recent years, planned and implemented by direct involvement of the USA, NATO and the EU, also threatening to propagate to some other countries, are a huge threat to peace and security, especially in the region of the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and Middle East. We are faced with new and dangerous challenges, with new threats and with the introducing of new unrests and turmoil in various parts of the world, targeted by conquering and domination intent of the masterminds of the new world order. The leading Western countries with imperialist ambitions, primarily the USA, are increasingly assuming the right to decide on who can and who cannot lead any given country in the world.  The new arms race imposed by the USA, NATO and the EU, establishment of new military bases and new zones of influence, ever more frequent use of force and blatant violation of the fundamental principles of the international law are the ultimate threat to peace, stability and security.

After the failure of bipolar world from the early 1990s, the world revealed true colors of NATO and true intentions of its masters, first of all, the USA. Ever since, the USA and its Western allies, with the use of their NATO arm, have been trying to introduce new rules of international conduct, such as concepts of “humanitarian intervention”, “human rights above sovereignty”, “exceptionalism” and “responsibility to protect” in a bid to secure the excuse for the use of force to instigate civil wars, change of regimes, dissolution of sovereign states.

The first victim of this new USA/NATO doctrine was former Yugoslavia, or Serbia, exactly 13 years ago. Under the pretext of “humanitarian intervention”, led by the USA and without any UN Security Council mandate, NATO committed aggression against Serbia (Yugoslavia) on 24 March 1999 and went on with it for 78 days and nights. For the first time since its establishment, the USA-led NATO applied deadly force against a sovereign country, thus grossly breaching not only its Founding Act but also the UN Charter and the fundamental principles of the international law. In the build-up for this aggression, the USA was strongly supported by its Western allies, primarily by Germany, France and the UK. That-time President Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair and NATO leadership told their citizens that bombing of Serbia was a “humanitarian intervention”, cynically named “Merciful Angel”, aiming at preventing the alleged genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Albanian minority in Kosovo. These manufactured lies were all too ready accepted by the so-called free western media in supporting and justifying the aggression. This was the twilight of the Western ethics, twilight of media freedoms.

The focus of such policy was neither democracy nor human rights, but solely the U.S. interests; they employed NATO to harness the entire Balkans under its control, with a view further its imperialist goals in the Asia Minor and the Middle East, the Caspian basin and, ultimately, Russia. Pursuing their hegemonic goals, they embarked on dismembering the territory of Serbia and forcible separating of Kosovo in spite of this Province being a part of Serbia and the cradle of Serbian statehood. The aggressors turned it into a NATO-made pseudo-state called Kosovo, and erected one of the largest American military bases, the Bondsteel Camp, which facilitates control of all strategic routes between Europe and the Middle East.  This project was accompanied with systematic destruction of the national, cultural and spiritual heritage of Serbian nation in this part of Serbia.

13 years since NATO aggression, the Balkans remains unstable. Under the UN and EU mandates, Kosovo turned into a training ground for terrorists, a transit base for heroin and human trafficking, and a precedent for dismantling free sovereign states. Albanian separatism is rising once again in the South of the Central Serbia, and Tirana hosts conferences dedicated to creation of Greater Albania. These are the results of spreading “democracy” by Tomahawk/Patriot missiles, unmanned aircrafts, depleted uranium, cluster bombs and graphite bombs.

The USA/NATO aggression against Serbia (Yugoslavia) was a historic turning point and a fatal step leading into destruction of the previously valid limits and rules governing international peace and security introduced since WWII. This illegal act set a dangerous precedent that NATO and the USA keep applying in other parts of the world ever since, threatening the entire structure of international relations, peace and stability. This is how creators of the new world order willfully and by argument of weapons imposed a new reality on the ashes of the international legitimacy, in the form of a parallel “international law”, authored and implemented by the USA through NATO as its implementing tool.  This process, unfortunately for us, was followed with marginalization of roles of the United Nations and its Security Council, as the ultimate global body for preserving the peace and stability in the world.  

 Pursuing its imperial arrogance and misusing the tragic and heinous terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and backed by its most loyal NATO allies, the USA continued with aggression in Afghanistan in 2001, and then in Iraq in 2003, blatantly violating the international law. They forcibly changed the regimes in both countries. The continued decade-long use of brute force and most advanced weaponry against the peoples in these states caused vast human casualties, tremendous anguish of people and huge material destructions. Just like the aggression against Serbia was based on lies, the aggression against Iraq was also based on defrauding national and global public with lies of alleged production of weapons of mass destruction in that country, which was never found.

The most recent example of illegal and violent behavior of the USA and NATO is aggression against Libya in 2011. The Western leaders praised this NATO campaign as the first example of “responsibility to protect”. In fact, NATO action in Libya is the latest example of USA/NATO violent practice and brute misuse of UN Security Council resolution adopted at the beginning of the conflict in Libya in early 2011. This seven-month long NATO-allies aggression was concluded with forcible change of regime in that country and apprehension, torture and execution of years-long Head of State, President Qaddafi, supported by direct involvement of NATO special forces. The key roles there were played by France, the UK and the U.S., whereas some Arab countries, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, provided ample financial support, especially to those media which supported the aggression and campaigned in demonizing of President Qaddafi and his regime, for the sake of justifying the aggression.

What can be said about the result of such US/NATO “humanitarian interventions”? A full analysis would take too much time, but we could recall its basics:

-    During aggression against Serbia (Yugoslavia) was killed more than 3,500 persons out of whom two-thirds were civilians including 79 children under the age of ten; more than 10,000 people were heavily wounded and suffered lasting effects; during and after the aggression, the policy of terror and pre-planned ethnic cleansing resulted in expulsion of more than 230,000 Serbs and non-Albanian people, with only few thousand of them managing to return to their homes in all these years; Serbs who remained in Kosovo have no freedom of movement, have to live in closed enclaves sometimes surrounded by barbed wire, and under constant exposure to harassment and arbitrariness of local Albanian authorities; the whole country suffered material damage of the order of 100 billion dollar; the effects of mass-scale use of weapons with depleted uranium and consequential radiation have lasting adverse consequences on health of the current and the future generations;  

-    During the years of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of thousand of civilians were killed, hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed, and heavy material devastation inflicted, resulting in poverty, chaos and instability; both countries became breeding grounds for conflicts and terrorist groups with tragic outcome for the inhabitants, because the hand-picked governments do not enjoy trust of people; the world will remember brutal and ruthless behavior of the aggressor against local people such as tragic exercise of humiliating prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, or incessant night killings of civilians in Afghanistan by the so-called  guided missiles, or recent killing of 17 members of several Afghan families including 9 children in a rampage of a US soldier; in its arrogance, the aggressor put tag value on these lives with as little as 50,000 dollars, in damages to families; 11-year long American war and its atrocities strengthened the resolute and the will of the Afghan people to fight for their country and expel foreign arrogant and inhuman enemy;

 -   No less tragic is the outcome of seven-month aggression against Libya - thousands of killed civilians, destroyed cities and infrastructure, tens of thousands of jailed proponents of former regime under grave humiliation and torture; the report of UN Human Rights Council and recent reports of some other humanitarian organizations claim that in Libya, including the period of NATO aggression, were committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Some of these reports include conclusive proof of involvement of NATO forces in crimes committed in Libya;  once decades-long stable and prosperous country, Libya of today is devastated and facing conflicts along the regional and tribal lines, under a realistic threat of disintegration that will inflict far-reaching consequences not only for Libya but also for the entire region; Libyan oil reserves, Africa’s richest, were taken over mainly by the Western companies, and Libya was finally integrated in NATO’s so-called Mediterranean Dialogue, a military partnership with NATO, which was the very goal of the aggression.   

Recently, the world’s attention has been focused on events in Syria and increasingly direct threats against Iran vocalized by Israel and the USA. Concerning conflict in Syria, one can notice a great similarity with pre-NATO Libya’s developments. Both were caused by direct involvement of foreign factor. As previously in Libya, the dominant roles in Syria belong to foreign mercenaries and paramilitary forces close to radical Islamic groups, which are directly supported by NATO and certain countries from the region. As in Libya, the financial support to insurgents comes from Saudi Arabia and some other countries from the region. The West/NATO repeat in Syria the same method as used in Libya: support to terrorist actions, infiltration of mercenaries to execute military actions, and instigation of conflicts against the regime, smuggling arms to insurgents, training insurgents in training compounds located in some adjacent countries, especially in Turkey; as in Libya, the basic USA/NATO goal is creating instability and chaos, instigating and inciting armed conflict with maximum civilian deaths, as precursor for foreign intervention and overthrowing the regime in Syria.

I wish to use this opportunity and express, on behalf of the Belgrade Forum, our sincere solidarity with nations of Syria and Iran who are exposed to dangerous activities in destabilizing and threatening their respective sovereignty, peace and freedom. I also offer full support to the fight of people of Palestine for freedom and creation of independent state of Palestine within its historic borders from 1967, and Jerusalem as its capital.

 We wish to believe that countries and forces defending the peace, sovereignty and observance of the UN Charter and fundamental principles of the international law, combined and in joint exercise, will muster strength to prevent new aggressive “humanitarian interventions” by the USA and NATO. There lies the importance of this meeting, its conclusions and messages, and our joint future activities. The Belgrade Forum gives its full support to the World Peace Council in its tireless efforts to mobilize broadest peace-loving forces in fight against imperialism and in defense of peace, freedom and democracy. The basis for international relations should be the international law with the overarching role of the United Nations in resolving international problems and safeguarding the peace, rather than desires of mighty ones to forcibly change borders and regimes in any country.  
Thank you very much for your attention.                                                    

Dragomir Vučićević,
Member of the Steering Board of the 
Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals


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Stop NATO - April 30, 2012

Balkans To Caspian: U.S. And NATO Continue Cold War

Rick Rozoff


Though infrequently acknowledged if even given consideration, the current historical period remains what it has been for a quarter century, the post-Cold War era.

Beginning in earnest in 1991 with the near simultaneous disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – instantaneous in the first case, comparatively slower in the second, only complete with the independence of Montenegro in 2006 – the  bipolar world ended with the demise of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and the nonaligned one with the fragmentation of Yugoslavia, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.

The dissolution of the two nations, the only both multi-ethnic and multi-confessional countries in Europe, was accompanied by violent ethnic conflicts often reinforced by religious differences. In Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, the South Caucasus, the Russian North Caucasus and on the east bank of the Dniester River.

In many instances, in Serbian-majority areas of Croatia and Bosnia and in Transdniester, memories of World War II gave rise to legitimate fears of revanchism among populations that recalled the death camps and pogroms of Adolf Hitler’s allies in the early 1940s and witnessed the recrudescence of the ideologies, the irredentism and the political trappings that gave rise to them.

Transdniester refused to become part of post-Soviet Moldova as it foresaw both states being reabsorbed into Romania. Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Adjara, parts of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, didn’t desire to be included in the Republic of Georgia and majority-Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh adopted a similar approach to post-Soviet Azerbaijan. The above are collectively known in certain circles as the frozen conflicts in former Soviet space.

The centrifugal dynamic reached more dangerous proportions when armed secessionist movements went beyond federal republics – the Leninist constitutions of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia formally allowed for their independence under the proper conditions – and arose in autonomous republics, former autonomous republics and other regions: Chechnya and Dagestan in Russia and Kosovo and the Presevo Valley in Serbia. Northwestern Macedonia was the site of the same destabilization in 2001, the direct – and inevitable – result of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s air war against Yugoslavia two years earlier on behalf of Kosovo separatists.

The area collectively assailed by the above violence and national vivisection stretches from the Adriatic Sea to the Caspian Sea, north of the Broader (or Greater or New) Middle East which in turn begins in Mauritania and ends in Kazakhstan, from Africa’s Atlantic coast to China’s western border.

The ever more extensive breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia, correlated with – and more than correlated with – the development of NATO as an expansionist, aggressive and bellicose regional and global military force.

Twenty-one nations and five smaller breakaway states (including Kosovo) where earlier there had been only two created that many more opportunities for the West to expand southward and eastward from Cold War-era NATO territory. Every one of the 21 former Soviet and Yugoslav federal republics is now either a full member of NATO or engaged in a partnership program. Thirteen of them have troops serving under NATO command in Afghanistan.

Two recent announcements demonstrate the constantly increasing penetration and domination of the area that begins in Slovenia and ends in Azerbaijan, a swathe of land that on its eastern extreme borders Russia to its north and Iran to its south.

Recently NATO’s Allied Command Operations website announced the resumption of what had been annual military exercises employed to integrate partners in the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

The dual exercise, Cooperative Longbow and Cooperative Lancer, respectively a command and a field exercise, will occur this year in Macedonia from May 21-29 with the participation of several NATO members – if the preceding versions are an indication, the U.S. Britain, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and others – and perhaps twice as many partnership adjuncts from the Partnership for Peace, Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative programs. The exercise, like its predecessors, is based on a “crisis response” scenario and a United Nations mandate. Like Libya last year, for instance.

In the last Cooperative Longbow/Cooperative Lancer exercises, in Georgia in 2009, NATO members the U.S., Britain, Canada, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Albania participated. Longbow/Lancer 2009 was held less than nine months after the five-day war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008 and was also to have included NATO members Estonia and Latvia and twelve partnership nations.

This year’s version is slated to involve the largest number of Partnership for Peace states in any Longbow/Lancer exercises, thirteen: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland and Ukraine. NATO hasn’t yet disclosed which Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative partners will participate this year.

The first Longbow/Lancer exercises were held in Moldova in 2006 with seven NATO members, twelve Partnership for Peace nations (all of the above-mentioned except for Serbia, which joined the Partnership for Peace in that year) and Mediterranean Dialogue partner Israel. Mediterranean Dialogue member Morocco and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative members Qatar and the United Arab Emirates sent observers.

Cooperative Longbow/Lancer 2007 was conducted in Albania and the following year’s exercise in Armenia. All five nations – Moldova, Albania, Armenia, Georgia and Macedonia – are deeply involved, either on their own territory or in neighboring nations, in one or more of the conflicts discussed above. In 2009 Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Serbia withdrew beforehand because of the Georgia-Russian war of a few months earlier and Estonia and Latvia did also because of an anti-government mutiny staged the day before the almost month-long exercise began.

What role the NATO and partnership troops may have played had the military uprising progressed further than it did can be easily imagined.

The U.S. Marine Corps’ Black Sea Rotational Force posted on its Facebook account (and to date nowhere else) that its six-month rotation for this year will “build enduring partnerships with 19 nations throughout Eastern Europe.” More accurately, as the Marine program formed two years ago identifies as its mission, in “the Black Sea, Balkan and Caucasus regions.”

Two years ago twelve nations were involved, by last year there were thirteen – Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine – and this year nineteen. The six new participating nations were not named.   

Black Sea Rotational Force 2012 began its half-year-long deployment in Georgia by joining Agile Spirit 2012 in March at the Vaziani Training Area where the last Cooperative Longbow/Lancer exercises took place. Serbia may host its first military exercises with the force as well.

The U.S. Marine Corps is not only building bilateral and multilateral ties with nineteen countries in the Balkans, the Black Sea region and the Caucasus and other parts of the former Soviet Union, it is also consolidating NATO’s expansion into those areas with the ultimate aim of full Alliance membership for those not already among the bloc’s 28 member states.

It can be argued that the Cold War didn’t end, that the U.S. and NATO continue to wage it with wars and preparations for wars. 


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Stop NATO - May 4, 2012

British Defence Chief: NATO Absolves Germany Of Nazi Past

Rick Rozoff


While British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond was in Berlin earlier this week touting global NATO ahead of the military alliance's summit in Chicago two weeks from now, he urged Germany to overcome its "historic reluctance" to waging military aggression in Europe and around the world. Regarding the West, a case of what oft was thought, but ne'er so - candidly - expressed.

After meeting with his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere, Hammond told the British press that World War II "was quite a long while ago” and as such Germany must cast off whatever residual misgivings it may harbor about reassuming an international military role within NATO, as "it is self-evident that there is still huge potential in the German defence structure to deliver more useful firepower to the alliance.” Germany must "significantly increase its military capability,” Hammond advocated.

As Europe's major economic force, it must also be its main military contributor.

The deadliest war in history is yesterday's news, old hat. Time to get over it and move on. To new wars. Concerns about the 1945 Potsdam agreement on the demilitarization of Germany, the Nuremberg principles and the German constitutional ban on preparing wars of aggression are, to use contemporary colloquial language, like so 20th century.

Hammond's remark about Germany's hesitance to get back into the war business, though, is outdated, as the country did so thirteen years ago in support of NATO's air war against Yugoslavia in 1999.

The United Kingdom's defense chief also delivered an address at his country's embassy in Berlin on May 2, co-sponsored by the German Council on Foreign Relations, entitled "Shared Security: Transforming Defence to Face the Future," which reiterated the common Western position of internationalizing NATO for a broader range of missions outside of the Euro-Atlantic area.

His comments included these unequivocal assertions:

"The responsibility of European nations to defend their citizens can no longer be discharged by a strategy of homeland defence and a Fortress Europe.

"The threats we face are no longer territorial, so a passive defence of national territory is no longer adequate protection for our citizens.

"Our security requires that we do not sit back and let threats come to us - but that we project power to meet them - wherever in the world they are forming."

Global NATO, led by its major, its only significant, powers - the United States, Britain, France, Germany and sometimes Italy - will unilaterally and arbitrarily define threats that must be confronted; will practice alleged defense of its territory by going on the offensive half a world away if desired, as the reasons for war are "no longer territorial"; will not let largely chimerical dangers present their calling cards in Brussels, London, Washington, Berlin and Paris, but will anticipate them before they even exist, if they are even capable of existing, and "project power" to preempt them, whether the threats are real or fancied, imminent or remote, latent or without foundation either in the present or the future.

Hammond further stated, "we need to take that final step up from the defensive posture of the Cold War, to respond to a future in which threats can originate thousands of miles away..."

As such, "the NATO Alliance, and the European part of it in particular, must continue to develop together the capability and the political will to act when necessary - to project power, including, but not limited to, military power, and to deploy it rapidly when we must."

And where. And against whom. And under whatever contrived rubric it chooses. Hammond was disabusing Germans of any lingering, antiquated illusions that their armed forces are designed to protect their nation's borders and population.

Hammond applauded the six-month NATO bombing campaign against Libya last year as "a coalition success" within the context he discussed. For as "it is in Europe’s interest that the United States rises to the challenge that the emergence of China as a global power presents and we should support the decisions the US has made," then the inextricable correlate of that is Europe's "Shouldering the major burden in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, but also being prepared, if necessary to take a bigger role in relation to North Africa and the Middle East."

The major NATO powers divide up the world.

But even the alliance of 28 European and North American nations, consisting of three members with nuclear weapons in Europe (which include American tactical nuclear bombs in Germany) and most of the world's largest and most lethal armed forces, are not enough for Hammond and for NATO.

The bloc must expand its already existing partnerships around the world, to date with no less than 40 countries in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the South Caucasus, the South Pacific and Central, South and East Asia, to yet broader stretches of the planet.

In Hammond's words, "Both Libya and Afghanistan have shown how agile NATO can be in incorporating the contributions of outsiders." In the second instance with troops from 50 nations.

He also cited "The new Northern Group of nations, which includes Germany, the Baltic and Nordic countries (including Sweden), Poland and the Netherlands, as well as the UK," in reference to the initiative of Hammond's superior, Prime Minister David Cameron, last year to launch an Arctic-Baltic "mini-NATO" aimed against Russia.

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German F-4F Phantom II fighter-bombers were deployed for NATO's Baltic air patrol in a four-month rotation ending on April 25, where they were within a three-minute flight from Russia's second largest city, St. Petersburg. 

The British defence secretary praised the role of Germany in Afghanistan, where with 4,900 troops (and another 400 held in reserve), exceeding parliamentary limitations on the number of soldiers permitted to be deployed abroad, it is the third largest troop contributor for NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

He also hailed German military deployments to the Balkans, where the nation has the largest number of troops serving with NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR), almost twice as many as the next biggest contributor, the U.S. The last three KFOR commanders - Erhard Drews, Erhard Bühler and Marcus Bentler - are German generals.

NATO has sent reinforcements to Kosovo, 550 German and 150 Austrian troops, ahead of Serbian presidential and parliamentary elections because the few remaining ethnic Serbs there intend to vote in the elections of what they (and most of the world) still consider their country. 

According to Kosovo Force spokesman German Major Marc Stümmler, KFOR is "preparing for...a higher level of tensions." 

Germany reentered the world of war in 1999 when it provided Tornado warplanes for the 78-day air assault against Yugoslavia, marking the first time the nation's armed forces participated in a combat mission since World War Two. That the Luftwaffe was deployed over the skies of a country it had extensively bombed in 1941 confirmed with a vengeance, and no shadow of ambiguity, Germany's reemergence as an aggressive military power.

For Serbs and other Balkans peoples Germany's role in World War Two is not forgotten, if it is by Philip Hammond.

