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AFTER HOLY LITURGY ALBANIANS SET SERB MONASTERY
IN ZOCISTE ON FIRE

Velika Hoca, 21:50 July 14, 2002.

According to the latest information sent by Fr. Peter Ulemek from
Orahovac, immediately after the holy liturgy and leaving of the Bishop
with the congregation, local Albanians from Zociste village set the
fire in the monastery of SS Cosma and Damian. The fire has made
additional damage to this already desecrated holy shrine. Fr. Peter
was in the last group of Sebs who left the monastery under the KFOR
escort. While they were getting ready to leave a group of Albanians
began throwing stones at Serbs. Soon afterwards the local Serb priest
Fr. Srdjan Milenkovic received infomation that the monastery is
burning. Serbs in Velika Hoca immediately organized a fire brigade and
rushed with UNMIK police to Zociste to localize the fire.

After today's offensive and vulgar behavior of the Albanian mob in
presence of the Bishop, during the Holy Service, this last attack on
Zociste Monastery confirmed once again a clear intention of Albanin
extremists to eradicate the last Serb monuments in this region.
Today's behavior has proved that Prime Minister Rexhepi and Mr. Thaci
intentionally deceived Bishop Artemije last month when they promised
in front of US and German diplomats that they would create conditions
for the reconstruction of the monstery and the return of the expelled
Serb population to Zociste. In fact there are many indications which
prove that the PDK (so called Democratic Party of Kosovo, led by Mr.
Thaci and Rexhepi) was directly involved in the destruction of the
monastery as well as this last incident.

(We are enclosing one of the latest photos from the burned monastery
with a graffito of PDK and Thaci).

Information Service of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Kosovo and Metohija


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PERCHE' SI DEVASTANO I CIMITERI IN KOSMET?

"I popoli ai quali avrai distrutto i cimiteri sicuramente
non sopravviveranno fino alla seconda generazione"
(Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf)

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NELLA NOTTE DI PASQUA DEVASTATO IL CIMITERO CRISTIANO-ORTODOSSO
A DJAKOVICA

+++ Albaner schänden Friedhof in Djakovica +++
DJAKOVICA, 5.Mai 2002. In besonders penetranter Weise haben Albaner den
christlichen Friedhof der Stadt Djakovica in der serbischen Provinz
Kosovo und Metochien geschändet. Die Albaner verwüsteten den Friedhof
ausgerechnet in der Osternacht. Die Albaner zerstörten einen Großteil
der Grabsteine.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM

ANCHE A PASQUA IRRUZIONE DELLA KFOR NELLE ABITAZIONI DEI SERBI RIMASTI
A LJIPLJAN, IN CERCA DI ARMI, SENZA ALCUN ESITO

+++ KFOR bricht auch an Ostern in serbische Häuser ein +++
LIPLJAN, 5.Mai 2002. Ohne Rücksicht auf die Osterfeiern haben
KFOR-Soldaten heute in Lipljan erneut serbische Häuser nach angeblichen
Waffen durchsucht. Etwa 150 Menschen versammelten sich zu einer
spontanen Protestkundgebung gegen die Rücksichtslosigkeit der Soldaten.
STIMME KOSOVOS

SECONDO IL VESCOVO ARTEMIJE, AL 12 MAGGIO ERANO 110 GLI EDIFICI
RELIGIOSI ORTODOSSI DANNEGGIATI DAI NAZIONALISTI PAN-ALBANESI
IN KOSOVO SOTTO LO SGUARDO INERTE DELLE TRUPPE NATO

+++ Unter NATO 110 Kirchen und Klöster zerstört +++
PRIZREN, 12. Mai 2002. Der Bischof von Raszien und Prizren
Artemije sagte heute, daß unter der NATO-Herrschaft in der
serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien in den letzten drei
Jahren albanische Banditen 110 christliche Klöster und Kirchen
zerstört und geschändet haben.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM

CIRCA 400 I DESAPARECIDOS SERBI IN KOSMET

+++ 400 Serben in Gefangenenlagern +++
KOSOVOSKA MITROVICA, 13. Mai 2002. Simo Spasic, der
Koordinator der "Vereinigung der Familien von gekidnapten
und Vermissten Serben in Kosovo und Metochien", gab bekannt
daß die Vereinigung davon ausgeht, daß immer noch 400 Serben
von albanischen Terroristen gefangen gehalten werden und
Gefangenenlagern in ganz Kosovo und Metochien verteilt sind.
INET NEWS / AMSELFELD.COM

CONTINUA IL RITIRO DELLE TRUPPE RUSSE DAL KOSMET

Russische Armee verlässt Kosovo
MOSKAU, 15. Mai 2002. Russland hat am Dienstag mit dem Abzug
weiterer Truppen aus derserbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien
begonnen. Insgesamt soll die Zahl russischer Soldaten in der
serbischen Provinz in den kommenden Wochen auf 600 halbiert
werden, wie der Sprecher des Verteidigungsministeriums, Nikolai
Baranow, in Moskau erklärte. 1999 bestand das russische Kontingent
in Kosovo und Metochien aus 3.600 Soldaten. Sie wurden dort neben
der der NATO-Truppe stationiert. Russischen Medienberichten zufolge
sind Sparmaßnahmen einer der Gründe für die Reduzierung des
Kontingents. Darüber hinaus sei die Armee unzufrieden mit der
Effektivität der Balkanmissionen
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM

NEGATO L'ACCESSO ALLE PRIGIONI DEL KOSOVO PERSINO AL
RAPPRESENTANTE ONU MAREK NOWICKI

+++ Ombudsmann droht mit Rücktritt +++
PRISTINA, 04. Juni 2002. Der Ombudsmann in der
südserbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien, der Pole Marek
Antoni Nowicki, hat in einen Brief an den UNMIK-
Verwaltungschef Michael Steiner seinen Rücktritt für den
Fall angedroht, dass die rechtsstaatliche Ordnung
nicht wieder hergestellt wird. Nowicki und sein
Mitarbeiter waren an einem Besuch des Dubrava-
Gefängnisses bei der metochischen Stadt Istok gehindert
worden. Er sei sehr überrascht und besorgt über diesen
Zwischenfall. Seine Institution habe laut Gesetz
unmittelbaren, vertraulichen und sofortigen Zugang zu
jeder inhaftierten Person in Kosovo und Metochien, so
Nowicki. "Der Ombudsmann hat das Recht, zu jeder Zeit,
alle Einrichtungen zu besuchen, in denen Menschen in Haft
gehalten werden, und kann an Sitzungen teilnehmen,
die mit diesen Menschen zu tun haben. Der Ombudsmann kann
auch private Treffen mit diesen Menschen abhalten",
heißt es in dem Schreiben.
Die neue albanisch-dominierte "Regierung" von Kosovo
und Metochien hatte vor kurzem entschieden, dass der
Ombudsmann seine Besuche in Haftanstalten oder bei
Besuchen mit Häftlingen im Voraus ankündigen müsse.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM

LA MAGGIORANZA FILO-OCCIDENTALE DEL PARLAMENTO SERBO
APPROVA LA AMNISTIA PER I TERRORISTI PAN-ALBANESI

PARLIAMENT PASSES AMNESTY BILL AFFECTING ETHNIC ALBANIAN REBELS
BELGRADE,June 4(Beta) - The lower house of Parliament on June 4
passed the Amnesty Bill for Southern Serbia which pertains to
Yugoslav citizens suspected of participating in terrorism
operations from Jan. 1 1999 to May 31, 2001.
The bill was backed by 70 MPs, 26 were against, and there were
no abstentions. The bill passed following short consultations
between party whips.
On a request from the opposition, the cabinet put off the passage
of several other urgent bills, saying they would be debated at an
emergency session of Parliament by the end of the month.

SASSAIOLA CONTRO IL PATRIARCATO DI PEC

+++ Wieder Steine auf das Patriarchat in Pec +++
PEC, 17. Juni 2002. Die Abteilung des Koordinationszentrums
für zivile Fälle in Kosovo und Metochien gab heute bekannt, dass
das Patriarchat in Pec gestern wieder mit Steinen beworfen wurde.
In der Bekanntmachung hieß es: "Unbekannte Albaner haben die
Eingangstür des Klosters von der Straße aus beworfen, die direkt
vor den Toren des Kloster verläuft. Zum Glück wurde niemand durch
die Steine verletzt und es wurde auch kein materieller Schaden
an dem Kloster verursacht. Sie haben nur für große Aufregung unter
den Nonnen des Klosters gesorgt, weil einige Steine auf das Dach
der Kirche des Klosters geworfen wurden." Das war ein wiederholter
Angriff auf das Kloster. In der Vergangenheit haben Albaner
das Kloster des öfteren mit Steinen und anderen Gegenständen beworfen,
versucht sie zu beschädigen und die Nonnen von dort zu vertreiben.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM

LA KFOR DIRETTAMENTE IMPEGNATA NEL REPULISTI ETNICO A PRISTINA:
SVUOTATI GLI APPARTAMENTI DI ACCADEMICI, ARTISTI E STUDENTI

+++ Zwangsräumung von serbischen Wohnungen in Pristina +++
PRISTINA, 17. Juni 2002. Angehörige der UN-Polizei und des "Kosovo
Schutzkorps" haben im Beisein der KFOR-Truppen im Studentenviertel
in den frühen Morgenstunden angefangen, 57 Wohnungen von serbischen
Professoren und Lehrern, die zur Zeit auf der ausgesiedelten
Universität unterrichten, zu räumen. In diese Wohnungen werden
dann wohnungslose albanische Familien angesiedelt, berichtet die
Nachrichtenagentur SRNA. Alle Zufahrtsstraßen zu diesem Wohnviertel
wurden abgeriegelt, in dem zur Zeit nur noch neun Serben leben.
Als erstes wurde die Galerie Ikonos der Schriftstellerin Darinka
Jevric geräumt. Die Angehörigen der UN-Polizei warfen Bücher
der Schriftstellerin auf die Straße ,die sie 1999 mit Hilfe der
russischen KFOR-Soldaten in die Galerie geschafft hat, da in ihre
Wohnung eine albanische Familie eingedrungen ist und immer noch
lebt. Aus der Galerie wurden 1000 Bücher und etwa hundert
Bilder auf die Straße geworfen, mit zum Teil persönlichen
Widmungen von berühmten Künstlern und Schriftstellern aus dem
alten Jugoslawien.
BEOGRAD.COM / AMSELFELD.COM

ACCOGLIENZA SCIOCCANTE BEGLI USA PER LA DELEGAZIONE SERBO-KOSOVARA

Shocking incident in United States, Rada Trajkovic
WASHINGTON, June 19 (Tanjug) - Deputy club head of the Serbian Coalition
"Povratak" (Return) in Kosovo parliament Rada Trajkovic described as
shocking the incident when a parliamentary delegation of Kosovo in
Washington was received by congressmen who are supporting an independent
Kosovo. "That was really shocking, I think that it was unfortunately
in the service of drawing away Serbs from Albanians," she said for the
Voice of America, and added that in a sign of protest Serbian deputies
left the meeting with four US congressmen. Trajkovic assessed that
in that way "the goal of the US government has been compromised."
"From that meeting we have returned as absolutely separated Serbs and
Albanians," Rada Trajkovic said and voiced hope that "people will
recognize what is the interest of all in Kosovo, and that is a
multiethnic Kosovo.

