Informazione
Uranio impoverito: ultime notizie di fonte jugoslava
sull'indagine delle Nazioni Unite (programma per l'ambiente).
Traduzione di Zivkica Nedanovska. A cura di A. Tarozzi.
1. FONTE: Glas Javnosti.
2. TITOLO: Portate il vostro veleno.
3. INDICE: L'UNEP ha confermato la presenza di uranio impoverito.
4. SITO INTERNET:
http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2002/04/01/srpski/T02033101.shtml
5. AUTORE: Aleksandra Klaric.
6. NUMERO DI PAGINE: 2.
7. DATA: 01/04/02.
Le particelle di uranio impoverito sono ancora presenti
nell'aria della Serbia meridionale, secondo i dati dell'UNEP,
pubblicati recentemente. Infatti, dopo tre anni dai bombardamenti
della NATO, l'UNEP ha pubblicato "che è stata riscontrata
contaminazione diffusa ma di poca intensità in cinque localita'
in Serbia ed una in Montenegro". Klaus Tepfer, direttore esecutivo
dell'UNEP, dice che la contaminazione è stata misurata a Pljackovica
(presso Vranje), Borovac, Bratoselce, Bukurevac, Reljani e sulla
penisola di Arza (Montenegro), e "non è stato determinato il
livello della radioattività, che potrebbe rappresentare un pericolo
diretto per l'ambiente e la salute umana". Tuttavia, nella relazione
dell'UNEP si raccomandano misure di cautela e controlli regolari
della qualità dell'acqua, mentre Pekko Haavisto avvisa che qualsiasi
sommovimento del suolo può liberare particelle di uranio impoverito
nell'aria. Nonostante il fatto che i dati siano drasticamente modesti,
è già stato fatto un progresso, secondo Snezana Milacic, perchè si
riconosce apertamente l'esistenza di materie radioattive in queste
regioni. I dati dell'Istituto di Vinca (vicino a Belgrado) dell'anno
scorso dimostrano che con l'uranio impoverito sono stati bombardati
110 obiettivi in Jugoslavia.
"La relazione dell'UNEP è un progresso perchè con essa si riconosce
la contaminazione del terreno. Infatti, nell'ottobre del 2001,
l'UNEP, in presenza dei nostri esperti, ha visitato le regioni
contaminate ed ha preso i campioni. Adesso è stato constatato un
aumento della radioattività nel suolo e nell'aria", dice Snezana
Milacic, esperta dell'Istituto per la medicina e la protezione
radiologica di Belgrado. "In quell'occasione sono stati presi i
campioni di terra, di piante e dei resti di munizioni. I campioni
sono stati esaminati nei laboratori in Svizzera e in Italia e da
noi, all'Istituto di Vinca. La ricerca dell'UNEP è stata indirizzata
verso l'aspetto ecologico. Però, allora, i nostri esperti hanno
monitorato 29 persone adulte di Vranje, Bujanovac e dei villaggi
vicini. Il campione doveva mostrare cambiamenti ai tessuti più
delicati e sensibili, per una ricerca nuova da intraprendere. I
risultati sono stati positivi perchè dal 20% di soggetti monitorati,
cioè in sei casi, sono riscontrati cambiamenti nei cromosomi e nelle
cellule del sangue. Risultati simili sono stati ottenuti alcuni
anni fa su di un gruppo di 21 persone nei pressi di Strpce, dove
era stato riconosciuto l'uso di armi radioattive. Attualmente, non
possiamo dimostrare che si tratti di una conseguenza del
bombardamento con uranio impoverito, ma è molto indicativo che
cambiamenti del genere si manifestino proprio nelle persone che
sono state esposte all'effetto diretto delle materie radioattive.
Però, questo non possiamo confermarlo con sicurezza finchè l'esistenza
di uranio impoverito non si evidenzia nell'urina", dice la signora
Milacic. "Per questo ci vogliono analisi specifiche. Comunque, il nostro
problema sta nel fatto che noi non abbiamo i soldi per comprare i
reagenti necessari, anche se ci sono gli esperti e l'apparecchiatura.
Per un programma del genere ci vorrebberro 150.000 euro, che i nostri
esperti cercano di ottenere dal nostro Governo. Dobbiamo decontaminare
queste regioni prima che l'uranio impoverito entri nella catena
alimentare. Il Montenegro ha incominciato la decontaminazione
nella penisola di Lustica. Il problema grosso è dove possiamo deporre
quelle scorie, cioè come dobbiamo trattarle, come nostre o come scorie
di importazione. L'unico posto dove deporre il nostro scarto radioattivo
da noi è Vinca. Però, visto che qui si tratta di tonnellate, che in
nessun modo possono essere deposte vicino a Belgrado (Vinca),
anche una relazione del genere dell'UNEP è un passo avanti. Infatti,
la relazione riconosce che lo scarto radioattivo è conseguenza dei
bombardamenti della NATO, nonchè dell'uso di munizioni radioattive.
Sulla base di tutto questo, possiamo chiedere almeno che lo scarto sia
deposto al di fuori del nostro paese", conclude Snezana Milacic.
sull'indagine delle Nazioni Unite (programma per l'ambiente).
Traduzione di Zivkica Nedanovska. A cura di A. Tarozzi.
1. FONTE: Glas Javnosti.
2. TITOLO: Portate il vostro veleno.
3. INDICE: L'UNEP ha confermato la presenza di uranio impoverito.
4. SITO INTERNET:
http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2002/04/01/srpski/T02033101.shtml
5. AUTORE: Aleksandra Klaric.
6. NUMERO DI PAGINE: 2.
7. DATA: 01/04/02.
Le particelle di uranio impoverito sono ancora presenti
nell'aria della Serbia meridionale, secondo i dati dell'UNEP,
pubblicati recentemente. Infatti, dopo tre anni dai bombardamenti
della NATO, l'UNEP ha pubblicato "che è stata riscontrata
contaminazione diffusa ma di poca intensità in cinque localita'
in Serbia ed una in Montenegro". Klaus Tepfer, direttore esecutivo
dell'UNEP, dice che la contaminazione è stata misurata a Pljackovica
(presso Vranje), Borovac, Bratoselce, Bukurevac, Reljani e sulla
penisola di Arza (Montenegro), e "non è stato determinato il
livello della radioattività, che potrebbe rappresentare un pericolo
diretto per l'ambiente e la salute umana". Tuttavia, nella relazione
dell'UNEP si raccomandano misure di cautela e controlli regolari
della qualità dell'acqua, mentre Pekko Haavisto avvisa che qualsiasi
sommovimento del suolo può liberare particelle di uranio impoverito
nell'aria. Nonostante il fatto che i dati siano drasticamente modesti,
è già stato fatto un progresso, secondo Snezana Milacic, perchè si
riconosce apertamente l'esistenza di materie radioattive in queste
regioni. I dati dell'Istituto di Vinca (vicino a Belgrado) dell'anno
scorso dimostrano che con l'uranio impoverito sono stati bombardati
110 obiettivi in Jugoslavia.
"La relazione dell'UNEP è un progresso perchè con essa si riconosce
la contaminazione del terreno. Infatti, nell'ottobre del 2001,
l'UNEP, in presenza dei nostri esperti, ha visitato le regioni
contaminate ed ha preso i campioni. Adesso è stato constatato un
aumento della radioattività nel suolo e nell'aria", dice Snezana
Milacic, esperta dell'Istituto per la medicina e la protezione
radiologica di Belgrado. "In quell'occasione sono stati presi i
campioni di terra, di piante e dei resti di munizioni. I campioni
sono stati esaminati nei laboratori in Svizzera e in Italia e da
noi, all'Istituto di Vinca. La ricerca dell'UNEP è stata indirizzata
verso l'aspetto ecologico. Però, allora, i nostri esperti hanno
monitorato 29 persone adulte di Vranje, Bujanovac e dei villaggi
vicini. Il campione doveva mostrare cambiamenti ai tessuti più
delicati e sensibili, per una ricerca nuova da intraprendere. I
risultati sono stati positivi perchè dal 20% di soggetti monitorati,
cioè in sei casi, sono riscontrati cambiamenti nei cromosomi e nelle
cellule del sangue. Risultati simili sono stati ottenuti alcuni
anni fa su di un gruppo di 21 persone nei pressi di Strpce, dove
era stato riconosciuto l'uso di armi radioattive. Attualmente, non
possiamo dimostrare che si tratti di una conseguenza del
bombardamento con uranio impoverito, ma è molto indicativo che
cambiamenti del genere si manifestino proprio nelle persone che
sono state esposte all'effetto diretto delle materie radioattive.
Però, questo non possiamo confermarlo con sicurezza finchè l'esistenza
di uranio impoverito non si evidenzia nell'urina", dice la signora
Milacic. "Per questo ci vogliono analisi specifiche. Comunque, il nostro
problema sta nel fatto che noi non abbiamo i soldi per comprare i
reagenti necessari, anche se ci sono gli esperti e l'apparecchiatura.
Per un programma del genere ci vorrebberro 150.000 euro, che i nostri
esperti cercano di ottenere dal nostro Governo. Dobbiamo decontaminare
queste regioni prima che l'uranio impoverito entri nella catena
alimentare. Il Montenegro ha incominciato la decontaminazione
nella penisola di Lustica. Il problema grosso è dove possiamo deporre
quelle scorie, cioè come dobbiamo trattarle, come nostre o come scorie
di importazione. L'unico posto dove deporre il nostro scarto radioattivo
da noi è Vinca. Però, visto che qui si tratta di tonnellate, che in
nessun modo possono essere deposte vicino a Belgrado (Vinca),
anche una relazione del genere dell'UNEP è un passo avanti. Infatti,
la relazione riconosce che lo scarto radioattivo è conseguenza dei
bombardamenti della NATO, nonchè dell'uso di munizioni radioattive.
Sulla base di tutto questo, possiamo chiedere almeno che lo scarto sia
deposto al di fuori del nostro paese", conclude Snezana Milacic.
> --- In Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli., "Momotombo" ha scritto:
>
> Ravenna : 300 in Piazza contro la NATO
>
> Sabato 30/3/02 oltre 300 compagne/i hanno sfilato per le vie di
> Ravenna per ricordare il terzo anniversario dell'infame aggressione
> della NATO e del precedente governo D'Alema alla Jugoslavia e per
> chiedere la chiusura della base NATO di Pisignano.
> Massiccia la presenza di polizia e carabinieri(circa 4oo) per un
> corteo a cui lamministrazione comunale ha precluso le vie del centro
> nel tentativo di "oscurarlo", dopo la rituale campagna di
> criminalizzazione supportata dalle solite associazioni corporative
> dietro il banale pretesto della "turbativa delle feste pasquali".
> Una serie di circostanze hanno determinato una partecipazione assai
> più ridotta rispetto alla manifestazione dell'anno scorso tenutasi a
> Cesena: il clima festivo e vacanziero, la caduta di tensione rispetto
> alle tematiche della NATO, la giusta attenzione polarizzata ad altre
> importanti questioni come la Palestina e, l'art. 18 etc..
> Nonostante questo il corteo di Sabato 30/3 è un passaggio importante
> per alimentare un lavoro continuativo di memoria storica (sul piano
> nazionale) e d'intervento nel territorio contro la base di Pisignano,
> la NATO e hli F16 che ha stimolato la nascita di un nuovo comitato a
> Cervia ("Gettiamo le basi"9.
> Proprio a Cervia si organizzerà per i prossimi mesi un convegno sulle
> basi NATO e le servitùmilitari , insieme ad altre iniziative di lotta
> e controinformazione contro la base .
> Da notare comunque il risultato politico ottenuto dopo la
> manifestazione : la stampa locale ha dato rilievo alla nostra denuncia
> sulla possibile presenza di atomiche nella base.
> coordinamento romagnolo contro la guera ela NATO
>
> --- Fine messaggio inoltrato ---
http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/yugo0404.php
BELGRADE
March denounces U.S./NATO aggression
By John Catalinotto
Tens of thousands marched through Belgrade
March 24 to commemorate the third anniversary of the
1999 U.S./NATO attack on Yugoslavia and the
heroic resistance of its people against great odds.
The demonstration was the largest of actions that
took place around the world, including events in
Vienna and New York. The protests paid respect to
the 3,000 Yugoslav victims of the 78-day
aggression that targeted the civilian infrastructure.
Three years after the war began, Yugoslavia's
population is 50-percent unemployed, its best industries
sold to investors in Western Europe and the U.S.,
its government overthrown by a foreign-financed
election and coup, and its former president held
in a NATO jail in The Hague.
Despite these difficulties, the Belgrade demonstration
--and speakers at the rally that followed--showed
that the spirit of resistance continues.
Their demands included that the Yugoslav government
intervene to secure former President Slobodan
Milosevic's provisional freedom while he conducts
his defense, and creation of a state documentation
center to help the defense of Milosevic and other
Yugoslav citizens unjustly accused by the tribunal.
They also insisted that the government stop
delivering Yugoslav citizens to that imperialist court.
In addition, they demanded the right of Serbs
and other non-Albanians expelled from Kosovo to
return, and an end to the firing of workers
and selling of the factories. They also called for the
resignation of the pro-Western governments in Serbia
and Yugoslavia as well as early elections.
Speakers at the rally included officials of
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia; Gennadi Churkin, of the
Russian State Duma; Nico Varkevisser of Global
Reflection in the Netherlands; a spokesperson for the
International Committee for the Defense of
Slobodan Milosevic; Dr. Dimitris Caltsonis, vice-chair of
the Greek Association for Democratic Rights and
Freedoms; and a representative of the Communist
Party of Greece.
Vladimir Krsljanin, international secretary of
the SPS, told Workers World he estimated between
30,000 and 50,000 people took part in the march and rally.
Earlier in March, Krsljanin observed, "The continuing
aggression against Yugoslavia is failing. Slobodan
Milosevic's spirit and the freedom of the Yugoslav
people cannot be defeated. Neither bombs nor
money from secret services can conquer us."
Krsljanin said that Milosevic's defense efforts
in The Hague trial "had an enormous impact on the
people in Yugoslavia. According to our latest
polls, 77 percent of the people support him and the
puppet government here is in panic. According
to some estimates, about one million heard at least
part of Milosevic's speech."
Milosevic's defense has been so effective that
the Western media has stopped broadcasting the trial.
Vienna, New York, The Hague
In Vienna, hundreds attended a March 24 meeting
called by the Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity League.
Representatives of Vienna's Yugoslav community and
communist and other left groups spoke at the
rally.
One of the speakers was Kurt Koepruner, author of
"Travels in the Land of War: Experiences of a
Foreigner in Yugoslavia." He said, "What happened
three years ago in Yugoslavia is continuing today in
Afghanistan. And the next targets have already been designated."
In New York, the date was commemorated at a book
signing at former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's
office for the International Action Center's new
publication, "Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia."
Clark emphasized the importance of the IAC
publication in spreading the truth about the war to
combat the lies of the military victors.
The meeting opened a campaign to get thousands of
copies of this book--as well as the English
translation of Michel Collon's "Liar's Poker:
the Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Coming Wars"--into
libraries, bookstores and universities across the United States.
In The Hague, Wil van der Klift of the New Communist
Party of the Netherlands tried to deliver a copy
of "Hidden Agenda" to President Milosevic in
prison on March 22. The guards insisted he hand over the
book to them. It is not known if the publication,
which contains two chapters by the Yugoslav leader,
reached Milosevic.
- END -
Reprinted from the April 4, 2002, issue of Workers World newspaper
>
> Ravenna : 300 in Piazza contro la NATO
>
> Sabato 30/3/02 oltre 300 compagne/i hanno sfilato per le vie di
> Ravenna per ricordare il terzo anniversario dell'infame aggressione
> della NATO e del precedente governo D'Alema alla Jugoslavia e per
> chiedere la chiusura della base NATO di Pisignano.
> Massiccia la presenza di polizia e carabinieri(circa 4oo) per un
> corteo a cui lamministrazione comunale ha precluso le vie del centro
> nel tentativo di "oscurarlo", dopo la rituale campagna di
> criminalizzazione supportata dalle solite associazioni corporative
> dietro il banale pretesto della "turbativa delle feste pasquali".
> Una serie di circostanze hanno determinato una partecipazione assai
> più ridotta rispetto alla manifestazione dell'anno scorso tenutasi a
> Cesena: il clima festivo e vacanziero, la caduta di tensione rispetto
> alle tematiche della NATO, la giusta attenzione polarizzata ad altre
> importanti questioni come la Palestina e, l'art. 18 etc..
> Nonostante questo il corteo di Sabato 30/3 è un passaggio importante
> per alimentare un lavoro continuativo di memoria storica (sul piano
> nazionale) e d'intervento nel territorio contro la base di Pisignano,
> la NATO e hli F16 che ha stimolato la nascita di un nuovo comitato a
> Cervia ("Gettiamo le basi"9.
> Proprio a Cervia si organizzerà per i prossimi mesi un convegno sulle
> basi NATO e le servitùmilitari , insieme ad altre iniziative di lotta
> e controinformazione contro la base .
> Da notare comunque il risultato politico ottenuto dopo la
> manifestazione : la stampa locale ha dato rilievo alla nostra denuncia
> sulla possibile presenza di atomiche nella base.
> coordinamento romagnolo contro la guera ela NATO
>
> --- Fine messaggio inoltrato ---
http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/yugo0404.php
BELGRADE
March denounces U.S./NATO aggression
By John Catalinotto
Tens of thousands marched through Belgrade
March 24 to commemorate the third anniversary of the
1999 U.S./NATO attack on Yugoslavia and the
heroic resistance of its people against great odds.
The demonstration was the largest of actions that
took place around the world, including events in
Vienna and New York. The protests paid respect to
the 3,000 Yugoslav victims of the 78-day
aggression that targeted the civilian infrastructure.
Three years after the war began, Yugoslavia's
population is 50-percent unemployed, its best industries
sold to investors in Western Europe and the U.S.,
its government overthrown by a foreign-financed
election and coup, and its former president held
in a NATO jail in The Hague.
Despite these difficulties, the Belgrade demonstration
--and speakers at the rally that followed--showed
that the spirit of resistance continues.
Their demands included that the Yugoslav government
intervene to secure former President Slobodan
Milosevic's provisional freedom while he conducts
his defense, and creation of a state documentation
center to help the defense of Milosevic and other
Yugoslav citizens unjustly accused by the tribunal.
They also insisted that the government stop
delivering Yugoslav citizens to that imperialist court.
In addition, they demanded the right of Serbs
and other non-Albanians expelled from Kosovo to
return, and an end to the firing of workers
and selling of the factories. They also called for the
resignation of the pro-Western governments in Serbia
and Yugoslavia as well as early elections.
Speakers at the rally included officials of
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia; Gennadi Churkin, of the
Russian State Duma; Nico Varkevisser of Global
Reflection in the Netherlands; a spokesperson for the
International Committee for the Defense of
Slobodan Milosevic; Dr. Dimitris Caltsonis, vice-chair of
the Greek Association for Democratic Rights and
Freedoms; and a representative of the Communist
Party of Greece.
Vladimir Krsljanin, international secretary of
the SPS, told Workers World he estimated between
30,000 and 50,000 people took part in the march and rally.
Earlier in March, Krsljanin observed, "The continuing
aggression against Yugoslavia is failing. Slobodan
Milosevic's spirit and the freedom of the Yugoslav
people cannot be defeated. Neither bombs nor
money from secret services can conquer us."
Krsljanin said that Milosevic's defense efforts
in The Hague trial "had an enormous impact on the
people in Yugoslavia. According to our latest
polls, 77 percent of the people support him and the
puppet government here is in panic. According
to some estimates, about one million heard at least
part of Milosevic's speech."
Milosevic's defense has been so effective that
the Western media has stopped broadcasting the trial.
Vienna, New York, The Hague
In Vienna, hundreds attended a March 24 meeting
called by the Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity League.
Representatives of Vienna's Yugoslav community and
communist and other left groups spoke at the
rally.
One of the speakers was Kurt Koepruner, author of
"Travels in the Land of War: Experiences of a
Foreigner in Yugoslavia." He said, "What happened
three years ago in Yugoslavia is continuing today in
Afghanistan. And the next targets have already been designated."
In New York, the date was commemorated at a book
signing at former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's
office for the International Action Center's new
publication, "Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia."
Clark emphasized the importance of the IAC
publication in spreading the truth about the war to
combat the lies of the military victors.
The meeting opened a campaign to get thousands of
copies of this book--as well as the English
translation of Michel Collon's "Liar's Poker:
the Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Coming Wars"--into
libraries, bookstores and universities across the United States.
In The Hague, Wil van der Klift of the New Communist
Party of the Netherlands tried to deliver a copy
of "Hidden Agenda" to President Milosevic in
prison on March 22. The guards insisted he hand over the
book to them. It is not known if the publication,
which contains two chapters by the Yugoslav leader,
reached Milosevic.
- END -
Reprinted from the April 4, 2002, issue of Workers World newspaper
---------- Message transmis ----------
Subject: Le Monde diplomatique et Milosevic
Marc-Antoine Coppo
Chargé de Recherche au CNRS
Le Monde diplomatique et Milosevic ou les errements d'un grand
journal mal
conseillé
Dans la presse française, les voix qui s'élèvent pour dénoncer la
politique
d'accusation du Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie
(TPIY)
contre Slobodan Milosevic sont plutôt rares. Conseillère du Monde
diplomatique, Catherine Samary a eu au moins le mérite dans le
dossier «
Slobodan Milosevic » du site Internet de ce mensuel
(http://www.mondediplomatique.fr/cahier/kosovo/samary0701), de relever
quelques « incohérences » dans l'acte d'accusation contre l'ancien
Président
yougoslave. Malheureusement, comme nous allons le voir, ses reproches
reposent en grande partie sur une méconnaissance de la logique propre
à ce
tribunal (qui a sa cohérence), et de son véritable rôle dans l'après-
conflit
yougoslave.
Dans son article, Catherine Samary critique notament le caractère
limité et
opportuniste de l'acte d'accusation contre Slobodan Milosevic
concernant le
Kosovo qui ne porte que sur la période allant de janvier à juin
1999 :s'il
s'agit de reprocher à Belgrade la politique d'oppression et de
répression de
la minorité albanaise au Kosovo ou de l'UCK (Armée de Libération du
Kosovo),
notamment en 1998, écrit-elle, ni la période ni les termes de
l'inculpation
ne sont adéquats », semblant ainsi regretter que l'ancien président
yougoslave n'ait pas été inculpé pour les actes commis en 1998. Par
ailleurs, elle s'étonne (ou feint de s'étonner) que « rien ne fut dit
à
Rambouillet d'un plan de nettoyage ethnique qui aurait commencé à
être mis
en oeuvre en janvier 1999 (légitimant l'intervention de l'OTAN en
mars) »
et déclare avec une candeur touchante « souhaiter la plus grande
transparence et le retour sur les massacres commis - y compris ceux,
fort
controversés, de Racak qui ont précipité la conférence de
Rambouillet ».