Immediately following the latter's visit to Berlin, on May 4th NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in the city to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to visit the NATO-Mission for Freedom permanent exhibition at the Mauer Museum at Checkpoint Charlie and to lavish praise on his host for, to quote the NATO website, "Germany's steadfast support for the Alliance and its missions, notably in Afghanistan, Kosovo and off the coast of Somalia."

When Germany was reunited in 1990, contrary to the George H.W. Bush administration's pledge to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, NATO immediately moved not only "one inch" but over 200 miles to the east, beginning the process of absorbing all the Soviet Union's former partners in the now defunct Warsaw Pact.

Germany has aided NATO's expansionist and expeditionary designs in the past thirteen years and NATO has rewarded it: Germany is now the world's third largest weapons exporter, its arms sales abroad increasing with each succeeding year.

Britain and NATO insist its leaders demonstrate, to quote Hammond, "the ability to generate the political will and public support for the deployment of military resources more widely in the future in support of Alliance operations beyond our borders."

Post-Cold War NATO has attempted to re-legitimize war as a method of advancing geopolitical objectives. Nations whose constitutions explicitly prohibit the practice - NATO members Germany and Italy, NATO partner Japan - have troops and other military personnel serving under the Atlantic Alliance in Afghanistan. So do NATO partners Finland, which had not engaged in combat operations since the Second World War, and Sweden, which had not done so in two centuries.

But according to Defence Secretary Hammond nations like Germany are not sufficiently involved in the wars of the 20th century and must play an even more pronounced role in them, present and to come.

There is no "quite a long while ago" when it comes to wars of aggression. There is only "never."   


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L’ARTE DELLA GUERRA

L’eterna giovinezza della Nato

di Manlio Dinucci

Il Manifesto, 23 maggio 2012

La Nato, che si è autocelebrata col Summit di Chicago, ha 63 anni, ma non li dimostra: sulla nuova carta d’identità è una ventenne.

Durante la guerra fredda, scrive nell’autobiografia ufficiale, non condusse alcuna operazione bellica, ma si limitò ad «assicurare la difesa del proprio territorio contro la minaccia del Patto di Varsavia». Non dice però che questo si formò sei anni dopo la Nato. È con la fine della guerra fredda, in seguito al dissolvimento del Patto di Varsavia e dell’Urss nel 1991, che la Nato rinasce a nuova vita.

Mantenendo però il suo imprinting: il comando Usa. Nel luglio 1992 lancia la sua prima operazione di «risposta alle crisi», la Maritime Monitor, per imporre l’embargo alla Jugoslavia. Nei Balcani, tra l‘ottobre ’92 e il marzo ’99, conduce undici operazioni dai nomi evocativi (Deny Flight, Sharp Guard, Eagle Eye e altri). Il 28 febbraio 1994, durante la Deny Flight in Bosnia, la Nato effettua la prima azione di guerra nella sua storia. Viola così l’art. 5 della sua stessa carta costitutiva, poiché l’azione bellica non è motivata dall’attacco a un membro dell’Alleanza ed è effettuata fuori dalla sua area geografica. Si arriva in tal modo all’operazione Allied Force, lanciata il 24 marzo 1999: per 78 giorni, decollando soprattutto dalle basi italiane, 1.100 aerei, per il 75% Usa, effettuano 38mila sortite, sganciando 23mila bombe e missili sulla Jugoslavia.

Nello stesso anno, il Summit Nato di Washington autorizza i paesi membri a «condurre operazioni di risposta alle crisi non previste dall’articolo 5, al di fuori del territorio dell’Alleanza». E la Nato inizia la sua espansione nell’Est, inglobando nel 1999-2009 nove paesi dell’ex Patto di Varsavia, di cui tre dell’ex Urss, e tre della ex Jugoslavia.

Senza più limiti, l’Alleanza nata come Patto del Nord Atlantico arriva sulle montagne afghane: nell’agosto 2003, con un colpo di mano, la Nato assume «il ruolo di leadership dell’Isaf, forza con mandato Onu». Inizia così «la prima missione al di fuori dell’area euro-atlantica nella storia della Nato».

Nel 2004 essa entra in Iraq, ufficialmente per una «missione di addestramento». Estende quindi le sue operazioni in Africa: nel 2005 in Sudan, nel 2007 in Somalia, nel 2009 nel Corno d’Africa e nell’Oceano Indiano. Nel 2011 è la volta della Libia: nell’operazione Unified Protector la Nato effettua (secondo quanto dichiara) 9.700 missioni di attacco aereo, in cui vengono sganciate 7.700 bombe di precisione allo scopo di «fare tutto il possibile per minimizzare i rischi ai civili».

Ora la Nato prende di mira Siria e Iran, ma sullo sfondo ci sono Russia e Cina. Nella sua «conquista dell’Est», essa è arrivata a ridosso della Cina, in Mongolia, con la quale ha avviato due mesi fa un «Programma individuale di partnership e cooperazione». Poiché dei 28 paesi dell’Alleanza solo cinque si affacciano sul Nord Atlantico, a Bruxelles si sta pensando a un cambio di nome: alcuni propongono «Alleanza Trans-Atlantica». Ma anche questo è restrittivo poiché, sulla scia degli Usa, essa si estende ormai alla regione Asia/Pacifico.

Così l’Alleanza si rinnova, abbeverandosi alla stessa fonte di giovinezza: la guerra.


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Stop NATO - May 30, 2012

Pentagon Consolidates Control Over Balkans

Rick Rozoff


Ahead of, during and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 25th summit in Chicago on May 20-21, the Pentagon has continued expanding its permanent military presence in the former Yugoslavia and the rest of the Balkan region.

The military bloc's two-day conclave in Chicago formalized, among several other initiatives including the initial activation of its U.S.-dominated interceptor missile system and Global Hawk-equipped Alliance Ground Surveillance operations, a new category of what NATO calls aspirant countries next in line for full Alliance membership. Three of them are former Yugoslav federal republics - Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro - and the fourth is Georgia, conflicts involving which could be the most immediate cause of a confrontation between the world's two major nuclear powers.

This year new NATO partnership formats have sprung up like poisonous toadstools after a summer rain: Aspirants countries, the Partnership Cooperation Menu, the Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme, the Connected Forces Initiative and partners across the globe among them.

The military bloc's inauguration as an active, aggressive military force in Bosnia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s laid the groundwork for the U.S.'s already unmatched military to move troops, hardware and bases into Southeast Europe for actions there and to points east and south: The Middle East, the Caucasus, North Africa and Central and South Asia.

Since 2004 several nations in the east and west Balkans - Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Albania - have been incorporated into the alliance as full members and the remainder - Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the generally unrecognized Republic of Kosovo - have in the first four instances joined NATO's Partnership for Peace program and in the last had its nascent armed forces, the Kosovo Security Force, built from scratch by the leading alliance powers.

Macedonia, which would have become a full member in 2009 except for the lingering name dispute with Greece, and Montenegro have been granted the Membership Action Plan, the final stage before full accession, and Bosnia will be accorded the same once the quasi-autonomous Republika Srpska is deemed properly stripped of the last vestige of self-governance.

NATO and the wars waged under its command, not only in the Balkans but in Afghanistan and all but officially in Iraq, have provided the Pentagon the mammoth Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo and three major air bases in Bulgaria and Romania as well as headquarters for new military task forces and jumping-off points for "downrange" operations outside Europe. The U.S. Department of Defense has also acquired subservient legionaries for wars in Asia and Africa and training grounds for American and multinational expeditionary units employed in 21st century neo-colonial wars far beyond the Euro-Atlantic area. Romania will host 24 U.S. Standard Missile-3 interceptors starting in three years.

NATO's Cooperative Longbow and Cooperative Lancer 2012 command and field exercises started in Macedonia on the second day of the Chicago NATO summit, May 21, and ended on May 29. The largest of four such exercises held within the framework of the Partnership for Peace program - "to train, exercise, and promote the interoperability of Partnership for Peace forces using NATO standards" - to date, this year's Longbow/Lancer drills included 2,200 troops from several NATO and a dozen Partnership for Peace nations, a total of 25 countries including the U.S.

On May 26 U.S. Army Europe and U.S. Air Forces in Europe launched the Immediate Response 2012 exercise in Croatia with military personnel from the host country, Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia sent observers.

A report on the opening of the exercise posted on the website of U.S. European Command appended this paragraph:

"U.S. Army Europe is uniquely positioned to advance American strategic interests across Eurasia, building teams, assuring allies and deterring enemies. The relationships we build during more than 1,000 theater security cooperation events in more than 40 countries each year lead directly to support for U.S. actions such as in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya."

Balkan states Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Slovenia deployed troops to Iraq after 2003 and all those nations as well as Montenegro (which became independent in 2006) have troops under NATO command in Afghanistan currently.

NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples has military missions in Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia.

On May 28 the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff began a two-week disaster management and crisis response exercise, Shared Resilience 2012, in Bosnia. In addition to the U.S. and Bosnia, participating nations include Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia and Slovenia.

Immediately before the NATO summit, the U.S. Marines Corps' Black Sea Rotational Force 2012 held multinational exercises near Constanta, Romania from May 7-18. The Black Sea Rotational Force was established in 2010 and last year doubled the duration of its training exercises in the Balkans, the Black Sea region and the South Caucasus from three to six months annually.

Now spending half the year in the geopolitically vital area, the Black Sea Rotational Force recently announced its mission of building "enduring partnerships with 19 nations throughout Eastern Europe.” The U.S. Marines are being hosted by Romania from April 2 to September 1. Prior to that Black Sea Rotational Force 2012 participated in the Agile Spirit 2012 exercise in Georgia in March.

U.S. Army Europe's Task Force East, employing Stryker combat vehicles, also operates out of Romania as well as Bulgaria: The Mihal Kogălniceanu Airfield and the Babadag Training Area in the first country and the Novo Selo Training Area in the second. In 2009 Task Force East spent three months training in Romania and Bulgaria, primarily preparing troops from the U.S. and the two host nations for operations in Afghanistan.

This year NATO officially identified Afghanistan and Iraq as military partners, in the category of partners across the globe. Since the end of NATO operations against Libya last October, the bloc's secretary general and its American ambassador, Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Ivo Daalder, have mentioned Libya joining NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue military partnership with the other nations of North Africa.

Each NATO military operation over the past 17 years, in Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Libya, has provided the alliance with bases, centers, troops and logistics for later and for future wars. Air bases in Bulgaria and Romania were employed for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and, as noted above, every Balkan nation but Serbia has supplied troops for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon and NATO military personnel, aircraft, ships and radar in Southeast Europe can be used in attacks on Syria and Iran and in any new armed conflict in the South Caucasus, such as the five-day war between Georgia and Russia four years ago.

The U.S. and its NATO allies are expanding their military presence and infrastructure ever closer to new theaters of war.




(srpskohrvatski / francais / english)

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5) NATO forcing Bosnia to membership
- BiH edging closer to NATO process
- NATO OPEN DAYS TO BE HELD IN TURKISH CULTURAL CENTER, SARAJEVO (May 14, 2012)


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http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179218.html

Tanjug News Agency - May 7, 2012

13 years since NATO bombing of Chinese Embassy
 
Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Serbia Zhang Wanxue, Belgrade correspondents of the Chinese media and representatives of the Association of Serbian Journalists (UNS) paid on Monday respects to the Chinese journalists killed in the NATO bombing that took place 13 years ago.
Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Serbia Zhang Wanxue, Belgrade correspondents of the Chinese media and representatives of the Association of Serbian Journalists (UNS) on Monday paid respects to the Chinese journalists killed in the NATO bombing that took place 13 years ago. 
They laid wreaths at the site of the former Chinese embassy in New Belgrade, which at 11:45 p.m. on May 7, 1999, suffered a blast that left three Chinese journalists dead. 
In 2009, then Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Wei Jinghua and Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas unveiled a plaque in memory of the Chinese journalists: Xu Xinghu and Zhu Ying, correspondents of the Guang Ming Daily, and Shao Yunhuan, a correspondent of the Xinhua news agency.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/oct/17/balkans

The Observer - October 16, 1999

Nato bombed Chinese deliberately

Nato hit embassy on purpose
John Sweeney and Jens Holsoe in Copenhagen and Ed Vulliamy in Washington

Nato deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the war in Kosovo after discovering it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications.
According to senior military and intelligence sources in Europe and the US the Chinese embassy was removed from a prohibited targets list after Nato electronic intelligence (Elint) detected it sending army signals to Milosevic's forces.
The story is confirmed in detail by three other Nato officers - a flight controller operating in Naples, an intelligence officer monitoring Yugoslav radio traffic from Macedonia and a senior headquarters officer in Brussels. They all confirm that they knew in April that the Chinese embassy was acting as a 'rebro' [rebroadcast] station for the Yugoslav army (VJ) after alliance jets had successfully silenced Milosevic's own transmitters.
The Chinese were also suspected of monitoring the cruise missile attacks on Belgrade, with a view to developing effective counter-measures against US missiles.
The intelligence officer, who was based in Macedonia during the bombing, said: 'Nato had been hunting the radio transmitters in Belgrade. When the President's [Milosevic's] residence was bombed on 23 April, the signals disappeared for 24 hours. When they came on the air again, we discovered they came from the embassy compound.' The success of previous strikes had forced the VJ to use Milosevic's residence as a rebroadcast station. After that was knocked out, it was moved to the Chinese embassy. The air controller said: 'The Chinese embassy had an electronic profile, which Nato located and pinpointed.'
The Observer investigation, carried out jointly with Politiken newspaper in Denmark, will cause embarrassment for Nato and for the British government. On Tuesday, the Queen and the Prime Minister will host a state visit by the President of China, Jiang Zemin. He is to stay at Buckingham Palace.
Jiang Zemin is still said to be outraged at the 7 May attack, which came close to splitting the alliance. The official Nato line, as expressed by President Bill Clinton and CIA director George Tenet, was that the attack on the Chinese Embassy was a mistake. Defence Secretary William Cohen said: 'One of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map.'
Later, a source in the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency said that the 'wrong map' story was 'a damned lie'.
Tenet apologised last July, saying: 'The President of the United States has expressed our sincere regret at the loss of life in this tragic incident and has offered our condolences to the Chinese people and especially to the families of those who lost their lives in this mistaken attack.
Nato's apology was predicated on the excuse that the three missiles which landed in one corner of the embassy block were meant to be targeted at the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement, the FDSP. But inquiries have revealed there never was a VJ directorate of supply and procurement at the site named by Tenet. The VJ office for supplies - which Tenet calls FDSP - is some 500 metres down the street from the address he gave. It was bombed later.
Moreover the CIA and other Nato intelligence agencies, such as Britain's MI6 and the code-breakers at GCHQ, would have listened in to communication traffic from the Chinese embassy as a matter of course since it moved to the site in 1996.
A Nato flight control officer in Naples also confirmed to us that a map of 'non-targets': churches, hospitals and embassies, including the Chinese, did exist. On this 'don't hit' map, the Chinese embassy was correctly located at its current site, and not where it had been until 1996 - as claimed by the US and NATO.
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The Chinese military attache, Ven Bo Koy, who was seriously wounded in the attack and is now in hospital in China, told Dusan Janjic, the respected president of Forum for Ethnic Relations in Belgrade, only hours before the attack, that the embassy was monitoring incoming cruise missiles in order to develop counter-measures.
Nato spokesman Lee McClenny yesterday stood by the official version. 'It was a terrible mistake,' he said, 'and we have apologised.' A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in London said yesterday: 'We do not believe that the embassy was bombed because of a mistake with an out-of-date map.'


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La mort lente semée par les Occidentaux

Slobodan KLJAKIC
8 mai 2012

Aujourd’hui encore, les projectiles de l’OTAN sèment la mort au Kosovo et en Métohie parmi les Albanais et les Serbes, mais aussi parmi les soldats de la KFOR et le personnel de l’UNMIK.


 
Ce n’est pas sans raison que l’on a interdit aux militaires américains, à leur retour de la région, de se porter volontaires pour des dons de sang. On peut de même comprendre que certains experts militaires de la KFOR affirment que le séjour de leurs hommes au Kosmet constitue la plus grande expérimentation in vivo régie par les Américains. Il n’est pas sans logique que dans les têtes des stratèges US, il s’agisse là d’une étude des comportements et des apparitions de pathologies dans une guerre nucléaire à venir. Voilà ce qu’écrit le Pr Vujadin Otasevic, médecin pathologiste, professeur à la Faculté de médecine de Nis et directeur de l’Institut de médecine légale de la même ville, dans « Les nuages de mort du Kosovo-Métohie », un livre récemment publié par la Faculté. Pour les besoins du présent texte, nous nous sommes limités à la section intitulée « Empoisonnement et radiations dus aux bombardements » dans laquelle le Pr Otasevic rapporte des faits dûment attestés.

La catastrophe écologique, aux conséquences à long terme incalculables pour la santé et la vie des habitants, qu’ont provoquée les bombardements de l’OTAN, a connu dans sa forme la plus funeste l’utilisation de munitions à l’uranium appauvri (UA). « Cette utilisation a abouti à la libération d’importantes quantités de diverses substances dangereuses aux effets cancérigènes, sources de mutations et d’autres effets nocifs sur les humains, le monde végétal et animal », constate le Pr Otasevic en précisant que la plupart de ces substances ont aussi contaminé « la région des Balkans considérée dans son ensemble ».

Les avions A-10 ont largué sur leurs cibles des munitions de calibre 30 mm comportant en leur sein un projectile métallique d’U-238 radioactif, c’est-à-dire d’UA. « Avec une élévation très forte de la température il se produit un aérosol de fines particules d’uranium radioactives dont la poussière entre dans les poumons avec la respiration ou bien pénètre l’organisme avec de la nourriture ayant été en contact avec cette poussière. Une fois dans l’organisme, l’uranium irradie à faibles doses. La particule d’uranium se trouvant dans les poumons produit à chaque heure et jusqu’à la fin de la vie une irradiation comparable à un examen quotidien aux rayons X », indique le Pr Otasevic. Les particules radioactives restent dans le corps « sans se décomposer pendant dix années et plus, et une telle irradiation lente du corps entraîne maladies et mort prématurée ».
Le rapport de l’OTAN aux Nations Unies de septembre 2000 donne le chiffre de 30.000 projectiles à l’UA tirés sur des cibles en Yougoslavie, ce qui équivaut à environ 10 tonnes d’uranium.

Au terme de l’agression de l’OTAN, une équipe d’experts du programme de protection de l’Agence de l’ONU pour les établissements humains avait émis un avertissement concernant« des avortements, des malformations postnatales, des maladies incurables du système nerveux et du foie ». D’après l’agence de presse néerlandaise A & P, qui s’est procurée ce rapport, celui-ci « présente le tableau d’une tragédie plus grande que l’accident nucléaire à Tchernobyl en 1986. »

Dans son rapport préliminaire du 14 août 1999, l’équipe des experts internationaux avait conclu que « la Yougoslavie va connaître une catastrophe écologique si des mesures urgentes ne sont pas prises pour empêcher une possible débâcle écologique ».

Le Pr Otasevic rapporte les résultats d’une étude menée à l’hôpital de Kosovska Mitrovica d’après lesquels les apparitions de carcinomes se sont accrues de 200% au sein de la population serbe. Le directeur de l’Institut de radiologie de Pristina, Djevad Bitsaj, a dit par le passé que 3.500 cas de pathologies malignes avaient été relevés en 2004 et en 2005 parmi des Albanais de toutes les parties du Kosmet. Parce qu’elle soupçonnait des cas de leucémie et des carcinomes, la KFOR a retiré du Kosmet plus de 3.000 soldats, tandis que jusqu’à la mi-2006, 40 militaires italiens et 20 soldats français étaient décédés d’affections malignes.

Par rapport au début du siècle, constate le Pr Otasevic, « le nombre des pathologies malignes en Serbie s’est accru de quatre fois et demie ». Rien qu’en 2005, 18.000 personnes en sont décédées et 31.500 cas nouveaux ont été enregistrés. Dans le district de Nis, de 1997 à 1999, des pathologies malignes sont apparues chez 663 personnes, mais de 1999 à 2009, elles sont apparues chez pas moins de 18.247 individus. « La multiplication dramatique des pathologies malignes au cours des années consécutives à la guerre – entre deux et dix fois – est liée aux émissions radioactives causées par les bombardements de l’OTAN », conclut le Pr Otasevic.

Et il avertit : « Dans le monde et chez nous, il n’y a pas assez de résultats d’études scientifiques qui permettraient d’évaluer toutes les conséquences de l’utilisation de munitions à l’UA. La science est longtemps restée silencieuse sur ce problème, et aujourd’hui encore elle ne se prononce pas jusqu’au bout. C’est là probablement le résultat de l’influence de la politique et de la puissance armée sur la science pour éviter que l’on prenne connaissance des agissements inhumains et de leurs conséquences alarmantes pour la santé de l’homme et de son milieu vital ».

Source Originale : B.I. Infos


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28 May, 2012


President-elect Tomislav Nikolic, who is looking for more intensive relations with Russia, has promised that Serbia will never become a member of NATO.