DANNEGGIAMENTI AL CIMITERO CRISTIANO DI ORAHOVAC

+++ Geschändeter christlicher Friedhof in Orahovac +++
ORAHOVAC, 14.Juni 2002. Mindestens die Hälfte der
Grabmale auf dem christlichen Friedhof der Stadt
Orahovac in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien
sind zerstört und mit Parolen der albanischen
Terrororganisation UCK geschändet worden. Dies
berichtete Dejan Baljosevic, Mitglied des kirchlichen
Gemeinderates und stellvertretender Chef der
Lokalverwaltung in Orahovac und Velika Hoca.
FoNet / AMSELFELD.COM

DANNEGGIAMENTI AL CIMITERO CRISTIANO DI MILOSEVO

+++ Amselfeld: albanische Banditen schänden Friedhof +++
PRISTINA, 24. Juni 2002. Im serbischen Dorf Milosevo bei Pristina
schändeten albanische Banditen letzte Woche 74 Grabsteine, sagte
heute Rodoljub Dutina, ein Serbe aus Milosevo.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM

CONDANNA DI NOWICKI PER I DANNEGGIAMENTI NEI CIMITERI,
FIRMATI "UCK" CON VERNICE ROSSA

+++ Novitzki verurteilt Friedhofsschändung +++
PRISTINA, 07. Juli 2002. Der Ombudsmann, für Kosovo und
Metochien, Marek Novitzki, verurteilte die Zerstörung
serbischer Friedhöfe in Kosovo und Metochien als einen
"Akt des Vandalismus und Barbarei". Marek Novitzki hat
diese Woche die zerstörten Friedhöfe in Brestovik und
Sigi bei Pec, Piskoste bei Djakovica sowie den städtischen
Friedhof in Orahovac und den Friedhof in Milosevo bei
Obilic besucht. An manchen der zerschlagenen und
umgeworfenen Grabsteinen war mit roter Farbe die
Aufschrift "UCK" aufgesprüht.
BEOGRAD.COM / AMSELFELD.COM

CENTINAIA DI FURTI DI AUTO IN POCHI MESI

+++ Kosovo und Metochien: Hunderte von Autodiebstählen +++
PRISTINA, 07. Juli 2002. In den letzten sechs Monaten
wurden in Kosovo und Metochien 558 Autos gestohlen.
Nur eine geringe Anzahl von gestohlenen Fahrzeugen
konnte gefunden werden, gab die UNMIK heute bekannt.
Die Kosovo-albanische Mafia stiehlt jedes Jahr in Westeuropa
mehrere Zehntausend Autos und "legalisiert" sie in
Albanien und Kosovo und Metochien mit Hilfe gefälschter
Fahrzeugpapiere.
FONET / AMSELFELD.COM

IN KOSOVO COME IN ALBANIA PROSPERANO LE PIANTAGIONI DI
MARIHUANA

+++ Marihuanaanbau in Kosovo und Metochien +++

VUCITRN, 14. Juli 2002. In den letzten zwei Wochen hat
die UN-Polizei und Angehörige der NATO-Truppen in
Kosovo und Metochien vier Felder gefunden, die einer
Fläche von insgesamt 400 Quadratmeter entsprechen, auf
denen Marihuana gesät worden war. Der Sprecher der
UMNIK-Polizei, John Chapman, gab bekannt, dass KFOR-
Soldaten erst ein Feld neben einer vielbefahrenen Straße
in Vucitrn, im Norden von Kosovo und Metochien, gefunden
haben. Auf der Straße patrouillieren regelmäßig KFOR-Soldaten.
Nach diesem Fund, hat die Polizei nach weiteren
Marihuanafeldern gesucht und drei weitere in dem selben
Gebiet gefunden.
TANJUG / AMSELFELD.COM

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Valentin KUNIN: HUMAN RIGHTS OR A RIGHT TO TERROR

Moscow, July 9th, 2002
Valentin KUNIN, a RIA "Novosti" political observer
Especially for ARTEL GEOPOLITIKA

Berlin hosted the 11th annual session of the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
/OSCE/. Predictably enough, one of the issues at the
top of the agenda was the struggle against
international terrorism and extremism.
This topic has been included into almost all documents
adopted by the organisation over the past few years. In
particular, it was the focus of the 1999 OSCE summit in
Istanbul whose participants stated that they considered
the combating of all forms of terrorism a crucial
aspect of European peace and stability.
Following the tragedies in New York and Washington last
September, the OSCE Standing Council voiced its
determination to act in conjunction with the whole
international community "to put an end to terrorism -
the plague of our epoque, which threatens peace and
security around the world." This determination obtained
a more specific form in a large-scale anti-terrorist
programme, which was adopted at the 9th session of OSCE
Foreign Ministers, which took place last December in
Bucharest.
In particular, this document envisages the improvement
of OSCE member-states' anti-terrorist legislation, the
elimination of criminal funding channels and bolstering
the struggle against various extremist, nationalist and
separatist movements and organisations.
In Bucharest, officials repeatedly stressed the
importance of the OSCE as a mechanism for political
dialogue on security and cooperation in Europe. The
latter is especially important if one takes into
account the processes this organisation is undergoing.
It's no secret that the OSCE was founded as the
cornerstone of European peace and stability, as the
main instrument of preventive diplomacy, settling
conflicts, stemming crises and of post-conflict
restoration.
This list now includes a whole set of new challenges:
the increasing drug trafficking, arms smuggling,
organised crime, illegal migration and, primarily,
international terrorism.
There is no need for giving evidence that all OSCE
member-states have do deal with all of these problems
to this or another extent. In this regard, the issue of
coordinating their actions in order to effectively
combat all these threats and challenges takes the
foreground.
At the same time, the recent events prove that the OSCE
member-states that also belong to NATO and the European
Union, have shoved this organisation into the
pan-European background. In fact, the OSCE is not
energetic with regard to the resolution to any
important problem the Old World is facing.
As to the struggle against terrorism, extremism and
separatism in Europe, we have to confess that the OSCE
currently takes no real steps on this front, with its
activities now being limited to human rights protection
and "assistance to democracies" alone. According to the
OSCE leadership, this is the very target the
organisation is pursuing in the Balkans. This could be
doubted if one analyses the results of OSCE actions in
Kosovo and Macedonia. Practical actions of both
missions virtually contradict the objective.
In Kosovo, OSCE representatives were, in fact, calmly
watching Albanians exercising genocide against ethnic
minorities, primarily Serbs, with NATO forces turning a
blind eye to their actions. And we all know the result
- approximately 300,000 non-Albanians have been forced
to flee the region over the past two years.
Nevertheless, the OSCE mission's leadership insisted
that mass abuse of human rights was not applicable to
Kosovo because the situation in the region was
advantageous for democratic parliamentary elections.
Last November, the OSCE mission rendered all possible
assistance to these elections. Moreover, the head of
the OSCE mission authorised the participation in
elections of a party established by warlords from the
so-called Kosovo Liberation Army - a terrorist
organisation whose gangs were involved in ethnic
cleansing in the area.
To put it straight, such OSCE actions, which deny
Kosovo Serbs elementary human rights, but give them to
Albanian terrorists are a classic example of double
standard policy.
The OSCE mission to Macedonia could hardly be described
in a positive way too. For more than a year, the OSCE
in conjunction with NATO and the EU have been
protecting Albanian extremists who do not cease to
carry out armed provocations against governmental
forces. This implies the use of human rights protection
as a cover for encouraging terrorists and extremists
who openly declare that their aim is to break
Macedonia's territorial integrity.
The OSCE position, especially that of its Parliamentary
Assembly, is equally non-constructive with regard to
Moscow's actions in Chechnya. On the one hand, the
Assembly's delegates do acknowledge the legitimacy of
such actions targeted at eliminating remnants of
terrorist gangs in Chechnya. At the same time, they
reiterate allegations about "excessive use of force"
and abuse of human rights by Russian troops in
Chechnya. They also demand that Russia should sit down
at the negotiating table with representatives of former
Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov - a separatist famous
for his close tires to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
terrorist network.
There is no need to say that the OSCE can hardly count
on the unification of its member-states' efforts in a
drive against "the plague of the 21st century" as long
as it sticks to such a special approach to the problem
of terrorism.

