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FOIBE
dalla propaganda fascista al revisionismo storico

Un opuscolo a cura di A. Martocchia

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Roma, ottobre 2003. Prezzo 3 euro

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SABATO 15 NOVEMBRE ALLE ORE 20:45
ed in replica
MERCOLEDI 19 NOVEMBRE ALLE ORE 13:00

su TeleAmbiente (canale 68 nella zona di Roma) e sulle emittenti
associate

sara' presentato l'opuscolo "FOIBE: dalla propaganda fascista al
revisionismo storico". In studio Miriam Pellegrini Ferri

Izetbegovic's friends

NOTA: in questa rassegna di amici di Izetbegovic compaiono ministri
pachistani, mujaheddin membri del GIA, torturatori del campo di
Celebici, e financo ministri antiserbi della DOS quali il signor
Ljiajic.
Ci scusiamo con Adriano Sofri per non aver potuto reperire materiale
recente sulla sua nota stima per il nazista Alija Izetbegovic.


1. Former Pakistani information minister: “We went to Bosnia ... and
supported their cause. Later we gave them arms for their jihad”.
Former Pakistani foreign Minister: "The Bosnian jihad was the greatest
fight in European history and Muslim leaders should follow the life of
Ali Izat Begovich".

2. Algeria, Egypt seek terror suspects' extradition from
Bosnia (AFP, 10/10/03)

3. SERBIA'S SOCIALISTS CALL FOR MINISTER LJIAJIC'S DISMISSAL OVER
IZETBEGOVIC OBITUARY

4. Yemeni imprisoned in Bosnia for al-Qaeda links returns
home (AFP, 5/11/03)

5. More on war crimes by Bosnian muslim secessionists


=== RELATED DOCUMENTS ===

JIHAD the Holy War - Lashva valley:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/jihad.htm

Video fragments showing Alija Izetbegovic's links with Mujahedin units:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/video_en.htm

NATO Chieftan Lord Roberston Hails Theocratic
Secessionist Izetbegovic As "Courageous Statesman"
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/co/Qbosnia-politics.RVBE_DOK.html

US State Department: Izetbegovic Instrumental In
Bosnia *Remaining* A Unified Multiethnic *Country*
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-
english&y=2003&m=October&x=20031020174940samohtj0.5099604&t=usinfo/wf-
latest.html

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http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/047.shtml

Celebici

By Carl Savich
Introduction: War Crimes in Bosnia
The Celebici Camp
Bosnian Muslim and Croat Detention Camps
The Celebici Trial
Conclusion: A Political Trial?

http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/047.shtml

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http://www.swans.com/library/art9/alekp028.html

It Was A Good Day To Die

by Aleksandra Priestfield
Swans - November 3, 2003

 ... A spokeswoman for the Hague arch-witch hunter Carla del Ponte has
made a statement to the effect that Mr. Izetbegovic was "under
investigation" for unspecified war crimes at the time of his death.
The investigation will, naturally, be "halted" now that the
investigatee is conveniently no longer with us...

http://www.swans.com/library/art9/alekp028.html

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Fairy Tales Can Come True....Del Ponte Was
Investigating Izetbegovic
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25171&style=headlines


=== 1 ===

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-10-2003_pg7_4
Daily Times (Pakistan)

‘Pakistan provided Bosnians with arms’

By Khurram Shahzad

ISLAMABAD: Muttihida Majlis-e-Amal Parliamentary Leader Qazi Hussain
Ahmed has demanded President Gen Pervez Musharaf fulfill within
Pakistan his call to the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) in
Malaysia for Muslim unity.

Mr Ahmed was talking to journalists after a seminar organised by the
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in memory of the late Bosnian leader Ali Izet
Begovich on Friday.
He said President Musharraf had posed himself as the leader of the
whole Muslim world at the OIC summit and urged for unity and working
relationships, but he was not implementing it in Pakistan.
He should play his role to unite Pakistani nation first and then talk
about anything else.
“Musharraf should unite the Pakistani nation despite his role in
destroying the unity of political parties and other public groups
within the country if he advocates the unity of the whole Muslim
world”, Mr Ahmed said.
Earlier addressing the seminar he paid tributes to the Bosnian
president and said he gave himself entirely to the liberation of his
country. He said Muslims in the world were fighting for peace and their
holy war was to remove differences according to the sayings of the
Quran instead of spreading them.
He disclosed that Pakistan fully supported the independence war of
Bosnia and helped Izat Begovich. “He visited Pakistan and the
government gave him everything he demanded for jihad.
When he was leaving Pakistan he was worried and desirous of more
support. Dr Abdul Qadir Khan and myself assured him that Pakistan would
help them fight till the last. Later they liberated their country with
Pakistan’s support,” he said.
Earlier, former information minister Syed Mushahid Hussain also said
their government gave arms to Bosnian fighters in 1993 to fight against
Yugoslavia.
“We went to Bosnia with our Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and supported
their cause. Later we gave them arms for their jihad,” he said. Former
foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz said the Bosnian jihad was the greatest
fight in European history and Muslim leaders should follow the life of
Ali Izat Begovich.


=== 2 ===


http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cf/Qbosnia-algeria-egypt.RyRT_DOA.html

Agence France-Presse
October 10, 2003

Algeria, Egypt seek terror suspects' extradition from
Bosnia

SARAJEVO, Oct 10 (AFP) - Algeria and Egypt have sought
the extradition of two of their nationals arrested in
Bosnia on suspicion of terrorist involvement, a
Bosnian official said Friday.

Aissa Benkhira, 35, with dual Algerian and Bosnian
citizenship, was arrested last month on an Interpol
warrant issued in 1995, the Bosnian court official
told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Amquad Youssef, an Egyptian also with dual Bosnian
citizenship, was arrested in August as he attempted to
enter the Balkan country with a fake Belgian passport.
He was also named on an Interpol arrest warant issued
in Cairo.

The official said the Bosnian constitution forbade the
extradition of Bosnian citizens, but the case of
Youssef was being examined to determine whether he
obtained his citizenship legally.

Justice officials here have asked Algeria to submit
the case against Benkhira so that he can be tried in
Bosnia.

Benkhira was tried in absentia and sentenced to death
in his native country for participating in a 1995
attack on an Algerian industrial zone that killed six
people including five foreigners, the source said.

The Islamic Armed Group (GIA) was suspected of being
behind the attack. The GIA has been battling the
Algerian government for more than a decade in a bid to
establish an Islamic republic.

Youssef is suspected of being a member of al-Jihad, an
Islamic extremist organisation based in Egypt, the
source said.

During Bosnia's 1992-95 war hundreds of volunteers
from Islamic countries joined the Muslim-led
government army to fight the Serbs and Croats.

Under the 1995 peace accords, all foreign fighters
were ordered to leave but some of them managed to
obtain Bosnian citizenship on the basis of their
military service or by marrying local women.


=== 3 ===


http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/fonettanjug103003.htm
Tanjug - October 30, 2003

SERBIA'S SPS CALLS FOR MINISTER'S DISMISSAL OVER IZETBEGOVIC OBITUARY

Belgrade, 30 October: Ivica Dacic, chairman of the main committee of
the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), said today that the SPS deputies
in the Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Assembly would call for the dismissal
of Rasim Ljajic, member of the SCG Council of Ministers, "after his
scandalous choice of words in the obituary on the death of (former
chairman of the Bosnia-Hercegovina Presidency) Alija Izetbegovic, in
which he addressed him as 'dear president".
Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade, Dacic said it was clear that
Ljajic "cannot stay in the Council of Ministers any longer" and that
he expected the SPS's proposal to be included in the agenda of the SCG
Assembly session.
"The SPS calls on its voters and citizens of Serbia to boycott the
presidential elections," Dacic said, adding that the failure of the
elections "will be the final blow to DOS (Democratic Opposition of
Serbia) which will force it to call the parliamentary elections."

SERBIAN SOCIALISTS WANT OFFICIAL COMMENT ON MINISTER'S OBITUARY TO
IZETBEGOVIC
FoNet - October 30, 2003

Belgrade, 30 October: The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) demands of
the Serbia-Montenegro government to make up its mind over stances
upheld by Minister for Human and Minority Rights Rasim Ljajic in the
wake of the publication of an obituary in the Dnevni avaz newspaper
prompted by the death of (former Bosnia-Hercegovina president) Alija
Izetbegovic.
"If it (the government) also believes that Alija Izetbegovic deserved
gratitude from the citizens of Serbia-Montenegro, then let it tell us
publicly and let it enlighten us as to what these deeds were for which
he deserved our gratitude." The SPS said that "the crimes against
Serbia-Montenegro citizens and against the Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina
are not important to The Hague (tribunal) nor are they important to
Ljajic. However, unless they (ministers) distance themselves from
Ljajic, these crimes are not important then to the Serbia-Montenegro
government either".


http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25340&order=priority&style=headlines

Beta - November 3, 2003

Socialists move no confidence in minorities minister

BELGRADE -- Monday – The Socialist Party of Serbia has
given the federal parliament notice of a motion of no
confidence in Human Rights Minister Rasim Ljajic.
The deputy parliamentary leader of the Socialist
Party, Veljko Odalovic, said today that the initiative
came after an obituary written by Ljajic for former
Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic which was
published in a Sarajevo newspaper.
“We were appalled that in the obituary Minister Ljajic
refers to Alija Izetbegovic as his president and
praises him and his work,” said Odalovic, adding that
the minister should explain to the parliament how the
former leader of the Party of Democratic Action was
“his president”.
Izetbegovic policies had resulted in an exodus of
Serbs from Bosnia and his party had brought together
Mujahadin from Al-Qaeda,” said Odalovic.
“A minister who has a mandate to protect human and
ethnic minority rights has no mandate to publish such
an obituary,” he added.
Ljajic himself dismissed the no confidence move as an
election stunt.


=== 4 ===


http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/du/Qyemen-bosnia-qaeda.R1GZ_DN5.html

Yemeni imprisoned in Bosnia for al-Qaeda links returns
home

SANAA, Nov 5 (AFP) - A Yemeni who was imprisoned for
five years in Bosnia on charges of belonging to the
al-Qaeda terror network has returned to his country,
the ruling General People's Congress said here
Wednesday.
"Bosnian authorities have accused Nabil Ali al-Hila of
taking part in bomb attacks in Bosnia ... since then
the Yemeni government has spared no effort to free
him," said the GPC in a statement posted on its
website.
Hila returned to his hometown of Aden in southern
Yemen on Monday, the statement said without providing
further details.

Many Yemenis went to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya
in the 1980s and 1990s to fight for what they saw as
"Muslim causes".


=== 5 ===


http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/du/Qwarcrimes-bosnia.RfQs_DN4.html
Agence France-Presse - November 4, 2003

Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 10 years for war crimes

SARAJEVO, Nov 4 (AFP) - A Sarajevo court sentenced a
former Bosnian Muslim soldier to 10 years in jail
Tuesday for his role in a wartime massacre of Croat
civilians, a prosecutor said.
Enes Sakrak, 30, was accused of taking part in the
September 1993 massacre of more than 30 Bosnian Croat
civilians, mainly elderly people, in Grabovica village
by the Bosnian government army.
He was "sentenced to 10 years in prison... for
committing war crimes against civilians" during
Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, Sarajevo county chief
prosecutor Mustafa Bisic said in a statement.
He is the first person to be sentenced for the
massacre.
Sakrak was arrested in August along with co-accused
Mustafa Hota. He pleaded guilty to the murder of two
civilians during the massacre, the statement said.
Sakrak's case is part of a wider investigation into
the massacre in Grabovica, 60 kilometers (37 miles)
southeast of Sarajevo, the statement added, without
disclosing the number of soldiers under investigation.
The Grabovica atrocity occurred during the year-long
Croat-Muslim conflict which broke out on the sidelines
of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, when Bosnian Croats and
Muslims fought against Bosnian Serbs who opposed
independence from the former communist Yugoslavia.
In 2001 the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia at The Hague indicted Bosnia's
wartime army chief-of-staff, retired general Sefer
Halilovic, for violation of the customs of war during
the operation that included the Grabovica massacre.
Halilovic, who turned himself in to the UN tribunal in
September 2001, was provisionally released pending
trial. He was accused of failing to investigate and
punish the perpetrators of the massacre.
Sakrak is mentioned in Halilovic's indictment as the
murderer of a Croat woman and her four-year-old
daughter, while Hota is said to have shot dead a
79-year-old man.
The Sarajevo trial was approved by the ICTY under an
agreement whereby Bosnian courts can conduct war
crimes trials only after receiving the go-ahead from
the UN court.
More than 200,000 people lost their lives during
Bosnia's war, while more than two million, over half
the country's population, were forced to flee their
homes.


http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ck/Qwarcrimes-bosnia-serbs.ROLq_DNA.html
Agence France-Presse - November 10, 2003

Bosnian Serbs offer war crimes "evidence" against
Muslims, Croats

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Nov 10 (AFP) - Bosnian
Serb former prisoners of war are planning to visit the
UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague to provide
"evidence" against Croats and Muslims, a POW
association said Monday.
The Republika Srpska Association of Detainees said a
delegation of former prisoners would present
unspecified information about alleged war crimes
during Bosnia's 1992-95 conflict when they visit The
Hague on Wednesday.
The association says it represents some 50,000 Serb
former POWs and claims that there were 536 detention
camps where Serbs were imprisoned in Bosnia during the
war.
The Serb-run Republika Srpska, which shares authority
in postwar Bosnia with the Muslim-Croat Federation,
remains the only territory of the former Yugoslavia
which has not arrested a single war crimes suspect.

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COORDINAMENTO NAZIONALE PER LA JUGOSLAVIA

Corso Seminariale “Media and conflicts”, modulo Balcani (Ambiente e
salute).
Prof. Alberto Tarozzi.

Programma definitivo.

Grazie al reperimento di sale adeguate per gli incontri nei quali è
prevedibile una maggiore affluenza (lunedì 17 pomeriggio, aula A Berti
Pichat-Purgatori;
lunedì 24 mattina sala A cinema Odeon-Remondino) speriamo di avere
ridotto al minimo i disagi da affollamento per il pubblico, nonostante
il numero degli studenti iscritti e,
più in generale, delle persone interessate a partecipare, si sia
rivelata ben al di sopra delle previsioni.


Lunedì 17 novembre 2003

Ore 11aula B, viale Berti Pichat
-Saluto di Anna Maria Gentili, Presidente del Corso di Laurea in
Sviluppo e Cooperazione Internazionale.
-Introduzione di Alberto Tarozzi.
La guerra nei Balcani: conseguenze ambientali e sanitarie.
-Proiezione del video “Bombe sulle industrie chimiche” di S. Adamek.
-Aggiornamento sulle attività di documentazione del “Gruppo di ricerca
guerra, ambiente e salute nei Balcani” a cura di Federica Alessandrini
e  Zivkica Nedanovska.


Ore 15 aula A, viale Berti Pichat.
-Andrea Purgatori, collaboratore del Corriere della Sera e
corrispondente di guerra dagli anni ‘80 ai nostri giorni.
Le conseguenze ecologiche delle nuove guerre e i media.


Sabato 22 novembre

Ore 11 aula B, viale Berti Pichat.
-Michele Nardelli , Osservatorio sui Balcani.
-Massimo Zucchetti, Politecnico di Torino.
(autore del volume “Guerra infinita, guerra ecologica”, Jaca book,
2003).
La rimozione della guerra dalla decontaminazione all’elaborazione dei
conflitti.


Lunedì 24 novembre

Ore 11 sala A cinema Odeon, via Mascarella 3.
-Ennio Remondino, corrispondente Rai da Belgrado.
I media e la guerra nei Balcani del 1999.


Lunedì 1 dicembre

Ore 11 aula B, viale Berti Pichat.
-Presentazione del libro “La balcanizzazione dello sviluppo”
di Claudio Bazzocchi, ed. Il Ponte, 2003. Sarà presente l’autore.
-Andrea Segré, Coordinatore del Dottorato di Ricerca in
''Cooperazione Internazionale e Politiche per lo Sviluppo
sostenibile'', ne discute con
-Luisa Chiodi, Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze.
Introduce Francesco Rigamonti del “Gruppo di ricerca guerra, ambiente e
salute nei Balcani”.


Ore 15 aula B, viale Berti Pichat.
-Paolo Bartolomei, fisico dell’Enea
-Emilio Molinari, Comitato italiano per un contratto mondiale
sull’acqua.
-Lorenzo Sani, giornalista de Il Resto del Carlino.
Uranio impoverito e contaminazione delle acque: prospettive ecologiche
nella ex Jugoslavia.

Verso la Grande Albania: Ottobre 2003

(ENGLISH / ITALIANO)

*** Sulle nostre fonti vedi le Avvertenze in fondo a questo messaggio

*** Sul rocambolesco arresto dell'Intoccabile criminale di guerra Agim
Ceku si veda:

Agim Ceku l'Intoccabile
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2908

Former KLA Leader Agim Ceku Arrested, Then Released
http://www.balkantimes.com/
default3.asp?lang=english&page=process_print&article_id=21750


=== GLI AVVENIMENTI DI OTTOBRE 2003 ===


A BELGRADO PARLAMENTO E GOVERNO ESPRIMONO SCONCERTO ED INDIGNAZIONE PER
IL PRECIPITARE DEL CAOS E DELLA VIOLENZA NELLA PROVINCIA OCCUPATA DALLA
NATO ED AMMINISTRATA DA ONU E SEPARATISTI

http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24829&order=priority&style=headlines
FoNet - September 30, 2003

Belgrade warns of “dramatic” situation in Kosovo

STRASBOURG -- Tuesday – Belgrade today called on the
international community to recognise the “dramatic”
human rights situation in Kosovo.
In a speech to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary
Assembly, Dragoljub Micunovic, a senior member of
Serbia’s governing coalition, warned that Kosovo’s
future could not be built on the results of ethnic
cleansing and the criminalisation of society.
The speech opened a debate on the human rights
situation in the United Nations-governed province.
Micunovic said that Serbia had been forced to call the
debate after the killing of two Serb youths in the
Kosovo village of Gorazdevac. The victims were shot as
they bathed in a nearby river. Seven Serbs have been
killed in the province since June.
“These children were killed only because they were
Serbs,” he told the Assembly. This sent a message “to
all Serbs currently living in Kosovo that they must
leave, that reconciliation and the multi-ethnic
society that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and
all of us strive for are not possible.”
“The killing of children in the 21st century in any of
Europe simply because they are of a different
nationality must alert not only the democratic public,
but also the international institutions concerned with
the protection of human rights and safety,” Micunovic
added, before calling for “large-scale measures
against criminals and terrorists”.
Micunovic, the speaker of the Serbia-Montenegro
parliament, warned that the Gorazdevac killings were
not an isolated act but the culmination of a series of
terrorist operations. He claimed there had been over
6,000 attacks on Serbs and their property or cultural
monuments since the arrival of peacekeepers after the
end of the war in July 1999, over 1,000 Serbs had been
killed and 10 monasteries and churches destroyed. The
fate of 1,300 Serbs remains unknown, he added.
Micunovic, a candidate in November’s elections for
Serbian president, called on the international
community to take “energetic and decisive steps toward
the full and consistent implementation of Resolution
1244, the speedier return of the displaced, the
creation of better security conditions and freedom of
movement for all ethnic communities”. Resolution 1244
is the document adopted by the UN Security Council by
which the province is governed.
In his speech, Micunovic made reference to the
Albanian National Army, an extremist ethnic Albanian
group that was branded a terrorist organisation
earlier this year by the UN’s former Kosovo governor
Michael Steiner. It must be recognised, said
Micunovic, that the ANA operates not only in Kosovo,
but also in western Macedonia and southern Serbia. The
group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a
Serbia-Montenegro military vehicle last week, in which
an officer was seriously wounded.
Talks between Belgrade and Pristina are due to begin
in mid-October, and will cover practical matters, but
not the province’s final status. Micunovic said that
Belgrade was approaching the dialogue “with a basic
wish for us all to stand up to hatred, terrorism and
any form of violence.” In order to do this, he added,
“everyone must understand that there are no good and
bad enemies, but that they are enemies of us all –
enemies of the human race.”

http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-09/30/331210.html
Serbia Info - September 30, 2003

ANA prepares terrorist attacks in southern Serbia and
Kosovo-Metohija

Belgrade, Sept 30, 2003 - The Serbian Ministry of
Interior said that its operational data confirm that
the Albanian terrorist organisation ANA plans to carry
out terrorist attacks in southern Serbia just before
the beginning of a dialogue between Belgrade and
Pristina.
This terrorist organisation plans to make a massacre
by planting and activating explosive devices in the
facilities where members of the Albanian ethnic
community gather, including schools, read a statement
by the Ministry.
The terrorist attack will be performed by ANA's tried
members, however, it is possible that the organisation
will also contract criminals of Serbian nationality,
for which ANA has already set aside considerable
amounts of money.
According to intelligence, ANA plans to carry out the
attacks in Bujanovac, Presevo and Kosovo-Metohija, the
Ministry said.
The Serbian police have stepped up security measures
in order to prevent any possible terrorist attacks on
the territory of the Republic of Serbia.

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KOSOVO: POLIZIOTTO TEDESCO UNMIK MOLTO GRAVE DOPO PESTAGGIO

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 1 OTT - Un agente della polizia tedesca in
servizio presso la polizia della Missione Onu in Kosovo (Unmik) e'
stato aggredito oggi nella citta' settentrionale di Kosovska
Mitrovica e le sue condizioni sono molto gravi. L'agente, del quale
non e' stato rivelato il nome, e' stato aggredito mentre entrava
negli uffici del commissariato che si trova nella parte sud della
citta' (abitata da albanesi) e colpito ripetutamente alla testa con
una sbarra di ferro. Un kosovaro albanese e' stato arrestato perche'
ritenuto l'autore dell'attacco: secondo gli investigatori si
tratterebbe di una persona ''mentalmente instabile''. L'agente e'
stato soccorso e trasportato in ospedale. Andrea Angeli, portavoce
dell'Unmik ha detto all'Ansa che in serata il poliziotto verra'
trasferito in Germania a bordo di un aereo ambulanza per essere
sottoposto ad intervento chirurgico. Meno di due mesi fa nella stessa
citta' di Kosovska Mitrovica venne ucciso in un agguato un agente
indiano della polizia Onu.(ANSA) BLL 01/10/2003 19:28

http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24855&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - October 2, 2003

UN policeman injured in Mitrovica attack

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Wednesday – A member of the
international police force in Kosovo was severely
injured today when he was attacked in a car park
outside the regional UNMIK police headquarters in
Kosovska Mitrovica.
International police at the scene arrested a Kosovo
Albanian who is suspected of striking the German
police officer several times in the head with a metal
rod, causing serious injuries, according to a
statement from UNMIK.
UNMIK police said that the motive did not appear to be
personal, but added that the suspect is mentally ill
and had been expressing hatred for police in general
for some time.

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KOSOVO: CONTINUA LA VIOLENZA, 4 UCCISI IN SOLE 24 ORE

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 2 OTT - Una nuova ondata di violenza questa volta
apparentemente non a sfondo etnico sta investendo il Kosovo a meno di
due settimane dal possibile inizio dei negoziati tra Pristina e
Belgrado per la definizione dello status della provincia.
Quattro albanesi-kosovari sono rimasti uccisi in due agguati nelle
ultime 24 ore. Il primo e' stato compiuto nel villaggio di Glamnic,
nel distretto settentrionale di Podujevo (a ridosso del confine
amministrativo con la Serbia) dove due fratelli e un cugino sono
stati uccisi a raffiche di mitra mentre si trovavano all'interno di
un furgone. Un albanese e' stato arrestato dalla polizia ma non ha
ancora fornito chiarimenti sulla strage. Un quarto omicidio e'
stato compiuto la notte scorsa in un villaggio nei pressi della
citta' occidentali di Decani: un uomo di 37 anni, Avdi Muja e' caduto
in un agguato nel quale sono rimasti feriti anche tre suoi cugini.
Non distante da li' un testimone di un importante processo con tre ex
guerriglieri dell'Uck era miracolosamente sfuggito a un attentato
compiuto con una bomba comandata a distanza. Non si esclude che gli
episodi possano essere in qualche modo collegati. (ANSA).
BLL/CIP 02/10/2003 13:25

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PERSINO GLI STATUNITENSI SI LAMENTANO: TROPPE ARMI SONO ANCORA IN GIRO,
CE LE DEVONO CONSEGNARE

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17814
Stars And Stripes - October 2, 2003

Latest Kosovo weapons amnesty plan has few takers

By Jessica Iñigo
GNJILANE, Kosovo — Troops in the Multi-National
Brigade (East) sector of Kosovo Force, where camps
Bondsteel and Monteith are housed, are disappointed in
the low turnout rate of the latest monthlong weapons
amnesty program.
Initially, military officials hoped to sweet-talk
illegal gun toters into handing over their weapons by
giving cash to any county that turned in more than 300
weapons.
But military officials changed their minds and will
now give the money to the three municipalities that
turn over the most weapons, said Maj. Anthony Frey,
fire support officer for Task Force Falcon. The amount
of cash to be given out was unavailable.
Civilians say the military needs to change its tune if
it wants to see some real response to the amnesty
program.
“Everybody would turn in their weapons if the military
just made a program that would give people a license
to have the weapons that they own,” Alban Beqiri, a
Kosovar Albanian living in Urosevac, said through an
interpreter. “Nobody wants to just give away something
that they own, that they paid for.”
Also, civilians believe that there aren’t too many
more weapons left to be turned in. Soldiers believe
otherwise.
“I know weapons are still out there,” said Spc. Justin
Bish, of Company C, 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry
(Mechanized), who was manning an amnesty point in
Gnjilane, Kosovo, near Camp Monteith. “Countless
weapons are still out there. They just need to come
and turn them in.”
At his point, three sniper rifles, five
rocket-propelled grenades and four machine guns were
turned in.
“At first hardly anything was turned in, but as time
started dwindling down some weapons started showing
up,” said Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Ackerson, who manned
the same point in Gnjilane.
Ackerson said that even though all the weapons turned
in were old and rusted, they still worked.
“These are all functional weapons,” he said. “They’ve
been packed in grease and buried in burlap under
ground.”
Ackerson explained that the grease keeps the weapons
working, while burying them keeps them out of sight in
case of a military weapons raid through the town.
“Every time an illegal weapon is taken off the street,
there is success,” Brig. Gen. Jerry G. Beck, commander
of Multi-National Brigade (East), said during a news
conference Thursday. “Every time another grenade is
turned in, there is another life spared. Every time
ammunition is recovered, there is one less argument
that ends in someone being wounded or killed.”
The weapons amnesty program went through September and
allowed for any illegal weapons to be turned in
without question.
Illegal weapons found at other times will be turned in
to the U.N. Development Program for disposal, and
owners could be fined and sent to jail.