Nikolic, who met Putin in the Russian president’s first meeting with a foreign leader since being elected, stated that Serbia is “on the road” to the European Union, admitting that it will be “a long road, and we will base our relations on the rules of international law.”

He added that he wasn’t sure if Serbia would be admitted into the EU unless “we recognize the independence of Kosovo and Metohija.”

Many Serbs are ambivalent, if not outright hostile to the idea of restoring full relations with the European Union, not to mention the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In 1999 Belgrade was on the receiving end of a massive 78-day bombing campaign by the alliance (March 24 – June 10) aimed at removing Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.

"Our constitution forbids us to abandon Kosovo and Metohija," Nikolic said. Meanwhile, Russia is ready to allocate the second loan tranche of $800 million to Serbia, Putin assured his Serbian guest.

The Russian leader said that for the loan to be granted there should be concrete technical proposals to rebuild Serbia’s aging infrastructure.

Earlier, Russia already provided a $200 million loan to Serbia in an effort to consolidate the country's budget.

Moscow's total investment in Serbia stands at $1.4 billion, Putin recalled.

As for the next tranche, the president-elect should lend impetus to government structures in order to ensure that they expedite the preparation of technical proposals, Putin said.

Putin also wished Nikolic success in implementing all his campaign promises.

"These tasks are plenty and difficult," he said.

The Russian leader mentioned that cooperation between the two countries will help deal with the various complicated problems. Putin also referred to Serbia as Russia’s “spiritual brother.”

“While Russia sees Serbia as a reliable partner in the Balkans, we are also spiritual brothers,” he said. "This is how it was, and this is how it will be."

At the end of the meeting Putin made "an unusual request" to Nikolic: "I would like to say that we have worked with your political opponent, previous president Boris Tadic, as partners for a number of years, and I am asking you to pass along our words of gratitude for the joint work," Putin said.

The Russian president invited the Serbian president-elect to visit Russia following his inauguration "at any time that is convenient for you."


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13 ГОДИНА ОД БОМБАРДОВАЊА ВАРВАРИНА

Данас се навршава 13 година од убиства десеторо и рањавања више десетина грађана  Варварина током бомбардовања моста, од авијације НАТО на Великој Морави у том шумадијском граду. Међу погинулима је била и Сања Миленковић, ученица Математичке гимназије у Београду, победница многих регионалних и европских такмичара младих математичара.  По њеном имену 1999. Године, основан је Фонд за стипендирање талената из математике и техничких наука за који су средства обезбедили припадници српског расејања.

Поводом ове годишњице, синоћ је у Дому културе у Варварину одржана промоција књиге – зборника „СРБИЈА И НАТО“, у издању Београдског форума за свет равноправних. Присутне грађане и учеснике промоције поздравио је председник Општине Варварин, Професор Зоран Миленковић, отац покојне Сање Миленковић. О књизи су говорили предсеник Београдског форума Живадин Јовановић, генерал у пензији Радован Радиновић и бивши амбасадори Др Станислав Стојановић и Драгомир  Вучићевић.

Основне поруке свих учесника промоције су да се злочини као што је бомбардовање Варварина и убиство његових грађана, не смеју заборавити и да за агресију НАТО на Србију (СРЈ) нема оправдања. Књига „СРБИЈА И НАТО“ , оцењено је, представља велики допринос разумевању правих узрока и циљева агресије који се виде у стварању преседана, одузимању Косова и Метохије од Србије и ширењу НАТО на Исток. Учесници промоције су подсетили на чињеницу да се око 70 одсто грађана Србије противи чланству у НАТО и истакли да Србији, као мирољубивој европској земљи, није место у НАТО – у као офанзивној, интервенциoнистичкој војној организацији.

У програму су учествовали књижевници, песници и ученици који су читали своје радове о  злочинима НАТО – а.


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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2012/04/23/feature-01

Southeast European Times - April 23, 2014

BiH edging closer to NATO process

Ahead of the NATO summit next month in Chicago, BiH must implement its political agreement on military property.

By Drazen Remikovic

Sarajevo: The clock is running for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The country has roughly four weeks to determine ownership of dozens of military facilities - bases, barracks and warehouses - before NATO holds its annual spring summit, this year in Chicago.

The sorting process is a crucial step in BiH's path to potential membership in the Alliance.

On April 10th, NATO members meeting in Brussels made clear that BiH is on track to get the green light for a Membership Action Plan (MAP). Since then, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a letter to BiH's Presidency, asking authorities "to register these assets as soon as possible so that BiH can enjoy all benefits that MAP has to offer."

Specifically, 69 pieces of property are on the table. Ownership is in question because they were all once in the hands of the former Yugoslav army. For example, in Republika Srpska, there are about 45 barracks. Just over half of them are to be registered to the state. The rest will be handed over to local authorities, who will convert them into a range of purposes.
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NATO wants the list winnowed down so that BiH's military can use what is left to its full capacity. When finally registered to the state, the armed forces will have unlimited use of these properties.

Currently, the value of all this property is unclear, but by some estimates it could be worth hundreds of millions of euros.

So while a political agreement was struck last month regarding the process, the Council of Ministers must implement it by the May 22nd summit.

Denis Hadzovic, director of the Sarajevo-based NGO Centre for Security Studies, told SETimes, “I think that the technical part of the property registration is much easier than the political part. I am sure that BiH will succeed in doing this; that we will bring a document to the NATO summit in Chicago that proves that we earned the MAP."

Deputy Defence Minister Mirko Okolic seems optimistic.

"The Council of Ministers has already begun to work on this and I think that the job will be completed by the NATO summit," he told SETimes.

But larger issues loom. "After MAP, I think political debate will follow on whether BiH even needs to join NATO, because there are different views on this issue in Sarajevo and Banja Luka," Okolic added.

In mid-March, RS President Milorad Dodik reopened the issue of BiH’s membership, reiterating that the citizens of RS will decide in a referendum whether they wish to join NATO when the time comes.

Regardless, Ines Kuburovic, spokeperson for NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo, said the headquarters has continuously co-operated with state institutions to help them meet the requirements to activate the MAP.
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After meeting with BiH Presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic earlier this month, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Alliance is committed to BiH receiving full membership.


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http://www.aco.nato.int/nato-open-days-to-be-held-in-turkish-cultural-center--sarajevo-.aspx

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
May 14, 2012

NATO OPEN DAYS TO BE HELD IN TURKISH CULTURAL CENTER, SARAJEVO

NATO OPEN DAYS is a five day event to be held 15 - 19 May, with the goal to provide to wider public more information about NATO Alliance, NATO integrations processes in BiH, activities of NATO HQ SARAJEVO in 2011/2012 period, and to mark 60th anniversary of Turkish membership in NATO.

Specifically, Open Days will engage students and academic community in public discussions on various NATO related topics.

In the light of NATO Chicago Summit in May, the whole event, and the opening event in particular will be an opportunity to share with general public and media information about the Summit, BiH's participation in the event, including the current phase of NATO integrations processes in BIH.

During NATO Open Days, Turkish Cultural Center premises will offer:

1. Two separate exhibition floors, which will offer a photo exhibition of NATO HQ Sarajevo activities in 2011/2012 period, and a photo exhibition to present the NATO – Turkey relationship in past 60 years,

2. In the cinema hall (30 seat capacity) NATO movies will be screened daily, and the hall will be used for student lectures/round tables.

3. Event will be an opportunity to distribute various NATO promotion materials to the visitors and wider public.

PROGRAM:

EVENT TOPIC DATE AND TIME
Opening event
15 May 2012, 19:00 hrs – 21:00 hrs
Round Table/Lecture 
"NATO and BiH”
"NATO's fight against organised crime and terrorist groups”
"NATO and Gender”
16 May 2012, 12:00 – 13:00 hrs

Round Table/Lecture 
"NATO and BiH”
"Role of Strategic Communications in NATO”
17 May 2012, 12:00 – 13:00 hrs
Round Table/Lecture
NATO's New Strategic Concept
"Role of Strategic Communications in NATO” 
18 May 2012, 13:00 – 14:30





Current Concerns  
No 17, 30 april 2012

Serbia – past and present


by Mirjana Andjelkovic Lukic


You cannot talk about Serbia without mentioning the recent bombings, which are the cause of all our current problems.
Exactly 13 years ago, on 24 March 1999 at 8:45 pm the bombing of Serbia began. The first return of the NATO aircraft to Aviano in Italy was accompanied by a festive mood in Europe. The pilots were praised for having hit their targets with surgical precision. Pictures of villages and towns full of smoke, destroyed homes and crying people as the first victims of war were shown.

Germany’s role

In the twentieth century, the Serbs have been attacked 3 times. Enormous human suffering and material damage was inflicted to them. As in 1941, when on 6 April Germany bombed Belgrade without any declaration of war very early in the morning, the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization attacked Serbia again without prior notice. This time there were Germans among the ranks of NATO forces. Once again they flew over the land, which they knew well from two previous world wars. Belgrade is the only capital that has been bombed more than 40 times since it came into existence.
The reason for the war was worked out under the government of Schröder, Fischer and Scharping in Germany. Lacking the real reasons for an attack, they made use of big lies, such as a massacre of civilians in Racak. Another one was the supposedly massive expulsion of the Albanian population, which was actually on the run, because they had been informed by the Western countries about the attack on our country.
In order to justify the longed-for war, Scharping claimed the Serbs had turned the soccer stadium in Pristina into a concentration camp. This allegation has never proven right.
Apart from these lies, they also spoke about the alleged plan of the Serbs to torture the Albanian population and expulse them. Scharping was handed out this plan in Serbian language. He ignored, however, that this document with the name “Horseshoe Plan” was written in the Croatian language. In Serbia, the document was known to nobody. Moreover, a Serb never writes in Croatian. The reports of German officers, and many witnesses who tried to tell that this was a lie, were also ignored.
Helena Ranta, the Finnish member of the commission investigating the events in Racak, was also involved in the network of lies. In her biography she later admitted to having worked under great pressure from the Finnish foreign ministry and the then head of the Kosovo mission, William Walker. They searched and ordered hard-hitting facts about Serbian crimes. Since Walker was not satisfied with her coverage, he broke a pencil and threw it at Mrs Ranta, from whom he demanded a more convincing account of the Serbian crimes which they needed to be able to start the war.

“It started with a lie”

Only a few years later, German media revealed that story about the alleged crimes was false. “It started with a lie” was the title of the TV program in which Scharping was confronted with his lies. He played the innocent ignorant.
Another one who has also spoken, but too late, was Carla del Ponte in her book “The Hunt” in which she revealed the awful truth that during the KFOR occupation organs of kidnapped Serbs and other non-Albanians were harvested and sold in Europe. There are indications that this is still being carried out today. The Italian journalist Marilina Veca also wrote about these facts. The entire Italian public was therefore in a state of turmoil.
Dick Marty, politician in Switzerland, member of the Council of Europe and member of the Commission on Human Rights in the OSCE, also reported on this issue.
On 14 December 2010, he published a report for the Council of Europe in which he confirmed that Hashim Taci and other leaders of the UÇK were involved in the sale of organs of Serb prisoners, in many contract killings as well as in various other crimes.

Everything was too late for the Serbian people

None of the people responsible for this manipulation and war propaganda was made liable for the crimes that have cost thousands of lives. For all this, a culprit was needed. They found it in Miloševic, the democratically elected president of Serbia, who had been the only serious interlocutor for the West for a long time. With the change of Western targets, he became the worst dictator in Europe overnight. These methods were also used for other statesmen.
The fruitful fantasy of the West reached its peak in denouncing this personality. He was compared to Hitler – it was even claimed that he was worse than this and that he had created a new Auschwitz. So the Germans succeeded in removing their Auschwitz to Serbia. In the Western media we could only hear the respective country’s own comments, not the original words of Miloševic, by which all people would have been able to make their own judgment.
The trial in The Hague was to bring the truth to light. But even there all the news came from only one direction. The indictment was presented by Carla del Ponte, who had collected a lot of evidence. What really happened in court was not shown – not in the Western media – for example, that she could not prove one single charge. Usually, the Serbian politicians and generals lost their lives in this situation. However, nobody cared about this.

Audiatur et altera pars – listen to the other side as well

In every conflict there are at least two sides. To get to know the truth – which would be essential with damage of such magnitude – you must listen to both sides. This is the only prerequisite for the understanding among the peoples, and the only way to peace.
A source of Serbian crimes was created from many constructed lies. These lies shook the whole world. NATO had long been ready for action. The aircraft engines were already running. The war had to be started.
With their aggression on Serbia, all NATO countries violated many international conventions, protocols and resolutions of the UN, among others against:
•    the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 1997 [Kyoto Protocol],
•    the “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage” from 1972 (World Heritage Convention),
•    the “Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977”
•    the “Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons” from 1980 (UN weapons ban convention)
•    the UN Human Rights Commission’s resolutions for the prevention of discrimination and the protection of minorities from 1996 to 1997 and many others.
By ignoring many international conventions, the NATO alliance has committed the greatest crime against peace in the area of Europe. The bombing of Serbia with depleted uranium, but also with newly developed weapons, has contaminated the areas on Serbian territory forever, because the half life of DU [depleted uranium] is 4.5 billion years. The increasingly larger number of people with cancer nowadays bears witness to this fact.
Despite all these findings, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said on television that she was happy that there have been no more wars in Europe since the Second World War. The processes in Serbia used to be called a “humanitarian intervention” by the mainstream.
Whatever the future of Serbia will be, no one will ever be able to justify NATO’s war against this small country and the participation of Germany, Ralph Hartmann wrote.
Alastair Campbell on the other hand, the second most powerful man in the UK and the first press secretary to Tony Blair, stated the following in an interview for the newspaper “Novosti” in Belgrade: He did not feel sorry that NATO had bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Without batting an eyelid, he admitted to having been one of the strategists of the propaganda war against Serbia. (Source: “Vecernje novosti” dated 01/21/2011)

Gifts of the Good Angel

As they “have endowed us from a humanitarian point of view with bombs, I called my book in which all aspects of the bombing and its aftermath are published, “Gifts of the Good Angel”.
In the US, this operation was known as “Operation Noble Anvil” whereas in Serbia it was called “Merciful Angel”.
The bombing of Serbia lasted for 78 days, from 24 March to 10 June 1999. In this act of aggression 1,031 soldiers were killed, 5,173 soldiers and policemen were wounded, 2,500 civilians were killed, including 78 children, and more than 6,000 civilians were wounded. Particularly memorable is the tragic fate of the three year old Milica Rakic from Batajnica. She was hit by a NATO bomb on 14 April 1999 at 21:45 in the bathroom while she was sitting on her potty.
At the beginning of the bombings 370 planes flew over Serbia daily. In the end, the number rose to 1,200 a day.
Apart from the projectiles with depleted uranium on the territory of Serbia, other explosive combinations and rocket fuels with certain chemical compounds have been used in the bombings, whose explosive effects are very toxic and cause cancer.


[DIAGRAM: Number of deads according to sex in central Serbia. Legend: unfilled triangles: total, white triangles: women, squares: men. (Institute for health care of Serbia "Dr Milan Jovanovic-Batut", cancer register 2011)]

NATO has admitted 30,000 bullets; the military of Serbia speaks of 50,000, the Russians of 90,000. About 200 targets were hit, mainly in Kosovo. Against us a very special chemical and radiological war was waged with the aim of destroying both the people and their property.
Although no chemical weapons were used, the NATO war against Serbia has also chemical aspects. They refer to the bombing of transformer stations, electric power plants, chemical factories, oil refineries and their oil depot. This way the combustion products, various cyclic compounds, cancerous dioxins, but also phosgenes were blown into the atmosphere.
The transformer station that had been hit released the toxic Pyralene [French trade name for polychlorinated biphenyls]. The Pyralen oils are genotoxic and should not come into contact with the environment. They are highly carcinogenic and mutagenic. Since 2001, these oils have been prohibited in Europe.
My husband and his team visited the destroyed objects during the war to study the effect of explosive projectiles in laboratories. He has also studied the effect of the electrically conductive fibers, which were thrown on electrical systems, substations and transmission lines. These fibers have caused a short circuit that led to power failure in all districts and knocked them out. These systems were applied in our country for the first time ever.
They are commonly called “soft” or “graphite bombs”, although they are not. They were part of the so-called CBUs, i.e. cluster bombs produced in the US. A CBU contains 202 clusters with a mass of electro-permeable fibers of 1 kg each. During the fall, these fibers wound on bobbins unfold like a spider’s web, cover power lines and cause short circuits making them useless.
The fibers are very light and the wind blows them in all directions. If they fall off the lines, they often rise up and cause damage once again. The professionals in my husband’s team managed to neutralize them, so they stuck to the ground and could not rise again. Therefore, our transformer stations were later attacked with real bombs, which was much more difficult to repair. My husband paid for such actions and the desire to help his people with his life. 36 young people paid with their lives in similar actions.
In addition to these objects, hospitals, TV stations, bridges, children’s nursery homes and many neighborhoods were attacked, in which innocent civilians lived. Even travelers were not spared: trains were bombed, in which not a single soldier but only civilians were traveling. The entire war damage was estimated at 120 billion dollars.

Environmental and health effects of war

It is hard to describe what we have witnessed during these 78 days. Only after several years we have become aware of the environmental, health and political consequences. The use of uranium 238 and other weapons tells us that a radioactive and nuclear war has been waged with terrible aftermaths for people and nature.
In Kosovo the watershed of three river sources was also bombed – although there were neither soldiers nor civilians:
•  Sitnica – Ibar – Morava – Danube – Black Sea
•  Pinja – Vardar – Aegean Sea
•  Crni and Beli Drim – Skadarsko Jezero [Lake Skadar] – Bojana – Adriatic Sea.
The goal was the contamination of rivers and the people on their banks.
The Geneva Convention has also been obviously violated by the use of cluster bombs. They were dropped twice on Nis – on the market and the hospital – on Valjevo, Kraljevo, on the oil refineries in Novi Sad and other cities such as Pancevo, Pe and Prizren in Kosovo and Metohija and many more areas. 93 targets on the territory of Serbia were hit by cluster bombs where they have caused great damage among the population. Besides many deaths there is an even greater number of wounded with dilacerated body parts who are now invalids. People are still dying today from leftover bombs.
Before the bombing Serbia was a green oasis in Europe, famous for the production of organic products that were exported to large parts of Europe. Many places were protected, the mountains of Fruska Gora, Tara, Zlatibor, as well as the Deliblatska Pescara [Banat Sand Desert], a rare example of a dry landscape in Europe. Large areas around industrial zones such as Pancevo, Novi Sad and Kragujevac, Nis, Belgrade and other cities are contaminated.
In the south of Serbia, alongside Kosovo and Metohija, where yet no decontamination has taken place, mainly the areas around Vranje, Bujanovac and Presevo were attacked. In his film “Deadly Dust”, Frieder Wagner described similar situations, with precise explanations by Dr Günther. The number of cancer patients is growing from year to year.
The aftermath of the bombing is best seen in the newborn. According to doctors from the hospital in Vranje, 21 children were brought there with deformities in 1998. With a constant birth rate of between 800 and 1,000 births per year, the number rose to 73 children in 2008 [an increase of 248%].
The physician Dr. Nebojsa Srbljak from Kosovska Mitrovica stated that by 1998 one out of 1,000 children suffered from leukemia. By 2008 this number had risen to 10 to 15 children. In Vranje, it is impossible to buy the expensive equipment needed for the blood test to identify the traces of uranium. The doctors from Vranje hope to be able to use the experience of Japanese experts after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In addition to the increase of cancer patients, the number of malformed newborns is also growing. The father of one child was involved in the decontamination of DU near Vranje. It is not only in children but also in animals that an increase in deformities is being observed.
The tragic aftermath of this war is clearly visible in Nikola Jovi, a 10-year boy from Kosovska Mitrovica. As a baby he had cancer of the eyes. The eyes were then removed and replaced with artificial eyes. For a time he attended the school for the blind in the Belgrade suburb of Zemun. Since his parents live in Kosovska Mitrovica, Nikola was very unhappy. Later he was in a normal fourth grade class in Kosovska Mitrovica and was greatly helped by his school friends. He uses Braille.


[IMAGE: Number of new incidents of cancer in central Serbia. Legend: unfilled triangles: total, white triangles: women, squares: men. (Institute for health care of Serbia "Dr Milan Jovanovic-Batut", cancer register 2011)]

The Petkovic family, which survived all the bombing in Kosovo, fled to Bor in northeastern Serbia. A few years later, her daughter Nikolina was born without eyes. Later, she received artificial eyes. The parents are very poor and cannot help her much. We do not have institutions that can take care of such children.
The town of Leposavi in Kosovo was also bombed heavily during the war. Kristina Milutinovic lives with her parents in Leposavi. [we reported about Kristina 6 February].
In Serbia, more than 33,000 cancer cases are registered every year, with about 21,000 people dying each year. In the last 10 years the number of patients has increased constantly (see charts below). Serbia has now the largest cancer rate in Europe.