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Valentin KUNJIN: COVEKOVA PRAVA ILI PRAVO NA TEROR

Moskva, 9. jula
Valentin KUNJIN, politicki komentator
Ruska informativna agencija RIA "Novosti"
Specijalno za ARTEL-GEOPOLITIKU

U Berlinu je odrzano 11-to godisnje zasedanje
Parlamentarne skupstine OEBS. Kako se i ocekivalo,
jedna od centralnih tema bio je problem borbe protiv
medjunarodnog terorizma i ekstremizma.
Ta tema konstantno je prisutna prakticno u svim
dokumentima koji su usvajani tokom poslednjih godina u
okviru OEBS. Izmedju ostalog, najveca paznja tim
pitanjima bila je posvecena na Istambulskom samitu OEBS
1999. godine. Ucesnici tog samita tada su izjavili, da
suprostavljanje svakom obliku terorizma tretiraju kao
jedan od najznacajnijih elemenata u odrzavanju mira i
stabilnosti na evropskom kontinentu. Odmah nakon
tragicnih dogadjaja u Njujorku i Vasingtonu septembra
prosle godine Stalni savet OEBS izjavio je da je
odlucan u namerama da, delujuci zajedno sa celokupnom
svetskom zajednicom, "udruzenim naporima dokrajci
terorizam, nevolju naseg vremena, koja predstavlja
opasnost po mir i bezbednost u citavom svetu".
Ta izjava konkretizovana je na proteklom decembra
prosle godine u Bukurestu 9-om susretu ministara
inostranih poslova OEBS, na kome je prihvacen obiman
program delovanja u borbi protiv terorizma.
Taj dokument predvidja, izmedju ostalog, jacanje
nacionalnog zakonodavstva drzava-clanica OEBS u borbi
protiv terora, presecanje kanala za finansiranje
zlocinacke delatnosti, poostravanje borbe protiv svakog
oblika ekstremizma, nacionalistickih i separatistickih
pokreta i organizacija.
U Bukurestu je takodje ponovo apostrofiran znacaj
jacanja OEBS kao mehanizma politickog dijaloga po
pitanjima bezbednosti i saradnje u Evropi. Ovo
poslednje narocito je aktuelno u kontekstu desavajucih
u toj organizaciji procesa. Poznato je, naime, da je
OEBS zamisljen kao organizacija koja treba da igra
kljucnu ulogu u odrzavanju evropskog mira i
stabilnosti, da bude osnovni instrument preventivne
diplomatije, sprecavanja konflikata, sredjivanja kriza
i postkonfliktne obnove.
Ovom spisku tokom poslednjih godina dodat je i citav
set novih izazova, kao sto su promet narkotika koji
porpima sve vece razmere, rastuci sverc oruzja, porast
organizovanog kriminala, nezakonita emigracija. I u
prvom redu, razume se, medjunarodni terorizam.
Nije potrebno dokazivati, naravno, da se ti problemi u
ovoj ili onoj meri ticu prakticno svih drzava koje su u
sastavu OEBS. I sve nasusnijom postaje potreba za
koordinacijom njihovog delovanja, kako bi se efikasno
suprostavili svim tim izazovima i opasnostima.
Medjutim, dogadjaji iz poslednjih godina svedoce, da je
ova organizacija, naporima zemalja NATO i Evropske
unije koje su u sastavu OEBS, prakticno bacena na
periferiju opsteevropskog politickog procesa i fakticki
iskljucena iz resavanja iole znacajnijih problema koji
stoje pred Starim Svetom.
Ako konkretno govorimo o problemu borbe protiv
terorizma, ekstremizma i separatizma na kontinentu,
moramo konstatovati da OEBS nije preduzeo nikakve
realne korake u tom pravcu. Cak stavise, on je sada
prakticno suzio svoje delovanje na pravozastitnu sferu
i "pomoc u uspostavljanu demokratskih poredaka".
Kako izjavljuju u rukovodstvu OEBS, upravo te ciljeve
organizacija sledi na Balkanu. Medjutim, ako
analiziramo rezultate rada misija OEBS na Kosovu i u
Makedoniji, tesko da se s time mozemo sloziti. Rad obe
te misije ocigledno je kontradiktoran postavljenim
zadacima.
Na Kosovu su predstavnici OEBS prakticno bez
ucestvovanja posmatrali kako uz potpunu neangazovanost
i popustljivost mirovnjaka kosovski albanci vrsse pravi
genocid nad predstavnicima nacionalnih manjina, pre
svega Srbima. Rezultat je poznat - za dve poslednje
godine iz pokrajine je isterano trista hiljada ljudi
nealbanske nacionalnosti.
Pa i pored svega, rukovodstvo misije OEBS daje izjave
da se na Kosovu ne radi o masovnom krsenju ljudskih
prava i da su u pokrajini stvoreni uslovi za odrzavanje
demoklratskih parlamentarnih izbora. I uz pomoc misije
OEBS takvi izbori su i odrzani novembra prosle godine.
Cak stavise, sef misije OEBS dozvolio je ucesce na tim
izborima i partiji koju su formirali bivse glavesine
takozvane OVK - teroristicke organizacije, ciji odredi
su vrsili etnicko ciscenje u pokrajini.
Ako stvari zelimo da nazovemo svojim imenom, onda
slicne poteze predstavnika OEBS, koji kosovskim Srbima
uskracuju cak elementarna covekova prava, dok ta prava
priznaju albanskimm teroristima, ne mozemo nazvati
drugacije nego klasicnim primerom politike "dvojnih
standarda".
Beznacajnu ulogu igra OEBS i u Makedoniji, gde zajedno
sa predstavnicima NATO i Evropske unije vec duze od
godine fakticki stiti albanske ekstremiste, koji ne
prestaju sa oruzanim provokacijama protiv vladinih
snaga. Tojest, pod tim istim izgovorom zastite
covekovih prava stimulisu se teroristi i ekstremisti,
koji optvoreno govore o svojim planovima razbijanja
makedonske drzave.
Ocigledno neproduktivnu poziciju zauzima OEBS, pre
svega Parlamentarna skupstina te organizacije, i u
odnosu na delovanje Moskve u Ceceniji. Sa jedne strane,
delegati Skupstine toboze se slazu sa pravomernoscu
takvih akcija, usmerenih u pravcu likvidacije ostataka
teroristickih bandi na cecenskoj teritoriji. Ali
istovremeno se daju izjave o toboze "prekomernoj
upotrebi sile" od strane ruske vojske i krsenju
covekovih prava u toj istoj Ceceniji. Ne prestaje se ni
sa upucivanjem apela Moskvi da sedne za pregovaracki
sto sa predstavnicima bivseg cecenskog predsednika
Aslana Mashadova - separatiste, poznatog po svojim
odavnasnjim vezama sa organizacijom medjunardonog
teroriste Osame bin Ladena - "Al-Kaidom".
Suvisno je govoriti o tome, da sve dok se OEBS bude
drzao takvih prilaza borbi protiv terorizma tesko da se
mogu stvoriti realni uslovi za udruzivanje napora
zemalja OEBS u borbi protiv "kuge XXI veka".

MICIDIALI OSSIMORI

Mauro Cristaldi ci segnala <<un paradossale libello: "La prevenzione
oncologica
nei reduci dai Balcani", di F. Nobile - la "prevenzione" su "reduci" fa
parte
degli ossimori escogitati dai moderni tecnici dell'informazione
deviata...>>

Sul lavoro disinformativo del prof. Nobile, del quale Falco Accame ha
chiesto la ricusazione in Parlamento, si veda anche:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1716

Segue ulteriore notiziola sull'insabbiamento del caso-DU in Italia:

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http://www.osservatoriomonopoli.it/Curiosit%c3%a0/Curiosit%c3%a0_080602_uranio.htm

Ancora senza esito l'esposto della Uil Puglia sui militari
italiani impegnati nell'ex Jugoslavia

Uranio impoverito e dimenticato

Barisera 1 giugno 2002

La notizia secondo cui 200 militari italiani impegnati negli
anni scorsi in missioni nella ex Jugoslavia (e venuti a
contatto con il famigerato uranio impoverito contenuto negli
ordigni Nato), siano ammalati di tumore, riporta di attualità
una vicenda che le autorità istituzionali della Puglia hanno
purtroppo sottovalutato.
Preoccupazione è stata espressa dalla Uil di Puglia che ha
presentato già a gennaio del 2000 un esposto alla Procura
della Repubblica del Tribunale di Bari, chiedendo che il
Ministero della Difesa rispondesse di lesioni personali e
omicidio colposo in merito alla morte di alcuni militari
italiani che avevano prestato servizio per le missioni in
Bosnia ed in Kosovo e che sarebbero venuti a contatto con il
micidiale uranio impoverito.
"E' un esposto di cui ad oggi non si ha ancora alcuna
risposta - dice il segretario generale, Aldo Pugliese -
eppure non soltanto si sono registrate morti sospette tra i
soldati di altri eserciti che hanno prestato servizio nei
Balcani, ma si registra anche la nascita di sette bambini con
malformazioni, figli di altrettanti militari italiani di
stanza in quella zona".
Nell'esposto è stata riportata la tesi del prof. Sandro
Degetto, dell'Istituto di Chimica e delle tecnologie
inorganiche e dei materiali avanzati ,del Consiglio Nazionale
delle Ricerche di Padova, secondo la quale "ci sono rischi
per l'organismo umano, in particolare per il rene, con
effetti sui tessuti che possono provocare gravi casi di
insufficienza renale nonché la comparsa di proteine nelle
urine".
Per la Uil, che ha dato incarico di procedere all'avv. Nicola
Putignano, esisteva, ed esiste, il pericolo che si aprissero
scenari delicatissimi per la salute pubblica e per la Puglia.

La Uil ha lanciato un appello alla Regione Puglia perché si
attivi sulla vicenda, anche in considerazione del fatto che
durante la guerra in Kosovo dalle basi pugliesi di Amendola e
Gioia del Colle partivano i jet della Nato su cui venivano
caricate le bombe ad uranio impoverito.
Non solo. "C'é la questione della bonifica del mare Adriatico
- puntualizza Pugliese - nel quale i velivoli hanno scaricato
centinaia, forse migliaia, di ordigni inesplosi che giacciono
ancora sul fondo. E' stata promessa una bonifica che non è
mai stata attuata. L'erosione del mare potrebbe provocare
fuoriuscita di materiale che inquinerebbe il mare stesso, con
grave e conseguente danno per la salute di tutti, visto che
il pesce pescato in Adriatico è quello che finisce sulle
nostre tavole".

