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Milosevic "trial", August 2003
1. Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague (19/8)
2. SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday (20/8)
3. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC (25/8)
Includes a Trascript of Milosevic speaking about Srebrenica dated
September 27, 2002
4. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC
5. MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
6. SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
7. "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
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Useful Links to Transcripts and Videos of Milosevic 'Trial'
Transcripts:
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Video:
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Archives - English http://hague.bard.edu/video.html
Archives - Serbo-Croatian http://tribunal.freeserbia.com
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Socialists embittered by ban to visit Milosevic
Tanjug - August 19, 2003
17:38 BELGRADE - The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) on Tuesday voiced
strong protest with a decision of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) administration to ban the visits of
its representatives and the Association Freedom for SPS president and
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, announcing it would
employ all mechanisms aimed at suspending this decision.
The ICTY administration is "trying to explain" this decision by
statements SPS members made after their recent visit to Milosevic at
the Scheveningen detention unit, the party said in a statement and
added that this was really "an excuse aimed at placing president
Milosevic in complete isolation."
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only
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FoNet, August 20, 2003
Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Hague Tribunal is
reported to have banned members of the Socialist Party
of Serbia and the Sloboda (Freedom) Movement from
visiting Slobodan Milosevic, according to Sloboda
Association member Vladimir Krsljanin.
Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of the
former Yugoslav and Serbian President's birthday,
Krsljanin produced a letter from the international
tribunal's administration addressed to Milosevic,
which states that the ban, to be implemented until
further notice, is a result of a media statement given
in breach of court regulations.
The statement was made by Socialist Party delegation
members Milorad Vucelic and Zoran Andjelkovic during
their last visit to the Scheveningen detention centre,
where Milosevic is being held. They gave the statement
to press despite being forewarned that such a move was
against tribunal rules.
Krsljanin protested: "This is hideous manipulation and
an injustice because it is not in line with the rules
of the tribunal".
He stressed that a "legal battle" for the decision to
be overturned would ensue.
The press conference was followed by the holding of a
"Free Serbia" debate and the screening of a
documentary entitled "Defeated Hague", which were to
mark Milosevic's birthday.
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SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday
17:14 BELGRADE , Aug 20 (Tanjug) - The Socialist Party
of Serbia said on Wednesday that it sent a
congratulatory message to the preasident of that party
Slobodan Milosevic, who is standing trial in the war
crimes tribunal at The Hague, on the occasion of his
62nd birthday.
SPS said in the message it wished that "the fight he
is leading in The Hague, in the name of national and
state interets, will be victorious, because it is
important for the future of our state and of our people."
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Send your solidarity messages to:
PRESIDENT
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
UN Detention Unit
Postbus 87810
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"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - Originally posted August 25, 2003 -
UPDATED August 26, 2003
Written By: Andy Wilcoxson
The first Srebrenica witness has testified against President Milosevic
at The Hague tribunal. At this point it is important to be reminded of
the case President Milosevic is putting with regard to Srebrenica and
so I will now quote from his opening statement.
TRANSCRIPT - Page 10309 Line 12 - Friday September 27, 2002
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: I wish to avail myself of the remaining time to
say a few words about Srebrenica that was mentioned here. I have
already said that I first heard about this -- I said this six months
ago, when I first spoke here, that I first heard about this from Carl
Bildt and that Radovan Karadzic swore to me that he didn't know a
thing about this. All subsequent information corroborated that,
including the subsequently published main report of the Dutch
government published in April 2001. In item 10, it says quite
literally: "There are no indications that the action was taken out in
collaboration with Belgrade, neither in terms of political or military
coordination. In this way, gentlemen, as far as I'm concerned, an end
could be brought to this, but I don't want to place a full stop there.
I want the truth to be revealed with regard to this insane crime, in
the interest of justice. It has to be explained before the world
public. The information that I have compiled so far, and there will be
more to come, speaks of how Izetbegovic used Srebrenica for all kinds
of manipulations and held it in -- in his own reserve for various
political bargains. And you saw from the statement made by a member of
his delegation in the report that was accepted by the UN with regard
to the takeover of Srebrenica, the handover of Srebrenica. You saw all
of this.
Time will show that on the 1st of July, 1995, in the house of a Muslim,
the former president of the municipality in Zvornik, where two members
of the Muslim government from Sarajevo were present, the
representatives of a mercenary military formation within the army of
Republika Srpska but not under the command of the army of Republika
Srpska but within the French intelligence service, they agreed to have
this crime committed, that is to say, to abandon Srebrenica and to
carry out this slaughter.
All information shows that General Mladic knew nothing about this, nor
General Krstic, who was sentenced here. I am personally convinced that
the military honour of Mladic or Krstic would not allow them to
execute civilians, let alone Mladic, Krstic, generals who throughout
the war made a maximum effort to protect prisoners of war and
civilians at all times.
This mercenary unit was commanded by the same people who sent those
same persons only one year later to Zaire so that they would protect
Mobutu and crush a rebellion. This same organisation organised the
purchase of arms a year later. And since I asked you to adopt a writ
of disclosure, please do that. Those people who have a salary for that
and have hundreds of associates, make them as Jacques Chirac and the
French intelligence service and the American intelligence service and
all other intelligence services, let them disclose all the facts they
have on Srebrenica. The information I have available shows that the
point of the agreement reached was the following: The underlying
French idea was that the war in Bosnia should be ended through
effective actions taken by NATO and through military engagement. As a
pretext for military engagement, genocide that will be carried out by
the Serbs will be made up, and the Serb negotiating side will have to
deal with that. The presence of Ratko Mladic in Srebrenica will be
used as a confirmation of the responsibility of the military leadership
and of Mladic himself for having an indictment issued against him in
The Hague by making it appear that a genocide was carried out and
anathema will be placed on the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs and
then the international community will take measures. The protagonists
will not be prosecuted.
One insignificant one, a member of the Croat detachments of death who
happened to be there was accused, and then for the crimes in
Srebrenica, Ratko Mladic should be accused and also the leadership of
Republika Srpska headed by Radovan Karadzic. And this agreement was
attended by two representatives of the Muslim government, that out of
the French, General Janvier was there for sure, and this other person
was said to be Morillon but this was not confirmed. There is no
reliable information saying that it was Morillon.
The agreement was that Srebrenica should be surrendered to the Serbs
practically without any fighting, as forthwith withdraw and in that way
make it possible for them to purportedly take over Srebrenica. Naser
Oric is going to withdraw and award for the action will be 2 million
Deutschmark.
Mladic was not at that meeting. He was having lunch with those generals
later on at the Likovac locality, but according to intelligence data,
he did not know what the subject agreed upon was, and he didn't know
that he was commanding all the units that took part in that,
especially the one that was sent to Zaire later on by the same people
that ordered the job to be done. Oric lives in Lukavac near Tuzla
today. He has a restaurant on the lake and he destroyed more than 70
villages around Srebrenica and that he is one of the greatest criminals
in the war.
///END TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT///
Another important point to make before presenting the synopsis of the
day's events is that "the Srebrenica massacre" referred to in this
article is not the same Srebrenica massacre that the media has been
going on about for the last 8 years.
The media's claim that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of genocide
perpetrated by the Serbs is a lie. There was indeed a massacre at
Srebrenica, but as I am confident that Slobodan Milosevic will prove,
it is not the way that the media has put it. This was a massacre
perpetrated by a multi-ethnic mercenary unit that was under French
control, not under the control of VRS general staff.
Drazen Erdemovic is the first witness to testify at the so-called
"trial" of Slobodan Milosevic about the horrific events that took
place in Srebrenica. Erdemovic is an ethnic Croat from the Bosnian town
of Tuzla. His career throughout the Bosnian war is rather odd. He was
originally a member of the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army), then he
joined the ABiH (Bosnian Muslim "Army of Bosnia - Herzegovina"), after
that he joined the HVO (Croatian Army), finally he wound up a member
of the VRS (Army of Republika Srpska) serving in the 10th Sabotage
Division.
As a mercenary in the 10th Sabotage Division, Erdemovic participated a
cold blooded massacre of 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Pilca Farm near
Srebrenica. By his own admission, Erdemovic personally massacred over
100 Bosnian Muslim men ranging in age between 18 and 60.
In March of 1996 Erdemovic was arrested by the authorities of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia precisely because of his participation
in that massacre at Srebrenica. Because Erdemovic was not a citizen of
the FRY, the Yugoslav authorities honored an extradition request of
the Hague Tribunal and sent Erdemovic to The Hague.
When Erdemovic arrived at the Hague he coped a plea agreement, which
allowed him to get off with only a 5 year prison sentence, even though
he admitted to personally murdering 100 people and participating in the
slaughter of 1,200. In a further act of insult to the victims of his
killing spree, the Hague Tribunal granted Erdemovic early release so
that he didn't even have to serve the whole 5 years.
In addition to getting off with only a slap on the wrist for killing a
hundred people, Erdemovic doesn't even have to live with the shame of
being known as a mass murderer. He has been given a new identity, and
his testimony today was given with protective measures; the video of
his face was obscured so that nobody could recognize his face, and
voice distortion technology was used so that nobody would even
recognize his voice.
It is obvious just from seeing this that the Hague Tribunal exists to
protect the real war criminals and while simultaneously persecuting
the innocent.
Erdemovic's testimony was quite interesting to say the least. The 10th
Sabotage Division, which carried out the massacre, was a multi-ethnic
unit according to Erdemovic. The unit contained Muslims, Croats,
Slovenes, and some Bosnian Serbs.
Erdemovic stated categorically that he saw no Yugoslav or Serbian
personnel in or around Srebrenica at the time in question. There was
only his unit and some local groups, but nobody from the Government of
either Serbia or Yugoslavia. Erdemovic, echoing the conclusions of the
Dutch Government, saw nothing that would indicate any participation by
Belgrade in the planning or execution of the Srebrenica massacre.
It is completely out of the question that President Milosevic could
have had anything to do with the tragic events in Srebrenica. The only
attempt to "link" Milosevic to the events in Srebrenica came when
Erdemovic claimed to have spoken to an unnamed member of the Serbian
MUP at the Military Hospital in Belgrade.
Erdemovic claimed that this alleged MUP officer told him that he had
participated in the attack on Srebrenica. The only problem is that
Erdemovic didn't remember this tidbit until November 3, 2001, and
remember he had been in the custody of the Hague Tribunal since 1996,
but he never mentioned that until 2001.
The contentious point between President Milosevic and Mr. Erdemovic
was over who was responsible for ordering the massacre. Erdemovic
claimed that the orders "must have" come from the General Staff of the
VRS.
Erdemovic never saw any orders from the General Staff. Erdemovic says
that he was ordered to carry out the executions by a unit commander
named Gojikovic who had allegedly claimed to have gotten his orders
from some unknown Lt. Colonel from the Drina Corps of the VRS.
To counter the Erdemovic's claim that the order to carry out this
hideous crime "must have" come from the General Staff of the VRS;
President Milosevic produced the orders issued by the General Staff of
the VRS, pertaining to Srebrenica, which explicitly stated that
civilians must be protected and that the laws and customs of war had
to be abided by.
Erdemovic denied any knowledge of any foreign involvement in the
Srebrenica tragedy. However, he did admit to some odd goings on.
First of all, Erdemovic, claimed to have no idea how much he was
personally paid, which raises the red flag that he may have been
receiving money other than the normal VRS salary, which along with the
fact that he fought at one point or another for every side in the war,
would indicate that he was in fact a mercenary.
Erdemovic also claimed that he had heard from his wife that a
commander of the 10th Sabotage Division named Pelimic had received a
large quantity of gold from unknown persons, and that after the war
this Pelimic was living the high life and having jewel incrusted gold
chains made for himself at jewelry stores. Erdemovic admitted that
this information even made him suspect that somebody had bribed the
commanders of his unit so that they would perpetrate that horrific
crime at Srebrenica.
Erdemovic also testified that he had heard about some members of the
10th Sabotage Division, including Pelimic, subsequently going to
France in order to become mercenaries in Zaire, after the end of the
Bosnian war, which jives with what Milosevic said in his opening
statement.
I don't know when or if Erdemovic's testimony will continue. The
so-called "trial chamber" went into closed session at the end of the
hearing to decide, and so I guess we will see tomorrow, but they did
not intend to keep this witness more than 1 day.
SYNOPSIS OF THE PROCEEDINGS FOR AUGUST 25 2003
1. Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice Examines the witness Drazen Erdemovic.
2. President Slobodan Milosevic cross-examines the witness Drazen
Erdemovic
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"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 26, 2003
The Hague Tribunal heard testimony from Colm Doyle today. The former
Irish army major served as head of the European Community's monitoring
mission in Sarajevo, and later on as the special envoy of Lord
Carrington, he was also the chairman of the EC conference on Yugoslavia.
Even though Mr. Doyle was at the Hague to testify against Milosevic;
his testimony did not incriminate Milosevic in the least. The only
part of Doyle's testimony that had anything at all to do with
Milosevic was his testimony about a meeting he had with President
Milosevic in Belgrade on 16 June 1992. According to Doyle, Milosevic
expressed strong support for the peace process. Doyle claimed that
Milosevic reiterated his position that the violence and bloodshed
should be stopped and that the only solution for Bosnia was a solution
which was fair to all 3 sides, and which all 3 sides could agree on.
Doyal said that Milosevic expressed strong support for Radovan
Karadzic's proposal that UN observers should be attached to all units
of the Bosnian-Serb Army. He said that Milosevic condemned the
shelling of Sarajevo and pledged to do what he could to assist the
peace process.
So, the only evidence that the prosecution brought against President
Milosevic with this witness was that he wanted to stop the Bosnian war
and find a solution that was fair to all 3 sides. I guess working to
stop a war is what makes one a war criminal at the Hague Tribunal.
Even though the rest of Mr. Doyle's testimony had absolutely nothing
to do with President Milosevic, parts of it were quite interesting.
The most interesting tidbit was Doyle's testimony about how the
Bosnian parliament reached its decision to hold the referendum on
succession from Yugoslavia.
According to Doyle, on or about the 15th of October 1991 the speaker
of the Bosnian parliament adjourned the parliament for the night at
around 3:30 in the morning. After the Serb MPs had gone home for the
night, the Muslim and Croat MPs reconvened the parliament and passed
the decision that the referendum on succession should be held.
To put it bluntly, the Muslim and Croat MPs tricked the Serb MPs into
leaving the debate on the referendum question by fraudulently
adjourning the parliament and then fraudulently reconvening it again
after the Serbs had left for the night. After the Serbs had gone home,
falsely believing that the parliament was in fact adjourned, the Muslim
and Croat MPs, who remained fraudulently reconvened the parliament and
passed the decision to hold a referendum on succession, without the
consent of the Serb MPs.
President Milosevic asked Mr. Doyle if he considered that this
decision of the parliament was made lawfully or not. Doyle didn't
really know what to say at this point, because the answer is so
obvious. Doyle's answer was ultimately that he didn't know.
Another interesting piece of information came when Doyal spoke of a
peace conference that he was at with Radovan Karadzic in Lisbon.
During that peace conference a number of Muslim civilians were killed
while waiting in a breadline in Sarajevo. Karadzic immediately swore to
Cutileiro that the Bosnian Serbs didn't perpetrate that crime.
According to Doyle, Cutileiro's response to Karadzic was that the
Bosnian Serbs would be publicly blamed whether they perpetrated that
massacre or not. Cutilero then told Karadzic that his only option was
to "make a public gesture of good will" by handing over control of the
Sarajevo Airport.
Moreover, the Muslim representative used the breadline massacre as an
excuse to walk out of the negotiations and the negotiations failed.
As it turns out the Bosnian Serbs did not perpetrate that massacre.
Slobodan Milosevic quoted from an article in the London Independent
entitled "Muslims 'slaughter their own people'," dated 8/22/92.
According to the article "United Nations officials and senior Western
military officers believe some of the worst killings in Sarajevo,
including the massacre of at least 16 people in a bread queue, were
carried out by the city's mainly Muslim defenders -- not Serb
besiegers -- as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military
intervention. . . . Classified reports to the UN force commander,
General Satish Nambiar, concluded . . . that Bosnian forces loyal to
President Alija Izetbegovic may have detonated a bomb. 'We believe it
was a command-detonated explosion, probably in a can,' a UN official
said then. 'The large impact which is there now is not necessarily
similar or anywhere near as large as we came to expect with a mortar
round landing on a paved surface.'"
Doyle claimed that he didn't know anything about that, but he didn't
attempt to refute it either. He simply said that he didn't personally
know who was responsible.
President Milosevic will continue his cross-examination of Mr. Doyle
tomorrow. The troika has granted him 1 hour and 5 minutes to complete
his cross-examination. After he concludes the Amicus Curiae will be
given 15 to 20 minutes for cross-examination.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
1. Witness Colm Doyle was examined by the prosecutor Geoffrey Nice.
2. Witness Colm Doyle was cross-examined by President Slobodan
Milosevic.
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MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 27, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
The proceedings today began with the conclusion of Slobodan
Milosevic's cross-examination of Colm Doyle. President Milosevic and
the Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic both asked Doyle a number of questions
regarding reports of events that the Canadian Major-General Lewis
MacKenzie (UN Commander in Bosnia) had sent to Lt Gen Satish Nambiar at
the UN Headquarters in New York.
Amazingly, Doyle who headed the European Community's observation
mission in Bosnia had no idea about any of the numerous events that
Milosevic and Tapuskovic asked him about on the basis of MacKenzie's
reports, all of which had to do with Muslim attacks and provocations
against Serbs.
A humorous event came when Milosevic asked Doyle whether he was aware
of the position that the US State Department and the European
Parliament (which is an organ of the EC) took in 1991. That position
was that the SFRY should remain one single unified state and that the
secessionist republics should not be recognized. Doyle confirmed that
he was aware that that was the position which was taken.
Milosevic then asked Doyle how come the US and the EC recognized the
secessionists anyway, in spite of their publicly stated position.
Doyle said that he didn't know, and that he didn't ask. Milosevic
asked Doyle if he considered it to be hypocritical for the US and the
EC to say one thing and then do exactly the opposite. Before Doyle
could answer the question, the so-called "jugde" May jumped in and
instructed Doyle that he didn't have to answer the question.
It was obvious from Doyle's testimony that the Muslims had weapons
from the outset of the war. The Muslims were not unarmed, like they
are fond of claiming.
The beginning of the war came when the Muslims, after announcing the
results of their illegal referendum on succession, famously attacked a
Serb wedding party in Sarajevo, killing the groom on the steps of the
Orthodox Church. Doyle said that after that attack, tensions
increased, and the Serbs erected barricades in Sarajevo, which the
Muslims then fired upon (with the weapons that they claim never to
have had).
After Doyle was concluded the witness Stepjan Kraljevic was called.
Kraljevic was a municipal official from the town of Ilok, Croatia.
Kraljevic painted a picture where the JNA, for no reason, expelled the
population of Ilok. But, when Milosevic cross-examined Kraljevic it
became obvious that this witness was given to exaggeration.
Milosevic showed an agreement that Kraljevic and others from Ilok had
signed with the JNA. The agreement stated that the JNA would do its
best to protect all people who wished to remain in Ilok, but that the
JNA would also help the people who wished to leave Ilok to leave
safely. Ilok is near to Vukovar and there was heavy fighting in the
area, so there were people who wanted to leave, in fact the JNA
reached the agreement because the citizens requested it.
The witness, on the other hand, tried to present this agreement by the
JNA to protect people if they wished to leave the town as a sort of
expulsion by the JNA.
The witness viewed the JNA's demand that the T.O. should turn over its
weapons in accordance with the decision of the SFRY presidency as a
sort of provocation by the JNA, even though the witness admitted that
this demand only came after the Ilok police (who issued the T.O. their
weapons in the first place) fired on and destroyed a JNA tank with a
rocket launcher. But then again the witness did not consider the JNA
to be the legal armed force of the SFRY in 1991.
Mr. Kraljevic also produced a document called "Civilian Victims of the
Homeland War" which he presented as some sort of evidence against
Milosevic. In this document of his numerous "victims" had their cause
of death listed as things such as traffic accidents and suicide. So now
I guess, according to this witness, if somebody gets into a car wreck
or decides to kill themselves that is Milosevic's fault.
The next witness was a secret witness code named "C-1175." "C-1175"
claimed to have been a member of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj, Croatia.
His claim was that he saw the T.O. there commit some crimes.
"C-1175" claimed that all of the members of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj
were local Serbs and Hungarians. Since they were all locals, living in
Croatia, it is clear that Slobodan Milosevic, who was the president of
Serbia, could not have had anything to do with whether or not the T.O.
there committed any crimes there or not. So, even if the crimes that
the witness enumerated really happened they still wouldn't have
anything to do with Milosevic.
"C-1175's" testimony wasn't completely useless. "C-1175" did establish
that it was the Croats and not the Serbs who initiated the clashes and
ultimately started the war in Croatia.
"C-1175" testified that already in March and April of 1991 the Croats
had formed squads to terrorize Serbs and carryout so-called "silent
liquidations." "C-1175" also testified that the Croats perpetrated
numerous crimes on Serb property.
"C-1175" testified that before the war the Croatian police were
arresting Serbs without cause and taking them away and beating them
up."C-1175" should be concluded tomorrow. The troika has given
President Milosevic 45 more minutes to complete his cross-examination.
Sequence of Events - AUGUST 27, 2003
1. President Milosevic concluded his cross-examination of Colm Doyle.
2. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Colm Doyle.
3. Prosecutor Nice re-examined Colm Doyle.
5. Prosecutor Saxon called Stepjan Kraljevic and examined him.
6. President Milosevic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
7. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
8. Prosecutor Saxon re-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
9. Prosecutor Uertz-Retzlaff called the secret witness "C-1175" and
examined him.
10. President Milosevic began his cross-examination of the secret
witness "C-1175."
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SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 28, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Today was a marathon day at The Hague Tribunal. 5 different witnesses
testified. The day began with the conclusion of the secret witness
"C-1175." As you may remember from yesterday "C-1175" was a member of
the Serbian T.O. in Dalj. He was a member of the T.O. for only one
month before he quit. He left because of his regular job, and because
he was angry at the T.O. commander because he wouldn't give him a fuel
voucher.
"C-1175" established that the prison in Dalj was set up and ran by the
T.O., and not by the JNA. As you may remember from yesterday the Dalj
T.O. was made up exclusively of locals. The JNA had nothing whatsoever
to do with the Dalj prison.
"C-1175" testified the day before about a group of men that had been
taken to a farm and killed. These men were brought to the farm from
Borovo Celo and killed by a group of civilians, not by the T.O., not by
the police, and not by the JNA.
"C-1175" spoke of a chaotic situation were people would appoint
themselves as the police, he referred to these people as "space
police." All in all the war just sounded like a mess, but one thing
was certain about C-1175's testimony, Slobodan Milosevic didn't have
anything to do with anything that this witness testified about.
After "C-1175" finished another secret witness, a woman from Vukovar,
testified under the pseudonym of "C-1071."
"C-1071" lost her husband during the war. The JNA evacuated the
witness and her family from Vukovar along with some of their
neighbors, she went directly to Serbia, but her husband had to stay
behind to be checked by the JNA.
The witness confirmed that the JNA had in fact evacuated the people
for their own protection, and not because of any other reason, and she
testified that she never saw the JNA doing anything that was illegal.
According to an unnamed person that the witness knew, who was being
checked by the JNA at the same time as her husband, the JNA took the
men to a facility in Dalj to be checked. Her husband checked-out OK and
was released by the JNA.
Her husband was supposed to come and find her with their relatives in
Serbia after the JNA released him. Unfortunately, he never made it.
"C-1071" went to Dalj to investigate and try to find out what had
happened to her husband. She found out in the course of speaking with
people in Dalj that her husband had been attacked by a group of
civilians after he was released by the JNA. His body was later found
in a wooded area outside of town.
This is certainly a sad story that this woman lost her husband, but I
fail to see what a group of civilian criminals who exploit a chaotic
situation in a war, has to do with Milosevic. After all, he certainly
didn't start the fighting in Vukovar. This witness testified that
fighting only began in Vukovar after the Croats had blockaded the JNA
barracks there.
Had there been no fighting in Vukovar there would never have been a
need for any of this.
The next witness was a senile old Croat woman from Saboska named Anna
Bitunic. She lost her husband too. She testified that her husband and
some other men were shot by her house.
One minor problem with her testimony was that she had no idea who had
shot her husband and the other men. She said it was men in uniforms,
and so Milosevic asked her who's uniforms were they wearing? T.O.
uniforms, JNA uniforms, or some other uniforms? Mrs. Bitunic did not
know what sort of uniform that the people who shot her husband were
wearing, she was at a loss. She had no idea who did it.
It is too bad that this woman lost her husband, but it could be seen
from her testimony that she was half-crazy. She said that the Serbs
were happy after the referendum in Croatia because they wanted to
create "greater-Serbia" and that they were "happy because they could
kill whoever they wanted to," and other such nonsense.
Obviously, with no idea who even committed the crime that she was
testifying about; her testimony can be viewed as nothing other than a
completely irrelevant waste of time that has nothing to do with
Milosevic, or anybody else.
Actually, all of the testimony that has to do with Bosnia and Croatia
is an irrelevant waste of time, as far as Milosevic is concerned,
because Slobodan Milosevic was the president of Serbia and didn't have
any command over any of the combatants in either Bosnia or Croatia.
After Mrs. Bitunic finished a man named Luka Shutalo was called. Mr.
Shutalo was from Erdut, Croatia. He escaped from the war zone in 1991
by going to Serbia, where it just so happened that Slobodan Milosevic
was the president, and guess what happened to him in Serbia? Nothing.
Nobody did anything to him. He was free to do as he wished in Serbia.
In spite of the fact that going to Milosevic's Serbia "saved his
neck," this witness nonetheless blamed Milosevic and what he called
the "Yugo Army" (meaning the JNA) for everything.
This guy actually thought that it was Milosevic who was in command of
the JNA. Milosevic asked the witness what on Earth would make him
think that he was the commander of the JNA, but before the witness
could answer, the so-called "judge" May jumped in and told the witness
not to answer, and Milosevic not to ask those sorts of questions.
Mr. Shuralo claimed that he had been taken prisoner and that he was
mistreated at the prison in Dalj, which he said was not even ran by
what he considered to be "Milosevic's Yugo Army." This was nothing but
more irrelevant testimony that again had nothing to do with Milosevic.
It is amazing to me to watch so much time being wasted on irrelevant
witnesses that don't even attempt to prove anything against Milosevic.
This makes it all the more absurd that the so-called "trial" chamber
gave the prosecution all of that extra time to "present evidence,"
which is something that they might want to consider doing some time.
So far there has been no real evidence presented against Milosevic.
Nothing that that so-called "prosecution" has done so far even comes
close to proving that Milosevic is guilty of anything.
The last witness to testify was another Croatia witness named Josip
Jocipovic. He was another 92-bis witness. The prosecutor read out a
summary of his statement about some alleged events in Hrvatska Dubica,
but he has not been cross-examined yet.
However from just what the prosecutor said I can see that this is
another witness who does not have anything at all to do with Milosevic.
This whole day, like many days before it, was a total waste of time
for the prosecution. Slobodan Milosevic has successfully defeated the
prosecution with every witness.
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http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082903.htm
"TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 29, 2003
Another secret witness testified today at the Hague Tribunal. B-1054 a
Muslim woman from a village near Visegrad testified that she was taken
to a house in Visegrad along with 70 other Muslims. According to this
woman, Serb civilians from Visegrad attempted to burn them all alive in
that house.
For the sake of argument, we will start by assuming that she was
telling the truth. Even if this happened, and even if it happened
exactly in the way that she said it did; it proves nothing. This woman
did not allege that anybody from Serbia, or anybody from the JNA even
took part in this alleged crime. It is therefore clear that Slobodan
Milosevic could not have had anything at all to do with this.
Her two written statements, her previous testimony from another trial,
and the testimony that she gave today did not all fit together very
well. There were a number of discrepancies.
For example, she claimed to have been laid-up in the hospital for 22
days, but her medical report revealed that she was only in the
Hospital for 10 days. She had exaggerated her time in the hospital by
more than double.
She was inconsistent again as to how the alleged fire started in the
House. One time she said it was a bomb that ignited the fire, and
another time she said that somebody had just lit a match.
In her second statement she spoke of an alleged massacre that "a band
of Chetniks" was committing on the river. According to this witness
"the slaughter was so horrible that it made the river run red with
blood." However, in her first statement she neglects to mention that
minor detail. When asked how come she didn't mention it in her first
statement her excuse was that it "was just too horrible to speak of."
She has no problem speaking in her first statement about other
horrible things. She spoke all about how she lay wounded in a sewage
ditch near to the allegedly burning house listening to the screams of
people who were allegedly being burned alive, and that wasn't "too
horrible to speak of," but apparently seeing some corpses in a river
was.
Her statements were also inconsistent with respect to the names of
people that she claimed to have seen at certain places.
Another problem with her testimony was that she claimed that everybody
had died in that house, by either being burned in the fire, or shot
while trying to flee. She even said that she thought that her own son
had died. However, she later said that she found her son alive and
well 5 years later on. So how could she know that everybody else died?
She thought that her own son was dead for 5 years, but he wasn't.
An entertaining moment came when the Amicus Curiae, Mr. Tapuskovic and
the so-called "judge" May got into a fight. "Judge" May became quite
indignant when Mr. Tapuskovic dared to peruse a line of questioning
that called the truthfulness of this witness's testimony into question.
Tapuskovic was asking questions about inconsistencies in the witness's
evidence. The witness responded by getting indignant. For example,
when Tapusokvic asked her how she could know that everybody was killed
when her own son was even able to flee without her knowledge. She
responded indignantly by saying, "So you say that my son should have
been killed too! Is that it?"
After this little exchange Tapuskovic and Milosevic both gave the
so-called "judge" a lesson in law. During his fight with Mr.
Tapuskovic, the so-called "judge" claimed that "the accused hasn't
even challenged this evidence" (even though he had), and so President
Milosevic had to explain to this so-called "judge" that he had no way
of knowing if the event in questioned had happened or not, but it
wasn't him, as the accused, who had the burden of proving that it
didn't happen -- rather it was the prosecution who had the burden of
proving that it did happen.
After President Milosevic had explained, to this pathetic excuse of a
"judge," the concept of "innocent until proven guilty," which appears
to be completely foreign to "Dick" May. Mr. Tapuskovic had to explain
to this idiot what his job was in the first place. Mr. Tapuskovic
explained to that crimson robe-wearing fool that as a judge his job is
to sit and listen to the evidence and then decide, after hearing all
of the evidence, if the witness is telling the truth or not.
Mr. Tapuskovic was clearly astonished that "judge" May considered it
inappropriate to ask questions that challenged a witness's
credibility. What is the point of cross-examination if not to challenge
the witness? Tapuskovic explained that he had been a lawyer for 40
years, and had never seen a judge that would prevent these sorts of
questions.
After Mr. Tapuskovic finished his cross-examination, the so-called
"judge," who clearly had no other motive than just a desire to be a
smart-ass, said to the witness, "It has been suggested that you may not
be telling the truth. Have you been lying to us?" and the witness
surprised everybody by saying, "Of course I have been telling the
truth." At that point "judge" May let the witness go.
The next witness was Josip Jocipovic. Mr. Jocipovic had been examined
by prosecutor Bauer the day before, and so President Milosevic went
directly into cross-examination.
Like so many other witnesses this witness's testimony had nothing to
do with President Milosevic. The closest he came was when he said that
two men, who he couldn't identify, allegedly told him that they had
been fighting in Vukovar and that they were from Serbia.
Other than that he testified about a couple of men from the Krajina
police who committed some crimes. However, after they had committed
the crimes they were removed by Milan Martic.
He did however give some useful testimony. He was a member of the ZNG,
and to the dismay of Ms. Bauer, he testified that the local ZNG
commander in Hrvatska Dubica was a criminal and a thief.
He testified that the ZNG was formed in 1990 right after the elections
and that it was precisely then that the tensions increased. He
admitted that the JNA and T.O. forces were the only legal armed forces
in the SFRY (of which Croatia was a part in 1990). However he denied
that the ZNG was a paramilitary organization, in spite of the fact
that being an illegal armed force operating in the SFRY made it the
very definition of a paramilitary. He also testified that the JNA
brought order and that it fought against both Serb and Croatian
paramilitaries in order to stop killings and looting from taking place.
After Mr. Jocipovic finished, another secret witness called "B-1505"
was called. I'm not sure who exactly this guy was. He is either
somebody who is pretending to be somebody else, which is possible with
all secret witnesses, or he is somebody who was either a member of the
JNA, or was in some other way privy to internal JNA matters.
At any rate he claimed to be a Muslim from Visegrad who saw the JNA
planning to "cleanse Visegrad" of its Muslim population.
The prosecution is expected to finish with him on Monday, and after
that President Milosevic will cross-examine him.
1. Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague (19/8)
2. SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday (20/8)
3. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC (25/8)
Includes a Trascript of Milosevic speaking about Srebrenica dated
September 27, 2002
4. "TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST
MILOSEVIC
5. MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
6. SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
7. "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
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Useful Links to Transcripts and Videos of Milosevic 'Trial'
Transcripts:
Go to http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/transe54.htm
Video:
Live English Video Feed
http://www.domovina.net/Icty/eng/room1.ram
Live Serbo-Croatian Video Feed
http://www.domovina.net/Icty/bcs/room1.ram
Archives - English http://hague.bard.edu/video.html
Archives - Serbo-Croatian http://tribunal.freeserbia.com
=== 1 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug081903c.htm
Socialists embittered by ban to visit Milosevic
Tanjug - August 19, 2003
17:38 BELGRADE - The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) on Tuesday voiced
strong protest with a decision of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) administration to ban the visits of
its representatives and the Association Freedom for SPS president and
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, announcing it would
employ all mechanisms aimed at suspending this decision.
The ICTY administration is "trying to explain" this decision by
statements SPS members made after their recent visit to Milosevic at
the Scheveningen detention unit, the party said in a statement and
added that this was really "an excuse aimed at placing president
Milosevic in complete isolation."
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only
---
FoNet, August 20, 2003
Sloba supporters banned from visiting The Hague
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Hague Tribunal is
reported to have banned members of the Socialist Party
of Serbia and the Sloboda (Freedom) Movement from
visiting Slobodan Milosevic, according to Sloboda
Association member Vladimir Krsljanin.
Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of the
former Yugoslav and Serbian President's birthday,
Krsljanin produced a letter from the international
tribunal's administration addressed to Milosevic,
which states that the ban, to be implemented until
further notice, is a result of a media statement given
in breach of court regulations.
The statement was made by Socialist Party delegation
members Milorad Vucelic and Zoran Andjelkovic during
their last visit to the Scheveningen detention centre,
where Milosevic is being held. They gave the statement
to press despite being forewarned that such a move was
against tribunal rules.
Krsljanin protested: "This is hideous manipulation and
an injustice because it is not in line with the rules
of the tribunal".
He stressed that a "legal battle" for the decision to
be overturned would ensue.
The press conference was followed by the holding of a
"Free Serbia" debate and the screening of a
documentary entitled "Defeated Hague", which were to
mark Milosevic's birthday.
=== 2 ===
SPS congratulates Milosevic his birthday
17:14 BELGRADE , Aug 20 (Tanjug) - The Socialist Party
of Serbia said on Wednesday that it sent a
congratulatory message to the preasident of that party
Slobodan Milosevic, who is standing trial in the war
crimes tribunal at The Hague, on the occasion of his
62nd birthday.
SPS said in the message it wished that "the fight he
is leading in The Hague, in the name of national and
state interets, will be victorious, because it is
important for the future of our state and of our people."
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Send your solidarity messages to:
PRESIDENT
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
UN Detention Unit
Postbus 87810
2508 Den Haag
Pomp Stations Weg 32
The Neteherlands
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http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082503.htm
"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: FIRST SREBRENICA WITNESS TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - Originally posted August 25, 2003 -
UPDATED August 26, 2003
Written By: Andy Wilcoxson
The first Srebrenica witness has testified against President Milosevic
at The Hague tribunal. At this point it is important to be reminded of
the case President Milosevic is putting with regard to Srebrenica and
so I will now quote from his opening statement.
TRANSCRIPT - Page 10309 Line 12 - Friday September 27, 2002
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: I wish to avail myself of the remaining time to
say a few words about Srebrenica that was mentioned here. I have
already said that I first heard about this -- I said this six months
ago, when I first spoke here, that I first heard about this from Carl
Bildt and that Radovan Karadzic swore to me that he didn't know a
thing about this. All subsequent information corroborated that,
including the subsequently published main report of the Dutch
government published in April 2001. In item 10, it says quite
literally: "There are no indications that the action was taken out in
collaboration with Belgrade, neither in terms of political or military
coordination. In this way, gentlemen, as far as I'm concerned, an end
could be brought to this, but I don't want to place a full stop there.
I want the truth to be revealed with regard to this insane crime, in
the interest of justice. It has to be explained before the world
public. The information that I have compiled so far, and there will be
more to come, speaks of how Izetbegovic used Srebrenica for all kinds
of manipulations and held it in -- in his own reserve for various
political bargains. And you saw from the statement made by a member of
his delegation in the report that was accepted by the UN with regard
to the takeover of Srebrenica, the handover of Srebrenica. You saw all
of this.
Time will show that on the 1st of July, 1995, in the house of a Muslim,
the former president of the municipality in Zvornik, where two members
of the Muslim government from Sarajevo were present, the
representatives of a mercenary military formation within the army of
Republika Srpska but not under the command of the army of Republika
Srpska but within the French intelligence service, they agreed to have
this crime committed, that is to say, to abandon Srebrenica and to
carry out this slaughter.
All information shows that General Mladic knew nothing about this, nor
General Krstic, who was sentenced here. I am personally convinced that
the military honour of Mladic or Krstic would not allow them to
execute civilians, let alone Mladic, Krstic, generals who throughout
the war made a maximum effort to protect prisoners of war and
civilians at all times.
This mercenary unit was commanded by the same people who sent those
same persons only one year later to Zaire so that they would protect
Mobutu and crush a rebellion. This same organisation organised the
purchase of arms a year later. And since I asked you to adopt a writ
of disclosure, please do that. Those people who have a salary for that
and have hundreds of associates, make them as Jacques Chirac and the
French intelligence service and the American intelligence service and
all other intelligence services, let them disclose all the facts they
have on Srebrenica. The information I have available shows that the
point of the agreement reached was the following: The underlying
French idea was that the war in Bosnia should be ended through
effective actions taken by NATO and through military engagement. As a
pretext for military engagement, genocide that will be carried out by
the Serbs will be made up, and the Serb negotiating side will have to
deal with that. The presence of Ratko Mladic in Srebrenica will be
used as a confirmation of the responsibility of the military leadership
and of Mladic himself for having an indictment issued against him in
The Hague by making it appear that a genocide was carried out and
anathema will be placed on the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs and
then the international community will take measures. The protagonists
will not be prosecuted.
One insignificant one, a member of the Croat detachments of death who
happened to be there was accused, and then for the crimes in
Srebrenica, Ratko Mladic should be accused and also the leadership of
Republika Srpska headed by Radovan Karadzic. And this agreement was
attended by two representatives of the Muslim government, that out of
the French, General Janvier was there for sure, and this other person
was said to be Morillon but this was not confirmed. There is no
reliable information saying that it was Morillon.
The agreement was that Srebrenica should be surrendered to the Serbs
practically without any fighting, as forthwith withdraw and in that way
make it possible for them to purportedly take over Srebrenica. Naser
Oric is going to withdraw and award for the action will be 2 million
Deutschmark.
Mladic was not at that meeting. He was having lunch with those generals
later on at the Likovac locality, but according to intelligence data,
he did not know what the subject agreed upon was, and he didn't know
that he was commanding all the units that took part in that,
especially the one that was sent to Zaire later on by the same people
that ordered the job to be done. Oric lives in Lukavac near Tuzla
today. He has a restaurant on the lake and he destroyed more than 70
villages around Srebrenica and that he is one of the greatest criminals
in the war.
///END TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT///
Another important point to make before presenting the synopsis of the
day's events is that "the Srebrenica massacre" referred to in this
article is not the same Srebrenica massacre that the media has been
going on about for the last 8 years.
The media's claim that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of genocide
perpetrated by the Serbs is a lie. There was indeed a massacre at
Srebrenica, but as I am confident that Slobodan Milosevic will prove,
it is not the way that the media has put it. This was a massacre
perpetrated by a multi-ethnic mercenary unit that was under French
control, not under the control of VRS general staff.
Drazen Erdemovic is the first witness to testify at the so-called
"trial" of Slobodan Milosevic about the horrific events that took
place in Srebrenica. Erdemovic is an ethnic Croat from the Bosnian town
of Tuzla. His career throughout the Bosnian war is rather odd. He was
originally a member of the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army), then he
joined the ABiH (Bosnian Muslim "Army of Bosnia - Herzegovina"), after
that he joined the HVO (Croatian Army), finally he wound up a member
of the VRS (Army of Republika Srpska) serving in the 10th Sabotage
Division.
As a mercenary in the 10th Sabotage Division, Erdemovic participated a
cold blooded massacre of 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Pilca Farm near
Srebrenica. By his own admission, Erdemovic personally massacred over
100 Bosnian Muslim men ranging in age between 18 and 60.
In March of 1996 Erdemovic was arrested by the authorities of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia precisely because of his participation
in that massacre at Srebrenica. Because Erdemovic was not a citizen of
the FRY, the Yugoslav authorities honored an extradition request of
the Hague Tribunal and sent Erdemovic to The Hague.
When Erdemovic arrived at the Hague he coped a plea agreement, which
allowed him to get off with only a 5 year prison sentence, even though
he admitted to personally murdering 100 people and participating in the
slaughter of 1,200. In a further act of insult to the victims of his
killing spree, the Hague Tribunal granted Erdemovic early release so
that he didn't even have to serve the whole 5 years.
In addition to getting off with only a slap on the wrist for killing a
hundred people, Erdemovic doesn't even have to live with the shame of
being known as a mass murderer. He has been given a new identity, and
his testimony today was given with protective measures; the video of
his face was obscured so that nobody could recognize his face, and
voice distortion technology was used so that nobody would even
recognize his voice.
It is obvious just from seeing this that the Hague Tribunal exists to
protect the real war criminals and while simultaneously persecuting
the innocent.
Erdemovic's testimony was quite interesting to say the least. The 10th
Sabotage Division, which carried out the massacre, was a multi-ethnic
unit according to Erdemovic. The unit contained Muslims, Croats,
Slovenes, and some Bosnian Serbs.
Erdemovic stated categorically that he saw no Yugoslav or Serbian
personnel in or around Srebrenica at the time in question. There was
only his unit and some local groups, but nobody from the Government of
either Serbia or Yugoslavia. Erdemovic, echoing the conclusions of the
Dutch Government, saw nothing that would indicate any participation by
Belgrade in the planning or execution of the Srebrenica massacre.
It is completely out of the question that President Milosevic could
have had anything to do with the tragic events in Srebrenica. The only
attempt to "link" Milosevic to the events in Srebrenica came when
Erdemovic claimed to have spoken to an unnamed member of the Serbian
MUP at the Military Hospital in Belgrade.
Erdemovic claimed that this alleged MUP officer told him that he had
participated in the attack on Srebrenica. The only problem is that
Erdemovic didn't remember this tidbit until November 3, 2001, and
remember he had been in the custody of the Hague Tribunal since 1996,
but he never mentioned that until 2001.
The contentious point between President Milosevic and Mr. Erdemovic
was over who was responsible for ordering the massacre. Erdemovic
claimed that the orders "must have" come from the General Staff of the
VRS.
Erdemovic never saw any orders from the General Staff. Erdemovic says
that he was ordered to carry out the executions by a unit commander
named Gojikovic who had allegedly claimed to have gotten his orders
from some unknown Lt. Colonel from the Drina Corps of the VRS.
To counter the Erdemovic's claim that the order to carry out this
hideous crime "must have" come from the General Staff of the VRS;
President Milosevic produced the orders issued by the General Staff of
the VRS, pertaining to Srebrenica, which explicitly stated that
civilians must be protected and that the laws and customs of war had
to be abided by.
Erdemovic denied any knowledge of any foreign involvement in the
Srebrenica tragedy. However, he did admit to some odd goings on.
First of all, Erdemovic, claimed to have no idea how much he was
personally paid, which raises the red flag that he may have been
receiving money other than the normal VRS salary, which along with the
fact that he fought at one point or another for every side in the war,
would indicate that he was in fact a mercenary.
Erdemovic also claimed that he had heard from his wife that a
commander of the 10th Sabotage Division named Pelimic had received a
large quantity of gold from unknown persons, and that after the war
this Pelimic was living the high life and having jewel incrusted gold
chains made for himself at jewelry stores. Erdemovic admitted that
this information even made him suspect that somebody had bribed the
commanders of his unit so that they would perpetrate that horrific
crime at Srebrenica.
Erdemovic also testified that he had heard about some members of the
10th Sabotage Division, including Pelimic, subsequently going to
France in order to become mercenaries in Zaire, after the end of the
Bosnian war, which jives with what Milosevic said in his opening
statement.
I don't know when or if Erdemovic's testimony will continue. The
so-called "trial chamber" went into closed session at the end of the
hearing to decide, and so I guess we will see tomorrow, but they did
not intend to keep this witness more than 1 day.
SYNOPSIS OF THE PROCEEDINGS FOR AUGUST 25 2003
1. Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice Examines the witness Drazen Erdemovic.
2. President Slobodan Milosevic cross-examines the witness Drazen
Erdemovic
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"TRIAL" SYNOPSIS: AUG. 26 2003 - COLM DOYLE TESTIFIES AGAINST MILOSEVIC
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 26, 2003
The Hague Tribunal heard testimony from Colm Doyle today. The former
Irish army major served as head of the European Community's monitoring
mission in Sarajevo, and later on as the special envoy of Lord
Carrington, he was also the chairman of the EC conference on Yugoslavia.
Even though Mr. Doyle was at the Hague to testify against Milosevic;
his testimony did not incriminate Milosevic in the least. The only
part of Doyle's testimony that had anything at all to do with
Milosevic was his testimony about a meeting he had with President
Milosevic in Belgrade on 16 June 1992. According to Doyle, Milosevic
expressed strong support for the peace process. Doyle claimed that
Milosevic reiterated his position that the violence and bloodshed
should be stopped and that the only solution for Bosnia was a solution
which was fair to all 3 sides, and which all 3 sides could agree on.
Doyal said that Milosevic expressed strong support for Radovan
Karadzic's proposal that UN observers should be attached to all units
of the Bosnian-Serb Army. He said that Milosevic condemned the
shelling of Sarajevo and pledged to do what he could to assist the
peace process.
So, the only evidence that the prosecution brought against President
Milosevic with this witness was that he wanted to stop the Bosnian war
and find a solution that was fair to all 3 sides. I guess working to
stop a war is what makes one a war criminal at the Hague Tribunal.
Even though the rest of Mr. Doyle's testimony had absolutely nothing
to do with President Milosevic, parts of it were quite interesting.
The most interesting tidbit was Doyle's testimony about how the
Bosnian parliament reached its decision to hold the referendum on
succession from Yugoslavia.
According to Doyle, on or about the 15th of October 1991 the speaker
of the Bosnian parliament adjourned the parliament for the night at
around 3:30 in the morning. After the Serb MPs had gone home for the
night, the Muslim and Croat MPs reconvened the parliament and passed
the decision that the referendum on succession should be held.
To put it bluntly, the Muslim and Croat MPs tricked the Serb MPs into
leaving the debate on the referendum question by fraudulently
adjourning the parliament and then fraudulently reconvening it again
after the Serbs had left for the night. After the Serbs had gone home,
falsely believing that the parliament was in fact adjourned, the Muslim
and Croat MPs, who remained fraudulently reconvened the parliament and
passed the decision to hold a referendum on succession, without the
consent of the Serb MPs.
President Milosevic asked Mr. Doyle if he considered that this
decision of the parliament was made lawfully or not. Doyle didn't
really know what to say at this point, because the answer is so
obvious. Doyle's answer was ultimately that he didn't know.
Another interesting piece of information came when Doyal spoke of a
peace conference that he was at with Radovan Karadzic in Lisbon.
During that peace conference a number of Muslim civilians were killed
while waiting in a breadline in Sarajevo. Karadzic immediately swore to
Cutileiro that the Bosnian Serbs didn't perpetrate that crime.
According to Doyle, Cutileiro's response to Karadzic was that the
Bosnian Serbs would be publicly blamed whether they perpetrated that
massacre or not. Cutilero then told Karadzic that his only option was
to "make a public gesture of good will" by handing over control of the
Sarajevo Airport.
Moreover, the Muslim representative used the breadline massacre as an
excuse to walk out of the negotiations and the negotiations failed.
As it turns out the Bosnian Serbs did not perpetrate that massacre.
Slobodan Milosevic quoted from an article in the London Independent
entitled "Muslims 'slaughter their own people'," dated 8/22/92.
According to the article "United Nations officials and senior Western
military officers believe some of the worst killings in Sarajevo,
including the massacre of at least 16 people in a bread queue, were
carried out by the city's mainly Muslim defenders -- not Serb
besiegers -- as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military
intervention. . . . Classified reports to the UN force commander,
General Satish Nambiar, concluded . . . that Bosnian forces loyal to
President Alija Izetbegovic may have detonated a bomb. 'We believe it
was a command-detonated explosion, probably in a can,' a UN official
said then. 'The large impact which is there now is not necessarily
similar or anywhere near as large as we came to expect with a mortar
round landing on a paved surface.'"
Doyle claimed that he didn't know anything about that, but he didn't
attempt to refute it either. He simply said that he didn't personally
know who was responsible.
President Milosevic will continue his cross-examination of Mr. Doyle
tomorrow. The troika has granted him 1 hour and 5 minutes to complete
his cross-examination. After he concludes the Amicus Curiae will be
given 15 to 20 minutes for cross-examination.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
1. Witness Colm Doyle was examined by the prosecutor Geoffrey Nice.
2. Witness Colm Doyle was cross-examined by President Slobodan
Milosevic.
=== 5 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082703.htm
MILOSEVIC "TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 27, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 27, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
The proceedings today began with the conclusion of Slobodan
Milosevic's cross-examination of Colm Doyle. President Milosevic and
the Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic both asked Doyle a number of questions
regarding reports of events that the Canadian Major-General Lewis
MacKenzie (UN Commander in Bosnia) had sent to Lt Gen Satish Nambiar at
the UN Headquarters in New York.
Amazingly, Doyle who headed the European Community's observation
mission in Bosnia had no idea about any of the numerous events that
Milosevic and Tapuskovic asked him about on the basis of MacKenzie's
reports, all of which had to do with Muslim attacks and provocations
against Serbs.
A humorous event came when Milosevic asked Doyle whether he was aware
of the position that the US State Department and the European
Parliament (which is an organ of the EC) took in 1991. That position
was that the SFRY should remain one single unified state and that the
secessionist republics should not be recognized. Doyle confirmed that
he was aware that that was the position which was taken.
Milosevic then asked Doyle how come the US and the EC recognized the
secessionists anyway, in spite of their publicly stated position.
Doyle said that he didn't know, and that he didn't ask. Milosevic
asked Doyle if he considered it to be hypocritical for the US and the
EC to say one thing and then do exactly the opposite. Before Doyle
could answer the question, the so-called "jugde" May jumped in and
instructed Doyle that he didn't have to answer the question.
It was obvious from Doyle's testimony that the Muslims had weapons
from the outset of the war. The Muslims were not unarmed, like they
are fond of claiming.
The beginning of the war came when the Muslims, after announcing the
results of their illegal referendum on succession, famously attacked a
Serb wedding party in Sarajevo, killing the groom on the steps of the
Orthodox Church. Doyle said that after that attack, tensions
increased, and the Serbs erected barricades in Sarajevo, which the
Muslims then fired upon (with the weapons that they claim never to
have had).
After Doyle was concluded the witness Stepjan Kraljevic was called.
Kraljevic was a municipal official from the town of Ilok, Croatia.
Kraljevic painted a picture where the JNA, for no reason, expelled the
population of Ilok. But, when Milosevic cross-examined Kraljevic it
became obvious that this witness was given to exaggeration.
Milosevic showed an agreement that Kraljevic and others from Ilok had
signed with the JNA. The agreement stated that the JNA would do its
best to protect all people who wished to remain in Ilok, but that the
JNA would also help the people who wished to leave Ilok to leave
safely. Ilok is near to Vukovar and there was heavy fighting in the
area, so there were people who wanted to leave, in fact the JNA
reached the agreement because the citizens requested it.
The witness, on the other hand, tried to present this agreement by the
JNA to protect people if they wished to leave the town as a sort of
expulsion by the JNA.
The witness viewed the JNA's demand that the T.O. should turn over its
weapons in accordance with the decision of the SFRY presidency as a
sort of provocation by the JNA, even though the witness admitted that
this demand only came after the Ilok police (who issued the T.O. their
weapons in the first place) fired on and destroyed a JNA tank with a
rocket launcher. But then again the witness did not consider the JNA
to be the legal armed force of the SFRY in 1991.
Mr. Kraljevic also produced a document called "Civilian Victims of the
Homeland War" which he presented as some sort of evidence against
Milosevic. In this document of his numerous "victims" had their cause
of death listed as things such as traffic accidents and suicide. So now
I guess, according to this witness, if somebody gets into a car wreck
or decides to kill themselves that is Milosevic's fault.
The next witness was a secret witness code named "C-1175." "C-1175"
claimed to have been a member of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj, Croatia.
His claim was that he saw the T.O. there commit some crimes.
"C-1175" claimed that all of the members of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj
were local Serbs and Hungarians. Since they were all locals, living in
Croatia, it is clear that Slobodan Milosevic, who was the president of
Serbia, could not have had anything to do with whether or not the T.O.
there committed any crimes there or not. So, even if the crimes that
the witness enumerated really happened they still wouldn't have
anything to do with Milosevic.
"C-1175's" testimony wasn't completely useless. "C-1175" did establish
that it was the Croats and not the Serbs who initiated the clashes and
ultimately started the war in Croatia.
"C-1175" testified that already in March and April of 1991 the Croats
had formed squads to terrorize Serbs and carryout so-called "silent
liquidations." "C-1175" also testified that the Croats perpetrated
numerous crimes on Serb property.
"C-1175" testified that before the war the Croatian police were
arresting Serbs without cause and taking them away and beating them
up."C-1175" should be concluded tomorrow. The troika has given
President Milosevic 45 more minutes to complete his cross-examination.
Sequence of Events - AUGUST 27, 2003
1. President Milosevic concluded his cross-examination of Colm Doyle.
2. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Colm Doyle.
3. Prosecutor Nice re-examined Colm Doyle.
5. Prosecutor Saxon called Stepjan Kraljevic and examined him.
6. President Milosevic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
7. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
8. Prosecutor Saxon re-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.
9. Prosecutor Uertz-Retzlaff called the secret witness "C-1175" and
examined him.
10. President Milosevic began his cross-examination of the secret
witness "C-1175."
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http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082803.htm
SYNOPSIS OF THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS: AUGUST 28, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 28, 2003
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Today was a marathon day at The Hague Tribunal. 5 different witnesses
testified. The day began with the conclusion of the secret witness
"C-1175." As you may remember from yesterday "C-1175" was a member of
the Serbian T.O. in Dalj. He was a member of the T.O. for only one
month before he quit. He left because of his regular job, and because
he was angry at the T.O. commander because he wouldn't give him a fuel
voucher.
"C-1175" established that the prison in Dalj was set up and ran by the
T.O., and not by the JNA. As you may remember from yesterday the Dalj
T.O. was made up exclusively of locals. The JNA had nothing whatsoever
to do with the Dalj prison.
"C-1175" testified the day before about a group of men that had been
taken to a farm and killed. These men were brought to the farm from
Borovo Celo and killed by a group of civilians, not by the T.O., not by
the police, and not by the JNA.
"C-1175" spoke of a chaotic situation were people would appoint
themselves as the police, he referred to these people as "space
police." All in all the war just sounded like a mess, but one thing
was certain about C-1175's testimony, Slobodan Milosevic didn't have
anything to do with anything that this witness testified about.
After "C-1175" finished another secret witness, a woman from Vukovar,
testified under the pseudonym of "C-1071."
"C-1071" lost her husband during the war. The JNA evacuated the
witness and her family from Vukovar along with some of their
neighbors, she went directly to Serbia, but her husband had to stay
behind to be checked by the JNA.
The witness confirmed that the JNA had in fact evacuated the people
for their own protection, and not because of any other reason, and she
testified that she never saw the JNA doing anything that was illegal.
According to an unnamed person that the witness knew, who was being
checked by the JNA at the same time as her husband, the JNA took the
men to a facility in Dalj to be checked. Her husband checked-out OK and
was released by the JNA.
Her husband was supposed to come and find her with their relatives in
Serbia after the JNA released him. Unfortunately, he never made it.
"C-1071" went to Dalj to investigate and try to find out what had
happened to her husband. She found out in the course of speaking with
people in Dalj that her husband had been attacked by a group of
civilians after he was released by the JNA. His body was later found
in a wooded area outside of town.
This is certainly a sad story that this woman lost her husband, but I
fail to see what a group of civilian criminals who exploit a chaotic
situation in a war, has to do with Milosevic. After all, he certainly
didn't start the fighting in Vukovar. This witness testified that
fighting only began in Vukovar after the Croats had blockaded the JNA
barracks there.
Had there been no fighting in Vukovar there would never have been a
need for any of this.
The next witness was a senile old Croat woman from Saboska named Anna
Bitunic. She lost her husband too. She testified that her husband and
some other men were shot by her house.
One minor problem with her testimony was that she had no idea who had
shot her husband and the other men. She said it was men in uniforms,
and so Milosevic asked her who's uniforms were they wearing? T.O.
uniforms, JNA uniforms, or some other uniforms? Mrs. Bitunic did not
know what sort of uniform that the people who shot her husband were
wearing, she was at a loss. She had no idea who did it.
It is too bad that this woman lost her husband, but it could be seen
from her testimony that she was half-crazy. She said that the Serbs
were happy after the referendum in Croatia because they wanted to
create "greater-Serbia" and that they were "happy because they could
kill whoever they wanted to," and other such nonsense.
Obviously, with no idea who even committed the crime that she was
testifying about; her testimony can be viewed as nothing other than a
completely irrelevant waste of time that has nothing to do with
Milosevic, or anybody else.
Actually, all of the testimony that has to do with Bosnia and Croatia
is an irrelevant waste of time, as far as Milosevic is concerned,
because Slobodan Milosevic was the president of Serbia and didn't have
any command over any of the combatants in either Bosnia or Croatia.