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KOSOVO:PARLAMENTO NON DECIDE PER INIZIO DIALOGO CON BELGRADO

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 2 OTT - Il Parlamento del Kosovo ha deciso di non
votare oggi l'autorizzazione all'avvio del dialogo con le autorita'
di Belgrado il cui inizio e' previsto per il prossimo 14 ottobre a
Vienna. I parlamentari albanesi hanno rinviato la votazione a
giovedi' prossimo, 9 ottobre, chiedendo nel frattempo ''maggiori
dettagli e una piu' vasta consultazione''. Esponenti del partito
democratico (Pdk) del premier Bajram Rexhepi hanno sollecitato in
particolare la presentazione della lista dei partecipanti al dialogo
da parte serba e garanzie sulla presenza di una mediazione
internazionale.(ANSA). BLL/CIP 02/10/2003 13:29

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KOSOVO: DOPO UN ANNO GENERALE MINI LASCIA COMANDO KFOR

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 3 OTT - Cambio al vertice della Kfor, la forza di
pace a guida Nato presente in Kosovo dal giugno del 1999: dopo un
anno di comando il generale italiano Fabio Mini ha passato le
consegne al generale tedesco Holger Kammerhoff. Alla cerimonia che si
e' svolta a Pristina sono intervenuti fra gli altri il
sottosegretario alla Difesa Salvatore Cicu, il comandante della Nato
in Europa James Jhones e il comandante di Afsouth ammiraglio Gregory
Jhonson. Jhones ha espresso compiacimento per ''l'energia,
l'entusiasmo e l'impegno esemplare in molti e complessi aspetti della
missione'' dimostrati dal generale italiano. Mini, ha aggiunto, ''si
e' guadagnato il rispetto dei kosovari dimostrando una profonda
conoscenza della politica kosovara, e per questo parte come un grande
amico del Kosovo''. Alla cerimonia hanno presenziato le piu' alte
autorita' istituzionali locali, sia albanesi che serbe.
L'ammiraglio Gregory ha promesso da parte sua che ''capitalizzeremo
l'esperienza e la straordinaria visione'' del generale. Parole di cui
si e' compiaciuto il sottosegretario Cicu, giunto in Kosovo insieme
al nuovo Capo di Stato maggiore dell'Esercito generale Giulio
Fraticelli: ''Questo anno di complesso e importantissimo comando
italiano - ha commentato Cicu - e' motivo di grande soddisfazione
per i risultati conseguiti, che sono stati riconosciuti ampiamente
sia dalle altre forze alleate che dalle autorita' istituzionali
locali''. Il generale Mini nel suo discorso di fine missione, e'
tornato ad insistere sul tema che ha piu' affrontato in questo anno
di comando: ''L'intolleranza blocca lo sviluppo - ha dichiarato - la
gente non ne puo' piu' e non vede l'ora di avere l'opportunita' di
lavorare''. Davanti alla banda dei suoi bersaglieri che avevano
appena intonato l'inno, Mini ha poi detto in italiano ''bersaglieri,
siete sempre belli''. La cerimonia si e' conclusa con il lancio in
quota e l'arrivo davanti alla tribuna delle autorita' dei 5
paracadutisti del 9/o Col Moschin che avevano finora assicurato la
sua scorta. Mini e' ripartito per l'Italia seguito dal suo piu'
stretto staff di collaboratori fra i quali il caporalmaggiore
Domenico Casale, fedelissimo e apprezzatissimo cuoco del comando. In
Kosovo restano invece altri 2800 soldati italiani che continueranno
a partecipare alla missione della Kfor. In questo momento sono oltre
12mila i soldati italiani impegnati in missioni all'estero, 8.000 dei
quali nei Balcani. (ANSA). BLL 03/10/2003 15:11

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KOSOVO:PROFUGA SERBA RITORNA, ALBANESE CHE OCCUPA CASA SPARA

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 4 OTT - Una profuga serba di 73 anni e' stata
gravemente ferita oggi nel Kosovo orientale da un albanese che
occupava insieme alla propria famiglia la sua vecchia casa.
L'incidente e' accaduto nella citta' di Gjilane, dove la donna era
rientrata per la prima volta dopo la fuga in Serbia avvenuta nel
1999, al termine della guerra. Andrea Angeli, portavoce della
missione delle Nazioni Unite (Unmik), ha detto all'Ansa che la donna
e' stata ferita allo stomaco da tre colpi di pistola.
L'albanese-kosovaro che ha aperto il fuoco e' stato arrestato.
Secondo una prima ricostruzione, la donna serba questa mattina si e'
presentata alla porta di quella che ha indicato come la propria
abitazione e che aveva abbandonato quattro anni fa per sfuggire alle
violenze etniche. La casa era stata nel frattempo occupata da una
famiglia di 15 albanesi. Uno degli uomini presenti nell'abitazione
prima ha cacciato la donna, poi le ha sparato. Il rientro dei
profughi serbi in Kosovo e la restituzione delle loro proprieta' e'
uno dei punti cruciali dei negoziati fra Pristina e Belgrado che
dovrebbero iniziare il prossimo 14 ottobre a Vienna. (ANSA).
BLL 04/10/2003 16:36

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KOSOVO: GERMANIA, MORTI DUE SOLDATI TEDESCHI IN INCIDENTE

(ANSA) - BERLINO, 4 OTT - Due soldati tedeschi del contingente di pace
internazionale Kfor in Kosovo sono morti ieri sera in un incidente
stradale, secondo quanto reso noto oggi a Berlino da un portavoce del
ministero della difesa. L'incidente e' avvenuto nei pressi della
localita' Suevareka. Non sono stati forniti particolari sulla
dinamica dell'incidente. La procura di Potsdam ha avviato indagini.
(ANSA). BUS 04/10/2003 18:11

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IL CRIMINALE DI GUERRA AGIM CEKU OFFRE AI SUOI ALLEATI TRUPPE
KOSOVARO-ALBANESI PER L'OCCUPAZIONE DELL'AFGHANISTAN E DELL'IRAQ

Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 7 Ott 2003 13:08:17 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Kosovo: Agim Ceku Offers 3,000 KLA Fighters For Afghan, Iraqi
Occupations

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/10/4-SEE/see-061003.asp

[Note: The US government site Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty officially spells the name of the Serbian
province of Kosovo as 'Kosova.' The so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army clearly appreciates the fact. If in
fact the US takes its ally Ceku up on his offer it
could mark the closest thing Washington is likely to
get in the way of UN endorsement for the occupation of
Iraq, as war criminal Ceku's racist killers are
currently on the UN payroll as members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps.]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - October 6, 2003

U.S. REPORTEDLY TURNED DOWN KOSOVA'S OFFERS OF HELP IN IRAQ AND
AFGHANISTAN

-Agim Ceku, who heads the civilian Kosova Protection
Corps (TMK), has offered to send some of his 3,000
men, many of whom are former guerrillas of the Kosova
Liberation Army.


"The New York Times" of 6 October reported that
Kosova's president, Ibrahim Rugova, and parliamentary
speaker Nexhat Daci have between them made several
offers to send police to Iraq or Afghanistan but were
turned down or ignored by Washington. Agim Ceku, who
heads the civilian Kosova Protection Corps (TMK), has
offered to send some of his 3,000 men, many of whom
are former guerrillas of the Kosova Liberation Army.
The Kosovars argue that they have much experience of
value to Iraq and Afghanistan, noting also that most
Kosovars are Muslims. Elizabeth Jones, who is
assistant secretary of state for European affairs,
reportedly told Rugova that he should concentrate on
building democracy in Kosova. Pro-U.S. feeling is very
strong in Kosova as result of U.S.-led efforts that
stopped the Serbian crackdown there in 1999. PM

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IBRAHIM RUGOVA INSISTE SULLA SECESSIONE

Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 14 Ott 2003 20:31:36 Europe/Rome
A: Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] 'Kosovo President' Presses US, EU Over
Independence

http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25056&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - October 14, 2003

Rugova presses for independence

-“As soon as the European Union and the United States
recognise Kosovo’s independence, the United Nations
will do the same.”

VIENNA -- Tuesday – Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova
today urged the international community to recognise
Kosovo independence as the only way to bring stability
to the region and prevent the past from repeating
itself.
“As soon as the European Union and the United States
recognise Kosovo’s independence, the United Nations
will do the same”, Rugova told a press conference
after today’s first meeting with Belgrade leaders in
Vienna.
When it comes to Kosovo, he said, the new government
in Belgrade is no different from the old regime of
Slobodan Milosevic. Nevertheless he emphasised the
need for dialogue.
Kosovo’s explicit aim is independence and
Euro-Atlantic integration, said Rugova, adding that
this would reduce the room for maneuvering in Kosovo
and prevent a repetition of the horrors of the past.
Kosovo Parliament Speaker Nexhat Daci, the second
member of the Pristina delegation, accused Serbia of
holding Kosovo hostage and preventing it from
integrating with Europe. He warned that Kosovo was
capable of doing the same to Serbia and claimed that
independence was an unstoppable process.
He repeated calls for the international community to
cede more powers to the Kosovo government and demanded
that Belgrade “stop funding parallel structures” in
the province. Daci said he expected the Kosovo
government to soon form ministries of energy and
foreign affairs, and eventually justice and interior
ministries.

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FALLIMENTO TOTALE DEI "COLLOQUI" SERBO-ALBANOKOSOVARI, ORGANIZZATI A
VIENNA DALL'ONU. I SECESSIONISTI CHIEDONO "INDIPENDENZA" E CACCIATA
DELLA AMMINISTRAZIONE ONU (NON DEGLI USA) DA SUBITO

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/di/Qkosovo-talks-demo.Rt_S_DOE.html
Agence France-Presse - October 14, 2003

Hundreds protest against start of Pristina-Belgrade talks

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, Oct 14 (AFP) - Several
hundred Kosovar Albanians demanded independence from
Serbia Tuesday as they protested against the opening
of talks between Pristina and Belgrade.
The protesters held placards calling for the
province's independence from Serbia and the withdrawal
of the United Nations mission (UNMIK) that has
governed Kosovo since the end of the 1998-99 war
between Belgrade forces and ethnic Albanian
guerrillas.
"Holkeri, don't speak in our name," said one banner in
reference to UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri, who is leading
the Kosovo delegation at the talks which began in
Vienna earlier Tuesday.
The demonstration was organised by Kosovo's National
Movement party, a radical grouping which holds only
one seat in the 120-member assembly.
The dialogue is the first between Kosovar Albanian
authorities and the Serbian government since the war,
which cost thousands of lives and drove hundreds of
thousands from their homes.
The initiative has been heavily promoted by the UN and
the European Union but it is unpopular here, where
many in the ethnic Albanian majority see it as a step
back from their ultimate goal of independence.
The issue of Kosovo's final status is not on the
agenda for the talks, which have been limited to
"practical" concerns such as transport, energy and
missing people.
Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexepi refused to attend
the opening session of the dialogue after parliament
failed to support his participation.
The Kosovo delegation included Kosovo President
Ibrahim Rugova and parliament speaker Nexhat Daci.
The Serbian delegation was led by Prime Minister Zoran
Zivkovic and Nebojsa Covic, the deputy prime minister
in charge of Kosovo matters.

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/srna101403b.htm
SRNA - October 14, 2003

Kosovo: Albanians chant "NATO get out" at protest against Vienna talks

Pristina - Hundreds of Albanians took part in a protest in Pristina
against the beginning of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue in Vienna. The
protest, organized by the Popular Movement of Kosovo LPK , began at
1200 1000 gmt outside the National Theatre.
Some 800 protesters chanted "UCK Kosovo Liberation Army ", "UNMIK UN
Mission in Kosovo get out", NATO get out" and "Down with Rugova".
There were no incidents and a great number of Kfor NATO-led Kosovo
Force soldiers and UNMIK policemen, with the help of the Kosovo police
service, controlled all access road to Pristina and the roads leading
to Serb enclaves.

SAVA JANJIC, EDITORIALE PER ERP.KIM:

L’incontro viennese fra la delegazione del governo serbo ed i leaders
di etnia albanese della provincia meridionale del kosovo è stato più di
una delusione. il capo dell’unmik holkeri ha condotto con sé una
rappresentanza composta unicamente da albanesi ed ha escluso all’ultimo
momento i portavoce serbi e turchi come richiestogli da ibrahim rugova.
ed è questa assenza che ha dato a rugova l’opportunità di mostrare come
tutti i cittadini della provincia serba si trovino d’accordo con la sua
visione estrema e dogmatica e di presentare il kosovo come regione
abitata da soli albanesi. la composizione etnicamente pura delle
autorità presenti a vienna riflette di fatto la situazione della
provincia, nella quale i serbi e le altre minoranze vengono brutalmente
‘ripuliti’ dagli oltranzisti albanesi e ed i loro rappresentanti nelle
istituzioni -sponsorizzate dalle nazioni unite- sono ridotti ad un
agente politico insignificante. questa prima fase dei negoziati era
stata convocata affinché ci
si concentrasse su quattro temi concreti: i trasporti e le
comunicazioni, l’energia, le persone rapite e scomparse ed il ritorno
degli profughi serbi. ma soprattutto, ci si aspettava da entrambe le
parti in causa che esibissero posizioni responsabili e costruttive, che
avrebbero potuto condurre ad una svolta positiva dopo quattro lunghi
anni di stallo... (continua)

link originale:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim17oct03.html

traduzione in italiano di exju.org:
http://www.exju.org/more.php?id=465_0_1_0_M19

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EDITORIALE DI C. DELISO SU ANTIWAR.COM

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso92.html
ANTIWAR, Thursday, October 23, 2003

No Second Kosovo

by Christopher Deliso

As the situation in Iraqcontinues to worsen, amidst daily reports of
new American and civilian deaths, the administration is embarking on a
whitewashing campaign designed to prove that things aren't so bad in an
occupied country that offers no exit for the US. However, due to its
dizzying speed, today's global media – so useful for governments'
propaganda purposes – can turn on its masters, without even having to
try very hard.
Unfortunately for the War Party, there really is nowhere to turn for
good news. The victorious occupation of Afghanistan is being tainted by
charges of sleaze, rampant corruption and pesky resurgencesfrom the old
Taliban gang. And, much further afield, an even earlier failed
intervention is unraveling, having arrived at its logical conclusion.

Kosovo Protests: 'Out With the UN! We Don't Need You Here!'

The internationals really should have known better. Protected by
special badges, shiny cars, air-conditioned offices and plenty of
disposable income, the UN corps in Kosovo presumed some sort of
inviolability, some dispensation from on high that would leave the
Kosovars eternally awe-struck and grateful.
This wasn't the case, as an eye-opening recent dispatch from the
Guardian indicates. Kosovo's Albanians are sick and tired of being
babysat by internationals who they've found to be both callous and
corrupt. They blame them for misappropriating large sums of money from
public coffers, for fueling the explosive increase in prostitution and
other mafia-supported services, and for prolonging the status quo of
limbo, one that prevents the resolution of vital issues like property
ownership and privatization, all of which have kept foreign investors
at arm's length from Kosovo. As the Guardian's Helena Smith reports:
"…the first chant came from the back of the crowd. 'Go home!' yelled a
youngster, as he stood in Pristina's dusty Mother Teresa Square, the
site last week of Kosovo's first post war demonstration.
'Out with the UN!' screamed an elderly woman, producing a placard that
conveyed the same message. 'We don't need you here!'
As locals grapple with price increases and worsening poverty, it is the
'internationals' who have become symbols of the contradictions
threatening to tear the UN protectorate apart. Across the province, men
and women appear disgusted by their foreign guardians' 'corrupt'
beneficence and depraved 'colonial' ways.
'They came to keep the peace and now they're causing tensions,' said
Qamile Blakcori. 'We are very grateful that Western forces saved us
from the Serbs, but now it's time they go.'"
According to the report, everyone from the street all the way to the
highest political offices has reason to criticize the internationals –
an ominous sign for the UN mission:
"'…last week's protest, timed to coincide with the start of historic
but widely unpopular reconciliation talks in Vienna with the Serbs, is
just the beginning,' says Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi.
'Being ruled 5,000 miles away from New York is simply not working,' he
snapped. 'With no road maps, or political deadlines, or sense of
resolving their unclear international status as a non-state entity,
Kosovars are fast losing hope.'
'What was especially galling to Kosovars was the brazen "corruption"
within the mission,' said Rexhepi, who was elected in March 2002. He
added that not only was the UN refusing to grant his people more
self-rule, it was also abusing power 'at the highest levels.'
The malpractice – reluctantly confirmed by Western diplomats – had made
him 'feel very ashamed'. A lot of the misplaced funds, he suspected,
were local taxes. 'Unmik claimed it has zero tolerance for corruption
and organised crime, but there is serious corruption involving huge
amounts of money right at its core,' he lamented."

A Hydra's Head of Complexities

However, the situation is more complicated still. Were the foreigners
to immediately pull out of the province, and were the issue of Kosovo's
final status to be decided, would the economy suddenly start to grow?
Or would the sudden removal of Kosovo's economic life-support apparatus
swiftly bring about the patient's demise?
There is the additional complexity of negotiating sovereignty – a total
mess in the case of Kosovo. Regarded as a Serbian province by both
Serbia and (in theory, at least) the UN, Kosovo is regarded as a
shining example of a 19th-Century nation-state by Albanian
nationalists, some of whom also see it as merely a sub-state of a
larger hypothetical Albania. But Serbs are reluctant to let it go, and
it is not unlikely that in the end it will be partitioned – making an
already puny, untenable nation even smaller.
As the Guardian relays, the West is beginning to understand that Kosovo
is setting the precedent for a future of failure worldwide:
"…officials readily admit that any of the alternatives – independence,
partition, continued international stewardship – are unlikely to
satisfy everyone.
'It's just like Iraq, whatever we do is going to affect the entire
region,' said one senior EU diplomat.
'Kosovo is a perfect example of the confusion the West is likely to get
into if it doesn't think through the political implications of its
military strategy. If we go on like this we're going to have to set up
a colonial service.'"
We shouldn't forget the silent majority of decent, common Albanian
people who just want to live in peace, without headaches and
intimidation from mafia groups and militias. Yet the economic and
political dislocation that will accompany any international withdrawal
is only likely to put more of these thugs, not less, into power. The
Kosovo experience since 1999 has been of a timid UN rewarding former
militants and war criminals by keeping them armed and in power –
through just changing their uniforms. And the same timid, unaccountable
UN has allowed this unsavory bunch to run roughshod, driving out or
exterminating Serbian, Roma and Macedonian Muslim minorities.

Where to Turn Now?

In short, we have a situation whereby a large, frustrated group of
people have found a common enemy to replace their previous one.
However, they needed – and still need – both. The Serbs gave Kosovo's
Albanians a feeling of nationhood, a strident victimology and a common
cause. As predicted, this sentiment of Albanian unity proved an
evanescent one, collapsing immediately after NATO's bombing campaign
ceased. At that point, with nationalistic unity no longer necessary,
Kosovo's Albanians turned to settling their own internal scores.
And, as said above, the Albanians also need the internationals. They
provide a lucrative market for the legal and illegal service industries
alike, as well as employment in NGO's and other aid groups. Kosovo has
also received generous international grants, and its international
limbo has shielded it from some of the most common coercive measures in
the Western arsenal. Kosovo may be "freed" soon, but what will happen
to its hard-won sovereignty when its political decisions are made by
groups like the IMF? Currently, Serbia is still responsible for
Kosovo's international debt – though it doesn't pay any taxes to
Belgrade. Indeed, being a protectorate or a province is sometimes more
comfortable than having to go it alone.
That said, Kosovo – whether partitioned or not – will have to come
crawling back to someone. But to who? Certainly not Serbia. Even though
a majority of the people in both places may not want it, joining the
even-poorer Albania may be Kosovo's only hope. The West failed to
understand that if a province has historically been poor, there is
usually some good reason why – and not merely, as Albanian nationalists
claim, that it was forever ignored by Belgrade. In fact, part of the
reason Yugoslavia split was that more affluent regions like Croatia and
Slovenia were fed up: they felt their tax remittances were
disproportionately being siphoned into poor Macedonia, and sucked into
the vertiginous black hole of Kosovo.

Into the Vortex

And that's pretty much the only way to describe it. Kosovo embodies all
of the worst Balkan qualities. It is like a centrifuge, a vortex in
which all of the incongruent discourses of the region and the West have
come to jostle and grate, with increasing speed and volatility. That
the West even thought it could successfully intervene there in the
first place was sheer folly. It has caused far more problems than it
solved – though it has made many people very rich while doing so.
Looking back, one is baffled at the stupidity of the "experts" who
launched this adventure. At how they could possibly have failed to see
the necessary outcomes of the intervention: the destruction of
minorities; the destabilization of Macedonia; the reversion to mafia
rule; the corruption, Western and domestic; the lack of long-term
economic viability, and most crucially, the lack of a clear exit
strategy.

Violence Surges, But the Truth Speeds Up Too

In the end, considering the wide knowledge and experience of the war
planners, it becomes hard to believe that the Kosovo job was done for
any other reasons than political posturing, corporate war profiteering,
manipulating cheap nationalism, and giving NATO a reason to live.
Luckily, as Iraq is now showing, history won't let the world get away
with the same thing twice. In Iraq, popular dissent arrived so fast
that we might say the events themselves have sped up. They are
impatient, having gotten used to all the same characters – the
international aid groups, the opposition leaders, the ethnic
infighting, the foreign contractors – previously encountered in Kosovo.
They don't waste time anymore, as they did in Kosovo, in guarding their
secrets in seed form. Now, in the age of terror, they bloom forth
immediately and die just as fast, stripping themselves of any meaning
or significance – save to remind us that invading Iraq was a really bad
idea.
Indeed, there will be no second Kosovo. This time it will be much
worse. Yet with the acceleration of volatile events, fortunately, we
will also see an acceleration of truth. The one that reminds us that,
when planning folly abroad, there is a basic need to plan for all
eventualities in advance, and to not undertake a course of action if it
is likely to end in disaster. This is the truth that the Bush
Administration is so feverishly trying to obscure right now.
Unfortunately for everyone now in Iraq, we can have faith that the
events there will violently outpace them – but so will the truth,
eventually.

SEE ALSO:
Angry Kosovars call on 'colonial' UN occupying force to leave
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,1066264,00.html

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ALLE FIAMME CASA DI SERBI PRESSO KOSOVO POLJE

ALBANIANS SET FIRE TO SERB HOUSE IN KOSOVO

SRNA - October 14, 2003
Kosovo Polje, 14 October: Two Albanians set fire to an outbuilding in
the garden belonging to Borivoje Velickovic in the village of Bresje
near Kosovo Polje, eyewitnesses have told the SRNA news agency.
According to these sources, unidentified perpetrators travelled in a
Golf car with a hoisted Albanian flag from the direction of Pristina,
where they might have taken part in demonstrations against the
Belgrade-Pristina talks. The burnt building is right next to the
Velickovic family house and a considerable damage was avoided only
thanks to a swift intervention of locals and firemen.
Members of the Kosovo police service failed to apprehend the
perpetrators despite the stepped up traffic controls and road blocs.

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COVIC: "SE DATE L'INDIPENDENZA AL KOSOVO, ALLORA DOVETE DARLA ANCHE AI
SERBI DI BOSNIA"

http://slobodan-milosevic.ihostsites.net/news/rbeg101503.htm
SOURCE: Radio Belgrade in Serbian 0800 gmt 15 Oct 03

If Kosovo given independence, Bosnian Serb entity should be too - Covic

Radio Belgrade (Transcript) - October 15, 2003

Announcer: The so-called talks with the Albanians, like the ones in
Vienna yesterday, continue to be a charade that involves posing for the
world, Deputy Serbian Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic has reiterated in a
Belgrade Television programme. Recalling previous talks in Lucerne
after which the Albanian representatives were nearly lynched upon
their return to Pristina, Covic said that time was running out for
finding a solution to the problem. There are fewer and fewer Serbs in
Kosovo-Metohija as time goes by, and the ones who want to return are
running out of hope, Nebojsa Covic said.

Covic: We do not have the right to deceive the citizens and we have to
come up with an active approach. I want to reiterate: if anyone
believes that we should discuss the status issue, we are prepared to
do so immediately, but we immediately have to set out the principles
and establish the state of affairs; or, if they have already made the
decision to take Kosmet Kosovo-Metohija away from us, they should just
say so. Let them take it, but if they do take it, it will give us the
right to take it back one day. Obviously, the lobbies are strong, but
I believe that nothing is over and that all the options are still open
in the entire region and that the right that is granted to
Kosovo-Metohija, that is, to the area, must also be given to the
Bosnian Serb Republic. And I wish to be spared the stories of
so-called Serbian extremism, promoting tensions, and so forth. They
should explain to us why they are not prepared to give up parts of
their countries.

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KOSOVO: SEQUESTRATI 36 CHILI DI EROINA GIUNTI DA ALBANIA

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 15 OTT - La polizia della missione delle Nazioni
Unite in Kosovo (Unmik) ha sequestrato un carico di 36 chili di
eroina che si sospetta provenissero dall'Albania. L'operazione e'
stata condotta nei giorni scorsi a ridosso del confine occidentale,
ma solo oggi la polizia lo ha confermato a Pristina. La droga era
nascosta all'interno di un'autovettura con targa austriaca: dei tre
occupanti arrestati, due erano cittadini dell'Albania, il terzo era
un albanese-kosovaro. La droga sequestrata vale sul mercato illegale
circa 1,5 milioni di euro. E' questo il piu' grosso sequestro di droga
compiuto in Kosovo da quando la provincia e' sotto l'amministrazione
internazionale.(ANSA) BLL 15/10/2003 19:58

UN police make huge heroin bust in Kosovo

Agence France Presse - October 15, 2003
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - Three people have been arrested for
trying to smuggle 36 kilograms (79.2 pounds) of heroin into Kosovo
from neighbouring Albania, United Nations police said Wednesday
The arrest was made last week when border police stopped a vehicle
bearing Austrian registration plates for a routine check in western
Kosovo, UN police spokesman Derek Chappell told AFP.
"Concealed within the body of the car were found numerous packets
containing a material that preliminary tests have identified as
heroin," Chappel said.
Two of the suspects were from Albania and one was an ethnic-Albanian
from Kosovo.
Chappell said the street value of the drugs in Western Europe was 1.5
million euros (1.8 million dollars), making it the largest heroin
seizure in Kosovo since the province came under UN administration
after the 1998-99 war.
In July UN police in eastern Kosovo seized 18 kilograms of heroin,
valued at some 800,000 euros.