(Sulla privatizzazione in Kosovo e Metohija si veda anche:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1788 )

ARTEL GEOPOLITIKA by www.artel.co.yu
office@...
Datum:09 juli 2002

Analiticki tim APIS-a:Plan privatizacije
preduzeca na Kosovu i Metohiji - zla namera
ili plod pogresne informisanosti eksperata
koji su radili na njegovom donosenju?

Beograd, 09 juni 2002

Plan privatizacije preduzeca na Kosovu i Metohiji -
zla namera ili plod pogresne informisanosti eksperata
koji su radili na njegovom donosenju?

Sporost i neadekvatne reakcije nasih politickih
zvanicnika prema problemima od nacionalne vaznosti se
nastavljaju u kontinuitetu

U prilog svom planu privatizacije preduzeca na Kosovu
i Metohiji UNMIK kao organ UN-a navodi sledece
cinjenice:
- Privatne investicije su presudne za ozivljavanje
industrijskih preduzeca i predstojeca privatizacija
ce "upaliti nov motor ekonomskog rasta" u uslovima
opadanja podrske donatora.
- Kosovo i Metohija je jedno od najsiromasnijih
podrucja u Evropi u kome stopa nezaposlenosti dostize
50%, ne moze se priustiti cekanje da se vlasnicka
prava i kreditna potrazivanja sudski poravnaju da bi
privatizacija pocela.
- "Eksperti" UN-a su mesecima raspravljali pre odluke
o nacinu prodaje preduzeca jer se u mnogim
slucajevima javljaju cetri sukobljena buduca vlasnika
i kreditora: sada zaposleni Albanci, bivsi zaposleni
Srbi, sedista preduzeca u Beogradu i strani
kreditori. Na osnovu toga i potrebe za ozivljavanjem
privrede na Kosovu i Metohiji doneta je odluka da
vlasnicka pitanja budu resena kasnije. Naime agencija
za privatizaciju moze da privatizuje drustvenu firmu
prebacivanjem njene imovine na novo preduzece koje ce
biti ponudjeno na prodaju privatnim investitorima,
dugovi ce ostati starom preduzecu a sredstva
prikupljena prodajom cuvace ce agencija dok se ne
razrese vlasnicka prava i potrazivanja.
Sasvim je ocigledno da su "eksperti" prenebregli
cinjnice iznete u tekstu. Ali i da jeste tako da se u
mnogim slucajevima javljaju cetri sukobljene strane
oko vlasnickih i kreditorskih prava, postavlja se
pitanje sta sa onim preduzecima kod kojih je sve
cisto i gde se tacno zna ko je vlasnik (primer PKB)?
Zasto su te cinjenice prenebregnute? U ovom slucaju
radi se ili o zloj nameri, pokusaju pljacke drzave
Srbije ili o nedovoljnoj informisanosti eksperata o
tome ko je titular preduzeca na KiM i da su oni na
osnovu pogresnih informacija doneli odluku koja ce
predstavljati dosad nevidjenu pljacku jedne drzave a
sve pod formama, legaliteta, legitimiteta, humanosti,
ozivljavanja privrede, dobrobiti i sl... Sasvim je
izvesno da ce ovakav proces poravnanja kakav su
zamislili "eksperti" UN-a trajati godinama dok ce
rate na ranije uzete inostrane zajmove stizati Srbiji
mesecno i ona ce kao garant morati da ih otplacuje
sto ce dodatno opteretiti gradjane, budzet i uopste
citav finansijski sistem.
Postoje ozbiljne indicije koje ukazuju da se radi o
zloj nameri odnosno pokusaju pljacke drzave Srbije.
Navescemo samo neke:
- Odgovor UNMIK-a na zahtev da predstavnik
Ministarstva za privatizaciju ucestvuje u radu
novoformirane agencije za privatizaciju preduzeca na
KiM ni do dana danasnjeg nije stigao.
- Dopisivanje ministra Vlahovica sa Rorijem O`
Salivenom sefom kancelarije Svetske banke u Beogradu
a u vezi sa inostranim kreditima koji su dati
preduzecima sa KiM a koje Srbija kao garant treba da
vraca nije dalo nikakve rezultate.
- Pregovori sa Mihaelom Stajnerom takodje nisu dali
nikakvog rezultata.
Osim toga brojne cinjenice ukazuju na to su nasi
politicki zvanicnici sporo reagovali, da su se
pobunili tek kad je sve vec bilo okncano i da
floskula "Mi ne prihvatamo plan" ne znaci nista bez
konkretne akcije koja treba da bude visedimenzionalna
(politicka, diplomatska, ekonomska, obavestajna,
propagandna...). Poslato je samo stidljivo upozorenje
inostranim konsultanskim kucama i advokatskim
kancelarijama da ce im u slucaju angazovanja u
privatizaciji srpskih preduzeca na KiM, biti za sva
vremena zatvorena vrata za bilo koji angazman na
podrucju centralne Srbije. Strane konsultanske kuce
ne haju za ovo upozorenje svesne toga da Srbija u
ovom trenutku tranzicije i privatizacije kad su joj
usluge stranih konsultantskih kuca, advokatskih
kancelarija, agencija za PR i sl., neophodne, tesko
da moze da ispuni svoju pretnju. U prilog navedenoj
tvrdnji o zakasneloj rekciji nasih politickih
zvanicnika govori i intervju Endi Bearparka,
Britanaca koji rukovodi odeljenjem za ekonomski
razvoj i obnovu pri administraciji UN-a. On u izjavi
za agenciju Rojters 05.07.2002. kaze:" Plan
privatizacije svi kritikuju, i Albanci i Srbi ali
niko nije ponudio alternativu ili bolji
model....Privatizacija ce se nastaviti uprkos
protivljenju Beograda...!
Prva prodaja preduzeca na KiM ocekuje se pocetkom
2003., i ono sto jos uvek predstavlja sansu jeste to
sto je pomenuti Bearpark u istoj izjavi datoj
Rojtersu napomenuo da ce agencija uzeti u obzir sva
misljenja koja budu pristizala. To konkretno znaci da
jos uvek nije kasno da nasa drzava izadje sa
alternativnim planom, modifikacijama vec postojeceg i
sl....Da se izmedju ostalog svetskoj javnosti,
svetskom javnom mnjenju, kroz javni dijalog sa
predstavnicima UN-a i UNMIK-a prezentuje cinjenice i
da se ono iskoristi kao sredstvo pritiska na UN,
UNMIK i vlade sopstvenih zemalja kako bi ove
institucije izlozene pritisku sopstvenog javnog
mnjenja bile prinudjene da pomenuti plan koji
predstavlja najbestidniju pljacku jedne drzave u
modernoj istoriji proglase nistavnim.
Javni dijalog podrazumeva prezentovanje cinjenica,
postavljanje pitanja i trazenja odgovora od
predstavnika UN-a, Svetske banke, UNMIK-a i svih onih
koju su ucestvovali u pravljenju plana privatizacije,
kroz najuticajnije svetske medije cime se postizu dva
efekta ili ce njihova namera da opljackaju Srbiju
biti do kraja ogoljena ili ce pod pritiskom cinjenica
i sopstvenog javnog mnjenja morati da odustanu od
najavljenog modela privatizacije i da u obzir uzmu
cinjenice. Takodje je uz ovo potrebno angazovati
najbolje domace i svetske strucnjake koji se bave
poslovnim pravom, medjunarodnim poslovnim pravom,
pitanjima svojine i sl.,kako bi se interesi Srbije
zastili.
Javni dijalog kroz uticajne svetske medije je
neophodan jer javno mnjenje zapadnih zemalja presudno
utice na formiranje stavova njihovih politicara. Pimo
upuceno Roriju O` Salivenu, zatvoreni sastanci sa
Mihaleom Stajnerom sto ni jedna svetski mediji nije
zabelezio kao nesto znacajno nemaju nikakvog efekta.
Navedena gospoda pri takvom pristupu uvek ce ostati
na pozicijama gde jesu i njihovi stavovi se nece
izmeniti jer je sama drzava Srbija nema sredstva da
na njih izvrsi pritisak niti predstvalja ozbiljnog
protivnika njihovom planu privatiacije.
Kao primer efikasnog delovanja mogu nam posluziti
sami Siptari. Naime shvatajuci da se jos dosta toga
moze uciniti u smislu ostvarenja sopstvenog interesa,
siptari konkretnim politickim akcijama kroz kosovsku
skupstinu nastoje da se dodatno obezbede (primedbe na
Predlog uredbe o formiranju agencije za
privatizaciju) te traze: - da drzava Srbije nadoknadi
stetu nanetu kosovskoj privredi (time bi Srbija
trebalo da nastavi da placa dug Kosova i Metohije kao
nadoknadu za navodnu ratnu stetu),
- da se na snagu vracaju zakoni koji su vazili na na
Kosovu i Metohiji pre 1989., (pokusaj de se "ugovori
o prenosu vlasnistva i kapitala" proglase nistavnim),

- da kompletan prihod od prodaje preduzeca pripadne
kosovskom budzetu.
Nazalost, na sve ovo se reaguje neadekvatno, sporo i
bez jasne koncepcije.

URANIO TUTT'ALTRO CHE IMPOVERITO

In base a quanto riferito dal quotidiano macedone pro-governativo
"Vecer", la base militare di Bondsteel, presso Urosevac, in Kosmet,
sarebbe stata edificata su di un giacimento di uranio. In un articolo
uscito mercoledi scorso, intitolato "Anche l'uranio gratis nella
destabilizzazione dei Balcani", il giornale citando fonti di servizi
di intelligence stranieri va alla ricerca delle vere ragioni che
hanno condotto alla costruzione a Bondsteel di quella che e' adesso
la piu' grande base militare d'Europa.
"Gli americani avrebbero sondato quel terreno gia' 20 anni fa,
come registrato da apparati satellitari all'avanguardia, in grado
di vedere in profondita'." Impiantando una base militare in quella
zona, lo sfruttamento dell'uranio diventa gratuito. C'e' quindi
probabilmente anche questo tra i motivi del sostegno fornito dagli
USA al progetto indipendentista pan-albanese, secondo "Vecer".