After Mrs. Bitunic finished a man named Luka Shutalo was called. Mr.
Shutalo was from Erdut, Croatia. He escaped from the war zone in 1991
by going to Serbia, where it just so happened that Slobodan Milosevic
was the president, and guess what happened to him in Serbia? Nothing.
Nobody did anything to him. He was free to do as he wished in Serbia.
In spite of the fact that going to Milosevic's Serbia "saved his
neck," this witness nonetheless blamed Milosevic and what he called
the "Yugo Army" (meaning the JNA) for everything.
This guy actually thought that it was Milosevic who was in command of
the JNA. Milosevic asked the witness what on Earth would make him
think that he was the commander of the JNA, but before the witness
could answer, the so-called "judge" May jumped in and told the witness
not to answer, and Milosevic not to ask those sorts of questions.
Mr. Shuralo claimed that he had been taken prisoner and that he was
mistreated at the prison in Dalj, which he said was not even ran by
what he considered to be "Milosevic's Yugo Army." This was nothing but
more irrelevant testimony that again had nothing to do with Milosevic.
It is amazing to me to watch so much time being wasted on irrelevant
witnesses that don't even attempt to prove anything against Milosevic.
This makes it all the more absurd that the so-called "trial" chamber
gave the prosecution all of that extra time to "present evidence,"
which is something that they might want to consider doing some time.
So far there has been no real evidence presented against Milosevic.
Nothing that that so-called "prosecution" has done so far even comes
close to proving that Milosevic is guilty of anything.
The last witness to testify was another Croatia witness named Josip
Jocipovic. He was another 92-bis witness. The prosecutor read out a
summary of his statement about some alleged events in Hrvatska Dubica,
but he has not been cross-examined yet.
However from just what the prosecutor said I can see that this is
another witness who does not have anything at all to do with Milosevic.
This whole day, like many days before it, was a total waste of time
for the prosecution. Slobodan Milosevic has successfully defeated the
prosecution with every witness.
=== 7 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg082903.htm
"TRIAL" REPORT: SYNOPSIS FOR AUGUST 29, 2003
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - August 29, 2003
Another secret witness testified today at the Hague Tribunal. B-1054 a
Muslim woman from a village near Visegrad testified that she was taken
to a house in Visegrad along with 70 other Muslims. According to this
woman, Serb civilians from Visegrad attempted to burn them all alive in
that house.
For the sake of argument, we will start by assuming that she was
telling the truth. Even if this happened, and even if it happened
exactly in the way that she said it did; it proves nothing. This woman
did not allege that anybody from Serbia, or anybody from the JNA even
took part in this alleged crime. It is therefore clear that Slobodan
Milosevic could not have had anything at all to do with this.
Her two written statements, her previous testimony from another trial,
and the testimony that she gave today did not all fit together very
well. There were a number of discrepancies.
For example, she claimed to have been laid-up in the hospital for 22
days, but her medical report revealed that she was only in the
Hospital for 10 days. She had exaggerated her time in the hospital by
more than double.
She was inconsistent again as to how the alleged fire started in the
House. One time she said it was a bomb that ignited the fire, and
another time she said that somebody had just lit a match.
In her second statement she spoke of an alleged massacre that "a band
of Chetniks" was committing on the river. According to this witness
"the slaughter was so horrible that it made the river run red with
blood." However, in her first statement she neglects to mention that
minor detail. When asked how come she didn't mention it in her first
statement her excuse was that it "was just too horrible to speak of."
She has no problem speaking in her first statement about other
horrible things. She spoke all about how she lay wounded in a sewage
ditch near to the allegedly burning house listening to the screams of
people who were allegedly being burned alive, and that wasn't "too
horrible to speak of," but apparently seeing some corpses in a river
was.
Her statements were also inconsistent with respect to the names of
people that she claimed to have seen at certain places.
Another problem with her testimony was that she claimed that everybody
had died in that house, by either being burned in the fire, or shot
while trying to flee. She even said that she thought that her own son
had died. However, she later said that she found her son alive and
well 5 years later on. So how could she know that everybody else died?
She thought that her own son was dead for 5 years, but he wasn't.
An entertaining moment came when the Amicus Curiae, Mr. Tapuskovic and
the so-called "judge" May got into a fight. "Judge" May became quite
indignant when Mr. Tapuskovic dared to peruse a line of questioning
that called the truthfulness of this witness's testimony into question.
Tapuskovic was asking questions about inconsistencies in the witness's
evidence. The witness responded by getting indignant. For example,
when Tapusokvic asked her how she could know that everybody was killed
when her own son was even able to flee without her knowledge. She
responded indignantly by saying, "So you say that my son should have
been killed too! Is that it?"
After this little exchange Tapuskovic and Milosevic both gave the
so-called "judge" a lesson in law. During his fight with Mr.
Tapuskovic, the so-called "judge" claimed that "the accused hasn't
even challenged this evidence" (even though he had), and so President
Milosevic had to explain to this so-called "judge" that he had no way
of knowing if the event in questioned had happened or not, but it
wasn't him, as the accused, who had the burden of proving that it
didn't happen -- rather it was the prosecution who had the burden of
proving that it did happen.
After President Milosevic had explained, to this pathetic excuse of a
"judge," the concept of "innocent until proven guilty," which appears
to be completely foreign to "Dick" May. Mr. Tapuskovic had to explain
to this idiot what his job was in the first place. Mr. Tapuskovic
explained to that crimson robe-wearing fool that as a judge his job is
to sit and listen to the evidence and then decide, after hearing all
of the evidence, if the witness is telling the truth or not.
Mr. Tapuskovic was clearly astonished that "judge" May considered it
inappropriate to ask questions that challenged a witness's
credibility. What is the point of cross-examination if not to challenge
the witness? Tapuskovic explained that he had been a lawyer for 40
years, and had never seen a judge that would prevent these sorts of
questions.
After Mr. Tapuskovic finished his cross-examination, the so-called
"judge," who clearly had no other motive than just a desire to be a
smart-ass, said to the witness, "It has been suggested that you may not
be telling the truth. Have you been lying to us?" and the witness
surprised everybody by saying, "Of course I have been telling the
truth." At that point "judge" May let the witness go.
The next witness was Josip Jocipovic. Mr. Jocipovic had been examined
by prosecutor Bauer the day before, and so President Milosevic went
directly into cross-examination.
Like so many other witnesses this witness's testimony had nothing to
do with President Milosevic. The closest he came was when he said that
two men, who he couldn't identify, allegedly told him that they had
been fighting in Vukovar and that they were from Serbia.
Other than that he testified about a couple of men from the Krajina
police who committed some crimes. However, after they had committed
the crimes they were removed by Milan Martic.
He did however give some useful testimony. He was a member of the ZNG,
and to the dismay of Ms. Bauer, he testified that the local ZNG
commander in Hrvatska Dubica was a criminal and a thief.
He testified that the ZNG was formed in 1990 right after the elections
and that it was precisely then that the tensions increased. He
admitted that the JNA and T.O. forces were the only legal armed forces
in the SFRY (of which Croatia was a part in 1990). However he denied
that the ZNG was a paramilitary organization, in spite of the fact
that being an illegal armed force operating in the SFRY made it the
very definition of a paramilitary. He also testified that the JNA
brought order and that it fought against both Serb and Croatian
paramilitaries in order to stop killings and looting from taking place.
After Mr. Jocipovic finished, another secret witness called "B-1505"
was called. I'm not sure who exactly this guy was. He is either
somebody who is pretending to be somebody else, which is possible with
all secret witnesses, or he is somebody who was either a member of the
JNA, or was in some other way privy to internal JNA matters.
At any rate he claimed to be a Muslim from Visegrad who saw the JNA
planning to "cleanse Visegrad" of its Muslim population.
The prosecution is expected to finish with him on Monday, and after
that President Milosevic will cross-examine him.
"Processo" Milosevic
1. MILOSEVIC SI RIVOLGE ALL'OPINIONE PUBBLICA (17/8/2003). Con la
TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE della lettera di Milosevic.
2. TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA (25/8/2003); ONU:
CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA (28/08/2003)
3. La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
(Aldo Bernardini su "Aginform")
NOTA: Una nuova manifestazione a L'Aia e' in preparazione per il
prossimo 8 novembre. Invieremo via via su questa lista tutte le
informazioni a riguardo.
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http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
SERBIA: MILOSEVIC NEGA COINVOLGIMENTO IN OMICIDIO STAMBOLIC
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 23 AGO - L'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan
Milosevic ha negato qualsiasi coinvolgimento nell'omicidio di Ivan
Stambolic, un ex presidente serbo considerato un suo rivale politico.
Milosevic, sotto processo per crimini di guerra davanti al
Tribunale internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi), ha inviato una che la
pubblichera' nella sua edizione di domani e di cui stasera sono state
fornite alcune anticipazioni. Nella lettera Milosevic nega di
essere implicato nell'omicidio di Stambolic che, dopo essere
scomparso tre anni fa dalla sua casa di Belgrado, e' stato ritrovato
cadavere nel nord della Serbia lo scorso aprile. Della sua
uccisione sono sospettati alcuni elementi del 'Berretti Rossi' (Jso),
una unita' speciale della polizia. Secondo la magistratura di
Belgrado, ad ordinare la sua eliminazione sarebbe stato proprio
Milosevic, ansioso di sbarazzarsi di un rivale politico. L'ex
presidente jugoslavo, nella lettera, definisce ''assurde'' queste
accuse. ''Stambolic non interessava piu' a nessuno, era un uomo
politico dimenticato'', scrive nella lettera al giornale.
All'inizio di questo mese alcuni investigatori serbi volevano
interrogarlo nel carcere dell'Aja dove e' rinchiuso ma Milosevic si
e' rifiutato. Nella lettera spiega di averlo fatto perche' aveva
chiesto che la sua testimonianza fosse rese pubblica, condizione che
a suo dire non era stata accettata. (ANSA-AFP). ZU
23/08/2003 23:22
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TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE
della lettera di Milosevic alla opinione pubblica, pubblicata il 24
agosto dal quotidiano Vecernje Novosti. Per le versioni in inglese e
serbocroato, da noi gia' diffuse su JUGOINFO, si veda al sito
dell'Associazione "Sloboda":
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
[Si noti che in seguito alla diffusione di questa lettera, consegnata a
mano da Milosevic ad esponenti del suo partito in visita all'Aia, le
autorita' del "Tribunale" hanno deciso di vietare per il futuro
qualsiasi visita in cercere: Milosevic e' quindi attualmente
impossibilitato a ricevere visite.]
Nel marzo 2001 sono stato accusato di crimini immaginari, cosicche'
hanno potuto arrestarmi e consegnarmi all'Aia.
Queste nuove accuse del 2003 hanno lo stesso scopo: L'Aia. Solo che
stavolta il loro obiettivo e' di cercare di impedire, o almeno di
minimizzare, l'evidente fiasco di questo fittizio Tribunale, che serve
come arma di guerra contro il nostro paese e contro la nostra gente.
Stavolta, diversamente dal 2001, hanno anche incominciato a
terrorizzare la mia famiglia, perseguitando vigliaccamente mia moglie e
mio figlio. La campagna criminale contro mia moglie e mio figlio viene
montata solamente a causa della mia lotta qui.
E' assurdo e vergognoso che si accaniscano contro una donna, moglie chi
e' stato capo dello Stato a lungo, professoressa universitaria, autrice
di dieci libri, tradotti in 30 lingue e stampati in tutto il mondo, per
cui nessuno potra' distruggere o nascondere le sue settimanali
testimonianze sulla crisi jugoslava [1]. Il loro valore e' stato
dimostrato con il tempo, ad onore di Mira e con nostro orgoglio. Nessun
altro intellettuale ha alzato la propria voce piu' di lei contro la
guerra, la violenza, il primitivismo, lo sfruttamento, e la schiavitu'
ed in favore della pace, della liberta' e della parita' dei diritti.
Si stanno accanendo contro un giovane che a cuore aperto e limpido ha
deciso di fare il suo cammino nella vita in maniera indipendente,
attraverso l'operosita', l'intelligenza e le abilita' sue proprie, ed
ha fatto di tutto per aiutare gli altri e rendere la sua citta' piu'
bella e piu' umana.
Stanno commettendo un crimine contro due persone che verso gli altri
non hanno mai usato altro che la bonta' e l'umanita'.
Il loro unico crimine e' quello di essere la mia famiglia.
La gente della Serbia e le persone amanti della liberta' in tutto il
mondo mi inviano messaggi di solidarieta' e mi augurano la vittoria.
Apparentemente, solo il regime di Belgrado e' ben disposto verso il
Tribunale dell'Aia, tanto da non disdegnare neppure di terrorizzare le
donne ed i ragazzi.
Alle due persone che sono venute per interrogarmi - cinque mesi dopo
che lo avevo pubblicamente richiesto - ho detto che solo i codardi
attaccano le donne ed i ragazzi, e che non esiste vergogna piu' grande.
La campagna politica, mediatica e poliziesca contro di me e la mia
famiglia e' la piu' grande infamia per quasiasi paese; una infamia che,
con il tempo, surclassera' non solo i suoi responsabili, ma anche
quelli che hanno assistito in silenzio.
Legija ed i Berretti Rossi
Per quanto riguarda le "ragioni" per cui il giudice ed il pubblico
ministero sono venuti all'Aia, desidero chiarire che:
Ne' io ne' il mio entourage abbiamo mai avuto alcun rapporto con alcun
gruppo criminale.
Non esisteva nessun "clan di Zemun" mentre io ero presidente. Esso e'
piuttosto la conseguenza diretta dei comportamenti dell'attuale
governo, del ruolo avuto da alcuni gruppi ed individui nel golpe del 5
Ottobre 2000, e dei loro reciproci accordi.
Ne' io ne' alcuno nel mio entourage abbiamo avuto contatti personali e
frequentazioni con membri della Unita' per le Operazioni Speciali,
popolarmente nota come Berretti Rossi. Io credevo fosse una unita'
antiterroristica d'elite, tipica di ogni servizio di sicurezza. Credo
tuttora che la maggiorparte dei componenti della unita' fossero
conformi a questa descrizione. Quelli con un passato o inclinazioni
criminali sono certamente meglio noti al presente regime, visto che
esso li ha utilizzati il 5 Ottobre.
La mia visita alla caserma di Kula nel 1997 era parte del cerimoniale,
un gesto di apprezzamento per il capo del servizio Jovica Stanisic, che
rispettavo come professionista e come uomo che compieva il suo lavoro
in pieno accordo con i suoi incarichi. Che quella visita fosse di
cerimoniale, e che tutto quanto nella caserma per me fosse nuovo,
dovrebbe essere ovvio a chiunque guardi l'intera registrazione in
maniera attenta.
L'ufficiale che mi riferiva sull'andamento della parata non mi era
conosciuto. Adesso so che il suo nome era Lukovic "Legija" [2]. Quando
costui arrivo' per arrestarmi nel marzo 2001, lo scambiai per
l'ufficiale che durante la mia visita aveva condotto Stanisic e me dal
quartier generale alle palestre all'aperto, che pure volevano
mostrarmi. Peraltro, ancora oggi non riesco a ricordare nessuno dei
nomi degli ufficiali che mi riferivano in varie occasioni dinanzi ad
una guardia d'onore. Questa vale persino per i comandanti delle unita'
della Guardia dell'Esercito Jugoslavo.
La prima volta che ho parlato con Lukovic "Legija" e' stato quando
venne ad arrestarmi il 31 marzo 2001. Visto che non avevo mai avuto
alcun contatto con lui prima, ne' tantomeno una conversazione, l'unica
cosa che avrei potuto "ordinargli" sarebbe stato il mio arresto.
Chiaramente, quelli che per il mio arresto hanno utilizzato membri dei
Berretti Rossi (ed altri, che saltarono incappucciati all'interno della
recinzione della mia residenza) li hanno usati anche prima e dopo. Io
chiaramente non potevo.
Le voci secondo cui questa unita' lavorava anche per la mia sicurezza
personale non sono vere. Pure menzogne. La mia sicurezza personale per
tutto il tempo e' stata l'unita' di sicurezza pubblica (non la
Sicurezza di Stato), comandata da Senta Milenkovic.
Ivan Stambolic
Sono stato amico di Ivan Stambolic per molti anni. Le nostre strade si
sono divise all'Ottava Sessione del Comitato Centrale della Lega dei
Comunisti della Serbia, nel 1987. Non abbiamo mai litigato
personalmente.
Dopo che fu sostituito, egli venne da me per chiedere quello che (a
parere di entrambi) era uno dei posti migliori nella RFS di Jugoslavia:
Presidente della Banca Jugoslava per le Relazioni Economiche
Internazionali. E lo ebbe, rimanendo in quella posizione per 10 anni
nonostante la consuetudine della rotazione delle cariche, fino al suo
pensionamento - che avrebbe potuto ottenere ben prima, sia in forza
dell'esperienza lavorativa che dell'eta'.
Era stato completamente dimenticato come politico da molti anni.
Percio' la storia secondo cui avrebbe potuto rappresentare un
potenziale avversario nelle elezioni e' una bugia palese, visto che non
vi partecipo' mai. Non fu mai nemmeno candidato. Peraltro, in quei
dieci anni, forse che qualcun altro candidato ha subito qualche attacco?
E' assurdo sostenere che mi sarei affrettato ad ucciderlo poiche'
rappresentava una minaccia, dopo che che gli avevo consentito di tenere
un posto di suo gradimento per dieci anni, e dopo che era andato in
pensione!
Per me e' particolarmente misterioso come la sua famiglia possa avere
dato prontamente credito a questa palese bugia. Sembra che loro abbiano
piu' interesse ad accusare me che non a scoprire la verita' sulle sorti
del loro padre e marito.
Ivan Stambolic era un politico dimenticato, e, al momento della sua
scomparsa, era anche un banchiere dimenticato. Nessuno nello Stato o
nell'apparato politico lo aveva piu' menzionato da anni. Egli
apparteneva all'epoca della ex RFS di Jugoslavia, e le cose dal 1990
purtroppo erano cambiate.
Senza offesa, ma nessuno piu' si interessava di Ivan Stambolic. Non ci
furono persecuzioni nei confronti di quelli che, all'Ottava Sessione,
avevano sostenuto la sua linea. Desimir Jeftic, presidente del
consiglio dei Ministri della Serbia, che pure era stato sostituito, fu
per molti anni Ambasciatore in Romania. Il migliore amico e vicino di
Ivan, Dragan Tomic, CEO [amministratore delegato?] della ditta di
mobili Simpo, rimase membro del partito e della leadership dello Stato.
Io sono certo che egli confermerebbe che gli dissi, dopo la
sostituzione di Ivan, che io lo avrei considerato molto male se egli
avesse rinunciato alla sua amicizia, voltandogli le spalle. Dunque, la
verita' e' proprio all'opposto rispetto alla storia che e' stata
fabbricata da qualche personaggio patetico.
Io fui informato della sparizione di Ivan al telefono, dal ministro
degli Interni Vlajko Stojiljkovic. Gli dissi di usare tutti i mezzi
possibili per trovarlo. Mi disse che la moglie di Ivan ed il figlio
avevano denunciato la scomparsa nel pomeriggio, benche' egli fosse
andato a correre la mattina, il che avrebbe reso le indagini piu'
complicate.
Tutti i posti di frontiera furono allertati, e piu' tardi quella sera
Vlajko Stojiljkovic mi disse che molte centinaia di poliziotti erano
impegnati nella indagine. Io insistetti che tutte le risorse fossero
utilizzate per trovarlo prima possibile. Certamente, la maggiorparte di
questi ufficiali sono tuttora impiegati al Ministero dell'Interno, e
possono testimoniare in proposito.
Sulla base di quanto Stojiljkovic mi aveva riferito, tutto cio' che si
sarebbe potuto fare fu fatto.
Draskovic, Pavkovic e l'incidente di Budva
Visto che gli inquirenti, durante le presentazioni, hanno menzionato un
mio presunto collegamento con il "tentativo di assassinio di
Draskovic", desidero dire qualche parola anche a riguardo.
Non ho mai creduto che quanto avvenne a Budva fosse un vero tentativo
di omicidio, poiche' appare improbabile che qualcuno possa sparare
tutti i colpi, in uno spazio ristretto come quello, mancando tutti i
bersagli. Neanche Vuk Draskovic, con la sua inclinazione a
drammatizzare, sarebbe stato in grado di trasformarsi in una mosca o in
una zanzara. Credetti che o qualcuno aveva avuto intenzione di
spaventarlo, oppure che egli aveva inscenato l'intero incidente per
conquistarsi l'attenzione e promuovere il suo ruolo di "vittima del
regime". Non e' difficile vedere chi abbia beneficiato di un simile
incidente, mentre e' abbondantemente chiaro che esso non servi' al
governo. Al contrario, in effetti.
Io non so se il Servizio di Sicurezza Serbo abbia avuto alcuna
attivita' in Montenegro, a parte quella di raccogliere informazioni sul
contrabbando di sigarette verso la Serbia. Rade Markovic mi fece
persino vedere fotografie di ricognizione aerea di un'area nota come
Mehov Krs, dalla parte serba del confine con il Montenegro, e spiego'
che in base alle sue informazioni si trattava di un importante
magazzino di stoccaggio delle sigarette di contrabbando. Egli si
preparava ad un raid per prendere i contrabbandieri ed interrompere il
traffico, al momento opportuno. Non so se le fotografie furono scattate
da un aereoplano o da un elicottero, della polizia o dell'esercito, in
quanto questi dettagli non mi interessavano.
Non ho mai parlato con Pavkovic di alcun trasferimento di "assassini" o
"agenti" dal Montenegro. Non e' plausibile che il Comandante in Capo
potesse essere coinvolto nel trasporto di presunti agenti segreti,
tantomeno attraverso l'intera catena di comando che incominciava con il
Capo del Comando Generale.
La verita' e' che io insistetti sempre affinche' i servizi
cooperassero, ed abbandonassero le loro rivalita', visto che non
servivano me bensi' lo Stato, e si presumeva che lavorassero per lo
Stato, in accordo con la legge. Il generale Aleksandar Vasiljevic ha
testimoniato su questo in questo tribunale illegale, nientemeno che
come testimone per l'accusa. E Rade Markovic ha testimoniato, sia qui
sia di fronte a due commissioni parlamentari, di esser stato sottoposto
a pressioni perche' cercasse di incriminarmi.
L'unico incidente di elicottero che ricordo riguarda un volo a bassa
quota di un elicottero sopra alla Casa Bianca (che era illegale),
quando un ufficiale dell'Esercito Jugoslavo incaricato della sicurezza
della Casa Bianca mantenne la calma evitando che esso fosse
tragicamente abbattuto. Piu' tardi quel giorno si venne a sapere che
l'elicottero stava trasferendo una persona gravemente malata dalla
Repubblica Serba [di Bosnia] alla Accademia Militare di Medicina [VMA].
Non vi vergognate?
Ho chiesto ad entrambi, l'inquirente e la pubblica accusa, che il mio
interrogatorio fosse pubblico, e che avrebbero potuto anche collegare
una linea telefonica aperta, cosicche' chiunque avrebbe potuto
chiedermi quello che voleva. Mi hanno spiegato che questo non era
consentito dalla legge, fintantoche' era in corso l'inchiesta. Ne ho
preso atto, ma ho chiesto che le registrazioni fossero rese pubbliche
alla fine dell'inchiesta - visto che non ci sarebbe piu' stato alcun
pericolo di potenziali interferenze, a quel punto. Hanno rifiutato
anche questo, benche' avessero la piena autorita' legale per
acconsentire. Ne' io, ne' loro, ne' i miei rappresentanti legali hanno
sporto obiezioni.
Il governo attuale usa la legge come pretesto per l'arbitrio e la
tirannia. Niente di nuovo!
Gia' nel 1742 Montesquieu scrisse: "Non c'e' tirannia piu' crudele di
quella perpetrata sotto lo scudo della legge ed in nome della
giustizia."
In tutta questa sporca operazione, con cui cercano di salvare questa
illegittima corte dell'Aia dal fallimento, l'elemento piu' vergognoso
e' sicuramente la persecuzione di mia moglie e mio figlio. Ho detto al
giudice inquirente che la sua indagine dovrebbe includere anche il
fantasma dei lingotti d'oro, delle riserve di valuta straniera, delle
ville in Svizzera e chi piu' ne ha piu' ne metta, visto che che tutto
questo e' stato menzionato in varie dichiarazioni ed ampi reportage sui
giornali, solo per essere poi "dimenticato".
Gli ho chiesto: "Non si vergogna?" Non mi ha risposto.
A mia moglie Mira ed a mio figlio Marko, che sono stati separati da me
in questa maniera vigliacca, desidero dire: "La vita e' troppo corta
per ringraziarvi della vostra bonta'."
L'Aia, 17 agosto 2003
Slobodan Milosevic
NOTE:
[1] Si riferisce alla rubrica fissa che Mira Markovic teneva sul
settimanale Duga. I testi di Mira Markovic sono stati pubblicati anche
in lingua italiana, vedi ad esempio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2380.
[2] I media hanno riportato che il soprannome gli deriva dall'aver
fatto parte della Legione Straniera francese.
=== 2 ===
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
MILOSEVIC: TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 25 AGO - Nessuna responsabilta' personale ne'
della Serbia nel massacro di Srebrenica nel 1995. Lo ha ribadito oggi
Slobodan Milosevic al Tribunale penale internazionale per l'ex
Jugoslavia dell'Aja, alla riapertura delle udienze dopo tre settimane
di pausa estiva. ''E' evidente per tutti che ne' io ne' la Serbia
abbiamo avuto nulla a che fare con i fatti di Srebrenica'', ha detto
l'ex presidente jugoslavo rivolgendosi a Richard May, presidente della
corte dell'Aja. L'udienza di oggi e' stata dedicata alla
testimonianza di un soldato croato-bosniaco ''pentito'' per la propria
partecipazione all'uccisione di circa 8.000 musulmani bosniaci a
Srebrenica (Bosnia orientale) nel luglio 1995. Condannato nel 1998
a cinque anni di reclusione dal Tpi, Drazen Erdemovic e' un ex soldato
croato arruolato nella divisione dell'esercito serbo che prese parte
al massacro di Srebrenica. Erdemovic aveva espresso il suo pentimento
e la sua amarezza per i fatti di Srebrenica, accettando cosi' di
collaborare con il Tribunale dell'Aja. La testimonianza resa da
Erdemovic depone a sfavore dell'ex presidente jugoslavo. Nella sua
deposizione il soldato ha infatti riferito di essere stato addestrato
- insieme alla sua unita', composta da una quarantina di militari -
nel 1994 a Pancevo, in Serbia, e di aver inoltre ricevuto uniformi ed
armamenti direttamente da Belgrado. Rispondendo alla Corte un
Milosevic rilassato ha rigettato l'accusa di essere coinvolto nella
strage. L'ex uomo forte di Belgrado e' accusato dal Tpi di crimini di
guerra, genocidio e crimini contro l'umanita' per i delitti commessi
nelle tre guerre balcaniche nella prima meta' degli anni '90.(ANSA)
RED*RIG 25/08/2003 18:28
ONU: CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA
(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 28 AGO - Il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu ha
deciso oggi di rimuovere Carla Del Ponte dall'incarico di procuratore
per il Tribunale internazionale sui genocidi in Ruanda (Ictr), ma ha
confermato l'incarico del magistrato svizzero come procuratore capo
del Tribunale internazionale contro i crimini di guerra nella ex
Jugoslavia (Tpi). Del Ponte, che ha portato sul banco degli
imputati l'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan Milosevic, detiene ancora
i due mandati quadriennali che pero' scadono il 14 settembre. Il
Consiglio di Sicurezza ha adesso deciso di scindere le due funzioni.
La risoluzione approvata oggi era stata redatta dagli Usa: in essa
si chiede al segretario generale Kofi Annan di nominare un nuovo
procuratore per il tribunale incaricato di occuparsi dei genocidi del
1994 in Ruanda in cui venne trucidate circa 800 mila persone.
Secondo le aspettative al Palazzo di Vetro, il nuovo incarico dovrebbe
essere affidato a un magistrato africano. Allo stesso tempo la
risoluzione da' il benevenuto all'intenzione del segretario generale
Annan, espressa in una lettera del 28 giugno, di rinnovare l'incarico
di Del Ponte alla testa del tribunale per la ex Jugoslavia. Carla
Del Ponte accettera' l'incarico dimezzato, ha indicato una sua
portavoce all'Aja. La stessa Del Ponte aveva confermato nei giorni
scorsi al Consiglio di Sicurezza l'intenzione di restare al Tribunale
per la ex Jugoslavia perche' ''e' molto attaccata a quello che e'
stato fatto''. La raccomandazione di sdoppiare i mandati dei due
tribunali era stata fatta nelle scorse settimane da Annan anche in
seguito a pressioni del governo del Ruanda, che aveva criticato
l'inefficienza della corte nonostante i suoi 16 giudici, oltre 800
membri dello staff e un bilancio di circa cento milioni di dollari
all'anno. (ANSA). BN 28/08/2003 17:47
=== 3 ===
http://www.pasti.org/agenhome.htm
da AGINFORM
Numero 35, luglio 2003
Sostegno a Milosevic
La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
Il 28 giugno 2003, secondo anniversario del sequestro e rapimento del
presidente Slobodan Milosevic da Belgrado per consegnarlo all'illegale
Tribunale dell'Aja per la ex Jugoslavia e, per i serbi, giorno di San
Vito (ricorrenza della storica battaglia di Kosovo Polie del 1389
contro gli ottomani), si è svolta all'Aja una manifestazione pubblica
di protesta contro il Tribunale e di sostegno alla battaglia per la
liberazione di Milosevic e degli altri jugoslavi arbitrariamente
detenuti.
La manifestazione è stata organizzata dalle sezioni europee del
Comitato internazionale per la difesa di Milosevic.
Hanno partecipato circa 250 persone da Germania (la rappresentanza più
consistente), Paesi Bassi, Gran Bretagna, Austria, Francia, USA,
Italia, Irlanda, Canada, Belgio, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Grecia. Bandiere
jugoslave soprattutto con la stella rossa e altre (anche una della ex
Repubblica democratica tedesca!) hanno espresso il carattere
internazionale dell'iniziativa, che deve molto del successo ai
sostenitori olandesi, guidati da Wil Van der Klift.
Davanti alla sede del Tribunale, di cui è stata da tutti sottolineata
l'illegalità e il concreto comportamento contrario anche ai diritti
dell'uomo, hanno parlato Van der Klift, Gavrilovic (Gran Bretagna),
Valkanoff (Bulgaria), Mraovic (Francia), Bernardini (Italia), Collon
(Belgio), Varkevisser (Paesi Bassi). Sono state lette le richieste
ufficiali al Tribunale e all'ONU. Ha fatto seguito una marcia di alcuni
chilometri sino al penitenziario di Scheveningen e qui hanno preso la
parola, oltre ad alcuni dei precedenti, Hartmann (Germania), Krsljanin
(Jugoslavia), Kelly (Irlanda), Cottin (USA), Verner (Germania). Si è
data lettura della lettera a Milosevic, immediatamente consegnata alle
autorità del carcere.
E' stato giustamente notato che si tratta di un primo passo, in
apparenza modesto ma sostanzialmente rilevantissimo, in un clima
generale che ha visto la demonizzazione massmediatica della Serbia e di
Milosevic in particolare, che rende difficile persino solo parlarne,
anche con grandi masse di ispirazione "democratica" e di "sinistra".
Gravissimo è stato il cedimento, sino alla collusione, di quelle forze
(anche "comuniste") che hanno proclamano "né con la NATO né con
Milosevic" e hanno esultato - "Belgrado ride" - di fronte al colpo di
stato, ormai dimostrato, che ha avuto luogo in Jugoslavia e alla
barbarica traduzione al carcere dell'Aja del presidente Milosevic,
avvenuta dietro promessa di danaro. E quindi tacciono e non danno il
reale significato né alla fascistizzazione e al disastro sociale della
(residua) Jugoslavia, come degli altri paesi della ex (grande)
Jugoslavia, né al valore storico di nemesi che ha avuto in sorte, da
chiunque attivata, il Giuda Djindjic, colui che ha consegnato
Milosevic; ma neppure, dall'altro lato, al comportamento eroico, nel
pieno e oggi dimenticato senso del termine, dello stesso Milosevic
avanti a quella Corte da Santa Alleanza che siede all'Aja per
selezionare accortamente, e "costruire", i "crimini" da perseguire e i
"criminali" da trattare secondo copioni in tutta logica pre-scritti:
primo fra tutti Slobodan Milosevic, antesignano della lotta alla
globalizzazione, da lui per tempo riconosciuta come la veste attuale
dell'imperialismo. Il presidente jugoslavo, al di là dell'indegno
silenzio dei media, continua a controbattere con efficacia l'azione del
Tribunale e dei "testimoni" a suo carico.
A lui, agli altri jugoslavi ingiustamente carcerati, alle lotte in
Jugoslavia va tutta la nostra solidarietà, come quella espressa all'Aja
(e nello stesso giorno a Mosca, Parigi, Belgrado...) e la più decisa
ripulsa contro quei pilateschi "comunisti" che, invece di confrontarsi
con le lotte reali di chi affronta in concreto il mostro imperialistico
e di far vedere e vivere il legame che unisce queste lotte, inseguono
modelli astratti di "democrazia" mutuati dall'ideologia borghese e che
nulla hanno a che fare con i bisogni effettivi dei popoli nelle loro
espressioni proletarie (non borghesi), primo fra i quali è quello
dell'indipendenza.
Proprio per questo dobbiamo fare appello per la concreta solidarietà:
Milosevic e i suoi avvocati jugoslavi (che fungono da consulenti
esterni e da coadiutori per lui) devono sopportare gli enormi costi
della macchina giudiziaria.
Aldo Bernardini
[Aldo Bernardini, insigne docente di Diritto Internazionale, ex rettore
della Universita' di Teramo, e' esponente della sezione italiana del
Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic]
1. MILOSEVIC SI RIVOLGE ALL'OPINIONE PUBBLICA (17/8/2003). Con la
TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE della lettera di Milosevic.
2. TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA (25/8/2003); ONU:
CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA (28/08/2003)
3. La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
(Aldo Bernardini su "Aginform")
NOTA: Una nuova manifestazione a L'Aia e' in preparazione per il
prossimo 8 novembre. Invieremo via via su questa lista tutte le
informazioni a riguardo.
=== 1 ===
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
SERBIA: MILOSEVIC NEGA COINVOLGIMENTO IN OMICIDIO STAMBOLIC
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 23 AGO - L'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan
Milosevic ha negato qualsiasi coinvolgimento nell'omicidio di Ivan
Stambolic, un ex presidente serbo considerato un suo rivale politico.
Milosevic, sotto processo per crimini di guerra davanti al
Tribunale internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi), ha inviato una che la
pubblichera' nella sua edizione di domani e di cui stasera sono state
fornite alcune anticipazioni. Nella lettera Milosevic nega di
essere implicato nell'omicidio di Stambolic che, dopo essere
scomparso tre anni fa dalla sua casa di Belgrado, e' stato ritrovato
cadavere nel nord della Serbia lo scorso aprile. Della sua
uccisione sono sospettati alcuni elementi del 'Berretti Rossi' (Jso),
una unita' speciale della polizia. Secondo la magistratura di
Belgrado, ad ordinare la sua eliminazione sarebbe stato proprio
Milosevic, ansioso di sbarazzarsi di un rivale politico. L'ex
presidente jugoslavo, nella lettera, definisce ''assurde'' queste
accuse. ''Stambolic non interessava piu' a nessuno, era un uomo
politico dimenticato'', scrive nella lettera al giornale.
All'inizio di questo mese alcuni investigatori serbi volevano
interrogarlo nel carcere dell'Aja dove e' rinchiuso ma Milosevic si
e' rifiutato. Nella lettera spiega di averlo fatto perche' aveva
chiesto che la sua testimonianza fosse rese pubblica, condizione che
a suo dire non era stata accettata. (ANSA-AFP). ZU
23/08/2003 23:22
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TRADUZIONE INTEGRALE
della lettera di Milosevic alla opinione pubblica, pubblicata il 24
agosto dal quotidiano Vecernje Novosti. Per le versioni in inglese e
serbocroato, da noi gia' diffuse su JUGOINFO, si veda al sito
dell'Associazione "Sloboda":
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/engleski/slobaE170803.htm
[Si noti che in seguito alla diffusione di questa lettera, consegnata a
mano da Milosevic ad esponenti del suo partito in visita all'Aia, le
autorita' del "Tribunale" hanno deciso di vietare per il futuro
qualsiasi visita in cercere: Milosevic e' quindi attualmente
impossibilitato a ricevere visite.]
Nel marzo 2001 sono stato accusato di crimini immaginari, cosicche'
hanno potuto arrestarmi e consegnarmi all'Aia.
Queste nuove accuse del 2003 hanno lo stesso scopo: L'Aia. Solo che
stavolta il loro obiettivo e' di cercare di impedire, o almeno di
minimizzare, l'evidente fiasco di questo fittizio Tribunale, che serve
come arma di guerra contro il nostro paese e contro la nostra gente.
Stavolta, diversamente dal 2001, hanno anche incominciato a
terrorizzare la mia famiglia, perseguitando vigliaccamente mia moglie e
mio figlio. La campagna criminale contro mia moglie e mio figlio viene
montata solamente a causa della mia lotta qui.
E' assurdo e vergognoso che si accaniscano contro una donna, moglie chi
e' stato capo dello Stato a lungo, professoressa universitaria, autrice
di dieci libri, tradotti in 30 lingue e stampati in tutto il mondo, per
cui nessuno potra' distruggere o nascondere le sue settimanali
testimonianze sulla crisi jugoslava [1]. Il loro valore e' stato
dimostrato con il tempo, ad onore di Mira e con nostro orgoglio. Nessun
altro intellettuale ha alzato la propria voce piu' di lei contro la
guerra, la violenza, il primitivismo, lo sfruttamento, e la schiavitu'
ed in favore della pace, della liberta' e della parita' dei diritti.
Si stanno accanendo contro un giovane che a cuore aperto e limpido ha
deciso di fare il suo cammino nella vita in maniera indipendente,
attraverso l'operosita', l'intelligenza e le abilita' sue proprie, ed
ha fatto di tutto per aiutare gli altri e rendere la sua citta' piu'
bella e piu' umana.
Stanno commettendo un crimine contro due persone che verso gli altri
non hanno mai usato altro che la bonta' e l'umanita'.
Il loro unico crimine e' quello di essere la mia famiglia.
La gente della Serbia e le persone amanti della liberta' in tutto il
mondo mi inviano messaggi di solidarieta' e mi augurano la vittoria.
Apparentemente, solo il regime di Belgrado e' ben disposto verso il
Tribunale dell'Aia, tanto da non disdegnare neppure di terrorizzare le
donne ed i ragazzi.
Alle due persone che sono venute per interrogarmi - cinque mesi dopo
che lo avevo pubblicamente richiesto - ho detto che solo i codardi
attaccano le donne ed i ragazzi, e che non esiste vergogna piu' grande.
La campagna politica, mediatica e poliziesca contro di me e la mia
famiglia e' la piu' grande infamia per quasiasi paese; una infamia che,
con il tempo, surclassera' non solo i suoi responsabili, ma anche
quelli che hanno assistito in silenzio.
Legija ed i Berretti Rossi
Per quanto riguarda le "ragioni" per cui il giudice ed il pubblico
ministero sono venuti all'Aia, desidero chiarire che:
Ne' io ne' il mio entourage abbiamo mai avuto alcun rapporto con alcun
gruppo criminale.
Non esisteva nessun "clan di Zemun" mentre io ero presidente. Esso e'
piuttosto la conseguenza diretta dei comportamenti dell'attuale
governo, del ruolo avuto da alcuni gruppi ed individui nel golpe del 5
Ottobre 2000, e dei loro reciproci accordi.
Ne' io ne' alcuno nel mio entourage abbiamo avuto contatti personali e
frequentazioni con membri della Unita' per le Operazioni Speciali,
popolarmente nota come Berretti Rossi. Io credevo fosse una unita'
antiterroristica d'elite, tipica di ogni servizio di sicurezza. Credo
tuttora che la maggiorparte dei componenti della unita' fossero
conformi a questa descrizione. Quelli con un passato o inclinazioni
criminali sono certamente meglio noti al presente regime, visto che
esso li ha utilizzati il 5 Ottobre.
La mia visita alla caserma di Kula nel 1997 era parte del cerimoniale,
un gesto di apprezzamento per il capo del servizio Jovica Stanisic, che
rispettavo come professionista e come uomo che compieva il suo lavoro
in pieno accordo con i suoi incarichi. Che quella visita fosse di
cerimoniale, e che tutto quanto nella caserma per me fosse nuovo,
dovrebbe essere ovvio a chiunque guardi l'intera registrazione in
maniera attenta.
L'ufficiale che mi riferiva sull'andamento della parata non mi era
conosciuto. Adesso so che il suo nome era Lukovic "Legija" [2]. Quando
costui arrivo' per arrestarmi nel marzo 2001, lo scambiai per
l'ufficiale che durante la mia visita aveva condotto Stanisic e me dal
quartier generale alle palestre all'aperto, che pure volevano
mostrarmi. Peraltro, ancora oggi non riesco a ricordare nessuno dei
nomi degli ufficiali che mi riferivano in varie occasioni dinanzi ad
una guardia d'onore. Questa vale persino per i comandanti delle unita'
della Guardia dell'Esercito Jugoslavo.
La prima volta che ho parlato con Lukovic "Legija" e' stato quando
venne ad arrestarmi il 31 marzo 2001. Visto che non avevo mai avuto
alcun contatto con lui prima, ne' tantomeno una conversazione, l'unica
cosa che avrei potuto "ordinargli" sarebbe stato il mio arresto.
Chiaramente, quelli che per il mio arresto hanno utilizzato membri dei
Berretti Rossi (ed altri, che saltarono incappucciati all'interno della
recinzione della mia residenza) li hanno usati anche prima e dopo. Io
chiaramente non potevo.
Le voci secondo cui questa unita' lavorava anche per la mia sicurezza
personale non sono vere. Pure menzogne. La mia sicurezza personale per
tutto il tempo e' stata l'unita' di sicurezza pubblica (non la
Sicurezza di Stato), comandata da Senta Milenkovic.
Ivan Stambolic
Sono stato amico di Ivan Stambolic per molti anni. Le nostre strade si
sono divise all'Ottava Sessione del Comitato Centrale della Lega dei
Comunisti della Serbia, nel 1987. Non abbiamo mai litigato
personalmente.
Dopo che fu sostituito, egli venne da me per chiedere quello che (a
parere di entrambi) era uno dei posti migliori nella RFS di Jugoslavia:
Presidente della Banca Jugoslava per le Relazioni Economiche
Internazionali. E lo ebbe, rimanendo in quella posizione per 10 anni
nonostante la consuetudine della rotazione delle cariche, fino al suo
pensionamento - che avrebbe potuto ottenere ben prima, sia in forza
dell'esperienza lavorativa che dell'eta'.
Era stato completamente dimenticato come politico da molti anni.
Percio' la storia secondo cui avrebbe potuto rappresentare un
potenziale avversario nelle elezioni e' una bugia palese, visto che non
vi partecipo' mai. Non fu mai nemmeno candidato. Peraltro, in quei
dieci anni, forse che qualcun altro candidato ha subito qualche attacco?
E' assurdo sostenere che mi sarei affrettato ad ucciderlo poiche'
rappresentava una minaccia, dopo che che gli avevo consentito di tenere
un posto di suo gradimento per dieci anni, e dopo che era andato in
pensione!
Per me e' particolarmente misterioso come la sua famiglia possa avere
dato prontamente credito a questa palese bugia. Sembra che loro abbiano
piu' interesse ad accusare me che non a scoprire la verita' sulle sorti
del loro padre e marito.
Ivan Stambolic era un politico dimenticato, e, al momento della sua
scomparsa, era anche un banchiere dimenticato. Nessuno nello Stato o
nell'apparato politico lo aveva piu' menzionato da anni. Egli
apparteneva all'epoca della ex RFS di Jugoslavia, e le cose dal 1990
purtroppo erano cambiate.
Senza offesa, ma nessuno piu' si interessava di Ivan Stambolic. Non ci
furono persecuzioni nei confronti di quelli che, all'Ottava Sessione,
avevano sostenuto la sua linea. Desimir Jeftic, presidente del
consiglio dei Ministri della Serbia, che pure era stato sostituito, fu
per molti anni Ambasciatore in Romania. Il migliore amico e vicino di
Ivan, Dragan Tomic, CEO [amministratore delegato?] della ditta di
mobili Simpo, rimase membro del partito e della leadership dello Stato.
Io sono certo che egli confermerebbe che gli dissi, dopo la
sostituzione di Ivan, che io lo avrei considerato molto male se egli
avesse rinunciato alla sua amicizia, voltandogli le spalle. Dunque, la
verita' e' proprio all'opposto rispetto alla storia che e' stata
fabbricata da qualche personaggio patetico.
Io fui informato della sparizione di Ivan al telefono, dal ministro
degli Interni Vlajko Stojiljkovic. Gli dissi di usare tutti i mezzi
possibili per trovarlo. Mi disse che la moglie di Ivan ed il figlio
avevano denunciato la scomparsa nel pomeriggio, benche' egli fosse
andato a correre la mattina, il che avrebbe reso le indagini piu'
complicate.
Tutti i posti di frontiera furono allertati, e piu' tardi quella sera
Vlajko Stojiljkovic mi disse che molte centinaia di poliziotti erano
impegnati nella indagine. Io insistetti che tutte le risorse fossero
utilizzate per trovarlo prima possibile. Certamente, la maggiorparte di
questi ufficiali sono tuttora impiegati al Ministero dell'Interno, e
possono testimoniare in proposito.
Sulla base di quanto Stojiljkovic mi aveva riferito, tutto cio' che si
sarebbe potuto fare fu fatto.
Draskovic, Pavkovic e l'incidente di Budva
Visto che gli inquirenti, durante le presentazioni, hanno menzionato un
mio presunto collegamento con il "tentativo di assassinio di
Draskovic", desidero dire qualche parola anche a riguardo.
Non ho mai creduto che quanto avvenne a Budva fosse un vero tentativo
di omicidio, poiche' appare improbabile che qualcuno possa sparare
tutti i colpi, in uno spazio ristretto come quello, mancando tutti i
bersagli. Neanche Vuk Draskovic, con la sua inclinazione a
drammatizzare, sarebbe stato in grado di trasformarsi in una mosca o in
una zanzara. Credetti che o qualcuno aveva avuto intenzione di
spaventarlo, oppure che egli aveva inscenato l'intero incidente per
conquistarsi l'attenzione e promuovere il suo ruolo di "vittima del
regime". Non e' difficile vedere chi abbia beneficiato di un simile
incidente, mentre e' abbondantemente chiaro che esso non servi' al
governo. Al contrario, in effetti.
Io non so se il Servizio di Sicurezza Serbo abbia avuto alcuna
attivita' in Montenegro, a parte quella di raccogliere informazioni sul
contrabbando di sigarette verso la Serbia. Rade Markovic mi fece
persino vedere fotografie di ricognizione aerea di un'area nota come
Mehov Krs, dalla parte serba del confine con il Montenegro, e spiego'
che in base alle sue informazioni si trattava di un importante
magazzino di stoccaggio delle sigarette di contrabbando. Egli si
preparava ad un raid per prendere i contrabbandieri ed interrompere il
traffico, al momento opportuno. Non so se le fotografie furono scattate
da un aereoplano o da un elicottero, della polizia o dell'esercito, in
quanto questi dettagli non mi interessavano.
Non ho mai parlato con Pavkovic di alcun trasferimento di "assassini" o
"agenti" dal Montenegro. Non e' plausibile che il Comandante in Capo
potesse essere coinvolto nel trasporto di presunti agenti segreti,
tantomeno attraverso l'intera catena di comando che incominciava con il
Capo del Comando Generale.
La verita' e' che io insistetti sempre affinche' i servizi
cooperassero, ed abbandonassero le loro rivalita', visto che non
servivano me bensi' lo Stato, e si presumeva che lavorassero per lo
Stato, in accordo con la legge. Il generale Aleksandar Vasiljevic ha
testimoniato su questo in questo tribunale illegale, nientemeno che
come testimone per l'accusa. E Rade Markovic ha testimoniato, sia qui
sia di fronte a due commissioni parlamentari, di esser stato sottoposto
a pressioni perche' cercasse di incriminarmi.
L'unico incidente di elicottero che ricordo riguarda un volo a bassa
quota di un elicottero sopra alla Casa Bianca (che era illegale),
quando un ufficiale dell'Esercito Jugoslavo incaricato della sicurezza
della Casa Bianca mantenne la calma evitando che esso fosse
tragicamente abbattuto. Piu' tardi quel giorno si venne a sapere che
l'elicottero stava trasferendo una persona gravemente malata dalla
Repubblica Serba [di Bosnia] alla Accademia Militare di Medicina [VMA].
Non vi vergognate?
Ho chiesto ad entrambi, l'inquirente e la pubblica accusa, che il mio
interrogatorio fosse pubblico, e che avrebbero potuto anche collegare
una linea telefonica aperta, cosicche' chiunque avrebbe potuto
chiedermi quello che voleva. Mi hanno spiegato che questo non era
consentito dalla legge, fintantoche' era in corso l'inchiesta. Ne ho
preso atto, ma ho chiesto che le registrazioni fossero rese pubbliche
alla fine dell'inchiesta - visto che non ci sarebbe piu' stato alcun
pericolo di potenziali interferenze, a quel punto. Hanno rifiutato
anche questo, benche' avessero la piena autorita' legale per
acconsentire. Ne' io, ne' loro, ne' i miei rappresentanti legali hanno
sporto obiezioni.
Il governo attuale usa la legge come pretesto per l'arbitrio e la
tirannia. Niente di nuovo!
Gia' nel 1742 Montesquieu scrisse: "Non c'e' tirannia piu' crudele di
quella perpetrata sotto lo scudo della legge ed in nome della
giustizia."
In tutta questa sporca operazione, con cui cercano di salvare questa
illegittima corte dell'Aia dal fallimento, l'elemento piu' vergognoso
e' sicuramente la persecuzione di mia moglie e mio figlio. Ho detto al
giudice inquirente che la sua indagine dovrebbe includere anche il
fantasma dei lingotti d'oro, delle riserve di valuta straniera, delle
ville in Svizzera e chi piu' ne ha piu' ne metta, visto che che tutto
questo e' stato menzionato in varie dichiarazioni ed ampi reportage sui
giornali, solo per essere poi "dimenticato".
Gli ho chiesto: "Non si vergogna?" Non mi ha risposto.
A mia moglie Mira ed a mio figlio Marko, che sono stati separati da me
in questa maniera vigliacca, desidero dire: "La vita e' troppo corta
per ringraziarvi della vostra bonta'."
L'Aia, 17 agosto 2003
Slobodan Milosevic
NOTE:
[1] Si riferisce alla rubrica fissa che Mira Markovic teneva sul
settimanale Duga. I testi di Mira Markovic sono stati pubblicati anche
in lingua italiana, vedi ad esempio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2380.
[2] I media hanno riportato che il soprannome gli deriva dall'aver
fatto parte della Legione Straniera francese.
=== 2 ===
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/serbiamontenegro.shtml
MILOSEVIC: TPI; SLOBO NEGA RESPONSABILITA' PER SREBRENICA
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 25 AGO - Nessuna responsabilta' personale ne'
della Serbia nel massacro di Srebrenica nel 1995. Lo ha ribadito oggi
Slobodan Milosevic al Tribunale penale internazionale per l'ex
Jugoslavia dell'Aja, alla riapertura delle udienze dopo tre settimane
di pausa estiva. ''E' evidente per tutti che ne' io ne' la Serbia
abbiamo avuto nulla a che fare con i fatti di Srebrenica'', ha detto
l'ex presidente jugoslavo rivolgendosi a Richard May, presidente della
corte dell'Aja. L'udienza di oggi e' stata dedicata alla
testimonianza di un soldato croato-bosniaco ''pentito'' per la propria
partecipazione all'uccisione di circa 8.000 musulmani bosniaci a
Srebrenica (Bosnia orientale) nel luglio 1995. Condannato nel 1998
a cinque anni di reclusione dal Tpi, Drazen Erdemovic e' un ex soldato
croato arruolato nella divisione dell'esercito serbo che prese parte
al massacro di Srebrenica. Erdemovic aveva espresso il suo pentimento
e la sua amarezza per i fatti di Srebrenica, accettando cosi' di
collaborare con il Tribunale dell'Aja. La testimonianza resa da
Erdemovic depone a sfavore dell'ex presidente jugoslavo. Nella sua
deposizione il soldato ha infatti riferito di essere stato addestrato
- insieme alla sua unita', composta da una quarantina di militari -
nel 1994 a Pancevo, in Serbia, e di aver inoltre ricevuto uniformi ed
armamenti direttamente da Belgrado. Rispondendo alla Corte un
Milosevic rilassato ha rigettato l'accusa di essere coinvolto nella
strage. L'ex uomo forte di Belgrado e' accusato dal Tpi di crimini di
guerra, genocidio e crimini contro l'umanita' per i delitti commessi
nelle tre guerre balcaniche nella prima meta' degli anni '90.(ANSA)
RED*RIG 25/08/2003 18:28
ONU: CARLA DEL PONTE ESTROMESSA DA TRIBUNALE PER RUANDA
(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 28 AGO - Il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu ha
deciso oggi di rimuovere Carla Del Ponte dall'incarico di procuratore
per il Tribunale internazionale sui genocidi in Ruanda (Ictr), ma ha
confermato l'incarico del magistrato svizzero come procuratore capo
del Tribunale internazionale contro i crimini di guerra nella ex
Jugoslavia (Tpi). Del Ponte, che ha portato sul banco degli
imputati l'ex presidente jugoslavo Slobodan Milosevic, detiene ancora
i due mandati quadriennali che pero' scadono il 14 settembre. Il
Consiglio di Sicurezza ha adesso deciso di scindere le due funzioni.
La risoluzione approvata oggi era stata redatta dagli Usa: in essa
si chiede al segretario generale Kofi Annan di nominare un nuovo
procuratore per il tribunale incaricato di occuparsi dei genocidi del
1994 in Ruanda in cui venne trucidate circa 800 mila persone.
Secondo le aspettative al Palazzo di Vetro, il nuovo incarico dovrebbe
essere affidato a un magistrato africano. Allo stesso tempo la
risoluzione da' il benevenuto all'intenzione del segretario generale
Annan, espressa in una lettera del 28 giugno, di rinnovare l'incarico
di Del Ponte alla testa del tribunale per la ex Jugoslavia. Carla
Del Ponte accettera' l'incarico dimezzato, ha indicato una sua
portavoce all'Aja. La stessa Del Ponte aveva confermato nei giorni
scorsi al Consiglio di Sicurezza l'intenzione di restare al Tribunale
per la ex Jugoslavia perche' ''e' molto attaccata a quello che e'
stato fatto''. La raccomandazione di sdoppiare i mandati dei due
tribunali era stata fatta nelle scorse settimane da Annan anche in
seguito a pressioni del governo del Ruanda, che aveva criticato
l'inefficienza della corte nonostante i suoi 16 giudici, oltre 800
membri dello staff e un bilancio di circa cento milioni di dollari
all'anno. (ANSA). BN 28/08/2003 17:47
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http://www.pasti.org/agenhome.htm
da AGINFORM
Numero 35, luglio 2003
Sostegno a Milosevic
La manifestazione del 28 giugno 2003 a L'Aja
Il 28 giugno 2003, secondo anniversario del sequestro e rapimento del
presidente Slobodan Milosevic da Belgrado per consegnarlo all'illegale
Tribunale dell'Aja per la ex Jugoslavia e, per i serbi, giorno di San
Vito (ricorrenza della storica battaglia di Kosovo Polie del 1389
contro gli ottomani), si è svolta all'Aja una manifestazione pubblica
di protesta contro il Tribunale e di sostegno alla battaglia per la
liberazione di Milosevic e degli altri jugoslavi arbitrariamente
detenuti.
La manifestazione è stata organizzata dalle sezioni europee del
Comitato internazionale per la difesa di Milosevic.
Hanno partecipato circa 250 persone da Germania (la rappresentanza più
consistente), Paesi Bassi, Gran Bretagna, Austria, Francia, USA,
Italia, Irlanda, Canada, Belgio, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Grecia. Bandiere
jugoslave soprattutto con la stella rossa e altre (anche una della ex
Repubblica democratica tedesca!) hanno espresso il carattere
internazionale dell'iniziativa, che deve molto del successo ai
sostenitori olandesi, guidati da Wil Van der Klift.
Davanti alla sede del Tribunale, di cui è stata da tutti sottolineata
l'illegalità e il concreto comportamento contrario anche ai diritti
dell'uomo, hanno parlato Van der Klift, Gavrilovic (Gran Bretagna),
Valkanoff (Bulgaria), Mraovic (Francia), Bernardini (Italia), Collon
(Belgio), Varkevisser (Paesi Bassi). Sono state lette le richieste
ufficiali al Tribunale e all'ONU. Ha fatto seguito una marcia di alcuni
chilometri sino al penitenziario di Scheveningen e qui hanno preso la
parola, oltre ad alcuni dei precedenti, Hartmann (Germania), Krsljanin
(Jugoslavia), Kelly (Irlanda), Cottin (USA), Verner (Germania). Si è
data lettura della lettera a Milosevic, immediatamente consegnata alle
autorità del carcere.
E' stato giustamente notato che si tratta di un primo passo, in
apparenza modesto ma sostanzialmente rilevantissimo, in un clima
generale che ha visto la demonizzazione massmediatica della Serbia e di
Milosevic in particolare, che rende difficile persino solo parlarne,
anche con grandi masse di ispirazione "democratica" e di "sinistra".
Gravissimo è stato il cedimento, sino alla collusione, di quelle forze
(anche "comuniste") che hanno proclamano "né con la NATO né con
Milosevic" e hanno esultato - "Belgrado ride" - di fronte al colpo di
stato, ormai dimostrato, che ha avuto luogo in Jugoslavia e alla
barbarica traduzione al carcere dell'Aja del presidente Milosevic,
avvenuta dietro promessa di danaro. E quindi tacciono e non danno il
reale significato né alla fascistizzazione e al disastro sociale della
(residua) Jugoslavia, come degli altri paesi della ex (grande)
Jugoslavia, né al valore storico di nemesi che ha avuto in sorte, da
chiunque attivata, il Giuda Djindjic, colui che ha consegnato
Milosevic; ma neppure, dall'altro lato, al comportamento eroico, nel
pieno e oggi dimenticato senso del termine, dello stesso Milosevic
avanti a quella Corte da Santa Alleanza che siede all'Aja per
selezionare accortamente, e "costruire", i "crimini" da perseguire e i
"criminali" da trattare secondo copioni in tutta logica pre-scritti:
primo fra tutti Slobodan Milosevic, antesignano della lotta alla
globalizzazione, da lui per tempo riconosciuta come la veste attuale
dell'imperialismo. Il presidente jugoslavo, al di là dell'indegno
silenzio dei media, continua a controbattere con efficacia l'azione del
Tribunale e dei "testimoni" a suo carico.
