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WILLIAM WALKER AND THE JESUIT
MASSACRE COVER-UP
by John Flaherty and Jared Israel
Includes full text of 60 Minutes TV
exposé [Posted 22 March 2002]
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In coming days, officials from the
Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) are
scheduled to testify against Slobodan
Milosevic. The chief of the KVM was
one William Walker, the man who sold
the world the story of the Racak
so-called massacre, used to create a
climate to justify the bombing of
Yugoslavia in 1999.
We are preparing a piece which
examines Walker's role as Assistant
Under-Secretary of State for Central
American Affairs from 1985 to 1988,
including the Iran-Contra scandal,
Ambassador to El Salvador from 1988 to
1992 and UN administrator for Eastern
Slavonia from 1997 to 1998. While this
article is in preparation, we wished
to make available to you the transcript
of a Sixty Minutes program, posted
below. It aired in 1993. It exposed
William Walker's role in suppressing
the investigation into the infamous
death squad killings of Jesuits in El
Salvador and in deceiving, or trying
to deceive, the public about the
Salvadoran Army's role in this
terrible crime.
Walker's effectiveness in Yugoslavia
- especially his ability to "sell"
the Racak massacre - depended on his
credibility as an honest diplomat. A
public figure's credibility is - or should
be - based on the historical record.
Clearly, if the gangster Al Capone
tells us somebody is a crook, we're
going to take it with a grain of salt.
Given what he had done to Central
America it is therefore remarkable that
William Walker had any credibility at
all. It is especially remarkable that
two groups were silent when Walker
was made UN chief in Eastern Slavonia
and when he was lauded as an honest
broker - a humanitarian! - in Kosovo.
The two silent groups were: Leftists
and the Catholic Church.
When Bill Clinton tried to make
Walker Ambassador to Panama, in 1993,
the Catholic Church in Panama and local
political activists reacted loud and
fast. For example:
"The Jesuit Order of the Catholic
Church today rejected the designation
of William Walker as U.S. Ambassador to
Panama, based on his alleged complicity
in the November 1989 assassination of
five Jesuit priests in El Salvador....
"[Father] Valdes pointed out that
Walker was U.S. ambassador in El
Salvador when a U.S. trained battalion
murdered the five [should be six -ed.]
priests, as well as their housekeeper
and her daughter.
"'The Jesuit order at the time
denounced the complicity of the U.S.
Embassy (headed by Walker) in the case, for
concealing evidence, obstructing the
investigation, pressuring judges to
impede the trial process, and
terrorizing witnesses,' Valdes said."
- "PANAMA: JESUITS OPPOSE U.S.
AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE," Inter Press
Service June 28, 1993, Monday
And:
"Jesuit priest Fernando Guardia said,
also today, that Walker was 'a symbol
of the destruction of life' while he
was ambassador in El Salvador." -
"PANAMA: JESUITS, RIGHTS GROUPS
OPPOSE U.S. AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE,"
Inter Press Service, July 22, 1993
But when Clinton sent Walker to
Slovenia, nobody uttered a peep.
BACKGROUND ON THE JESUIT MURDERS
In case you're unfamiliar with what
happened in El Salvador, here's a very
brief rundown. El Salvador was torn
by what appeared to be civil war during
the 1980s. But it was an odd civil
war. The government side got billions
of dollars in US 'aid.' During the
decade, death squads run by the US-sponsored
Salvadoran Army killed literally
thousands of political opponents, trade
unionists, peasant leaders, outspoken
journalists, school teachers, ordinary
peasant farmers and townspeople who
happened to be in the wrong place or
from the wrong class and perhaps best
known to the world, Salvadoran and US
Catholic church activists and
officials, including the
assassination of
Archbishop Oscar Romero in March 1980.
It was while Walker was US Ambassador
that six Jesuit priests, their cook
and her daughter were brutally slain
by a Salvadoran Army death squad.
In the transcript below, a Salvadoran
officer comments that the murderers
would never have acted without
approval from top army officers. But
as we shall demonstrate in the article on
Walker that is in preparation, the
approval of top military officials
was not enough. The murdered men were
not communists. They were Catholic
"liberation theologists." And they
had power:
"Among those killed were the rector
of the Jesuit-run University of Central
America, Rev. Ignacio Ellacuria, and
the vice rector, Rev. Ignacio
Martin-Baro. Both were leading
leftist intellectuals and prominent critics
of army human rights abuses and both
had been targets of death threats
broadcast in recent days on state
radio." --Boston Globe Nov. 17, 1989
Death threats broadcast on state radio!
The government military publicly
broadcast its intention of killing
these men days before the actual murders
took place.
It is inconceivable they would have
done so if they had the least fear
they would be slapped down by the US
command, which not only paid the Salvadoran
military's bills, but which also had
US 'advisers' throughout the military.
William Walker knew, and the those
who sent the killers knew he knew, and
most important of all, they knew he
would help them cover-up these crimes.
It's all in the transcript, below.
-- Jared Israel
THE JESUIT MURDERS
Transcript of 60 MINUTES * March 21, 1993
LESLEY STAHL: Following our story
last week about the massacre at El
Mozote, the United Nations this week
reported to its members what we had
reported, that despite United States
government denials at the time, 11
years ago soldiers of the Salvadoran
army--trained and armed by the United
States--wiped out the village of El
Mozote, killing entire families they
suspected of being guerrilla
sympathizers.
That United Nations report also
confirmed something Ed Bradley reported
three years ago; that officers high
up in the US-backed army, and not
left-wing guerrillas, had had a hand
in murdering six Jesuit priests they
suspected of being the brains behind
the guerrillas.
ED BRADLEY: Jesuit Priest Fermain
Scines was on the campus the night of
the murders and might well have been
killed with the others. He says it was
obvious from the beginning it was the
work of the Salvadoran army, not of
the guerrillas.
Father FERMAIN SCINES (Jesuit
Priest): There was soldiers here.
There was soldiers there. Was
soldiers...everybody saw them.
BRADLEY: And they didn't come in and
they were out in a few minutes?
Father SCINES: They came at about
12:00.
BRADLEY: And they were here for at
least two hours?
Father SCINES: And they were leaving
at 2:45 AM.
BRADLEY: Almost three hours?
Father SCINES: Almost three hours,
making tremendous noise. They were
smoking; they were talking; they were
walking. The ones who killed
them...after doing the job, they went
there...three meters from there and
he took a beer.
BRADLEY: Father Scines has spoken to
a number of witnesses.
Father SCINES: There is tremendous
evidence.
BRADLEY: But only one, the Jesuits'
housekeeper Lucia Serena, had the
courage to come forward with
eyewitness testimony linking the
army, not the
guerrillas, to the crime. From this
window, she could see five men in army
uniforms carrying rifles and wearing
military caps.
No doubt in your mind what you saw
that night?
Mrs. LUCIA SERENA (Cook): (Through
Interpreter) No doubt whatsoever, none.
BRADLEY: Lucia Serena did not
actually see the murders, but the
Jesuits fear
that the very fact that she could
place soldiers at the scene of the
crime puts her life in grave danger. So
they arranged to get Lucia and her
family out of the country.
William Walker is the US ambassador
to El Salvador.
Ambassador WILLIAM WALKER (US
Ambassador to El Salvador): Mrs. Serena was
taken to the United States to get her
out of what was an incredibly tense
and frightening situation here, where
she obviously feared for her safety;
to get her to a place of safety,
where she would be calm.
BRADLEY: But she says she was
anything but calm when questioned at
FBI headquarters in Miami, where for four
days, according to Lucia Serena, the
FBI asked her the same questions over
and over. She was also questioned by
Colonel Manuel Rivas, the Salvadoran
officer in charge of the murder
investigation.
Mrs. SERENA: He was very arrogant and
very harsh. Instead of concerning
himself with investigating the case,
he investigated us.
BRADLEY: She says they pressed her
about family members still living in
El Salvador.
Mrs. SERENA: How many brothers did I
have? What are their names? Where do
they live? It frightened me. Maybe
they'll kill my brothers.
BRADLEY: She says an FBI agent asked
her about one of the Jesuits who
hadn't been killed.
Mrs. SERENA: He opened the door, but
like this--BAM! Like, he slammed it.
He turned around and said, 'That
priest--is he a guerrilla or isn't
he?' I was very scared.
BRADLEY: So scared that after a few
days, she decided to tell her
interrogators she hadn't seen
anything at all.
These were not questions given to a
cooperative witness, these are questions
that are to go after a suspect.
Ambassador WALKER: Well, that's not
true. That is just not true. It might
be a perception that she received
because of her emotional state. Perfectly
understandable. They were trying to
determine from a person who said she
was at the scene and had heard and seen
things, how much she knew.
Father JOSEPH O'HARE (President,
Fordham University): I find it very
disturbing that not only the
Salvadoran military, but our own
embassy in San
Salvador seemed anxious to discredit
her testimony, which, as a matter of
fact, was confirmed by the Salvadoran
government itself as events developed.
BRADLEY: Father Joseph O'Hare,
president of Fordham University, and
Father Donald Monan, president of Boston
College, were recently in El Salvador
investigating the murder of their
brother Jesuits.
You say that Ambassador Walker
discredited her testimony. How did he
discredit her testimony?
Father DONALD MONAN (President,
Boston College): He announced in El
Salvador that her testimony was not credible.
Father O'HARE: That there were
inconsistencies in it.
BRADLEY: There were inconsistencies.
She changed her story.
Father O'HARE: Yeah, after several
days of intensive pressure in a--imagine.
Put yourself in the situation of a
simple woman in a foreign land, not
knowing the language, being
threatened with deportation back to
El Salvador, isolated from those who could be
supportive of her. I think that it's
quite understandable that she would change
her testimony under that kind of pressure.
Mrs. SERENA: I want to make one thing
very clear. I saw the men. I saw the men.
BRADLEY: Just how effective was the
American Embassy at getting to the
bottom of the Jesuit case? Six weeks
after the murders, an American major
said he was tipped off by a
Salvadoran army officer that a
high-ranking
colonel in the army of El Salvador
had admitted being involved in the
murder. The embassy turned right
around and not only gave the name of
the colonel to the Salvadoran high
command, it also told them who the
informant was.
Mr. SIGGEFRAIDO OCHELLO (Former
Colonel, Salvadoran Army): The American
officer put the informant in a very
difficult situation; so dangerous he
could have been killed.
BRADLEY: Former Colonel Siggefraido
Ochello was once a top commander in the
Salvadoran army. He's now a leader of
the ruling right wing Arena Party.
Mr. OCHELLO: If you burn somebody,
then other people who could provide
even more information clam up because
they'll be burned, too. A lot of them
say: I don't know anything. They just shut
up. What this American officer did
was to throw the informant into the
lion's den so they could tear him apart.
BRADLEY: No thought was given to
saying: Let's protect this guy's name
for the time being? Let's say here is the
information, we want to protect the
source of that.
Ambassador WALKER: Unlike the old
newspaper men who feel they'd rather
die than reveal the source, we're not in
that same game. We were talking with
the people who were trying to solve
the case, on whom a lot of pressure
was to solve the case.
Father MONAN: If we are ever going to
get to the people who authored the
crime, even though they didn't pull
the triggers, we're going to have to
have the informants come forward to
talk about what they know. And in this
case, the only two people we know who
came forward both came to the United
States and both suffered the
consequences of having provided their
information. That discouragement of
people to come forward with information,
I think, is fundamental to this case.
BRADLEY: The man the informant
fingered was Colonel Guillermo Benovides, the
head of the military academy, the
West Point of El Salvador. He was arrested
one week after they were given his
name by the Americans. Seven men
under his command were also arrested.
Ambassador WALKER: I would argue that
if, in fact, a colonel is proved to
be responsible for this and he is
punished to the full extent of the
law, that will be a signal to other colonels,
that will be a signal to other people
that this sort of behavior is not
going to be tolerated anymore in El
Salvador. And I think that's a step
forward.
Congressman GEORGE MILLER
(Representative, California): Not at
all. Not at all.
BRADLEY: California Congressman
George Miller is a member of a congressional
task force investigating the Jesuit
murders.
Congressman MILLER: This is an effort
to sort of keep throwing people off
the back of the truck to see whether
you can get the posse to quit
pursuing you.
Ambassador WALKER: I have seen no
indication that President Christiani,
the people that are investigating this,
the people who are pushing to solve the
mystery are hesitant to go to any
level of the government, to any level
of the armed forces. They have gone so
far to a colonel. As we talked about
earlier, this is historic.
Congressman MILLER: What does the
ambassador want us to do, give the system
a medal? This is a system that we've
poured $ 5 billion into that just
slaughtered and murdered people with
impunity. And now we're supposed to
shout: Hallelujah, they got a colonel?
BRADLEY: They may not even have that.
It seems that the evidence against
Colonel Benevides--testimony from
three lieutenants that he ordered the
Jesuit murders--can't be used in
court because it comes from
co-conspirators. President Christiani
admitted that it's doubtful Benevides
can be convicted. Nonetheless,
Ambassador Walker says he believes
the investigation has gone well.
Ambassador WALKER: Even in the United
States, sensational crimes are not
usually solved in a day or two. It
takes time. It takes hard police work. I
am saying all the indications that we
have are that the people responsible
for solving the crime have been
working very diligently, very
professionally and have, in fact, solved it.
BRADLEY: They've done ballistics
tests. They've done fingerprints.
They have confessions. They've identified the
killers. Doesn't that satisfy you?
Father O'HARE: The real issue is not
whether these enlisted men who did
the shooting are identified and
convicted, but whether those who
instructed them and made the decision to give the
orders--that is where the true guilt
lies, I think.
BRADLEY: The Jesuits believe the
decision to kill the priests goes much
higher than Benevides. So does former
Colonel Ochello.
Is it conceivable that Colonel
Benevides decided on his own to murder the
Jesuits?
Mr. OCHELLO: No, I don't think so.
Knowing him, he's a man who could
never take or even conceive of making a
move as big as assassinating the
Jesuits. Benevides acted under orders. He
didn't act alone.
BRADLEY: Some in the army have said
that Benevides misunderstood an order
and perhaps broke under the pressure.
Isn't that possible?
Mr. OCHELLO: Definitely not. I think
this was all planned beforehand.
BRADLEY: You are saying that you
don't believe that Colonel Benevides
acted alone, correct?
Mr. OCHELLO: That's correct.
BRADLEY: He had help from other
senior officers in the Salvadoran
military?
Mr. OCHELLO: That's correct.
BRADLEY: And they planned the murder
of the Jesuits?
Mr. OCHELLO: I believe, yes.
BRADLEY: Remember, few people know
more about the inner workings of the
Salvadoran army than former Colonel
Ochello, who was regarded as one of
the army's top field commanders. Why was
the military after the Jesuits? Many
army commanders believed for years
the Jesuits were the brains behind
the guerrillas. They denied that. The
murdered Jesuits said all they wanted
was social justice for the people of El
Salvador. One of those Jesuits, Father
Ignacio Martin Barro, spoke with CBS
News several months before he was killed.
Father IGNACIO MARTIN BARRO
(Assassinated Jesuit): Listen, the
problem of this country is not the problem of
communism or capitalism. The problems
of this country are problems of very
basic wealth distribution, of very
basic needs. But, when, in this country,
you ask for the satisfaction of those
needs, you become a subversive.
BRADLEY: Father Martin Barro and the
five other Jesuits were murdered
during the guerrilla offensive in San
Salvador last November. At the height
of the offensive, several hours before the
Jesuits were shot, the top commanders
met in military headquarters. Colonel
Ochello wasn't at that meeting, but he
believes he knows what happened next.
Mr. OCHELLO: A group of commanders
stayed behind. It seems that each was
responsible for a zone in San
Salvador. They gave an order to kill
leftists, just as Colonel Benevides did. I'll
say it again: Benevides obeyed. It
wasn't his decision.
BRADLEY: And yet, the Salvadoran
officer in charge of the investigation,
Colonel Rivas, is no longer actively
investigating the case. Publicly at
least, the American Embassy is not
complaining, even though top commanders
who could have ordered Benevides to
kill the Jesuits have never been
investigated. For instance, there's
Colonel Juan Orlandos Sapedas, the
number two man in the army of El
Salvador. Just five months before the
murder of the Jesuits, according to a
State Department document, Sapedas
complained that the Jesuits at the
Catholic university were planning
guerrilla strategy. According to that
same State Department document,
Sapedas probably was one of the
officers to whom Benevides reported.
We were not permitted to interview
Colonel Sapedas. Instead we spoke with
Colonel Rene Emilio Ponce, the army
chief of staff.
Sapedas has not been questioned. He
is on the record as saying they're
planning guerrilla strategy. Doesn't
it make sense to question him
formally, to submit him to a polygraph?
Colonel RENE EMILIO PONCE (Chief Of
Staff, Salvadoran Army): That's not for
the military to decide. That's in the
hands of the judicial system.
BRADLEY: I know you don't make the
decisions. Do you have an opinion?
Colonel PONCE: My personal opinion is
that here in this country, there have
been many opinions about the role of
the Jesuits. You've got to take into
account all of the people who've said
something against the Jesuits, not
just Colonel Sapedas.
BRADLEY: It stunned us to find out
that the American Embassy had given
Colonel Ponce an audiotape of our
interview with Ambassador Walker to help
him prepare for us. So Ponce knew the
questions we were likely to ask. Is
the US embassy in cahoots with the
army of El Salvador? Fathers Monan and
O'Hare believe it is. And that the
embassy could have forced the Salvadorans
to investigate officers like Sapedas
and hasn't done so.
Ambassador WALKER: From the first
moment we knew of the Jesuits' deaths,
which was about 7:00 or 8:00 AM on
the day they were killed, this embassy
has been very, very involved in the
investigation, in trying to make sure
that all T's were crossed, dots put
above I's to make sure the government
did everything it could because we
recognized very early on that this
was a very important case.
BRADLEY: Why are you skeptical? I
mean, the investigation has only been
going on for five months.
Father O'HARE: Yeah, but the
investigation of Archbishop Romero's
been going on for 10 years. And we haven't--at
the time that that crime was committed,
the world was shocked. When four
American women were killed in December
1980, American military aid was
stopped for a brief time until we
were assured that, once again, human
rights were going to be respected. So
with that history, how can one have
confidence today that the system, as
encouraged or not encouraged by the
United States government, is going to
deliver justice in this case.
BRADLEY: Why would the American
embassy--why would our government not
do everything possible to get to the
bottom of the murder of the Jesuits?
Congressman MILLER: Because they'd
have to turn in their own client. The
client is the Salvadoran government
and the Salvadoran military. And many
of these questions are better left
unanswered.
Father O'HARE: I'd go right to the
high command of the Salvadoran
military, and if that's the case, the US
investment of the past 10 or 12 years
has been revealed as futile.
BRADLEY: During those 10 or 12 years
about 70,000 people were killed in El
Salvador, most of them unarmed
civilians. According to human rights
organizations, most of that killing
was done by the armed forces of El
Salvador, yet so far, not one
military officer has been convicted
of a human rights crime.
Colonel BARRO: There is--How you
say?--there is an environment of the
possibility of being killed any
moment of the day and the possibility
of being involved in a violent clash
every moment. And you have to count
on that.
STAHL: Just last Monday, the United
Nation Truth Commission found that the
order to kill the Jesuits came from
Colonel Rene Emilio Ponce, the army
chief of staff, the man who came to
the interview armed with the audio tape
of our interview with the American
ambassador.
The Truth Commission also concluded
that the Salvadoran officers who were
investigating the crime--the ones
described by then US Ambassador
Walker as
diligent professionals--were actually
part of the coverup.
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WILLIAM WALKER AND THE JESUIT
MASSACRE COVER-UP
by John Flaherty and Jared Israel
Includes full text of 60 Minutes TV
exposé [Posted 22 March 2002]
=======================================
In coming days, officials from the
Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) are
scheduled to testify against Slobodan
Milosevic. The chief of the KVM was
one William Walker, the man who sold
the world the story of the Racak
so-called massacre, used to create a
climate to justify the bombing of
Yugoslavia in 1999.
We are preparing a piece which
examines Walker's role as Assistant
Under-Secretary of State for Central
American Affairs from 1985 to 1988,
including the Iran-Contra scandal,
Ambassador to El Salvador from 1988 to
1992 and UN administrator for Eastern
Slavonia from 1997 to 1998. While this
article is in preparation, we wished
to make available to you the transcript
of a Sixty Minutes program, posted
below. It aired in 1993. It exposed
William Walker's role in suppressing
the investigation into the infamous
death squad killings of Jesuits in El
Salvador and in deceiving, or trying
to deceive, the public about the
Salvadoran Army's role in this
terrible crime.
Walker's effectiveness in Yugoslavia
- especially his ability to "sell"
the Racak massacre - depended on his
credibility as an honest diplomat. A
public figure's credibility is - or should
be - based on the historical record.
Clearly, if the gangster Al Capone
tells us somebody is a crook, we're
going to take it with a grain of salt.
Given what he had done to Central
America it is therefore remarkable that
William Walker had any credibility at
all. It is especially remarkable that
two groups were silent when Walker
was made UN chief in Eastern Slavonia
and when he was lauded as an honest
broker - a humanitarian! - in Kosovo.
The two silent groups were: Leftists
and the Catholic Church.
When Bill Clinton tried to make
Walker Ambassador to Panama, in 1993,
the Catholic Church in Panama and local
political activists reacted loud and
fast. For example:
"The Jesuit Order of the Catholic
Church today rejected the designation
of William Walker as U.S. Ambassador to
Panama, based on his alleged complicity
in the November 1989 assassination of
five Jesuit priests in El Salvador....
"[Father] Valdes pointed out that
Walker was U.S. ambassador in El
Salvador when a U.S. trained battalion
murdered the five [should be six -ed.]
priests, as well as their housekeeper
and her daughter.
"'The Jesuit order at the time
denounced the complicity of the U.S.
Embassy (headed by Walker) in the case, for
concealing evidence, obstructing the
investigation, pressuring judges to
impede the trial process, and
terrorizing witnesses,' Valdes said."
- "PANAMA: JESUITS OPPOSE U.S.
AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE," Inter Press
Service June 28, 1993, Monday
And:
"Jesuit priest Fernando Guardia said,
also today, that Walker was 'a symbol
of the destruction of life' while he
was ambassador in El Salvador." -
"PANAMA: JESUITS, RIGHTS GROUPS
OPPOSE U.S. AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE,"
Inter Press Service, July 22, 1993
But when Clinton sent Walker to
Slovenia, nobody uttered a peep.
BACKGROUND ON THE JESUIT MURDERS
In case you're unfamiliar with what
happened in El Salvador, here's a very
brief rundown. El Salvador was torn
by what appeared to be civil war during
the 1980s. But it was an odd civil
war. The government side got billions
of dollars in US 'aid.' During the
decade, death squads run by the US-sponsored
Salvadoran Army killed literally
thousands of political opponents, trade
unionists, peasant leaders, outspoken
journalists, school teachers, ordinary
peasant farmers and townspeople who
happened to be in the wrong place or
from the wrong class and perhaps best
known to the world, Salvadoran and US
Catholic church activists and
officials, including the
assassination of
Archbishop Oscar Romero in March 1980.
It was while Walker was US Ambassador
that six Jesuit priests, their cook
and her daughter were brutally slain
by a Salvadoran Army death squad.
In the transcript below, a Salvadoran
officer comments that the murderers
would never have acted without
approval from top army officers. But
as we shall demonstrate in the article on
Walker that is in preparation, the
approval of top military officials
was not enough. The murdered men were
not communists. They were Catholic
"liberation theologists." And they
had power:
"Among those killed were the rector
of the Jesuit-run University of Central
America, Rev. Ignacio Ellacuria, and
the vice rector, Rev. Ignacio
Martin-Baro. Both were leading
leftist intellectuals and prominent critics
of army human rights abuses and both
had been targets of death threats
broadcast in recent days on state
radio." --Boston Globe Nov. 17, 1989
Death threats broadcast on state radio!
The government military publicly
broadcast its intention of killing
these men days before the actual murders
took place.
It is inconceivable they would have
done so if they had the least fear
they would be slapped down by the US
command, which not only paid the Salvadoran
military's bills, but which also had
US 'advisers' throughout the military.
William Walker knew, and the those
who sent the killers knew he knew, and
most important of all, they knew he
would help them cover-up these crimes.
It's all in the transcript, below.