Contrairement à ce que pense Catherine Samary, la date de janvier 1999
retenue par le tribunal de La Haye est significative et cohérente car
elle
correspond au retour en force de l'armée serbo-yougoslave (VJ) dans la
province après un retrait en octobre. Mais il aurait surtout fallu
noter que
l'acte d'accusation du TPIY se gardait bien de mentionner que ce
retour
faisait suite au sabotage délibéré par l'UCK des accords Milosevic-
Holbrooke
d'octobre 1998. En effet, comme l'écrit Christophe Chiclet : «
Washington
ayant décidé de diaboliser et d'instrumentaliser la Serbie pour
tester la
nouvelle stratégie de l'Alliance atlantique, il laisse carte blanche
à l'UCK
pour saboter le cessez-le-feu du 13 octobre. (...) Fin décembre,
celle-ci
cherche à prendre le contrôle des villages de Gornja Lapastica,
Velika Reka,
Obrandza et Podujevo, commence à assassiner systématiquement
les Tziganes, cible séculaire du racisme albanais. Comme prévu par les
services américains, la reprise généralisée des attaques de l'UCK
entraine
le retour de la police et de l'armée serbe dans la province » (1).
L'argumentation de la conseillère du Monde diplomatique s'avère
également
pour le moins ambigue sur ce point, puisque après avoir insisté sur
le fait
que la répression de Belgrade contre l'UCK s'était principalement
exercée au
cours de l'année 1998 - ce qui est parfaitement exact -, elle cite un
article du quotidien Libération selon lequel les charniers découverts
l'été
dernier en Serbie correspondraient à des massacres perpétrés au
Kosovo ...
en
mars-avril 1999, soit précisément pendant la période retenue par
l'acte
d'accusation du TPIY. Catherine Samary estime même que « ces
dissimulations
de corps sont un des éléments à charge les plus accablants contre
l'ancien
maître de Belgrade », ce qui conforte, en fait, la thèse de
l'accusation.
En réalité, contrairement à ce que suggère Catherine Samary, ces «
découvertes » apportent bien peu d'éléments nouveaux - malgré leur
très
forte médiatisation en Serbie et en Occident essentiellement destinée
à
justifier le « transfèrement » (i.e. la livraison contre promesse
d'argent)
de M. Milosevic à La Haye (2). Les charniers de Batjanica auxquels
Catherine
Samary fait référence d'une façon très imprécise recèlent moins de
300 corps
(et non « un millier » comme certains propagandistes à la solde des
Etats-Unis l'ont prétendu bien hâtivement), dont un certain nombre
d'entre-eux (quelques dizaines) proviendraient d'un massacre commis
le 26
mars 1999 (soit trois jours après le début des bombardements de
l'OTAN) à
Suva Reka, une ville du sud du Kosovo. Selon des témoins, les auteurs
du
crime étaient tous des Serbes de la ville, civils téléguidés par la
police,
opérant à visage découvert, avec à leur tête un voyou connu (3). On
peut
donc sérieusement douter que M. Milosevic ait quelque chose à voir
avec ce
sanglant règlement de compte mafieux.
En ce qui concerne le nombre de victimes du conflit au Kosovo,
Catherine
Samary évoque étrangement le chiffre de « 10 000 victimes albanaises
dont la
responsabilité incomberait à M. Milosevic et à ses co-inculpés », -
chiffre
avancé en juin 1999 par le Foreign Office britannique - en suggérant
qu'il
s'agit là d'une estimation retenue par le TPIY, or il n'en est rien :
l'acte
d'accusation indique seulement qu'« un nombre indéterminé d'Albanais
du
Kosovo ont été tués au cours des opérations menées par les forces de
la RFY
et de la Serbie » et recense dans son annexe environ 500 victimes des
différents « massacres » imputés à M. Milosevic. D'après les services
de
renseignements militaires occidentaux en poste au Kosovo - a priori
peu
suspects de partialité pro-Milosevic - le nombre de morts dans la
province
de mars à juin 1999, n'a d'ailleurs pas dépassé les 5/6000 personnes
(toutes
ethnies et causes confondues) (4).
On voit donc que les vraies-fausses critiques que Catherine Samary
adresse
au TPIY reposent sur une argumentation floue et ambigue, qui fait
encore la
part bien trop belle à la propagande de l'OTAN, et qui s'avère
d'autant
plus suspecte que la conseillère du Diplo partage avec Carla Del
Ponte la
ferme volonté de sortir les Serbes de leur prétendu « autisme
persistant »,
et une hostilité systématique à l'encontre de Slobodan Milosevic perçu
uniquement comme un homme de pouvoir.
Par ailleurs, Catherine Samary passe sous silence le principal
reproche
qu'on peut légitimement faire au TPIY : ce tribunal politique cherche
avant
tout à réécrire l'histoire du conflit yougoslave en la judiciarisant.
Ainsi, le procureur présente-t-il comme un « fait supplémentaire »
(paragraphe 66 de l'acte d'accusation) la légende selon laquelle, en
visite
au Kosovo en avril 1987, Slobodan Milosevic se serait à cette
occasion «
prononcé en faveur d'un programme nationaliste serbe ». Or, cette
affirmation est totalement mensongère: les 24 et 25 avril 1987 à
Kosovo
Polje, devant des délégués serbes de la province, Slobodan Milosevic
a au
contraire déclaré : « On ne saurait parler de peuples minoritaires et
majoritaires au Kosovo. Les Serbes et les Monténégrins au Kosovo ne
sont pas
une minorité par rapport aux Albanais, de même que les Albanais ne
sont pas
une minorité au sein de la Yougoslavie, mais une ethnie qui vit en
communauté, à égalité de droits avec d'autres peuples et ethnies dans
trois
de nos républiques socialistes. L'attitude qui consiste à revendiquer
un
Kosovo ethniquement pur, économiquement et politiquement autonome et
isolé,
est non seulement idéologiquement, politiquement, ethniquement
impossible
mais encore, en fin de compte, contraire aux intérêts du peuple
albanais
lui-même. Un tel nationalisme l'exclurait de son entourage et, plus
que de
freiner, il interromprait son développement aussi bien du point de
vue de
l'aspect économique que de l'aspect spirituel au sens large, de même
qu'Enver Hodja par sa politique, a exclu de l'Europe le peuple
albanais déjà
si petit avec sa société fortement sous-développée, le privant de la
possibilité de participer à la vie économique du monde moderne. Cette
partie-ci du peuple albanais tend vers l'Europe, vers une société
moderne et
il ne faut pas la freiner sur cette voie. Nationalisme signifie
toujours
isolement vis à vis des autres, enfermement dans des cadres
restreints ce
qui entraine aussi un retard dans le
développement, car sans coopération, sans communication sur le terrain
yougoslave d'abord, et sur un espace plus vaste ensuite, il n'est pas
de
progrès. Tout peuple, toute ethnie qui s'enferme dans le nationalisme
manifeste un comportement irresponsable envers son propre devenir.
C'est
pourquoi nous autres communistes, en premier lieu, devons
entreprendre tout
ce qui pourra mener à l'élimination des conséquences du comportement
nationaliste et séparatiste tant au Kosovo que dans les autres
régions du
pays. (...) Nous ne pourrons pas faire revenir la composition
ethnique du
Kosovo à son état de jadis. Mais nous pouvons au moins enrayer
l'immigration,
assurer les conditions indispensables pour que tous les hommes qui
vivent au
Kosovo y soient chez eux, qu'ils vivent égaux et qu'ils partagent
équitablement le destin économique d'abord, puis tous les autres
destins de
cette région. » (cf. Slobodan Milosevic, « Les années décisives »,
L'Age
d'Homme, 1990, p. 113-120).
En définitive, ce piètre « dossier » consacré à la comparution de M.
Milosevic reflète bien les errements du Monde diplomatique sur le
sujet
yougoslave. Ce grand journal a été partiellement fourvoyé par sa
conseillère
trotskiste qui, en dépit de sa prétendue « expertise de trente ans »,
n'a
malheureusement pas compris (ou pas voulu comprendre) la véritable
nature du
conflit dans les Balkans qu'elle a réduit à des causes socio-
économiques. En
témoigne ce qu'elle affirmait encore, contre toute évidence, en juin
dernier
dans un entretien à la Revue internationale et stratégique: « Quant au
Kosovo, contrairement à ce qu'on en a dit, les gouvernants de l'Union
européenne voire des Etats-Unis, étaient à mon avis infiniment plus
proches
du gouvernement de Belgrade que des revendications albanaises. » (5).
Une
telle cécité volontaire dépasse l'entendement. On se demande bien
alors
pourquoi Madeleine Albright voulait prendre prétexte des troubles au
Kosovo
pour attaquer La Serbie dès le printemps 1998 (afin de se débarrasser
de
Milosevic), et pourquoi les services spéciaux allemands (BND et MAD)
ont
entrainé et équipé les hommes de l'UCK dès 1997. Heureusement,
d'autres
collaborateurs extérieurs du Monde diplomatique (Paul-Marie de La
Gorce et
Christophe Chiclet notamment) se sont montrés autrement plus
clairvoyants et
objectifs dans leurs analyses que la mauvaise conseillère du journal.
Marc-Antoine Coppo
(1) Christophe Chiclet, « Mystérieuse UCK », in Kosovo: le piège. Les
cahiers de Confluences. L'Harmattan, 2000.
(2) Cf. Rémy Ourdan, « Les révélations sur les charniers font évoluer
l'opinion serbe », Le Monde du 2 juillet 2001.
(3) Cf. Christophe Châtelot, « Des corps exhumés à Belgrade seraient
ceux
des victimes du massacre de Suva Reka », Le Monde du 3 juillet 2001.
(4) Cf. Christophe Chiclet, Op. cité.
(5) Revue internationale et stratégique, 42, été 2001.
Marc-Antoine COPPO
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
<coppo@...>
Subject: Le Monde diplomatique et Milosevic
Marc-Antoine Coppo
Chargé de Recherche au CNRS
Le Monde diplomatique et Milosevic ou les errements d'un grand
journal mal
conseillé
Dans la presse française, les voix qui s'élèvent pour dénoncer la
politique
d'accusation du Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie
(TPIY)
contre Slobodan Milosevic sont plutôt rares. Conseillère du Monde
diplomatique, Catherine Samary a eu au moins le mérite dans le
dossier «
Slobodan Milosevic » du site Internet de ce mensuel
(http://www.mondediplomatique.fr/cahier/kosovo/samary0701), de relever
quelques « incohérences » dans l'acte d'accusation contre l'ancien
Président
yougoslave. Malheureusement, comme nous allons le voir, ses reproches
reposent en grande partie sur une méconnaissance de la logique propre
à ce
tribunal (qui a sa cohérence), et de son véritable rôle dans l'après-
conflit
yougoslave.
Dans son article, Catherine Samary critique notament le caractère
limité et
opportuniste de l'acte d'accusation contre Slobodan Milosevic
concernant le
Kosovo qui ne porte que sur la période allant de janvier à juin
1999 :s'il
s'agit de reprocher à Belgrade la politique d'oppression et de
répression de
la minorité albanaise au Kosovo ou de l'UCK (Armée de Libération du
Kosovo),
notamment en 1998, écrit-elle, ni la période ni les termes de
l'inculpation
ne sont adéquats », semblant ainsi regretter que l'ancien président
yougoslave n'ait pas été inculpé pour les actes commis en 1998. Par
ailleurs, elle s'étonne (ou feint de s'étonner) que « rien ne fut dit
à
Rambouillet d'un plan de nettoyage ethnique qui aurait commencé à
être mis
en oeuvre en janvier 1999 (légitimant l'intervention de l'OTAN en
mars) »
et déclare avec une candeur touchante « souhaiter la plus grande
transparence et le retour sur les massacres commis - y compris ceux,
fort
controversés, de Racak qui ont précipité la conférence de
Rambouillet ».
Contrairement à ce que pense Catherine Samary, la date de janvier 1999
retenue par le tribunal de La Haye est significative et cohérente car
elle
correspond au retour en force de l'armée serbo-yougoslave (VJ) dans la
province après un retrait en octobre. Mais il aurait surtout fallu
noter que
l'acte d'accusation du TPIY se gardait bien de mentionner que ce
retour
faisait suite au sabotage délibéré par l'UCK des accords Milosevic-
Holbrooke
d'octobre 1998. En effet, comme l'écrit Christophe Chiclet : «
Washington
ayant décidé de diaboliser et d'instrumentaliser la Serbie pour
tester la
nouvelle stratégie de l'Alliance atlantique, il laisse carte blanche
à l'UCK
pour saboter le cessez-le-feu du 13 octobre. (...) Fin décembre,
celle-ci
cherche à prendre le contrôle des villages de Gornja Lapastica,
Velika Reka,
Obrandza et Podujevo, commence à assassiner systématiquement
les Tziganes, cible séculaire du racisme albanais. Comme prévu par les
services américains, la reprise généralisée des attaques de l'UCK
entraine
le retour de la police et de l'armée serbe dans la province » (1).
L'argumentation de la conseillère du Monde diplomatique s'avère
également
pour le moins ambigue sur ce point, puisque après avoir insisté sur
le fait
que la répression de Belgrade contre l'UCK s'était principalement
exercée au
cours de l'année 1998 - ce qui est parfaitement exact -, elle cite un
article du quotidien Libération selon lequel les charniers découverts
l'été
dernier en Serbie correspondraient à des massacres perpétrés au
Kosovo ...
en
mars-avril 1999, soit précisément pendant la période retenue par
l'acte
d'accusation du TPIY. Catherine Samary estime même que « ces
dissimulations
de corps sont un des éléments à charge les plus accablants contre
l'ancien
maître de Belgrade », ce qui conforte, en fait, la thèse de
l'accusation.
En réalité, contrairement à ce que suggère Catherine Samary, ces «
découvertes » apportent bien peu d'éléments nouveaux - malgré leur
très
forte médiatisation en Serbie et en Occident essentiellement destinée
à
justifier le « transfèrement » (i.e. la livraison contre promesse
d'argent)
de M. Milosevic à La Haye (2). Les charniers de Batjanica auxquels
Catherine
Samary fait référence d'une façon très imprécise recèlent moins de
300 corps
(et non « un millier » comme certains propagandistes à la solde des
Etats-Unis l'ont prétendu bien hâtivement), dont un certain nombre
d'entre-eux (quelques dizaines) proviendraient d'un massacre commis
le 26
mars 1999 (soit trois jours après le début des bombardements de
l'OTAN) à
Suva Reka, une ville du sud du Kosovo. Selon des témoins, les auteurs
du
crime étaient tous des Serbes de la ville, civils téléguidés par la
police,
opérant à visage découvert, avec à leur tête un voyou connu (3). On
peut
donc sérieusement douter que M. Milosevic ait quelque chose à voir
avec ce
sanglant règlement de compte mafieux.
En ce qui concerne le nombre de victimes du conflit au Kosovo,
Catherine
Samary évoque étrangement le chiffre de « 10 000 victimes albanaises
dont la
responsabilité incomberait à M. Milosevic et à ses co-inculpés », -
chiffre
avancé en juin 1999 par le Foreign Office britannique - en suggérant
qu'il
s'agit là d'une estimation retenue par le TPIY, or il n'en est rien :
l'acte
d'accusation indique seulement qu'« un nombre indéterminé d'Albanais
du
Kosovo ont été tués au cours des opérations menées par les forces de
la RFY
et de la Serbie » et recense dans son annexe environ 500 victimes des
différents « massacres » imputés à M. Milosevic. D'après les services
de
renseignements militaires occidentaux en poste au Kosovo - a priori
peu
suspects de partialité pro-Milosevic - le nombre de morts dans la
province
de mars à juin 1999, n'a d'ailleurs pas dépassé les 5/6000 personnes
(toutes
ethnies et causes confondues) (4).
On voit donc que les vraies-fausses critiques que Catherine Samary
adresse
au TPIY reposent sur une argumentation floue et ambigue, qui fait
encore la
part bien trop belle à la propagande de l'OTAN, et qui s'avère
d'autant
plus suspecte que la conseillère du Diplo partage avec Carla Del
Ponte la
ferme volonté de sortir les Serbes de leur prétendu « autisme
persistant »,
et une hostilité systématique à l'encontre de Slobodan Milosevic perçu
uniquement comme un homme de pouvoir.
Par ailleurs, Catherine Samary passe sous silence le principal
reproche
qu'on peut légitimement faire au TPIY : ce tribunal politique cherche
avant
tout à réécrire l'histoire du conflit yougoslave en la judiciarisant.
Ainsi, le procureur présente-t-il comme un « fait supplémentaire »
(paragraphe 66 de l'acte d'accusation) la légende selon laquelle, en
visite
au Kosovo en avril 1987, Slobodan Milosevic se serait à cette
occasion «
prononcé en faveur d'un programme nationaliste serbe ». Or, cette
affirmation est totalement mensongère: les 24 et 25 avril 1987 à
Kosovo
Polje, devant des délégués serbes de la province, Slobodan Milosevic
a au
contraire déclaré : « On ne saurait parler de peuples minoritaires et
majoritaires au Kosovo. Les Serbes et les Monténégrins au Kosovo ne
sont pas
une minorité par rapport aux Albanais, de même que les Albanais ne
sont pas
une minorité au sein de la Yougoslavie, mais une ethnie qui vit en
communauté, à égalité de droits avec d'autres peuples et ethnies dans
trois
de nos républiques socialistes. L'attitude qui consiste à revendiquer
un
Kosovo ethniquement pur, économiquement et politiquement autonome et
isolé,
est non seulement idéologiquement, politiquement, ethniquement
impossible
mais encore, en fin de compte, contraire aux intérêts du peuple
albanais
lui-même. Un tel nationalisme l'exclurait de son entourage et, plus
que de
freiner, il interromprait son développement aussi bien du point de
vue de
l'aspect économique que de l'aspect spirituel au sens large, de même
qu'Enver Hodja par sa politique, a exclu de l'Europe le peuple
albanais déjà
si petit avec sa société fortement sous-développée, le privant de la
possibilité de participer à la vie économique du monde moderne. Cette
partie-ci du peuple albanais tend vers l'Europe, vers une société
moderne et
il ne faut pas la freiner sur cette voie. Nationalisme signifie
toujours
isolement vis à vis des autres, enfermement dans des cadres
restreints ce
qui entraine aussi un retard dans le
développement, car sans coopération, sans communication sur le terrain
yougoslave d'abord, et sur un espace plus vaste ensuite, il n'est pas
de
progrès. Tout peuple, toute ethnie qui s'enferme dans le nationalisme
manifeste un comportement irresponsable envers son propre devenir.
C'est
pourquoi nous autres communistes, en premier lieu, devons
entreprendre tout
ce qui pourra mener à l'élimination des conséquences du comportement
nationaliste et séparatiste tant au Kosovo que dans les autres
régions du
pays. (...) Nous ne pourrons pas faire revenir la composition
ethnique du
Kosovo à son état de jadis. Mais nous pouvons au moins enrayer
l'immigration,
assurer les conditions indispensables pour que tous les hommes qui
vivent au
Kosovo y soient chez eux, qu'ils vivent égaux et qu'ils partagent
équitablement le destin économique d'abord, puis tous les autres
destins de
cette région. » (cf. Slobodan Milosevic, « Les années décisives »,
L'Age
d'Homme, 1990, p. 113-120).
En définitive, ce piètre « dossier » consacré à la comparution de M.
Milosevic reflète bien les errements du Monde diplomatique sur le
sujet
yougoslave. Ce grand journal a été partiellement fourvoyé par sa
conseillère
trotskiste qui, en dépit de sa prétendue « expertise de trente ans »,
n'a
malheureusement pas compris (ou pas voulu comprendre) la véritable
nature du
conflit dans les Balkans qu'elle a réduit à des causes socio-
économiques. En
témoigne ce qu'elle affirmait encore, contre toute évidence, en juin
dernier
dans un entretien à la Revue internationale et stratégique: « Quant au
Kosovo, contrairement à ce qu'on en a dit, les gouvernants de l'Union
européenne voire des Etats-Unis, étaient à mon avis infiniment plus
proches
du gouvernement de Belgrade que des revendications albanaises. » (5).
Une
telle cécité volontaire dépasse l'entendement. On se demande bien
alors
pourquoi Madeleine Albright voulait prendre prétexte des troubles au
Kosovo
pour attaquer La Serbie dès le printemps 1998 (afin de se débarrasser
de
Milosevic), et pourquoi les services spéciaux allemands (BND et MAD)
ont
entrainé et équipé les hommes de l'UCK dès 1997. Heureusement,
d'autres
collaborateurs extérieurs du Monde diplomatique (Paul-Marie de La
Gorce et
Christophe Chiclet notamment) se sont montrés autrement plus
clairvoyants et
objectifs dans leurs analyses que la mauvaise conseillère du journal.
Marc-Antoine Coppo
(1) Christophe Chiclet, « Mystérieuse UCK », in Kosovo: le piège. Les
cahiers de Confluences. L'Harmattan, 2000.
(2) Cf. Rémy Ourdan, « Les révélations sur les charniers font évoluer
l'opinion serbe », Le Monde du 2 juillet 2001.
(3) Cf. Christophe Châtelot, « Des corps exhumés à Belgrade seraient
ceux
des victimes du massacre de Suva Reka », Le Monde du 3 juillet 2001.
(4) Cf. Christophe Chiclet, Op. cité.
(5) Revue internationale et stratégique, 42, été 2001.
Marc-Antoine COPPO
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
<coppo@...>
Data: 30/03/2002 00:48
Da: Vladimir Krsljanin
Oggetto: FREEDOM ASSOCIATION WARNS: MILOSEVIC'S LIFE UNDER
THREAT!
FREEDOM ASSOCIATION
/YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE TO LIBERATE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC/
WARNS:
HEALTH AND LIFE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
UNDER THREAT!
Level of health protection in former Nazi prison in the Hague is the
same like in Nazi concentration camps
(two prisoners already dyed due to lack of medical care)!
60-year old president Milosevic with malignant hypertension and
specific form of angina pectoris in an endless "trial" every day whole
day is treated by aspirins, when he got a flu (according to prison
doctor - general practician) with more then 10 days of high temperature!
He is under total life risk in such circumstances,
say medical experts of Belgrade University!
He needs urgent check-up by medical specialists, which NATO "tribunal"
prohibits up to now!
ACTION MUST BE TAKEN!
After the "tribunal's" negative answer to first such initiative,
Freedom Association sends the following letter (with medical
documentation enclosed) to "judges", "prosecution" and "amici curiae"
of the now-days Gestapo
(in accordance with their "rules"),
warning them about the criminal responsibility:
UNITED NATIONS
International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia
To the III Trial Chamber
Your Excellencies,
Bearing in mind the intensive dynamic of the so-called trial, to which
President Slobodan Milosevic is exposed from day to day, we must warn
you that you carry the responsibility for his health and life.
Since you are evidently not enough informed with the general,
but with the current as well, state of health of President Milosevic,
and since, no matter of his illness, you do not show interest enough
for the improvement of his health, that is the reason why we are
compelled, as National Committee for liberation of Slobodan Milosevic,
towarn you about that. We especially bear in mind your responsibility
for the state of health of President Milosevic that derives from your
Statute and Rulebook on Procedure and Evidence and a number of other
international documents. The treatment of President Milosevic as a
whole finds itself in full collision with the Convention on torture and
other brutal, humiliating sanctions and proceedings, adopted by the
United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1984, came into force
on June 26, 1987 and is in collision with the equivalent Convention,
adopted by the Council of Europe.