A lui, agli altri jugoslavi ingiustamente carcerati, alle lotte in
Jugoslavia va tutta la nostra solidarietà, come quella espressa all'Aja
(e nello stesso giorno a Mosca, Parigi, Belgrado...) e la più decisa
ripulsa contro quei pilateschi "comunisti" che, invece di confrontarsi
con le lotte reali di chi affronta in concreto il mostro imperialistico
e di far vedere e vivere il legame che unisce queste lotte, inseguono
modelli astratti di "democrazia" mutuati dall'ideologia borghese e che
nulla hanno a che fare con i bisogni effettivi dei popoli nelle loro
espressioni proletarie (non borghesi), primo fra i quali è quello
dell'indipendenza.
Proprio per questo dobbiamo fare appello per la concreta solidarietà:
Milosevic e i suoi avvocati jugoslavi (che fungono da consulenti
esterni e da coadiutori per lui) devono sopportare gli enormi costi
della macchina giudiziaria.
Aldo Bernardini
[Aldo Bernardini, insigne docente di Diritto Internazionale, ex rettore
della Universita' di Teramo, e' esponente della sezione italiana del
Comitato Internazionale per la Difesa di Slobodan Milosevic]
Kosmet, ferragosto di sangue
3: NATO-backed snipers kill children
(english + nostri titoli italiano)
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TRA LE VITTIME DUE GIOVANI PASSANTI
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bn/Qkosovo-shooting.R26w_Da2.html
Three dead in western Kosovo shooting
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montentegro, Aug 3 (AFP) - Three
people were gunned down and at least four others
wounded when unknown assailants opened fire in western
Kosovo late Saturday, an official told AFP.
The incident happened after 10 pm (2000 GMT) in the
town of Pec, some 85 kilometers (53 miles) west of
Kosovo's capital Pristina, Andrea Angeli, spokesman
for the UN mission in Kosovo, said.
"There was machinegun fire in the center of Pec. Some
of the victims and those wounded were sitting in
nearby cafes in what is usually a busy night," Angeli said.
A 14-year-old girl was among the victims. The others
were a 24-year-old female and a 30-year-old male. All
of the victims were Kosovo Albanians, but their names
have not been released pending the notification of
their families.
Angeli said no arrests were made and that it was not
clear who or what was the target of the attack. The
wounded were transported to the Pristina hospital, two
of them in critical condition.
The UN police in Pec cordoned off the area and an
investigation was ongoing.
Kosovo has been under UN administration since NATO
bombed Yugoslavia to force the withdrawal of Serbian
troops in early 1999.
UNA TIPICA ESECUZIONE DI STAMPO MAFIOSO
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=4091195
Reuters 3, 2003
Three killed in gangland-style Kosovo shooting
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Gunmen
have unleashed a hail of bullets on a parked car in a
Kosovo town, killing three people, including two young
girls who were passing by, a United Nations official says.
Three people were injured and over 100 rounds were
fired in Saturday's gangland-style attack in the
western town of Pec. The shooting underlined problems
facing U.N.-led administrators struggling to impose
order on the ethnic Albanian-dominated province.
U.N. police spokesman in Pec, Joe Singleton, said on
Sunday the motive for the attack was not known.
"Four males were sitting in a car parked in an alley
in front of a small shop when four suspects approached
the vehicle and opened fire," Singleton told Reuters.
"Three people were killed at the scene, two of them
juvenile females, who were passersby and were
evidently going to the shop."
Singleton said girls' ages had not been confirmed, but
that some reports put them at 11 and 14 years old. The
third dead person was one of the men sitting in the car.
Two other men in the car were injured along with the
owner of the shop, Singleton said. "After the
shooting, the four suspects fled on foot."
He said that a policeman from the Kosovo Police
Service, who had been near the scene, had fired at the
assailants.
"But it is not sure whether he hit anybody. At the
time of the shooting, there was a power outage. It was
dark and the policeman could not see," Singleton said.
U.N. police have stepped up security after a spate of
explosions and other attacks in Kosovo's towns. The
violence has been blamed on ethnic tensions as well as
criminal gangs.
IL TRAFFICO DI EROINA ALL'ORIGINE DELLA STRAGE
http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle
=10370
Transitions Online (Soros), August 4, 2003
Kosovo’s Biggest Heroin Bust
PRISTINA, Kosovo--United Nations police in Kosovo on
29 July arrested three ethnic Albanians and seized 18
kilograms of heroin they say was intended for sale in
Western Europe during a search operation in a private
residence in the village of Komogllave-Ferizaj, some
15 miles south of the capital, Pristina.
United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police
spokesperson Derek Chappel told journalists that the
mission’s Central Criminal Investigation Unit (CCIU)
had located the heroin stash thanks to tips from local
citizens and cooperation with the local Kosovo Police
Service (ShPK).
Chappel said that police seized 33 packages of heroin
totaling 18 kilograms and arrested two men, aged 21
and 24, and one 29-year-old woman. The search
continues for a fourth suspect, Chappel said during a
press briefing.
According to the initial findings of the police
investigation, Kosovo was the transit route for the
drugs, which were to be sold in Western Europe and had
a value of $920,000.
“Investigators believe that the heroin was intended
for the Western Europe market, because there is no
such market here,” said Chappel.
Chappel said that the search also turned up drug
paraphernalia, two illegal weapons and ammunition,
among other things.
In a recent interview with the KosovaLive news agency,
CCIU drug unit chief Ville Tenhunen said that Kosovo
is being used in a two-step system for drug transfer
to Western Europe. According to Tenhunen, large
quantities of narcotics are transferred from another
location to Kosovo, where they are safely stored
before heading to Western European markets.
The CCIU drug chief says that narcotics are being
smuggled across the Balkans and into Kosovo from
southwestern Asia. From Kosovo, the narcotics are
transported by various means, including tour bus
companies and other transport companies, to Western
Europe.
“The heroin that we seized is the largest single
seizure of heroin in Kosovo since UNMIK entered in
June 1999,” said UNMIK police spokesperson Berry
Fletcher.
Last year police seized about 9 kilograms of
narcotics, including heroin, he said. Heroin and
marijuana are the primary drugs seized in Kosovo,
while cocaine is rarely discovered, said Fletcher.
But Fletcher reminded journalists that Kosovo is not
the black hole of Balkan crime that it is often
referred to as. Smuggling remains a serious problem
across the Balkans, he said, pointing to Greece’s
recent reports of large shipments of narcotics on its
borders with Albania and Serbia’s reports of heroin
seizures on its borders with Bulgaria.
“The Balkans as a whole, including Kosovo, have been a
route for smuggling drugs from East to West for a very
long time. Probably since long before we were alive,”
said Fletcher.
In other news, three people were killed on 2 August
near the bus station in Peja. According to UNMIK
police, four men were parked in front of a shop on the
main street when four unknown suspects approached on
foot and opened fire with automatic weapons.
Reportedly firing more than 100 rounds, they killed
one of men inside the vehicle and injured 3 others.
Two young women who were in the shop at the time were
also killed, and the shop owner was injured.
Joel Singleton, information officer at the Police
Regional Headquarters in the Peja Region, said that
the four suspects escaped on foot. Singleton said that
local ShPK officers were fired upon as the suspects fled.
“The ShPK officers who returned fire showed amazing
fire control due to the intensity of the moment [and
the fact] that the electricity was not on and there
were innocent bystanders in the area,” said Singleton.
Violence also continued on 3 August when a UN police
officer was murdered on the Kosovoska
Mitrovica-Leposavic road. According to Beta news
agency, a UN police patrol was ambushed near the
Zvecan railway bridge and one officer was killed
before the attackers opened fire on a civilian car,
causing only minor damage to the vehicle.
The UN has confirmed the death of one of its officers
but has released no further details regarding the
circumstances.
--by Bekim Greicevci
MURO DI OMERTA' PROTEGGE GLI ASSASSINI
Police Face Wall of Silence (by J. Xharra & T. Matic)
SEE AT:
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200308_455_1_eng.txt
===
MITROVICA NORD IN CONTINUO PERICOLO A CAUSA DELLA ELIMINAZIONE DEI
POSTI DI BLOCCO
===
KFOR WILL NO LONGER PROVIDE ESCORT, WILL REMOVE
CHECKPOINTS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - KFOR Brigade
Northeast Commander Gen Marc Bertuchi told Tanjug on
Friday that as security in the region of Kosovska
Mitrovica was improving, KFOR would no longer provide
escort and would remove fixed security checkpoints.
The security situation in the zone of responsibility
of Brigade Northeast has improved, Bertuchi said and
added that he would keep on discontinuing escorts and
removing checkpoints at less important strategic
places and other fixed checkpoints. He said that the
improvement of the security situation called for a
different way of organization of military presence and
that the fixed checkpoints and systematic controls,
which would be removed, would improve the freedom of
movement, making citizens' lives more pleasant. He
said that numerous patrols that could react quickly in
case of problems had been set up. Bertuchi said that
KFOR would continue reducing the number of its troops
and that by the end of the year their number would be
reduced from the present 25,000 to 20,000.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24031&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta, August 3, 2003
UNMIK act a bridge too far for Kosovo
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA/JAGODINA -- Sunday -- An UNMIK act promoting
multiethnicity backfired in Kosovska
Mitrovica last night as plans to re-open the main
bridge on the Ibar linking the ethnically divided
north and south of the town had to be rethought.
Following the bridge's re-opening, a group of around
30 ethnic Albanian youths were first to make the
crossing, hurling abuse at residents of the northern,
Serb side of the town.
Serb drinkers at a nearby bar reacted, approaching the
Albanian youths with violent intent, but UNMIK and
KFOR managed to diffuse the situation and close the
bridge.
Covic: A kingdom of terrorism and crime
Responding to the recent violent upsurge in the
province, Deputy Serbian PM Nebojsa Covic, who head
Belgrade's Coordination Centre for Kosovo, said
"terrorism and crime are flourishing in that area",
and every citizen is endangered "regardless of
national or ethnic orientation".
Covic insisted to Jagodina-based TV Palma Plus: "The
attack on the bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica is a direct
message that somebody, obviously not Serbs, doesn't
want multiethnic life.
"What happened in Pec is foul. Three young people lost
their lives in a tragic battle within the kingdom of
terrorism and organised crime".
Covic assessed that the international community must
enforce the rule of law and implement human rights in
Kosovo lest "there is no future for the province or
the entire region".
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=42619&LangID=1
Seeurope.net, August 5, 2003
KFOR Tightens Security Measures in Mitrovica
The UN Police in Kosovo and KFOR upgraded security
measures at the bridge on Ibar river, bridge that
splits the northern and southern part of Mitrovica, in
the wake of late Saturday’s incident.
Late on Saturday, a group of 30 Albanians crossed the
bridge and entered into northern part of Mitrovica,
populated with Serbs. The entering of Albanians into
the northern part of the city caused mass gatherings
of Serbian residents. Shortly afterwards, the
Albanians retreated back to the southern part of the
city.
The bridge is undergoing security measures following
this incident. KFOR and the UN Police stepped up
control on persons that cross the bridge.
===
CECCHINI UCCIDONO UFFICIALE UNMIK INDIANO
===
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=2706
Reality Macedonia, August 4, 2003
Sniper Assassinates UN Policeman In Kosovo
The family of the United Nations police officer who
was killed overnight in northern Mitrovica region has
been notified of his death.
Major Satish MENON, a police officer from India, gave
his life in the service of the people of Kosovo and
the United Nations. Major Menon was 43 years-old and
was assigned to the UNMIK Border Police. He is
survived by his wife and two children, ages 8 and 6.
The condolences of the United Nations Police and the
Kosovo Police Service are offered to the family of
Major Menon.
---
UNITED NATIONS
United Nations Mission in Kosovo
NATIONS UNIES
Mission des Nations Unies au Kosovo
04-08-03
UNMIK Police
PRESS RELEASE
MURDER OF A UNITED NATIONS POLICE OFFICER
A United Nations Police Officer assigned to the
Mission in Kosovo has been murdered in the line of
duty. The crime occurred shortly before midnight on
August 3rd, 2003.
According to Investigators, the officer was in a
marked UN police vehicle on the highway between
Leposavic and Mitrovica when unknown suspects fired at
the vehicle, killing the officer.
UNMIK Police Commissioner Stefan Feller condemned the
murder as “A brutal and unbelievable crime. The reason
is not yet known, but it is clear this was a sniper
attack on an international police officer by cowards
who intended to kill him.”
The name, nationality, and assignment of the officer
are withheld until his family is notified.
The main highway between Leposavic and Mitrovica will
be closed in the area of the crime until further
notice for purposes of the investigation. A detour
will be arranged for travelers to use while the main
highway is closed.
A special investigative team has been established
immediately, comprised of the Mitrovica Regional
Serious Crimes Squad and experts from UNMIK Police
Main Headquarters.
Barry FLETCHER
Deputy Chief of Information
UNMIK Police Main HQ
Pristina Tracy BECKER
Public Information Officer
Police Regional HQ
Mitrovica
For additional information, contact the UNMIK Police
Main HQ Press Office at 038-504-604-5071/FAX 5073,
E-mail: pol-press@...
---
UNA RITORSIONE CONTRO GLI ARRESTI DI ALCUNI TERRORISTI UCK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3122861.stm
BBC News, August 4, 2003
UN policeman shot in Kosovo 'ambush'
By Nicholas Wood
BBC, Mitrovica, northern Kosovo
A United Nations police officer has been killed in
Kosovo.
The officer died when his marked police car came under
fire from a semi-automatic rifle from the side of the
road in the north of the province.
This is the first time a member of the international
police force has been killed on duty in Kosovo since
the UN took over responsibility for the province four
years ago.
UN police are describing the attack as a well-planned
ambush.
Investigators say boulders had been placed in the road
to make the car slow down and give the gunman time to
shoot.
The driver of the officer's car was unscathed.
Police believe the attacker's intention was to kill a
foreign officer serving with the UN.
Members of the international police force travel in
clearly marked red and white cars which distinguish
them from members of the local police service.
The investigation is focusing on three ethnic Albanian
villages close to the scene of the ambush.
Anti-UN sentiment
The area was the scene of another attack earlier this year.
Two members of a guerrilla group known as the Albanian
National Army blew themselves up while attempting to
mine a nearby bridge.
UN officials say it is too early to say what the
precise motive for the attack was.
However there has been an increase in anti-UN
sentiment in Kosovo over the last few weeks.
Some ethnic Albanians are angered by the recent
jailing of four former members of now disbanded
guerrilla group the Kosovo Liberation Army for war crimes.
SOSPETTATI ESPONENTI DELL'UCK
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=431049
Belfast Telegraph, August 6, 2003
KLA link suspected in UN police murder
The United Nations offered a €50,000 (£35,000) reward
yesterday for information leading to the arrest of the
killer of one of its policemen serving in Kosovo, amid
fears that law enforcement agencies had become the
target of an upsurge of violence.
Some fear the killing is linked to recent attacks on
court and police buildings, which followed the
conviction of former members of the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) on war crimes charges.
Yesterday, investigators refused to speculate about
who might have killed Major Satish Menon, a
43-year-old Indian officer who was shot by a sniper in
an ambush on Sunday near the village of Slatina, 28
miles north of the capital, Pristina. A British
officer driving the vehicle was unhurt.
Major Menon is the first policeman to die in Kosovo
since the international community took over the
administration after Nato's bombing campaign in 1999.
The shooting took place in a Serb area but within easy
reach of Albanian villages, and the two communities
are blaming each other.
The killing has caused alarm as it follows recent
attacks on symbols of law and order after the
conviction of four ex-KLA members on war crimes
charges. The men, who were sentenced to a total of 45
years, were found guilty of offences including
torture, kidnapping and the inhuman treatment of
civilians during the Kosovo conflict in 1998 and 1999.
In an apparent reprisal for the ruling, a
rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a district court
building in Pristina on 20 July, causing serious
damage. That was followed immediately by an explosion
outside a police station near by.
Three days earlier, a hand grenade exploded outside
another police station, north-east of Pristina, near
the birthplace of the four convicted men. UN police
vehicles have also been vandalised and daubed with
graffiti, and last weekend, gunmen fired into a car in
the mainly Albanian town of Pec, killing three people,
including two girls passing by. The violence has posed
new questions for peace-keepers, who once saw the KLA
as allies of the Nato alliance against the Serb forces
of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
Sven Lindholm, spokesman for the Organisation for
Security and Co-operation in Europe, said the attacks
on court and police buildings "can be seen as an
attack on the rule of law because they were targeted
on the institutions that are trying to instil the rule of law".
While some see the spate of recent attacks as a
political statement by those who retain a loyalty to
former KLA colleagues, others believe that it is the
work of criminal gangs.
Stefan Feller, the UN police chief, linked the earlier
attacks with the trial verdict, but was careful not to
connect the latest death in the same way. He said
Major Menon died "because he was a police officer" and
that he was "apparently selected at random to be killed".
He added: "This was a cold-blooded and deliberate
killing of an officer who had no chance to defend
himself."
More than 4,000 UN police officers patrol Kosovo. Many
former KLA members have joined the unarmed
6,000-strong local police force, the Kosovo Protection
Corps. The region has been administered by UN and
Nato-led peace-keepers from K-For since June 1999,
after a 78-day bombing campaign forced the withdrawal
of Serb forces under the command of Mr Milosevic.
===
SUICIDA SOLDATO FRANCESE
===
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/aug03/hed5935.shtml
AFP, August 6, 2003
French soldier found dead in northern Kosovo
PRISTINA -- Wednesday -- A French KFOR soldier was found dead in
northern Kosovo yesterday afternoon, a NATO official told AFP.
The soldier, whose name and age have yet to be released, committed
suicide whilst on an operation with his unit near the town of
Leposavic, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Kosovo´s capital
Pristina.
A spokesman for KFOR´s French contingent in northern Kosovo told AFP:
"He was alone when he shot himself with his personal weapon. He left a
letter behind".
The spokesman said the soldier was on a regular operation searching for
illegal weapons in the volatile province.
According to a recent UN survey, close to 500,000 illegal weapons,
mostly small firearms, are in the hands of civilians in Kosovo - a
legacy of the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
===
ALTRO REGOLAMENTO DI CONTI TRA BANDE MAFIOSE
===
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09224235.htm
One person killed in Kosovo shooting-U.N. police
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug 9 (Reuters)
One person was killed and two injured in a shootout among ethnic
Albanians in a village near Pec in south-western
Kosovo on Saturday, United Nations police in charge of
the province said.
The shooting was the latest in a series of violent
incidents across the province over the past few weeks,
including Sunday's killing of a U.N. officer, the
first in four years.
The U.N. administration took over the province in 1999
after 11 weeks of NATO bombing to halt Serbian
repression of its majority Albanians under then
president Slobodan Milosevic.
"A group of men fired on another group. They were all
Kosovo Albanians. One man was killed and two others
were wounded, one of them seriously," U.N. police
spokesman Barry Fletcher told Reuters. Police were
searching for the perpetrators who fled.
Fletcher said the motive for the shooting was not
known but he believed it was a dispute between two
families. He said it appeared to be different from a
shooting two weeks ago in which three ethnic Albanians
were killed in an apparent dispute between criminal groups.
Even though officials caution against linking the
violent incidents in the province, the shooting is
likely to raise security concerns and highlight the
difficulties the U.N. administration is facing to
establish order in Kosovo.
Kosovo Albanians want independence from Serbia and
Montenegro, a loose union that replaced Yugoslavia
this year. But its minority Serbs say it must remain a
part of Serbia.
Western officials have accused criminal elements of
wanting to derail the progress made in the province.
===
LA SCANDALOSA CONDIZIONE DEI PROFUGHI GITANI (ROM ED EGIZI) DEL KOSOVO,
FUGGITI NELLA FYROM
===
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EBalkans.htm#Roma%20from%20Kosovo%20agree%20to%20remain%20in%20Macedonia
Tanjug, August 9, 2003
Roma from Kosovo agree to remain in Macedonia
18:47 SKOPJE , Aug 9 (Tanjug) - After several-month
protests near the border with Greece, a group of about
600 Roma, who had fled from Kosovo-Metohija to
Macedonia, started to leave an improvised refugee camp
on Saturday after their stay in Macedonia had been
approved with small financial assistance, UNHCR
spokesman Goran Momiroski said in Skopje.
Roma, who cannot return to Kosovo-Metohija because of
a bad security situation, have been near the Greek
border since May demanding from authorities to let
them leave for some of the EU countries.
http://www.mia.com.mk/ang/
Vest.asp?vest=\1\BALKAN%20EGYPTIANS%20MEETING%20ENDS%20IN.htm
Macedonian Information Agency - August 28, 2003
BALKAN EGYPTIANS MEETING ENDS IN OHRID
Skopje, August 27 (MIA) - The next Balkan Egyptians
meeting will take place in March 2004 in Strasbourg,
was concluded Wednesday at the end of three-day
meeting of the Presidency of Balkan Egyptian
Association that occurred in Ohrid.
Ohrid was proposed as an alternative for the next
meeting place, in case delegates cannot get visa to
Strasbourg.
The meeting aimed at strategy preparation for more
intensive involvement of the Egyptians in government
institutions and other spheres of the society.
Discontent of the Egyptians' situation in almost each
Balkan's country was expressed at the meeting.
Above a million Egyptians live in the Balkan, most of
them, about 400,000, in Albania and 150,000 in Kosovo
before the war, but at the moment 40,000 of them are
refugees.
According to the census from 1994, about 3,500
Egyptians live in Macedonia.
===
ATTACCHI TERRORISTICI PAN-ALBANESI ANCHE PRESSO PRESEVO-BUJANOVAC,
NELLA SERBIA MERIDIONALE
===
ATTACCO CONTRO BASE MILITARE SERBA
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ac/Qserbia-montenegro-
attack.RrA__DaB.html
Army base attacked in southern Serbia, no injuries
DOBROSIN, Serbia-Montenegro, Aug 11 (AFP) - A
Serbia-Montenegro army base has come under mortar
attack in an area dominated by restive ethnic
Albanians, officials said Monday.
There were no injuries or significant property damage
in the attack late Sunday near the southern village of
Dobrosin, close to the provincial border with Kosovo,
a defence ministry official said.
Three 60-milimetre mortars were fired at the base from
an unknown source [see below], but they missed their
target.
"This is a classic terrorist attack," said Defence
Minister Boris Tadic who visited Dobrosin Monday with
Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Branko Krga and
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Nebojsa Covic.
He said it was still unclear where the mortars had
come from and investigators were trying to determine
who had launched the attack.
The area has been a hotbed of ethnic-Albanian
separatism, which briefly erupted into open conflict
with Serbian security forces in 2000.
SPARATI MISSILI DI FABBRICAZIONE U.S.A.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=24141&style=headlines
FoNet, Beta, August 11, 2003
Terrorists attack army base in southern Serbia
BELGRADE -- Monday – Three grenades were discharged
last night at the Serbia-Montenegro Army base near the
village of Dobrosin close to the administrative border
with Kosovo.
This morning the Defence Ministry played down earlier
reports of considerable structural damage, also
confirming that only one soldier was slightly wounded
in the attack.
Defence Minister Boris Tadic, army chief of staff
Branko Krga and Deputy Serbian Prime Minister Nebojsa
Covic later toured the facility and Tadic told press
that an investigation has commenced.
Tadic, Krga and Covic met with representatives of
south Serbia's forces, led by commander of the
Pristina Corps General Major Mladen Cirkovic; KFOR
members also visited the base this afternoon.
Minister Tadic described the incident as a "typical
terrorist attack, which has been expected, bearing in
mind the results of monitoring of terrorist
organisations' movements in this area".
Dobrosin was a former stronghold of armed Albanian
extremists and the home of the former Liberation Army
of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac.
The US-made 40-millimetre missiles were fired from the
direction of the village, which is populated solely by
Albanians.
Yesterday's incident was the first attack on a
military facility since the agreement to disband the
Liberation Army was signed in May of last year.
ATTACCATA PATTUGLIA, RIVENDICAZIONE "A.N.A." ("ESERCITO NAZIONALE
ALBANESE")
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cq/Qserbia-montenegro-
kosovo.RzyT_DaC.html
Serbia-Montenegro army patrol attacked nearby Kosovo
border: ministry
BELGRADE, Aug 12 (AFP) - An army patrol from Serbia
and Montenegro (SCG) was attacked Tuesday by a group
of ethnic Albanian "extremists" in a region near the
province of Kosovo, the defense ministry said.
The reconnaissance patrol was fired on in the
afternoon by a group of 15 "Albanian extremists" near
the military base of Susnjak, the ministry said in a
statement.
Susnjak lies on a 35-kilometer (21-miles) long road
leading from Serbian town of Kursumlija to the Kosovo
town of Podujevo.
The patrol repelled the attack, captured one
assailant, identified as Bajazit Podvorica from
Podujevo, and handed him over to Serbian police, it said.
The ministry said there were no casualties on the army
side, but gave no indication if any of the attackers
were killed or injured.
The incident came just two days after a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for the attack,
saying in a statement that it had fired the mortars at
the base near the southern Serbian village of Dobrosin
on Sunday night.
"Obviously we are talking about an escalation of
attacks against SCG army members that I believe is in
a way synchronized," the Defense Minister Boris Tadic
told Belgrade-based radio B92 late on Tuesday.
"State institutions of SCG and Serbia are doing their
best to respond to these attacks in the toughest way,"
Tadic said. But he added that "the SCG army certainly
will not be a factor in the escalation of conflicts in
this region."
Kosovo has been administrated by a United Nations
mission established at the end of the 1998-99 war
between Belgrade armed forces and the ethnic-Albanian
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which waged a separatist
guerrilla campaign in the province.
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/as/Qserbia-montenegro-
attack.RD_v_DaC.html
Ethnic Albanian militants claim responsibility for
attack in Serbia
DOBROSIN, Serbia-Montenegro, Aug 12 (AFP) - An
ethnic-Albanian extremist group claimed responsibility
Tuesday for a mortar attack on a Serbia and Montenegro
army base, warning that more was to come.
The Albanian National Army (ANA), which also operates
in Kosovo and Macedonia, said in a statement that it
had fired the mortars at the base near this southern
Serbian village on Sunday night.
The shadowy militia said its "special forces of the
Adem Jashari division have successfully attacked a
military base of Serbia and Montenegro", adding that
its fighters had withdrawn to prepare new attacks.
Little is known about the ANA, which has also claimed
responsibility for attacks in the neighbouring Serbian
province of Kosovo and nearby Macedonia.
It has been labelled a "terrorist" organisation by the
United Nations mission in Kosovo, where two of its
suspected members are wanted on terrorism charges.
Defence ministry officials in Belgrade said there were
no injuries or significant property damage in Sunday's
attack, the first for more than a year against regular
army troops in the mainly ethnic-Albanian area of
southern Serbia.
The area has been a hotbed of ethnic-Albanian
separatism, which erupted into open conflict with
Serbian security forces from January 2000 to May 2001.
Defence Minister Boris Tadic, who visited Dobrosin on
Monday with Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Branko
Krga and Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic,
called the attack a "classic" act of terrorism.
"The plan is very simple, to destabilise the entire
region, to provoke the army to react inadequately and
contribute to further destabilisation," he said.
Jashari, who the ANA mentions in its statement, was a
leading commander of the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) which waged a separatist
guerrilla campaign against Serbian forces during the
1998-99 Kosovo war.
He was killed by Serbian police in 1998 and the KLA
was disbanded as Kosovo came under UN and NATO
administration after the war.
The ANA says it is fighting to create a greater
Albania including Kosovo and parts of Macedonia and
southern Serbia.
GOVERNO SERBO CHIEDE ALLA KFOR DI RIVELARE L'IDENTITA' DEI RESPONSABILI
DEGLI ATTACCHI
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EYug.htm#Serbian%20premier%20says%20KFOR%20might%20know%20who%20attacked
%20SCG%20Army%20base
Tanjug, August 12, 2003
Serbian premier says KFOR might know who attacked SCG
Army base
18:48 BELGRADE , Aug 12 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier
Zoran Zivkovic said Tuesday that investigation of the
grenade attack on Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Army base in
Dobrosin must be carried out as soon as possible in
order to identify the culprits.
Zivkovic told a press conference that one might try to
guess whether the grenades were launched from
Kosovo-Metohija or from some ethnic Albanian village
in southern Serbia. However, KFOR, which has all
technical means at its disposal, is the best placed to
say who launched the attack. If they claim they do not
know, they are concealing trhe culprits, Zivkovic
added.
ALTRA BOMBA DEI SECESSIONISTI
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FoNet, August 14, 2003
Bomb attack in south Serbia
BUJANOVAC -- Thursday – There has been another bomb
attack in the south Serbian region of Bujanovac, where
an explosive device was thrown beside the road between
the villages of Lucane Konculj.
There were no casualties in the explosion and police
say the bomb, which was most probably thrown from a
vehicle, was not powerful.
Police have stepped up security measures in the area
after a number of recent incidents.
NUOVI ATTACCHI CONTRO LA POLIZIA AL CONFINE AMMINISTRATIVO CON IL KOSMET
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Renewed attacks on Serbian police around Kosovo
BELGRADE, Aug 16 (AFP) - Serbian police were fired on
by unknown assailants close to a village on the
boundary between central Serbia and the
UN-administered province of Kosovo, the Serbian
government said Saturday.
Assailants armed with automatic weapons shot at a
police post close to the Albanian-populated village of
Konculj late on Friday night.
There were no casualties, but the government dubbed
the incident a "terrorist" act in a statement on Saturday.
This is the third attack in less than a week against
Serbian security forces on the administrative boundary
area between Kosovo and central Serbia.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia on August 10.
Two days later, on August 12, an army patrol was
attacked by a group of 15 ethnic Albanian "extremists"
in broad daylight, near the military base of Susnjak.
The Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic told
Belgrade-based radio B92 that he expected such attacks
by "extremist Albanians" to continue. But also he
warned it was imperative to avoid being provoked into
retaliation.
The southern Serbian province of Kosovo has been
administered by a United Nations mission established
at the end of the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces
and separatist ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.
NUOVA RIVENDICAZIONE A.N.A.
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Ethnic Albanians claim responsibility for attack on
Serbian police post
BELGRADE, Aug 17 (AFP) - The rebel Albanian National
Army (ANA) in Kosovo said Sunday it was responsible
for firing on a Serbian police station in which no one
was hurt.
In a statement, the group said it had acted in
self-defense Friday after coming under attack by the
Serbian police.
The action at the police post occurred on the boundary
between Serbia and the UN-administered province of
Kosovo.
The Serbian government said it was a terrorist attack.
The UN mission that has run Kosovo since 1999 has also
defined the ANA as a terrorist group.
The ANA seeks the creation of a greater Albania
including Kosovo, which has a huge majority of ethnic
Albanians, and parts of southern Serbia and western
Macedonia.
Although ethnic Albanian forces were made to surrender
their weapons in 2001, armed clashes between Serbian
security forces and Albanian fighters have occurred
regularly since then.
The incident at the police post was the third in less
than a week, and also included a mortar attack on an
army base in southern Serbia and an ambush of an army
patrol.
The ANA said the action at the police post near the
ethnic Albanian village of Konculj was commanded by
"Colonel Alban Shkaba."
The rebels shot at the post with automatic weapons.
The Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic
earlier warned it was imperative to avoid being
provoked into retaliation.
Although still legally part of Serbia, Kosovo has been
administered by a United Nations mission established
at the end of the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces
and separatist ethnic Albanian guerrillas.
A.N.A. INVITA AD INSORGERE PER LA GRANDE ALBANIA
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Beta, August 17, 2003
Outlawed army urge southern Serbian uprising
PRESEVO -- Sunday -- Aljban Vjosa, representative of
the outlawed Albanian National Army, has urged
Albanian political representatives in the southern
Serbian districts of Bujanovac, Medvedja and Presevo
to join the terrorist group in its project to create
and Albanian ethnic state.
In an interview for presheva.com website, Vjosa
declared himself a member of the ANA's political wing
– the United Front for National Unity of Albanians –
and insisted that Albanian political leaders do not
deserve the trust of their voters.
He said that the time has come for Albanian political
parties in the Presevo Valley to unit around the
platform of the United Front, declaring those
promoting multiethnicity as "naive".
He insisted that the territory of central Serbia is
occupied territory colonised by Serbs and that
military facilities in the area were constructed
purely with the goal of massacring the Albanian
population.
He said that the violence in the southern Serbian
municipalities that are homes to ethnic Albanians
would continue until they become part of an Albanian
ethnic state.
He said "everybody's eyes shined" after the attack of
the Serbia-Montenegro base at Dobrosin, which he
repeated was merely "colonised" by Serbs.
Former UNMIK chief Michael Steiner declared the
Albanian National Army a terrorist organisation.
COVIC ACCUSA IL "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE DEL KOSOVO" EREDE DELL'UCK
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B92, August 17, 2003
Gunmen open fire at border, Covic blames Kosovo Corps
BUJANOVAC -- Saturday -- Unknown gunmen shot at the
Konculj police station adjacent to the administrative
border with Kosovo at about 10:00 p.m. last night,
discharging several bursts from automatic weapons.
Deputy Serbian PM Nebojsa Covic pointed the finger at
the Kosovo Protection Corp.
Radoman Ilic, B92's Bujanovac correspondent, reported
that shots also ricocheted off police and customs
posts a few hundred metres from the police outpost
building.
The Serbian Government's Bujanovac press centre said
that this "latest terrorist attack" only caused slight
structural damage to the customs building.
Covic: We cannot be provoked
Deputy PM Covic said in a statement for B92 that he
expects these attacks to continue: "I don't think the
situation is escalating, but there are obviously some
provocations. According to my expectations, these will
increase and it's very important that our security
forces function in accordance with the plans and
operations that were set up".
The Democratic Alternative leader called for maximum
caution and continued action with the highest
professional approach, warning that Serbia cannot
afford to be provoked.
He added: "Probably the phantom ANA [Albanian National
Army, declared illegal] will make an announcement, but
just know that it's high-tech trickery: it is not the
ANA, it's the KZK, and that is the Kosovo Protection
Corps. They are behind it".
Investigation launched
Arriving this morning, Vranje District Court
investigator Slavoljub Mihajlovic and deputy district
prosecutor Radica Ristic began an investigation into
the attack. Members of UNMIK and Belgrade's
Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Southern Serbia
joined them at the scene.
The government's local press centre announced that the
Coordination Centre, headed by Covic, would do
everything in its power to prevent these attacks,
which are endangering the safety and disrupting the
lives of citizens.
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug081703c.htm
Covic says ANA trick covering up Kosovo Protection Corps
Tanjug - August 17, 2003
16:59 BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Premier and Coordinating Center for
Kosovo and Metohija President Nebojsa Covic said on Sunday, ahead of
his departure for New York to attend a United Nations (UN) Security
Council session on Kosovo, that the Albanian National Army (ANA) is an
ordinary trick and that the Kosovo Protection Corps is behind the
terrorist attacks in Kosovo and Metohija.
"ANA is a computerized high-tech trick, a game played with sites, and
the real ANA is in fact the Kosovo Protection Corps," Covic told
Tanjug, commenting on a report that this ethnic Albanian extremist
organization had claimed responsibility for an attack on a Serbian
control-security checkpoint near Konculj village late Friday.
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GENERALE U.S.A. TRANQUILLO: "SAPPIAMO CHI SONO"
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Beta, August 19, 2003
KFOR “aware of" terrorist organisations
PRISTINA -- Monday – International peacekeepers in
Kosovo are aware of terrorist organisations operating
in the province, the commander of KFOR’s Multinational
Brigade East said today.
General Jerry G. Beck told media at US Camp Bondsteel
that extremist organisations were also attempting to
export conflict into neighbouring countries.
He warned that terrorists would not be tolerated and
that they would be identified, apprehended and punished.
Beck was unwilling to either confirm or deny the
presence of the outlawed Albanian National Army on the
administrative border between Kosovo and Serbia proper.
ANCORA UN ALTRO ATTACCO DEI TERRORISTI CON BASE IN KOSOVO
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Army patrol under fire in southern Serbia
BELGRADE, Aug 22 (AFP) - A group of ethnic-Albanian
militants posing as illegal woodcutters opened fire on
an army patrol in southern Serbia, sparking a brief
gun battle, the Tanjug news agency reported Friday.
It said the men fled across the provincial border to
Kosovo, which is a United Nations protectorate, after
the fight on Thursday night.
The defence ministry in Belgrade said there were no
casualties on the Serbia-Montenegro army side but made
no comment about injuries to the gunmen.
The ministry said the gunmen were posing as
woodcutters in order to scout Serbian army positions
and "destabilise the situation" in southern Serbia,
which has a restive ethnic-Albanian population.
A similar attack earlier this month was dismissed by
UN police in Kosovo as being a minor incident, but the
defence ministry here said that the two attacks were
far more serious than they appeared.
There has been a spate of attacks on army personnel in
southern Serbia in recent days.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia on August 10.
The ANA also claimed that it had fired automatic
weapons at a Serbian police post near the
ethnic-Albanian village of Konculj a few days later.
On August 12, an army patrol was attacked by a group
of 15 ethnic-Albanian "extremists" in broad daylight,
near the military base of Susnjak.
Serbian officials have warned that they expect such
attacks by "extremist Albanians" to continue but the
army will not be provoked into retaliation.
The southern Serbian province of Kosovo has been
administered by a UN mission established at the end of
the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces and separatist
ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.
Its ethnic-Albanian majority wants independence from
Serbia.
ALTRE TRE GRANATE, FERITI DUE RAGAZZINI
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Tanjug, August 24, 2003
Three grenades launched on Presevo, children injured
19:15 BELGRADE , Aug 24 (Tanjug) - In a terrorist
attack on Presevo, Saturday evenign at 21.55, three
grenades were launched, and in the attack were
slightly injured two fifteen-year-olds,
Radio-Television Vranje said on Sunday. Two grenades,
it was confirmed to Tanjug in RTV Vranje, fell in the
courtyard of the Cultural Center, while one fell on an
adjacent house.
Member of the government coordination center for
southern Serbia Mica Markovic said that it is not yet
known what was the target of the terroroist attack, as
in the vicinity of the Cultural center is a local
police station, or from where the 40 mm missiles were
fired, as the range of as automatic grenade launcher
is one kilometer.
GENERALE KFOR DIFENDE IL "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE"
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SNRA, August 27, 2003
Corps not hiding KLA and ANA fighters: UNMIK general
VIENNA -- Wednesday -- General Andrew Cumming,
assigned by UNMIK to monitor the Kosovo Protection
Corps, dismissed claims by the Coordination Centre for
Kosovo chief Nebojsa Covic that the Corps is an
organisation set up for hiding former fighters of the
disbanded Kosovo Protection Corps and the Albanian
National Army.
He told Austrian news agency APA there was no evidence
of Corps members' involvement in the attacks in the
last few weeks.
Cumming confirmed that the UNMIK launched
investigations against several members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps, but not because they were members of
the ANA.
He declined to comment on the details of indictments
against seven senior Corps members temporarily
suspended by the Corps Commander Agim Cheku under
suspicion of involvement in the demolition of railway
bridge in northern Kosovo for which the ANA claimed
responsibility.
APA reminded that various measures have been launched
against several hundred Corps members this year, 24 of
which on KFOR's initiative.
ED ARRIVANO ANCHE I PROFUGHI ALBANESI DI MACEDONIA !
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Beta, August 31, 2003
Macedonian Albanians flee to south Serbia
PRESEVO -- Sunday – A number of Albanian families from
the Kumanovo region of Macedonia today have sought
refuge in south Serbia from armed conflicts near their villages.
The families have been accommodated in the Presevo region.
According to the Albanian refugees, tension is rising
in the Kumanovo municipality and uniformed members of
Albanian paramilitary groups have been seen in the
villages of Vaksince and Lojane.
The number of families who have sought asylum is not
yet known.
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E' SERBO, PERCIO' GLI SPARANO IN BOCCA
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STAVA PESCANDO IN RIVA AD UN FIUME
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B92, August 12, 2003
Serb in critical condition after Kosovo shooting
LIPLJAN -- Tuesday – A Serb from the Lipljan area of
Kosovo is in a critical condition after being shot
last night near a road leading to the Albanian village
of Glavnica.
Dragan Tonic underwent eight hours of surgery for a
wound to the face, a Kosovska Mitrovica hospital
spokesman told B92, adding that he was expected to
regain consciousness during post-operative care.
Tonic was found by shepherds near the bank of the
Sitnica River where he had been fishing.
TRASFERITO IN OSPEDALE A BELGRADO
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Beta, August 13, 2003
Serb shot in Kosovo transferred to Belgrade
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- Kosovo-Serb Dragan Tonic,
shot in the head whilst fishing in Kosovo, has been
transferred to Belgrade's Serbian Clinical Centre and
not the Military Medical Academy as earlier reported.
Beta were unable to obtain an update of Tonic's
condition, although Milan Ivanovic, deputy head of the
Mitrovica Hospital, did confirm that Tonic was moved
from Mitrovica to Belgrade in a critical condition,
following eight hours of surgery.
According to neighbours from the village of Skulanevo,
Tonic used improvised sign language to explain that
two unknown ethnic Albanians shot him in the mouth.
Skulanevo has around 90 Serb families comprising 350
citizens.
Since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, two Serbs from
the village have been killed and eight others injured
during ethnically motivated attacks.
Locals insist that none of the cases have been solved.
MUORE DOPO UNA AGONIA DI UNA SETTIMANA
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SNRA, August 18, 2003
Tonic passes away a week after Kosovo shooting
BELGRADE -- Monday -- Dragan Tonic, shot in the face a
week ago today, died last night in Belgrade's Clinical
Centre as a result of his injuries.
Kosovo-Serb Tonic was leisurely fishing on the River
Sitnica around 150 metres from the last Serb homes in
the village of Skulanevo, when unknown attackers,
suspected to be from a neighbouring ethnic Albanian
village, opened fire, hitting Tonic in the mouth.
Responding to the death, Skulanevo villagers have
today blockaded the road linking Prizren, Lipljan and
Kosovo Polje, in the direction of the Slatina airport.
They demand that UNMIK police announce whether or not
any suspects from the neighbouring village of Gavica
have been arrested.
Belgrade's Coordination Centre for Kosovo confirmed
Tonic's death. A funeral is to be held tomorrow.
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ATTACCO CONTRO PATTUGLIA POLIZIA UNMIK
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DOPO AVERE IMPEDITO L'ACCESSO IN CASA DI UN NAZIONALISTA PANALBANESE
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Beta, August 12, 2003
Kosovo police patrol attacked by wanted Albanian
PRISTINA -- Monday -- A police patrol suffered [an]
armed attacked in the village of Ajvalija close to
Kosovo's provincial capital of Pristina today, when
they were fired upon from an Albanian man's house.
UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angeli confirmed that the
attack ensued after officers approached the house of a
wanted man, saying: "When the police surrounded the
house this person opened the door and opened fire, and
then shouted 'Don't come in'. Not one policeman was
wounded".
Beta report that the attack in the exclusively ethnic
Albanian village took place at around 2.30pm and an
investigation is said to be underway.
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CECCHINI DELLA NATO FANNO IL TIRO A SEGNO
CONTRO I BAMBINI IN RIVA AL FIUME, DUE MORTI
===
[Note: The US government-run Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty chooses to spell Kosovo as Kosova in order to be prepared for
the province's secession.]
SCENDE IN PIAZZA TUTTA LA COMUNITA' SERBA
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2003
LOCAL SERBS AND ALBANIANS PROTEST
A crowd of Serbs blocked an important road in western
Kosova on 14 August to protest the killings,
international and regional media reported. Meanwhile,
in Serbian-controlled northern Mitrovica, unidentified
individuals threw a grenade into the home of an ethnic
Albanian. About 3,000 Serbs demonstrated in that town,
carrying signs reading "Serbia, wake up!" and "Europe,
open your eyes!" Local Serb leader Milan Ivanovic
called for the capture of what he called "Albanian
criminals" and their extradition to the Hague-based
war crimes tribunal. He demanded the return of Serbian
security forces to Kosova, as did another local Serb
leader, Marko Jaksic, adding, "Everyone can now see
with what monsters the Serbs of Kosovo...have to live
with." UN officials previously ruled out the return of
Serbian forces, fearing that they would serve as a
magnet for attacks by ethnic Albanian extremists. In
Prishtina, all leading Kosovar Albanian political
leaders and daily newspapers condemned the killings,
which "Koha Ditore" called "simply a terrorist act."
Hajredin Kuci, who is a member of the Kosova
parliament, told RFE/RL that Serbian Prime Minister
Zoran Zivkovic and other Serbian politicians should
not exploit the incident for political purposes. In
Tirana, the Albanian Foreign Ministry condemned the
shootings as a "serious crime." PM
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EYug.htm#Protesters%20urge%20international%20community%20to%20find%20cri
minals,%20take%20them%20to%20justIce
Tanjug, August 15, 2003
Protesters urge international community to find
criminals, take them to justice
18:04 STRPCE , Aug 15 (Tanjug) - A protest rally of
about 1,000 Serbs was held Friday in Strpce over the
killing of two Serb boys and the wounding of several
other children in Gorazdevac two days ago.
The protesters appealed to KFOR, UNMIK and the OSCE to
find and take to justice the perpetrators of the crime
in Gorazdevac and of all other crimes committed in
Kosovo since the arrival of international forces, and
to start honoring the UN Security Council Resolution
1244, including stepping up of their powers in order
to protect the Serbs remaining in the province and to
secure the return of the displaced.
UN MESSAGGIO ANCHE PER IL NUOVO GOVERNATORE COLONIALE HOLKERI
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Kosovo Serbs shot dead as new UN chief arrives
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug 13 (AFP) - Two
Kosovo Serb teenagers were killed and four others were
injured in a shooting attack Wednesday as new UN
mission chief Harri Holkeri made his first visit to
the province, officials said.
An ethnic Albanian female was also injured when a
crowd of angry Serbs threw stones at her near the
scene shortly after the shooting around 2:00 pm (1300
GMT) at a river near the western village of Zahac.
"A group of people opened fire from machine guns at a
group of young Serbs as they were swimming in the
Bistrica river," Andrea Angeli, the spokesman for the
UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), told AFP.
"We can confirm there are two dead, one of them 19
years old."
UN officials earlier said five Serbs had been injured
in the attack along with the Albanian female.
A UN police spokeswoman said two of the injured Serbs
were in serious condition and had been flown by NATO
helicopter to a hospital in the north of the province.
The victims were from the nearby village of
Gorazdevac, an ethnic-Serb enclave surrounded by
ethnic-Albanian villages some 60 kilometers (40 miles)
west of the provincial capital Pristina.
The attack came an hour after the arrival of Holkeri
on his first visit to the UN-administered province,
which is still wrecked by ethnic violence four years
after a war between Serbs and the separatist Albanian
majority.
Holkeri met with the head of the NATO-led peacekeeping
force in Kosovo (KFOR), Italian Lieutenant General
Fabio Mini, and later condemned the attack in a
statement sent to AFP.
"I am devastated that on my first day in Kosovo there
has been a terrible tragedy in which two Kosovo Serb
children have been killed and a number of other
persons injured," he said.
Mini condemned the attack and said it would damage the
province's image as it struggles to reinvent itself as
a multi-ethnic democracy which respects human rights
and the rule of law.
"I am sad to hear what happened. This is a bad signal
for the possibility for Kosovo to achieve tolerance,"
Mini said after meeting Holkeri.
"This is not the Kosovo we want."
Kosovo technically remains part of Serbia but it
became a UN protectorate after NATO bombed Yugoslavia
to stop troops loyal to then president Slobodan
Milosevic persecuting the ethnic Albanian majority.
UN police said they could not confirm the crime was
ethnically motivated but it appeared to be so.
L'ATTACCO E' AVVENUTO A POCA DISTANZA
DAGLI ITALIANI DELLA KFOR
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B92, Beta, August 13, 2003
Children die in Pec attack
PRISTINA -- Wednesday – UNMIK has confirmed that two
adolescents were killed and six wounded in an attack
near Pec today.
A spokesman for the UN mission said that unknown
gunmen opened fire on a group of young people swimming
and playing at the Bistrica river beach.
A Kalashnikov automatic rifle was used in the attack,
and the number of assailants has not been established.
Two Serbs, one aged eighteen and the other nineteen
died in the attack and a nineteen-year-old Albanian
was among the injured.
Locals told media that the attack had occurred despite
the presence of UNMIK troops guarding the swimmers.
SERBI BLOCCANO STRADE PER PROTESTA
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EYug.htm#Serbs%20from%20Osojane%20build%20road%20blocks%20on%20Pec-
Kosovska%20Mitrovica%20road
Tanjug, August 14, 2003
Serbs from Osojane build road blocks on Pec-Kosovska
Mitrovica road
13:33 OSOJANE , August 14 (Tanjug) - More than 400
Serbs on Thursday continued to block the Pec-Kosovska
Mitrovica road and other roads that run through Osojane.
The roads have been blocked since Wednesday afternoon
in protest against the killing of Serb youths in the
village of Gorazdevac near Pec.
SERBI IN PIAZZA A MITROVICA
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EYug.htm#Protest%20rallies%20in%20Kosovska%20Mitrovica
Tanjug, August 14, 2003
Protest rallies in Kosovska Mitrovica
15:15 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , August 14 (Tanjug) -
Several thousands of citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica
gathered in the main square on Thursday to protest
under the slogan "Europe, why are you killing our
children?" expressing their indignation over
yesterday's terrorist attack on Serbs in Gorazdevac.
The protest rally began with a minute of silence in
memory of the murdered boys.
MIGLIAIA DI DIMOSTRANTI A GRACANICA
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SNRA, August 14, 2003
Protests in Gracanica
PRISTINA -- Thursday – Thousands of Kosovo Serbs
yesterday protested in Gracanica over yesterday’s
slaying of two young Serbs near Pec.
Protest organiser Slavisa Kostic called on Serbs to
withdraw from Kosovo institutions and demanded that
the Kosovo Protection Corps be disbanded.
He also called on Serbia-Montenegro to provide
protection for those Serbs remaining in Kosovo and
called for a traffic curfew in Serb areas.
STAZIONARIE LE CONDIZIONI DEI QUATTRO FERITI
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Beta/B92, August 14, 2003
Teenage Kosovo victims stable
BELGRADE/PRIZREN -- Thursday – Bogdan Bukumiric, one
of the teenage victims of yesterday’s shooting at a
Kosovo swimming hole, remains in intensive care after
undergoing surgery at the Military Medical Academy in
Belgrade.
Speaking to B92, head of intensive therapy Predrag
Romic said that the fifteen-year-old suffered injuries
to the head, chest and abdomen: "Surgery on little
Bogdan was completed at 11.30. The surgical operation
– brain surgery – was successful and without problems.
The patient is currently receiving further intensive care".
Romic said that Bogdan, who was transferred to
Belgrade last night, is currently stable: "pressure,
pulse and other vital functions are working fine. His
condition will be monitored and we'll be informing the
public about it".
Eleven-year-old Pantelija Dakic and twenty-year-old
Ivan Jovovic were killed in the attack yesterday while
swimming in the Bistrica River near Gorazdevac.
Four other children, including Bukumiric, were
wounded. Two of them, Dragan Srbljak and Djordje
Obrenovic are recovering from surgery in the Kosovska
Mitrovica hospital where their condition is reported
to be stable.
The fourth, Marko Bogicevic, was transferred to the
German Military hospital in Prizren for surgery
against his parents’ wishes.
The deputy director of the Kosovska Mitrovica
hospital, Milan Ivanovic, told Radio B92 that the
forced transfer was a flagrant violation of human
rights by KFOR and UNMIK officials who had promised
the boy’s parents he would be taken either to
Mitrovica or Belgrade.
“They obviously can’t be trusted,” said Ivanovic.
Siegfried Huben, KFOR's south-west sector spokesman,
later confirmed that ten-year-old Bogicevic is in a
stable condition.
Huben said that although the boy was shot in the
abdominal area and the chest, he is no longer in a
life-threatening condition.
The KFOR official added that he could not understand
the motivation for yesterday's barbaric attack, which
threatens to annul everything so far achieved towards
establishing peace in Kosovo.
NELL'OSPEDALE ("ETNICAMENTE RIPULITO") DI PEC FALSIFICATA LA DIAGNOSI
DI DUE DEI FERITI
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Ministry accuses Albanian doctor of cover-up
Beta - August 20, 2003
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Serbian Health Ministry has today said
that Bujar Vrela, surgeon of the Pec Hospital, was guilty of a serious
violation of medical ethics and fundamental human rights.
On Friday, the Society of Physicians of Serbia accused Vrela of
deliberately misdiagnosing the injuries of two children following
Wednesday's attack on Serb teenagers near Pec.
The Society claimed that Vrela attempted to disguise the fact that one
of the wounded children had been shot by putting a plaster cast on him.
According to today's ministry statement, wounded Serb children Djordje
Ugrinovic and Dragana Srbljaka were not hospitalised, despite needing
to be. The ministry also accuse Vrela of misdiagnosing the injuries in
order to cover-up the real cause of the injuries.
The ministry said: "This way we want to inform the international
professional public and to warn of the unequal status of the Serbs in
Kosovo in tending to the ill and wounded by Albanian medical workers".
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Wrong diagnosis of ethnic Albanian doctors for Serb children wounded in
Gorazdevac
Tanjug - August 20, 2003
19:27 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of the Serbian Ministry of Health
department for Kosovo-Metohija Zdravko Vitosevic presented Wednesday
to the press evidence on the treatment Serb children Dragan Srbljak
and Djordje Ugenovic, wounded in the terrorst attack in Gorazdevac,
received at the Pec hospital, and said the documents were addressed to
the World Health Organization.
Vitosevic accused Pec hospital surgeon Bujar Vrela of concealing a
crime by pursposefully making a wrong diagnosis of fractures, instead
of gunshot wounds.
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only
CERIMONIA A BELGRADO
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Thousands of people pay tribute to Gorazdevac victims
BELGRADE -- Monday - Several thousand people assembled
last night in central Belgrade to pay last tribute to
the two Serb teenagers recently killed in the Kosovo
village of Gorazdevac.
People from a number of Serbian cities lit candles for
the victims and expressed hope that crimes such as
that in Gorazdevac would not be repeated.
Aleksandar Milovanovic, executive director of the
Democratic Youth Association of Kosovo that organised
the rally, said that the death of teenagers Pantelija
Dakic and Ivan Jovovic proves that Kosovo Serbs live
and die in fear.
"We are asking for the right to live, because a Serbia
in which children get killed cannot be a country with
a future”, said Milovanovic.
He said it was time that the international community
started applying in Kosovo the same human rights
standards that are applied in all other European
countries.
The organisers announced peaceful protests in front of
embassies if the killers are not caught in the near future.
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LA PROTESTA DEL MONDO POLITICO SERBO
ED ALTRE REAZIONI
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http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/08/4-SEE/see-150803.asp
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2003
SERBIAN POLITICIANS SPEAK OUT
The Serbian government declared 15 August a day of
national mourning for the two slain Serbian youths,
international and regional media reported. Serbian
Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic called the killings "an
act of terrorism...[with the message that] Serbs
should be driven out of Kosovo." Serbia and
Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic said the
killings are "something more than a crime, something
the entire world is horrified at." Speaking after a
meeting of the Supreme Defense Council, he stressed,
"We are not here to make war cries but to try to
influence the United Nations and the European Union to
make concrete decisions." He did not elaborate.
Defense Minister Boris Tadic made similar remarks.
Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic argued that the
killings are a "tragic confirmation of the failure" of
NATO and the UN in the province. Serbian Deputy Prime
Minister Nebojsa Covic said that "fascism has arrived"
in Kosova. General elections are widely expected in
Serbia within the next 12 months, and many politicians
have been seeking to woo nationalist voters recently
with tough talk about Kosova. PM
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Beta, August 13, 2003
Covic calls for urgent Security Council meeting
BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Deputy Serbian Prime Minister
Nebojsa Covic today called for an urgent meeting of
the UN Security Council after two Serb teenagers were
killed and several more wounded in a machine gun
attack at a Kosovo swimming hole this afternoon.
“What happened today in Gorazdevac is the most brutal
form of behaviour and there are no words to describe
it,” said Covic, who heads Belgrade’s Kosovo
Coordination Centre.
“A meeting of the UN Security Council must be called
urgently and Secretary-General Kofi Annan must commit
himself urgently to resolving the problem,” said the
prime minister, adding that UNMIK and KFOR were not in
control of the situation in the province.
“The situation is handling them instead of them
handling the situation, and that’s not acceptable,”
Covic told media.
He also accused official UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angeli
of shameful behaviour by claiming that one of the
victims was Albanian.
“Serb children have been killed and wounded, and
statements like this are manipulation. They should
not be lying. They should be ashamed of what they are
doing to the Serb national community,” said Covic.
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Beta, August 13, 2003
Regrets “not enough” for Kosovo violence
BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Kosovo Serb leader Oliver
Ivanovic said today that now is the last moment for
the international community and UNMIK officials to
respond to attacks on Serbs in the province.
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TRE MORTI IN REGOLAMENTO DI CONTI TRA BANDE
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TRA LE VITTIME DUE GIOVANI PASSANTI
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bn/Qkosovo-shooting.R26w_Da2.html
Three dead in western Kosovo shooting
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montentegro, Aug 3 (AFP) - Three
people were gunned down and at least four others
wounded when unknown assailants opened fire in western
Kosovo late Saturday, an official told AFP.
The incident happened after 10 pm (2000 GMT) in the
town of Pec, some 85 kilometers (53 miles) west of
Kosovo's capital Pristina, Andrea Angeli, spokesman
for the UN mission in Kosovo, said.
"There was machinegun fire in the center of Pec. Some
of the victims and those wounded were sitting in
nearby cafes in what is usually a busy night," Angeli said.
A 14-year-old girl was among the victims. The others
were a 24-year-old female and a 30-year-old male. All
of the victims were Kosovo Albanians, but their names
have not been released pending the notification of
their families.
Angeli said no arrests were made and that it was not
clear who or what was the target of the attack. The
wounded were transported to the Pristina hospital, two
of them in critical condition.
The UN police in Pec cordoned off the area and an
investigation was ongoing.