-- Jared Israel
THE JESUIT MURDERS
Transcript of 60 MINUTES * March 21, 1993
LESLEY STAHL: Following our story
last week about the massacre at El
Mozote, the United Nations this week
reported to its members what we had
reported, that despite United States
government denials at the time, 11
years ago soldiers of the Salvadoran
army--trained and armed by the United
States--wiped out the village of El
Mozote, killing entire families they
suspected of being guerrilla
sympathizers.
That United Nations report also
confirmed something Ed Bradley reported
three years ago; that officers high
up in the US-backed army, and not
left-wing guerrillas, had had a hand
in murdering six Jesuit priests they
suspected of being the brains behind
the guerrillas.
ED BRADLEY: Jesuit Priest Fermain
Scines was on the campus the night of
the murders and might well have been
killed with the others. He says it was
obvious from the beginning it was the
work of the Salvadoran army, not of
the guerrillas.
Father FERMAIN SCINES (Jesuit
Priest): There was soldiers here.
There was soldiers there. Was
soldiers...everybody saw them.
BRADLEY: And they didn't come in and
they were out in a few minutes?
Father SCINES: They came at about
12:00.
BRADLEY: And they were here for at
least two hours?
Father SCINES: And they were leaving
at 2:45 AM.
BRADLEY: Almost three hours?
Father SCINES: Almost three hours,
making tremendous noise. They were
smoking; they were talking; they were
walking. The ones who killed
them...after doing the job, they went
there...three meters from there and
he took a beer.
BRADLEY: Father Scines has spoken to
a number of witnesses.
Father SCINES: There is tremendous
evidence.
BRADLEY: But only one, the Jesuits'
housekeeper Lucia Serena, had the
courage to come forward with
eyewitness testimony linking the
army, not the
guerrillas, to the crime. From this
window, she could see five men in army
uniforms carrying rifles and wearing
military caps.
No doubt in your mind what you saw
that night?
Mrs. LUCIA SERENA (Cook): (Through
Interpreter) No doubt whatsoever, none.
BRADLEY: Lucia Serena did not
actually see the murders, but the
Jesuits fear
that the very fact that she could
place soldiers at the scene of the
crime puts her life in grave danger. So
they arranged to get Lucia and her
family out of the country.
William Walker is the US ambassador
to El Salvador.
Ambassador WILLIAM WALKER (US
Ambassador to El Salvador): Mrs. Serena was
taken to the United States to get her
out of what was an incredibly tense
and frightening situation here, where
she obviously feared for her safety;
to get her to a place of safety,
where she would be calm.
BRADLEY: But she says she was
anything but calm when questioned at
FBI headquarters in Miami, where for four
days, according to Lucia Serena, the
FBI asked her the same questions over
and over. She was also questioned by
Colonel Manuel Rivas, the Salvadoran
officer in charge of the murder
investigation.
Mrs. SERENA: He was very arrogant and
very harsh. Instead of concerning
himself with investigating the case,
he investigated us.
BRADLEY: She says they pressed her
about family members still living in
El Salvador.
Mrs. SERENA: How many brothers did I
have? What are their names? Where do
they live? It frightened me. Maybe
they'll kill my brothers.
BRADLEY: She says an FBI agent asked
her about one of the Jesuits who
hadn't been killed.
Mrs. SERENA: He opened the door, but
like this--BAM! Like, he slammed it.
He turned around and said, 'That
priest--is he a guerrilla or isn't
he?' I was very scared.
BRADLEY: So scared that after a few
days, she decided to tell her
interrogators she hadn't seen
anything at all.
These were not questions given to a
cooperative witness, these are questions
that are to go after a suspect.
Ambassador WALKER: Well, that's not
true. That is just not true. It might
be a perception that she received
because of her emotional state. Perfectly
understandable. They were trying to
determine from a person who said she
was at the scene and had heard and seen
things, how much she knew.
Father JOSEPH O'HARE (President,
Fordham University): I find it very
disturbing that not only the
Salvadoran military, but our own
embassy in San
Salvador seemed anxious to discredit
her testimony, which, as a matter of
fact, was confirmed by the Salvadoran
government itself as events developed.
BRADLEY: Father Joseph O'Hare,
president of Fordham University, and
Father Donald Monan, president of Boston
College, were recently in El Salvador
investigating the murder of their
brother Jesuits.
You say that Ambassador Walker
discredited her testimony. How did he
discredit her testimony?
Father DONALD MONAN (President,
Boston College): He announced in El
Salvador that her testimony was not credible.
Father O'HARE: That there were
inconsistencies in it.
BRADLEY: There were inconsistencies.
She changed her story.
Father O'HARE: Yeah, after several
days of intensive pressure in a--imagine.
Put yourself in the situation of a
simple woman in a foreign land, not
knowing the language, being
threatened with deportation back to
El Salvador, isolated from those who could be
supportive of her. I think that it's
quite understandable that she would change
her testimony under that kind of pressure.
Mrs. SERENA: I want to make one thing
very clear. I saw the men. I saw the men.
BRADLEY: Just how effective was the
American Embassy at getting to the
bottom of the Jesuit case? Six weeks
after the murders, an American major
said he was tipped off by a
Salvadoran army officer that a
high-ranking
colonel in the army of El Salvador
had admitted being involved in the
murder. The embassy turned right
around and not only gave the name of
the colonel to the Salvadoran high
command, it also told them who the
informant was.
Mr. SIGGEFRAIDO OCHELLO (Former
Colonel, Salvadoran Army): The American
officer put the informant in a very
difficult situation; so dangerous he
could have been killed.
BRADLEY: Former Colonel Siggefraido
Ochello was once a top commander in the
Salvadoran army. He's now a leader of
the ruling right wing Arena Party.
Mr. OCHELLO: If you burn somebody,
then other people who could provide
even more information clam up because
they'll be burned, too. A lot of them
say: I don't know anything. They just shut
up. What this American officer did
was to throw the informant into the
lion's den so they could tear him apart.
BRADLEY: No thought was given to
saying: Let's protect this guy's name
for the time being? Let's say here is the
information, we want to protect the
source of that.
Ambassador WALKER: Unlike the old
newspaper men who feel they'd rather
die than reveal the source, we're not in
that same game. We were talking with
the people who were trying to solve
the case, on whom a lot of pressure
was to solve the case.
Father MONAN: If we are ever going to
get to the people who authored the
crime, even though they didn't pull
the triggers, we're going to have to
have the informants come forward to
talk about what they know. And in this
case, the only two people we know who
came forward both came to the United
States and both suffered the
consequences of having provided their
information. That discouragement of
people to come forward with information,
I think, is fundamental to this case.
BRADLEY: The man the informant
fingered was Colonel Guillermo Benovides, the
head of the military academy, the
West Point of El Salvador. He was arrested
one week after they were given his
name by the Americans. Seven men
under his command were also arrested.
Ambassador WALKER: I would argue that
if, in fact, a colonel is proved to
be responsible for this and he is
punished to the full extent of the
law, that will be a signal to other colonels,
that will be a signal to other people
that this sort of behavior is not
going to be tolerated anymore in El
Salvador. And I think that's a step
forward.
Congressman GEORGE MILLER
(Representative, California): Not at
all. Not at all.
BRADLEY: California Congressman
George Miller is a member of a congressional
task force investigating the Jesuit
murders.
Congressman MILLER: This is an effort
to sort of keep throwing people off
the back of the truck to see whether
you can get the posse to quit
pursuing you.
Ambassador WALKER: I have seen no
indication that President Christiani,
the people that are investigating this,
the people who are pushing to solve the
mystery are hesitant to go to any
level of the government, to any level
of the armed forces. They have gone so
far to a colonel. As we talked about
earlier, this is historic.
Congressman MILLER: What does the
ambassador want us to do, give the system
a medal? This is a system that we've
poured $ 5 billion into that just
slaughtered and murdered people with
impunity. And now we're supposed to
shout: Hallelujah, they got a colonel?
BRADLEY: They may not even have that.
It seems that the evidence against
Colonel Benevides--testimony from
three lieutenants that he ordered the
Jesuit murders--can't be used in
court because it comes from
co-conspirators. President Christiani
admitted that it's doubtful Benevides
can be convicted. Nonetheless,
Ambassador Walker says he believes
the investigation has gone well.
Ambassador WALKER: Even in the United
States, sensational crimes are not
usually solved in a day or two. It
takes time. It takes hard police work. I
am saying all the indications that we
have are that the people responsible
for solving the crime have been
working very diligently, very
professionally and have, in fact, solved it.
BRADLEY: They've done ballistics
tests. They've done fingerprints.
They have confessions. They've identified the
killers. Doesn't that satisfy you?
Father O'HARE: The real issue is not
whether these enlisted men who did
the shooting are identified and
convicted, but whether those who
instructed them and made the decision to give the
orders--that is where the true guilt
lies, I think.
BRADLEY: The Jesuits believe the
decision to kill the priests goes much
higher than Benevides. So does former
Colonel Ochello.
Is it conceivable that Colonel
Benevides decided on his own to murder the
Jesuits?
Mr. OCHELLO: No, I don't think so.
Knowing him, he's a man who could
never take or even conceive of making a
move as big as assassinating the
Jesuits. Benevides acted under orders. He
didn't act alone.
BRADLEY: Some in the army have said
that Benevides misunderstood an order
and perhaps broke under the pressure.
Isn't that possible?
Mr. OCHELLO: Definitely not. I think
this was all planned beforehand.
BRADLEY: You are saying that you
don't believe that Colonel Benevides
acted alone, correct?
Mr. OCHELLO: That's correct.
BRADLEY: He had help from other
senior officers in the Salvadoran
military?
Mr. OCHELLO: That's correct.
BRADLEY: And they planned the murder
of the Jesuits?
Mr. OCHELLO: I believe, yes.
BRADLEY: Remember, few people know
more about the inner workings of the
Salvadoran army than former Colonel
Ochello, who was regarded as one of
the army's top field commanders. Why was
the military after the Jesuits? Many
army commanders believed for years
the Jesuits were the brains behind
the guerrillas. They denied that. The
murdered Jesuits said all they wanted
was social justice for the people of El
Salvador. One of those Jesuits, Father
Ignacio Martin Barro, spoke with CBS
News several months before he was killed.
Father IGNACIO MARTIN BARRO
(Assassinated Jesuit): Listen, the
problem of this country is not the problem of
communism or capitalism. The problems
of this country are problems of very
basic wealth distribution, of very
basic needs. But, when, in this country,
you ask for the satisfaction of those
needs, you become a subversive.
BRADLEY: Father Martin Barro and the
five other Jesuits were murdered
during the guerrilla offensive in San
Salvador last November. At the height
of the offensive, several hours before the
Jesuits were shot, the top commanders
met in military headquarters. Colonel
Ochello wasn't at that meeting, but he
believes he knows what happened next.
Mr. OCHELLO: A group of commanders
stayed behind. It seems that each was
responsible for a zone in San
Salvador. They gave an order to kill
leftists, just as Colonel Benevides did. I'll
say it again: Benevides obeyed. It
wasn't his decision.
BRADLEY: And yet, the Salvadoran
officer in charge of the investigation,
Colonel Rivas, is no longer actively
investigating the case. Publicly at
least, the American Embassy is not
complaining, even though top commanders
who could have ordered Benevides to
kill the Jesuits have never been
investigated. For instance, there's
Colonel Juan Orlandos Sapedas, the
number two man in the army of El
Salvador. Just five months before the
murder of the Jesuits, according to a
State Department document, Sapedas
complained that the Jesuits at the
Catholic university were planning
guerrilla strategy. According to that
same State Department document,
Sapedas probably was one of the
officers to whom Benevides reported.
We were not permitted to interview
Colonel Sapedas. Instead we spoke with
Colonel Rene Emilio Ponce, the army
chief of staff.
Sapedas has not been questioned. He
is on the record as saying they're
planning guerrilla strategy. Doesn't
it make sense to question him
formally, to submit him to a polygraph?
Colonel RENE EMILIO PONCE (Chief Of
Staff, Salvadoran Army): That's not for
the military to decide. That's in the
hands of the judicial system.
BRADLEY: I know you don't make the
decisions. Do you have an opinion?
Colonel PONCE: My personal opinion is
that here in this country, there have
been many opinions about the role of
the Jesuits. You've got to take into
account all of the people who've said
something against the Jesuits, not
just Colonel Sapedas.
BRADLEY: It stunned us to find out
that the American Embassy had given
Colonel Ponce an audiotape of our
interview with Ambassador Walker to help
him prepare for us. So Ponce knew the
questions we were likely to ask. Is
the US embassy in cahoots with the
army of El Salvador? Fathers Monan and
O'Hare believe it is. And that the
embassy could have forced the Salvadorans
to investigate officers like Sapedas
and hasn't done so.
Ambassador WALKER: From the first
moment we knew of the Jesuits' deaths,
which was about 7:00 or 8:00 AM on
the day they were killed, this embassy
has been very, very involved in the
investigation, in trying to make sure
that all T's were crossed, dots put
above I's to make sure the government
did everything it could because we
recognized very early on that this
was a very important case.
BRADLEY: Why are you skeptical? I
mean, the investigation has only been
going on for five months.
Father O'HARE: Yeah, but the
investigation of Archbishop Romero's
been going on for 10 years. And we haven't--at
the time that that crime was committed,
the world was shocked. When four
American women were killed in December
1980, American military aid was
stopped for a brief time until we
were assured that, once again, human
rights were going to be respected. So
with that history, how can one have
confidence today that the system, as
encouraged or not encouraged by the
United States government, is going to
deliver justice in this case.
BRADLEY: Why would the American
embassy--why would our government not
do everything possible to get to the
bottom of the murder of the Jesuits?
Congressman MILLER: Because they'd
have to turn in their own client. The
client is the Salvadoran government
and the Salvadoran military. And many
of these questions are better left
unanswered.
Father O'HARE: I'd go right to the
high command of the Salvadoran
military, and if that's the case, the US
investment of the past 10 or 12 years
has been revealed as futile.
BRADLEY: During those 10 or 12 years
about 70,000 people were killed in El
Salvador, most of them unarmed
civilians. According to human rights
organizations, most of that killing
was done by the armed forces of El
Salvador, yet so far, not one
military officer has been convicted
of a human rights crime.
Colonel BARRO: There is--How you
say?--there is an environment of the
possibility of being killed any
moment of the day and the possibility
of being involved in a violent clash
every moment. And you have to count
on that.
STAHL: Just last Monday, the United
Nation Truth Commission found that the
order to kill the Jesuits came from
Colonel Rene Emilio Ponce, the army
chief of staff, the man who came to
the interview armed with the audio tape
of our interview with the American
ambassador.
The Truth Commission also concluded
that the Salvadoran officers who were
investigating the crime--the ones
described by then US Ambassador
Walker as
diligent professionals--were actually
part of the coverup.
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LE SS CELEBRATE COME EROI NAZIONALI
Subject: [ML-YU] Ukraine
recognizes SS as national heroes
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:54:36 +0100
From: Nemanja Lukic
To: "Marxism-Leninism, Yugoslavia"
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----- Forwarded message from Barry Stoller -----
AP. 19 March 2002. Ukrainian
regional authorities recognize SS
veterans as national heroes.
KYIV, March 19 - A city council in
western Ukraine has recognized
Ukrainian soldiers who fought with
the Nazis as fighters for freedom
from Soviet rule, allowing them
greater pensions and social benefits.
The Ivano-Frankivsk city council
decided Monday to proclaim 24 veterans
of the Nazi SS Halychyna division as
fighters for Ukrainian
independence, according to the
region's official web site.
The new status would give them
increased pensions and discounts for
communal services, the site said,
citing the press service of the
regional administration.
Representatives of the local Russian
Association protested the decision.
The Halychyna division was created
after Nazis occupied parts of Soviet
Ukraine in the early part of World
War II.
The division functioned in Ukraine's
western regions, and many ethnic
Ukrainians hostile to the Soviet
regime joined.
After the war, Soviet authorities
imprisoned many of the division's
veterans in labor camps as Nazi
collaborators [not surprisingly].
LE SS CELEBRATE COME EROI NAZIONALI
Subject: [ML-YU] Ukraine
recognizes SS as national heroes
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:54:36 +0100
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----- Forwarded message from Barry Stoller -----
AP. 19 March 2002. Ukrainian
regional authorities recognize SS
veterans as national heroes.
KYIV, March 19 - A city council in
western Ukraine has recognized
Ukrainian soldiers who fought with
the Nazis as fighters for freedom
from Soviet rule, allowing them
greater pensions and social benefits.
The Ivano-Frankivsk city council
decided Monday to proclaim 24 veterans
of the Nazi SS Halychyna division as
fighters for Ukrainian
independence, according to the
region's official web site.
The new status would give them
increased pensions and discounts for
communal services, the site said,
citing the press service of the
regional administration.
Representatives of the local Russian
Association protested the decision.
The Halychyna division was created
after Nazis occupied parts of Soviet
Ukraine in the early part of World
War II.
The division functioned in Ukraine's
western regions, and many ethnic
Ukrainians hostile to the Soviet
regime joined.
After the war, Soviet authorities
imprisoned many of the division's
veterans in labor camps as Nazi
collaborators [not surprisingly].
BEOGRAD 23/3
NEW YORK 24/3
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BEOGRAD 23/3
Subject: Meeting in Belgrade
Dear friends,
Please find below details of the meeting in Belgrade this
weekend and my presentation to the gathering.
Paul Davidson
INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE
NATO AGGRESSION - THREE YEARS AFTER
DEFENSE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC - DEFENSE OF YUGOSLAVIA
· NATO tribunal as a weapon of
aggression and terrorism
· NATO in alliance with Al Qaida and
narco-mafia in Kosovo and Metohia
· Overcoming consequences of the
NATO activities in the Balkans
BELGRADE, MARCH 23, 2002
Organizers: SPS Council for International Relations,
Patriotic Alliance of Yugoslavia, Freedom Association,
Belgrade Forum, Center for Peace and Tolerance, Women Forum,
"Smisao" Theoretical Journal
Venue: Studentski Trg 15, Belgrade;
Beginning: 10:00 a.m.
PRESENTATION BY PAUL DAVIDSON
Dear friends,
My name is Paul Davidson. I am a co-ordinator of the
Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic in Britain. On behalf
of that committee I thank
the organisers of this conference for inviting me here, as a
representative, and for making me welcome.
This is an intense moment for me. I have come here to meet
with you, to listen and to learn. And we know that while we are
deliberating here,
President Milosevic remains behind those grey prison walls in
The Hague. Surely it must be understood that this is an
injustice. For those
conditions are not conducive to his health, nor to his ability to
conduct his defence. That is why we have called for his
immediate release
They say that my own country, Britain, is governed according
to civilised laws and procedures. But can they deny that were
those same laws
and procedures to be applied in this ?tribunal? in Holland, then
the defendant would be immediately released from prison
pending the outcome
of his trial. Dare I say it that were the norms of international
justice to have been applied in that court, the judge would have
found already that
there was no case to answer and would have dismissed the
trial.
And those who prop up this sham court with political and
military pressure and with grants of money are the same ones
who lecture us on the
virtues of justice and accuse the Serb people of being in denial
of its own history. While the very fortress in which they hold
President
Milosevic is itself a testimony to their own past. Can civilised
Europe be in denial of its own barbaric past?
How can this trial bring peace and reconciliation to The
Balkans?
It is clear that there is a cross-section of our population that
has deep suspicions about what our government and our media
tell us with regard
to the region of the Balkans. But I bring you greetings from a
much smaller circle that makes up our committee. Our
committee seeks to
educate to the doubters and to organise them in defence of
human rights to peace, progress and justice, which are
universal rights. The
preservation and enforcement of these universal rights is not
based upon the unilateral intervention of the big powers but
upon respect for
national sovereignty and international law.
And therefore our target audience is rather large. For issues of
national sovereignty and international law cut across the
political spectrum of
left and right. And additionally the conditions in which your
President remains imprisoned, even in illness, make this case
one of human rights.
It gives me no pleasure to say that my country is one that has
had much to do with the suffering of your people. It has been a
prominent member of the NATO alliance that has used brute force to deny
the Balkan peoples their rights to self-determination. Before it
lectures others,
my country has to face up to its own past and its present role,
so that it will cease to be in denial of it. That is the process we
have to engage in.
I want to express three thoughts to you. The first concerns our
group. It concerns the question of why we set it up and what is
our purpose.
We set up our defence committee in September 2001 shortly
after the abduction (or what the CIA euphemistically calls
"rendition") of
President Milosevic. We organised ourselves in response to
the fact that committees were being set up all over Europe and
beyond Europe
with the aim of defending President Milosevic. We founded our
committee with four clear aims:
1.To support the stand that President Milosevic continues to
take against the dismemberment of his nation.
2.To defend President Milosevic and all Serbia against the
attack of the unjust tribunal at The Hague
3.To expose the illegitimacy of that tribunal and fight for its
closure
4.To expose the context of NATO?s colonial strategy in your
region
We determined to work closely with the International Defence
Committee.
For let us be clear, NATO is the alliance of which my country
is part. We the citizens of Britain fund this NATO monster
with the taxes we pay
with every wage cheque we receive and with every purchase
we make. Can we be in denial of this?
With those four simple yet noble aims in mind we seek to
educate and organise that section of the public which deeply
questions our
government and our corporate media and hence which refuses
to be in denial.
Secondly, what can we offer you? What do we bring to the
table? We are not historians. We cannot feign to give an
account of your complex
history, even the contemporary history. We cannot assume the
posture of the historian who is able to say with apparent
certainty, that this and
this happened but that this did not happen and to say who is
responsible for what within the region. We are citizens of
Britain and cannot write
your history.
If a lie is told in our press we will attempt to expose it. If
confusion is sewn we will try to cut through it. But it is not for
us to define nor defend
any one version of your history. That is your job, not ours. Our
focus, which we share with you, is on universal values, justice,
freedom and
human rights, as they apply to the unjust, unfree and inhuman
treatment of Slobodan Milosevic.
It is our own history we have to write. We have to give an
account of our role in this injustice. For it was the British
government in slavish
obedience to our trans-Atlantic friends that has intervened
time and time again in your region. Intervened not to bring
peace and reconciliation
but to promote war and injustice. We in the committee will not
play that interventionist game, for any end.
And the so-called tribunal in little civilised and democratic
Holland is nothing more than the extension of this policy of war
by other means. As
for the British judge who sits there and listens to the British
prosecutor, the provocatively names Mr. Nice, these people are
nothing but vigilantes in wigs. Can we be in denial of this?
Thirdly, where has all this policy of war and hatred taken us?
We, the ordinary citizens of Britain have to ask ourselves in all
honesty, what have we got out of it?
After ten years of intervention do we live in a more secure
world? Three years after the bombing, where are the economic
fruits for the
ordinary people? Do we enjoy more trade? After fifteen years of
unremitting propaganda, are we more educated or more ignorent? Have we
learned anything knew, or have we merely unlearned that which
we once knew? Have we forgotten that the Serb people were
our allies during
six years of intense war against the Nazi tyranny. Can we be in
denial of that?
I tell you that the ordinary people of my land have gained
nothing from the destruction of yours. We come away the
poorer, the more illiterate,
the less cultured, the more barbaric, the less secure, the more
controlled and the less law-bound . . . than WE previously
were before this
interventionism of the New World Order swept away whatever
good sense we had.
And the court case at The Hague will bring us nothing. One can
only imagine that its true purpose is not to bring peace and
reconciliation to
the peoples of the region but to further the cause of animosity
and enflamed hatred. So, they keep stirring the pot.
Only where division rules can Empire rule.
Our mission can be therefore summed up in one simple phrase
- to rescue foreign policy from a treasonous government and
get OUR
government off YOUR backs. And this for our own interests as
it is for yours.
We in this committee have issued thousands of leaflets to our
fellow citizens, during anti-war marches and civil protest. In
the short space of
six months we have issued press statements, given TV and
radio interviews, published articles and letters in the media and
established our
own email list. We have held a public meeting of almost 100
people and raised money for the defence fund. We have made
tentative
progress to put questions in the arena of parliamentary politics.
We have come here to join with you now, today.
But I can honestly tell you that we have not done enough.
This will be a long fight and there are those of us who are
committed to it with our whole hearts It is in the name of those
that I speak when I
say, without hesitation
Freedom for President Milosevic!
Long live peace, justice and progress and true reconciliation
between the peoples!