If however, for the sake of accomplishing an
unprecedented "project" of a trial, you will further on allow, as it
has been the case so far, the deterioration of President Milosevic's
health, you will carry full responsibility for that.
Therefore, we demand to enable a number of medical experts
(first of all specialists for cardio-vascular diseases) from
Yugoslavia, to make an urgent examination of President Milosevic and
give a proposal for adequate treatment, in order to stop the further
deterioration of his health. The team of experts would be comprised out
of Prof. Dr. Med. Sc Bozina Radevic (cardio-vascular surgeon), Prof.
Dr. Med. Sc Zdravko Mijailovic (cardiologist), Doc. Dr. Med. Sc Dragana
Bojic (cardiologist), and Prof. Dr. Med. Sc Vojislav Suvakovic
(infectologist).
Starting from Rule 74bis of the Rulebook on Procedure and
Evidence of the Tribunal, according to which you are proprio motu able
to issue such an order, we demand from you to immediately enable a
consilium medical examination of President Milosevic.
Attached you will find the reports of Prof. Dr. Med. Sc.
Zdravko Mijailovic of the Military Medical Academy of Belgrade, dating
from May 31, 2001 and June 4, 2001 (both in English), together with the
copies of the originals in Serbian, as well as the medical report dated
from March 25, 2002 related to the state of health of President
Milosevic.
Belgrade, March 26, 2002
For "SLOBODA" ("Freedom") Association
The National Committee for the
Liberation of Slobodan Milosevic
Bogoljub Bjelica, President
MEDICAL REPORT
RE: SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
Inspection of medical documentation and his previosly, well known healt
problems insigate and underline further facts:
The majority of people know what is hypertension. It is not secret that
hypertension has an inportant role of cardiovascular mortality and
morbidity. Effective treatment significantly reduces relative risk of
stroke up to 40%, and of myocardial infraction by 20%. Slobodan
Milosevic does not have simply elevated blood preasure, he has
hypertensive crisis or malignant hypertension. His diastolic blood
pressione often, with abrupt onset exceeds 130 mmHg, systolic 200 mmHg.
What does it mean?
Accelerated (malignant) hypertension occurs most commonly in patients
with essential hypertension. The risk of complication is more closely
linked with the rate of rise in blood preasure than the absolute blood
preasure level, because patients auto regulate to compensate for
chronic hypertension. When blood preasure rises rapidly as Milosevics'
case, celebral, retinal and renal damage may ensue and the patient may
develop acute cardinale failure. It carries a high mortality risk:
untreated, 1-year survival in approximately 25%; with treatment, 1-year
survival is around 90%. Rapid control of escalating blood presure is
essential, but it has to be achieved by slow, sustained reduction.
There is no prison hospital which can obtain this treatment. They can
provide only aggressive treatment. Aggressive reduction can cause
tissue and celebral ischaemia and infraction, because in most cases the
tissues have auto regulated to require a grater than normal perfusion
pressure.
His another heath problem is Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris.
There is no pearson who does not understand what means "angina
pectoris". In the last few months Milosevic has been having chest pain
due to coronary arterial spasm which can not be relieved by sublingual
nitroglycerin. It occurs at rest with abrupt onset or rapid
deterioration of previously stable condicion. Reason for deteriration
his condicion is inappropriate coronary vasoconstriction whish has been
shown to occur during exposure to mental stress.
In the other hand, anxiety is a normal reaction to cardial illness and
many patient will have symptoms as a result. The tendency to categorize
patient's symptoms as "genuine" and "non-cardiac" is unhelpful.
Relaxation and stress management are fundamental problems particularly
useful in managing angina where (after exertion) stress is the second
most likely precipitant of symptoms.
Slobodan Milosevic is in the prison where there is no possibility for
appropiate medical treatment. He probably can get pills or doctors'
supervision. But underlying conditions ask for high educated
consultants, intesive care unit and above all relaxsation. Only in this
condition his cardiac properties will not function related his chance
to present evidence of his innocent.
Prolonger trial and stress continuity increase risk of major
cardiovascular events. Slobodan Milosevic is undergoing extreme
phychical effort. Everyday rapid deterioration of his health can cause
sudden death. That is why he must be rewieved and under care of medical
experts from Yugoslavia who know his medical history. They need to see
him and after serious examination decide about further treatment.
We are not talking about quality of life we are fighting for
life!
Professors of Belgrade University:
Dragana Bojic, Ph.D., MD, cardiologist
Vojislav Suvakovic, Ph.D., MD, infectologist
Milos Janicijevic, Ph.D., MD, neuro-surgeon
Done in Belgrade, March 25, 2002
FOLLOW-UP CARDIOLOGY EXAMINATION
PATIENT: SLOBODAN MILOŠEVIC
The patient is 61 years old.
Risk factors for coronary arterial disease: smoker, hyper lipidaemia,
heredity, high stress, arterial hypertension (in earlier check-ups over
many years arterial tension ranged most frequently around 135-140/ 85-
90 mmHg, with occasional therapy. Maximum blood pressure readings
ranged around 150/95mmHg and rarely 150/100 mmHg).
He is also aware of small cysts in kidneys.
Echo examination of abdomen a year and a half ago, changes in gall
bladder observed, like a polyp or calculus but no further investigation
made because of the patients’ rejection.
Occasionally administered medicines:Presolol 100mg ¼ ili ½, Upsarin
effervettes 1 in the morning. Between 11.04.2001 and 13.04.2001 he was
hospitalized in the Military Medical Academy Hospital, where:
During echo cardiography: significant hypertrophy of myocardium was
proven in the left ventricles, global EF around 45%, but with akinesy
of the distal third of the septum, top of heart and distal third of
frontal and lateral wall of the left ventricle (Docent dr.A. Neskovic-
KBC Dedinje).
The selective coronography revealed coronary bridge ) suffocation of
the left coronary artery). Naked microcirculation and on other segments
epicardial coronary arteries only negligible changes. Left ventricle of
normal size, of hyperopic walls, in systole like hypertrophy
cardiomiopathy.
Under the decision of the medical consultation team the patient was
dismisses with medical therapy (dismissal letter attached).
In the meantime a check-up was undertaken (223.04.2001) when it was
concluded that the arterial hypertension has not been cured, with the
existence of probable angina pectoris, more intensive medicinal therapy
and additional examinations (ophthalmology examination, neurological
examination, analysis of the adrenal glands, abdominal echo and kidney
and adrenal glands echo, 24 hour halter monitoring of blood pressure
and halter ECG...follow up of ECG and additional assessment of
microcirculation (scintigraphy of the heart or PET scan..).
In the meantime he occasionally complained of chest sharp pain
propagating to the jaws and numbness in the jaws...he did not take
nitroglicerine... those disorders appear when in the state of rest, but
more often while walking when he occasionally sweats. Then he must sit
down and rest, when the troubles pass away gradually.
Occasionally he feels lack of air and speedy or irregular hear beat.
Sometimes mild headaches felt.
Regularly controlled blood pressure and pulse by the attending doctor.
Maximum measured blood pressure readings 220/13p mmHg on 30.05.2001,
pulse 120/mm.
The lowest TA value in the period under review was 140/100mmHg and
pulse 88/min, once on 21.04.2001.
The most frequent TA readings were 190/115 mmHg and pulse around 100/mm.
Regularly were monitored electro cardiograms, where sinus tachicardy
was observed of around 10/min, with symmetrically negative T waves in
D1, AVL and V2 to V6.
ECG dated 11.05.2001 shows sinus tachicardy around 11/min with deeply
negative T waves in D1, AVL, V2 to V6 even up to around 1.5 cm with
lowering of ST clip 2-3 cm.
Planned and appointed examinations suggested earlier were not carried
out in the meantime because the patient was not motivated.
According to the patient, the medication proposed earlier has been
regularly administered.
OBJECTIVE FINDING
Cordially compensated. Presently a febrile.
Obese according to general type. Veins in the neck not tense.
Over the neck arteries no suboclussion murmur is heard.
On the lungs vesicular breathing with rare low tone whistling.
Heart action is rhythmical, speeded to about 120/min, tones somewhat
quiet, without pathological noise. TA:200/120mmHg (after regular
therapy taken this morning).
Liver and spleen not palpable. No sensitivity of gall bladder to
palpation.
No signs of free liquid in the abdomen.
Kidney lobes insensitive to succusion.
No visible cardiac edema on lower legs, or deformities.
ECG : sinus tachicardy around 120/min, PQ=0.16, negative T in D1, AVL,
V2 to V6 with lowering of ST clip in the left pericardial drains up to
2mm
DG: Hypertensio arterialis (unregulated)
Hypertrohpy of myocardium of the left ventricle
Angina pectoris (cor,bridge...microvasc.??)
TH: Dilatrend 12.5mg, 1 in the morning with the control of
TA and pulse. If TA remains unregulated, the dose may be corrected with
additional 1 in the evening. Enalapril 20mg 1+1+0 with the check up of
TA
Lometazid 1-2 a week.
Nitroglycerin as needed.
Demetrine tab. 2x1
OPINION:
Present hypertension and unregulated with the existing therapy (max.
220/130 mmHg and most often 190/115 mmHg with a pulse of some 100/min).
The above readings of hypertension increase the risk exponentially for
fatal events (relative risks of stroke is above 4, and for an acute
coronary event between 3.5-4).
According to the patient, he was taking the therapy regularly, but as
evident from the above analyses arterial hypertension is unregulated.
Apart from it the patient feels troubled chest of angina type with
clear changes in ECG, which are maintained.
Based on the above and starting from scientific, professional and moral
standards it is necessary to:
1. Ensure regular intake of adequate therapy
2. Complete the examinations recommended earlier (Ophthalmology,
neurology, analysis of hormones of adrenaline gland, analysis of kidney
function, abdominal echo, ultra sound adrenaline gland check, 24 hour
Halter monitoring of blood pressure, supplemental examination of
hypertrophy of myocardium, scinthigraphy of the heart, PET scan and
others..)
3. If the patient shall have repeated problems behind the sternum of
anginoide character, dizziness or the similar, ECG should be repeated,
cardio specific enzyme and promptly proceed along the principles of
care of such patients.
4. If the disorders will persist, the blood pressure reading cannot
be corrected and the proposed examinations cannot be carried out in
view of the above mentioned risks of fatal events in such patients, it
shall be necessary to ensure via competent means an adequate correction
of blood pressure, additional examinations of hypertrophy of
myocardium, microcirculation of the heart as well as other
examinations in hospital (VMA..) conditions.
31.05/2001 in Belgrade
Col.Ass.Prof. MD, PhD
Zdravko
M.Mijailovic
FOLLOW-UP CARDIOLOGY EXAMINATION
PATIENT: SLOBODAN MILOŠEVIĆ
Follow-up examination of 04.06.2001
The patient was examined previously on 31.05.2001.See the finding
attached.
The patient is 61 years old.
Of risk factors from coronary disease: smoker, hiperlipidaemia,
heredity, arterial hypertension ranging during many years in the past
around 135-140/85-90 mmHg with intermittent therapy.
Maximum readings of the blood pressure used to be 150/95mmHg, and on
rare occasions 150/100 mmHg.
He is aware of smaller cists in kidneys.
On the earlier abdominal examination, changes were observed on the gall
bladder, which resembles of gallbladder polyp, although calculosis
could not have been excluded. Follow-up gastro enterologic examination
with a repeated echo examination of abdomen was not made due to lack of
motivation on the part of the patient.
Of drugs he was using Presolol 100mg ½ or ¼ in the morning and Upsarin
eff.
Between 11.04.2001 and 13.04.2001 he was treated in VMA hospital where
on Chocardiography considerable hypertrophy of myocardium was evidenced
on left ventricle (1.4cm), global EF around 45%, but with akinezy of
distal third of the septum, peak of the heart and distal third of
frontal and lateral walls of the left ventricle (Ass.Prof.
Dr.A.Neskovic- KBC Dedinje).
At the selective coronorography: visible coronary bridge (suffocation
of the left coronary artery( naked microcirculation, and on other
segments of epycardiac coronary arteries only negligible changes. The
left ventricle of normal size, of hypertrophic walls, in systole and by
type of hyperthrophic cardiomyopathy.
By the decision of the doctoral consultation team the patient was
dismisses with medicinal therapy (Letter of dismissal attached).
In the meantime a follow up was done (23.04.2001) when it was concluded
that arterial hypertension is unregulated with probable presence of
angina pectoris, the therapy was strengthened, and additional
examinations advised for abdomen and echo of kidneys and adrenaline
gland, 24 hour Halter monitoring of blood pressure and Halter ECG...
follow up of ECG, as well as supplemental assessment of
microcirculation (Scintigraphy of the heart or PET scan...).
Blood pressure readings were regularly controlled and pulse by the
attending doctor.
Maximum values of blood pressure were 220?130 mmHg on 30.05.2001, pulse
120/min.
The lowest read TA value over the period was 140/100mmHg and pulse
33/min, only once on 21.04.2001.
The most frequently obtained TA values were 190/115 mmHg with pulse of
around 100/mm.
Electro cardio grams were also regularly followed, where sinus
tahicardy was observed of some 100/mm, with symmetrically negative T
waves in D1, AVL and V2 to V6. ECG of 11.05.2001 revealed tahicardy
around 110/mm, with deeply negative T waves in D1, AVL, V2 do V6 even
up to 1.5cm with a drop of ST clip 2-3mm.
Planned and appointed examinations proposed earlier were not completed
due to the lack of motivation on the part of the patient.
In the meantime, since 31.05.2001 till today, he continued to com-plain
here and there to the chest pain propagating to the jaws and numbness
in the jaws...he did not take nitroglicerin...these troubles appear at
rest but more often while walking when he sometimes sweats. Then he
must sit down and take a rest, and the disorders pass away
spontaneously.
From time to time he feels lack of air and irregular and speedy hart
beat.
Sometimes he has light headache.
Since 31/05.2001 till today no blood pressure was measured and no
examinations made, no electrocardiogram, either.
The planned and appointed examinations proposed earlier were not
completed in the meantime due to the lack of motivation by the patient.
OBJECTIVE FINDING
Cordially compensated. Now a febrile.
Obese according to general type. Veins of the neck not tense.
On lungs vesicular breathing, with rare low tone whistling.
Heart action is rhythmic, speedy up to some 130/min, tones somewhat
quieter without pathological hums.
TA 230?130 mmHg (following the morning regular therapy, Dilatrend
12.5mg, Enalapril 20mg, Lometazid...).
Liver and spleen not palpable. Gall bladder is not sensitive to
palpation.No signs of free liquid in the abdomen.
Kidney archinephrons insensitive to succussion.
No visible cardiac edema on lower legs or deformities.
ECG sinus tahicardy around 130min,PQ= 0,16, negative T in D1,AVL,V2 up
toV6, with lowering of 3T of clips in the left perocardial drains up to
2mm.
DG. Hypertensio arterialis (unregulated)
Hypertrophy of myocardium of the left ventricle
Angina pectoris (cor. “bridge”...microvasc.?? )
Obs.polypus(calculosis) v.feleae
TH. Dilatrend 12.5mg 2 in the morning with control of TA and
pulse. If TA remains unregulated the dose may be corrected with an
addition in the evening.
Enalpril 20 mg i+i+0 with the control of TA.
Norvasc 5mg 0+i=i
Isosorb R 2x1
Lasix i-2 a week
Bromazepam 3mg 2x1
Nitroglicerin as needed
OPINION
The extremely high value of arterial hypertension continued, and was
not regulated with the existing therapy (max. 230/130 mmHg at a pulse
rate of 130/min, and most often 190/115 mmHg with pulse rate of around
100/min.). These values of arterial hypertension exponentially increase
a risk of fatal incidents (brain stroke, acute myocardial infarct, hear
arrest, malignant disorders in heart rhythm...).
Next to that the patient has chest pain of angina type with clear
changes in ECG that are reflected.
These disorders could be an indication of threatening fatal coronary
accidents, and particularly in combination with enormous hypertension
which ranges on average to 195/115 mmHg for over two months, proven
hypertension of myocardium, alterations in microcirculation, found
phenomenon of “suffocation of left coronary artery” and enormous stress
the patient has been permanently exposed to).
Despite all measures undertaken as evident from the above stated
findings, the arterial hypertension remains uncorrected, angina
disorders are repeated and ECG alterations persist.
Based on the above, starting from high risk to the patient, and since
the treatment so far failed to yield results, and starting from
scientific, professional and ethic norms:
1. It is necessary immediately in hospital conditions to ensure an
adequate correction of blood pressure; implement earlier planned
additional examinations, ophthalmology examination, neurological
examination, analysis of the hormone of adrenaline gland,
analysis of kidney function, abdominal echo with ultra sound
examination of adrenaline, 24 hour Halter monitoring of blood pressure,
Halter ECG, supplemental examination of the nature of hypertrophy of
myocardium and assessment of microcirculation, possibly burden test,
scintigraphy of heart, PET scan and others...).
04.06.2001 in Belgrade
Col. Ass.Prof.MD, Phd,
Zdravko M.Mijailovic
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/YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE TO LIBERATE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC/
WARNS:
HEALTH AND LIFE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
UNDER THREAT!
Level of health protection in former Nazi prison in the Hague is the
same like in Nazi concentration camps
(two prisoners already dyed due to lack of medical care)!
60-year old president Milosevic with malignant hypertension and
specific form of angina pectoris in an endless "trial" every day whole
day is treated by aspirins, when he got a flu (according to prison
doctor - general practician) with more then 10 days of high temperature!
He is under total life risk in such circumstances,
say medical experts of Belgrade University!
He needs urgent check-up by medical specialists, which NATO "tribunal"
prohibits up to now!
ACTION MUST BE TAKEN!
After the "tribunal's" negative answer to first such initiative,
Freedom Association sends the following letter (with medical
documentation enclosed) to "judges", "prosecution" and "amici curiae"
of the now-days Gestapo
(in accordance with their "rules"),
warning them about the criminal responsibility:
UNITED NATIONS
International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia
To the III Trial Chamber
Your Excellencies,
Bearing in mind the intensive dynamic of the so-called trial, to which
President Slobodan Milosevic is exposed from day to day, we must warn
you that you carry the responsibility for his health and life.
Since you are evidently not enough informed with the general,
but with the current as well, state of health of President Milosevic,
and since, no matter of his illness, you do not show interest enough
for the improvement of his health, that is the reason why we are
compelled, as National Committee for liberation of Slobodan Milosevic,
towarn you about that. We especially bear in mind your responsibility
for the state of health of President Milosevic that derives from your
Statute and Rulebook on Procedure and Evidence and a number of other
international documents. The treatment of President Milosevic as a
whole finds itself in full collision with the Convention on torture and
other brutal, humiliating sanctions and proceedings, adopted by the
United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1984, came into force
on June 26, 1987 and is in collision with the equivalent Convention,
adopted by the Council of Europe.
If however, for the sake of accomplishing an
unprecedented "project" of a trial, you will further on allow, as it
has been the case so far, the deterioration of President Milosevic's
health, you will carry full responsibility for that.
Therefore, we demand to enable a number of medical experts
(first of all specialists for cardio-vascular diseases) from
Yugoslavia, to make an urgent examination of President Milosevic and
give a proposal for adequate treatment, in order to stop the further
deterioration of his health. The team of experts would be comprised out
of Prof. Dr. Med. Sc Bozina Radevic (cardio-vascular surgeon), Prof.
Dr. Med. Sc Zdravko Mijailovic (cardiologist), Doc. Dr. Med. Sc Dragana
Bojic (cardiologist), and Prof. Dr. Med. Sc Vojislav Suvakovic
(infectologist).
Starting from Rule 74bis of the Rulebook on Procedure and
Evidence of the Tribunal, according to which you are proprio motu able
to issue such an order, we demand from you to immediately enable a
consilium medical examination of President Milosevic.
Attached you will find the reports of Prof. Dr. Med. Sc.
Zdravko Mijailovic of the Military Medical Academy of Belgrade, dating
from May 31, 2001 and June 4, 2001 (both in English), together with the
copies of the originals in Serbian, as well as the medical report dated
from March 25, 2002 related to the state of health of President
Milosevic.
Belgrade, March 26, 2002
For "SLOBODA" ("Freedom") Association
The National Committee for the
Liberation of Slobodan Milosevic
Bogoljub Bjelica, President
MEDICAL REPORT
RE: SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
Inspection of medical documentation and his previosly, well known healt
problems insigate and underline further facts:
The majority of people know what is hypertension. It is not secret that
hypertension has an inportant role of cardiovascular mortality and
morbidity. Effective treatment significantly reduces relative risk of
stroke up to 40%, and of myocardial infraction by 20%. Slobodan
Milosevic does not have simply elevated blood preasure, he has
hypertensive crisis or malignant hypertension. His diastolic blood
pressione often, with abrupt onset exceeds 130 mmHg, systolic 200 mmHg.
What does it mean?
Accelerated (malignant) hypertension occurs most commonly in patients
with essential hypertension. The risk of complication is more closely
linked with the rate of rise in blood preasure than the absolute blood
preasure level, because patients auto regulate to compensate for
chronic hypertension. When blood preasure rises rapidly as Milosevics'
case, celebral, retinal and renal damage may ensue and the patient may
develop acute cardinale failure. It carries a high mortality risk:
untreated, 1-year survival in approximately 25%; with treatment, 1-year
survival is around 90%. Rapid control of escalating blood presure is
essential, but it has to be achieved by slow, sustained reduction.
There is no prison hospital which can obtain this treatment. They can
provide only aggressive treatment. Aggressive reduction can cause
tissue and celebral ischaemia and infraction, because in most cases the
tissues have auto regulated to require a grater than normal perfusion
pressure.
His another heath problem is Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris.
There is no pearson who does not understand what means "angina
pectoris". In the last few months Milosevic has been having chest pain
due to coronary arterial spasm which can not be relieved by sublingual
nitroglycerin. It occurs at rest with abrupt onset or rapid
deterioration of previously stable condicion. Reason for deteriration
his condicion is inappropriate coronary vasoconstriction whish has been
shown to occur during exposure to mental stress.
In the other hand, anxiety is a normal reaction to cardial illness and
many patient will have symptoms as a result. The tendency to categorize
patient's symptoms as "genuine" and "non-cardiac" is unhelpful.
Relaxation and stress management are fundamental problems particularly
useful in managing angina where (after exertion) stress is the second
most likely precipitant of symptoms.
Slobodan Milosevic is in the prison where there is no possibility for
appropiate medical treatment. He probably can get pills or doctors'
supervision. But underlying conditions ask for high educated
consultants, intesive care unit and above all relaxsation. Only in this
condition his cardiac properties will not function related his chance
to present evidence of his innocent.
Prolonger trial and stress continuity increase risk of major
cardiovascular events. Slobodan Milosevic is undergoing extreme
phychical effort. Everyday rapid deterioration of his health can cause
sudden death. That is why he must be rewieved and under care of medical
experts from Yugoslavia who know his medical history. They need to see
him and after serious examination decide about further treatment.
We are not talking about quality of life we are fighting for
life!