Kosovo has been under UN administration since NATO
bombed Yugoslavia to force the withdrawal of Serbian
troops in early 1999.
UNA TIPICA ESECUZIONE DI STAMPO MAFIOSO
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=4091195
Reuters 3, 2003
Three killed in gangland-style Kosovo shooting
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Gunmen
have unleashed a hail of bullets on a parked car in a
Kosovo town, killing three people, including two young
girls who were passing by, a United Nations official says.
Three people were injured and over 100 rounds were
fired in Saturday's gangland-style attack in the
western town of Pec. The shooting underlined problems
facing U.N.-led administrators struggling to impose
order on the ethnic Albanian-dominated province.
U.N. police spokesman in Pec, Joe Singleton, said on
Sunday the motive for the attack was not known.
"Four males were sitting in a car parked in an alley
in front of a small shop when four suspects approached
the vehicle and opened fire," Singleton told Reuters.
"Three people were killed at the scene, two of them
juvenile females, who were passersby and were
evidently going to the shop."
Singleton said girls' ages had not been confirmed, but
that some reports put them at 11 and 14 years old. The
third dead person was one of the men sitting in the car.
Two other men in the car were injured along with the
owner of the shop, Singleton said. "After the
shooting, the four suspects fled on foot."
He said that a policeman from the Kosovo Police
Service, who had been near the scene, had fired at the
assailants.
"But it is not sure whether he hit anybody. At the
time of the shooting, there was a power outage. It was
dark and the policeman could not see," Singleton said.
U.N. police have stepped up security after a spate of
explosions and other attacks in Kosovo's towns. The
violence has been blamed on ethnic tensions as well as
criminal gangs.
IL TRAFFICO DI EROINA ALL'ORIGINE DELLA STRAGE
http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle
=10370
Transitions Online (Soros), August 4, 2003
Kosovo’s Biggest Heroin Bust
PRISTINA, Kosovo--United Nations police in Kosovo on
29 July arrested three ethnic Albanians and seized 18
kilograms of heroin they say was intended for sale in
Western Europe during a search operation in a private
residence in the village of Komogllave-Ferizaj, some
15 miles south of the capital, Pristina.
United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police
spokesperson Derek Chappel told journalists that the
mission’s Central Criminal Investigation Unit (CCIU)
had located the heroin stash thanks to tips from local
citizens and cooperation with the local Kosovo Police
Service (ShPK).
Chappel said that police seized 33 packages of heroin
totaling 18 kilograms and arrested two men, aged 21
and 24, and one 29-year-old woman. The search
continues for a fourth suspect, Chappel said during a
press briefing.
According to the initial findings of the police
investigation, Kosovo was the transit route for the
drugs, which were to be sold in Western Europe and had
a value of $920,000.
“Investigators believe that the heroin was intended
for the Western Europe market, because there is no
such market here,” said Chappel.
Chappel said that the search also turned up drug
paraphernalia, two illegal weapons and ammunition,
among other things.
In a recent interview with the KosovaLive news agency,
CCIU drug unit chief Ville Tenhunen said that Kosovo
is being used in a two-step system for drug transfer
to Western Europe. According to Tenhunen, large
quantities of narcotics are transferred from another
location to Kosovo, where they are safely stored
before heading to Western European markets.
The CCIU drug chief says that narcotics are being
smuggled across the Balkans and into Kosovo from
southwestern Asia. From Kosovo, the narcotics are
transported by various means, including tour bus
companies and other transport companies, to Western
Europe.
“The heroin that we seized is the largest single
seizure of heroin in Kosovo since UNMIK entered in
June 1999,” said UNMIK police spokesperson Berry
Fletcher.
Last year police seized about 9 kilograms of
narcotics, including heroin, he said. Heroin and
marijuana are the primary drugs seized in Kosovo,
while cocaine is rarely discovered, said Fletcher.
But Fletcher reminded journalists that Kosovo is not
the black hole of Balkan crime that it is often
referred to as. Smuggling remains a serious problem
across the Balkans, he said, pointing to Greece’s
recent reports of large shipments of narcotics on its
borders with Albania and Serbia’s reports of heroin
seizures on its borders with Bulgaria.
“The Balkans as a whole, including Kosovo, have been a
route for smuggling drugs from East to West for a very
long time. Probably since long before we were alive,”
said Fletcher.
In other news, three people were killed on 2 August
near the bus station in Peja. According to UNMIK
police, four men were parked in front of a shop on the
main street when four unknown suspects approached on
foot and opened fire with automatic weapons.
Reportedly firing more than 100 rounds, they killed
one of men inside the vehicle and injured 3 others.
Two young women who were in the shop at the time were
also killed, and the shop owner was injured.
Joel Singleton, information officer at the Police
Regional Headquarters in the Peja Region, said that
the four suspects escaped on foot. Singleton said that
local ShPK officers were fired upon as the suspects fled.
“The ShPK officers who returned fire showed amazing
fire control due to the intensity of the moment [and
the fact] that the electricity was not on and there
were innocent bystanders in the area,” said Singleton.
Violence also continued on 3 August when a UN police
officer was murdered on the Kosovoska
Mitrovica-Leposavic road. According to Beta news
agency, a UN police patrol was ambushed near the
Zvecan railway bridge and one officer was killed
before the attackers opened fire on a civilian car,
causing only minor damage to the vehicle.
The UN has confirmed the death of one of its officers
but has released no further details regarding the
circumstances.
--by Bekim Greicevci
MURO DI OMERTA' PROTEGGE GLI ASSASSINI
Police Face Wall of Silence (by J. Xharra & T. Matic)
SEE AT:
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200308_455_1_eng.txt
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MITROVICA NORD IN CONTINUO PERICOLO A CAUSA DELLA ELIMINAZIONE DEI
POSTI DI BLOCCO
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KFOR WILL NO LONGER PROVIDE ESCORT, WILL REMOVE
CHECKPOINTS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - KFOR Brigade
Northeast Commander Gen Marc Bertuchi told Tanjug on
Friday that as security in the region of Kosovska
Mitrovica was improving, KFOR would no longer provide
escort and would remove fixed security checkpoints.
The security situation in the zone of responsibility
of Brigade Northeast has improved, Bertuchi said and
added that he would keep on discontinuing escorts and
removing checkpoints at less important strategic
places and other fixed checkpoints. He said that the
improvement of the security situation called for a
different way of organization of military presence and
that the fixed checkpoints and systematic controls,
which would be removed, would improve the freedom of
movement, making citizens' lives more pleasant. He
said that numerous patrols that could react quickly in
case of problems had been set up. Bertuchi said that
KFOR would continue reducing the number of its troops
and that by the end of the year their number would be
reduced from the present 25,000 to 20,000.
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Beta, August 3, 2003
UNMIK act a bridge too far for Kosovo
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA/JAGODINA -- Sunday -- An UNMIK act promoting
multiethnicity backfired in Kosovska
Mitrovica last night as plans to re-open the main
bridge on the Ibar linking the ethnically divided
north and south of the town had to be rethought.
Following the bridge's re-opening, a group of around
30 ethnic Albanian youths were first to make the
crossing, hurling abuse at residents of the northern,
Serb side of the town.
Serb drinkers at a nearby bar reacted, approaching the
Albanian youths with violent intent, but UNMIK and
KFOR managed to diffuse the situation and close the
bridge.
Covic: A kingdom of terrorism and crime
Responding to the recent violent upsurge in the
province, Deputy Serbian PM Nebojsa Covic, who head
Belgrade's Coordination Centre for Kosovo, said
"terrorism and crime are flourishing in that area",
and every citizen is endangered "regardless of
national or ethnic orientation".
Covic insisted to Jagodina-based TV Palma Plus: "The
attack on the bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica is a direct
message that somebody, obviously not Serbs, doesn't
want multiethnic life.
"What happened in Pec is foul. Three young people lost
their lives in a tragic battle within the kingdom of
terrorism and organised crime".
Covic assessed that the international community must
enforce the rule of law and implement human rights in
Kosovo lest "there is no future for the province or
the entire region".
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=42619&LangID=1
Seeurope.net, August 5, 2003
KFOR Tightens Security Measures in Mitrovica
The UN Police in Kosovo and KFOR upgraded security
measures at the bridge on Ibar river, bridge that
splits the northern and southern part of Mitrovica, in
the wake of late Saturday’s incident.
Late on Saturday, a group of 30 Albanians crossed the
bridge and entered into northern part of Mitrovica,
populated with Serbs. The entering of Albanians into
the northern part of the city caused mass gatherings
of Serbian residents. Shortly afterwards, the
Albanians retreated back to the southern part of the
city.
The bridge is undergoing security measures following
this incident. KFOR and the UN Police stepped up
control on persons that cross the bridge.
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CECCHINI UCCIDONO UFFICIALE UNMIK INDIANO
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http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=2706
Reality Macedonia, August 4, 2003
Sniper Assassinates UN Policeman In Kosovo
The family of the United Nations police officer who
was killed overnight in northern Mitrovica region has
been notified of his death.
Major Satish MENON, a police officer from India, gave
his life in the service of the people of Kosovo and
the United Nations. Major Menon was 43 years-old and
was assigned to the UNMIK Border Police. He is
survived by his wife and two children, ages 8 and 6.
The condolences of the United Nations Police and the
Kosovo Police Service are offered to the family of
Major Menon.
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UNITED NATIONS
United Nations Mission in Kosovo
NATIONS UNIES
Mission des Nations Unies au Kosovo
04-08-03
UNMIK Police
PRESS RELEASE
MURDER OF A UNITED NATIONS POLICE OFFICER
A United Nations Police Officer assigned to the
Mission in Kosovo has been murdered in the line of
duty. The crime occurred shortly before midnight on
August 3rd, 2003.
According to Investigators, the officer was in a
marked UN police vehicle on the highway between
Leposavic and Mitrovica when unknown suspects fired at
the vehicle, killing the officer.
UNMIK Police Commissioner Stefan Feller condemned the
murder as “A brutal and unbelievable crime. The reason
is not yet known, but it is clear this was a sniper
attack on an international police officer by cowards
who intended to kill him.”
The name, nationality, and assignment of the officer
are withheld until his family is notified.
The main highway between Leposavic and Mitrovica will
be closed in the area of the crime until further
notice for purposes of the investigation. A detour
will be arranged for travelers to use while the main
highway is closed.
A special investigative team has been established
immediately, comprised of the Mitrovica Regional
Serious Crimes Squad and experts from UNMIK Police
Main Headquarters.
Barry FLETCHER
Deputy Chief of Information
UNMIK Police Main HQ
Pristina Tracy BECKER
Public Information Officer
Police Regional HQ
Mitrovica
For additional information, contact the UNMIK Police
Main HQ Press Office at 038-504-604-5071/FAX 5073,
E-mail: pol-press@...
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UNA RITORSIONE CONTRO GLI ARRESTI DI ALCUNI TERRORISTI UCK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3122861.stm
BBC News, August 4, 2003
UN policeman shot in Kosovo 'ambush'
By Nicholas Wood
BBC, Mitrovica, northern Kosovo
A United Nations police officer has been killed in
Kosovo.
The officer died when his marked police car came under
fire from a semi-automatic rifle from the side of the
road in the north of the province.
This is the first time a member of the international
police force has been killed on duty in Kosovo since
the UN took over responsibility for the province four
years ago.
UN police are describing the attack as a well-planned
ambush.
Investigators say boulders had been placed in the road
to make the car slow down and give the gunman time to
shoot.
The driver of the officer's car was unscathed.
Police believe the attacker's intention was to kill a
foreign officer serving with the UN.
Members of the international police force travel in
clearly marked red and white cars which distinguish
them from members of the local police service.
The investigation is focusing on three ethnic Albanian
villages close to the scene of the ambush.
Anti-UN sentiment
The area was the scene of another attack earlier this year.
Two members of a guerrilla group known as the Albanian
National Army blew themselves up while attempting to
mine a nearby bridge.
UN officials say it is too early to say what the
precise motive for the attack was.
However there has been an increase in anti-UN
sentiment in Kosovo over the last few weeks.
Some ethnic Albanians are angered by the recent
jailing of four former members of now disbanded
guerrilla group the Kosovo Liberation Army for war crimes.
SOSPETTATI ESPONENTI DELL'UCK
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=431049
Belfast Telegraph, August 6, 2003
KLA link suspected in UN police murder
The United Nations offered a €50,000 (£35,000) reward
yesterday for information leading to the arrest of the
killer of one of its policemen serving in Kosovo, amid
fears that law enforcement agencies had become the
target of an upsurge of violence.
Some fear the killing is linked to recent attacks on
court and police buildings, which followed the
conviction of former members of the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) on war crimes charges.
Yesterday, investigators refused to speculate about
who might have killed Major Satish Menon, a
43-year-old Indian officer who was shot by a sniper in
an ambush on Sunday near the village of Slatina, 28
miles north of the capital, Pristina. A British
officer driving the vehicle was unhurt.
Major Menon is the first policeman to die in Kosovo
since the international community took over the
administration after Nato's bombing campaign in 1999.
The shooting took place in a Serb area but within easy
reach of Albanian villages, and the two communities
are blaming each other.
The killing has caused alarm as it follows recent
attacks on symbols of law and order after the
conviction of four ex-KLA members on war crimes
charges. The men, who were sentenced to a total of 45
years, were found guilty of offences including
torture, kidnapping and the inhuman treatment of
civilians during the Kosovo conflict in 1998 and 1999.
In an apparent reprisal for the ruling, a
rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a district court
building in Pristina on 20 July, causing serious
damage. That was followed immediately by an explosion
outside a police station near by.
Three days earlier, a hand grenade exploded outside
another police station, north-east of Pristina, near
the birthplace of the four convicted men. UN police
vehicles have also been vandalised and daubed with
graffiti, and last weekend, gunmen fired into a car in
the mainly Albanian town of Pec, killing three people,
including two girls passing by. The violence has posed
new questions for peace-keepers, who once saw the KLA
as allies of the Nato alliance against the Serb forces
of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
Sven Lindholm, spokesman for the Organisation for
Security and Co-operation in Europe, said the attacks
on court and police buildings "can be seen as an
attack on the rule of law because they were targeted
on the institutions that are trying to instil the rule of law".
While some see the spate of recent attacks as a
political statement by those who retain a loyalty to
former KLA colleagues, others believe that it is the
work of criminal gangs.
Stefan Feller, the UN police chief, linked the earlier
attacks with the trial verdict, but was careful not to
connect the latest death in the same way. He said
Major Menon died "because he was a police officer" and
that he was "apparently selected at random to be killed".
He added: "This was a cold-blooded and deliberate
killing of an officer who had no chance to defend
himself."
More than 4,000 UN police officers patrol Kosovo. Many
former KLA members have joined the unarmed
6,000-strong local police force, the Kosovo Protection
Corps. The region has been administered by UN and
Nato-led peace-keepers from K-For since June 1999,
after a 78-day bombing campaign forced the withdrawal
of Serb forces under the command of Mr Milosevic.
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SUICIDA SOLDATO FRANCESE
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http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/aug03/hed5935.shtml
AFP, August 6, 2003
French soldier found dead in northern Kosovo
PRISTINA -- Wednesday -- A French KFOR soldier was found dead in
northern Kosovo yesterday afternoon, a NATO official told AFP.
The soldier, whose name and age have yet to be released, committed
suicide whilst on an operation with his unit near the town of
Leposavic, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Kosovo´s capital
Pristina.
A spokesman for KFOR´s French contingent in northern Kosovo told AFP:
"He was alone when he shot himself with his personal weapon. He left a
letter behind".
The spokesman said the soldier was on a regular operation searching for
illegal weapons in the volatile province.
According to a recent UN survey, close to 500,000 illegal weapons,
mostly small firearms, are in the hands of civilians in Kosovo - a
legacy of the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
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ALTRO REGOLAMENTO DI CONTI TRA BANDE MAFIOSE
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09224235.htm
One person killed in Kosovo shooting-U.N. police
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug 9 (Reuters)
One person was killed and two injured in a shootout among ethnic
Albanians in a village near Pec in south-western
Kosovo on Saturday, United Nations police in charge of
the province said.
The shooting was the latest in a series of violent
incidents across the province over the past few weeks,
including Sunday's killing of a U.N. officer, the
first in four years.
The U.N. administration took over the province in 1999
after 11 weeks of NATO bombing to halt Serbian
repression of its majority Albanians under then
president Slobodan Milosevic.
"A group of men fired on another group. They were all
Kosovo Albanians. One man was killed and two others
were wounded, one of them seriously," U.N. police
spokesman Barry Fletcher told Reuters. Police were
searching for the perpetrators who fled.
Fletcher said the motive for the shooting was not
known but he believed it was a dispute between two
families. He said it appeared to be different from a
shooting two weeks ago in which three ethnic Albanians
were killed in an apparent dispute between criminal groups.
Even though officials caution against linking the
violent incidents in the province, the shooting is
likely to raise security concerns and highlight the
difficulties the U.N. administration is facing to
establish order in Kosovo.
Kosovo Albanians want independence from Serbia and
Montenegro, a loose union that replaced Yugoslavia
this year. But its minority Serbs say it must remain a
part of Serbia.
Western officials have accused criminal elements of
wanting to derail the progress made in the province.
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LA SCANDALOSA CONDIZIONE DEI PROFUGHI GITANI (ROM ED EGIZI) DEL KOSOVO,
FUGGITI NELLA FYROM
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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EBalkans.htm#Roma%20from%20Kosovo%20agree%20to%20remain%20in%20Macedonia
Tanjug, August 9, 2003
Roma from Kosovo agree to remain in Macedonia
18:47 SKOPJE , Aug 9 (Tanjug) - After several-month
protests near the border with Greece, a group of about
600 Roma, who had fled from Kosovo-Metohija to
Macedonia, started to leave an improvised refugee camp
on Saturday after their stay in Macedonia had been
approved with small financial assistance, UNHCR
spokesman Goran Momiroski said in Skopje.
Roma, who cannot return to Kosovo-Metohija because of
a bad security situation, have been near the Greek
border since May demanding from authorities to let
them leave for some of the EU countries.
http://www.mia.com.mk/ang/
Vest.asp?vest=\1\BALKAN%20EGYPTIANS%20MEETING%20ENDS%20IN.htm
Macedonian Information Agency - August 28, 2003
BALKAN EGYPTIANS MEETING ENDS IN OHRID
Skopje, August 27 (MIA) - The next Balkan Egyptians
meeting will take place in March 2004 in Strasbourg,
was concluded Wednesday at the end of three-day
meeting of the Presidency of Balkan Egyptian
Association that occurred in Ohrid.
Ohrid was proposed as an alternative for the next
meeting place, in case delegates cannot get visa to
Strasbourg.
The meeting aimed at strategy preparation for more
intensive involvement of the Egyptians in government
institutions and other spheres of the society.
Discontent of the Egyptians' situation in almost each
Balkan's country was expressed at the meeting.
Above a million Egyptians live in the Balkan, most of
them, about 400,000, in Albania and 150,000 in Kosovo
before the war, but at the moment 40,000 of them are
refugees.
According to the census from 1994, about 3,500
Egyptians live in Macedonia.
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ATTACCHI TERRORISTICI PAN-ALBANESI ANCHE PRESSO PRESEVO-BUJANOVAC,
NELLA SERBIA MERIDIONALE
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ATTACCO CONTRO BASE MILITARE SERBA
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ac/Qserbia-montenegro-
attack.RrA__DaB.html
Army base attacked in southern Serbia, no injuries
DOBROSIN, Serbia-Montenegro, Aug 11 (AFP) - A
Serbia-Montenegro army base has come under mortar
attack in an area dominated by restive ethnic
Albanians, officials said Monday.
There were no injuries or significant property damage
in the attack late Sunday near the southern village of
Dobrosin, close to the provincial border with Kosovo,
a defence ministry official said.
Three 60-milimetre mortars were fired at the base from
an unknown source [see below], but they missed their
target.
"This is a classic terrorist attack," said Defence
Minister Boris Tadic who visited Dobrosin Monday with
Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Branko Krga and
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Nebojsa Covic.
He said it was still unclear where the mortars had
come from and investigators were trying to determine
who had launched the attack.
The area has been a hotbed of ethnic-Albanian
separatism, which briefly erupted into open conflict
with Serbian security forces in 2000.
SPARATI MISSILI DI FABBRICAZIONE U.S.A.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=24141&style=headlines
FoNet, Beta, August 11, 2003
Terrorists attack army base in southern Serbia
BELGRADE -- Monday – Three grenades were discharged
last night at the Serbia-Montenegro Army base near the
village of Dobrosin close to the administrative border
with Kosovo.
This morning the Defence Ministry played down earlier
reports of considerable structural damage, also
confirming that only one soldier was slightly wounded
in the attack.
Defence Minister Boris Tadic, army chief of staff
Branko Krga and Deputy Serbian Prime Minister Nebojsa
Covic later toured the facility and Tadic told press
that an investigation has commenced.
Tadic, Krga and Covic met with representatives of
south Serbia's forces, led by commander of the
Pristina Corps General Major Mladen Cirkovic; KFOR
members also visited the base this afternoon.
Minister Tadic described the incident as a "typical
terrorist attack, which has been expected, bearing in
mind the results of monitoring of terrorist
organisations' movements in this area".
Dobrosin was a former stronghold of armed Albanian
extremists and the home of the former Liberation Army
of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac.
The US-made 40-millimetre missiles were fired from the
direction of the village, which is populated solely by
Albanians.
Yesterday's incident was the first attack on a
military facility since the agreement to disband the
Liberation Army was signed in May of last year.
ATTACCATA PATTUGLIA, RIVENDICAZIONE "A.N.A." ("ESERCITO NAZIONALE
ALBANESE")
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cq/Qserbia-montenegro-
kosovo.RzyT_DaC.html
Serbia-Montenegro army patrol attacked nearby Kosovo
border: ministry
BELGRADE, Aug 12 (AFP) - An army patrol from Serbia
and Montenegro (SCG) was attacked Tuesday by a group
of ethnic Albanian "extremists" in a region near the
province of Kosovo, the defense ministry said.
The reconnaissance patrol was fired on in the
afternoon by a group of 15 "Albanian extremists" near
the military base of Susnjak, the ministry said in a
statement.
Susnjak lies on a 35-kilometer (21-miles) long road
leading from Serbian town of Kursumlija to the Kosovo
town of Podujevo.
The patrol repelled the attack, captured one
assailant, identified as Bajazit Podvorica from
Podujevo, and handed him over to Serbian police, it said.
The ministry said there were no casualties on the army
side, but gave no indication if any of the attackers
were killed or injured.
The incident came just two days after a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for the attack,
saying in a statement that it had fired the mortars at
the base near the southern Serbian village of Dobrosin
on Sunday night.
"Obviously we are talking about an escalation of
attacks against SCG army members that I believe is in
a way synchronized," the Defense Minister Boris Tadic
told Belgrade-based radio B92 late on Tuesday.
"State institutions of SCG and Serbia are doing their
best to respond to these attacks in the toughest way,"
Tadic said. But he added that "the SCG army certainly
will not be a factor in the escalation of conflicts in
this region."
Kosovo has been administrated by a United Nations
mission established at the end of the 1998-99 war
between Belgrade armed forces and the ethnic-Albanian
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which waged a separatist
guerrilla campaign in the province.
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/as/Qserbia-montenegro-
attack.RD_v_DaC.html
Ethnic Albanian militants claim responsibility for
attack in Serbia
DOBROSIN, Serbia-Montenegro, Aug 12 (AFP) - An
ethnic-Albanian extremist group claimed responsibility
Tuesday for a mortar attack on a Serbia and Montenegro
army base, warning that more was to come.
The Albanian National Army (ANA), which also operates
in Kosovo and Macedonia, said in a statement that it
had fired the mortars at the base near this southern
Serbian village on Sunday night.
The shadowy militia said its "special forces of the
Adem Jashari division have successfully attacked a
military base of Serbia and Montenegro", adding that
its fighters had withdrawn to prepare new attacks.
Little is known about the ANA, which has also claimed
responsibility for attacks in the neighbouring Serbian
province of Kosovo and nearby Macedonia.
It has been labelled a "terrorist" organisation by the
United Nations mission in Kosovo, where two of its
suspected members are wanted on terrorism charges.
Defence ministry officials in Belgrade said there were
no injuries or significant property damage in Sunday's
attack, the first for more than a year against regular
army troops in the mainly ethnic-Albanian area of
southern Serbia.
The area has been a hotbed of ethnic-Albanian
separatism, which erupted into open conflict with
Serbian security forces from January 2000 to May 2001.
Defence Minister Boris Tadic, who visited Dobrosin on
Monday with Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Branko
Krga and Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic,
called the attack a "classic" act of terrorism.
"The plan is very simple, to destabilise the entire
region, to provoke the army to react inadequately and
contribute to further destabilisation," he said.
Jashari, who the ANA mentions in its statement, was a
leading commander of the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) which waged a separatist
guerrilla campaign against Serbian forces during the
1998-99 Kosovo war.
He was killed by Serbian police in 1998 and the KLA
was disbanded as Kosovo came under UN and NATO
administration after the war.
The ANA says it is fighting to create a greater
Albania including Kosovo and parts of Macedonia and
southern Serbia.
GOVERNO SERBO CHIEDE ALLA KFOR DI RIVELARE L'IDENTITA' DEI RESPONSABILI
DEGLI ATTACCHI
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EYug.htm#Serbian%20premier%20says%20KFOR%20might%20know%20who%20attacked
%20SCG%20Army%20base
Tanjug, August 12, 2003
Serbian premier says KFOR might know who attacked SCG
Army base
18:48 BELGRADE , Aug 12 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier
Zoran Zivkovic said Tuesday that investigation of the
grenade attack on Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Army base in
Dobrosin must be carried out as soon as possible in
order to identify the culprits.
Zivkovic told a press conference that one might try to
guess whether the grenades were launched from
Kosovo-Metohija or from some ethnic Albanian village
in southern Serbia. However, KFOR, which has all
technical means at its disposal, is the best placed to
say who launched the attack. If they claim they do not
know, they are concealing trhe culprits, Zivkovic
added.
ALTRA BOMBA DEI SECESSIONISTI
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FoNet, August 14, 2003
Bomb attack in south Serbia
BUJANOVAC -- Thursday – There has been another bomb
attack in the south Serbian region of Bujanovac, where
an explosive device was thrown beside the road between
the villages of Lucane Konculj.
There were no casualties in the explosion and police
say the bomb, which was most probably thrown from a
vehicle, was not powerful.
Police have stepped up security measures in the area
after a number of recent incidents.
NUOVI ATTACCHI CONTRO LA POLIZIA AL CONFINE AMMINISTRATIVO CON IL KOSMET
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Renewed attacks on Serbian police around Kosovo
BELGRADE, Aug 16 (AFP) - Serbian police were fired on
by unknown assailants close to a village on the
boundary between central Serbia and the
UN-administered province of Kosovo, the Serbian
government said Saturday.
Assailants armed with automatic weapons shot at a
police post close to the Albanian-populated village of
Konculj late on Friday night.
There were no casualties, but the government dubbed
the incident a "terrorist" act in a statement on Saturday.
This is the third attack in less than a week against
Serbian security forces on the administrative boundary
area between Kosovo and central Serbia.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia on August 10.
Two days later, on August 12, an army patrol was
attacked by a group of 15 ethnic Albanian "extremists"
in broad daylight, near the military base of Susnjak.
The Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic told
Belgrade-based radio B92 that he expected such attacks
by "extremist Albanians" to continue. But also he
warned it was imperative to avoid being provoked into
retaliation.
The southern Serbian province of Kosovo has been
administered by a United Nations mission established
at the end of the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces
and separatist ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.
NUOVA RIVENDICAZIONE A.N.A.
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cl/Qserbia-kosovo-albania.RUp9_DaH.html
Ethnic Albanians claim responsibility for attack on
Serbian police post
BELGRADE, Aug 17 (AFP) - The rebel Albanian National
Army (ANA) in Kosovo said Sunday it was responsible
for firing on a Serbian police station in which no one
was hurt.
In a statement, the group said it had acted in
self-defense Friday after coming under attack by the
Serbian police.
The action at the police post occurred on the boundary
between Serbia and the UN-administered province of
Kosovo.
The Serbian government said it was a terrorist attack.
The UN mission that has run Kosovo since 1999 has also
defined the ANA as a terrorist group.
The ANA seeks the creation of a greater Albania
including Kosovo, which has a huge majority of ethnic
Albanians, and parts of southern Serbia and western
Macedonia.
Although ethnic Albanian forces were made to surrender
their weapons in 2001, armed clashes between Serbian
security forces and Albanian fighters have occurred
regularly since then.
The incident at the police post was the third in less
than a week, and also included a mortar attack on an
army base in southern Serbia and an ambush of an army
patrol.
The ANA said the action at the police post near the
ethnic Albanian village of Konculj was commanded by
"Colonel Alban Shkaba."
The rebels shot at the post with automatic weapons.
The Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic
earlier warned it was imperative to avoid being
provoked into retaliation.
Although still legally part of Serbia, Kosovo has been
administered by a United Nations mission established
at the end of the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces
and separatist ethnic Albanian guerrillas.
A.N.A. INVITA AD INSORGERE PER LA GRANDE ALBANIA
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=24250&style=headlines
Beta, August 17, 2003
Outlawed army urge southern Serbian uprising
PRESEVO -- Sunday -- Aljban Vjosa, representative of
the outlawed Albanian National Army, has urged
Albanian political representatives in the southern
Serbian districts of Bujanovac, Medvedja and Presevo
to join the terrorist group in its project to create
and Albanian ethnic state.
In an interview for presheva.com website, Vjosa
declared himself a member of the ANA's political wing
– the United Front for National Unity of Albanians –
and insisted that Albanian political leaders do not
deserve the trust of their voters.
He said that the time has come for Albanian political
parties in the Presevo Valley to unit around the
platform of the United Front, declaring those
promoting multiethnicity as "naive".
He insisted that the territory of central Serbia is
occupied territory colonised by Serbs and that
military facilities in the area were constructed
purely with the goal of massacring the Albanian
population.
He said that the violence in the southern Serbian
municipalities that are homes to ethnic Albanians
would continue until they become part of an Albanian
ethnic state.
He said "everybody's eyes shined" after the attack of
the Serbia-Montenegro base at Dobrosin, which he
repeated was merely "colonised" by Serbs.
Former UNMIK chief Michael Steiner declared the
Albanian National Army a terrorist organisation.
COVIC ACCUSA IL "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE DEL KOSOVO" EREDE DELL'UCK
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
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B92, August 17, 2003
Gunmen open fire at border, Covic blames Kosovo Corps
BUJANOVAC -- Saturday -- Unknown gunmen shot at the
Konculj police station adjacent to the administrative
border with Kosovo at about 10:00 p.m. last night,
discharging several bursts from automatic weapons.
Deputy Serbian PM Nebojsa Covic pointed the finger at
the Kosovo Protection Corp.
Radoman Ilic, B92's Bujanovac correspondent, reported
that shots also ricocheted off police and customs
posts a few hundred metres from the police outpost
building.
The Serbian Government's Bujanovac press centre said
that this "latest terrorist attack" only caused slight
structural damage to the customs building.
Covic: We cannot be provoked
Deputy PM Covic said in a statement for B92 that he
expects these attacks to continue: "I don't think the
situation is escalating, but there are obviously some
provocations. According to my expectations, these will
increase and it's very important that our security
forces function in accordance with the plans and
operations that were set up".
The Democratic Alternative leader called for maximum
caution and continued action with the highest
professional approach, warning that Serbia cannot
afford to be provoked.
He added: "Probably the phantom ANA [Albanian National
Army, declared illegal] will make an announcement, but
just know that it's high-tech trickery: it is not the
ANA, it's the KZK, and that is the Kosovo Protection
Corps. They are behind it".
Investigation launched
Arriving this morning, Vranje District Court
investigator Slavoljub Mihajlovic and deputy district
prosecutor Radica Ristic began an investigation into
the attack. Members of UNMIK and Belgrade's
Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Southern Serbia
joined them at the scene.
The government's local press centre announced that the
Coordination Centre, headed by Covic, would do
everything in its power to prevent these attacks,
which are endangering the safety and disrupting the
lives of citizens.
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug081703c.htm
Covic says ANA trick covering up Kosovo Protection Corps
Tanjug - August 17, 2003
16:59 BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Premier and Coordinating Center for
Kosovo and Metohija President Nebojsa Covic said on Sunday, ahead of
his departure for New York to attend a United Nations (UN) Security
Council session on Kosovo, that the Albanian National Army (ANA) is an
ordinary trick and that the Kosovo Protection Corps is behind the
terrorist attacks in Kosovo and Metohija.
"ANA is a computerized high-tech trick, a game played with sites, and
the real ANA is in fact the Kosovo Protection Corps," Covic told
Tanjug, commenting on a report that this ethnic Albanian extremist
organization had claimed responsibility for an attack on a Serbian
control-security checkpoint near Konculj village late Friday.
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Beta, August 19, 2003
KFOR “aware of" terrorist organisations
PRISTINA -- Monday – International peacekeepers in
Kosovo are aware of terrorist organisations operating
in the province, the commander of KFOR’s Multinational
Brigade East said today.
General Jerry G. Beck told media at US Camp Bondsteel
that extremist organisations were also attempting to
export conflict into neighbouring countries.
He warned that terrorists would not be tolerated and
that they would be identified, apprehended and punished.
Beck was unwilling to either confirm or deny the
presence of the outlawed Albanian National Army on the
administrative border between Kosovo and Serbia proper.
ANCORA UN ALTRO ATTACCO DEI TERRORISTI CON BASE IN KOSOVO
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bj/Qserbia-kosovo-shooting.RmWZ_DaM.html
Army patrol under fire in southern Serbia
BELGRADE, Aug 22 (AFP) - A group of ethnic-Albanian
militants posing as illegal woodcutters opened fire on
an army patrol in southern Serbia, sparking a brief
gun battle, the Tanjug news agency reported Friday.
It said the men fled across the provincial border to
Kosovo, which is a United Nations protectorate, after
the fight on Thursday night.
The defence ministry in Belgrade said there were no
casualties on the Serbia-Montenegro army side but made
no comment about injuries to the gunmen.
The ministry said the gunmen were posing as
woodcutters in order to scout Serbian army positions
and "destabilise the situation" in southern Serbia,
which has a restive ethnic-Albanian population.
A similar attack earlier this month was dismissed by
UN police in Kosovo as being a minor incident, but the
defence ministry here said that the two attacks were
far more serious than they appeared.
There has been a spate of attacks on army personnel in
southern Serbia in recent days.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia on August 10.
The ANA also claimed that it had fired automatic
weapons at a Serbian police post near the
ethnic-Albanian village of Konculj a few days later.
On August 12, an army patrol was attacked by a group
of 15 ethnic-Albanian "extremists" in broad daylight,
near the military base of Susnjak.
Serbian officials have warned that they expect such
attacks by "extremist Albanians" to continue but the
army will not be provoked into retaliation.
The southern Serbian province of Kosovo has been
administered by a UN mission established at the end of
the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces and separatist
ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.
Its ethnic-Albanian majority wants independence from
Serbia.
ALTRE TRE GRANATE, FERITI DUE RAGAZZINI
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug, August 24, 2003
Three grenades launched on Presevo, children injured
19:15 BELGRADE , Aug 24 (Tanjug) - In a terrorist
attack on Presevo, Saturday evenign at 21.55, three
grenades were launched, and in the attack were
slightly injured two fifteen-year-olds,
Radio-Television Vranje said on Sunday. Two grenades,
it was confirmed to Tanjug in RTV Vranje, fell in the
courtyard of the Cultural Center, while one fell on an
adjacent house.
Member of the government coordination center for
southern Serbia Mica Markovic said that it is not yet
known what was the target of the terroroist attack, as
in the vicinity of the Cultural center is a local
police station, or from where the 40 mm missiles were
fired, as the range of as automatic grenade launcher
is one kilometer.
GENERALE KFOR DIFENDE IL "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE"
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=24372&style=headlines
SNRA, August 27, 2003
Corps not hiding KLA and ANA fighters: UNMIK general
VIENNA -- Wednesday -- General Andrew Cumming,
assigned by UNMIK to monitor the Kosovo Protection
Corps, dismissed claims by the Coordination Centre for
Kosovo chief Nebojsa Covic that the Corps is an
organisation set up for hiding former fighters of the
disbanded Kosovo Protection Corps and the Albanian
National Army.
He told Austrian news agency APA there was no evidence
of Corps members' involvement in the attacks in the
last few weeks.
Cumming confirmed that the UNMIK launched
investigations against several members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps, but not because they were members of
the ANA.
He declined to comment on the details of indictments
against seven senior Corps members temporarily
suspended by the Corps Commander Agim Cheku under
suspicion of involvement in the demolition of railway
bridge in northern Kosovo for which the ANA claimed
responsibility.
APA reminded that various measures have been launched
against several hundred Corps members this year, 24 of
which on KFOR's initiative.
ED ARRIVANO ANCHE I PROFUGHI ALBANESI DI MACEDONIA !
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Beta, August 31, 2003
Macedonian Albanians flee to south Serbia
PRESEVO -- Sunday – A number of Albanian families from
the Kumanovo region of Macedonia today have sought
refuge in south Serbia from armed conflicts near their villages.
The families have been accommodated in the Presevo region.
According to the Albanian refugees, tension is rising
in the Kumanovo municipality and uniformed members of
Albanian paramilitary groups have been seen in the
villages of Vaksince and Lojane.
The number of families who have sought asylum is not
yet known.
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E' SERBO, PERCIO' GLI SPARANO IN BOCCA
===
STAVA PESCANDO IN RIVA AD UN FIUME
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B92, August 12, 2003
Serb in critical condition after Kosovo shooting
LIPLJAN -- Tuesday – A Serb from the Lipljan area of
Kosovo is in a critical condition after being shot
last night near a road leading to the Albanian village
of Glavnica.
Dragan Tonic underwent eight hours of surgery for a
wound to the face, a Kosovska Mitrovica hospital
spokesman told B92, adding that he was expected to
regain consciousness during post-operative care.
Tonic was found by shepherds near the bank of the
Sitnica River where he had been fishing.
TRASFERITO IN OSPEDALE A BELGRADO
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Beta, August 13, 2003
Serb shot in Kosovo transferred to Belgrade
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- Kosovo-Serb Dragan Tonic,
shot in the head whilst fishing in Kosovo, has been
transferred to Belgrade's Serbian Clinical Centre and
not the Military Medical Academy as earlier reported.
Beta were unable to obtain an update of Tonic's
condition, although Milan Ivanovic, deputy head of the
Mitrovica Hospital, did confirm that Tonic was moved
from Mitrovica to Belgrade in a critical condition,
following eight hours of surgery.
According to neighbours from the village of Skulanevo,
Tonic used improvised sign language to explain that
two unknown ethnic Albanians shot him in the mouth.
Skulanevo has around 90 Serb families comprising 350
citizens.
Since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, two Serbs from
the village have been killed and eight others injured
during ethnically motivated attacks.
Locals insist that none of the cases have been solved.
MUORE DOPO UNA AGONIA DI UNA SETTIMANA
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SNRA, August 18, 2003
Tonic passes away a week after Kosovo shooting
BELGRADE -- Monday -- Dragan Tonic, shot in the face a
week ago today, died last night in Belgrade's Clinical
Centre as a result of his injuries.
Kosovo-Serb Tonic was leisurely fishing on the River
Sitnica around 150 metres from the last Serb homes in
the village of Skulanevo, when unknown attackers,
suspected to be from a neighbouring ethnic Albanian
village, opened fire, hitting Tonic in the mouth.
Responding to the death, Skulanevo villagers have
today blockaded the road linking Prizren, Lipljan and
Kosovo Polje, in the direction of the Slatina airport.
They demand that UNMIK police announce whether or not
any suspects from the neighbouring village of Gavica
have been arrested.
Belgrade's Coordination Centre for Kosovo confirmed
Tonic's death. A funeral is to be held tomorrow.
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ATTACCO CONTRO PATTUGLIA POLIZIA UNMIK
===
DOPO AVERE IMPEDITO L'ACCESSO IN CASA DI UN NAZIONALISTA PANALBANESE
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Beta, August 12, 2003
Kosovo police patrol attacked by wanted Albanian
PRISTINA -- Monday -- A police patrol suffered [an]
armed attacked in the village of Ajvalija close to
Kosovo's provincial capital of Pristina today, when
they were fired upon from an Albanian man's house.
UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angeli confirmed that the
attack ensued after officers approached the house of a
wanted man, saying: "When the police surrounded the
house this person opened the door and opened fire, and
then shouted 'Don't come in'. Not one policeman was
wounded".
Beta report that the attack in the exclusively ethnic
Albanian village took place at around 2.30pm and an
investigation is said to be underway.
===
CECCHINI DELLA NATO FANNO IL TIRO A SEGNO
CONTRO I BAMBINI IN RIVA AL FIUME, DUE MORTI
===
[Note: The US government-run Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty chooses to spell Kosovo as Kosova in order to be prepared for
the province's secession.]
SCENDE IN PIAZZA TUTTA LA COMUNITA' SERBA
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2003
LOCAL SERBS AND ALBANIANS PROTEST
A crowd of Serbs blocked an important road in western
Kosova on 14 August to protest the killings,
international and regional media reported. Meanwhile,
in Serbian-controlled northern Mitrovica, unidentified
individuals threw a grenade into the home of an ethnic
Albanian. About 3,000 Serbs demonstrated in that town,
carrying signs reading "Serbia, wake up!" and "Europe,
open your eyes!" Local Serb leader Milan Ivanovic
called for the capture of what he called "Albanian
criminals" and their extradition to the Hague-based
war crimes tribunal. He demanded the return of Serbian
security forces to Kosova, as did another local Serb
leader, Marko Jaksic, adding, "Everyone can now see
with what monsters the Serbs of Kosovo...have to live
with." UN officials previously ruled out the return of
Serbian forces, fearing that they would serve as a
magnet for attacks by ethnic Albanian extremists. In
Prishtina, all leading Kosovar Albanian political
leaders and daily newspapers condemned the killings,
which "Koha Ditore" called "simply a terrorist act."
Hajredin Kuci, who is a member of the Kosova
parliament, told RFE/RL that Serbian Prime Minister
Zoran Zivkovic and other Serbian politicians should
not exploit the incident for political purposes. In
Tirana, the Albanian Foreign Ministry condemned the
shootings as a "serious crime." PM
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minals,%20take%20them%20to%20justIce
Tanjug, August 15, 2003
Protesters urge international community to find
criminals, take them to justice
18:04 STRPCE , Aug 15 (Tanjug) - A protest rally of
about 1,000 Serbs was held Friday in Strpce over the
killing of two Serb boys and the wounding of several
other children in Gorazdevac two days ago.
The protesters appealed to KFOR, UNMIK and the OSCE to
find and take to justice the perpetrators of the crime
in Gorazdevac and of all other crimes committed in
Kosovo since the arrival of international forces, and
to start honoring the UN Security Council Resolution
1244, including stepping up of their powers in order
to protect the Serbs remaining in the province and to
secure the return of the displaced.
UN MESSAGGIO ANCHE PER IL NUOVO GOVERNATORE COLONIALE HOLKERI
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/be/Qkosovo-shooting.RsSs_DaD.html
Kosovo Serbs shot dead as new UN chief arrives
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug 13 (AFP) - Two
Kosovo Serb teenagers were killed and four others were
injured in a shooting attack Wednesday as new UN
mission chief Harri Holkeri made his first visit to
the province, officials said.
An ethnic Albanian female was also injured when a
crowd of angry Serbs threw stones at her near the
scene shortly after the shooting around 2:00 pm (1300
GMT) at a river near the western village of Zahac.
"A group of people opened fire from machine guns at a
group of young Serbs as they were swimming in the
Bistrica river," Andrea Angeli, the spokesman for the
UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), told AFP.
"We can confirm there are two dead, one of them 19
years old."
UN officials earlier said five Serbs had been injured
in the attack along with the Albanian female.
A UN police spokeswoman said two of the injured Serbs
were in serious condition and had been flown by NATO
helicopter to a hospital in the north of the province.
The victims were from the nearby village of
Gorazdevac, an ethnic-Serb enclave surrounded by
ethnic-Albanian villages some 60 kilometers (40 miles)
west of the provincial capital Pristina.
The attack came an hour after the arrival of Holkeri
on his first visit to the UN-administered province,
which is still wrecked by ethnic violence four years
after a war between Serbs and the separatist Albanian
majority.
Holkeri met with the head of the NATO-led peacekeeping
force in Kosovo (KFOR), Italian Lieutenant General
Fabio Mini, and later condemned the attack in a
statement sent to AFP.
"I am devastated that on my first day in Kosovo there
has been a terrible tragedy in which two Kosovo Serb
children have been killed and a number of other
persons injured," he said.
Mini condemned the attack and said it would damage the
province's image as it struggles to reinvent itself as
a multi-ethnic democracy which respects human rights
and the rule of law.
"I am sad to hear what happened. This is a bad signal
for the possibility for Kosovo to achieve tolerance,"
Mini said after meeting Holkeri.
"This is not the Kosovo we want."
Kosovo technically remains part of Serbia but it
became a UN protectorate after NATO bombed Yugoslavia
to stop troops loyal to then president Slobodan
Milosevic persecuting the ethnic Albanian majority.
UN police said they could not confirm the crime was
ethnically motivated but it appeared to be so.
L'ATTACCO E' AVVENUTO A POCA DISTANZA
DAGLI ITALIANI DELLA KFOR
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B92, Beta, August 13, 2003
Children die in Pec attack
PRISTINA -- Wednesday – UNMIK has confirmed that two
adolescents were killed and six wounded in an attack
near Pec today.
A spokesman for the UN mission said that unknown
gunmen opened fire on a group of young people swimming
and playing at the Bistrica river beach.
A Kalashnikov automatic rifle was used in the attack,
and the number of assailants has not been established.
Two Serbs, one aged eighteen and the other nineteen
died in the attack and a nineteen-year-old Albanian
was among the injured.
Locals told media that the attack had occurred despite
the presence of UNMIK troops guarding the swimmers.
SERBI BLOCCANO STRADE PER PROTESTA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EYug.htm#Serbs%20from%20Osojane%20build%20road%20blocks%20on%20Pec-
Kosovska%20Mitrovica%20road
Tanjug, August 14, 2003
Serbs from Osojane build road blocks on Pec-Kosovska
Mitrovica road
13:33 OSOJANE , August 14 (Tanjug) - More than 400
Serbs on Thursday continued to block the Pec-Kosovska
Mitrovica road and other roads that run through Osojane.
The roads have been blocked since Wednesday afternoon
in protest against the killing of Serb youths in the
village of Gorazdevac near Pec.
SERBI IN PIAZZA A MITROVICA
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EYug.htm#Protest%20rallies%20in%20Kosovska%20Mitrovica
Tanjug, August 14, 2003
Protest rallies in Kosovska Mitrovica
15:15 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , August 14 (Tanjug) -
Several thousands of citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica
gathered in the main square on Thursday to protest
under the slogan "Europe, why are you killing our
children?" expressing their indignation over
yesterday's terrorist attack on Serbs in Gorazdevac.
The protest rally began with a minute of silence in
memory of the murdered boys.
MIGLIAIA DI DIMOSTRANTI A GRACANICA
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24200&order=priority&style=headlines
SNRA, August 14, 2003
Protests in Gracanica
PRISTINA -- Thursday – Thousands of Kosovo Serbs
yesterday protested in Gracanica over yesterday’s
slaying of two young Serbs near Pec.
Protest organiser Slavisa Kostic called on Serbs to
withdraw from Kosovo institutions and demanded that
the Kosovo Protection Corps be disbanded.
He also called on Serbia-Montenegro to provide
protection for those Serbs remaining in Kosovo and
called for a traffic curfew in Serb areas.
STAZIONARIE LE CONDIZIONI DEI QUATTRO FERITI
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=24208&style=headlines
Beta/B92, August 14, 2003
Teenage Kosovo victims stable
BELGRADE/PRIZREN -- Thursday – Bogdan Bukumiric, one
of the teenage victims of yesterday’s shooting at a
Kosovo swimming hole, remains in intensive care after
undergoing surgery at the Military Medical Academy in
Belgrade.
Speaking to B92, head of intensive therapy Predrag
Romic said that the fifteen-year-old suffered injuries
to the head, chest and abdomen: "Surgery on little
Bogdan was completed at 11.30. The surgical operation
– brain surgery – was successful and without problems.
The patient is currently receiving further intensive care".
Romic said that Bogdan, who was transferred to
Belgrade last night, is currently stable: "pressure,
pulse and other vital functions are working fine. His
condition will be monitored and we'll be informing the
public about it".
Eleven-year-old Pantelija Dakic and twenty-year-old
Ivan Jovovic were killed in the attack yesterday while
swimming in the Bistrica River near Gorazdevac.
Four other children, including Bukumiric, were
wounded. Two of them, Dragan Srbljak and Djordje
Obrenovic are recovering from surgery in the Kosovska
Mitrovica hospital where their condition is reported
to be stable.
The fourth, Marko Bogicevic, was transferred to the
German Military hospital in Prizren for surgery
against his parents’ wishes.
The deputy director of the Kosovska Mitrovica
hospital, Milan Ivanovic, told Radio B92 that the
forced transfer was a flagrant violation of human
rights by KFOR and UNMIK officials who had promised
the boy’s parents he would be taken either to
Mitrovica or Belgrade.
“They obviously can’t be trusted,” said Ivanovic.
Siegfried Huben, KFOR's south-west sector spokesman,
later confirmed that ten-year-old Bogicevic is in a
stable condition.
Huben said that although the boy was shot in the
abdominal area and the chest, he is no longer in a
life-threatening condition.
The KFOR official added that he could not understand
the motivation for yesterday's barbaric attack, which
threatens to annul everything so far achieved towards
establishing peace in Kosovo.
NELL'OSPEDALE ("ETNICAMENTE RIPULITO") DI PEC FALSIFICATA LA DIAGNOSI
DI DUE DEI FERITI
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/bt082103.htm
Ministry accuses Albanian doctor of cover-up
Beta - August 20, 2003
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Serbian Health Ministry has today said
that Bujar Vrela, surgeon of the Pec Hospital, was guilty of a serious
violation of medical ethics and fundamental human rights.
On Friday, the Society of Physicians of Serbia accused Vrela of
deliberately misdiagnosing the injuries of two children following
Wednesday's attack on Serb teenagers near Pec.
The Society claimed that Vrela attempted to disguise the fact that one
of the wounded children had been shot by putting a plaster cast on him.
According to today's ministry statement, wounded Serb children Djordje
Ugrinovic and Dragana Srbljaka were not hospitalised, despite needing
to be. The ministry also accuse Vrela of misdiagnosing the injuries in
order to cover-up the real cause of the injuries.
The ministry said: "This way we want to inform the international
professional public and to warn of the unequal status of the Serbs in
Kosovo in tending to the ill and wounded by Albanian medical workers".
Copyright 2003 Beta News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only
Wrong diagnosis of ethnic Albanian doctors for Serb children wounded in
Gorazdevac
Tanjug - August 20, 2003
19:27 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of the Serbian Ministry of Health
department for Kosovo-Metohija Zdravko Vitosevic presented Wednesday
to the press evidence on the treatment Serb children Dragan Srbljak
and Djordje Ugenovic, wounded in the terrorst attack in Gorazdevac,
received at the Pec hospital, and said the documents were addressed to
the World Health Organization.
Vitosevic accused Pec hospital surgeon Bujar Vrela of concealing a
crime by pursposefully making a wrong diagnosis of fractures, instead
of gunshot wounds.
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only
CERIMONIA A BELGRADO
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index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24343&order=priority&style=headlines
B92, August 26, 2003
Thousands of people pay tribute to Gorazdevac victims
BELGRADE -- Monday - Several thousand people assembled
last night in central Belgrade to pay last tribute to
the two Serb teenagers recently killed in the Kosovo
village of Gorazdevac.
People from a number of Serbian cities lit candles for
the victims and expressed hope that crimes such as
that in Gorazdevac would not be repeated.
Aleksandar Milovanovic, executive director of the
Democratic Youth Association of Kosovo that organised
the rally, said that the death of teenagers Pantelija
Dakic and Ivan Jovovic proves that Kosovo Serbs live
and die in fear.
"We are asking for the right to live, because a Serbia
in which children get killed cannot be a country with
a future”, said Milovanovic.
He said it was time that the international community
started applying in Kosovo the same human rights
standards that are applied in all other European
countries.
The organisers announced peaceful protests in front of
embassies if the killers are not caught in the near future.
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LA PROTESTA DEL MONDO POLITICO SERBO
ED ALTRE REAZIONI
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http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/08/4-SEE/see-150803.asp
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2003
SERBIAN POLITICIANS SPEAK OUT
The Serbian government declared 15 August a day of
national mourning for the two slain Serbian youths,
international and regional media reported. Serbian
Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic called the killings "an
act of terrorism...[with the message that] Serbs
should be driven out of Kosovo." Serbia and
Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic said the
killings are "something more than a crime, something
the entire world is horrified at." Speaking after a
meeting of the Supreme Defense Council, he stressed,
"We are not here to make war cries but to try to
influence the United Nations and the European Union to
make concrete decisions." He did not elaborate.
Defense Minister Boris Tadic made similar remarks.
Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic argued that the
killings are a "tragic confirmation of the failure" of
NATO and the UN in the province. Serbian Deputy Prime
Minister Nebojsa Covic said that "fascism has arrived"
in Kosova. General elections are widely expected in
Serbia within the next 12 months, and many politicians
have been seeking to woo nationalist voters recently
with tough talk about Kosova. PM
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24189&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta, August 13, 2003
Covic calls for urgent Security Council meeting
BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Deputy Serbian Prime Minister
Nebojsa Covic today called for an urgent meeting of
the UN Security Council after two Serb teenagers were
killed and several more wounded in a machine gun
attack at a Kosovo swimming hole this afternoon.
“What happened today in Gorazdevac is the most brutal
form of behaviour and there are no words to describe
it,” said Covic, who heads Belgrade’s Kosovo
Coordination Centre.
“A meeting of the UN Security Council must be called
urgently and Secretary-General Kofi Annan must commit
himself urgently to resolving the problem,” said the
prime minister, adding that UNMIK and KFOR were not in
control of the situation in the province.
“The situation is handling them instead of them
handling the situation, and that’s not acceptable,”
Covic told media.
He also accused official UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angeli
of shameful behaviour by claiming that one of the
victims was Albanian.
“Serb children have been killed and wounded, and
statements like this are manipulation. They should
not be lying. They should be ashamed of what they are
doing to the Serb national community,” said Covic.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=24184&style=headlines
Beta, August 13, 2003
Regrets “not enough” for Kosovo violence
BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Kosovo Serb leader Oliver
Ivanovic said today that now is the last moment for
the international community and UNMIK officials to
respond to attacks on Serbs in the province.
Commenting on today’s slaughter o<br/><br/>(Message over 64 KB, truncated)
IL BREVE VOLO DI ANDREJ GRUBACIC
Gli intellettuali della sinistra "radicale" post-marxista alla Chomsky
si dimenano e danno segni di insofferenza.
Succede soprattutto nei Balcani, dove tante ben pagate teorizzazioni
sorosiane, tipo "societa' aperta", alla prova dei fatti - oggi che
tutti gli staterelli etnici sono protettorati stranieri gestiti da
leadership ultraliberiste - dimostrano di essere solo delle emerite,
inutili idiozie.
Lo abbiamo visto dapprima con Slavoj Zizek, che dopo avere
opportunisticamente navigato tra Lacan ed il cinema ha scritto un libro
ancora ambiguo, ma dal titolo eloquente: "Tredici volte Lenin".
Lo vediamo adesso pure con Andrej Grubacic, che attacca frontalmente -
finalmente! - il concetto di "societa' civile" ("civil society").
Dice di volerlo sostituire con qualcos'altro, tipo: "societa'
partecipativa" ("participatory society").
Grubacic spicca il volo: dopo averci ragionato un istante, arriva
persino ad invocare la "autogestione" ("self management").
A questo punto pero' si accorge di essersi spinto troppo in alto, e per
non rischiare di essere accusato di nutrire simpatie socialiste frena
bruscamente, e torna a volare piu' basso, con la "gestione
partecipativa":
"... participatory management, as I prefer to call it... we havent had,
in actual reality - in so called socialist Yugoslavia - real
self-management, but only a rhetorical reference to it... If I speak
about socialism and self management in Post Yugoslavia, people will
look at me like I am a supporter of Tito or a member of Milosevic's
"socialist" party... Being for socialism here means to people that you
are for oppression."
Capendo di avere rischiato troppo, ed alla ricerca disperata di una
teoria politica che neghi a tutti i costi l'esistenza della
contraddizione di classe (anatema!), Grubacic scende giu' in picchiata
con l'"Impero" e le "moltitudini".
Deve pero' subito riconoscere che nessuno puo' prendere sul serio
questi due concetti cosi' stupidi - tantomeno nei Balcani:
"... Hardt and Negri's book, which is very interesting... (leaves) most
of even the highly educated in a state of confusion. Reading a book
which is describing something called "Empire" which has supposedly
superceded nation states, in a country occupied by U.S. milltary forces
is, I suppose, a strange experience for most of the readers. But I
don't want to say that this book is not useful. I think it is of value
to Marxist intellectuals in a country where "Marxism" was an official
state ideology. For them, I suppose, it is challenging. But I doubt
that it will have any significant influence in this part of Europe...
'the multitude'. I am not sure anyone really knows what this means."
Avendo dunque completamente perso la spinta nelle ali, Grubacic termina
miseramente il suo volo, andando a schiantarsi sull'utopismo anarchico.
Leggere per credere:
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=4074
Civil Society Or Participatory Society
by Andrej Grubacic; August 21, 2003
(a cura di I. Slavo)
Gli intellettuali della sinistra "radicale" post-marxista alla Chomsky
si dimenano e danno segni di insofferenza.
Succede soprattutto nei Balcani, dove tante ben pagate teorizzazioni
sorosiane, tipo "societa' aperta", alla prova dei fatti - oggi che
tutti gli staterelli etnici sono protettorati stranieri gestiti da
leadership ultraliberiste - dimostrano di essere solo delle emerite,
inutili idiozie.
Lo abbiamo visto dapprima con Slavoj Zizek, che dopo avere
opportunisticamente navigato tra Lacan ed il cinema ha scritto un libro
ancora ambiguo, ma dal titolo eloquente: "Tredici volte Lenin".
Lo vediamo adesso pure con Andrej Grubacic, che attacca frontalmente -
finalmente! - il concetto di "societa' civile" ("civil society").
Dice di volerlo sostituire con qualcos'altro, tipo: "societa'
partecipativa" ("participatory society").
