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Serb Quislings Snubbed by Washington
Powell Postpones Decision on Yugoslav Aid, U.S. Money Stays Frozen
BELGRADE, Apr. 3 - What did the Belgrade quislings get for prostrating
themselves so low before their Washington masters that to be any lower,
they'd have to dig in? A kick in the teeth! Which is what they
deserved, of course.
But wait? No, Zoran Djindjic (Serbia's prime minister) et. al. did not
get their well-earned rebuke from the Serb people. No, Sir. It was
their Washington bosses who kicked them away like annoying lapdogs.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell indefinitely postponed a
decision to certify Yugoslavia's cooperation with a U.N. war crimes
tribunal, a move that will keep $40 million in much-needed assistance
to Belgrade frozen.
Powell "has decided to defer a decision on whether the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia has met the criteria," deputy State Department spokesman
Philip Reeker said.
As you saw in Item 3 of this TiM Bulletin (Washington Responds to
"Balkan Spy" Embarrassment with Financial Blackmail, Mar. 20), besides
the $40 million, Washington's support for multilateral loans to Belgrade
from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were also at
stake.
Although Yugoslavia has made significant progress with respect to the
certification criteria, the secretary has determined that it would be
premature to certify at this point, the State Department said in a
statement.
Powell's move came despite an announcement from the Yugoslav government
earlier Monday (Apr. 1) that it would "cooperate fully" with the UN
court and hand over indicted suspects wanted by the tribunal.
"The federal government decided unanimously during an extraordinary
meeting to cooperate fully with the tribunal and to demand all state
organs to also cooperate fully," Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic told
reporters. "This means allowing access to archives in a way that does
not harm national dignity and the arrest and transfer to The Hague of
those charged with war crimes."
Opening national military archives to foreign powers "does not harm
national dignity"? Hm? Wonder what kind of a "nation" Svilanovic is
talking about? To us, it seems more like a nation of slaves, not of
once proud Serbs (see Item 1 of this Bulletin, Yugoslavia: R.I.P. and
Good Riddance!, Mar. 20).
Powell had praised some steps Belgrade has taken in meeting the U.S.
requirements - such as releasing 145 Kosovo Albanian prisoners that had
been held in Serbian jails (see Item 4 of this TiM Bulletin - Prisoners
for Dollars, Mar. 26). Yet the Serb vassals have received neither the
dollars, nor the Serb prisoners from Kosovo, in return for their
subservience.
Powell also came down hard on Belgrade's reluctance to hand over war
crimes indictees to the Hague tribunal. Although four more war crimes
suspects have been transferred there since former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic was kidnapped and shipped to the Hague on June 28,
2001, there has been no attempt to arrest high-profile indictees
believed to be in Serbia..
These include senior allies of Milosevic such as Serbian President
Milan Milutinovic and Yugoslav army chief Dragoljub Ojdanic, and
former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, whom the Hague
court has insisted that he has been in hiding in Serbia.
Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica reacted Monday (Apr. 1) to the
Powell decision by urgently calling for the adoption of a Yugoslav law
that stipulates cooperation with the tribunal, the AFP said.
Kostunica's hurry to pass apparently an unconstitutional law is rather
curious given the oft-stated legalistic approach that this lawyer has
adopted in the past, according to the western media anyway.
"As far as I am aware, there is no similar example in the history
of constitutional law when a government made such a mockery of
constitutionality and law," writes Milan Tepavac, a Belgrade
constitutional lawyer, whose comments longtime TiM readers may
recall from our past reports (see Kostunica Likens Himself to Lenin!
Other Balkans Stories, Nov 7, 2000), and How Washington Bought
Yugoslav Presidency (Dec 12, 2000).
So add another former Serb nationalist (Kostunica) to the list of
Washington doormats in Belgrade.
Meanwhile, one reason Washington?s Belgrade stooges have not arrested
some Hague indictees is that they would get their teeth kicked in if
they
tried. Former top associates of Slobodan Milosevic vowed today (Apr. 3)
to resist arrest and extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal -
defying the Serb leadership and its attempts to avoid U.S. sanctions,
the Associated Press reported from Belgrade.
Serbia has said it would arrest and extradite (Ret.) Gen. Dragoljub
Ojdanic, who commanded the army under the former Yugoslav president
during 999 NATO bombing; Milan Milutinovic, the current Serb president;
Nikola Sainovic, Milosevic's top security adviser; and Vlajko
Stojiljkovic,
a former Serbian interior minister.
The most direct challenge to the arrest warrants, issued by the Serb
government earlier this week, came from Gen. Ojdanic. He said in a
statement relayed to the Associated Press by his family that he is "not
afraid of an arrest" and would resist any detention attempt.
"And would resist" - being the key phrase here.
Ojdanic has left the Yugoslav capital for an undisclosed location.
Sainovic and Stojiljkovic are also somewhere in Serbia, and do not
intend to surrender voluntarily, Dusan Bajatovic, spokesman for
Milosevic's Socialist party, told the AP (click here at our web site
to read the full story).
Milutinovic has immunity from prosecution in his post, which is largely
ceremonial.
Ojdanic said he would surrender only if the Yugoslav Parliament passes
a law on cooperation with war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Serb
leaders
have said that because of the U.S. step (to continue the aid freeze)
there is no time to pass an extradition law before the arrests are made.
The Serb prime minister Djindjic warned Wednesday of the "catastrophic
economic consequences" of the U.S. aid freeze. That a mere $40 million
can be "catastrophic" for an entire country's economy is, of course, a
ludicrous assertion. But it could be catastrophic for the Belgrade
quislings' personal bank accounts.
"The $40 million is a drop in the bucket," a Belgrade businessman told
TiM. "Besides, the Serb people at large would have never seen that
money. It would have all gone to Djindjic and his cronies."
If true, Washington has for once made the right move, albeit for the
wrong reasons. Djindjic et. al. have already shown that they are ready
to sell themselves and their country for pittance. So why waste money
bribing the beggars?
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Serb Quislings Snubbed by Washington
Powell Postpones Decision on Yugoslav Aid, U.S. Money Stays Frozen
BELGRADE, Apr. 3 - What did the Belgrade quislings get for prostrating
themselves so low before their Washington masters that to be any lower,
they'd have to dig in? A kick in the teeth! Which is what they
deserved, of course.
But wait? No, Zoran Djindjic (Serbia's prime minister) et. al. did not
get their well-earned rebuke from the Serb people. No, Sir. It was
their Washington bosses who kicked them away like annoying lapdogs.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell indefinitely postponed a
decision to certify Yugoslavia's cooperation with a U.N. war crimes
tribunal, a move that will keep $40 million in much-needed assistance
to Belgrade frozen.
Powell "has decided to defer a decision on whether the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia has met the criteria," deputy State Department spokesman
Philip Reeker said.
As you saw in Item 3 of this TiM Bulletin (Washington Responds to
"Balkan Spy" Embarrassment with Financial Blackmail, Mar. 20), besides
the $40 million, Washington's support for multilateral loans to Belgrade
from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were also at
stake.
Although Yugoslavia has made significant progress with respect to the
certification criteria, the secretary has determined that it would be
premature to certify at this point, the State Department said in a
statement.
Powell's move came despite an announcement from the Yugoslav government
earlier Monday (Apr. 1) that it would "cooperate fully" with the UN
court and hand over indicted suspects wanted by the tribunal.
"The federal government decided unanimously during an extraordinary
meeting to cooperate fully with the tribunal and to demand all state
organs to also cooperate fully," Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic told
reporters. "This means allowing access to archives in a way that does
not harm national dignity and the arrest and transfer to The Hague of
those charged with war crimes."
Opening national military archives to foreign powers "does not harm
national dignity"? Hm? Wonder what kind of a "nation" Svilanovic is
talking about? To us, it seems more like a nation of slaves, not of
once proud Serbs (see Item 1 of this Bulletin, Yugoslavia: R.I.P. and
Good Riddance!, Mar. 20).
Powell had praised some steps Belgrade has taken in meeting the U.S.
requirements - such as releasing 145 Kosovo Albanian prisoners that had
been held in Serbian jails (see Item 4 of this TiM Bulletin - Prisoners
for Dollars, Mar. 26). Yet the Serb vassals have received neither the
dollars, nor the Serb prisoners from Kosovo, in return for their
subservience.
Powell also came down hard on Belgrade's reluctance to hand over war
crimes indictees to the Hague tribunal. Although four more war crimes
suspects have been transferred there since former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic was kidnapped and shipped to the Hague on June 28,
2001, there has been no attempt to arrest high-profile indictees
believed to be in Serbia..
These include senior allies of Milosevic such as Serbian President
Milan Milutinovic and Yugoslav army chief Dragoljub Ojdanic, and
former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, whom the Hague
court has insisted that he has been in hiding in Serbia.
Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica reacted Monday (Apr. 1) to the
Powell decision by urgently calling for the adoption of a Yugoslav law
that stipulates cooperation with the tribunal, the AFP said.
Kostunica's hurry to pass apparently an unconstitutional law is rather
curious given the oft-stated legalistic approach that this lawyer has
adopted in the past, according to the western media anyway.
"As far as I am aware, there is no similar example in the history
of constitutional law when a government made such a mockery of
constitutionality and law," writes Milan Tepavac, a Belgrade
constitutional lawyer, whose comments longtime TiM readers may
recall from our past reports (see Kostunica Likens Himself to Lenin!
Other Balkans Stories, Nov 7, 2000), and How Washington Bought
Yugoslav Presidency (Dec 12, 2000).
So add another former Serb nationalist (Kostunica) to the list of
Washington doormats in Belgrade.
Meanwhile, one reason Washington?s Belgrade stooges have not arrested
some Hague indictees is that they would get their teeth kicked in if
they
tried. Former top associates of Slobodan Milosevic vowed today (Apr. 3)
to resist arrest and extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal -
defying the Serb leadership and its attempts to avoid U.S. sanctions,
the Associated Press reported from Belgrade.
Serbia has said it would arrest and extradite (Ret.) Gen. Dragoljub
Ojdanic, who commanded the army under the former Yugoslav president
during 999 NATO bombing; Milan Milutinovic, the current Serb president;
Nikola Sainovic, Milosevic's top security adviser; and Vlajko
Stojiljkovic,
a former Serbian interior minister.
The most direct challenge to the arrest warrants, issued by the Serb
government earlier this week, came from Gen. Ojdanic. He said in a
statement relayed to the Associated Press by his family that he is "not
afraid of an arrest" and would resist any detention attempt.
"And would resist" - being the key phrase here.
Ojdanic has left the Yugoslav capital for an undisclosed location.
Sainovic and Stojiljkovic are also somewhere in Serbia, and do not
intend to surrender voluntarily, Dusan Bajatovic, spokesman for
Milosevic's Socialist party, told the AP (click here at our web site
to read the full story).
Milutinovic has immunity from prosecution in his post, which is largely
ceremonial.
Ojdanic said he would surrender only if the Yugoslav Parliament passes
a law on cooperation with war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Serb
leaders
have said that because of the U.S. step (to continue the aid freeze)
there is no time to pass an extradition law before the arrests are made.
The Serb prime minister Djindjic warned Wednesday of the "catastrophic
economic consequences" of the U.S. aid freeze. That a mere $40 million
can be "catastrophic" for an entire country's economy is, of course, a
ludicrous assertion. But it could be catastrophic for the Belgrade
quislings' personal bank accounts.
"The $40 million is a drop in the bucket," a Belgrade businessman told
TiM. "Besides, the Serb people at large would have never seen that
money. It would have all gone to Djindjic and his cronies."
If true, Washington has for once made the right move, albeit for the
wrong reasons. Djindjic et. al. have already shown that they are ready
to sell themselves and their country for pittance. So why waste money
bribing the beggars?
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AL MUSEO DELLE CERE DI LONDRA RIMOSSO TITO
PER FARE SPAZIO A HITLER E BIN LADEN
--- In Yugoland@..., "Miroslav Antic" wrote:
Tito nestao, Hitler osloboðen
Skandal povodom ?oslobaðanja? voštane figure Adolfa Hitlera iz
staklene kutije smeštene u londonskom muzeju ?Madam Tiso? baèen
je u zasenak misterioznim nestankom voštane verzije pokojnog
predsednika SFRJ Josipa Broza Tita.