Thank you
===*===
NEW YORK 24/3
Subject: [IAC]NYC-3/24: 3rd Anniversary US War Against
Yugoslavia
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:13:02 -0500
From: "Action Center" <actioncenter@...>
To: <ActionCenter.balkan@...>
CONTINUING WARS: 3 YEARS AFTER US/NATO BOMBING OF
YUGOSLAVIA
You are invited to a March 24 meeting to launch the new
IAC book:
HIDDEN AGENDA: U.S. NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia
Dear friends
As the U.S. vice president scours the world trying to gain
support for new U.S. military aggression against Iraq.
As U.S. planes rain thousands of tons upon the people and
the mountains of Afghanistan and the generals plan
incursions into Pakistan.
As the Empire run from Washington plants new military
bases from Kosovo and Bosnia to Usbekistan and
Tadjikistan.
As the Pentagon plans military tribunals to sentence those
they designate enemies from the Middle East and South
Asia, and as the Justice Department arrests young men of
the same background without reason or probable cause.
Ramsey Clark and the staff of the International Action
Center (IAC) invite you to a meeting to commemorate the
third anniversary of the beginning of the 78-day U.S./NATO
war against Yugoslavia and to show the relationship
between this war and the new eternal "crusade" of the
Pentagon.
Scheduled for 3-5 p.m. on March 24 at Ramsey Clark's law
office at 36 East 12th Street, 6th Floor, Manhattan, the
meeting will launch the new book published by the IAC,
HIDDEN AGENDA: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia.
The meeting will include a discussion of the trial of
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for alleged
war crimes, with a report from The Hague, where Milosevic
has turned the tables on his captors and put U.S./NATO
policies on trial.
The Pentagon generals and their public-relations
specialists presented the 1999 war as one to protect human
rights. They claimed that they would rebuild the damaged
Yugoslavia and help it enter the world of the "free
market." They even claimed they were helping Muslims.
Walter Rockler, the prosecutor at the post World War II
Nuremberg trial of Nazis, who died this March 8, had a
more accurate analysis of the 1999 war: "The attack on
Yugoslavia," he wrote, "constitutes the most brazen
international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland
to prevent `Polish atrocities' against Germans."
Indeed, one can see from the unemployment and poverty
ravaging what is left of Yugoslavia, from U.S./NATO
military penetration of the Balkans and from U.S./European
Union domination of the Balkans economies today that all
the U.S./NATO excuses were lies.
Come join us to meet the editors of and contributors to,
HIDDEN AGENDA and discuss with Ramsey Clark and others
these important questions.
For those who cannot come, but would like to buy the new
book, more information is included below.
Sara Flounders and John Catalinotto, editors, HIDDEN
AGENDA
***********************************************
HIDDEN AGENDA U.S./NATO TAKEOVER OF YUGOSLAVIA
This book presents evidence gathered by dozens of
nongovernmental hearings in 1999 and 2000 that the NATO
countries engaged in a decade-long conspiracy to foment
war in Yugoslavia in order to split it up.
In the 40+ essays presented here, leading anti-war
activists and analysts from many countries take up The
Hague Tribunal, the occupation of Kosovo, media lies, war
crimes and the blatant illegality of NATO aggression.
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark writes on
"Blaming the victim." Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, demonized in the Western press, stands up to
the NATO tribunal based in The Hague.
ALSO AVAILABLE:
LIAR'S POKER: THE GREAT POWERS, YUGOSLAVIA, AND THE WARS
OF THE FUTURE By Michel Collon. (Translated from the
French and just published by the IAC)
NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition Selections from
Ramsey Clark, Sara Flounders, Sean Gervasi, Nadja Tesich
and others.
War, Lies & Videotape: How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth
Exposes the links between the government, the media and
the military. War propaganda and NATO's expanding role.
SPECIAL OFFER
Hidden Agenda, 408 pages, maps, photographs, index,
$19.95.
Liar's Poker, 208 pages (8.5x11 in.), maps, photographs,
index, $19.95.
When ordering both Hidden Agenda and Liar's Poker, pay
$29.90, plus postage and handling (25% discount!).
NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition, 1998, 236
pages, indexed, $15.95, plus postage and handling.
War, Lies & Videotape: How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth,
2000, 288 pages, indexed, $15.95, plus postage and
handling.
Special rate on all four books covering the U.S./NATO war
on Yugoslavia: $49.90 (a $71.80 value) plus postage and
handling.
In all cases, add postage and handling--$5 for the first
book and $1 for each additional book.
For booksellers or associations interested in ordering 10
copies or more, please contact orders@... for
special discounts and shipping arrangements.
Buy online through http://www.leftbooks.com
Otherwise send pre-paid orders to :
International Action Center 39 West 14th Street, Suite 206
New York, NY 10011
http://www.iacenter.org
iacenter@...
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NEW YORK 24/3
===*===
BEOGRAD 23/3
Subject: Meeting in Belgrade
Dear friends,
Please find below details of the meeting in Belgrade this
weekend and my presentation to the gathering.
Paul Davidson
INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE
NATO AGGRESSION - THREE YEARS AFTER
DEFENSE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC - DEFENSE OF YUGOSLAVIA
· NATO tribunal as a weapon of
aggression and terrorism
· NATO in alliance with Al Qaida and
narco-mafia in Kosovo and Metohia
· Overcoming consequences of the
NATO activities in the Balkans
BELGRADE, MARCH 23, 2002
Organizers: SPS Council for International Relations,
Patriotic Alliance of Yugoslavia, Freedom Association,
Belgrade Forum, Center for Peace and Tolerance, Women Forum,
"Smisao" Theoretical Journal
Venue: Studentski Trg 15, Belgrade;
Beginning: 10:00 a.m.
PRESENTATION BY PAUL DAVIDSON
Dear friends,
My name is Paul Davidson. I am a co-ordinator of the
Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic in Britain. On behalf
of that committee I thank
the organisers of this conference for inviting me here, as a
representative, and for making me welcome.
This is an intense moment for me. I have come here to meet
with you, to listen and to learn. And we know that while we are
deliberating here,
President Milosevic remains behind those grey prison walls in
The Hague. Surely it must be understood that this is an
injustice. For those
conditions are not conducive to his health, nor to his ability to
conduct his defence. That is why we have called for his
immediate release
They say that my own country, Britain, is governed according
to civilised laws and procedures. But can they deny that were
those same laws
and procedures to be applied in this ?tribunal? in Holland, then
the defendant would be immediately released from prison
pending the outcome
of his trial. Dare I say it that were the norms of international
justice to have been applied in that court, the judge would have
found already that
there was no case to answer and would have dismissed the
trial.
And those who prop up this sham court with political and
military pressure and with grants of money are the same ones
who lecture us on the
virtues of justice and accuse the Serb people of being in denial
of its own history. While the very fortress in which they hold
President
Milosevic is itself a testimony to their own past. Can civilised
Europe be in denial of its own barbaric past?
How can this trial bring peace and reconciliation to The
Balkans?
It is clear that there is a cross-section of our population that
has deep suspicions about what our government and our media
tell us with regard
to the region of the Balkans. But I bring you greetings from a
much smaller circle that makes up our committee. Our
committee seeks to
educate to the doubters and to organise them in defence of
human rights to peace, progress and justice, which are
universal rights. The
preservation and enforcement of these universal rights is not
based upon the unilateral intervention of the big powers but
upon respect for
national sovereignty and international law.
And therefore our target audience is rather large. For issues of
national sovereignty and international law cut across the
political spectrum of
left and right. And additionally the conditions in which your
President remains imprisoned, even in illness, make this case
one of human rights.
It gives me no pleasure to say that my country is one that has
had much to do with the suffering of your people. It has been a
prominent member of the NATO alliance that has used brute force to deny
the Balkan peoples their rights to self-determination. Before it
lectures others,
my country has to face up to its own past and its present role,
so that it will cease to be in denial of it. That is the process we
have to engage in.
I want to express three thoughts to you. The first concerns our
group. It concerns the question of why we set it up and what is
our purpose.
We set up our defence committee in September 2001 shortly
after the abduction (or what the CIA euphemistically calls
"rendition") of
President Milosevic. We organised ourselves in response to
the fact that committees were being set up all over Europe and
beyond Europe
with the aim of defending President Milosevic. We founded our
committee with four clear aims:
1.To support the stand that President Milosevic continues to
take against the dismemberment of his nation.
2.To defend President Milosevic and all Serbia against the
attack of the unjust tribunal at The Hague
3.To expose the illegitimacy of that tribunal and fight for its
closure
4.To expose the context of NATO?s colonial strategy in your
region
We determined to work closely with the International Defence
Committee.
For let us be clear, NATO is the alliance of which my country
is part. We the citizens of Britain fund this NATO monster
with the taxes we pay
with every wage cheque we receive and with every purchase
we make. Can we be in denial of this?
With those four simple yet noble aims in mind we seek to
educate and organise that section of the public which deeply
questions our
government and our corporate media and hence which refuses
to be in denial.
Secondly, what can we offer you? What do we bring to the
table? We are not historians. We cannot feign to give an
account of your complex
history, even the contemporary history. We cannot assume the
posture of the historian who is able to say with apparent
certainty, that this and
this happened but that this did not happen and to say who is
responsible for what within the region. We are citizens of
Britain and cannot write
your history.
If a lie is told in our press we will attempt to expose it. If
confusion is sewn we will try to cut through it. But it is not for
us to define nor defend
any one version of your history. That is your job, not ours. Our
focus, which we share with you, is on universal values, justice,
freedom and
human rights, as they apply to the unjust, unfree and inhuman
treatment of Slobodan Milosevic.
It is our own history we have to write. We have to give an
account of our role in this injustice. For it was the British
government in slavish
obedience to our trans-Atlantic friends that has intervened
time and time again in your region. Intervened not to bring
peace and reconciliation
but to promote war and injustice. We in the committee will not
play that interventionist game, for any end.
And the so-called tribunal in little civilised and democratic
Holland is nothing more than the extension of this policy of war
by other means. As
for the British judge who sits there and listens to the British
prosecutor, the provocatively names Mr. Nice, these people are
nothing but vigilantes in wigs. Can we be in denial of this?
Thirdly, where has all this policy of war and hatred taken us?
We, the ordinary citizens of Britain have to ask ourselves in all
honesty, what have we got out of it?
After ten years of intervention do we live in a more secure
world? Three years after the bombing, where are the economic
fruits for the
ordinary people? Do we enjoy more trade? After fifteen years of
unremitting propaganda, are we more educated or more ignorent? Have we
learned anything knew, or have we merely unlearned that which
we once knew? Have we forgotten that the Serb people were
our allies during
six years of intense war against the Nazi tyranny. Can we be in
denial of that?
I tell you that the ordinary people of my land have gained
nothing from the destruction of yours. We come away the
poorer, the more illiterate,
the less cultured, the more barbaric, the less secure, the more
controlled and the less law-bound . . . than WE previously
were before this
interventionism of the New World Order swept away whatever
good sense we had.
And the court case at The Hague will bring us nothing. One can
only imagine that its true purpose is not to bring peace and
reconciliation to
the peoples of the region but to further the cause of animosity
and enflamed hatred. So, they keep stirring the pot.
Only where division rules can Empire rule.
Our mission can be therefore summed up in one simple phrase
- to rescue foreign policy from a treasonous government and
get OUR
government off YOUR backs. And this for our own interests as
it is for yours.
We in this committee have issued thousands of leaflets to our
fellow citizens, during anti-war marches and civil protest. In
the short space of
six months we have issued press statements, given TV and
radio interviews, published articles and letters in the media and
established our
own email list. We have held a public meeting of almost 100
people and raised money for the defence fund. We have made
tentative
progress to put questions in the arena of parliamentary politics.
We have come here to join with you now, today.
But I can honestly tell you that we have not done enough.
This will be a long fight and there are those of us who are
committed to it with our whole hearts It is in the name of those
that I speak when I
say, without hesitation
Freedom for President Milosevic!
Long live peace, justice and progress and true reconciliation
between the peoples!
Thank you
===*===
NEW YORK 24/3
Subject: [IAC]NYC-3/24: 3rd Anniversary US War Against
Yugoslavia
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:13:02 -0500
From: "Action Center" <actioncenter@...>
To: <ActionCenter.balkan@...>
CONTINUING WARS: 3 YEARS AFTER US/NATO BOMBING OF
YUGOSLAVIA
You are invited to a March 24 meeting to launch the new
IAC book:
HIDDEN AGENDA: U.S. NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia
Dear friends
As the U.S. vice president scours the world trying to gain
support for new U.S. military aggression against Iraq.
As U.S. planes rain thousands of tons upon the people and
the mountains of Afghanistan and the generals plan
incursions into Pakistan.
As the Empire run from Washington plants new military
bases from Kosovo and Bosnia to Usbekistan and
Tadjikistan.
As the Pentagon plans military tribunals to sentence those
they designate enemies from the Middle East and South
Asia, and as the Justice Department arrests young men of
the same background without reason or probable cause.
Ramsey Clark and the staff of the International Action
Center (IAC) invite you to a meeting to commemorate the
third anniversary of the beginning of the 78-day U.S./NATO
war against Yugoslavia and to show the relationship
between this war and the new eternal "crusade" of the
Pentagon.
Scheduled for 3-5 p.m. on March 24 at Ramsey Clark's law
office at 36 East 12th Street, 6th Floor, Manhattan, the
meeting will launch the new book published by the IAC,
HIDDEN AGENDA: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia.
The meeting will include a discussion of the trial of
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for alleged
war crimes, with a report from The Hague, where Milosevic
has turned the tables on his captors and put U.S./NATO
policies on trial.
The Pentagon generals and their public-relations
specialists presented the 1999 war as one to protect human
rights. They claimed that they would rebuild the damaged
Yugoslavia and help it enter the world of the "free
market." They even claimed they were helping Muslims.
Walter Rockler, the prosecutor at the post World War II
Nuremberg trial of Nazis, who died this March 8, had a
more accurate analysis of the 1999 war: "The attack on
Yugoslavia," he wrote, "constitutes the most brazen
international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland
to prevent `Polish atrocities' against Germans."
Indeed, one can see from the unemployment and poverty
ravaging what is left of Yugoslavia, from U.S./NATO
military penetration of the Balkans and from U.S./European
Union domination of the Balkans economies today that all
the U.S./NATO excuses were lies.
Come join us to meet the editors of and contributors to,
HIDDEN AGENDA and discuss with Ramsey Clark and others
these important questions.
For those who cannot come, but would like to buy the new
book, more information is included below.
Sara Flounders and John Catalinotto, editors, HIDDEN
AGENDA
***********************************************
HIDDEN AGENDA U.S./NATO TAKEOVER OF YUGOSLAVIA
This book presents evidence gathered by dozens of
nongovernmental hearings in 1999 and 2000 that the NATO
countries engaged in a decade-long conspiracy to foment
war in Yugoslavia in order to split it up.
In the 40+ essays presented here, leading anti-war
activists and analysts from many countries take up The
Hague Tribunal, the occupation of Kosovo, media lies, war
crimes and the blatant illegality of NATO aggression.
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark writes on
"Blaming the victim." Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, demonized in the Western press, stands up to
the NATO tribunal based in The Hague.
ALSO AVAILABLE:
LIAR'S POKER: THE GREAT POWERS, YUGOSLAVIA, AND THE WARS
OF THE FUTURE By Michel Collon. (Translated from the
French and just published by the IAC)
NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition Selections from
Ramsey Clark, Sara Flounders, Sean Gervasi, Nadja Tesich
and others.
War, Lies & Videotape: How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth
Exposes the links between the government, the media and
the military. War propaganda and NATO's expanding role.
SPECIAL OFFER
Hidden Agenda, 408 pages, maps, photographs, index,
$19.95.
Liar's Poker, 208 pages (8.5x11 in.), maps, photographs,
index, $19.95.
When ordering both Hidden Agenda and Liar's Poker, pay
$29.90, plus postage and handling (25% discount!).
NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition, 1998, 236
pages, indexed, $15.95, plus postage and handling.
War, Lies & Videotape: How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth,
2000, 288 pages, indexed, $15.95, plus postage and
handling.
Special rate on all four books covering the U.S./NATO war
on Yugoslavia: $49.90 (a $71.80 value) plus postage and
handling.
In all cases, add postage and handling--$5 for the first
book and $1 for each additional book.
For booksellers or associations interested in ordering 10
copies or more, please contact orders@... for
special discounts and shipping arrangements.
Buy online through http://www.leftbooks.com
Otherwise send pre-paid orders to :
International Action Center 39 West 14th Street, Suite 206
New York, NY 10011
http://www.iacenter.org
iacenter@...
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* Comunicati pervenuti da "Un Ponte per..." e Federazione PRC Trieste
* ROMA 24/3 (aggiornamento adesioni)
* RAVENNA 30/3: MANIFESTAZIONE NAZIONALE
===*===
From: Alessandro Di Meo - "UN PONTE PER..."
A tre anni dall'aggressione alla Jugoslavia, l'associazione di
volontariato per la solidarietà internazionale "Un Ponte per..."
continua nella sua opera di solidarietà col popolo jugoslavo e di
sensibilizzazione dell'opinione pubblica italiana su quella che ritiene
essere stata una vera e propria infamia.
Sono in corso d'opera importanti iniziative di gemellaggio fra scuole,
sostegni a distanza, ospitalità di bambini jugoslavi profughi dal Kosovo
presso famiglie italiane, campi di lavoro presso l'orfanotrofio Drinka
Pavlovic di Belgrado, corsi di informatica con aule attrezzate nelle
città di Kraljevo e Kragujevac, aperte ai profughi ma pure alla
popolazione locale.
Questo è il nostro modo di tenere sveglia la memoria a tre anni di
distanza, solidarizzando e aderendo alle numerose iniziative ufficiali
indette sul territorio.
Con la Jugoslavia nel cuore.
Associazione "Un Ponte per..." campagna per Belgrado
===*===
Ordine del giorno approvato dal V Congresso provinciale del
PRC - Federazione di Trieste - 16 marzo 2002
A tre anni dall'inizio dei bombardamenti della NATO contro
la Repubblica Federale Jugoslava, che hanno provocato
migliaia di vittime civili e distrutto un intero paese,
l'aggressione continua sotto altre forme:
1. Il nuovo governo, andato al potere
nell'autunno 2000 grazie al ricatto dell'embargo e al
massiccio sostegno dei paesi del blocco NATO ai partiti
della DOS, sta attuando le politiche economiche imposte dal
FMI, che portano al massacro sociale dei lavoratori e della
popolazione, con massicci licenziamenti nelle grandi
fabbriche (oltre 15.000 alla sola Zastava), aumento dei
prezzi dei generi di prima necessità (luce, gas, telefono,
affitti, trasporti, beni alimentari), assenza di qualsiasi
prospettiva di ripresa e miglioramento delle insopportabili
condizioni di vita.
2. L'aggressione continua attraverso il
Tribunale dell'Aja, un tribunale ad hoc, al soldo degli
USA, per assolvere la NATO dai suoi crimini e additare
all'opinione pubblica mondiale quale unico responsabile del
massacro dei Balcani la dirigenza serba sotto la guida di
Slobodan Milosevic. Tale tribunale è totalmente privo di
credibilità - dal momento in cui il suo procuratore, Carla
del Ponte, ha deciso, nel giugno 2000, il non luogo a
procedere per i crimini della NATO nell'aggressione alla
Jugoslavia (dal bombardamento di obiettivi civili, a quello
della televisione, alla distruzione ambientale con le bombe
sulle industrie chimiche e l'uranio impoverito).
Contro le politiche neoliberiste e di
asservimento ai governi della NATO del governo Djindjic, ha
iniziato a svilupparsi con scioperi, manifestazioni e altre
forme di lotta, la resistenza dei lavoratori e delle masse
popolari jugoslave.
Il Congresso provinciale del PRC di Trieste
invita il partito a sostenere - in primo luogo attraverso
una corretta informazione - tutte le forme di resistenza
alle politiche di asservimento alla NATO e di massacro
sociale che il governo jugoslavo sta conducendo.
Invita altresì a continuare a sostenere la
campagna di solidarietà nei confronti dei lavoratori della
Zastava avviata dal coordinamento nazionale RSU e da
diverse associazioni sul territorio nazionale ("adozioni a
distanza"), alla quale diversi compagni del PRC della
provincia di Trieste hanno già aderito.
Propone di invitare al Congresso Nazionale del
PRC una delegazione dei lavoratori della Zastava di
Kragujevac, impegnati nell'opposizione alle politiche
neoliberiste e nel progetto di solidarietà, dando così
adeguato rilievo alla loro resistenza e lotta in
difficilissime condizioni.
===*===
ROMA 24 MARZO
*** LA JUGOSLAVIA NEL CUORE ***
serata di solidarieta' e controinformazione
nel terzo anniversario dall'inizio dell'attacco della NATO
contro la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia
Domenica 24 marzo 2002 dalle ore 17
a Roma, presso il circolo STELLA ROSSA
in Via Corinto 5 (fermata metro B San Paolo)
*** INTERVENTI
di Giulia Barone, Aldo Bernardini, Claudio Del Bello, Fulvio Grimaldi
*** VIDEO
> "PAPA', DOVE DORMIREMO DI SERA?"
sul bombardamento della cittadina rurale di Aleksinac
> KOSOVO - IL LUOGO DEL DELITTO
immagini della provincia dopo l'arrivo della KFOR: la criminale alleanza
NATO/UCK
> C'ERA UNA VOLTA LA FATTORIA GARIC
"...tra Djakovica e Decani, la casa dei Garic era l'unico focolare serbo
rimasto..." (primo premio al Festival del cortometraggio di Belgrado,
giugno 2000)
> THE JUDGEMENT
ricostruzione della truffa mediatica sul "lager serbo di Trnopolje"
> BOMBE SULLE INDUSTRIE CHIMICHE
sugli effetti della guerra chimica della NATO contro la popolazione di
Pancevo
> POPOLI DI TROPPO
l'aggressione e l'embargo alla Jugoslavia, vittima tra le altre della
politica di soggiogamento dei "popoli di troppo"
*** a seguire CENA di sottoscrizione
Organizzano:
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia <jugocoord@...>
Assemblea Antimperialista <posta@...>
Prime adesioni:
Comitato contro la guerra Roma Sud
Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
GAMADI (Gruppo Atei Materialisti Dialettici)
Voce Jugoslava
Radio Citta' Aperta
Redazione di Contropiano
Convoglio di solidarietà internazionalista Giorgiana Masi
===*===
RAVENNA 30 MARZO
A 3 anni dall'aggressione NATO alla Jugoslavia:
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
Ravenna - Sabato 30 Marzo
Manifestazione
Concentramento:
ore 11 piazzale coop via faentina
assemblea:
ore 14,30 c/o sala Forum viale Berlinguer, 11
---
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
24 marzo del 1999.
Il governo dell'Ulivo, con l'appoggio del Polo, scateno' contro la
Jugoslavia, la più intensa campagna di bombardamenti dopo la seconda
guerra mondiale.
"Effetti collaterali" della "guerra umanitaria": 15mila civili
ammazzati, mezzo milione di profughi, città rase al suolo, un paese
contaminato per secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e
gettato nel baratro della miseria e costretto a diventare uno Stato
vassallo.
Dissero che quello era il prezzo per mantenere la pace e difendere la
democrazia.
7 ottobre 2001.
A soli due anni di distanza il governo del Polo (appoggiato da Ulivo-DS)
ha portato l'Italia a fianco degli USA in un'altra guerra, questa volta
nel cuore dell'Asia, contro l'Afganistan e
il suo popolo già martoriato da vent'anni di conflitti intestini. Con il
pretesto di "colpire il terrorismo" gli USA, l'Europa e la NATO hanno
esteso il loro
raggio di morte e sfruttamento.
Risultato: invece di "portare la pace e la democrazia", gli imperialisti
stanno spingendo il mondo nell'abisso di una guerra permanente, globale,
sistematica.
E più la macchina bellica avanza, più i governi borghesi adottano misure
repressive e antidemocratiche, imbavagliano l'informazione, spaventano
l'opinione pubblica per spostarla su
posizioni razziste, autoritarie e militariste, aggrediscono le
condizione di vita e di lavoro dei proletari smantellando le conquiste
passate. Gli infiniti
soprusi che il popolo palestinese deve subire, sono l'esempio più
lampante che non c'è posto, nel "nuovo ordine mondiale" targato USA-NATO
per la dignità, la libertà, la giustizia.