Grubacic spicca il volo: dopo averci ragionato un istante, arriva
persino ad invocare la "autogestione" ("self management").
A questo punto pero' si accorge di essersi spinto troppo in alto, e per
non rischiare di essere accusato di nutrire simpatie socialiste frena
bruscamente, e torna a volare piu' basso, con la "gestione
partecipativa":
"... participatory management, as I prefer to call it... we havent had,
in actual reality - in so called socialist Yugoslavia - real
self-management, but only a rhetorical reference to it... If I speak
about socialism and self management in Post Yugoslavia, people will
look at me like I am a supporter of Tito or a member of Milosevic's
"socialist" party... Being for socialism here means to people that you
are for oppression."
Capendo di avere rischiato troppo, ed alla ricerca disperata di una
teoria politica che neghi a tutti i costi l'esistenza della
contraddizione di classe (anatema!), Grubacic scende giu' in picchiata
con l'"Impero" e le "moltitudini".
Deve pero' subito riconoscere che nessuno puo' prendere sul serio
questi due concetti cosi' stupidi - tantomeno nei Balcani:
"... Hardt and Negri's book, which is very interesting... (leaves) most
of even the highly educated in a state of confusion. Reading a book
which is describing something called "Empire" which has supposedly
superceded nation states, in a country occupied by U.S. milltary forces
is, I suppose, a strange experience for most of the readers. But I
don't want to say that this book is not useful. I think it is of value
to Marxist intellectuals in a country where "Marxism" was an official
state ideology. For them, I suppose, it is challenging. But I doubt
that it will have any significant influence in this part of Europe...
'the multitude'. I am not sure anyone really knows what this means."
Avendo dunque completamente perso la spinta nelle ali, Grubacic termina
miseramente il suo volo, andando a schiantarsi sull'utopismo anarchico.
Leggere per credere:
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=4074
Civil Society Or Participatory Society
by Andrej Grubacic; August 21, 2003
(a cura di I. Slavo)
LASCIATELO LAVORARE!
Il sindaco di Kragujevac ha deciso di mettersi a recitare la parte
della vittima per mettere fine alle contestazioni di decine e decine di
cittadini, che ogni giorno sostano dinanzi al Municipio per protesta
chiedendo politiche contro la disoccupazione e la miseria.
Questo sindaco fa parte di quella coalizione di destra che, dopo avere
"liberato" la Serbia dal veteronazidespocomunista Milosevic, ha
smantellato e messo in svendita tutte le attivita' produttive, a
partire dalla Zastava, riducendo la popolazione alla disperazione ed
alla fame.
SERBIA: SINDACO SCIOPERA CONTRO SCIOPERANTI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 28 AGO - Stanco di vedere tutti i giorni davanti
al municipio una fila di dimostranti in sciopero della fame, il
sindaco di Kragujevac (Serbia centrale) Vlatko Rajkovic ha iniziato a
sua volta un digiuno di protesta per mettere fine ai sit in.
Rajkovic, scrive il quotidiano 'Danas', si e' detto in totale
disaccordo con le ragioni dei dimostranti, operai e impiegati di
aziende di trasporti e alimentari che hanno chiesto l'aiuto delle
autorita' locali per superare la crisi legata ai processi di
privatizzazione in corso. Ha deciso percio' di intraprendere a sua
volta quello che definisce uno ''sciopero lavorativo contro gli
scioperanti'': digiuna nel suo studio sbrigando al contempo le
pratiche. Rajkovic ha convocato per gli inizi di settembre i leader
della protesta, allo scopo di aprire un negoziato. Nel frattempo,
intende digiunare finche' le proteste continueranno. (ANSA). OT
28/08/2003 18:17
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/20030828181732671228.html
Il sindaco di Kragujevac ha deciso di mettersi a recitare la parte
della vittima per mettere fine alle contestazioni di decine e decine di
cittadini, che ogni giorno sostano dinanzi al Municipio per protesta
chiedendo politiche contro la disoccupazione e la miseria.
Questo sindaco fa parte di quella coalizione di destra che, dopo avere
"liberato" la Serbia dal veteronazidespocomunista Milosevic, ha
smantellato e messo in svendita tutte le attivita' produttive, a
partire dalla Zastava, riducendo la popolazione alla disperazione ed
alla fame.
SERBIA: SINDACO SCIOPERA CONTRO SCIOPERANTI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 28 AGO - Stanco di vedere tutti i giorni davanti
al municipio una fila di dimostranti in sciopero della fame, il
sindaco di Kragujevac (Serbia centrale) Vlatko Rajkovic ha iniziato a
sua volta un digiuno di protesta per mettere fine ai sit in.
Rajkovic, scrive il quotidiano 'Danas', si e' detto in totale
disaccordo con le ragioni dei dimostranti, operai e impiegati di
aziende di trasporti e alimentari che hanno chiesto l'aiuto delle
autorita' locali per superare la crisi legata ai processi di
privatizzazione in corso. Ha deciso percio' di intraprendere a sua
volta quello che definisce uno ''sciopero lavorativo contro gli
scioperanti'': digiuna nel suo studio sbrigando al contempo le
pratiche. Rajkovic ha convocato per gli inizi di settembre i leader
della protesta, allo scopo di aprire un negoziato. Nel frattempo,
intende digiunare finche' le proteste continueranno. (ANSA). OT
28/08/2003 18:17
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/serbiamontenegro/20030828181732671228.html
Kosmet, ferragosto di sangue
2: Articoli in lingua italiana sul terrorismo pan-albanese, attivo non
solo in Kosmet
Ulteriore materiale, in lingua inglese, sulla carneficina in atto in
Kosovo con la copertura NATO, sara' inviato nei prossimi messaggi.
I dispacci ANSA sono stati ripresi dal sito
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
al solo scopo di segnalazione e commento.
Si raccomandano i quotidiani della sinistra di non parlare del problema
e, se proprio devono parlarne, di cercare di dare sempre la colpa a
Milosevic.
(a cura di I. Slavo)
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KOSOVO: PEC; VIOLENTA SPARATORIA, TRE MORTI E QUATTRO FERITI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 3 AGO - Una violenta sparatoria ha provocato nella
tarda serata di ieri tre morti e quattro feriti nel centro di Pec,
nel Kosovo occidentale, zona sotto il controllo dei militari italiani
della Kfor (Forza di pace a guida NATO): lo ha detto all' ANSA il
portavoce dell' Unmik (Amministrazione ONU in Kosovo) Andrea Angeli.
La sparatoria durata alcuni minuti e' avvenuta verso le 22,30, a
poca distanza dal comando dei carabinieri della polizia militare. Le
vittime erano sedute sul terrazzo di un bar quando si sono trovate in
mezzo all'intenso fuoco partito da mitragliatrici e pistole. I
tre morti sono due ragazze di 14 e 24 anni e un uomo di 30. Non si
hanno ancora particolari sui 4 feriti che sono stati portati
d'urgenza all'ospedale di Pristina. Al momento si dubita che la
grave vicenda sia stata provocata da uno scontro fra bande rivali.
(ANSA). COR/ML 03/08/2003 01:31
KOSOVO: AGGUATO A POLIZIA UNMIK, UCCISO UN AGENTE
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 4 AGO - Un agente internazionale della polizia
Unmik (amministrazione Onu in Kosovo) e' rimasto ucciso poco prima
della mezzanotte di ieri in un agguato nelle vicinanze del villaggio
serbo di Slatina, nella zona di Mitrovica, nell' estremo nord del
Kosovo, mentre un altro poliziotto e' rimasto ferito: lo ha detto
all'Ansa il portavoce Unmik, Andrea Angeli. I due agenti stavano
viaggiando a bordo di una macchina della polizia da Leposavic (vicino
al confine con la Serbia) in direzione di Mitrovica, quando la loro
auto e' stata presa di mira da colpi di arma da fuoco. Un agente e'
morto sul posto. La macchina si e' rovesciata e l'altro poliziotto e'
rimasto ferito. L'Unmik non da' particolari sulla nazionalita'
degli agenti ma da altre fonti si apprende che il morto e' un
asiatico, mentre l'agente ferito e' europeo. (ANSA).
COR-LG/MEA 04/08/2003 11:47
KOSOVO: POLIZIOTTO ONU UCCISO DA CECCHINI
(ANSA-AFP) - PRISTINA (SERBIA-MONTENEGRO), 4 AGO - Un poliziotto
dell'Onu di nazionalita' indiana, Satish Menon, e' stato ucciso
domenica sera da proiettili che hanno colpito il suo veicolo su una
strada del nord del Kosovo, provincia serba a maggioranza albanese.
Lo annuncia oggi l'Onu in un comunicato. Il maggiore Menon, di 43
anni, sposato e con due figli di 6 e 8 anni, e' il primo poliziotto
Onu ucciso durante il servizio in questa provincia, amministrata
dalle Nazioni Unite dal giugno 1999. L'attacco si e' svolto sulla
strada che collega le citta' di Leposavic e di Kosovska Mitrovica, a
55 km a nord di Pristina, il capoluogo della provincia kosovara.
Il capo della polizia Onu in Kosovo, Stefan Faller, ha dichiarato che
l'attacco e' stata opera di un cecchino, ma il movente dell'omicidio
e' ancora sconosciuto. ''E' un crimine brutale e impensabile. La
ragione e' ancora sconosciuta ma e' chiaro che si tratta di un
attacco contro la polizia internazionale, perpetrato da criminali
intenzionati ad uccidere'', ha dichiarato Faller. La polizia Onu
ha bloccato la strada dove il maggiore e' stato ucciso e il capo ad
interim della missione Onu in Kosovo, Charles Brayshaw, ha dichiarato
l'omicidio ''un atto ignobile''. Circa 4.000 poliziotti Onu
collaborano con le forze di polizia locali in Kosovo. (ANSA). NOE
04/08/2003 19:04
KOSOVO: UNMIK, RICOMPENSA PER RINTRACCIARE ASSASSINI AGENTE
(ANSA-AFP) - PRISTINA (KOSOVO), 5 AGO - La missione dell'Onu in
Kosovo (Unmik) ha offerto una ricompensa di 50 mila euro per
qualsiasi informazione che possa portare alla cattura degli assassini
di uno dei suoi agenti, avvenuto domenica notte nel nord della
provincia. Lo ha annunciato oggi un responsabile dell'Onu a Pristina.
Il capo della polizia dell'Onu in Kosovo, Stefan Feller, ha
indicato che la ricompensa sara' assegnata per ogni informazione che
portera' ''alla cattura e all'incriminazione degli assalitori''.
Il maggiore indiano Satish Menon, 43 anni, e' rimasto ucciso domenica
notte in un agguato mentre si trovava insieme ad un altro agente a
bordo di un'auto della polizia sulla strada che collega le citta' di
Leposavic e Kosovska Mitrovica, a 55 chilometri a nord di Pristina.
Menon e' il primo poliziotto dell'Onu ucciso in servizio in
Kosovo, amministrato dalle Nazioni Unite dal giugno 1999.(ANSA-AFP).
GGI
05/08/2003 17:02
SERBIA/MONTENEGRO: COLPI MORTAIO CONTRO BASE MILITARE
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 12 AGO - Una base militare dell'esercito della
Serbia-Montenegro nei pressi di Bujanovac, nella Serbia meridionale,
e' stata attaccata a colpi di mortaio, ha riferito il ministero della
difesa precisando che l'attacco ha causato solo lievi danni
materiali. I colpi di mortaio, da 40 millimetri, di fabbricazione
statunitense, sono stati lanciati da un punto nei pressi del
villaggio di Dobrosin, popolato solo da persone di etnia albanese.
L'azione e' stata rivendicata in un comunicato da un gruppo
estremista albanese, l'Esercito di liberazione nazionale (Ana o Aksh
in albanese) che opera sia in Kosovo che in Macedonia, riferisce
l'agenzia Beta. Poco conosciuta, l'Ana e' stata dichiarata
''organizzazione terrorista'' dalla Missione dell'Onu in Kosovo
(Minuk) che amministra la provincia dal giugno 1999. L'Ana dichiara
di lottare per la creazione di una grande Albania che comprenda il
Kosovo, il sud della Serbia e l'ovest della Macedonia. Durante la
guerra, il villaggio di Dobrosin e' stato una sorta di avamposto per
i guerriglieri separatisti albanesi nella Serbia meridionale. Il
ministro della difesa della Serbia-Montenegro Boris Tadic ha
affermato che l'attacco contro la base ''e' un classico atto di
terrorismo compiuto con lo scopo di destabilizzare''. Si tratta dal
primo attacco da un anno a questa parte contro l'esercito in questa
regione della Serbia a maggioranza albense. La stessa regione era
stata teatro tra il 2000 e il 2001 di scontri tra le forze di
Belgrado e una guerriglia locale albanese. (ANSA).
COR-KIP 12/08/2003 18:24
KOSOVO: NUOVE TENSIONI ETNICHE, SERBO FERITO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 12 AGO - Un contadino serbo e' stato gravemente
ferito da colpi di arma da fuoco ieri sera, nel villaggio di
Skuranevo, nella zona di Lipjan, nel Kosovo settentrionale: lo ha
detto all'Ansa Andrea Angeli, il portavoce dell'Unmik
(amministrazione Onu in Kosovo). Angeli, pero' non ha dato
spiegazioni sui possibili motivi dell'accaduto. Ma fonti locali hanno
spiegato all'Ansa che Dragan Tomic, 44 anni, stava pescando, quando
e' stato colpito in faccia con colpi di pistola, da distanza
ravvicinata. A sparare sono state due persone, che si sospetta siano
albanesi. Tomic e' stato trasportato nell'ospedale di Mitrovica, dove
si trova in condizioni critiche. L'agguato al contadino serbo
segue l'ondata di violenza scoppiata in Kosovo nelle ultime
settimane, e avviene in un contesto politico di forti tensioni fra
Pristina e Belgrado. Le nuove polemiche sul progetto della nuova
costituzione dell'Unione Serbia-Montengro, in cui la provincia a
maggioranza albanese viene considerata parte della Serbia, hanno
riacceso il dibattito sul futuro status del Kosovo, finora
amministrato in base alla risoluzione 1244 dell'Onu. (ANSA).
COR-LG 12/08/2003 11:51
KOSOVO: ATTACCATA PATTUGLIA ESERCITO SERBO
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 13 AGO - Una pattuglia dell'esercito di Serbia
e Montenegro e' stata attaccata da un gruppo di estremisti albanesi
in una regione presso il confine tra il Kosovo e il resto della
Serbia. Lo ha annunciato in serata un comunicato del ministero della
Difesa. Una pattuglia di ricognizione - afferma il comunicato - e'
stata attaccata alle 15:45 di ieri con armi da fanteria da un gruppo
di 15 estremisti albanesi nella regione dove si trova la basa
militare di Susnjak, sulla strada che collega Kursumlija (Serbia) a
Podujevo (Kosovo). La pattuglia - aggiunge il comunicato - ha
respinto l' attacco e catturato uno degli aggressori, Bajazit
Podvorica di Podujevo, consegnandolo alla polizia serba. Secondo
il ministero, non vi sono state vittime tra i militari. L'attacco
di ieri segue un bombardamento di mortaio due giorni prima - che ha
causato solo danni materiali - contro una base militare dell'esercito
presso Bujanovac, nella Serbia del sud, rivendicato da un gruppo
estremista albanese, l'Esercito nazionale albanese (Ana), attivo in
Kosovo e in Macedonia. (ANSA-AFP). DIG 13/08/2003 01:57
KOSOVO: SPARI SU ADOLESCENTI SERBI, 1 MORTO E 6 FERITI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 13 AGO - Un ragazzo serbo di 15 anni e' rimasto
ucciso e altri sei feriti, due dei quali in modo grave, oggi quando
un gruppo di adolescenti serbi intenti a fare il bagno in un fiume
nei pressi dell'enclave di Gorazdevac (nella parte occidentale della
provincia), e' stato attaccato oggi pomeriggio da sconosciuti,
probabilmente albanesi, a raffiche di mitra. Lo ha detto all'Ansa
Andrea Angeli, portavoce della missione Onu (Unmik). La nuova
esplosione di violenza interetnica in Kosovo e' avvenuta in
coincidenza con l'arrivo a Pristina del nuovo governatore Onu, Harri
Holkeri. Sul posto sono intervenuti i carabinieri dell'Unita'
specializzata multinazionale (Msu) e la polizia internazionale. Gli
investigatori ritengono che ad aprire il fuoco siano stati estremisti
albanesi. L'attacco e' avvenuto a meno di un'ora dall'arrivo a
Pristina di Holkeri, il governatore Onu della provincia che proprio
oggi assume l'incarico ricoperto fino allo scorso mese di luglio da
Michail Steiner. (ANSA). COR-BLL 13/08/2003 15:46
KOSOVO: SI AGGRAVA BILANCIO ATTACCO, MORTO SECONDO SERBO
(VEDI 'KOSOVO: SPARI SU ADOLESCENTI ...' DELLE 15:46) (ANSA) -
PRISTINA, 13 AGO - Si aggrava il bilancio dell' attacco armato
lanciato nel primo pomeriggio contro un gruppo di giovani serbi che
facevano il bagno in un fiume nel Kosovo occidentale: in ospedale e'
morto anche un ragazzo serbo di 19 anni, dopo il quindicenne deceduto
sul posto. Il numero dei feriti resta invece fermo a sei, due dei
quali in gravi condizioni: la polizia ha infatti accertato che oltre
agli adolescenti serbi raggiunti dai colpi di mitragliatore, c'e'
anche una bambina di etnia albanese. Il comandante generale della
Kfor, l'italiano Fabio Mini, al termine del suo primo incontro con il
nuovo governatore Onu della provincia, il finlandese Harri Holkeri,
ha condannato con forza l'attentato. ''Io ed Hokeri lavoreremo
insieme affinche' questi tipo di crimini sia eliminato per sempre -
ha dichiararto il generale - noi abbiamo bisogno dell'aiuto di
ognuno, e penso che la condanna verso questo tipo di azioni non sara'
mai abbastanza''. ''Questo - ha concluso - non e' il Kosovo che
noi vogliamo''. (ANSA). BLL 13/08/2003 17:05
KOSOVO: TENSIONE TORNA ALTA, FUOCO SU RAGAZZINI SERBI / ANSA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 13 AGO - Riesplode la violenza interetnica in
Kosovo, in coincidenza con l'arrivo a Pristina del nuovo governatore
Onu che, a partire dalle prossime settimane, dovra' partecipare ai
negoziati fra serbi e albanesi sul futuro status della provincia.
Un gruppo di adolescenti serbi intenti a fare il bagno in un fiume
nel villaggio di Zahaq, nei pressi dell'enclave di Gorazdevac (nella
parte occidentale della provincia), e' stato attaccato nel pomeriggio
di oggi da sconosciuti armati di fucili mitragliatori Kalashnikov: un
ragazzo di 15 anni e uno di 19 sono rimasti uccisi e altri sei
feriti, due dei quali in modo grave. Andrea Angeli, portavoce della
missione Onu (Unmik), ha detto all'Ansa che gli attentatori, ancora
sconosciuti, hanno aperto il fuoco contro il gruppo di ragazzini dal
riparo di un cespuglio. Sul posto sono intervenuti i carabinieri
italiani dell'Unita' specializzata multinazionale (Msu) e agenti
della polizia di Stato inquadrati nelle forze dell'Onu. Elicotteri
italiani della Kfor (missione di pace a guida Nato) hanno trasportato
i due feriti piu' gravi, inizialmente ricoverati nell'ospedale di
Peja, presso il centro sanitario militare tedesco a Prizren. I
serbi dell'enclave di Gorazdevac hanno detto che ad aprire il fuoco
sono stati estremisti albanesi, che gia' ieri avevano colpito nella
provincia, ferendo gravemente un uomo serbo intento a pescare.
L'attacco odierno e' avvenuto a meno di un'ora dall'arrivo a Pristina
di Harri Holkeri, il governatore Onu della provincia che da settembre
assumera' l'incarico ricoperto fino allo scorso mese di luglio da
Michail Steiner. Holkeri, che ha appreso la notizia mentre stava
incontrando per la prima volta il comandante della Kfor, il generale
italiano Fabio Mini, aveva gia' fatto sapere che nel fine settimana
si rechera' per colloqui anche a Belgrado. L'attentato di oggi
potrebbe essere stata la prima, tragica, risposta degli estremisti al
suo atteggiamento di apertura. Il generale Mini ha condannato
duramente l attacco: ''Non e questo il Kosovo che vogliamo'' ha
detto. La tensione fra serbi e albanesi negli ultimi giorni e'
cresciuta anche sul piano politico. Il governo di Belgrado ieri, per
la prima volta dalla fine della guerra, ha approvato una
dichiarazione con la quale esclude l'indipendenza del Kosovo (che e'
formalmente parte della Serbia), accettando invece di concedere solo
una ''autonomia sostanziale''. Soluzione ritenuta del tutto
insufficiente dalla leadership albanese a Pristina, che ha gia'
minacciato di boicottare i primi colloqui con Belgrado previsti per
la fine del mese. Ma vi sono tensioni diplomatiche anche con
Tirana. Nei giorni scorsi il ministro della difesa albanese, Pandeli
Majko, ha rifiutato un invito ad una tavola rotonda sulla sicurezza
regionale organizzata a Podgorica dall'Unione Serbia-Montenegro.
Majko ha detto apertamente di non poter sedere allo stesso tavolo con
i rappresentati di Belgrado, che si preparano ad approvare la nuova
Costitituzione dell'Unione che considera il Kosovo come parte
integrante della Serbia. Belgrado ha gia inviato una nota di
protesta. Il clima tornato infuocato rischia di prestare il fianco
anche ai movimenti di guerriglia albanesi che continuano ad essere
attivi nella zona. Ieri pomeriggio una pattuglia dell' esercito di
Serbia e Montenegro e' stata attaccata da guerriglieri albanesi a
ridosso della linea del confine amministrativo. Non si ha notizia di
vittime. Appena 48 ore prima colpi di mortaio erano stati sparati
contro una base militare nella Serbia del sud. (ANSA). BLL
13/08/2003 18:37
KOSOVO: SERBIA DICHIARA LUTTO PER UCCISIONE RAGAZZI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 14 AGO - Il governo serbo ha dichiarato quella di
domani giornata di lutto per ricordare i due adolescenti serbi,
uccisi ieri a Gorazdevac nel Kosovo occidentale da sconosciuti armati
mentre stavano facendo il bagno nel fiume Bistrica. In un
comunicato, il governo serbo ha dichiarato di voler incrementare le
misure di sicurezza per proteggere la popolazione. Anche il consiglio
supremo di difesa, guidato dal presidente di Serbia-Montenegro,
Svetozar Marovic, ha condannato l'uccisione dei due ragazzi e il
ferimento di altri sei, due dei quali in maniera grave. I
responsabili militari serbi hanno chiesto un'energica azione della
Kfor (missione di pace a guida Nato) e all'Unmik, la missione
dell'Onu, affinche' vengano trovati e puniti gli autori dell'agguato.
''Punire i colpevoli e' una precondizione indispensabile per
restaurare condizioni di pace, fiducia e stabilita' in Kosovo'', si
legge in un comunicato. Il patriarca serbo ortodosso Pavle ha
lanciato un appello agli albanesi del Kosovo e alle autorita' della
provincia perche' cessino immediatamente le violenze e i crimini.
''La violenza non ha mai portato del bene a nessuno'', si legge nel
messaggio del patriarca. (ANSA) COR-KIP 14/08/2003 18:14
KOSOVO: DOPO UCCISIONE SERBI INIZIANO PROTESTE PIAZZA/ ANSA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 14 AGO - Migliaia di serbi sono scesi in piazza
oggi in Kosovo per protestare contro la nuova ondata di violenza
etnica che ieri ha provocato la morte di due ragazzi serbi e il
ferimento di altri cinque. Manifestazioni sono avvenute nelle
citta' settentrionali di Kosovska Mitrovica e di Zvecan e intorno
all' 'enclave' di Gracanica. I dimostranti, pur senza provocare
incidenti, hanno accusato con durezza la missione delle Nazioni Unite
(Unmik), la Nato e la comunita' internazionale di non essere in grado
di garantire la sicurezza delle minoranze. Fra i serbi molti hanno
persino chiesto al governo di Belgrado di inviare ''con la forza''
unita' della polizia e dell'esercito per difendere i civili serbi che
vivono in Kosovo. Le forze di sicurezza serbe hanno lasciato la
provincia dal giugno 1999, subito dopo la fine della guerra con la
Nato. Mentre la Kfor, forza di pace a guida Nato, ha annunciato di
aver rafforzato i controlli per prevenire nuovi attacchi, la polizia
delle Nazioni Unite ha iniziato un vasto rastrellamento nel villaggio
occidentale di Zahaq, dove nel primo pomeriggio di ieri attentatori
tuttora sconosciuti hanno aperto il fuoco contro un gruppo di ragazzi
serbi che faceva il bagno in un fiume. Secondo gli abitanti della
vicina 'enclave' serba di Gorazdevac, dalla quale provenivano le
vittime dell'attacco armato, a sparare sarebbero stati estremisti
albanesi. La notte scorsa una bomba e' stata fatta esplodere contro
la sede del comando regionale della polizia nella citta'
meridionale di Prizren, mentre un secondo ordigno e' stato lanciato
contro una casa in costruzione a Kosovska Mitrovica, in un quartiere
abitato da albanesi e dalla minoranza bosniaca. Nessuno dei due
attentati ha provocato vittime, ma gli episodi bastano a testimoniare
come la tensione nella provincia non accenni a calare. ''Una
delle mie sfide sara' quella di ripristinare in Kosovo il dominio
della legge'', ha detto oggi Harri Holkeri, l'ex primo ministro
finlandese che da settembre assumera' l'incarico di nuovo governatore
Onu, succedendo al tedesco Michael Steiner. Holkeri e' giunto ieri a
Pristina per la sua prima visita, e appena sbarcato ha dovuto
apprendere la notizia dell'attacco di Zahaq. Domani si trasferira' a
Belgrado per un incontro con le autorita' serbe, che hanno gia'
chiesto la convocazione del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni
Unite. Il governo serbo ha inoltre proclamato una giornata di lutto
per domani e annunciato di voler incrementare le misure di sicurezza
per proteggere la popolazione serba. Nel condannare l'uccisione dei
ragazzi, il Consiglio supremo di Difesa, guidato dal presidente di
Serbia- Montenegro Svetozar Marovic, chiede a Kfor e Unmik di trovare
e punire gli autori dell'agguato, come ''precondizione
indispensabile per ripristinare condizioni di pace, fiducia e
stabilita' in Kosovo''. La tensione nella provincia sta crescendo
con l'approssimarsi dei negoziati fra serbi e albanesi, che
potrebbero iniziare alla fine del mese e che dovrebbero servire a
porre le basi per la definizione del futuro status del Kosovo. Due
giorni fa il governo di Belgrado ha approvato per la prima volta
dalla fine della guerra una dichiarazione con la quale afferma di
voler concedere al Kosovo solo una ''autonomia sostanziale'' negando
qualunque spazio per l'indipendenza, pretesa invece dagli albanesi.
(ANSA). BLL 14/08/2003 19:19
UE: KOSOVO, PRODI COSTERNATO PER UCCISIONE RAGAZZI
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 14 AGO - Il presidente della Commissione europea,
Romano Prodi, ha detto di essere ''costernato'' per l' attacco armato
che ieri e' costato la vita a due giovani serbi che nuotavano in un
fiume nei pressi di Gorazdevac, nel Kosovo occidentale, condotto
probabilmente da un gruppo di albanesi. Prodi ha dichiarato di
sentirsi ''vicino alle famiglie delle vittime'', inviando ''le piu'
sentite condoglianze''. ''La Commissione europea - ha precisato il
presidente dell' esecutivo Ue in una nota diffusa oggi - continuera'
i suoi sforzi assieme alla gente del Kosovo per aiutarla a liberarsi
definitivamente dall'eredita' del passato recente''. Inoltre, ha
concluso Prodi, ''ci auguriamo che questa terribile tragedia non
porti a un rallentamento del processo in corso verso la creazione di
un clima pacifico e sicuro per tutta la popolazione del Kosovo''.
Le nuove violenze interetniche in Kosovo sono sorte in coincidenza
dell'arrivo nella capitale, Pristina, del nuovo governatore Onu,
Harri Holkeri. (ANSA). RED*KSO 14/08/2003 19:39
KOSOVO:FUNERALI SENZA INCIDENTI PER DUE GIOVANI SERBI UCCISI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 15 AGO - Si sono svolti oggi senza incidenti
nell'enclave serba di Gorazdevac, nel Kosovo occidentale, i funerali
dei due ragazzi serbi di 11 e 19 anni uccisi due giorni fa in un
attacco armato che ha provocato anche cinque feriti: alla cerimonia
funebre, svolta in tempi successivi, sono intervenuti il primo
ministro serbo Zoran Zivkovic (per la prima volta giunto in questa
zona del Kosovo) e il suo vice Nebojsa Covic. La missione delle
Nazioni Unite (Unmik) era rappresentata dal vice governatore Charles
Brayshaw mentre per la Kfor (forza di pace a guida Nato) e'
intervenuto il vice comandante della brigata multinazionale sud-ovest
il colonnello italiano Antonello Vitale. Le esequie sono state
seguite da circa 1.500 civili serbi, in pratica tutti gli abitanti
dell'enclave dalla quale provenivano i sette giovani, colpiti nel
corso di un attacco armato mentre facevano il bagno in un fiume.
Il portavoce dell'Unmik, Andrea Angeli, ha detto all'Ansa che fino a
questo momento ''si ignorano i responsabili dell'attacco e la loro
appartenenza etnica''. In un primo momento, per un errore nella
elaborazione della notizia, era stata attribuita dall'Ansa allo
stesso Angeli una dichiarazione secondo cui l'Unmik sospettava il
coinvolgimento nell'attacco di estremisti albanesi, fatto invece del
quale non c'e' al momento alcuna prova e sospetto che l'Unmik non ha
mai avanzato. [ S I C ] E' stata invece la popolazione serba di
Gorazdevac ad accusare del grave attentato estremisti albanesi.
La polizia dell'Unmik sta continuando a compiere rastrellamenti ed
interrogatori nel tentativo di identificare e catturare i
responsabili del gesto, che e' stato duramente condannato dalla
leadership albanese del Kosovo e anche dal governo di Tirana.
BLL 15/08/2003 18:34
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Un albanese e un kosovaro sono fuggiti durante l'ora d'aria
Ma quasi tutte le forze dell'ordine erano impegnate nella festa
Fermo, evadono due detenuti
Ma il Palio complica le ricerche
Polizia e Carabinieri stanno pattugliando strade e stazioni
Non c'è ancora nessuna ipotesi sulle modalità della fuga
FERMO (ASCOLI PICENO) - Hanno approfittato dell'ora d'aria, ma ancora
di più del Ferragosto, una "giornata particolare" a Fermo, per evadere
dal carcere. Due detenuti hanno beffato i sistemi di sicurezza e sono
scappati dall'istituto di pena. Si tratta di un albanese, P.S., che
avrebbe dovuto restare in carcere fino al 2009 per omicidio volontario
(e che avrebbe altri due processi in corso), e di un kosovaro, B.R.,
condannato fino al 2011 per sequestro di persona, rapina, associazione
per delinquere e spaccio di stupefacenti.
Intorno alle tre di questo pomeriggio è stato dato l'allarme: i due
reclusi non sono tornati in cella al termine dell'ora d'aria. In un
primo momento si è pensato che avessero scavalcato il muro che cinge
tutt'attorno il carcere. Ma dagli accertamenti non risulta nessun segno
che possa portare a questa conclusione: il muro è alto 7-8 metri e i
due evasi avrebbero certamente utilizzato delle corde per poterlo
superare. Si era anche ipotizzato che all'esterno ci fosse stato un
complice ad aspettarli, ma neanche questa congettura ha trovato
riscontri.
La squadra mobile di Ascoli Piceno sta pattugliando tutta la zona, ma
non c'è traccia dei due malviventi. Sono state controllate stazioni
ferroviarie e strade; alcune abitazioni che avrebbero potuto offrire
asilo agli evasi sono state perquisite, oltre che i numerosi campi
nomadi.
Le ricerche, nel pomeriggio, sono state rese più difficili dalla festa
cittadina in corso a Fermo. Al Palio dell'Assunta, una delle principali
manifestazioni della città, c'erano sono moltissimi spettatori e
turisti e gran parte della forze di polizia era impegnata proprio
nell'ordine pubblico. Nel Palio si rievoca la quattrocentesca cavalcata
in onore dell'Assunta, santa patrona della città marchigiana.
Quella di oggi è la terza evasione-beffa in una settimana: la prima dal
carcere di San Vittore domenica scorsa. Un detenuto albanese per
fuggire ha utilizzato il classico sistema delle lenzuola, dopo aver
ricavato un buco nella cella con le posate. La terza sempre a Milano:
un uomo di 34 anni, marocchino, malato di tubercolosi, ieri è riuscito
a evadere dall'ospedale Sacco, in cui era ricoverato. Anche lui,
eludendo le guardie, si è calato dalla finestra del bagno.
Sull'evasione di questo pomeriggio il Dipartimento dell'amministrazione
penitenziaria (Dap) di Fermo ha aperto un'inchiesta: per domani mattina
è prevista un'accurata perquisizione nel penitenziario. Lo stesso Dap
ha dichiarato che il carcere di media sicurezza di Fermo, che può
ospitare fuino a 70 detenuti, non presenta particolari carenze di
organico rispetto ad altri istituti della regione.
(La Repubblica online, 15 agosto 2003)
KOSOVO: ANCORA SPARI CONTRO BAMBINI SERBI GORAZDEVAC
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 18 AGO - I`bambini dell'enclave serba di Gorazdevac
(zona di Pec, Kosovo occidentale) sono stati nuovamente bersaglio
ieri di un attacco, per fortuna senza conseguenze, dopo la strage che
mercoledi' scorso ha provocato la morte di due ragazzi e il ferimento
di altri quattro. Lo riferiscono i mezzi di informazione serbi.
Una dozzina di colpi di arma da fuoco, hanno detto testimoni agli
organi di informazione, sono stati sparati contro un gruppo di bambini
di Gorazdevac da una zona vicina al villaggio di Grabovac, abitato da
albanesi kosovari. Nessuno e' stato colpito. Il nuovo attacco e'
stato duramente stigmatizzato a Belgrado dal primo ministro Zoran
Zivkovic, che ha accusato la comunita' internazionale di non fare
abbastanza nel combattere il terrorismo etnico nella provincia. Nella
capitale serbomontenegrina, c'e' attesa per la riunione odierna del
consiglio di sicurezza dell'Onu dedicata al Kosovo: a New York e'
andato il vicepremier serbo incaricato della questione kosovara,
Nebojsa Covic, che premera' per una forte risoluzione contro
l'estremismo albanese. La violenza etnica si e' riaccesa d'altro
canto non solo nel Kosovo, ma anche nella Serbia del sud - abitata da
una consistente maggioranza albanese - dove si moltiplicano gli
attacchi ai posti di polizia. Sotto accusa e' una controversa sigla
estremista, l'Ana (Armata di liberazione elbanese), che secondo
Belgrado sarebbe una copertura usata da personaggi collegati con le
istituzioni albanesi kosovare - in particolare il corpo di protezione
civile - per sabotare i prossimi negoziati sul futuro della provincia.
Nel clima di tensione serbo-albanese si inserisce, secondo
Belgrado, anche l'attacco avvenuto ieri contro un posto di polizia del
Sangiaccato (regione al confine fra Serbia e Montenegro abitata da una
comunita' musulmana), nel quale e' stato ferito un agente. Secondo il
ministro serbomontenegrino per i diritti umani e delle minoranze Rasim
Ljajic - peraltro originario del Sangiaccato - sarebbe in atto ''un
tentativo di 'kosovizzare' anche quella regione''. (ANSA).
OT 18/08/2003 12:14
KOSOVO: MORTO SERBO FERITO UNA SETTIMANA FA
(ANSA-REUTERS-AFP) - BELGRADO, 18 AGO - Un serbo che era stato ferito
con un colpo d'arma da fuoco una settimana fa mentre pescava nel
fiume Sitnica, in una zona del Kosovo a maggioranza serba, e' morto
oggi in un ospedale di Belgrado dove era stato ricoverato. Lo ha reso
noto l'agenzia Beta. Dragan Tonic, 45 anni, era stato colpito alla
gola nei pressi del villaggio di Skulanovo, nel Kosovo centrale.
Aveva fatto capire a gesti ai suoi soccorritori di essere stato
aggredito da due persone. La morte dell'uomo segue di cinque
giorni l'uccisione, presumibilmente a opera di estremisti albanesi,
di due ragazzi serbi che nuotavano in un fiume nelle vicinanze di
Gorazdevac. In un comunicato diffuso stasera, il Consiglio di
sicurezza serbo afferma che la situazione della sicurezza in Kosovo
si e' ''drammaticamente deteriorata, minacciando di aggravarsi
ulteriormente e di mettere in pericolo le vite dei cittadini della
Repubblica (Serbia/Montenegro)''. Il Consiglio - aggiunge il
comunicato - ha concordato di adottare misure urgenti per
incrementare lo scambio di informazioni con le forze internazionali
(in Kosovo) per aiutarle a prevenire ''azioni terroristiche'', come
pure a identificare e catturare i loro autori. Il viceprimo
ministro serbo Nebojsa Covic - di cui e' atteso nelle prossime ore un
intervento al Consiglio di sicurezza dell' Onu per chiedere alle
forze in Kosovo di intervenire con vigore per far cessare tali
attacchi - ha affermato che, se la comunita' internazionale non
mostrera' i denti, i militanti albanesi cominceranno a puntare le
loro armi contro il personale dell'Onu e della Nato.
(ANSA-REUTERS-AFP). DIG 18/08/2003 22:48
KOSOVO: ESCE DAL COMA ADOLESCENTE FERITO IN STRAGE GORAZDEVAC
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 19 AGO - E' uscito stamane dal coma in cui versava
da circa una settimana Bogdan Bukumiric, il quindicenne gravemente
ferito mercoledi' scorso nell'enclave serba di Gorazdevac (zona di Pec,
Kosovo occidentale) in un attentato costato la vita a due ragazzi e nel
quale altri cinque adolescenti erano rimasti feriti.
Tutta la Serbia aveva seguito in questi giorni col fiato sospeso la
vicenda di Bogdan, ricoverato all'ospedale militare di Belgrado in
condizioni quasi disperate e sottoposto a piu' operazioni. Il ragazzo
e' cosciente, respira senza l'aiuto di apparecchi e ha potuto scambiare
qualche parola con i genitori e con i medici.
La strage, sulla quale le forze internazionali della Kfor hanno aperto
una indagine, e' stata discussa ieri in Consiglio di sicurezza
dell'Onu, che ha adottato una dura risoluzione di condanna contro la
violenza etnica nella provincia. Dalla fine della guerra kosovara, nel
giugno del 1999, sono stati registrati, secondo il vicepremier serbo
Nebojsa Covic, 6.013 attacchi contro serbi, con 1.021 vittime.
La tensione interetnica sale, con l'approssimarsi dei primi negoziati
diretti fra Pristina e Belgrado, non solo nel Kosovo. Oggi nella
Serbia del sud, nel villaggio di Lucani (abitato esclusivamente da
albanesi), due bombe a mano sono state lanciate contro l'abitazione di
un albanese tacciato, secondo alcune fonti, di 'collaborazionismo' con
le forze serbe. Un ospite dell'uomo e' rimasto ferito.
Il ministro degli esteri serbomontenegrino Goran Svilanovic,
commentando la condanna dell'Onu per la strage di Gorazdevac, ha
sottolineato con apprezzamento ''la svolta nel linguaggio adoperato: si
e' finalmente parlato con chiarezza di 'classici atti di terrorismo',
il che significa che i responsabili e le loro organizzazioni, quando
verranno individuati, saranno processati come terroristi''.
A Skulanovo (Kosovo centrale) si svolgono intanto oggi i funerali di
un'altra vittima delle violenze etniche di questi giorni, il serbo
Dragan Tonic, 44 anni, ucciso l'11 agosto mentre pescava in un torrente
vicino al suo villaggio. La cerimonia e' occasione per una
manifestazione di protesta, ma i responsabili hanno sottolineato che
non ci saranno violenze, per ''non cadere nella provocazione'' degli
estremisti albanesi. (ANSA). OT 19-AGO-03 13:15 NNNN
19/08/2003 15:02
KOSOVO: KFOR,ATTACCO A GIOVANI SERBI FU DEL TUTTO IMPREVISTO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 20 AGO - L'attacco armato al gruppo di giovani
serbi avvenuto la scorsa settimana nei pressi dell'enclave di
Gorazdevac, nel Kosovo occidentale, e costato la vita a due ragazzi
mentre altri cinque sono rimasti feriti, fu del tutto inaspettato: lo
afferma il comando della Kfor (forza di pace a guida Nato in Kosovo),
intervenuto per puntualizzare il ruolo svolto in questa drammatica
vicenda dopo che alcuni rappresentati serbi avevano rivolto pesanti
critiche al loro operato. ''La Kfor non ricevette nessuna
informazione preventiva sull'imminenza di un attacco contro i bambini
o alcun altro obiettivo a Gorazdevac - afferma il portavoce del
comando, colonnello Stefano Schiappacasse - ne' ricevette alcuna
richiesta di scorta per i ragazzi che intendevano fare il bagno nel
fiume'', luogo esterno all'enclave in cui e' poi avvenuto l'agguato.
Il portavoce ricorda che nel corso della missione ogni volta che
fonti di intelligence segnalano la possibilita' di un attacco,
vengono adottate immediatamente adeguate misure di prevenzione e di
controllo. L'attacco a Gorazdevac fu invece ''totalmente
inaspettato'', afferma la Kfor, tanto piu' che nelle settimane
precedenti si era svolto un incontro fra i rappresentanti delle
comunita' locali che lasciava ben sperare sull'avvio di una possibile
riconciliazione fra serbi e albanesi. Immediatamente dopo la
notizia dell'attacco, la Kfor e' intervenuta sul posto insieme alla
polizia delle Nazioni Unite mettendo anche a disposizione gli
elicotteri per il trasporto dei feriti, alcuni dei quali sono stati
curati nell'ospedale militare. I rappresentanti serbi di
Gorazdevac nei giorni scorsi avevano chiesto l'allontanamento dei
comandanti locali della Kfor e della polizia dell'Unmik (oltre al
sindaco albanese di Pec) perche' a loro parere non avrebbero fatto
nulla per impedire la strage. Nel frattempo i carabinieri
dell'Unita' specializzata multinazionale (Msu) insieme ad agenti
dell'Unmik e ai militari della Kfor hanno proseguito anche oggi i
rastrellamenti nei villaggi albanesi intorno a Gorazdevac alla
ricerca degli autori dell'attentato. (ANSA) BLL 20/08/2003
12:34
SERBIA: ALZATO LIVELLO ALLARME PER TENSIONI ETNICHE NEL SUD
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 22 AGO - Il premier serbo Zoran Zivkovic ha
ordinato oggi di innalzare i livelli di sicurezza dopo una serie di
attacchi contro le forze serbe da parte di estremisti albanesi nel sud
del Paese, abitato da una maggioranza etnica albanese. L'ultimo
episodio, denunciato oggi, riguarda una sparatoria contro una
pattuglia della polizia nei boschi al confine amministrativo col
Kosovo, nella zona di Presevo, Bujanovac e Medvedja gia' teatro in
passato di violenti scontri. Non ci sono stati feriti, ma il nuovo
attacco e' un ennesimo segnale di una possibile destabilizzazione
dell'area. L'estremismo albanese, accusa Belgrado, ha ripreso
vigore con l'approssimarsi dei primi negoziati diretti fra Pristina e
la Serbia dalla fine del conflitto kosovaro, nel giugno del 1999.
Negoziati che avrebbero dovuto iniziare gia' in luglio, ma che poi
erano stati rimandati all'autunno, e la cui data e' ancora in forse
dopo l'attacco che il 13 agosto a Gracanica, nell'ovest del Kosovo,
e' costato la vita a due ragazzi serbi di 11 e 19 anni e ha provocato
il ferimento di altri sei. (ANSA). OT 22/08/2003 14:53
SERBIA/MONTENEGRO: TRE ESPLOSIONI NELLA NOTTE A PRESEVO
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 24 AGO - Tre esplosioni sono avvenute stanotte
nella citta' meridionale serba di Presevo, causando il ferimento di
un uomo. Lo ha riferito l'agenzia di stampa Beta, citando testimoni.
Presevo e' vicina al Kosovo e la maggioranza degli abitanti sono
albanesi. Le esplosioni sono avvenute alle 21:30 nel cortile della
Casa della Cultura. Sull'episodio e' stata aperta un'inchiesta.
La Serbia meridionale limitrofa al Kosovo e' stata in queste ultime
settimane teatro di un'ondata di violenze. In particolare, un gruppo
estremista albanese (l'Esercito nazionale albanese) ha rivendicato
due attacchi contro polizia e esercito della Serbia/Montenegro.
(ANSA-AFP). BA 24/08/2003 00:15
KOSOVO: FINLANDESE HOLKERI NUOVO CAPO UNMIK
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 25 AGO - L'ex primo ministro finlandese Harri
Holkeri ha iniziato oggi il suo mandato come capo dell'Unmik,
l'amministrazione delle Nazioni unite in Kosovo. Holkeri prende il
posto di Michael Steiner, la cui gestione era stata duramente
criticata da Belgrado. Il diplomatico finlandese non ha voluto
rilasciare dichiarazioni al suo arrivo all'aeroporto di Pristina,
dove era atteso dai soli membri del suo staff. Si e' limitato a
ricordare la figura del piu' illustre dei suoi predecessori, Sergio
Vieira De Mello, ucciso la settimana scorsa in un attentato a
Baghdad. De Mello era stato per tre mesi il primo amministratore
della provincia, dopo l'ingresso in Kosovo, nel giugno del 1999,
delle forze internazionali. (ANSA). OT 25/08/2003 19:47
KOSOVO: PARLAMENTO SERBO RIBADISCE SOVRANITA' BELGRADO (2)
(ANSA-REUTERS) - BELGRADO, 27 AGO - ''La sovranita' statale e
l'integrita' territoriale della Repubblica di Serbia come membro
dello Stato di Serbia e Montenegro include il Kosovo, nonostante
l'amministrazione internazionale provvisoria'', afferma la mozione
votata dal Parlamento serbo. Il documento, gia' approvato dal
governo serbo nelle scorse settimane, precisa che Belgrado
continuera' a rispettare la risoluzione 1244 del Consiglio di
sicurezza dell'Onu, che ha definito lo 'status' della provincia dopo
la campagna di bombardamenti della Nato (primavera 1999). La mozione
accusa altresi' le forze dell'Onu e della Nato di non aver fatto
applicare appieno tale risoluzione, non garantendo in particolare la
sicurezza della popolazione non albanese ne' il ritorno dei profughi.
La risoluzione 1244 definisce il Kosovo formalmente parte della
Serbia/Montenegro, ma lascia impregiudicato il suo 'status'
definitivo, sul quale l'Onu avra' l'ultima parola. In una prima
reazione all'iniziativa del Parlamento serbo, Bajram Kosumi. membro
dell'Assemblea del Kosovo, ha accusato Belgrado di continuare la
politica del suo ex 'uomo forte' Slobodan Milosevic. ''Penso che
dovremmo dichiarare l' indipendenza e dire alla Serbia che non
abbiamo piu' bisogno di parlare di nulla se non del riconoscimento di
un Kosovo indipendente'', ha detto Kosumi all'agenzia Reuters a
Pristina. (ANSA-REUTERS).
DIG 27/08/2003 23:58
ALBANIA: NANO, KOSOVO NON SARA' MAI PARTE DELLA SERBIA
(ANSA) - TIRANA, 30 AGO - ''Il Kosovo non sara' mai parte della
Serbia'': il premier albanese Fatos Nano si e' opposto senza mezzi
termini alla dichiarazione del governo serbo, approvata pochi giorni
fa anche dal parlamento, che ribadisce ''la sovranita' di Belgrado
sul Kosovo e l'indivisibilita' della provincia dal territorio
serbo''. ''I serbi devono rientrare in Kosovo - ha aggiunto Nano - ma
non il Kosovo in Serbia. Queste sono due cose diverse''. La
dichiarazione del primo ministro albanese e' stata fatta nel corso di
un incontro a Tirana con tutti gli ambasciatori dell'Albania nel
mondo. ''Nessuna unione, nessuna regione dai confini ormai aperti
come quelli dei Balcani, ha futuro se non viene rispettata la
volonta' di tutte le comunita' nelle capitali dove funzionano
istituzioni scelte democraticamnte'', ha detto Nano, secondo cui ''il
futuro sia di Pristina che di Podgorica e' nell'Unione Europea''.
''Ne' Covic, ne' un parlamento transitorio come quello serbo - ha poi
aggiunto Nano - possono rovesciare gli sviluppi regionali, la
risoluzione 1244 dell'Onu ed il processo di integrazione europea dei
nostri paesi''. Due giorni fa anche il presidente della Repubblica,
Alfred Moisiu si era detto contrario alla dichiarazione adottata dal
parlamento di Belgrado, duramente criticata anche dalla leadership
albanese del Kosovo. (ANSA). COR
30/08/2003 19:10
2: Articoli in lingua italiana sul terrorismo pan-albanese, attivo non
solo in Kosmet
Ulteriore materiale, in lingua inglese, sulla carneficina in atto in
Kosovo con la copertura NATO, sara' inviato nei prossimi messaggi.
I dispacci ANSA sono stati ripresi dal sito
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
al solo scopo di segnalazione e commento.
Si raccomandano i quotidiani della sinistra di non parlare del problema
e, se proprio devono parlarne, di cercare di dare sempre la colpa a
Milosevic.
(a cura di I. Slavo)
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KOSOVO: PEC; VIOLENTA SPARATORIA, TRE MORTI E QUATTRO FERITI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 3 AGO - Una violenta sparatoria ha provocato nella
tarda serata di ieri tre morti e quattro feriti nel centro di Pec,
nel Kosovo occidentale, zona sotto il controllo dei militari italiani
della Kfor (Forza di pace a guida NATO): lo ha detto all' ANSA il
portavoce dell' Unmik (Amministrazione ONU in Kosovo) Andrea Angeli.
La sparatoria durata alcuni minuti e' avvenuta verso le 22,30, a
poca distanza dal comando dei carabinieri della polizia militare. Le
vittime erano sedute sul terrazzo di un bar quando si sono trovate in
mezzo all'intenso fuoco partito da mitragliatrici e pistole. I
tre morti sono due ragazze di 14 e 24 anni e un uomo di 30. Non si
hanno ancora particolari sui 4 feriti che sono stati portati
d'urgenza all'ospedale di Pristina. Al momento si dubita che la
grave vicenda sia stata provocata da uno scontro fra bande rivali.
(ANSA). COR/ML 03/08/2003 01:31
KOSOVO: AGGUATO A POLIZIA UNMIK, UCCISO UN AGENTE
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 4 AGO - Un agente internazionale della polizia
Unmik (amministrazione Onu in Kosovo) e' rimasto ucciso poco prima
della mezzanotte di ieri in un agguato nelle vicinanze del villaggio
serbo di Slatina, nella zona di Mitrovica, nell' estremo nord del
Kosovo, mentre un altro poliziotto e' rimasto ferito: lo ha detto
all'Ansa il portavoce Unmik, Andrea Angeli. I due agenti stavano
viaggiando a bordo di una macchina della polizia da Leposavic (vicino
al confine con la Serbia) in direzione di Mitrovica, quando la loro
auto e' stata presa di mira da colpi di arma da fuoco. Un agente e'
morto sul posto. La macchina si e' rovesciata e l'altro poliziotto e'
rimasto ferito. L'Unmik non da' particolari sulla nazionalita'
degli agenti ma da altre fonti si apprende che il morto e' un
asiatico, mentre l'agente ferito e' europeo. (ANSA).
COR-LG/MEA 04/08/2003 11:47
KOSOVO: POLIZIOTTO ONU UCCISO DA CECCHINI
(ANSA-AFP) - PRISTINA (SERBIA-MONTENEGRO), 4 AGO - Un poliziotto
dell'Onu di nazionalita' indiana, Satish Menon, e' stato ucciso
domenica sera da proiettili che hanno colpito il suo veicolo su una
strada del nord del Kosovo, provincia serba a maggioranza albanese.
Lo annuncia oggi l'Onu in un comunicato. Il maggiore Menon, di 43
anni, sposato e con due figli di 6 e 8 anni, e' il primo poliziotto
Onu ucciso durante il servizio in questa provincia, amministrata
dalle Nazioni Unite dal giugno 1999. L'attacco si e' svolto sulla
strada che collega le citta' di Leposavic e di Kosovska Mitrovica, a
55 km a nord di Pristina, il capoluogo della provincia kosovara.
Il capo della polizia Onu in Kosovo, Stefan Faller, ha dichiarato che
l'attacco e' stata opera di un cecchino, ma il movente dell'omicidio
e' ancora sconosciuto. ''E' un crimine brutale e impensabile. La
ragione e' ancora sconosciuta ma e' chiaro che si tratta di un
attacco contro la polizia internazionale, perpetrato da criminali
intenzionati ad uccidere'', ha dichiarato Faller. La polizia Onu
ha bloccato la strada dove il maggiore e' stato ucciso e il capo ad
interim della missione Onu in Kosovo, Charles Brayshaw, ha dichiarato
l'omicidio ''un atto ignobile''. Circa 4.000 poliziotti Onu
collaborano con le forze di polizia locali in Kosovo. (ANSA). NOE
04/08/2003 19:04
KOSOVO: UNMIK, RICOMPENSA PER RINTRACCIARE ASSASSINI AGENTE
(ANSA-AFP) - PRISTINA (KOSOVO), 5 AGO - La missione dell'Onu in
Kosovo (Unmik) ha offerto una ricompensa di 50 mila euro per
qualsiasi informazione che possa portare alla cattura degli assassini
di uno dei suoi agenti, avvenuto domenica notte nel nord della
provincia. Lo ha annunciato oggi un responsabile dell'Onu a Pristina.
Il capo della polizia dell'Onu in Kosovo, Stefan Feller, ha
indicato che la ricompensa sara' assegnata per ogni informazione che
portera' ''alla cattura e all'incriminazione degli assalitori''.
Il maggiore indiano Satish Menon, 43 anni, e' rimasto ucciso domenica
notte in un agguato mentre si trovava insieme ad un altro agente a
bordo di un'auto della polizia sulla strada che collega le citta' di
Leposavic e Kosovska Mitrovica, a 55 chilometri a nord di Pristina.
Menon e' il primo poliziotto dell'Onu ucciso in servizio in
Kosovo, amministrato dalle Nazioni Unite dal giugno 1999.(ANSA-AFP).
GGI
05/08/2003 17:02
SERBIA/MONTENEGRO: COLPI MORTAIO CONTRO BASE MILITARE
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 12 AGO - Una base militare dell'esercito della
Serbia-Montenegro nei pressi di Bujanovac, nella Serbia meridionale,
e' stata attaccata a colpi di mortaio, ha riferito il ministero della
difesa precisando che l'attacco ha causato solo lievi danni
materiali. I colpi di mortaio, da 40 millimetri, di fabbricazione
statunitense, sono stati lanciati da un punto nei pressi del
villaggio di Dobrosin, popolato solo da persone di etnia albanese.
L'azione e' stata rivendicata in un comunicato da un gruppo
estremista albanese, l'Esercito di liberazione nazionale (Ana o Aksh
in albanese) che opera sia in Kosovo che in Macedonia, riferisce
l'agenzia Beta. Poco conosciuta, l'Ana e' stata dichiarata
''organizzazione terrorista'' dalla Missione dell'Onu in Kosovo
(Minuk) che amministra la provincia dal giugno 1999. L'Ana dichiara
di lottare per la creazione di una grande Albania che comprenda il
Kosovo, il sud della Serbia e l'ovest della Macedonia. Durante la
guerra, il villaggio di Dobrosin e' stato una sorta di avamposto per
i guerriglieri separatisti albanesi nella Serbia meridionale. Il
ministro della difesa della Serbia-Montenegro Boris Tadic ha
affermato che l'attacco contro la base ''e' un classico atto di
terrorismo compiuto con lo scopo di destabilizzare''. Si tratta dal
primo attacco da un anno a questa parte contro l'esercito in questa
regione della Serbia a maggioranza albense. La stessa regione era
stata teatro tra il 2000 e il 2001 di scontri tra le forze di
Belgrado e una guerriglia locale albanese. (ANSA).
COR-KIP 12/08/2003 18:24
KOSOVO: NUOVE TENSIONI ETNICHE, SERBO FERITO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 12 AGO - Un contadino serbo e' stato gravemente
ferito da colpi di arma da fuoco ieri sera, nel villaggio di
Skuranevo, nella zona di Lipjan, nel Kosovo settentrionale: lo ha
detto all'Ansa Andrea Angeli, il portavoce dell'Unmik
(amministrazione Onu in Kosovo). Angeli, pero' non ha dato
spiegazioni sui possibili motivi dell'accaduto. Ma fonti locali hanno
spiegato all'Ansa che Dragan Tomic, 44 anni, stava pescando, quando
e' stato colpito in faccia con colpi di pistola, da distanza
ravvicinata. A sparare sono state due persone, che si sospetta siano
albanesi. Tomic e' stato trasportato nell'ospedale di Mitrovica, dove
si trova in condizioni critiche. L'agguato al contadino serbo
segue l'ondata di violenza scoppiata in Kosovo nelle ultime
settimane, e avviene in un contesto politico di forti tensioni fra
Pristina e Belgrado. Le nuove polemiche sul progetto della nuova
costituzione dell'Unione Serbia-Montengro, in cui la provincia a
maggioranza albanese viene considerata parte della Serbia, hanno
riacceso il dibattito sul futuro status del Kosovo, finora
amministrato in base alla risoluzione 1244 dell'Onu. (ANSA).