Professors of Belgrade University:
Dragana Bojic, Ph.D., MD, cardiologist
Vojislav Suvakovic, Ph.D., MD, infectologist
Milos Janicijevic, Ph.D., MD, neuro-surgeon
Done in Belgrade, March 25, 2002
FOLLOW-UP CARDIOLOGY EXAMINATION
PATIENT: SLOBODAN MILOŠEVIC
The patient is 61 years old.
Risk factors for coronary arterial disease: smoker, hyper lipidaemia,
heredity, high stress, arterial hypertension (in earlier check-ups over
many years arterial tension ranged most frequently around 135-140/ 85-
90 mmHg, with occasional therapy. Maximum blood pressure readings
ranged around 150/95mmHg and rarely 150/100 mmHg).
He is also aware of small cysts in kidneys.
Echo examination of abdomen a year and a half ago, changes in gall
bladder observed, like a polyp or calculus but no further investigation
made because of the patients’ rejection.
Occasionally administered medicines:Presolol 100mg ¼ ili ½, Upsarin
effervettes 1 in the morning. Between 11.04.2001 and 13.04.2001 he was
hospitalized in the Military Medical Academy Hospital, where:
During echo cardiography: significant hypertrophy of myocardium was
proven in the left ventricles, global EF around 45%, but with akinesy
of the distal third of the septum, top of heart and distal third of
frontal and lateral wall of the left ventricle (Docent dr.A. Neskovic-
KBC Dedinje).
The selective coronography revealed coronary bridge ) suffocation of
the left coronary artery). Naked microcirculation and on other segments
epicardial coronary arteries only negligible changes. Left ventricle of
normal size, of hyperopic walls, in systole like hypertrophy
cardiomiopathy.
Under the decision of the medical consultation team the patient was
dismisses with medical therapy (dismissal letter attached).
In the meantime a check-up was undertaken (223.04.2001) when it was
concluded that the arterial hypertension has not been cured, with the
existence of probable angina pectoris, more intensive medicinal therapy
and additional examinations (ophthalmology examination, neurological
examination, analysis of the adrenal glands, abdominal echo and kidney
and adrenal glands echo, 24 hour halter monitoring of blood pressure
and halter ECG...follow up of ECG and additional assessment of
microcirculation (scintigraphy of the heart or PET scan..).
In the meantime he occasionally complained of chest sharp pain
propagating to the jaws and numbness in the jaws...he did not take
nitroglicerine... those disorders appear when in the state of rest, but
more often while walking when he occasionally sweats. Then he must sit
down and rest, when the troubles pass away gradually.
Occasionally he feels lack of air and speedy or irregular hear beat.
Sometimes mild headaches felt.
Regularly controlled blood pressure and pulse by the attending doctor.
Maximum measured blood pressure readings 220/13p mmHg on 30.05.2001,
pulse 120/mm.
The lowest TA value in the period under review was 140/100mmHg and
pulse 88/min, once on 21.04.2001.
The most frequent TA readings were 190/115 mmHg and pulse around 100/mm.
Regularly were monitored electro cardiograms, where sinus tachicardy
was observed of around 10/min, with symmetrically negative T waves in
D1, AVL and V2 to V6.
ECG dated 11.05.2001 shows sinus tachicardy around 11/min with deeply
negative T waves in D1, AVL, V2 to V6 even up to around 1.5 cm with
lowering of ST clip 2-3 cm.
Planned and appointed examinations suggested earlier were not carried
out in the meantime because the patient was not motivated.
According to the patient, the medication proposed earlier has been
regularly administered.
OBJECTIVE FINDING
Cordially compensated. Presently a febrile.
Obese according to general type. Veins in the neck not tense.
Over the neck arteries no suboclussion murmur is heard.
On the lungs vesicular breathing with rare low tone whistling.
Heart action is rhythmical, speeded to about 120/min, tones somewhat
quiet, without pathological noise. TA:200/120mmHg (after regular
therapy taken this morning).
Liver and spleen not palpable. No sensitivity of gall bladder to
palpation.
No signs of free liquid in the abdomen.
Kidney lobes insensitive to succusion.
No visible cardiac edema on lower legs, or deformities.
ECG : sinus tachicardy around 120/min, PQ=0.16, negative T in D1, AVL,
V2 to V6 with lowering of ST clip in the left pericardial drains up to
2mm
DG: Hypertensio arterialis (unregulated)
Hypertrohpy of myocardium of the left ventricle
Angina pectoris (cor,bridge...microvasc.??)
TH: Dilatrend 12.5mg, 1 in the morning with the control of
TA and pulse. If TA remains unregulated, the dose may be corrected with
additional 1 in the evening. Enalapril 20mg 1+1+0 with the check up of
TA
Lometazid 1-2 a week.
Nitroglycerin as needed.
Demetrine tab. 2x1
OPINION:
Present hypertension and unregulated with the existing therapy (max.
220/130 mmHg and most often 190/115 mmHg with a pulse of some 100/min).
The above readings of hypertension increase the risk exponentially for
fatal events (relative risks of stroke is above 4, and for an acute
coronary event between 3.5-4).
According to the patient, he was taking the therapy regularly, but as
evident from the above analyses arterial hypertension is unregulated.
Apart from it the patient feels troubled chest of angina type with
clear changes in ECG, which are maintained.
Based on the above and starting from scientific, professional and moral
standards it is necessary to:
1. Ensure regular intake of adequate therapy
2. Complete the examinations recommended earlier (Ophthalmology,
neurology, analysis of hormones of adrenaline gland, analysis of kidney
function, abdominal echo, ultra sound adrenaline gland check, 24 hour
Halter monitoring of blood pressure, supplemental examination of
hypertrophy of myocardium, scinthigraphy of the heart, PET scan and
others..)
3. If the patient shall have repeated problems behind the sternum of
anginoide character, dizziness or the similar, ECG should be repeated,
cardio specific enzyme and promptly proceed along the principles of
care of such patients.
4. If the disorders will persist, the blood pressure reading cannot
be corrected and the proposed examinations cannot be carried out in
view of the above mentioned risks of fatal events in such patients, it
shall be necessary to ensure via competent means an adequate correction
of blood pressure, additional examinations of hypertrophy of
myocardium, microcirculation of the heart as well as other
examinations in hospital (VMA..) conditions.
31.05/2001 in Belgrade
Col.Ass.Prof. MD, PhD
Zdravko
M.Mijailovic
FOLLOW-UP CARDIOLOGY EXAMINATION
PATIENT: SLOBODAN MILOŠEVIĆ
Follow-up examination of 04.06.2001
The patient was examined previously on 31.05.2001.See the finding
attached.
The patient is 61 years old.
Of risk factors from coronary disease: smoker, hiperlipidaemia,
heredity, arterial hypertension ranging during many years in the past
around 135-140/85-90 mmHg with intermittent therapy.
Maximum readings of the blood pressure used to be 150/95mmHg, and on
rare occasions 150/100 mmHg.
He is aware of smaller cists in kidneys.
On the earlier abdominal examination, changes were observed on the gall
bladder, which resembles of gallbladder polyp, although calculosis
could not have been excluded. Follow-up gastro enterologic examination
with a repeated echo examination of abdomen was not made due to lack of
motivation on the part of the patient.
Of drugs he was using Presolol 100mg ½ or ¼ in the morning and Upsarin
eff.
Between 11.04.2001 and 13.04.2001 he was treated in VMA hospital where
on Chocardiography considerable hypertrophy of myocardium was evidenced
on left ventricle (1.4cm), global EF around 45%, but with akinezy of
distal third of the septum, peak of the heart and distal third of
frontal and lateral walls of the left ventricle (Ass.Prof.
Dr.A.Neskovic- KBC Dedinje).
At the selective coronorography: visible coronary bridge (suffocation
of the left coronary artery( naked microcirculation, and on other
segments of epycardiac coronary arteries only negligible changes. The
left ventricle of normal size, of hypertrophic walls, in systole and by
type of hyperthrophic cardiomyopathy.
By the decision of the doctoral consultation team the patient was
dismisses with medicinal therapy (Letter of dismissal attached).
In the meantime a follow up was done (23.04.2001) when it was concluded
that arterial hypertension is unregulated with probable presence of
angina pectoris, the therapy was strengthened, and additional
examinations advised for abdomen and echo of kidneys and adrenaline
gland, 24 hour Halter monitoring of blood pressure and Halter ECG...
follow up of ECG, as well as supplemental assessment of
microcirculation (Scintigraphy of the heart or PET scan...).
Blood pressure readings were regularly controlled and pulse by the
attending doctor.
Maximum values of blood pressure were 220?130 mmHg on 30.05.2001, pulse
120/min.
The lowest read TA value over the period was 140/100mmHg and pulse
33/min, only once on 21.04.2001.
The most frequently obtained TA values were 190/115 mmHg with pulse of
around 100/mm.
Electro cardio grams were also regularly followed, where sinus
tahicardy was observed of some 100/mm, with symmetrically negative T
waves in D1, AVL and V2 to V6. ECG of 11.05.2001 revealed tahicardy
around 110/mm, with deeply negative T waves in D1, AVL, V2 do V6 even
up to 1.5cm with a drop of ST clip 2-3mm.
Planned and appointed examinations proposed earlier were not completed
due to the lack of motivation on the part of the patient.
In the meantime, since 31.05.2001 till today, he continued to com-plain
here and there to the chest pain propagating to the jaws and numbness
in the jaws...he did not take nitroglicerin...these troubles appear at
rest but more often while walking when he sometimes sweats. Then he
must sit down and take a rest, and the disorders pass away
spontaneously.
From time to time he feels lack of air and irregular and speedy hart
beat.
Sometimes he has light headache.
Since 31/05.2001 till today no blood pressure was measured and no
examinations made, no electrocardiogram, either.
The planned and appointed examinations proposed earlier were not
completed in the meantime due to the lack of motivation by the patient.
OBJECTIVE FINDING
Cordially compensated. Now a febrile.
Obese according to general type. Veins of the neck not tense.
On lungs vesicular breathing, with rare low tone whistling.
Heart action is rhythmic, speedy up to some 130/min, tones somewhat
quieter without pathological hums.
TA 230?130 mmHg (following the morning regular therapy, Dilatrend
12.5mg, Enalapril 20mg, Lometazid...).
Liver and spleen not palpable. Gall bladder is not sensitive to
palpation.No signs of free liquid in the abdomen.
Kidney archinephrons insensitive to succussion.
No visible cardiac edema on lower legs or deformities.
ECG sinus tahicardy around 130min,PQ= 0,16, negative T in D1,AVL,V2 up
toV6, with lowering of 3T of clips in the left perocardial drains up to
2mm.
DG. Hypertensio arterialis (unregulated)
Hypertrophy of myocardium of the left ventricle
Angina pectoris (cor. “bridge”...microvasc.?? )
Obs.polypus(calculosis) v.feleae
TH. Dilatrend 12.5mg 2 in the morning with control of TA and
pulse. If TA remains unregulated the dose may be corrected with an
addition in the evening.
Enalpril 20 mg i+i+0 with the control of TA.
Norvasc 5mg 0+i=i
Isosorb R 2x1
Lasix i-2 a week
Bromazepam 3mg 2x1
Nitroglicerin as needed
OPINION
The extremely high value of arterial hypertension continued, and was
not regulated with the existing therapy (max. 230/130 mmHg at a pulse
rate of 130/min, and most often 190/115 mmHg with pulse rate of around
100/min.). These values of arterial hypertension exponentially increase
a risk of fatal incidents (brain stroke, acute myocardial infarct, hear
arrest, malignant disorders in heart rhythm...).
Next to that the patient has chest pain of angina type with clear
changes in ECG that are reflected.
These disorders could be an indication of threatening fatal coronary
accidents, and particularly in combination with enormous hypertension
which ranges on average to 195/115 mmHg for over two months, proven
hypertension of myocardium, alterations in microcirculation, found
phenomenon of “suffocation of left coronary artery” and enormous stress
the patient has been permanently exposed to).
Despite all measures undertaken as evident from the above stated
findings, the arterial hypertension remains uncorrected, angina
disorders are repeated and ECG alterations persist.
Based on the above, starting from high risk to the patient, and since
the treatment so far failed to yield results, and starting from
scientific, professional and ethic norms:
1. It is necessary immediately in hospital conditions to ensure an
adequate correction of blood pressure; implement earlier planned
additional examinations, ophthalmology examination, neurological
examination, analysis of the hormone of adrenaline gland,
analysis of kidney function, abdominal echo with ultra sound
examination of adrenaline, 24 hour Halter monitoring of blood pressure,
Halter ECG, supplemental examination of the nature of hypertrophy of
myocardium and assessment of microcirculation, possibly burden test,
scintigraphy of heart, PET scan and others...).
04.06.2001 in Belgrade
Col. Ass.Prof.MD, Phd,
Zdravko M.Mijailovic
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/ ('morning news' the only Serbian newspaper
advocating liberation)
Slobodan Milosevic u Hagu: STENOGRAMI
15/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/15-00.html
14/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/14-00.html
13/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/13-00.html
12/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/12-00.html
11/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/11-00.html
08/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/08-00.html
07/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/07-00.html
06/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/06-00.html
05/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/05-00.html
04/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/04-00.html
28/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/28-00.html
27/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/27-00.html
26/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/26-00.html
25/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/25-01.html
21/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/21-01.html
20/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/20-00.html
19/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/19-00.html
18/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/19-01.html
15/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/15-01.html
14/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/14-01.html
13/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/13-01.html
SKANDALOZNO!!!!
RTS NEĆE VIŠE DA PRENOSI "SUDSKI PROCES IZ HAGA
1. PISMO MIRKA MARJANOVIĆA DIREKTORU RTS-A ALEKSANDRU CRKVENJAKOVU
08.03.2002. godine
Beograd
Pismo Mirka Marjanovića Aleksandru Crkvenjakovu
Gospodine direktore,
Javnost naše zemlje danas je obaveštena da je RTS odlučio da od
ponedeljka više ne prenosi direktno tok tzv. "sudskog procesa" iz
Haga, koji se tamo vodi protiv Predsednika Slobodana Miloševića.
Vasa odluka je motivisana isklučivo interesom DOS-ovog režima
koji strahuje od Predsednika Slobodana Miloševića čak i sada kada je
on u zatvoru u Hagu, gde je dospeo činom otmice u organizaciji
izvršne vlasti Srbije. Pitam se ko i zašto strahuje od istine koju
Predsednik Milošević iznosi u Hagu? Ko se to boji od toga da građani
Srbije vide kakve sve laži iznose albanski teroristi obučeni u
odela "svedoka" kako bi optuživali Predsednika Miloševiža, naš narod,
našu vojsku i policiju, našu državu? Ko to strepi od narodne podrške
Predsedniku Miloševiću, koju on uživa zato što časno i dogovorno
brani interese države i naroda ?
Odluka RTS jasno govori da je kuća na čijem ste čelu isključivo
servis DOS-ovog režima, a ne javna ustanova. Ništa što nije u
interešu režima ne dospeva u Vaše informativne emisije. Ne
ustručavate se čak ni od kršenja Ustavom zagarantovanog prava građana
na slobodno i objektivno informisanje samo da bi ste zadovoljili
svoje naredbodavce.
U ime građana Srbije koji svakodnevno prate televizijski prenos
zahtevamo od Vas da odmah povučete ovu odluku i nastavite sa
direktnim televizijskim prenosima. S naše strane preduzećemo sve mere
građanske neposlušnosti i pritisaka kako bi smo naterali Vaše
naredbodavce da ovu odluku promene.
Za PREDSEDNIK
SOCIJALISTICKE PARTIJE SRBIJE
Mirko Marjanovic
2. NOVO PISMO CRKVENJAKOVU
13.03.2002. godine
B e o g r a d
RADIO TELEVIZIJA SRBIJE
Gospodin Aleksandar Crkvenjakov, generalni direktor
Gospodine Crkvenjakov,
Pročitavši poslednje pismo koje ste mi uputili, shvatio
sam zbog čega je toliko mnogo govora mržnje na Vašim televizijskim
programima. Kada takvo pismo potpiše neko ko se nalazi na tako
odgovornom mestu kao što je generalni direktor RTS, šta onda tek
treba da potpisuju Vaši novinari da bi zadovoljili kriterijume DOS-
ovog "nezavisnog novinarstva" ?
Pominjete nekakve pritiske na "nezavisnu informativnu
kuću", misleći prit om na RTS. Vi, ni po definiciji, a pogoto ne u
praksi, niste "nezavisna informativna kuća". Po definiciji, RTS je
državno preduzeće, koje se bavi informisanjem javnosti i
to "objektivnim i pravovremenim". U praksi, Vi ste realizator
propagandnih ideja koje su stvorene u jednom centru za manipulisanje
javnim mnjenjem, a čiji je naziv koliko znam Biro za komunikacije ili
tako nekako. Iz tog biroa ste i dobili nalog da odmah prekinete sa
direktnim prenosima.
Pošto je SPS-u poznato da je sedište tog biroa u Nemanjinoj ulici
11, mi ćemo demonstracije organizovati i ispred Vlade Srbije, kao
Vašeg naredbodavca i ispred RTS-a kao izvršioca tih naloga. I
nameravamo da istrajemo u svojim pritiscima, sve dok ne promenite
odluku i ne organizujete direktan TV prenos.
U vezi sa nekakvim dugom SPS prema RTS koji pominjete, podsećam Vas
na dugovanja Vaše kuće prema Socijalističkoj partiji Srbije, što
naravno treba da bude na određen način regulisano.
Na kraju, a sigurno prvo po značaju, sramno je da manipulišete
pogibijom radnika RTS u zgradi u Takovskoj 10. Oni su se u tom
trenutku nalazili na odgovornom zadatku informisanja javnosti o
zločinima koje NATO - pakt čini protiv naše zemlje i naroda, a nisu
kao neki sadašnji vlastdršci pobegli iz svoje zemlje u Nemačku da
tamo savetuju koliko dugo i šta sve u Jugoslaviji treba bombardovati.
Trebalo bi njih da priupitate da li su, možda, oni savetovali
raketiranje zgrade RTS.
A što se tiče zasluga moje Vlade tokom i posle agresije one su
poznate - mi smo svi tokom agresije bili u zemlji i zemlju branili, a
posle agresije ono što je NATO razrušio obnavljali i gradili.
Obnovili smo i zgradu RTS u Takovskoj 10, ali su je DOS-ovci bagerom
razrušili i zapalili 5. oktobra 2000. godine. Da li ste, kada već
lijete suze nad lošim finansijskim stanjem Vaše kuće, tražili odštetu
od DOS-a zbog nanete štete ? Jeste li možda podneli krivičnu prijavu
protiv onih koji su čitavu zgradu uništili tako da još uvek nije
sasvim obnovljena, na isti način kao što ste hitro podneli krivičnu
prijavu protiv Nenada Čanka, kada je tablu sa oznakom RTS polomio ? I
jedni i drugi lome, samo je šteta prvih neuporedivo veća, a Vi,
gospodine direktore, ne pokazujete nameru da je svojoj kući
nadoknadite.
Ponavljam, u ime građana Srbije, zahtev da odmah otpočnete sa
televizijskim prenosom "suđenja" u Hagu.
PREDSEDNIK SOCIJALISTIČKE PARTIJE SRBIJE
Mirko Marjanović
15/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/15-00.html
14/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/14-00.html
13/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/13-00.html
12/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/12-00.html
11/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/11-00.html
08/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/08-00.html
07/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/07-00.html
06/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/06-00.html
05/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/05-00.html
04/3/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/03/04-00.html
28/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/28-00.html
27/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/27-00.html
26/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/26-00.html
25/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/25-01.html
21/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/21-01.html
20/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/20-00.html
19/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/19-00.html
18/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/19-01.html
15/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/15-01.html
14/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/14-01.html
13/2/02 -> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/13-01.html
SKANDALOZNO!!!!
RTS NEĆE VIŠE DA PRENOSI "SUDSKI PROCES IZ HAGA
1. PISMO MIRKA MARJANOVIĆA DIREKTORU RTS-A ALEKSANDRU CRKVENJAKOVU
08.03.2002. godine
Beograd
Pismo Mirka Marjanovića Aleksandru Crkvenjakovu
Gospodine direktore,
Javnost naše zemlje danas je obaveštena da je RTS odlučio da od
ponedeljka više ne prenosi direktno tok tzv. "sudskog procesa" iz
Haga, koji se tamo vodi protiv Predsednika Slobodana Miloševića.
Vasa odluka je motivisana isklučivo interesom DOS-ovog režima
koji strahuje od Predsednika Slobodana Miloševića čak i sada kada je
on u zatvoru u Hagu, gde je dospeo činom otmice u organizaciji
izvršne vlasti Srbije. Pitam se ko i zašto strahuje od istine koju
Predsednik Milošević iznosi u Hagu? Ko se to boji od toga da građani
Srbije vide kakve sve laži iznose albanski teroristi obučeni u
odela "svedoka" kako bi optuživali Predsednika Miloševiža, naš narod,
našu vojsku i policiju, našu državu? Ko to strepi od narodne podrške
Predsedniku Miloševiću, koju on uživa zato što časno i dogovorno
brani interese države i naroda ?
Odluka RTS jasno govori da je kuća na čijem ste čelu isključivo
servis DOS-ovog režima, a ne javna ustanova. Ništa što nije u
interešu režima ne dospeva u Vaše informativne emisije. Ne
ustručavate se čak ni od kršenja Ustavom zagarantovanog prava građana
na slobodno i objektivno informisanje samo da bi ste zadovoljili
svoje naredbodavce.
U ime građana Srbije koji svakodnevno prate televizijski prenos
zahtevamo od Vas da odmah povučete ovu odluku i nastavite sa
direktnim televizijskim prenosima. S naše strane preduzećemo sve mere
građanske neposlušnosti i pritisaka kako bi smo naterali Vaše
naredbodavce da ovu odluku promene.
Za PREDSEDNIK
SOCIJALISTICKE PARTIJE SRBIJE
Mirko Marjanovic
2. NOVO PISMO CRKVENJAKOVU
13.03.2002. godine
B e o g r a d
RADIO TELEVIZIJA SRBIJE
Gospodin Aleksandar Crkvenjakov, generalni direktor
Gospodine Crkvenjakov,
Pročitavši poslednje pismo koje ste mi uputili, shvatio
sam zbog čega je toliko mnogo govora mržnje na Vašim televizijskim
programima. Kada takvo pismo potpiše neko ko se nalazi na tako
odgovornom mestu kao što je generalni direktor RTS, šta onda tek
treba da potpisuju Vaši novinari da bi zadovoljili kriterijume DOS-
ovog "nezavisnog novinarstva" ?
Pominjete nekakve pritiske na "nezavisnu informativnu
kuću", misleći prit om na RTS. Vi, ni po definiciji, a pogoto ne u
praksi, niste "nezavisna informativna kuća". Po definiciji, RTS je
državno preduzeće, koje se bavi informisanjem javnosti i
to "objektivnim i pravovremenim". U praksi, Vi ste realizator
propagandnih ideja koje su stvorene u jednom centru za manipulisanje
javnim mnjenjem, a čiji je naziv koliko znam Biro za komunikacije ili
tako nekako. Iz tog biroa ste i dobili nalog da odmah prekinete sa
direktnim prenosima.