- Niko u muzeju ne zna šta se dogodilo sa figurom najveæeg sina
naših naroda i narodnosti - kaže za ?Blic News? PR menadžer Marina
Lazareviæ, koja se prošle sedmice vratila iz Londona. - Èak ni
gospoða Nada Todiæ, jedina Jugoslovenka zaposlena u ?Madam Tisou?,
ne može sa sigurnošæu da tvrdi da li je Titova figura sklonjena u
muzejsku ostavu ili je, možda, pretopljena. U svakom sluèaju, Broz
se neæe naæi u ?sobi užasa?, jer Hitlerov sanduk èeka svetskog
teroristu broj 1 Osamu bin Ladena.
http://www.blicnews.com/
PER FARE SPAZIO A HITLER E BIN LADEN
--- In Yugoland@..., "Miroslav Antic" wrote:
Tito nestao, Hitler osloboðen
Skandal povodom ?oslobaðanja? voštane figure Adolfa Hitlera iz
staklene kutije smeštene u londonskom muzeju ?Madam Tiso? baèen
je u zasenak misterioznim nestankom voštane verzije pokojnog
predsednika SFRJ Josipa Broza Tita.
- Niko u muzeju ne zna šta se dogodilo sa figurom najveæeg sina
naših naroda i narodnosti - kaže za ?Blic News? PR menadžer Marina
Lazareviæ, koja se prošle sedmice vratila iz Londona. - Èak ni
gospoða Nada Todiæ, jedina Jugoslovenka zaposlena u ?Madam Tisou?,
ne može sa sigurnošæu da tvrdi da li je Titova figura sklonjena u
muzejsku ostavu ili je, možda, pretopljena. U svakom sluèaju, Broz
se neæe naæi u ?sobi užasa?, jer Hitlerov sanduk èeka svetskog
teroristu broj 1 Osamu bin Ladena.
http://www.blicnews.com/
CON QUALE FACCIA?
Dall'Italia, influenti settori dell'associazionismo,
organizzazioni cosiddette "non-governative" ed esponenti
del centrosinistra sono in questi giorni a Sarajevo.
Forse per festeggiare i dieci anni dal riconoscimento
della secessione della Bosnia-Erzegovina ed il conseguente
inizio della guerra fratricida.
(di I. Slavo)
Il 6 aprile 1992 l'Unione Europea e gli USA riconoscevano la
Bosnia-Erzegovina come Stato indipendente. Sancendo la esistenza
di uno Stato a se' nei confini della ex-repubblica federata di
Bosnia ed Erzegovina, la diplomazia internazionale sferrava il
colpo mortale - dopo il riconoscimento delle secessioni slovena
e croata - ai valori della "Fratellanza ed Unita'" ed ai delicati
equilibri della convivenza multi-nazionale nella Repubblica
Federativa Socialista di Jugoslavia, della quale la Bosnia-
Erzegovina rappresentava il cuore storico e simbolico.
L'iniziativa diplomatica contraddiceva persino le raccomandazioni
di politici e mediatori occidentali, come Lord Carrington. Dopo
soli quattro giorni, la neonata Armija (esercito) bosniaca non aveva
remore ad attaccare le caserme federali. Due settimane dopo, mentre
infuriava ormai la guerra civile, il governo federale jugoslavo
decideva il ritiro delle sue forze armate. Il 27 aprile 1992
Serbia e Montenegro proclamavano infatti la nuova Federazione
Jugoslava, della quale neanche la Bosnia faceva piu' parte.
Il ritiro delle forze armate federali dalla Bosnia-Erzegovina
incominciava il 19 maggio e veniva completato il 6 giugno 1992.
La guerra fratricida tra i diversi partiti ("etnici" e non:
musulmani islamisti, musulmani moderati di Abdic, serbi, croati)
in Bosnia-Erzegovina durera' piu' di tre anni, finche' cioe' i
tempi non saranno diventati maturi per ridurre quella "repubblica
indipendente" in un protettorato internazionale, statarello-vassallo
con una economia a pezzi, insanabili contrasti politici al suo
interno, ed infiniti drammi incisi nella carne dei suoi abitanti.
La vicenda della sanguinosa secessione della Bosnia-Erzegovina
era iniziata nel gennaio 1992: Alija Izetbegovic, il musulmano
presidente di turno della Bosnia-Erzegovina (benche' a vincere
le elezioni fosse stato Fikret Abdic, costretto a farsi da parte
nell'ambito di una vicenda mai chiarita) aveva mancato di
passare la consegna al serbo Radovan Karadzic: si trattava di
un vero "golpe bianco", che infrangeva la regola della "presidenza
a rotazione". La storia politica di Izetbegovic e' stata tenuta
nascosta al pubblico occidentale. Basti dire che era uscito dal
carcere solo nel 1988, dopo aver scontato 6 anni su 14 di pena
che gli erano stati inflitti per "istigazione all'odio tra le
nazionalita'". Gia' autore di testi di propaganda islamista
come la "Dichiarazione Islamica", i rapporti suoi e del suo partito
(Partito di Azione Democratica, SDA) con le cancellerie occidentali
erano e continuarono ad essere idilliaci nel corso di tutto il
conflitto.
Tanto che nel successivo mese di febbraio, la "Comunita'
Internazionale" prometteva agli islamisti sarajevesi aiuto ed
accoglienza nelle istituzioni euro-atlantiche se avessero proclamato
la indipendenza della repubblica. Viene percio' indetto un
referendum (anticostituzionale) per il giorno 29 dello stesso mese,
che sara' boicottato dal 35 per cento degli aventi diritto. Solo
il 65% dei votanti, essenzialmente croati e musulmani di Bosnia,
voteranno a favore della secessione. Ma ufficialmente si canta
vittoria, ed il clima nel paese incomincia a surriscaldarsi, benche'
la stragrande maggioranza della popolazione, di ogni "etnia", non
possa ancora neanche lontanamente immaginare che si sta veramente
andando verso una immane tragedia, di fronte alla quale si fara'
trovare incredula ed impotente.
Nel marzo, quando la guerra a tutto campo non e' ancora scoppiata,
la prima Conferenza per la pace in Bosnia, a Lisbona, si conclude
con un accordo (il "piano Cutileiro") per la cantonalizzazione
della ex-repubblica federata. Immediatamente, i rappresentanti
delle delegazioni croata e musulmana sono convocati negli Stati
Uniti, dove l'ex-ambasciatore a Belgrado Zimmermann li persuade a
ritirare la loro firma dall'accordo. Lo stesso Cutileiro imputera'
alle parti musulmana e croata la rottura del patto (ad esempio
nella lettera pubblicata sull'"Economist" del 9/12/1995), e
Zimmermann in persona raccontera' quei fatti, come riportato ad
esempio da David Binder sul "New York Times" del 29/8/1993.
In Occidente, la vicenda del "Piano Cutileiro" deve rimanere
nascosta alla opinione pubblica ed al movimento pacifista: la
"Comunita' Internazionale" deve apparire come un attore super partes
generosamente impegnato in uno sforzo di pacificazione... Le colpe
per la guerra che sta scoppiando vanno addossate alle popolazioni
locali, razzisticamente imputate di "odi atavici" ed incapacita' alla
convivenza; in particolare, i serbi - in quanto componente che
meno di tutte ha interesse alla secessione della Bosnia-Erzegovina -
vanno demonizzati e presi a capro espiatorio della tragedia.
Eppure, con la secessione, ogni discorso su "Sarajevo multietnica"
diventava pura demagogia: era la Jugoslavia stessa ad essere
multietnica, perche' la si era voluta squartare? Perche'
incappare in questo rischio, di rianimare in maniera tanto
irresponsabile, nella memoria della popolazione di quelle
terre, i fantasmi dei fatti accaduti durante la II Guerra
Mondiale? Pesavano infatti ancora come macigni le memorie dei
massacri compiuti dai collaborazionisti del nazifascismo:
le divisioni musulmane inquadrate nelle SS, gli ustascia
croati, le bande dei cetnici scatenate contro gli stessi
partigiani serbi, soprattutto nelle fasi finali del conflitto.
Perche' non ricordare, soprattutto a sinistra, che in Bosnia-
Erzegovina i valori della "Unita' e Fratellanza", del progresso
civile, avevano potuto trionfare solo grazie alla vittoria
nella Guerra di Liberazione, e grazie al socialismo, contro
la mentalita' reazionaria del differenzialismo "etnico" e del
bigottismo religioso?
Niente da fare: in Occidente di questo non si parlava. Si
preferiva drogare l'opinione pubblica con urla esasperanti
su "l'assedio di Sarajevo" (in realta', una citta' spaccata
in due, tra quartieri a maggioranza dell'una o dell'altra
"etnia"), sull'"esempio di Tuzla" (in realta', una citta'
ostaggio del suo aereoporto, dal quale arrivavano i
rifornimenti militari ai musulmani), sui "lager serbi" e
sugli "stupri etnici" (che, fatte salve tante gravissime vicende
avvenute durante il conflitto, erano frutto dello sforzo
propagandistico di agenzie specializzate nella disinformazione
strategica, come la ITN e la Ruder&Finn Public Global Affairs).
Intellettuali e politici di mezzo mondo faranno il loro sporco
lavoro, impegnandosi per mesi ed anni a creare e vezzeggiare
una "identita' nazionale bosniaca" inesistente, contribuendo
di fatto alla propaganda bellica, allo scopo di alimentare
odio e divisione tra le varie parti in conflitto. Ideologi
del "piccolo e' bello"; strenui oppositori del "centralismo
di Belgrado"; "antistalinisti" che sono in realta' anticomunisti,
antititoisti, antijugoslavi; razzisti slavofobi istriano-dalmati,
adesso particolarmente accesi di odio antiserbo; teorici della
"societa' civile"; lobbyisti di organizzazioni che, piuttosto
che "non-governative", rappresentano la avanguardia della
ricolonizzazione straniera; religiosi, a parlar male di altre
confessioni religiose: a tutti questi, e solo a questi, viene
data la possibilita' di parlare e scrivere, di interpretare e
di orientare l'opinione pubblica.
Con quale faccia tutti costoro si ripresentano oggi a Sarajevo?
Con quale faccia, poi, in rappresentanza di quella "Europa"
che, incitando la Bosnia-Erzegovina alla secessione, e' stata
corresponsabile del martirio di quel paese? E con quale faccia
insistono ad usare slogan come quello dell' "assedio di Sarajevo",
dopo avere chiuso entrambi gli occhi davanti allo svuotamento dei
quartieri serbi di Sarajevo nel 1995?
Noi rimaniamo dell'idea, ben espressa da Ivo Andric, secondo cui
"nulla di buono puo' esserci per la Bosnia finche' sara' Dzelaludin
a comandare". Dzelaludin, cioe' l'occupante straniero - all'epoca,
un rappresentante dell'Impero Ottomano; oggi, forse, Dzelaludin e'
un rappresentante della Commissione Europea.
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ICS-Consorzio Italiano di Solidarietà
Città di Sarajevo-Il Sindaco
Osservatorio sui Balcani
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Roma 19 marzo 2002
ROMANO PRODI A SARAJEVO
CON LA SOCIETA¹ CIVILE ITALIANA ED EUROPEA
IL 6 APRILE, IN OCCASIONE DEI DIECI ANNI DALL¹INIZIO
DELLA GUERRA IN BOSNIA-ERZEGOVINA
Il prossimo 6 aprile in occasione del decimo anniversario dell¹inizio
della guerra a Sarajevo e in Bosnia Erzegovina l¹ICS-Consorzio Italino
di Solidarietà, l¹Osservatorio per i Balcani insieme alla municipalità
di
Sarajevo promuovono l¹iniziativa ³L¹Europa oltre i confini, l¹Europa
dal basso² per rilanciare l¹impegno per la pace, la cooperazione, la
riconciliazione nei Balcani e la loro integrazione nell¹Unione Europea.
Interverrà al meeting l¹on. Romano Prodi, Presidente della
Commissione Europea.
