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February 22, 2002
The Balkan connection
Books says al-Qaida now active in Macedonia
By PETER WORTHINGTON -- Toronto Sun
An irony of the war against terrorism since Sept. 11 is that while the
prime enemy was Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network, not
Afghanistan's Taliban regime, it's the Taliban that has been crushed,
and not al-Qaida.
Osama and al-Qaida have become household words, yet they remain shadowy,
ill-defined, unfathomable. We are routinely told al-Qaida-trained
suicidal assassins are scattered in something like 68 countries, poised
to do dreadful things that they believe will get them into paradise,
where 72 virgins await to give them a martyr's welcome.
What most don't know, and few in the media have paid much attention to,
is the Balkan connection with al-Qaida. Much to their embarrassment now,
NATO and the Americans realize they may have unwittingly contributed to
al-Qaida fronts in Bosnia and Kosovo prior to Sept. 11.
One who knows more than most about the western-orchestrated chaos in the
Balkans is Scott Taylor, the peripatetic publisher of the military
magazine Esprit de Corps. He's been back and forth to the area
innumerable times, especially during NATO'S air war against Serbia and,
more recently, to note simmering unrest in Macedonia - where
al-Qaida-trained Albanian insurgents seek to overthrow the government.
Taylor wrote a book about Serbia and the Kosovo war (Inat: Images of
Serbia and the Kosovo Conflict), and this week has a new book about
Kosovo overlapping into Macedonia, which is a target in the unspoken
campaign for a Greater Albania, that involves al-Qaida and various
Muslim extremist groups.
This book, Diary of an Uncivil War, is ahead of the wave in that it
anticipates the next phase of the Balkan wars. Al-Qaida and Islamic
Jihad fighters have been active in Muslim areas of the Balkans ever
since Slobodan Milosevic began a megalomaniac campaign that resulted in
a shrinking of Serbia.
Bunked with villagers
Taylor's book is based on what he witnessed in travels in the area
during war - experiences different from those of establishment
journalists on expense accounts, with rented cars, translators and the
best hotels. Taylor bunked in with local villagers, bummed rides, took
buses, depended on locals for food.
There's authenticity in Taylor's stuff that's often missing in
conventional news reports. His adventures are one thing, and give a
flavour of the Balkans, but on a more serious level, his is a withering
reflection of western (U.S.) policy gone awry.
Today, Macedonia's independence is threatened by rebellion led by
Kosovar Albanians who fought the Serbs. The European Union, NATO and the
U.S. downplay this, but Albanian insurgents in Macedonia are well armed
and financed from abroad.
Reports suggest some 5,000 al-Qaida terrorists have been trained in
Bosnia and Kosovo. In January, the Americans announced the capture of
Algerian al-Qaida members in Sarajevo.
The fragile peace signed last August giving more power to Albanians
living in Macedonia, is crumbling. The NATO- and U.S.-armed rebel
National Liberation Army in northern Macedonia continues to harass.
Another Albanian insurgent group, the Real National Liberation Army, is
led by a mysterious figure who calls himself "The Raven," who is prone
to give interviews to journalists who publicize him and his cause.
NATO Secretary-General George Robertson has condemned "extremists on
both sides" who resort to violence, conveniently overlooking that
tactics being used against Macedonia are similar to what the allies
supported in Kosovo against Serbia.
Montenegro also fears Albanian subversion. Albanian maps that show a
"Greater Albania" that includes parts of neighbouring countries, are
ignored by our media and governments, just as they ignore the presence
of foreign Muslim extremists in the Balkans.
Some al-Qaida members have been given Bosnian citizenship.
This is pretty significant, but has largely been ignored in President
Bush's "war on terrorism."
Taylor's book, which touches on all this, is not an academic exercise or
partisan polemic, but based on first-hand experiences and findings.
Ordinary Canadian soldiers who served in the Balkans, first as UN
peacekeepers, then as NATO peacemakers, often have greater understanding
of the area than politicians, academics and policy-makers in Washington
and elsewhere.
So Taylor has a view that's closer to reality than pundits who observe
from afar - and whom history proves are wrong far more often than they
are right.
---
To contact the author:
Esprit de Corps Magazine & Books
#204 - 1066 Somerset St. W.
Ottawa, ON K1Y 4T3, Canada
Tel: (613) 725-5060
Fax: (613) 725-1019
www.espritdecorps.on.ca
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> http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2002/02/24/f120.raw.html
Sunday, February 24, 2002 Back The Halifax Herald Limited
Balkans will likely re-erupt -author
By Bill Spurr / Military Reporter
A new book by Herald columnist Scott Taylor
predicts another round of violence in the
Balkans as early as this spring,
as soon as the snow melts.