Pošto je SPS-u poznato da je sedište tog biroa u Nemanjinoj ulici
11, mi ćemo demonstracije organizovati i ispred Vlade Srbije, kao
Vašeg naredbodavca i ispred RTS-a kao izvršioca tih naloga. I
nameravamo da istrajemo u svojim pritiscima, sve dok ne promenite
odluku i ne organizujete direktan TV prenos.
U vezi sa nekakvim dugom SPS prema RTS koji pominjete, podsećam Vas
na dugovanja Vaše kuće prema Socijalističkoj partiji Srbije, što
naravno treba da bude na određen način regulisano.
Na kraju, a sigurno prvo po značaju, sramno je da manipulišete
pogibijom radnika RTS u zgradi u Takovskoj 10. Oni su se u tom
trenutku nalazili na odgovornom zadatku informisanja javnosti o
zločinima koje NATO - pakt čini protiv naše zemlje i naroda, a nisu
kao neki sadašnji vlastdršci pobegli iz svoje zemlje u Nemačku da
tamo savetuju koliko dugo i šta sve u Jugoslaviji treba bombardovati.
Trebalo bi njih da priupitate da li su, možda, oni savetovali
raketiranje zgrade RTS.
A što se tiče zasluga moje Vlade tokom i posle agresije one su
poznate - mi smo svi tokom agresije bili u zemlji i zemlju branili, a
posle agresije ono što je NATO razrušio obnavljali i gradili.
Obnovili smo i zgradu RTS u Takovskoj 10, ali su je DOS-ovci bagerom
razrušili i zapalili 5. oktobra 2000. godine. Da li ste, kada već
lijete suze nad lošim finansijskim stanjem Vaše kuće, tražili odštetu
od DOS-a zbog nanete štete ? Jeste li možda podneli krivičnu prijavu
protiv onih koji su čitavu zgradu uništili tako da još uvek nije
sasvim obnovljena, na isti način kao što ste hitro podneli krivičnu
prijavu protiv Nenada Čanka, kada je tablu sa oznakom RTS polomio ? I
jedni i drugi lome, samo je šteta prvih neuporedivo veća, a Vi,
gospodine direktore, ne pokazujete nameru da je svojoj kući
nadoknadite.
Ponavljam, u ime građana Srbije, zahtev da odmah otpočnete sa
televizijskim prenosom "suđenja" u Hagu.
PREDSEDNIK SOCIJALISTIČKE PARTIJE SRBIJE
Mirko Marjanović
PERISIC OFFICIALLY DISMISSED FROM OFFICE
BELGRADE, March 28 ( Beta) - On March 27, the Serbian legislature
officially accepted Serbian vice-premier Momcilo Perisic's
resignation. The Legislature did not debate Perisic's resignation
but only acknowledged that he was no longer vice-premier.
Perisic resigned on March 18 after having been suspected of
espionage and passing secret military intelligence.
===*===
U.S. diplomat in secrets scandal leaves Belgrade
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - The United States has withdrawn from
Yugoslavia the diplomat arrested at a Belgrade restaurant this month
and accused of receiving military secrets from his dinner partner, a
Serbian deputy prime minister.
"He has left. It was deemed that he should come back here," State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on Thursday.
The United States has never identified the diplomat but a military
court said he was John David Neighbor, a first secretary. Washington
has declined to comment on reports he was the CIA station chief in
Belgrade.
Neighbor was arrested by Yugoslav military police on March 14 and held
for 17 hours of questioning despite his protestations of diplomatic
immunity.
The Yugoslav army said it had evidence that Neighbor's companion,
former army chief Momcilo Perisic, had passed military secrets to
Neighbor. The United States denied it. Perisic quit as deputy prime
minister last week but maintained he was innocent of the accusations
against him.
The State Department said on March 19 that the diplomat was still at
his post. Boucher said he left about a week ago.
15:38 03-28-02
BELGRADE, March 28 ( Beta) - On March 27, the Serbian legislature
officially accepted Serbian vice-premier Momcilo Perisic's
resignation. The Legislature did not debate Perisic's resignation
but only acknowledged that he was no longer vice-premier.
Perisic resigned on March 18 after having been suspected of
espionage and passing secret military intelligence.
===*===
U.S. diplomat in secrets scandal leaves Belgrade
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - The United States has withdrawn from
Yugoslavia the diplomat arrested at a Belgrade restaurant this month
and accused of receiving military secrets from his dinner partner, a
Serbian deputy prime minister.
"He has left. It was deemed that he should come back here," State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on Thursday.
The United States has never identified the diplomat but a military
court said he was John David Neighbor, a first secretary. Washington
has declined to comment on reports he was the CIA station chief in
Belgrade.
Neighbor was arrested by Yugoslav military police on March 14 and held
for 17 hours of questioning despite his protestations of diplomatic
immunity.
The Yugoslav army said it had evidence that Neighbor's companion,
former army chief Momcilo Perisic, had passed military secrets to
Neighbor. The United States denied it. Perisic quit as deputy prime
minister last week but maintained he was innocent of the accusations
against him.
The State Department said on March 19 that the diplomat was still at
his post. Boucher said he left about a week ago.
15:38 03-28-02
ORGANISMO ONU AVVERTE:
CONTAMINAZIONE DA URANIO IMPOVERITO NELL'ARIA
ANCORA DUE ANNI DOPO I BOMBARDAMENTI DELLA NATO
Particolarmente preoccupanti i rischi per le falde acquifere.
UN BODY WARNS ON DEPLETED URANIUM POLLUTION
GENEVA, March 28 (B92) Three years after NATO's bomb attacks on
Yugoslavia, UN experts have revealed that soil, plants and even air
in some regions of the country are still contaminated by depleted
uranium.
The executive director of the UN Ecology Program, Klaus Toepfer,
presenting the two-hundred page report, said that precautionary
measures were recommended.
US forces are known to have used missiles containing depleted uranium
during the 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia, as well as in Bosnia in 1994
and 1995.
"Our team was surprised to find particles of depleted uranium still
in the air, two years after the conflict," said the head of the UNEP
team, Pekka Haavisto.
Of greatest concern, according to the Ecology Program study, are
underground waters, which should be checked every year because the
metal shells containing the depleted uranium corroded over time,
releasing more of the radioactive contaminant.
The UN team, financed by the Swiss Government, collected samples
from 11 locations in Serbia and one in Montenegro between October
27 and November 5 last year.
The 161 samples were analyzed in laboratories in Switzerland and
Italy.
CONTAMINAZIONE DA URANIO IMPOVERITO NELL'ARIA
ANCORA DUE ANNI DOPO I BOMBARDAMENTI DELLA NATO
Particolarmente preoccupanti i rischi per le falde acquifere.
UN BODY WARNS ON DEPLETED URANIUM POLLUTION
GENEVA, March 28 (B92) Three years after NATO's bomb attacks on
Yugoslavia, UN experts have revealed that soil, plants and even air
in some regions of the country are still contaminated by depleted
uranium.
The executive director of the UN Ecology Program, Klaus Toepfer,
presenting the two-hundred page report, said that precautionary
measures were recommended.
US forces are known to have used missiles containing depleted uranium
during the 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia, as well as in Bosnia in 1994
and 1995.
"Our team was surprised to find particles of depleted uranium still
in the air, two years after the conflict," said the head of the UNEP
team, Pekka Haavisto.
Of greatest concern, according to the Ecology Program study, are
underground waters, which should be checked every year because the
metal shells containing the depleted uranium corroded over time,
releasing more of the radioactive contaminant.
The UN team, financed by the Swiss Government, collected samples
from 11 locations in Serbia and one in Montenegro between October
27 and November 5 last year.
The 161 samples were analyzed in laboratories in Switzerland and
Italy.
GUERRA CONTRO I MORTI
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siti religiosi e persino nei cimiteri ortodossi del Kosovo-Metohija
dagli estremisti pan-albanesi alleati delle truppe di occupazione
occidentali.
WAR AGAINST THE DEAD
Systematic Post-war Desecration of Serb Orthodox Cemeteries
by Kosovo Albanian Extremists and Vandals
The following photos were taken in a few Serb Orthodox villages near Pec
(Western part of Kosovo Province): Brestovik, Berkovo and Siga during
the second half of 2001. They illustrate desecration of Orthodox
Christian cemeteries by Kosovo Albanian vandals and extremists. These
scenes of horror and pain do not show the war-time damage and vandalism
but are testimony to the post-war systematic destruction of everything
which is Serb and Christian in this region.
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Postovani,
Upravo smo pripremili foto izvestaj o unistavanju grobalja u Metohiji.
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Kosovu (autor teksta: Decanski monasi; fotografije:
Dobrila Bozovic, man. Visoki Decani)
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-----------------------
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documentazione fotografica degli atti di vandalismo compiuti contro i
siti religiosi e persino nei cimiteri ortodossi del Kosovo-Metohija
dagli estremisti pan-albanesi alleati delle truppe di occupazione
occidentali.
WAR AGAINST THE DEAD
Systematic Post-war Desecration of Serb Orthodox Cemeteries
by Kosovo Albanian Extremists and Vandals
The following photos were taken in a few Serb Orthodox villages near Pec
(Western part of Kosovo Province): Brestovik, Berkovo and Siga during
the second half of 2001. They illustrate desecration of Orthodox
Christian cemeteries by Kosovo Albanian vandals and extremists. These
scenes of horror and pain do not show the war-time damage and vandalism
but are testimony to the post-war systematic destruction of everything
which is Serb and Christian in this region.
http://www.decani.yunet.com/wad.html
Postovani,
Upravo smo pripremili foto izvestaj o unistavanju grobalja u Metohiji.
Bilo bi dobro da se javnost sa ovim problemom
vise upozna jer je apsolutno strasno da ni mrtvima vise nema mira na
Kosovu (autor teksta: Decanski monasi; fotografije:
Dobrila Bozovic, man. Visoki Decani)
Na srpskom:
http://www.decani.yunet.com/wad_serb.html
Na engleskom:
http://www.decani.yunet.com/wad.html
jeromonah Sava
-----------------------
Srpski pravoslavni manastir
VISOKI DECANI
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ANTIWAR, Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Balkan Meltdown
Across the Former Yugoslavias, tensions
are rising spectacularly
by Christopher Deliso
UNCHARTED WATERS
March 2002 in the Balkans: how will
future historians remember this
unbelievable month? Will it be for the
unearthing of a mujahedin threat in
Macedonia - or for the discrediting of
that threat by the US and the BBC?
Will it be for the peaceful dissolution
of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia - or for the American spy
scandal that has rocked what remains of
that fragile coalition? Will the month
of March 2002 be warmly remembered
for the Macedonian donor conference,
which got that impoverished country off
and running - or will the conference
come to be mocked as yet another
ineffective photo-opportunity for the
West to preen and congratulate itself?
Finally, will this month be remembered
for the Bosnian government's firm
handling of the residual Islamic terror
threat - or as the month when that
threat spiraled out of control, and
paralyzed America's diplomatic
operations in Bosnia?
No one knows, but the outlook is not
promising. The scariest thing about
this month, which by all accounts has
seen a dizzying whirlwind of unending
action, is that it is not yet over.
There are still a few days left of March
2002 - at the current rate, enough to
upend any tentative conclusions we
may reach here.
YUGOSLAVIA IS NO MORE - UNLESS, OF
COURSE, YOU'RE A PROSECUTOR
As the Milosevic trial continues to
meander aimlessly through a forest
of discredited witnesses and
unsubstantiated rumors, Slobo's main
antagonist -
Hague prosecutor Carla del Ponte - has
become increasingly frustrated and
impatient. Seeing that the wily former
Yugoslav president is in danger of
speaking more intelligently than had
been expected, the inquisition has
moved on to the hills of the Republika
Srpska. Here, NATO troops
unsuccessfully tried twice to capture
the tribunal's most wanted criminal -
Radovan Karadzic. As del Ponte astutely
noted, it is very difficult to
capture one fugitive with a large body
of uniformed troops. Her solution?
Plainclothes, secretive kidnap squads.
The pressure has also been mounting on
Serbia to hand over Ratko Mladic, the
Bosnian Serb commander who the tribunal
claims is hiding in Serbia proper.
Since it is rather more difficult to
attempt putting undercover kidnap
squads in Serbia, the West has latched
onto more traditional means of
coercion and extortion - the threatened
to cut $135 million in aid money.
The powers that prop up the Hague are
betting that the Serbians would rather
part permanently with two (or more) of
their citizens than risk being
stuffed into the economic
straightjacket. After all, the tactic
has worked in the past: exactly one year
ago, in fact, similar American threats
provoked the extradition of Slobodan
Milosevic. Del Ponte has recruited
notable personalities, such as Colin
Powell, to help pile on the pressure.
Indeed, this year's edition of Balkan
intimidation cannot be distinguished
from its previous incarnation:
"Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont
Democrat who coauthored the legislation
requiring Yugoslav cooperation, said
yesterday that with war criminals at
large, ''our assistance should not go
forward.'' Senator Mitch McConnell,
Republican of Kentucky, joined Leahy in
sponsoring the bill.
Added Leahy: ''General Mladic is the
number-one person to turn over. His
responsibility for war crimes is
unquestioned."
It's not surprising that such
legislation would be co-authored by two of
the most virulently anti-Serbian activists
in the Senate; what is rather
strange, however, is that apparently
Mladic's "?responsibility for war
crimes is unquestioned." If so, why
bother trying him in a court of law? And
yet, the final destination for Mladic -
like all the others the West can't
just line up and execute - is the Hague.
This rather uncomfortable
contradiction begs the following
question: what is to be said for a court
that selects its victims based on their
pre-assumed guilt, and is run by the
same people who fund their operations,
costs and, apparently now, kidnap squads?
The only conclusion is that the Hague is
not a real court of law. Although
its procedures, powdered wigs and
presentations mimic those of real courts,
the pillars on which it rests are
rotten. Indeed, the fact that Milosevic
has not wilted away under the hot glare
of the media, as his inquisitors had
arrogantly expected, has raised fresh
doubts regarding the tribunal's
fundamental legitimacy. And that is the
real reason why Carla del Ponte and
Co. are so very flustered - with no
results to show on either
convictions or
captures, and growing doubts over their
grandiose moral posturing, they
realize that the clock is ticking. This
would be reason enough for panic -
even without last week's hilarious
disaster for the Hague.
LET THE FUN BEGIN: CIA SCANDAL UNFOLDS
IN BELGRADE
Part of the fun of March 2002 has been
in watching the train wreck of so
many interconnected events, all coming
to a head at exactly the same time.
The apologia for the Hague cited above
all came out between 20-22 March -
just days after the breaking of the
biggest American scandal to hit Belgrade
since the bombing of the Chinese Embassy
in 1999. The strong PR attack (from
del Ponte, Powell, Leahy and Co.) has
come in direct proportion to the
Hague's supremely embarrassing role in
the scandal: as recipients of secret
documents destined for use against
Milosevic, obtained by the American chief
of the CIA in the Balkans, paid for by
American dollars, given to a corrupt
Serbian politician. The worst thing
about all this, however, is that the
parties involved freely admitted as much.
The blunt admission of this botched
covert operation is remarkable in two
ways. First, for the incredible
arrogance of the blasé Americans, who
consider secret operations in a foreign
country as just part of a day's work
- even after being caught red-handed.
The second and more serious aspect
of the scandal is that the Hague,
ostensibly fighting corruption and
gangsterism, resorted to the same
tactics to get its way. This sickening
hypocrisy just goes to confirm what is
already so obvious - that the Hague
is no court of law, but merely a
playground for extortionists and spies,
bounty hunters and dilettante barristers.
GAUGING THE FALLOUT
For Balkan intrigue, it simply doesn't
get any better than this. You can
just picture it now: a nondescript
roadside bar, on the anonymous outskirts
of Belgrade; the waning light of late
afternoon. Subdued tones, hunched
figures; a telling silence, and a
briefcase stuffed with cash - and then,
just at the moment of consummation, a
rude surprise entry by the Yugoslav
military!
The dramatic arrest on 14 March of
Serbian Deputy PM Momcilo Perisic and
American spook John David Neighbor,
shows that Kostunica retains some
backbone. Clearly, the man has guts.
Confronted with the dissolution of the
republic he ruled, faced with fewer
career prospects than Al Gore, Mr.
Kostunica needed to somehow assert his
authority. He did so by denouncing
the imbroglio as "a spy affair of huge
proportions." Serbian PM Zoran
Djindjic had expected his rival to just
roll over and give up power. In this
belief, he was sorely mistaken. Could it
be coincidental that the spy
scandal blew up only days after the FRY
was officially ended? Luckily for
Kostunica, his opportunity arrived, even
before the ink had dried on the
eulogists' pens.
In the ensuing furor, Perisic has
resigned, and the US has turned up the
heat on "Yugoslavia." The best thing
about this reaction is the Americans'
overweening hubris, in protesting that
their man in Belgrade - the CIA's
Balkan superspy - had been detained. Can
we even begin to imagine what would
happen if the roles were reversed - and
it had been "Serbian spy caught in
Washington?" Would any Yugoslav protest
have been tolerated - and would a
Serbian spy have been quietly dismissed?
The answer is an emphatic 'no' on
all counts. Mr. Neighbor, however, was
"quietly spirited back to
Washington," amid apologies and
overtures from the Serbs.
BLOWBACK STRIKES: THE BOSNIAN MELTDOWN
In the wake of 9/11, no part of the
Balkans has so been so embarrassing for
the US and UN as Bosnia. Since October,
Islamic terrorist cells have
continually been uprooted in this UN
protectorate, previously "liberated" by
US intervention. Yet the Islamic
military units, which the Americans
tolerated (if not abetted) during the
1990's have now come back to haunt
them. Middle Eastern charities and
businesses have been exposed as front
organizations for terrorists, and
several terrorists of Arab origin have
been detained - some even shipped to
Guantanamo. That this outraged the
Bosnian authorities seemed to matter
little to the US; now, however,
temperatures are running so high that
the US has closed indefinitely three
major embassies in the area - in
Sarajevo, Mostar, and Banja Luka
(Republika Srpska).
On 23 March a high-ranking Bosnian
official declared that al Qaeda itself
had recently met in Bulgaria - to plan a
major terrorist attack in Bosnia:
"at the Sofia meeting, members of
al-Qaeda decided that "?in Sarajevo
something will happen to Americans
similar to New York last September.''
These stories follow a frantic effort by
Bosnian officials to crack down on
Islamic terrorists in their midst. On 19
March, Bosnian police swooped down
on charities and terror front
organizations in Sarajevo and Zenica. On
22 March, the operation resulted in the
arrest on espionage charges of one
Munib Zahiragic, and the shutdown of his
shady charity, Benevolentia. A tour
of the "charity" organization's
headquarters revealed "?weapons, plans
for making bombs, booby-traps and bogus
passports." Elsewhere in the country, a
UN official was recently attacked with
an axe. Seems like there's a lot of
love going around for the Western
"liberators" in Bosnia these days!
THE MOTHER OF ALL SCANDALS: DYNCORP'S
LURID "TRANSACTIONS"
If one wonders why the Bosnians might be
upset with their Western guests,
one need look no further than DynCorp,
an American company providing
technical support to the troops
overseas. This story has been forgotten
completely - primarily because the
company's activities in Bosnia are being
investigated by US military police - and
not by the Hague. And so - even
though every American should know about
it - DynCorp's history of sleaze
has been totally whitewashed.
Over a year ago, the Washington Post
reported about UN participation in the
Bosnian sex trade. Also involved were
senior figures in DynCorp's Bosnia
operation. Nothing happened.
A year later, in January 2002, the
DynCorp story broke for real, in the
testimony of a former employee,
whistle-blower Ben Johnston. Apparently,
seeing "...middle-aged men having sex
with 12 - to 15-year-olds" was "too
much" for the lanky Texan to take. In
his daily job for DynCorp in Bosnia,
Johnston " ?witnessed coworkers and
supervisors literally buying and selling
women for their own personal enjoyment,
and employees would brag about the
various ages and talents of the
individual slaves they had purchased."
The "game" for these American cowboys was to
buy and sell girls, weapons, and
other commodities from Serbian and other
mafias. Less lurid activities were
the monumentally corrupt activities of
DynCorp's daily operations. Johnston,
who was fired for patriotically
objecting to these deeds, provided graphic
details on both the sex ring and the
chronic ways in which DynCorp defrauded
the American taxpayer:
"I wasn't too happy with them ripping
off the government, either. DynCorp is
just as immoral and elite as possible,
and any rule they can break they do.
There was this one guy who would hide
parts so we would have to wait for
parts and, when the military would
question why it was taking so long, he'd
pull out the part and say 'Hey, you need
to install this.' They'd have us
replace windows in helicopters that
weren't bad just to get paid. They had
one kid, James Harlin, over there who
was right out of high school and he
didn't even know the names and purposes
of the basic tools. Soldiers that
are paid $18,000 a year know more than
this kid, but this is the way they
[DynCorp] grease their pockets. What
they say in Bosnia is that DynCorp just
needs a warm body - that's the DynCorp
slogan. Even if you don't do an
eight-hour day, they'll sign you in for
it because that's how they bill the
government. It's a total fraud."
The muckraking investigation of DynCorp
came out in Insight Magazine; it is
a must-read for anyone who - no, it is a
must-read for everyone. However,
this graphic account of the corrupt side
of Balkans intervention was
instantly forgotten - and that is
because the Hague took no part in the
investigation. Apparently, US-sponsored
tribunals have one goal and one goal
alone: targeting foreign citizens who
come from "hostile" countries. US
spies, businessmen, and (as we saw in
the Italian helicopter tragedy)
servicemen face justice only at home.
One can give many arguments on the topic
of the rights of sovereign states
and international law. However, one
would at least hope for consistency, and
not hypocrisy, in the US' execution of
law.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MACEDONIA
Despite the quiet reality of Western
corruption throughout the former
Yugoslavias, this phenomenon has gone
largely unexplored. Instead, the heat
has recently been turned up on the
corruption of the locals in Macedonia.
In this embattled Balkan state, the
temperature has been rising precipitously
of late. Two NATO officers were arrested
for taking photos in Ochrid on 20
March, a bizarre fiasco that resulted in
an official protest from NATO.
Meanwhile, the fallout of the donor
conference in Macedonia has resulted in
bitterness from Macedonians who feel
they have been strong-armed into an
agreement with the NLA. One year on from
the start of the conflict that
spawned that treaty, the BBC has again
set up shop as apologist for the NLA.
Events took a farcical turn last week at
a Skopje sports arena, when
Albanian and Macedonian fans set upon
each other. Macedonia, it seems, has
finally arrived: three cheers for
interethnic football riots!
Simultaneously, more organized militias
seem ready for the heat of battle.
The so-called ANA (Albanian National
Army) has made an issue out of the
Kosovo border dispute to declare a war
of liberation. This paramilitary
organization has just announced a new
campaign to unite all "Albanian
territories." Yet the ANA is allegedly
also "?in conflict with the former
"NLA" and the leaders of DPA and PDP,
Arben Xhaferi and Imer Imeri."