Saranno presenti all¹iniziativa Sindaci e amministratori locali delle
Regioni italiane, parlamentari italiani ed europei, rappresentanti di
ONG e di associazioni volontariato di molti paesi europei. Dall¹Italia
partirà con pullman il 4 aprile un¹ampia delegazione composta da
organizzazioni pacifiste e di volontariato: sono ancora aperte per pochi
giorni le iscrizioni alla delegazione.
Nel corso della conferenza sarà presentato l¹appello ³L¹Europa oltre i
confini² per un¹integrazione certa e sostenibile dei Balcani nell¹Unione
Europea e sarà costituito il network euro-balcanico ³Europa dal
basso², formato da organizzazioni della società civile di diversi paesi
europei dell¹est e dell¹ovest. Sono previste anche altre iniziative
accanto alla conferenza: iniziative e incontri a Mostar, Tuzla e Banja
Luka, una corsa podistica non competitiva il 7 aprile, una
manifestazione per la pace e la riconciliazione.
L¹iniziativa è sostenuta, tra gli altri, anche dalla regione Trentino
Alto Adige, la Regione Emilia Romagna, la Regione dell¹Umbria, la
Regione
Toscana, i comuni di Roma, Venezia, Modena, dalle province di
Ravenna e Lodi, da Banca Etica.
Per informazioni e partecipare:
ICS, Via Salaria 89, 00198 Roma tel. 0685355081, e-mail:
icsuffroma@...
http://ics.mir.it/sarajevo2002.html
--
Claudio Bazzocchi
_______
/ \ CONSORZIO ITALIANO DI SOLIDARIETA'
/ ICS \
/ \ La sfida della solidarieta'
http://ip21.mir.it/ics/
Via Salaria, 89 - 00198 ROMA
tel 06/85355081
fax 06/85355083
===*===
>From: "Osservatorio sui Balcani" <segreteria@...>
>To: "Segreteria - OB" <segreteria@...>
>Subject: Siamo in partenza per Sarajevo
>Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:45:30 +0200
>
>Cari amici, saremo domani in viaggio per Sarajevo....
>
>
>Potrete seguire le iniziative "Europe beyond the borders - Europe from
>Below" grazie ad un aggiornamento quotidiano del nostro portale
>(www.osservatoriobalcani.org).
>
>
>Cogliamo l'occasione per segnalarvi un editoriale di Michele Nardelli
che,
>prendendo spunto dalle giornate di Sarajevo e dai tragici eventi in
>Palestina ed Israele, riflette sulla necessità di un ruolo forte
>dell'Europa.
>http://auth.unimondo.org/cfdocs/balcani/news/newsID1.cfm?NewsID=712
>
>
>Alla pagina seguente potete inoltre consultare l'elenco dei
partecipanti
>alle iniziative nella capitale bosniaca:
>http://auth.unimondo.org/cfdocs/balcani/news/newsID1.cfm?NewsID=714
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Osservatorio sui Balcani
>Palazzo Adami
>Piazza S.Marco 7
>38068 ROVERETO (TN)
>tel. 0464.424230
>fax. 0464.424299
>e-mail: segreteria@...
>www.osservatoriobalcani.org
Dall'Italia, influenti settori dell'associazionismo,
organizzazioni cosiddette "non-governative" ed esponenti
del centrosinistra sono in questi giorni a Sarajevo.
Forse per festeggiare i dieci anni dal riconoscimento
della secessione della Bosnia-Erzegovina ed il conseguente
inizio della guerra fratricida.
(di I. Slavo)
Il 6 aprile 1992 l'Unione Europea e gli USA riconoscevano la
Bosnia-Erzegovina come Stato indipendente. Sancendo la esistenza
di uno Stato a se' nei confini della ex-repubblica federata di
Bosnia ed Erzegovina, la diplomazia internazionale sferrava il
colpo mortale - dopo il riconoscimento delle secessioni slovena
e croata - ai valori della "Fratellanza ed Unita'" ed ai delicati
equilibri della convivenza multi-nazionale nella Repubblica
Federativa Socialista di Jugoslavia, della quale la Bosnia-
Erzegovina rappresentava il cuore storico e simbolico.
L'iniziativa diplomatica contraddiceva persino le raccomandazioni
di politici e mediatori occidentali, come Lord Carrington. Dopo
soli quattro giorni, la neonata Armija (esercito) bosniaca non aveva
remore ad attaccare le caserme federali. Due settimane dopo, mentre
infuriava ormai la guerra civile, il governo federale jugoslavo
decideva il ritiro delle sue forze armate. Il 27 aprile 1992
Serbia e Montenegro proclamavano infatti la nuova Federazione
Jugoslava, della quale neanche la Bosnia faceva piu' parte.
Il ritiro delle forze armate federali dalla Bosnia-Erzegovina
incominciava il 19 maggio e veniva completato il 6 giugno 1992.
La guerra fratricida tra i diversi partiti ("etnici" e non:
musulmani islamisti, musulmani moderati di Abdic, serbi, croati)
in Bosnia-Erzegovina durera' piu' di tre anni, finche' cioe' i
tempi non saranno diventati maturi per ridurre quella "repubblica
indipendente" in un protettorato internazionale, statarello-vassallo
con una economia a pezzi, insanabili contrasti politici al suo
interno, ed infiniti drammi incisi nella carne dei suoi abitanti.
La vicenda della sanguinosa secessione della Bosnia-Erzegovina
era iniziata nel gennaio 1992: Alija Izetbegovic, il musulmano
presidente di turno della Bosnia-Erzegovina (benche' a vincere
le elezioni fosse stato Fikret Abdic, costretto a farsi da parte
nell'ambito di una vicenda mai chiarita) aveva mancato di
passare la consegna al serbo Radovan Karadzic: si trattava di
un vero "golpe bianco", che infrangeva la regola della "presidenza
a rotazione". La storia politica di Izetbegovic e' stata tenuta
nascosta al pubblico occidentale. Basti dire che era uscito dal
carcere solo nel 1988, dopo aver scontato 6 anni su 14 di pena
che gli erano stati inflitti per "istigazione all'odio tra le
nazionalita'". Gia' autore di testi di propaganda islamista
come la "Dichiarazione Islamica", i rapporti suoi e del suo partito
(Partito di Azione Democratica, SDA) con le cancellerie occidentali
erano e continuarono ad essere idilliaci nel corso di tutto il
conflitto.
Tanto che nel successivo mese di febbraio, la "Comunita'
Internazionale" prometteva agli islamisti sarajevesi aiuto ed
accoglienza nelle istituzioni euro-atlantiche se avessero proclamato
la indipendenza della repubblica. Viene percio' indetto un
referendum (anticostituzionale) per il giorno 29 dello stesso mese,
che sara' boicottato dal 35 per cento degli aventi diritto. Solo
il 65% dei votanti, essenzialmente croati e musulmani di Bosnia,
voteranno a favore della secessione. Ma ufficialmente si canta
vittoria, ed il clima nel paese incomincia a surriscaldarsi, benche'
la stragrande maggioranza della popolazione, di ogni "etnia", non
possa ancora neanche lontanamente immaginare che si sta veramente
andando verso una immane tragedia, di fronte alla quale si fara'
trovare incredula ed impotente.
Nel marzo, quando la guerra a tutto campo non e' ancora scoppiata,
la prima Conferenza per la pace in Bosnia, a Lisbona, si conclude
con un accordo (il "piano Cutileiro") per la cantonalizzazione
della ex-repubblica federata. Immediatamente, i rappresentanti
delle delegazioni croata e musulmana sono convocati negli Stati
Uniti, dove l'ex-ambasciatore a Belgrado Zimmermann li persuade a
ritirare la loro firma dall'accordo. Lo stesso Cutileiro imputera'
alle parti musulmana e croata la rottura del patto (ad esempio
nella lettera pubblicata sull'"Economist" del 9/12/1995), e
Zimmermann in persona raccontera' quei fatti, come riportato ad
esempio da David Binder sul "New York Times" del 29/8/1993.
In Occidente, la vicenda del "Piano Cutileiro" deve rimanere
nascosta alla opinione pubblica ed al movimento pacifista: la
"Comunita' Internazionale" deve apparire come un attore super partes
generosamente impegnato in uno sforzo di pacificazione... Le colpe
per la guerra che sta scoppiando vanno addossate alle popolazioni
locali, razzisticamente imputate di "odi atavici" ed incapacita' alla
convivenza; in particolare, i serbi - in quanto componente che
meno di tutte ha interesse alla secessione della Bosnia-Erzegovina -
vanno demonizzati e presi a capro espiatorio della tragedia.
Eppure, con la secessione, ogni discorso su "Sarajevo multietnica"
diventava pura demagogia: era la Jugoslavia stessa ad essere
multietnica, perche' la si era voluta squartare? Perche'
incappare in questo rischio, di rianimare in maniera tanto
irresponsabile, nella memoria della popolazione di quelle
terre, i fantasmi dei fatti accaduti durante la II Guerra
Mondiale? Pesavano infatti ancora come macigni le memorie dei
massacri compiuti dai collaborazionisti del nazifascismo:
le divisioni musulmane inquadrate nelle SS, gli ustascia
croati, le bande dei cetnici scatenate contro gli stessi
partigiani serbi, soprattutto nelle fasi finali del conflitto.
Perche' non ricordare, soprattutto a sinistra, che in Bosnia-
Erzegovina i valori della "Unita' e Fratellanza", del progresso
civile, avevano potuto trionfare solo grazie alla vittoria
nella Guerra di Liberazione, e grazie al socialismo, contro
la mentalita' reazionaria del differenzialismo "etnico" e del
bigottismo religioso?
Niente da fare: in Occidente di questo non si parlava. Si
preferiva drogare l'opinione pubblica con urla esasperanti
su "l'assedio di Sarajevo" (in realta', una citta' spaccata
in due, tra quartieri a maggioranza dell'una o dell'altra
"etnia"), sull'"esempio di Tuzla" (in realta', una citta'
ostaggio del suo aereoporto, dal quale arrivavano i
rifornimenti militari ai musulmani), sui "lager serbi" e
sugli "stupri etnici" (che, fatte salve tante gravissime vicende
avvenute durante il conflitto, erano frutto dello sforzo
propagandistico di agenzie specializzate nella disinformazione
strategica, come la ITN e la Ruder&Finn Public Global Affairs).
Intellettuali e politici di mezzo mondo faranno il loro sporco
lavoro, impegnandosi per mesi ed anni a creare e vezzeggiare
una "identita' nazionale bosniaca" inesistente, contribuendo
di fatto alla propaganda bellica, allo scopo di alimentare
odio e divisione tra le varie parti in conflitto. Ideologi
del "piccolo e' bello"; strenui oppositori del "centralismo
di Belgrado"; "antistalinisti" che sono in realta' anticomunisti,
antititoisti, antijugoslavi; razzisti slavofobi istriano-dalmati,
adesso particolarmente accesi di odio antiserbo; teorici della
"societa' civile"; lobbyisti di organizzazioni che, piuttosto
che "non-governative", rappresentano la avanguardia della
ricolonizzazione straniera; religiosi, a parlar male di altre
confessioni religiose: a tutti questi, e solo a questi, viene
data la possibilita' di parlare e scrivere, di interpretare e
di orientare l'opinione pubblica.
Con quale faccia tutti costoro si ripresentano oggi a Sarajevo?
Con quale faccia, poi, in rappresentanza di quella "Europa"
che, incitando la Bosnia-Erzegovina alla secessione, e' stata
corresponsabile del martirio di quel paese? E con quale faccia
insistono ad usare slogan come quello dell' "assedio di Sarajevo",
dopo avere chiuso entrambi gli occhi davanti allo svuotamento dei
quartieri serbi di Sarajevo nel 1995?
Noi rimaniamo dell'idea, ben espressa da Ivo Andric, secondo cui
"nulla di buono puo' esserci per la Bosnia finche' sara' Dzelaludin
a comandare". Dzelaludin, cioe' l'occupante straniero - all'epoca,
un rappresentante dell'Impero Ottomano; oggi, forse, Dzelaludin e'
un rappresentante della Commissione Europea.