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SERBO-KOSOVARO MUORE DI FAME AD UROSEVAC A CAUSA DEL REGIME DI
APARTHEID. I SERBI RIMASTI IN CITTA' DOPO IL MASSACRO A COLPI DI
ACCETTA LO SCORSO GIUGNO SONO QUINDICI (15). I GIORNALISTI ITALIANI NON
NE PARLANO PERCHE' SONO DEI VIGLIACCHI

http://slobodan-milosevic.ihostsites.net/news/beta101703.htm
Beta - October 17, 2003

Kosovo Serb dies of starvation

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Friday – An elderly Kosovo Serb has died of
starvation because he was afraid to go out into the street alone, Beta
reports.
Sixty-five year old Zivorad Velikinac was taken to the Mitrovica
hospital on Wednesday where one staff member described him as looking
like a prisoner from Auschwitz.
“Although he lived in central Urosevac, he had not eaten anything for
more than fifteen days because his Albanian neighbours stopped
bringing him food and he did not dare go into the street alone,” said
physician Nebojsa Srbljak.
The president of the Serb National Council, Milan Ivanovic, accused
UNMIK of being responsible because Serbs and other non-Albanians still
had no freedom of movement in the province.
Ivanovic, who is also a physician in the Mitrovica Hospital, confirmed
that Velikinac had died of starvation.
Only about fifteen Serbs live in Urosevac today, down from ten thousand
before the 1999 war.

SEE ALSO:
'Looking Like A Prisoner From Auschwitz': Fearful Of
Leaving Home, Elderly Kosovo Serb Dies Of Starvation
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25110&style=headlines

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FUGA IN MASSA DA GRABAC E BICA IN SEGUITO ALLA DECISIONE ITALIANA DI
NON PROTEGGERE PIU' I SERBI

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.com
SRNA - October 18, 2003

KOSOVO SERBS ANNOUNCE MASS EXODUS FROM TWO VILLAGES AFTER KFOR ESCORTS
STOPPED

Klina - Serb returnees to the villages of Grabac and Bica, near Klina,
have announced that they will move out en masse tomorrow because Kfor
(Kosovo Force) has stopped providing them with an escort.
A total of 60 Serb returnees, who returned to these villages at the end
of June this year, blocked local roads through Bica this morning,
requesting that the Italian Kfor command provide buses for their safe
passage out of the village. The reason for the fresh exodus, as SRNA
was informed by Bica resident Dragoljub Perunicic, is that the
Italians cancelled the escort of a convoy to Kosovska Mitrovica on
Thursday (16 October), explaining that they apparently did not have
enough soldiers.
However, the Spanish Kfor representative informed the inhabitants this
morning that the escort had been stopped, and that if Serbs wanted to
travel to and from Kosovska Mitrovica, they should do this without
being escorted by a convoy of Kfor combat vehicles.
The inhabitants of Bica and Grabac returned in the middle of this year
after Kfor and UNMIK (UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo)
promised them constant security. In spite of this, Zoran Doncic was
wounded a month ago in one of the villages, and Albanian extremists
have on more than one occasion fired on the returnees' only recently
renovated houses.
A letter was sent to the Coordination Centre for Kosovo-Metohija today,
asking for assistance with displacement, that is, a move back to
central Serbia.

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IL 60 PER CENTO DELLA PROVINCIA E' SENZA ENERGIA ELETTRICA

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Over%2060%20pct%20of%20territory%20of%20Kosovo%20and%20Metohij
a%20in%20darkness
Tanjug (Serbia) - October 25, 2003

Over 60 pct of territory of Kosovo and Metohija in
darkness

18:16 BELGRADE , Oct 25 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo and
Metohija [there] does not work a single block of the
local thermo-electric power plants and there are power
cuts in over 60 pct of the province, Dragan Vignjevic
of the Serbian Power Company (EPS) told Tanjug
Saturday.
"EPS delivered on Friday up to 300 megawatts of
electricity to Kosovo and Metohija," Vignjevic said
adding that electric power was arriving in the
province "in much smaller quantities from Montenegro
and from Albania."

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KOSOVARO-ALBANESI DEL CLAN JASHARI ATTACCANO LE TRUPPE FRANCESI A
PREKAZ, L'UNMIK GARANTISCE LORO L'IMPUNITA'

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Kosovo%20Albanians%20attack%20French%20troops
Tanjug (Serbia) - October 26, 2003

Kosovo Albanians attack French troops

19:49 PRISTINA , Oct 26 (Tanjug) - A group of Kosovo
Albanians attacked on Saturday a group of French
troops within KFOR at Prekaz in central Kosovo, and
forced them to leave the region, UN police stated on
Sunday.
One French soldier was hurt, but no one was arrested,
UNMIK police said in the statement, carried by the
German DPA news agency.

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - October 28, 2003

Legal proceedings not instituted against Jashari
family members, Ratel

13:24 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Chief
commander of KFOR North-East Brigade, French General
Bernard Ratel, said on Tuesday legal proceedings were
not instituted against members of the Jashari family
or other people belonging to the group which had
carried out an armed attack at a KFOR patrol in Prekaz
last weekend.
I expect from Kosovo-Metohija political leaders and
those of the church to express loathing and
condemnation after each inncident that occurs in the
province, Ratel said, and pointed out that freedom of
movement had to exist on the whole territory of the
province.

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HASIM TACI: PER ME L'IMPUNITA' E' GARANTITA, IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA E'
DALLA PARTE NOSTRA

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Tachi%20certain%20he%20will%20not%20be%20accsued%20before%20wa
r%20crimes%20tribunal
Tanjug - October 26, 2003

Tachi certain he will not be accused before war crimes
tribunal

17:52 KJAGODINA , Oct 26 (Tanjug) - President of the
Democratic Party of Kosovo Hashim Tachi has stated he
was certain that he would never be indicted by the war
crimes tribunal.
"I know that people in the Serbian Justice Ministry
and Vladan Batic himself will be disappointed, but The
Hague is not working according to the wishes of
Belgrade," Tachi told, Jagodina television Palma Plus,
in an interveiw broadcast late Saturday evening.

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ALTRE ARMI SEQUESTRATE

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/db/Qserbia-montenegro.R5yd_DOQ.html
Agence France-Presse - October 26, 2003

Serbian police uncover arms cache belonging to
"Albanian terrorists"

BELGRADE, Oct 26 (AFP) - Serbian police said Sunday
they had discovered an arms cache in south Serbia
belonging to "Albanian terrorist groups" operating in
the region.
Police said the haul included around 30 automatic
weapons, grenade launchers, hand grenades and
ammunition.
The discovery came as part of a crackdown on the
activities of "Albanian terrorist groups" in southern
Serbia, the police said.
The weaponry was found close to the village of Veliki
Trnovac, near the town of Bujanovac, where it had been
hidden since demilitarisation in 2001 by the Albanian
extremist group, the "liberation army of Presevo,
Medvedja and Bujanovac," police said.
Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, adjoining Kosovo, lie
in a region with a large Albanian population and were
the scene of clashes from 2000 to 2001 between Serb
forces and the self-proclaimed liberation army, which
later disbanded to become the "Albanian national
army," since dubbed a terrorist organisation by the
United Nations.

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CECCHINI SECESSIONISTI CONTRO I CONTADINI

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25241&style=headlines
Beta - October 27, 2003

Kosovo Serb farmers under fire

SRBICA -- Monday – Unknown gunmen opened fire on a
group of seven Serbs from village of Banja today as
they headed to their orchards on tractors.
The apple orchards are located near a village
populated exclusively by Albanians.
Village leader Milutin Kovacevic told media that the
group was fired on from several different directions,
adding that it was pure luck that no one was killed.
The Serbs hid in a nearby forest until Danish KFOR
troops came to their rescue and escorted them home.
Banje and the neighbouring Suvo Grlo are the only two
villages in the Srbica municipality still inhabited by
Serbs.
They are completely cut off from the surrounding
region and subject to frequent attacks by their
Albanian neighbours.

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ARRESTATO PER INTIMIDAZIONI AI DANNI DI TESTIMONI NEL PROCESSO CONTRO
TERRORISTI PANALBANESI

http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25234&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - October 27, 2003

Rebel leader’s brother arrested

PRISTINA -- Monday – United Nations police in Kosovo
have arrested the brother of Shefket Musliu, a former
rebel leader in southern Serbia, Pristina daily Koha
Ditore reports.
The paper claims that Xhevdet Musliu was detained on
suspicion he tried to intimidate witnesses in his
brother’s trial.
Shefket Musliu is on trial in Kosovo, having been
arrested earlier this year. He had previously led an
ethnic Albanian guerrilla group operating in southern
Serbia.
Koha Ditore reports that Xhevdet was detained on
Sunday afternoon and was remanded in custody for 72
hours. The arrest was confirmed by his lawyer Masar
Morina.

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KOSOVO: CARABINIERI ARRESTANO ALBANESI PER CRIMINI DI GUERRA

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 28 OTT - Cinque albanesi del Kosovo sono stati
arrestati dai carabinieri dell'Unita' specializzata multinazionale
(Msu) con l'accusa di crimini di guerra. Nei loro confronti era stato
emesso ordine di cattura da un procuratore del dipartimento
internazionale di giustizia del Kosovo. Secondo l'ordine di cattura
i cinque nel periodo compreso fra il 27 febbraio e l'8 marzo 1999,
quando erano membri dell'ormai disciolto Esercito di liberazione del
Kosovo (Uck), sequestrarono e torturarono 15 albanesi nel distretto
di Kacanic sospettati di aver collaborato con i serbi: quattro di
loro da quel tempo risultano scomparsi. I reati contestati sono
sequestro di persona, tentato omicidio e lesioni personali gravissime
che in considerazione del movente e del contesto in cui vennero
commessi rientrano nei crimini di guerra. A quel tempo l'Uck si
preparava ad entrare in guerra al fianco della Nato contro il potere
e le milizie di Slobodan Milosevic che imperversavano in Kosovo. Lo
stesso Uck si rese tuttavia colpevole prima, durante e dopo il
conflitto di violenze nei confronti di presunti ''collaborazionisti''
del governo di Belgrado. Alla cattura dei cinque ex guerriglieri,
oltre ai carabinieri, hanno partecipato anche un ispettore e due
assistenti della polizia di Stato italiana inquadrati nella polizia
dell'Unmik, la missione delle Nazioni Unite in Kosovo.(ANSA).
BLL 28/10/2003 12:25

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#Five%20former%20OVK%20members%20arrested%20in%20Kosovo-
Metohija

Five former OVK members arrested in Kosovo-Metohija

09:31 PRISTINA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Five former members
of the Liberation Army of Kosovo (OVK) were arrested
on Monday in eastern part of Kosovo and Metohija on
suspicion that they committed war crimes during the
armed conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija that ended in June
1999, the Kosovo-Metohija public television RTK
reported.
According to the report, five Albanians were arrested
in Kacanik, near the border with Macedonia, by Italian
troops of the U.N. mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). UNMIK
has not made an official confirmation of the arrests.

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DEL KOSMET OGNI TANTO SI CHIACCHIERA ALL'ONU

http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25245&order=priority&style=headlines
SRNA - October 27, 2003

Kosovo on Security Council agenda this week

NEW YORK -- Monday – The UN Security Council has
scheduled an open session on Kosovo for this Thursday.
On the agenda will be a review of UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan’s report on UNMIK’s work and a verbal
report by UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri.
Serbia-Montenegro’s ambassador to the UN, Dejan
Sahovic, is also expected to speak at the session.

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PRESSIONI SUI SERBI DI SUVI DO: ANDATEVENE AL DIAVOLO

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - October 28, 2003

Serbs in Kosovo village under pressure by ethnic
Albanians to leave

19:14 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - Serbs in
the Suvi Do village about 3 km from Kosovska Mitrovica
said Tuesday that they are under constant pressure to
abandon their village, which is completely surrounded
by ethnic Albanian communities.
Daily thefts of livestock, crops and agricultural
machinery, the absence of the freedom of movement and
threats by ethnic Albanian neighbors are some of the
reasons the residents are considering leaving, a local
Serb told Tanjug on condition of anonymity for
security reasons.

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LA LOBBY ALBANO-STATUNITENSE PREME PER LA SVENDITA DELLE DITTE
EX-AUTOGESTITE, ILLEGALMENTE ESPROPRIATE DALL'ONU ALLA SERBIA

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/

Kosovo agency continues illegal privatization

17:22 BELGRADE , Oct 28 (Tanjug) - The Kosovo
Pivatization Agency continues the illegal
privatization of socially-owned companies in Kosovo
and Metohija by posting a third invitation for
tenders, Kosovo-Metohija Coordinating Center
department for economic growth and reconstruction head
Milena Vasic said on Tuesday.
"It is our belief that the decision was made under
pressure from ethnic Albanian representatives in
Kosovo's interim institutions, media, but also the
Albanian lobbies abroad, in particular in the United
States Congress," Vasic told a press conference for
reporters of the Coordinating Center.

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KOSOVO: IN PARTENZA BRIGATA TRINAZIONALE CON ALPINI

(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 29 OTT - La Multinational Land Force (MLF), compagine
militare alpina italo-slovena-ungherese, partecipera' dal 12 novembre
alla sua prima missione internazionale di peacekeeping, in Kosovo,
nell' ambito dell' operazione di pace Decive Endevour.
La MLF dal 12 novembre e per i prossimi sei mesi, prendera' il
comando dell' area occidentale della regione, a capo di 8.000 militari
provenienti da 13 nazioni. La compagine militare, composta da 200
militari, 40 dei quali provenienti dalla Slovenia e dall' Ungheria
(gli altri 160 sono alpini della Brigata ''Julia''), e' nata nel 2000
con precisi compiti di supporto nelle missioni di pace ed e' operativa
dalla fine del 2002.
Per domani e' prevista a Udine, nella Caserma di Prampero, sede
della Brigata Alpina 'Julia', la cerimonia di saluto per la partenza.
(ANSA). RED-DF 29-OTT-03 14:43 NNNN
29/10/2003 16:07

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ESSENDO SERBO VIENE AGGREDITO IN PIENO CENTRO CITTADINO

A Serb beaten up in center of Gnjilane

Tanjug - October 31, 2003
12:54 GNJILANE - Djura Stojkovic (70) of the village of Donje Budrige,
near Gnjilane, has been beaten up in the center of Gnjilane and was
seriously injured.
On Thursday, Stojkovic was walking down the main street towards the
municipality building when he was brutaly attacked.

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CHI SPEDISCE LE ARMI AL CENTRO "ADEM JASHARI" ?

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug103103.htm
Tanjug - October 31, 2003

Who is sending weapons to Adem Jashari centre? - Trajkovic

12:21 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Return Coalition member of Kosovo parliament
Rada Trajkovic has told Tanjug that Kfor (Kosovo Force) commanders
should explain to the people of Kosovo-Metohija where the
antiaircraft weapons, such as Stingers and multiple rocket launchers,
which can be found at the Adem Jashari Memorial Centre, come from.
"According to the information we possess, the Adem Jashari Memorial
Centre serves for the storage of up-to-date weapons, and it has to be
revealed which NATO member country is supplying the ethnic Albanians
with such weapons," Trajkovic said. She pointed out that Serbs found
as unacceptable the initiative MPs of Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party
of Kosovo (DPK) (PDK in Albanian) had tried to launch at the Kosovo
parliament, so as to protect the centre and Jashari family.
She reminded of the fact that the initiative on protecting the Jashari
family followed after members of that family had attacked a patrol of
French UNMIK soldiers in Prekaz, central Kosovo.
At the Kosovo parliament Thursday (30 October) session, the initiative
was opposed to by parliament Speaker Nexhad Dachi as well. The only
Kosovo Serb Minister, Goran Bogdanovic, also said the DPK initiative
on the protection of the Memorial Centre and Jashari family was
unacceptable for Kosovo Serbs.
"It is good to know who Adem Jashari was and what kind of crimes he
committed in Kosovo-Metohija," Bogdanovic said, pointing out that such
attempts of certain ethnic Albanian leaders and parties should be
denounced by representatives of the international community in Kosovo
as well.


=== LINKS ===


Child murders found
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77365#1

KFOR Says There Is No Room For Serbian Security Forces
In Serbian Province Of Kosovo
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Elect.htm#KFOR%20says%20there%20is%20no%20room%20for%20Serbian%20securit
y%20forces%20in%20Kosovo

Unindicted War Criminal Hashim Thaci Calls For
Constitution To Insure 'Transfer Of International
Authority To Kosovo'
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25177&style=headlines

Albanian usurpation of the Serbian Orthodox inheritance in Kosovo and
Metohija
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77759

Serbian Deputy PM: Belgrade refuses dialogue without multiethnic Kosovo
delegation
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
10/23/331598.html

Attacks on Kosovo Serbs continue...
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim28oct03.html

Kosovo's Privatisation Hiccups (by T. Matic & A. Lama)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200310_465_2_eng.txt

Albania and Kosovo
http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/
home.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=37

''The Return of The Hague Tribunal and the West's Dilemma in Kosovo''
(by Christopher Deliso)
http://www.pinr.com/
report.php?ac=view_printable&report_id=106&language_id=1


=== AVVERTENZE ===


Come al solito, questa nostra rassegna sul Kosmet non ha pretesa di
completezza: le notizie qui riportate sono da considerare solo come
esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.

Per quanto riguarda i precedenti "bollettini di guerra" dal Kosmet (da
maggio 2002 in poi), essi sono elencati alle URL:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2697
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2848.
In generale, un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime
di terrore instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali
(KFOR) e dai neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare nel nostro
archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija si
veda in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2521
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.
Due SITI IN LINGUA ITALIANA dove trovare informazioni aggiornate sulle
violenze perpetrate giorno per giorno in Kosmet sono
http://www.ansa.it/balcani kosovo/kosovo.shtml (ANSA) e
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.it
Si tratta di due servizi professionali di informazione, di orientamento
istituzionale, con tutto quanto cio' comporta dal punto di vista della
interpretazione e presentazione degli avvenimenti.
Molti dei materiali che riportiamo nelle nostre rassegne provengono
dalle mailinglists:
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anti-imperialiste@...
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e dal bollettino della chiesa ortodossa in Kosmet ERP KIM:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
Ulteriori informazioni si trovano sul sito curato dalla chiesa
serbo-ortodossa:
http://www.kosovo.com
(a cura di A.M.)

http://www.clorofilla.it/articolo.asp?articolo=3452


Migliaia di vittime e di desaparecidos per lo più civili e di etnia
serba. Trecentomila cittadini non albanesi espulsi. I nomi degli
appartenenti alle bande terroristiche che operano nell’area. A piede
libero e sotto il vessillo delle Nazioni Unite. Duecento pagine
ripercorrono, con l'ausilio di mappe, testimonianze fotografiche e dati
statistici, la tragica storia delle regioni serbe del Kosovo e della
Metohija degli ultimi quattro anni. E' un libro bianco presentato dal
premier serbo Zoran Zivkovic che raccoglie le testimonianze della
popolazione che, dal 6 giugno 1999 al 23 agosto 2003, ha subito circa
seimila attacchi


Quattro anni di crimini ignorati


Di Babsi Jones. [http://www.exju.org/%5d


Milano - E’ il premier serbo Zoran Zivkovic a presentarlo al pubblico
lo scorso 4 di novembre:

il libro bianco
[http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-11/05/331768.html%5d è un dossier
di duecento pagine che ripercorrono, con l'ausilio di mappe,
testimonianze fotografiche e dati statistici, la tragica storia delle
regioni serbe del Kosovo e della Metohija degli ultimi quattro anni.

Il sottotitolo chiosa: “Terrorismo albanese e crimine organizzato nel
Kosmet”, laddove Kosmet non è che l’acronimo di Kosovo e Metohija, nome
istituzionale della regione che il pressappochismo occidentale ha
ribattezzato “Kossovo”.

Nella conferenza stampa di presentazione, Zivkovic ha specificato che
si tratta di un dossier ufficiale, distribuito per informare l'opinione
pubblica in merito alle azioni criminali del nazionalismo secessionista
albanese, che sta logorando da tempo la fragile stabilità dei Balcani
meridionali.

Già dagli anni ’80 [http://www.balkanpeace.org/beginner/index.shtml%5d
l’accanimento separatista albanese ha fatto della regione una
polveriera; la situazione è poi precipitata con la furiosa campagna
bellica anti-Milosevic condotta dall’Alleanza Atlantica nel ’99 e la
susseguente conversione coatta del Kosmet in protettorato.

Nel giugno 1999, al termine  dei bombardamenti occidentali a danno
della Repubblica Federale Jugoslava, in Kosovo si insediano gli uomini
della Kfor [http://www.nato.int/kfor/welcome.html%5d e dell’Unmik
[http://www.unmikonline.org/%5d, con il preciso intento di (far)
applicare la risoluzione 1244
[http://www.nato.int/kosovo/docu/u990610a.htm%5d: ed è proprio da quel
momento, paradossalmente, che le minoranze della regione cominciano a
subire un puntuale e sistematico trattamento di pulizia etnica, per lo
più ignorata dai nostri mass media: questi ultimi quattro anni di
terrore sono documentati dal libro bianco presentato a Belgrado.

La risoluzione 1244, che è stata la base d’intesa per gli accordi di
Kumanovo [http://www.nato.int/kosovo/docu/a990609a.htm%5d, e che
definisce Kosovo e Metohija come parte della Federazione Jugoslava (ora
Federazione Serbia e Montenegro) in qualità di regione autonoma, e
garantisce il disarmo incondizionato di tutte le parti in causa, ha un
valore tristemente nominale: nella "fittizia pace" imposta con le
bombe, e gestita maldestramente dall’Occidente, la maggioranza albanese
del Kosovo - forte delle sue istituzioni parallele pseudolegali - ha
ridotto la minoranza serbo-ortodossa (ma anche i cittadini turchi,
bosniaci e rom) alla ghettizzazione nelle enclaves, in un clima di
terrore e di incessanti attacchi che hanno lasciato sul campo tanti
morti quanti ne lascerebbe una comune guerra civile. I molteplici
delitti –omicidi ad personam o efferate stragi- sono caduti via via nel
dimenticatoio della storia recente, privi d’un colpevole certo; nulla
si è fatto per interrompere la spirale di odio e di violenza antiserba,
e il Tribunale dell’Aja si direbbe sordo ad ogni appello.

La ‘regione autonoma’, in cui la maggioranza albanese detiene il
controllo del potere con la forza della sopraffazione, è condannata ad
un futuro di ‘narcostato monoetnico’, e il recente tentativo di
negoziati a Vienna [http://www.exju.org/comments.php?id=P465_0_1_0_C]
ha evidenziato l’assenza di una soluzione diplomatica adeguata. Gli
albanesi del Kosmet non concepiscono che l’ipotesi secessionista, da
realizzarsi in tempi brevi e con abbondanti spargimenti di sangue.
 
"Lo scopo del libro bianco", ha dichiarato Zivkovic, "è di invogliare i
responsabili ad individuare e perseguire il crimine organizzato nella
regione, e a fornire sufficienti prove al Tribunale Internazionale per
i crimini di guerra nella ex-Jugoslavia [http://www.un.org/icty/%5d
affinché i giudici si occupino anche dei colpevoli albanesi". Il libro,
che è frutto del lavoro congiunto del ministero degli Interni della
Repubblica di Serbia [http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/government/%5d, delle
Forze di Polizia e dell'Esercito, contiene i nomi degli appartenenti
alle bande terroristiche che operano nell’aerea, molti dei quali
letteralmente a piede libero e sotto il vessillo delle Nazioni Unite.

Nel dossier è spiegato come l'Uck (il propagandato ‘esercito di
liberazione’, calorosamente spalleggiato nel ‘99 dalla Nato, che fino a
pochi anni prima lo annoverava nelle ‘formazioni terroristiche da
debellare’) sia stato quasi totalmente assimilato dalle nuove forze di
"vigilanza" postbelliche: il popolare Kosovo Protection Force, che
avrebbe dovuto essere il simbolo di una smilitarizzazione della regione
e di un ipotetico ritorno ai più basilari principi di democrazia e si è
rivelato, in realtà, uno strumento banditesco patrocinato (o forse solo
tollerato?) dalle forze internazionali.

Nei dettagli, il libro bianco raccoglie le testimonianze in merito agli
attentati nel Kosmet e nel sud della Serbia che, dal 6 giugno 1999 al
23 agosto 2003, hanno raggiunto la spaventosa cifra di seimila
attacchi, causando un migliaio di vittime, per lo più di etnia serba, e
per lo più civili.

In aggiunta, sono quasi trecentomila i cittadini non albanesi espulsi
dalla regione, relegati al ruolo di profughi senza chance di ritorno
alle proprie abitazioni, e si contano anche un migliaio di
desaparecidos [http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim22aug03.html%5d: ma il numero
delle persone rapite ed uccise potrebbe essere verosimilmente
raddoppiato, perché in assenza di strutture democratiche e di
condizioni minime di sicurezza, a prevalere nel Kosmet è la dialettica
del Far West. 

Particolare attenzione è rivolta all’Esercito Nazionale Albanese
(Ana/Aksh [http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/feb03/hed5499.shtml%5d
in sigla), un'organizzazione militare terroristica, ampiamente
finanziata dalla diaspora albanese nel mondo e compresa nell’ombrello
del terrorismo panislamico, della cui esistenza l'Onu non ha mai fatto
mistero
[http://auth.unimondo.org/cfdocs/obportal/
index.cfm?fuseaction=news.notizia&NewsID=2037], e che trova ampio
sostegno ideologico (e materiale) nella regione.
L'Ana, che ha già dalla sua un vasto assortimento di omicidi e di atti
terroristici, è agente destabilizzante non solo nelle regioni del
Kosovo e Metohija, ma anche nella Serbia meridionale ed in Macedonia.
Si tratta di un esercito di guerriglia organizzato in veri e propri
reparti militari, opportunamente dislocati nel sud dei Balcani: dalla
divisione Jashari con base a Gnjilane alla divisione Skandenberg con
base nella Macedonia occidentale, dalla divisione Malesia con base a
Ulcinj (Montenegro) alla divisione Chameria di stanza nel nord della
Grecia.

Obiettivo dell'Esercito Albanese (che aveva anche un fantomatico sito
internet, www.aksh.org [http://www.aksh.org/%5d, ora rimosso) sarebbe la
"liberazione" di tutte le terre abitate da cittadini albanesi (Serbia
del sud e Kosmet, Macedonia, parte del Montenegro e della Grecia) e la
formazione di una Grande Albania Unita. Un altro dei troppi deliri di
grandezza balcanica che l’Occidente sfrutta e cavalca con grande
disinvoltura, pronto a spargere lacrime insincere sul latte versato
quando i cadaveri –anziché in centinaia- si conteranno in migliaia.