Serbia today

Serbia has now changed from a socialist system to liberal capitalism, suffering economic, moral, cultural and every other form of damage. In Serbia today, there is poverty, and the social culture of its people is getting worse.
10,000 companies have been closed, and 60,000 are blocked or face extinction. The closed companies include mainly crafts, trades, dental and veterinary offices and agencies for various purposes. The most important companies in the country are being sold to foreign companies. Some of them work well, thanks to cheap labour from Serbia, because the products are sold at high prices abroad.
Other companies were bought and then closed to prevent competition with the buyer’s own products on the market. That was the case with the Zastava car factory in Kragujevac, which before the war employed 50,000 workers, and was bought by Fiat. Today, only a small part of the plant is working, where our politicians like to be photographed and thereby deceive the people about the productivity of this factory. Fiat cars are available on the market in Serbia, but only available to a small proportion of the population.
Sugar factories, brick plants, breweries and cement plants have been sold. Our cigarette factory in Nis was bought by Philip Morris. In five years they transferred about 10 billion euro out of Serbia, but paid hardly any taxes to the Serbian budget! A large number of workers became unemployed. All these companies have been sold to foreign investors at a price far below their value.
The number of unemployed in Serbia has reached a historic high. According to the national employment office, there are 730,000 people unemployed. According to unofficial sources in Serbia more than 1 million people are unemployed.
According to the Statistical Office, the number of people living below the poverty line in Serbia grew to 700,000, i.e. 9.2% of the population, between 2008 and 2010. In 2010 the minimum salary was 8500 dinars or 85 euro.
The number of soup kitchens has increased. Every day 30,000 people queue up for a loaf of bread and a hot meal in Serbia, which in itself represents an increase of 50% over the past year. According to alarming data from the Red Cross, 6,000 children need these meals, 2500 of them younger than 10.
For 2012, a minimum income of 19,500 dinars is predicted (195 euro), but prices have already reached the level of European countries, where salaries are much higher.
The territory of Serbia is rich in water, medicinal herbs and spas. As far as the amount of water is concerned, we are in 40th place in the world.
Today, we do not even own all the springs. The best known mineral springs are in the hands of foreign companies. The Knjaz Milos mineral water and juice factory in Arandjelovac has been bought by the Dutch company Clates Holding.
The Rosa natural mineral water spring is at 1550 meters above sea level in the pristine nature reserve of Vlasina. The water is bottled at optimum temperature while maintaining natural properties directly by the spring. Because of its low mineral content, especially sodium, it is good for daily use. It is owned entirely by Coca-Cola.
Mivela mineral water is owned by the Croatian Agrokor company. The spring is located in the village of Veluce near Trstenik. The Mivela mineral water contains about 330 mg of magnesium per litre, which covers the body’s daily requirements.

The banks

Of the Serbian banks only three are still existing, the Serbian Bank, the Komercijalna banka and the Postbank. There is talk that these banks are to be sold as well.

Kosovo – Serbia deprived of a part of his country

The greatest injustice, however, was afflicted on Serbia in Kosovo. There is talk of many aspects, here are only two of them: 
The robbery began with the greatest mine Trepca, situated in the North and the South of Kosovska Mitrovica. It had contributed to Serbian export with a major part before and had employed 23,000 workers. In late 2008 the lead  reserves alone had been estimated to b e 425,000 tons, those of cink 415,000 tons, of silver 800 tons, of nickel 185,000 tons and of cobalt 6,500 tons. In the mine Grbenik, also situated in Kosovo, there are reserves of one million and 700,000 tons of bauxite, from which about 425,000 tons of aluminum could be produced. The export of ore is growing steadily. Only in the period between 2009 and 2010 it rose to an amount worth 557 million dollar. Almost the complete Serbian area covers brown coal, the value of which has been estimated to be 1000 billion dollar. No wonder, Soros visited Kosovo several times and tried to buy all of that for just 300 million dollar.
The Hashim Taci government promised US state secretary Hilary Clinton, US companies were to be the main buyers of these riches. Bill Clinton, former US president, was the initiator of the Kosovo war. The depletion is worked with Serbian infra-structure for which we are still paying off the debts, today.

Camp Bondsteel: Little Guantánamo?

It is not by accident that Camp Bondsteel, the biggest American military base outside the USA is situated in Kosovo. That is a town of its own. The food is taken there from the USA, the water is, too, and everything that might protect the soldiers from contamination. All the same the West is pretending that the poisons that they threw onto our country are not dangerous. You need not talk about the importance of strategic aims either. They are well-known. 
Alvaro Gil-Robles, former Commissioner for Human Rights in the Council of Europe visited the prison of Camp Bondsteel in 2002, but he talked about it only in 2005. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper “El País” he said that he had seen a miniature Guantánamo there. He had found that KFOR had been authorized to arrest people without any previous judicial examination in court before. 
The Serbs would never have agreed to that, under no circumstances. Neither would they admit that their property was robbed. Therefore reasons were invented to expel them. Here is but one of them: German sources pretended that the Serbs were massively expelling Albanian people. In reality the following happened: during the Second World War 10,000 Serbs were killed in Kosovo although no essential fights against the occupying forces (Germany, Italy, who were supporting the Albanians) had taken place. Between the Second World War and 1999 in total 200,000 Serbs were expelled several times. Their houses were used to lodge Albanian people coming in from Albania. 
The biggest expulsion took place in 1999, when Kosovo became a protectorate of UNO (KFOR). Around 300,000 Serbs and inhabitants of Montenegro left their territory. So you see very well who expelled whom. The West knew all this, it is for that reason that they had to use lies. 
As in many other European countries, more people die in Serbia than are born. According to a census there were 300,000 less people living in Serbia. This amounts to the size of a town as Cacak.
Since in Serbia people cannot find any work because of the ruined economy our young people go to the USA, to Canada or to European countries after finishing their studies. 
A great number of medical students, of IT specialists, of electric engineers and other very highly qualified people are leaving Serbia after Serbia has given them education and instruction. They are in search of a better life. 
On 1st March Serbia gained the status of a candidate to EU access. The commitment of Serbia with respect to their candidate status is considerable. 
Nobody has made his people believe more seriously that Kosovo is still a part of their country, i.e. Serbia’s integrity than the present government with Boric Tadic. The Serbian leaders did not focus on the integrity of Serbia which has been destroyed just by its deprivation of Kosovo. Today both are orienting themselves towards Europe, are going in that direction, but as two separate states. Serbia is expected to maintain peaceful relations with her neighbors. It is only on this basis that they will be able to fly the blue flag with the little stars. 
The Serbs will remember President Tadic as a person who served everyone except his own people. The EU promised Serbia payments totaling 60 million euro, which need not be given back. Serbia could easily earn this amount through her own mineral resources which have been taken away from her. The amount of 60 million does not even cover part of the interests on all the treasures which have been taken away. 
After they have renounced everything so carelessly, not only me, but many Serbs are afraid that the future Serbia will look as the one shown in a commercial by the US firm Calgon on our TV channels: the Vojvodina is lacking.     •
(Translation Current Concerns)

Mirjana Andjelkovic Lukic studied in Belgrade at the faculty of technology and metallurgy, where she met her husband Mirko Lukic. After he finished his studies at the Army High School in Paris both received their doctorate in the field of technology applied to explosives and later became research assistants at the institute of military technology for research and processing of explosives.
During the war professor Mirko Lukic visited some of the bombed areas in Belgrade and its surroundings. As a result he developed cancer and died in 2003.
Mirjana Lukic paid particular attention to the ecological affects of the bombings. After her husband had died she continued the activities she had previously shared with him which were the investigation of the bombings’ chemical and radiological effects on the citizens of Serbia. Besides numerous publications about politics and ecology she worked as judicial consultant in the field of technology applied to explosives. She also published a book which deals with her investigations into the ramifications of the Nato-war: “The presence of the merciful angle” (Serbian: Darovi milosrdnog andjela).

“Emotional Charge“ – “a great bluff“

The campaign, which Ruder Finn set in motion in August 1992, had particularly grave consequences on the perception and assessment not only of the Bosnian war, but later on the conflict in Kosovo, when first Western media reports about prisoner camps in Bosnia were published. According to James Harff the PR agency then succeeded in engaging Jewish circles in the United States for the Bosnian issue, and thus brought about the comparison of events in the Bosnian war with the Holocaust against the Jews.

James Harff described as his greatest PR success that during the war in Bosnia he had succeeded “masterfully […]. We outwitted three Jewish organizations” (quoted according to Merlino 1999, 155). And in fact, three of the largest Jewish organizations in the US published a full-page protest ad in the “New York Times” in August 1992, in which the Serbs were equated with the Nazis and the Bosnians with the Jews. According to Harff, the following happened after that:
“That was a tremendous coup. When the Jewish organizations entered the game on the side of the [Muslim] Bosnians we could promptly equate the Serbs with the Nazis in the public mind. […] Almost immediately there was a clear change of language in the press, with the use of words with high emotional content such as ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, etc, which evoke images of Nazi Germany and the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The emotional charge was so powerful that no one risked to contradict, to avoid of being accused of revisionism. We had hit the mark.”

Source: Jörg Becker/Mira Beham. Operation Balkan: Werbung für Krieg und Tod. ISBN 978-3-8329-3591-7. 
(English quotation see: http://www.antipasministries.co/html/file0000059.htm)

Charter of the United Nations

Preamble

We the peoples of the United Nations determined 

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
and for these ends

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, 

have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims [...].


Extracts from the Charter of the United Nations

Article 41 

The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations.

Article 51

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Source: www.un.org/en/documents/charter/index.shtml 

“Nuremberg Principles”

1. Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, adopted by the International Law Commission, 29 July 1950:

Nuremberg Principles

Principle I. Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment.

Principle II. The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.

Principle III. The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.

Principle IV. The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.

Principle V. Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law.

Principle VI. The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law:

(a) Crimes against peace:

– Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;

– Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).

(b) War crimes:

Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labour of for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory; murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the Seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.

(c) Crimes against humanity:

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.
Principle VII. Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principle VI is a crime under international law.

Source: http://home.snafu.de/kdv/contentpages/nuernberg.html





[ Per una contestualizzazione ed approfondimento storico dell'eccidio di Porzûs raccomandiamo la lettura dei testi:
Porzûs: il più grande processo antipartigiano del dopoguerra (di Alessandra Kersevan, 2008)
Intervista al Comandante Giacca (Edizioni Rapporti Sociali, 1998 - opuscolo in formato PDF, 5MB)



LETTERA APERTA AL PRESIDENTE NAPOLITANO SU PORZÛS


Esimio Presidente,

Nella sua visita in Friuli Lei si fermerà anche a Faedis, uno dei paesi della Repubblica partigiana del Friuli Orientale, un’esperienza importantissima ed esaltante della guerra di liberazione, in cui gli abitanti di queste terre poterono, prima della fine della guerra e della vittoria sul nazifascismo, sperimentare alcuni tratti di democrazia e di autogoverno, dopo oltre vent’anni di dittatura fortemente centralistica, che aveva represso in particolare le numerose minoranze presenti nella nostra regione, prime fra tutte quella slovena. A questa esperienza, sviluppatasi dalla collaborazione delle varie componenti della Resistenza, diedero un determinante contributo i partigiani garibaldini, e fra essi molti erano gli aderenti a quel partito comunista italiano, di cui lei stesso ha fatto parte per decenni.

Faedis è anche il comune in cui si trovano le malghe di Topli Uorch, nome effettivo del luogo in cui avvenne l’eccidio che va sotto il nome di Porzûs. Il programma che Lei seguirà non prevede, così è stato detto, la sua salita alle malghe. Io immagino che questo avvenga, molto opportunamente, per evitare il possibile disagio che alla più alta figura istituzionale della Repubblica verrebbe dal rendere omaggio ad una lapide, che contiene molti nomi che non c’entrano con l’eccidio stesso. Penso che un ruolo, in questa scelta, possa aver avuto anche la consapevolezza che, prima di istituire alle malghe un monumento nazionale, quella di Porzûs sia una vicenda che vada ancora indagata e chiarita. Infatti i processi che si susseguirono negli anni cinquanta e che videro imputati e condannati decine di partigiani e di gappisti garibaldini, avvennero nel periodo più buio della guerra fredda, quando l’attacco alla resistenza garibaldina e comunista era, in Italia, nel suo punto più alto, con l’istruzione di centinaia di processi contro partigiani, di cui quello di Porzûs fu sicuramente il più imponente. Questo processo fu finalizzato precisamente alla messa fuori legge del partito comunista sotto l’accusa di “tradimento della patria”, obiettivo che non venne raggiunto soltanto per l’impegno del comitato di difesa, di cui fece parte anche il senatore Terracini, e per la continua mobilitazione antifascista e solidarietà che si creò intorno agli imputati. Solidarietà e impegno che tuttavia non furono sufficienti a evitare la condanna e la prigione preventiva di tanti di essi.

Nei decenni successivi si è detto che la verità processuale È la Verità. Le posso assicurare, signor Presidente, che le cose non stanno così. L’analisi della corposa documentazione processuale e di altra documentazione anche di fonte alleata resa disponibile negli ultimi decenni, dimostrano che le cose intorno all’eccidio di Porzûs sono molto diverse da come sono state riproposte. Purtroppo, ciò che risulta è che, con molta probabilità, alcuni comandanti osovani e fra questi anche Bolla, ebbero comportamenti di intesa con il nemico nazifascista, con trattative che costituirono un serio pericolo per le formazioni garibaldine.

Si è detto, in questi ultimi anni, dopo che queste intese e trattative non poterono più essere nascoste e confuse, che tutto questo fu fatto in difesa dell’italianità delle terre del confine orientale dall’invadenza slava. Ma Lei sa, signor Presidente, che queste terre fra il ’43 e il ’45 non erano già più Italia, essendo state annesse dal Terzo Reich. Lei sa, signor Presidente, che in queste terre esisteva una forte componente slovena che aveva sofferto molto dall’Italia fascista. Lei sa, signor Presidente, che le forze della resistenza jugoslava facevano parte dell’alleanza antinazifascista e che la direttiva del CLNAI era quella della collaborazione con i partigiani “slavi”. Lei sa, signor Presidente, che queste trattative dei comandanti osovani con tedeschi e repubblichini, fra cui la X Mas, avvennero contro quelle che erano le precise direttive del Comitato di Liberazione Alta Italia e del Corpo Volontari della Libertà, che considerarono tradimento, senza mezzi termini, le trattative di qualsiasi tipo con il nemico. Soprattutto se queste trattative avvenivano senza aver avvisato le altre componenti della Resistenza e, anzi, alle spalle di una di queste componenti, come succedeva in queste trattative osovane a danno dei garibaldini. Lei sa che questo processo non sarebbe mai dovuto avvenire perché per farlo dovettero venire violati articoli del trattato di pace e leggi della nuova repubblica, fra cui quell’amnistia che va sotto il nome di Togliatti, che servì alla “pacificazione” liberando i fascisti epurati, ma, a causa di un’applicazione ingiusta di una magistratura a quel tempo ancora molto compromessa con il passato regime, non evitò l’arresto e la detenzione di tanti partigiani.

L’eccidio di Porzûs, compiuto da partigiani gappisti a danno di partigiani osovani, si può giudicare che non sia stato un grande momento della storia della Resistenza, ma isolandolo dal contesto in cui avvenne e accettando in maniera acritica i risultati di una Giustizia che a quel tempo si dimostrò sicuramente non obiettiva, non si fa un grande servizio alla verità e alla giustizia storica.

Le chiedo, quindi, che prima di istituire il monumento nazionale a Porzûs, la sua Presidenza favorisca la formazione di una commissione di ricercatori storici che analizzino la vasta documentazione esistente, onde arrivare a una ricostruzione il più possibile obiettiva della vicenda della malghe di Porzûs, stabilendo anche chi e quanti furono gli uccisi e perché, e arrivare finalmente – se i risultati della ricerca lo consentiranno, come io penso – alla riabilitazione di molti di quei partigiani che furono ingiustamente condannati.

Udine, 27 maggio 2012

Alessandra Kersevan



(english / francais / italiano)

Fascisti anti-siriani in tour dal Kosovo a Miami

1) Hula come Racak. Esecuzioni di bambini, manipolazioni bellicose e libanizzazione (M. Correggia)
2) Terroristi siriani e cubani insieme a scuola di formazione ... a Miami!
2.1: Una primavera araba per Cuba? Cosa si nasconde sotto il tappeto (P. F. Alvarado Godoy)
2.2: L’opposition syrienne prend ses quartiers d’été à Miami (J. G. Allard)
2.3: Document: Cuban-Syrian Joint Declaration of Agreement (by U.S. State Department)
3) La Russie proteste contre l’entrainement de factieux syriens au Kosovo
4) Siria-Kosovo: a scuola di guerriglia (Miren Stillitani)


I governi imperialisti e la "sinistra" occidentale oramai non resistono per più di pochi mesi senza combattere qualche guerra di "civilizzazione" contro il paese "canaglia" di turno... E'  più forte di loro: come i vampiri, si nutrono oramai del sangue dei paesi indipendenti e sovrani, e vivono esclusivamente per ridurli in ammassi di rovine. (IS)


JUGOINFO LINKS:

Siria. I miliziani anti-Assad addestrati in basi nel Kosovo (Sergio Cararo)
Moscow against training Syrian militants in Kosovo
Kosovo : l’opposition syrienne à l’école de l’UÇK ?

Syrian opposition activists ask Kosovo for advice
Syrian opposition studies terror tactics in Kosovo


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Siria, esecuzioni di bambini, manipolazioni bellicose e libanizzazione…

Marinella Correggia
 
Quel che è certo è che da mesi la violenza più atroce e incredibile (settaria?) in Siria ha corso comune. Quel che è certo l’orrore di molti bambini e adulti trucidati, a Hula, in Siria. Un atto diabolico. Dolorosissimi i video (con ambientazioni diversificate) che mostrano quei piccoli corpi. Ma sugli autori del massacro e sulle dinamiche le versioni sono come al solito opposte. Le fonti dell’opposizione li attribuiscono all’esercito. Il regime siriano nega ogni responsabilità, annuncia un’inchiesta di tre giorni e sostiene che l’attacco armato è stato portato invece da “armati antigovernativi”.
Anche il centro di informazioni cattolico della provincia di Homs Vox Clamans dà una versione ben diversa da quella dei media internazionali.
Per quanto non ci siano conferme del coinvolgimento dell’esercito siriano nell’attacco, i media internazionali e i leader si sono precipitati ad accusare il regime e a chiedere un intervento internazionale forte, e così la stessa opposizione siriana, con il cosiddetto Esercito libero che si ritiene ormai libero da ogni vincolo di cessate il fuoco chiesto dal piano Annan). Un’occasione davvero utile, perla Clintoncome per il Qatar. Dunque il chiedersi “cui prodest” non è peregrino.
Le voci vanno sentite tutte, e senza mistificarle. Vediamo cosa dice l’Onu. Qui http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42094&Cr=Syria&Cr1 non nomina responsabili: “Gli osservatori della missione Onu Unsmis confermano l’uccisione di 90 civili di cui 32 bambini, più molti feriti, nel villaggio di Houla, dopo aver visto i corpi” (ma ovviamente le dichiarazioni dell’Onu vengono manipolate dall’Ansa che titola “L’Onu accusa l’esercito”). Prosegue il sito Onu: “Il generale Robert Mood, capo dell’Unsmis, ha dichiarato che le circostanze di queste tragiche uccisioni non sono tuttora chiare”.
Il sito scrive inoltre che gli osservatori confermano anche, da un’analisi di residuati, che tiri di artiglieria sono stati effettuati contro un quartiere residenziale. Ma non è specificato da chi.
Il governo siriano invece sostiene che l’esercito non ha usato artiglieria o armi pesanti contro i civili e a che a compiere la strage sono stati i “terroristi” che a centinaia hanno attaccato Houla con armi pesanti compresi lanciarazzi anticarro.
Ban Ki-Moon e Kofi Annan hanno emesso un comunicato: “Questo crimine brutale che indica un uso indiscriminato e sproporzionato della forza è una violazione flagrante della legge internazionale e degli impegni da parte del governo rispetto al non uso di armi pesanti nei centri abitati (…) i responsabili dovranno pagare”. Sia Mood che Annan che Ban Ki Moon hanno chiesto al governo siriano di smettere di usare armamenti pesanti nei centri abitati ma hanno anche chiesto a tutte le parti di cessare le violenze in tutte le loro forme.La Reutersriferisce anche di queste parole di Mood: “Chi ha iniziato, chi ha risposto e chi è responsabile dovrà pagare”.
La tivù russa RT scrive (http://www.rt.com/news/fsa-annan-plan-307/): “Inizialmente il massacro è stato riferito da attivisti dell’opposizione fra i quali l’Osservatorio siriano per i diritti umani basato a Londra secondo i quali la città è stata bombardata dalle forze governative durante manifestazioni antiregime”. I bombardamenti sarebbero continuati da venerdì a mezzogiorno fino all’alba di sabato.
Il punto è che i morti nei video dalle ferite e dallo stato non sembrano essere vittime di bombardamenti sulle case ma di esecuzioni. Lo afferma anche un ex del Pentagono intervistato da Rt. Il collegamento fra azioni dell’esercito e i bambini morti dei video sembra non essere possibile.
Chi ha ucciso? Degli armati sicuramente non riconoscibili (quindi anche eventuali superstiti troveranno difficile dare risposte vere) e sulla base dei loro interessi. Che non sembrano essere quelli della pace ma piuttosto di una tensione sempre maggiore con intervento esterno.  Digitando su youtube “Hula massacre”, appaiono alcuni video, con tanti corpicini stesi sulle coperte, in ambientazioni diverse. I piccoli morti non appaiono vittime di bombardamenti sulle loro case ma piuttosto di esecuzioni mirate, uno a uno (non c’è la polvere e la distruzione che in genere si accompagnano ai tiri e ai bombardamenti che distruggono abitazioni, si pensi a certe foto dalla Libia).  C’è un altro video che mostra bambini morti con le mani legate (una stranezza che pare artificiosa e che richiama un video riferito a Homs in marzo, poi rivelatosi una mistificazione da parte dei rivoltosi).
Un altro video ancora mostra le immagini mostrate anche da Sana e dalla Press tv sulle due famiglie (con nomi) uccise in un villaggio da gruppi armati, ma attribuisce i morti con didascalia in spagnolo a Huila e alle “gang di Assad”.
Non sembrano esserci video di bombardamenti a Hula. Sempre digitando “Hula massacre” c’è un video che mostra uomini per strada (dove?), alcuni con bandiere – non quelle dell’opposizione – e poi si sentono rumori di spari e un fuggi fuggi con qualcuno che rimane per terra.
Secondo il Centro di informazioni Vox Clamans della diocesi di Homs, le cose sono andate molto diversamente da quel che dicono i media e l’opposizione. “Un nostro testimone oculare di Kfar Laha, presso Hula ci ha detto: ‘Bande armate in gran numero hanno attaccato le forze dell’ordine o dell’esercito vicino all’ospedale Al Watani che hanno perso veicoli e un blindato.  Sono seguiti scontri fino a tarda notte e invano i governativi hanno cercato di respingere l’attacco con l’artiglieria e molte perdite. Uccisi o feriti 35 soldati, e nove miliziani. I miliziani sono entrati nell’ospedale massacrando tutti i presenti. Hanno portato via i cadaveri in coperte dell’ospedale e li hanno ammucchiati in un luogo di Hulé che sembra essere una moschea. Poi sono entrati in varie case del quartiere sud uccidendo i civili e ammucchiandoli per mostrarli agli osservatori, prima di bruciare le loro case. In 24 ore cento sunniti sono stati massacrati a Tal Daw (Houlé), alaouiti sono stati massacrati a Shiphonyieh, ismailiti a Salamyeh e cristiani a Qusyar”. La consegna delle bande armate sembra essere incendiare il conflitto religioso.  E la previsione è sinistra : il mosaico siriano si potrebbe rompere in una guerra civile alla libanese.
L’agenzia Sana http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2012/05/27/421559.htm parla di altre decine di assassinati civili “per mano di al Qaeda”: dà i nomi di diverse famiglie uccise nei villaggi Tal Daw e al-Shumariyeh e mostra diverse foto.