===*===
ICS-Consorzio Italiano di Solidarietà
Città di Sarajevo-Il Sindaco
Osservatorio sui Balcani
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Roma 19 marzo 2002
ROMANO PRODI A SARAJEVO
CON LA SOCIETA¹ CIVILE ITALIANA ED EUROPEA
IL 6 APRILE, IN OCCASIONE DEI DIECI ANNI DALL¹INIZIO
DELLA GUERRA IN BOSNIA-ERZEGOVINA
Il prossimo 6 aprile in occasione del decimo anniversario dell¹inizio
della guerra a Sarajevo e in Bosnia Erzegovina l¹ICS-Consorzio Italino
di Solidarietà, l¹Osservatorio per i Balcani insieme alla municipalità
di
Sarajevo promuovono l¹iniziativa ³L¹Europa oltre i confini, l¹Europa
dal basso² per rilanciare l¹impegno per la pace, la cooperazione, la
riconciliazione nei Balcani e la loro integrazione nell¹Unione Europea.
Interverrà al meeting l¹on. Romano Prodi, Presidente della
Commissione Europea.
Saranno presenti all¹iniziativa Sindaci e amministratori locali delle
Regioni italiane, parlamentari italiani ed europei, rappresentanti di
ONG e di associazioni volontariato di molti paesi europei. Dall¹Italia
partirà con pullman il 4 aprile un¹ampia delegazione composta da
organizzazioni pacifiste e di volontariato: sono ancora aperte per pochi
giorni le iscrizioni alla delegazione.
Nel corso della conferenza sarà presentato l¹appello ³L¹Europa oltre i
confini² per un¹integrazione certa e sostenibile dei Balcani nell¹Unione
Europea e sarà costituito il network euro-balcanico ³Europa dal
basso², formato da organizzazioni della società civile di diversi paesi
europei dell¹est e dell¹ovest. Sono previste anche altre iniziative
accanto alla conferenza: iniziative e incontri a Mostar, Tuzla e Banja
Luka, una corsa podistica non competitiva il 7 aprile, una
manifestazione per la pace e la riconciliazione.
L¹iniziativa è sostenuta, tra gli altri, anche dalla regione Trentino
Alto Adige, la Regione Emilia Romagna, la Regione dell¹Umbria, la
Regione
Toscana, i comuni di Roma, Venezia, Modena, dalle province di
Ravenna e Lodi, da Banca Etica.
Per informazioni e partecipare:
ICS, Via Salaria 89, 00198 Roma tel. 0685355081, e-mail:
icsuffroma@...
http://ics.mir.it/sarajevo2002.html
--
Claudio Bazzocchi
_______
/ \ CONSORZIO ITALIANO DI SOLIDARIETA'
/ ICS \
/ \ La sfida della solidarieta'
http://ip21.mir.it/ics/
Via Salaria, 89 - 00198 ROMA
tel 06/85355081
fax 06/85355083
===*===
>From: "Osservatorio sui Balcani" <segreteria@...>
>To: "Segreteria - OB" <segreteria@...>
>Subject: Siamo in partenza per Sarajevo
>Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:45:30 +0200
>
>Cari amici, saremo domani in viaggio per Sarajevo....
>
>
>Potrete seguire le iniziative "Europe beyond the borders - Europe from
>Below" grazie ad un aggiornamento quotidiano del nostro portale
>(www.osservatoriobalcani.org).
>
>
>Cogliamo l'occasione per segnalarvi un editoriale di Michele Nardelli
che,
>prendendo spunto dalle giornate di Sarajevo e dai tragici eventi in
>Palestina ed Israele, riflette sulla necessità di un ruolo forte
>dell'Europa.
>http://auth.unimondo.org/cfdocs/balcani/news/newsID1.cfm?NewsID=712
>
>
>Alla pagina seguente potete inoltre consultare l'elenco dei
partecipanti
>alle iniziative nella capitale bosniaca:
>http://auth.unimondo.org/cfdocs/balcani/news/newsID1.cfm?NewsID=714
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Osservatorio sui Balcani
>Palazzo Adami
>Piazza S.Marco 7
>38068 ROVERETO (TN)
>tel. 0464.424230
>fax. 0464.424299
>e-mail: segreteria@...
>www.osservatoriobalcani.org
> http://www.antiwar.com/malic/pf/p-m040402.html
ANTIWAR, Thursday, April 4, 2002
Balkan Express
by Nebojsa Malic
Antiwar.com
Bosnia Revisited
10 Years On
Ten years ago this Friday, the
Bosnian capital of Sarajevo woke up
under a blockade. Set up by a Bosnian Serb
militia to protest the impending - and
illegal - declaration of independence
by a Muslim-Croat regime, it escalated
into a full-fledged siege and a bloody
ethnic conflict that dragged on for
1326 days. In the course of what
became known as the Bosnian War
(1992-1995), Serbs fought Muslims,
Croats and - eventually - NATO. Croats
fought both Serbs and Muslims, and
occasionally allied with either. Muslims
fought Serbs, Croats, and even other
Muslims, howling all along for the UN
or NATO to intervene on their side.
They also solicited and accepted help
from hundreds of vicious "holy
warriors" from Islamic countries,
claiming at the same time to be secular,
democratic, multi-ethnic and tolerant.
The Fog of Facts
The war has been defined as an
aggression, a civil war, a religious or
ethnic conflict, a clash of civilizations,
a genocide, a war of secession
and a war of succession, with every
belligerent using the definition that
suited them best.
Same thing happened with the
casualty figures. No one knows for certain how
many people actually died in Bosnia.
Usual wartime practice of inflated
claims of enemy casualties was
combined with a new practice of inflating
one's own civilian deaths, in order to
gain sympathy from abroad. Figures
thus range from 250,000 Muslims
alone to 60,000 on all sides. Similarly,
it is claimed that up to 2 million people
were displaced, but it is still
unclear how many were displaced by
force. Many certainly were, yet they all
claim so. No one admits fleeing in the
face of danger, even if that is the truth.
Beyond a doubt, the war in Bosnia
was brutal. Atrocities were a part of
everyday fighting, and international
conventions were hardly heeded as
boundaries between civilians and
military were blurred to nonexistence.
Sharpshooters on urban frontlines
picked off anything that moved. Millions
of land mines killed anyone who came
along. Artillery bombardment killed
indiscriminately. Captured foes,
military or civilian, were often
brutalized and killed. The real atrocities,
however, quickly became obscured by a sea
of garish claims calculated to gain
media attention: concentration camps,
mass murder, mass and systematic
rape of women, and even genocide. And while
it was easy to document the everyday
atrocities, finding evidence for these
claims has proven much more elusive.
A House Divided
To be sure, there are a few facts few
can disagree on. One is that Bosnia is
divided today between the Serb
Republic (48%) and the Muslim-Croat
Federation (51%), the remaining 1%
taken up by the internationally-run
"district" of Brcko. The Federation is
further subdivided into 10 cantons,
largely along ethnic lines.
The entire country is effectively - but
not officially - ruled by an
international viceroy, with the prosaic
title of High Representative and
offices in a walled white mid-rise
along the former frontline in downtown
Sarajevo.
Some 20,000 NATO troops still remain
in Bosnia as part of a "stabilization"
(i.e. occupation) force, or SFOR.
That's down from 60,000 sent there 6
years ago. Among them are still a 1000 or
so Americans, despite a promise by a
former Emperor that they would only
stay one year. Many of those who served
in Bosnia are now occupying Kosovo,
as part of KFOR.
Word Games
Few other places testify to the power
of words as much as Bosnia today. Its
very name has become a weapon in
political, cultural and ethnic conflict
that still simmers in that ruined land.
Muslims have bestowed upon
themselves the name "Bosniak," an
Austrian-era archaism denoting inhabitants
of Bosnia, thus implying their
ownership of the country. Very often,
Muslims are simply referred to as "Bosnians,"
clearly implying that Serbs and Croats
are pesky minorities at best,
murderous intruders at worst.
Residents of the Muslim-Croat
Federation mention the phrase
"Bosnia-Herzegovina" as often as
possible, as if uttering the country's
name could somehow conjure it into
existence. In the Serb Republic, on
the other hand, the name is mentioned seldom,
if ever - as if ignoring it could make
the country disappear.
Rather than simple word games, these
are serious indicators that the
attitudes which a decade ago led to
the war are alive and well today,
ingrained deeply into the fabric of
society, and poisoning ethnic
relations every day more.
Oscar Politics
Just two weeks ago, a picture about
the Bosnian War won the (American)
Academy Award for best foreign film.
The award, earned by Danis Tanovic
for his brilliant directing, a clever
screenplay and captivating music
score, was immediately drawn into Bosnia's
political maelstrom. His words from the
award ceremony, "This is for my
country, for Bosnia," were twisted and
abused almost as soon as he uttered them.
Thus the Bosnian Serbs, portrayed
rather unflatteringly in "No Man's
Land," smarted and scoffed at the
accomplishment. Croats claimed the
award as their
own, on the grounds that many ethnic
Croats starred in the film. Bosnian
Muslims, on the other hand, would not
shut up about their success; Tanovic
is a Muslim, and the film sometimes
unabashedly peddled their war
propaganda. Yet they conveniently
forgot that the Muslim authorities'
refusal to allow Tanovic to film in
Bosnia made him move the production
to Slovenia.
To his greatest credit, Tanovic himself
refused to be drawn into politics,
staying away from the limelight and
even avoiding a triumphant return to
Sarajevo he knew would turn into a
media circus.
Back To Square One?
Just last week, the departing viceroy
managed to convince some of Bosnia's
leading politicians to agree on a
package of constitutional reforms that
would give greater rights to all three
major ethnic groups. This is seen as
a step ahead from the institutional
discrimination of the Dayton Peace
Agreement, which favored ethnic
oligarchies.
Nonetheless, the reforms are still
based on ethnic, collective politics,
and their system of quotas and parity is
merely trying to restore the situation
from just before the war. This system,
and its abuse by ethnic parties, led
to the war in 1992. Reinstating it will
hardly undo the damage.
Ironically, the judicial review that led
to the reforms was initiated by the
wartime Muslim leadership, which
hoped to accomplish its goal of unifying
Bosnia under Muslim domination by
abolishing the Serb Republic. The current
agreement thwarts that plan, but it's far
from being defeated. As long as it
exists, Serb and Croat politicians will
bitterly oppose all calls for a
citizens' republic, a non-ethnic
political society that might give Bosnia
a raison d'etre and a future. Muslim
integrationists' wartime claim to
represent a secular, citizens' republic
seems to have poisoned that well for
a long time to come.
No Man's Land
Unlike irony, tragedy, suffering or
deceit, hope is one thing Bosnia is
perpetually short of. Stumbling under
the weight of loss, destruction,
poverty, crime and repression that
have marked the past decade, the
residents of Bosnia are far from any
sort of miraculous deliverance. Some
ruined buildings may have been
mended, but the wounds in people's
souls may never be.
Meanwhile, Bosnia continues to exist
as a sort of black hole, bereft of
meaning, form, function or future. In
order to be free, those who live in it
need to take responsibility for their
feelings. But what then? Bosnia's
peoples could find a way to live
together and build a true Bosnian
nation.
Or, they could peaceably part and
bury Bosnia as Yugoslavia - another
idea of multi-ethnic coexistence - was
buried recently. Or, most likely, they
would simply jump into another round
of ethnic bloodshed, hoping that
violence could persuade the others,
or at least kill them off.
The occupation is not addressing any
of the persisting ethnic, political or
even social issues. It merely
represses them, postponing the day of
reckoning and prolonging Bosnia's
continuing agony. Such an approach is
somewhat justified by the absence of
bloodshed, but it might make things
worse in the long run - if they can
possibly get worse, that is.
Bosnia is a living monument to the
horror of Yugoslav dissolution, the
harrowing reminder that people are
not footnotes, and can't simply be erased
or left behind. It is, as Tanovic's film
so aptly states, a "No Man's Land,"
resting on a landmine that would
surely kill if it were to try and rise. It
is a testament to Empire's criminal
misconduct in the Balkans, as it sought
to impose unworkable solutions
without understanding the problems.