Non si può stare nel mezzo tra l'oppresso e l'oppressore, tra la vittima
e il carnefice!
NON SI PUO' TACERE! NON SI PUO' STARE A GUARDARE!
BASTA CON LE GUERRE E L'OPPRESSIONE DEI POPOLI!
CHIUDERE LA BASI AMERICANE IN ITALIA, IN EUROPA
E LE SERVITU' MILITARI!
RITIRARE LE TRUPPE DAI BALCANI E DA TUTTI I PAESI OCCUPATI!
SCIOGLIERE LA NATO E CONTRASTARE LA NASCITA
DEL NUOVO ESERCITO EUROPEO!
NO ALLE SPESE MILITARI E AL RIARMO!
Coordinamento romagnolo contro la guerra e la NATO
Info / adesioni / comunicazioni / volantini :
tel. 338-9116688
momotombo@...
red-ghost@...
Prime adesioni:
- Assemblea Antimperialista
- Collettivo "25 Aprile" (RA)
- Collettivi studenti (RA)
- Red Ghost (RA)
- Comitato "Gettiamo le basi" di Cervia
- Assemblea cittadina contro la guerra (Cesena)
- s.l.a. PelleRossa (Cesena)
- Comitati contro la guerra (Milano)
- Progetto Comunista (Cesena e BO)
- Federazione PRC Cesena
- Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia.
- L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
- Federazione PRC Trieste
- Convoglio di solidarietà internazionalista Giorgiana Masi
- Assemblea Romana contro la Repressione
- Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
- Soccorso Popolare (PD)
- Campo Antimperialista
- Circolo del giornale rossoperaio (RA)
- CAB (Colletivo Antimperialista Bologna)
---
AUTOBUS DA ROMA
Stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma per Ravenna.
Per prenotare: <convgm@...>
* ROMA 24/3 (aggiornamento adesioni)
* RAVENNA 30/3: MANIFESTAZIONE NAZIONALE
===*===
From: Alessandro Di Meo - "UN PONTE PER..."
A tre anni dall'aggressione alla Jugoslavia, l'associazione di
volontariato per la solidarietà internazionale "Un Ponte per..."
continua nella sua opera di solidarietà col popolo jugoslavo e di
sensibilizzazione dell'opinione pubblica italiana su quella che ritiene
essere stata una vera e propria infamia.
Sono in corso d'opera importanti iniziative di gemellaggio fra scuole,
sostegni a distanza, ospitalità di bambini jugoslavi profughi dal Kosovo
presso famiglie italiane, campi di lavoro presso l'orfanotrofio Drinka
Pavlovic di Belgrado, corsi di informatica con aule attrezzate nelle
città di Kraljevo e Kragujevac, aperte ai profughi ma pure alla
popolazione locale.
Questo è il nostro modo di tenere sveglia la memoria a tre anni di
distanza, solidarizzando e aderendo alle numerose iniziative ufficiali
indette sul territorio.
Con la Jugoslavia nel cuore.
Associazione "Un Ponte per..." campagna per Belgrado
===*===
Ordine del giorno approvato dal V Congresso provinciale del
PRC - Federazione di Trieste - 16 marzo 2002
A tre anni dall'inizio dei bombardamenti della NATO contro
la Repubblica Federale Jugoslava, che hanno provocato
migliaia di vittime civili e distrutto un intero paese,
l'aggressione continua sotto altre forme:
1. Il nuovo governo, andato al potere
nell'autunno 2000 grazie al ricatto dell'embargo e al
massiccio sostegno dei paesi del blocco NATO ai partiti
della DOS, sta attuando le politiche economiche imposte dal
FMI, che portano al massacro sociale dei lavoratori e della
popolazione, con massicci licenziamenti nelle grandi
fabbriche (oltre 15.000 alla sola Zastava), aumento dei
prezzi dei generi di prima necessità (luce, gas, telefono,
affitti, trasporti, beni alimentari), assenza di qualsiasi
prospettiva di ripresa e miglioramento delle insopportabili
condizioni di vita.
2. L'aggressione continua attraverso il
Tribunale dell'Aja, un tribunale ad hoc, al soldo degli
USA, per assolvere la NATO dai suoi crimini e additare
all'opinione pubblica mondiale quale unico responsabile del
massacro dei Balcani la dirigenza serba sotto la guida di
Slobodan Milosevic. Tale tribunale è totalmente privo di
credibilità - dal momento in cui il suo procuratore, Carla
del Ponte, ha deciso, nel giugno 2000, il non luogo a
procedere per i crimini della NATO nell'aggressione alla
Jugoslavia (dal bombardamento di obiettivi civili, a quello
della televisione, alla distruzione ambientale con le bombe
sulle industrie chimiche e l'uranio impoverito).
Contro le politiche neoliberiste e di
asservimento ai governi della NATO del governo Djindjic, ha
iniziato a svilupparsi con scioperi, manifestazioni e altre
forme di lotta, la resistenza dei lavoratori e delle masse
popolari jugoslave.
Il Congresso provinciale del PRC di Trieste
invita il partito a sostenere - in primo luogo attraverso
una corretta informazione - tutte le forme di resistenza
alle politiche di asservimento alla NATO e di massacro
sociale che il governo jugoslavo sta conducendo.
Invita altresì a continuare a sostenere la
campagna di solidarietà nei confronti dei lavoratori della
Zastava avviata dal coordinamento nazionale RSU e da
diverse associazioni sul territorio nazionale ("adozioni a
distanza"), alla quale diversi compagni del PRC della
provincia di Trieste hanno già aderito.
Propone di invitare al Congresso Nazionale del
PRC una delegazione dei lavoratori della Zastava di
Kragujevac, impegnati nell'opposizione alle politiche
neoliberiste e nel progetto di solidarietà, dando così
adeguato rilievo alla loro resistenza e lotta in
difficilissime condizioni.
===*===
ROMA 24 MARZO
*** LA JUGOSLAVIA NEL CUORE ***
serata di solidarieta' e controinformazione
nel terzo anniversario dall'inizio dell'attacco della NATO
contro la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia
Domenica 24 marzo 2002 dalle ore 17
a Roma, presso il circolo STELLA ROSSA
in Via Corinto 5 (fermata metro B San Paolo)
*** INTERVENTI
di Giulia Barone, Aldo Bernardini, Claudio Del Bello, Fulvio Grimaldi
*** VIDEO
> "PAPA', DOVE DORMIREMO DI SERA?"
sul bombardamento della cittadina rurale di Aleksinac
> KOSOVO - IL LUOGO DEL DELITTO
immagini della provincia dopo l'arrivo della KFOR: la criminale alleanza
NATO/UCK
> C'ERA UNA VOLTA LA FATTORIA GARIC
"...tra Djakovica e Decani, la casa dei Garic era l'unico focolare serbo
rimasto..." (primo premio al Festival del cortometraggio di Belgrado,
giugno 2000)
> THE JUDGEMENT
ricostruzione della truffa mediatica sul "lager serbo di Trnopolje"
> BOMBE SULLE INDUSTRIE CHIMICHE
sugli effetti della guerra chimica della NATO contro la popolazione di
Pancevo
> POPOLI DI TROPPO
l'aggressione e l'embargo alla Jugoslavia, vittima tra le altre della
politica di soggiogamento dei "popoli di troppo"
*** a seguire CENA di sottoscrizione
Organizzano:
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia <jugocoord@...>
Assemblea Antimperialista <posta@...>
Prime adesioni:
Comitato contro la guerra Roma Sud
Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
GAMADI (Gruppo Atei Materialisti Dialettici)
Voce Jugoslava
Radio Citta' Aperta
Redazione di Contropiano
Convoglio di solidarietà internazionalista Giorgiana Masi
===*===
RAVENNA 30 MARZO
A 3 anni dall'aggressione NATO alla Jugoslavia:
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
Ravenna - Sabato 30 Marzo
Manifestazione
Concentramento:
ore 11 piazzale coop via faentina
assemblea:
ore 14,30 c/o sala Forum viale Berlinguer, 11
---
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
24 marzo del 1999.
Il governo dell'Ulivo, con l'appoggio del Polo, scateno' contro la
Jugoslavia, la più intensa campagna di bombardamenti dopo la seconda
guerra mondiale.
"Effetti collaterali" della "guerra umanitaria": 15mila civili
ammazzati, mezzo milione di profughi, città rase al suolo, un paese
contaminato per secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e
gettato nel baratro della miseria e costretto a diventare uno Stato
vassallo.
Dissero che quello era il prezzo per mantenere la pace e difendere la
democrazia.
7 ottobre 2001.
A soli due anni di distanza il governo del Polo (appoggiato da Ulivo-DS)
ha portato l'Italia a fianco degli USA in un'altra guerra, questa volta
nel cuore dell'Asia, contro l'Afganistan e
il suo popolo già martoriato da vent'anni di conflitti intestini. Con il
pretesto di "colpire il terrorismo" gli USA, l'Europa e la NATO hanno
esteso il loro
raggio di morte e sfruttamento.
Risultato: invece di "portare la pace e la democrazia", gli imperialisti
stanno spingendo il mondo nell'abisso di una guerra permanente, globale,
sistematica.
E più la macchina bellica avanza, più i governi borghesi adottano misure
repressive e antidemocratiche, imbavagliano l'informazione, spaventano
l'opinione pubblica per spostarla su
posizioni razziste, autoritarie e militariste, aggrediscono le
condizione di vita e di lavoro dei proletari smantellando le conquiste
passate. Gli infiniti
soprusi che il popolo palestinese deve subire, sono l'esempio più
lampante che non c'è posto, nel "nuovo ordine mondiale" targato USA-NATO
per la dignità, la libertà, la giustizia.
Non si può stare nel mezzo tra l'oppresso e l'oppressore, tra la vittima
e il carnefice!
NON SI PUO' TACERE! NON SI PUO' STARE A GUARDARE!
BASTA CON LE GUERRE E L'OPPRESSIONE DEI POPOLI!
CHIUDERE LA BASI AMERICANE IN ITALIA, IN EUROPA
E LE SERVITU' MILITARI!
RITIRARE LE TRUPPE DAI BALCANI E DA TUTTI I PAESI OCCUPATI!
SCIOGLIERE LA NATO E CONTRASTARE LA NASCITA
DEL NUOVO ESERCITO EUROPEO!
NO ALLE SPESE MILITARI E AL RIARMO!
Coordinamento romagnolo contro la guerra e la NATO
Info / adesioni / comunicazioni / volantini :
tel. 338-9116688
momotombo@...
red-ghost@...
Prime adesioni:
- Assemblea Antimperialista
- Collettivo "25 Aprile" (RA)
- Collettivi studenti (RA)
- Red Ghost (RA)
- Comitato "Gettiamo le basi" di Cervia
- Assemblea cittadina contro la guerra (Cesena)
- s.l.a. PelleRossa (Cesena)
- Comitati contro la guerra (Milano)
- Progetto Comunista (Cesena e BO)
- Federazione PRC Cesena
- Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia.
- L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
- Federazione PRC Trieste
- Convoglio di solidarietà internazionalista Giorgiana Masi
- Assemblea Romana contro la Repressione
- Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
- Soccorso Popolare (PD)
- Campo Antimperialista
- Circolo del giornale rossoperaio (RA)
- CAB (Colletivo Antimperialista Bologna)
---
AUTOBUS DA ROMA
Stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma per Ravenna.
Per prenotare: <convgm@...>
I MIGLIORI CANALI DI INFILTRAZIONE PER LE SPIE
Su John David Neighbor, arrestato in un ristorante insieme al gen.
Perisic mentre quest'ultimo gli passava documenti militari riservati,
si sono dette tante cose (non vere). Su altre pero' si tace, ma è
sintomatico che per gli americani la cosa piu' importante fosse di
ottenere garanzie dal ministro Svilanovic che il numero due della loro
ambasciata a Belgrado non fosse espulso.
E' chiaro che si tratta di un uomo eccezionale. Infatti, J.D.N. arrivo'
in Jugoslavia negli anni Ottanta come missionario della chiesa
Pentecostale. A Osijek insegno' al neo Istituto Teologico della Chiesa
Pentecostale per parecchi anni. Dopo si trasferi' a Sarajevo, sempre in
missione religiosa, e infine a Pristina, dove inauguro' una Chiesa.
Dopo il rientro in patria, rieccolo in Jugoslavia, ma in missione
diplomatica: è primo segretario d'ambasciata a Belgrado, finché tutte
le rappresentanze diplomatiche non vengono chiuse a causa
dell'annunciata aggressione NATO. Appena riaperte, Neighbor riprende il
suo posto.
Che io sappia solo "Glas-javnosti" (www.glas-javnosti.co.yu)
si é sbilanciato a fare un po di ricerche sulla spia americana.
(Olga)
PS. L'Ansa che abbiamo distribuito sull'arresto di Perisic, e
sull'ennesima crisi nel governo serbo, cita Ivan Jankovic del Centro
d'Azione contro la guerra, una delle mille ONG ufficialmente registrate
- mille! ma si pensa che il numero in pratica sia molto piu' elevato.
Ovviamente, insieme alle chiese, le ONG sono tra i migliori canali per
la infiltrazione di agenti segreti stranieri.
Su John David Neighbor, arrestato in un ristorante insieme al gen.
Perisic mentre quest'ultimo gli passava documenti militari riservati,
si sono dette tante cose (non vere). Su altre pero' si tace, ma è
sintomatico che per gli americani la cosa piu' importante fosse di
ottenere garanzie dal ministro Svilanovic che il numero due della loro
ambasciata a Belgrado non fosse espulso.
E' chiaro che si tratta di un uomo eccezionale. Infatti, J.D.N. arrivo'
in Jugoslavia negli anni Ottanta come missionario della chiesa
Pentecostale. A Osijek insegno' al neo Istituto Teologico della Chiesa
Pentecostale per parecchi anni. Dopo si trasferi' a Sarajevo, sempre in
missione religiosa, e infine a Pristina, dove inauguro' una Chiesa.
Dopo il rientro in patria, rieccolo in Jugoslavia, ma in missione
diplomatica: è primo segretario d'ambasciata a Belgrado, finché tutte
le rappresentanze diplomatiche non vengono chiuse a causa
dell'annunciata aggressione NATO. Appena riaperte, Neighbor riprende il
suo posto.
Che io sappia solo "Glas-javnosti" (www.glas-javnosti.co.yu)
si é sbilanciato a fare un po di ricerche sulla spia americana.
(Olga)
PS. L'Ansa che abbiamo distribuito sull'arresto di Perisic, e
sull'ennesima crisi nel governo serbo, cita Ivan Jankovic del Centro
d'Azione contro la guerra, una delle mille ONG ufficialmente registrate
- mille! ma si pensa che il numero in pratica sia molto piu' elevato.
Ovviamente, insieme alle chiese, le ONG sono tra i migliori canali per
la infiltrazione di agenti segreti stranieri.
TORINO 25/3
PARIGI 27/3
RAVENNA 30/3
===*===
TORINO 25 MARZO
24 marzo 1999: inizio dei bombardamenti sulla Jugoslavia
PER NON DIMENTICARE!
Lunedi 25 marzo 2002 ore 21:00
INCONTRO PUBBLICO presso CENTRO STUDI CESPEC
Via Giolitti 27 Torino
Intervengono:
ENRICO VIGNA (appena rientrato dalla Jugoslavia)
Comitato Internazionale per la difesa di Slobodan Milosevic
"A tre anni dall'aggressione: situazione sociale e politica odierna"
COSTANZO PREVE
Tribunale Ramsey Clark per il crimini della NATO in Jugoslavia
"Bombardamenti etici, interventi umanitari e menzogne storiche"
SOS YUGOSLAVIA - Torino
Il volantino della iniziativa è stato inviato nell'area File
del gruppo crj-mailinglist. È possibile accedere al file all'indirizzo
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/torino25_3_02.jpg
===*===
PARIS 27 MARS
Grand rassemblement à l'occasion du IIIe anniversaire de
l'agression de l'OTAN contre la Yougoslavie
Mercredi 27 mars 2002,
Salle Lumière, 4 pl. Saint-Germain-des-Près
75006 Paris, dès 18 h.
Grand rassemblement
à l'occasion du IIIe anniversaire
de l'agression de l'OTAN
contre la Yougoslavie
Sur le thème:
"Le livre, arme et témoin
contre les manipulations idéologiques"
***
Avec :
Gén. Pierre-Marie GALLOIS - Me Jacques VERGES - Maurice PERGNIER
Charles SAINT-PROT - Jean-François TACHEAU - Miriana BOBITCH
Bosko DUKANAC - Slobodan DESPOT
*
18 h : exposition des livres 19 h : conférence
21 h : dédicaces
*
Nouveautés L'Age d'Homme présentées :
BOBITCH Miriana - JOURNAL D'UNE JEUNE MÉNAGÈRE SERBE
Roman-chronique poignant de la Serbie au temps des guerres et de
l'embargo.
DESPOT Slobodan - BALLES PERDUES
Interventions contre l'emprise totalitaire, 1990-2002.
DUKANAC Bozidar - COMME DES MARIONNETTES AU BOUT D'UN FIL
La première grande épopée romanesque de la dislocation yougoslave.
GALLOIS P. M./VERGÈS J. - L'APARTHEID JUDICIAIRE
...ou le TPI, arme de guerre. Réfutation d'un "tribunal" de propagande.
PERGNIER Maurice - MOTS EN GUERRE
Comment les mots eux-mêmes sont "embrigadés" et piégés par la rumeur
médiatique.
SAINT-PROT Charles - LA PENSÉE FRANÇAISE
« Qu'est-ce que la France ? » Réflexion et survol des raisons
historiques du déclin français.
TACHEAU Jean-François - STRATÉGIES D'EXPANSION DU NOUVEL «EMPIRE GLOBAL»
Les Etats-Unis ont la volonté et les moyens d'un projet d'expansion
cohérent et à longue vue. Qui saura s'y opposer, et comment?
===*===
RAVENNA 30 MARZO
A 3 anni dall'aggressione NATO alla Jugoslavia:
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
Ravenna - Sabato 30 Marzo
Manifestazione
Concentramento:
ore 11 piazzale coop via faentina
assemblea:
ore 14,30 c/o sala Forum viale Berlinguer, 11
---
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
24 marzo del 1999.
Il governo dell'Ulivo, con l'appoggio del Polo, scateno' contro la
Jugoslavia, la più intensa campagna di bombardamenti dopo la seconda
guerra mondiale.
"Effetti collaterali" della "guerra umanitaria": 15mila civili
ammazzati, mezzo milione di profughi, città rase al suolo, un paese
contaminato per secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e
gettato nel baratro della miseria e costretto a diventare uno Stato
vassallo.
Dissero che quello era il prezzo per mantenere la pace e difendere la
democrazia.
7 ottobre 2001.
A soli due anni di distanza il governo del Polo (appoggiato da Ulivo-DS)
ha portato l'Italia a fianco degli USA in un'altra guerra, questa volta
nel cuore dell'Asia, contro l'Afganistan e
il suo popolo già martoriato da vent'anni di conflitti intestini. Con il
pretesto di "colpire il terrorismo" gli USA, l'Europa e la NATO hanno
esteso il loro
raggio di morte e sfruttamento.
Risultato: invece di "portare la pace e la democrazia", gli imperialisti
stanno spingendo il mondo nell'abisso di una guerra permanente, globale,
sistematica.
E più la macchina bellica avanza, più i governi borghesi adottano misure
repressive e antidemocratiche, imbavagliano l'informazione, spaventano
l'opinione pubblica per spostarla su
posizioni razziste, autoritarie e militariste, aggrediscono le
condizione di vita e di lavoro dei proletari smantellando le conquiste
passate. Gli infiniti
soprusi che il popolo palestinese deve subire, sono l'esempio più
lampante che non c'è posto, nel "nuovo ordine mondiale" targato USA-NATO
per la dignità, la libertà, la giustizia.
Non si può stare nel mezzo tra l'oppresso e l'oppressore, tra la vittima
e il carnefice!
NON SI PUO' TACERE! NON SI PUO' STARE A GUARDARE!
BASTA CON LE GUERRE E L'OPPRESSIONE DEI POPOLI!
CHIUDERE LA BASI AMERICANE IN ITALIA, IN EUROPA
E LE SERVITU' MILITARI!
RITIRARE LE TRUPPE DAI BALCANI E DA TUTTI I PAESI OCCUPATI!
SCIOGLIERE LA NATO E CONTRASTARE LA NASCITA
DEL NUOVO ESERCITO EUROPEO!
NO ALLE SPESE MILITARI E AL RIARMO!
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PRIME ADESIONI:
- Assemblea Antimperialista
- Collettivo "25 Aprile" (RA)
- Collettivi studenti (RA)
- Red Ghost (RA)
- Comitato "Gettiamo le basi" di Cervia
- Assemblea cittadina contro la guerra (Cesena)
- s.l.a. PelleRossa (Cesena)
- Comitati contro la guerra (Milano)
- Progetto Comunista (Cesena e BO)
- Federazione PRC Cesena
- Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia.
- L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
- Federazione PRC Trieste
- Convoglio di solidarietà internazionalista Giorgiana Masi
- Assemblea Romana contro la Repressione
- Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
- Soccorso Popolare (PD)
- Campo Antimperialista
- Circolo del giornale rossoperaio (RA)
- CAB (Colletivo Antimperialista Bologna)
PARIGI 27/3
RAVENNA 30/3
===*===
TORINO 25 MARZO
24 marzo 1999: inizio dei bombardamenti sulla Jugoslavia
PER NON DIMENTICARE!
Lunedi 25 marzo 2002 ore 21:00
INCONTRO PUBBLICO presso CENTRO STUDI CESPEC
Via Giolitti 27 Torino
Intervengono:
ENRICO VIGNA (appena rientrato dalla Jugoslavia)
Comitato Internazionale per la difesa di Slobodan Milosevic
"A tre anni dall'aggressione: situazione sociale e politica odierna"
COSTANZO PREVE
Tribunale Ramsey Clark per il crimini della NATO in Jugoslavia
"Bombardamenti etici, interventi umanitari e menzogne storiche"
SOS YUGOSLAVIA - Torino
Il volantino della iniziativa è stato inviato nell'area File
del gruppo crj-mailinglist. È possibile accedere al file all'indirizzo
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/torino25_3_02.jpg
===*===
PARIS 27 MARS
Grand rassemblement à l'occasion du IIIe anniversaire de
l'agression de l'OTAN contre la Yougoslavie
Mercredi 27 mars 2002,
Salle Lumière, 4 pl. Saint-Germain-des-Près
75006 Paris, dès 18 h.
Grand rassemblement
à l'occasion du IIIe anniversaire
de l'agression de l'OTAN
contre la Yougoslavie
Sur le thème:
"Le livre, arme et témoin
contre les manipulations idéologiques"
***
Avec :
Gén. Pierre-Marie GALLOIS - Me Jacques VERGES - Maurice PERGNIER
Charles SAINT-PROT - Jean-François TACHEAU - Miriana BOBITCH
Bosko DUKANAC - Slobodan DESPOT
*
18 h : exposition des livres 19 h : conférence
21 h : dédicaces
*
Nouveautés L'Age d'Homme présentées :
BOBITCH Miriana - JOURNAL D'UNE JEUNE MÉNAGÈRE SERBE
Roman-chronique poignant de la Serbie au temps des guerres et de
l'embargo.
DESPOT Slobodan - BALLES PERDUES
Interventions contre l'emprise totalitaire, 1990-2002.
DUKANAC Bozidar - COMME DES MARIONNETTES AU BOUT D'UN FIL
La première grande épopée romanesque de la dislocation yougoslave.
GALLOIS P. M./VERGÈS J. - L'APARTHEID JUDICIAIRE
...ou le TPI, arme de guerre. Réfutation d'un "tribunal" de propagande.
PERGNIER Maurice - MOTS EN GUERRE
Comment les mots eux-mêmes sont "embrigadés" et piégés par la rumeur
médiatique.
SAINT-PROT Charles - LA PENSÉE FRANÇAISE
« Qu'est-ce que la France ? » Réflexion et survol des raisons
historiques du déclin français.
TACHEAU Jean-François - STRATÉGIES D'EXPANSION DU NOUVEL «EMPIRE GLOBAL»
Les Etats-Unis ont la volonté et les moyens d'un projet d'expansion
cohérent et à longue vue. Qui saura s'y opposer, et comment?