Il libro bianco fornisce risposte ed informazioni -forse non richieste
dalle cancellerie di mezzo mondo, per le quali il Kosmet resta una
dolorosa spina nel fianco-, a cominciare dall'elenco di 156 ex-leaders
dell’UCK che – con l’alibi del patriottismo e non di rado indossando la
divisa cucita ad hoc dalla Kfor - si spartiscono la ricca torta del
narcotraffico.

Il libro bianco, che include anche le dichiarazioni di organizzazioni e
autorità unanimemente considerate come super partes - dall'ultimo
allarmante comunicato delle Nazioni Unite
[http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/oct03/hed6040.shtml%5d ai
reportages di Amnesty International
[http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR700102003%5d, dai numerosi
appelli del patriarca Pavle
[http://www.exju.org/comments.php?id=P242_0_1_0_C] della Chiesa
Ortodossa Serba alle richieste di patrocinio dell’Unesco per i numerosi
monasteri minacciati dalla furia della guerriglia - è il primo
documento del genere ad essere pubblicato.

Più che di una petizione ‘morale’, infatti, si tratta di un monito
istituzionale: non a caso viene presentato nella stessa settimana che
ha visto il ministro della Giustizia Vladan Batic presentare le sue
rimostranze [http://www.kosovo.com/erpkim07nov03.html#2%5d in via
ufficiale per il mancato arresto di Agim Ceku, noto ai più con il
soprannome di “macellaio dei Balcani”: un delinquente impunito per
Belgrado che ne richiede l’estradizione, ma un leale alleato per la
Kfor che, dando un colpo al cerchio ed uno alla botte, gli assicura
libertà di azione ed immunità.  

(lunedì 10 novembre 2003)

PRAVNA PRIRODA SUKOBA NA KOSOVU I METOHIJI

http://www.artel.co.yu/sr/reakcije_citalaca/2003-11-11.html

Dr Milan Tepavac
5. novembar 2003.

Sukob izmedu jugoslovenskih i srpskih nadležnih organa sa šiptarskim
pobunjenicima i teroristima na Kosovu i Metohiji nije bio rat u pravnom
smislu. - Treba govoriti o tamo pocinjenim zlocinima, a ne o ratim
zlocinima. - Nema ratnih zlocina bez rata. -Karla del Ponte i njena
prethodnica Luiz Arbur su se rukovodile politickim motivima kada su
period od 1.1. do 20.6.1999. na Kosmetu okarakterisale kao "stanje
oružanog sukoba" (rata) u smislu medunarodnog prava. - Domaci sudovi
cine istu grešku kada krivcna dela tamo pocinjena kvalifikuju kao ratne
zlocine.

1. Uvodne napomene

Takozvano tužilaštvo takozvanog Medunarodnog krivicnog tribunala za
prethodnu Jugoslaviju (u daljem tekstu MKTJ) podnelo je optužnicu
protiv protiv Slobodana Miloševica, Milana Milutinovica, Nikole
Šajnovica, Dragoljuba Ojdanica i Vlajka Stojiljkovica 16. oktobra 2001.
(to je izmenjena optužnica u odnosu na prvu koju je tužilaštvo podnelo
usered agresije NATO, 22.maja 1999). Kasnije, 19. jula 2002, to
tužilaštvo je izdvojilo optužbu protiv Milutinovica, Šajnovica i
Ojdanica (u meduvremenu je Vlajko Stojiljkovic izvršio samoubistvo) u
posebnu optužnicu. Upravo dok pišem ovaj tekst (potkraj oktobra 2003)
tužilaštvo je "otpecatilo" i optužicu - koja nosi datum 22.septembra
2003 - za dogadanja na Kosmetu i protiv dvojice general Vojske
Jugoslavije Pavkovica i Lazarevica i dvojice policijskih general
Đordevica i Lukica.

Optužnica protiv Slobodana Miloševica povodom dogadanja na Kosovu i
Metohiji sadrži kjlucnu odredbu na kojoj, ustvari, pociva citava
optužnica. Rec je o tacki 69 koja glasi:

"69. Sve vreme na koje se odnosi ova optužnica, na Kosovu u SRJ
postojalo je stanje oružanog sukoba".

"Vreme na koje se odnosi optužnica" je vreme od 1. januara do 20. juna
1999. godine. Naime, i Miloševic i njegovi imenovani saradnici optuženi
su za navodna nedala koje su tamo pocinili jugoslovenski i srpski
organi u navedenom vremenskom periodu, koji period vremena je
tužilaštvo ocenilo, okarakterisalo kao "stanje oružanog sukoba".
(Optužnica protiv Pavkovica, Lazarevica, Đordevica i Lukica takode se
odnosi na isti period vremena i u njoj ponavlja da je u naznacenom
periodu na Kosmetu bilo "stanje oružanog sukoba"). Posmatrano sa
politicke tacke gledišta, ovakva ocena tužilaštva ucinjena je iz dva
osnovna razloga: (1) da bi se opravdala agresija NATO pakta i (2) da bi
se tužilaštvo odnosno tribunal mogli proglasiti nadležnim u pogledu
sukoba na Kosovu i Metohiji jugoslovenskih organa sa šiptarskim
pobunjenicima, secesionistima i teroristima.

Dakle, kljucno pitanje koje se ovde namece jeste da li je ili nije u
navedenom vremenskom periodu - od 1. januara do 20. juna 1999 - na
Kosovu i Methiji postojalo "stanje oružanog sukoba" u smislu
medunarodnog prava. Jer, u suprotnom - ako se dokaže da je ocena
tužilaštva pogrešna - optužbe tužilaštva protiv svih lica optuženih
povodom Kosova i Metohije padaju u vodu jer gubi nadležnost, a sva lica
u njegovim kazamatima u Ševeningenu morala bi odmah biti puštena na
slobodu, a verovatno i obeštecana za svu štetu koja im je protivpravno
naneta. Zato ce tužilaštvo, po prirodi stvari uciniti sve da je njegova
gornja postavka tacna, da se na Kosovu i Metohiji u naznacenom periodu
zaista radilo o "stanju oružanog sukoba". Svrha ovoga teksta je da
dokaže da je ocena, bolje receno, pretpostavka tužilaštva pogrešna, to
jest nije se radilo o oružanom sukobu u smislu medunarodnog prava, vec
o normalnoj i uobicajenoj intervenciji nadležnih državnih organa kada
na delu njene teritorije dode do pobune jednog dela njenog
stanovništva. Receno cisto pravnickim jezikom, sukob na Kosovu i
Metohiji u relevantnom vremenskom razdoblju izmedu nadležnih
jugoslovenskih i srpskih organa i jednog dela šiptarskog stanovništva
ne spada pod odredba stava 1 clan 1 Dodatnog protokola II uz Ženevske
konvencije, vec pod odredba stava 2 tog clana istog protokola. U daljem
tekstu ovo cemo razjasniti.

2. Šta se dogadalo u "relevantnom periodu",šta mu je prethodilo i -
usledilo

a) Opšti pogled na šiptarski separatizam

U kosovskoj optužnici protiv Slobodana Miloševica se navodi: "U julu
1990. godine, Skupština Srbije donela je odluku o raspuštanju Skupštine
Kosova, ubrzo nakon što je 114 poslanika od 123 predstavnika kosovskih
Albanca u Skupštini usvojilo nezvanicnu rezoluciju kojom Kosovo
proglašavaju ravnopravnim i nezavisnim entitetom u okviru SFRJ. U
septembru 1990. godine, mnogi od tih istih poslanika kosovskih Albanaca
proglasili su ustav "Republike Kosovo". Godinu dana kasnije, u
septembru 1991. godine, kosovski Albanci održali su nezvanicni
referendum na kome su u ogromnoj vecini glasali za nezavisnost. Dana
24. maja 1992. godine, kosovski Albanci održali su nezvanicne izbore za
skupštinu i predsednika "Republike Kosovo"...

Svakom ko ovo cita mora odmah da pada u oci cinjenica da tužilaštvo sve
te radnje koje su preduzete na Kosovu i Metohiji ne karakteriše pravim
imenom, naime da je rec o protivustavnim i protivzakonitim radnjama, iz
cega logicno sledi da sve ono što su preduzele nadležne jugoslovenske i
srpske vlasti kao odgovor na te radnje nije ništa drugo nego ono što se
preduzima u svakoj civilizovanoj i pravnoj državi. Ali, ovo
falsifikovanje istorije nije ništa prema onome što sledi. Dajuci ocenu
šireg istorijskog konteksta u Jugoslaviji u kome se krecu dogadaji na
KiM, tužilaštvo u istoj optužnici kaže:

"Krajem juna 1991. godine, SFRJ je pocela da se raspada u nizu ratova
koji su usledili jedan za drugim, u Republici Sloveniji (dalje u
tekstu: Slovenija), Republici Hrvatskoj (dalje u tekstu: Hrvatska) i
Bosni i Hercegovini. Slovenija je 25. juna 1991. godine proglasila
nezavisnost od SFRJ, što je dovelo do izbijanja rata; mirovni sporazum
postignut je 8. jula 1991. godine. Hrvatska je svoju nezavisnost
proglasila 25. juna 1991. godine, što je dovelo do borbi izmedu
hrvatskih vojnih snaga s jedne strane i JNA, paravojnih jedinica i
"Vojske Republike Srpske Krajine" s druge... Bosna i Hercegovina
proglasila je nezavisnost 6. marta 1992. godine, što je posle 6. aprila
1992. godine dovelo do rata širokih razmera. Dana 27. aprila 1992.
godine SFRJ je rekonstituisana kao SRJ. U to vreme JNA je
reorganizovana u VJ. U ratu u Bosni i Hercegovini, JNA, a kasnije VJ,
borila se zajedno sa "Vojskom Republike Srpske" protiv vojnih snaga
vlade Bosne i Hercegovine i "Hrvatskog vijeca obrane". Aktivna
neprijateljstva prestala su potpisivanjem Dejtonskog mirovnog sporazuma
u decembru 1995. godine". Ovim tekstom ce tužilaštvo uci u istoriju
ignorantnosti i bescašca ne samo medunarodne krivicne jurisprudencije i
jurisdikcije nego i u istoriju pravne i politticke teorije i istorije u
pokušaju da se falsifikuje istorija. (Otuda, više je nego normalno da
glavna parola predstojecih demonstracija, koje ce se održati u Hagu 8.
novembra o.g, biti "WE WILL NOT ALLOW THE NATO AGGRESSORS TO WRITE OUR
HISTORY"). I ovde, naravno u još vecoj meri, vredi ono što smo rekli u
pogledu KiM: dogadaje u Hrvatskoj, Sloveniji i Bosni i Hercegovini
tužilaštvo tendeciozno i zlonamerno ne naziva pravim imenom: da je rec
o protivustavnoj i protivzakonitoj oružanoj pobuni secesionistickih
snaga u tim jugoslovenskim republikama, podsticanim, planiranim i
finansiranim od svojih saucesnika - vladajucih krugova u SAD, Vatikanu
i EU (EZ) i islamskih fundamentalista. Svaka kap prolivene krvi na tim
prostorima je na rukama tih zlocinaca, a ovakvim stavovima tužilaštvo
se svrstava u njihove saucesnike.

O šiptarskom terorizmu na Kosovu i Metohiji moglo bi se mnogo govoriti
i kjige napisati. Ali, evo, zadržimo se na današnjoj (5.novembar 2003)
Politici u kojoj je informacija da je vlada Republike Srbije (dakle,
sadašnja, a ne "Miloševiceva" vlada) upravo objavila "belu kjigu" pod
naslovom Albanski terorizam i organizovani kriminal na Kosmetu ciji
naslov govori sam za sebe. Tu je i informacija da je šef UNMIK-a Hari
Holkeri obecao da ce istražiti ceo slucaj identiteta lica na
fotografijama koje su ovih dana objavljene u štampi kako trojica
pripadnika tzv. OVK drže u rukama odsecene glave srpskih vojnika. Tu je
takode informacija da je ministar pravde Srbije izjavio da ministarstvo
poseduje dokumentaciju, desetine hiljada stranica, o stravicnim
zlocinima nad Srbima na Kosmetu "najmonstruoznijim posle Drugog
svetskog rata". Taj materijal na nepobitan nacin potvrduje odgovornost
za više od 7.000 teroristickih napada u kojima je ubijeno preko 1.200
ljudi, ranjeno oko 1.350, kidnapovano gotovo 1.000, proterano 340.000
nealbanaca, oteto ili spaljeno 107.000 kuca...

O dogadajima na Kosovu i Metohiji i svojoj ulozi u njima Slobodan
Milošvic je u postupku protiv njega pred tribunalom rekao dosta toga,
narocito u svom uvodnom izlaganju povodom kosovske optužnice 13, 14,
15. i 18. febrara 2002. Iako je govorio više kao politicar nego kao
pravnik, jasno je da je i on uverenja da tribunal ni po njegovom
statutu nema nadležnosti u pogledu KiM. U svom intervjuu americkoj
agenciji Fox News od 24. avgusta 2001.(iz Haga) on je rekao: "There are
individual crimes, but there was a clear order that any crime has to be
punished immediately, and whoever did it, has to be arrested. And the
proof that that order was obeyed quite clearly and exactly the way it
was supposed to be obeyed is the fact that more than 500 different
individuals were arrested by the police or the army who were doing
so.Those were consequences of a chaotic situation created by the
massive bombing of NATO". Drugim recima, za sve zlocine (neumesno je
upotrebljavati izraz "ratni zlocini") pocinjene tamo i pre, i za vreme
NATO agresije i posle nje nadležni su domaci sudovi, a ne MKTJ.

b) Podrška iz inostranstva

Bez najgrubljeg i najbrutalnijeg mešanja u unutrašnje stvari
Jugoslavije i Srbije, protivno Povelji UN i svim principima
medunarodnog prava i osnovnim dokumentima OEBS (KEBS), bez spoljne
politicke, vojne, finansijske i druge podrške iz inostranstva na Kosovu
i Metohiji nikada ne bi došlo do onoga do cega je došlo i do cega još
uvek dolazi. Kada je rec o politickoj podršci, verovatno je
najpresudnija ona koja dolazi iz uticajnih krugova u SAD kao što su
snažni albanski lobi(1) u toj zemlji i uticajna Medunarodna krizna
grupa (ICG) u kojoj dominira antisrpski jevrejski lobi. Sva nastojanja
i svi apeli da se s tim prestane ostali su bezuspešni. Cak i apeli
Saveta bezbednosti UN da se obustavi spoljna podrska albanskim
teroristima na KiM ostali su i ostaju mrtvo slovo na papiru.

U toj i takvoj raboti posebna je uloga Albanije. Albanija je jedina
drzava na svetu koja je priznala ilegalnu "Republiku Kosovo", koju su
albanski separatisti proglasili nakon ilegalnih jednonacionalnih
"izbora" odrzanih jos 1992. godine. Neskrivenu podrsku albanskim
separatistima davali su svi drzavni organi Albanije, koja je postala
narocito snazna sa rasplamsavanjem terorizma na KiM , posebno od 1998.
godine.Tu podrsku je snazno izrazio i Parlament Albanije, koji je 28.
decembra 1998. godine usvojio "Rezoluciju o stanju na Kosovu", u kojoj
se za odbranu drzavne jugoslovenske granice od upada terorista iz
Albanije i sprecavanje brojnih pokusaja unosenja naoruzanja i vojne
opreme, izmedju ostalog, kaze: "Provokativna politika Beograda na
granici sa Republikom Albanijom tezi prosirivanju sukoba na sve
albanske prostore...". U istoj rezoluciji se, uz neskriven poziv
medjunarodnoj zajednici da vojno pomogne ostvarivanje separatiistickih
ciljeva albanskih terorista na KiM istice da parlament Albanije
..."zahteva snaznu podrsku od albanske vlade i drzave kosovskoj braci,
u cilju odolevanja vanrednim situacijama u kojima se oni nalaze i u
njihovim naporima da sami odlucuju o buducnosti Kosova", kao da je
Kosovo albansko i da ne pripada svim gradjanima koji tamo zive i koji
je nesporan deo Srbije i Jugoslavije.
Podrška Albanije teroristima i separatistima na KiM posebno je izražena
u naoružavanju i obuci terorista UCK.Prema zvanicnim i nezvanicnim
izvorima, u Albaniji je za obuku terorista OVK osnovan veliki broj
posebnih kampova, i to u: Tirani, Kuksu, Tropoji, Peskopeji, Hazu,
Krumi, Fierzi i drugim mestima. Pripremanje teroristickih grupa u
Albaniji potvrdio je i ambasador Dan Everts, sef Misije OEBS u
Albaniji, sto je preneo "Reuters" u svom izvestaju od 21. decembra
1998. godine, u kojem se kaze: ''Guerrillas from the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) are actively girding for war and using northern Albania as a
staging ground for their separatist campaign, an OSCE diplomat said.
'The north (of Albania) is a staging ground for the war and the KLA are
very busy '', ambassador Daan Everts, head of the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Albania told
Reuters at the weekend. The main KLA staging area now appears to have
been moved south into remote parts of a region known as the Has
highlands, wher Krume is the largest nearby town Discretion is the new
KLA watchword. It is uncommon to spot a KLA soldier in uniform in Krume
and the guerrillas generally conduct their business out of sight of
pryin eyes '', istice Reuters.
Niko više ne može da porekne postojanje logora za Al Kaide gde se
vršila obuka terorista. (Boško Jakšic u "Politici" od 1. novembra 2003).
U aktivnoj podrsci u obuci i naoruzavanju albanskih terorista
ucestvovale su i mnoge druge zemlje, posebno Nemacka. Tako, npr.,
britanski dnevnim "European" otkriva, pozivajuci se na diplomatske i
obavestajne izvore, da aktivni angazman nemackih obavestajnih sluzbi
(civilne i vojne) na obucavanju i opremanju terorista UCK za vrsenje
zlocinackih aktivnosti na Kosovu i Metohiji, datira od februara 1996.
godine, sa cilje da ..."cementira nemacki uticaj na balkanskom
prostoru...". Agenti BND bili su zaduzeni da formiraju komandnu
strukturu UCK, obezbede obavestajnu podrsku na ulaznim tackama
terorista u Italiju ( Trst i Bari) i osiguraju njihovo prebacivanje u
Albaniju i obuku terorista.
U najnovijim istraživanjima poznati publicista Kristofer Deliso
(Christopher Deliso) (http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso93.html)
konstatuje: "In 1998, when NATO's war on Yugoslavia was first being
organized, secret camps were set up in northern Albania. There, British
and American forces trained the rag-tag fighters of the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA). The two countries openly armed, supplied and
supported the KLA during the war against Milosevic, using the
paramilitary group as NATO's ground troops".
Prema pisanju ljubljanskog dnevnika "Delo", oficiri i podoficiri
slovenacke vojske albanske narodnosti ukljuceni su, takode, u obuku
terorista OVK, pa cak i u jihove borbene akcije na KiM.
***
U širokom spektru stavova raznih medunarodnih politickih struktura i
jednom delu medunarodne javnosti dominirala je smisljeno lansirana
neistina o tzv. "OVK" kao nekakvom "gerilskom pokretu" albanske
nacionalne zajednice na KiM.
Ipak je svest o teroristickom karakteru OVK bila prisutna kod
objektivnih posmatraca dogadaja na KiM. Tako je Federacija americkih
naucnika (FAS), koja se smatra "trustom mozgova", objavila izveštaj u
kojem je separatisticko - teroristicku OVK svrstala medu 113
najpoznatijih teroristickih organizacija u svetu. FAS je, uz State
Department, jedina organizacija u SAD koja se ozbiljno bavi
proucavanjem i klasifikovanjem teroristickih organizacija u svetu.
Džon Pajk, šef odseka za bezbednoist FAS -a, izjavio je da je njegova
organizacija izradila "kompletnu analizu, detaljno istražujuci nacin
delovanja i strukturu OVK, za razliku od State Departmenta, koji
procene bazira uglavnom na politickoj osnovi". Pajk sumarno navodi
cinjenice zbog kojih je OVK svrstana medju teroristicke organizacije.
Pre svega, taktika OVK sastoji se u napaima na organe bezbednosti, i to
iz zasede. Zatim, clanovi OVK organizovani su u celije od tri do pet
clanova, što je karaketristicno za teroristicke organizacije. Clanovi
grupe su vidno opsednuti svojom idejom odvajanja KiM od Srbije i SRJ i
njenog pripajanja tzv. "Velikoj Albaniji", a naredbe predpostavljenih
izvrsavaju bezpogovorno. U daljoj analizi FAS-a navodi se da u redovima
OVK ima oko 1000 placenika iz Albanije, Saudijske Arabije , Jemena,
Avganistana, BiH i Hrvatske, kao i "vojnih strucnjaka" iz Velike
Britanije i Nemacke, koji rade kao instruktori. Glavni kampovi za obuku
terorista OVK nalaze se u albanskim gradovima Ljabinot, Tropoja, Kukes
i Bajram Curi, gde su koncentrisane pristalice bivseg albanskog
predsednika Saloja Berise. U izvestaju FAS-a istaknuto je, pored
ostalog da su ..."I Rugova i OVK insistirali na nezavisnosti Kosova.
Otvoreni dugorocni cilj OVK jeste da ujedini albansko stanovnistvo
Kosova, Makedonije i Albanije u Veliku Albaniju. Sve do nedavno,
Kosovari su smatrali da je status trece republike u okviru Jugoslavije
za Kosovo samo prelazna faza u postizanju nezavisnosti Kosova..."


3. Pravna karakterizacija dogadanja u "relevantnom periodu"

Na osnovu onoga što je izneto napred pod tackom 1. i 2. mislimo da se
sam po sebi namece zakljucak da je tužilaštvo MKTJ pogrešno, sa pravnog
stanovišta, okarakterisalo sukob na Kosovu i Metohiji. Ono, ustvari,
ako cemo pravo gledati, i nije ni moglo drukcije da proceni pravnu
prirodu toga sukoba. Kao instrument antijugoslovenske i antisrpske
politike, potpuno u službi NATO pakta i najvecih neprijatelja
Jugoslavije i srpskog naroda koji su ga formirali i koji ga bogato
finansiraju ono, dakle, objektivno nije ni moglo drukcije postupiti.
Zbog toga što je ono podiglo optužnicu protiv Slobodana Miloševica,
tada predsednika SR Jugoslavije, usered NATO varvarske agresije, 22.
maja 1999. godine, ono je nesumnjivo, postalo saucesnik zlocinacke
agresije NATO pakta i njegovih satelita koji su mu dali logisticku i
drugu podršku u agresiji (Albanije, Hrvatske, Bosne i Hercegovine,
Madarske, Makedonije), kao i saucesnik šiptarskih terorista na celu sa
takozvanom Oslobodilackom armijom Kosova. Podizanje te optužnice
nesumnjivo je ohrabrilo kako NATO tako i šiptarske teroriste.

Još pre "relevantnog perioda" glavni tužilac Luis Arbur nastojala je na
sve nacine da sukob na Kosmetu podvede pod oderedbe medunarodnog
humanitarnog prava, i da, na taj nacin, taj sukob podvede pod
jurisdikciju njenog tužilaštva odnosno tribunala. Još u martu 1998. ona
je ispoljavala pretenzije da se umeša u dogadaje na Kosmetu. Oktobra
iste godine ona se i zvanicno obratila jugoslovenskim organima da želi
da na Kosmetu vodi istragu. Tadašnji savezni ministar pravde Zoran
Kneževic je odgovorio Arburovoj da Tribunal nije nadležan za dešavanja
na Kosovu i Metohiji. On je objasnio da "na Kosmetu nema rata", vec da
je Srbija suocena "sa teroristickim akcijama bandita": "Na Kosovu i
Metohiji nije bilo rata. Teroristicke grupe sastavljene od kriminalaca
i verskih fabnatika nikada nisu bile organizovane jedinice", piše
Kneževic i istice da je Srbija uspešno završila policijsku akciju
protiv terorista. Na tom i takvom stavu je Savezna vlada istrajavala
sve do petooktobarske promene 2000. godine.

Medutim, tužilaštvo u novembru 1998. obaveštava jugoslovensku vladu da
je tužilaštvo tribunala zakljucilo da postoji dovoljno osnova za
nadležnost MKTJ i za sprovodenje istrage, i na tom stavu je istrajavalo
i za vreme agresije NATO pakta i istrajava do danas. Petooktobarski
režim je, razume se, odmah prihvatio stav Tribunala u pogledu pravnog
karaktera kosovskometohijskog sukoba, usvojio u tom smislu odgovarajuce
propise, i odmah poceo da "isporucuje" sve one koje je tribunal tražio
"zbog kršenja medunarodnog humanitarnog prava". I u zemlji su poceli
procesi zbog "ratnih zlocina" na KiM(2) Pri tome zaprepašcuje kolko je
prisutno pravnicke neukosti i politicke servilnosti prema stranim
stvarnim i umišljenim mocnicima.

U postupku protiv Slobodana Miloševica tom smislu svedocio je pred
tribunalom zamenik glavnog tužioca tribunala Grejem Bluit 30. oktobra
2003. Miloševic je, razume se, ta i takva nastojanja tužilaštva i
tribunala - da imaju nadležnost u pogledu KiM - osporavo, optužujuci ih
za neistinost, tendencioznost i pristrasnost, mada je trebalo da, kao
pravnik po obrazovanju, da pravno elaborira svoje stavove pozivajuci se
na medunarodno pravo, pre svega na Dopunski protokol II Ženevskim
konvencijama koji predstavljaju savremeno medunarodno pravo. U
unakrsnom ispitivanju Bluita on je povišenim tonom rekao svedoku da
tužilaštvo nije želelo da sprovodi istragu o zlocinima šiptarske
strane, o vezi tzv. OVK sa islamskim teroristima, pa i sa samim Bin
Ladenom, niti je želelo da se bavi zlocinima NATO pocinjenih tokom
bombardovanja Srbije. "Vi ste svojim akcijama podstakli terorizam na
Kosmetu!", rekao je Miloševic, "kao što je i povlacenje Posmatracke
misije OEBS-a bio signal da se može otpoceti bombardovanje od strane
NATO pakta". Drugim recima, i Tribunal i OEBS, su bili saucesnici ne
samo šiptarskih bandita i terorista nego i agresije NATO pakta.

Iako je Savet bezbednosti UN - i uopšte organizacija Ujedinjenih nacija
- davno postao marioneta SAD i njene politike u odnosu na Jugoslaviju i
srpski narod, ipak je on u nekoliko svojih rezolucija akcije šiptarskih
ustanika na Kosmetu okarakterisao kao teroristicke akte, a tzv. OVK kao
teroristicku organizaciju.