Most of all, ten years later, Bosnia
remains a paradox. And those were
never easy to inhabit.
ANTIWAR, Thursday, April 4, 2002
Balkan Express
by Nebojsa Malic
Antiwar.com
Bosnia Revisited
10 Years On
Ten years ago this Friday, the
Bosnian capital of Sarajevo woke up
under a blockade. Set up by a Bosnian Serb
militia to protest the impending - and
illegal - declaration of independence
by a Muslim-Croat regime, it escalated
into a full-fledged siege and a bloody
ethnic conflict that dragged on for
1326 days. In the course of what
became known as the Bosnian War
(1992-1995), Serbs fought Muslims,
Croats and - eventually - NATO. Croats
fought both Serbs and Muslims, and
occasionally allied with either. Muslims
fought Serbs, Croats, and even other
Muslims, howling all along for the UN
or NATO to intervene on their side.
They also solicited and accepted help
from hundreds of vicious "holy
warriors" from Islamic countries,
claiming at the same time to be secular,
democratic, multi-ethnic and tolerant.
The Fog of Facts
The war has been defined as an
aggression, a civil war, a religious or
ethnic conflict, a clash of civilizations,
a genocide, a war of secession
and a war of succession, with every
belligerent using the definition that
suited them best.
Same thing happened with the
casualty figures. No one knows for certain how
many people actually died in Bosnia.
Usual wartime practice of inflated
claims of enemy casualties was
combined with a new practice of inflating
one's own civilian deaths, in order to
gain sympathy from abroad. Figures
thus range from 250,000 Muslims
alone to 60,000 on all sides. Similarly,
it is claimed that up to 2 million people
were displaced, but it is still
unclear how many were displaced by
force. Many certainly were, yet they all
claim so. No one admits fleeing in the
face of danger, even if that is the truth.
Beyond a doubt, the war in Bosnia
was brutal. Atrocities were a part of
everyday fighting, and international
conventions were hardly heeded as
boundaries between civilians and
military were blurred to nonexistence.
Sharpshooters on urban frontlines
picked off anything that moved. Millions
of land mines killed anyone who came
along. Artillery bombardment killed
indiscriminately. Captured foes,
military or civilian, were often
brutalized and killed. The real atrocities,
however, quickly became obscured by a sea
of garish claims calculated to gain
media attention: concentration camps,
mass murder, mass and systematic
rape of women, and even genocide. And while
it was easy to document the everyday
atrocities, finding evidence for these
claims has proven much more elusive.
A House Divided
To be sure, there are a few facts few
can disagree on. One is that Bosnia is
divided today between the Serb
Republic (48%) and the Muslim-Croat
Federation (51%), the remaining 1%
taken up by the internationally-run
"district" of Brcko. The Federation is
further subdivided into 10 cantons,
largely along ethnic lines.
The entire country is effectively - but
not officially - ruled by an
international viceroy, with the prosaic
title of High Representative and
offices in a walled white mid-rise
along the former frontline in downtown
Sarajevo.
Some 20,000 NATO troops still remain
in Bosnia as part of a "stabilization"
(i.e. occupation) force, or SFOR.
That's down from 60,000 sent there 6
years ago. Among them are still a 1000 or
so Americans, despite a promise by a
former Emperor that they would only
stay one year. Many of those who served
in Bosnia are now occupying Kosovo,
as part of KFOR.
Word Games
Few other places testify to the power
of words as much as Bosnia today. Its
very name has become a weapon in
political, cultural and ethnic conflict
that still simmers in that ruined land.
Muslims have bestowed upon
themselves the name "Bosniak," an
Austrian-era archaism denoting inhabitants
of Bosnia, thus implying their
ownership of the country. Very often,
Muslims are simply referred to as "Bosnians,"
clearly implying that Serbs and Croats
are pesky minorities at best,
murderous intruders at worst.
Residents of the Muslim-Croat
Federation mention the phrase
"Bosnia-Herzegovina" as often as
possible, as if uttering the country's
name could somehow conjure it into
existence. In the Serb Republic, on
the other hand, the name is mentioned seldom,
if ever - as if ignoring it could make
the country disappear.
Rather than simple word games, these
are serious indicators that the
attitudes which a decade ago led to
the war are alive and well today,
ingrained deeply into the fabric of
society, and poisoning ethnic
relations every day more.
Oscar Politics
Just two weeks ago, a picture about
the Bosnian War won the (American)
Academy Award for best foreign film.
The award, earned by Danis Tanovic
for his brilliant directing, a clever
screenplay and captivating music
score, was immediately drawn into Bosnia's
political maelstrom. His words from the
award ceremony, "This is for my
country, for Bosnia," were twisted and
abused almost as soon as he uttered them.
Thus the Bosnian Serbs, portrayed
rather unflatteringly in "No Man's
Land," smarted and scoffed at the
accomplishment. Croats claimed the
award as their
own, on the grounds that many ethnic
Croats starred in the film. Bosnian
Muslims, on the other hand, would not
shut up about their success; Tanovic
is a Muslim, and the film sometimes
unabashedly peddled their war
propaganda. Yet they conveniently
forgot that the Muslim authorities'
refusal to allow Tanovic to film in
Bosnia made him move the production
to Slovenia.
To his greatest credit, Tanovic himself
refused to be drawn into politics,
staying away from the limelight and
even avoiding a triumphant return to
Sarajevo he knew would turn into a
media circus.
Back To Square One?
Just last week, the departing viceroy
managed to convince some of Bosnia's
leading politicians to agree on a
package of constitutional reforms that
would give greater rights to all three
major ethnic groups. This is seen as
a step ahead from the institutional
discrimination of the Dayton Peace
Agreement, which favored ethnic
oligarchies.
Nonetheless, the reforms are still
based on ethnic, collective politics,
and their system of quotas and parity is
merely trying to restore the situation
from just before the war. This system,
and its abuse by ethnic parties, led
to the war in 1992. Reinstating it will
hardly undo the damage.
Ironically, the judicial review that led
to the reforms was initiated by the
wartime Muslim leadership, which
hoped to accomplish its goal of unifying
Bosnia under Muslim domination by
abolishing the Serb Republic. The current
agreement thwarts that plan, but it's far
from being defeated. As long as it
exists, Serb and Croat politicians will
bitterly oppose all calls for a
citizens' republic, a non-ethnic
political society that might give Bosnia
a raison d'etre and a future. Muslim
integrationists' wartime claim to
represent a secular, citizens' republic
seems to have poisoned that well for
a long time to come.
No Man's Land
Unlike irony, tragedy, suffering or
deceit, hope is one thing Bosnia is
perpetually short of. Stumbling under
the weight of loss, destruction,
poverty, crime and repression that
have marked the past decade, the
residents of Bosnia are far from any
sort of miraculous deliverance. Some
ruined buildings may have been
mended, but the wounds in people's
souls may never be.
Meanwhile, Bosnia continues to exist
as a sort of black hole, bereft of
meaning, form, function or future. In
order to be free, those who live in it
need to take responsibility for their
feelings. But what then? Bosnia's
peoples could find a way to live
together and build a true Bosnian
nation.
Or, they could peaceably part and
bury Bosnia as Yugoslavia - another
idea of multi-ethnic coexistence - was
buried recently. Or, most likely, they
would simply jump into another round
of ethnic bloodshed, hoping that
violence could persuade the others,
or at least kill them off.
The occupation is not addressing any
of the persisting ethnic, political or
even social issues. It merely
represses them, postponing the day of
reckoning and prolonging Bosnia's
continuing agony. Such an approach is
somewhat justified by the absence of
bloodshed, but it might make things
worse in the long run - if they can
possibly get worse, that is.
Bosnia is a living monument to the
horror of Yugoslav dissolution, the
harrowing reminder that people are
not footnotes, and can't simply be erased
or left behind. It is, as Tanovic's film
so aptly states, a "No Man's Land,"
resting on a landmine that would
surely kill if it were to try and rise. It
is a testament to Empire's criminal
misconduct in the Balkans, as it sought
to impose unworkable solutions
without understanding the problems.
Most of all, ten years later, Bosnia
remains a paradox. And those were
never easy to inhabit.
PARTITO SOCIALISTA DELLA SERBIA
COMITATO CENTRALE
Belgrado, 3 aprile 2002
SOLIDARIETA' CON LA PALESTINA
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Il Partito Socialista della Serbia condanna la
pericolosa escalation della violenza da parte
dell'esercito israeliano contro la popolazione
e le autorita' palestinesi.
Gli imperativi sono: il cessate il fuoco immediato,
il ritiro delle truppe israeliane dalle citta' palestinesi,
e la prosecuzione del processo di pace, nel pieno rispetto
di tutte le Risoluzioni del Consiglio di Sicurezza
dell'ONU in merito.
Il Partito Socialista della Serbia e' determinato a
proteggere la storica amicizia e la mutua solidarieta'
che lega i popoli della Jugoslavia e della Palestina,
e sottolinea il suo appoggio ad una giusta soluzione
della crisi, che comprenda il ritiro israeliano da tutti
i territori occupati e le condizioni per il normale
funzionamento dello Stato di Palestina, con la costruzione
di fiducia e cooperazione tra tutti i popoli e gli Stati
della regione, senza interferenze da parte di fattori
esterni alla regione.
Il Partito Socialista della Serbia rinnova il monito
che la lotta contro il terrorismo nel mondo si puo'
combattere solamente all'interno del quadro dell'ONU
sulla base di regole universalmente accettate e dei
principi della Carta dell'ONU. Il piu' grande
pericolo per il mondo e' il terrorismo sponsorizzato
ed il suo uso strumentale come pretesto per attacchi
brutali contro la liberta' e la sovranita' dei popoli
e per la imposizione di una dittatura nelle relazioni
internazionali.
Subject: SPS: Solidarity with Palestine
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:07:53 +0200
From: "Vladimir Krsljanin"
SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
HEAD COMMITTEE
Belgrade, April 3, 2002
SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE
PRESS RELEASE
The Socialist Party of
Serbia condemns the dangerous escalation
of violence of Israeli army against
Palestinian people and Palestinian
authorities.
Immediate cease-fire,
withdrawal of Israeli troops from
Palestinian cities and continuation of
the peace process, with full respect
of all relevant UN Security Council
resolutions, are the imperatives.
The Socialist Party of
Serbia is determined to protect the
historical friendship and mutual
solidarity between the peoples of
Yugoslavia and Palestine and underlines
its support to a just solution of
the crisis which must incorporate
Israeli withdrawal from all occupied
territories and conditions for normal
functioning of the State of Palestine,
with the building of confidence and
cooperation of all peoples and states in
the region, without interference of
out-of-regional factors.
The Socialist Party of
Serbia repeats the warning that struggle
against the terrorism in the world can
be fought only within the frameworks
of the Organization of United Nations on
the basis of generally accepted
rules and principles of UN Charter.
Biggest danger for the world is the
sponsored terrorism and its misuse as
pretext for brutal attacks on freedom
and sovereignty of peoples and for
imposing the dictatorship in the
international relations.
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)
COMITATO CENTRALE
Belgrado, 3 aprile 2002
SOLIDARIETA' CON LA PALESTINA
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Il Partito Socialista della Serbia condanna la
pericolosa escalation della violenza da parte
dell'esercito israeliano contro la popolazione
e le autorita' palestinesi.
Gli imperativi sono: il cessate il fuoco immediato,
il ritiro delle truppe israeliane dalle citta' palestinesi,
e la prosecuzione del processo di pace, nel pieno rispetto
di tutte le Risoluzioni del Consiglio di Sicurezza
dell'ONU in merito.
Il Partito Socialista della Serbia e' determinato a
proteggere la storica amicizia e la mutua solidarieta'
che lega i popoli della Jugoslavia e della Palestina,
e sottolinea il suo appoggio ad una giusta soluzione
della crisi, che comprenda il ritiro israeliano da tutti
i territori occupati e le condizioni per il normale
funzionamento dello Stato di Palestina, con la costruzione
di fiducia e cooperazione tra tutti i popoli e gli Stati
della regione, senza interferenze da parte di fattori
esterni alla regione.