COR-LG 12/08/2003 11:51
KOSOVO: ATTACCATA PATTUGLIA ESERCITO SERBO
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 13 AGO - Una pattuglia dell'esercito di Serbia
e Montenegro e' stata attaccata da un gruppo di estremisti albanesi
in una regione presso il confine tra il Kosovo e il resto della
Serbia. Lo ha annunciato in serata un comunicato del ministero della
Difesa. Una pattuglia di ricognizione - afferma il comunicato - e'
stata attaccata alle 15:45 di ieri con armi da fanteria da un gruppo
di 15 estremisti albanesi nella regione dove si trova la basa
militare di Susnjak, sulla strada che collega Kursumlija (Serbia) a
Podujevo (Kosovo). La pattuglia - aggiunge il comunicato - ha
respinto l' attacco e catturato uno degli aggressori, Bajazit
Podvorica di Podujevo, consegnandolo alla polizia serba. Secondo
il ministero, non vi sono state vittime tra i militari. L'attacco
di ieri segue un bombardamento di mortaio due giorni prima - che ha
causato solo danni materiali - contro una base militare dell'esercito
presso Bujanovac, nella Serbia del sud, rivendicato da un gruppo
estremista albanese, l'Esercito nazionale albanese (Ana), attivo in
Kosovo e in Macedonia. (ANSA-AFP). DIG 13/08/2003 01:57
KOSOVO: SPARI SU ADOLESCENTI SERBI, 1 MORTO E 6 FERITI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 13 AGO - Un ragazzo serbo di 15 anni e' rimasto
ucciso e altri sei feriti, due dei quali in modo grave, oggi quando
un gruppo di adolescenti serbi intenti a fare il bagno in un fiume
nei pressi dell'enclave di Gorazdevac (nella parte occidentale della
provincia), e' stato attaccato oggi pomeriggio da sconosciuti,
probabilmente albanesi, a raffiche di mitra. Lo ha detto all'Ansa
Andrea Angeli, portavoce della missione Onu (Unmik). La nuova
esplosione di violenza interetnica in Kosovo e' avvenuta in
coincidenza con l'arrivo a Pristina del nuovo governatore Onu, Harri
Holkeri. Sul posto sono intervenuti i carabinieri dell'Unita'
specializzata multinazionale (Msu) e la polizia internazionale. Gli
investigatori ritengono che ad aprire il fuoco siano stati estremisti
albanesi. L'attacco e' avvenuto a meno di un'ora dall'arrivo a
Pristina di Holkeri, il governatore Onu della provincia che proprio
oggi assume l'incarico ricoperto fino allo scorso mese di luglio da
Michail Steiner. (ANSA). COR-BLL 13/08/2003 15:46
KOSOVO: SI AGGRAVA BILANCIO ATTACCO, MORTO SECONDO SERBO
(VEDI 'KOSOVO: SPARI SU ADOLESCENTI ...' DELLE 15:46) (ANSA) -
PRISTINA, 13 AGO - Si aggrava il bilancio dell' attacco armato
lanciato nel primo pomeriggio contro un gruppo di giovani serbi che
facevano il bagno in un fiume nel Kosovo occidentale: in ospedale e'
morto anche un ragazzo serbo di 19 anni, dopo il quindicenne deceduto
sul posto. Il numero dei feriti resta invece fermo a sei, due dei
quali in gravi condizioni: la polizia ha infatti accertato che oltre
agli adolescenti serbi raggiunti dai colpi di mitragliatore, c'e'
anche una bambina di etnia albanese. Il comandante generale della
Kfor, l'italiano Fabio Mini, al termine del suo primo incontro con il
nuovo governatore Onu della provincia, il finlandese Harri Holkeri,
ha condannato con forza l'attentato. ''Io ed Hokeri lavoreremo
insieme affinche' questi tipo di crimini sia eliminato per sempre -
ha dichiararto il generale - noi abbiamo bisogno dell'aiuto di
ognuno, e penso che la condanna verso questo tipo di azioni non sara'
mai abbastanza''. ''Questo - ha concluso - non e' il Kosovo che
noi vogliamo''. (ANSA). BLL 13/08/2003 17:05
KOSOVO: TENSIONE TORNA ALTA, FUOCO SU RAGAZZINI SERBI / ANSA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 13 AGO - Riesplode la violenza interetnica in
Kosovo, in coincidenza con l'arrivo a Pristina del nuovo governatore
Onu che, a partire dalle prossime settimane, dovra' partecipare ai
negoziati fra serbi e albanesi sul futuro status della provincia.
Un gruppo di adolescenti serbi intenti a fare il bagno in un fiume
nel villaggio di Zahaq, nei pressi dell'enclave di Gorazdevac (nella
parte occidentale della provincia), e' stato attaccato nel pomeriggio
di oggi da sconosciuti armati di fucili mitragliatori Kalashnikov: un
ragazzo di 15 anni e uno di 19 sono rimasti uccisi e altri sei
feriti, due dei quali in modo grave. Andrea Angeli, portavoce della
missione Onu (Unmik), ha detto all'Ansa che gli attentatori, ancora
sconosciuti, hanno aperto il fuoco contro il gruppo di ragazzini dal
riparo di un cespuglio. Sul posto sono intervenuti i carabinieri
italiani dell'Unita' specializzata multinazionale (Msu) e agenti
della polizia di Stato inquadrati nelle forze dell'Onu. Elicotteri
italiani della Kfor (missione di pace a guida Nato) hanno trasportato
i due feriti piu' gravi, inizialmente ricoverati nell'ospedale di
Peja, presso il centro sanitario militare tedesco a Prizren. I
serbi dell'enclave di Gorazdevac hanno detto che ad aprire il fuoco
sono stati estremisti albanesi, che gia' ieri avevano colpito nella
provincia, ferendo gravemente un uomo serbo intento a pescare.
L'attacco odierno e' avvenuto a meno di un'ora dall'arrivo a Pristina
di Harri Holkeri, il governatore Onu della provincia che da settembre
assumera' l'incarico ricoperto fino allo scorso mese di luglio da
Michail Steiner. Holkeri, che ha appreso la notizia mentre stava
incontrando per la prima volta il comandante della Kfor, il generale
italiano Fabio Mini, aveva gia' fatto sapere che nel fine settimana
si rechera' per colloqui anche a Belgrado. L'attentato di oggi
potrebbe essere stata la prima, tragica, risposta degli estremisti al
suo atteggiamento di apertura. Il generale Mini ha condannato
duramente l attacco: ''Non e questo il Kosovo che vogliamo'' ha
detto. La tensione fra serbi e albanesi negli ultimi giorni e'
cresciuta anche sul piano politico. Il governo di Belgrado ieri, per
la prima volta dalla fine della guerra, ha approvato una
dichiarazione con la quale esclude l'indipendenza del Kosovo (che e'
formalmente parte della Serbia), accettando invece di concedere solo
una ''autonomia sostanziale''. Soluzione ritenuta del tutto
insufficiente dalla leadership albanese a Pristina, che ha gia'
minacciato di boicottare i primi colloqui con Belgrado previsti per
la fine del mese. Ma vi sono tensioni diplomatiche anche con
Tirana. Nei giorni scorsi il ministro della difesa albanese, Pandeli
Majko, ha rifiutato un invito ad una tavola rotonda sulla sicurezza
regionale organizzata a Podgorica dall'Unione Serbia-Montenegro.
Majko ha detto apertamente di non poter sedere allo stesso tavolo con
i rappresentati di Belgrado, che si preparano ad approvare la nuova
Costitituzione dell'Unione che considera il Kosovo come parte
integrante della Serbia. Belgrado ha gia inviato una nota di
protesta. Il clima tornato infuocato rischia di prestare il fianco
anche ai movimenti di guerriglia albanesi che continuano ad essere
attivi nella zona. Ieri pomeriggio una pattuglia dell' esercito di
Serbia e Montenegro e' stata attaccata da guerriglieri albanesi a
ridosso della linea del confine amministrativo. Non si ha notizia di
vittime. Appena 48 ore prima colpi di mortaio erano stati sparati
contro una base militare nella Serbia del sud. (ANSA). BLL
13/08/2003 18:37
KOSOVO: SERBIA DICHIARA LUTTO PER UCCISIONE RAGAZZI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 14 AGO - Il governo serbo ha dichiarato quella di
domani giornata di lutto per ricordare i due adolescenti serbi,
uccisi ieri a Gorazdevac nel Kosovo occidentale da sconosciuti armati
mentre stavano facendo il bagno nel fiume Bistrica. In un
comunicato, il governo serbo ha dichiarato di voler incrementare le
misure di sicurezza per proteggere la popolazione. Anche il consiglio
supremo di difesa, guidato dal presidente di Serbia-Montenegro,
Svetozar Marovic, ha condannato l'uccisione dei due ragazzi e il
ferimento di altri sei, due dei quali in maniera grave. I
responsabili militari serbi hanno chiesto un'energica azione della
Kfor (missione di pace a guida Nato) e all'Unmik, la missione
dell'Onu, affinche' vengano trovati e puniti gli autori dell'agguato.
''Punire i colpevoli e' una precondizione indispensabile per
restaurare condizioni di pace, fiducia e stabilita' in Kosovo'', si
legge in un comunicato. Il patriarca serbo ortodosso Pavle ha
lanciato un appello agli albanesi del Kosovo e alle autorita' della
provincia perche' cessino immediatamente le violenze e i crimini.
''La violenza non ha mai portato del bene a nessuno'', si legge nel
messaggio del patriarca. (ANSA) COR-KIP 14/08/2003 18:14
KOSOVO: DOPO UCCISIONE SERBI INIZIANO PROTESTE PIAZZA/ ANSA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 14 AGO - Migliaia di serbi sono scesi in piazza
oggi in Kosovo per protestare contro la nuova ondata di violenza
etnica che ieri ha provocato la morte di due ragazzi serbi e il
ferimento di altri cinque. Manifestazioni sono avvenute nelle
citta' settentrionali di Kosovska Mitrovica e di Zvecan e intorno
all' 'enclave' di Gracanica. I dimostranti, pur senza provocare
incidenti, hanno accusato con durezza la missione delle Nazioni Unite
(Unmik), la Nato e la comunita' internazionale di non essere in grado
di garantire la sicurezza delle minoranze. Fra i serbi molti hanno
persino chiesto al governo di Belgrado di inviare ''con la forza''
unita' della polizia e dell'esercito per difendere i civili serbi che
vivono in Kosovo. Le forze di sicurezza serbe hanno lasciato la
provincia dal giugno 1999, subito dopo la fine della guerra con la
Nato. Mentre la Kfor, forza di pace a guida Nato, ha annunciato di
aver rafforzato i controlli per prevenire nuovi attacchi, la polizia
delle Nazioni Unite ha iniziato un vasto rastrellamento nel villaggio
occidentale di Zahaq, dove nel primo pomeriggio di ieri attentatori
tuttora sconosciuti hanno aperto il fuoco contro un gruppo di ragazzi
serbi che faceva il bagno in un fiume. Secondo gli abitanti della
vicina 'enclave' serba di Gorazdevac, dalla quale provenivano le
vittime dell'attacco armato, a sparare sarebbero stati estremisti
albanesi. La notte scorsa una bomba e' stata fatta esplodere contro
la sede del comando regionale della polizia nella citta'
meridionale di Prizren, mentre un secondo ordigno e' stato lanciato
contro una casa in costruzione a Kosovska Mitrovica, in un quartiere
abitato da albanesi e dalla minoranza bosniaca. Nessuno dei due
attentati ha provocato vittime, ma gli episodi bastano a testimoniare
come la tensione nella provincia non accenni a calare. ''Una
delle mie sfide sara' quella di ripristinare in Kosovo il dominio
della legge'', ha detto oggi Harri Holkeri, l'ex primo ministro
finlandese che da settembre assumera' l'incarico di nuovo governatore
Onu, succedendo al tedesco Michael Steiner. Holkeri e' giunto ieri a
Pristina per la sua prima visita, e appena sbarcato ha dovuto
apprendere la notizia dell'attacco di Zahaq. Domani si trasferira' a
Belgrado per un incontro con le autorita' serbe, che hanno gia'
chiesto la convocazione del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni
Unite. Il governo serbo ha inoltre proclamato una giornata di lutto
per domani e annunciato di voler incrementare le misure di sicurezza
per proteggere la popolazione serba. Nel condannare l'uccisione dei
ragazzi, il Consiglio supremo di Difesa, guidato dal presidente di
Serbia- Montenegro Svetozar Marovic, chiede a Kfor e Unmik di trovare
e punire gli autori dell'agguato, come ''precondizione
indispensabile per ripristinare condizioni di pace, fiducia e
stabilita' in Kosovo''. La tensione nella provincia sta crescendo
con l'approssimarsi dei negoziati fra serbi e albanesi, che
potrebbero iniziare alla fine del mese e che dovrebbero servire a
porre le basi per la definizione del futuro status del Kosovo. Due
giorni fa il governo di Belgrado ha approvato per la prima volta
dalla fine della guerra una dichiarazione con la quale afferma di
voler concedere al Kosovo solo una ''autonomia sostanziale'' negando
qualunque spazio per l'indipendenza, pretesa invece dagli albanesi.
(ANSA). BLL 14/08/2003 19:19
UE: KOSOVO, PRODI COSTERNATO PER UCCISIONE RAGAZZI
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 14 AGO - Il presidente della Commissione europea,
Romano Prodi, ha detto di essere ''costernato'' per l' attacco armato
che ieri e' costato la vita a due giovani serbi che nuotavano in un
fiume nei pressi di Gorazdevac, nel Kosovo occidentale, condotto
probabilmente da un gruppo di albanesi. Prodi ha dichiarato di
sentirsi ''vicino alle famiglie delle vittime'', inviando ''le piu'
sentite condoglianze''. ''La Commissione europea - ha precisato il
presidente dell' esecutivo Ue in una nota diffusa oggi - continuera'
i suoi sforzi assieme alla gente del Kosovo per aiutarla a liberarsi
definitivamente dall'eredita' del passato recente''. Inoltre, ha
concluso Prodi, ''ci auguriamo che questa terribile tragedia non
porti a un rallentamento del processo in corso verso la creazione di
un clima pacifico e sicuro per tutta la popolazione del Kosovo''.
Le nuove violenze interetniche in Kosovo sono sorte in coincidenza
dell'arrivo nella capitale, Pristina, del nuovo governatore Onu,
Harri Holkeri. (ANSA). RED*KSO 14/08/2003 19:39
KOSOVO:FUNERALI SENZA INCIDENTI PER DUE GIOVANI SERBI UCCISI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 15 AGO - Si sono svolti oggi senza incidenti
nell'enclave serba di Gorazdevac, nel Kosovo occidentale, i funerali
dei due ragazzi serbi di 11 e 19 anni uccisi due giorni fa in un
attacco armato che ha provocato anche cinque feriti: alla cerimonia
funebre, svolta in tempi successivi, sono intervenuti il primo
ministro serbo Zoran Zivkovic (per la prima volta giunto in questa
zona del Kosovo) e il suo vice Nebojsa Covic. La missione delle
Nazioni Unite (Unmik) era rappresentata dal vice governatore Charles
Brayshaw mentre per la Kfor (forza di pace a guida Nato) e'
intervenuto il vice comandante della brigata multinazionale sud-ovest
il colonnello italiano Antonello Vitale. Le esequie sono state
seguite da circa 1.500 civili serbi, in pratica tutti gli abitanti
dell'enclave dalla quale provenivano i sette giovani, colpiti nel
corso di un attacco armato mentre facevano il bagno in un fiume.
Il portavoce dell'Unmik, Andrea Angeli, ha detto all'Ansa che fino a
questo momento ''si ignorano i responsabili dell'attacco e la loro
appartenenza etnica''. In un primo momento, per un errore nella
elaborazione della notizia, era stata attribuita dall'Ansa allo
stesso Angeli una dichiarazione secondo cui l'Unmik sospettava il
coinvolgimento nell'attacco di estremisti albanesi, fatto invece del
quale non c'e' al momento alcuna prova e sospetto che l'Unmik non ha
mai avanzato. [ S I C ] E' stata invece la popolazione serba di
Gorazdevac ad accusare del grave attentato estremisti albanesi.
La polizia dell'Unmik sta continuando a compiere rastrellamenti ed
interrogatori nel tentativo di identificare e catturare i
responsabili del gesto, che e' stato duramente condannato dalla
leadership albanese del Kosovo e anche dal governo di Tirana.
BLL 15/08/2003 18:34
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Un albanese e un kosovaro sono fuggiti durante l'ora d'aria
Ma quasi tutte le forze dell'ordine erano impegnate nella festa
Fermo, evadono due detenuti
Ma il Palio complica le ricerche
Polizia e Carabinieri stanno pattugliando strade e stazioni
Non c'è ancora nessuna ipotesi sulle modalità della fuga
FERMO (ASCOLI PICENO) - Hanno approfittato dell'ora d'aria, ma ancora
di più del Ferragosto, una "giornata particolare" a Fermo, per evadere
dal carcere. Due detenuti hanno beffato i sistemi di sicurezza e sono
scappati dall'istituto di pena. Si tratta di un albanese, P.S., che
avrebbe dovuto restare in carcere fino al 2009 per omicidio volontario
(e che avrebbe altri due processi in corso), e di un kosovaro, B.R.,
condannato fino al 2011 per sequestro di persona, rapina, associazione
per delinquere e spaccio di stupefacenti.
Intorno alle tre di questo pomeriggio è stato dato l'allarme: i due
reclusi non sono tornati in cella al termine dell'ora d'aria. In un
primo momento si è pensato che avessero scavalcato il muro che cinge
tutt'attorno il carcere. Ma dagli accertamenti non risulta nessun segno
che possa portare a questa conclusione: il muro è alto 7-8 metri e i
due evasi avrebbero certamente utilizzato delle corde per poterlo
superare. Si era anche ipotizzato che all'esterno ci fosse stato un
complice ad aspettarli, ma neanche questa congettura ha trovato
riscontri.
La squadra mobile di Ascoli Piceno sta pattugliando tutta la zona, ma
non c'è traccia dei due malviventi. Sono state controllate stazioni
ferroviarie e strade; alcune abitazioni che avrebbero potuto offrire
asilo agli evasi sono state perquisite, oltre che i numerosi campi
nomadi.
Le ricerche, nel pomeriggio, sono state rese più difficili dalla festa
cittadina in corso a Fermo. Al Palio dell'Assunta, una delle principali
manifestazioni della città, c'erano sono moltissimi spettatori e
turisti e gran parte della forze di polizia era impegnata proprio
nell'ordine pubblico. Nel Palio si rievoca la quattrocentesca cavalcata
in onore dell'Assunta, santa patrona della città marchigiana.
Quella di oggi è la terza evasione-beffa in una settimana: la prima dal
carcere di San Vittore domenica scorsa. Un detenuto albanese per
fuggire ha utilizzato il classico sistema delle lenzuola, dopo aver
ricavato un buco nella cella con le posate. La terza sempre a Milano:
un uomo di 34 anni, marocchino, malato di tubercolosi, ieri è riuscito
a evadere dall'ospedale Sacco, in cui era ricoverato. Anche lui,
eludendo le guardie, si è calato dalla finestra del bagno.
Sull'evasione di questo pomeriggio il Dipartimento dell'amministrazione
penitenziaria (Dap) di Fermo ha aperto un'inchiesta: per domani mattina
è prevista un'accurata perquisizione nel penitenziario. Lo stesso Dap
ha dichiarato che il carcere di media sicurezza di Fermo, che può
ospitare fuino a 70 detenuti, non presenta particolari carenze di
organico rispetto ad altri istituti della regione.
(La Repubblica online, 15 agosto 2003)
KOSOVO: ANCORA SPARI CONTRO BAMBINI SERBI GORAZDEVAC
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 18 AGO - I`bambini dell'enclave serba di Gorazdevac
(zona di Pec, Kosovo occidentale) sono stati nuovamente bersaglio
ieri di un attacco, per fortuna senza conseguenze, dopo la strage che
mercoledi' scorso ha provocato la morte di due ragazzi e il ferimento
di altri quattro. Lo riferiscono i mezzi di informazione serbi.
Una dozzina di colpi di arma da fuoco, hanno detto testimoni agli
organi di informazione, sono stati sparati contro un gruppo di bambini
di Gorazdevac da una zona vicina al villaggio di Grabovac, abitato da
albanesi kosovari. Nessuno e' stato colpito. Il nuovo attacco e'
stato duramente stigmatizzato a Belgrado dal primo ministro Zoran
Zivkovic, che ha accusato la comunita' internazionale di non fare
abbastanza nel combattere il terrorismo etnico nella provincia. Nella
capitale serbomontenegrina, c'e' attesa per la riunione odierna del
consiglio di sicurezza dell'Onu dedicata al Kosovo: a New York e'
andato il vicepremier serbo incaricato della questione kosovara,
Nebojsa Covic, che premera' per una forte risoluzione contro
l'estremismo albanese. La violenza etnica si e' riaccesa d'altro
canto non solo nel Kosovo, ma anche nella Serbia del sud - abitata da
una consistente maggioranza albanese - dove si moltiplicano gli
attacchi ai posti di polizia. Sotto accusa e' una controversa sigla
estremista, l'Ana (Armata di liberazione elbanese), che secondo
Belgrado sarebbe una copertura usata da personaggi collegati con le
istituzioni albanesi kosovare - in particolare il corpo di protezione
civile - per sabotare i prossimi negoziati sul futuro della provincia.
Nel clima di tensione serbo-albanese si inserisce, secondo
Belgrado, anche l'attacco avvenuto ieri contro un posto di polizia del
Sangiaccato (regione al confine fra Serbia e Montenegro abitata da una
comunita' musulmana), nel quale e' stato ferito un agente. Secondo il
ministro serbomontenegrino per i diritti umani e delle minoranze Rasim
Ljajic - peraltro originario del Sangiaccato - sarebbe in atto ''un
tentativo di 'kosovizzare' anche quella regione''. (ANSA).
OT 18/08/2003 12:14
KOSOVO: MORTO SERBO FERITO UNA SETTIMANA FA
(ANSA-REUTERS-AFP) - BELGRADO, 18 AGO - Un serbo che era stato ferito
con un colpo d'arma da fuoco una settimana fa mentre pescava nel
fiume Sitnica, in una zona del Kosovo a maggioranza serba, e' morto
oggi in un ospedale di Belgrado dove era stato ricoverato. Lo ha reso
noto l'agenzia Beta. Dragan Tonic, 45 anni, era stato colpito alla
gola nei pressi del villaggio di Skulanovo, nel Kosovo centrale.
Aveva fatto capire a gesti ai suoi soccorritori di essere stato
aggredito da due persone. La morte dell'uomo segue di cinque
giorni l'uccisione, presumibilmente a opera di estremisti albanesi,
di due ragazzi serbi che nuotavano in un fiume nelle vicinanze di
Gorazdevac. In un comunicato diffuso stasera, il Consiglio di
sicurezza serbo afferma che la situazione della sicurezza in Kosovo
si e' ''drammaticamente deteriorata, minacciando di aggravarsi
ulteriormente e di mettere in pericolo le vite dei cittadini della
Repubblica (Serbia/Montenegro)''. Il Consiglio - aggiunge il
comunicato - ha concordato di adottare misure urgenti per
incrementare lo scambio di informazioni con le forze internazionali
(in Kosovo) per aiutarle a prevenire ''azioni terroristiche'', come
pure a identificare e catturare i loro autori. Il viceprimo
ministro serbo Nebojsa Covic - di cui e' atteso nelle prossime ore un
intervento al Consiglio di sicurezza dell' Onu per chiedere alle
forze in Kosovo di intervenire con vigore per far cessare tali
attacchi - ha affermato che, se la comunita' internazionale non
mostrera' i denti, i militanti albanesi cominceranno a puntare le
loro armi contro il personale dell'Onu e della Nato.
(ANSA-REUTERS-AFP). DIG 18/08/2003 22:48
KOSOVO: ESCE DAL COMA ADOLESCENTE FERITO IN STRAGE GORAZDEVAC
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 19 AGO - E' uscito stamane dal coma in cui versava
da circa una settimana Bogdan Bukumiric, il quindicenne gravemente
ferito mercoledi' scorso nell'enclave serba di Gorazdevac (zona di Pec,
Kosovo occidentale) in un attentato costato la vita a due ragazzi e nel
quale altri cinque adolescenti erano rimasti feriti.
Tutta la Serbia aveva seguito in questi giorni col fiato sospeso la
vicenda di Bogdan, ricoverato all'ospedale militare di Belgrado in
condizioni quasi disperate e sottoposto a piu' operazioni. Il ragazzo
e' cosciente, respira senza l'aiuto di apparecchi e ha potuto scambiare
qualche parola con i genitori e con i medici.
La strage, sulla quale le forze internazionali della Kfor hanno aperto
una indagine, e' stata discussa ieri in Consiglio di sicurezza
dell'Onu, che ha adottato una dura risoluzione di condanna contro la
violenza etnica nella provincia. Dalla fine della guerra kosovara, nel
giugno del 1999, sono stati registrati, secondo il vicepremier serbo
Nebojsa Covic, 6.013 attacchi contro serbi, con 1.021 vittime.
La tensione interetnica sale, con l'approssimarsi dei primi negoziati
diretti fra Pristina e Belgrado, non solo nel Kosovo. Oggi nella
Serbia del sud, nel villaggio di Lucani (abitato esclusivamente da
albanesi), due bombe a mano sono state lanciate contro l'abitazione di
un albanese tacciato, secondo alcune fonti, di 'collaborazionismo' con
le forze serbe. Un ospite dell'uomo e' rimasto ferito.
Il ministro degli esteri serbomontenegrino Goran Svilanovic,
commentando la condanna dell'Onu per la strage di Gorazdevac, ha
sottolineato con apprezzamento ''la svolta nel linguaggio adoperato: si
e' finalmente parlato con chiarezza di 'classici atti di terrorismo',
il che significa che i responsabili e le loro organizzazioni, quando
verranno individuati, saranno processati come terroristi''.
A Skulanovo (Kosovo centrale) si svolgono intanto oggi i funerali di
un'altra vittima delle violenze etniche di questi giorni, il serbo
Dragan Tonic, 44 anni, ucciso l'11 agosto mentre pescava in un torrente
vicino al suo villaggio. La cerimonia e' occasione per una
manifestazione di protesta, ma i responsabili hanno sottolineato che
non ci saranno violenze, per ''non cadere nella provocazione'' degli
estremisti albanesi. (ANSA). OT 19-AGO-03 13:15 NNNN
19/08/2003 15:02
KOSOVO: KFOR,ATTACCO A GIOVANI SERBI FU DEL TUTTO IMPREVISTO
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 20 AGO - L'attacco armato al gruppo di giovani
serbi avvenuto la scorsa settimana nei pressi dell'enclave di
Gorazdevac, nel Kosovo occidentale, e costato la vita a due ragazzi
mentre altri cinque sono rimasti feriti, fu del tutto inaspettato: lo
afferma il comando della Kfor (forza di pace a guida Nato in Kosovo),
intervenuto per puntualizzare il ruolo svolto in questa drammatica
vicenda dopo che alcuni rappresentati serbi avevano rivolto pesanti
critiche al loro operato. ''La Kfor non ricevette nessuna
informazione preventiva sull'imminenza di un attacco contro i bambini
o alcun altro obiettivo a Gorazdevac - afferma il portavoce del
comando, colonnello Stefano Schiappacasse - ne' ricevette alcuna
richiesta di scorta per i ragazzi che intendevano fare il bagno nel
fiume'', luogo esterno all'enclave in cui e' poi avvenuto l'agguato.
Il portavoce ricorda che nel corso della missione ogni volta che
fonti di intelligence segnalano la possibilita' di un attacco,
vengono adottate immediatamente adeguate misure di prevenzione e di
controllo. L'attacco a Gorazdevac fu invece ''totalmente
inaspettato'', afferma la Kfor, tanto piu' che nelle settimane
precedenti si era svolto un incontro fra i rappresentanti delle
comunita' locali che lasciava ben sperare sull'avvio di una possibile
riconciliazione fra serbi e albanesi. Immediatamente dopo la
notizia dell'attacco, la Kfor e' intervenuta sul posto insieme alla
polizia delle Nazioni Unite mettendo anche a disposizione gli
elicotteri per il trasporto dei feriti, alcuni dei quali sono stati
curati nell'ospedale militare. I rappresentanti serbi di
Gorazdevac nei giorni scorsi avevano chiesto l'allontanamento dei
comandanti locali della Kfor e della polizia dell'Unmik (oltre al
sindaco albanese di Pec) perche' a loro parere non avrebbero fatto
nulla per impedire la strage. Nel frattempo i carabinieri
dell'Unita' specializzata multinazionale (Msu) insieme ad agenti
dell'Unmik e ai militari della Kfor hanno proseguito anche oggi i
rastrellamenti nei villaggi albanesi intorno a Gorazdevac alla
ricerca degli autori dell'attentato. (ANSA) BLL 20/08/2003
12:34
SERBIA: ALZATO LIVELLO ALLARME PER TENSIONI ETNICHE NEL SUD
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 22 AGO - Il premier serbo Zoran Zivkovic ha
ordinato oggi di innalzare i livelli di sicurezza dopo una serie di
attacchi contro le forze serbe da parte di estremisti albanesi nel sud
del Paese, abitato da una maggioranza etnica albanese. L'ultimo
episodio, denunciato oggi, riguarda una sparatoria contro una
pattuglia della polizia nei boschi al confine amministrativo col
Kosovo, nella zona di Presevo, Bujanovac e Medvedja gia' teatro in
passato di violenti scontri. Non ci sono stati feriti, ma il nuovo
attacco e' un ennesimo segnale di una possibile destabilizzazione
dell'area. L'estremismo albanese, accusa Belgrado, ha ripreso
vigore con l'approssimarsi dei primi negoziati diretti fra Pristina e
la Serbia dalla fine del conflitto kosovaro, nel giugno del 1999.
Negoziati che avrebbero dovuto iniziare gia' in luglio, ma che poi
erano stati rimandati all'autunno, e la cui data e' ancora in forse
dopo l'attacco che il 13 agosto a Gracanica, nell'ovest del Kosovo,
e' costato la vita a due ragazzi serbi di 11 e 19 anni e ha provocato
il ferimento di altri sei. (ANSA). OT 22/08/2003 14:53
SERBIA/MONTENEGRO: TRE ESPLOSIONI NELLA NOTTE A PRESEVO
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADO, 24 AGO - Tre esplosioni sono avvenute stanotte
nella citta' meridionale serba di Presevo, causando il ferimento di
un uomo. Lo ha riferito l'agenzia di stampa Beta, citando testimoni.
Presevo e' vicina al Kosovo e la maggioranza degli abitanti sono
albanesi. Le esplosioni sono avvenute alle 21:30 nel cortile della
Casa della Cultura. Sull'episodio e' stata aperta un'inchiesta.
La Serbia meridionale limitrofa al Kosovo e' stata in queste ultime
settimane teatro di un'ondata di violenze. In particolare, un gruppo
estremista albanese (l'Esercito nazionale albanese) ha rivendicato
due attacchi contro polizia e esercito della Serbia/Montenegro.
(ANSA-AFP). BA 24/08/2003 00:15
KOSOVO: FINLANDESE HOLKERI NUOVO CAPO UNMIK
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 25 AGO - L'ex primo ministro finlandese Harri
Holkeri ha iniziato oggi il suo mandato come capo dell'Unmik,
l'amministrazione delle Nazioni unite in Kosovo. Holkeri prende il
posto di Michael Steiner, la cui gestione era stata duramente
criticata da Belgrado. Il diplomatico finlandese non ha voluto
rilasciare dichiarazioni al suo arrivo all'aeroporto di Pristina,
dove era atteso dai soli membri del suo staff. Si e' limitato a
ricordare la figura del piu' illustre dei suoi predecessori, Sergio
Vieira De Mello, ucciso la settimana scorsa in un attentato a
Baghdad. De Mello era stato per tre mesi il primo amministratore
della provincia, dopo l'ingresso in Kosovo, nel giugno del 1999,
delle forze internazionali. (ANSA). OT 25/08/2003 19:47
KOSOVO: PARLAMENTO SERBO RIBADISCE SOVRANITA' BELGRADO (2)
(ANSA-REUTERS) - BELGRADO, 27 AGO - ''La sovranita' statale e
l'integrita' territoriale della Repubblica di Serbia come membro
dello Stato di Serbia e Montenegro include il Kosovo, nonostante
l'amministrazione internazionale provvisoria'', afferma la mozione
votata dal Parlamento serbo. Il documento, gia' approvato dal
governo serbo nelle scorse settimane, precisa che Belgrado
continuera' a rispettare la risoluzione 1244 del Consiglio di
sicurezza dell'Onu, che ha definito lo 'status' della provincia dopo
la campagna di bombardamenti della Nato (primavera 1999). La mozione
accusa altresi' le forze dell'Onu e della Nato di non aver fatto
applicare appieno tale risoluzione, non garantendo in particolare la
sicurezza della popolazione non albanese ne' il ritorno dei profughi.
La risoluzione 1244 definisce il Kosovo formalmente parte della
Serbia/Montenegro, ma lascia impregiudicato il suo 'status'
definitivo, sul quale l'Onu avra' l'ultima parola. In una prima
reazione all'iniziativa del Parlamento serbo, Bajram Kosumi. membro
dell'Assemblea del Kosovo, ha accusato Belgrado di continuare la
politica del suo ex 'uomo forte' Slobodan Milosevic. ''Penso che
dovremmo dichiarare l' indipendenza e dire alla Serbia che non
abbiamo piu' bisogno di parlare di nulla se non del riconoscimento di
un Kosovo indipendente'', ha detto Kosumi all'agenzia Reuters a
Pristina. (ANSA-REUTERS).
DIG 27/08/2003 23:58
ALBANIA: NANO, KOSOVO NON SARA' MAI PARTE DELLA SERBIA
(ANSA) - TIRANA, 30 AGO - ''Il Kosovo non sara' mai parte della
Serbia'': il premier albanese Fatos Nano si e' opposto senza mezzi
termini alla dichiarazione del governo serbo, approvata pochi giorni
fa anche dal parlamento, che ribadisce ''la sovranita' di Belgrado
sul Kosovo e l'indivisibilita' della provincia dal territorio
serbo''. ''I serbi devono rientrare in Kosovo - ha aggiunto Nano - ma
non il Kosovo in Serbia. Queste sono due cose diverse''. La
dichiarazione del primo ministro albanese e' stata fatta nel corso di
un incontro a Tirana con tutti gli ambasciatori dell'Albania nel
mondo. ''Nessuna unione, nessuna regione dai confini ormai aperti
come quelli dei Balcani, ha futuro se non viene rispettata la
volonta' di tutte le comunita' nelle capitali dove funzionano
istituzioni scelte democraticamnte'', ha detto Nano, secondo cui ''il
futuro sia di Pristina che di Podgorica e' nell'Unione Europea''.
''Ne' Covic, ne' un parlamento transitorio come quello serbo - ha poi
aggiunto Nano - possono rovesciare gli sviluppi regionali, la
risoluzione 1244 dell'Onu ed il processo di integrazione europea dei
nostri paesi''. Due giorni fa anche il presidente della Repubblica,
Alfred Moisiu si era detto contrario alla dichiarazione adottata dal
parlamento di Belgrado, duramente criticata anche dalla leadership
albanese del Kosovo. (ANSA). COR
30/08/2003 19:10
“Evidence” in the “Milosevic case“: What’ s behind Carla’s promises?
By Cathrin Schütz
As stated by chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte, in the upcoming months
the prosecution in the trial against former Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic in The Hague will focus on “Sarajevo“ and “Srebrenica“.[1]
According to some official reports, between 7.000 and 8.000 Bosnian
Muslims were killed in July 1995, when Serb units launched an attack on
the UN “save heaven” of Srebrenica. Doubts continue to surface
regarding the extent and nature of these alleged crimes because the
official side of the story is in many respects lacking in factual
verification.[2]
After del Ponte herself had to admit that the Kosovo-case (which
originally served as the grounds for the Milosevic indictment and the
former president’s abduction and delivery to the Hague tribunal) lacked
the charge of genocide because there is no evidence for that, the
prosecution came up with additional indictments for Croatia and Bosnia
and accused Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia, a point which is mainly
based on the events around Srebrenica.
Recently, the prosecution suffered from another big disappointment when
Slobodan Milosevic’s predecessor - former Yugoslav president Zoran
Lilic - testified in The Hague on June 17. Lilic stated that Mr.
Milosevic had not been involved in the Srebrenica massacre. The next
day media headlines announced “Srebrenica »outraged« Milosevic“.[3]
But just one day later, this positive message for Milosevic disappeared
and the international press reported an opposite line, saying: “Paper
could link Milosevic with massacre“.[4]
The paper in question is an official document provided to the
prosecution by the London-based “Institute for War and Peace Reporting“
(IWPR). It is an order signed on July 10, 1995 by Bosnian-Serb Interior
Minister Tomislav Kovac, which instructs that a Serbian police unit
should be moved from Sarajevo to Srebrenica to “crush the enemy
offensive being carried out from the UN safe heaven of Srebrenica“.[5]
But the statements appearing on the occasion of the presentation of the
paper appear to be to the advantage of former president Milosevic. Some
unusual comments were made about the lack of any evidence for the
involvement of Milosevic – except the new-found document. IWPR bureau
chief in The Hague, Stacey Sullivan, while praising the paper, stated:
“Up until now, it was generally assumed that there was no link between
what happened in Srebrenica and Belgrade.“ As stated in the NYT on June
19, an official in the prosecutors office said “for the moment, this is
the first such document relating to the July 1995 massacre”.[6] SFOR
news confirms this. Reporting about the new-found document, SFOR news
states on June 20, 2003: “To date, it was mostly assumed that until the
summer of 1995, Serbia had cut off all of its ties to the Bosnian Serb
leadership and that the former Serbian forces had not participated in
the military operation in Srebrenica”.[7]
According to Sullivan, the document shows for the first time that
police from Serbia participated in this operation. The “Coalition for
International Justice“ in Washington pointed out the contrary by saying
that the document does not prove any involvement of those units. And
what is still unknown, and what Sullivan had to admit herself, is
whether Milosevic actually knew about those troops.
The NYT, usually in line with the rest of the corporate media in
pre-convicting the former president, suddenly choose to leave no doubts
about the awareness of any lack of evidence against Milosevic in the
Srebrenica case. “Witnesses and even participants in the massacre have
told the tribunal the roles played by the army, police and paramilitary
fighters in the blood bath. But even during the trial of Gen. Radislav
Krstic, one of the commanders at Srebrenica, who was sentenced to 46
years in prison for genocide, prosecutors had no documents linking the
atrocities to Belgrade”.
Recalling the reactions following the first presentation of the paper,
it now looks like it got more attention than it actually deserved.
Apparently, it provides no "new evidence" against Milosevic. Florence
Hartmann, spokesperson of the prosecution, called the document later
only “an element“, and announced there will be additional elements and
special witnesses for Srebrenica. The assumption remains that the
document was presented at the exact moment when Lilic’s testimony of
Milosevic’s innocence was the number one topic, in order to deflect
attention from news headlines which could undermine the prosecution’s
credibility. The IWPR assertion that the paper had been “overlooked”
seems to be highly questionable. The assumption that the Institute
(which with its branch in The Hague enjoys a physical closeness to the
tribunal) played in the prosecutors hands, is bolstered by a look on
their own list of cooperating organizations and partners. Among these
is the “Open Society Institute“ of US-American Billionaire George
Soros, who also provides funds directly to the tribunal. With “USAID“
the institute receives money from the US-government. Aid is also coming
from the US-American organization “International Research & Exchanges
Board”(IREX). At the same time, IREX is financing basically a long list
of journalists from former Yugoslavia reporting from the
Milosevic-trial in The Hague – providing training, apartments,
computers, etc. According to their own web-side information, IREX
receives funds from the US Department of State as well as from media
giant CNN-AOL-Time Warner, the latter also contributes financially to
the ICTY.[8]
Since Slobodan Milosevic is not permitted by the ICTY to give
press-statements, Vladimir Krsljanin, one of his Belgrade assistants,
comments for junge Welt: “Carla del Ponte recently boasted to the press
that she was able to prove all charges – except that genocide would be
more difficult. But even that she said will succeed in the upcoming
months. But that was only her attempt to hide her complete failures in
this regard from the public, because even her position as
chief-prosecutor has come under question. Slobodan Milosevic’s guilt
cannot be proven because it does not exist. Everybody knows that he
publicly and consistently condemned every extremism and crime. In his
opening statement, he announced that he would prove the complicity of
Western secret services in the worst crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.“
Indeed, this enterprise seems more likely to be successful than the
prosecution’s attempt to present evidence for a connection between
Milosevic and the massacre at Srebrenica. And the report of the
commission of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), led by
Cees Wiebes, agrees. “For five years, Professor Cees Wiebes of
Amsterdam University has had unrestricted access to Dutch intelligence
files and has stalked the corridors of secret service headquarters in
western capitals, as well as in Bosnia, asking questions.“[9] The
German Berliner Zeitung in April 2002, in reference to the Dutch
report, stated, there were “no hints for a direct involvement of
Milosevic and Serb authorities from Belgrade“ in the attack on
Srebrenica. Meanwhile, the same report according to The Guardian,
revealed the direct involvement of external forces: “America used
Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims, The Srebrenica report reveals the
Pentagon's role in a dirty war. The official Dutch inquiry into the
1995 Srebrenica massacre, released last week, contains one of the most
sensational reports on western intelligence ever published.“ “Weapons
flown in during the spring of 1995 were to turn up only a fortnight
later in the besieged and demilitarized enclave at Srebrenica. When
these shipments were noticed, Americans pressured UNPROFOR to rewrite
reports, and when Norwegian officials protested about the flights, they
were reportedly threatened into silence“, reports The Guardian.
If del Ponte wants to keep her promise of proving the genocide charge,
she may need to follow what seems to be her common routine of
manipulating witnesses, as was seen in the case of Rade Markovic. The
former head of state security, supposedly a witness on behalf of the
prosecution, stated in his testimony that he was offered a deal in
order to deliver a statement against Slobodan Milosevic.[10] Del
Ponte’s mid-July statement – in which she hoped that indicted senior
political and military figures during Milosevics 13 years in power
would testify against their former leader[11] - sounds more and more
like an announcement of new attempts to “incriminate testimony for
extenuating circumstances“.
Published in "junge Welt” (Berlin), "Beweisnot in Den Haag", August 19,
2003
URL: http://www.jungewelt.de/2003/08-19/005.php
By Cathrin Schütz
As stated by chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte, in the upcoming months
the prosecution in the trial against former Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic in The Hague will focus on “Sarajevo“ and “Srebrenica“.[1]
According to some official reports, between 7.000 and 8.000 Bosnian
Muslims were killed in July 1995, when Serb units launched an attack on
the UN “save heaven” of Srebrenica. Doubts continue to surface
regarding the extent and nature of these alleged crimes because the
official side of the story is in many respects lacking in factual
verification.[2]
After del Ponte herself had to admit that the Kosovo-case (which
originally served as the grounds for the Milosevic indictment and the
former president’s abduction and delivery to the Hague tribunal) lacked
the charge of genocide because there is no evidence for that, the
prosecution came up with additional indictments for Croatia and Bosnia
and accused Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia, a point which is mainly
based on the events around Srebrenica.
Recently, the prosecution suffered from another big disappointment when
Slobodan Milosevic’s predecessor - former Yugoslav president Zoran
Lilic - testified in The Hague on June 17. Lilic stated that Mr.
Milosevic had not been involved in the Srebrenica massacre. The next
day media headlines announced “Srebrenica »outraged« Milosevic“.[3]
But just one day later, this positive message for Milosevic disappeared
and the international press reported an opposite line, saying: “Paper
could link Milosevic with massacre“.[4]
The paper in question is an official document provided to the
prosecution by the London-based “Institute for War and Peace Reporting“
(IWPR). It is an order signed on July 10, 1995 by Bosnian-Serb Interior
Minister Tomislav Kovac, which instructs that a Serbian police unit
should be moved from Sarajevo to Srebrenica to “crush the enemy
offensive being carried out from the UN safe heaven of Srebrenica“.[5]
But the statements appearing on the occasion of the presentation of the
paper appear to be to the advantage of former president Milosevic. Some
unusual comments were made about the lack of any evidence for the
involvement of Milosevic – except the new-found document. IWPR bureau
chief in The Hague, Stacey Sullivan, while praising the paper, stated:
“Up until now, it was generally assumed that there was no link between
what happened in Srebrenica and Belgrade.“ As stated in the NYT on June
19, an official in the prosecutors office said “for the moment, this is
the first such document relating to the July 1995 massacre”.[6] SFOR
news confirms this. Reporting about the new-found document, SFOR news
states on June 20, 2003: “To date, it was mostly assumed that until the
summer of 1995, Serbia had cut off all of its ties to the Bosnian Serb
leadership and that the former Serbian forces had not participated in
the military operation in Srebrenica”.[7]
According to Sullivan, the document shows for the first time that
police from Serbia participated in this operation. The “Coalition for
International Justice“ in Washington pointed out the contrary by saying
that the document does not prove any involvement of those units. And
what is still unknown, and what Sullivan had to admit herself, is
whether Milosevic actually knew about those troops.
The NYT, usually in line with the rest of the corporate media in
pre-convicting the former president, suddenly choose to leave no doubts
about the awareness of any lack of evidence against Milosevic in the
Srebrenica case. “Witnesses and even participants in the massacre have
told the tribunal the roles played by the army, police and paramilitary
fighters in the blood bath. But even during the trial of Gen. Radislav
Krstic, one of the commanders at Srebrenica, who was sentenced to 46
years in prison for genocide, prosecutors had no documents linking the
atrocities to Belgrade”.
Recalling the reactions following the first presentation of the paper,
it now looks like it got more attention than it actually deserved.
Apparently, it provides no "new evidence" against Milosevic. Florence
Hartmann, spokesperson of the prosecution, called the document later
only “an element“, and announced there will be additional elements and
special witnesses for Srebrenica. The assumption remains that the
document was presented at the exact moment when Lilic’s testimony of
Milosevic’s innocence was the number one topic, in order to deflect
attention from news headlines which could undermine the prosecution’s
credibility. The IWPR assertion that the paper had been “overlooked”
seems to be highly questionable. The assumption that the Institute
(which with its branch in The Hague enjoys a physical closeness to the
tribunal) played in the prosecutors hands, is bolstered by a look on
their own list of cooperating organizations and partners. Among these
is the “Open Society Institute“ of US-American Billionaire George
Soros, who also provides funds directly to the tribunal. With “USAID“
the institute receives money from the US-government. Aid is also coming
from the US-American organization “International Research & Exchanges
Board”(IREX). At the same time, IREX is financing basically a long list
of journalists from former Yugoslavia reporting from the
Milosevic-trial in The Hague – providing training, apartments,
computers, etc. According to their own web-side information, IREX
receives funds from the US Department of State as well as from media
giant CNN-AOL-Time Warner, the latter also contributes financially to
the ICTY.[8]
Since Slobodan Milosevic is not permitted by the ICTY to give
press-statements, Vladimir Krsljanin, one of his Belgrade assistants,
comments for junge Welt: “Carla del Ponte recently boasted to the press
that she was able to prove all charges – except that genocide would be
more difficult. But even that she said will succeed in the upcoming
months. But that was only her attempt to hide her complete failures in
this regard from the public, because even her position as
chief-prosecutor has come under question. Slobodan Milosevic’s guilt
cannot be proven because it does not exist. Everybody knows that he
publicly and consistently condemned every extremism and crime. In his
opening statement, he announced that he would prove the complicity of
Western secret services in the worst crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.“
Indeed, this enterprise seems more likely to be successful than the
prosecution’s attempt to present evidence for a connection between
Milosevic and the massacre at Srebrenica. And the report of the
commission of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), led by
Cees Wiebes, agrees. “For five years, Professor Cees Wiebes of
Amsterdam University has had unrestricted access to Dutch intelligence
files and has stalked the corridors of secret service headquarters in
western capitals, as well as in Bosnia, asking questions.“[9] The
German Berliner Zeitung in April 2002, in reference to the Dutch
report, stated, there were “no hints for a direct involvement of
Milosevic and Serb authorities from Belgrade“ in the attack on
Srebrenica. Meanwhile, the same report according to The Guardian,
revealed the direct involvement of external forces: “America used
Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims, The Srebrenica report reveals the
Pentagon's role in a dirty war. The official Dutch inquiry into the
1995 Srebrenica massacre, released last week, contains one of the most
sensational reports on western intelligence ever published.“ “Weapons
flown in during the spring of 1995 were to turn up only a fortnight
later in the besieged and demilitarized enclave at Srebrenica. When
these shipments were noticed, Americans pressured UNPROFOR to rewrite
reports, and when Norwegian officials protested about the flights, they
were reportedly threatened into silence“, reports The Guardian.
If del Ponte wants to keep her promise of proving the genocide charge,
she may need to follow what seems to be her common routine of
manipulating witnesses, as was seen in the case of Rade Markovic. The
former head of state security, supposedly a witness on behalf of the
prosecution, stated in his testimony that he was offered a deal in
order to deliver a statement against Slobodan Milosevic.[10] Del
Ponte’s mid-July statement – in which she hoped that indicted senior
political and military figures during Milosevics 13 years in power
would testify against their former leader[11] - sounds more and more
like an announcement of new attempts to “incriminate testimony for
extenuating circumstances“.
Published in "junge Welt” (Berlin), "Beweisnot in Den Haag", August 19,
2003
URL: http://www.jungewelt.de/2003/08-19/005.php
Da: Rick Rozoff
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Data: Ven 29 Ago 2003 13:24:24
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] Kosovo: The International Community's
'Success Story'
http://bhhrg.org/LatestNews.asp?ArticleID=24
British Helsinki Human Rights Group
August 28, 2003
Kosovo: The International Community’s ‘Success Story’
-Could the US Administration risk admitting that the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has turned out to be
another monster out of control, once sponsored by
Washington now defying it? Or will America quietly
admit that fighting the KLA is one war on terrorism it
can do without?
British Helsinki Human Rights representatives last
visited Kosovo in late March, 2003 in the days leading
up to the US-led invasion of Iraq. While visiting the
enclave of Graèanica, outside Kosovo’s capital,
Priština, they learned that KFOR troops had
effectively stopped protecting its Serb inhabitants
and had even removed armoured protection from outside
the small town’s world-famous orthodox monastery
church. Local Serbs said that they feared for their
safety and that, although things were “quiet” at the
time, past experience indicated that such “quiet” was
invariably a prelude for violent attacks against them
by Albanian youths who would also taunt them while
driving through the enclave in their cars.
In Graèanica and other Serb enclaves BHHRG also noted
a serious deterioration with regard to sanitary
conditions and public health: the stream running
through the centre of Graèanica, for example, was
rust-coloured, presumably polluted by discarded metal
from things like old cars, tractors, etc. Garbage was
strewn everywhere; there appeared to be have been no
garbage collection by any central authority for some
time. Although local Albanians have deposited
mountains of garbage into the streets of Kosovo’s
towns and villages since their ‘liberation’ in 1999,
this was the first time in four years that BHHRG had
noted the same phenomenon in Serb-populated areas.
But, although Kosovo’s Albanians have been the winners
in their conflict with Serbia, many of them cannot
have imagined that liberation was going to turn out
quite as bleakly as it has done. Factories are closed
and there are few jobs for those who have failed to
gain employment in the magic circle of the UN and
other international agencies. Hope must have been
abandoned by many, as Kosovo’s once teeming villages
and small towns now appear eerily uninhabited – many
people have packed up and gone West. For those that
remain, daily life is a constant struggle. In March
2003, BHHRG watched as carts loaded with chopped wood
were being transported home for use as fuel.
Electricity supplies have never properly resumed since
Nato’s bombing campaign in 1999. (Iraqis living on
promises of an imminent renewal of transmission should
take note of Kosovo’s 4 years plus wait for
electricity to return once the “tyrant” had been
driven out.)
BHHRG returned to the UK but refrained from reporting
on conditions in Kosovo at the time preferring to
wait and see if the Graèanica Serbs were correct and
whether or not the “quiet” they talked about really
was the prelude to renewed violence. It seems that the
events of the past few weeks have proved them right.
Recorded below are just a few of the most extreme acts
of violence that have occurred in both Kosovo and
Serbia in summer, 2003.
The anti-Milosevic Western-backed radio station B-92
reported:
“Terrorist attack against Serb children near
Gorazdevac
Gorazdevac, - Unknown persons opened machine gun fire
on Serb children bathing in the Bistrica River not far
from Gorazdevac, Pec municipality. According to
preliminary information two Serb children were killed
and at least five others wounded. Panta Dakic (10) and
Ivan Jovovic (20) were pronounced dead at Pec Hospital
while Bogdan Bukumiric (15) and Nikola Bogicevic are
in critical condition. Also seriously wounded were
Dragana Srbljak (14), Djordje Ugrenovic (20) and Marko
Bogicevic, said Sladjana Todorovic of Gorazdevac, who
was with the wounded children in Pec Hospital.
Bogdan Bukumiric is scheduled to be transferred to
Belgrade by helicopter during the day. According to
reports from the field, Albanians stoned the vehicle
of Milovan Pavlovic while he was attempting to drive
some of the wounded children to Pec Hospital. Pavlovic
sustained arm injuries. Local sources report that the
attackers also beat the wounded child in Pavlovic's
vehicle.
The children were bathing today in the Bistrica
River, some 500 meters from the center of the village,
when they were targeted by machine gun fire by unknown
persons at about 13.30. Three rounds were fired. KFOR
and UNMIK police have not conducted an investigation
at the site of the attack, although members of the UN
military mission helped to get from Gorazdevac to Pec
Hospital, whose staff is really trying to help the
wounded children," explained Sladjana Todorovic.
Gorazdevac today is full of great unrest and fear. The
nuns of the Pec Patriarchate and the monks of Visoki
Decani have urgently requested KFOR to allow them to
enter Gorazdevac. The sisterhood of the Pec
Patriarchate could not get an escort and the Decani
monks are still waiting for a positive response from
KFOR to provide them with a military escort.
This is an unprecedented crime. In Kosovo and
Metohija for four years there has been no Serbian Army
or police, who Albanian terrorists claimed were their
enemies, and they are killing our children. In the
past Serb children have been the targets of grenades
and run over by cars, and now they are being
perfidiously killed when they are swimming in the
river - said Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren,
commenting on today's terrorist attack near
Gorazdevac. The Serb village of Gorazadevac is located
near Pec and security is provided by Italian KFOR
troops. It is still the home of some 1,000 Serbs, half
of the village population prior to the arrival of the
UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija. The village has a
primary school and two secondary schools, one
technical and one economic. In order to obtain basics
for life, residents are dependent on military and
police assistance or forced to travel to northern
Kosovska Mitrovica by escorted convoy.
GORAZDEVAC - Gorazdevac local Rajko Jandzikovic, who
was, after today's attack on Serbs, transporting the
wounded to the hospital in Pec together with Milivoje
Pavlovic, stated that they were attacked near the
farmer's market in that city by a group of Albanians
using their fists and stones.
A group of young people bathing in the Bistrica River
near Pec was targeted by machine gun fire in which two
people were killed and six wounded.
"Near the farmer's market our Opel Kadet with
Zrenjanin license plates ran out of fuel. I went to
the KFOR checkpoint some 50 meters away to ask if they
would give us a liter of fuel but the Italian soldiers
turned us down, despite the fact that I speak Italian
relatively well," said Jandzikovic."We were then
attacked by a group of young Albanians - with fists
and stones - while members of the Kosovo Police
Service nearby failed to react," he added.
Jandzakovic said that "there were two boys in the car
fighting for their lives" and added that he does not
understand "what is happening to people." "Somehow we
managed, with a KFOR military escort, to get to Pec
Hospital but once there we were mistreated even by the
physicians, who refused to give immediate assistance
to the wounded boys," said Jandzikovic, who returned
to Gorazdevac without his vehicle, together with KFOR.
His shirt is soaked with blood and there are several
bruises on his face.”
[See Radio B92, www.b92.net/English/news Beta News
Agency, Belgrade
13th August, 2003.]
PRISTINA, KLINA, BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Repatriate to
the village of Bica near Klina in Kosovo, Zoran
Doncic, who was wounded on Tuesday night, underwent a
surgery in the Spanish military hospital in Istok
andhis condition is stable, the Raska and Prizren
Eparchy announced.
UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angelli said that Doncic was
kept in the Spanish hospital because they could not
transport him to northern Kosovska Mitrovica as
demanded by the local people due to seriousness of his
wound. Bica village elder told B92 that Zoran Doncic
was shot by a sniper from the nearby hill while
driving a tractor.
Coordination Centre for Kosovo head Nebojsa Covic told
Beta that the wounding of Zoran Doncic was a message
to Serbia before adoption of the Kosovo declaration in
the Serbian Parliament, but also a message to the
international community that "terrorist gangs"
operating in Kosovo will not stop doing crimes.
He said it was appalling that UNMIK arrived to the
scene at 9 p.m. when the crime was committed at 6.20
p.m. Around fifty Serb families returned to the
village of Bica a year ago.
[See Beta News Agency, www.b92.net/english/news 27th
August, 2003.]
DOBROTIN: 27.8.03. Three unknown men attempted to
kidnap ten-year old Marina Damjanovic from the village
of Dobrotin near Lipljan in Kosovo yesterday around 8
p.m. According to the girl's testimony and claims of
eyewitnesses, three Albanians in a white Mercedes with
foreign registration plates stopped briefly beside the
girl and attempted to drag her inside the car. The
girl managed to free herself and flee into the
neighbourhood shouting for help, while the car sped
away.
The blockade set up by citizens of Dobrotin on the
local Lipljan-Janjevo road in protest yesterday has
been terminated today. UNMIK police and KFOR have set
up checkpoints at the village's entrance and exit.
[See B92 http://www.b92.net/english/news/index 27th
August, 2003.]
Ethnic Albanian violence is not only on the rise in
Kosovo. Incidents are constantly occurring in
neighbouring Macedonia as well as in the Preševo
valley in southern Serbia _ scene of a low-level
insurgency three years ago. BHHRG visited both Preševo
and Bujanovac in March 2003 and noted the increase in
the towns’ Albanian population. Hundreds of new
houses and other properties have been built since the
Group last visited the region in 2000. They stretch
across the narrow Preševo valley effectively cutting
Serbia proper off from Macedonia in the south. BHHRG
also noted the omnipresence of EU-sponsored
regeneration projects which do not seem, as the
following reports show, to have tamed the incipient
violence which seems to be second-nature to local
inhabitants.
Again, the pro-Western B-92 reported:
”Children wounded in Presevo grenade attack
PRESEVO -- Saturday – Two fifteen-year-old girls were
wounded in one of a series of explosions last night in
the courtyard of a cultural centre in the south
Serbian town of Presevo.
The local representative of Belgrade’s Coordination
Centre for Kosovo and South Serbia, Mica Markovic,
told B92 that a bomb crater at the site of the
explosion indicated that the weapon used had been
either a hand grenade or a 40mm grenade launcher.
Because of the direction of the attack, said Markovic,
it was possible that the adjacent police station had
been the target. One of the three grenades caused
major property damage to a neighbouring house.