Analizirajuci rezolucije Saveta bezbednosti UN o Kosovu i Metohiji,
usvojene pre agresije NATO na SR Jugoslaviju, jasno proizilazi
zakljucak da je na KiM došlo do teroristicke pobune i da je UCK
teroristicka organizacija. To se posebno vidi iz rezolucije 1160,
usvojene na sednici SB 31. marta 1998., zatim rezolucije 1199, usvojene
na sednici SB 23. septembra l998. godine i rezolucije 1203, usvojene na
sednici SB 24. oktobra 1998. godine.

Rezolucija 1160
Vec u samoj preambuli ove rezolucije je, pored ostalog, jasno izrecena
osuda " ... svih akata terorizma od strane KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army)
ili bilo koje druge grupe ili pojedinca, i svake spoljne podrske
teroristickoj aktivnosti na Kosovu, ukljucujuci finansiranje,
naoružavanje i obuku".
U operativnom delu rezolucije, u paragrafu 2, upucen je nedvosmislen
poziv rukovodstvu kosovskih Albanaca da "... osude sve teroristicke
akcije", podvlaceci da "...svi elementi albanske zajednice na Kosovu
treba da ostvaruju svoje ciljeve jedino politickim sredstvima". Nikada,
medutim, politicki predstavnici Albanaca na KiM nisu to ucinili, vec su
svim svojim postupcima ohrabrivali i davali direktnu podrsku terorizmu
OVK.
U paragrafu 8 iste rezolucije, uz zavodenje potpunog embarga u prodaji
ili snabdevanju Jugoslavije u naoružanju, Savet bezbednosti se cvrsto
obavezao da ce "...spreciti naoružavanje i obuku u korist teroristickih
aktivnosti na KiM...".
Da je to ostalo samo prazno obecanje pokazuje naknadni razvoj situacije
na KiM kada je sa jacanjem teroristickih aktivnosti UCK došlo do sve
masovnijeg priliva naoružanja i još intenzivnije obuke terorista,
posebno u Albaniji.

Rezolucija 1199
U preambuli ove rezolucije SB ponavlja osudu terorizma kao sredstva za
"...ostvarivanje politickih ciljeva bilo koje grupe ili pojedinca", i
osudjuje..."svaku spoljnu podrsku takvoj aktivnosti na Kosovu,
ukljucujuci snabdevanje oruzjem i obuku za teroriticke aktivnosti na
Kosovu, uz izrazavanje zabrinutosti zbog izvestaja o neprekinutom
krsenju zabrana uvedenih prethodnom Rezolucijom 1169..."
U operativnom delu rezolucije, u paragrafu 6, Savet insistira da
rukovodstvo kosovskih Albanaca "...osudi sve teroristicke akcije i
podvlaci da svi elementi u zajednici kosovski Albanaca treba da
ostvaruju svoje ciljeve jedino miroljubivim sredestvima..."
U paragrafu 11, Savet bezbednosti zahteva od svih država clanica
da..."sprece prikupljanje novcanih sredstava na njihovoj teritoriji
(funds collected on their territory), koja se koriste za kršenje
rezolucije 1160...".

Rezolucija 1203
I u ovoj, kao i u prethodni rezolucijama, Savet bezbednosti u njenoj
preambuli osudjuje..."kako sve akte nasilja svake strane, tako i
terorizam bilo koje grupe ili pojedinca za postizanje politickih
ciljeva, kao i svaku stranu podršku za takve aktivnosti na Kosovu,
ukljucujuci snabdevanje oružjem i obuku za izvodenje teroristickih
aktivnosti na Kosovu i izražava zabrinutost zbog izveštaja o
kontinuiranom kršenju zabrana uvedenih rezolucijom 1160 ...".

U paragrafu 10 ove, rezolucije Savet bezbednosti..."insistira na tome
da rukovodstvo kosovskih Albanaca osudi sve teroristicke akcije,
zahteva neodložan prestanak takvih aktivnosti i naglašava da svi
elementi albanske zajednice na Kosovu treba da ostvaruju svoje ciljeve
samo miroljubivim sredstvima...".

Šta veli Protokol II uz Ženevske konvencije?

Taj Protokol, koji je usvojen 1977. godine, "razvija i dopunjuje"
zajednicki clan 3 Ženevskih konvencija, clan u Ženevskim konvencijama
koji se odnosi na unutrašnje oružane sukobe, za razliku od ostalih
odredaba tih konvensija koje se odnose na medunarodne oružane sukobe,
to jest na sukome izmedu suverenih država. Da ovaj protokol predstavlja
savremeno pozitivno medunarodno pravo uglavnom nema spora, s napomenom
da ima dosta onih - a medu njima je i Medunarodni komitet crvenog krsta
MKCK) i stotine i stotine samozvanih medunaronih nevladinih
organizacija (NGO) koje sebe nazivaju humanitarnim - koje uporno
nastoje da ukinu razliku izmedu medunarodnih oružanih sukoba i
unutrašnjih, tvrdeci da je putem obicaja do tog izjednacavanja vec
došlo. Ta i takva nastojanja našala su svoj izraz i u clanovima 2-5
Statuta MKTJ, a narocito u jurisdikcije tog tribunala, koji je u više
svojih dosadašnjih odluka protiv Srba protiv kojih je vodio postupak
prrihvatao taj i takav koncep savremenog MHP. Medutim, sva ta i takva
nastojanja su pogrešna i neodrživa jer države clanice Ujedinjenih
nacija nisu spremane da u potpunosti napuste razlikovanja izmedu
pravnog položaja medunarodnih i unutrašnjih oružanih sukoba, što
najbolje svedoci upravo Statut Medunarodnog krivicnog suda, o cemu ce
niže biti pobliže reci.

Ali da se vratimo Protokolu II. Nas ovde ne zanima toliko na koji nacin
ovaj protokol štiti ucesnike u unutrašnjim oružanim sukobima, koliko
nas interesuje to kako ovaj protokol postavlja granicu izmedu noga što
jeste unutrašnji oružanih sukob i onoga što nije.

Nakon što u stavu 1 clana 1 definiše unutrašnji oružani sukob, u stavu
2 istog clana definiše što ne spada pod taj pojam - "oružani sukob
nemedunarodnog karaktera". Taj stav 2 clana 1 glasi:

Ovaj Protokol se nece primenjivati na situacije unutrašnjih nemira i
zategnutosti kao što su pobune, izolovani i sporadicni akti nasilja i
ostali akti slicne prirode, jer to nisu oružani sukobi.

Takve situacije, s kojima se manje-više gotovo svaka država povremno
može suociti u svom istorijskom i politickom trajanju, spadaju u
potpunosti pod njenu nadležnost kao njena unutrašnja stvar u smislu
Povelje UN i medunarodnog prava i pod njen pravni poredak.To, naravno,
ne znaci da se u takvim situacijama ne mogu pociniti zlocini; ustvari,
do zlocina gotovo uvek po prirodi stvari dolazi, ali to nisu "ratni"
zlocini. Niko ne može da porekne da su gotovo svakodnevni zlocini na
desetine a možda i na stotine tacaka u svetu. Gotovo svakodnevno citamo
o Ceceniji, Severnoj Irskoj, Šri Lanki, itd. Tako je bilo i na Kosovu i
Metohiji pre "relevantnog perioda", i za vreme tog perioda. Obe strane
su cinile razne zlocine.(Usput receno, za današnje stanje na KiM - koje
je pod okupacijom UNMIK-a i KFOR-a - može da se kaže da ako postoji
pakao na zemlji onda je to stanje na Kosmetu za Srbe i nealbance
tamo...). Teritorijalna država je, naravno, ne samo iskljucivo nadležna
nego i dužna u skladu sa svojim zakonodavstvom i svojim medunarodnim
obavezama o zaštiti ljudskih prava da goni pocinioce krivicnih dela do
kojih dolazi u takvim situacijama.

Šta veli Statut Medunarodnog krivicnog suda (Rimski statut)?

Vec smo napomenuli da postoje dosta snažne tendencije - narocito od
strane Medunarodnog komiteta crvenog krsta i u jursdikciji MKTJ da se
ukine razlika, u pogledu primene medunarodnog humanitarnog prava -
izmedu medunarodnih i unutrašnjih oružanih sukoba, tvrdeci da je u
periodu posle Drugog svetskog rata došlo do "razvoja" medunarodnog
humanitarnog prava u smislu ukidanja te razlike, to jest do razvoja
koji vodi ka primeni medunarodnog humanitarnog prava koje se odnosi na
medunarodne oružane sukobe i na unutrašnje oružane sukobe, jer,
navodno, nema opravdanja da žrtve ovih sukoba ne budu izjednacene u
pogledu zaštite izjednacene.

Smatramo da Statut Medunarodnog krivicnog suda, koji je usvojen na
1998. godine u Rimu, i kojeg su do danas ratifikovale vecina država
(ukljucujuci Jugoslaviju odnosno Srbiju i Crnu Goru) nije u celosti
prihvatio navedena nastojanja, i da je u osnovi zadržao onu razliku
koju pravi Protokol II.

Ipak, povodeci se za navedenim tendencijama ispoljenim pre svega u
MKCK, "humanitarnim" medunarodnim nevladinim orrganizacijama (NGO)
antijugoslovenskom i antisrpskom kampanjom u vezi sa ratovima na
prostoru prethodne Jugoslavije, Statut je napravio znacajna odstupanja
od postojecih normi medunarodnog humanitarnog prava. Prema clanu 7
Statuta, koji se odnosi na krivicna dela protiv covecnosti, za
pocinjenja nekog od ovih krivicnih dela preduslov više nije postojanje
stanja oružanog sukoba, bilo medunarodnog bilo unutrašnjeg. Drugo
znacajno odsstupanje sastoji se u tome što se pojam "ratni zlocin"
proteže i na oružane sukobe unutrašnjeg, nemedunarodnog oružanog sukoba.

No, ono osnovno što je relevantno za našu temu: razlikovanje kada je
jedan unutrašnji predstavlja rat u pravnotehnickom smislu i kada on to
nije zadržano je.

U relevantmo clanu Statuta MKS - clan 8 - se kaže da se njegove odredbe
koje se odnose na unutrašnje, interne oružane sukobe "ne primenjuju na
situacije unutrašnjih nemira i sukoba kao što su pobune, pojedinacni i
sporadicni akti nasilja ili drugi slicni akti." A zatim se veli (stav
3):

Nijedna od odredbi iz stava 2(c) i (d) (koje se odnose na unutrašnje
oružane sukobe- MT) ne odnosi se na pravo vlade da ordži ponovo
uspostavi red i zakon u državi ili da brani njeno jedinstvo i
teritorijalni integritet svim legitimnim sredstvima koja joj stoje na
raspolaganju.

Cak bi se moglo zakljuciti da su autori Statuta - sevesni onoga što se
dogada u savremenom svetu kao što su unutrašnji i medunarodni
terorizam, naglasili prava teritorrijane države da se obracunava sa
terorizmom i slicnim pojavama.

Statut MKS na snazi je od 1.jula 2002. godine i sve što je napred o
njegovim odredbama receno vredi od tog datuma, a ne za ranije
situacije. Dakle, kada je rec o Kosovu i Metohiji treba govoriti o
pravu koje je bilo na snazi u vreme dogadaja tamo.

Napomena:

(1) U tekstu objavljenom u "Glasu javnosti" od 15.8.2002. prof.dr
Predrag Simic daje gotovo kompletnu sliku albanskog lobija u SAD pa ga
zaista vredi procitati. Tekst je naslovljen "Albanski lobi šiptarska
majka" i podnaslovom "Ko i u cije ime ponovo otima Kosovo i Metohiju" i
"Pare su najjaci motiv americkih kongresmena da se bore za otcepljenje
srpske pokrajine od matice". V. www.glas-javnosti.co.yu od navedenog
datuma.

(2) Povodom tih procesa u zemlji protiv trojice pripadnika VJ, a koje
je Vrhovni vojni sud nedavno osudio na dugogodišnje kazne zatvora, v.
tekst ovog autora "RATNI ZLOCINI" BEZ RATA na adresi
http://www.artel.co.yu/sr/reakcije_citalaca/2003-10-21_1.html
Danas (6.11. 2003) citamo u štampi da je, prema saopštenju Ministarstva
pravde Srbije, specijalni tužilac preuzeo vodenje krivicnog postupka
protiv bivših komandanata tzv. OVK Hašima Tacija, Agima Cekua i Ramuša
Haradinaja. Iz saopštrenja nije jasno za koja krivicna dela ce
osumnjiceni biti optuženi, ali izgleda da se srlja u istu grešku - da
ce ih se optužiti za "ratne zlocine", umesto da im se sudi za obicne
zlocine kao što su masovna ubistva, terorizam i drugo, jer, kao što
rekosmo, na Kosovu i Metohiji nije u pravnom smislu bilo rata izmedu
nadležnih jugoslovenskih i srpskih organa i šiptarskih pobunjenika i
terorista.

http://www.resistenze.org/sito/te/po/yu/poyu3m05.htm

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Questa breve ma precisa analisi, ci è stata preparata da R.
Milosavljevic, in seguito all’ultimo viaggio ed all’incontro con lei
avuto sulla situazione dei lavoratori. Seguiranno altri lavori a breve.
( E.V.)


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economia continua a trovarsi in uno stato di profonda recessione, le
cui conseguenze sopportiamo con sempre maggiore difficoltà, sia perché
la crisi dura da molto tempo, sia perché di essa non si intravede la
fine.

E’ stato un approccio evidentemente sbagliato pensare che la
stabilizzazione e la liberalizzazione a livello macroeconomico, così
come un veloce processo di privatizzazione, avrebbero risolto tutti i
problemi. Purtroppo gli euforici annunci di riforme, così come le
grandi promesse di un miglioramento del livello di vita, non si sono
realizzati. Nemmeno nel terzo anno delle annunciate riforme l’economia
si è messa in moto. I risultati economici sono decisamente negativi e
né i cittadini né gli operatori economici possono più sostenere la
terapia – shock neoliberale. La produzione industriale per i primi
sette mesi ha avuto un crollo del 3,5%, quella agricola una recessione
del 10%, il deficit del commercio estero per gli scorsi 30 mesi  ha
raggiunto i 9.215 miliardi di dollari, il nostro debito pubblico alla
fine di agosto ha toccato i 13,5 miliardi di dollari, siamo caduti in
uno stato di schiavitù da indebitamento e l’economia stagnante non sarà
in grado di far fronte a impegni che hanno superato la somma della
produzione nazionale lorda.

Sono disoccupate 968.250 persone, 1.282.049 sono occupate e lavorano
in media 3,5 ore, e 194.779 lavoratori lo scorso mese non hanno
ricevuto lo stipendio.


LO SFRUTTAMENTO DELLE CAPACITA’ PRODUTTIVE

Lo sfruttamento delle capacità produttive è inferiore al 40 per cento,
e l’80 per cento delle attrezzature è antiquato. Il tasso di crescita
economica anche quest’anno difficilmente supererà l’uno per cento, e
secondo il calcolo degli esperti ci saranno necessari 30 anni per
raggiungere il livello del 1989. In particolare 34.208 imprese devono
cadere in fallimento, ed altri 468.000 lavoratori rimanere senza
impiego. Secondo le ricerche degli esperti, il 74 per cento dei
cittadini vive con una quota compresa tra l’uno e i due dollari al
giorno, e di essi il 32% si trova in uno stato di povertà grave. Sulla
Serbia incombe un’esplosione sociale simile a quella avvenuta in
Argentina, lodata dai burocrati  internazionali  per dieci anni, finché
non è avvenuto il tracollo economico. Al posto di uno sviluppo
economico abbiamo ottenuto una recessione da transizione, una drastica
caduta degli standard di vita, la crescita dei debiti e del deficit ed
un’economia non liquida.

Lo stato dell’economia è drammatico. Le ricerche mostrano che solo il
17,7 per cento dei giovani vuole rimanere in patria, gli altri vogliono
andarsene. Gli esperti continuano ad avvertire che è l’ultimo periodo
utile per poter compiere qualcosa di più serio nel  cambiamento di
questo stato. Detto in gergo sportivo, quando i risultati non arrivano
bisogna cambiare  la squadra e il gioco; significa che bisogna portare
a termine due elementi chiave, cioè cambiare il concetto di riforma e
cambiare le persone.

Purtroppo in questo momento non c’è né la possibilità né la voglia di
muoversi in questo senso, o perlomeno di raggiungere un consenso
nazionale su una propria strada alle riforme, che costruirebbero un
sistema economico volto ad uno sviluppo in cui con la privatizzazione
si arriverebbe ad una liquidazione delle sostanze. La scena politica
cupa e molto instabile è quotidianamente aggravata da controversie tra
i partiti, da un lavoro esacerbato del parlamento, da scandali
ministeriali, da frequenti scioperi dei lavoratori a causa
dell’illegale attuazione della privatizzazione; è un ambiente che non
permette alla forze politiche progressiste di preparare una svolta più
radicale nella qualità delle riforme e dello sviluppo economico.

E mentre le parti politiche e i sindacati  patteggiano reciprocamente
il profitto della propria esistenza, continua lo sfacelo economico, e
di questa crisi non si vede la fine.


Ružica Milosavljević (ex Segretaria Sindacato Samostalni Zastava
Kragujevac)

Trad. a cura di Elisa Marengo  

Terrorists springboards in the Balkans

1. Is Albania Sponsoring 'Freedom Fighters' Next Door?
And What Happened to the Balkan Mujahedin, Anyway?
(by Christopher Deliso)

2. Al Qaeda's European attack route is the Balkans, new
evidence claims (by Christopher Deliso)

3. THE COMING NEW SURGE in European Islamist Terrorism:
The Momentum Has Begun (By Gregory R. Copley, Editor,
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, September 2003)


RELATED TEXTS:

JIHAD the Holy War - Lashva valley:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/jihad.htm

Video fragments showing Alija Izetbegovic's links with Mujahedin units:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/video_en.htm

The Union of Death - Terrorists and Freedom Fighters in the Balkans (by
Sam Vaknin):
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/vaknin/093.shtml

How we trained al-Qa’eda. The Bosnian war taught Islamic terrorists to
operate abroad:
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/sep03/hed5999.shtml
or
http://www.spectator.co.uk/
article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-09-13&id=3499&searchText=


=== 1 ===


http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso93.html

Is Albania Sponsoring 'Freedom Fighters' Next Door?

And What Happened to the Balkan Mujahedin, Anyway?

by Christopher Deliso
October 30, 2003

In 1998, when NATO's war on Yugoslavia was first being
organized, secret camps were set up in northern Albania.
There, British and American forces trained the rag-tag fighters
of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The two countries openly
armed, supplied and supported the KLA during the war against
Milosevic, using the paramilitary group as NATO's ground
troops.

A New Question

All of this is fact. Albania's army also directly trained the KLA.
After all, if the West said it was OK, then there was nothing to
be embarrassed about. However, once the fallout from Kosovo
registered and Macedonia was destabilized by the renamed
militants of the NLA (National Liberation Army) in 2001, Tirana
changed its tune. It officially deplored the violence and denied
having anything to do with sponsoring the rebels.

However, at the same time "all contact stopped" between the
intelligence services of the two countries, according to one
informed Macedonian source. Clearly, Albania was not entirely
pleased with beleaguered Macedonia's attempts at self-
defense.

Since then, the Albanian government has gone to great lengths
to boost economic and defense cooperation with Macedonia,
under the rubric of NATO enlargement and participations in
joint ventures along the east-west Corridor 8, such as
prospective railroad lines and oil pipelines . Albania is clearly
looking for a new lease on life and deliverance from the
economic dark ages that afflict most citizens who aren't super-
rich politicos or gangsters.

Nevertheless, despite these increasingly positive
developments, a new question has been raised regarding the
current involvement of the Albanian government – in whole or
in part – in sponsoring paramilitary groups active in
neighboring states. This issue is complex; its contemplation
only invites further questions. With Albania, do we have state-
sponsored attempts at control through disruption (as was the
case with Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban?) Or could it be
instead just the manipulations of sparring political gangs?

Tirana Cracks Down: One Arrested, Another Indicted

In July, the Albanian government arrested one Gafurr Adili,
leader of the Front of Albanian National Unity (FBKSH). This
diaspora-based group claims to be the political wing of the
AKSH (or ANA, Albanian National Army), active since 2001 in
Kosovo and Macedonia. The group's stated goal is to gather all
"Albanian lands" into one majestic 19th century nation-state, by
waging war with the "Slav colonizers," Greeks, and whoever
else gets in their way.

Simultaneously, the Swiss banned Adili from living in their
country. Stated the BBC, "…until now he has enjoyed refugee
status – though it appears that he is not actually barred from
visiting Switzerland where members of his family live." Such
ambivalent restrictions are completely characteristic of the
West's schizophrenic, lax treatment of Albanian militants since
even before 2001.

On 8 October, a second arrest warrant was lodged for the
leader of Albania's right-wing Party of National Unity, Idajet
Beqiri. A high profile FBKSH leader, Beqiri is accused of
"incitement and support for the extremist group."

Since last spring's attack on a bridge near Mitrovica, which
proved that Kosovo Protection Corps staff members were
moonlighting for the AKSH, the group has been deemed a
"terrorist" one by Balkan and Western governments alike.
Reports in the Economist and elsewhere described it as
being run by increasingly desperate criminals and KLA
veterans impatient with UNMIK's rule in Kosovo. This year's
more concerted crackdowns by KFOR on smuggling, as well as
similar revived efforts by Macedonian authorities, have also
angered the militants. Averred the Economist on 12
September:

"…the AKSH represents few ethnic-Albanians. Its core consists
of some 50-70 cigarette smugglers drawn from both sides of
the border with Kosovo. Their latest violence has been largely
prompted by their desire to stop Macedonia's police from
shutting down their smuggling routes and putting them behind
bars. Hisni Shaqiri, an ethnic-Albanian MP in Skopje who is
trying to help keep the peace between Macedonia's Albanians
and Slavs, describes Avdil Jakupi, the AKSH's "divisional
commander" known as Chakala, as a "mental patient and
heroin addict". A British brigadier advising the Macedonian
government on defence calls the AKSH "criminals flying a
political flag of convenience in the hope of finding legitimacy."

Revelations from the Inside

Until now, little has been revealed about the "highly secretive"
AKSH. Who runs it? What are its plans? Does it really exist?
Most importantly, perhaps, what is the leadership and extent of
support enjoyed by its political wing, the FBKSH?

Recent new information from Idajet Beqiri himself casts
considerable light on this issue. In its October 11-17 issue, the
Serbian publication NIN ran a lengthy interview with him.
Apparently, Beqiri also has a pseudonym – Albana Viosu –
and is the secretary of the FBKSH. He founded Albania's Party
of National Unity, was elected its president in 1991, and
embarked on a volatile political career that saw him imprisoned,
empowered and involved with various scandals.
He has a law degree from the University of Tirana, served as a
judge and claims to now work as a lawyer. Since 1997, he has
been stationed in Western Europe, where he has lobbied and
raised money for Albanian militant groups.

NIN claims the interview was arranged "…by tracing the news
of an Albanian lawyer who organizes gatherings for wealthy
Albanians throughout Western Europe." A "smiling" Beqiri then
met the interviewers in Brussels.

Taking All the Credit…

Doubtless, we have to take the inevitable boasting with a grain
of salt. Such figures tend to exaggerate their popularity and
gains. Thus when asked whether the group only exists "on the
internet," Beqiri cited "proof" to the contrary, being "…the 33
attacks for which we have assumed responsibility, as well as
numerous members that join us daily."

Indeed, there have been around 30 minor bombings, murders
and other mishaps since 2001, but it is decidedly unclear as to
whether these were all carried out by one unified group under
a single banner and command. Beqiri himself states that right
now "…seven armed groups that aren't under our control act in
Kosovo and Macedonia," each having around 40 members.
Given the track record for Albanian gang infighting in Kosovo
and Macedonia, it seems more likely that other groups have perpetrated
some of these attacks – for reasons other than the
Greater Albania.

Indeed, an obscure incident took place in Kumanovo a few
weeks ago, when an Albanian from south Serbia opened a
new pizza parlor. Apparently he was trespassing on someone
else's turf, because his first customer was a drive-by shooter,
who fired a hail of bullets into the shop. It is believed that two
people were injured. And there have been numerous other
incidents of such "cross-border cooperation" between Kosovo and
Macedonia.

...Almost

Amazingly enough, Beqiri does not claim responsibility for the
worst attacks – like the land mine deaths of Polish soldiers in
Macedonia last spring, or the murder of Serbian children in the River
Bistrica this summer. In the interview, he doesn't mention
the former (they blamed it on the Macedonian army trying to
discredit the AKSH), and as for the latter, he makes the rather
brazen claim that the Serbs machine-gunned their own
children to turn Western opinion against the Albanians. Beqiri
carefully restricts his group's stated activities to legitimate
military targets (though blowing up railroads and bridges
doesn't seem to exactly fit the bill).

In any case, says Beqiri, "…the Front of Albanian National
Unity (FBKSH) completely controls all diplomatic and armed
ANA forces." This would rather seem to implicate him and his
comrades for the effects of their ordained actions. According to
the now fugitive secretary, the AKSH "…hasn't performed a
single attack without the approval of FBKSH."

An AKSH Chronology

Beqiri's recounting of the group's recent history is particularly
interesting. After the Tetovo turf war of spring 2002 , and the
short-lived Coordinative Council for Albanian unity led by Ali
Ahmeti, many of the latter's "disappointed" NLA fighters went over to
the AKSH. However, adds Beqiri, "…a large part didn't
join anyone and was completely independent. Chaos was
created and the need for establishing was urgent."

Here is where the story takes an interesting twist. Beqiri's
summary of what happened next casts aspersions on Albania's
alleged "neutrality" in Kosovo's ongoing vortex of violence.
States Beqiri:

"…in July 2002 we organized a large gathering in the
Congress Palace in Tirana, where, apart from all commanders
of various fractions from Kosovo and Macedonia, also were
present many high intellectuals, military people, as well as
representatives of all Albanian political parties. It was
established then that all of us share the same desire for
resolving the 'Albanian issue' and it is necessary for the sake of
it to establish a military and political structure with a clear
system of hierarchy. This is how FBKSH was created."

Say What?

If Beqiri can be taken at his word, key players from the whole
Albanian establishment – politicians, intellectuals and most
importantly of all, military men – are behind the AKSH. This
story wildly contradicts every official statement made by Tirana
since the war in Macedonia, i.e., that the country is not helping
paramilitary forces. The most compelling aspect of all this is the
alleged role of the military:

"…the generals played the key role from Albania, who enjoy
enormous authority among the fighters and their commanders.