Skopje's biggest newspaper, Dnevnik, has
reprinted an announcement from the
ANA, which called NLA chief Ali Ahmeti
and politician Menduh Thachi "great
traitors." Apparently, a dangerous
standoff, involving up to 200 Albanians,
occurred between the two groups.
Another event (of 23 March) shows again
how relations are wearing thin
between former Albanian allies. In
Vaksince village, Kumanovo region,
returning police were taunted, and
journalists stoned. The Albanian members
of the police force were derided as
traitors, a clear sign that the Albanian
"liberation" movement has fragmented.
This prompts the question: if rival
Albanian factions start fighting it
out, will NATO intervene?
EPILOGUE
Even as Yugoslavia - and all the
Yugoslavias - steadily become but an
afterthought, the damage of a decade of
war and intervention cannot be
undone. While one nation crumbles into
dust, another - one of unknown
dimensions and desires - is solidifying.
One gets the sense that, as Winter
turns the corner into Spring, we are
careening off of the well-marked,
signposted road - and heading into
territory that is altogether unknown.
ANTIWAR, Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Balkan Meltdown
Across the Former Yugoslavias, tensions
are rising spectacularly
by Christopher Deliso
UNCHARTED WATERS
March 2002 in the Balkans: how will
future historians remember this
unbelievable month? Will it be for the
unearthing of a mujahedin threat in
Macedonia - or for the discrediting of
that threat by the US and the BBC?
Will it be for the peaceful dissolution
of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia - or for the American spy
scandal that has rocked what remains of
that fragile coalition? Will the month
of March 2002 be warmly remembered
for the Macedonian donor conference,
which got that impoverished country off
and running - or will the conference
come to be mocked as yet another
ineffective photo-opportunity for the
West to preen and congratulate itself?
Finally, will this month be remembered
for the Bosnian government's firm
handling of the residual Islamic terror
threat - or as the month when that
threat spiraled out of control, and
paralyzed America's diplomatic
operations in Bosnia?
No one knows, but the outlook is not
promising. The scariest thing about
this month, which by all accounts has
seen a dizzying whirlwind of unending
action, is that it is not yet over.
There are still a few days left of March
2002 - at the current rate, enough to
upend any tentative conclusions we
may reach here.
YUGOSLAVIA IS NO MORE - UNLESS, OF
COURSE, YOU'RE A PROSECUTOR
As the Milosevic trial continues to
meander aimlessly through a forest
of discredited witnesses and
unsubstantiated rumors, Slobo's main
antagonist -
Hague prosecutor Carla del Ponte - has
become increasingly frustrated and
impatient. Seeing that the wily former
Yugoslav president is in danger of
speaking more intelligently than had
been expected, the inquisition has
moved on to the hills of the Republika
Srpska. Here, NATO troops
unsuccessfully tried twice to capture
the tribunal's most wanted criminal -
Radovan Karadzic. As del Ponte astutely
noted, it is very difficult to
capture one fugitive with a large body
of uniformed troops. Her solution?
Plainclothes, secretive kidnap squads.
The pressure has also been mounting on
Serbia to hand over Ratko Mladic, the
Bosnian Serb commander who the tribunal
claims is hiding in Serbia proper.
Since it is rather more difficult to
attempt putting undercover kidnap
squads in Serbia, the West has latched
onto more traditional means of
coercion and extortion - the threatened
to cut $135 million in aid money.
The powers that prop up the Hague are
betting that the Serbians would rather
part permanently with two (or more) of
their citizens than risk being
stuffed into the economic
straightjacket. After all, the tactic
has worked in the past: exactly one year
ago, in fact, similar American threats
provoked the extradition of Slobodan
Milosevic. Del Ponte has recruited
notable personalities, such as Colin
Powell, to help pile on the pressure.
Indeed, this year's edition of Balkan
intimidation cannot be distinguished
from its previous incarnation:
"Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont
Democrat who coauthored the legislation
requiring Yugoslav cooperation, said
yesterday that with war criminals at
large, ''our assistance should not go
forward.'' Senator Mitch McConnell,
Republican of Kentucky, joined Leahy in
sponsoring the bill.
Added Leahy: ''General Mladic is the
number-one person to turn over. His
responsibility for war crimes is
unquestioned."
It's not surprising that such
legislation would be co-authored by two of
the most virulently anti-Serbian activists
in the Senate; what is rather
strange, however, is that apparently
Mladic's "?responsibility for war
crimes is unquestioned." If so, why
bother trying him in a court of law? And
yet, the final destination for Mladic -
like all the others the West can't
just line up and execute - is the Hague.
This rather uncomfortable
contradiction begs the following
question: what is to be said for a court
that selects its victims based on their
pre-assumed guilt, and is run by the
same people who fund their operations,
costs and, apparently now, kidnap squads?
The only conclusion is that the Hague is
not a real court of law. Although
its procedures, powdered wigs and
presentations mimic those of real courts,
the pillars on which it rests are
rotten. Indeed, the fact that Milosevic
has not wilted away under the hot glare
of the media, as his inquisitors had
arrogantly expected, has raised fresh
doubts regarding the tribunal's
fundamental legitimacy. And that is the
real reason why Carla del Ponte and
Co. are so very flustered - with no
results to show on either
convictions or
captures, and growing doubts over their
grandiose moral posturing, they
realize that the clock is ticking. This
would be reason enough for panic -
even without last week's hilarious
disaster for the Hague.
LET THE FUN BEGIN: CIA SCANDAL UNFOLDS
IN BELGRADE
Part of the fun of March 2002 has been
in watching the train wreck of so
many interconnected events, all coming
to a head at exactly the same time.
The apologia for the Hague cited above
all came out between 20-22 March -
just days after the breaking of the
biggest American scandal to hit Belgrade
since the bombing of the Chinese Embassy
in 1999. The strong PR attack (from
del Ponte, Powell, Leahy and Co.) has
come in direct proportion to the
Hague's supremely embarrassing role in
the scandal: as recipients of secret
documents destined for use against
Milosevic, obtained by the American chief
of the CIA in the Balkans, paid for by
American dollars, given to a corrupt
Serbian politician. The worst thing
about all this, however, is that the
parties involved freely admitted as much.
The blunt admission of this botched
covert operation is remarkable in two
ways. First, for the incredible
arrogance of the blasé Americans, who
consider secret operations in a foreign
country as just part of a day's work
- even after being caught red-handed.
The second and more serious aspect
of the scandal is that the Hague,
ostensibly fighting corruption and
gangsterism, resorted to the same
tactics to get its way. This sickening
hypocrisy just goes to confirm what is
already so obvious - that the Hague
is no court of law, but merely a
playground for extortionists and spies,
bounty hunters and dilettante barristers.
GAUGING THE FALLOUT
For Balkan intrigue, it simply doesn't
get any better than this. You can
just picture it now: a nondescript
roadside bar, on the anonymous outskirts
of Belgrade; the waning light of late
afternoon. Subdued tones, hunched
figures; a telling silence, and a
briefcase stuffed with cash - and then,
just at the moment of consummation, a
rude surprise entry by the Yugoslav
military!
The dramatic arrest on 14 March of
Serbian Deputy PM Momcilo Perisic and
American spook John David Neighbor,
shows that Kostunica retains some
backbone. Clearly, the man has guts.
Confronted with the dissolution of the
republic he ruled, faced with fewer
career prospects than Al Gore, Mr.
Kostunica needed to somehow assert his
authority. He did so by denouncing
the imbroglio as "a spy affair of huge
proportions." Serbian PM Zoran
Djindjic had expected his rival to just
roll over and give up power. In this
belief, he was sorely mistaken. Could it
be coincidental that the spy
scandal blew up only days after the FRY
was officially ended? Luckily for
Kostunica, his opportunity arrived, even
before the ink had dried on the
eulogists' pens.
In the ensuing furor, Perisic has
resigned, and the US has turned up the
heat on "Yugoslavia." The best thing
about this reaction is the Americans'
overweening hubris, in protesting that
their man in Belgrade - the CIA's
Balkan superspy - had been detained. Can
we even begin to imagine what would
happen if the roles were reversed - and
it had been "Serbian spy caught in
Washington?" Would any Yugoslav protest
have been tolerated - and would a
Serbian spy have been quietly dismissed?
The answer is an emphatic 'no' on
all counts. Mr. Neighbor, however, was
"quietly spirited back to
Washington," amid apologies and
overtures from the Serbs.
BLOWBACK STRIKES: THE BOSNIAN MELTDOWN
In the wake of 9/11, no part of the
Balkans has so been so embarrassing for
the US and UN as Bosnia. Since October,
Islamic terrorist cells have
continually been uprooted in this UN
protectorate, previously "liberated" by
US intervention. Yet the Islamic
military units, which the Americans
tolerated (if not abetted) during the
1990's have now come back to haunt
them. Middle Eastern charities and
businesses have been exposed as front
organizations for terrorists, and
several terrorists of Arab origin have
been detained - some even shipped to
Guantanamo. That this outraged the
Bosnian authorities seemed to matter
little to the US; now, however,
temperatures are running so high that
the US has closed indefinitely three
major embassies in the area - in
Sarajevo, Mostar, and Banja Luka
(Republika Srpska).
On 23 March a high-ranking Bosnian
official declared that al Qaeda itself
had recently met in Bulgaria - to plan a
major terrorist attack in Bosnia:
"at the Sofia meeting, members of
al-Qaeda decided that "?in Sarajevo
something will happen to Americans
similar to New York last September.''
These stories follow a frantic effort by
Bosnian officials to crack down on
Islamic terrorists in their midst. On 19
March, Bosnian police swooped down
on charities and terror front
organizations in Sarajevo and Zenica. On
22 March, the operation resulted in the
arrest on espionage charges of one
Munib Zahiragic, and the shutdown of his
shady charity, Benevolentia. A tour
of the "charity" organization's
headquarters revealed "?weapons, plans
for making bombs, booby-traps and bogus
passports." Elsewhere in the country, a
UN official was recently attacked with
an axe. Seems like there's a lot of
love going around for the Western
"liberators" in Bosnia these days!
THE MOTHER OF ALL SCANDALS: DYNCORP'S
LURID "TRANSACTIONS"
If one wonders why the Bosnians might be
upset with their Western guests,
one need look no further than DynCorp,
an American company providing
technical support to the troops
overseas. This story has been forgotten
completely - primarily because the
company's activities in Bosnia are being
investigated by US military police - and
not by the Hague. And so - even
though every American should know about
it - DynCorp's history of sleaze
has been totally whitewashed.
Over a year ago, the Washington Post
reported about UN participation in the
Bosnian sex trade. Also involved were
senior figures in DynCorp's Bosnia
operation. Nothing happened.
A year later, in January 2002, the
DynCorp story broke for real, in the
testimony of a former employee,
whistle-blower Ben Johnston. Apparently,
seeing "...middle-aged men having sex
with 12 - to 15-year-olds" was "too
much" for the lanky Texan to take. In
his daily job for DynCorp in Bosnia,
Johnston " ?witnessed coworkers and
supervisors literally buying and selling
women for their own personal enjoyment,
and employees would brag about the
various ages and talents of the
individual slaves they had purchased."
The "game" for these American cowboys was to
buy and sell girls, weapons, and
other commodities from Serbian and other
mafias. Less lurid activities were
the monumentally corrupt activities of
DynCorp's daily operations. Johnston,
who was fired for patriotically
objecting to these deeds, provided graphic
details on both the sex ring and the
chronic ways in which DynCorp defrauded
the American taxpayer:
"I wasn't too happy with them ripping
off the government, either. DynCorp is
just as immoral and elite as possible,
and any rule they can break they do.
There was this one guy who would hide
parts so we would have to wait for
parts and, when the military would
question why it was taking so long, he'd
pull out the part and say 'Hey, you need
to install this.' They'd have us
replace windows in helicopters that
weren't bad just to get paid. They had
one kid, James Harlin, over there who
was right out of high school and he
didn't even know the names and purposes
of the basic tools. Soldiers that
are paid $18,000 a year know more than
this kid, but this is the way they
[DynCorp] grease their pockets. What
they say in Bosnia is that DynCorp just
needs a warm body - that's the DynCorp
slogan. Even if you don't do an
eight-hour day, they'll sign you in for
it because that's how they bill the
government. It's a total fraud."
The muckraking investigation of DynCorp
came out in Insight Magazine; it is
a must-read for anyone who - no, it is a
must-read for everyone. However,
this graphic account of the corrupt side
of Balkans intervention was
instantly forgotten - and that is
because the Hague took no part in the
investigation. Apparently, US-sponsored
tribunals have one goal and one goal
alone: targeting foreign citizens who
come from "hostile" countries. US
spies, businessmen, and (as we saw in
the Italian helicopter tragedy)
servicemen face justice only at home.
One can give many arguments on the topic
of the rights of sovereign states
and international law. However, one
would at least hope for consistency, and
not hypocrisy, in the US' execution of
law.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MACEDONIA
Despite the quiet reality of Western
corruption throughout the former
Yugoslavias, this phenomenon has gone
largely unexplored. Instead, the heat
has recently been turned up on the
corruption of the locals in Macedonia.
In this embattled Balkan state, the
temperature has been rising precipitously
of late. Two NATO officers were arrested
for taking photos in Ochrid on 20
March, a bizarre fiasco that resulted in
an official protest from NATO.
Meanwhile, the fallout of the donor
conference in Macedonia has resulted in
bitterness from Macedonians who feel
they have been strong-armed into an
agreement with the NLA. One year on from
the start of the conflict that
spawned that treaty, the BBC has again
set up shop as apologist for the NLA.
Events took a farcical turn last week at
a Skopje sports arena, when
Albanian and Macedonian fans set upon
each other. Macedonia, it seems, has
finally arrived: three cheers for
interethnic football riots!
Simultaneously, more organized militias
seem ready for the heat of battle.
The so-called ANA (Albanian National
Army) has made an issue out of the
Kosovo border dispute to declare a war
of liberation. This paramilitary
organization has just announced a new
campaign to unite all "Albanian
territories." Yet the ANA is allegedly
also "?in conflict with the former
"NLA" and the leaders of DPA and PDP,
Arben Xhaferi and Imer Imeri."
Skopje's biggest newspaper, Dnevnik, has
reprinted an announcement from the
ANA, which called NLA chief Ali Ahmeti
and politician Menduh Thachi "great
traitors." Apparently, a dangerous
standoff, involving up to 200 Albanians,
occurred between the two groups.
Another event (of 23 March) shows again
how relations are wearing thin
between former Albanian allies. In
Vaksince village, Kumanovo region,
returning police were taunted, and
journalists stoned. The Albanian members
of the police force were derided as
traitors, a clear sign that the Albanian
"liberation" movement has fragmented.
This prompts the question: if rival
Albanian factions start fighting it
out, will NATO intervene?
EPILOGUE
Even as Yugoslavia - and all the
Yugoslavias - steadily become but an
afterthought, the damage of a decade of
war and intervention cannot be
undone. While one nation crumbles into
dust, another - one of unknown
dimensions and desires - is solidifying.
One gets the sense that, as Winter
turns the corner into Spring, we are
careening off of the well-marked,
signposted road - and heading into
territory that is altogether unknown.
+++ Gedenken an 78 Tage Bombenangriffe +++
BELGRAD, 25. März 2002. Gestern wurde in
ganz Serbien Gedenkfeiern abgehalten, die an
die Bombardierung Jugoslawiens durch die
NATO, vor drei Jahren gedenken. In den 78
Tagen der Bombardierung, sind etwa 3.500
Menschen umgekommen in Jugoslawien, davon
war der größte Teil Zivilisten. Die genau
Zahl der Opfer der Bombenangriffe wurde nie
festgestellt. In allen Kirchen der
serbisch-orthodoxen Kirche wird jedes Jahr
an diesem Tag Gedenkgottesdienste
abgehalten, der an die Opfer der
NATO-Bombenangriffe gedenken soll. Der
Präsident Jugoslawiens, Vojislav Kostunica,
hielt zu diesem Anlass eine Rede, in der er
mahnte, das man diese Tag und die
Bombenangriffe nicht vergessen darf, und das
wir mit denen zusammenarbeiten müssen die
Bomben aus 20.000 höhe auf unschuldige
Menschen geworfen haben und das der Krieg
der NATO gegen Jugoslawien, mit dem
Zynischen Namen "Friedlicher Engel", nicht
den versprochenen Frieden gebracht haben.
TIKER / AMSELFELD.COM
===*===
Subject: Belgrad: Demonstration zum 3.
Jahrestag der NATO-Aggression
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:36:53 +0100
From: "Klaus von Raussendorff" <redaktion@...>
International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM) - German Section
Internationales Komitee für die Verteidigung
von Slobodan Milosevic - Deutsche Sektion
c/o Klaus Hartmann
Schillstraße 7
D-63067 Offenbach am Main
T/F: -69 - 83 58 50
e-mail: vorstand@...
URL: www.free-slobo.de
Pressemitteilung
05-2002 27.03.2002
24. März 2002 in Belgrad:
"Freiheit für Slobodan - Freiheit für alle!"
Demonstration zum 3. Jahrestag der NATO-Aggression
Drei Jahre nach Beginn des 78 Tage währenden
Bombardements Jugoslawiens
durch die Länder des NATO-Paktes
versammelten sich in Belgrad Zehntausende,
um das Gedächtnis an dieses Verbrechen wach
zu halten und gegen das Diktat
der neuen Weltordner zu protestieren.
Während des Demonstrationszuges von über
30.000 Demonstranten durch die
Belgrader Innenstadt, bei
Zwischenkundgebungen vor dem serbischen
Regierungsgebäude und dem Parlament
Jugoslawiens sowie der Kundgebung mit
über 50.000 Teilnehmern auf dem zentralen
Platz der Republik stand die
Forderung nach sofortiger Freilassung von
Slobodan Milosevic im Mittelpunkt.
Zu Beginn der Kundgebung wurde der Opfer der
NATO-Aggression in einer
Schweigeminute gedacht. Stürmisch begrüßt
wurden die ausländischen Gäste,
Prof. Dr. Velko Valkanov (Bulgarien),
Co-Präsident des Internationalen
Komitees für die Verteidigung von Slobodan
Milosevic, die beiden
Vize-Präsidenten Klaus Hartmann
(Deutschland) und Niko Varkevisser
(Niederlande) sowie Vertreter aus
Griechenland, Großbritannien, Rumänien,
Russland und anderen Ländern.
Die Kundgebungsredner informierten über den
fortgesetzten Terror in Kosovo
und Metochien unter Kfor-Aufsicht, klagten
die Regierung Serbiens des
Ausverkaufs und der Konspiration gegen das
eigene Land im NATO-Auftrag an,
wie der jüngste Spionagefall des
Vize-Regierungschefs nachdrücklich
dokumentiert, ebenso wurde die Entführung
Slobodan Milosevics nach Den Haag
als illegal und verfassungswidrig
gebrandmarkt. Gefordert wurde die
Abschaffung des NATO-Gerichtshofs in Den
Haag, das sich als Instrument der
fortgesetzten Aggression gegen Jugoslawien
und der Förderung des Terrorismus
erwiesen hat.
Heftig kritisiert wurde auch das jüngste
EU-vermittelte Abkommen, das an die
Stelle Jugoslawiens einen losen Bund von
Serbien und Montenegro treten
lassen soll. Dessen dreijährige Befristung
zeige, dass dies nur eine Etappe
bis zur endgültigen Trennung sein soll und
eine Ermunterung zu weiteren
Aufspaltungen. Es stelle einen
unüberbietbaren Zynismus dar, wenn der als
damaliger NATO-Generalsekretär für die
Aggression gegen Jugoslawien
verantwortliche Solana nun das "Ende
Jugoslawiens" triumphierend verkünden
könne, und eine Marionettenregierung ihm
dabei noch assistiere.
Dagegen wurde hervorgehoben, dass das
Auftreten von Slobodan Milosevic vor
dem Haager "Tribunal" eindrucksvoll davon
Zeugnis ablege, wie die Interessen
der Bevölkerung und des Staates verteidigt
werden müssen, und dies eine
Ermutigung für alle darstelle, die der
NATO-Aggression Widerstand leisteten,
und die auch in Zukunft für Frieden,
Freiheit und Menschenwürde einstehen
werden.
Am Tag vor der Demonstration und Kundgebung
haben Teilnehmer eines
Internationalen Runden Tischs in Belgrad aus
Anlass des 3. Jahrestages der
NATO-Aggression eine gemeinsame Resolution
verabschiedet, in der die
uneingeschränkte Unterstützung für die
Bewahrung, die Integrität und die
Entwicklung Jugoslawiens als dem
bedeutendsten Garanten von Frieden und
Stabilität in der Region erklärt wird. Sie
unterstreichen die volle
Verantwortung der NATO-Führer für das
Aggressionsverbrechen und fordern die
vollen Kompensation aller Kriegsschäden
sowie den Abzug aller NATO-Truppen
vom Balkan.
Gefordert wird in der Erklärung die
unverzügliche Freilassung von Slobodan
Milosevic und das Ende der Jagd auf all
jene, die gegen Terrorismus und für
die Freiheit und Integrität Jugoslawiens
kämpften. Die Teilnehmer des
Internationalen Runden Tisches fordern von
den internationalen Gremien
unverzügliche konkrete und entschlossene
Schritte, um die sichere Rückkehr
aller aus Kosovo und Metochien Vertriebenen
zu gewährleisten, ebenso die
Aufklärung des Schicksals der rund 4.000
seit der NATO-Aggression
ermordeten, entführten und "vermissten"
Serben und anderer Nicht-Albaner.
Am 25. März 2002 informierte die
Organisation "SLOBODA" (Freiheit)
anlässlich einer Pressekonferenz über die
unzuträglichen Haftbedingungen von
Slobodan Milosevic. Fünf volle Prozesstage
pro Woche lassen lediglich
eingeschränkte Zeit für Essen, Duschen etc.
zu, oft ist ein Aufenthalt in
frischer Luft nur am Wochenende stundenweise
möglich. Solche Bedingungen
überforderten bereits einen jüngeren und
gesunden Häftling. Allein zeitlich
ist die Vorbereitung auf die Verteidigung
erheblich eingeschränkt, hinzu
kommt, dass lediglich ein öffentliches
Kartentelefon zur Verfügung steht,
das nicht einmal eine Unterlage zum
Schreiben bietet, keine Anrufe ins
Gefängnis zulässt, und nachts nicht
funktioniert. Im Gegensatz zu anderen
Inhaftierten, die 15 Tage dauernden
Familienbesuch bekommen können, hat Frau
Prof. Dr. Mira Markovic bisher nur wenige
3-Tages-Visa erhalten. Diese
Gesamtsituation beeinträchtigt die
Gesundheit von Slobodan Milosevic
nachhaltig negativ, mit dem Ergebnis eines
ständig stark überhöhten
Blutdrucks mit allen Folgerisiken. Gefordert
wurde eine dauerhafte ärztliche
Überwachung durch ein internationales
Ärzteteam.