(27 maggio 2012)


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Una primavera araba per Cuba? Cosa si nasconde sotto il tappeto

23 Maggio 2012

di Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy* | da www.rebelion.org

Rappresentanti del Consiglio Nazionale Siriano (CNS), il principale raggruppamento antigovernativo in Siria, e membri dell'anticubana Assemblea della Resistenza Cubana (ARC) hanno sottoscritto un “accordo di collaborazione”

Traduzione a cura di Marx21.it

*Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy è giornalista guatemalteco che risiede a Cuba. Collabora a numerose testate, tra cui “Cubadebate” e “Rebelion”

La notizia non sorprende nessuno. Rappresentanti del Consiglio Nazionale Siriano (CNS), il principale raggruppamento antigovernativo in Siria, e membri dell'anticubana Assemblea della Resistenza Cubana (ARC) hanno sottoscritto un “accordo di collaborazione”, l'8 maggio, nell'Hotel Biltmore, a Coral Gables, Miami, il cui proposito è “coordinare azioni” per provocare il rovesciamento incostituzionale dei governi siriano e cubano. “Stiamo lottando per lo stesso ideale che non è altro che il rispetto dei diritti fondamentali dei popoli di Siria e Cuba”, ha sottolineato la provocatrice Sylvia Iriondo, il cui padre è stato un noto agente della CIA e ha partecipato alla sconfitta invasione mercenaria a Playa de Giron.
Questa signora, alla guida del gruppuscolo Madri e donne antirepressione per Cuba (M.A.R. per Cuba), si è distinta per la promozione di attività sovversive dentro l'Isola, finanziando la controrivoluzione interna e inviando emissari per finanziare le sue attività destabilizzanti.

CNS e ARC si sono incontrati per caso? Certo che no. L'accordo è il risultato della creazione di una forza di scopo (Task Force), tra agenzie e governi, a cui partecipano congiuntamente la CIA, il Mossad, l'M16, le sezioni Cuba e Siria del Dipartimento di Stato, l'intelligence militare del Pentagono, gruppi di pressione filo-israeliani e anticubani all'interno del Congresso e vari rappresentanti dell'estrema destra, particolarmente Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. La Task Force è stata formata con il consenso di vari governi, quelli che hanno piena consapevolezza dell'attivazione di questo gruppo e dei suoi piani futuri, tra cui si distinguono Stati Uniti, Israele, Arabia Saudita, Regno Unito e altri paesi dell'Unione Europea e delle Lega Araba. E' probabile che anche tre governi latinoamericani siano stati consultati in merito.

Questo gruppo di scopo funziona da pochi mesi e si è posto come obiettivi, i seguenti:

1) Coordinare azioni di appoggio comune sul piano internazionale, sviluppando una guerra mediatica di alta intensità che può contare su vaste risorse messe a sua disposizione. In tal senso, viene contemplato l'impiego delle reti sociali per sommergerle con un attacco continuo di distorsione della realtà interna a Cuba e in Siria, appoggiandosi su gruppi controrivoluzionari interni, di cui è stato definito con chiarezza il ruolo nella vendita di un'immagine distorta delle loro realtà nazionali.

Nel caso di Cuba, la SINA (Ufficio degli interessi degli Stati Uniti a Cuba) ha un ruolo determinante nel coordinamento delle azioni di provocazione e destabilizzanti. Nel caso della Siria, vari centri operativi ubicati a Parigi, Istanbul, Baghdad, Londra, e altre capitali europee e arabe, assolvono a questo compito che si inquadra nella guerra ideologica.

2) Creare un fronte unito e scambiare strategie comuni, che tengano conto dell'esperienza accumulata dai gruppi controrivoluzionari nelle rispettive nazioni. A tale scopo, il gruppo di scopo studia la possibilità, coltivata inutilmente per decenni, di promuovere una frattura tra le FAR (Forze Armate Rivoluzionarie) e il MININT (Ministero dell'Interno) di Cuba rispetto alla direzione del paese, avendo come riferimento l'esperienza maturata in Siria.

Davanti all'impossibilità di promuovere l'inserimento di mercenari stranieri all'interno di Cuba, come è accaduto in Siria, il gruppo di scopo ha ben chiara la creazione di condizioni per riattivare le azioni terroriste sviluppate contro Cuba negli anni passati, studiando i profili della forza controrivoluzionaria interna per individuare chi potrebbe essere potenzialmente impiegato in questo compito. In tal senso, si sta studiando l'invio di alcuni istruttori provenienti dall'Europa e da nazioni latinoamericane per preparare, surrettiziamente, alcuni controrivoluzionari all'utilizzo di esplosivi, delle tecniche di sovversione e di altri metodi di guerra sporca. Il gruppo di scopo ha pensato di incorporare alcuni cittadini latinoamericani, alcuni dei quali hanno servito in Iraq e Afghanistan, per preparare gruppi di infiltrazione allo scopo di realizzare sabotaggi dentro Cuba. Sono stati contattati anche terroristi di origine cubana e gruppi come Alpha 66, Comandos F4, tra gli altri, per reclutare persone da addestrare in campi all'interno degli Stati Uniti o in qualcuno dei paesi latinoamericani contattati.

3) La forza di scopo si è impegnata a utilizzare tutti i canali diplomatici possibili per demonizzare sul piano internazionale i governi di Bashar Al Assad e Raul Castro, in particolare all'interno delle Nazioni Unite, l'OSA, la Lega Araba, e utilizzando una vasta gamma di ONG, allo scopo di deformare deliberatamente la situazione dei diritti umani in queste nazioni.

4) La forza di scopo dispone di fonti di finanziamento attraverso fondi segreti già assicurati dai governi coinvolti, fondamentalmente attraverso conti fantasma della CIA, del Mossad e di altre agenzie, spacciati come contributi a ONG.

Si stanno attuando studi per potere abilitare i canali logistici necessari per far arrivare gli interessati a Cuba e in Siria, tutte le risorse logistiche necessarie per realizzare le loro missioni.

In sintesi, l'accordo firmato dalla parte cubana (Berta Antunez, Orlando Gutiérrez, Silvia Iriondo, Laida Carro, Horacio Garcia, Raul Garcia e Luis Gonzales Infante) e dalla parte siriana (l'Unità per una Siria Libera, la Commissione Generale della Rivoluzione, il Gruppo di Lavoro dell'Emergenza Siriana, l'American Syrian PAC, il Consiglio Siriano-Americano e l'Organizzazione dei Siriani Espatriati, tra cui si trovavano Niman Shukairy e Mohamed Kawam) è solo una copertura per qualcosa di più grande.

Molti potranno anche definire questo lavoro come una speculazione senza fondamento, ma coloro che sanno come funzionano i servizi nemici, sono coscienti che non deriva da un evento pubblico ma da qualcosa che c'è dietro l'infrastruttura segreta per articolarlo, o perlomeno dalla Task Force incaricata dell'esecuzione. In questo, sia la CIA che il Mossad hanno una vasta esperienza. L'importante è mantenersi vigilanti e aver chiaro che il nemico si muove nell'ombra. Occorre farlo, anche se si deve sapere, in anticipo, che una “primavera araba” a Cuba è la semplice masturbazione di un nemico testardo, illuso, ma pericoloso.


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L’opposition syrienne prend ses quartiers d’été à Miami


par Agence Cubaine de NouvellesJean Guy Allard

La CIA met en place un dispostif de sabotage du plan Annan et de toute tentative de paix en Syrie. Renouant avec les méthodes de la Guerre froide durant laquelle elle fabriquaient des groupes subversifs dans le Bloc de l’Est et les intégrait dans des fronts combattants internationaux, la CIA a organisé à Miami un séminaire de formation joint pour les opposants armés cubains et syriens.

RÉSEAU VOLTAIRE | LA HAVANE (CUBA)  | 25 MAI 2012

[FOTO: Séminaire joint des oppositions armées cubaine et syrienne, financées par les Etats-Unis (1er au 8 mai 2012 à l’hôtel Biltmore de Coral Gables, Miami).]

En recourant aux milieux cubano-américains agissant sous leur emprise à Miami, ainsi qu’à des opposants syriens vivant sur leur territoire, les Services de renseignement des États-Unis tentent d’associer Cuba aux troubles qui secouent actuellement la Syrie, comme le suggère une dépêche datée depuis Miami de l’agence espagnole EFE qui « révèle » que « des dissidents syriens et cubains sont en train de créer un front pour combattre Castro et El-Assad ».
« Les oppositions syrienne et cubaine ont constitué aux États-Unis un front uni pour la liberté et la démocratie des deux pays qui avait pour but de combattre les "régime dictatoriaux"  », affirme la correspondance de l’agence madrilène, basée à Miami, ville considérée comme le siège de tous les complots anticubains ourdis aux États-Unis.
Des représentants de « la principale organisation d’opposition en Syrie » et des membres de la dénommée Assemblée de la Résistance cubaine (ARC) de Miami, ont conclu un « accord pour coordonner leurs efforts » et donner de Cuba une image d’instabilité.
« La Syrie est tombée dans une spirale de violence depuis le 15 mars 2011, lorsque des milliers de personnes sont descendues dans les rues », ajoute EFE.
« Ceci offre une possibilité extraordinaire : un front uni pour la liberté et la démocratie au sein duquel les peuples syrien et cubain se sont unis pour lutter », commente l’interlocutrice du correspondant de cette agence à Miami, Silvia Iriondo, la « présidente » de Mères et femmes anti-répression (M.A.R. Por Cuba).
Silvia Iriondo, de son vrai nom Silvia Goudie, est la fille d’un mercenaire de l’invasion manquée de la Baie des cochons. Elle vit de ses mensonges à Miami, de sa « créature » M.A.R. Por Cuba, gracieusement financée par l’USAID. Lors de l’enlèvement de l’enfant cubain Elian Gonzalez, cette dame et les membres de son organisation avaient déclaré qu’ils préféreraient le voir mourir plutôt que de le rendre à sa famille à Cuba.
Le Département d’État et ses « filiales » l’ont invariablement employée dans leur « service extérieur » pour qu’elle participe aux rencontres et aux meetings qu’ils organisent contre Cuba, en Europe et en Amérique latine.
En mars 2004, Robert Ménard, l’ancien secrétaire général de Reporters sans frontières, et Frank « Paquito » Calzon, agent de la CIA et directeur du Center for a Free Cuba (CFC), se sont présentés en public à ses côtés lors d’une réunion avec des députés européens organisée par les copains de l’ancien président du gouvernement espagnol José Maria Aznar à l’Union européenne.
Robert Ménard est devenu célèbre après avoir renfloué ses comptes bancaires « cubains » de Virginie avec l’argent de l’USAID, tandis qu’au CFC, Felipe Sixto, le bras droit de Calzon, a été arrêté et condamné pour avoir détourné un demi million de dollars.
En 2007, ladite Société internationale pour les Droits de l’Homme – une organisation de la CIA ouvertement anticommuniste qui organisait un séminaire sur la « question cubaine » au Centre de communications de la Dresdner Bank, à Frankfort, en Allemagne –, invita et installa Silvia Iriondo à la présidence aux côtés de Calzon, de Pedro V. Roig (le directeur général de Radio et TV Marti qui était alors sous enquête pour fraude), du « commandant traître » Hubert Matos, lié au trafic de drogues, et d’Angel Francisco de Fana Serrano, d’Alpha 66 (arrêté en Californie en 1995 avec en sa possession un arsenal d’armes destinées à perpétrer un attentat terroriste contre Cuba.
En novembre 2009, Silvia Iriondo se joignit au chef d’UnoAmérica, confrérie fasciste de nostalgiques du Plan Condor, ainsi qu’à Alejandro Peña Esclusa – aujourd’hui jugé pour terrorisme à Caracas –, au sein du groupe d’« observateurs » qui ont légitimé les élections générales convoquées sous la dictature de Roberto Micheletti au Honduras.
À cette occasion, elle a une nouvelle fois côtoyé Matos et d’autres « figures » de la mafia anticubaine comme le millionnaire de l’« anticastrisme » Orlando Gutierrez Boronat qui l’accompagne à présent dans le montage du show « Cuba-Syrie ».
Bénéficiaire, à l’instar de Mme Iriondo, des généreuses perfusions de dollars de l’USAID, Gutierrez s’est autoproclamé secrétaire national du Directoire démocratique cubain (DDC), et d’aucuns lui reprochent même de s’offrir des voyages à travers le monde avec les subventions.
Salué par EFE – une agence de presse créée par le grand-père franquiste d’Aznar –, cet « accord » n’est pas la première tentative d’« associer » la Syrie à Cuba, à laquelle participe Mme Iriondo.
Il y a quelques semaines, cette « militante » à la solde du Département d’État a participé à une séance d’information au Congrès organisée par une soi-disant Association d’avocats cubano-américains (CABA), placée sous le thème « Le printemps arabe à Cuba », en présence des législateurs mafieux Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen et David Rivera.
Parmi les signataires de l’« accord » dont se félicite EFE figure en outre Horacio Garcia, du Conseil pour la liberté de Cuba (CLC), l’un des anciens directeurs de la Fondation nationale cubano-américaine (FNCA). Rappelons que ce monsieur a été présenté publiquement par le terroriste d’origine cubaine Luis Posada Carriles comme l’un des principaux « financiers » de ses activités criminelles.
Pour la « partie syrienne », EFE mentionne Mohamed Kawam, du dénommé Groupe de travail de l’urgence syrienne, et Niman Shukairy, de l’Unité pour une Syrie libre, respectivement médecin et dentiste, qui semblent préférer l’argent facile à l’exercice de leur profession. Deux militants syriens basés aux États-Unis, dont les positions de droite leur ont permis de s’associer aux mécanismes de propagande et de déstabilisation du Département d’État.

[FOTO: Réception des participants au séminaire cubano-syrien par le gouverneur de Floride, Rick Scott (1er mai 2012).]

[1] The ACR included Movimiento Feminista por los Derechos Civiles Rosa Parks, Coalición de Mujeres Cubano Americanas (Coalition of Cuban American Women), Proyecto Pro Cambio, Jóvenes Cubanos en Acción (Cuban Youth in Action), Presidio Político Histórico "Casa del Preso", Directorio Democrático Cubano (Cuban Democratic Directorate), and MAR por Cuba (Mothers Against Repression).

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Document

Cuban-Syrian Joint Declaration of Agreement

We, Cubans and Syrians, in resistance against the tyrannies which deprive us of our God-given, inalienable rights, proclaim : That human rights and dignity are universal and intrinsic to the human condition, and that all humans are created equal in obeisance to same ; That in defense of these rights, the Cuban Resistance and the Syrian Revolution agree to unify our struggles in order to accelerate the hour of liberation ; Therefore : 
 The Cuban Resistance recognizes the Syrian Revolution as a legitimate expression of the highest aims and ideals of the Syrian people ; 
 The Syrian Revolution recognizes the Agreement for Democracy as a legitimate expression of the highest aims and ideals of the Cuban people ; 
 The Cuban Resistance joins those nations, which have recognized the Syrian Revolution as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people ; 
 The Syrian Revolution adopts the Vilnius Resolution of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies in recognizing the Cuban Resistance as a legitimate representative of the Cuban people ;
Therefore, with said moral authority, the Cuban Resistance and Syrian Revolution jointly agree : 
 To coordinate all of our political, diplomatic, logistic and humanitarian efforts in pursuit of the liberation of Cuba and Syria ; 
 hence constituting a United Front for Freedom and Democracy ;
Therefore, the Cuban Resistance and the Syrian Revolution jointly declare : The people want the overthrow of the dictatorial regimes of Assad and Castro.
Signed at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables this 8th day of May, 2012.
For The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance [1] : Bertha Antunez, Laida Carro Raul Garcia, Luis Gonzalez Infante, Orlando Gutierrez Boronat, Sylvia Iriondo 
For the Syrian Revolution : Khaled Saleh (General Commission for the Revolution), Mohamed Kawam (Syrian Emergency Task Force — SETF), Yahia Basha (United for a free Syria — UFS), Bashar Lufti (American Syrian Public Affairs Committee —(AMSPAC), Imad Jandali (Syrian American Council — SAC), Maher Nana (Syrian Expatriates Organization —SSO— and Syrian Support Group — SSG).