"…The general personnel are mostly from Albania and from
Kosovo. The main chief of the GS (General Staff) ANA is
General Vigan Gradica. He was honored with three stars and
has enormous experience. The supreme council of ANA, that
brings all military decisions, is made up of a total of eight
generals. The entire general core is educated, mostly in
Croatia and Albania, and even in Germany. All of them are
professional soldiers."

Albania Implicated – and the Diaspora Too

This rather eye-opening statement calls into question Tirana's
publicly stated anti-militant position. Apparently, right up until
Gafurr Adili's arrest the FBKSH operated out of Tirana – "…
where our base has been from the beginning." After losing their
leader, the group went underground – i.e., to Kosovo – where
Beqiri claims they work, "…completely openly as a legal
political party." Given his present indictment by the Albanian
government, and KFOR's uncompromising new attitude, this
assertion will be tested.

According to Beqiri, the FBKSH command structure is made up
11 people and focuses on 5 "interest zones" of conquest: south
Serbia's Presevo Valley, Kosovo, Macedonia, Ulcinj (in
Montenegro) and Greece. Other protagonists in the movement
are stated as being professor Femi Kelmendi, the
aforementioned General Gradica and Bestar Kosova, "who is
in charge of all security affairs."

As with all liberation wars past, funding for weapons comes
mostly from the diaspora. Jane's estimated that during a 6
month period in 2001 the NLA raised $60 million from diaspora
contributions. As was the case then, says Beqiri, "…most of the
aid comes from America, then Canada, Germany, Switzerland,
and Belgium." Card-carrying members (Beqiri rather
bombastically claims to have 20,000) are required to kick down
monthly; locals pay 2 euros per month, diaspora members, 20
euros per month. Finally, he adds, "…we are trying to organize
as many as possible gatherings in the Diaspora at which we
encourage people to help us as much as they can."

It is highly likely that American diaspora funding is being
organized by the same congressional lobby groups that
funded the last two wars, and which retain strong links with
former KLA leaders. The fact that Mr. Beqiri was invited one
month ago to advertise his views in front of the International
Crisis Group in Brussels cannot be reassuring either.

Antagonisms on the Home Front

What kind of support does the AKSH enjoy in Albania itself,
however? It would appear quite a lot. Yet is this a case of
official state support (i.e., the Pakistan model), or a side effect
of instability? Probably the latter. Rather than categorically
blame the Albanian government, we might mention the current
political volatility there – a state of affairs which leaves plenty of
room for third-party mischief.

For months, unrest has been building with the government of
Fatos Nano. Last week his Socialist Party suffered its second
setback in 3 months, winning "…only 65 votes for nominees as
foreign and interior ministers from 131 members of parliament,"
reported Reuters on Thursday .

With longstanding rival Ilir Meta calling for early elections in
Spring, it is quite possible that Nano's days are numbered.
Nano "…accused rivals who voted against him of a 'palace
coup' and making common cause with the opposition
Democratic Party " of Nano's other archenemy, former
president Sali Berisha.

Interestingly enough, from the NIN report we learn that Nano
goes way back with FBKSH Secretary Beqiri – all the way back,
in fact, to their mutual imprisonment under Berisha's regime.
When that regime tanked in 1997, due to the collapse of a
colossal pyramid scheme that impoverished thousands
overnight, Beqiri won his release, and joined a political
coalition with the also-freed Nano. The latter came to power,
but was removed a year later. The enmity between the two
camps continues even now.

The NIN report mentions the Beqiri-Nano friendship and
shared opposition to Berisha. Yet despite their common cause,
the report states, Beqiri and Nano have "divergent" political
views. Is NIN trying to imply that Nano is not a closet supporter
of the AKSH adventure? If this were true, then how was Beqiri
able to operate the FBKSH with such impunity and such high-
level cooperation in Tirana, as he claims?

Indeed, this connection is being made by Beqiri's enemies in
Kosovo, too. Albanian leaders there have recently damned the
AKSH as a dangerous monstrosity run by Hoxha-era
"Communists" under the implicit control of Nano – in other
words, as an unofficial branch of the state.

That said, should we understand current Tirana's crackdown
on Adimi and Beqiri as indicative of Nano's dwindling authority? Or is
he being forced to sacrifice his friend due to
political pressure, either internal or Western?

Hey – What Ever Happened to the Mujahedin?

No article of mine has inspired such a rancorous reaction as
my brief history of Islamic terrorist involvement in Albania.
While admittedly I may have exaggerated the threat, everything
was based on facts and detailed reports. Since 2001, there
haven't been many new developments on this front. However,
another byproduct of today's political volatility in Tirana may be
the subtle penetration of foreign Islamic fighters. The revelation
that bin Laden's forces were training the KLA in 1999, just as
the US and Britain were, was embarrassing enough for the US;
but what if, after so many subsequent anti-terror operations, the
Evil One has returned to the Balkans?

In a report dated 19 September, congressional director of the
Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Yossef
Bodansky claims that Albania is once again being used as a
"springboard" for terrorist activities in Europe:

"…starting in mid-August 2003, there was a discernible
increase in the number of foreigners in the Islamist mosques
throughout Albania. 'They [originally] come from Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran. They come from many countries,'
noted an eyewitness in Tirana. 'They arrive [in Tirana] from
Afghanistan,' he added. These expert terrorists are being
prepared in Albania for their specific missions in the West.

"This training program is conducted under the cover of the
Albanian National Army (ANA or AKSh in Albanian) with most
senior trainers and commanders being 'mujahedin who
retreated from Bosnia' and are affiliated with al-Qaida.

"In return for the Albanian support of this endeavor, the
Islamists assist the local terrorists in preparing for launching
spectacular terrorism into the major cities of Serbia and
Montenegro, with Belgrade and Nis believed to be the top
targets. As well, Islamist cadres, mainly veterans of Bosnia, are
providing advance training to thousands of Albanian terrorists
in camps in Kosovo-Metohija, near Prizren, on the slopes of Mt.
Sara, in the Kosovo Morava River valley, in the Albanian towns
of Kukes and Tropoje, and around Tetovo in western
Macedonia."

A Mess of Contradictions

This tantalizing testimony directly contradicts Beqiri's statement
of policy to NIN, namely, that the AKSH desires no help from
the mujahedin and has no interest in attacking Belgrade. Beqiri
claims that all attacks are to be carried out only within the
specified "zones of operation" (i.e., Albanian-populated areas).

However, he also admits that other, apparently unaffiliated
militant groups presently prowl the hills and forests of
Macedonia and Kosovo. Could some of these have struck with
the Islamists? Indeed, a well-informed Western security
official in Kosovo told me earlier this year that the AKSH had
broken up into three groups, precisely because of cooperation
with the mujahedin – unsavory for some, expedient for others.

Yet as Beqiri maintains, the main AKSH body is probably
content to exist solely as a magnificent fighting force of secular-
enough Albanian nationalists. Especially since they seem to
have such a well-oiled and experienced diaspora machine,
this bunch has no interest in winding up on the wrong side of
the war on terror. However, this does not mean that Islamist-
associated fringe groups don't exist in Albania, Kosovo and
Macedonia.

In the end, Bodansky's enigmatic evidence leaves one very
curious as to his sources. Had the Bush Administration not
been so disingenuous with the evidence on Iraq, there would
be no doubting these Balkan revelations. Now we have to be a
bit more critical. One hopes that an American congressional
investigator would be better-informed than a lowly freelance reporter.
However, the mystery may remain unresolved, barring
further violence or other inside revelations.

However, even if we never get an answer on mujahedin in the
Balkans, Albania is not off the hook. Should the authorities
there actually arrest Mr. Beqiri (or other of his cohorts), a
clearer picture will no doubt emerge of the precise connection
between Tirana and the neighborhood's most notorious
paramilitary group.


=== 2 ===


( Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77879
ERP KIM Newsletter 30-10-03b - Special Edition )

Al Qaeda's European attack route is the Balkans, new evidence claims

A provocative report from the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism
and Unconventional Warfare claims that the Balkans is about to heat up
again as an Islamic terrorist base. This surpasses traditional
nationalist rifts, claims author Yossef Bodansky, and is intended to
increase al Qaeda infiltration. Thus the Balkan operations would be
ultimately controlled by the Evil One, OBL.

---

http://www.balkanalysis.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=172

BALKANALYSIS
Posted on Thursday, October 30 @ 00:00:00 EST by CDeliso

A provocative report from the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism
and Unconventional Warfare claims that the Balkans is about to heat up
again as an Islamic terrorist base. This surpasses traditional
nationalist rifts, claims author Yossef Bodansky, and is intended to
increase al Qaeda infiltration. Thus the Balkan operations would be
ultimately controlled by the Evil One, OBL.

However, it remains to be seen to what extent this is true. Bodansky
does not cite sources, and his assessment for Bosnia is more likely to
be accurate than his view on Macedonia, for example.

The report, dated 19 September 2003, states that ".starting in
mid-August 2003, radical Islamist leaders elevated the role of the
terrorism infrastructure in the Balkans as a key facilitator of a
proposed escalation of conflict into the heart of Europe, Israel and
the United States."

Apparently, the elevation of one Shahid Emir Mussa Ayzi- a veteran of
Afghanistan with close al Qaeda and Taliban ties- to coordinate and run
special recruitment operations is the ominous development here.

In what can't be a compliment to anyone, Bodansky states the new goal
as making jihadis of the "Slavs" or as jihad leaders call them, "white
devils." He can't be talking about Serbs or Macedonians here. Indeed,
just a little later he describes the "main recruitment pool" as
consisting of Bosnian Muslims, as well as some "Russian converts"
(Chechens?) recruited in the Caucasus.

The report states that in August Ayzi took over this Balkan brigade,
and reported his success with the "Slavs" to Mullah Qudratullah, a
"senior Taliban official." Another key leader is said to be Muhammad
al-Zawahiri, the brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri. Apparently,

".the senior Islamist commanders now consider what they call "the
Albanian land"- Albania, Serbia's Kosovo province and parts of
Macedonia - to be safe for use as a springboard for the insertion of a
new wave of expert terrorists, including the Slavs, into Western Europe
and onward throughout the West."

Bodansky claims that at the same time, ".there was a discernible
increase in the number of foreigners in the Islamist mosques throughout
Albania."

"'.They [originally] come from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and
Iran. They come from many countries,' noted an eyewitness in Tirana.
'They arrive [in Tirana] from Afghanistan,' he added. These expert
terrorists are being prepared in Albania for their specific missions in
the West."

Here is where things get interesting. The Albanian lobbyists in
American are now doubt enflamed by the next charge- that the Albanian
National Army (ANA or AKSH) is now training these dubious imports, with
most of the senior trainers being "mujahedin who retreated from Bosnia."

In return for Albanian support, Bodansky claims, "the Islamists assist
the local terrorists in preparing for launching spectacular terrorism
into the major cities of Serbia and Montenegro, with Belgrade and Nis
believed to be the top targets."

This is certainly a different picture than we get from the AKSH leaders
themselves. Idajet Beqiri, the fugitive political leader with the
group, was recently recorded as saying the AKSH has no contact with
mujahedin- but rather exists only to fight for the Greater Albania. He
vehemently assured that the group does not work with Islamists.

However, we know that in the past, even as recently as 2001 in
Macedonia, this was not the case. Mujahedin from al Qaeda did train the
KLA in 1999 in northern Albania's remote mountains, and documentary,
photographic and verbal evidence exists to indicate a presence among
NLA ranks in Macedonia in 2001. Occasional "sightings"- like the
dark-skinned, bearded man who allegedly loads down an enormous shopping
cart weekly in Skopje's Vero while wearing a bullet-proof vest under
his shirt- are evidence of a continued presence. The enormous,
Saudi-built medresah in the nearby village of Kondovo may be another
site fostering unrest. Israeli sources have also claimed that a certain
number of Albanians were being trained in Hamas camps in Lebanon- but
that the Macedonian government showed no interest in following this up.

Indeed, Bodansky claims that the Islamists are active in Albania,
western Macedonia, and Kosovo (the last is most likely of the three).
Balkanalysis.com has independent information attesting to recent
upsurges in Islamic recruiting activity in the Prizren area (near the
border with all three), as well as cross-border arrests in weapons and
drugs smuggling in recent weeks, that can be linked with terrorist or
at least militant funding.

Still, care should be taken to separate the Islamist movement from the
Albanian one. The latter is predominantly secular. We believe that the
AKSH split earlier this year over just such a divergence in objectives.
If tensions do increase in Kosovo, it will be due to Albanian
impatience with the UNMIK provisional government and a latent fear that
the US is becoming too Serb-friendly. Could lurking Islamists attempt
to ride the coattails of their discontent, in order to make mischief of
their own?

A major aspect of both secular and religious terrorism is symbolism.
The Islamists want their acts to be seen as representative of
something, as do the Albanian separatists. Neither wants the other to
take the credit for their own work, and the latter are especially
fearful that an Islamic attack on the wrong target could be blamed on
them. Indeed, it seems unlikely that the AKSH wishes to perform a
"spectacular" terrorist attack in either Nis or Belgrade (Beqiri
restricted their operations to strictly "Albanian" lands). After all,
there would be no way to bring Serbian tanks back to Kosovo faster than
a firebombing of Belgrade.

When it comes to Bosnia, however, Bodansky might have a more realistic
point to make. He reminds that Islamists have a grudge over Srebrenica
(while, remarkable for an American, admits that the Muslim death count
was bloated for propaganda purposes). According to the London-based
extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, the failure of UN peacekeepers to
protect the Bosnian Muslims made them legitimate targets in Iraq.

On 18 October, Serbian authorities also sounded the alarm. Darko
Trifunovic, a Serbian expert on terrorism, visited Washington then and
announced that:

".a group of ten mujahedin who were trained in Afghanistan have managed
to enter BiH. They are currently in al-Qaeda camps in the vicinity of
Zenica and Tuzla. A plan of this group to blow up a tunnel through
which a row of US vehicles was supposed to pass was prevented at the
last moment."

Once, such warnings would have been cast aside as yet more Serb
propaganda. Now, however, they are being listened to. According to
Trifunovic, a group of 3000 young Kosovo Albanians (who had been
trained in northern Albania), were also sent into Kosovo and Macedonia
along with mujahedin from Middle Eastern and North African countries.
Trifunovic further states that some of them went on to stir up trouble
in Sandzak, while others were arrested in other parts of Serbia. Citing
numerous similar actions in Bosnia, Trifunovic also pointed out that
two banks there (Vakufska Banka and Islamska Banka) continue to work
with impunity despite being suspected of having terrorist ties.

Independent of this, Balkanalysis.com has been informed that a group of
1,000 Iranian students were allowed to attend Serbian universities, a
couple of years ago, on student visas. When a similar request was
lodged in Skopje, the Serbian authorities informed them that of the
original 1,000 students, only "about 30" could be found after one year.
Macedonia wisely ignored the Iranian request.

According to Brendan O'Neill of Spiked! The US adventure in training
foreign mujahedin in Bosnia was "very important" to the rise of a
globalized jihad, in which terrorists ".think nothing of moving from
state to state in the search of outlets for their jihadist mission."

The US should surely know some of the routes through which arms are
smuggled into Bosnia from neighboring states. After all, it created
them in the 1990's arming of the Bosnians. Weapons were taken through
Croatia or airlifted from as far afield as Saudi Arabia, something
about which the US had "very close" knowledge and cooperation. Today,
American diplomats regret this complicity, but doggedly stick to its
necessity for helping the defenseless Muslims of Bosnia:

".Richard Holbrooke, America's former chief Balkans peace negotiator,
has said that the Bosnian Muslims 'wouldn't have survived' without the
help of the mujahedin, though he later admitted that the arrival of the
mujahedin was a 'pact with the devil' from which Bosnia is still
recovering."

Of course, the interventionists then were paid to get a job done, not
think of long-term dangers. This was obfuscated by the continuing
"moral blind spot" that the West has regarding Bosnia, O'Neill
contends. That said, from their enthusiasm with using imported Islamic
fighters in not only Bosnia but Kosovo, one would suspect that the
policy makers had forgotten about the Afghan experience of the 1980's;
lamentably, they would only remember it after September 11th, 2001.
Hopefully they won't suffer more persistent and vivid reminders than
that of this bad decision in the years to come.


=== 3 ===


( Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77879
ERP KIM Newsletter 30-10-03b - Special Edition )

THE COMING NEW SURGE in European Islamist Terrorism: The Momentum Has
Begun

INTELLIGENCE SOURCES IN THE Balkans and Middle East indicate that the
Iranian and Osama bin Laden terrorist networks, assets and alliances
built up in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Southern
Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans are preparing for a significant new
slate of operations. Initial operations in this "new slate" have
already begun in Kosovo, and are expected to expand in southern Serbia
in late October and into November 2003.

---

Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, September 2003, pp. 9,12-13
Terrorism

By Gregory R. Copley, Editor

INTELLIGENCE SOURCES IN THE Balkans and Middle East indicate that the
Iranian and Osama bin Laden terrorist networks, assets and alliances
built up in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Southern
Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans are preparing for a significant new
slate of operations. Initial operations in this "new slate" have
already begun in Kosovo, and are expected to expand in southern Serbia
in late October and into November 2003.

The intelligence, from a variety of primary sources within the Islamist
movements, points to:

1. Escalation of Islamist terrorist attacks on Serb civilians within
the predominantly Muslim region of Kosovo and Metohija, which is in the
Serbian province of Kosovo;

2. Commencement during October-November 2003 of seemingly-random
bombings of public places, including schools, in Muslim-dominated
cities in the southern Serbian/northern Montenegrin Raska Oblast (this
oblast, or region - not a formal sub-state as in the Russian use of the
word "oblast" - is referred to by Islamists by its Turkish name,
Sandzak) as a prelude to wider violence in this area, and eastern
Montenegro, adjacent to the Albanian border and reaching down to the
Adriatic;

3. Coordination of incidents by the so-called "Albanian National Army"
- a current iteration of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA, or UCK:
Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves, in Albanian; OVK in Serbo-Croat) - in
Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with activities in
Raska, led by the Bosnian radical Islamist party, SDA (Party of
Democratic Action) of Alija Izetbegovic, and all supported by Albanian
Government-approved/backed training facilities inside Albania, close to
the border with Serbian Kosovo;

4. Escalation of incidents - including threats, political action,
terrorist action - within Bosnia-Herzegovina, designed to further
polarize the Serbian and Croat population away from the Muslim
population;

5. Eventual escalation of "incidents" to create a "no-go" area for
Serbian, Montenegrin, Republica Srpska security forces and
international peacekeepers in a swathe of contiguous territory from the
Adriatic through Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Southern Serbia and
Macedonia into Bosnia-Herzegovina, effectively dissecting the Republica
Srpska state (which is within Bosnia-Herzegovina) at the Gorazde
Corridor and isolating Montenegro;

6. Using the extensive safe-haven areas and "no-go" zones created by
the actions, undertake a range of terrorist actions against targets in
Greece - which is contiguous with Albania and (FYR) Macedonia - during
(and possibly before) the August 2004 Olympic Games. Specific
intelligence points to the fact that the Islamist groups have already
predetermined target opportunities during the Games.

The new intelligence contradicts the public positions of both the
Government of Serbia and the High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina
that terrorist threats in their two states were now not evident. The
Serbian Ministry of Interior did, however, acknowledge increased
activities by Wahabbists (such as the bin Ladenists) and intelligence
on planned Islamist bombings in southern Serbia in the coming months.
Significantly, however, Bosnia-Herzegovina High Representative Paddy
Ashdown published, in The Washington Times of October 6, 2003, a letter
to the editor in which he said:

"After September 11 [2001], the Sarajevo authorities took important
steps to ensure that Bosnia-Herzegovina could not in any way be used as
a platform for terrorist attacks of any sort, in Europe or elsewhere.
This country is not a terrorist base, nor will it become one."

Mr Ashdown's statement, in which he actually attempted to predict the
future, is not borne out by the evidence of radical Islamist activities
inside Bosnia.

There were several significant motivations behind the new wave of
coordinated actions, according to our sources and analysis by Defense &
Foreign Affairs.

(i) Iran and al-Qaida Breakout: The Iranian Government, as well as the
Osama bin Laden organization (now being referred to as al-Qaida), have
been working since at least the breakup of the former Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991-92 to build a strong base of Islamism
and terrorist capability in the heart of Europe, and relying on the
entree to the area given by Alija Izetbegovic's SDA party in Bosnia.
Neither Iran nor bin Laden undertook this extensive work for nothing
and, despite the very large Iranian Embassy presence in Sarajevo,
Iran's Shi'a clerics have been happy to provide training, logistics and
intelligence while allowing the Wahhabist/Salafist bin Laden organizers
to work more openly with the Sunni Bosnian Muslims. The Bosnian
structures were used to support and actively participate in the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States.

Now that both Iran and al-Qaida are under pressure from the US, their
networks in Bosnia - now far stronger than in 2001, and with virtually
all international and Serbian capabilities to stop them suppressed for
fear of political outcries in the event of again attacking the "Muslim
victims" - are preparing to launch their new break-out attacks against
the US and the West, both in order to polarize the Muslim world from
the West at the Olympics [see below] and to build a stridently Islamist
state (or network of states: Bosnia, "Sandzak" [Raska], Kosovo,
Albania, parts of Macedonia, etc.) within Western Europe [see below].

(ii) Olympics: The August 2004 Athens Olympics, with large crowds
present and an estimated four-billion television viewers worldwide, has
been identified as the most obvious symbolic point to force, using
terrorist "spectaculars," the schism between the West and the Muslim
ummah, with the objective of polarizing the Muslim world around a "new
caliphate" of radicalism, forcing the West to further react against the
Muslim world, thereby reinforcing the tendency to drive Muslims toward
the radical leaders. This interpretation is not based on speculation,
but on known plans for the Olympics within terrorist groups related to
al-Qaida and Iran. The Athens Olympics provides the perfect selection
of terrorist targets, especially given the thus-far poor performance of
Greek security services in preparing for the Games, as well as because
of the proximity of Athens to major terrorist operating areas and
support lines (through the Eastern Mediterranean, Albania, etc.).

(iii) Islamist-Controlled Territory in Europe: The prospect of creating
an Islamist territory, comprising Bosnia, Kosovo, and adjacent areas,
reaching from the Adriatic into the heart of Europe, is the most
significant strategic gain foreseen by the Islamists since Muslim
fortunes in Europe waned when the siege of Vienna was raised by the
King of Poland in 1683. Numerous Islamist sources have indicated that
they believe that this "return to Europe" is now within their grasp,
offering enormous political symbolism of the success and power of the
radical Islamists to the Muslim world, particularly if such an
achievement is made as a result of great loss by the West.

Iran, Iranian surrogate forces and al-Qaida are under increasing
pressure to begin the escalation of operations in the Balkans, not just
because of the imminence of the Olympic Games, but also to help deflect
US-led pressure against, and preoccupation with, Iran and
counter-terror operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Revived US
pressures on Syria - a major strategic ally and conduit for Iran - is
seen as escalating the urgency of the "break-out" operations in the
Balkans. The Balkans, however, also remain a strategic goal in their
own right, quite apart from their value in relieving pressure on Iran
and the damaged prestige of the terrorists and Islamists as a result of
the current "war on terror."

During the first half of August 2003, 300 Albanian-trained guerrillas -
including appr. 10 mujahedin (non-Balkan Muslims) - were infiltrated
across the Albanian border into Kosovo, where many have subsequently
been seen in the company (and homes) of members of the so-called Kosovo
Protection Corps which was created out of Kosovo Albanian elements
originally part of the KLA. In fact, the Kosovo Protection Corps seems
almost synonymous with the Albanian National Army (ANA), the new
designation for the KLA. The guerrillas were trained in three camps
inside the Albanian border at the towns of Bajram Curi, Tropoja and
Kuks, where the camps have been in operation since 1997.

The US Government, during the Clinton Administration, supported these
camps, and some sources have said that US and German nationals were
still involved in training guerrillas in the camps. Their existence is
known to the Albanian Government, which reportedly also provides both
protection and support for the facilities. They brought with them from
Albania a variety of light weapons, including mortars and landmines.

Some elements of the 300 in the August 2003 group - believed to be the
mujahedin element - went into action almost immediately, in the
Serbian-occupied Kosovo town of Gorazdevac, near the city of Pec (in
the West, close to Montenegro), on four occasions and on one occasion
killing some children. Significantly, the Albanian doctor who examined
two of the children injured in one of the attacks, Dragana Srbljaka and
Djordje Ugrinovic, was accused by Serbian Government authorities and by
other local medical authorities of having "purposefully making a wrong
diagnosis of fractures, instead of gunshot wounds." He put plaster over
the gunshot wounds and discharged the children, rather than
hospitalizing them.

After these attacks, some of the mujahedin involved moved immediately
Westward, going through Islamist safe-havens in Raska to Bosnia. Many
of the remainder went to areas on the Kosovo border with central Serbia
and/or across into central Serbia. They also engaged in mining in areas
used by Serbia-Montenegro Army vehicles using claymore-style roadside
charges.

It was understood from the Defense & Foreign Affairs sources that US
and NATO intelligence officers operating with UNMIK peacekeeping forces
in Kosovo were aware - or appeared to be aware - of the incursion of
the 300 new Islamist fighters and were also aware, at least to some
extent, of the mingling of the guerrilla fighters with the Kosovo
Protection Corps officials.

Significantly, the transit of weapons and fighters to and from Bosnia
to the Kosovo and Albanian areas has been underway for more than a
decade. In testimony to the State Security service of (then) Yugoslavia
in September 1991, Bosnian Islamist Memic Senad (born 1953)
acknowledged that Sarajevo Muslims, under Izetbegovic's SDA, pushed
arms and ammunition into Raska (Sandzak), and that this was done with
the knowledge of Izetbegovic. The arms had earlier been smuggled into
Bosnia via Croatia, with the help of Croatian police, before going on
to Raska. These shipments consisted of, among other things,
Romanian-made assault rifles and M56 machineguns. The weapons
themselves were acquired in Slovenia, and one shipment noted by Senad
included 1,240 AK-47 assault rifles.

SDA official Hasan Cengic was in charge of buying the weapons,
according to Senad. Hasan Cengic, an Islamist theologian, has been
linked with Iranian-sponsored terrorism since 1983. He is a veteran of
the 13th Waffen SS division of the German Army from World War II, and
later a general in the Bosnian (Islamist) Army as well as former Deputy
Bosnian Defense Minister. He organized much of the influx of foreign
mujahedin fighters into Bosnia during the 1990s and was a member of the
governing board of TWRA (Third World Relief Agency), founded in Vienna
in 1987 and linked with a range of al-Qaida-related and other terrorist
groups. The particular shipment cited in Senad's testimony was escorted
from Bosnia and into Raska by a Libyan consular vehicle, with
diplomatic plates. An Islamist organization, Active Islamic Youth,
actually handled the delivery. Amer Musurati, a Libyan diplomat based
at the Libyan mission in Belgrade, Serbia, paid for the weapons,
despite a long history of cooperation between Qadhafi's Libya and the
old Yugoslavia of Pres. Tito.