Klaus Hartmann, Vizepräsident des
Internationalen Komitees für die
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic, erhob
den Vorwurf, das dieses
"Tribunal" gezielt auf psychische und
physische Torturen setze. "Der
bisherige Verlauf hat bei den Veranstaltern
des Schauprozesses die
begründete Überzeugung reifen lassen, dass
sie gegen Slobodan Milosevic
nicht gewinnen können. Sie sind offenbar
bereit, eine andere ,Lösung' in
Betracht zu ziehen - einschließlich der
physischen Vernichtung des
,Angeklagten'."
Das Internationale Komitee bleibe bei seiner
grundsätzlichen Forderung nach
sofortiger Abschaffung des Haager Tribunals,
da seine pure Existenz
völkerrechtswidrig und ein Verbrechen gegen
den Frieden sei. Unabhängig
davon sei es nun aber an der Zeit, verstärkt
die Stimme zu erheben, damit
Slobodan Milosevic uneingeschränkte
medizinische Überwachung und Behandlung
erhalte, dass Zahl und Dauer der
Verhandlungstage der körperlichen
Verfassung und Leistungsfähigkeit angepasst
werden. Weiterhin ist endlich
der uneingeschränkte Zugang aller
Rechtsberater zu gewährleisten, die
Besuchsmöglichkeiten für Familie und Freunde
sind auszuweiten.
Nach den Worten von Klaus Hartmann sei es
zwar völlig illusionär, angesichts
des Haager "Tribunals", das den ganzen
NATO-Apparat und Multimilliardäre als
Finanziers hinter sich habe, so etwas wie
"Chancengleichheit" zu verlangen.
Ein Minimum an Rechtsstaatlichkeit verlange
jedoch, dass ein Angeklagter
Zeit und technische Möglichkeiten zu seiner
Verteidigung haben müsse. Dazu
sei eine Haftentlassung unabdingbar. "Oder
können Sie sich vorstellen,"
fragte Hartmann die anwesenden
Pressevertreter, "wie Sie heute Ihren Job
machen sollten ohne Internet- oder
e-mail-Anschluss?" Kopfschütteln und
Lachen war die Antwort aus dem Saal.
In diesem Sinne kündigte "SLOBODA" und das
Internationale Komitee neue
Initiativen gegenüber dem Tribunal, den
UN-Gremien und den nationalen
Regierungen an. Klaus Hartmann: "Notfalls
müssen die Veranstalter der Show
in Den Haag mit einer Lawine von Briefen und
Petitionen überhäuft werden,
bis diese Minimalforderungen erfüllt sind,
und die insbesondere klarmacht:
Die friedliebende internationale
Öffentlichkeit wird keine Lynchjustiz
hinnehmen, die Haager Veranstalter tragen
die uneingeschränkte Verantwortung
für all ihr Tun oder Unterlassen,
einschließlich der Konsequenzen für die
Entwicklung in den Balkanstaaten."
===*===
AUS WIEN
Bericht von der Kundgebung zum 24.März 2002 in Wien
Zum Beginn der Kundgebung versammelten sich
250 bis 300 Menschen am Graben in der Wiener
Innenstadt. Der traditionelle Treffpunkt der
NATO-Gegner und Gegnerinnen - Stock-im-Eisen
Platz - wo zwei Jahre lang die Kundgebungen
am 24. März stattgefunden hatten, wurde
diesmal von der Polizei untersagt.
Zur Gedenk- und Protestkundgebung anlässlich
des zweiten Jahrestages der Nato-Aggression
gegen Jugoslawien hatte die
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische
Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB) aufgerufen, die
aus der Protestbewegung gegen den Krieg in
Jugoslawien 1999 hervorgegangen ist.
Die Kundgebung wurde vom stellvertretenden
Vorsitzenden der JÖSB, Lazar Bilanovic, mit
einer Schweigeminute für die Opfer eröffnet.
Die Teilnehmer gedachten der Opfer und
zündeten Kerzen an.
Es sprachen ganz in der Tradition der
Anti-Nato-Kundgebungen vor drei Jahren
Slavko Zivanovic als serbischer Grüner, die
Dichterinnen Rada Pena, Olgica Kapsarov und
Vjera Raskovic-Zec. Von österreichischer
Seite ergriffen Waltraud Stiefsohn von der
Volksstimme, Margaritha Langthaler von der
Antiimperialistischen Koordination und
Andreas Babler von der Sozialistischen
Jugend Wiens, das Wort. Die
SJ-Niederösterreich hatte die Kundgebung
ebenfalls unterstützt. Weiters sprach
Stevan Raducic für die KJÖ. Susi Jerusalem
von den Grünen ist trotz Zusage nicht zur
Protestkundgebung erschienen. Es wurden auch
zwei Grußbotschaften verlesen. Kurt
Köpruner, in Deutschland lebender Autor des
Buches ?Reisen in das Land der Kriege -
Erlebnisse eines Fremden in Jugoslawien?
hatte in seiner Botschaft betont: ?Was vor
drei Jahren in Jugoslawien geschah, setzt
sich heute in Afghanistan fort. Und die
nächsten Ziele zeichnen sich schon ab. An
die fünf Dutzend Staaten stehen auf der
vielzitierten ?Schwarzen Liste? der
sogenannten Schurkenstaaten?.
Die zweite Botschaft erfolgte von Malte
Olschewski, ehemaliger ORF-Korrespondent und
Buchautor u.a. von ?Von den Karawanken bis
zum Kosovo - Die geheime Geschichte der
Kriege in Jugoslawien?. Er betonte, dass die
Bombardierung Jugoslawiens nur ein Baustein
einer größeren Strategie, mit der die USA
über die Globalisierung die Welt
durchdringen und durchwesen wollen, war und
dass man Widerstand gegen die Globalisierung
leisten müsse, indem man schon individuell
auf den Kauf von ?lebensunnötigen,
überflüssigen Gütern? verzichten solle. ?Das
ist ein Pfeil, der direkt ins Herz der
Globalisierung fährt?, so Olschewski an die
Versammlung. Hannes Hofbauer, in Wien
lebender Publizist und Autor des Buches
?Balkankrieg - Die Zertsörung Jugoslawiens -
konnte diesmal nicht in Wien sprechen, da er
aus gleichem Anlass auf einer Kundgebung in
Berlin anwesend war; ebenso Gerhard Ruiss,
Geschäftsführer der "IG-AutorInnen", der
Interessensgemeinschaft österreichischer
Schriftsteller.
Für die JÖSB sprach Jelica Redzic.
Margarethe Gal, antifaschistische
Widerstandskämpferin und Aktivistin der
JÖSB, schloss die Kundgebung.
Wir möchten anschließend auf eine Termin
aufmerksam machen:
31.3. Dokumentation: "Es begann mit einer Lüge"
Deutschland, Erstausstrahlung: 8.02 2001
Aus aktuellem Anlass zeigt das
Vorstadtzentrum neuerlich die wichtigste
Fernsehdokumentation über die
NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien: "Es
begann mit einer Lüge". Zwei WDR-Redakteure
gingen im Kosovo den Medienlügen auf den
Grund, die zur Initialzündung für den
damaligen Kriegseinsatz wurden.
"Operationsplan Hufeisen", das
"Konzentrationslager" im Fußballstadion von
Pristina, das Massaker an Zivilisten in
Racak - das waren die zentralen Argumente
für die Bomben der NATO. Dahinter
versteckten sich bewusste Fälschungen der
westlichen Medien und Politker.
WO? Vorstadtzentrum XV, Meiselstraße 46/4,
1150 Wien
WANN? 18 Uhr 30
**************************************
Jugoslawisch Österreichische
Solidaritätsbewegung JÖSB
PF 217
A-1040 Wien
Tel&Fax: (+43 1) 924 31 61
joesb@...
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
**************************************
BELGRAD, 25. März 2002. Gestern wurde in
ganz Serbien Gedenkfeiern abgehalten, die an
die Bombardierung Jugoslawiens durch die
NATO, vor drei Jahren gedenken. In den 78
Tagen der Bombardierung, sind etwa 3.500
Menschen umgekommen in Jugoslawien, davon
war der größte Teil Zivilisten. Die genau
Zahl der Opfer der Bombenangriffe wurde nie
festgestellt. In allen Kirchen der
serbisch-orthodoxen Kirche wird jedes Jahr
an diesem Tag Gedenkgottesdienste
abgehalten, der an die Opfer der
NATO-Bombenangriffe gedenken soll. Der
Präsident Jugoslawiens, Vojislav Kostunica,
hielt zu diesem Anlass eine Rede, in der er
mahnte, das man diese Tag und die
Bombenangriffe nicht vergessen darf, und das
wir mit denen zusammenarbeiten müssen die
Bomben aus 20.000 höhe auf unschuldige
Menschen geworfen haben und das der Krieg
der NATO gegen Jugoslawien, mit dem
Zynischen Namen "Friedlicher Engel", nicht
den versprochenen Frieden gebracht haben.
TIKER / AMSELFELD.COM
===*===
Subject: Belgrad: Demonstration zum 3.
Jahrestag der NATO-Aggression
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:36:53 +0100
From: "Klaus von Raussendorff" <redaktion@...>
International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic (ICDSM) - German Section
Internationales Komitee für die Verteidigung
von Slobodan Milosevic - Deutsche Sektion
c/o Klaus Hartmann
Schillstraße 7
D-63067 Offenbach am Main
T/F: -69 - 83 58 50
e-mail: vorstand@...
URL: www.free-slobo.de
Pressemitteilung
05-2002 27.03.2002
24. März 2002 in Belgrad:
"Freiheit für Slobodan - Freiheit für alle!"
Demonstration zum 3. Jahrestag der NATO-Aggression
Drei Jahre nach Beginn des 78 Tage währenden
Bombardements Jugoslawiens
durch die Länder des NATO-Paktes
versammelten sich in Belgrad Zehntausende,
um das Gedächtnis an dieses Verbrechen wach
zu halten und gegen das Diktat
der neuen Weltordner zu protestieren.
Während des Demonstrationszuges von über
30.000 Demonstranten durch die
Belgrader Innenstadt, bei
Zwischenkundgebungen vor dem serbischen
Regierungsgebäude und dem Parlament
Jugoslawiens sowie der Kundgebung mit
über 50.000 Teilnehmern auf dem zentralen
Platz der Republik stand die
Forderung nach sofortiger Freilassung von
Slobodan Milosevic im Mittelpunkt.
Zu Beginn der Kundgebung wurde der Opfer der
NATO-Aggression in einer
Schweigeminute gedacht. Stürmisch begrüßt
wurden die ausländischen Gäste,
Prof. Dr. Velko Valkanov (Bulgarien),
Co-Präsident des Internationalen
Komitees für die Verteidigung von Slobodan
Milosevic, die beiden
Vize-Präsidenten Klaus Hartmann
(Deutschland) und Niko Varkevisser
(Niederlande) sowie Vertreter aus
Griechenland, Großbritannien, Rumänien,
Russland und anderen Ländern.
Die Kundgebungsredner informierten über den
fortgesetzten Terror in Kosovo
und Metochien unter Kfor-Aufsicht, klagten
die Regierung Serbiens des
Ausverkaufs und der Konspiration gegen das
eigene Land im NATO-Auftrag an,
wie der jüngste Spionagefall des
Vize-Regierungschefs nachdrücklich
dokumentiert, ebenso wurde die Entführung
Slobodan Milosevics nach Den Haag
als illegal und verfassungswidrig
gebrandmarkt. Gefordert wurde die
Abschaffung des NATO-Gerichtshofs in Den
Haag, das sich als Instrument der
fortgesetzten Aggression gegen Jugoslawien
und der Förderung des Terrorismus
erwiesen hat.
Heftig kritisiert wurde auch das jüngste
EU-vermittelte Abkommen, das an die
Stelle Jugoslawiens einen losen Bund von
Serbien und Montenegro treten
lassen soll. Dessen dreijährige Befristung
zeige, dass dies nur eine Etappe
bis zur endgültigen Trennung sein soll und
eine Ermunterung zu weiteren
Aufspaltungen. Es stelle einen
unüberbietbaren Zynismus dar, wenn der als
damaliger NATO-Generalsekretär für die
Aggression gegen Jugoslawien
verantwortliche Solana nun das "Ende
Jugoslawiens" triumphierend verkünden
könne, und eine Marionettenregierung ihm
dabei noch assistiere.
Dagegen wurde hervorgehoben, dass das
Auftreten von Slobodan Milosevic vor
dem Haager "Tribunal" eindrucksvoll davon
Zeugnis ablege, wie die Interessen
der Bevölkerung und des Staates verteidigt
werden müssen, und dies eine
Ermutigung für alle darstelle, die der
NATO-Aggression Widerstand leisteten,
und die auch in Zukunft für Frieden,
Freiheit und Menschenwürde einstehen
werden.
Am Tag vor der Demonstration und Kundgebung
haben Teilnehmer eines
Internationalen Runden Tischs in Belgrad aus
Anlass des 3. Jahrestages der
NATO-Aggression eine gemeinsame Resolution
verabschiedet, in der die
uneingeschränkte Unterstützung für die
Bewahrung, die Integrität und die
Entwicklung Jugoslawiens als dem
bedeutendsten Garanten von Frieden und
Stabilität in der Region erklärt wird. Sie
unterstreichen die volle
Verantwortung der NATO-Führer für das
Aggressionsverbrechen und fordern die
vollen Kompensation aller Kriegsschäden
sowie den Abzug aller NATO-Truppen
vom Balkan.
Gefordert wird in der Erklärung die
unverzügliche Freilassung von Slobodan
Milosevic und das Ende der Jagd auf all
jene, die gegen Terrorismus und für
die Freiheit und Integrität Jugoslawiens
kämpften. Die Teilnehmer des
Internationalen Runden Tisches fordern von
den internationalen Gremien
unverzügliche konkrete und entschlossene
Schritte, um die sichere Rückkehr
aller aus Kosovo und Metochien Vertriebenen
zu gewährleisten, ebenso die
Aufklärung des Schicksals der rund 4.000
seit der NATO-Aggression
ermordeten, entführten und "vermissten"
Serben und anderer Nicht-Albaner.
Am 25. März 2002 informierte die
Organisation "SLOBODA" (Freiheit)
anlässlich einer Pressekonferenz über die
unzuträglichen Haftbedingungen von
Slobodan Milosevic. Fünf volle Prozesstage
pro Woche lassen lediglich
eingeschränkte Zeit für Essen, Duschen etc.
zu, oft ist ein Aufenthalt in
frischer Luft nur am Wochenende stundenweise
möglich. Solche Bedingungen
überforderten bereits einen jüngeren und
gesunden Häftling. Allein zeitlich
ist die Vorbereitung auf die Verteidigung
erheblich eingeschränkt, hinzu
kommt, dass lediglich ein öffentliches
Kartentelefon zur Verfügung steht,
das nicht einmal eine Unterlage zum
Schreiben bietet, keine Anrufe ins
Gefängnis zulässt, und nachts nicht
funktioniert. Im Gegensatz zu anderen
Inhaftierten, die 15 Tage dauernden
Familienbesuch bekommen können, hat Frau
Prof. Dr. Mira Markovic bisher nur wenige
3-Tages-Visa erhalten. Diese
Gesamtsituation beeinträchtigt die
Gesundheit von Slobodan Milosevic
nachhaltig negativ, mit dem Ergebnis eines
ständig stark überhöhten
Blutdrucks mit allen Folgerisiken. Gefordert
wurde eine dauerhafte ärztliche
Überwachung durch ein internationales
Ärzteteam.
Klaus Hartmann, Vizepräsident des
Internationalen Komitees für die
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic, erhob
den Vorwurf, das dieses
"Tribunal" gezielt auf psychische und
physische Torturen setze. "Der
bisherige Verlauf hat bei den Veranstaltern
des Schauprozesses die
begründete Überzeugung reifen lassen, dass
sie gegen Slobodan Milosevic
nicht gewinnen können. Sie sind offenbar
bereit, eine andere ,Lösung' in
Betracht zu ziehen - einschließlich der
physischen Vernichtung des
,Angeklagten'."
Das Internationale Komitee bleibe bei seiner
grundsätzlichen Forderung nach
sofortiger Abschaffung des Haager Tribunals,
da seine pure Existenz
völkerrechtswidrig und ein Verbrechen gegen
den Frieden sei. Unabhängig
davon sei es nun aber an der Zeit, verstärkt
die Stimme zu erheben, damit
Slobodan Milosevic uneingeschränkte
medizinische Überwachung und Behandlung
erhalte, dass Zahl und Dauer der
Verhandlungstage der körperlichen
Verfassung und Leistungsfähigkeit angepasst
werden. Weiterhin ist endlich
der uneingeschränkte Zugang aller
Rechtsberater zu gewährleisten, die
Besuchsmöglichkeiten für Familie und Freunde
sind auszuweiten.
Nach den Worten von Klaus Hartmann sei es
zwar völlig illusionär, angesichts
des Haager "Tribunals", das den ganzen
NATO-Apparat und Multimilliardäre als
Finanziers hinter sich habe, so etwas wie
"Chancengleichheit" zu verlangen.
Ein Minimum an Rechtsstaatlichkeit verlange
jedoch, dass ein Angeklagter
Zeit und technische Möglichkeiten zu seiner
Verteidigung haben müsse. Dazu
sei eine Haftentlassung unabdingbar. "Oder
können Sie sich vorstellen,"
fragte Hartmann die anwesenden
Pressevertreter, "wie Sie heute Ihren Job
machen sollten ohne Internet- oder
e-mail-Anschluss?" Kopfschütteln und
Lachen war die Antwort aus dem Saal.
In diesem Sinne kündigte "SLOBODA" und das
Internationale Komitee neue
Initiativen gegenüber dem Tribunal, den
UN-Gremien und den nationalen
Regierungen an. Klaus Hartmann: "Notfalls
müssen die Veranstalter der Show
in Den Haag mit einer Lawine von Briefen und
Petitionen überhäuft werden,
bis diese Minimalforderungen erfüllt sind,
und die insbesondere klarmacht:
Die friedliebende internationale
Öffentlichkeit wird keine Lynchjustiz
hinnehmen, die Haager Veranstalter tragen
die uneingeschränkte Verantwortung
für all ihr Tun oder Unterlassen,
einschließlich der Konsequenzen für die
Entwicklung in den Balkanstaaten."
===*===
AUS WIEN
Bericht von der Kundgebung zum 24.März 2002 in Wien
Zum Beginn der Kundgebung versammelten sich
250 bis 300 Menschen am Graben in der Wiener
Innenstadt. Der traditionelle Treffpunkt der
NATO-Gegner und Gegnerinnen - Stock-im-Eisen
Platz - wo zwei Jahre lang die Kundgebungen
am 24. März stattgefunden hatten, wurde
diesmal von der Polizei untersagt.
Zur Gedenk- und Protestkundgebung anlässlich
des zweiten Jahrestages der Nato-Aggression
gegen Jugoslawien hatte die
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische
Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB) aufgerufen, die
aus der Protestbewegung gegen den Krieg in
Jugoslawien 1999 hervorgegangen ist.
Die Kundgebung wurde vom stellvertretenden
Vorsitzenden der JÖSB, Lazar Bilanovic, mit
einer Schweigeminute für die Opfer eröffnet.
Die Teilnehmer gedachten der Opfer und
zündeten Kerzen an.
Es sprachen ganz in der Tradition der
Anti-Nato-Kundgebungen vor drei Jahren
Slavko Zivanovic als serbischer Grüner, die
Dichterinnen Rada Pena, Olgica Kapsarov und
Vjera Raskovic-Zec. Von österreichischer
Seite ergriffen Waltraud Stiefsohn von der
Volksstimme, Margaritha Langthaler von der
Antiimperialistischen Koordination und
Andreas Babler von der Sozialistischen
Jugend Wiens, das Wort. Die
SJ-Niederösterreich hatte die Kundgebung
ebenfalls unterstützt. Weiters sprach
Stevan Raducic für die KJÖ. Susi Jerusalem
von den Grünen ist trotz Zusage nicht zur
Protestkundgebung erschienen. Es wurden auch
zwei Grußbotschaften verlesen. Kurt
Köpruner, in Deutschland lebender Autor des
Buches ?Reisen in das Land der Kriege -
Erlebnisse eines Fremden in Jugoslawien?
hatte in seiner Botschaft betont: ?Was vor
drei Jahren in Jugoslawien geschah, setzt
sich heute in Afghanistan fort. Und die
nächsten Ziele zeichnen sich schon ab. An
die fünf Dutzend Staaten stehen auf der
vielzitierten ?Schwarzen Liste? der
sogenannten Schurkenstaaten?.
Die zweite Botschaft erfolgte von Malte
Olschewski, ehemaliger ORF-Korrespondent und
Buchautor u.a. von ?Von den Karawanken bis
zum Kosovo - Die geheime Geschichte der
Kriege in Jugoslawien?. Er betonte, dass die
Bombardierung Jugoslawiens nur ein Baustein
einer größeren Strategie, mit der die USA
über die Globalisierung die Welt
durchdringen und durchwesen wollen, war und
dass man Widerstand gegen die Globalisierung
leisten müsse, indem man schon individuell
auf den Kauf von ?lebensunnötigen,
überflüssigen Gütern? verzichten solle. ?Das
ist ein Pfeil, der direkt ins Herz der
Globalisierung fährt?, so Olschewski an die
Versammlung. Hannes Hofbauer, in Wien
lebender Publizist und Autor des Buches
?Balkankrieg - Die Zertsörung Jugoslawiens -
konnte diesmal nicht in Wien sprechen, da er
aus gleichem Anlass auf einer Kundgebung in
Berlin anwesend war; ebenso Gerhard Ruiss,
Geschäftsführer der "IG-AutorInnen", der
Interessensgemeinschaft österreichischer
Schriftsteller.
Für die JÖSB sprach Jelica Redzic.
Margarethe Gal, antifaschistische
Widerstandskämpferin und Aktivistin der
JÖSB, schloss die Kundgebung.
Wir möchten anschließend auf eine Termin
aufmerksam machen:
31.3. Dokumentation: "Es begann mit einer Lüge"
Deutschland, Erstausstrahlung: 8.02 2001
Aus aktuellem Anlass zeigt das
Vorstadtzentrum neuerlich die wichtigste
Fernsehdokumentation über die
NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien: "Es
begann mit einer Lüge". Zwei WDR-Redakteure
gingen im Kosovo den Medienlügen auf den
Grund, die zur Initialzündung für den
damaligen Kriegseinsatz wurden.
"Operationsplan Hufeisen", das
"Konzentrationslager" im Fußballstadion von
Pristina, das Massaker an Zivilisten in
Racak - das waren die zentralen Argumente
für die Bomben der NATO. Dahinter
versteckten sich bewusste Fälschungen der
westlichen Medien und Politker.
WO? Vorstadtzentrum XV, Meiselstraße 46/4,
1150 Wien
WANN? 18 Uhr 30
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Jugoslawisch Österreichische
Solidaritätsbewegung JÖSB
PF 217
A-1040 Wien
Tel&Fax: (+43 1) 924 31 61
joesb@...