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La Russie proteste contre l’entrainement de factieux syriens au Kosovo


RÉSEAU VOLTAIRE  | 25 MAI 2012

Le ministère russe des Affaires étrangères a exhorté les instances internationales opérant au Kosovo à faire en sorte que la région ne devienne pas un terrain d’entraînement pour les rebelles opérant en Syrie.
En effet une délégation de l’opposition syrienne s’est rendue au Kosovo en avril pour procéder officiellement à un accord sur l’échange d’expériences en matière de guérilla anti-gouvernementale.
Selon le ministère russe, les entretiens ont porté non seulement sur les moyens d’organiser la résistance armée contre les autorités, mais aussi sur la formation de militants syriens au Kosovo.
« Il est prévu d’utiliser les zones (au Kosovo) qui ressemblent au terrain en Syrie. La possibilité de mettre en place des camps d’entraînement dans les anciennes bases de l’Armée de libération du Kosovo (l’UCK) est également en cours de discussion ».
« Transformer le Kosovo en un terrain d’entraînement international pour les militants armés peut devenir un facteur de déstabilisation grave qui pourrait se prolonger au-delà des Balkans (...) nous exhortons les organismes internationaux qui opèrent au Kosovo à prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour empêcher. ces projets ».
À la fin des années 90, la milice ethnique et confessionnelle albanaise UCK avait mené une guerre séparatiste contre le gouvernement du président Slobodan Milosevic.
Les représailles militaires de l’État yougoslave contre les actions terroristes organisées par l’UCK avait servi de prétexte à la première intervention militaro-humanitaire de l’histoire de l’OTAN.
Après la chute de l’État national, l’UCK avait procédé à une politique de purification ethnique au Kosovo, accompagnée d’une campagne de destruction méthodique d’églises et de monastères chrétiens orthodoxes.
Se présentant comme des musulmans sunnites, les combattants de l’Armée de libération kosovare s’étaient spécialisés dans le proxénétisme pour financer leurs opérations avant de diversifier leurs activités dans le trafic d’héroïne et le commerce d’organes.
Alors que le procureur national italien anti-mafia Alberto Mariati, à confirmé que « l’UCK était liée à la mafia de Naples, la Camorra, ainsi qu’ à celle des Pouilles », Hashim Thaçi, le parrain de la mafia kosovare et le dirigeant de l’aile politique de l’UCK est actuellement premier ministre du Kosovo. [1]
Le succès fulgurant de l’organisation et de ses dirigeants est dû au fait que dès sa création en 1996, l’UCK était piloté par les services secrets allemands et par l’OTAN qul l’avait entrainée dans des camps basés en Turquie et en Albanie [2].
À l’époque, les Occidentaux et l’UCK étaient parvenus à neutraliser politiquement la majorité des musulmans du Kosovo en marginalisant le leader pacifiste kosovar Ibrahim Rugova et en assassinant le modéré Ahmet Krasniqi.
Hier en Afghanistan, en Tchétchénie, en Yougoslavie ou en Libye et aujourd’hui en Syrie, l’Otan s’appuie systématiquement sur de soi-disant islamistes pour instrumentaliser l’islam et protéger ses intérêts.

[1] « Le gouvernement kosovar et le crime organisé », par Jürgen Roth, Réseau Voltaire, 8 avril 2008.

[2] « L’UÇK, une armée kosovare sous encadrement allemand », Réseau Voltaire, 15 avril 1999.



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Siria-Kosovo: a scuola di guerriglia

Miren Stillitani 
22 maggio 2012

E' in pericolo la stabilità dei Balcani e non solo. E' questo l'allarme lanciato da Mosca a seguito della visita in Kosovo di tre esponenti dell'opposizione siriana. Che si sarebbero recati a Pristina per imparare la guerriglia dagli ex Uçk

Lo scorso 15 maggio, durante un dibattito sul Kosovo tenutosi in seno al Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, l'ambasciatore russo all'Onu Vitaly Churkin ha espresso preoccupazione in merito alla circolazione di notizie di stampa secondo cui il governo del Kosovo avrebbe instaurato contatti con esponenti dell'opposizione siriana ed avrebbe messo a disposizione basi per l'addestramento dei ribelli siriani.
Stando alle parole di Churkin, “trasformare il Kosovo in un centro internazionale di addestramento per insorti potrebbe costituire un serio fattore destabilizzante che andrebbe al di là dei Balcani”. A conclusione del proprio intervento, l'ambasciatore ha esortato le organizzazioni internazionali che operano in Kosovo (Kfor, Nato, Onu) ad intervenire in merito alla questione, adottando “tutte le misure necessarie per prevenire la messa in atto di tali piani”.
In una conferenza stampa tenutasi a seguito del dibattito presso le Nazioni Unite, il ministro degli Esteri del Kosovo Enver Hoxhaj non ha negato l'esistenza di contatti diplomatici fra governo del Kosovo e l'opposizione siriana, affermando che il Kosovo nel 2011 è stato “fra i primi governi in Europa a sostenere l'opposizione in Libia ed in altri Paesi arabi (…) dato il perseguimento di ideali affini”.
Pur avendo confermato di sostenere fermamente la causa dell'opposizione siriana, il ministro ha ad ogni modo respinto le accuse rivolte da Mosca sul coinvolgimento delle autorità kosovare in attività di addestramento dei ribelli siriani


La delegazione siriana in Kosovo


La presa di posizione russa è conseguente di un incontro tenutosi a Pristina lo scorso aprile fra lo stesso Enver Hoxhaj e una delegazione di membri dell’opposizione siriana: il rappresentante del Consiglio Nazionale Siriano e leader del Fratelli Mussulmani di Siria Molham Aldroby, l'Alto responsabile siriano all'interno dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Kurdistan Djengizkhan Hasso e Ammar Abdulhamid, oppositore del regime siriano esule negli Stati Uniti dal 2005.
“Siamo qui per imparare”, ha dichiarato quest'ultimo durante la sua visita in Kosovo a Le Courrier des Balkans “l'esperienza del Kosovo può esserci utile. Ad esempio ci è utile capire come i vari gruppi armati che formavano l'Uçk si sono organizzati tra loro. Questo soggiorno in Kosovo può servirci d'ispirazione per la nostra lotta”.
Nell'intervista Ammar Abdulhamid, pur evocando chiaramente la necessità di “costruire la capacità di combattere il regime siriano”, resta vago su una collaborazione che sia di più che un semplice scambio verbale di esperienze e non conferma né smentisce le voci sui campi d'addestramento dell'Esercito libero della Siria sul territorio kosovaro.


Fonti serbe


In linea con le accuse di Mosca anche le voci che arrivano da Belgrado, secondo le quali dietro a questa visita siriana in Kosovo vi sarebbero i servizi segreti Usa. “Dal momento che gli oppositori siriani non riescono a far crollare il regime, i fautori della rivoluzione sono passati al piano B: l'unificazione della guerriglia, ad immagine e somiglianza dell'Uçk. Sono coloro che avevano addestrato i terroristi albanesi del Kosovo nel 1996-1997 ad aver inviato i militanti siriani (...)” ha dichiarato alla stampa locale il generale Momir Stojanović, ex direttore dell'Agenzia di sicurezza militare serba.
Opinioni simili quelle espresse dall'ex comandante delle forze di sicurezza jugoslave, Ninoslav Krstić: “Queste formazioni militari s'eserciteranno negli ex campi d'addestramento dell'Uçk, vicino alla frontiera con l'Albania. Krstić indica anche come possibili luoghi d'addestramento Kukës e Tropoja nel nord dell'Albania per poi tirare in ballo anche la possibilità di campi d'addestramento in Macedonia.


Non lasciare soli i siriani


Intanto Verton Surroi, tra i più influenti giornalisti ed intellettuali kosovari, che sarebbe l'autore dell'invito dei tre rappresentanti dell'opposizione siriana in Kosovo, in un editoriale pubblicato daGlobal Viewpoint ha denunciato l'incapacità del piano in sei punti di Kofi Annan di porre fine al conflitto in Siria.
“E' chiaro che ha fallito sia nel porre fine alla violenza in Siria che ad assicurare un dialogo politico. Il regime ha compreso che può trascinare i piedi nell'implementazione del piano sino a quando non ci sarà un'alternativa all'orizzonte. Dà per scontato, come fece il Presidente della Serbia Milosević ai tempi della disgregazione jugoslava, che l'Occidente non ha lo stomaco per un intervento armato. E sembra che attualmente il regime siriano abbia ragione".
Surroi, dopo una lunga argomentazione, conclude: "Più volte i mediatori e diplomatici hanno ribadito che spetta ai siriani trovare la loro strada verso il futuro. Suona corretto, e dovrebbe essere così. Ma lasciare i cittadini siriani soli li condannerebbe ad una guerra prolungata e ad un bagno di sangue... La comunità internazionale non può stare a guardare o appoggiarsi su formule come quelle che sono già state sconfitte durante la tragedia nei Balcani".




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ARBITRI IMPARZIALI? NO, FILO-UCK


Conflitto all'interno della UEFA sulla ipotesi di consentire alla "Nazionale" del "Kosovo" - il protettorato della NATO che più della metà dei paesi ONU non riconoscono come Stato indipendente - di scendere in campo in gare amichevoli internazionali...



Conflict of Platini and Blatter over Kosmet

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 16:04 -- MRS

President of the UEFA Michel Platini has opposed the decision of the Executive Committee of FIFA to allow Kosovo playing friendly international matches. At issue is exclusively a political issue, and that decision is contrary to the statute of the UEFA, said Platini. Namely, the FIFA Executive Committee decided yesterday to allow Kosmet to play friendly matches, although all eight members from the UEFA were against it.



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FYROM 2012

1) Macedonia: Mysterious 'army' threatens 'liberation of Albanian lands' (17/4)
2) La Macédoine et l’OTAN : initiative turque, inquiétudes grecques (20/5)
3) Mass unemployment and poverty fuel ethnic tensions in Macedonia (23/5)


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ADN Kronos - April 17, 2012

Macedonia: Mysterious 'army' threatens 'liberation of Albanian lands'


Skopje: Tensions were high in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on Tuesday, less than a week after the murder of five Macedonians near the capital of Skopje, as a mysterious “army” threatened a “liberation of occupied Albanian lands”

The until recently unknown “The Army for Liberation of Occupied Albanian Lands”, in a statement published by the Macedonian media, gave the government an ultimatum to withdraw in two weeks from what it called “occupied Albanians lands” or face reprisals.

The “army’ said it has decided at a meeting of its “general staff” it would attack “Slavo-Macedonian police and military structures” if they don’t withdraw from the territory inhabited by ethnic Albanians.

Ethnic Albanians, who make about 25 percent of Macedonia’s two million population, are concentrated mostly in the west of the country bordering Albania, but there are numerous cities, like Skopje, with a mixed population.

Five Macedonian youths and a middle aged man were killed last week near a lake north of Skopje while fishing and local media speculated the murders were ethnically motivated.

The police still haven’t discovered the perpetrators and about one thousand Macedonians protested in Skopje Monday evening, smashing windows at a government building and clashing with police.

Six people, including three policemen, were injured in the clashes and fourteen protesters were arrested as police blocked demonstrators from marching onto Albanian section of the city.

Ethnic Albanians rebelled in 2001...gaining concessions from the government under international [NATO, U.S., EU] mediation. But tensions have been running high ever since.

Macedonians are Slavs and the mysterious army has accused prime minister Nikola Gruevski of “daily violations of the rights of Albanians”, of “spreading anti-Albanian ideology, staging attacks on innocent Albanians and of blocking Albanian villages”.

“We have been silent long enough, the silence is now over,” the statement said. It vowed to “revenge brothers” and to “respond on fire with fire, an eye for an eye and an arm for an arm”.


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Le Courrier de la Macédoine

La Macédoine et l’OTAN : initiative turque, inquiétudes grecques


Traduit par Slavica Rizovska
Glasnikot - Mise en ligne : dimanche 20 mai 2012

Un seul point fait consensus dans la classe politique grec : si jamais la question de l’adhésion de la Macédoine devait être posée lors du Sommet de Chicago, Athènes devrait immédiatement opposer son veto. La Turquie semble pourtant décidée à demander l’inscription de la question à l’ordre du jour.

(Avec Dnevnik, Utrinski Vesnik) - La Turquie serait décidée à demander l’inscription d’une éventuelle adhésion de la Macédoine à l’ordre du jour du Sommet de l’OTAN. L’initiative turque pourrait être soutenue par la Slovénie, la Croatie, la Norvège et la Grande-Bretagne.

Cette initiative provoque l’inquiétude à Athènes. Un compte-rendu des discussions entre les partis politiques sur la formation d’un nouveau gouvernement a été rendu public par le cabinet du président Papoulias. Ce compte-rendu précise que l’adhésion de la Macédoine n’est pas à l’ordre du jour du sommet de l’OTAN mais que, si cette question devait être débattue, les représentants de la Grèce devraient opposer leur veto.

La question de la Macédoine a été évoquée par le chef du Parti des grecs indépendants Panayotis Kammenos, inquiet que la Grèce soit représentée par un gouvernement à l’autorité limitée lors du Sommet de Chicago. « Si la question de la Macédoine se pose, elle doit être résolue dans le cadre de notre stratégie nationale et conformément à l’argumentation que la Grèce a préparé en réponse au verdict de la Cour internationale de Justice de La Haye. Nos arguments doivent être plus subtils que ceux soumis en 2008. Nous devons les renforcer de manière plus ingénieuse, plus intelligente », a répondu le chef du PaSoK, Evangelos Venizelos.

Alexis Tsipras, le dirigeant de la coalition de gauche SYRIZA, la secrétaire générale du Parti communiste (KKE), Alexandra Papariga, et le dirigeant de la Gauche démocratique Fotis Kuvelis estiment également que la Grèce devrait opposer son veto si jamais la question de l’adhésion de la Macédoine à l’OTAN était posée. Pour Alexis Tsipras, la condition sine qua non pour résoudre le différend est un nom à déterminant géographique acceptable pour les deux parties.


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Mass unemployment and poverty fuel ethnic tensions in Macedonia


By Paul Mitchell 
23 May 2012


Macedonia has recently witnessed a resurgence of ethnic tensions. The ability of nationalist politicians to mobilise large numbers of demonstrators is fuelled by the terrible social conditions in the country.

In March, violence erupted in the capital, Skopje, after two ethnic Albanians were killed in the western town of Gostivar by an off-duty police officer. Two weeks of rioting followed, leading to dozens of injuries. On April 16, large crowds demonstrated in Skopje blaming ethnic Albanians for the killing of five Macedonian Slav fishermen near Smiljkovci.

On May 11, thousands of ethnic Albanians rallied in several Macedonian towns protesting against the arrest and detention of a number of Muslim suspects accused of the Smiljkovci murders. Demonstrators shouted “Kosovo Liberation Army”, “See you in the mountains” and “Greater Albania”. The offices of the Albanian party Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) were attacked. The DUI was formed out of the remnants of the KLA offshoot, the National Liberation Army (NLA), after the Ohrid Agreement in 2001 ended months of fighting with Macedonian police and army forces. It has several ministers in the coalition government with the right-wing Macedonian nationalist VMRO-DPMNE (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity).

Macedonia’s 2 million-strong population includes 64 percent Slav Macedonians, 25 percent ethnic Albanians and some ethnic Turks, Roma and Serbs.

Some commentators in the region now worry at renewed attempts to carve out an ethnic Albanian state in western Macedonia.

“Clearly they do not want coexistence—their slogans betray the goal to misuse Islam to create an ethnically pure state, which means conflict in the region. Slogans in support of the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) also betray the involvement of some political parties to benefit from such an abuse of religion,” declared former security studies professor Ivan Babanovski. Another Macedonian analyst told Radio Free Europe that the renewed tensions meant the country was “approaching an abyss.”

This situation and the ability of nationalist politicians to mobilise large numbers of demonstrators are fuelled by the country’s economic and social crisis. Promises from local politicians and the “international community” that liberalisation of the economy and wholesale privatisation of state assets after independence in 1991 from Yugoslavia would lead to a golden future have not materialised.

Macedonia now has Europe’s largest gap between rich and poor. The richest 20 percent of the population receive 42 percent of the total disposable income, while the poorest 20 percent receive just 5 percent. Criminal activity, such as smuggling through Greece and Bulgaria, has played a major part in the amassing of large personal fortunes.

Meanwhile, for two decades, workers have experienced continuous mass unemployment and poverty. Things have got worse since the global financial crisis broke out in 2008. The average monthly income in Macedonia is roughly 20,500 denars (€350, $440) a month. The minimum wage is a paltry €130 per month.

For years, the official unemployment rate has hovered between 30 and 35 percent. Among young people it is 50 percent, and nearly 80 percent for the Roma minority. The black market accounts for nearly 30 percent of total employment.

According to the State Statistical Office, relative poverty has increased from 19 percent in 1997 to around 31 percent in 2011. An estimated 21 percent of the population live below the absolute poverty line (less than €245 per month), and 7 percent are so poor that they cannot get a minimum level of caloric intake. Large differences exist between Skopje and the regions, particularly the northeast, where more than three fifths of children are at risk of poverty.

These are the results of programmes dictated by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. According to the Economic Freedoms Index, compiled by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, successive government policies have made Macedonia “a regional leader in business friendly policies.” Last year’s World Bank Doing Business report ranked Macedonia the third top “economic reformer in the world”. The country has the lowest tax rates in Europe.

However, since the start of the “transition to a market economy” after independence, Macedonia has experienced low rates of economic growth compared to almost all of its neighbours. Following a severe recession in the early 1990s, growth was irregular, peaking at over 5 percent in 2008. It slowed down sharply in early 2009, with export revenues falling by 43 percent.

The government has lowered its forecast of economic growth for 2012 from 4.5 percent to 2.5 percent and cut €120 million from the €2.7 billion budget. In early April, it accepted a five-year loan of €250 million from Deutsche Bank at an interest rate of 6.83 percent.

Macedonia’s Slavic and ethnic Albanian communities exist separately. There are only a handful of intermarriages a year. The ethnic Albanians tend to live in enclaves in the main cities or in western Macedonia, across the border from Kosovo. Last October, a national census was abandoned after disagreements flared over data collection rules. Ethnic Albanian members of the census commission claimed the Macedonian majority had devised criteria that lowered the real number of Albanians in the country. Ethnic Macedonians claimed that Albanians wanted to inflate their numbers by including people who had emigrated years ago.

This endemic ethnic separation was enshrined in the Ohrid Agreement, the 2001 peace agreement signed between the country’s government and Albanian representatives. The NLA was disbanded and its leaders brought into mainstream politics, sidelining more-established DPA leaders, as the US had done with the Rambouillet accords in Kosovo. NLA leader Ali Ahmeti, a founder member of the KLA, became leader of the DUI party.

Sponsoring the KLA and NLA provided the US with a means of continuing to pressure the new regime in Serbia, following the ousting of President Slobodan Milosevic. Time magazine warned, “By essentially elevating the status of the NLA to that of a legitimate protagonist in Macedonia’s future, NATO and the European Union may have already effectively conceded the carving up of Macedonia on ethnic lines.”

Macedonia continues to be closely affected by events in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 supported by the US. More than half of the world’s countries still refuse to recognise it, including China and Russia, and tensions remain in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, which operates as a de facto separate state. Earlier this year saw nearly 100 percent of voters in an advisory referendum reject control by the Republic of Kosovo. Widespread recognition of Kosovan independence and partition in northern Kosovo could lead to a break-up of Macedonia.

Implicit in the Ohrid agreement was the carrot of NATO and EU membership. But the process of EU accession has been vetoed by Greece, which objects to use of the name Macedonia. Skopje’s international airport is named after Alexander the Great and VMRO-DPMNE prime minister Nikola Gruevski has commissioned a new nationalist project, at the centre of which is a huge statue of the warrior in Skopje’s central square.

The EU, acknowledging Greek concerns, continues to refer to Macedonia as the “former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, a name agreed as a “provisional reference” by the United Nations in 1993. Resolution of the naming conflict is a major precondition raised by the EU for membership of the bloc.

Greece has also vetoed Macedonia’s entry into NATO, although the US recognised the name “Republic of Macedonia” several years ago and has said that Macedonia “has fulfilled key criteria required of NATO members and has contributed to regional and global security.”






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SREBRENICA
Come sono andate veramente le cose

Prefazione italiana del Prof. Aldo Bernardini, ordinario di diritto internazionale presso l’università di Teramo

Formato 184x268 rilegato, pagg. 200 prezzo € 19,80 
Zambon editore - ISBN 978 88 87826 75 3

Le strazianti immagini che testimoniano il massacro di 4000 serbi. Le testimonianze dei sopravvissuti. La polemica sul numero dei miliziani musulmani uccisi. Le menzogne del Tribunale Speciale dell’Aia. Il ruolo degli USA, padrini e finanziatori di detto Tribunale.

Con oltre 200 foto e documenti.


Dalla quarta di copertina:

Srebrenica è una piccola città situata nella ex Repubblica jugoslava e dello Stato attuale Bosnia-Erzegovina artificialmente creato dalla NATO. Era un’enclave in territorio serbo, abitata fino a metà degli anni ’90 in maggioranza da musulmani.
Srebrenica era una “zona protetta”, (apparentemente) demilitarizzata, e occupata militarmente dalla NATO.
Ma Srebrenica è anche una orribile metafora sanguinaria e truculenta, in cui non solo echeggiano razzismo, fascismo, genocidio, sciovinismo, pannazionalismo, pulizia etnica e stupro di massa – in breve: tutte le etichette mendaci che negli due decenni si sono rivelate di provata efficacia per ingannare l’opinione pubblica.
La versione ufficiale di “Srebrenica” è una menzogna propagandistica che non diventa più vera se la si ripete una infinità di volte senza poterla provare. In questo libro si dimostra, con un’abbondante documentazione iconografica, che il massacro c’è veramente stato, ma fu un massacro a danno dei serbi.

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Introduzione


1. Srebrenica, la Auschwitz degli anni ’90. L’Aja, la Norimberga attuale. Equiparazioni oggi correnti, sono fra i mantra dell’ideologia imperiale, i derivati del mostruoso sistema di “giustizia penale internazionale” che alquanto spensieratamente si pretende discenda dal Tribunale di Norimberga, al quale fu assegnato di giudicare i criminali del nazifascismo tedesco. Sulla base dell’accordo internazionale di Londra dell’8 agosto 1945 fra le quattro grandi Potenze (Unione Sovietica, USA, Gran Bretagna, Francia) che occuparono la Germania debellata nel secondo conflitto mondiale.