Skopje daily claims US in Kosovo for uranium

SKOPJE, July 10 (Tanjug) - The US military base Bondsteel near
Urosevac, Kosovo and Metohija, is built on vast reserves of uranium,
the Skopje pro-government daily Vecer said on Wednesday quoting
intelligence sources which presented the actual reasons for the
destabilization of the Balkans.
An article entitled "Free uranium through the destabilization of
the Balkans," quoted foreign intelligence reports about the reasons
for picking Kosovo as the site of NATO's biggest military base in
Europe. Bondsteel was placed near Urosevac because of the fact that
there are vast uranium reserves there, which is a source of atomic
energy and used for the production of nuclear arms, the sources said.
"According to the intelligence reports, Americans picked that terrain
already 20 years ago, as it had previously been filmed by sophisticated
satellite equipment, with in-depth shoots," the daily said. By placing
a military base in the area, uranium exploitation becomes free, the
intelligence reports said.
The daily also quoted foreign military analysts who said that "western
forces, the United States namely, because of all the above, allegedly
placed themselves on the side of Kosovo Albanians during the crisis in
FR Yugoslavia, pledging help for their projects on Kosovo's
independence."

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Kosovo: Black Hole Regarding Human Rights
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 05:05:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2584240&startrow=1&date=2002-07-10&do_alert=0

INDEPENDENT LAWYER MAREK NOVICKI: HUMAN RIGHTS NOT
OBSERVED IN KOSOVO

-Marek Novicki sharply criticized the position of the
majority of the Albanian population and their
political representatives, laying on them
responsibility for the unseemly plight of Serbs and
other ethnic minorities in Kosovo. In his report the
international lawyer calls Kosovo a "black hole" in
Europe and the world as regards the observance of
human rights.



BELGRADE, JULY 10 /FROM RIA NOVOSTI'S ALEXANDER
SLABYNKO/ - Human rights are not observed in Kosovo,
said in Kosovo ombudsman Marek Novicki said in
Pristina Wednesday. He was presenting a regular report
on the situation in Kosovo.

Novicki accused Mihael Steiner, head of the United
Nations civilian mission, and his staffers of creating
a "surrogate state" in Kosovo. Since the establishment
of a provisional international administration in
Kosovo, the UN mission has not been sticking to
democratic principles, taking only decisions in favour
of its staffers, paying no regard to the needs of
citizens of Kosovo, he said.

To Novicki, the plight of ethnic minorities, above all
Serbs is particularly grave. Human rights, security
and freedom of travel are not guaranteed to them. At
the same time, responsibility for the situation will
gradually be transferred on the newly elected
government of Kosovo, believes the lawyer.

Marek Novicki sharply criticized the position of the
majority of the Albanian population and their
political representatives, laying on them
responsibility for the unseemly plight of Serbs and
other ethnic minorities in Kosovo. In his report the
international lawyer calls Kosovo a "black hole" in
Europe and the world as regards the observance of
human rights.

===*===

Nowicki says Steiner created surrogate state

PRISTINA, July 10 (Tanjug) - Kosovo ombudsman Marek Nowicki said in
Pristina on Wednesday that basic international standards in the field
of
human rights were not observed in Kosovo and accused UNMIK head Michael
Steiner and his associates of creating a "surrogate state" in the
province.
Ever since the provisional international authorities were set up in
Kosovo, UNMIK has been passing decrees protecting only its own staff,
without paying any attention to Kosovo citizens, Nowicki said and
stressed
the unenviable position of minorities, primarily Kosovo Serbs, who do
not have elementary human rights, are neither secure nor free to move.
UNMIK does not observe democratic principles, Nowicki said during the
presentation of his latest report on the situation in the province.
He also criticized the majority ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo
and their political representatives by saying that they were
responsible
for the unenviable position of Serbs and other minority communities.

Nowicki says Kosovo's future is hopeless

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, July 10 (Tanjug) - In his second annual report,
presented in Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo-Metohija ombudsman Marek Antoni
Nowicki said that the future of Kosovo seemed hopeless and that Kosovo
was a human rights black hole in Europe and the world.
He said that the future of Serbs in Kosovo would certainly depend on
the political situation in the province and that it would not be easy
to
find the "right place" for Serbs.

===*===

Subject: Jiri Dienstbier: Terrorism Is Not A Good Thing But A
Bad Thing
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:02:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff

[As best a balanced mind and honest person can make
sense of the following appeal by former UN Human
Rights envoy for Kosovo, the nations of the NATO
Alliance should now combat everything they've been
supporting for the past 12 years.
Yugoslav government and military officials, past and
present, including Slobodan Milosevic, should be tried
in the Netherlands for exactly what Dienstbier now -
horribly belatedly - failed to accomplished when he
was in a position to do so and which he now forcefully
advocates: The uprooting of the Western-backed
international terrorist and narcotics-trafficking
so-called KLA nexus.
And this at the very moment that CIA station chief
John David Neighbor is caught on film passing $1,000
to a former Yugoslav general for state security
secrets, including current plans for contending with
the KLA in Serbia's Presevo valley and adjoining
areas.
Within days of the Macedonian governent caving in to
the relentless economic and military blackmail of NATO
Secretary General George Robertson and former U.S.
Balkan Envoy James Pardew and granting blanket amnesty
to over 3,000 UCK-KLA invaders from Kosovo.
NATO "has cut down the number of terrorist attacks in
Southern Serbia and Macedonia."
By simply labeling the attackers 'civil rights
activists' and granting them full legitimacy.
Though he doesn't say it, the same could be claimed
for Dienstbier's own former territory, Kosovo, where
terrorist attacks have also diminished in direct
proportion to available targets, as thousands of
innocent civilians have been murdered and kidnapped
and hundreds of thousands ethnically cleansed.
A modest proposal: Free those former Yugoslav
officials languishing in Dutch prisons and replace
them with the Richard Holbrookes, Madeleine Albrights,
Bernard Kouchners, Bill Clintons, Tony Blairs and -
not to overlook them - Jiri Dienstbiers that have
aided and abetted at every turn the horror that is
engulfing the Balkans.]



Thursday, March 21st, 2002
w w w . t a i p e i t i m e s . c o m

Fight Balkan terrorism now

Within the global terrorism chain Balkan terrorism
remains a small but vital link, one which has
continued to flourish right under the eyes of NATO and
the UN
By Jiri Dienstbier

Slobodan Milosevic's trial in the Hague is a timely
reminder of just how devastating terroristic violence
can be. President Bush may or may not have been
careless in portraying Iraq, Iran and North Korea as
an "axis of evil," but he was correct in pointing out
the many hidden links in the global terrorism chain.
Within that chain Balkan terrorism remains a small but
vital link, one which has continued to flourish right
under the eyes of NATO and the UN.
Osama bin Laden established his presence in the region
through a series of so-called "humanitarian"
organizations in Bosnia and Albania sometime around
1994. Some of the fighters in Bosnia, Kosovo and
Macedonia during the Balkan wars included mujahidin
from many countries who had trained in Afghanistan.
Local terrorist centers were also important. Indeed,
in Albania terrorists were trained on the property of
former Albanian President Sali Berisha near the town
of Tropoje.
Beyond this powerful hint of local support for
terrorists, there was an economic infrastructure. Two
tons of heroin per month passed from Asia to Europe
through Kosovo during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic.
Instead of diminishing since Milosevic's fall, drug
smuggling has increased. Last year, five tons of
heroin was smuggled through the lands now overseen by
the United Nations and NATO. Interpol says that
Albanian gangs now control 70% of heroin trafficking
in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia.
Cooperation over the last few years between the UN
Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), the
NATO-led multinational Kosova Force (KFOR), and local
governments -- boosted by the arrival of a democratic
government in Serbia -- has cut down the number of
terrorist attacks in Southern Serbia and Macedonia.
Yet this cooperation has failed to stymie the fusion
of terrorist and criminal activity. Indeed, due to the
wealth of terrorist groups engaged in drug dealing,
Erhard Busek, the Coordinator of the EU's Stability
Pact for the former Yugoslavia, thinks that the chance
of peace in Macedonia will be a mere 50 percent once
this winter's snows thaw.
Calm will not return to the Balkans so long as the UN
and NATO fail to destroy extremism's base in Kosovo.
For the criminal/terrorist heart of the supposedly
disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army continues to fortify
its power and to expand into Macedonia, Southern
Serbia and Montenegro. Some less careful commanders of
the KLA even talk about the 100,000 Albanians in
Greece as an ultimate target for their irredentist
goals. The goal of a "Greater Albania," has not been
forgotten.
Instead of suppressing the terrorists, they have been
treated as part of the solution to instability in the
Balkans. NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson did
call Albanian terrorists in Macedonia "a bunch of
murderous thugs," yet those same thugs were holding
public press conferences in Pristina under the noses
of UNMIK or KFOR. So solicitous of the terrorists'
desires are some countries that America's
representative to the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conducted negotiations
with Macedonian politicians and terrorist commanders
not in Skopje or Tetovo but in Prizren, a Kosovar city
where they are influential.
Over the last few years Kosovo has been ethnically
cleansed of a quarter of a million people. One hundred
churches and monasteries have been razed. Ethnically
motivated murders are less common of late, but this
cannot be deemed a success so long as Kosovo's
non-Albanians remain isolated in enclaves protected by
KFOR.
Recent elections have confirmed the general aversion
to violence of the local population. But elections are
a democratic instrument only if all parties accept
their results. Real power in Kosovo, however, remains
in the hands of those with kalashnikovs.
The international forces in Kosovo are strong enough
to cut the Balkan link in the global terrorist chain.
If the will is sufficient, that is. The Balkan
traffickers in drugs, arms, women, and refugees -- the
underground criminal trades that fund the terrorists
-- can be closed down. But to do this, the
international bodies that control Kosovo must dissolve
any organization that relies on violence.
Known criminals should not sit in Kosovo's Parliament,
but in prison. The worst of them don't belong in
Kosovo's government but on trial with Milosevic in the
Hague. Fearful of challenging the armed terrorists,
the international bodies that govern Kosovo prefer to
appease them.
Frustrated international administrators, indeed, have
forced Albania's political parties to form a
coalition. This, however, may result in eviscerating
the power of Ibrahim Rugova, finally confirmed as
President earlier this month, while the extremist's
parties transformed from the Kosovo Liberation Army
are admitted into government.
The goal behind the bombing of Yugoslavia, of Security
Council resolution 1244 and today's provisional
constitutional framework for Kosovo, was the creation
of the pre-conditions for the democratic development
of a multiethnic society. As this remains the only
worthwhile and workable goal, the only viable solution
to Kosovo's future is a coalition of moderate
Albanians and the parties of Kosovo's ethnic
minorities. But pragmatic cynics have been arguing for
three years that such a solution is impossible. By
appeasing the terrorists in this way, the most
powerful states in the world give a green light to
terrorists not only in the Balkans but all over the
world.
Kosovo is a territory far smaller than Afghanistan. If
the world fails to eliminate terrorists from politics
in Kosovo, what hope does it have of defeating
terrorism elsewhere? So, before the anti-terror
campaign seeks other terrorist bases to destroy, it
should eliminate terror in a place where the UN itself
is ruling. If not, the UN, NATO and the European Union
will discredit themselves as well as the humanitarian
values they use to justify their ``humanitarian´´
interventions.
Jiri Dienstbier was until recently UN Special Human
Rights envoy for former the Yugoslavia and is a former
Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Copyright: Project
Syndicate