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
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Subject: FYROM: Terrorist Chief Elected Head Of 'Coordinative
Council'
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 03:41:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff
> http://www.balkanreport.com/strana.asp?id=460
[A brief background piece on Ali Ahmeti follows]
Balkan Report
3/25/2002
Ali Ahmeti Elected President Of Coordinative Council
All Kosovo dailies today report on the appointment of
Ali Ahmeti, the former political leader of the NLA, as
the president of the Co-ordination Council of the
Albanians in Macedonia, in a meeting held yesterday in
Tetova. A communiqué issued by the Council said that
Ahmeti?s unanimous election ?proved the unity of the
Macedonian Albanians to develop and promote democratic
values as a factor of stability and integration of
Macedonia into the Euro-Atlantic structures?. In other
news, Koha Ditore reports that despite NATO calls for
Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski to
disband the special ?Lions? police unit created during
the crisis, Boskovski announced on Saturday that this
unit is a regular police unit. The minister was
speaking at a ceremony marking the completion of a
three-month training course in Manastir for members of
this unit. His announcement follows international
criticism that Lions are an illegitimate police unit.
-------------------------------------------------------Human
Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
by Rick Rozoff
August 1, 2001
Human Rights Watch, whose interests and positions so
closely (suspiciously if you like) parallel those of
the United States State Department, politely requests
that the political leader of the self-styled National
Liberation Army in Macedonia, the lifelong separatist
extremist Ali Ahmeti, abide by "international
humanitarian law." (The Human Rights Watch appeal is
appended below.)
Though, contrary to the title of the missive, the
letter in fact requests that both sides in the
conflict - the legitimate, legally-elected government,
and the armed insurgency launched from Kosovo and
Albania - respect Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions pertaining to what Human Rights Watch
characterizes as "internal armed conflicts." In
keeping with HRW's stated policy of 'deferring
judgment' on the legitimacy of said internal armed
conflicts, its spokeperson, Holly Cartner, fully
equates the aggressor and the victim; the
legally-constituted authority, which is not accused of
either provoking or even creating any pretext for the
armed uprising, and the crime syndicate-linked and
-funded racial terrorists.
In the interim between the deferential letter from Ms.
Carter to Mr. Ahmeti almost three months ago and now,
Ahmeti and his pan-Albanian mercenaries have unleashed
a full-scale insurrection throughout the nation,
ethnically cleansing dozens of villages and
contributing to the displacement of - by some
estimates - over 120,000 civilians, a sizeable
percentage of Macedonia's two million people. Human
Rights Watch has kept a low profile since on this
issue, except for reports on alleged mistreatment of
ethnic Albanians and Western press personnel. When an
organization like HRW advances its concerns from those
affecting non-combatants in "internal armed conflicts"
to the mistreatment, real or fancied, of insurgents -
which is certainly impending - then it crosses the
threshold of supposed impartiality into treating the
belligerents as equal parties to the conflict, and
thus "internationalizes" what in truth is a matter of
internal criminal law enforcement. That HRW has at
least left the door open for such a prospect is
evident by Cartner's following up her reference to the
Geneva Conventions by her revealing invocation of the
"fundamental principle[s] of the laws of war."
Who is Dear Mr. Ahmeti?
Holly Cartner, Executive Director of Human Rights
Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division, has kept a
close enough eye on the Balkans over the past years to
know who she was so respectfully writing to. For
anyone not familiar with Mr. Ahmeti, whose history
suggests someone anything but dear, he possesses, to
employ an expression familiar to the American if not
the Albanian underworld, a rap sheet as long as his
arm.
Regarding his recent activties, in addition to waging
war against the sovereign nation of Macedonia and its
civilian population from his base in Prizren in
Kosovo, Ahmeti reportedly found time to appear on an
Australian radio broadcast and announce the launching
of a Liberation Army of Chameria in Northern Greece,
claiming he already had fighters and weapons in place
there.
When questioned about this, the latest plan for his
decades' old project for a Greater Albania, he denied
it - but then Ahmeti has denied a number of things in
his lifetime.
Had he been asked about his clandestine meeting with
American OSCE representative Robert Frowick in mid-May
of this year - a meeting held in Ahmeti's headquarters
in Kosovo with Macedonian ethnic Albanian political
leaders, and cabinet ministers, Arben Xhaferi and Imer
Imeri - he might well have denied that also, except
that Frowick himself didn't deny that it occurred. In
a feature in the London Times on March 19, 2001,
"Albanians Insist Their Victory Is Inevitable," writer
Anthony Loyd, commenting on the NLA in Macedonia, had
this to say about Mr. Ahmeti's antecedents:
"Intelligence reports name four main figures,
including Ali Ahmeti and Emrush Xhemajii, as leaders.
Both men owe their political allegiance to the Popular
Movement for Kosovo, the LPK, which set up the KLA in
1993 and created the Homeland Calling funding scheme
among Albanians abroad. The scheme still exists and
funding for the NLA has been launched, say diplomats."
But his record as an ethnic separatist goes back
farther than 1993. Though born in what is now the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he attended the
University of Pristina in the Serbian province of
Kosovo in 1981, where he was active in pan-Albanian
agitation and was arrested by federal authorities
there.
He subsequently left for Switzerland, where he joined
up with his uncle, Fazli Veliu, to set up an
international operation to raise funds and recruit
fighters for insurrections in Kosovo and elsewhere; an
operation that several investigations establish was
funded by narcotics trafficking and the European sex
slave trade.
On this score the German newspaper Die Welt reported
in March, in an article about the Albanian mafia, that
the NLA in Macedonia was indeed funded by the drug
trade and by a "war tax" levied on ethnic Albanians
living abroad.
Ali Ahmeti and Fazli Veliu (the second arrested on
terrorism charges in Germany last year, but released
shortly thereafter) are identified as key ringleaders
in the crime syndicate/armed insurgency collaboration.
Ahmeti, after leaving Switzerland for the first time,
returned to Yugoslavia to help found the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army, as noted above, and appears to
be the key liaison between the fighters on the ground
and the Transatlantic ethnic Albanian gun-running and
recruitment operation feeding the first with
personnel, funds and weapons.
In the past twenty six months since NATO-led KFOR
forces occupied Kosovo, with their KLA adjuncts in
tow, Ahmeti - who during the fighting had been a
commander for the infamous war criminal Ramush
Haradinaj - returned to Kosovo where he set up
operation in Prizren.
It was there, and recall that Ahmeti claims to be a
citizen of Macedonia concerned about alleged "civil
rights" in that nation, that he met with the heads of
Macedonia's two largest ethnic political parties, the
Democratic Party of Albanians and the Party for
Democratic Progress, under the auspices of U.S. OSCE
operative Robert Frowick.
It may also have been in Prizren, if not in Skopje
itself, that, according to the Skopje newspaper
Makedonija Denes, Ahmeti met with former NATO head and
current European Union foreign affairs chief Javier
Solana, with Kosovo Protection Corps commander and war
criminal Agim Ceku, and with KLA commander Haradinaj.
According to a Yugoslav Tanjug account of the
Macedonian paper's story, "It was agreed that Solana,
currently visiting Macedonia, bring pressure to bear
on the Macedonian government to halt the government
forces' operations for liberating Aracinovo village
near the capital Skopje" - the site of the U.S.-led
rescue of a hundred or more NLA fighters shortly
thereafter.
[http://www.tanjug.co.yu/Arhiva/2001/Jun%20-%2000/26-06e10.html%5d
Although Ahmeti recently made it on to the U.S. black
list and is also persona non grata in Switzerland of
late, his movements in and out of Kosovo, surely known
to if not coordinated by NATO's KFOR contingent, seem
blissfully unimpeded.
Lastly, to reflect on both Human Rights Watch and on
its dear Mr. Ahmeti, five days before Holly Cartner's
ever so reverential letter was issued, Ahmeti's
terrorists ambushed and killed eight Macedonian
security personnel.
Ahmeti told a Reuters reporter after the incident
that, "Our soldiers acted in self-defense." And no
doubt, in his mind and in Ms. Cartner's, according to
Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions relating to
"internal armed conflicts" and to "humanitarian law."
For the above crime was not mentioned in the exchange
between Dear Mr. Ahmeti and Holly Cartner,
respectfully.
______________________________________________
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/05/macedonia_ltr3.htm.
Letter to NLA Political Spokesman Ali Ahmeti
May 4, 2001
Mr. Ali Ahmeti
Political Spokesman for the National Liberation Army
(NLA)
Dear Mr. Ahmeti,
Human Rights Watch is a privately funded international
non-governmental organization dedicated to documenting
human rights abuses throughout the world. In the past
ten years, we have committed substantial time and
effort to investigating violations of human rights and
humanitarian law in the former Yugoslavia. We have
documented violations of international humanitarian
law by all sides of the armed conflicts in Croatia,
Bosnia, Kosovo, and the NATO war with the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Reports of the renewed conflict in the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia between security forces and
armed groups of ethnic Albanians raise concerns
relating to adherence to international humanitarian
law. As in all other conflicts in the territory of the
former Yugoslavia, our principal concern is that all
parties involved respect civilian immunity and ensure
the protection of civilians.
Human Rights Watch wants to express its concern that
the groups organized under the name of National
Liberation Army (NLA) take all measures to comply with
basic principles of international humanitarian law
applicable to situations of internal armed conflict,
and enshrined in Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions. This provision protects those who do not
take an active part in hostilities from the most
serious violations, including acts of murder, torture
and cruel treatment, the taking of hostages, outrages
upon personal dignity, and the passing of sentences
and the carrying out of executions without previous
judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court.
With regard to the renewed fighting, the NLA
leadership should refrain from any attacks against
civilians, attacks and reprisals against civilian
objects, as well as threats of violence the primary
purpose of which is to spread terror among the
civilian population.
We also call on the NLA leadership to ensure that the
civilian population of the affected areas enjoys as
much protection as possible against dangers of harm
resulting from the fighting. The most fundamental
principle of the laws of war requires that combatants
be distinguished from noncombatants, and that military
objectives be distinguished from protected property or
protected places. Parties to a conflict must direct
their operations only against military objectives
(including combatants). Also, the use of civilians as
shields for defensive positions, to hide military
objectives or to screen attacks, violates the
principles of the international humanitarian law.
We also note that the jurisdiction of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) applies to serious violations of
international humanitarian law committed after 1991 on
the territory of the former Yugoslavia, including the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Human Rights Watch also recognizes the obligations of
the Macedonian security forces to uphold the standards
of international humanitarian law and urges their
adherence to these norms. Letters expressing Human
Rights Watch's concerns to this effect are being sent
to the president and the prime minister of the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
We hope, Mr. Ahmeti, that you will give serious
thought to the points addressed in this letter and,
guided by consideration for human life and well-being,
do everything in your power to ensure that the NLA
respects obligations under international humanitarian
law.
Respectfully,
/s/
Holly Cartner
Executive Director
Europe and Central Asia Division
cc: Mrs. Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor, ICTY
Council'
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 03:41:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff
> http://www.balkanreport.com/strana.asp?id=460
[A brief background piece on Ali Ahmeti follows]
Balkan Report
3/25/2002
Ali Ahmeti Elected President Of Coordinative Council
All Kosovo dailies today report on the appointment of
Ali Ahmeti, the former political leader of the NLA, as
the president of the Co-ordination Council of the
Albanians in Macedonia, in a meeting held yesterday in
Tetova. A communiqué issued by the Council said that
Ahmeti?s unanimous election ?proved the unity of the
Macedonian Albanians to develop and promote democratic
values as a factor of stability and integration of
Macedonia into the Euro-Atlantic structures?. In other
news, Koha Ditore reports that despite NATO calls for
Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski to
disband the special ?Lions? police unit created during
the crisis, Boskovski announced on Saturday that this
unit is a regular police unit. The minister was
speaking at a ceremony marking the completion of a
three-month training course in Manastir for members of
this unit. His announcement follows international
criticism that Lions are an illegitimate police unit.
-------------------------------------------------------Human
Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
by Rick Rozoff
August 1, 2001
Human Rights Watch, whose interests and positions so
closely (suspiciously if you like) parallel those of
the United States State Department, politely requests
that the political leader of the self-styled National
Liberation Army in Macedonia, the lifelong separatist
extremist Ali Ahmeti, abide by "international
humanitarian law." (The Human Rights Watch appeal is
appended below.)
Though, contrary to the title of the missive, the
letter in fact requests that both sides in the
conflict - the legitimate, legally-elected government,
and the armed insurgency launched from Kosovo and
Albania - respect Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions pertaining to what Human Rights Watch
characterizes as "internal armed conflicts." In
keeping with HRW's stated policy of 'deferring
judgment' on the legitimacy of said internal armed
conflicts, its spokeperson, Holly Cartner, fully
equates the aggressor and the victim; the
legally-constituted authority, which is not accused of
either provoking or even creating any pretext for the
armed uprising, and the crime syndicate-linked and
-funded racial terrorists.
In the interim between the deferential letter from Ms.
Carter to Mr. Ahmeti almost three months ago and now,
Ahmeti and his pan-Albanian mercenaries have unleashed
a full-scale insurrection throughout the nation,
ethnically cleansing dozens of villages and
contributing to the displacement of - by some
estimates - over 120,000 civilians, a sizeable
percentage of Macedonia's two million people. Human
Rights Watch has kept a low profile since on this
issue, except for reports on alleged mistreatment of
ethnic Albanians and Western press personnel. When an
organization like HRW advances its concerns from those
affecting non-combatants in "internal armed conflicts"
to the mistreatment, real or fancied, of insurgents -
which is certainly impending - then it crosses the
threshold of supposed impartiality into treating the
belligerents as equal parties to the conflict, and
thus "internationalizes" what in truth is a matter of
internal criminal law enforcement. That HRW has at
least left the door open for such a prospect is
evident by Cartner's following up her reference to the
Geneva Conventions by her revealing invocation of the
"fundamental principle[s] of the laws of war."
Who is Dear Mr. Ahmeti?
Holly Cartner, Executive Director of Human Rights
Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division, has kept a
close enough eye on the Balkans over the past years to
know who she was so respectfully writing to. For
anyone not familiar with Mr. Ahmeti, whose history
suggests someone anything but dear, he possesses, to
employ an expression familiar to the American if not
the Albanian underworld, a rap sheet as long as his
arm.
Regarding his recent activties, in addition to waging
war against the sovereign nation of Macedonia and its
civilian population from his base in Prizren in
Kosovo, Ahmeti reportedly found time to appear on an
Australian radio broadcast and announce the launching
of a Liberation Army of Chameria in Northern Greece,
claiming he already had fighters and weapons in place
there.
When questioned about this, the latest plan for his
decades' old project for a Greater Albania, he denied
it - but then Ahmeti has denied a number of things in
his lifetime.
Had he been asked about his clandestine meeting with
American OSCE representative Robert Frowick in mid-May
of this year - a meeting held in Ahmeti's headquarters
in Kosovo with Macedonian ethnic Albanian political
leaders, and cabinet ministers, Arben Xhaferi and Imer
Imeri - he might well have denied that also, except
that Frowick himself didn't deny that it occurred. In
a feature in the London Times on March 19, 2001,
"Albanians Insist Their Victory Is Inevitable," writer
Anthony Loyd, commenting on the NLA in Macedonia, had
this to say about Mr. Ahmeti's antecedents:
"Intelligence reports name four main figures,
including Ali Ahmeti and Emrush Xhemajii, as leaders.
Both men owe their political allegiance to the Popular
Movement for Kosovo, the LPK, which set up the KLA in
1993 and created the Homeland Calling funding scheme
among Albanians abroad. The scheme still exists and
funding for the NLA has been launched, say diplomats."
But his record as an ethnic separatist goes back
farther than 1993. Though born in what is now the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he attended the
University of Pristina in the Serbian province of
Kosovo in 1981, where he was active in pan-Albanian
agitation and was arrested by federal authorities
there.
He subsequently left for Switzerland, where he joined
up with his uncle, Fazli Veliu, to set up an
international operation to raise funds and recruit
fighters for insurrections in Kosovo and elsewhere; an
operation that several investigations establish was
funded by narcotics trafficking and the European sex
slave trade.
On this score the German newspaper Die Welt reported
in March, in an article about the Albanian mafia, that
the NLA in Macedonia was indeed funded by the drug
trade and by a "war tax" levied on ethnic Albanians
living abroad.
Ali Ahmeti and Fazli Veliu (the second arrested on
terrorism charges in Germany last year, but released
shortly thereafter) are identified as key ringleaders
in the crime syndicate/armed insurgency collaboration.
Ahmeti, after leaving Switzerland for the first time,
returned to Yugoslavia to help found the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army, as noted above, and appears to
be the key liaison between the fighters on the ground
and the Transatlantic ethnic Albanian gun-running and
recruitment operation feeding the first with
personnel, funds and weapons.
In the past twenty six months since NATO-led KFOR
forces occupied Kosovo, with their KLA adjuncts in
tow, Ahmeti - who during the fighting had been a
commander for the infamous war criminal Ramush
Haradinaj - returned to Kosovo where he set up
operation in Prizren.
It was there, and recall that Ahmeti claims to be a
citizen of Macedonia concerned about alleged "civil
rights" in that nation, that he met with the heads of
Macedonia's two largest ethnic political parties, the
Democratic Party of Albanians and the Party for
Democratic Progress, under the auspices of U.S. OSCE
operative Robert Frowick.
It may also have been in Prizren, if not in Skopje
itself, that, according to the Skopje newspaper
Makedonija Denes, Ahmeti met with former NATO head and
current European Union foreign affairs chief Javier
Solana, with Kosovo Protection Corps commander and war
criminal Agim Ceku, and with KLA commander Haradinaj.
According to a Yugoslav Tanjug account of the
Macedonian paper's story, "It was agreed that Solana,
currently visiting Macedonia, bring pressure to bear
on the Macedonian government to halt the government
forces' operations for liberating Aracinovo village
near the capital Skopje" - the site of the U.S.-led
rescue of a hundred or more NLA fighters shortly
thereafter.
[http://www.tanjug.co.yu/Arhiva/2001/Jun%20-%2000/26-06e10.html%5d
Although Ahmeti recently made it on to the U.S. black
list and is also persona non grata in Switzerland of
late, his movements in and out of Kosovo, surely known
to if not coordinated by NATO's KFOR contingent, seem
blissfully unimpeded.
Lastly, to reflect on both Human Rights Watch and on
its dear Mr. Ahmeti, five days before Holly Cartner's
ever so reverential letter was issued, Ahmeti's
terrorists ambushed and killed eight Macedonian
security personnel.
Ahmeti told a Reuters reporter after the incident
that, "Our soldiers acted in self-defense." And no
doubt, in his mind and in Ms. Cartner's, according to
Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions relating to
"internal armed conflicts" and to "humanitarian law."
For the above crime was not mentioned in the exchange
between Dear Mr. Ahmeti and Holly Cartner,
respectfully.
______________________________________________
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/05/macedonia_ltr3.htm.
Letter to NLA Political Spokesman Ali Ahmeti
May 4, 2001
Mr. Ali Ahmeti
Political Spokesman for the National Liberation Army
(NLA)
Dear Mr. Ahmeti,
Human Rights Watch is a privately funded international
non-governmental organization dedicated to documenting
human rights abuses throughout the world. In the past
ten years, we have committed substantial time and
effort to investigating violations of human rights and
humanitarian law in the former Yugoslavia. We have
documented violations of international humanitarian
law by all sides of the armed conflicts in Croatia,
Bosnia, Kosovo, and the NATO war with the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Reports of the renewed conflict in the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia between security forces and
armed groups of ethnic Albanians raise concerns
relating to adherence to international humanitarian
law. As in all other conflicts in the territory of the
former Yugoslavia, our principal concern is that all
parties involved respect civilian immunity and ensure
the protection of civilians.
Human Rights Watch wants to express its concern that
the groups organized under the name of National
Liberation Army (NLA) take all measures to comply with
basic principles of international humanitarian law
applicable to situations of internal armed conflict,
and enshrined in Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions. This provision protects those who do not
take an active part in hostilities from the most
serious violations, including acts of murder, torture
and cruel treatment, the taking of hostages, outrages
upon personal dignity, and the passing of sentences
and the carrying out of executions without previous
judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court.
With regard to the renewed fighting, the NLA
leadership should refrain from any attacks against
civilians, attacks and reprisals against civilian
objects, as well as threats of violence the primary
purpose of which is to spread terror among the
civilian population.
We also call on the NLA leadership to ensure that the
civilian population of the affected areas enjoys as
much protection as possible against dangers of harm
resulting from the fighting. The most fundamental
principle of the laws of war requires that combatants
be distinguished from noncombatants, and that military
objectives be distinguished from protected property or
protected places. Parties to a conflict must direct
their operations only against military objectives
(including combatants). Also, the use of civilians as
shields for defensive positions, to hide military
objectives or to screen attacks, violates the
principles of the international humanitarian law.
We also note that the jurisdiction of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) applies to serious violations of
international humanitarian law committed after 1991 on
the territory of the former Yugoslavia, including the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Human Rights Watch also recognizes the obligations of
the Macedonian security forces to uphold the standards
of international humanitarian law and urges their
adherence to these norms. Letters expressing Human
Rights Watch's concerns to this effect are being sent
to the president and the prime minister of the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
We hope, Mr. Ahmeti, that you will give serious
thought to the points addressed in this letter and,
guided by consideration for human life and well-being,
do everything in your power to ensure that the NLA
respects obligations under international humanitarian
law.
Respectfully,
/s/
Holly Cartner
Executive Director
Europe and Central Asia Division
cc: Mrs. Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor, ICTY
"...Le occhiaie cave, i volti smagriti dei detenuti musulmano-bosniaci
nei campi di prigionia di Trnopolje, le scapole affioranti, le costole
che traspaiono dalla pelle senza più carne. La visione di quei corpi
provoca nella mente di chi li guarda un cortocircuito incontrollato che
li mette in collegamento con altri volti, altri corpi, altro filo
spinato di cinquant?anni prima. Un?altra guerra, ma la stessa Europa ?Lo
sguardo gelido del dittatore sulle immagini dell?orrore?e".
La Repubblica, 14.2.2002, p. 9
La truffa mediatica sul "Lager di Trnopolje", organizzata dalla troupe
del network inglese ITN, e' stata smascherata da circa otto anni da
parte del giornalista tedesco Deichmann, che in merito ha pubblicato
reportage sule riviste "Living Marxism" e "Konkret". Si veda anche il
dettagliato documento video "The Judgement" a cura di Jared Israel
(http://www.tenc.net).
nei campi di prigionia di Trnopolje, le scapole affioranti, le costole
che traspaiono dalla pelle senza più carne. La visione di quei corpi
provoca nella mente di chi li guarda un cortocircuito incontrollato che
li mette in collegamento con altri volti, altri corpi, altro filo
spinato di cinquant?anni prima. Un?altra guerra, ma la stessa Europa ?Lo
sguardo gelido del dittatore sulle immagini dell?orrore?e".
La Repubblica, 14.2.2002, p. 9
La truffa mediatica sul "Lager di Trnopolje", organizzata dalla troupe
del network inglese ITN, e' stata smascherata da circa otto anni da
parte del giornalista tedesco Deichmann, che in merito ha pubblicato
reportage sule riviste "Living Marxism" e "Konkret". Si veda anche il
dettagliato documento video "The Judgement" a cura di Jared Israel
(http://www.tenc.net).
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