===*===
RAVENNA 30 MARZO
A 3 anni dall'aggressione NATO alla Jugoslavia:
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
Ravenna - Sabato 30 Marzo
Manifestazione
Concentramento:
ore 11 piazzale coop via faentina
assemblea:
ore 14,30 c/o sala Forum viale Berlinguer, 11
---
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
24 marzo del 1999.
Il governo dell'Ulivo, con l'appoggio del Polo, scateno' contro la
Jugoslavia, la più intensa campagna di bombardamenti dopo la seconda
guerra mondiale.
"Effetti collaterali" della "guerra umanitaria": 15mila civili
ammazzati, mezzo milione di profughi, città rase al suolo, un paese
contaminato per secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e
gettato nel baratro della miseria e costretto a diventare uno Stato
vassallo.
Dissero che quello era il prezzo per mantenere la pace e difendere la
democrazia.
7 ottobre 2001.
A soli due anni di distanza il governo del Polo (appoggiato da Ulivo-DS)
ha portato l'Italia a fianco degli USA in un'altra guerra, questa volta
nel cuore dell'Asia, contro l'Afganistan e
il suo popolo già martoriato da vent'anni di conflitti intestini. Con il
pretesto di "colpire il terrorismo" gli USA, l'Europa e la NATO hanno
esteso il loro
raggio di morte e sfruttamento.
Risultato: invece di "portare la pace e la democrazia", gli imperialisti
stanno spingendo il mondo nell'abisso di una guerra permanente, globale,
sistematica.
E più la macchina bellica avanza, più i governi borghesi adottano misure
repressive e antidemocratiche, imbavagliano l'informazione, spaventano
l'opinione pubblica per spostarla su
posizioni razziste, autoritarie e militariste, aggrediscono le
condizione di vita e di lavoro dei proletari smantellando le conquiste
passate. Gli infiniti
soprusi che il popolo palestinese deve subire, sono l'esempio più
lampante che non c'è posto, nel "nuovo ordine mondiale" targato USA-NATO
per la dignità, la libertà, la giustizia.
Non si può stare nel mezzo tra l'oppresso e l'oppressore, tra la vittima
e il carnefice!
NON SI PUO' TACERE! NON SI PUO' STARE A GUARDARE!
BASTA CON LE GUERRE E L'OPPRESSIONE DEI POPOLI!
CHIUDERE LA BASI AMERICANE IN ITALIA, IN EUROPA
E LE SERVITU' MILITARI!
RITIRARE LE TRUPPE DAI BALCANI E DA TUTTI I PAESI OCCUPATI!
SCIOGLIERE LA NATO E CONTRASTARE LA NASCITA
DEL NUOVO ESERCITO EUROPEO!
NO ALLE SPESE MILITARI E AL RIARMO!
Coordinamento romagnolo contro la guerra e la NATO
Info / adesioni / comunicazioni / volantini :
tel. 338-9116688
momotombo@...
red-ghost@...
PRIME ADESIONI:
- Assemblea Antimperialista
- Collettivo "25 Aprile" (RA)
- Collettivi studenti (RA)
- Red Ghost (RA)
- Comitato "Gettiamo le basi" di Cervia
- Assemblea cittadina contro la guerra (Cesena)
- s.l.a. PelleRossa (Cesena)
- Comitati contro la guerra (Milano)
- Progetto Comunista (Cesena e BO)
- Federazione PRC Cesena
- Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia.
- L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
- Federazione PRC Trieste
- Convoglio di solidarietà internazionalista Giorgiana Masi
- Assemblea Romana contro la Repressione
- Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
- Soccorso Popolare (PD)
- Campo Antimperialista
- Circolo del giornale rossoperaio (RA)
- CAB (Colletivo Antimperialista Bologna)
Subject: SWISS PAPER REVEALS: HOW
KOSOVO VERIFICATION
MISSION WAS USED FOR NATO
SPYING
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:06:10 EST
From: JaredI@...
To: JaredI@...
International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic www.icdsm.org
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http://www.icdsm.org/more/liberte.htm
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The next scheduled 'witnesses' at The
Hague are from the staff of the Kosovo
Verification Mission of 1998-99. In 1999,
a Swiss newspaper revealed: HOW
KOSOVO VERIFICATION MISSION WAS USED FOR
NATO SPYING
>From the Swiss journal La Liberté, 22
April 1999
Translated by Balkans Info
[Posted 19 march 2002]
=======================================
Note, this week the NATO court at The
Hague is scheduled to bring leaders of
the Kosovo Verification Mission as
'witnesses' against Milosevic. In fact,
the true story of the Mission bears
witness of its use to prepare for the
NATO attack on Yugoslavia. For more, see
further reading.
-- ICDSM
NATO SPIES CONFESS
La Liberté, 22 April 1999
It was done ultimately in the hope of
bringing peace. October 12, 1998, the
Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic accepted the
introduction into Kosovo of 2,000
observers from the OSCE (the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in
Europe). This "verification mission" was
to monitor the cease fire between
the Serbs and the Albanians and to
facilitate the search for a political
solution to the conflict. Once finally in
place, the 1,400 observers, among
whom were a certain number of Swiss
nationals, were placed under the
direction of American ambassador William
Walker. They remained in place until
NATO decided to begin its bombing the
following March.
Today the work of this mission poses some
serious questions, if one believes
the information collected by the Tessian
(Swiss) daily Giornale del popolo
that follows:
"It was obviously not Wm Walker who
pulled the strings on this operation,"
said one of the 1,400 verification
monitors who wished to remain anonymous.
"Nor was it the European diplomats who
headed the different departments. It
was 'The Fusion', a section in the
headquarters of the OSCE in Pristina. It
was under the direction of British
general John Drewienkiewicz, one of the
vice directors of the mission.
Officially, he was in charge of
co-ordinating
security. In reality, no one knew with
any certainty what his
responsibilities were. (. . .) Little by
little we came to understand that
this was a center for the co-ordination
of information going into the hands
of American and British military
personnel."
What kind of information are we talking
about here?
"All kinds," went on our monitor-witness.
"Beginning with the movements and
positions of Yugoslav army troops, which
means the army or the paramilitary
groups. (. . .)"
This information then went to NATO?
"Certainly. If not, how would they have
known the Serbs' objectives with such
precision?"
It is also the opinion of Pascal Neuffer,
the 32 yr. old Tessian (Swiss)
geologist who was part of the Swiss
contingent of the OSCE mission during its
last month.
"We understood from the beginning that
the information collected by the OSCE
patrols during our mission was intended
to supplement the information NATO
collected by satellite. We had a very
strong feeling that we were working as
spies for the Atlantic Alliance."
The OSCE was supposed to look into human
rights violations committed by
either party, the Yugoslav soldiers or
the Serb paramilitaries, and the KLA
rebels. But the verifiers noticed that
when the collected testimony did not
correspond with the general view ( and
certainly not the official view!) of
the mission, it was often manipulated.
Pascal Neuffer again: "The information
was selected and processed by The
Fusion. When the reports were not
sufficiently critical of the actions of
the
Serb troops, they were amended, or even
shredded.
"The investigators who wrote up reports
that were too critical of the KLA,"
confirms another monitor, "were
mysteriously not assigned to new
missions.
"Just before they were evacuated, the
Verification Monitors received an order
to destroy all written documents. In
executing this task, a member of the
Italian contingent who had just been
relieved of his investigation into human
rights violations, happened upon one of
his reports denouncing the KLA. But
there was a second report attached to
his, and edited by his Albanian
interpreter who was working under
contract to the OSCE. This second report
accused the Italian of falsifying the
testimony he had collected and of being
pro-Serb! On the basis of this second
report, all the testimony the Italian
Monitor had amassed was discarded,
without any investigation or additional
research.
"The strange thing was," continues our
witness, "the Albanian interpreter's
report was addressed to The Fusion and
not, as would have been the normal
practice, to the Human Rights Section.
From this he concluded that the
interpreter was in the pay of The Fusion.
. . . Unfortunately all these
documents were destroyed. But I know for
certain that this was not an
isolated case."
AN ANTI-SERB PSYCHOSIS
Welcomed by the directors of the mission
on their arrival in Kosovo, the
Verification Monitors were surprised by
the dominant point of view that the
enemy was uniquely the Yugoslavs and the
Serbs. "During the four days of
training we received on arrival, those in
charge of security, almost all
Americans, tried subtly to instil an
anti-Serb psychosis. No one took into
consideration that the KLA might be
shooting at us. Even though this had
already happened."
A feeling shared by the Swiss Pascal
Neuffer. "The bias of the OSCE was more
than obvious. Collaboration with the
Serbian police, however legitimate, in
certain investigations was taken for
collaboration with the enemy. And then
it was forbidden. The Germans from the
Police section, under the direct
control of The Fusion, told me that their
suggestion for how to deal with
these collaborations was just to
systematically block them."
Neuffer also points out a revealing
detail. "Certain Verification Monitors in
charge of human rights violations took
part in funerals for KLA soldiers, but
if the Serb police were ambushed we
wouldn't even mention it. Obviously, only
the deaths of Albanian rebels was
considered a human rights violation. All
dead bodies found in Kosovo were
automatically assigned to be victims of
Serbian police aggression.
"The situation on the ground, on the eve
of the NATO bombing, did not justify
a military intervention," declared Pascal
Neuffer. "In many regions of
Kosovo, you didn't feel a climate of war.
All the incidents, all the battles
between Serb forces and Albanian rebels,
with the displaced populations that
ensued, were limited to mountain villages
near the strongholds of the KLA: at
the beginning of the year, in Kacanik, in
the South, and then in Podujevo. In
the important towns like Mitrovica, Pec,
Pristina or Orahovac, there weren't
any deportations. Certainly Kosovo
suffered an apartheid and an 'ethnic
cleansing'. But before the bombing it was
still limited. Many of us were
shocked when we got the order to
evacuate: we would certainly have been
able to continue our work. And the
explanations given in the Press, saying that
the mission had been compromised by Serb
threats, did not correspond to what
I had seen. Let's say rather that we were
evacuated because NATO had decided
to start bombing.
"It's a pity, because the OSCE could have
played a more important part. In
light of what has happened, we started
asking ourselves if we had ever been
intended as a peace mission or only as a
pretext to a military intervention."
The accusations against the OSCE mission
unfortunately were not limited to a
few cases of espionage or to the
manipulation of testimony. Some were much
more serious. The OSCE was not only used
(however unwittingly) to lay blame
for human rights violations exclusively
at the feet of the Serbs, or nearly
so. It might also have played an indirect
role in the reduction of tensions
that then exploded with the military
intervention of NATO.
A DRAMATIC EPISODE
A dramatic event took place to support
this theory. (. . .) The commander of
the regular Serb troops, apparently on
his own initiative, warned the OSCE
mission of the fact that the Serb police
were aware of an Albanian rebel
project to transport arms from Albania
into Kosovo. And he asked that 'the
other camp' be warned so as to avoid a
blood bath. The information was
discussed at the very heart of the
Security Council of the mission, which
decided not to transmit the message to
the KLA. The result: A few kilometres
from the Albanian border, more than 30
Kosovo Albanians were killed by Serb
forces. (This encounter took place on the
14th of December 1998, and was
reported in the international press.) (.
. .)
This was the most serious incident since
the conclusion in mid-October of
accords between Milosevic and the
international community to institute a
cease fire and to set up international
monitoring in the province.
>From the other side, it also seems that
moderates from the KLA tried to
communicate with the Serbs, through the
offices of the OSCE, certain
information about projected attacks
against Serbs. All for naught. You have
to ask yourself if there weren't some
people who just didn't want the
tensions relieved."
Sarah d'Adda, Giornale del Popolo, repris
par La Liberté, 22 avril 1999.
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KOSOVO VERIFICATION
MISSION WAS USED FOR NATO
SPYING
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:06:10 EST
From: JaredI@...
To: JaredI@...
International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic www.icdsm.org
The URL for this article is:
http://www.icdsm.org/more/liberte.htm
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=======================================
The next scheduled 'witnesses' at The
Hague are from the staff of the Kosovo
Verification Mission of 1998-99. In 1999,
a Swiss newspaper revealed: HOW
KOSOVO VERIFICATION MISSION WAS USED FOR
NATO SPYING
>From the Swiss journal La Liberté, 22
April 1999
Translated by Balkans Info
[Posted 19 march 2002]
=======================================
Note, this week the NATO court at The
Hague is scheduled to bring leaders of
the Kosovo Verification Mission as
'witnesses' against Milosevic. In fact,
the true story of the Mission bears
witness of its use to prepare for the
NATO attack on Yugoslavia. For more, see
further reading.
-- ICDSM
NATO SPIES CONFESS
La Liberté, 22 April 1999
It was done ultimately in the hope of
bringing peace. October 12, 1998, the
Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic accepted the
introduction into Kosovo of 2,000
observers from the OSCE (the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in
Europe). This "verification mission" was
to monitor the cease fire between
the Serbs and the Albanians and to
facilitate the search for a political
solution to the conflict. Once finally in
place, the 1,400 observers, among
whom were a certain number of Swiss
nationals, were placed under the
direction of American ambassador William
Walker. They remained in place until
NATO decided to begin its bombing the
following March.
Today the work of this mission poses some
serious questions, if one believes
the information collected by the Tessian
(Swiss) daily Giornale del popolo
that follows:
"It was obviously not Wm Walker who
pulled the strings on this operation,"
said one of the 1,400 verification
monitors who wished to remain anonymous.
"Nor was it the European diplomats who
headed the different departments. It
was 'The Fusion', a section in the
headquarters of the OSCE in Pristina. It
was under the direction of British
general John Drewienkiewicz, one of the
vice directors of the mission.
Officially, he was in charge of
co-ordinating
security. In reality, no one knew with
any certainty what his
responsibilities were. (. . .) Little by
little we came to understand that
this was a center for the co-ordination
of information going into the hands
of American and British military
personnel."
What kind of information are we talking
about here?
"All kinds," went on our monitor-witness.
"Beginning with the movements and
positions of Yugoslav army troops, which
means the army or the paramilitary
groups. (. . .)"
This information then went to NATO?
"Certainly. If not, how would they have
known the Serbs' objectives with such
precision?"
It is also the opinion of Pascal Neuffer,
the 32 yr. old Tessian (Swiss)
geologist who was part of the Swiss
contingent of the OSCE mission during its
last month.
"We understood from the beginning that
the information collected by the OSCE
patrols during our mission was intended
to supplement the information NATO
collected by satellite. We had a very
strong feeling that we were working as
spies for the Atlantic Alliance."
The OSCE was supposed to look into human
rights violations committed by
either party, the Yugoslav soldiers or
the Serb paramilitaries, and the KLA
rebels. But the verifiers noticed that
when the collected testimony did not
correspond with the general view ( and
certainly not the official view!) of
the mission, it was often manipulated.
Pascal Neuffer again: "The information
was selected and processed by The
Fusion. When the reports were not
sufficiently critical of the actions of
the
Serb troops, they were amended, or even
shredded.
"The investigators who wrote up reports
that were too critical of the KLA,"
confirms another monitor, "were
mysteriously not assigned to new
missions.
"Just before they were evacuated, the
Verification Monitors received an order
to destroy all written documents. In
executing this task, a member of the
Italian contingent who had just been
relieved of his investigation into human
rights violations, happened upon one of
his reports denouncing the KLA. But
there was a second report attached to
his, and edited by his Albanian
interpreter who was working under
contract to the OSCE. This second report
accused the Italian of falsifying the
testimony he had collected and of being
pro-Serb! On the basis of this second
report, all the testimony the Italian
Monitor had amassed was discarded,
without any investigation or additional
research.
"The strange thing was," continues our
witness, "the Albanian interpreter's
report was addressed to The Fusion and
not, as would have been the normal
practice, to the Human Rights Section.
From this he concluded that the
interpreter was in the pay of The Fusion.
. . . Unfortunately all these
documents were destroyed. But I know for
certain that this was not an
isolated case."
AN ANTI-SERB PSYCHOSIS
Welcomed by the directors of the mission
on their arrival in Kosovo, the
Verification Monitors were surprised by
the dominant point of view that the
enemy was uniquely the Yugoslavs and the
Serbs. "During the four days of
training we received on arrival, those in
charge of security, almost all
Americans, tried subtly to instil an
anti-Serb psychosis. No one took into
consideration that the KLA might be
shooting at us. Even though this had
already happened."
A feeling shared by the Swiss Pascal
Neuffer. "The bias of the OSCE was more
than obvious. Collaboration with the
Serbian police, however legitimate, in
certain investigations was taken for
collaboration with the enemy. And then
it was forbidden. The Germans from the
Police section, under the direct
control of The Fusion, told me that their
suggestion for how to deal with
these collaborations was just to
systematically block them."
Neuffer also points out a revealing
detail. "Certain Verification Monitors in
charge of human rights violations took
part in funerals for KLA soldiers, but
if the Serb police were ambushed we
wouldn't even mention it. Obviously, only
the deaths of Albanian rebels was
considered a human rights violation. All
dead bodies found in Kosovo were
automatically assigned to be victims of
Serbian police aggression.
"The situation on the ground, on the eve
of the NATO bombing, did not justify
a military intervention," declared Pascal
Neuffer. "In many regions of
Kosovo, you didn't feel a climate of war.
All the incidents, all the battles
between Serb forces and Albanian rebels,
with the displaced populations that
ensued, were limited to mountain villages
near the strongholds of the KLA: at
the beginning of the year, in Kacanik, in
the South, and then in Podujevo. In
the important towns like Mitrovica, Pec,
Pristina or Orahovac, there weren't
any deportations. Certainly Kosovo
suffered an apartheid and an 'ethnic
cleansing'. But before the bombing it was
still limited. Many of us were
shocked when we got the order to
evacuate: we would certainly have been
able to continue our work. And the
explanations given in the Press, saying that
the mission had been compromised by Serb
threats, did not correspond to what
I had seen. Let's say rather that we were
evacuated because NATO had decided
to start bombing.
"It's a pity, because the OSCE could have
played a more important part. In
light of what has happened, we started
asking ourselves if we had ever been
intended as a peace mission or only as a
pretext to a military intervention."
The accusations against the OSCE mission
unfortunately were not limited to a
few cases of espionage or to the
manipulation of testimony. Some were much
more serious. The OSCE was not only used
(however unwittingly) to lay blame
for human rights violations exclusively
at the feet of the Serbs, or nearly
so. It might also have played an indirect
role in the reduction of tensions
that then exploded with the military
intervention of NATO.
A DRAMATIC EPISODE
A dramatic event took place to support
this theory. (. . .) The commander of
the regular Serb troops, apparently on
his own initiative, warned the OSCE
mission of the fact that the Serb police
were aware of an Albanian rebel
project to transport arms from Albania
into Kosovo. And he asked that 'the
other camp' be warned so as to avoid a
blood bath. The information was
discussed at the very heart of the
Security Council of the mission, which
decided not to transmit the message to
the KLA. The result: A few kilometres
from the Albanian border, more than 30
Kosovo Albanians were killed by Serb
forces. (This encounter took place on the
14th of December 1998, and was
reported in the international press.) (.
. .)
This was the most serious incident since
the conclusion in mid-October of
accords between Milosevic and the
international community to institute a
cease fire and to set up international
monitoring in the province.
>From the other side, it also seems that
moderates from the KLA tried to
communicate with the Serbs, through the
offices of the OSCE, certain
information about projected attacks
against Serbs. All for naught. You have
to ask yourself if there weren't some
people who just didn't want the
tensions relieved."
Sarah d'Adda, Giornale del Popolo, repris
par La Liberté, 22 avril 1999.
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Yugoslav Army On Defiant Arrest of US Diplomat and
Serb Official:
"WE HAVE THE RIGHT & DUTY TO ARREST SPIES"
With Comments by Jared Israel & Relevant Documents
[Posted 19 march 2002]
=======================================
Last Thursday night Yugoslav Army counter-intelligence
swooped down and arrested Assistant Serbian Prime
Minister Momcilo Perisic and US Diplomat John David
Neighbor. The Army charged that Perisic had been
caught in flagrante delicto handing over Yugoslav
state military secrets.
This stunning action was met with fury by the US State
Department and top Serbian officials. (Yugoslav
President Kostunica responded in his usual two-faced
fashion, first criticizing and then seemingly
defending the Army action, which enjoys overwhelming
public support in Yugoslavia.)
In another article, we shall examine the pious claims
made by US and Serbian officials, that the Army
violated Serbian or International law in the arrests.
We will show that these charges are false and
hypocritical.
Below is the official Yugoslav Army statement,
reprinted from their Website.
There is now overwhelming evidence that the Serbian
government is being run out of the US Embassy in
Belgrade. This is documented in two brief news
articles, posted after the YA statement.
As United States officials increasingly assert their
right to dictate to other countries, many people
around the world feared that resistance had been
crushed in Yugoslavia. They were therefore thrilled to
see the Yugoslav Army acting like, well, the Yugoslav
Army, that is, standing up to bullies and thereby
showing us all how to deal with this new Empire that
threatens ordinary people everywhere, including in the
USA - this New World Order.
Below is the Yugoslav Army statement, followed by most
interesting supporting evidence.
-- Jared Israel
YA [Yugoslav Army] General Staff Information Service
Public Announcement
March 18th 2002
In compliance with the Law on criminal charges and the
YA security service regulations, the YA security
service and military police units arrested Momcilo
Perisic March 14th on grounded suspicion of committing
a criminal act of espionage, which provoked various
reactions in the local and international public.
Following the event, the YA General Staff Information
Service issued a statement March 16th pointing to the
following facts:
"By monitoring a person and his security-related
activity regarding the leaking of secret information,
the YA security service established that the person
was keeping contact with Momcilo Perisic. There are
irrefutable proof[s] that the person is Lieutenant
Colonel Miodrag Sekulic, who illegally gave away
highly confidential documents significant to the
defense of the country to Momcilo Perisic. According
to the procured evidence, Perisic handed over some of
the documents to a foreign citizen. During one of such
actions, March 14th at 7.35 p.m., the YA security
service thwarted the illegal activity.
The YA security service procured evidence which
confirmed grounded suspicion that the committed act
was the act of espionage described in the Yugoslav
Criminal Law Paragraph 1, Article 128. In compliance
with the Supreme Court decision, some of the evidence
could be presented in public.
It is a constitutional and legal duty of every
citizen, institution and department in charge to,
among other things, take measures against leaking of
state, military or other secret information.
The YA security service and military police units are
acting at all times, including this one, in compliance
with the Law on criminal charges and the YA security
service regulations.
All legally defined conditions for Momcilo Perisic,
temporary in custody, to be arrested and placed in a
military pretrial confinement have been provided for,
because he was caught perpetrating a criminal act,
which is punishable by more than five years in prison,
according to the Law, regardless of any existing
immunity.
Further proceedings are under the exclusive
jurisdiction of military judicial organs under the
authority of the Yugoslav Defense Ministry, as a
competent Federal Government agency."
Reprinted from Yugoslav Army website at www.vj.yu
***
=================
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE THAT US OPERATIVES DOMINATE
CURRENT SERBIAN AUTHORITIES
=================
(1) Regarding the charge that the Serbian government
is being run out of the US Embassy in Belgrade,
consider the following two texts.
Text Number One - Supposed Transcript of Conversation
Between Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djinjic and
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica. Depicts US
Ambassador Montgomery as guiding their actions.
This conversation supposedly took place just before
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was
abducted and taken to The Hague 'tribunal.'
It is important to note that this text was leaked to
the press by Djindjic to prove that, contrary to
statements by Mr. Kostunica, the two men had acted
together in planning the kidnapping of former
President Milosevic.
Whether the document is valid, by floating it Djindjic
has confirmed that the US is basically running "his"
government.
Alleged Transcript of Conversation Between Djindjic
and Kostunica Just Prior to Milosevic's Kidnapping
The following, from a Belgrade newspaper, June 30,
2001, appears as a separate text at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/partners2.htm
18:16 NEDELJNI TELEGRAF - the Exclusive Discussion
between President Kostunica and PM Djindjic on
Extradition of Milosevic
The NEDELJNI TELEGRAF Belgrade weekly in its special
number dealing with extradition of Slobodan Milosevic
to The Hague Tribunal, publishes a number of exclusive
pictures and the transcript of the phone discussion
about extradition between Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica and Serb PM Zoran Djindjic before the
departure of the latter to talks with William
Montgomery, the U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia.