At the same time, the Libyan consulate in Sarajevo backed the People's
Democratic Movement of Rasim Kadic. Kadic was also involved in the
distribution of weapons into areas of Bosnia, Raska and Kosovo. Zelic
Cefedin and Kadic were known to have been in Czechoslovakia where they
tried to buy weapons from Australian citizen Hans Herdla.

What assists in diffusing the whole pattern of Islamist activities is
the seeming lack of coordination and formal organization. The links,
however, become evident in the pattern of cooperation, common targets
and accommodations between groups of apparently different ideologies -
such as the Libyans, the Syrian and Iranian-backed HizbAllah Shi'as,
the Wahabbi and Salafi extremist Sunnis, and so on - which is also
evident in terrorist operations around the world. Indeed, cooperation
between Christian (Catholic) Irish Republican Army (IRA) officials with
Libyan and Islamist backers and colleagues, is a case in point. As
well, the issues of a common enemy and, often, a common financing means
(usually narcotics trafficking), brings disparate groups together.

Much of the new round of Islamist activity is centering on the southern
Serbian (Raska) city of Novi Pazar (literally "New Bazaar"). This city
of some 30,000 people is approximately 80 percent Muslim. It has one of
the most radical Islamist bookstores in the world, and the store is
doing brisk business. Here, the principal business of the city is
crime: illegal smuggling of consumer goods, heroin and weapons. And
with its street bazaars and coffee houses, it appears as a Middle
Eastern city within a countryside populated by Orthodox Christian
Serbian farmers. [During Turkish occupation, it was necessary for
inhabitants to adopt Islam in order to gain work in the cities; thus
the farmers remained Orthodox, the city-dwellers became Muslim.]

Novi Pazar is the focus of the Islamist attempt to build a landbridge
from Albania and Kosovo to Bosnia. Further to the East, in southern
Serbia's Raska Oblast, are three other concentrations of Muslims:
Sjenica and Pester area (lightly populated but mostly Muslim),
Prijepolje (some 50 percent Muslim) and - very close to the Bosnia
border where Republica Srpska controls the slender Gorazde corridor -
Priboj (also some 50 percent Muslim). The land between is Serbian
farmland, but the Islamist goal is to link the cities as "evidence"
that the entire region is, or should be, Muslim territory. The same
strategy worked successfully in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serbian
farmers were driven off their lands during the civil war.

Just south of the Serbian area of Raska Oblast is the Montenegrin part
of Raska region, where, for example, Bijeljo Polje is some 60 to 80
percent Muslim, and Pijevlja, close to the Bosnian border, is about 40
percent Muslim. These Montenegrin towns, like those of the Western
Serbian Raska region, are the key to the illicit arms and
narcotrafficking across the Gorazde Corridor to Bosnia.

Further southeast in Montenegro, Albanian Muslims now make up some 95
percent of the Adriatic town of Ulcinj, only a few kilometers from
Albania itself.

But it is Novi Pazar which is the focus of the Islamist activity and
ideology. It is, in essence, the equivalent of Pristina in Kosovo, or
Sarajevo, in Bosnia, as far as the Islamists are concerned. A new
Islamist university has opened in Novi Pazar, ostensibly a normal
college, but led by an Islamist mufti of little formal education. And,
as in Pakistan, the divide between "14th Century Islamists" and "21st
Century Islamists" is apparent. This modern institution - whose
officials proclaim it a normal educational institution - reveals its
character in its symbol: the Wahabbi/Salafi dawa symbol, an open Q'uran
surmounted with a rising sun. The university, in a renovated former
textile factory, is a known center of radical Islamist thinking. A book
fair held there in early October 2003 distributed very radical Islamist
literature, specifically advocating conflict with the West.

The dawa sign indicates that the university is predominantly
Saudi-funded, although some Western funding is known to have been
pumped into the institution, reportedly largely to undermine Serb
interests in the region.

It is also significant that the graffiti which dominates Novi Pazar
supports Alija Izetbegovic's SDA party, despite the fact that the SDA
is a Bosnian party and Novi Pazar is in Serbia. But many of the
residents call themselves "Bosniaks," as do the Islamists of Bosnia.
The process by which the Izetbegovic followers are attempting to
"legitimize" their claims to southern Serbia is apparent. [Other
parties, such as Stranka za Sandzak, are evident in Novi Pazar, but
they do not match the SDA's control of the streets.]

And if the escalation of violence erupts on the scale anticipated, the
Serbian Government would be forced to attempt to suppress it. This is
the deliberate intention of the Islamists, to force intervention so
that the Serbs could be, again, blamed for suppressing the "Muslim
victims." [Italic: my emphasis] Effectively, the "no-go" status of
Raska (Sandzak) would create not only a corridor for weapons,
combatant, narcotics and other trafficking, but it would also cut off
Serbia from Montenegro, and deny Serbia its access to the sea. And
although some Montenegrin politicians, supported by some 2.5 percent of
the population of Serbia and Montenegro, have advocated secession from
the Union with Serbia, this de facto separation of the two states by
Islamist militant action would - along with Islamist action in
Montenegro's eastern towns, such as Ulcinj - spell the end of
Montenegro as a self-governing state.

The patterns of recent ANA activities in Kosovo and FYR Macedonia
already shows an upsurge of violence, just as the Kosovo-Serbia talks
began in Vienna in October 2003. The injection of Albanian-trained
guerrillas, linked with ANA and the Kosovo Protection Corps, is also
significant. These indicators, plus other intelligence obtained by
Defense & Foreign Affairs, highlight the broader trend which relates
directly to the need by al-Qaida and Iran's clerics to regain their
initiative and to keep the US strategically at arm's-length.

The Olympics, coupled with the forced deterioration of the security
situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina - and the strong likelihood that the
Dayton Accords in Bosnia will be rendered ineffective within, perhaps,
a year - all point to a significant strategic threat emerging to the
West in the Balkans.

Defense & Foreign Affairs analysts believe that the collapse of the
clerical leadership in Iran is the only thing which could remove the
core backing for the al-Qaida groups operating in the Balkans, although
narcotrafficking, supported by criminal elements in Turkey, Albania and
elsewhere and other criminal activities would still sustain some of the
radical activities, as would ongoing funding from some Saudi sources.
But the removal of Iranian support would (and associated Syrian fronts)
significantly reduce the instability in the Balkans.

Bosnia (italiano / english / francais / srpskohrvatski)

1. Bosnia: Of Privatization, Bulldozers, Coca-Cola, and Colonial
Occupation. The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays,
visits the Coca Cola factory in Hadzici (OHR Press Briefing, Oct. 23rd)

2. Bosnia's Viceroy/IMF threaten worker/pensioner's victory in RS:
Ashdown to stop public sector wages, pensions hikes in
Bosnia (Nov. 6th, AFP)

3. Bosnia Ready to Join US-Led Coalition in Iraq
(francais/english - Voice Of America News, Nov. 7th)

4. Zapovjednik NATO-a u Europi general Dzouns za "Oslobodjenje": NATO
odlazi, Amerikanci ostaju?

LA NATO SE NE VA, MA GLI AMERICANI RESTANO?
(Oslobodenje, 21.10.2003)


=== 1 ===


Subj: Bosnia: Of Privatization, Bulldozers, Coca-Cola, and Colonial
Occupation
Date:10/23/03 11:36:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:Kilibarda78
To:Petokraka78

International Press Briefings OHR's Statement at the International
Agency's Joint Press Conference

http://www.ohr.int/print/?content_id=31049

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, will visit the
Coca Cola factory in Hadzici this afternoon.

Coca Cola, as you know, is a long-standing investor in BiH. It was
active here before the war and has created more than 300 jobs since it
restarted operations here in 1996. The governments are now engaged in a
focused effort to increase investment so as to create jobs, and
Ambassador Hays is interested in learning more about Coca Cola’s
experience as an investor here - specifically the things that make BiH
an attractive investment destination and the things that drive away
international investment.

Through the Privatisation Working Group, the authorities are trying to
remove the roadblocks to a positive privatisation environment, which is
one of the key elements in attracting more investment and creating more
jobs. At the same time, the Bulldozer Committee is working on another
50 reform proposals aimed at getting rid of pointless red tape that
discourages investors from putting their money into BiH. On that issue,
I’ve brought along an article that appeared in a recent issue of The
Economist magazine. It shows the direct correlation between poverty and
excessive bureaucracy. The simpler the regulations, the richer the
country gets. I’ve brought along copies.

Ambassador Hays will make a short statement at the end of his tour of
the Coke factory. You are all welcome to cover the tour and the
statement. If you wish to cover this, please be at the Coke factory by
12.30 today. The event will last about half an hour.


=== 2 ===


From: Petokraka78
Subject: Bosnia's Viceroy/IMF threaten worker/pensioner's victory in RS

["'Don't commit financial suicide. Step back now. If you don't than I
will be forced to intervene to prevent you from destroying this
country's chances of a better future,' Paddy Ashdown told a news
conference, directing his message to the Bosnian Serb government...The
Bosnian Serb government last month announced the 20 percent increase in
payments under strong pressure from labour unions which threatened a
general strike and following pensioners' mass protests. The decision
was made despite an IMF warning that it breached the terms of the
stand-by arrangement."]


Subj: Bosnia: Viceroy Ashdown, IMF Threaten Serb Wage, Pension Increases
Date: 11/6/03 3:13:39 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: r_rozoff

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/dv/Qbosnia-politics.Rysd_DN6.html

Agence France-Presse
November 6, 2003

Ashdown to stop public sector wages, pensions hikes in
Bosnia

SARAJEVO, Nov 6 (AFP) - The top international
representative in Bosnia warned Thursday he would stop
an increase in public spending by Bosnian Serbs to
prevent the country losing the support of the world's
monetary institutions.

"Don't commit financial suicide. Step back now. If you
don't than I will be forced to intervene to prevent
you from destroying this country's chances of a better
future," Paddy Ashdown told a news conference,
directing his message to the Bosnian Serb government.

He was referring to its attempt to buy social peace by
raising public sector wages and pensions by 20 percent
with effect from next week.

It could end Bosnia's stand-by arrangement with the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ultimately
jeopardise assistance worth 100 million euros (114
million dollars) from other financial institutions, he
warned.

Ashdown has the authority to cancel government
decisions, impose laws and sack local officials under
sweeping powers bestowed on his office by the peace
accord that ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

Since that war Bosnia has been made up of the Serbs'
Republika Srpska (RS) and the Muslim-Croat Federation,
each having its own government, parliament, army and
police forces. The two are linked by weak central
institutions.

The Bosnian Serb government last month announced the
20 percent increase in payments under strong pressure
from labour unions which threatened a general strike
and following pensioners' mass protests.

The decision was made despite an IMF warning that it
breached the terms of the stand-by arrangement.

An average monthly salary in Bosnia amounts to some
200 euros (228 dollars) while an average pension is
roughly half that amount.

The IMF arrangement requires strict fiscal discipline,
provides crucial budgetary support to the entire
country and is seen as a key to other international
monetary institutions' aid.


=== 3 ===


Source: Anti-imperialiste@...

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=96BAD0C9-3653-4C9B-
BA99B9311CF3830C

Bosnia Ready to Join US-Led Coalition in Iraq

Voice Of America News
07 Nov 2003, 20:20 UTC

De hauts responsables bosniaques ont dit que leur pays était prêt à
rejoindre les forces de la coalition dirigées par les USA en Irak.
Dans une déclaration officielle, la présidence collégiale du pays a
annoncé qu'elle était disposée à participer aux efforts de maintien de
la paix. Le document dit aussi que les USA et d'autres troupes de
l'OTAN doivent rester en Bosnie-herzégovine pour consolider la paix et
la stabilité dans la région.

Cette déclaration a été faite durant une visite à Sarajevo du
sous-secrétaire d'état US Marc Grossman.

*****

Top Bosnian leaders say their country is ready to join U.S.-led
coalition forces in Iraq.

In an official statement, the country's collective presidency announced
its readiness to assist in peacekeeping efforts. The document also said
U.S. and other NATO troops must remain in Bosnia-Herzegovina to
reinforce peace and stability in the region.

The statement came during a visit to Sarajevo by U.S. Undersecretary of
State Marc Grossman.

---

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bd/Qbosnia-us-iraq.R-gf_DN7.html

Agence France-Presse
November 7, 2003

Bosnia offers to send troops to Iraq, host US bases

SARAJEVO, Nov 7 (AFP) - Bosnia is ready to send troops
to Iraq and host US military bases on its territory,
the country's Muslim president said Friday after
meeting US Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs Marc Grossman.

Bosnia is ready to "assume its international
obligations by sending its military to Iraq," Sulejman
Tihic, the Muslim member of Bosnia's tripartite
presidency, told a press conference after talks with
Grossman.

He said Bosnian military chiefs would decide exactly
what level of commitment the Balkan country could
offer after a review of its capabilities over the next
10 days.

Bosnia has been weighing whether to deploy soldiers in
Iraq since August, even though it depends for its own
internal security on more than 12,000 NATO-led
international peacekeepers including some 2,000 US
soldiers.

The US troops here are stationed mainly at a base near
the northeastern town of Tuzla.

They are officially part of the so-called SFOR
international stabilisation mission which has kept the
peace since the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

Tihic said it was important for US troops to remain in
Bosnia and he would write to US President George W.
Bush to offer "other forms of military cooperation".

"We plan to offer the stationing of (US) military
bases here. We believe that it would contribute to
overall stability, not only in Bosnia, but in the
region," he said.

Among other countries in southeastern Europe, Albania,
Bulgaria and Macedonia already have troops in Iraq,
while Croatia and Serbia have expressed their
willingness to contribute to the international
coalition there.

Grossman welcomed ongoing defence reforms designed to
streamline Bosnia's post-war armed services and
prepare for the country's eventual membership of
NATO's Partnership for Peace programme.

Post-war Bosnia's two semi-independent entities -- the
Serbs' Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat
Federation -- have their own distict armies.

Under the reforms the two armed forces will have a
central command, the same uniform and a common flag,
but they will remain ethnically distinct.

Grossman is expected to visit Macedonia and Albania at
the end of a trip to southeastern Europe which has
already taken him to Serbia and Macedonia.


=== 4 ===


Zapovjednik NATO-a u Europi general Dzouns za "Oslobodjenje"

NATO odlazi, Amerikanci ostaju?

Prema onome sto je za Oslobodjenje kazao vrhovni zapovjednik
saveznickih snaga u Europi, americki marinski general Dzejms Dzouns
(James L. Jones), americke trupe mogle bi ostati u BiH i nakon
okoncanja misije SFOR-a,
ukoliko americka i bh. vlada o tome postignu poseban bilateralni
dogovor.

"Kao Amerikanci, imamo velik interes osigurati da Bosna nastavi
napredovati. Ako se misija NATO-a u BiH okonca, i kada se okonca, SAD
bi mogle uci u neke bilateralne odnose sa Bosnom. Smatramo da je
geostrateski to vrlo znacajno, jer smo ondje vec investirali u neke
stvari, kao sto su tamosnje baze", kazao nam je ovaj general, koji se
takodjer nalazi i na
celu Europske komande (EUCOM) svih americkih oruzanih snaga u ovome
dijelu svijeta.

Realni potencijal

Kratko smo razgovarali u petak u Brunssumu, Regionalnom zapovjednistvu
Sjevernog krila NATO-a (AFNORTH) u Nizozemskoj. Za Oslobodjenje je
odgovorio na nekoliko pitanja vezanih za situaciju u BiH i cijeloj
regiji. Posebno smo ga zamolili da pojasni svoju nedavnu izjavu da u
BiH postoji
"realni potencijal" za okoncanje vojne misije NATO-a naredne godine te
prepustanje odrzavanja sigurnosti policiji. "Sto god da sam rekao,
trebalo bi se vise interpretirati kao pozitivan razvoj napretka u
Bosni," kazao je general Dzons. "Ne mozemo ne primijetiti sto se ondje
dogadja. A ucinjen je
istinski napredak. I lijepo je sto cemo u jednom trenutku biti u
mogucnosti vidjeti da ce, mozda i naredne 2004. godine, prestati
zahtjevi za vojnom misijom koja bi se mogla promijeniti u nesto drugo,
sto bi bilo potrebno u tom procesu izgradjivanja drzave. Moglo bi doci
do toga da se veci naglasak treba staviti na policijske snage,
naprimjer. A to bi bila i logicna stvar". "No, to ne znaci da bi SAD
izgubile bilo kakav interes na Balkanu.
Drzim da bi bilo pogresno kad bi se ono sto se sada dogadja shvatilo
kao stanje u kojem netko, bilo tko, zeli napustiti Bosnu", veli general.

"Trebali bismo slaviti cinjenicu da se odvija veliki napredak, i da se
mozda priblizavamo trenutku kad bismo trebali razmotriti obavljanje
drukcije misije ondje. Ali iz toga sigurno ne bih izvodio zakljucak da
neka zemlja, ukljucujuci i SAD, zeli napustiti Bosnu na nacin da vise
nikad ne bude prisutna tamo". General Jones je takodjer kazao da je
hapsenje najtrazenijih ratnih zlocinaca, poput Radovana Karadzica i
Ratka Mladica,
vazno za cijelu regiju. "Imamo interesa da se ti ljudi privedu pravdi",
rekao nam je. "To nam je jednako vazno danas, kao sto je uvijek i bilo
vazno. Bilo bi sjajno kad bi nam svatko pomagao u tome, pa da budemo
jos efikasniji u privodjenju tih ljudi. Bio bi to odlican znak za
cijelu regiju, koji bi pokazao da su ondje ljudi ozbiljni uci u
familiju naroda, svejedno radilo se o Europskoj uniji ili Partnerstvu
za mir. Pitanje optuzenih ratnih zlocinaca koji su na slobodi svakako
da je vazan aspekt onoga sto se ondje dogadja, i ne mislimo ubrzo
mijenjati svoj stav o tome".
Bolje od Kosova Zamoljen da nam usporedi sigurnosnu situaciju u BiH i
na Kosovu, zapovjednik snaga NATO-a u Europi kazao nam je da je, s
vojnog aspekta, BiH dalje odmakla u stvaranju okolnosti za okoncanja
NATO-ove
"tradicionalne" vojne zadace. "Jer Kosovo umnogome ovisi od toga kakav
ce biti njegov konacni status. U proteklih nekoliko mjeseci ondje ima i
sporadicnih zaostravanja situacije. Zato mislim da je vojna zadaca na
Kosovu, za razliku od Bosne, vojnicki zbilja potrebna", rekao nam je na
kraju general Dzons.

Antonio PRLENDA

Copyright © 1999-2000 OSLOBODJENJE Sarajevo

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La NATO se ne va, ma gli Americani restano?

(Oslobodenje, 21.10.2003)

Intervista al comandante supremo della NATO in Europa, generale dei
marines James L. Jones, il quale dichiara
che le truppe americane potrebbero restare in Bosnia anche dopo la fine
della missione SFOR, nel caso i governi statunitense e bosniaco
giungano ad un accordo bilaterale in proposito.

"Come Americani, abbiamo un forte interesse a garantire che la Bosnia
continui a progredire. Se la missione NATO in Bosnia finira' e quando
finira', gli USA potrebbero instaurare rapporti bilaterali con la
Bosnia. Riteniamo che cio' sia molto importante dal punto di vista
geostrategico, poiche' abbiamo gia investito in alcune cose, COME LE
BASI su quel territorio", ha dichiarato a Oslobodenje il genrale Jones,
il quale e' anche a capodel comando in Europa (EUCOM) di tutte le forze
armate statunitensi in questa parte del mondo.

Reale potenziale

La breve intervista, rilasciata nella base olandese di Brunssum presso
il comando dell'ala Nord della NATO (AFNORTH), e' peraltro tutta un
inno alla rassicurazione: Jones infatti aveva recentemente dichiarato
che in Bosnia esiste un "reale potenziale" per la conclusione della
missione militare NATO e il passaggio dei compiti di mantenimento della
sicurezza alla
polizia. "Qualsiasi cosa io abbia detto", ha risposto il generale,
"andrebbe interpretato nel senso di uno sviluppo positivo dei progressi
in Bosnia. Non possiamo non rilevare cio' che accade laggiu'. Ed e'
stato compiuto un reale progresso. E' bello pensare che a un dato
momento, forse gia' nel prossimo 2004, potremo vedere che sara' cessato
il bisogno di una
missione militare, che potrebbe trasformarsi in qualcosa d'altro, che
sia necessario in questo processo di costruzione dello stato. Ad
esempio, potrebbe accadare ce si metta un acento maggiore sulle forze
di polizia. Sarebbe logico"

"Ma questo non significa che gli USA perderebbero ogni interesse nei
Balcani. Secondo me sarebbe un errore se cio che avviene oggi fosse
interpretato come una siuazione in cui qualcuno, chiunque sia, intenda
abbandonare la Bosnia", afforma il generale. "Dovremmo celebrare il
fatto che si assiste a questo progresso, e che forse ci avviciniamo al
momento in
cui dovremmo prendere in considerazione il lancio di un atro tipo di
missione in quel paese. Ma da questo certamente non trarrei la
conclusione che qualche paese, Stati Unit compresi, intenda abbandonare
la Bosnia in modo da non essere piu' presente sul suo territorio". Il
generale Jones ha anche affermato che l'arresto dei piu' ricercati fra
i criminali di guerra,
come Radovan Karadzic e Ratko Mladic, e' importante per tutta la
regione.

"E' nel nostro interesse che questi personaggi siano consegnati alla
giustizia. E' altrettanto importante oggi, quanto lo e' sempre stato.
Sarebbe meraviglioso che tutti ci aiutassero, perche' fossimo piu'
efficienti nella cattura di questi soggetti. Sarebbe un segnale
eccellente per tutta la regione, che dmostrerebbe come la gente di qui
vuole davvero entrare nella famiglia dei popoli, indipendentemente dal
fatto che si tratti dell'Unione Europea o la Partnership for Peace. La
questione dei criminali di guerra ricercati, che ancora si trovano in
liberta', e' sicuramente un aspetto importante di cio' che accade qui,
per cui non pensiamo di cambiare opinione in merito".

Meglio del Kosovo

Richiesto di fare un confronto fra la situazione della sicurezza in
Bosnia e nel Kosovo, il comandante delle forze NATO in Europa ha
dichiarato che, dal punto di vista militare, la Bosnia e' mlto piu'
avanti nel creare le condizioni per la fine della presenza militare
"tradizionali" della NATO.
"Questo perche' il Kosovo in gran parte dipende da quello che sara' il
suo status finale. Negli ultimi mesi qui si e' ache assistit ad uno
sporadico peggioramento della situazione. Per questo penso che la
missione militare in Kosovo, a differenza della Bosnia, e' ancora
davvero necessaria".

Antonio PRLENDA

(Fonte: P. Lucchesi su balcani@peacelink,it, 22/10/2003)

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LA BATTAGLIA DELL'AIA

Oggi 8 novembre 2003 si svolge all'Aia (Olanda) la seconda
manifestazione internazionale contro il "tribunale ad hoc", organizzata
dal Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM).
Nella piattaforma della manifestazione si chiede, oltre alla abolizione
del paralegale "tribunale", il risarcimento dei danni arrecati dai
paesi NATO alla Serbia ed a tutti i cittadini jugoslavi, vittime della
scelta criminale di squartare la RFS di Jugoslavia nonche', ancor piu'
direttamente, vittime della infame aggressione militare del 1999.
Una delegazione della nostra Sezione Italiana dell'ICDSM e' presente
all'Aia per la manifestazione. Nei prossimi giorni diffonderemo
ulteriori resoconti e documentazione. Aggiornamenti sulle iniziative
dell'ICDSM e su quanto avviene nel paralegale "tribunale ad hoc" si
possono trovare ai siti:

http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/AIA/
(bollettino JUGOINFO)
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/
(Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/
(the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/ (an independent web site)

Per inquadrare la manifestazione diffondiamo uno stralcio dal lungo
articolo "LA RIMOZIONE DELLA JUGOSLAVIA", di A. Martocchia
(Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia), apparso in due parti sulla
rivista "L'Ernesto" negli scorsi mesi (http://www.lernesto.it). La
versione integrale dell'articolo, corredata di note, si puo' leggere
alla URL:

https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/rimozione.html

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LA BATTAGLIA DELL'AIA

L'Associazione "Sloboda" assiste nella preparazione della difesa di
Milosevic all'Aia. In quel "Tribunale ad hoc" si sta svolgendo in
questo periodo la fase centrale del "processo" a Milosevic: dopo la
presentazione delle "accuse" e delle "prove" per i tre "capi di
imputazione" (per le guerre in Croazia, in Bosnia ed in Kosovo), si sta
passando adesso alla fase della autodifesa dell'imputato. Per gli
accusatori di Milosevic il "processo", non riuscendo di fatto a
dimostrare la colpevolezza dell'ex presidente, è un fallimento ed è
motivo di estremo imbarazzo e preoccupazione. Contro Milosevic il
"Tribunale" ha usato ogni mezzo di pressione politica, mediatica e
fisica (a causa del suo stato di salute e di cure inappropriate).
Malgrado tutto ciò non sono riusciti spezzare la difesa di Milosevic.
Di fatto, lo "stato d'emergenza" è servito anche ad impedire l'opera
dei collaboratori di Milosevic, e per questo molti osservatori
ritengono che esso sia stato deciso di comune accordo con il governo
DOS da chi "muove i fili" all'Aia.