URL=[http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/03/21/story/0000128619%5d

1. L'Europa si lamenta con gli USA per l'appoggio sfacciato al
terrorismo UCK
2. Dopo 50 anni di vita e progresso in comune, grazie alla politica
della NATO si fa strada l'apartheid "etnico" nelle scuole macedoni (in
italiano)

===1===

European Intelligence: The US Betrayed Us In Macedonia

by Christopher Deliso in Skopje
antiwar.com
June 22, 2002

SKOPJE - The US government was accused today of subsidizing and
training Albanian paramilitaries in Macedonia, in a secret European
report leaked to Dutch National Radio.

The furor over a clandestine connection - frequently alleged, but
never proven - further worsens transatlantic relations that have
already been strained by an ongoing trade war. The Dutch report
comes at a particularly sensitive time for President Bush, who is
currently seeking to solidify international support for a wider war
on terror. The US Embassy in Skopje was not aware of the charges by
late Friday evening, and could not yet make an official statement.

Because specific details were not permitted to be leaked, the report
was filtered through the Klingerdaar Institute (a respected Dutch
military analysis firm). Klingerdaar in turn gave the salient
information to Dutch Radio, which also interviewed several individuals
who had been involved in Macedonia. The investigation centered on
several controversial episodes, including the battle of Arachinovo
(26 June 2001), and the "Essential Harvest" weapons collection mission
in September.

Even before this new report, American involvement had long been
suspected at the three-day battle in Aracinovo, a heavily Albanian
town northeast of Skopje. As the battle progressed, the Macedonians
claimed to be on the verge of eliminating NLA forces. Yet suddenly
they were given the order to pull back, and NATO buses rolled in to
escort the heavily-armed Albanians out. At the time, NATO claimed
that this intervention was vital, because the Albanians were coming
dangerously close to victory, and mediation was needed.

The story from many witnesses, however, was very different. German
newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt reported that 17 American military
advisors from MPRI (the Virginia-based private military company)
were also evacuated with the Albanians. This, Macedonians declared,
was the real reason for NATO's intercession. But while MPRI had an
official contract as Macedonian Army advisors, suggestions of a
similar presence with the Albanians were vigorously denied.

The Dutch report confirms the link, however, and quotes the German
reporter who filed the original story. Apparently one of the MPRI
men had been captured by the Macedonians. He panicked, and, waving
his US passport, shouted "diplomatic immunity!" Through heavy US
intercession, the man was freed and evacuated together with his
comrades and the NLA fighters. European sources identified this
particular individual as having been active in training Bosnian
fighters in the 1990's.

According to the Dutch report, there are still many unanswered
questions about Operation "Essential Harvest." At the time, NATO
decided that collecting approximately 3,500 weapons would sufficiently
disarm the Albanians. Yet after the collections began, Macedonians
charged the NLA with giving up only their oldest and least useable
guns. Museum curators in Skopje sarcastically asked that the
Albanians' WWII-era pistols be donated to their collection.

The Europeans claim that NATO was well aware that antiquated
guns were being surrendered - and further, that not even four
percent of these weapons could be fired.

More damning still is testimony from Macedonian intelligence
services, who claim that NATO merely exchanged the Albanians'
old weapons for new ones. This story comes independently of
the Dutch report, from one individual who secretly watched
"Essential Harvest" through binoculars from a nearby
mountainside.

During the war, the Dutch report also states, constant telephone
connection was maintained between Albanian rebels and high-level
American officials. Some of these conversations were taped by
European intelligence. At some point the Americans became aware
that they were being tapped, and discontinued direct phone contact.
At this point, the Europeans claim, America purchased computers
with phone technology for the NLA. Thus communications were restored.

This stunning report comes at a time when Holland is taking over
NATO's Macedonia command from the Germans. Some analysts are viewing
the denunciation of the US involvement as a direct invitation to
the Hague for American leaders - just as the US has been reiterating
its opposition to a world court.

Last year's war in Macedonia was started by the self-declared National
Liberation Army (NLA), an Albanian militant group originally denounced
by NATO spokesman George Robertson as "murderous thugs." As the war
proceeded, however, the "terrorists" were legitimized into "freedom
fighters." Heavy Western pressure forced a restrained response from
the Macedonian army. As a result, the war was dragged out, and the
Macedonian government was forced to negotiate with the NLA and its
chief, Ali Ahmeti.

Despite winning new rights across the board, such as an amnesty for
NLA members, use of Albanian language and devolved local government,
Albanian kidnappings, shootings and bombings have continued after
the cease-fire. The heavy NATO and OSCE presence has been unable
or unwilling to solve many of these crimes. Although he remains on
George Bush's terrorist blacklist, Ali Ahmeti has started his own
political party, and is now becoming acknowledged as a political
player in Macedonia.

===2===

1.FONTE: Glas Javnosti
2.TITOLO: Non vogliono andare a scuola con i Macedoni
3.INDICE: Gli studenti albanesi delle Scuole superiori chiedono un
nuovo edificio.
4.SITO INTERNET:
5.NUMERO DI PAGINE:1.
6.DATA: 07/06/02.

Circa 1800 studenti di nazionalità albanese, della Scuola superiore di
Kumanovo, nel nord della Macedonia, hanno chiesto al Ministero della
Pubblica Istruzione di Skopje di procurare loro, dall'inizio del
prossimo anno scolastico, un nuovo edificio, in cui studiare lontano dai
Macedoni. Ieri, gli studenti albanesi hanno protestato a Kumanovo,
proponendo tre ubicazioni in città dove potrebbero studiare finchè non
avranno il loro edificio. I loro rappresentanti confermano che non
ritorneranno nel ginnasio "Goce Delcev", dove studiano anche gli
studenti
macedoni.
Un problema simile esiste anche a Skopje, nel ginnasio "Zef Ljus
Marku". A causa di scontri fisici fra gli studenti macedoni e quelli
albanesi, il Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione ha deciso di costruire
un nuovo edificio sulla riva sinistra del fiume Vardar, dove la maggior
parte della popolazione è albanese.
Secondo il censimento del 1994, a Kumanovo vivono circa 57.000
Macedoni, 23.500 Albanesi e 10.000 Serbi. A Skopje ci sono 325.000
Macedoni, 56.000 Albanesi e 16.300 Serbi.

(trad. a cura di Zivkica N.)

Dalla rivista "Hrvatska ljevica" ("La sinistra croata"),
Zagabria, n.ro 5/6 2002

TOMAC E RACAN ALLA RICERCA DEL "FILO NERO"

[Tomac e Racan sono rispettivamente vice presidente e
presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri, ndT]

Bleiburg [localita' austriaca al confine con la Slovenia, nella
quale alla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale ci fu una sanguinosa
resa dei conti tra i partigiani dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione
jugoslavo e milizie collaborazioniste, soprattutto croate, in fuga
dalla Jugoslavia liberata. NdT] è diventato un appuntamento tradizionale
degli ustasciodi, sia giovani che vecchi.
Domenica 12.5.02 siamo potuti di nuovo ritornare al periodo oscuro del
NDH [il cosiddetto Stato Indipendente Croato di Pavelic, voluto da
Hitler e Mussolini, Ndt], anche grazie alla "patria spirituale
croata". Sulla piana si sono ritrovate molte persone, soprattutto suore,
poi le bandiere della Legione Nera, uniformi ustascia ed altre
iconografie, con le foto di Stepinac in mano ["l'arcivescovo del
genocidio", come nel titolo del libro di M.A. Rivelli, NdT].
Sulla tribuna i preti con la scacchiera sul petto [gia' simbolo
dell'NDH, ndT] e davanti a loro un altare improvvisato con la scritta:
"Dio salvi la Croazia", a riecheggiare l'inno dell'HDZ [il partito del
defunto Tudjman, ndT]. Mancava soltanto che apparisse il dottor Ante
Pavelic, e ci saremmo ritrovati proprio nel periodo 1941 - 1945.
Ma siamo nel 2002, no? Sul pulpito però è apparso - indovinate chi?