Il Partito Socialista della Serbia rinnova il monito
che la lotta contro il terrorismo nel mondo si puo'
combattere solamente all'interno del quadro dell'ONU
sulla base di regole universalmente accettate e dei
principi della Carta dell'ONU. Il piu' grande
pericolo per il mondo e' il terrorismo sponsorizzato
ed il suo uso strumentale come pretesto per attacchi
brutali contro la liberta' e la sovranita' dei popoli
e per la imposizione di una dittatura nelle relazioni
internazionali.
Subject: SPS: Solidarity with Palestine
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:07:53 +0200
From: "Vladimir Krsljanin"
SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
HEAD COMMITTEE
Belgrade, April 3, 2002
SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE
PRESS RELEASE
The Socialist Party of
Serbia condemns the dangerous escalation
of violence of Israeli army against
Palestinian people and Palestinian
authorities.
Immediate cease-fire,
withdrawal of Israeli troops from
Palestinian cities and continuation of
the peace process, with full respect
of all relevant UN Security Council
resolutions, are the imperatives.
The Socialist Party of
Serbia is determined to protect the
historical friendship and mutual
solidarity between the peoples of
Yugoslavia and Palestine and underlines
its support to a just solution of
the crisis which must incorporate
Israeli withdrawal from all occupied
territories and conditions for normal
functioning of the State of Palestine,
with the building of confidence and
cooperation of all peoples and states in
the region, without interference of
out-of-regional factors.
The Socialist Party of
Serbia repeats the warning that struggle
against the terrorism in the world can
be fought only within the frameworks
of the Organization of United Nations on
the basis of generally accepted
rules and principles of UN Charter.
Biggest danger for the world is the
sponsored terrorism and its misuse as
pretext for brutal attacks on freedom
and sovereignty of peoples and for
imposing the dictatorship in the
international relations.
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)
Una versione, piu' dettagliata, da ''Politika'', sull'indagine
delle Nazioni Unite (Unep) sull'uranio impoverito nel sud della
Serbia. (Da A. Tarozzi. Traduzione di Z. Nedanovska)
1. FONTE: Politika.
2. TITOLO: Minacciano le acque sotterranee.
3. INDICE: La conferma ufficiale dell'UNEP.
4. SITO INTERNET: http://www.politika.co.yu/2002/0403/01_39.htm
5. AUTORE: V.Pesic.
6. NUMERO DI PAGINE: 2.
7. DATA: 3/04/02.
Gli esperti dell'UNEP hanno confermato ufficialmente
che i proiettili all'uranio impoverito, usati durante i
bombardamenti della NATO, hanno causato conseguenze
pesanti all'ambiente nei comuni di Vranje, Bujanovac e
Presevo.
Dal 24 marzo al 9 giugno del 1999, i bombardieri della NATO,
con l'uranio impoverito, hanno colpito cinque località
nei comuni citati. Una località colpita si trova a Vranje e
due a Bujanovac e a Presevo. I membri dell'UNEP hanno
consegnato all'Istituto per la protezione della salute di
Vranje i risultati delle analisi di 161 campioni di
vegetazione, suolo ed aria. Sono stati nella Serbia
meridionale nel periodo dal 27 ottobre al 5 novembre del
2001, ed hanno visitato tutte le cinque località minacciate,
dove hanno preso i campioni. Miroslav Simic, fisico,
dell'Istituto per la protezione della salute di Vranje
e membro del Consiglio federale per il monitoraggio delle
conseguenze dei bombardamenti della NATO, ha detto ai
giornalisti che gli esperti dell'UNEP hanno riconosciuto,
per la prima volta, che la contaminazione da uranio
impoverito ha lasciato conseguenze sull'ambiente nel
comune di Vranje.
L'uranio impoverito minaccia, in tempi brevi, di esporre
al pericolo le falde acquifere, il bestiame e la vegetazione.
I nostri esperti hanno scoperto su una località di
Pljackovica, presso Vranje, una concentrazione di uranio
nell'aria e nel suolo. L'aumento della concentrazione di
uranio nel suolo era di quattro milligrammi al chilo. I
campioni sono stati analizzati nei laboratori di Francia,
Italia e Svizzera. La stessa analisi è stata effettuata
anche nei laboratori in Grecia, Russia e Norvegia, poichè
i nostri esperti hanno insistito su quello.
All'Istituto di Vranje si aspettavano che i campioni
avrebbero dimostrato l'aumento della concentrazione di
uranio da uno a diciotto milligrammi al chilo nel suolo.
Tuttavia, sono rimasti sorpresi dall'avvertimento che si
debba prestare attenzione in particolare alla protezione
delle falde acquifere, perchè sono proprio quelle che
potrebbero minacciare la salute umana. Gli esperti
dell'Istituto attendono il risanamento del suolo. E'
già stato fatto il catasto delle acque potabili e quello
dei pozzi. I preparativi per un controllo permanente della
concentrazione di uranio impoverito nell'acqua sono già
terminati.
Gli esperti dell'Istituto per la protezione della salute
di Vranje, dell'Istituto di Vinca e del Centro clinico della
Serbia, hanno fatto le analisi di cibo ed acqua, e per ora
hanno constatato come non ci sia un aumento di
concentrazione di uranio impoverito. Simic ha informato i
giornalisti che il nostro Governo ha stanziato 150 milioni
di dinari per il risanamento del terreno più a rischio.
Le località più pericolose nella Serbia meridionale, a
causa delle acque sotterranee, adesso sono Pljackovica e
il territorio del villaggio di Borovac, presso Bujanovac.
Negli ultimi giorni i cittadini di Vranje sono molto
angosciati e preoccupati perchè in alcuni dei nostri media
sono apparse informazioni secondo le quali le analisi
dell'Istituto per la medicina del lavoro (Dr Dragomir
Karojevic) di Belgrado mostrerebbero che nei campioni
del sangue e dell'urina di 30 cittadini di Borovac e
Bratoselac, presso Bujanovac, è stato riscontrato uranio
impoverito.
Anche se non ci sono le relazioni ufficiali, nel villaggio
di Borovac, presso Bujanovac, sono state riscontrate
deformazioni nella vegetazione. Pljackovica, Borovac,
Bratoselac, Reljan e Svinjiste - nei comuni di Vranje,
Bujanovac e Presevo - ancora fanno e faranno paura ai
cittadini della Serbia meridionale.
delle Nazioni Unite (Unep) sull'uranio impoverito nel sud della
Serbia. (Da A. Tarozzi. Traduzione di Z. Nedanovska)
1. FONTE: Politika.
2. TITOLO: Minacciano le acque sotterranee.
3. INDICE: La conferma ufficiale dell'UNEP.
4. SITO INTERNET: http://www.politika.co.yu/2002/0403/01_39.htm
5. AUTORE: V.Pesic.
6. NUMERO DI PAGINE: 2.
7. DATA: 3/04/02.
Gli esperti dell'UNEP hanno confermato ufficialmente
che i proiettili all'uranio impoverito, usati durante i
bombardamenti della NATO, hanno causato conseguenze
pesanti all'ambiente nei comuni di Vranje, Bujanovac e
Presevo.
Dal 24 marzo al 9 giugno del 1999, i bombardieri della NATO,
con l'uranio impoverito, hanno colpito cinque località
nei comuni citati. Una località colpita si trova a Vranje e
due a Bujanovac e a Presevo. I membri dell'UNEP hanno
consegnato all'Istituto per la protezione della salute di
Vranje i risultati delle analisi di 161 campioni di
vegetazione, suolo ed aria. Sono stati nella Serbia
meridionale nel periodo dal 27 ottobre al 5 novembre del
2001, ed hanno visitato tutte le cinque località minacciate,
dove hanno preso i campioni. Miroslav Simic, fisico,
dell'Istituto per la protezione della salute di Vranje
e membro del Consiglio federale per il monitoraggio delle
conseguenze dei bombardamenti della NATO, ha detto ai
giornalisti che gli esperti dell'UNEP hanno riconosciuto,
per la prima volta, che la contaminazione da uranio
impoverito ha lasciato conseguenze sull'ambiente nel
comune di Vranje.
L'uranio impoverito minaccia, in tempi brevi, di esporre
al pericolo le falde acquifere, il bestiame e la vegetazione.
I nostri esperti hanno scoperto su una località di
Pljackovica, presso Vranje, una concentrazione di uranio
nell'aria e nel suolo. L'aumento della concentrazione di
uranio nel suolo era di quattro milligrammi al chilo. I
campioni sono stati analizzati nei laboratori di Francia,
Italia e Svizzera. La stessa analisi è stata effettuata
anche nei laboratori in Grecia, Russia e Norvegia, poichè
i nostri esperti hanno insistito su quello.
All'Istituto di Vranje si aspettavano che i campioni
avrebbero dimostrato l'aumento della concentrazione di
uranio da uno a diciotto milligrammi al chilo nel suolo.
Tuttavia, sono rimasti sorpresi dall'avvertimento che si
debba prestare attenzione in particolare alla protezione
delle falde acquifere, perchè sono proprio quelle che
potrebbero minacciare la salute umana. Gli esperti
dell'Istituto attendono il risanamento del suolo. E'
già stato fatto il catasto delle acque potabili e quello
dei pozzi. I preparativi per un controllo permanente della
concentrazione di uranio impoverito nell'acqua sono già
terminati.
Gli esperti dell'Istituto per la protezione della salute
di Vranje, dell'Istituto di Vinca e del Centro clinico della
Serbia, hanno fatto le analisi di cibo ed acqua, e per ora
hanno constatato come non ci sia un aumento di
concentrazione di uranio impoverito. Simic ha informato i
giornalisti che il nostro Governo ha stanziato 150 milioni
di dinari per il risanamento del terreno più a rischio.
Le località più pericolose nella Serbia meridionale, a
causa delle acque sotterranee, adesso sono Pljackovica e
il territorio del villaggio di Borovac, presso Bujanovac.
Negli ultimi giorni i cittadini di Vranje sono molto
angosciati e preoccupati perchè in alcuni dei nostri media
sono apparse informazioni secondo le quali le analisi
dell'Istituto per la medicina del lavoro (Dr Dragomir
Karojevic) di Belgrado mostrerebbero che nei campioni
del sangue e dell'urina di 30 cittadini di Borovac e
Bratoselac, presso Bujanovac, è stato riscontrato uranio
impoverito.
Anche se non ci sono le relazioni ufficiali, nel villaggio
di Borovac, presso Bujanovac, sono state riscontrate
deformazioni nella vegetazione. Pljackovica, Borovac,
Bratoselac, Reljan e Svinjiste - nei comuni di Vranje,
Bujanovac e Presevo - ancora fanno e faranno paura ai
cittadini della Serbia meridionale.
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AL QAEDA, THE KLA AND 'JUDGE' MAY ON PROPER
CROSS-EXAMINATION
President Milosevic March 7th, with Comments
[Posted 3 April 2002]
=======================================
On March 7th President Milosevic cross-examined one
Sabit Kadriu. Mr. Kadriu has been described by The
Hague "tribunal" and the mass media as a human rights
activist. This by virtue of his membership in the
so-called "Council for the Defense of Human Rights and
Freedoms," a group run by Adem Demaci. Mr. Kadriu is an
aide to Mr. Demaci.
It would be historically inaccurate to say Adem Demaci
is the political adviser to the terrorist Kosovo
Liberation Army. He resigned from that lofty position
because he considered KLA too moderate.
Here's the Associated Press, May 2, 1999:
[START AP QUOTE]
"And in a political development that could boost
international efforts to persuade ethnic Albanians to
accept a plan for self-rule, Adem Demaci stepped down
as And in a political development that could boost
international efforts to persuade ethnic Albanians to
accept a plan for self-rule, Adem Demaci stepped down
as political adviser for the Kosovo Liberation Army.
"The influential hard-liner, outspoken in his
opposition to the U.S.-backed peace plan for Kosovo
because it falls short of independence, said the KLA
leadership ''thinks they know more about politics than
I do.'''
[END AP QUOTE]
During the cross-examination of the humanitarian Mr.
Kadriu, an exchange took place in which President
Milosevic charged that Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda has
helped the Kosovo Liberation Army attack the Balkans.