In Diary of an Uncivil War, which was
released Friday, Taylor writes that observers
of the region are bracing for
an Albanian offensive following the
melting of the winter snows, an
offensive the presence of 50,000 NATO
soldiers seems unable to stop.
"The Albanians have reconstituted the army
that they were supposed to have disbanded
... which is a harbinger of a spring offensive,"
Mr. Taylor said in an interview Thursday.
There are 1,400 Canadian troops in Bosnia
and smaller groups in Kosovo and Croatia.
Only the presence of western
armies prevents war, writes Mr. Taylor.
"They're sitting on top of a powder keg in
Bosnia, there's no long-term solution,"
he said. "And if they leave, it'll
all go up tomorrow."
Adding to the tension is the fact that on
Tuesday, the UN refused to recognize the
boundary between Kosovo and
Macedonia, and Mr. Taylor, recently
returned from his 16th visit to the
area, thinks the survival of Macedonia
depends on its ability to control its
own border.
Mr. Taylor said the Americans are taking a
anti-Macedonia stand, and are taking
care to ensure the safety of Albanians.
He quotes an American general in Kosovo
as saying any interference from the
Macedonians will result in the U.S.
crushing their army "like a pop can."
Aside from a significant military presence
in the area, Canada also has a large
Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian
population, totalling perhaps
three-quarters of a million people.
"After (the Second World War), there was a
tremendous influx, and since the (Balkan)
war began we have been one of the
two major countries to take in refugees
from there, (along with Australia),"
said Mr. Taylor.
He also writes that many westerners have an
over-simplified view of the conflict
in the war-torn Balkans, in which
Serbians are considered evil and the
other factions good.
He said during the war many western
reporters compared Serbian soldiers
to Nazi storm troopers and are now
ignoring legitimate arguments being
made by former Serbian president
Slobodan Milosevic at his war crimes trial.
"I think he's already pronounced guilty,"
said Mr. Taylor, who pointed out that
as recently as 1996, the U.S. was a
staunch supporter of the Milosevic regime.
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The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, February 22, 2002
U.S. backed Albanian rebels with al-Qaeda links, book says:
Author predicts renewed Balkan war
By Bruce Garvey
The Balkans will likely be plunged into a new round of war as
early as this spring, with fighting centred in Macedonia, according
to a new book by Ottawa military writer Scott Taylor.
Diary of an Uncivil War warns that despite concessions made by the
Macedonian government, ethnic Albanians and their guerrilla army,
made up of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, are preparing for a
major offensive in the region. The wildcard will be whether the U.S.
government backs away from its support of the Albanians in their
quest to take control of parts of the region they claim as theirs,
Mr. Taylor writes.
"While everyone is bracing for an Albanian offensive following the
melting of the winter snows, what remains unclear is whether the
U.S. will continue to support the guerrillas," Mr. Taylor writes.
"Secretary of State Colin Powell has indicated that the U.S. will
scale back its military presence in the Balkans. But it will not be
easy for the Americans to disengage themselves from the mess they
created without setting off another round of factional violence."
The ethnic Albanians and their guerrilla army are intent on carving
out what they call "Greater Albania" -- an area that includes 90,000
square kilometres of Kosovo, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia and
Montenegro.
Mr. Taylor has covered the fighting and political situation in the
Balkans over the past several years for the Citizen. Diary of an
Uncivil War, published by Esprit de Corps books, has just been
released in stores.
A news report this week from Macedonia includes warnings from
western intelligence officials that former KLA guerrillas and
Albanian extremists have used profits from a Taliban drug-smuggling
ring to re-arm themselves. The money has been used to buy
surface-to-air missiles that give the Albanians the ability to shoot
down Macedonian helicopter gunships, one of that force's main
deterrents against the guerrillas.
Mr. Taylor's book chronicles his first-hand observations of
fighting in Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia over three years. It also
outlines the strong support by former U.S. president Bill Clinton's
government for the KLA, despite the links the guerrilla group has to
extremist Muslim organizations such as Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
Mr. Taylor writes that the U.S. military has supplied the group
with equipment and advisers, including former senior U.S. army
officers, who have been training the Albanian guerrillas.
In some cases, the U.S. support has been blatant. In August 2001
U.S. troops were to disarm 500 KLA guerrillas and transport them to
camps in Kosovo. Instead, they transported the men, still armed, to
a location inside Macedonia near an ethnic Albanian stronghold.
There the guerrillas promptly resumed their attacks.
But the Clinton administration's unofficial policy of supporting
the ethnic Albanians and KLA has backfired and has only created
instability in the region, Mr. Taylor argues.
The current crisis in Macedonia began last March, when Albanian
guerrillas staged attacks from inside NATO-occupied Kosovo, using
weapons that NATO was supposed to have confiscated, Mr. Taylor
reports.