[START TRANSCRIPT FROM NEDELJNI TELEGRAF]
PM Djindjic: "What shall I say to Montgomery?"
President Kostunica remains silent...
PM Djindjic: "Very well then, in this case I will
resign, and you rule alone!"
President Kostunica: "Come on, don't rush, we need no
quarrels."
PM Djindjic: "All right, but what shall I say? Yes or
no?"
President Kostunica (after a pause): "Yes."
[END TRANSCRIPT FROM NEDELJNI TELEGRAF]
*****
Along similar lines, consider the BBC report of US
Ambassador to Yugoslavia Montgomery's reaction to the
arrests by the Yugoslav Army.
These arrests involve two most basic attributes of
national sovereignty. First any sovereign state has
the right to protect state secrets. Second, any
sovereign state must have the right to indict citizens
accused of treason without judicial instructions from
the foreign state allegedly involved in that treason.
As you may recall, Austria launched World War I after
Serbia refused to carry out Austrian demands regarding
the Serbian judiciary. The Serbian government
correctly viewed this as an illegal attempt to take
control of fundamental sovereign functions.
But Montgomery, who represents the country accused of
organizing this current espionage, not only dictates
how Yugoslavia should deal with Mr. Perisic, the
Serbian official charged, but also demands that Serbia
arrest those behind the Yugoslav Army action and
indeed that "all (!) those responsible for the Army]
arrest be punished as a matter of urgency."
Note the word, "punished."
Montgomery asserts his right to dictate not only
arrests, not only conviction, but also punishment!
This raises the question, should Montgomery be called
an "Ambassador?" Perhaps an ancient word better
describes his job in Yugoslavia. Definition:
PRO·CON·SUL
pro·con·sul (pro-kòn¹sel) noun
1. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman
Republic and Roman Empire.
2. A high administrator in one of the modern colonial
empires.
-- American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English
Language, Third Edition (c) 1996 by Houghton Mifflin
Company.
Here is the BBC dispatch.
[START BBC DISPATCH]
BBC Monitoring Europe - Political
Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
March 16, 2002, Saturday
Questioning of Serbian deputy premier accused of
espionage completed
SOURCE: Radio B92, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1000 gmt
16 Mar 02
Text of report by Belgrade-based Radio B92 on 16 March
B92 has learnt from unofficial sources that the
questioning of Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Momcilo
Perisic was completed this morning. It is expected
that he will be released by the military court
sometime in the early afternoon.
We have also learnt that US Ambassador to Yugoslavia
William Montgomery met Yugoslav Foreign Ministry
officials again today and reiterated his strong
protest against the arrest of a US diplomat and of
Momcilo Perisic, and requested that all those
responsible for the arrest be punished as a matter of
urgency.
March 16, 2002
[END BBC DISPATCH]
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Yugoslav Army On Defiant Arrest of US Diplomat and
Serb Official:
"WE HAVE THE RIGHT & DUTY TO ARREST SPIES"
With Comments by Jared Israel & Relevant Documents
[Posted 19 march 2002]
=======================================
Last Thursday night Yugoslav Army counter-intelligence
swooped down and arrested Assistant Serbian Prime
Minister Momcilo Perisic and US Diplomat John David
Neighbor. The Army charged that Perisic had been
caught in flagrante delicto handing over Yugoslav
state military secrets.
This stunning action was met with fury by the US State
Department and top Serbian officials. (Yugoslav
President Kostunica responded in his usual two-faced
fashion, first criticizing and then seemingly
defending the Army action, which enjoys overwhelming
public support in Yugoslavia.)
In another article, we shall examine the pious claims
made by US and Serbian officials, that the Army
violated Serbian or International law in the arrests.
We will show that these charges are false and
hypocritical.
Below is the official Yugoslav Army statement,
reprinted from their Website.
There is now overwhelming evidence that the Serbian
government is being run out of the US Embassy in
Belgrade. This is documented in two brief news
articles, posted after the YA statement.
As United States officials increasingly assert their
right to dictate to other countries, many people
around the world feared that resistance had been
crushed in Yugoslavia. They were therefore thrilled to
see the Yugoslav Army acting like, well, the Yugoslav
Army, that is, standing up to bullies and thereby
showing us all how to deal with this new Empire that
threatens ordinary people everywhere, including in the
USA - this New World Order.
Below is the Yugoslav Army statement, followed by most
interesting supporting evidence.
-- Jared Israel
YA [Yugoslav Army] General Staff Information Service
Public Announcement
March 18th 2002
In compliance with the Law on criminal charges and the
YA security service regulations, the YA security
service and military police units arrested Momcilo
Perisic March 14th on grounded suspicion of committing
a criminal act of espionage, which provoked various
reactions in the local and international public.
Following the event, the YA General Staff Information
Service issued a statement March 16th pointing to the
following facts:
"By monitoring a person and his security-related
activity regarding the leaking of secret information,
the YA security service established that the person
was keeping contact with Momcilo Perisic. There are
irrefutable proof[s] that the person is Lieutenant
Colonel Miodrag Sekulic, who illegally gave away
highly confidential documents significant to the
defense of the country to Momcilo Perisic. According
to the procured evidence, Perisic handed over some of
the documents to a foreign citizen. During one of such
actions, March 14th at 7.35 p.m., the YA security
service thwarted the illegal activity.
The YA security service procured evidence which
confirmed grounded suspicion that the committed act
was the act of espionage described in the Yugoslav
Criminal Law Paragraph 1, Article 128. In compliance
with the Supreme Court decision, some of the evidence
could be presented in public.
It is a constitutional and legal duty of every
citizen, institution and department in charge to,
among other things, take measures against leaking of
state, military or other secret information.
The YA security service and military police units are
acting at all times, including this one, in compliance
with the Law on criminal charges and the YA security
service regulations.
All legally defined conditions for Momcilo Perisic,
temporary in custody, to be arrested and placed in a
military pretrial confinement have been provided for,
because he was caught perpetrating a criminal act,
which is punishable by more than five years in prison,
according to the Law, regardless of any existing
immunity.
Further proceedings are under the exclusive
jurisdiction of military judicial organs under the
authority of the Yugoslav Defense Ministry, as a
competent Federal Government agency."
Reprinted from Yugoslav Army website at www.vj.yu
***
=================
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE THAT US OPERATIVES DOMINATE
CURRENT SERBIAN AUTHORITIES
=================
(1) Regarding the charge that the Serbian government
is being run out of the US Embassy in Belgrade,
consider the following two texts.
Text Number One - Supposed Transcript of Conversation
Between Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djinjic and
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica. Depicts US
Ambassador Montgomery as guiding their actions.
This conversation supposedly took place just before
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was
abducted and taken to The Hague 'tribunal.'
It is important to note that this text was leaked to
the press by Djindjic to prove that, contrary to
statements by Mr. Kostunica, the two men had acted
together in planning the kidnapping of former
President Milosevic.
Whether the document is valid, by floating it Djindjic
has confirmed that the US is basically running "his"
government.
Alleged Transcript of Conversation Between Djindjic
and Kostunica Just Prior to Milosevic's Kidnapping
The following, from a Belgrade newspaper, June 30,
2001, appears as a separate text at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/partners2.htm
18:16 NEDELJNI TELEGRAF - the Exclusive Discussion
between President Kostunica and PM Djindjic on
Extradition of Milosevic
The NEDELJNI TELEGRAF Belgrade weekly in its special
number dealing with extradition of Slobodan Milosevic
to The Hague Tribunal, publishes a number of exclusive
pictures and the transcript of the phone discussion
about extradition between Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica and Serb PM Zoran Djindjic before the
departure of the latter to talks with William
Montgomery, the U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia.
[START TRANSCRIPT FROM NEDELJNI TELEGRAF]
PM Djindjic: "What shall I say to Montgomery?"
President Kostunica remains silent...
PM Djindjic: "Very well then, in this case I will
resign, and you rule alone!"
President Kostunica: "Come on, don't rush, we need no
quarrels."
PM Djindjic: "All right, but what shall I say? Yes or
no?"
President Kostunica (after a pause): "Yes."
[END TRANSCRIPT FROM NEDELJNI TELEGRAF]
*****
Along similar lines, consider the BBC report of US
Ambassador to Yugoslavia Montgomery's reaction to the
arrests by the Yugoslav Army.
These arrests involve two most basic attributes of
national sovereignty. First any sovereign state has
the right to protect state secrets. Second, any
sovereign state must have the right to indict citizens
accused of treason without judicial instructions from
the foreign state allegedly involved in that treason.
As you may recall, Austria launched World War I after
Serbia refused to carry out Austrian demands regarding
the Serbian judiciary. The Serbian government
correctly viewed this as an illegal attempt to take
control of fundamental sovereign functions.
But Montgomery, who represents the country accused of
organizing this current espionage, not only dictates
how Yugoslavia should deal with Mr. Perisic, the
Serbian official charged, but also demands that Serbia
arrest those behind the Yugoslav Army action and
indeed that "all (!) those responsible for the Army]
arrest be punished as a matter of urgency."
Note the word, "punished."
Montgomery asserts his right to dictate not only
arrests, not only conviction, but also punishment!
This raises the question, should Montgomery be called
an "Ambassador?" Perhaps an ancient word better
describes his job in Yugoslavia. Definition:
PRO·CON·SUL
pro·con·sul (pro-kòn¹sel) noun
1. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman
Republic and Roman Empire.
2. A high administrator in one of the modern colonial
empires.
-- American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English
Language, Third Edition (c) 1996 by Houghton Mifflin
Company.
Here is the BBC dispatch.
[START BBC DISPATCH]
BBC Monitoring Europe - Political
Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
March 16, 2002, Saturday
Questioning of Serbian deputy premier accused of
espionage completed
SOURCE: Radio B92, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1000 gmt
16 Mar 02
Text of report by Belgrade-based Radio B92 on 16 March
B92 has learnt from unofficial sources that the
questioning of Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Momcilo
Perisic was completed this morning. It is expected
that he will be released by the military court
sometime in the early afternoon.
We have also learnt that US Ambassador to Yugoslavia
William Montgomery met Yugoslav Foreign Ministry
officials again today and reiterated his strong
protest against the arrest of a US diplomat and of
Momcilo Perisic, and requested that all those
responsible for the arrest be punished as a matter of
urgency.
March 16, 2002
[END BBC DISPATCH]
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Subject: da Coord.RSU - RITORNO DALLA ZASTAVA
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:38:57 +0100
From: "Rossi Alma" <alma@...>
Vi inviamo i primi materiali sul viaggio appena concluso alla
zastava di Kragujevac per consegnare le adozioni a distanza.
Seguiranno altre informazioni più approfondite.
Per i titolari delle nuove adozioni procederemo da domani ad
organizzare la spedizione delle schede relative ai bambini adottati.
ciao
Alma Rossi - email - alma@...
indirizzo internet del Coordinamento RSU - http://www.ecn.org/coord.rsu/
=============
L'intervento, a nome del coordinamento Rsu,
fatto da Alma Rossi all'assemblea dei
lavoratori della Zastava, tenutasi il 17
marzo 2002 in occasione della consegna
delle adozioni a distanza raccolte a
favore delle famiglie dei lavoratori tutt'ora
senza lavoro e senza salario a causa dei
bombardamenti delle fabbriche della
Jugoslavia.
Innanzitutto vi portiamo l'abbraccio ed
il saluto dei lavoratori Italiani
Oggi portiamo le adozioni a distanza di
lavoratori, famiglie, studenti di tante
città.
Bari - Torino - Milano - Roma - Firenze -
Pistoia - Siena - Genova - Venezia -
Padova - Trieste - Piacenza - Lodi, così
come ieri sono state portate le adozioni
dei lavoratori di Lecco ed a gennaio
quelle dei lavoratori di Torino. Alcune
adozioni che consegniamo oggi sono nuove,
ed altre sono dei rinnovi.
Anche se siamo distanti tanti chilometri,
pur tra tante difficoltà, non dovete
pensare che i lavoratori Italiani non vi
sentano vicini e fratelli.
Anche oggi vogliamo dirvi quanto siete
presenti nei nostri pensieri.
Così come vi abbiamo avuto nei nostri pensieri
Quando sono iniziati i bombardamenti sulle vostre città.
Quando ci giungevano le notizie dei bombardamenti sulle fabbriche
Quando abbiamo organizzato lotte e scioperi contro la
guerra, per fermare i bombardamenti
Non si è trattato solo di solidarietà,
ma di rabbia. Di tanta rabbia.
Rabbia contro una guerra assurda. Una guerra
che non abbiamo condiviso, che sapevamo
essere solo una guerra per l'egemonia
economica, territoriale e politica.
Una guerra che ha colpito soprattutto i
lavoratori, i pensionati e le loro famiglie.
Li ha colpiti nel loro diritto al lavoro,
al salario, ad una aspettativa
previdenziale, ad una degna assistenza
sanitaria. Già solo per questo la Nato, ed i
governi che la compongono, andrebbero
condannati per crimini contro l'umanità.
Una guerra che ha segnato un punto di svolta
che ha colpito non solo voi ma anche i
lavoratori Italiani ed Europei, nel loro
diritto alla protesta ed alla critica, nei
valori che stanno alla radice del mondo del lavoro.
Vogliamo qui ricordare che in questi giorni
15 tra lavoratori e studenti sono sotto
processo a Firenze per una manifestazione
contro la guerra tenutasi in quella città
il 13 maggio del 1999.
La guerra, la subordinazione degli stati
europei ai progetti di egemonia americana
ha portato anche ad una svolta di destra nei
nostri governi. Una svolta che si è
resa ancora più esplicita in occasione dei
tragici avvenimenti del luglio scorso a
Genova, dove è stata repressa in modo
"fascista" una grande manifestazione che aveva
tra i suoi contenuti anche la protesta
contro la guerra e le mire di egemonia dei
"grandi della terra".
Una svolta che stanno pagando anche e
soprattutto i lavoratori a cui si chiede solo
di stare zitti, di subordinarsi alle politiche
economiche di sostegno ai profitti.
Anche in questo siamo vicini.
I lavoratori Italiani sono oggi impegnati
in un difficile scontro col Governo. Un
Governo che vuole imporre la libertà di
licenziare, che vuole ridurre i salari e le
pensioni, che vuole dividere ed indebolire
i lavoratori. E contro questo Governo
stiamo lottando e faremo a giorni un grande
sciopero generale. Ma non basterà !!
Così come voi siete oggi impegnati in una
altrettanto difficile vertenza per la
difesa degli stessi diritti per cui lottiamo
noi. Per il diritto al lavoro, al
salario, ad un futuro degno per voi e per i vostri figli.
Siate vicini a noi nella nostra lotta, così
come noi siamo e saremo vicino alla vostra lotta.
La nostra non è dunque semplice solidarietà,
ma è uguaglianza nell'essere lavoratori
che lottano per gli stessi diritti, contro
lo stesso padrone ... "il profitto" in
qualunque forma questo si presenta.
Ci piace pensare a noi tutti non come
lavoratori di diverse nazionalità, ma
semplicemente come lavoratori, perché
è questo che ci fa più vicini ... e più forti,
che ci fa uguali e amici.
E di questo dobbiamo ringraziare la Rajka
che nel suo infaticabile lavoro, nelle
tante riunioni ed assemblee fatte nelle
fabbriche e tra i lavoratori Italiani ci ha
aiutati a capire tante cose ed a sentirci vicini a Voi.
Dobbiamo ringraziare quanti, tra questi
soprattutto la Milia per il testardo e
meticoloso lavoro organizzativo grazie al
quale ci ha aiutati a tenere vive dopo
tanti anni, la rete di relazioni che hanno
fatto vivere, ed ancora fanno vivere
questo nostro progetto.
Dobbiamo ringraziare soprattutto Voi che
nonostante le difficoltà in cui vi trovate.
Riuscite a tenere vive le energie necessarie
per difendere il vostro sindacato.
Impariamo questo dalla nostra esperienza
ma anche dagli insegnamenti di quanti prima
di noi hanno capito e praticato quell'internazionalismo
che vuole insegnare a tutti
che il mondo non si divide in Italiani,
Jugoslavi ecc., ma che si divide in
lavoratori e padroni, in chi rivendica la
soddisfazione dei suoi bisogni e chi
invece impone i suoi interessi sopra a tutto.
Impariamo che noi e voi siamo fratelli in
nome di quella uguaglianza, di quella
voglia di giustizia sociale che nessuna
guerra e nessun potente potrà mai
sconfiggere.
Ed anche se oggi dobbiamo costruire questa
speranza in mezzo a tante e maggiori
difficoltà non smettiamo di volere un mondo
migliore, non smettiamo di lottare.
E ancora questo voglio dire ai bambini
ed alle bambine, ai ragazzi ed alle ragazze
oggi presenti.
Siate fieri di avere questi genitori.
Non potevate averne di migliori.
In loro, nel cuore, nei sogni e nell'intelligenza
di ogni lavoratore c'è la
speranza, c'è il coraggio di chi vuole cambiare il mondo.
Una cosa che solo le grandi donne ed i grandi uomini possono fare.
Questa grande amicizia che ci unisce
sconfiggerà il grigio pensiero di chi,
sentendosi forte, sa solo dimostrare
arroganza, violenza e stupidità.
Tutti noi, invece, (anche voi, bambini e
bambine) siamo le piccole formiche che,
unite, sapranno far crollare la grande e
marcia quercia "dell'imperatore", così che
tutte le piccole piantine del mondo
torneranno a vedere il sole.
=================
Marzo 2002 - Ritorno dalla Zastava di Kragujevac
Siamo partiti il 15 marzo da Firenze
raccogliendo altri per la strada. Alla fine la
delegazione era formata da 7 compagni.
Oltre alla sottoscritta, Patrizia da Firenze,
Elvira e Lino di Milano, Milena di Bari,
Enzo di Padova e Gilberto da Trieste.
Siamo arrivati la mattina del 16 a Belgrado
per consegnare materiali
all'orfanotrofio ed abbiamo poi proseguito per Kragujevac.
Il 17 marzo sono state convocate due
assemblee (una la mattina ed una il pomeriggio)
per la consegna delle adozioni a distanza
alle famiglie dei lavoratori Zastava.
Immediatamente dopo siamo ripartiti per l'Italia.
Quello che abbiamo poturo verificare è
un peggioramento della situazione in cui
versano le famiglie, ma anche una rinnovata
capacità di iniziativa da parte del
sindacato in difesa dei diritti dei
lavoratori e per conquistare prospettive
produttive per la fabbrica.
I lavoratori attualmente impiegati in
azienda sono 15.000 ma non lavorano tutti i
giorni. Sono praticamente in una sorta di
cassa integrazione a rotazione che li
impegna nei pochi reparti attivi, sopratutto
l'utensileria (dal punto di vista del
salario ciò vuol dire che non raggiungono
i 200 euro al mese). La produzione di auto
e camion è praticamente simbolica ed a
oggi non ha prospettive di ripresa anche
perchè con le nuove leggi del Governo è
stata liberalizzata l'importazione di auto
nuove ed usate (noi stessi abbiamo contato
alla frontiera e lungo l'autostrada
decine di Tir cariche di auto che venivano
sopratutto dall'Italia e dalla germania).
Oltre a questi, per effetto della
ristrutturazione in corso altri 9.200 lavoratori
sono stati collocati in esubero (quindi pur
mantenendo la titolarità del posto di
lavoro non sono mai chiamati a lavorare e
rimangono in una situazione paragonabile
alla nostra cassa integrazione a zero ore
con una indennità mensile che non
raggiunge i 25 euro al mese) e 3.500 sono
stati licenziati, percependo così una
indennità di disoccupazione pari a 8/10 euro al mese.
A questi si aggiungono gli oltre 800
lavoratori della Zastava di Pec (in Kosovo)
che, in quanto di nazionalità Serba, sono
stati cacciati dalla fabbrica di Pec.
Oggi questi lavoratori (praticamente
senza reddito) sono assistiti dal sindacato
zastava di Kragujevac per quel che può fare.
Veramente commovente è stata la
consegna di una adozione alla vedova di
uno di questi lavoratori, ucciso a Pec
dall'UCK mentre era al lavoro, durante una
delle varie iniziative squadriste
organizzate per cacciare i lavoratori Serbi
dalla fabbrica. A questo riguardo è bene
sottolineare che alla Zastava di Kragujevac
lavorano anche lavoratori
Kosovari-Albanesi che non hanno mai subito
alcuna violenza. Ciò a dimostrazione di
come non è dal mondo del lavoro che nascono
i nazionalismi ed i razzismi.
Durante la nostra permanenza abbiamo inoltre
potuto farci un quadro aprossimativo
della situazione sindacale.
Si sono tenuti in questi giorni i rinnovi
delle cariche sindacali in Zastava. Il
risultato è che il "Sindacato autonomo
Zastava" ha mantenuto il 90% dei consensi tra
i lavoratori iscritti riuscendo così a
riconfermarsi il primo sindacato della
fabbrica. Gli altri sindacati (nati per
scissione dal sindacato autonomo zastava e
sostenuti dalle varie forze politiche presenti
nel Governo e nella amministrazione
comunale) si sono dimostrati del tutto minoritari.
Oggi il sindacato autonomo zastava si trova
di fronte a problemi enormi. Deve tenere
uniti i lavoratori nonostante le forti
pressioni alla disgregazione del tessuto
sociale e deve lottare per costruire una
prospettiva di lavoro per il maggior numero
di lavoratori.
Un compito immane che si scontra con una
politica aziendale che si limita a gestire
in termini liquidatori una linea di vendita
al capitale estero dei pochi pezzi di
fabbrica rimasti attivi (l'utensileria
sopratutto) e con un Governo che ha
approntato una politiva sociale ed economica
non dissimile da quella che stiamo
contrastando in Italia contro il Governo
Berlusconi. Anche in Jugoslavia sono
all'ordine del giorno lo smantellamento del
sistema contrattuale nazionale, i
diritti e le tutele, le pensioni, la libertà
di licenziamento. Significativo
l'attacco alle tutele per le lavoratrici
madri che oggi si sono viste decurtare a 3
mesi il periodo di copertura al 100% contro
i 5 in vigore precedentemente.
Continua inoltre l'impennata dei prezzi.
Sopratutto di luce, gas ed acqua.
L'apertura dell'embargo se ha favorito
l'importazione delle merci ne ha aumentato i
prezzi che rendono le merci irraggiungibili
per un normale reddito da lavoro.
Particolarmente colpite sono le città operaie
(Kragujevac, Pancevo, Nis) in cui la
totale distruzione delle fabbriche da cui
dipendeva la loro economia le ha cacciate
in una fascia di vera e propria povertà.
Contro tutto questo anche in Jugoslavia si
stanno facendo manifestazioni e scioperi,
nonostante le enormi difficoltà in cui
versa il mondo del lavoro.
Questa è solo una prima relazione di resoconto
del viaggio. Seguiranno ulteriori
approfondimenti anche a cura degli altri partecipanti il viaggio.
Ciao
Alma Rossi.
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:38:57 +0100
From: "Rossi Alma" <alma@...>
Vi inviamo i primi materiali sul viaggio appena concluso alla
zastava di Kragujevac per consegnare le adozioni a distanza.
Seguiranno altre informazioni più approfondite.
Per i titolari delle nuove adozioni procederemo da domani ad
organizzare la spedizione delle schede relative ai bambini adottati.
ciao
Alma Rossi - email - alma@...
indirizzo internet del Coordinamento RSU - http://www.ecn.org/coord.rsu/
=============
L'intervento, a nome del coordinamento Rsu,
fatto da Alma Rossi all'assemblea dei
lavoratori della Zastava, tenutasi il 17
marzo 2002 in occasione della consegna
delle adozioni a distanza raccolte a
favore delle famiglie dei lavoratori tutt'ora
senza lavoro e senza salario a causa dei
bombardamenti delle fabbriche della
Jugoslavia.
Innanzitutto vi portiamo l'abbraccio ed
il saluto dei lavoratori Italiani
Oggi portiamo le adozioni a distanza di
lavoratori, famiglie, studenti di tante
città.
Bari - Torino - Milano - Roma - Firenze -
Pistoia - Siena - Genova - Venezia -
Padova - Trieste - Piacenza - Lodi, così
come ieri sono state portate le adozioni
dei lavoratori di Lecco ed a gennaio
quelle dei lavoratori di Torino. Alcune
adozioni che consegniamo oggi sono nuove,
ed altre sono dei rinnovi.