Il caso del "Tribunale ad hoc per i crimini commessi sul territorio
della ex Jugoslavia" (1) chiarisce molto bene la collateralità di certe
neonate istituzioni penali internazionali ai progetti egemonici dei
paesi imperialisti. Esso è stato fondato nel 1993 dal Consiglio di
Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite per l'insistenza del Senatore Albright
(2). Il normale canale per creare un Tribunale come questo, come a suo
tempo ha puntualizzato lo stesso Segretario Generale, avrebbe dovuto
essere "un Trattato Internazionale stabilito ed approvato dagli
Stati Membri che avrebbero permesso al Tribunale di esercitare in pieno
nell'ambito della loro sovranità" (Rapporto No X S/25704, sezione 18).
Tuttavia, Washington ha imposto un'interpretazione arbitraria del
Cap.VII della Carta delle Nazioni Unite, che consente al Consiglio di
Sicurezza di prendere "misure speciali" per restaurare la pace in sede
internazionale. Perciò il "Tribunale ad hoc" è una struttura
illegittima e para-legale. Esso è finanziato dai paesi della NATO, e
soprattutto dagli USA (3), in maniera diretta oltreché
attraverso l'ONU, ma anche da altri paesi non proprio neutrali nella
problematica jugoslava, come l'Arabia Saudita, nonché da enti e
personaggi privati, come George Soros.
Il sostegno della NATO al "Tribunale ad hoc" è particolarmente
indicativo delle vere finalità di questa struttura para-giudiziaria.
Secondo l'ex portavoce della NATO Jamie Shea "la NATO è amica del
Tribunale, è la NATO che detiene per conto del Tribunale i criminali di
guerra sotto accusa... Sono i paesi della NATO che hanno procurato i
fondi per istituire il Tribunale, noi siamo tra i più grandi
finanziatori." (4) Oltre ad attestare il sostegno finanziario e la
"amicizia" della NATO - proprio mentre questa bombardava i convogli di
profughi ed il petrolchimico di Pancevo - Jamie Shea rivendica dunque
ad essa il ruolo di "polizia giudiziaria". La quale, come s'è visto in
decine di occasioni, specialmente in Bosnia ma anche nel caso di
Milosevic, opera attraverso colpi di mano e rapimenti, nel corso dei
quali alcuni "sospetti" sono stati persino uccisi - mentre diversi
serbi-bosniaci detenuti all'Aja sono deceduti per presunti infarti e
suicidi.
Il Tribunale dell'Aja ha sistematicamente dichiarato il non luogo a
procedere per le documentate accuse di crimini di guerra mosse da varie
parti alla NATO. La sproporzione tra le incriminazioni nei confronti di
esponenti serbi rispetto a quelle di croati, kosovari albanesi e
bosniaci musulmani, responsabili di gravi crimini, è resa evidente dai
numeri (5). Ancor più evidente è il fatto che dei tanti "imputati", gli
unici con responsabilità eminentemente politiche siano appartenenti
alla parte serba (Milosevic, Milutinovic, Karadzic) mentre i leader
delle fazioni secessioniste sono stati tutti indistintamente
"risparmiati" nonostante (ad esempio) i loro torbidissimi trascorsi.
(6) La "giustizia" del Tribunale dell'Aja è dunque quella di una parte
in causa contro l'altra, il contrario esatto del "super partes". Il
"Tribunale ad hoc", analogamente al nostro famigerato Tribunale
Speciale nel Ventennio, lavora come uno strumento politico, totalmente
sotto controllo dei vincitori, cioè degli aggressori, devastatori ed
invasori della Jugoslavia.

Noti giuristi e commentatori hanno spiegato come, nel suo
funzionamento, il Tribunale dell'Aja violi tutti i principi del diritto
internazionale. In sostanza, esso non rispetta la separazione dei
poteri, né la parità fra accusa e difesa, né tantomeno la
presunzione di innocenza finché non si giunge ad una condanna: la
regola 92 stabilisce che le confessioni siano ritenute credibili, a
meno che l'accusato possa provare il contrario, mentre in qualsiasi
altra parte del mondo l'accusato è ritenuto innocente fino a quando non
sia provata la sua colpevolezza (7). Esso formula i propri regolamenti
e li modifica su ordine del Presidente o del Procuratore, assegnando ad
essi carattere retroattivo: attraverso una procedura totalmente
ridicola, il Presidente può apportare variazioni di sua propria
iniziativa o ratificarle via fax ad altri giudici (regola 6)! Il
regolamento stesso non contempla un giudice per le indagini preliminari
che investighi sulle accuse. Il Tribunale ad hoc utilizza testimoni
anonimi, che si possono dunque sottrarre al confronto con la difesa;
secreta le fonti testimoniali, che possono essere anche servizi segreti
di paesi coinvolti nei fatti. Esso usa la segretezza anche sui
procedimenti aperti (regola 53). Ricusa o rifiuta a proprio arbitrio di
ascoltare gli avvocati della difesa (regola 46), allo stesso modo dei
tribunali dell'Inquisizione; può rifiutare agli avvocati di consultare
documentazione probatoria (regola 66); può detenere sospetti per
novanta giorni prima di formulare imputazioni, con l'evidente scopo di
estorcere confessioni. Dulcis in fundo, recentemente il "giudice" May
si è persino arrogato il diritto, d'accordo con la "pubblica accusa"
Nice, di revisionare la trascrizione del dibattimento, censurandola
allo scopo di impedire la divulgazione di quegli interventi di
Milosevic considerati "ad uso esterno" e dunque irrilevanti o
inopportuni per gli Atti del "processo".

L'imputazione contro l'allora Presidente della Repubblica Federale di
Jugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic veniva resa pubblica dalla "procuratrice"
Arbour su pressione di Madeleine Albright proprio durante la
aggressione della NATO, nella primavera del 1999, nell'ambito della
campagna mediatica di demonizzazione della Jugoslavia e dei suoi
dirigenti.
Un tassello, insomma, della più ampia operazione di disinformazione
strategica e guerra psicologica (8). Per la effettiva cattura di
Milosevic, però, dovevano maturare le condizioni politiche in
Jugoslavia. Questo cambiamento è avvenuto solo nell'autunno del 2000,
quando a Belgrado si è instaurato il regime-fantoccio filooccidentale.
La rocambolesca cattura di Milosevic è avvenuta mesi dopo, il 31 marzo
2001: in cambio al nuovo governo sono stati accordati 50 milioni di
dollari già promessi dagli USA. I dirigenti belgradesi, per ottemperare
ai ricatti militari ed economici degli USA, della Nato e del Tribunale
dell'Aja, hanno commesso una serie di macroscopiche illegalità.
Milosevic è stato detenuto per tre mesi senza che nessuno delle
centinaia di testimoni ascoltati avesse fornito prove a sostegno della
pretestuosa imputazione di "abuso di potere" (diversa da quella di
"crimini di guerra" usata all'Aia). Al termine delle due proroghe della
detenzione preventiva, Milosevic avrebbe dovuto essere scarcerato;
invece, un ulteriore, grande scandalo è stata la modalità della sua
"estradizione" da Belgrado in Olanda, tramite una operazione-lampo
illegale ed anticostituzionale curata dai settori più filo-americani
del governo di Zoran Djindjic (9). Il sequestro ed il trasporto all'Aia
su velivoli della RAF inglese avveniva in base a un decreto del solo
premier e del ministro degli interni, con un governo dimezzato dal
ritiro dei ministri montenegrini; un decreto che violava, insieme alle
Costituzioni jugoslava e serba (10), la posizione del Parlamento
Federale nonché l'orientamento dei partner di maggioranza e dello
stesso presidente jugoslavo Kostunica. Il giorno dopo il trasferimento
di Milosevic, i governanti jugoslavi ottenevano il loro ulteriore
premio: la promessa di 1.360 milioni di dollari, stanziati dalla
"Conferenza dei donatori" alla condizione della totale privatizzazione
dell'economia nazionale.

All'Aia, Milosevic ha da subito tenuto un atteggiamento fermo ed
inequivocabile: si dichiara prigioniero politico, non riconosce
legittimità al "Tribunale ad hoc", e rifiuta di essere assistito da
avvocati, compresi quelli designati "d'ufficio" dal "Tribunale" stesso
(11). Le prime udienze (tra luglio 2001 e gennaio 2002) sono state
dedicate a problemi procedurali, ma Milosevic non ha mancato di dire la
sua ogni volta che gli è stato concesso di parlare, e fintantoché il
microfono non gli è stato spento in malo modo.
Il 29 ottobre 2001, ad esempio, dopo la lettura della "imputazione
sulla Croazia" ha detto che <<è assurdo accusare la Serbia ed i serbi
per la secessione armata della Croazia, che ha causato una guerra
civile, conflitti e sofferenze per la popolazione civile.>>
Il giorno dopo, commentando "l'imputazione sul Kosovo", egli ha fatto
notare che essa <<riguarda solamente fatti avvenuti dal 24 marzo alla
fine della prima settimana di giugno [1999], laddove (...) tutto il
pianeta sa che è proprio dal 24 marzo fino alla prima settimana di
giugno compresa che la Nato ha commesso la sua criminale aggressione
contro la Jugoslavia. (...) Se la corte non vuole prendere in
considerazione questi fatti, allora è ovvio che questa non è una corte
ma solamente una parte del meccanismo atto ad eseguire crimini contro
il mio paese e la mia gente. Se quest'ultimo è il caso (...) e dunque
se la corte è parte dell'ingranaggio, allora per piacere,
date lettura ai verdetti che vi è stato detto di formulare e smettetela
di annoiarmi.>>
Dopo la lettura del "capo d'imputazione" sulla Bosnia-Erzegovina,
Milosevic dichiarava invece: <<Questo testo miserabile che abbiamo qui
ascoltato è l'apice dell'assurdità. Devono darmi credito per la pace in
Bosnia, e non per la guerra. La responsabilità per la guerra in Bosnia
è delle potenze che hanno distrutto la Jugoslavia e dei loro satrapi in
Jugoslavia, e non della Serbia, né del suo popolo, né della sua
politica. Questo è un tentativo...>> Qui il microfono veniva spento.
Ancora, in dicembre, Milosevic si richiamava a fatti di estrema
attualità: <<Per me è assolutamente chiaro il motivo per cui questo
falso pubblico ministero insiste sulla unificazione [dei tre "capi
d'accusa"]. La causa di questo è l'11 Settembre. Loro
vogliono mettere in secondo piano le accuse contro di me sul Kosovo
perché queste inevitabilmente aprono la questione della collaborazione
della amministrazione Clinton con i terroristi nel Kosovo, compresa la
organizzazione di Bin Laden. (...) Quello che si può trovare sotto la
superficie di questi "capi d'imputazione" non sono altro che i detriti
ed il fango di dieci anni di guerra mediatica, condotta con l'obiettivo
di demonizzare sia la Serbia, sia il popolo serbo e la sua dirigenza,
ed anche me personalmente, e addirittura la mia famiglia. Perché la
guerra mediatica ha preceduto quella reale, ed ha avuto come obiettivo
quello di convincere l'opinione pubblica occidentale che siamo
delinquenti, anche se non abbiamo mai dato argomenti per avvalorare
questo. Voi oggi avete letto qui che il 6 Aprile 1992 l'Unione Europea
riconobbe la Bosnia-Erzegovina. Questo è stato fatto sotto l'influenza
dell'allora Ministro degli Esteri tedesco Hans Dietrich Genscher,
perchè il 6 Aprile era il giorno in cui nel 1941 Hitler
attacco' la Jugoslavia bombardando Belgrado. C'era un desiderio di
simboleggiare, in questo modo, il capovolgimento degli esiti della II
Guerra Mondiale.>>

Il 30 gennaio 2002, Slobodan Milosevic aveva nuovamente l'occasione di
parlare dinanzi alla "corte" dell'Aia:
<<In realtà c'era un piano evidente contro quello Stato di allora che
era, direi, un modello per il futuro federalismo europeo. Quello Stato
era la Jugoslavia, dove più nazionalità erano comprese in un sistema
federativo che realizzava la possibilità di vivere con pari diritti,
con successo, con la possibilità di prosperare, svilupparsi e, direi,
di essere d'esempio al mondo intero di come si può vivere insieme. Per
tutto il tempo abbiamo lottato per la Jugoslavia, per conservare la
Jugoslavia. In fondo, tutti i fatti comprovano soltanto quello che sto
dicendo. E soltanto la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia tuttora
esistente ha conservato la sua struttura dal punto di vista delle
nazionalità.
(...) Con ciò che sta avvenendo li' [in Kosovo] si sta in pratica
riabilitando la politica del periodo nazista, di Hitler e Mussolini.
Questo grande parlare di "Grande Serbia", di questa presunta idea che
non è mai esistita, non serve altro che a mascherare la creazione di
una "Grande Albania" - quella stessa che crearono Hitler e Mussolini
durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Guardate soltanto quello schema, e
guardate che cosa si sta facendo adesso, quello che vogliono sottrarre
alla Serbia, al Montenegro ed alla Macedonia - e un domani forse anche
alla Grecia del Nord, quando le relazioni greco-turche saranno messe
alla prova di nuovo per ordine del comune padrone, ed anche quella sarà
per loro una questione da risolvere.>>
Milosevic - uomo politico socialdemocratico, di tradizioni antifasciste
ma possibilista sulla riforma dello Stato socialista in senso
"occidentale" - parla qui chiaramente della Jugoslavia di Tito, e la
difende! Parla di un paese nel quale si rifuggiva sia da uno
jugoslavismo sovranazionale "artificiale", sia dal nazionalismo
separatista, a favore di una cultura "sintetica" jugoslava in grado di
riunire le preesistenti culture in una nuova, dinamica, adatta ad uno
Stato fondato sui diritti di cittadinanza e non - come è purtroppo oggi
- sulle "identità" etniche o religiose.

Lo spiega Neil Clark recensendo un ottimo libro (12) su questo tema
dello "jugoslavismo", un tema a sua volta "rimosso" dal dibattito sui
Balcani:
<<Negli anni Sessanta questi tentativi di formare una comune identità
jugoslava parevano aver avuto successo. I matrimoni misti indicavano
che un numero sempre maggiore di cittadini si facevano registrare nei
censimenti come jugoslavi. (...) Nel capitolo conclusivo, un'"orazione
funebre" personale per la Jugoslavia, Aleksa Djilas afferma che se
l'Occidente potesse tornare indietro all'inizio degli anni Novanta, le
cose andrebbero diversamente. Io non ne sono certo. La distruzione di
una nazione militarmente forte e non allineata, sostituita da una serie
di protettorati deboli della NATO e del FMI, conviene perfettamente a
chi governa il nuovo mondo. La verità, come lo stesso Djilas riconosce,
è che fin quando è esistita l'Unione Sovietica, la Jugoslavia aveva una
funzione rispetto all'Occidente, ma una volta abbattuto il muro di
Berlino, essa era solo d'impaccio. (...) La Jugoslavia, secondo Djilas,
"rimane la più pratica e sensibile, la più anti-distruttiva risposta
alla
questione nazionale degli Slavi del Sud". Essa è, come affermato da
Slobodan Jovanovic all'epoca dell'attacco delle potenze dell'Asse nel
'41, il modo migliore in cui il popolo balcanico può garantirsi
l'indipendenza e proteggersi dal dominio straniero.>>

Dopo alcune incertezze legate alla intenzione della "procuratrice" Del
Ponte (13) di unificare i tre procedimenti sul Kosovo, sulla Croazia e
sulla Bosnia, il "processo" a Milosevic è stato effettivamente
unificato ed è iniziato il 12 febbraio 2002. Da allora i mass-media,
dopo le prime giornate-shock, hanno abbassato il sipario -
gradualmente, ma completamente. In Jugoslavia, le autorità hanno
dapprima impedito il proseguimento della diretta televisiva, poi hanno
operato per isolare Milosevic in ogni maniera. Cosi', oggi soltanto chi
è presente in aula può assistere ad uno spettacolo veramente surreale
(14). Nel confronto con i testimoni dell‘“accusa“, Milosevic
agevolmente rovescia le imputazioni, spesso mettendo i testimoni stessi
in contraddizione: tanto che qualcuno di questi ritratta, qualcun altro
deve rinunciare a deporre, qualcuno si sente male, qualcuno si rende
conto che la sua deposizione in fase istruttoria è stata falsificata...
Milosevic mette la NATO sul banco degli imputati come prima
responsabile non solo dei bombardamenti, ma proprio dell'infame
squartamento della RFS di Jugoslavia, ripercorrendo gli atti
diplomatici, politici e militari a vari l ivelli compiuti dai paesi
 dell'Alleanza. I fatti citati da Milosevic sono fatti storici, ormai,
benché sostanzialmente ignorati o trascurati dai commentatori
occidentali e filo-occidentali. Sono fatti incontrovertibili, e 
Milosevic, mentre ripercorre pagine e pagine di storia balcanica e
mondiale ne scrive a tutti gli effetti una nuova, con grande dignità,
pur nel completo isolamento, con troppi avversari e solo pochi amici 
(nemmeno tutti affidabili) attorno, e nella disattenzione di
giornalisti e "balcanologi" d'ogni sorta.

D'altronde, l'obiettivo degli sponsor del "Tribunale ad hoc" - cioè
fare di Milosevic il capro espiatorio esclusivo e "conclusivo" per le
tragedie di questi anni - può essere realizzato solamente nella misura
in cui le opinioni pubbliche restino ignare di ciò che viene
effettivamente detto nell'aula dell'Aia. L'operazione di "scaricamento"
delle responsabilità in toto sulla figura di Milosevic, attraverso
l'intera costruzione del processo-farsa, rappresenta di per se stessa
un enorme tentativo di "rimozione": essa vuole offrire ai veri
responsabili del "magnum crimen" l‘opportunità di risciacquarsi la
coscienza, autoassolversi, financo sottrarsi al pagamento dei danni dei
bombardamenti. Ma tale abnorme, disonesta operazione può avere successo
solamente se, a sua volta, sul dibattimento dell‘Aia sia fatto calare
il sipario, e non ne sia data alcuna cronaca, cosicchè tanto apparente
sforzo nella ricerca della "verità sui crimini della guerra in
Jugoslavia", tanto materiale accumulato, restino inutilizzati per
giornalisti, commentatori, studiosi, storici... È una rimozione dentro
l'altra, in un gioco di scatole cinesi: come la cancellazione della
Jugoslavia dalle cartine geografiche, ed analogamente all‘oblio imposto
sui bombardamenti NATO e tanti altri episodi-chiave, così pure i
momenti salienti del "processo" a Milosevic vengono ignorati dai media.
Questo silenzio giornalistico, in quanto ulteriore momento della
campagna strategica di disinformazione che ha accompagnato la guerra, è
il peggiore nemico della Jugoslavia e delle popolazioni che la abitano,
l'arma più micidiale adoperata contro di esse.

Nessuno ha riportato i dettagli del confronto in aula tra Milosevic e
Stipe Mesic, attuale presidente croato ed ex uomo di Tudjman, ne’
quelli del confronto con l'ex presidente della Slovenia Milan Kucan,
benche’ riguardassero i momenti cruciali e drammatici dello scoppio
della guerra fratricida nel 1991. Nessuna cronaca è stata fatta della
testimonianza di Zoran Lilic, probabilmente la più importante nel
“processo“ visto che Lilic fu addirittura presidente della RF di
Jugoslavia mentre Milosevic era presidente della Serbia; non si è
parlato della deposizione di un uomo dei servizi, Rade Markovic,
chiamato come testimone dell'accusa ma che poi, in aula, ha dato
ragione a Milosevic ed ha dichiarato di essere stato sottoposto a
pesanti pressioni dal governo serbo attuale affinché dichiarasse il
falso; nessuno ha commentato nemmeno il confronto con il “nonviolento
kosovaro“ (15) Ibrahim Rugova; per non parlare poi degli interventi in
aula di diplomatici e politici occidentali, o dei ridicoli spettacoli
offerti da falsi esperti di storia, facilmente sbugiardati da Milosevic.

Nei prossimi mesi, dedicati alla replica dell'accusato, dovrebbero
svolgersi molte sedute che vedranno come protagonisti personaggi di
spicco dei paesi NATO, chiamati da Milosevic a testimoniare: i nostri
giornali ne riporteranno qualche eco?


NOTE:
(1) Questo "Tribunale ad hoc" non va confuso con la preesistente Corte
Internazionale atta a dirimere le controversie tra gli Stati, che ha
sempre sede all'Aia ma è organismo ben più legittimato.
(2) La presidentessa del Tribunale, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, il 5
aprile 1999 veniva insignita di una onoreficenza dalla Corte Suprema
degli USA. In quella occasione essa spiegava senza alcun imbarazzo:
<<Abbiamo beneficiato del forte sostegno dei governi interessati e
degli individui che si sono adoperati, come il Segretario Albright. [Si
noti che i bombardamenti sulla Jugoslavia erano iniziati da pochi
giorni] Come rappresentante permanente alle Nazioni Unite, essa ha
lavorato incessantemente per creare il Tribunale. In effetti, noi
spesso ci riferiamo a lei come alla "madre del Tribunale"...>>
Dunque la "mamma" del Tribunale dell'Aia non è Emma Bonino!
(3) In un comunicato stampa diramato all'Aia il 19 aprile 1999
(JL/PIU/397-E) si legge: <<Per conto del Tribunale Penale
Internazionale per la ex Jugoslavia il Presidente del Tribunale,
giudice Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, ha espresso il suo grande
apprezzamento al governo degli Stati Uniti per la sua concessione di
500mila dollari USA destinati al Progetto Outreach del Tribunale.
Harold Koh, Vice segretario di Stato USA per la democrazia, i diritti
umani ed il lavoro, ha annunciato la donazione in una conferenza stampa
presso il Tribunale venerdì 16 aprile 1999. Questa generosa
contribuzione, che ammonta a più di un terzo del budget complessivo di
Outreach, "consentirà al Tribunale" - come nota lo stesso Vice
Segretario di Stato Harold Koh - "di portare il suo messaggio di
giustizia imparziale non solamente ai governi ed ai rappresentanti
legali dell'ex Jugoslavia, ma, soprattutto, alle famiglie delle
vittime".>> Una dichiarazione tanto nobile da far venire le lacrime
agli occhi, soprattutto se si pensa che questo signore mentre parlava
rappresentava uno Stato - gli USA - che proprio in quei giorni stava
causando dolori enormi e disgrazie a quelle stesse famiglie tramite i
bombardamenti.
(4) Conferenza stampa tenuta il 17 maggio 1999.
(5) Le recenti incriminazioni ed arresti contro alcuni esponenti
minori della "manovalanza" UCK non mutano questo quadro complessivo; lo
stesso vale per l'arresto di Nasir Oric, musulmano della Bosnia
responsabile di micidiali "sortite" delle sue truppe dalla "enclave
protetta" di Srebrenica a danno dei serbi dei villaggi circostanti nel
1992-1993 - e dunque ben prima dei fatti del 1995 sui quali la stampa
internazionale ha tanto insistito, benché la loro vera dinamica ed
entità sia tuttora da chiarire (si veda in proposito in: Juergen
Elsaesser, op. cit.). Nel caso dei croati, mentre nessun leader
politico è stato "incriminato" dall'Aia, lo Stato croato ha finora
negato ogni tipo di collaborazione anche per i militari responsabili
della eliminazione fisica degli abitanti serbi della Slavonia e delle
Krajine.
(6) Franjo Tudjman, oggi defunto, è stato l'autore di testi
revisionisti sul nazismo; Alija Izetbegovic, autore della
"Dichiarazione Islamica" e legato all'Arabia Saudita, all'Iran, al
Pakistan ed a Bin Laden, è sospettato di avere fatto parte dei
filonazisti "Giovani Musulmani" durante la II Guerra Mondiale;
i leader dell'UCK, anche macedone, sono personaggi ricercati
dalle polizie di mezzo mondo per le loro frequentazioni criminali.
Tutti costoro subirono condanne e spesso scontarono pene nella RFSJ per
reati quale l'"istigazione all'odio tra le nazionalità".
(7) La pagina 11467 degli Atti, relativa alla seduta del 10 ottobre
2002, resterà leggendaria poiché in essa per la prima volta nella
storia un "magistrato" (Richard May) dichiara che la Corte accetta il
"sentito dire" come prova.
(8) La "necessità" di una indagine contro Milosevic veniva annunciata
alla conferenza stampa congiunta tenuta dalla "madre del Tribunale ad
hoc", Albright, e dall'ex-procuratore Louise Arbour (successivamente
sostituita dalla Del Ponte) a Washington D.C. il 30 aprile del 1999: si
veda il documento ufficiale dell'ufficio del portavoce del Dipartimento
di Stato USA:
http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/1999/990430a.html .
(9) A sottolineare il vero e proprio affronto operato da questi
agenti della NATO nel governo serbo, ai danni del paese e della sua
stessa dignità e memoria storica, basti guardare al giorno in cui il
sequestro è avvenuto: 28 giugno, una data altamente simbolica per la
nazione serba. Quel giorno, nel 1389 si concludeva la nota battaglia
contro i Turchi; nel 1914 avveniva l'attentato di Sarajevo; nel 1989
Milosevic teneva il famoso discorso a Kosovo Polje, invocando la
convivenza e la parità tra tutte le etnie (per il testo si veda:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1112 ). Non è
perciò un caso se una prima manifestazione internazionale contro il
"Tribunale" dell'Aia è stata convocata dal comitato "Sloboda" all'Aia
per il 28 giugno 2003.
(10) La opinione contraria della Corte Costituzionale è stata
formalizzata il 6 novembre 2001; il testo è stato pubblicato sulla
Gazzetta Ufficiale della RF di Jugoslavia N.70/01 il 28
dicembre 2001.
(11) I cosiddetti "Amici curiae", la cui scarsa serietà è dimostrata
dal fatto che dopo pochi mesi uno di loro ha rilasciato alla stampa una
intervista dicendosi convinto che Milosevic sarà condannato, e per
questo è stato sostituito nell'incarico in seguito alle proteste di
Milosevic.
(12) Neil Clark sul "New Statesman" del 28 aprile di quest'anno
a proposito del libro: "Yugoslavism: histories of a failed idea
(1918-1992)" di Dejan Djokic (editor), Hurst & co., 369 pagine, ISBN
1850656630.
(13) La strana carriera di Carla Del Ponte risalta dalla clamorosa
intervista di J. Elsaesser al testimone-chiave nella vicenda
Mabetex/Pacolli, Felipe Turover, che ha accusato la Del Ponte di avere
insabbiato l'inchiesta e di aver messo a repentaglio la vita dei
testimoni (KONKRET, dicembre 2002. In italiano su:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2137 ).
(14) È oggi pero' possibile seguire le udienze via internet sui siti:
http://www.domovina.net/Icty/eng/room1.ram
http://hague.bard.edu/video.html
http://tribunal.freeserbia.com
Anche le trascrizioni, che ormai ammontano a molte migliaia di pagine,
sono reperibili su vari siti internet.
(15) ''Hussein e Milosevic ... in quanto dittatori si assomigliano. Il
problema che si pone il mondo civile è quello di annullare le
potenzialita' dei dittatori, per andare sempre più verso la
democrazia''. Ad un'altra domanda, Rugova ha risposto: ''Noi kosovari
dobbiamo ringraziare Dio per l'intervento della Nato che è servito a
salvare un popolo e una civiltà''. (ANSA 13/02/2003).

L'articolo integrale su:
https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/rimozione.html


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