Zdravko Tomac, l'uomo che ogni mattino, quando si lava il viso, vede
nello specchio un altro Zdravko, la persona che una volta cercava
"il filo rosso". [Si noti che Tomac nei primi anni Novanta ha aderito
al Partito Radicale Transnazionale di Marco Pannella; quest'ultimo,
a sua volta, ha appoggiato la secessione armata della Croazia. NdT].
E' giunto ora a Bleiburg a cercare quello nero, di filo, e sembra
che l'abbia pure trovato. Non che abbia ricevuto molti consensi, anzi,
e come avrebbe potuto applaudirlo, quel pubblico? Tutti aspettavano
Ante Pavelic, e invece, guarda un po', è apparso Z. Tomac. Accidenti,
quanto tempo impiegheranno ancora quelli di destra a riconoscerlo come
uno di loro? Forse tanto quanto ci metteranno anche alcuni dei nostri,
di sinistra, a capire che Tomac non è un nostro giocatore!...
Zdravko ha preparato bene il suo discorso, ma quando ha visto che non
sarebbe riuscito a leggerlo, ha pronunciato alcune frasi... ma anche
queste sono state di troppo. "Sono venuto per scusarmi a nome degli
altri, visto che io non sono responsabile per quello che è successo qui,
e condanno questi crimini." Ma che sta dicendo signor Tomac? E' venuto
a scusarsi a nome degli altri?!? E di quali altri? Lo hanno forse
questi altri accreditato perché venisse scusarsi a loro nome? Se questi
altri sono la sinistra, Lei sicuramente non ha nessun diritto di essere
il loro rappresentante!
Poi ha continuato: "I croati non devono odiarsi l'un l'altro" (ma
perciò possono odiare i serbi, gli ebrei, i rom...N.d. F.E.) visto che
altrimenti - attenti ora a questo - "non potrebbero avere un proprio
Stato".
Ma pensate un po'! Questo uno se lo può aspettare soltanto da chi spesso
parla di morale.
E cosa c'era scritto invece nel discorso non letto da Tomac? Il
discorso sembra scritto da Max Luburic [sacerdote macchiatosi di sangue
nel corso dei crimini del 1941 - 1945, ndT] oppure da Franjo Tudjman,
che
invita alla riconciliazione (oh, come risuona questa parola !) tra gli
ustascia ed i partigiani. Tra l'altro, Tomac scrive anche questo:
"Anche se nel periodo di Bleiburg ero un bambino, anche se sicuramente
non porto la responsabilità del crimine, anche se sono stato membro
della Lega dei comunisti quando i crimini non sono stati commessi, sento
il dovere, proprio sul patibolo del popolo croato..." STOP !
Sul patibolo del popolo croato ?!? Di cosa sta parlando il professor
Tomac? I criminali più feroci dell' NDH, i degenerati del popolo
croato, sono loro "il popolo croato"? Forse ritiene "popolo croato"
anche i cetnizi, i bielogardisti, ed i loro simili, periti nella
cosiddetta "via crucis" [la fuga alla fine della guerra di Liberazione,
ndT], anche dopo Bleiburg?

Intanto, col numero dei morti si compiono manipolazioni tendenziose.
Di questo parla anche un testimone autentico, il dott. Vladimir Velebit.
"Bleiburg viene artificiosamente gonfiata, semplicemente perché coi
racconti venga nascosto il grande massacro compiuto contro i serbi nello
Stato NDH di Pavelic. I nazionalisti croati dicono: si, i serbi sono
stati ammazzati, ma non proprio in gran numero. Con il lager di
Jasenovac si sta esagerando, mentre i serbo-cetnizi, gli jugo-comunisti,
Tito e i partigiani hanno fatto un massacro di croati a Bleiburg!"
Aggiunge Velebit: "Ma Jasenovac e Bleiburg non si possono paragonare.
Centinaia di migliaia di serbi, ebrei, rom, e croati antifascisti sono
stati massacrati per mano ustascia. Mentre a Bleiburg è perito un
miscuglio di criminali incalliti, ustascia, bielogardisti, accoliti di
Nedic e di Ljotic [leader collaborazionisti serbi], cetnizi montenegrini
e cetnizi del pope Djujic, valacchi russi, e poi un numero di domobrani
[milizie territoriali filonaziste, ndT], e cioè tutti quelli che si
erano ispirati all'ideologia ustascioide..."

Nel contempo, l'odierno governo, come quello precedente dell'HDZ [il
partito di Tudjman, ndT], cerca costantemente di equiparare Jasenovac
a Bleiburg, di mischiare le ossa di Jasenovac con quelle di Bleiburg,
di conciliare gli aguzzini con le loro vittime. Di più, cerca di
dimostrare che Bleiburg è stato un patibolo peggiore di Jasenovac. E,
naturalmente, soltanto del popolo croato. Che le cose stiano cosi'
lo dimostra il fatto che la stessa delegazione del Sabor [Parlamento
croato, ndT] è andata a Bleiburg. E, per la prima volta, anche il
premier Racan, che, a dire il vero, da furbacchione è andato lì due
giorni dopo, accolto e salutato dagli ustascia dell'Unità d'onore
bleiburghese, per poi inginocchiarsi davanti alla lapide commemorativa
dell' "esercito croato".

Questo e' attestato anche dalla mancata trasmissione televisiva della
commemorazione a Jasenovac, mentre ogni anno si trasmette in diretta
quella di Bleiburg. E dalla sfacciata falsificazione della storia,
su cui qui sorvoliamo. "Abbiamo ancora esempi nelle edizioni, tramite
i libri, in cui si esamina il nostro passato, si interpreta il nostro
passato in modo non accettabile, ed in fin dei conti non obiettivo ne'
veritiero verso la stessa rivoluzione ". Questo sono parole di
Ivica Racan, pubblicate dal quotidiano "Vjesnik" ancora nel 1982.
Queste parole Racan avrebbe dovuto pronunciarle proprio oggi. Ma come
puo' farlo, Racan, visto che vuole continuare il ruolo di Tudjman?

Alla domanda indirizzatagli, su come sarebbe stato accolto Racan a
Bleiburg, Zdravko Tomac ha risposto : "Il premier Racan sarebbe accolto
ancora peggio perché nel governo è di gerarchia superiore". Proprio
perché sapeva che sarebbe passato peggio del suo collega di partito più
anziano, il pragmatico Racan non ha voluto essere a Bleiburg lo stesso
giorno della commemorazione, per evitare i fischi e le esclamazioni
dei vecchi e nuovi ustascia. Tomac è stato per lui quasi una
avanguardia,
come qualcuno che dovesse fare il primo passo. Questo "stesso" Racan è
stato a anche a Jasenovac, ma li non si è scusato con nessuno (il che
in fondo non sarebbe servito nemmeno), ma ha tenuto un discorsetto
tutto nel solito stile "si - no", dal quale non si poteva capire se
stesse parlando dal luogo più macabro dell'NDH, oppure dal funerale
delle vittime di un qualche incidente stradale.
Naturalmente Racan sa che a Jasenovac si radunano a volte i suoi
simpatizzanti e i suoi elettori (purtroppo!), perciò non è necessario
particolarmente vezzeggiarli. E dunque deve infiltrarsi nel sedere
della destra croata - per la riconciliazione! -, con la quale
governerà forse un giorno insieme.

Di Jasenovac si parla e si dice di tutto, ma è difficile nascondere
la verità, come anche è difficile confrontarsi con essa. Di Bleiburg
lo stesso, ma la verità si conosce. Se Tomac vuole "il delitto senza
castigo", ed in un suo libro afferma di no, beh allora deve sapere
che a Bleiburg i criminali sono stati giustamente puniti, e con questo
si puo' mettere la parola fine su ogni altra questione.

[Traduzione di Ivan per il CNJ]

* Mola di Bari 13 luglio
* Le bandiere della RFS di Jugoslavia
* Da Associazione "Un bambino per amico"

===*===

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Tutto sotto stelle radiocomandate e intelligenti.

L'incasso sosterrà l'adozione a distanza di bambini jugoslavi vittime
dei bombardamenti Nato durante la guerra nei Balcani.

per raggiungere il posto, è semplicissimo:
S.S. 16 per Mola di Bari, uscita MOLA-RUTIGLIANO. Prosegui per
RUTIGLIANO.
Dopo 2 km, al primo incrocio, gira a sinistra per POZZO VIVO.
Gira alla prima a destra (dopo 200 m) in CONTRADA BRENCA.
Termina la salita.

Ad ogni modo, i lumini ti guideranno.

===*===

UNA STELLA ROSSA PER RICORDARE

Sono nuovamente disponibili le bandiere della RFS di Jugoslavia, i
tricolori con la "petokraka", la grande stella rossa partigiana.

Una bandiera grande formato (circa 100x140cm) si puo' avere versando un
contributo minimo di 18 euro. Per ordinativi superiori a 5 bandiere il
costo e'
inferiore.
Per ordinare le bandiere (che si possono ricevere anche contrassegno,
previ accordi telefonici) chiamare od inviare un fax al numero
06-4828957.

Ricordiamo che per i versamenti a favore del CNJ e' stato aperto il
Conto Bancoposta n. 73542037 (cin N, abi 07601, cab 03200)
intestato a E. Gallucci e I. Pavicevac, Roma

===*===

La casa dei bambini
( la casa della pace )

accoglienza e solidarietà con le vittime della guerra
Progetto di riconciliazione tra i popoli
con un gruppo di 19 bambini
Provenienti dall'orfanotrofio Vera Blagojevic ( Serbia )
periodo dal 14 al 27 Luglio 2000 a Guastalla - Gualtieri ( RE )

Il gemellaggio dell'associazione un bambino per amico con l'orfanotrofio
Vera Blagojevic continua anche quest'anno con il progetto di
accoglienza estivo dei bambini , che trascorreranno un periodo di
vacanza nel nostro territorio . Giocheremo con loro , trascorreremo
bellisime giornate , costruiremo dei percorsi di pace e di solidarietà
per avere un futuro senza guerre e senza razzismo .
Saranno presenti quattro volontari internazionali per le animazioni con
i bambini , una ragazza americana , una svedese , una slovena,
un ragazzo russo .