Anche se siamo distanti tanti chilometri,
pur tra tante difficoltà, non dovete
pensare che i lavoratori Italiani non vi
sentano vicini e fratelli.
Anche oggi vogliamo dirvi quanto siete
presenti nei nostri pensieri.
Così come vi abbiamo avuto nei nostri pensieri
Quando sono iniziati i bombardamenti sulle vostre città.
Quando ci giungevano le notizie dei bombardamenti sulle fabbriche
Quando abbiamo organizzato lotte e scioperi contro la
guerra, per fermare i bombardamenti
Non si è trattato solo di solidarietà,
ma di rabbia. Di tanta rabbia.
Rabbia contro una guerra assurda. Una guerra
che non abbiamo condiviso, che sapevamo
essere solo una guerra per l'egemonia
economica, territoriale e politica.
Una guerra che ha colpito soprattutto i
lavoratori, i pensionati e le loro famiglie.
Li ha colpiti nel loro diritto al lavoro,
al salario, ad una aspettativa
previdenziale, ad una degna assistenza
sanitaria. Già solo per questo la Nato, ed i
governi che la compongono, andrebbero
condannati per crimini contro l'umanità.
Una guerra che ha segnato un punto di svolta
che ha colpito non solo voi ma anche i
lavoratori Italiani ed Europei, nel loro
diritto alla protesta ed alla critica, nei
valori che stanno alla radice del mondo del lavoro.
Vogliamo qui ricordare che in questi giorni
15 tra lavoratori e studenti sono sotto
processo a Firenze per una manifestazione
contro la guerra tenutasi in quella città
il 13 maggio del 1999.
La guerra, la subordinazione degli stati
europei ai progetti di egemonia americana
ha portato anche ad una svolta di destra nei
nostri governi. Una svolta che si è
resa ancora più esplicita in occasione dei
tragici avvenimenti del luglio scorso a
Genova, dove è stata repressa in modo
"fascista" una grande manifestazione che aveva
tra i suoi contenuti anche la protesta
contro la guerra e le mire di egemonia dei
"grandi della terra".
Una svolta che stanno pagando anche e
soprattutto i lavoratori a cui si chiede solo
di stare zitti, di subordinarsi alle politiche
economiche di sostegno ai profitti.
Anche in questo siamo vicini.
I lavoratori Italiani sono oggi impegnati
in un difficile scontro col Governo. Un
Governo che vuole imporre la libertà di
licenziare, che vuole ridurre i salari e le
pensioni, che vuole dividere ed indebolire
i lavoratori. E contro questo Governo
stiamo lottando e faremo a giorni un grande
sciopero generale. Ma non basterà !!
Così come voi siete oggi impegnati in una
altrettanto difficile vertenza per la
difesa degli stessi diritti per cui lottiamo
noi. Per il diritto al lavoro, al
salario, ad un futuro degno per voi e per i vostri figli.
Siate vicini a noi nella nostra lotta, così
come noi siamo e saremo vicino alla vostra lotta.
La nostra non è dunque semplice solidarietà,
ma è uguaglianza nell'essere lavoratori
che lottano per gli stessi diritti, contro
lo stesso padrone ... "il profitto" in
qualunque forma questo si presenta.
Ci piace pensare a noi tutti non come
lavoratori di diverse nazionalità, ma
semplicemente come lavoratori, perché
è questo che ci fa più vicini ... e più forti,
che ci fa uguali e amici.
E di questo dobbiamo ringraziare la Rajka
che nel suo infaticabile lavoro, nelle
tante riunioni ed assemblee fatte nelle
fabbriche e tra i lavoratori Italiani ci ha
aiutati a capire tante cose ed a sentirci vicini a Voi.
Dobbiamo ringraziare quanti, tra questi
soprattutto la Milia per il testardo e
meticoloso lavoro organizzativo grazie al
quale ci ha aiutati a tenere vive dopo
tanti anni, la rete di relazioni che hanno
fatto vivere, ed ancora fanno vivere
questo nostro progetto.
Dobbiamo ringraziare soprattutto Voi che
nonostante le difficoltà in cui vi trovate.
Riuscite a tenere vive le energie necessarie
per difendere il vostro sindacato.
Impariamo questo dalla nostra esperienza
ma anche dagli insegnamenti di quanti prima
di noi hanno capito e praticato quell'internazionalismo
che vuole insegnare a tutti
che il mondo non si divide in Italiani,
Jugoslavi ecc., ma che si divide in
lavoratori e padroni, in chi rivendica la
soddisfazione dei suoi bisogni e chi
invece impone i suoi interessi sopra a tutto.
Impariamo che noi e voi siamo fratelli in
nome di quella uguaglianza, di quella
voglia di giustizia sociale che nessuna
guerra e nessun potente potrà mai
sconfiggere.
Ed anche se oggi dobbiamo costruire questa
speranza in mezzo a tante e maggiori
difficoltà non smettiamo di volere un mondo
migliore, non smettiamo di lottare.
E ancora questo voglio dire ai bambini
ed alle bambine, ai ragazzi ed alle ragazze
oggi presenti.
Siate fieri di avere questi genitori.
Non potevate averne di migliori.
In loro, nel cuore, nei sogni e nell'intelligenza
di ogni lavoratore c'è la
speranza, c'è il coraggio di chi vuole cambiare il mondo.
Una cosa che solo le grandi donne ed i grandi uomini possono fare.
Questa grande amicizia che ci unisce
sconfiggerà il grigio pensiero di chi,
sentendosi forte, sa solo dimostrare
arroganza, violenza e stupidità.
Tutti noi, invece, (anche voi, bambini e
bambine) siamo le piccole formiche che,
unite, sapranno far crollare la grande e
marcia quercia "dell'imperatore", così che
tutte le piccole piantine del mondo
torneranno a vedere il sole.
=================
Marzo 2002 - Ritorno dalla Zastava di Kragujevac
Siamo partiti il 15 marzo da Firenze
raccogliendo altri per la strada. Alla fine la
delegazione era formata da 7 compagni.
Oltre alla sottoscritta, Patrizia da Firenze,
Elvira e Lino di Milano, Milena di Bari,
Enzo di Padova e Gilberto da Trieste.
Siamo arrivati la mattina del 16 a Belgrado
per consegnare materiali
all'orfanotrofio ed abbiamo poi proseguito per Kragujevac.
Il 17 marzo sono state convocate due
assemblee (una la mattina ed una il pomeriggio)
per la consegna delle adozioni a distanza
alle famiglie dei lavoratori Zastava.
Immediatamente dopo siamo ripartiti per l'Italia.
Quello che abbiamo poturo verificare è
un peggioramento della situazione in cui
versano le famiglie, ma anche una rinnovata
capacità di iniziativa da parte del
sindacato in difesa dei diritti dei
lavoratori e per conquistare prospettive
produttive per la fabbrica.
I lavoratori attualmente impiegati in
azienda sono 15.000 ma non lavorano tutti i
giorni. Sono praticamente in una sorta di
cassa integrazione a rotazione che li
impegna nei pochi reparti attivi, sopratutto
l'utensileria (dal punto di vista del
salario ciò vuol dire che non raggiungono
i 200 euro al mese). La produzione di auto
e camion è praticamente simbolica ed a
oggi non ha prospettive di ripresa anche
perchè con le nuove leggi del Governo è
stata liberalizzata l'importazione di auto
nuove ed usate (noi stessi abbiamo contato
alla frontiera e lungo l'autostrada
decine di Tir cariche di auto che venivano
sopratutto dall'Italia e dalla germania).
Oltre a questi, per effetto della
ristrutturazione in corso altri 9.200 lavoratori
sono stati collocati in esubero (quindi pur
mantenendo la titolarità del posto di
lavoro non sono mai chiamati a lavorare e
rimangono in una situazione paragonabile
alla nostra cassa integrazione a zero ore
con una indennità mensile che non
raggiunge i 25 euro al mese) e 3.500 sono
stati licenziati, percependo così una
indennità di disoccupazione pari a 8/10 euro al mese.
A questi si aggiungono gli oltre 800
lavoratori della Zastava di Pec (in Kosovo)
che, in quanto di nazionalità Serba, sono
stati cacciati dalla fabbrica di Pec.
Oggi questi lavoratori (praticamente
senza reddito) sono assistiti dal sindacato
zastava di Kragujevac per quel che può fare.
Veramente commovente è stata la
consegna di una adozione alla vedova di
uno di questi lavoratori, ucciso a Pec
dall'UCK mentre era al lavoro, durante una
delle varie iniziative squadriste
organizzate per cacciare i lavoratori Serbi
dalla fabbrica. A questo riguardo è bene
sottolineare che alla Zastava di Kragujevac
lavorano anche lavoratori
Kosovari-Albanesi che non hanno mai subito
alcuna violenza. Ciò a dimostrazione di
come non è dal mondo del lavoro che nascono
i nazionalismi ed i razzismi.
Durante la nostra permanenza abbiamo inoltre
potuto farci un quadro aprossimativo
della situazione sindacale.
Si sono tenuti in questi giorni i rinnovi
delle cariche sindacali in Zastava. Il
risultato è che il "Sindacato autonomo
Zastava" ha mantenuto il 90% dei consensi tra
i lavoratori iscritti riuscendo così a
riconfermarsi il primo sindacato della
fabbrica. Gli altri sindacati (nati per
scissione dal sindacato autonomo zastava e
sostenuti dalle varie forze politiche presenti
nel Governo e nella amministrazione
comunale) si sono dimostrati del tutto minoritari.
Oggi il sindacato autonomo zastava si trova
di fronte a problemi enormi. Deve tenere
uniti i lavoratori nonostante le forti
pressioni alla disgregazione del tessuto
sociale e deve lottare per costruire una
prospettiva di lavoro per il maggior numero
di lavoratori.
Un compito immane che si scontra con una
politica aziendale che si limita a gestire
in termini liquidatori una linea di vendita
al capitale estero dei pochi pezzi di
fabbrica rimasti attivi (l'utensileria
sopratutto) e con un Governo che ha
approntato una politiva sociale ed economica
non dissimile da quella che stiamo
contrastando in Italia contro il Governo
Berlusconi. Anche in Jugoslavia sono
all'ordine del giorno lo smantellamento del
sistema contrattuale nazionale, i
diritti e le tutele, le pensioni, la libertà
di licenziamento. Significativo
l'attacco alle tutele per le lavoratrici
madri che oggi si sono viste decurtare a 3
mesi il periodo di copertura al 100% contro
i 5 in vigore precedentemente.
Continua inoltre l'impennata dei prezzi.
Sopratutto di luce, gas ed acqua.
L'apertura dell'embargo se ha favorito
l'importazione delle merci ne ha aumentato i
prezzi che rendono le merci irraggiungibili
per un normale reddito da lavoro.
Particolarmente colpite sono le città operaie
(Kragujevac, Pancevo, Nis) in cui la
totale distruzione delle fabbriche da cui
dipendeva la loro economia le ha cacciate
in una fascia di vera e propria povertà.
Contro tutto questo anche in Jugoslavia si
stanno facendo manifestazioni e scioperi,
nonostante le enormi difficoltà in cui
versa il mondo del lavoro.
Questa è solo una prima relazione di resoconto
del viaggio. Seguiranno ulteriori
approfondimenti anche a cura degli altri partecipanti il viaggio.
Ciao
Alma Rossi.
ROMA 22/3
ROMA 24/3
RAVENNA 30/3
===*===
ROMA 22 MARZO
Il 24 marzo 1999 La NATO, con il pieno appoggio del governo di
centrosinistra guidato da D'Alema e sostenuto dall'ipocrisia dei vari
Salvi, dei Verdi e di quelli che oggi si ergono a paladini
dell'antiglobalizzazione, scatenava l'aggressione verso la Jugoslavia.
A 3 anni di distanza saremo in piazza per Non dimenticare, ma
soprattutto per ristabilire quelle che furono le responsabilità morali
e materiali di un'aggressione sanguinaria, nonostante la rimozione che
vorrebbero vecchi e nuovi opportunisti.
Venerdì 22 marzo al centro Sociale Hai visto Quinto
(Via Val Pellice angolo Via Val Padana)
dalle ore 21,00
"SLOBO PARTY"
(AFFINCHé I COMMUNISTI CONTINUINO A MAGNASSE LI REGAZZINI)
proiezione video
Sabato 30 marzo a Ravenna contro la NATO per non dimenticare.
Stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma.
Per prenotare <convgm@...>
===*===
ROMA 24 MARZO
*** LA JUGOSLAVIA NEL CUORE ***
Il 24 marzo del 1999 il governo "di centrosinistra", con l'appoggio del
Polo, scatenava contro la RF di Jugoslavia la prima massiccia campagna
di bombardamenti sul suolo europeo dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale.
Venivano colpite tutte le infrastrutture, le attivita' produttive, i
trasporti, centri abitati, convogli di profughi, persino parchi naturali
e tesori culturali, allo scopo di mettere il paese in ginocchio e
costringerlo ad accettare l'ulteriore amputazione di parti del suo
territorio, nell'ambito del progetto strategico di smembramento dei
Balcani iniziato con le secessioni slovena e croata nel 1991.
I bombardamenti sulla RF di Jugoslavia hanno causato la morte di
migliaia di persone ed un inquinamento gravissimo in zone ad alta
densita' di popolazione, come a Pancevo. Il paese, contaminato per
secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e gettato nel baratro della
miseria, attraverso ulteriori minacce ed interferenze e' stato
costretto a diventare uno Stato vassallo. E' notizia di questi giorni
l'accordo-capestro in base al quale la "Jugoslavia" viene cancellata
dalla cartine geografiche, in cambio di una "unione" formale e
provvisoria tra Serbia e Montenegro, in vista della ulteriore
decomposizione di tutta l'area in una miriade di protettorati, fondati
sulla "differenza etnica", completamente soggiogati dal punto di vista
politico, economico, militare.
Ma la nostra Jugoslavia non si puo' cancellare per decreto, non si puo'
cancellare con la disinformazione strategica, e non si puo' cancellare
nemmeno con le bombe.
*** JUGOSLAVIJA JE U SRCU ***
serata di solidarieta' e controinformazione
nel terzo anniversario dall'inizio dell'attacco della NATO
contro la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia
Domenica 24 marzo 2002 dalle ore 17
a Roma, presso il circolo STELLA ROSSA
in Via Corinto 5 (fermata metro B San Paolo)
*** INTERVENTI
di Giulia Barone, Aldo Bernardini, Claudio Del Bello, Fulvio Grimaldi
*** VIDEO
> "PAPA', DOVE DORMIREMO DI SERA?"
sul bombardamento della cittadina rurale di Aleksinac
> KOSOVO - IL LUOGO DEL DELITTO
immagini della provincia dopo l'arrivo della KFOR: la criminale alleanza
NATO/UCK
> C'ERA UNA VOLTA LA FATTORIA GARIC
"...tra Djakovica e Decani, la casa dei Garic era l'unico focolare serbo
rimasto..." (primo premio al Festival del cortometraggio di Belgrado,
giugno 2000)
> THE JUDGEMENT
ricostruzione della truffa mediatica sul "lager serbo di Trnopolje"
> BOMBE SULLE INDUSTRIE CHIMICHE
sugli effetti della guerra chimica della NATO contro la popolazione di
Pancevo
> POPOLI DI TROPPO
l'aggressione e l'embargo alla Jugoslavia, vittima tra le altre della
politica di soggiogamento dei "popoli di troppo"
*** a seguire CENA di sottoscrizione
Organizzano:
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia <jugocoord@...>
Assemblea Antimperialista <posta@...>
Prime adesioni:
Comitato contro la guerra Roma Sud
Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
GAMADI (Gruppo Atei Materialisti Dialettici)
Voce Jugoslava
Radio Citta' Aperta
Redazione di Contropiano
===*===
RAVENNA 30 MARZO
A 3 anni dall'aggressione NATO alla Jugoslavia:
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
Ravenna - Sabato 30 Marzo
Manifestazione
Concentramento:
ore 11 piazzale coop via faentina
assemblea:
ore 14,30 c/o sala Forum viale Berlinguer, 11
---
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
24 marzo del 1999.
Il governo dell'Ulivo, con l'appoggio del Polo, scateno' contro la
Jugoslavia, la più intensa campagna di bombardamenti dopo la seconda
guerra mondiale.
"Effetti collaterali" della "guerra umanitaria": 15mila civili
ammazzati, mezzo milione di profughi, città rase al suolo, un paese
contaminato per secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e
gettato nel baratro della miseria e costretto a diventare uno Stato
vassallo.
Dissero che quello era il prezzo per mantenere la pace e difendere la
democrazia.
7 ottobre 2001.
A soli due anni di distanza il governo del Polo (appoggiato da Ulivo-DS)
ha portato l'Italia a fianco degli USA in un'altra guerra, questa volta
nel cuore dell'Asia, contro l'Afganistan e
il suo popolo già martoriato da vent'anni di conflitti intestini. Con il
pretesto di "colpire il terrorismo" gli USA, l'Europa e la NATO hanno
esteso il loro
raggio di morte e sfruttamento.
Risultato: invece di "portare la pace e la democrazia", gli imperialisti
stanno spingendo il mondo nell'abisso di una guerra permanente, globale,
sistematica.
E più la macchina bellica avanza, più i governi borghesi adottano misure
repressive e antidemocratiche, imbavagliano l'informazione, spaventano
l'opinione pubblica per spostarla su
posizioni razziste, autoritarie e militariste, aggrediscono le
condizione di vita e di lavoro dei proletari smantellando le conquiste
passate. Gli infiniti
soprusi che il popolo palestinese deve subire, sono l'esempio più
lampante che non c'è posto, nel "nuovo ordine mondiale" targato USA-NATO
per la dignità, la libertà, la giustizia.
Non si può stare nel mezzo tra l'oppresso e l'oppressore, tra la vittima
e il carnefice!
NON SI PUO' TACERE! NON SI PUO' STARE A GUARDARE!
BASTA CON LE GUERRE E L'OPPRESSIONE DEI POPOLI!
CHIUDERE LA BASI AMERICANE IN ITALIA, IN EUROPA
E LE SERVITU' MILITARI!
RITIRARE LE TRUPPE DAI BALCANI E DA TUTTI I PAESI OCCUPATI!
SCIOGLIERE LA NATO E CONTRASTARE LA NASCITA
DEL NUOVO ESERCITO EUROPEO!
NO ALLE SPESE MILITARI E AL RIARMO!
Coordinamento romagnolo contro la guerra e la NATO
Info / adesioni / comunicazioni / volantini :
tel. 338-9116688
momotombo@...
red-ghost@...
Prime adesioni:
- Coordinamento romagnolo contro la guerra e la NATO
- Red Ghost (RA)
- Collettivo "25 Aprile" (RA)
- Collettivi studenti (RA)
- Comitato "Gettiamo le basi" di Cervia
- s.l.a. PelleRossa (Cesena)
- Assemblea cittadina contro la guerra (Cesena)
- Progetto Comunista (Cesena e BO)
- Federazione PRC Cesena
- Federazione PRC Trieste
- Assemblea Antimperialista
- Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia
- Campo Antimperialista
- Comitati contro la guerra (Milano)
- L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
---
AUTOBUS DA ROMA
Stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma per Ravenna.
Per prenotare: <convgm@...>
ROMA 24/3
RAVENNA 30/3
===*===
ROMA 22 MARZO
Il 24 marzo 1999 La NATO, con il pieno appoggio del governo di
centrosinistra guidato da D'Alema e sostenuto dall'ipocrisia dei vari
Salvi, dei Verdi e di quelli che oggi si ergono a paladini
dell'antiglobalizzazione, scatenava l'aggressione verso la Jugoslavia.
A 3 anni di distanza saremo in piazza per Non dimenticare, ma
soprattutto per ristabilire quelle che furono le responsabilità morali
e materiali di un'aggressione sanguinaria, nonostante la rimozione che
vorrebbero vecchi e nuovi opportunisti.
Venerdì 22 marzo al centro Sociale Hai visto Quinto
(Via Val Pellice angolo Via Val Padana)
dalle ore 21,00
"SLOBO PARTY"
(AFFINCHé I COMMUNISTI CONTINUINO A MAGNASSE LI REGAZZINI)
proiezione video
Sabato 30 marzo a Ravenna contro la NATO per non dimenticare.
Stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma.
Per prenotare <convgm@...>
===*===
ROMA 24 MARZO
*** LA JUGOSLAVIA NEL CUORE ***
Il 24 marzo del 1999 il governo "di centrosinistra", con l'appoggio del
Polo, scatenava contro la RF di Jugoslavia la prima massiccia campagna
di bombardamenti sul suolo europeo dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale.
Venivano colpite tutte le infrastrutture, le attivita' produttive, i
trasporti, centri abitati, convogli di profughi, persino parchi naturali
e tesori culturali, allo scopo di mettere il paese in ginocchio e
costringerlo ad accettare l'ulteriore amputazione di parti del suo
territorio, nell'ambito del progetto strategico di smembramento dei
Balcani iniziato con le secessioni slovena e croata nel 1991.
I bombardamenti sulla RF di Jugoslavia hanno causato la morte di
migliaia di persone ed un inquinamento gravissimo in zone ad alta
densita' di popolazione, come a Pancevo. Il paese, contaminato per
secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e gettato nel baratro della
miseria, attraverso ulteriori minacce ed interferenze e' stato
costretto a diventare uno Stato vassallo. E' notizia di questi giorni
l'accordo-capestro in base al quale la "Jugoslavia" viene cancellata
dalla cartine geografiche, in cambio di una "unione" formale e
provvisoria tra Serbia e Montenegro, in vista della ulteriore
decomposizione di tutta l'area in una miriade di protettorati, fondati
sulla "differenza etnica", completamente soggiogati dal punto di vista
politico, economico, militare.
Ma la nostra Jugoslavia non si puo' cancellare per decreto, non si puo'
cancellare con la disinformazione strategica, e non si puo' cancellare
nemmeno con le bombe.
*** JUGOSLAVIJA JE U SRCU ***
serata di solidarieta' e controinformazione
nel terzo anniversario dall'inizio dell'attacco della NATO
contro la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia
Domenica 24 marzo 2002 dalle ore 17
a Roma, presso il circolo STELLA ROSSA
in Via Corinto 5 (fermata metro B San Paolo)
*** INTERVENTI
di Giulia Barone, Aldo Bernardini, Claudio Del Bello, Fulvio Grimaldi
*** VIDEO
> "PAPA', DOVE DORMIREMO DI SERA?"
sul bombardamento della cittadina rurale di Aleksinac
> KOSOVO - IL LUOGO DEL DELITTO
immagini della provincia dopo l'arrivo della KFOR: la criminale alleanza
NATO/UCK
> C'ERA UNA VOLTA LA FATTORIA GARIC
"...tra Djakovica e Decani, la casa dei Garic era l'unico focolare serbo
rimasto..." (primo premio al Festival del cortometraggio di Belgrado,
giugno 2000)
> THE JUDGEMENT
ricostruzione della truffa mediatica sul "lager serbo di Trnopolje"
> BOMBE SULLE INDUSTRIE CHIMICHE
sugli effetti della guerra chimica della NATO contro la popolazione di
Pancevo
> POPOLI DI TROPPO
l'aggressione e l'embargo alla Jugoslavia, vittima tra le altre della
politica di soggiogamento dei "popoli di troppo"
*** a seguire CENA di sottoscrizione
Organizzano:
Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia <jugocoord@...>
Assemblea Antimperialista <posta@...>
Prime adesioni:
Comitato contro la guerra Roma Sud
Comitato per la Pace e la Solidarietà tra i Popoli
GAMADI (Gruppo Atei Materialisti Dialettici)
Voce Jugoslava
Radio Citta' Aperta
Redazione di Contropiano
===*===
RAVENNA 30 MARZO
A 3 anni dall'aggressione NATO alla Jugoslavia:
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
Ravenna - Sabato 30 Marzo
Manifestazione
Concentramento:
ore 11 piazzale coop via faentina
assemblea:
ore 14,30 c/o sala Forum viale Berlinguer, 11
---
NON SI PUO' TACERE!
contro le guerre imperialiste
dalla parte dei lavoratori e dei popoli oppressi!
24 marzo del 1999.
Il governo dell'Ulivo, con l'appoggio del Polo, scateno' contro la
Jugoslavia, la più intensa campagna di bombardamenti dopo la seconda
guerra mondiale.