The two injured girls were sitting on a bench close to
the cultural centre. One suffered wounds to the face
and the other to the legs.
Officers of the Coordination Centre and the EU
Monitoring Mission are supervising an investigation
into the bombing.
[See B92 http://www.b92.net/english/news/index 24th
August, 2003.]
PRESEVO A strong explosion last night shook the south
Serbian town of Presevo, close to the Municipal
Assembly building. A preliminary investigation has not
yet revealed whether the blast came from a missile
aimed at the Assembly or a bomb which exploded inside
a building. However police sources say that the likely
cause was a hand grenade thrown into a construction
site adjacent to the local mosque and opposite the
Assembly building.
Gunfire was reported last night in the neighbouring
municipality of Bujanovac, but sources in the security
forces described this as provocation. There were no
casualties in either incident.
Meanwhile, the head of the OSCE mission in
Serbia-Montenegro, Maurizio Massari, has cancelled
planned visit to the region. Massari, who was
scheduled to meet the mayors of Presevo and Bujanovac,
is reported to be unwell.
[See B92 http://www.b92.net/english/news/index 28th
August, 2003.]
Why is this violence allowed to go on? How can NATO
leaders still get away with calling the Kosovo
intervention a “great success” unchallenged? Anyobody
who wants different ethnic groups to live in harmony
and prosperity cannot call Kosovo a model. Sadly, one
of the reasons is the failure of the government in
Belgrade to protect Serbs in Kosovo or anywhere else
for that matter, including the Preševo valley.
Hand-wringing by politicians like Serbia’s deputy
prime-minister and points-man for Kosovo, Nebojša
Èovic and prime minister Zoran Živkovic is cynical
politicking and only serves to highlight the fact
that extreme Serbian “nationalism” was always a sham.
Strikingly, supporters of the apparently hardline
Bosnian Serb nationalists like the recently murdered
Serbian Premier, Zoran Djindjic, who was the last
Serbian politician to meet the indicted war criminal
Dr. Radovan Karadzic in 1996, turned out to be
indifferent to the daily attacks on ordinary Serbs.
His heirs and successors are similarly unconcerned,
apart from verbal protests.
Despite the media talk about Serbian intransigence and
blind nationalism, it is remarkable that neither in
Bosnia nor Kosovo have there been any guerrilla
attacks on the NATO-forces in de facto occupation.
This contrasts sharply with the growing difficulties
faced in Iraq by the Anglo-American troops there.
Will the passive attitude to the NATO troops remain
the same if Iraqi resistance continues to cause the
Allies difficulties? Militant Albanians in Kosovo have
shown a disregard for the NATO’s capacity to enforce
peace already in Kosovo, across the border with Serbia
and across the border with Macedonia. So far Serbs
have not imitated their enemies defiance of NATO’s
ostensible authority. Some Serbs abroad are already
denouncing their fellow Serbs’ passivity in view of
the apparent success of Iraqi guerrillas in forcing
Washington and her allies to seek a new UN mandate and
other concessions as a result of casualties.
This letter appeared on a widely distributed Serbian
website:
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your regular articles. I recently read
the comment you published, written by "Cossack,"
titled "A Pox on Both Their Houses"
(http://www.artel.co.yu/en/glas_dijaspore/2003-08-26_3.html).
I disagree with Cossack's conclusion that the reason
that Yugoslavia is not the subject of debate in the
United States is simply a matter of the priorities of
the so-called US liberals and US neo-cons. His
argument puts the blame on others.
Instead, I think the reason why Yugoslavia is not a
point of international debate is because there has
been a very full and complete assumption of power by
willing collaborators in Serbia and Montenegro and
there have been no losses whatsoever to worry about
among US military forces. There has been no guerrilla
war, no resistance and not even a single Yugoslav
daily newspaper opposes the US-led occupation of the
country. Yugoslavia's leadership has been so weak and
divided that it even stooped so low as to adopt the
name arbitrarily given to the country by the United
States way back in 1992 - Serbia and Montenegro.
This utter lack of resistance of any sort leaves no
issue or problem for Americans to debate. That is the
real difference. For the US, Serbia was easy. And
Serbia continues to be easy.
Speaking as a Serb born abroad, I am very sorry to
have to point out this fact.
Milos Obilic would not be able to recognize the
Serbian nation today.
Most sincerely,
John Bosnitch
Journalist
Tokyo
Whether Serbs will copy their Albanian rivals and
resort to guerrilla warfare remains to be seen. But
already the “usual suspects” in the US Congress are
responding to the violence in the region by demanding
further concessions to those engaged in violence.
Already at the start of the year, the U.S. House of
Representatives heard a resolution backing Kosovan
independence:
One Hundred Eighth Congress
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
January 27, 2003
Support the Independence of Kosova
Dear Colleague:
Today we introduced a resolution (H. Res. 28, which is
at the end of this email) expressing the sense of the
House of Representatives that the United States should
declare its support for the independence of Kosova.
Under the Yugoslav constitution of 1974, Kosova was
equivalent in most ways to Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and Macedonia . In its position as an
``autonomous province,'' Kosova, in practice,
exercised the same powers as a republic. It had its
own parliament, high courts, central bank, police
service, and defense force. Through its definition in
1968 as a part of the Yugoslav Federal System, it
gained equal representation at the federal level with
Serbia and the other juridical units of the former
Yugoslavia.
When Slovenia and Croatia demanded independence,
Western governments made similar arguments against
recognizing those countries. However, eventually the
same Western governments did recognize not only the
independence of Slovenia and Croatia, but
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia as well, having
discovered that independence for those nations
involved not so much a change of borders as a change
in the status of existing borders. The lines on the
map remained the same, but their status was upgraded
from republican to national. It is fitting that the
Kosovars be allowed to follow the same path towards
independence.
Since the cessation of the1999 conflict with Serbia,
during which the Serbian military and paramilitary
forces killed more than ten thousand Kosovar Albanians
and expelled close to a million, Kosova remains under
a United Nations mandate. The Kosovars, the United
Nations, NATO, and the European Union are now making
efforts to rebuild Kosova, revitalize its economy,
establish democratic institutions of self-government,
and heal the scars of war.
It is time for the United States to abide by its
recognition that a right to self-determination exists
as a fundamental right of all people through declaring
its support for the independence of Kosova. To
cosponsor H.Res.28, please contact Keith O'Neil at
225-6735 (Lantos) or Greg Galvin (Hyde) at 225-5021.
Sincerely,
TOM LANTOS
HENRY HYDE
Member of Congress
Member of Congress
H. RES. 28
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives
that the United States should declare its support for
the independence of Kosova.
Whereas the United States and the international
community recognize that a right to self-determination
exists as a fundamental right of all people;
Whereas Kosova was constitutionally defined as a
sovereign territory in the First National Liberation
Conference for Kosova on January 2, 1944, and this
status was confirmed in the Constitution of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopted in
1946, and the amended Yugoslav constitution adopted in
1974 preserved the autonomous status of Kosova as a de
facto republic;
Whereas prior to the disintegration of the former
Yugoslavia, Kosova was a separate political and legal
entity with separate and distinct financial
institutions, police force, municipal and national
government, school system, judicial and legal system,
hospitals and other independent organizations;
Whereas Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic rose to
power in 1987 on a platform of ultra nationalism and
anti-Albanian racism, advocating violence and hatred
against all non-Slavs and specifically targeting the
Albanians of Kosova;
Whereas Slobodan Milosevic subsequently stripped
Kosova of its self-rule, without the consent of the
people of Kosova;
Whereas the elected Assembly of Kosova, faced with
these intolerable acts, adopted a Declaration of
Independence on July 2, 1990, proclaimed the Republic
of Kosova, and adopted a constitution on September 7,
1990, based on the international legal principles of
self-determination, equality, and sovereignty;
Whereas in recognition of the de facto dissolution of
the Yugoslav federation, the European community
established principles for the recognition of the
independence and sovereignty of the republics of the
former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
Kosova fully satisfied those principles as a de facto
republic within the federation;
Whereas a popular referendum was held in Kosova from
September 26-30, 1991, in which 87 percent of all
eligible voters cast ballots and 99.87 percent voted
in favor of declaring Kosova independent of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;
Whereas, from the occupation of Kosova in 1989 until
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military
action against the Milosevic regime in 1999, the
Albanians of Kosova were subjected to the most brutal
treatment in the heart of Europe since the Nazi era,
forcing approximately 400,000 Albanians to flee to
Western Europe and the United States;
Whereas in the spring of 1999 almost 1,000,000 Kosovar
Albanians were driven out of Kosova and at least
10,000 were murdered by the Serbian paramilitary and
military;
Whereas Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the
International War Crimes Tribunal and extradited to
The Hague in June 2001 to stand trial for war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and genocide in Kosova,
Bosnia, and Croatia;
Whereas the United Nations established Kosova as a
protectorate under Resolution 1244, ending the decade
long Serbian occupation of Kosova and Milosevic's
genocidal war in Kosova;
Whereas Kosovar Albanians, together with
representatives of the Serb, Turkish, Roma, Bosniak,
and Ashkali minorities in Kosova, have held free and
fair municipal and general elections in 2000 and 2001
and successfully established a parliament in 2002,
which in turn elected a president and prime minister;
Whereas 50 percent of the population in Kosova is
under the age of 25 and the unemployment rate is
currently between 60 and 70 percent, increasing the
likelihood of young people entering criminal networks,
the source of which lies outside of Kosova, or working
abroad in order to survive unless massive job creation
is facilitated by guaranteeing the security of foreign
investments through an orderly transition to the
independence of Kosova;
Whereas the Kosova parliament is committed to
developing a western-style democracy in which all
citizens, regardless of ethnicity, are granted full
human and civil rights and are committed to the return
of all noncriminal Serbs who fled Kosova during and
after the war; and
Whereas there is every reason to believe that
independence from Serbia is the only viable option for
Kosova, after autonomy has failed time and time again:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of
Representatives that the United States should -
(1) publicly support the independence of
Kosova and the establishment of Kosova as a sovereign
and democratic state in which human rights are
respected, including the rights of ethnic and
religious minorities, as the only way to lasting peace
and stability in the Balkans;
(2) recognize the danger that delay in the
resolution of Kosova's final status poses for the
political and economic viability of Kosova and the
future of Southeast Europe;
(3) work in conjunction with the United
Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and
other multilateral organizations to facilitate an
orderly transition to the independence of Kosova; and
(4) provide its share of assistance, trade,
and other programs to support the government of an
independent Kosova and to encourage the further
development of democracy and a free market economic
system.
At the moment, all the parties on the ground,
including the new UN representative to Kosovo, Harri
Holkeri, deny that anything other than Security
Council resolution 1244 defines the province’s
status. But, the ‘international community’ seems happy
to create ever more, albeit small and precarious,
independent states. As the vociferous support of
newly-independent (and destitute) East Timor for the
Iraq War showed such micro-states can be relied upon
to support this or that intervention when called upon
to do so by their more powerful sponsors.
Even if the ultimate goal of Kosovo’s independence is
postponed, the province looks unlikely to go back
under Belgrade’s wing. However, its “liberation” from
Serbian rule looks like a grim precedent for Iraq’s
fate after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime:
both seem set to continue to suffer from lack of
electricity and clean water, while unemployment and
persistent violence plague them.
Now the threat to NATO comes from the Alliance’s
former Albanian allies. Even if Serbs show no
inclination to mimic Iraqi resistance, Albanian
nationalists seem to be upping the tempo of violence
at a time when US and British forces are already fully
engaged in Iraq. Washington’s recent history of
waking up to find yesterday’s allies today’s enemies
has followed a tortuous path from the 1980s when both
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the Afghan Muslim
fundamentalists were allies to today’s bitter
animosities for Saddam and the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Could the US Administration risk admitting that the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has turned out to be
another monster out of control, once sponsored by
Washington now defying it? Or will America quietly
admit that fighting the KLA is one war on terrorism it
can do without?
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Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] Kosovo: The International Community's
'Success Story'
http://bhhrg.org/LatestNews.asp?ArticleID=24
British Helsinki Human Rights Group
August 28, 2003
Kosovo: The International Community’s ‘Success Story’
-Could the US Administration risk admitting that the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has turned out to be
another monster out of control, once sponsored by
Washington now defying it? Or will America quietly
admit that fighting the KLA is one war on terrorism it
can do without?
British Helsinki Human Rights representatives last
visited Kosovo in late March, 2003 in the days leading
up to the US-led invasion of Iraq. While visiting the
enclave of Graèanica, outside Kosovo’s capital,
Priština, they learned that KFOR troops had
effectively stopped protecting its Serb inhabitants
and had even removed armoured protection from outside
the small town’s world-famous orthodox monastery
church. Local Serbs said that they feared for their
safety and that, although things were “quiet” at the
time, past experience indicated that such “quiet” was
invariably a prelude for violent attacks against them
by Albanian youths who would also taunt them while
driving through the enclave in their cars.
In Graèanica and other Serb enclaves BHHRG also noted
a serious deterioration with regard to sanitary
conditions and public health: the stream running
through the centre of Graèanica, for example, was
rust-coloured, presumably polluted by discarded metal
from things like old cars, tractors, etc. Garbage was
strewn everywhere; there appeared to be have been no
garbage collection by any central authority for some
time. Although local Albanians have deposited
mountains of garbage into the streets of Kosovo’s
towns and villages since their ‘liberation’ in 1999,
this was the first time in four years that BHHRG had
noted the same phenomenon in Serb-populated areas.
But, although Kosovo’s Albanians have been the winners
in their conflict with Serbia, many of them cannot
have imagined that liberation was going to turn out
quite as bleakly as it has done. Factories are closed
and there are few jobs for those who have failed to
gain employment in the magic circle of the UN and
other international agencies. Hope must have been
abandoned by many, as Kosovo’s once teeming villages
and small towns now appear eerily uninhabited – many
people have packed up and gone West. For those that
remain, daily life is a constant struggle. In March
2003, BHHRG watched as carts loaded with chopped wood
were being transported home for use as fuel.
Electricity supplies have never properly resumed since
Nato’s bombing campaign in 1999. (Iraqis living on
promises of an imminent renewal of transmission should
take note of Kosovo’s 4 years plus wait for
electricity to return once the “tyrant” had been
driven out.)
BHHRG returned to the UK but refrained from reporting
on conditions in Kosovo at the time preferring to
wait and see if the Graèanica Serbs were correct and
whether or not the “quiet” they talked about really
was the prelude to renewed violence. It seems that the
events of the past few weeks have proved them right.
Recorded below are just a few of the most extreme acts
of violence that have occurred in both Kosovo and
Serbia in summer, 2003.
The anti-Milosevic Western-backed radio station B-92
reported:
“Terrorist attack against Serb children near
Gorazdevac
Gorazdevac, - Unknown persons opened machine gun fire
on Serb children bathing in the Bistrica River not far
from Gorazdevac, Pec municipality. According to
preliminary information two Serb children were killed
and at least five others wounded. Panta Dakic (10) and
Ivan Jovovic (20) were pronounced dead at Pec Hospital
while Bogdan Bukumiric (15) and Nikola Bogicevic are
in critical condition. Also seriously wounded were
Dragana Srbljak (14), Djordje Ugrenovic (20) and Marko
Bogicevic, said Sladjana Todorovic of Gorazdevac, who
was with the wounded children in Pec Hospital.
Bogdan Bukumiric is scheduled to be transferred to
Belgrade by helicopter during the day. According to
reports from the field, Albanians stoned the vehicle
of Milovan Pavlovic while he was attempting to drive
some of the wounded children to Pec Hospital. Pavlovic
sustained arm injuries. Local sources report that the
attackers also beat the wounded child in Pavlovic's
vehicle.
The children were bathing today in the Bistrica
River, some 500 meters from the center of the village,
when they were targeted by machine gun fire by unknown
persons at about 13.30. Three rounds were fired. KFOR
and UNMIK police have not conducted an investigation
at the site of the attack, although members of the UN
military mission helped to get from Gorazdevac to Pec
Hospital, whose staff is really trying to help the
wounded children," explained Sladjana Todorovic.
Gorazdevac today is full of great unrest and fear. The
nuns of the Pec Patriarchate and the monks of Visoki
Decani have urgently requested KFOR to allow them to
enter Gorazdevac. The sisterhood of the Pec
Patriarchate could not get an escort and the Decani
monks are still waiting for a positive response from
KFOR to provide them with a military escort.
This is an unprecedented crime. In Kosovo and
Metohija for four years there has been no Serbian Army
or police, who Albanian terrorists claimed were their
enemies, and they are killing our children. In the
past Serb children have been the targets of grenades
and run over by cars, and now they are being
perfidiously killed when they are swimming in the
river - said Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren,
commenting on today's terrorist attack near
Gorazdevac. The Serb village of Gorazadevac is located
near Pec and security is provided by Italian KFOR
troops. It is still the home of some 1,000 Serbs, half
of the village population prior to the arrival of the
UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija. The village has a
primary school and two secondary schools, one
technical and one economic. In order to obtain basics
for life, residents are dependent on military and
police assistance or forced to travel to northern
Kosovska Mitrovica by escorted convoy.
GORAZDEVAC - Gorazdevac local Rajko Jandzikovic, who
was, after today's attack on Serbs, transporting the
wounded to the hospital in Pec together with Milivoje
Pavlovic, stated that they were attacked near the
farmer's market in that city by a group of Albanians
using their fists and stones.
A group of young people bathing in the Bistrica River
near Pec was targeted by machine gun fire in which two
people were killed and six wounded.
"Near the farmer's market our Opel Kadet with
Zrenjanin license plates ran out of fuel. I went to
the KFOR checkpoint some 50 meters away to ask if they
would give us a liter of fuel but the Italian soldiers
turned us down, despite the fact that I speak Italian
relatively well," said Jandzikovic."We were then
attacked by a group of young Albanians - with fists
and stones - while members of the Kosovo Police
Service nearby failed to react," he added.
Jandzakovic said that "there were two boys in the car
fighting for their lives" and added that he does not
understand "what is happening to people." "Somehow we
managed, with a KFOR military escort, to get to Pec
Hospital but once there we were mistreated even by the
physicians, who refused to give immediate assistance
to the wounded boys," said Jandzikovic, who returned
to Gorazdevac without his vehicle, together with KFOR.
His shirt is soaked with blood and there are several
bruises on his face.”
[See Radio B92, www.b92.net/English/news Beta News
Agency, Belgrade
13th August, 2003.]
PRISTINA, KLINA, BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Repatriate to
the village of Bica near Klina in Kosovo, Zoran
Doncic, who was wounded on Tuesday night, underwent a
surgery in the Spanish military hospital in Istok
andhis condition is stable, the Raska and Prizren
Eparchy announced.
UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angelli said that Doncic was
kept in the Spanish hospital because they could not
transport him to northern Kosovska Mitrovica as
demanded by the local people due to seriousness of his
wound. Bica village elder told B92 that Zoran Doncic
was shot by a sniper from the nearby hill while
driving a tractor.
Coordination Centre for Kosovo head Nebojsa Covic told
Beta that the wounding of Zoran Doncic was a message
to Serbia before adoption of the Kosovo declaration in
the Serbian Parliament, but also a message to the
international community that "terrorist gangs"
operating in Kosovo will not stop doing crimes.
He said it was appalling that UNMIK arrived to the
scene at 9 p.m. when the crime was committed at 6.20
p.m. Around fifty Serb families returned to the
village of Bica a year ago.
[See Beta News Agency, www.b92.net/english/news 27th
August, 2003.]
DOBROTIN: 27.8.03. Three unknown men attempted to
kidnap ten-year old Marina Damjanovic from the village
of Dobrotin near Lipljan in Kosovo yesterday around 8
p.m. According to the girl's testimony and claims of
eyewitnesses, three Albanians in a white Mercedes with
foreign registration plates stopped briefly beside the
girl and attempted to drag her inside the car. The
girl managed to free herself and flee into the
neighbourhood shouting for help, while the car sped
away.
The blockade set up by citizens of Dobrotin on the
local Lipljan-Janjevo road in protest yesterday has
been terminated today. UNMIK police and KFOR have set
up checkpoints at the village's entrance and exit.
[See B92 http://www.b92.net/english/news/index 27th
August, 2003.]
Ethnic Albanian violence is not only on the rise in
Kosovo. Incidents are constantly occurring in
neighbouring Macedonia as well as in the Preševo
valley in southern Serbia _ scene of a low-level
insurgency three years ago. BHHRG visited both Preševo
and Bujanovac in March 2003 and noted the increase in
the towns’ Albanian population. Hundreds of new
houses and other properties have been built since the
Group last visited the region in 2000. They stretch
across the narrow Preševo valley effectively cutting
Serbia proper off from Macedonia in the south. BHHRG
also noted the omnipresence of EU-sponsored
regeneration projects which do not seem, as the
following reports show, to have tamed the incipient
violence which seems to be second-nature to local
inhabitants.
Again, the pro-Western B-92 reported:
”Children wounded in Presevo grenade attack
PRESEVO -- Saturday – Two fifteen-year-old girls were
wounded in one of a series of explosions last night in
the courtyard of a cultural centre in the south
Serbian town of Presevo.
The local representative of Belgrade’s Coordination
Centre for Kosovo and South Serbia, Mica Markovic,
told B92 that a bomb crater at the site of the
explosion indicated that the weapon used had been
either a hand grenade or a 40mm grenade launcher.
Because of the direction of the attack, said Markovic,
it was possible that the adjacent police station had
been the target. One of the three grenades caused
major property damage to a neighbouring house.
The two injured girls were sitting on a bench close to
the cultural centre. One suffered wounds to the face
and the other to the legs.
Officers of the Coordination Centre and the EU
Monitoring Mission are supervising an investigation
into the bombing.
[See B92 http://www.b92.net/english/news/index 24th
August, 2003.]
PRESEVO A strong explosion last night shook the south
Serbian town of Presevo, close to the Municipal
Assembly building. A preliminary investigation has not
yet revealed whether the blast came from a missile
aimed at the Assembly or a bomb which exploded inside
a building. However police sources say that the likely
cause was a hand grenade thrown into a construction
site adjacent to the local mosque and opposite the
Assembly building.
Gunfire was reported last night in the neighbouring
municipality of Bujanovac, but sources in the security
forces described this as provocation. There were no
casualties in either incident.
Meanwhile, the head of the OSCE mission in
Serbia-Montenegro, Maurizio Massari, has cancelled
planned visit to the region. Massari, who was
scheduled to meet the mayors of Presevo and Bujanovac,
is reported to be unwell.
[See B92 http://www.b92.net/english/news/index 28th
August, 2003.]
Why is this violence allowed to go on? How can NATO
leaders still get away with calling the Kosovo
intervention a “great success” unchallenged? Anyobody
who wants different ethnic groups to live in harmony
and prosperity cannot call Kosovo a model. Sadly, one
of the reasons is the failure of the government in
Belgrade to protect Serbs in Kosovo or anywhere else
for that matter, including the Preševo valley.
Hand-wringing by politicians like Serbia’s deputy
prime-minister and points-man for Kosovo, Nebojša
Èovic and prime minister Zoran Živkovic is cynical
politicking and only serves to highlight the fact
that extreme Serbian “nationalism” was always a sham.
Strikingly, supporters of the apparently hardline
Bosnian Serb nationalists like the recently murdered
Serbian Premier, Zoran Djindjic, who was the last
Serbian politician to meet the indicted war criminal
Dr. Radovan Karadzic in 1996, turned out to be
indifferent to the daily attacks on ordinary Serbs.
His heirs and successors are similarly unconcerned,
apart from verbal protests.
Despite the media talk about Serbian intransigence and
blind nationalism, it is remarkable that neither in
Bosnia nor Kosovo have there been any guerrilla
attacks on the NATO-forces in de facto occupation.
This contrasts sharply with the growing difficulties
faced in Iraq by the Anglo-American troops there.
Will the passive attitude to the NATO troops remain
the same if Iraqi resistance continues to cause the
Allies difficulties? Militant Albanians in Kosovo have
shown a disregard for the NATO’s capacity to enforce
peace already in Kosovo, across the border with Serbia
and across the border with Macedonia. So far Serbs
have not imitated their enemies defiance of NATO’s
ostensible authority. Some Serbs abroad are already
denouncing their fellow Serbs’ passivity in view of
the apparent success of Iraqi guerrillas in forcing
Washington and her allies to seek a new UN mandate and
other concessions as a result of casualties.
This letter appeared on a widely distributed Serbian
website:
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your regular articles. I recently read
the comment you published, written by "Cossack,"
titled "A Pox on Both Their Houses"
(http://www.artel.co.yu/en/glas_dijaspore/2003-08-26_3.html).
I disagree with Cossack's conclusion that the reason
that Yugoslavia is not the subject of debate in the
United States is simply a matter of the priorities of
the so-called US liberals and US neo-cons. His
argument puts the blame on others.
Instead, I think the reason why Yugoslavia is not a
point of international debate is because there has
been a very full and complete assumption of power by
willing collaborators in Serbia and Montenegro and
there have been no losses whatsoever to worry about
among US military forces. There has been no guerrilla
war, no resistance and not even a single Yugoslav
daily newspaper opposes the US-led occupation of the
country. Yugoslavia's leadership has been so weak and
divided that it even stooped so low as to adopt the
name arbitrarily given to the country by the United
States way back in 1992 - Serbia and Montenegro.
This utter lack of resistance of any sort leaves no
issue or problem for Americans to debate. That is the
real difference. For the US, Serbia was easy. And
Serbia continues to be easy.
Speaking as a Serb born abroad, I am very sorry to
have to point out this fact.
Milos Obilic would not be able to recognize the
Serbian nation today.
Most sincerely,
John Bosnitch
Journalist
Tokyo
Whether Serbs will copy their Albanian rivals and
resort to guerrilla warfare remains to be seen. But
already the “usual suspects” in the US Congress are
responding to the violence in the region by demanding
further concessions to those engaged in violence.
Already at the start of the year, the U.S. House of
Representatives heard a resolution backing Kosovan
independence:
One Hundred Eighth Congress
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
January 27, 2003
Support the Independence of Kosova
Dear Colleague:
Today we introduced a resolution (H. Res. 28, which is
at the end of this email) expressing the sense of the
House of Representatives that the United States should
declare its support for the independence of Kosova.
Under the Yugoslav constitution of 1974, Kosova was
equivalent in most ways to Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and Macedonia . In its position as an
``autonomous province,'' Kosova, in practice,
exercised the same powers as a republic. It had its
own parliament, high courts, central bank, police
service, and defense force. Through its definition in
1968 as a part of the Yugoslav Federal System, it
gained equal representation at the federal level with
Serbia and the other juridical units of the former
Yugoslavia.
When Slovenia and Croatia demanded independence,
Western governments made similar arguments against
recognizing those countries. However, eventually the
same Western governments did recognize not only the
independence of Slovenia and Croatia, but
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia as well, having
discovered that independence for those nations
involved not so much a change of borders as a change
in the status of existing borders. The lines on the
map remained the same, but their status was upgraded
from republican to national. It is fitting that the
Kosovars be allowed to follow the same path towards
independence.
Since the cessation of the1999 conflict with Serbia,
during which the Serbian military and paramilitary
forces killed more than ten thousand Kosovar Albanians
and expelled close to a million, Kosova remains under
a United Nations mandate. The Kosovars, the United
Nations, NATO, and the European Union are now making
efforts to rebuild Kosova, revitalize its economy,
establish democratic institutions of self-government,
and heal the scars of war.
It is time for the United States to abide by its
recognition that a right to self-determination exists
as a fundamental right of all people through declaring
its support for the independence of Kosova. To
cosponsor H.Res.28, please contact Keith O'Neil at
225-6735 (Lantos) or Greg Galvin (Hyde) at 225-5021.
Sincerely,
TOM LANTOS
HENRY HYDE
Member of Congress
Member of Congress
H. RES. 28
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives
that the United States should declare its support for
the independence of Kosova.
Whereas the United States and the international
community recognize that a right to self-determination
exists as a fundamental right of all people;
Whereas Kosova was constitutionally defined as a
sovereign territory in the First National Liberation
Conference for Kosova on January 2, 1944, and this
status was confirmed in the Constitution of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopted in
1946, and the amended Yugoslav constitution adopted in
1974 preserved the autonomous status of Kosova as a de
facto republic;
Whereas prior to the disintegration of the former
Yugoslavia, Kosova was a separate political and legal
entity with separate and distinct financial
institutions, police force, municipal and national
government, school system, judicial and legal system,
hospitals and other independent organizations;
Whereas Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic rose to
power in 1987 on a platform of ultra nationalism and
anti-Albanian racism, advocating violence and hatred
against all non-Slavs and specifically targeting the
Albanians of Kosova;
Whereas Slobodan Milosevic subsequently stripped
Kosova of its self-rule, without the consent of the
people of Kosova;
Whereas the elected Assembly of Kosova, faced with
these intolerable acts, adopted a Declaration of
Independence on July 2, 1990, proclaimed the Republic
of Kosova, and adopted a constitution on September 7,
1990, based on the international legal principles of
self-determination, equality, and sovereignty;
Whereas in recognition of the de facto dissolution of
the Yugoslav federation, the European community
established principles for the recognition of the
independence and sovereignty of the republics of the
former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
Kosova fully satisfied those principles as a de facto
republic within the federation;
Whereas a popular referendum was held in Kosova from
September 26-30, 1991, in which 87 percent of all
eligible voters cast ballots and 99.87 percent voted
in favor of declaring Kosova independent of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;
Whereas, from the occupation of Kosova in 1989 until
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military
action against the Milosevic regime in 1999, the
Albanians of Kosova were subjected to the most brutal
treatment in the heart of Europe since the Nazi era,
forcing approximately 400,000 Albanians to flee to
Western Europe and the United States;
Whereas in the spring of 1999 almost 1,000,000 Kosovar
Albanians were driven out of Kosova and at least
10,000 were murdered by the Serbian paramilitary and
military;
Whereas Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the
International War Crimes Tribunal and extradited to
The Hague in June 2001 to stand trial for war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and genocide in Kosova,
Bosnia, and Croatia;
Whereas the United Nations established Kosova as a
protectorate under Resolution 1244, ending the decade
long Serbian occupation of Kosova and Milosevic's
genocidal war in Kosova;
Whereas Kosovar Albanians, together with
representatives of the Serb, Turkish, Roma, Bosniak,
and Ashkali minorities in Kosova, have held free and
fair municipal and general elections in 2000 and 2001
and successfully established a parliament in 2002,
which in turn elected a president and prime minister;
Whereas 50 percent of the population in Kosova is
under the age of 25 and the unemployment rate is
currently between 60 and 70 percent, increasing the
likelihood of young people entering criminal networks,
the source of which lies outside of Kosova, or working
abroad in order to survive unless massive job creation
is facilitated by guaranteeing the security of foreign
investments through an orderly transition to the
independence of Kosova;
Whereas the Kosova parliament is committed to
developing a western-style democracy in which all
citizens, regardless of ethnicity, are granted full
human and civil rights and are committed to the return
of all noncriminal Serbs who fled Kosova during and
after the war; and
Whereas there is every reason to believe that
independence from Serbia is the only viable option for
Kosova, after autonomy has failed time and time again:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of
Representatives that the United States should -
(1) publicly support the independence of
Kosova and the establishment of Kosova as a sovereign
and democratic state in which human rights are
respected, including the rights of ethnic and
religious minorities, as the only way to lasting peace
and stability in the Balkans;
(2) recognize the danger that delay in the
resolution of Kosova's final status poses for the
political and economic viability of Kosova and the
future of Southeast Europe;
(3) work in conjunction with the United
Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and
other multilateral organizations to facilitate an
orderly transition to the independence of Kosova; and
(4) provide its share of assistance, trade,
and other programs to support the government of an
independent Kosova and to encourage the further
development of democracy and a free market economic
system.
At the moment, all the parties on the ground,
including the new UN representative to Kosovo, Harri
Holkeri, deny that anything other than Security
Council resolution 1244 defines the province’s
status. But, the ‘international community’ seems happy
to create ever more, albeit small and precarious,
independent states. As the vociferous support of
newly-independent (and destitute) East Timor for the
Iraq War showed such micro-states can be relied upon
to support this or that intervention when called upon
to do so by their more powerful sponsors.
Even if the ultimate goal of Kosovo’s independence is
postponed, the province looks unlikely to go back
under Belgrade’s wing. However, its “liberation” from
Serbian rule looks like a grim precedent for Iraq’s
fate after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime:
both seem set to continue to suffer from lack of
electricity and clean water, while unemployment and
persistent violence plague them.
Now the threat to NATO comes from the Alliance’s
former Albanian allies. Even if Serbs show no
inclination to mimic Iraqi resistance, Albanian
nationalists seem to be upping the tempo of violence
at a time when US and British forces are already fully
engaged in Iraq. Washington’s recent history of
waking up to find yesterday’s allies today’s enemies
has followed a tortuous path from the 1980s when both
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the Afghan Muslim
fundamentalists were allies to today’s bitter
animosities for Saddam and the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Could the US Administration risk admitting that the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has turned out to be
another monster out of control, once sponsored by
Washington now defying it? Or will America quietly
admit that fighting the KLA is one war on terrorism it
can do without?
(deutsch / english / italiano)
11 Settembre, nuovi libri e persino un convegno sulle menzogne
dell'establishment USA
1. CONVEGNO a Berlino il 7 settembre
2. NUOVO LIBRO dell'ex ministro tedesco Andreas von Bülow
3. THE TRUTH BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11 (by Michel Chossudovsky)
=== 1 ===
BERLINO 7 SETTEMBRE 2003
Tra gli invitati il magistrato Guido Salvini!
An international Research symposium on the open questions of 9/11
coming in Berlin.
demanding answers - demanding to stop the war
www.hintergrund.de
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Widersprüche zum 11. September
Offene Fragen und die Forderung nach Antworten sowie der Offenlegung
der unter Verschluss gehaltenen Beweise
(UNANSWERED QUESTIONS - DEMANDING ANSWERS)
Wie versprochen geht es weiter:
Am 7. September 2003 ab 15 Uhr im Tempodrom Berlin
Diesmal, ebenfalls wie versprochen, mit engagierten Experten aus den
USA.
Wir lassen uns von der jetzigen US-Administration und der
Medienberichterstattung auch in Deutschland nicht beirren.
Wir bieten während des ganzen Tages am 7. September 2003, kurz vor dem
zweiten Jahrestag, Informationen zum 11. September für die Presse und
für jeden Interessierten und jede Interessierte. Wir fordern die
Offenlegung der maßgeblichen Dokumente, die den Tathergang am 11.
September 2001 belegen können, aber bis heute unter Verschluss gehalten
werden.
Zu den Widersprüchen des "11. September" sprechen:
Michael Ruppert (USA)
ehemaliger Polizist in Los Angeles, einer der bekanntesten 9/11-
Experten in den USA
Daniel Hopsicker (USA)
Autor, Recherchen bez. Flugschulen der angeblichen Terroristen
Kyle Hence/Tom Flocco
(live aus USA)
von „unanswered questions“
Nafeez Ahmed (GB)
Autor des Buches „Geheimsache 9/11“
Guido Salvini (I)
Untersuchungsrichter aus Mailand
Mathias Bröckers (D)
Autor des Buches „11.9.“ und „Fakten, Fälschungen und die unterdrückten
Beweise des 11. 9.“
Andreas Hauß (D)
Autor des Buches „Fakten, Fälschungen und die unterdrückten Beweise des
11. 9.“
Ekkehard Sieker (D)
Bekannt durch seine Beiträge für Monitor/WDR (z.B. Bin-Laden-Video)
Eckart Spoo (D)
langjähriger Korrespondent der Frankfurter Rundschau, Herausgeber der
Zeitschrift Ossietzky
Michael Opperskalski (D)
Geheimdienst-Experte und Redakteur der Zeitschrift Geheim
Regine Igel (D)
Autorin, z.B. das Buch „Andreotti – eine italienische Karriere“
Dieter Elken (D)
Rechtsanwalt
Sumit Bhattacharyya von Amnesty International hält einen Vortrag zum
Thema Menschenrechtsverletzungen als Folge des 11. September.
Es gibt nicht nur Vorträge und Diskussionen, eine Live-Schaltung in die
USA zu Kyle Hence, Tom Flocco etc., sondern auch Filme und die
Möglichkeit zu Einzelgesprächen. Und diesmal wird es Zeit für die
Beantwortung Ihrer Fragen geben, was in dieser Form am 30.6. in der
Humboldt Universität wegen des vorzeitigen Abbruchs nicht möglich war.
Diese Veranstaltung steht ganz im Zeichen der deutsch-amerikanischen
Kooperation.
Vielen Dank an dieser Stelle an meinen Co-Organisator Nicholas Levis
und die vielen Mitstreiter, die sich an der Vorbereitung dieser
Veranstaltung beteiligen.
Ihr Ronald Thoden
7. September 2003, Tempodrom im Zentrum von Berlin, Möckernstraße
(U Möckernbrücke oder U Potsdamer Platz/ S Anhalter Bahnhof)
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More links:
www.911questions.netfirms.com
www.911truth.org
=== 2 ===
LIBRO-SHOCK DI UN NOTO POLITICO TEDESCO
http://www.piper.de/web/books/3492045456.html
Lügen, Täuschung, falsche Spuren
Andreas von Bülow
Die CIA und der 11. September
Internationaler Terror und die Rolle der Geheimdienste
Neuerscheinung
Vehement widerspricht Andreas von Bülow der offiziellen Version der
Anschläge vom 11. September: Ohne geheimdienstliche Unterstützung war
eine solche Operation nicht durchzuführen. Seine brisanten Thesen sind
ein Angriff auf die Verlogenheit der CIA.
Nur Stunden nach dem Terroranschlag vom 11. September hatte die
US-Regierung Fotos und Steckbriefe aller Attentäter, wußte sie Bescheid
über alle Drahtzieher und Hintermänner. Und blitzartig war auch
Präsident Bushs Strategie gegen die »Mächte des Bösen« fertig. Zufall?
Andreas von Bülow, früherer Bundesminister und nicht erst seit seinem
Standardwerk »Im Namen des Staates« als Geheimdienstexperte mit besten
Kontakten ausgewiesen, zweifelt die offizielle Version vehement an.
Präzise und vorurteilslos stellt er alle Ungereimtheiten des
offiziellen Tatherganges zusammen, von der unwahrscheinlichen Präzision
der von Flugschülern gelenkten Maschinen bis zu der auffälligen
Inaktivität der Abwehr. Kann es sein, so Bülow, daß dieser Anschlag der
US-Regierung in Wahrheit gelegen kam? Ohne Geheimdienste war eine
solche Operation nicht möglich – und die Spuren führen eindeutig zu
deren Netzwerk und nicht zuletzt zur CIA ...
Andreas von Bülow
Andreas von Bülow wurde am 17. Juli 1937 in Dresden geboren. 1956–1960
studierte von Bülow in Heidelberg und München Rechtswissenschaften,
1969 Promotion zum Dr. jur. Seit 1960 Parteimitglied der SPD, war
Andreas von Bülow von 1969 bis 1994 Mitglied des Bundestages, u.a. in
der Parlamentarischen Kontrollkommission für die »Dienste«. 1976–1980
war er Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär des Bundesministers für
Verteidigung, von 1980 bis 1982 Bundesminister für Forschung und
Technologie. Seit 1994 lebt von Bülow als Rechtsanwalt in Bonn. 1998
erschien bei Piper: »Im Namen des Staates. CIA, BND und die kriminellen
Machenschaften der Geheimdienste« (jetzt SP 3050).
271 Seiten Kartoniert
EUR(D) 13,- / sFr 22,70
ISBN 3-492-04545-6
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http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/14783.html
Andreas von Bülow
"Die CIA und der 11. September"
Internationaler Terror und die Rolle der Geheimdienste
Piper Verlag, München 2003
ISBN 3492045456, Kartoniert
272 Seiten, 13,00 EUR
[ Klappentext ]
Vehement widerspricht Andreas von Bülow der offiziellen Version der
Anschläge vom 11. September: Ohne geheimdienstliche Unterstützung war
eine solche Operation nicht durchzuführen. Seine brisanten Thesen sind
ein Angriff auf die Verlogenheit der CIA. Nur Stunden nach dem
Terroranschlag vom 11. September hatte die US-Regierung Fotos und
Steckbriefe aller Attentäter, wusste sie Bescheid über alle Drahtzieher
und Hintermänner. Und blitzartig war auch Präsident Bushs Strategie
gegen die Mächte des Bösen fertig. Zufall? Andreas von Bülow, früherer
Bundesminister, zweifelt die offizielle Version vehement an.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 04.08.2003
Wilfried von Bredow bescheinigt dem Autor in seiner Besprechung eine
"etwas schräg eingestellte Phantasie" und sieht ihm beim Kampf "um den
Preis der abenteuerlichsten Erklärung für die Terroranschläge in New
York und Washington" als klaren Sieger. Von Bredow zufolge lassen sich
von Bülows "Theorien (im Sinne von Hirngespinsten)" zu vier Hauptthesen
verdichten: Die Crash-Flugzeuge vom 11. September wurden nicht von den
19 jungen Muslimen entführt, sondern ferngelenkt. Über das nötige
Wissen verfügen allein amerikanische Stellen, die außerdem vermutlich
auch für die Sprengladungen im Innern des WTC verantwortlich sind, die
das Gebäude haben einstürzen lassen sowie für die Cruise Missile, von
der das Pentagon das getroffen wurde. Verantwortlich für diese Aktion
war von Bülow zufolge, wie von Bredow aus dem Buch zitiert, eine "wie
auch immer zusammengesetzte Geheimdienststruktur, die die amerikanische
Politik nach dem 11.9. vorauszusehen, zu berechnen und gezielt ins Werk
zu setzen in der Lage war", ihr Ziel war, "die Massen der westlichen
Demokratien hinter die zur geopolitischen Landnahme entschlossenen
politischen Eliten der USA" zu zwingen. Von Bredow Fazit: Bei von
Bülows Konstrukt bleibe "einem die Spucke weg."
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http://www.ndrinfo.de/ndrinfo_pages_std/0,2758,OID143312_REF720,00.html
Politisches Buch
Die CIA und der 11. September
Andreas von Bülow
Andreas von Bülow kennt sich mit Geheimdiensten aus. 25 Jahre lang saß
er als SPD-Abgeordneter im Bundestag und hatte dort im Rahmen der
Parlamentarischen Kontrollkommission Zugang zu sensiblen Informationen
über die sogenannten "Dienste". Der ehemalige Bundesminister für
Forschung und Technologie hatte sich bereits in früheren Büchern mit
CIA und BND beschäftigt.
In diesem neuen nun listet er seine Zweifel an der offiziellen Version
über die Terroranschläge des 11. September auf. Erfreulicherweise gibt
er sich dabei nicht politischen Spekulationen darüber hin, was alles
wohl hätte sein können. Andererseits kommt er nach Würdigung vieler
technischer Details der vier Flugzeugentführungen zu dem äußerst
beunruhigenden Resumee: "Der eigentliche Tathergang war mit Sicherheit
anders. Die Flugzeuge sind mit aller Wahrscheinlichkeit durch
Fernsteuerung den Piloten aus der Hand genommen und in die Türme des
World Trade Centers gesteuert worden."
Die 19 musliminischen Selbstmordattentäter, von denen allseits die Rede
ist, waren nach Bülows Erkenntnissen unfähige Hobbyflieger, denen das
mit hoher Exaktheit durchgeführte Flugmanöver des Sturzes in die beiden
Türme des World Trade Center bzw. des Pentagon nicht zuzutrauen ist.
Doch geht man in die Details, stellten Fachleute fest, dass die beiden
Türme des Welthandelszentrums durch den Einschlag der Flugzeuge nicht
hätten zu Fall gebracht werden können. Geheimdienstexperte von Bülow
geht deshalb von zwei Taten aus: von dem Aufprall der Flugzeuge und
zeitlich synchron dazu einer kontrollierten Sprengung beider Türme.
Es ist äußerst starker Tobak, mit dem Andreas von Bülow aufwartet. Wer
soll eine solche Tat begangen haben? Von Bülow gibt zu, dass er sich
"auf schwankendem Boden" bewegt und Lücken der amtlichen Darstellung
durch möglichst plausible Mutmaßungen überspringen muss. Umso mehr
wundert sich der Autor über die geradezu empörende Unwilligkeit der
Bush-Regierung, die Hintergründe der Terrorakte ohne Ansehen der Person
aufzuklären: Warum wurden die Beweismittel für einen anderen als den
offiziellen Tathergang auf schnellstem Wege beseitigt? Was soll die
Geheimhaltung verbergen? Warum stürzte außer den beiden Türmen auch ein
Nebengebäude des World Trade Center ein, das von der CIA als
Anti-Terrorzentrale genutzt worden war?
Bülow formuliert in seinem Buch vorsichtig: "Vorwissen oder gar
Täterschaft der amerikanischen Regierung bleiben in der Katastrophe des
11. September 2001 problematisch."
Eindeutig ist jedoch, wie der angeblich ahnungslose Georg W. Bush die
Ereignisse nutzte, um eine schon vorab formulierte Politik eines "Neuen
Amerikanischen Jahrhunderts" im Zuge des Kampfes gegen den
internationalen Terror durchsetzen zu können.
Andreas von Bülow hat mit großem Detailwissen sämtliche Ungereimtheiten
um den 11. September zusammengetragen. Es wirkt höchst alarmierend, wie
sehr der amerikanische Regierungsapparat über all die Einseitigkeiten
der Ermittlung hinweggeht und die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit sich
dies gefallen lässt. Ein intensiv recherchiertes Buch, das jede Menge
Fragen offen lässt.
Die CIA und der 11. September
Andreas von Bülow
13,00 €
3492045456
Piper Verlag
---
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11 settembre: I conti non tornano
L’intervista ad Andreas Von Bülow, ex ministro della Ricerca e della
tecnologia della RFT, è stata publicata dal giornale tedesco
Tagesspiegel del 13 gennaio 2002
=== 3 ===
Da: "globalreseach.ca"
Data: Mer 27 Ago 2003 17:25:54 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: September 11
WAR AND GLOBALISATION
THE TRUTH BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Outlook(TM) and the Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG),
Shanty Bay, Ont. 2002, ISBN 0-9731109-0-2 2.
To Order online: http://globalresearch.ca/globaloutlook/truth911.html
US and Canada orders (toll free) by phone: 1-888-713-8500.
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In this timely study, Michel Chossudovsky blows away the smokescreen,
put up by the mainstream media, that 9-11 was an "intelligence
failure". Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a
military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the
coverup and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.
According to Chossudovsky, the so-called "war on terrorism" is a
complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin
Laden, outwitted the $30 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus.
The "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final
march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S.
military-industrial complex.
September 11, 2001 was the moment the Bush Administration had been
waiting for, the so-called "useful crisis" which provided a pretext for
waging a war without borders.
The hidden agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American
Empire right around the world to facilitate complete U.S. corporate
control outside the U.S. and a police state on the inside.
Chossudovsky peels back the layers of rhetoric to reveal a huge hoax —
a complex web of deceit aimed at tricking the American people and the
rest of the world into accepting a military solution which threatens
the future of humanity.
Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best-seller "The
Globalisation of Poverty " published in eleven languages. He is
Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the
Centre for Research on Globalisation which hosts the critically
acclaimed website: www.globalresearch.ca
To Order online: http://globalresearch.ca/globaloutlook/truth911.html
US and Canada orders (toll free) by phone: 1-888-713-8500.
Overseas telephone orders: 1-705-720-6500
11 Settembre, nuovi libri e persino un convegno sulle menzogne
dell'establishment USA
1. CONVEGNO a Berlino il 7 settembre
2. NUOVO LIBRO dell'ex ministro tedesco Andreas von Bülow
3. THE TRUTH BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11 (by Michel Chossudovsky)
=== 1 ===
BERLINO 7 SETTEMBRE 2003
Tra gli invitati il magistrato Guido Salvini!
An international Research symposium on the open questions of 9/11
coming in Berlin.
demanding answers - demanding to stop the war
www.hintergrund.de
---
Widersprüche zum 11. September
Offene Fragen und die Forderung nach Antworten sowie der Offenlegung
der unter Verschluss gehaltenen Beweise
(UNANSWERED QUESTIONS - DEMANDING ANSWERS)
Wie versprochen geht es weiter:
Am 7. September 2003 ab 15 Uhr im Tempodrom Berlin
Diesmal, ebenfalls wie versprochen, mit engagierten Experten aus den
USA.
Wir lassen uns von der jetzigen US-Administration und der
Medienberichterstattung auch in Deutschland nicht beirren.
Wir bieten während des ganzen Tages am 7. September 2003, kurz vor dem
zweiten Jahrestag, Informationen zum 11. September für die Presse und
für jeden Interessierten und jede Interessierte. Wir fordern die
Offenlegung der maßgeblichen Dokumente, die den Tathergang am 11.
September 2001 belegen können, aber bis heute unter Verschluss gehalten
werden.
Zu den Widersprüchen des "11. September" sprechen:
Michael Ruppert (USA)
ehemaliger Polizist in Los Angeles, einer der bekanntesten 9/11-
Experten in den USA
Daniel Hopsicker (USA)
Autor, Recherchen bez. Flugschulen der angeblichen Terroristen
Kyle Hence/Tom Flocco
(live aus USA)
von „unanswered questions“
Nafeez Ahmed (GB)
Autor des Buches „Geheimsache 9/11“
Guido Salvini (I)
Untersuchungsrichter aus Mailand
Mathias Bröckers (D)
Autor des Buches „11.9.“ und „Fakten, Fälschungen und die unterdrückten
Beweise des 11. 9.“
Andreas Hauß (D)
Autor des Buches „Fakten, Fälschungen und die unterdrückten Beweise des
11. 9.“
Ekkehard Sieker (D)
Bekannt durch seine Beiträge für Monitor/WDR (z.B. Bin-Laden-Video)
Eckart Spoo (D)
langjähriger Korrespondent der Frankfurter Rundschau, Herausgeber der
Zeitschrift Ossietzky
Michael Opperskalski (D)
Geheimdienst-Experte und Redakteur der Zeitschrift Geheim
Regine Igel (D)
Autorin, z.B. das Buch „Andreotti – eine italienische Karriere“
Dieter Elken (D)
Rechtsanwalt
Sumit Bhattacharyya von Amnesty International hält einen Vortrag zum
Thema Menschenrechtsverletzungen als Folge des 11. September.
Es gibt nicht nur Vorträge und Diskussionen, eine Live-Schaltung in die
USA zu Kyle Hence, Tom Flocco etc., sondern auch Filme und die
Möglichkeit zu Einzelgesprächen. Und diesmal wird es Zeit für die
Beantwortung Ihrer Fragen geben, was in dieser Form am 30.6. in der
Humboldt Universität wegen des vorzeitigen Abbruchs nicht möglich war.
Diese Veranstaltung steht ganz im Zeichen der deutsch-amerikanischen
Kooperation.
Vielen Dank an dieser Stelle an meinen Co-Organisator Nicholas Levis
und die vielen Mitstreiter, die sich an der Vorbereitung dieser
Veranstaltung beteiligen.
Ihr Ronald Thoden
7. September 2003, Tempodrom im Zentrum von Berlin, Möckernstraße
(U Möckernbrücke oder U Potsdamer Platz/ S Anhalter Bahnhof)
---
More links:
www.911questions.netfirms.com
www.911truth.org
=== 2 ===
LIBRO-SHOCK DI UN NOTO POLITICO TEDESCO
http://www.piper.de/web/books/3492045456.html
Lügen, Täuschung, falsche Spuren
Andreas von Bülow
Die CIA und der 11. September
Internationaler Terror und die Rolle der Geheimdienste
Neuerscheinung
Vehement widerspricht Andreas von Bülow der offiziellen Version der
Anschläge vom 11. September: Ohne geheimdienstliche Unterstützung war
eine solche Operation nicht durchzuführen. Seine brisanten Thesen sind
ein Angriff auf die Verlogenheit der CIA.
Nur Stunden nach dem Terroranschlag vom 11. September hatte die
US-Regierung Fotos und Steckbriefe aller Attentäter, wußte sie Bescheid
über alle Drahtzieher und Hintermänner. Und blitzartig war auch
Präsident Bushs Strategie gegen die »Mächte des Bösen« fertig. Zufall?
Andreas von Bülow, früherer Bundesminister und nicht erst seit seinem
Standardwerk »Im Namen des Staates« als Geheimdienstexperte mit besten
Kontakten ausgewiesen, zweifelt die offizielle Version vehement an.
Präzise und vorurteilslos stellt er alle Ungereimtheiten des
offiziellen Tatherganges zusammen, von der unwahrscheinlichen Präzision
der von Flugschülern gelenkten Maschinen bis zu der auffälligen
Inaktivität der Abwehr. Kann es sein, so Bülow, daß dieser Anschlag der
US-Regierung in Wahrheit gelegen kam? Ohne Geheimdienste war eine
solche Operation nicht möglich – und die Spuren führen eindeutig zu
deren Netzwerk und nicht zuletzt zur CIA ...
Andreas von Bülow
Andreas von Bülow wurde am 17. Juli 1937 in Dresden geboren. 1956–1960
studierte von Bülow in Heidelberg und München Rechtswissenschaften,
1969 Promotion zum Dr. jur. Seit 1960 Parteimitglied der SPD, war
Andreas von Bülow von 1969 bis 1994 Mitglied des Bundestages, u.a. in
der Parlamentarischen Kontrollkommission für die »Dienste«. 1976–1980
war er Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär des Bundesministers für
Verteidigung, von 1980 bis 1982 Bundesminister für Forschung und
Technologie. Seit 1994 lebt von Bülow als Rechtsanwalt in Bonn. 1998
erschien bei Piper: »Im Namen des Staates. CIA, BND und die kriminellen
Machenschaften der Geheimdienste« (jetzt SP 3050).
271 Seiten Kartoniert
EUR(D) 13,- / sFr 22,70
ISBN 3-492-04545-6
---
http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/14783.html
Andreas von Bülow
"Die CIA und der 11. September"
Internationaler Terror und die Rolle der Geheimdienste
Piper Verlag, München 2003
ISBN 3492045456, Kartoniert
272 Seiten, 13,00 EUR
[ Klappentext ]
Vehement widerspricht Andreas von Bülow der offiziellen Version der
Anschläge vom 11. September: Ohne geheimdienstliche Unterstützung war
eine solche Operation nicht durchzuführen. Seine brisanten Thesen sind
ein Angriff auf die Verlogenheit der CIA. Nur Stunden nach dem
Terroranschlag vom 11. September hatte die US-Regierung Fotos und
Steckbriefe aller Attentäter, wusste sie Bescheid über alle Drahtzieher
und Hintermänner. Und blitzartig war auch Präsident Bushs Strategie
gegen die Mächte des Bösen fertig. Zufall? Andreas von Bülow, früherer
Bundesminister, zweifelt die offizielle Version vehement an.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 04.08.2003
Wilfried von Bredow bescheinigt dem Autor in seiner Besprechung eine
"etwas schräg eingestellte Phantasie" und sieht ihm beim Kampf "um den
Preis der abenteuerlichsten Erklärung für die Terroranschläge in New
York und Washington" als klaren Sieger. Von Bredow zufolge lassen sich
von Bülows "Theorien (im Sinne von Hirngespinsten)" zu vier Hauptthesen
verdichten: Die Crash-Flugzeuge vom 11. September wurden nicht von den
19 jungen Muslimen entführt, sondern ferngelenkt. Über das nötige
Wissen verfügen allein amerikanische Stellen, die außerdem vermutlich
auch für die Sprengladungen im Innern des WTC verantwortlich sind, die
das Gebäude haben einstürzen lassen sowie für die Cruise Missile, von
der das Pentagon das getroffen wurde. Verantwortlich für diese Aktion
war von Bülow zufolge, wie von Bredow aus dem Buch zitiert, eine "wie
auch immer zusammengesetzte Geheimdienststruktur, die die amerikanische
Politik nach dem 11.9. vorauszusehen, zu berechnen und gezielt ins Werk
zu setzen in der Lage war", ihr Ziel war, "die Massen der westlichen
Demokratien hinter die zur geopolitischen Landnahme entschlossenen
politischen Eliten der USA" zu zwingen. Von Bredow Fazit: Bei von
Bülows Konstrukt bleibe "einem die Spucke weg."
---
http://www.ndrinfo.de/ndrinfo_pages_std/0,2758,OID143312_REF720,00.html
Politisches Buch
Die CIA und der 11. September
Andreas von Bülow
Andreas von Bülow kennt sich mit Geheimdiensten aus. 25 Jahre lang saß
er als SPD-Abgeordneter im Bundestag und hatte dort im Rahmen der
Parlamentarischen Kontrollkommission Zugang zu sensiblen Informationen
über die sogenannten "Dienste". Der ehemalige Bundesminister für
Forschung und Technologie hatte sich bereits in früheren Büchern mit
CIA und BND beschäftigt.
In diesem neuen nun listet er seine Zweifel an der offiziellen Version
über die Terroranschläge des 11. September auf. Erfreulicherweise gibt
er sich dabei nicht politischen Spekulationen darüber hin, was alles
wohl hätte sein können. Andererseits kommt er nach Würdigung vieler
technischer Details der vier Flugzeugentführungen zu dem äußerst
beunruhigenden Resumee: "Der eigentliche Tathergang war mit Sicherheit
anders. Die Flugzeuge sind mit aller Wahrscheinlichkeit durch
Fernsteuerung den Piloten aus der Hand genommen und in die Türme des
World Trade Centers gesteuert worden."
Die 19 musliminischen Selbstmordattentäter, von denen allseits die Rede
ist, waren nach Bülows Erkenntnissen unfähige Hobbyflieger, denen das
mit hoher Exaktheit durchgeführte Flugmanöver des Sturzes in die beiden
Türme des World Trade Center bzw. des Pentagon nicht zuzutrauen ist.
Doch geht man in die Details, stellten Fachleute fest, dass die beiden
Türme des Welthandelszentrums durch den Einschlag der Flugzeuge nicht
hätten zu Fall gebracht werden können. Geheimdienstexperte von Bülow
geht deshalb von zwei Taten aus: von dem Aufprall der Flugzeuge und
zeitlich synchron dazu einer kontrollierten Sprengung beider Türme.
Es ist äußerst starker Tobak, mit dem Andreas von Bülow aufwartet. Wer
soll eine solche Tat begangen haben? Von Bülow gibt zu, dass er sich
"auf schwankendem Boden" bewegt und Lücken der amtlichen Darstellung
durch möglichst plausible Mutmaßungen überspringen muss. Umso mehr
wundert sich der Autor über die geradezu empörende Unwilligkeit der
Bush-Regierung, die Hintergründe der Terrorakte ohne Ansehen der Person
aufzuklären: Warum wurden die Beweismittel für einen anderen als den
offiziellen Tathergang auf schnellstem Wege beseitigt? Was soll die
Geheimhaltung verbergen? Warum stürzte außer den beiden Türmen auch ein
Nebengebäude des World Trade Center ein, das von der CIA als
Anti-Terrorzentrale genutzt worden war?