Srebrenica. Quale Srebrenica? La conclamata strage di (si dichiara) 8000 musulmani ad opera dei Serbi di Bosnia nel 1995 – la strage detta ma che secondo molti forse non ci fu, almeno nei termini della presentazione usuale -, o quella non detta, ma che ci fu, dei serbi perseguitati, trucidati, espulsi, soprattutto ma non solo nel 1995 intorno a Srebrenica e altrove, inclusa la Kraijna di Croazia? Su tutto ciò, Autori varii Il dossier nascosto del “genocidio” di Srebrenica, La Città del sole, Napoli 2007.

È davvero esistito il massacro (quello “ufficiale”) di Srebrenica?

Oramai bisogna dubitare di tutto. Tante volte siamo stati ingannati:

Vi ricordate il famoso massacro di Timisoara attribuito a Ceaucescu ed alla sua crudele “Securitate”? Quanti di noi sanno oggi che i cadaveri fotografati erano quelli di persone decedute per cause naturali e “straziati” non dalle torture, ma dall’obduzione condotta dal personale medico dell’ospedale municipale?

Vi ricordate il “massacro di civili albanesi” consumato dall’esercito jugoslavo (serbo-montenegrino) in Kosovo? Quanti fra noi hanno saputo –a distanza di tempo- che i civili non erano tali, ma combattenti dell’UÇK caduti nel corso di uno scontro armato, e che il capo degli osservatori internazionali, cioè l’agente della CIA William Walker, ha ordinato di spogliarli delle divise e di rivestirli in abiti civili creando così l’occasione lungamente attesa per dichiarare guerra alla Jugoslavia? La verità è nota a chi si è dato la pena di leggere il rapporto della dottoressa finlandese che affermava aver trovato sulle dita di tutti i cadaveri (tranne in uno) tracce di polvere da sparo. Inutile dire che la “grande stampa indipendente” non ha ritenuto opportuno darne notizia.

E i campi di concentramento dei musulmani rinchiusi dai serbi dietro al filo spinato? La foto di un giovane denutrito e con le costole sporgenti guardava, da dietro al filo spinato, decine di milioni di lettori indignati di quanto stava apparentemente succedendo. In realtà il giovane non era “detenuto” ma era stato semplicemente ricoverato, assieme a decine di altri profughi di diverse etnie, in un campo di accoglienza organizzato dai Serbi. E il filo spinato? Molto semplice: il fotografo mercenario aveva attirato alcuni profughi del campo di raccolta all’interno del confine di una proprietà privata e li aveva poi fotografati posizionando l’obbiettivo al di là del recinto che delimitava la proprietà privata.

E l’11 settembre? Quale babbeo crede ancora in buona fede che sia stata Al Qaeda, almeno da sola, ad abbattere le torri a mezzo di due improbabili aerei? Sono ormai centinaia le domande senza risposta e decine le tracce che ad abbattere i grattacieli siano state delle cariche di esplosivo plastico piazzate scientemente nelle settimane precedenti in modo da provocare il crollo dei medesimi grattacieli. Sono a disposizione oramai numerosissimi libri che demoliscono la tesi ufficiale. Avete ancora dei dubbi? Ed allora cercate di spiegare come 2 aerei possano aver abbattuto 3 grattacieli!

Tralascio di parlare dell’Iraq e delle motivazioni che sono state date da Bush per la guerra di aggressione che ha portato la cifra delle vittime irachene a sfiorare il milione di unità, perché ormai anche il più sprovveduto fra noi ha capito di essere stato brutalmente ingannato. E da ultimo le fosse comuni di Tripoli e tutto il resto dell’infame aggressione alla Libia di Gheddafi?

Che pensare allora del massacro di Srebrenica?

Questo libro ci dimostra che un massacro c’è veramente stato, con una piccola differenza però rispetto alla tesi ufficiale: VITTIME DEL MASSACRO SONO STATI I SERBI. L’altro massacro, quello dei musulmani, presenta lati oscuri nonché l’indubbia utilità del tentativo di incastrare la componente serba e, attraverso una ricercata ricostruzione della catena di comando, ha avuto di mira il presidente jugoslavo Milosevic. Certo, anche questo va indagato. Ma la “giustizia penale internazionale” viene messa a nudo: l’altra Srebrenica, quella delle vittime serbe, risulta completamente ignorata.


2. Il sistema di “giustizia penale internazionale” con le attuali istanze giudiziarie, che si va costruendo per arbitraria volontà dei “forti” e colpevole acquiescenza ad ampio raggio sul piano mondiale, può solo nell’apparenza vantare la “nobile” (tale almeno nella grande sostanza) ascendenza di Norimberga. Ne è in realtà il totale rovesciamento, pur atteggiandosi a prosecuzione o reviviscenza: si tratta di “similNorimberga”.

Il Tribunale di Norimberga venne stabilito con l’accordo di Londra dell’ 8 agosto 1945 fra le quattro grandi potenze vincitrici del secondo conflitto mondiale (URSS, Stati Uniti, Gran Bretagna, Francia) per giudicare i crimini degli esponenti nazisti dopo la totale sconfitta della Germania. Dunque giustizia dei “vincitori”, e tale scopertamente: qui potrebbe ravvisarsi un primo tratto di aggancio con le attuali situazioni. Infatti, al di là di episodi tutto sommato marginali, le attuali istanze operano di fatto, e lo vedremo meglio, come espressioni di “giustizia”, se non dei “vincitori”, dei “forti” sul piano mondiale: ovviamente, in modo sotterraneo, implicito e certo non dichiarato, ma ben reale. D’altra parte pure, in ciò e se si va al fondo delle cose, con una fondamentale distorsione rispetto a Norimberga, il cui significato andrà chiarito.

Ci si riferisce, tralasciati il Tribunale per il Ruanda ed altre situazioni minori, al Tribunale ad hoc per la Jugoslavia, che è qui di primario interesse, e alla Corte penale internazionale, ambedue con sede all’Aja (e da distinguersi da altra istanza, che per i problemi qui trattati non ci riguarda, la Corte di giustizia internazionale, pure all’Aja, che giudica sui rapporti fra Stati in base ad accettazione della sua giurisdizione): istituiti, rispettivamente, con la ris. 827 del Consiglio di Sicurezza in data 25 maggio 1993 (per il Tribunale ad hoc)  e con la Convenzione di Roma del 17 luglio 1998 (per la Corte penale internazionale). Quale l’aggancio con il passato?

Campo di azione per Norimberga: le categorie di crimini catalogate, nell’accordo istitutivo, come crimini contro la pace (non solo l’aggressione, ma tutte le macchinazioni poste in essere con l’esito della guerra), crimini contro l’umanità (fattispecie delittuose di oggettiva gravità e con dimensioni di massa, a partire dal genocidio), crimini di guerra (quelli tradizionali previsti dal diritto bellico). Di qui un’evoluzione che portò all’ampliamento della tradizionale categoria dei “crimini individuali di diritto internazionale”: esempio classico, fin dal passato, la pirateria. Legittimato da un’antica norma internazionale, qualunque Stato può esercitare la propria giurisdizione penale sul pirata anche fuori dagli usuali criteri legati alla sua sovranità (cittadinanza dell’autore o della vittima del crimine; commissione del crimine sul proprio territorio) e pertanto in base a un criterio di universalità di giurisdizione penale. Ebbene, per i crimini delle categorie di Norimberga si è tentato da taluni Stati occidentali di applicare in proprio tale criterio, con in più un elemento assai pesante, in superficiale apparenza desunto da Norimberga: nel caso di fatti compiuti in veste ufficiale da individui-organi di uno Stato, sui quali l’unica giurisdizione penale è stata tradizionalmente solo quella del proprio Stato, quei fatti, in forza di asserite nuove norme internazionali, si è cominciato a considerarli come non attribuibili solo allo Stato dell’individuo-organo, ma anche direttamente a questo individuo (rispetto a ciò erano esistite in precedenza solo marginali eccezioni nel diritto bellico). Quindi qualunque Stato, che avesse adottato per quei crimini il criterio di universalità, avrebbe potuto e potrebbe legittimamente, secondo tale ben dubbia concezione, giudicare un individuo-organo di un altro Stato, deprivato dell’immunità prima risultante, per diritto internazionale, dall’esclusiva attribuzione del fatto criminoso al proprio Stato (unico titolare questo, com’è ovvio, di giurisdizione penale sull’individuo-organo proprio). Si ricordi il caso Pinochet. Ma abbiamo assistito a un fenomeno apparentemente sorprendente: quando è sorto il pericolo di colpire, invece che esponenti considerati ostili del c.d. Terzo Mondo, determinati personaggi “amici” o comunque appartenenti al campo dei “forti”, ad esempio l’israeliano Sharon da parte del Belgio, gli Stati, così “generosi” nell’adottare il criterio dell’universalità ai fini, come veniva strombettato, di una giustizia... universale, hanno, con rapida “opportunità”, fatto marcia indietro e dunque modificato la pertinente normativa per tenere in salvo siffatti personaggi.

Dopo questa zoppicante “evoluzione”, il passaggio all’attuale “giustizia penale internazionale” con le istanze giudiziarie non statali come quelle sopra nominate.

Lasciamo per ora il profilo sostanziale della giustizia dei “vincitori” o dei “forti”. Gli elementi in senso più specificamente giuridico che paiono far affondare in Norimberga le radici dell’attuale “giustizia penale internazionale” li possiamo così sintetizzare. Si tratta di giustizia penale, quindi su individui (come ogni giustizia penale) ma stabilita da norme internazionali, sottratta o sottraibile ai sistemi giudiziari degli Stati, e quindi alla sovranità statale, con la quale la giustizia penale sarebbe di per sé connaturata, per venire affidata a “organi”giudicanti non statali. Naturalmente, per categorie di fatti criminosi definite da norme internazionali: oggi, a partire da quelle, poco fa ricordate, di Norimberga, ma con una sottrazione di peso, che offrirà spazio a considerazioni di forte rilievo. Risalirebbe ancora a Norimberga, ma in quanto sancita espressamente dalle pertinenti norme internazionali istitutive, l’esclusione, davanti alle attuali istanze, dell’immunità degli individui-organi con l’accollo ad essi di responsabilità individuale anche per fatti compiuti in veste ufficiale.

Nonostante l’adozione di siffatti caratteri, l’attuale “giustizia penale internazionale” è però una contraffazione di Norimberga. Come detto, vi è un elemento di particolare visibilità che porterebbe ad accomunare: giustizia dei vincitori contro i vinti. Ma, a ben vedere, si deve oggi prendere atto della vistosa distorsione già evocata: dovrebbe parlarsi, a differenza di Norimberga, e lo si è anticipato, dei “forti”, solo potenziali o indiretti vincitori, ai danni di nemici prematuramente segnati come vinti, pur scattando l’operazione penale internazionale (anzitutto, l’incriminazione) a conflitto tuttora in corso. Ciò che, anzitutto, conferisce alle attuali operazioni di “giustizia penale internazionale” il marchio della strumentalità: al di là di una apparente formale equiparazione dei confliggenti, in realtà a sostanziale vantaggio di una parte del conflitto in atto, come copertura dell’attività di tale parte, e dei suoi sostenitori e mandanti sul piano mondiale, e strumento di (ricercata) delegittimazione e disgregazione della dirigenza dell’altra parte, quindi della stessa relativa compagine statale. È quanto meglio mostreremo più avanti.

Certamente il Tribunale di Norimberga e le sue decisioni posero problemi giuridici estremamente delicati (appunto, l’unilateralità, in quanto organo operante solo nei riguardi dei vinti; problematico rapporto con i principii generali di civiltà giuridica in campo penale, quale nullum crimen e nulla poena sine lege, e dunque retroattività dei criteri assunti come base delle condanne...). Ma la portata immane e catastrofica, di carattere per così dire sistemico sul piano mondiale, dell’azione complessiva della coalizione dell’Asse nazifascista (a fronte, è pur vero, di numerose azioni della coalizione contrapposta, o meglio di una parte di essa, di estrema gravità sul piano dello ius in bello, ma tutto sommato in quanto episodi non connessi in un disegno criminale totale: Dresda, Hiroshima e Nagasaki...), può illuminare sulle ragioni storiche profonde a sostanziale spiegazione della base giuridica di Norimberga: rispetto, per contrapposto, alle attuali esibizioni della “giustizia penale internazionale”, sinora sempre connotate da assoluta trascuranza, predisposta sul piano normativo, dei reali contesti e quindi della reale consistenza delle attività criminose, vere o asserite, prese in esame e delle connesse responsabilità globali.

Non vi è dubbio che la previsione, per Norimberga, dei crimini contro la pace ha costituito il “cappello” idoneo a circoscrivere la sfera d’azione del Tribunale: si tratta dei comportamenti che, nel contesto storico reale, non sarebbe stato possibile ascrivere altro che alle potenze dell’Asse, quindi per Norimberga alla Germania nazista: e ciò avrebbe avuto necessariamente riflesso sulle altre due categorie di crimini sotto il profilo soggettivo della sfera degli incriminabili. Il tutto però fondato su un dato inequivocabile: punto di partenza, i comportamenti e le attività aggressive, indubbiamente senza pari, dell’Asse. Il “taglio” della categoria per le odierne istanze dell’Aja porta invece per quanto in modo subdolo, si è accennato e vi torneremo, a gravi conseguenze specifiche.

Il processo di Norimberga può sembrare aver costituito elemento di rottura dello schema tradizionale del sistema internazionale nel settore in esame e di propulsione per gli sviluppi successivi. Sì e no, per verità. Un organo giudiziario stabilito sulla base di un accordo internazionale, senza la partecipazione dello Stato, i cui individui-organi vengono sottoposti al potere di quel Tribunale, appare prima facie, secondo il discorso delineato, scardinare la struttura basilare del sistema giuridico internazionale: con radicale obliterazione della sovranità statale, eliminazione delle immunità internazionali degli individui-organi, sovraimposizione di un apparato giurisdizionale di immediata origine internazionale. È in prima linea su questa rappresentazione, lo si è ribadito, che viene giocata una pretesa ascendenza di Norimberga rispetto all’attuale “giustizia penale internazionale”.

La profonda realtà giuridica, e non solo giuridica, della situazione delineata rivela tutt’altra configurazione. Pur previsto da un accordo internazionale, necessario come disciplina dei rapporti fra le quattro grandi potenze occupanti, il Tribunale di Norimberga ha operato in realtà come organo interno del sistema giuridico della Germania occupata, nella quale l’apparato statale era crollato e il potere sovrano era congiuntamente esercitato dalle quattro potenze. Quindi, nessuna sostituzione di organi statali tedeschi o sovraimposizione ad essi, ormai inesistenti, e pieno potere, invece, di quell’organo giudiziario in realtà interno di esercitare giurisdizione penale anche sugli individui-organi dell’estinto Reich nelle attività compiute pure in veste ufficiale. Si trattò infatti, in quella fase storica, di null’altro che della giurisdizione interna propria su quegli individui. Una situazione analoga, come giudice interno, fu quella del Tribunale militare di Tokio per il Giappone occupato nel 1945, per il quale non fu necessario neppure un accordo internazionale, l’occupazione essendo solo quella degli Stati Uniti.

Senza dubbio restano riscontrabili alcune anomalie sostanziali. Furono introdotte figure criminose prima inesistenti, come i crimini contro la pace o anche quelli contro l’umanità; lo stigma di “giustizia dei vincitori” resta visibile, in quanto analoga “giustizia” non venne esercitata, negli ordinamenti degli Stati vincitori, verso i loro cittadini autori di crimini eventualmente rientranti nelle categorie di Norimberga. Qui fu decisiva la previsione della categoria dei crimini contro la pace. Una previsione che senza dubbio dette un fondamento anche politico-morale alla scelta di perseguire gli esponenti dell’Asse (e solo essi). Si perseguirono innanzi tutto le politiche, macchinazioni, operazioni che sfociarono nelle aggressioni scatenate dal Terzo Reich. Lo si è rilevato: ma le istanze attuali ignorano le aggressioni e le politiche belliciste e gli attori di esse.


3. Il problema se fosse possibile istituire un tribunale del tipo di quello di Norimberga nel quadro del sistema delle Nazioni Unite se lo pose uno dei massimi giuristi del ‘900, Hans Kelsen, e la risposta fu negativa. Kelsen, in forza della concezione generale da lui seguita, non si interrogò sulla natura internazionale o meno dell’organo giurisdizionale penale istituito in Germania nel 1945. Si chiese soltanto se un simile organo potesse venir stabilito in forza di una decisione in sede Nazioni Unite (il pensiero va all’istituzione del Tribunale ad hoc per la ex-Jugoslavia). E lo negò. Così argomentando: la Carta NU non contempla responsabilità (internazionale) di individui, in specie individui-organi, per violazioni di norme e principii internazionali (come il divieto di uso della forza), ma solo degli Stati. Situazione superabile solo, secondo Kelsen, con una modifica della Carta a termini statutari (aggiungo: con probabili problemi costituzionali per gli Stati membri).

Nel 1993, nel corso dei conflitti intrajugoslavi innescati anche per (senz’altro decisiva) responsabilità dei paesi occidentali, venne istituito - lo si è anticipato - un Tribunale penale internazionale ad hoc, quello denominato per la ex-Jugoslavia (già allora detta ex, pur se prematuramente): con decisione del C.d.s. delle NU (la ris. 827 del 25 maggio 1993, preceduta da una preparatoria ris. 808 del 22 febbraio 1993). Un organo giudiziario destinato ad esercitare giurisdizione penale su individui, in specie individui-organi,essenzialmente di uno Stato e comunque di entità di tipo statale (la Jugoslavia socialista federale, poi quella residua, e le Repubbliche secessioniste), dotati di propri poteri sovrani o assimilabili, ma senza loro partecipazione, per imposizione esterna da parte di un “organo internazionale” come il C.d.s.: da ritenersi fondamentalmente e insanabilmente incompetente all’uopo.

Siamo in presenza di una giurisdizione penale sganciata da una situazione di sovranità: le NU, di cui il C.d.s. e il Tribunale per la ex-Jugoslavia sono organi, non sono ente sovrano (non sono una federazione). E non hanno potere su individui, i destinatari o soggetti passivi della giurisdizione penale. Anche se negli ultimi tempi il C.d.s. si va prodigando in misure e sanzioni relative ad individui. Sia chiaro: non può legittimamente farlo neanche imponendo agli Stati i relativi obblighi (che è poi l’unica pratica possibilità, le NU non essendo dotate di strumenti di esecuzione loro propri). Vi è comunque la sovraimposizione dell’organo (Tribunale ad hoc) sulla sovranità di uno Stato e/o di entità di tipo statale in essere nello spazio della (ex) Jugoslavia socialista: con la sottrazione di “incriminati” alla giurisdizione penale di queste e con la sottoposizione di loro individui-organi a quel Tribunale. Dunque, anche con la cancellazione dell’eventuale immunità internazionale. Perché quel Tribunale non si innesta, e non lo ha potuto, come invece era accaduto con il Tribunale di Norimberga per la Germania, in un sistema giuridico interno, e cioè quello o quelli delle entità ex-jugoslave (senz’altro di quella, la principale, che non aveva accettato in alcun modo il Tribunale ad hoc: la Jugoslavia federale residua –Serbia e Montenegro). L’abnormità sta dunque nel fatto che si è operato simulando, per così dire, una situazione di occupazione territoriale, che invece non vi è stata. Il Tribunale ad hoc ha quindi agito, ed agisce, non solo come copertura politica e di immagine delle operazioni politiche e militari che hanno portato alla distruzione della Jugoslavia socialista, ma addirittura ha collaborato a tale distruzione con la mirata disintegrazione di compagini statali attraverso le incriminazioni individuali anzitutto dei vertici.

La risoluzione istitutiva è illegittima perché stabilisce un organo giudiziario (su individui, per di più), quando il C.d.s. non è dotato di un tale potere giudiziario. Se in quest’ottica si ponesse l’accento sul carattere di organo sussidiario da ascriversi al Tribunale ad hoc, secondo l’art. 29 della Carta, un siffatto potere giudiziario dovrebbe rinvenirsi nel C.d.s. istitutore, e appunto tale potere su individui nel C.d.s. non esiste. Sotto altro punto di vista, istituire un organo giurisdizionale presuppone un potere normativo generale, diciamo di tipo legislativo, che il C.d.s. non possiede, essendo esso fornito solo, per così dire, di un potere di ordinanza rispetto a situazioni di emergenza nei rapporti internazionali fra Stati. Quel potere generale non rientra certo nell’ambito del potere di adottare misure senza uso della forza per situazioni concrete, espresso dall’art. 41 Carta (nel quale, precisiamo per chiarire, viene per lo più ricercata la base giuridica dell’operazione compiuta dal C.d.s. con l’istituzione del Tribunale ad hoc). Oltretutto, questa norma indica, certo in modo non tassativo ma senz’altro significativo, tipi di misure senza uso della forza: si tratta di misure consistenti in rotture o interruzioni di rapporti fra Stati, e comunque sempre di misure da prendersi dagli Stati, e certo l’istituzione di un tribunale penale operata dal C.d.s. non presenta siffatte caratteristiche. E non pare compatibile con l’intrinseco carattere contingente delle misure ex art. 41 Carta.