Se vuoi partecipare contattaci:
0522 838778
0522 665077
0522 651139
0375 89746

L'orfanotrofio Vera Blagojevic si trova in un piccolo paese a ovest di
Belgrado ( 120 kilometri ) che si chiama Banja Koviliaca , il paese è
proprio sulle rive del fiume Drina , che fa da confine con la Bosnia
(rep. Sprska) e la Serbia .
In questa zona si è combattuto molto e ci sono stati molti morti
( soprattutto tra i civili ) intere famiglie si sono disgregate ,
l'economia è ancora ferma dall'inizio della guerra, la popolazione è
stremata da dieci anni di guerra ed embargo che ha reso la vita molto
difficile per gli abitanti della zona . I nazionalismi esasperati , gli
effetti dell'uranio impoverito , scaricato dai bombardamenti Nato di due
anni fa , rendono il futuro di queste genti estremamente
precario.

La casa dei bambini: questo è il nome che hanno dato gli operatori
dell'orfanotrofio , questo per rispettare un principio educativo scelto
dagli assistenti , cioè di dare all'istituto un clima "famigliare" in
modo che le relazioni umane vengano messe al primo posto , quindi le
carenze affettive non sostituite con un atteggiamento
repressivo-punitivo ma il tentativo ( difficile ) di attenuare le
sofferenze con il calore umano e l'auto gestione per abituarsi alla
vita esterna .

Le storie individuali dei bambini sono il triste ( drammatico )
corollario degli avvenimenti che hanno sconvolto queste terre , infatti
troviamo bambini provenienti dal Kosovo di etnia serba o rom vittime
della contro pulizia etnica attuata dalle milizie dell'UCK , bambini di
Novi Sad, una delle città più colpite dai bombardamenti Nato , bambini
provenienti dalle Krajne in Croazia, vittime della pulizia etnica
attuata dal governo Croato.
Troviamo molto importante che l'istituto non abbia attuato nessun
pregiudizio etnico o religioso nei confronti degli assistiti .

Associazioni che collaborano :

Gruppo persona-ambiente Casalmaggiore Carpi contro la guerra
Berretti Bianchi ICS Belgrado Servizio Civile Internazionale
Pro Loco Villastrada
Istituzioni :
Regione Emilia-Romagna Comune di Guastalla Comune di Casalmaggiore

INDEPENDENCE DAY

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrej Tisma [mailto:aart@...]
Sent: July 5, 2002 6:10 PM
Subject: USA: New Independence Day

United States Of America got now a NEW INDEPENDENCE DAY - July 1st.
Look how they are celebrating that day, remembering their great and free
leaders and their great historical achievements:

http://www.pcpages.com/justart/usa/independence.htm

1. Clinton chiamato in correita' per la pulizia etnica delle Krajne
2. 400mila serbi "spariti" dal censimento

===1===


http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020708-3102700.htm

Balkans tribunal turns to Clinton
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 8, 2002

-Besides Mr. Clinton, others named in the complaint
are former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake,
former Deputy National Security Adviser Samuel Berger,
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former U.S.
Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith.
-Secretly supported by the Clinton administration,
Croatian forces launched a massive three-day military
offensive - known as "Operation Storm" - on Aug. 4,
1995....
-He is also accused by the prosecutor's office at The
Hague of overseeing the ethnic cleansing of 150,000
Serbs in Croatia who fled the military assault.


ZAGREB, Croatia - The Balkans war crimes tribunal
is examining whether charges are warranted against
former President Clinton and his aides for supporting
a 1995 military offensive by Croatia that recaptured
territory then held by rebel Serbian forces.
The Croatian World Congress sent a letter last
week demanding that Carla Del Ponte, the chief
prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), open a criminal
investigation into Mr. Clinton and other top officials
of his administration for "aiding and abetting
indicted Croatian Gen. Ante Gotovina in a 1995
Croatian military operation known as 'Operation
Storm.'"
When asked if the prosecutor's office plans to
indict Mr. Clinton and U.S. officials, Florence
Hartmann, spokeswoman for Mrs. Del Ponte, said: "We
are working on the basis of an ongoing investigation."
Besides Mr. Clinton, others named in the
complaint are former National Security Adviser Anthony
Lake, former Deputy National Security Adviser Samuel
Berger, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former U.S.
Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith.
Fears that American officials and soldiers will
be prosecuted for participating in U.N.-backed
peacekeeping efforts lie behind the Bush
administration's threat to scuttle the present U.N.
peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
The threat is part of a dispute involving a
separate but similar U.N. tribunal, the International
Criminal Court, which was modeled after the ICTY and
opened its doors last week. Both courts are based in
The Hague.
The Balkans court angered U.S. officials two
years ago when it acknowledged it was looking into a
similar complaint against NATO commanders for their
role in the 1999 U.S.-led bombing campaign in
Yugoslavia.
Court officials said at the time they felt
obliged to look into all complaints placed before
them, but they dropped the matter after a preliminary
investigation.
Gen. Gotovina was indicted by the ICTY in June
2001 on charges that he exercised "command
responsibility" over a military campaign in which 150
Serbian civilians were killed.
Secretly supported by the Clinton administration,
Croatian forces launched a massive three-day military
offensive - known as "Operation Storm" - on Aug. 4,
1995, in which Croatia recovered territories occupied
by rebel Serbs following Zagreb's drive for
independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
The Croatian World Congress, a nongovernmental
organization (NGO) that advises the United Nations,
said it believes neither Gen. Gotovina nor Clinton
administration officials are guilty of war crimes.
However, it said that if Mrs. Del Ponte insists
on prosecuting Gen. Gotovina, then American officials
should be prosecuted in the interests of "evenhanded
justice" because they played a pivotal role in aiding
the general's campaign in Operation Storm.
The Croatian World Congress said the U.S.
administration gave the green light for the operation
and provided diplomatic and political support for it.
But the NGO stressed that "the most just outcome
would be to withdraw the indictment against Gen.
Gotovina."
The possibility that the Gotovina case will lead
to U.S. officials being indicted by the ICTY worries
some lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Henry J. Hyde, Illinois Republican and
chairman of the House Committee on International
Relations, said in a May 29 letter to Secretary of
State Colin L. Powell that at committee hearings on
the ICTY, "Testimony was presented at our hearing
questioning the factual basis for this indictment.
"It was brought to our attention that the ICTY
may investigate U.S. officials for potential command
responsibility in connection with Operation Storm."
Mr. Hyde said the ongoing investigation in the
Gotovina case poses "risks" that U.S. officials would
be prosecuted by the "U.N. tribunal for formulating or
carrying out U.S. government policy."
Gen. Gotovina, 48, was the military commander of
Sector South of the operation that was responsible for
the capture of the city Knin.
He is also accused by the prosecutor's office at
The Hague of overseeing the ethnic cleansing of
150,000 Serbs in Croatia who fled the military
assault. He is currently in hiding, his whereabouts
unknown.
The United States provided military and technical
assistance to Operation Storm in order to deliver a
defeat to then-Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's
goal of forging an ethnically pure "Greater Serbia."

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http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2002-daily/25-06-2002/world/w4.htm

Jang (Pakistan)
June 25, 2002

Serbs still victims of discrimination

-"Croatian Serbs were chased out of their jobs,
particularly in the public sector. They were chased
out of their apartments, particularly in the big
cities and were stigmatised in a country of war
criminals."
-[T]here are some 300,000 Serbs living as refugees in
other countries including 250,000 in Serbia and
Montenegro. "For the most part, the young hide their
identity," he said citing as an example figures from
Split, Croatia's second-largest city, which has more
than 450,000 residents but where only nine people
declared themselves to be Serbian Orthodox.
-According to United Nations figures, only 95,000 out
of 280,000 Serbs who fled during the war have returned
so far.


ZAGREB: Seven years after the end of the
Serbian-Croatian war, and two years on after the death
of nationalist president Franjo Tudjman, Croatian
Serbs say they are still treated as second-class
citizens. "In the course of the last 12 years,
Croatia's policy has been a policy of discrimination,"
said Milorad Pupovac, president of the Serb National
Council which groups Croatia's Serb associations.

"Croatian Serbs were chased out of their jobs,
particularly in the public sector. They were chased
out of their apartments, particularly in the big
cities and were stigmatised in a country of war
criminals," he told AFP. Pupovac and other Croatian
Serb leaders have also demanded a revision of the
Balkan country's first census since independence,
asserting that it seriously exaggerated the post-war
decline in the country's ethnic Serb population.

Pupovac said more Serbs than listed were living in
Croatia, claiming that results had been flawed by
faulty methodology and failure to include returning
refugees. The new census showed that ethnic Serbs --
the country's second largest group -- had dropped to
4.54 percent of the population in 2001, down from
12.16 percent in the last survey in 1991 when Croatia
was still part of the former Yugoslavia.

The census said more than 200,000 Serbs were living in
the country but Pupovac said the actual figure is
somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000, making it
closer to six percent of the population. In addition,
there are some 300,000 Serbs living as refugees in
other countries including 250,000 in Serbia and
Montenegro. "For the most part, the young hide their
identity," he said citing as an example figures from
Split, Croatia's second-largest city, which has more
than 450,000 residents but where only nine people
declared themselves to be Serbian Orthodox.

Pupovac said the biggest problem for Croatia now is
the rehousing of those Serb refugees returning. "We
have tried very hard for the restitution of our
properties since 1997 but with very little success,"
Pupovac said. "The current occupants, who are
Croatians, have more rights than the owners and in
practice, our right of ownership is not recognised."

He said another contentious issue is the rebuilding of
Serb homes destroyed in Croatia by either military or
para-military groups and the battle for compensation
from the Croatian government. In May, the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) urged
Croatia to step up efforts to encourage the return of
ethnic Serb refugees, asking it create a more
favourable climate for their return. According to
United Nations figures, only 95,000 out of 280,000
Serbs who fled during the war have returned so far.
Pupovac said while the current government is not
anti-Serb, it has not done enough to ensure its
Serbian citizens are treated equally or offer them
protection as a minority group.