Reading the exchange, posted below, please note the
interruptions by Richard May, the so-called 'judge' in
this so-called 'trial.' (In the New World Order,
'so-called' is the word of choice.)
President Milosevic is trying here to demonstrate that
the Kosovo Liberation Army "freedom fighters" work
closely with the international terrorist organization,
Al Qaeda. The witness tries to deny this, making the
unbelievable claim that he never heard of Osama bin
Laden before September 11th.
A key purpose of cross-examination is to throw a
witness off-balance and catch him or her in a lie. But
Richard May cuts President Milosevic off three times -
first with "enough of that" (is Mr. May late for an
appointment? distressed because President Milosevic
refuses to abide by proper procedures for a Show
Trial?)
In his second interruption, Mr. May tells President
Milosevic, "Meanwhile the witness says he knows nothing
of it," that is, of the presence of Al Qaeda in Kosovo,
as if this were not precisely the lie President
Milosevic is trying to expose.
The third interruption is the most striking. The
witness has been denying knowledge of Al Qaeda and
Pres. Milosevic says, "So you want to say that you know
nothing about their activity."
May interrupts: "No, he says there are no Mujahideen in
Kosovo. That's what he says."
This is too much even for the amazingly patient Pres.
Milosevic who notes, dryly: "All right but he doesn't
need so much assistance."
So in the courts of the New World Order, the proper
method for an opponent of the ruling bullies, when
conducting a cross-examination, is to ask a question
politely and accept whatever lie the authorities'
witness offers in response, and then move on. Defense
Attorneys take notice.
We have posted links to the FBI and MSNBC documents to
which President Milosevic refers. See FURTHER READING,
at the end.
-- Jared Israel
CROSS EXAMINATION OF SABIT KADRIU, ASSOCIATE OF THE
TERROIST THINKER, ADEM DEMACI
Pres. Milosevic: You said you heard about the KLA in
1991.
Sabit Kadriu: I read in newspapers that something
happened connected with that.
Pres. Milosevic: You were involved in public activities
as you say since the beginning of the 1990s. Do you
know about the activity of the organization of Osama
bin laden in Kosovo & Metohija?
Sabit Kadriu: I heard about bin Laden this year but
never before. Only when the crime was committed against
American people.
Richard May: Enough about that. Mr. Milosevic.
Pres. Milosevic: Do you know about the Mujahideen and
their atrocities in Kosovo & Metohija?
Sabit Kadriu: That is not true that there were
Mujahideen in Kosovo. You have invented that. That is
the fruit of your imagination.
Pres. Milosevic: Well, just say 'it's not correct' or
'I don't know.' You are spending time. I will read you
a passage and you will tell me if that is correct or
not. Al Qaeda (Reads) "functions through some of the
terrorist organizations that operate under its umbrella
or with its support, including..." I'm going to skip
over this next bit, "Albania," etc. Do you consider
that to be correct? (1)
Sabit Kadriu: That is not right, and that is the fruit
of your imagination.
Pres. Milosevic: [Holds the document in the air. It
includes an FBI insignia.] Well, this is the
congressional statement of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. (1)
Richard May: What is the date of it?
Pres. Milosevic: December 18, last year. After
September 11th.
Richard May: Very well. You can put that into evidence
in due course. Meanwhile the witness says he knows
nothing of it.
Pres. Milosevic: I am asking the witness, is the
paragraph I read correct and he said it was not correct
and it was a lie and the fruit of my imagination. And
now I am going to ask you [the witness] is the
following correct? [Reads] "All Qaeda supports Islamic
fighters in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Chechnya and in
Kosovo". Is that correct. (2)
Sabit Kadriu: I know nothing about that. I'm not here
to talk about Bosnia or Afghanistan. I'm here to talk
about Kosovo. There are no Mujahideen in Kosovo and
that is the truth.
Pres. Milosevic: But I have asked you what do you know
about their activities, not whether they are there
since that is indisputable. So you want to say that you
know nothing about their activity.
Richard May: No, he says there are no Mujahideen in
Kosovo. That's what he says.
Pres. Milosevic: All right but he doesn't need so much
assistance. Obviously Al Qaeda fighters have been
identified in Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania and is that
correct or not according to your knowledge?
Sabit Kadriu: I've already said I know nothing about
other countries and when you speak about Kosovo I can
say that there are no Mujahideen there.
Pres. Milosevic: That last passage I have quoted is
from MSNBC and it says, "Sources: Congressional
Research Center, Frontline." [Editor's note: Frontline
is a US Television program on current issues.]
Subscribe to the ICDSM email list at
http://www.icdsm.org/maillist.htm Receive texts posted
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***********************
Further Reading:
***********************
(1) During his testimony, President Milosevic referred
to two documents. The first was the testimony of FBI
'counter-terrorism' specialist and acting
assistant-director J.T. Caruso in Congress, 18 December
2001 the relevant part of which can be read at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/fbi-msnbc.htm#a
The other was an MSNBC WebPage entitled, 'WHO IS OSAMA
BIN LADEN?' The excerpt can be read at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/fbi-msnbc.htm#b
2) President Milosevic has stressed the glaring bit of
hypocrisy involved in NATO claiming the right to
intervene wherever it wishes "to fight terrorism" while
kidnapping and "trying" him - for in fact, fighting
terrorism. Related evidence: the Washington Post
recently exposed that the US government has paid for
millions of violent Islamist textbooks, including 4
million that were just printed and are being used in -
are you ready? - Afghanistan.
See 'The ABC's of Jihad,' which can be read at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/abc-i.htm
===*===
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Judge Refuses to Allow Further Cross-Examination
Blic, Belgrade | March 9, 2002
Posted on 3/9/02 1:33 PM Pacific by Banat
Judge May Refuses Miloshevich?s
Request to Have Kadriu Cross-Examined!
The Hague (Tanjug) - The continuation of the
latest round of hearings, which commenced yesterday,
suffered many interruptions by Judge Richard May
today. At one point, the Judge intervened and warned the
witness, as well as the defendant, ?This is not a
political manifestation but a trial?.
Mr. Miloshevich cross-examined Sabit Kadriu,
who claimed the Serbs did not flee Albanian violence but
were "searching for a better life" outside of Kosovo
& Metohia and that they were "selling their farms and
estates to Albanians at steep prices". The witness
claimed that he had no knowledge as to how many Serbs
had fled the province and that the ?regime? in
Belgrade caused and then manipulated this situation.
Mr. Miloshevich told the court that Albanian
separatists persistently refused the Government?s proposal for
the return of Albanian professors and students to
state schools, while the witness claimed that, every
September, when the school year traditionally
starts, the Serbian government ?prevented the Albanians? from
enrolling.
Countering the witness? claim that the ?Serbian
regime organized the return of the expelled Serbs back to
Kosovo & Metohia in order to change the
demographics?, Mr. Miloshevich said that of all the expelled Serbs,
only 5,000 returned to their homes, which is, as
Mr. Miloshevich said, less than 1% of the total number of
Serbs who have been forced out of the province.
The prosecution witness also claimed that there were no -
and are no - mujahedins in Kosovo & Metohia.
Mr. Miloshevich then showed the FBI document, dated
December 2001, which clearly indicated that
Al-Qaida had been active in Kosovo & Metohia.
Kadriu said that ?he knew nothing? about the
killings of four policemen in the village of Chirez on March 3,
1998, which, as Mr. Miloshevich said, was the
result of a firefight between the Police and the KLA. The
Ahmeti family lost their lives in this confrontation,
which the witness claimed was a ?massacre of unarmed civilians?.
In reference to the witness? claim of a massacre of
the Gerxhaliu family in May 1999, Mr. Miloshevich said
that the investigating judge went to the scene
immediately after the incident and made a report. The witness
characterized this as an ?obstruction? on the part
of the ?Serb forces? and claimed that such things ?always
occurred? and that ?the Serbian police always
called the court investigators after they committed crimes.?
The defendant then told the court about the murder
of Rexhepi Bairami, an activist and a member of the
LDK, the party headed by Ibrahim Rugova, who
was killed in Vuchitrn ?on the orders of the local KLA
commander?. Kadriu then said that ?he never
heard of any Bairami?.
Mr. Miloshevich then mentioned the fact that, in
1998 alone, 327 loyalist Albanians had been murdered, to
which the witness replied that he ?did not believe
there were any loyalist Albanians? in Kosovo & Metohia.
Mr. Miloshevich, in turn, cited Faik Jashari, a
member of the Interim Executive Council of Kosovo & Metohia,
who had reported that, after the war, some 30,000
Albanians fled to central Serbia together with the expelled
Kosovo & Metohia Serbs.
Kadriu described the KLA as a liberation army and
stood his ground, claiming the army and the police
?conducted an offensive against 27 Albanian
villages on Mt. Chichevitsa and murdered 200 civilians and
one member of the KLA?.
Mr. Miloshevich then cited Kadriu, who had said
earlier that ?Adem Jashari was killed when he ran out of
ammo?, and asked the witness how he could talk
of a ?massacre of civilians? when the police first asked
Jashari to come out and give himself up, then
gave him 2 hours to consider the offer - ?during which a
number of people had left the compound? - and
that soon after, ?a hail of bullets, fired from dozens of
automatic rifles? came from the house toward the
police, to which the police responded in self-defence and,
as a consequence, killed 60 people inside the
Jashari compound.
At this point Judge Robinson jumped in and
remarked that Kadriu wasn?t present at the scene. Kadriu then
said that he saw ?bodies of dead women, children
and elderly people?, that the action against the Jashari
compound ?lasted three days?, and that it served
to paint a ?false picture? in the media.
Mr. Miloshevich then cited British Foreign Office
reports, dating from early 1999, which revealed that there
had been no political persecution of Albanians,
but rather a confrontation with ?military opponents? - the KLA
- who controlled parts of Kosovo & Metohia.
The witness then said that, in 1999, the ?Serbian
forces had killed 15,000 and expelled 1,000,000 Albanian civilians?.
Mr. Miloshevich responded by asking the witness
about the kidnappings and killings of Serbs, the KLA
detention centres in the village of Likovats, as well
as the makeshift prison in the basement of a general
store in Vuchitrn. The witness responded, saying
such prisons ?did not exist?, and he also denied any killings
and kidnappings by the KLA.
The witness denied Mr. Miloshevich?s claim that
literally all citizens of Serbian nationality from 39 out of the
45 villages in the Vuchitrn Municipality had been
ethnically cleansed and had their houses burned down,
saying there ?may have been? some ?revenge
attacks against the Serbs who committed war crimes.?
Alleging that all the Serbs who once lived in the
town of Vuchitrn are war criminals, Kadriu acknowledged
that there were no more Serbs in that town, and
that they fled ?of their own free will because they committed
war crimes.? Branislav Tapushkovich, one of the
amici curiae, reacted, drawing the court?s attention to the
contradictions in Kadriu?s testimony.
Mr. Miloshevich protested the court?s decision to
limit the time for cross-examination and asked that the
cross-examination be continued, which was
rejected by Judge May. As a result, the trial will continue on
Monday with fresh testimonies from new witnesses.
As the hearing was drawing to a close, the
security officers in the courtroom asked Mr. Miloshevich?s
legal advisors from Belgrade to leave the room. They
had been warned not to ?gesticulate and communicate? with
Mr. Miloshevich. They later returned to the courtroom.
http://www.icdsm.org/milosevic/interrupt.htm
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AL QAEDA, THE KLA AND 'JUDGE' MAY ON PROPER
CROSS-EXAMINATION
President Milosevic March 7th, with Comments
[Posted 3 April 2002]
=======================================
On March 7th President Milosevic cross-examined one
Sabit Kadriu. Mr. Kadriu has been described by The
Hague "tribunal" and the mass media as a human rights
activist. This by virtue of his membership in the
so-called "Council for the Defense of Human Rights and
Freedoms," a group run by Adem Demaci. Mr. Kadriu is an
aide to Mr. Demaci.
It would be historically inaccurate to say Adem Demaci
is the political adviser to the terrorist Kosovo
Liberation Army. He resigned from that lofty position
because he considered KLA too moderate.