Bülow formuliert in seinem Buch vorsichtig: "Vorwissen oder gar
Täterschaft der amerikanischen Regierung bleiben in der Katastrophe des
11. September 2001 problematisch."
Eindeutig ist jedoch, wie der angeblich ahnungslose Georg W. Bush die
Ereignisse nutzte, um eine schon vorab formulierte Politik eines "Neuen
Amerikanischen Jahrhunderts" im Zuge des Kampfes gegen den
internationalen Terror durchsetzen zu können.
Andreas von Bülow hat mit großem Detailwissen sämtliche Ungereimtheiten
um den 11. September zusammengetragen. Es wirkt höchst alarmierend, wie
sehr der amerikanische Regierungsapparat über all die Einseitigkeiten
der Ermittlung hinweggeht und die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit sich
dies gefallen lässt. Ein intensiv recherchiertes Buch, das jede Menge
Fragen offen lässt.
Die CIA und der 11. September
Andreas von Bülow
13,00 €
3492045456
Piper Verlag
---
ULTERIORE DOCUMENTAZIONE CON IL MOTORE DI RICERCA GOOGLE DIGITANDO:
"Andreas von Bülow September"
UNA INTERVISTA IN LINGUA ITALIANA A VON BÜLOW:
http://www.pasti.org/vonbulow2.htm
11 settembre: I conti non tornano
L’intervista ad Andreas Von Bülow, ex ministro della Ricerca e della
tecnologia della RFT, è stata publicata dal giornale tedesco
Tagesspiegel del 13 gennaio 2002
=== 3 ===
Da: "globalreseach.ca"
Data: Mer 27 Ago 2003 17:25:54 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: September 11
WAR AND GLOBALISATION
THE TRUTH BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Outlook(TM) and the Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG),
Shanty Bay, Ont. 2002, ISBN 0-9731109-0-2 2.
To Order online: http://globalresearch.ca/globaloutlook/truth911.html
US and Canada orders (toll free) by phone: 1-888-713-8500.
Overseas telephone orders: 1-705-720-6500
In this timely study, Michel Chossudovsky blows away the smokescreen,
put up by the mainstream media, that 9-11 was an "intelligence
failure". Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a
military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the
coverup and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.
According to Chossudovsky, the so-called "war on terrorism" is a
complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin
Laden, outwitted the $30 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus.
The "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final
march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S.
military-industrial complex.
September 11, 2001 was the moment the Bush Administration had been
waiting for, the so-called "useful crisis" which provided a pretext for
waging a war without borders.
The hidden agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American
Empire right around the world to facilitate complete U.S. corporate
control outside the U.S. and a police state on the inside.
Chossudovsky peels back the layers of rhetoric to reveal a huge hoax —
a complex web of deceit aimed at tricking the American people and the
rest of the world into accepting a military solution which threatens
the future of humanity.
Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best-seller "The
Globalisation of Poverty " published in eleven languages. He is
Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the
Centre for Research on Globalisation which hosts the critically
acclaimed website: www.globalresearch.ca
To Order online: http://globalresearch.ca/globaloutlook/truth911.html
US and Canada orders (toll free) by phone: 1-888-713-8500.
Overseas telephone orders: 1-705-720-6500
http://www.analisidifesa.it/articolo.shtm/id/3058/ver/IT
Analisi Difesa - n.36.9.1 - luglio/agosto 2003
INDISCRETO
LE INFO-OPS
di Luca Andreani
La guerra che si è recentemente combattuta nel deserto iracheno ha
portato alla ribalta uno strumento a disposizione dei comandanti che,
opportunamente impiegato, può essere devastante come il fuoco di una
intera brigata corazzata e al tempo stesso efficace come le armi che la
tecnologia rende sempre più precise e “quasi intelligenti”: le INFOOPS.
Innanzi tutto vediamo di capire cosa si intende con questo termine,
che intuitivamente possiamo correlare con l’intelligence o con i media.
In realtà le Infoops non sono una componente di nessuna di queste due
branche; ma loro strette parenti e da entrambe traggono elementi
importanti per la loro pianificazione e attuazione in operazioni di
tipo militare.
Volendo in qualche modo esplicitare ciò che si nasconde dietro questo
concetto operativo, si può dire che esse rappresentano l’insieme di
quelle azioni che si prefiggono di controllare o addirittura
influenzare le reazioni dell'opinione pubblica e del nemico attraverso
la gestione della comunicazione.Per comprendere a fondo questa
definizione è fondamentale percepire tutte le sfaccettature e le
applicazioni che può assumere il concetto di comunicazione nelle
operazioni militari moderne. Il punto di partenza per questo processo
di comprensione deve essere la considerazione che, negli attuali teatri
operativi, le notizie e gli avvenimenti possono giungere agli
ascoltatori, ai lettori e al nemico stesso, in tempo reale.Come
conseguenza di questo indiscutibile dato di fatto si può pertanto
facilmente dedurre che, chiunque oggi è messo nelle condizioni di avere
un’idea di ciò che sta succedendo. Diventa dunque fondamentale la
percezione dell'avvenimento e la conseguente reazione emotiva, che
spesso è alla base dei comportamenti umani. Lo scopo principale delle
Infoops è proprio quello di trasmettere messaggi che possano orientare
gli atteggiamenti e le reazioni nella direzione voluta e più favorevole.
Al fine di ottenere il risultato sopra indicato le Infoops coordinano
ed impiegano vari “strumenti”, tra cui i principali possono essere
considerati:
- le operazioni psicologiche
- la guerra elettronica
- i media
- la cooperazione tra civili e militari.
Come abbiamo potuto vedere anche in questi giorni, le fonti di
comunicazione presenti in un’ area d’operazioni sono numerosissime,
dando origine ad un considerevole flusso di messaggi che generano le
reazioni più disparate. Tale situazione rende assolutamente necessario
che ogni azione compiuta od ordine dato tenga conto delle ripercussioni
emotive che possono determinarsi nella mente di chi ne viene a
conoscenza, pertanto diventano vitali i modi e i termini con cui ogni
singolo fatto, anche quello apparentemente più insignificante, viene
riportato.
Il gran numero di civili in mezzo ai soldati, siano essi giornalisti,
rappresentanti di organizzazioni non governative oppure indigeni
coinvolti loro malgrado, rende necessaria una loro gestione che, da un
lato ne eviti l’interferenza nelle operazioni, e dall’altro addirittura
ne faciliti l'attuazione.Quest’aspetto rappresenta la componente
offensiva delle Infoops, ossia la capacità di individuare i mezzi ed
gli argomenti che permettono di indirizzare il comportamento e
l’opinione dei civili o dei soldati nemici a proprio favore. Lo scopo
ultimo di queste azioni è quello di creare una forte corrente di
pensiero che supporti i propri obiettivi in modo tale da condizionare
le azioni e le scelte delle opposte leadership militari e politiche. I
mezzi per ottenere questo risultato sono di vario genere e abbracciano
un’ampia gamma di azioni che possono essere non letali (operazioni
psicologiche, attività di guerra elettronica) o letali (azioni di
sabotaggio o di distruzione ).
Come logica conseguenza dell’esistenza delle Infoops offensive si può
parlare anche delle Infoops difensive, che si differenziano dalle prime
in quanto focalizzano le proprie azioni sulle truppe amiche. Esse
perseguono principalmente due scopi:
- protezione dell’informazione amica e conseguente mantenimento della
superiorità nella comunicazione
- cura del morale delle proprie truppe .
Le due tipologie di operazioni vanno condotte simultaneamente ed hanno
la stessa valenza nell’ambito dell’economia di un’operazione militare.
Affrontando il tema dal punto di vista normativo, esiste ancora molto
poco in merito alle Infoops e solamente americani e inglesi stanno
cercando di sviluppare una dottrina, ponendosi come modello di
riferimento per chiunque intenda dotarsi di questo strumento.La sua
adozione certamente necessita di un considerevole cambio di mentalità
nell’approccio alle problematiche relative alla conduzione delle
operazioni militari, approccio che non è facile trovare in eserciti che
hanno da sempre concepito la loro esistenza ed il loro impiego
nell’ottica del “pugnale in mezzo ai denti e bomba a mano”. Grande e
diffuso è lo scetticismo circa l’efficacia di azioni che si prefiggono
di raggiungere obiettivi militari, principalmente attraverso la forza
delle parole piuttosto che delle armi.
Questo però è il futuro che attende le Forze Armate, e soprattutto gli
eserciti per poter essere considerati strumenti di amplificazione dei
messaggi che qualunque società civile oggi vuole trasmettere. Il
messaggio che oggi deve essere raccolto può riassumersi nella seguente
frase: “le armi possono essere uno strumento il cui uso è accettabile,
ma bisogna impiegarle solo quando sono rimaste l’ultima risorsa
possibile e per il tempo strettamente necessario”. Nelle guerre di
oggi la vittoria può essere ottenuta solo attraverso la sinergia che
scaturisce dall’unione della potenza dei carri armati e di quegli
strumenti meno letali ma altrettanto efficaci che basano la propria
forza sui complessi meccanismi della comunicazione.In questo periodo
storico - definito come “l’era della comunicazione” - le Infoops sono
probabilmente destinate a diventare uno dei principali strumenti ai
quali fare ricorso per la pianificazione e la conduzione una qualunque
operazione militare.
Analisi Difesa - n.36.9.1 - luglio/agosto 2003
INDISCRETO
LE INFO-OPS
di Luca Andreani
La guerra che si è recentemente combattuta nel deserto iracheno ha
portato alla ribalta uno strumento a disposizione dei comandanti che,
opportunamente impiegato, può essere devastante come il fuoco di una
intera brigata corazzata e al tempo stesso efficace come le armi che la
tecnologia rende sempre più precise e “quasi intelligenti”: le INFOOPS.
Innanzi tutto vediamo di capire cosa si intende con questo termine,
che intuitivamente possiamo correlare con l’intelligence o con i media.
In realtà le Infoops non sono una componente di nessuna di queste due
branche; ma loro strette parenti e da entrambe traggono elementi
importanti per la loro pianificazione e attuazione in operazioni di
tipo militare.
Volendo in qualche modo esplicitare ciò che si nasconde dietro questo
concetto operativo, si può dire che esse rappresentano l’insieme di
quelle azioni che si prefiggono di controllare o addirittura
influenzare le reazioni dell'opinione pubblica e del nemico attraverso
la gestione della comunicazione.Per comprendere a fondo questa
definizione è fondamentale percepire tutte le sfaccettature e le
applicazioni che può assumere il concetto di comunicazione nelle
operazioni militari moderne. Il punto di partenza per questo processo
di comprensione deve essere la considerazione che, negli attuali teatri
operativi, le notizie e gli avvenimenti possono giungere agli
ascoltatori, ai lettori e al nemico stesso, in tempo reale.Come
conseguenza di questo indiscutibile dato di fatto si può pertanto
facilmente dedurre che, chiunque oggi è messo nelle condizioni di avere
un’idea di ciò che sta succedendo. Diventa dunque fondamentale la
percezione dell'avvenimento e la conseguente reazione emotiva, che
spesso è alla base dei comportamenti umani. Lo scopo principale delle
Infoops è proprio quello di trasmettere messaggi che possano orientare
gli atteggiamenti e le reazioni nella direzione voluta e più favorevole.
Al fine di ottenere il risultato sopra indicato le Infoops coordinano
ed impiegano vari “strumenti”, tra cui i principali possono essere
considerati:
- le operazioni psicologiche
- la guerra elettronica
- i media
- la cooperazione tra civili e militari.
Come abbiamo potuto vedere anche in questi giorni, le fonti di
comunicazione presenti in un’ area d’operazioni sono numerosissime,
dando origine ad un considerevole flusso di messaggi che generano le
reazioni più disparate. Tale situazione rende assolutamente necessario
che ogni azione compiuta od ordine dato tenga conto delle ripercussioni
emotive che possono determinarsi nella mente di chi ne viene a
conoscenza, pertanto diventano vitali i modi e i termini con cui ogni
singolo fatto, anche quello apparentemente più insignificante, viene
riportato.
Il gran numero di civili in mezzo ai soldati, siano essi giornalisti,
rappresentanti di organizzazioni non governative oppure indigeni
coinvolti loro malgrado, rende necessaria una loro gestione che, da un
lato ne eviti l’interferenza nelle operazioni, e dall’altro addirittura
ne faciliti l'attuazione.Quest’aspetto rappresenta la componente
offensiva delle Infoops, ossia la capacità di individuare i mezzi ed
gli argomenti che permettono di indirizzare il comportamento e
l’opinione dei civili o dei soldati nemici a proprio favore. Lo scopo
ultimo di queste azioni è quello di creare una forte corrente di
pensiero che supporti i propri obiettivi in modo tale da condizionare
le azioni e le scelte delle opposte leadership militari e politiche. I
mezzi per ottenere questo risultato sono di vario genere e abbracciano
un’ampia gamma di azioni che possono essere non letali (operazioni
psicologiche, attività di guerra elettronica) o letali (azioni di
sabotaggio o di distruzione ).
Come logica conseguenza dell’esistenza delle Infoops offensive si può
parlare anche delle Infoops difensive, che si differenziano dalle prime
in quanto focalizzano le proprie azioni sulle truppe amiche. Esse
perseguono principalmente due scopi:
- protezione dell’informazione amica e conseguente mantenimento della
superiorità nella comunicazione
- cura del morale delle proprie truppe .
Le due tipologie di operazioni vanno condotte simultaneamente ed hanno
la stessa valenza nell’ambito dell’economia di un’operazione militare.
Affrontando il tema dal punto di vista normativo, esiste ancora molto
poco in merito alle Infoops e solamente americani e inglesi stanno
cercando di sviluppare una dottrina, ponendosi come modello di
riferimento per chiunque intenda dotarsi di questo strumento.La sua
adozione certamente necessita di un considerevole cambio di mentalità
nell’approccio alle problematiche relative alla conduzione delle
operazioni militari, approccio che non è facile trovare in eserciti che
hanno da sempre concepito la loro esistenza ed il loro impiego
nell’ottica del “pugnale in mezzo ai denti e bomba a mano”. Grande e
diffuso è lo scetticismo circa l’efficacia di azioni che si prefiggono
di raggiungere obiettivi militari, principalmente attraverso la forza
delle parole piuttosto che delle armi.
Questo però è il futuro che attende le Forze Armate, e soprattutto gli
eserciti per poter essere considerati strumenti di amplificazione dei
messaggi che qualunque società civile oggi vuole trasmettere. Il
messaggio che oggi deve essere raccolto può riassumersi nella seguente
frase: “le armi possono essere uno strumento il cui uso è accettabile,
ma bisogna impiegarle solo quando sono rimaste l’ultima risorsa
possibile e per il tempo strettamente necessario”. Nelle guerre di
oggi la vittoria può essere ottenuta solo attraverso la sinergia che
scaturisce dall’unione della potenza dei carri armati e di quegli
strumenti meno letali ma altrettanto efficaci che basano la propria
forza sui complessi meccanismi della comunicazione.In questo periodo
storico - definito come “l’era della comunicazione” - le Infoops sono
probabilmente destinate a diventare uno dei principali strumenti ai
quali fare ricorso per la pianificazione e la conduzione una qualunque
operazione militare.
[ NOTE: Among the important books which are lacking in the following
list, we wish to mention the very good ones edited by the
International Action Center (http://www.iacenter.org), above all the
most recent
“Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia“ (International Action
Center, 2002, ISBN 0-9656916-7-5) ]
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http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m073103.html
ANTIWAR, Thursday, July 31, 2003
Balkan Express
by Nebojsa Malic
Antiwar.com
The Worthy Balkans Booklist
Recommended Reading for Anti-Imperialists
by Nebojsa Malic
It would be deeply unfair to offer only a list of dreadful books
[http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m071003.html] about the Balkans Wars and
not mention the other kind - the books that help the overall
understanding of the region and the turmoil it has been undergoing for
the past decade or so. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the number
of good books about the region is fairly low. Even so, it is entirely
likely that some good works out there might be overlooked by the list
below.*
One must keep in mind another fact. None of these books gives the full
picture of the crisis. Some try, some succeed better than others, but
the story of Yugoslavia in the 1990s is so complex, it is nearly
impossible to tell in one volume. There is no "Yugoslav Crisis for
Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide to Balkans Wars" on this list. To find them,
you will have to go elsewhere
[http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m071003.html].
So without further ado, the books.
Testimonies
In producing their works, historians often rely on "primary sources"
accounts of people who have actually witnessed, or participated in the
event in question. As a side note, despite being treated as such,
journalists often should not be considered primary sources. Too many
have deliberately
misinterpreted [http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m022102.html] the facts
that their lies reverberate through media coverage even today.
On the other hand, though in some part necessarily self-serving,
memoirs of officials and dignitaries who were actually on the ground
making the news - as opposed to inventing it - are the real primary
sources of intrinsic value.
Take for example, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/155054098X/
antiwarbookstore/], by the man fully deserving of the title. Canadian
Major-General Lewis McKenzie was not only the first UN commander in
Sarajevo, but a veteran of almost all UN peacekeeping missions. Half
the book is the account of those missions, and is interesting in its
own right. However, the part that focuses on Bosnia in 1992 is truly
captivating.
In Peacekeeper, McKenzie described what would later become a pattern
for every UN commander in Bosnia. Though both Serbs and Muslims greeted
him cordially at first, the latter quickly turned on him when he
refused to take their side. McKenzie even pointed out some Muslim
abuses, earning the
undying hatred of the Sarajevo regime. They've pilloried him as
"pro-Serb" and even concocted a vicious rumor about his involvement
with "Serb rape camps."
Peacekeeper is a poignant chronicle of events in Sarajevo during the
fateful summer of 1992, a must-read.
Balkan Odyssey
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156005212/
antiwarbookstore/], by Lord David Owen, is an important bit of
diplomatic history. The frustrated British negotiator recounts in this
memoir how he vainly tried to mediate between the warring factions in
Bosnia while both
the western media and the American government did their best to make
him fail.
A little-known but brilliant book is Philip Corwin's Dubious Mandate
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822321262/antiwarbookstore/],
a superb, first-hand account of how the Empire subverted and abused the
UN force in Bosnia, using the peacekeeping mission as subterfuge for
intervention. However, it is best to be somewhat familiar with the
situation in the 1995 Bosnia before reading this book.
Perhaps the most important testimony, though, is Richard Holbrooke's To
End A War
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375753605/
antiwarbookstore/]. Surprised? Don't be. While Holbrooke's memoir
should definitely not
be taken at face value - especially when it comes to his misconceptions
about the Balkans peoples - his arrogant honesty paints a forthright
picture of Imperial intervention, its motives and methods. Many of the
things Holbrooke says without thinking his colleagues would fear to
even contemplate, let alone speak out loud. If for that alone, this
book is a treasure - though at times it may induce vomiting. (see
review [http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m052903.html])
Histories
Bridging the divide between testimonies and histories is Misha Glenny's
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140257713/antiwarbookstore/].
Glenny was frequently in Croatia
and Bosnia between 1991 and 1995, so his work is somewhat a personal
account - but he also attempts to paint a picture of events as they
unfolded, based on media reports and occasional interviews. Though
Glenny gets the timeline
straight, his emotional style - no doubt influenced by the British
style of narrative - often get in the way of scholarship. This book,
while useful, should be taken with a chunk of salt (see review
[http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m011101.html]).
For a history of Kosovo and to some extent Serbia in general, one
should try to find Alex Dragnich and Slavko Todorovich's The Saga of
Kosovo
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0317184520/
antiwarbookstore/], printed in 1984 by Columbia University Press (and
adapted online
[http://www.kosovo.com/sk/history/kosovo_saga/default.htm]).
Robert Hayden's Blueprint for a House Divided
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0472087568/
antiwarbookstore/] fills an important niche, trying to explain
Yugoslavia's collapse from the standpoint of constitutional
nationalism. It is in fact aptly subtitled "The Constitutional Logic of
the Yugoslav Conflicts". (More info:
http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/11066.html). Too many
analyses of Yugoslavia's demise ignore the crucial role of
constitutional conundrums that encouraged ethno-statism, especially
from 1974 onwards.
Thomas Fleming's Montenegro: The Divided Land
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0961936495/antiwarbookstore/]
is the very example of what a short history should be: concise yet
incredibly informative, offering a sea
of relevant facts and analyzing historical patterns. This is simply the
best history of Montenegro currently available. Its importance cannot
be overstated, since the current regime in Podgorica has been
falsifying history wholesale in order to justify its separatist
tendencies.
Analysis And Media
It is obvious to anyone even remotely acquainted with the Balkans that
media impact on the Yugoslav crisis cannot possibly be underestimated.
Though a comprehensive analysis of media manipulations has not yet seen
the light of
day - and since the machinations continue, that day may still be far
off - good critical analyses of lies employed in the Kosovo war can be
found in Phil Hammond's Degraded Capability
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074531631X/
antiwarbookstore/] and Philip Knightley's The First Casualty
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/080186951X/
antiwarbookstore/] (reviewed here:
http://evatt.labor.net.au/news/201.html).
Michael Parenti's To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859843662/
antiwarbookstore/] analyzes Yugoslavia's violent dissolution from the
beginning. Though its economic preconceptions may be disputable,
Parenti's incisive work contributes a great deal to understanding the
clear pattern of dismemberment that emerges from consecutive Imperial
interventions. (see review
[http://www.swans.com/library/art7/ga104.html])
In the same league is Diana Johnstone's Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia,
NATO and Western Delusions
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/158367084X/antiwarbookstore/]
(see reviews here http://swans.com/library/art9/lproy04.html, here
http://swans.com/library/art9/herman10.html and here
http://swans.com/library/art9/ga156.html). Johnstone not only analyzes
the Imperial interventions, she also addresses the leftist warmongers
who spearheaded them, a frequently ignored subject. Read intro
here: http://swans.com/library/art9/dianaj01.html.
Honorable Mentions
Scott Taylor's Inat: Images of Serbia and the Kosovo Conflict
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/189589610X/antiwarbookstore/]
and Diary of an Uncivil War
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1895896207/antiwarbookstore/]
(read excerpt: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/taylor2.html) are a
refreshing break from the mainstream-peddled nonsense about the wars in
Kosovo and Macedonia is, though some people might be put off by the
magazine-style prose. Taylor has long followed the Canadian military,
and seems to have a keen sense for recognizing baloney when he hears it.
Anthony Lloyd's My War Gone By, I Miss It So
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140298541/
antiwarbookstore/] may not seem like worthy reading at first. A
confessed English drug-user with family issues, Lloyd sought out danger
in Bosnia and Chechnya, posing as a journalist but really just spending
time with the locals. His picture of war is gritty and realistic. His
experiences with Muslims and Croats - he hated Serbs - offer invaluable
glimpses into the collective hysteria that was Bosnia at war. Not for
the queasy, but definitely worth reading.
Coda
This list is by no means definitive, or final. New works are becoming
available every day, and some of them may not be rubbish. Suggestions
for book reviews are very much welcome [mailto:backtalk@...],
of course. Perhaps some day, the quality of reason will manage to
overwhelm the quantity of lies peddled in its stead. Here's to hope
that it does.
list, we wish to mention the very good ones edited by the
International Action Center (http://www.iacenter.org), above all the
most recent
“Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia“ (International Action
Center, 2002, ISBN 0-9656916-7-5) ]
---
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m073103.html
ANTIWAR, Thursday, July 31, 2003
Balkan Express
by Nebojsa Malic
Antiwar.com
The Worthy Balkans Booklist
Recommended Reading for Anti-Imperialists
by Nebojsa Malic
It would be deeply unfair to offer only a list of dreadful books
[http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m071003.html] about the Balkans Wars and
not mention the other kind - the books that help the overall
understanding of the region and the turmoil it has been undergoing for
the past decade or so. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the number
of good books about the region is fairly low. Even so, it is entirely
likely that some good works out there might be overlooked by the list
below.*
One must keep in mind another fact. None of these books gives the full
picture of the crisis. Some try, some succeed better than others, but
the story of Yugoslavia in the 1990s is so complex, it is nearly
impossible to tell in one volume. There is no "Yugoslav Crisis for
Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide to Balkans Wars" on this list. To find them,
you will have to go elsewhere
[http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m071003.html].
So without further ado, the books.
Testimonies
In producing their works, historians often rely on "primary sources"
accounts of people who have actually witnessed, or participated in the
event in question. As a side note, despite being treated as such,
journalists often should not be considered primary sources. Too many
have deliberately
misinterpreted [http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m022102.html] the facts
that their lies reverberate through media coverage even today.
On the other hand, though in some part necessarily self-serving,
memoirs of officials and dignitaries who were actually on the ground
making the news - as opposed to inventing it - are the real primary
sources of intrinsic value.
Take for example, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/155054098X/
antiwarbookstore/], by the man fully deserving of the title. Canadian
Major-General Lewis McKenzie was not only the first UN commander in
Sarajevo, but a veteran of almost all UN peacekeeping missions. Half
the book is the account of those missions, and is interesting in its
own right. However, the part that focuses on Bosnia in 1992 is truly
captivating.
In Peacekeeper, McKenzie described what would later become a pattern
for every UN commander in Bosnia. Though both Serbs and Muslims greeted
him cordially at first, the latter quickly turned on him when he
refused to take their side. McKenzie even pointed out some Muslim
abuses, earning the
undying hatred of the Sarajevo regime. They've pilloried him as
"pro-Serb" and even concocted a vicious rumor about his involvement
with "Serb rape camps."
Peacekeeper is a poignant chronicle of events in Sarajevo during the
fateful summer of 1992, a must-read.
Balkan Odyssey
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156005212/
antiwarbookstore/], by Lord David Owen, is an important bit of
diplomatic history. The frustrated British negotiator recounts in this
memoir how he vainly tried to mediate between the warring factions in
Bosnia while both
the western media and the American government did their best to make
him fail.
A little-known but brilliant book is Philip Corwin's Dubious Mandate
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822321262/antiwarbookstore/],
a superb, first-hand account of how the Empire subverted and abused the
UN force in Bosnia, using the peacekeeping mission as subterfuge for
intervention. However, it is best to be somewhat familiar with the
situation in the 1995 Bosnia before reading this book.
Perhaps the most important testimony, though, is Richard Holbrooke's To
End A War
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375753605/
antiwarbookstore/]. Surprised? Don't be. While Holbrooke's memoir
should definitely not
be taken at face value - especially when it comes to his misconceptions
about the Balkans peoples - his arrogant honesty paints a forthright
picture of Imperial intervention, its motives and methods. Many of the
things Holbrooke says without thinking his colleagues would fear to
even contemplate, let alone speak out loud. If for that alone, this
book is a treasure - though at times it may induce vomiting. (see
review [http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m052903.html])
Histories
Bridging the divide between testimonies and histories is Misha Glenny's
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140257713/antiwarbookstore/].
Glenny was frequently in Croatia
and Bosnia between 1991 and 1995, so his work is somewhat a personal
account - but he also attempts to paint a picture of events as they
unfolded, based on media reports and occasional interviews. Though
Glenny gets the timeline
straight, his emotional style - no doubt influenced by the British
style of narrative - often get in the way of scholarship. This book,
while useful, should be taken with a chunk of salt (see review
[http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m011101.html]).
For a history of Kosovo and to some extent Serbia in general, one
should try to find Alex Dragnich and Slavko Todorovich's The Saga of
Kosovo
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0317184520/
antiwarbookstore/], printed in 1984 by Columbia University Press (and
adapted online
[http://www.kosovo.com/sk/history/kosovo_saga/default.htm]).
Robert Hayden's Blueprint for a House Divided
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0472087568/
antiwarbookstore/] fills an important niche, trying to explain
Yugoslavia's collapse from the standpoint of constitutional
nationalism. It is in fact aptly subtitled "The Constitutional Logic of
the Yugoslav Conflicts". (More info:
http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/11066.html). Too many
analyses of Yugoslavia's demise ignore the crucial role of
constitutional conundrums that encouraged ethno-statism, especially
from 1974 onwards.
Thomas Fleming's Montenegro: The Divided Land
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0961936495/antiwarbookstore/]
is the very example of what a short history should be: concise yet
incredibly informative, offering a sea
of relevant facts and analyzing historical patterns. This is simply the
best history of Montenegro currently available. Its importance cannot
be overstated, since the current regime in Podgorica has been
falsifying history wholesale in order to justify its separatist
tendencies.
Analysis And Media
It is obvious to anyone even remotely acquainted with the Balkans that
media impact on the Yugoslav crisis cannot possibly be underestimated.
Though a comprehensive analysis of media manipulations has not yet seen
the light of
day - and since the machinations continue, that day may still be far
off - good critical analyses of lies employed in the Kosovo war can be
found in Phil Hammond's Degraded Capability
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074531631X/
antiwarbookstore/] and Philip Knightley's The First Casualty
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/080186951X/
antiwarbookstore/] (reviewed here:
http://evatt.labor.net.au/news/201.html).
Michael Parenti's To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859843662/
antiwarbookstore/] analyzes Yugoslavia's violent dissolution from the
beginning. Though its economic preconceptions may be disputable,
Parenti's incisive work contributes a great deal to understanding the
clear pattern of dismemberment that emerges from consecutive Imperial
interventions. (see review
[http://www.swans.com/library/art7/ga104.html])
In the same league is Diana Johnstone's Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia,
NATO and Western Delusions
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/158367084X/antiwarbookstore/]
(see reviews here http://swans.com/library/art9/lproy04.html, here
http://swans.com/library/art9/herman10.html and here
http://swans.com/library/art9/ga156.html). Johnstone not only analyzes
the Imperial interventions, she also addresses the leftist warmongers
who spearheaded them, a frequently ignored subject. Read intro
here: http://swans.com/library/art9/dianaj01.html.
Honorable Mentions
Scott Taylor's Inat: Images of Serbia and the Kosovo Conflict
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/189589610X/antiwarbookstore/]
and Diary of an Uncivil War
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1895896207/antiwarbookstore/]
(read excerpt: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/taylor2.html) are a
refreshing break from the mainstream-peddled nonsense about the wars in
Kosovo and Macedonia is, though some people might be put off by the
magazine-style prose. Taylor has long followed the Canadian military,
and seems to have a keen sense for recognizing baloney when he hears it.
Anthony Lloyd's My War Gone By, I Miss It So
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140298541/
antiwarbookstore/] may not seem like worthy reading at first. A
confessed English drug-user with family issues, Lloyd sought out danger
in Bosnia and Chechnya, posing as a journalist but really just spending
time with the locals. His picture of war is gritty and realistic. His
experiences with Muslims and Croats - he hated Serbs - offer invaluable
glimpses into the collective hysteria that was Bosnia at war. Not for
the queasy, but definitely worth reading.
Coda
This list is by no means definitive, or final. New works are becoming
available every day, and some of them may not be rubbish. Suggestions
for book reviews are very much welcome [mailto:backtalk@...],
of course. Perhaps some day, the quality of reason will manage to
overwhelm the quantity of lies peddled in its stead. Here's to hope
that it does.
[Nota: chi potesse tradurre questo testo in italiano e' pregato di
contattarci con sollecitudine. CNJ]
http://www.juergen-elsaesser.de/
Srebrenica und Karthago
Sommer 1995. Deutschlands meldet sich als kriegsführende Macht auf der
Bühne der Weltpolitik zurück.
Die Ärchaologen einer künftigen Zivilisation werden einmal im Schutt
unserer Städte wühlen, in den Katakomben unter der Reichshauptstadt, im
Kanzlerbunker, und sie werden über den Fragen brüten, die sich unsere
Historiker über Karthago stellten: Warum ist dieses Reich verschwunden?
Warum sind seine Bürger, als ihr Land noch bewohnbar nach dem zweiten
war, in den dritten Krieg marschiert?
Die eine Denkschule des post-karthagenischen Zeitalters wird auf den
Untergang der Bonner Republik im Zuge der Wiedervereinigen verweisen.
Ab diesem Zeitpunkt sei die genügsame Außenpolitik einem neuen
imperialen Machtanspruch gewichen, wie sich etwa an den
"Verteidigungspolitischen Richtlinien" aus dem Jahre 38 v.n.W. (vor dem
nuklearen Winter) ablesen lasse. Andere werden dagegenhalten, dass doch
zu diesem Zeitpunkt die republikanische Machtbalance noch intakt
gewesen sei - den Legionären auf der Hardthöhe habe immer noch ein
kräftiger sozial-ökologischer Widerpart Paroli geboten. Einer von
dessen Sprechern, ein gewisser Joseph (oder Joschka - die Quellen
differieren) Fischer sei sogar 32 v.n.W. deutscher Außenminister und
Vizekanzler geworden.
Ein sensationeller Fund halbgeschmolzener Computerfestplatten in der
atomar verseuchten Sperrzone rund um den Bendlerblock barg des Rätsels
Lösung: Parlamentsprotokolle, Zeitungsausschnitte, Fernsehmitschnitte
aus dem Jahr 35 v.n.W. - in der damaligen Zeitrechnung 1995 n.Chr.. In
diesem Jahr brach der Widerstand der moderaten Kräfte gegen den
Bellizismus zusammen, oder genauer gesagt: die vormaligen Opponenten
wechselten die Seite. Es war der letzte Sommer der alten Republik.
Eine Zeitreise
Bis zum Juni 1995 galt in der deutschen Politik das vom damaligen
Bundeskanzler Kohl verkündete Axiom: Niemals Bundeswehrsoldaten in
Gebieten einzusetzen, die einst die Wehrmacht okkupiert hatte.
Vorstößen aus der Union und aus dem konservativen Medienkartell, dieses
Axiom aufzuweichen und deutsche Soldaten zum dritten Mal in jenem
Jahrhundert gegen Serbien in Marsch zu schicken, standen ebenso starke
Widerstände der rot-grünen Opposition entgegen. So versuchte etwa die
SPD, der Beteiligung der Luftwaffe an den Nato-Überwachungsflügen in
Bosnien durch Klagen vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht einen Riegel
vorzuschieben, und die Bündnisgrünen unterstrichen ihr kategorisches
Nein zu allen Out-of-area-Einsätzen - auch Blauhelmmissionen! -
bisweilen sogar durch außerparlamentarischen Protest.
Der 30. Juni 1995 markiert das Ende des Kohl-Axioms, der Bundestag
gab grünes Licht für den ersten Kriegseinsatz der Bundeswehr. Zur
Unterstützung einer britisch-französischen Bosnien-Eingreiftruppe
wurden die Luftwaffe und Sanitätszüge bereitgestellt. Jörg Schönbohm,
Staatssekretär im Bundesverteidigungsministerium, betonte, "daß es
diesmal nicht um eine humanitäre Operation wie in Somalia oder
Kambodscha" gehe. "Sondern jetzt werden deutsche Soldaten außerhalb des
NATO-Verteidigungsgebietes eingesetzt, mit der Möglichkeit, kämpfen zu
müssen."
Doch die Abwehrfront von SPD und Grünen stand, abgesehen von einigen
Abweichlern, noch immer. Fischer etwa bezeichnete den
Bundestagsentscheid als "historische Zäsur" und als "Debakel, für das
noch viele politisch und manche vielleicht auch mit ihrem Leben
bezahlen müssen". Bereits zuvor hatte er erläutert: "Ich bin der festen
Überzeugung, daß deutsche Soldaten dort, wo im Zweiten Weltkrieg die
Hitler-Soldateska gewütet hat, den Konflikt anheizen und nicht
deeskalieren würden (...) All diese Einsätze und die Debatten darum
werden von der Bundesregierung als Türöffner benutzt. Das vereinigte
Deutschland soll in seinen außenpolitischen Optionen voll
handlungsfähig gemacht werden." SPD-Bundesgeschäftsführer Günter
Verheugen kritisierte, daß "die Koalition uns in eine
Prä-Vietnam-Situation gebracht [hat], und wir rutschen immer tiefer in
die Grauzone ... und befinden uns irgendwann, ohne es recht bemerkt zu
haben, im Krieg".
Aber als zwei Monate später die Kohl-Regierung unter Berufung auf den
Bundestagsbeschluß vom 30. Juni grünes Licht zum Angriff gab, war von
der Opposition nichts mehr zu hören. Am 30. August begannen
Nato-Kampfflugzeuge einen vierzehntägigen Bombenkrieg gegen serbische
Stellungen in Bosnien. Tornados der Bundesluftwaffe bombten fleißig
mit. Dies, und nicht der Angriff auf Jugoslawien 1999, war der erste
Kriegseinsatz des westlichen Bündnisses und der Bundeswehr - aber kaum
jemand hat es gemerkt, denn die Öffentlichkeit war durch die Zustimmung
von SPD und Grünen eingelullt. Den Angriffen, bei denen auch Munition
aus abgereichertem Uran eingesetzt wurde, fielen mehrere hundert
Menschen zum Opfer.
Das Einknicken der parlamentarischen Kriegsgegner zwischen 30. Juni
und 30. August wurde durch ein einziges Ereignis ausgelöst: die
Eroberung der ostbosnischen UN-Schutzzone Srebrenica durch die Serben
am 11. Juli. "Seit Srebrenica habe ich meine Position verändert", sagte
Fischer im Rückblick. Auf dem grünen Parteitag im Dezember 1995
erhielten Anträge, die sich in unterschiedlicher Radikalität für
deutschen Interventionismus gegen die "marodierende Soldateska" (Ludger
Volmer) der Serben aussprachen, erstmals mehr Stimmen als die der
Interventionsgegner und Pazifisten.
Spurensuche
In den Tagen nach dem 11. Juli 1995 habe sich "Europas schlimmstes
Kriegsverbrechen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg" ereignet, resümierte der
"Spiegel". Die bosnischen Serben hätten 7 000 Muslime ermordet - so die
bis heute in westlichen Medien gängige Standardzahl.
7 000 Ermordete? Das Internationale Rote Kreuzes IKRK) hat bis zum
Sommer 2001 insgesamt 7.475 aus Srebrenica Verschwundene registriert.
Wieviele von diesen Verschwundenen tot sind, ist nicht geklärt. Auch
für die wichtigsten westlichen Untersuchungsberichte wurden zu dieser
Frage leider keine eigenen Nachforschungen vorgenommen. Das trifft
sowohl auf die 1200 Seiten starke Studie einer Kommission des
französischen Parlaments (vorgelegt im November 2001) als auch auf den
3500 Seiten starken Report des niederländischen Armeeinstituts NIOD
(vorgelegt im April 2002) zu. Zum niederländischen Bericht stellt das
Wochenmagazin "Elsevier" kritisch fest: "Die Schuld der bosnischen
Serben wird nicht geringer, wenn keine siebentausend, sondern zwei-
oder dreitausend Muslime abgeschlachtet wurden. Aber eine
genauestmögliche Feststellung der Anzahl der Todesopfer ist von
Bedeutung, wenn es um die Wahrheitsfindung geht. Und genau hier wird
die Untersuchung ... den Anforderungen nicht gerecht."
Die Zahl "zwei- bis dreitausend" kann als wahrscheinlich gelten, da
sie von den Ergebnissen der Leichensuche gestützt wird. Das UN-Tribunal
in Den Haag, das die entsprechenden Grabungsarbeiten in und um
Srebrenica koordiniert, gab im August 2001 die Gesamtzahl der
gefundenen Leichen mit "mindestens 2.028" an. Diese seien aus 21
Massengräbern geborgen worden, 18 weitere seien noch nicht untersucht.
Strittig ist, wie viele dieser Toten "abgeschlachtet" wurden. Die
Richter in Den Haag stellten dazu im Verfahren gegen den
bosnisch-serbischen Armeegeneral Radislav Krstic fest: "Der Gerichtshof
kann die Möglichkeit nicht ausschließen, daß ein Prozentsatz der in den
Gräbern gefundenen Leichen Männer sein könnten, die im Kampf getötet
wurden." Der Haager Chefermittler Jean-René Ruez geht davon aus, daß
alle 2628 Toten der 28. moslemischen Division bei den Gefechten
zwischen Srebrenica und Tuzla "im Kampf umgekommen" sind (Interview im
Buch von Julija Bogoeva / Caroline Fetscher, Srebrenica - Ein Prozeß).
Selbst wenn man vom death toll von 7000 angeblich "Abgeschlachteten"
die Verschwundenen, die noch am Leben sind, und die Opfer militärischer
Auseinandersetzungen abzieht, bleibt Srebrenica ein schreckliches
Massaker an Wehrlosen. Schätzungsweise 1500 Muslime dürften außerhalb
jeder Kampfhandlungen exekutiert worden sein. Deren Ermordung war ein
Kriegsverbrechen, für das die serbischen Täter zur Verantwortung
gezogen werden müssen. So gerechtfertigt das weltweite Entsetzen über
die Greuel war, so propagandistisch aber auch der Versuch der NATO, sie
als singulär darzustellen.
Zum Vergleich: Wenige Wochen nach Srebrenica - und noch vor dem
NATO-Eingreifen in Bosnien - eroberte die kroatische Armee die
serbische Krajina. 200 000 Menschen wurden vertrieben - mehr als je
zuvor in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Belgrader
Menschenrechtsorganisation Veritas hat ermittelt, daß im Zuge der
Offensive etwa 2 000 Zivilisten verschwanden oder ermordet wurden, der
kroatische Helsinki-Ausschuß für Menschenrechte hat 410 Tote namentlich
identifiziert. Hans Koschnick (SPD) aber rühmte die Operation als
"Versuch, eine Rechtsordnung, eine staatliche Einheit
wiederherzustellen".
Die binäre Struktur der westlichen Propaganda - gute Kroaten und
Muslime, böse Serben - war kühl kalkuliert: Nur durch die Darstellung
des gegenseitigen Gemetzels als Aggression nur einer Partei war ein
Kriegseintritt auf der Seite der angeblichen Opfer zu rechtfertigen.
Fischer kritisierte ganz richtig, "wie die Bundesregierung den
Bundestag ... an der humanitären Nase in den Bosnienkrieg führen will."
So sprach er allerdings im Dezember 1994 - sieben Monate vor Srebrenica.
Kasten
Einige offene Fragen zu Srebrenica
UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan hat in seinem Bericht vom 15. November
1999 "ein internes Treffen der bosniakisch(-muslimischen) Führung vom
28. und 29. November 1993 erwähnt, auf dem Präsident Izetbegovic
erklärt habe, (... )er habe in Erfahrung gebracht, dass eine
Intervention der NATO in Bosnien-Herzegowina möglich sei, aber nur
stattfinden könne, wenn die Serben gewaltsam in Srebrenica eindrängen
und dort mindestens 5000 Personen massakrierten". (Srebrenica-Bericht
der Untersuchungskommission der französischen Nationalversammlung,
vorgelegt im November 2001)
Geheime Waffenlieferungen der USA an die Muslime in Srebrenica: "Die
Waffen, die im Frühling 1995 eingeflogen wurden, tauchten vierzehn Tage
später in der belagerten und entmilitarisierten Enklave von Srebrenica
auf. Als diese Lieferungen bemerkt wurden, übten US-Amerikaner auf
Unprofor Druck aus, Berichte umzuschreiben, und als norwegische Beamte
wegen der Flüge protestierten, wurden sie angeblich zum Schweigen
gebracht" (Srebrenica-Bericht des niederländischen Armeeinstituts NIOD,
vorgelegt im April 2002, hier zusammengefasst von der britischen
Tageszeitung "The Guardian", 22. April 2002)
Morde einer moslemischen Mafiagruppe an den eigenen Leuten während der
Flucht aus Srebrenica: "Über die Morde darf man auch heute noch nicht
sprechen. Einige radikalere Kenner der militärischen und politischen
Verhältnisse in Srebrenica wagen es zu behaupten, daß `Zeugen' sogar
liquidiert worden sind, als sich das Hauptkontingent aus Srebrenica
herausgekämpft hat. Während dieses Durchbruchs auf freies Territorium
wurde auf dem Gebiet von Baljkovici Azem Bajramovic, ein
Präsidiumsmitglied der (regierenden Moslempartei) SDA, getötet. Sein
Tod wird als Beispiel angeführt, wie man Zeugen aus Srebrenica zum
Schweigen bringt." (Die moslemische Wochenzeitung Ljiljan aus Sarajevo,
Ausgabe vom 7. August 1996)
"Ich habe von Leuten, die der kroatischen Staatssicherheit nahe stehen
und Kontakte zu den Serben haben, gehört, dass sich an verschiedenen
Orten noch 5600 Überlebende aus Srebrenica befinden." (Ibran Mustafic,
Vorsitzender der regierenden Moslempartei SDA in Srebrenica, von den
Serben nach dem Fall der Stadt gefangengenommen und trotz seiner hohen
Position wieder freigelassen, im Interview mit der muslimischen
Wochenzeitung Slobodna Bosna, 14. Juli 1996)
Autor: Jürgen Elsässer ; in: Freitag, 18. 07. 2003
contattarci con sollecitudine. CNJ]
http://www.juergen-elsaesser.de/
Srebrenica und Karthago
Sommer 1995. Deutschlands meldet sich als kriegsführende Macht auf der
Bühne der Weltpolitik zurück.
Die Ärchaologen einer künftigen Zivilisation werden einmal im Schutt
unserer Städte wühlen, in den Katakomben unter der Reichshauptstadt, im
Kanzlerbunker, und sie werden über den Fragen brüten, die sich unsere
Historiker über Karthago stellten: Warum ist dieses Reich verschwunden?
Warum sind seine Bürger, als ihr Land noch bewohnbar nach dem zweiten
war, in den dritten Krieg marschiert?
Die eine Denkschule des post-karthagenischen Zeitalters wird auf den
Untergang der Bonner Republik im Zuge der Wiedervereinigen verweisen.
Ab diesem Zeitpunkt sei die genügsame Außenpolitik einem neuen
imperialen Machtanspruch gewichen, wie sich etwa an den
"Verteidigungspolitischen Richtlinien" aus dem Jahre 38 v.n.W. (vor dem
nuklearen Winter) ablesen lasse. Andere werden dagegenhalten, dass doch
zu diesem Zeitpunkt die republikanische Machtbalance noch intakt
gewesen sei - den Legionären auf der Hardthöhe habe immer noch ein
kräftiger sozial-ökologischer Widerpart Paroli geboten. Einer von
dessen Sprechern, ein gewisser Joseph (oder Joschka - die Quellen
differieren) Fischer sei sogar 32 v.n.W. deutscher Außenminister und
Vizekanzler geworden.
Ein sensationeller Fund halbgeschmolzener Computerfestplatten in der
atomar verseuchten Sperrzone rund um den Bendlerblock barg des Rätsels
Lösung: Parlamentsprotokolle, Zeitungsausschnitte, Fernsehmitschnitte
aus dem Jahr 35 v.n.W. - in der damaligen Zeitrechnung 1995 n.Chr.. In
diesem Jahr brach der Widerstand der moderaten Kräfte gegen den
Bellizismus zusammen, oder genauer gesagt: die vormaligen Opponenten
wechselten die Seite. Es war der letzte Sommer der alten Republik.
Eine Zeitreise
Bis zum Juni 1995 galt in der deutschen Politik das vom damaligen
Bundeskanzler Kohl verkündete Axiom: Niemals Bundeswehrsoldaten in
Gebieten einzusetzen, die einst die Wehrmacht okkupiert hatte.
Vorstößen aus der Union und aus dem konservativen Medienkartell, dieses
Axiom aufzuweichen und deutsche Soldaten zum dritten Mal in jenem
Jahrhundert gegen Serbien in Marsch zu schicken, standen ebenso starke
Widerstände der rot-grünen Opposition entgegen. So versuchte etwa die
SPD, der Beteiligung der Luftwaffe an den Nato-Überwachungsflügen in
Bosnien durch Klagen vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht einen Riegel
vorzuschieben, und die Bündnisgrünen unterstrichen ihr kategorisches
Nein zu allen Out-of-area-Einsätzen - auch Blauhelmmissionen! -
bisweilen sogar durch außerparlamentarischen Protest.
Der 30. Juni 1995 markiert das Ende des Kohl-Axioms, der Bundestag
gab grünes Licht für den ersten Kriegseinsatz der Bundeswehr. Zur
Unterstützung einer britisch-französischen Bosnien-Eingreiftruppe
wurden die Luftwaffe und Sanitätszüge bereitgestellt. Jörg Schönbohm,
Staatssekretär im Bundesverteidigungsministerium, betonte, "daß es
diesmal nicht um eine humanitäre Operation wie in Somalia oder
Kambodscha" gehe. "Sondern jetzt werden deutsche Soldaten außerhalb des
NATO-Verteidigungsgebietes eingesetzt, mit der Möglichkeit, kämpfen zu
müssen."
Doch die Abwehrfront von SPD und Grünen stand, abgesehen von einigen
Abweichlern, noch immer. Fischer etwa bezeichnete den
Bundestagsentscheid als "historische Zäsur" und als "Debakel, für das
noch viele politisch und manche vielleicht auch mit ihrem Leben
bezahlen müssen". Bereits zuvor hatte er erläutert: "Ich bin der festen
Überzeugung, daß deutsche Soldaten dort, wo im Zweiten Weltkrieg die
Hitler-Soldateska gewütet hat, den Konflikt anheizen und nicht
deeskalieren würden (...) All diese Einsätze und die Debatten darum
werden von der Bundesregierung als Türöffner benutzt. Das vereinigte
Deutschland soll in seinen außenpolitischen Optionen voll
handlungsfähig gemacht werden." SPD-Bundesgeschäftsführer Günter
Verheugen kritisierte, daß "die Koalition uns in eine
Prä-Vietnam-Situation gebracht [hat], und wir rutschen immer tiefer in
die Grauzone ... und befinden uns irgendwann, ohne es recht bemerkt zu
haben, im Krieg".
Aber als zwei Monate später die Kohl-Regierung unter Berufung auf den
Bundestagsbeschluß vom 30. Juni grünes Licht zum Angriff gab, war von
der Opposition nichts mehr zu hören. Am 30. August begannen
Nato-Kampfflugzeuge einen vierzehntägigen Bombenkrieg gegen serbische
Stellungen in Bosnien. Tornados der Bundesluftwaffe bombten fleißig
mit. Dies, und nicht der Angriff auf Jugoslawien 1999, war der erste
Kriegseinsatz des westlichen Bündnisses und der Bundeswehr - aber kaum
jemand hat es gemerkt, denn die Öffentlichkeit war durch die Zustimmung
von SPD und Grünen eingelullt. Den Angriffen, bei denen auch Munition
aus abgereichertem Uran eingesetzt wurde, fielen mehrere hundert
Menschen zum Opfer.
Das Einknicken der parlamentarischen Kriegsgegner zwischen 30. Juni
und 30. August wurde durch ein einziges Ereignis ausgelöst: die
Eroberung der ostbosnischen UN-Schutzzone Srebrenica durch die Serben
am 11. Juli. "Seit Srebrenica habe ich meine Position verändert", sagte
Fischer im Rückblick. Auf dem grünen Parteitag im Dezember 1995
erhielten Anträge, die sich in unterschiedlicher Radikalität für
deutschen Interventionismus gegen die "marodierende Soldateska" (Ludger
Volmer) der Serben aussprachen, erstmals mehr Stimmen als die der
Interventionsgegner und Pazifisten.
Spurensuche
In den Tagen nach dem 11. Juli 1995 habe sich "Europas schlimmstes
Kriegsverbrechen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg" ereignet, resümierte der
"Spiegel". Die bosnischen Serben hätten 7 000 Muslime ermordet - so die
bis heute in westlichen Medien gängige Standardzahl.
7 000 Ermordete? Das Internationale Rote Kreuzes IKRK) hat bis zum
Sommer 2001 insgesamt 7.475 aus Srebrenica Verschwundene registriert.
Wieviele von diesen Verschwundenen tot sind, ist nicht geklärt. Auch
für die wichtigsten westlichen Untersuchungsberichte wurden zu dieser
Frage leider keine eigenen Nachforschungen vorgenommen. Das trifft
sowohl auf die 1200 Seiten starke Studie einer Kommission des
französischen Parlaments (vorgelegt im November 2001) als auch auf den
3500 Seiten starken Report des niederländischen Armeeinstituts NIOD
(vorgelegt im April 2002) zu. Zum niederländischen Bericht stellt das
Wochenmagazin "Elsevier" kritisch fest: "Die Schuld der bosnischen
Serben wird nicht geringer, wenn keine siebentausend, sondern zwei-
oder dreitausend Muslime abgeschlachtet wurden. Aber eine
genauestmögliche Feststellung der Anzahl der Todesopfer ist von
Bedeutung, wenn es um die Wahrheitsfindung geht. Und genau hier wird
die Untersuchung ... den Anforderungen nicht gerecht."
Die Zahl "zwei- bis dreitausend" kann als wahrscheinlich gelten, da
sie von den Ergebnissen der Leichensuche gestützt wird. Das UN-Tribunal
in Den Haag, das die entsprechenden Grabungsarbeiten in und um
Srebrenica koordiniert, gab im August 2001 die Gesamtzahl der
gefundenen Leichen mit "mindestens 2.028" an. Diese seien aus 21
Massengräbern geborgen worden, 18 weitere seien noch nicht untersucht.
Strittig ist, wie viele dieser Toten "abgeschlachtet" wurden. Die
Richter in Den Haag stellten dazu im Verfahren gegen den
bosnisch-serbischen Armeegeneral Radislav Krstic fest: "Der Gerichtshof
kann die Möglichkeit nicht ausschließen, daß ein Prozentsatz der in den
Gräbern gefundenen Leichen Männer sein könnten, die im Kampf getötet
wurden." Der Haager Chefermittler Jean-René Ruez geht davon aus, daß
alle 2628 Toten der 28. moslemischen Division bei den Gefechten
zwischen Srebrenica und Tuzla "im Kampf umgekommen" sind (Interview im
Buch von Julija Bogoeva / Caroline Fetscher, Srebrenica - Ein Prozeß).
Selbst wenn man vom death toll von 7000 angeblich "Abgeschlachteten"
die Verschwundenen, die noch am Leben sind, und die Opfer militärischer
Auseinandersetzungen abzieht, bleibt Srebrenica ein schreckliches
Massaker an Wehrlosen. Schätzungsweise 1500 Muslime dürften außerhalb
jeder Kampfhandlungen exekutiert worden sein. Deren Ermordung war ein
Kriegsverbrechen, für das die serbischen Täter zur Verantwortung
gezogen werden müssen. So gerechtfertigt das weltweite Entsetzen über
die Greuel war, so propagandistisch aber auch der Versuch der NATO, sie
als singulär darzustellen.
Zum Vergleich: Wenige Wochen nach Srebrenica - und noch vor dem
NATO-Eingreifen in Bosnien - eroberte die kroatische Armee die
serbische Krajina. 200 000 Menschen wurden vertrieben - mehr als je
zuvor in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Belgrader
Menschenrechtsorganisation Veritas hat ermittelt, daß im Zuge der
Offensive etwa 2 000 Zivilisten verschwanden oder ermordet wurden, der
kroatische Helsinki-Ausschuß für Menschenrechte hat 410 Tote namentlich
identifiziert. Hans Koschnick (SPD) aber rühmte die Operation als
"Versuch, eine Rechtsordnung, eine staatliche Einheit
wiederherzustellen".
Die binäre Struktur der westlichen Propaganda - gute Kroaten und
Muslime, böse Serben - war kühl kalkuliert: Nur durch die Darstellung
des gegenseitigen Gemetzels als Aggression nur einer Partei war ein
Kriegseintritt auf der Seite der angeblichen Opfer zu rechtfertigen.
Fischer kritisierte ganz richtig, "wie die Bundesregierung den
Bundestag ... an der humanitären Nase in den Bosnienkrieg führen will."
So sprach er allerdings im Dezember 1994 - sieben Monate vor Srebrenica.
Kasten
Einige offene Fragen zu Srebrenica
UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan hat in seinem Bericht vom 15. November
1999 "ein internes Treffen der bosniakisch(-muslimischen) Führung vom
28. und 29. November 1993 erwähnt, auf dem Präsident Izetbegovic
erklärt habe, (... )er habe in Erfahrung gebracht, dass eine
Intervention der NATO in Bosnien-Herzegowina möglich sei, aber nur
stattfinden könne, wenn die Serben gewaltsam in Srebrenica eindrängen
und dort mindestens 5000 Personen massakrierten". (Srebrenica-Bericht
der Untersuchungskommission der französischen Nationalversammlung,
vorgelegt im November 2001)
Geheime Waffenlieferungen der USA an die Muslime in Srebrenica: "Die
Waffen, die im Frühling 1995 eingeflogen wurden, tauchten vierzehn Tage
später in der belagerten und entmilitarisierten Enklave von Srebrenica
auf. Als diese Lieferungen bemerkt wurden, übten US-Amerikaner auf
Unprofor Druck aus, Berichte umzuschreiben, und als norwegische Beamte
wegen der Flüge protestierten, wurden sie angeblich zum Schweigen
gebracht" (Srebrenica-Bericht des niederländischen Armeeinstituts NIOD,
vorgelegt im April 2002, hier zusammengefasst von der britischen
Tageszeitung "The Guardian", 22. April 2002)
Morde einer moslemischen Mafiagruppe an den eigenen Leuten während der
Flucht aus Srebrenica: "Über die Morde darf man auch heute noch nicht
sprechen. Einige radikalere Kenner der militärischen und politischen
Verhältnisse in Srebrenica wagen es zu behaupten, daß `Zeugen' sogar
liquidiert worden sind, als sich das Hauptkontingent aus Srebrenica
herausgekämpft hat. Während dieses Durchbruchs auf freies Territorium
wurde auf dem Gebiet von Baljkovici Azem Bajramovic, ein
Präsidiumsmitglied der (regierenden Moslempartei) SDA, getötet. Sein
Tod wird als Beispiel angeführt, wie man Zeugen aus Srebrenica zum
Schweigen bringt." (Die moslemische Wochenzeitung Ljiljan aus Sarajevo,
Ausgabe vom 7. August 1996)
"Ich habe von Leuten, die der kroatischen Staatssicherheit nahe stehen
und Kontakte zu den Serben haben, gehört, dass sich an verschiedenen
Orten noch 5600 Überlebende aus Srebrenica befinden." (Ibran Mustafic,
Vorsitzender der regierenden Moslempartei SDA in Srebrenica, von den
Serben nach dem Fall der Stadt gefangengenommen und trotz seiner hohen
Position wieder freigelassen, im Interview mit der muslimischen
Wochenzeitung Slobodna Bosna, 14. Juli 1996)
Autor: Jürgen Elsässer ; in: Freitag, 18. 07. 2003
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