4. Richiamato che la vantata ascendenza di Norimberga rispetto al Tribunale ad hoc non è sussistente se non per tratti minori ed estrinseci, va comunque denunciato l’elemento più grave di deviazione dalla pur invocata tradizione: l’eliminazione, dal novero delle categorie di crimini previste dallo Statuto del Tribunale ad hoc, di quella dei crimini contro la pace, includente l’aggressione.

La mancata previsione di questa categoria avrebbe potuto favorire senza dubbio, in linea astratta, l’equiparazione formale delle parti in conflitto – e addirittura dei sostenitori esterni – con riguardo alle categorie di crimini previste, quelli di guerra e contro l’umanità. Tale esclusione (dei crimini contro la pace) è avvenuta per evitare il “rischio” di coinvolgere in prima linea gli esponenti delle potenze che hanno operato per favorire la disgregazione della Jugoslavia. Si è così raggiunta l’eliminazione, dal campo di competenza assegnato (si ripete, comunque in un contesto arbitrario) al Tribunale ad hoc, dei comportamenti degli Stati, e dei loro individui-organi, che hanno (quantomeno) contribuito allo sfascio della Jugoslavia socialista. Almeno astrattamente, i comportamenti di contrasto all’autodifesa dello Stato esistente, culminati nei riconoscimenti prematuri delle Repubbliche secessioniste, vi sarebbero rientrati, in quanto azioni concertate e mirate contro la sovranità della Federazione jugoslava socialista.

Si è in tal modo evitata la possibilità, sia pur –visto il contesto- solo teorica, che venisse sotto i riflettori tutto il retroscena della vicenda jugoslava: ne è dunque derivata la concentrazione esclusiva sulle azioni di combattimento, sui conflitti armati e le loro durezze, gli eventuali crimini connessi, il tutto sradicato in tale logica dal terreno internazionale (se non fittiziamente raffigurato, come stiamo per vedere), dalle operazioni e macchinazioni e rappresentazioni ideologiche che hanno condizionato e, per così dire e in ampia misura, fornito una conformazione rappresentativa a quei conflitti armati.

Mi spiego e svolgo. È stato fondamentalmente distorto, nell’applicazione alla situazione jugoslava, il principio di autodeterminazione dei popoli in quanto principio normativo internazionale vigente: questo infatti non tutela qualunque parte di popolazione di uno Stato che intenda staccarsi, ma solo quelle parti, territorialmente compatte, che soffrono di una discriminazione fondamentale, di tipo coloniale o assimilabile, e la tutela si concreta essenzialmente nell’attenuazione, per i terzi Stati, dell’obbligo di non ingerenza nei fatti interni e quindi nel poter legittimamente fornire appoggio al movimento di autonomia o indipendenza. Fuori di quel presupposto si ha un’insurrezione, di fronte alla quale i terzi Stati non possono lecitamente intervenire. La situazione delle Repubbliche jugoslave secessioniste era con evidenza questa. La macchinazione degli Stati occidentali, in un momento storico in cui non hanno incontrato sul piano mondiale contesti ad ampio raggio di opposizione, si è incentrata sull’imposizione (ideologica) di una rappresentazione in termini di autodeterminazione a favore delle spinte e lotte secessionistiche: così da raffigurare come aggressione il comportamento della Federazione che legittimamente le contrastava.

D’altro canto, va considerato che la configurazione giuridica che si è presentata vale a fronte di Stati costituiti (come era la Federazione socialista jugoslava). Ma in un processo fattuale di graduale dissolvimento di questa e di formazione di nuove entità, non ancora Stati costituiti, centrate sulle Repubbliche federate secessioniste, non può negarsi, a favore di parti di popolazione territorialmente compatte sino ad allora integrate in una data realtà amministrativa (una Repubblica federata secessionista), un principio di autodeterminazione in senso autonomo rispetto a quello sinora illustrato: e cioè come autocostituzione di una subregione in entità indipendente o come sua permanenza nella vecchia compagine dello Stato costituito. L’imposizione da parte degli Stati occidentali di un principio (che nel diritto vigente è limitato a determinati ambiti geografici sulla scena mondiale e non è generalmente applicabile) uti possidetis iuris (come imposizione della permanenza delle frontiere, in sé meramente amministrative nel quadro della precedente Federazione, delle Repubbliche federate secessioniste) è stata contraria all’autodeterminazione-autocostituzione di subregioni che non volevano essere coinvolte nella secessione della Repubblica federata in cui sino a quel momento erano state amministrativamente conglobate. Si pensa in particolare alla Kraijna e alla Slavonia orientale di etnia serba nel quadro della Croazia federata e alla Repubblica serba di Bosnia nel quadro della Bosnia-Erzegovina federata. L’intervento di Stati terzi per (aiutare a) reprimere quei movimenti di autodeterminazione (nel senso particolare da ultimo indicato) appare illecito e, in quanto intervento armato, criminale. Alle persone più attente non sarà sfuggita la flagrante contraddizione fra l’imperativa pretesa del campo imperialista di voler difendere il diritto dei popoli a vivere in regioni omogeneamente occupate dalla stessa etnia, liberandole dal “giogo jugoslavo” da un lato, mentre dall’altro, nei casi suindicati, si volle imporre ai serbi, con la violenza delle armi, la rinuncia a quello stesso diritto.

Conseguenza di questa duplice mistificazione ideologica: i conflitti secessionisti si sono fatti apparire come di autodeterminazione e quindi “internazionalizzati” e così resi (artificialmente e illegittimamente) suscettibili di sostegno esterno: il legittimo contrasto dello Stato federale è divenuto guerra di aggressione contro l’autodeterminazione. La lotta delle subregioni antisecessioniste si è fatta passare per ribellione contro Stati costituiti e quindi legittimamente reprimibile, addirittura pure con sostegno esterno (anche contro il vero o supposto, per altro in sé legittimo, sostegno dello Stato federale in funzione antisecessionista). Questa problematica, e le mistificazioni che ne sono state espressione, sono rimaste sullo sfondo, proprio perché escluse dall’ambito di competenza assegnato al Tribunale ad hoc. Ma certamente hanno esercitato in modo sotterraneo un influsso nefasto sulle vicende processuali e le scelte dei “giudici”: la criminalizzazione, e in esito la condanna, sono state pronte e senza esitazioni a danno del campo delle forze antisecessioniste, nelle due ipotesi che si sono delineate; ben più rarefatte e meno numerose nel caso opposto. Si tratta del discrimine di fatto che si è tracciato implicitamente tra i Serbi, da un lato, i Croati e i Musulmani, da un altro, e ancor più coloro che, dall’esterno, hanno affiancato questi ultimi. Così da rendere inevitabilmente “orientato” il Tribunale ad hoc. Inevitabile (!) l’ “archiviazione” delle denunce contro la NATO per i bombardamenti sulla Jugoslavia (2 giugno 2000). La condanna di un esponente croato, il gen. Gotovina, appare nel contesto complessivo operazione di copertura.

Non mi trattengo su questi aspetti, le relative statistiche e le loro implicazioni, e cioè sulle modalità dello svolgimento dei processi, prima ancora sulle incriminazioni (al massimo livello, solo il presidente Milosevic, serbo e jugoslavo; intoccati il musulmano-bosniaco Izebetgovic e il croato Tudjman), infine sulle sentenze.

Il presidente Milosevic ha avuto l’atto di incriminazione poco dopo l’inizio dei bombardamenti, cioè l’aggressione, della NATO contro la Jugoslavia (residua) nel marzo 1999. Nella logica assunta dal Tribunale ad hoc, che appunto vede escluso dal suo campo di azione il crimine più grave, e comunque scatenante, e cioè l’aggressione o le macchinazioni che hanno favorito le guerre civili, quell’incriminazione (sia pure anche per asseriti fatti pregressi) colpisce come criminale l’individuo-organo di vertice e vale dunque quale copertura dell’aggressione NATO: reazione, questa, come viene fatta apparire ed in tale logica, alle attività criminose attribuite – in base ad incredibili teoremi giuridici - allo Stato jugoslavo e al suo presidente da ultimo per il Kosovo (in realtà, legittimo contrasto dello Stato jugoslavo costituito nei confronti di un’insurrezione locale, come in precedenza contro le secessioni).

Va da sé che si è voluto anche inferire un colpo alla compagine statale jugoslava. Mi astengo dal richiamare la vicenda scandalosa del vero e proprio rapimento e sequestro di Milosevic a Belgrado nel 2001 per tradurlo nel carcere di Scheveningen e quelle dell’annoso processo, in cui Milosevic ha opposto un comportamento eroico e ha lasciato la vita (per morte naturale, come affermano i suoi aguzzini, per assenza di cure adeguate, come affermano alcuni, o per avvelenamento, come pensano altri).

 Citiamo a questo punto per incidens le incriminazioni, da parte questa volta della Corte penale internazionale dell’Aja, a carico del presidente sudanese al-Bashir e del leader libico Gheddafi, assassinato poi dalla NATO e complici: quest’ultimo, come Milosevic, appena scatenata l’aggressione aerea. Pur se questa Corte presenta una base di legittimità formale di maggior consistenza, la Convenzione di Roma del 1998, benché di fronte a probabili problemi di costituzionalità per gli Stati parti o almeno per diversi fra essi, risulta se non altro una situazione aberrante, che consente un’assimilazione al Tribunale ad hoc: l’art. 13 b, per il quale il C.d.s. può deferire alla Corte anche individui-organi di Stati non parti dello Statuto della Corte medesima (come nei due casi da ultimo citati). Si configura, con atto estraneo alla Carta NU, un potere del C.d.s. non previsto: pur se evidentemente tale esito può apparire in ultima analisi un’escrescenza del potere arrogatosi dal C.d.s. stesso con l’istituzione di tribunali penali internazionali. Se l’attribuzione di potere giurisdizionale penale al di fuori di una struttura sovrana è fenomeno singolare, per non dire abnorme, cui può – entro molte cautele - sopperire una base convenzionale (quasi ad istituzione di un organo comune degli Stati parti), la pretesa soggezione ad una tale Corte, su indicazione del C.d.s., di Stati non parti dello Statuto della Corte medesima e di loro individui-organi, con lo scalzamento delle relative immunità internazionali, ripropone lo schema di una simulata occupazione, appunto realmente non sussistente, con l’attribuzione di potere giurisdizionale penale a organo – almeno nei confronti di Stati non parti - non sovrano (neppure nel senso di una sorta di delega all’organo “internazionale” stabilita dalla convenzione istitutiva).

Va fatto presente che lo Statuto della Corte, almeno nella fase attuale, esclude anch’esso i crimini contro la pace, a partire dall’aggressione, dal proprio campo di applicazione. Il malo esempio del Tribunale ad hoc riproduce così a livello più generale i suoi effetti maligni ai danni dell’indipendenza e sovranità degli Stati.

Si noti, a completamento delle anomalie, che per giurisprudenza internazionale attuale (della Corte internazionale dell’Aja) gli organi statali godono pur sempre delle immunità internazionali, almeno finché in funzione. Principio patentemente violato dalle incriminazioni lanciate, a conflitto iniziato, dal Tribunale ad hoc e dalla Corte penale internazionale.

Ad un sistema del genere, a una siffatta “giustizia penale internazionale”, troviamo affidato il caso Srebrenica. Quello “ufficiale”. Dell’altro, documentato in questo volume, non vi è traccia.

Di fronte all’inerzia delle istanze di “giustizia penale internazionale”, che abbiamo preso in considerazione, riguardo a denunce pur lanciate contro esponenti occidentali per aggressioni e crimini di guerra in Jugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestina, oggi Libia, non si riesce ad evitare una valutazione di assoluta parzialità, di mirata selettività, di strumentalità delle operazioni giudiziarie poste in essere da quelle istanze. Di fronte alle quali ci si può dunque domandare: al suono di quale piffero queste istanze danzano?

Norimberga fu certo unilaterale, ma su base morale, politica e giuridica inoppugnabile. Si procedé a partire da incontrovertibili crimini di aggressione e contro la pace. Tutto ciò non può dirsi per le incriminazioni e i processi del Tribunale ad hoc per la ex-Jugoslavia e della Corte penale internazionale. Ne sono prova irrefutabile le “archiviazioni” di denunce contro Blair, Sharon, Clinton e loro sodali e, per il Tribunale ad hoc, contro la NATO.

A mani ben poco affidabili risulta assegnata la “questione Srebrenica”. La documentazione presentata in questo crudo e coraggioso volume dovrebbe portare a rivedere molte opinioni e meglio mistificazioni circolanti e fatte circolare nell’opinione pubblica mondiale, per lo meno in quella occidentale. Ma non sappiamo se questo auspicio, questa speranza di vera giustizia potrà trovare accoglienza contro il pensiero unico dominante.


Aldo Bernardini

Roma, 25 gennaio 2012



(english / italiano.
Sullo stesso tema si veda anche il nostro precedente post:


Terroristi anti-siriani addestrati dalla NATO in Kosovo

1) Siria. I miliziani anti-Assad addestrati in basi nel Kosovo (Sergio Cararo)
2) Moscow against training Syrian militants in Kosovo


A lire aussi: 
Kosovo : l’opposition syrienne à l’école de l’UÇK ?


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Siria. I miliziani anti-Assad addestrati in basi nel Kosovo 

di Sergio Cararo

I ribelli addestrati in Kosovo? Mosca chiede alla Nato di “provvedere”. L'ombra di Al Qaida sulla Siria si fa più forte. Gli avversari di Assad continuano dividersi. Saltata la riunione al Cairo insieme alla Lega Araba. L’Unione Europea aumenta le sanzioni contro la Siria, uno scenario iracheno.

Mosca ha espresso ieri preoccupazione per le notizie secondo cui i ribelli siriani si addestrerebbero in Kosovo. Il ministero degli esteri russo, citato dalla Tanjug, ha fatto riferimento a notizie di stampa su “contatti fra esponenti dell'opposizione siriana e le autorità della cosidetta Repubblica del Kosovo”. Contatti che includerebbero non solo “scambi di esperienze nell'organizzazione di movimenti separatisti diretti a rovesciare governi in carica, ma anche l'addestramento di ribelli siriani in Kosovo”. Le notizie riferite dal ministero degli esteri di Mosca, paralano di centri di addestramento creati in ex basi dell'Esercito di liberazione del Kosovo (Uck). “Trasformare il Kosovo in una base internazionale per l'addestramento di ribelli di differenti formazioni armate potrebbe rivelarsi un grosso fattore destabilizzante con effetti ben al di là dei Balcani”, ha concluso il ministero russo che ha chiesto per questo alla Forza internazionale della Nato in Kosovo (la Kfor di cui fanno parte anche militari italiani) di adottare “tutte le misure necessarie per prevenire la messa in atto di tali piani”. Accuse fantasiose? Non si direbbe. L’Associated Press rivela che il 26 aprile scorso, al ritorno dagli Stati Uniti, una delegazione di membri dell’opposizione siriana ha fatto tappa a Pristina per tenere colloqui su come impiegare in Siria le conoscenze dell’ Esercito di Liberazione del Kosovo. “Siamo venuti qui per imparare. Il Kosovo ha già compiuto questo cammino e possiede un’esperienza che potrebbe esserci molto utile,” afferma il capo della delegazione siriana Ammar Abdulhamid, “attivista dei diritti” umani nato in Siria. “Soprattutto vorremmo sapere in che modo gruppi armati sparsi si sono infine organizzati nell’UCK.” I leader dell’opposizione siriana hanno promesso di riconoscere subito il Kosovo una volta preso il potere nel paese.

Già nel 2004, il generale statunitense Lewis Mackenzie scriveva sul National Post “Gli albanesi-kosovari ci hanno suonato come uno Stradivari. Noi abbiamo finanziato e indirettamente sostenuto la loro violenta campagna per un Kosovo etnicamente puro e indipendente. Non li abbiamo mai rimproverati per essere stati i perpetratori della violenza nei primi anni ’90 e continuiamo a dipingerli oggi come le vittime designate, a dispetto delle prove del contrario. Quando essi raggiungeranno l’indipendenza con l’aiuto dei proventi delle nostre tasse, combinati con quelli di Bin Laden e di Al-Qaeda, consideriamo allora il messaggio di incoraggiamento che verrà mandato ad altri movimenti d’indipendenza sostenuti dal terrorismo in giro per il mondo”.

E’ stata intanto rinviata a data da destinarsi la riunione delle opposizioni siriane organizzata dalla Lega Araba al Cairo per il 16 e 17 maggio. Lo rende noto un comunicato della stessa Lega Araba, spiegando che la richiesta di rinvio è venuta dal Consiglio Nazionale Siriano e dalla Commissione di Coordinamento Nazionale delle forze per il cambiamento democratico. Giovedì prossimo al Cairo era prevista una riunione di tutte le opposizioni sirianeche però restano divise fra loro. Già ieri, la Commissione per il Coordinamento Nazionale (Ccn), che si dice rappresentante dell’opposizione all’interno del paese, aveva annunciato il boicottaggio della riunione del Cairo, sponsorizzata dalla Lega Araba su richiesta dell'inviato Onu Kofi Annan. I vertici del Consiglio nazionale siriano (Cns, ancora presenti a Roma, avevano detto che anche loro non sarebbero andati al Cairo, perchè “non invitati come Cns ma a titolo individuale”. Il Cns è la piattaforma che riunisce gli avversari di Assad all'estero e che conta tra le sue file i miliziani armati che agiscono all’interno del paese. Dietro le questioni formali si nascondono però nodi politici legati a rivalità interne e personali tra i vari dissidenti all'estero e in patria. Nei giorni scorsi, una commissione mista Ccn e Cns aveva tentato invano di dare vita a una piattaforma congiunta in vista della conferenza del Cairo.

L'Unione Europea ha varato nel frattempo il quindicesimo pacchetto di sanzioni contro la Siria. Da più parti piovono le accuse ai governi europei e statunitense di imporre sanzioni che alla fine colpiscono più il popolo che i vertici del potere siriano, ma l'Alto rappresentante della Ue, Catherine Ashton- così come fece l’allora segretario di stato Usa Madeleine Albright nel caso dell’Iraq, ha affermato il contrario: “Le sanzioni Ue colpiscono il regime siriano, non la popolazione civile. Finchè la repressione durerà, la Ue continuerà a mettere pressione sui responsabili”, ha detto. In Iraq, come noto, i fatti hanno dimostrato il contrario. Con la decisione odierna, salgono a 128 le persone e a 43 le imprese colpite da misure restrittive. I nomi delle nuove tre persone e delle due società colpite saranno pubblicati oggi sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale europea


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http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=2&id=331687

Interfax - May 14, 2012 

Moscow opposes plans to train Syrian militants in Kosovo


MOSCOW: The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned by the reports that Syrian militants will be trained in Kosovo, and has urged the international community to prevent that from happening.
"Lately there have been media reports about contacts between Syrian opposition representatives and the authorities of the so-called Republic of Kosovo. This is not just about 'exchange of experience' in organizing separatist movements aimed at toppling existing regimes, it is also about training Syrian militants in Kosovo," the ministry said in a statement issued on Monday.
They intend to use areas that are geographically similar to the Syrian landscape, the ministry said. It is likely that training centers will be opened at the former bases of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
"Such intentions raise concerns. They run counter to the efforts of United Nations-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan, backed by the entire international community. Moreover, turning Kosovo into an international site for training militants from various militant groups could become a serious destabilizing factor spreading beyond the Balkan region," the statement said. 
"We are calling on international organizations present in the province to take whatever steps necessary to foil such schemes," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

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http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120514/173451677.html

Russian Information Agency Novosti - May 14, 2012

Russia Warns Against Training Syrian Rebels in Kosovo

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday urged international bodies operating in Kosovo to prevent the region from turning into a training ground for Syrian rebels.
A delegation from the Syrian opposition visited Kosovo in April to allegedly make a deal on exchanging experience in guerilla warfare against ruling authorities.
So far, the fractured Syrian opposition has been unable to form a steady front against the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Russian ministry said in a statement that the talks covered not only the ways of organizing armed resistance against authorities but also the training of Syrian militants in Kosovo.
“There are plans to use the areas [in Kosovo] that resemble the terrain in Syria. The possibility of setting up training camps at the former bases of the Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA] is also being discussed,” the statement said.
“Transforming Kosovo into an international training ground for armed militants may become a serious destabilizing factor that could extend beyond the Balkans,” the document said. “We urge international bodies operating in Kosovo to take all necessary steps to prevent these plans.”
The ethnic Albanian KLA fought a separatist war against the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic in 1998-99. About 10,000 people died in the Kosovo conflict.
Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008.
Both Serbia and Russia have refused to recognize Kosovo’s independence.