Here's the Associated Press, May 2, 1999:
[START AP QUOTE]
"And in a political development that could boost
international efforts to persuade ethnic Albanians to
accept a plan for self-rule, Adem Demaci stepped down
as And in a political development that could boost
international efforts to persuade ethnic Albanians to
accept a plan for self-rule, Adem Demaci stepped down
as political adviser for the Kosovo Liberation Army.
"The influential hard-liner, outspoken in his
opposition to the U.S.-backed peace plan for Kosovo
because it falls short of independence, said the KLA
leadership ''thinks they know more about politics than
I do.'''
[END AP QUOTE]
During the cross-examination of the humanitarian Mr.
Kadriu, an exchange took place in which President
Milosevic charged that Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda has
helped the Kosovo Liberation Army attack the Balkans.
Reading the exchange, posted below, please note the
interruptions by Richard May, the so-called 'judge' in
this so-called 'trial.' (In the New World Order,
'so-called' is the word of choice.)
President Milosevic is trying here to demonstrate that
the Kosovo Liberation Army "freedom fighters" work
closely with the international terrorist organization,
Al Qaeda. The witness tries to deny this, making the
unbelievable claim that he never heard of Osama bin
Laden before September 11th.
A key purpose of cross-examination is to throw a
witness off-balance and catch him or her in a lie. But
Richard May cuts President Milosevic off three times -
first with "enough of that" (is Mr. May late for an
appointment? distressed because President Milosevic
refuses to abide by proper procedures for a Show
Trial?)
In his second interruption, Mr. May tells President
Milosevic, "Meanwhile the witness says he knows nothing
of it," that is, of the presence of Al Qaeda in Kosovo,
as if this were not precisely the lie President
Milosevic is trying to expose.
The third interruption is the most striking. The
witness has been denying knowledge of Al Qaeda and
Pres. Milosevic says, "So you want to say that you know
nothing about their activity."
May interrupts: "No, he says there are no Mujahideen in
Kosovo. That's what he says."
This is too much even for the amazingly patient Pres.
Milosevic who notes, dryly: "All right but he doesn't
need so much assistance."
So in the courts of the New World Order, the proper
method for an opponent of the ruling bullies, when
conducting a cross-examination, is to ask a question
politely and accept whatever lie the authorities'
witness offers in response, and then move on. Defense
Attorneys take notice.
We have posted links to the FBI and MSNBC documents to
which President Milosevic refers. See FURTHER READING,
at the end.
-- Jared Israel
CROSS EXAMINATION OF SABIT KADRIU, ASSOCIATE OF THE
TERROIST THINKER, ADEM DEMACI
Pres. Milosevic: You said you heard about the KLA in
1991.
Sabit Kadriu: I read in newspapers that something
happened connected with that.
Pres. Milosevic: You were involved in public activities
as you say since the beginning of the 1990s. Do you
know about the activity of the organization of Osama
bin laden in Kosovo & Metohija?
Sabit Kadriu: I heard about bin Laden this year but
never before. Only when the crime was committed against
American people.
Richard May: Enough about that. Mr. Milosevic.
Pres. Milosevic: Do you know about the Mujahideen and
their atrocities in Kosovo & Metohija?
Sabit Kadriu: That is not true that there were
Mujahideen in Kosovo. You have invented that. That is
the fruit of your imagination.
Pres. Milosevic: Well, just say 'it's not correct' or
'I don't know.' You are spending time. I will read you
a passage and you will tell me if that is correct or
not. Al Qaeda (Reads) "functions through some of the
terrorist organizations that operate under its umbrella
or with its support, including..." I'm going to skip
over this next bit, "Albania," etc. Do you consider
that to be correct? (1)
Sabit Kadriu: That is not right, and that is the fruit
of your imagination.
Pres. Milosevic: [Holds the document in the air. It
includes an FBI insignia.] Well, this is the
congressional statement of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. (1)
Richard May: What is the date of it?
Pres. Milosevic: December 18, last year. After
September 11th.
Richard May: Very well. You can put that into evidence
in due course. Meanwhile the witness says he knows
nothing of it.
Pres. Milosevic: I am asking the witness, is the
paragraph I read correct and he said it was not correct
and it was a lie and the fruit of my imagination. And
now I am going to ask you [the witness] is the
following correct? [Reads] "All Qaeda supports Islamic
fighters in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Chechnya and in
Kosovo". Is that correct. (2)
Sabit Kadriu: I know nothing about that. I'm not here
to talk about Bosnia or Afghanistan. I'm here to talk
about Kosovo. There are no Mujahideen in Kosovo and
that is the truth.
Pres. Milosevic: But I have asked you what do you know
about their activities, not whether they are there
since that is indisputable. So you want to say that you
know nothing about their activity.
Richard May: No, he says there are no Mujahideen in
Kosovo. That's what he says.
Pres. Milosevic: All right but he doesn't need so much
assistance. Obviously Al Qaeda fighters have been
identified in Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania and is that
correct or not according to your knowledge?
Sabit Kadriu: I've already said I know nothing about
other countries and when you speak about Kosovo I can
say that there are no Mujahideen there.
Pres. Milosevic: That last passage I have quoted is
from MSNBC and it says, "Sources: Congressional
Research Center, Frontline." [Editor's note: Frontline
is a US Television program on current issues.]
Subscribe to the ICDSM email list at
http://www.icdsm.org/maillist.htm Receive texts posted
at www.icdsm.org
***********************
Further Reading:
***********************
(1) During his testimony, President Milosevic referred
to two documents. The first was the testimony of FBI
'counter-terrorism' specialist and acting
assistant-director J.T. Caruso in Congress, 18 December
2001 the relevant part of which can be read at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/fbi-msnbc.htm#a
The other was an MSNBC WebPage entitled, 'WHO IS OSAMA
BIN LADEN?' The excerpt can be read at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/fbi-msnbc.htm#b
2) President Milosevic has stressed the glaring bit of
hypocrisy involved in NATO claiming the right to
intervene wherever it wishes "to fight terrorism" while
kidnapping and "trying" him - for in fact, fighting
terrorism. Related evidence: the Washington Post
recently exposed that the US government has paid for
millions of violent Islamist textbooks, including 4
million that were just printed and are being used in -
are you ready? - Afghanistan.
See 'The ABC's of Jihad,' which can be read at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/abc-i.htm
===*===
FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum"
Judge Refuses to Allow Further Cross-Examination
Blic, Belgrade | March 9, 2002
Posted on 3/9/02 1:33 PM Pacific by Banat
Judge May Refuses Miloshevich?s
Request to Have Kadriu Cross-Examined!
The Hague (Tanjug) - The continuation of the
latest round of hearings, which commenced yesterday,
suffered many interruptions by Judge Richard May
today. At one point, the Judge intervened and warned the
witness, as well as the defendant, ?This is not a
political manifestation but a trial?.
Mr. Miloshevich cross-examined Sabit Kadriu,
who claimed the Serbs did not flee Albanian violence but
were "searching for a better life" outside of Kosovo
& Metohia and that they were "selling their farms and
estates to Albanians at steep prices". The witness
claimed that he had no knowledge as to how many Serbs
had fled the province and that the ?regime? in
Belgrade caused and then manipulated this situation.
Mr. Miloshevich told the court that Albanian
separatists persistently refused the Government?s proposal for
the return of Albanian professors and students to
state schools, while the witness claimed that, every
September, when the school year traditionally
starts, the Serbian government ?prevented the Albanians? from
enrolling.
Countering the witness? claim that the ?Serbian
regime organized the return of the expelled Serbs back to
Kosovo & Metohia in order to change the
demographics?, Mr. Miloshevich said that of all the expelled Serbs,
only 5,000 returned to their homes, which is, as
Mr. Miloshevich said, less than 1% of the total number of
Serbs who have been forced out of the province.
The prosecution witness also claimed that there were no -
and are no - mujahedins in Kosovo & Metohia.
Mr. Miloshevich then showed the FBI document, dated
December 2001, which clearly indicated that
Al-Qaida had been active in Kosovo & Metohia.
Kadriu said that ?he knew nothing? about the
killings of four policemen in the village of Chirez on March 3,
1998, which, as Mr. Miloshevich said, was the
result of a firefight between the Police and the KLA. The
Ahmeti family lost their lives in this confrontation,
which the witness claimed was a ?massacre of unarmed civilians?.
In reference to the witness? claim of a massacre of
the Gerxhaliu family in May 1999, Mr. Miloshevich said
that the investigating judge went to the scene
immediately after the incident and made a report. The witness
characterized this as an ?obstruction? on the part
of the ?Serb forces? and claimed that such things ?always
occurred? and that ?the Serbian police always
called the court investigators after they committed crimes.?
The defendant then told the court about the murder
of Rexhepi Bairami, an activist and a member of the
LDK, the party headed by Ibrahim Rugova, who
was killed in Vuchitrn ?on the orders of the local KLA
commander?. Kadriu then said that ?he never
heard of any Bairami?.
Mr. Miloshevich then mentioned the fact that, in
1998 alone, 327 loyalist Albanians had been murdered, to
which the witness replied that he ?did not believe
there were any loyalist Albanians? in Kosovo & Metohia.
Mr. Miloshevich, in turn, cited Faik Jashari, a
member of the Interim Executive Council of Kosovo & Metohia,
who had reported that, after the war, some 30,000
Albanians fled to central Serbia together with the expelled
Kosovo & Metohia Serbs.
Kadriu described the KLA as a liberation army and
stood his ground, claiming the army and the police
?conducted an offensive against 27 Albanian
villages on Mt. Chichevitsa and murdered 200 civilians and
one member of the KLA?.
Mr. Miloshevich then cited Kadriu, who had said
earlier that ?Adem Jashari was killed when he ran out of
ammo?, and asked the witness how he could talk
of a ?massacre of civilians? when the police first asked
Jashari to come out and give himself up, then
gave him 2 hours to consider the offer - ?during which a
number of people had left the compound? - and
that soon after, ?a hail of bullets, fired from dozens of
automatic rifles? came from the house toward the
police, to which the police responded in self-defence and,
as a consequence, killed 60 people inside the
Jashari compound.
At this point Judge Robinson jumped in and
remarked that Kadriu wasn?t present at the scene. Kadriu then
said that he saw ?bodies of dead women, children
and elderly people?, that the action against the Jashari
compound ?lasted three days?, and that it served
to paint a ?false picture? in the media.
Mr. Miloshevich then cited British Foreign Office
reports, dating from early 1999, which revealed that there
had been no political persecution of Albanians,
but rather a confrontation with ?military opponents? - the KLA
- who controlled parts of Kosovo & Metohia.
The witness then said that, in 1999, the ?Serbian
forces had killed 15,000 and expelled 1,000,000 Albanian civilians?.
Mr. Miloshevich responded by asking the witness
about the kidnappings and killings of Serbs, the KLA
detention centres in the village of Likovats, as well
as the makeshift prison in the basement of a general
store in Vuchitrn. The witness responded, saying
such prisons ?did not exist?, and he also denied any killings
and kidnappings by the KLA.
The witness denied Mr. Miloshevich?s claim that
literally all citizens of Serbian nationality from 39 out of the
45 villages in the Vuchitrn Municipality had been
ethnically cleansed and had their houses burned down,
saying there ?may have been? some ?revenge
attacks against the Serbs who committed war crimes.?
Alleging that all the Serbs who once lived in the
town of Vuchitrn are war criminals, Kadriu acknowledged
that there were no more Serbs in that town, and
that they fled ?of their own free will because they committed
war crimes.? Branislav Tapushkovich, one of the
amici curiae, reacted, drawing the court?s attention to the
contradictions in Kadriu?s testimony.
Mr. Miloshevich protested the court?s decision to
limit the time for cross-examination and asked that the
cross-examination be continued, which was
rejected by Judge May. As a result, the trial will continue on
Monday with fresh testimonies from new witnesses.
As the hearing was drawing to a close, the
security officers in the courtroom asked Mr. Miloshevich?s
legal advisors from Belgrade to leave the room. They
had been warned not to ?gesticulate and communicate? with
Mr. Miloshevich. They later returned to the courtroom.
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
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