"Effetti collaterali" della "guerra umanitaria": 15mila civili
ammazzati, mezzo milione di profughi, città rase al suolo, un paese
contaminato per secoli dall'uso di proiettili all'uranio e
gettato nel baratro della miseria e costretto a diventare uno Stato
vassallo.
Dissero che quello era il prezzo per mantenere la pace e difendere la
democrazia.
7 ottobre 2001.
A soli due anni di distanza il governo del Polo (appoggiato da Ulivo-DS)
ha portato l'Italia a fianco degli USA in un'altra guerra, questa volta
nel cuore dell'Asia, contro l'Afganistan e
il suo popolo già martoriato da vent'anni di conflitti intestini. Con il
pretesto di "colpire il terrorismo" gli USA, l'Europa e la NATO hanno
esteso il loro
raggio di morte e sfruttamento.
Risultato: invece di "portare la pace e la democrazia", gli imperialisti
stanno spingendo il mondo nell'abisso di una guerra permanente, globale,
sistematica.
E più la macchina bellica avanza, più i governi borghesi adottano misure
repressive e antidemocratiche, imbavagliano l'informazione, spaventano
l'opinione pubblica per spostarla su
posizioni razziste, autoritarie e militariste, aggrediscono le
condizione di vita e di lavoro dei proletari smantellando le conquiste
passate. Gli infiniti
soprusi che il popolo palestinese deve subire, sono l'esempio più
lampante che non c'è posto, nel "nuovo ordine mondiale" targato USA-NATO
per la dignità, la libertà, la giustizia.
Non si può stare nel mezzo tra l'oppresso e l'oppressore, tra la vittima
e il carnefice!
NON SI PUO' TACERE! NON SI PUO' STARE A GUARDARE!
BASTA CON LE GUERRE E L'OPPRESSIONE DEI POPOLI!
CHIUDERE LA BASI AMERICANE IN ITALIA, IN EUROPA
E LE SERVITU' MILITARI!
RITIRARE LE TRUPPE DAI BALCANI E DA TUTTI I PAESI OCCUPATI!
SCIOGLIERE LA NATO E CONTRASTARE LA NASCITA
DEL NUOVO ESERCITO EUROPEO!
NO ALLE SPESE MILITARI E AL RIARMO!
Coordinamento romagnolo contro la guerra e la NATO
Info / adesioni / comunicazioni / volantini :
tel. 338-9116688
momotombo@...
red-ghost@...
Prime adesioni:
- Coordinamento romagnolo contro la guerra e la NATO
- Red Ghost (RA)
- Collettivo "25 Aprile" (RA)
- Collettivi studenti (RA)
- Comitato "Gettiamo le basi" di Cervia
- s.l.a. PelleRossa (Cesena)
- Assemblea cittadina contro la guerra (Cesena)
- Progetto Comunista (Cesena e BO)
- Federazione PRC Cesena
- Federazione PRC Trieste
- Assemblea Antimperialista
- Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia
- Campo Antimperialista
- Comitati contro la guerra (Milano)
- L'Avamposto degli Incompatibili
---
AUTOBUS DA ROMA
Stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma per Ravenna.
Per prenotare: <convgm@...>
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"JUGOSLAVIJE" NEMA A PROBLEMI SE PRIDODAJU 19.3.2002.
11:32
Iz ugla uglednog ruskog eksperta NAZIV "JUGOSLAVIJA" NESTAJE, ALI SE
PROBLEMI PRIDODAJU Vladimir VOLKOV, profesor, direktor Instituta
slavistike Ruske akademije nauka (Moskva, RIA "Novosti"- za DANAS)
Razbijanje Jugoslavije, zapoceto 1991. godine, uslo je u novi, mozda i
odlucujuci stadijum. U Beogradu je potpisan sporazum o osnovama
preuredjenja odnosa izmedju Srbije i Crne Gore - dve republike u
sastavu
jugoslovenske federacije. Federacije sada, u sustini - nema. Nema ni
zemlje sa imenom "Jugoslavija". Ta rec, koja je tokom cvitavog XX veka
bila poznata ne samo na Balkanu nego i u citavom svetu, sada ispada iz
naseg politickog leksikona. Savezna Republika Jugoslavija (SRJ) sada
ce
se zvati "Srbija i Crna Gora". Predsednik Crne Gore Milo Djukanovic
odavno je vec iznosio planove o odvajanju Crne Gore od Jugoslavije. U
pocetku je taj potez obrazlagao zeljom da se oslobodi "despotizma"
bivseg predsednika Jugoslavije Slobodana Milosevica, ali se kasnije,
kada je na celo drzave dosao demokrata Vojislav Kostunica, ispostavilo
da se stav Djukanovica nije uopste promenio i da nije stvar u licnosti
ovog ili onog lidera Jugoslavije, vec je u pitanju susti separatizam
Djukanovica licno. On je zapretio da ce sprovesti referendum u Crnoj
Gori o daljoj sudbini republike, ali su ga u tome sprecavale jedino
sumnje u ishod narodnog glasanja, koje je moglo dati i nezeljene
rezultate za predsednika, imajuci u vidu negatiovan odnos mnogih
Crnogoraca prema Djukanovicevom separatizmu. Naravno, separatisticke
teznje crnogorskog predsednika najpre su bile situirane obecanjima u
pomoc Zapada, koji je dosledno tokom poslednjih deset godina vodio
politiku slabljenja i cepanja Jugoslavije. Koristeci u odnosu na
Jugoslaviju politiku otvorene ucene, pretnji i obecanja, Zapad je, cas
obecavajuci ekonomsku pomoc zemlji razorenoj u natovskom bombardovanju
1999. godine, cas odbacujuci i mogucnost pruzanja te pomoci, korak po
korak iznudjavao od jugoslovenskog rukovodstva da poklekne i po
pitanju
izrucenja Milosevica Haskom tribubalu, i po pitanju svega sto je
skopcano sa buducim uredjenjem zemlje. Danas je sasvim jasno da
jedinstvene jugoslovenske drzave vise - nema. Potpisani u Beogradu
sporazum oznacava da je stvorena slaba, krhka konfederacija. Na njenom
celu je, doduse, jedan predsednik. Do izbora 2003. godine to je
Vojislav
Kostunica. Jedinstveni ce biti odbrana i spoljna politika, sto se ne
moze kazati za monetarni sistem, za carinsku politiku i ekonosmki
sistem. Potpuna ekonomska samostalnost kako Srbije tako i Crne Gore te
republike fakticki cini nezavisnim jednu od druge i na minimum svodi
efikasnost jedinstvenih politickih atributa vlasti, koji u tim
uslovima
postaju cisto dekorativnim. Tim pre sto sporazum, sudeci po vemu, ima
privremeni karakter. To je jasno kazao niko drugi do licno Milo
Djukanovic, koji je vec uspeo da novinarima saopsti kako je potpisao
sporazum jer je u novonastalim okolnostima celishodnije odloziti
referendum o drzavnom statusu Crne Gore. Djukanovic je saopstio da je
predstavnik Evropske unije za pitanja spoljne politike i bezbednosti
Havijar Solana, koji je odigrao kljucnu ulogu u pripremanju i
potpisivanju beogradskog dokumenta, garantovao pravo Crne Gore na
odrzavanje referenduma kroz tri godine. A to znaci da se rukovodstvo
Crne Gore moze vratiti na pitanje pune drzavne nezavisnosti i, nema
sumnje, da ce Djukanovic, kome zakljuceni sporazum odgovara jedino kao
medjuprostorni korak, iskoristiti tu mogucnost i ponovo pokrenuti
pitanje potpunog odvajanja Crne Gore, pripremivsi na duzan nacin
odgovarajuci referendum. Havijar Solana je okvalifikovao beogradski
sporazum kao znacajan stabilizirajuci faktor. Medjutim, sve govori o
suprotnom. Potpisani dokument moze jos vise destabilizovati ionako
komplikovanu situaciju na Balkanu. To se pre svega odnosi na Kosovo.
Iako ta provincija i ulazi u sastav Srbije, ona je u rezoluciji 1244
Saveta bezbednosti OUN oznacena kao neotudjivi deo Jugoslavije, bez
pominjanja Srbije. Savezne Republike Jugoslavije sada nema, a to znaci
da i kosovski separatisti mogu dovesti u sumnju pravovaljansot te
rezolucije i zahtevati nezavisnost pokrajine koju su uz popustljivost
natovskih mirovnjaka fakticki vec dobili. Tojest, "albanizacija"
Kosova
bice oformljena de-jure. Eto zbog cega albanski ekstremisti i na
Kosovu,
i u samoj Crnoj Gori na cijem jugu zivi albansko stanovnistvo, svim
srcem podrzavaju Djukanovica, jer on objektivno "radi" za njih.
Definitivno razbijanje Jugoslavije na dve drzave stvorilo bi i jos
jedan
problem: pogranicna teritorija izmedju Srbije i Crne Gore - Sandzak -
naseljen je, pored vecinskog srpskog zivlja, i muslimanima, koji
odavno
govore o zalji da se prikljuce Bosni i Hercegovini. Ono sto se desava
na
Balkanu direktna je posledica politike NATO, usmerene u pravcu
stimulisanja separatizma, pomocu koga je Severnoatlantska alijansa
nameracila da kardinalno promeni situaciju na poluostrvu, da ga stavi
pod svoju kontrolu i ucini svojim strateskim mostobranom u Evropi.
Medjutim, koketiranje sa separatizmom i ekstremizmom veoma je opasno.
Balkan se transformise u seizmicku zonu na politickoj karti Evrope, a
to
predstavlja ozbiljnu opasnost po bezbednost kontinenta u celini.
- 0 -
Moskva, 19. marta RIA "Novosti"
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Datum: 2002/03/19 Di PM 05:46:28 GMT+01:00
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Betreff: DIE JUGOSLAWISCHE IDEE WIRD WEITERLEBEN!
DIE JUGOSLAWISCHE IDEE WIRD WEITERLEBEN!
Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Abkommens über die neu
definierten Beziehungen zwischen Serbien und
Montenegro, wie es von Solana, Kostunica, Labus,
Djindjic, Djukanovic und Vujanovic am 14. März
unterzeichnet wurde, wird das Ende der Bundesrepublik
Jugoslawien besiegelt. Es ist vollkommen klar, dass
die Auflösung der jugoslawischen Föderation auf Befehl
der USA und EU-Staaten geschah. Nicht zufällig wurden
die Verhandlungen vom ehemaligen Generalsekretär der
NATO geführt, der in dieser Funktion vor drei Jahren
für die verbrecherische Aggression gegen Jugoslawien
verantwortlich war.
Die Auflösung Jugoslawiens entspricht vollständig den
Zielen der deutschen Außenpoltik, die sie seit langer
Zeit beharrlich verfolgt, um ihre imperialistischen
Interessen auf dem Balkan leichter durchsetzen zu
können. Sie ist auch als historische Revanche für die
schwerste Niederlage des deutschen Imperialismus auf
dem Weg zur Weltherrschaft gedacht, an der der
Befreiungskampf der jugoslawischen Völker einen
bedeutenden Anteil hatte.
Die deutschen Ziele trafen sich mit den Interessen der
übrigen westlichen imperialistischen Staatenwelt mit
den USA an der Spitze. Der starke Freiheits-, und
Unabhängigkeitswille der jugoslawischen Völker und
die Bereitschaft bestimmte sozialistische
Errungenschaften in einem Vielvölkerstaat auf
gleichberechtigter Grundlage zu verteidigen, wurden
zum Hindernis für die Errichtung der imperialistischen
"neuen Weltordnung".
Darum mußte Jugoslawien 1999 brutal zerbombt werden
und selbst die Errichtung eines proimperialistischen
Marionettenregimes durch den Staatsputsch vom 5.
Oktober 2000 erscheint der westlichen Bourgeoisie
nicht ausreichend, um zu verhindern, dass hier ein
Land bleiben könnte, das ihren globalen Interessen
entgegensteht. Mit dem jugoslawischen Staat soll auch
der Name Jugoslawiens und damit auch die jugoslawische
Idee endgültig gelöscht werden.
Die Unterzeichnung dieses Abkommens enthüllt erneut
das wahre Wesen der Kostunica, Djindjic und Djukanovic
als bloße Vollstrecker des Willens der westlichen
Regierungen.
Die wahren Patrioten Jugoslawiens können diese
schändliche Entscheidung der westlichen Imperialisten
und ihrer gekauften Handlanger niemals akzeptieren.
Sie werden den Kampf für die jugoslawische Idee, das
gleichberechtigte Zusammenleben aller Völker der
südlichen Balkanhalbinsel in einem Staat fortsetzen,
so wie sie sich im opferreichen Partisanenkrieg gegen
die deutschen faschistischen Okkupanten und der
Sozialistischen Föderativen Republik Jugoslawien
(SFRJ) bewährt hat. Dazu gilt es in erster Linie, die
Besatzungstruppen der NATO aus dem Kosovo und
Bosnien-Herzegowina sowie dem gesamten Balkan zu
verjagen und jeder weiteren Zerstückelung des
Territoriums Widerstand entgegenzusetzen.
Für Antiimperialisten und Antifaschisten in
Deutschland heißt es, diesen Kampf mit aller Kraft zu
unterstützen, den sofortigen Rückzug der deutschen
Truppen vom Balkan zu fordern und sich für die
Auflösung der NATO einzusetzen.
Der Imperialismus hat vielleicht eine Schlacht
gewonnen, aber die Werktätigen Jugoslawiens, die an
der Seite der Ausgebeuteten und Unterdrückten dieser
Welt stehen, werden den Krieg gewinnen.
NIEDER MIT DEM IMPERIALISMUS!
NIEDER MIT DEM NEOKOLONIALISMUS!
LANG LEBE JUGOSLAWIEN!
Internationale Jugoslawien Solidarität
Hamburg, den 16. März 2002
wrote:
"JUGOSLAVIJE" NEMA A PROBLEMI SE PRIDODAJU 19.3.2002.
11:32
Iz ugla uglednog ruskog eksperta NAZIV "JUGOSLAVIJA" NESTAJE, ALI SE
PROBLEMI PRIDODAJU Vladimir VOLKOV, profesor, direktor Instituta
slavistike Ruske akademije nauka (Moskva, RIA "Novosti"- za DANAS)
Razbijanje Jugoslavije, zapoceto 1991. godine, uslo je u novi, mozda i
odlucujuci stadijum. U Beogradu je potpisan sporazum o osnovama
preuredjenja odnosa izmedju Srbije i Crne Gore - dve republike u
sastavu
jugoslovenske federacije. Federacije sada, u sustini - nema. Nema ni
zemlje sa imenom "Jugoslavija". Ta rec, koja je tokom cvitavog XX veka
bila poznata ne samo na Balkanu nego i u citavom svetu, sada ispada iz
naseg politickog leksikona. Savezna Republika Jugoslavija (SRJ) sada
ce
se zvati "Srbija i Crna Gora". Predsednik Crne Gore Milo Djukanovic
odavno je vec iznosio planove o odvajanju Crne Gore od Jugoslavije. U
pocetku je taj potez obrazlagao zeljom da se oslobodi "despotizma"
bivseg predsednika Jugoslavije Slobodana Milosevica, ali se kasnije,
kada je na celo drzave dosao demokrata Vojislav Kostunica, ispostavilo
da se stav Djukanovica nije uopste promenio i da nije stvar u licnosti
ovog ili onog lidera Jugoslavije, vec je u pitanju susti separatizam
Djukanovica licno. On je zapretio da ce sprovesti referendum u Crnoj
Gori o daljoj sudbini republike, ali su ga u tome sprecavale jedino
sumnje u ishod narodnog glasanja, koje je moglo dati i nezeljene
rezultate za predsednika, imajuci u vidu negatiovan odnos mnogih
Crnogoraca prema Djukanovicevom separatizmu. Naravno, separatisticke
teznje crnogorskog predsednika najpre su bile situirane obecanjima u
pomoc Zapada, koji je dosledno tokom poslednjih deset godina vodio
politiku slabljenja i cepanja Jugoslavije. Koristeci u odnosu na
Jugoslaviju politiku otvorene ucene, pretnji i obecanja, Zapad je, cas
obecavajuci ekonomsku pomoc zemlji razorenoj u natovskom bombardovanju
1999. godine, cas odbacujuci i mogucnost pruzanja te pomoci, korak po
korak iznudjavao od jugoslovenskog rukovodstva da poklekne i po
pitanju
izrucenja Milosevica Haskom tribubalu, i po pitanju svega sto je
skopcano sa buducim uredjenjem zemlje. Danas je sasvim jasno da
jedinstvene jugoslovenske drzave vise - nema. Potpisani u Beogradu
sporazum oznacava da je stvorena slaba, krhka konfederacija. Na njenom
celu je, doduse, jedan predsednik. Do izbora 2003. godine to je
Vojislav
Kostunica. Jedinstveni ce biti odbrana i spoljna politika, sto se ne
moze kazati za monetarni sistem, za carinsku politiku i ekonosmki
sistem. Potpuna ekonomska samostalnost kako Srbije tako i Crne Gore te
republike fakticki cini nezavisnim jednu od druge i na minimum svodi
efikasnost jedinstvenih politickih atributa vlasti, koji u tim
uslovima
postaju cisto dekorativnim. Tim pre sto sporazum, sudeci po vemu, ima
privremeni karakter. To je jasno kazao niko drugi do licno Milo
Djukanovic, koji je vec uspeo da novinarima saopsti kako je potpisao
sporazum jer je u novonastalim okolnostima celishodnije odloziti
referendum o drzavnom statusu Crne Gore. Djukanovic je saopstio da je
predstavnik Evropske unije za pitanja spoljne politike i bezbednosti
Havijar Solana, koji je odigrao kljucnu ulogu u pripremanju i
potpisivanju beogradskog dokumenta, garantovao pravo Crne Gore na
odrzavanje referenduma kroz tri godine. A to znaci da se rukovodstvo
Crne Gore moze vratiti na pitanje pune drzavne nezavisnosti i, nema
sumnje, da ce Djukanovic, kome zakljuceni sporazum odgovara jedino kao
medjuprostorni korak, iskoristiti tu mogucnost i ponovo pokrenuti
pitanje potpunog odvajanja Crne Gore, pripremivsi na duzan nacin
odgovarajuci referendum. Havijar Solana je okvalifikovao beogradski
sporazum kao znacajan stabilizirajuci faktor. Medjutim, sve govori o
suprotnom. Potpisani dokument moze jos vise destabilizovati ionako
komplikovanu situaciju na Balkanu. To se pre svega odnosi na Kosovo.
Iako ta provincija i ulazi u sastav Srbije, ona je u rezoluciji 1244
Saveta bezbednosti OUN oznacena kao neotudjivi deo Jugoslavije, bez
pominjanja Srbije. Savezne Republike Jugoslavije sada nema, a to znaci
da i kosovski separatisti mogu dovesti u sumnju pravovaljansot te
rezolucije i zahtevati nezavisnost pokrajine koju su uz popustljivost
natovskih mirovnjaka fakticki vec dobili. Tojest, "albanizacija"
Kosova
bice oformljena de-jure. Eto zbog cega albanski ekstremisti i na
Kosovu,
i u samoj Crnoj Gori na cijem jugu zivi albansko stanovnistvo, svim
srcem podrzavaju Djukanovica, jer on objektivno "radi" za njih.
Definitivno razbijanje Jugoslavije na dve drzave stvorilo bi i jos
jedan
problem: pogranicna teritorija izmedju Srbije i Crne Gore - Sandzak -
naseljen je, pored vecinskog srpskog zivlja, i muslimanima, koji
odavno
govore o zalji da se prikljuce Bosni i Hercegovini. Ono sto se desava
na
Balkanu direktna je posledica politike NATO, usmerene u pravcu
stimulisanja separatizma, pomocu koga je Severnoatlantska alijansa
nameracila da kardinalno promeni situaciju na poluostrvu, da ga stavi
pod svoju kontrolu i ucini svojim strateskim mostobranom u Evropi.
Medjutim, koketiranje sa separatizmom i ekstremizmom veoma je opasno.
Balkan se transformise u seizmicku zonu na politickoj karti Evrope, a
to
predstavlja ozbiljnu opasnost po bezbednost kontinenta u celini.
- 0 -
Moskva, 19. marta RIA "Novosti"
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Betreff: DIE JUGOSLAWISCHE IDEE WIRD WEITERLEBEN!
DIE JUGOSLAWISCHE IDEE WIRD WEITERLEBEN!
Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Abkommens über die neu
definierten Beziehungen zwischen Serbien und
Montenegro, wie es von Solana, Kostunica, Labus,
Djindjic, Djukanovic und Vujanovic am 14. März
unterzeichnet wurde, wird das Ende der Bundesrepublik
Jugoslawien besiegelt. Es ist vollkommen klar, dass
die Auflösung der jugoslawischen Föderation auf Befehl
der USA und EU-Staaten geschah. Nicht zufällig wurden
die Verhandlungen vom ehemaligen Generalsekretär der
NATO geführt, der in dieser Funktion vor drei Jahren
für die verbrecherische Aggression gegen Jugoslawien
verantwortlich war.
Die Auflösung Jugoslawiens entspricht vollständig den
Zielen der deutschen Außenpoltik, die sie seit langer
Zeit beharrlich verfolgt, um ihre imperialistischen
Interessen auf dem Balkan leichter durchsetzen zu
können. Sie ist auch als historische Revanche für die
schwerste Niederlage des deutschen Imperialismus auf
dem Weg zur Weltherrschaft gedacht, an der der
Befreiungskampf der jugoslawischen Völker einen
bedeutenden Anteil hatte.
Die deutschen Ziele trafen sich mit den Interessen der
übrigen westlichen imperialistischen Staatenwelt mit
den USA an der Spitze. Der starke Freiheits-, und
Unabhängigkeitswille der jugoslawischen Völker und
die Bereitschaft bestimmte sozialistische
Errungenschaften in einem Vielvölkerstaat auf
gleichberechtigter Grundlage zu verteidigen, wurden
zum Hindernis für die Errichtung der imperialistischen
"neuen Weltordnung".
Darum mußte Jugoslawien 1999 brutal zerbombt werden
und selbst die Errichtung eines proimperialistischen
Marionettenregimes durch den Staatsputsch vom 5.
Oktober 2000 erscheint der westlichen Bourgeoisie
nicht ausreichend, um zu verhindern, dass hier ein
Land bleiben könnte, das ihren globalen Interessen
entgegensteht. Mit dem jugoslawischen Staat soll auch
der Name Jugoslawiens und damit auch die jugoslawische
Idee endgültig gelöscht werden.
Die Unterzeichnung dieses Abkommens enthüllt erneut
das wahre Wesen der Kostunica, Djindjic und Djukanovic
als bloße Vollstrecker des Willens der westlichen
Regierungen.
Die wahren Patrioten Jugoslawiens können diese
schändliche Entscheidung der westlichen Imperialisten
und ihrer gekauften Handlanger niemals akzeptieren.
Sie werden den Kampf für die jugoslawische Idee, das
gleichberechtigte Zusammenleben aller Völker der
südlichen Balkanhalbinsel in einem Staat fortsetzen,
so wie sie sich im opferreichen Partisanenkrieg gegen
die deutschen faschistischen Okkupanten und der
Sozialistischen Föderativen Republik Jugoslawien
(SFRJ) bewährt hat. Dazu gilt es in erster Linie, die
Besatzungstruppen der NATO aus dem Kosovo und
Bosnien-Herzegowina sowie dem gesamten Balkan zu
verjagen und jeder weiteren Zerstückelung des
Territoriums Widerstand entgegenzusetzen.
Für Antiimperialisten und Antifaschisten in
Deutschland heißt es, diesen Kampf mit aller Kraft zu
unterstützen, den sofortigen Rückzug der deutschen
Truppen vom Balkan zu fordern und sich für die
Auflösung der NATO einzusetzen.
Der Imperialismus hat vielleicht eine Schlacht
gewonnen, aber die Werktätigen Jugoslawiens, die an
der Seite der Ausgebeuteten und Unterdrückten dieser
Welt stehen, werden den Krieg gewinnen.
NIEDER MIT DEM IMPERIALISMUS!
NIEDER MIT DEM NEOKOLONIALISMUS!
LANG LEBE JUGOSLAWIEN!
Internationale Jugoslawien Solidarität
Hamburg, den 16. März 2002
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