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. also highlight the folly
of Mr. Clinton's policies in the Balkans. Over the past decade,
mujahedeen fighters, and in particular Mr. bin Laden's followers,
have fought in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and have benefited from
the U.S. military support. Previously, Macedonian intelligence
officials had tried to warn western governments that Arab and Afghan
volunteers form the backbone of organizations such as the KLA.
An exclusive excerpt from Diary of an Uncivil War by Scott Taylor
will appear tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 23, 2002) in the Ottawa Citizen.
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GRAVISSIMO AFFRONTO DIPLOMATICO: USA E KFOR
NON RICONOSCONO L'ACCORDO JUGOSLAVO-MACEDONE SUI CONFINI!!!
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT ASKS KOFI ANNAN TO EXERT HIS INFLUENCE ON KFOR AND
UNMIK
BELGRADE, Feb. 21 (Beta) - Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica asked
UN general secretary Kofi Annan on Feb. 21 to exert his influence on the
high representatives of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija to observe
the articles of the Agreement on the Yugoslav-Macedonian border.
"Your Excellency, with grave concern and surprise I received the
statements of KFOR and UNMIK high representatives in Kosovo and Metohija
doubting the legality of the Agreement," reads the letter Kostunica sent
to Annan.
"I would like to ask you to... exert influence on UNMIK and KFOR
representatives in Kosovo and Metohija to observe the articles of the
ratified Agreement on the Yugoslav-Macedonian border and abstain from
similar public statements in the future, because it is clear that they
do not serve the efforts of the international community to strengthen
regional stability but, on the contrary, serve the efforts of those who
advocate unacceptable solutions," added Kostunica.
Kostunica says the Agreement, concluded on Feb. 23, 2001, has been
welcomed by all international factors, including the EU and the US and
the participants of the Summit of state presidents and prime ministers
of southeastern Europe held in Skopje on Feb. 23, 2001.
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT STUNNED, WILL SEND DEMARCHE TO UNITED NATIONS
SKOPJE, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - Macedonian government is stunned by KFOR Gen.
Keith Huber's statement, which is supported by UMNIK, as well, saying
that the Kosovo part of Macedonian-Yugoslav border line is illegal.
The Macedonian Interior Ministry has announced it would send a demarche
to the United Nations and NATO, both KFOR and UNMIK being under their
wing.
The Ministry said that the demarche would focus on the Security Council
Resolution 1244 on Kosovo, which is obligatory for everyone, including
the UN mission, and which does not give KFOR and UNMIK officials the
right to define the document in a way that intensifies the tensions in
the region and questions the Yugoslav and Macedonian sovereignty.
The Ministry views Huber's statement as harmful and unacceptable, and
points out that it is beyond KFOR and UNMIK's mandate, and that it is in
contradiction with efforts aimed at establishing lasting peace in the
region.
The Ministry also reminded of the fact that the agreement on border
lines, which had been signed by Yugoslav and Macedonian representatives
a year ago, had been welcomed by NATO Secretary General George
Robertson, EU External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten, and then
Stability Pact head Bodo Hombach, who had attended the signing of the
document, as well as by top international officials, including those
from the UN and the European Union.
Skopje demands that NATO and the UN give their stand on the
Yugoslav-Macedonian border line, which, according to the statement, was
ascertained in keeping with all international regulations.
AGREEMENT ON BORDER UNCONTESTABLE FOR STATE DEPARTMENT
SKOPJE, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - The UN Security Council requested on March
12 last year that everyone respects the agreement on the demarcation of
the border between Macedonia and Yugoslavia, signed on February 23,
2001, and the government of the United States supported, just as does
now, the State Department said Thursday through the intermediary of the
Voice of America in the Macedonian language.
The statement added that the United States has a long-term policy of
support to the territorial integrity of states in the region to which
also belongs Macedonia, and to consult with the UN on issues relating to
Kosovo, bearing in mind the accord on the demarcation of borders.
The official US stand was made known following the statement of US Gen.
Huber, with KFOR, and the spokesman for the UN Civilian Mission in
Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK), Andrea Agnelli, that the accord on the border
between Yugoslavia and Macedonia was not valid for them and that they
will abide by it.
STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN AGREES WITH US GENERAL ON YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN
BORDER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - State Department Spokesman Richard
Boucher has agreed with a statement by the commander of the US forces in
Kosovo that the border agreement between Macedonia and Yugoslavia is not
valid.
Asked whether he agreed with General Keith Huber and UNMIK that they do
not recognize this agreement, Boucher replied positively. "I believe I
agree with this, but I do not know the circumstances," Boucher said.
YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN BORDER TREATY NOT REGISTERED WITH UN
SKOPJE, Feb. 24 (Beta) - The UN missions of Macedonia and Yugoslavia
have not registered a border treaty signed in Skopje in February,
diplomatic sources in Skopje told BETA.
"Both missions, the Macedonian and Yugoslav, did not follow regular
procedure after the treaty was signed -- submitting it to the UN
secretary's office in New York and receiving confirmation that the
document has been registered and placed in the world organization's
archives," said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The source added that Macedonian Foreign Minister Slobodan Casule would
visit New York on Feb. 25 to file a written statement and settle the
matter. "The Macedonian foreign minister will not participate in
tomorrow's session of the UN Security Council, as some in Skopje have
alleged, because Kosovo and not Macedonia is on the agenda," the unnamed
diplomat added.
CASULE: PERMANENT MEMBERS OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZE BORDER
AGREEMENT
SKOPJE, Feb. 25 (Beta) - Macedonian Foreign Minister, Slobodan Casule,
said on the evening of Feb. 25, that the ambassadors of the five
permanent members of the U.N. Security Council had accepted the
Macedonian-Yugoslav border agreement as valid, and that it must be
observed by all U.N. members.
Casule told Macedonian television from a U.N. session in New York that
the Security Council suggested that the border be secured immediately,
"especially the part with Kosovo, so that citizens who have fields on
Macedonian territory be legally able to access and cultivate them."
"I said that Macedonia was ready to take up the operation of securing
the border on its side, and that it remained for Yugoslavia and the U.N.
to agree on their engagement concerning securing the border on their
terrain," (along the border with Kosovo) he added.
Macedonian ambassador to the U.N. Srdan Kerim told the A1 television
station that the Macedonian and Yugoslav missions to the U.N. made a
"technical admission/omission" by not enclosing a topographic map with
the agreement. He said that this will be done on Feb. 26.
The agreement on the border between Yugoslavia and Macedonia was signed
in Skopje last February by Yugoslav minister of foreign affairs Goran
Svilanovic and Kerim, who was then head Macedonian diplomat.
UNMIK, KFOR TO RESPECT YUGOSLAV - MACEDONIAN BORDER TREATY
SKOPJE, Feb. 25 (Beta) - UNMIK and KFOR officials announced on Feb. 25
that they would accept a border treaty signed by Yugoslavia and
Macedonia in Skopje last February.
UNMIK spokeswoman Susan Manuel said that a UN declaration recognizing
the treaty had eliminated any dilemma that may have existed regarding
its validity, adding that the UN Mission in Kosovo would respect the
agreement.KFOR representatives said that they had been sticking to the
treaty for more than a year, adding that border patrols were being
carried out based on its provisions.
However, Kosovo Albanians are against the treaty because it gives almost
2,500 hectares of Kosovo territory to Macedonia. The Alliance for the
Future of Kosovo said on Feb. 25 that it is against the border treaty,
adding that the people of Kosovo are against having a part of the
province ceded to Macedonia. Riza Smakaj, chairman of the Association of
Independent Lawyers of Kosovo, criticized the U.N. and KFOR for
accepting the treaty and called the entire matter a scandal.
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> http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=6976
Stars And Stripes
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
General's comments about disputed Balkans border area
set off diplomatic furor
-Then last week, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Keith Huber
reportedly told the Macedonian news media the
agreement was illegal because Yugoslavian President
Vojislav Kostunica lacked authority to make deals
regarding Kosovo.
By Steve Liewer, Kosovo bureau
European edition, Tuesday, February 26, 2002
PRISTINA, Kosovo - The U.S. general in charge of Task
Force Falcon kicked up a diplomatic furor last week
after he was quoted as saying he would send U.S.
troops to protect Kosovar Albanians who farm a
disputed border region claimed by Macedonia.
At stake is about 2,500 acres of farmland near Vitina,
about five miles southeast of Camp Bondsteel. U.S.
troops regularly patrol near the area.
In February 2001, Macedonia and Yugoslavia signed an
agreement settling several land disputes along their
mutual border, including lands in Kosovo. As part of
the agreement, the disputed 2,500 acres was turned
over to Macedonia, which was part of the Yugoslav
federation until it declared independence in 1991. At
the time the United Nations, NATO and the European
Union praised the agreement.
Then last week, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Keith Huber
reportedly told the Macedonian news media the
agreement was illegal because Yugoslavian President
Vojislav Kostunica lacked authority to make deals
regarding Kosovo.
The Yugoslav province has been run as a U.N.
protectorate since the summer of 1999. A spokeswoman
for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo supported
Huber?s statement.
His comments earned criticism in both Belgrade and
Skopje.
Some Macedonians viewed the statement as tacit support
for Albanian rebels in Macedonia who would like to
break away, according to analysts for the London-based
Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
Shortly after the agreement was signed last year, a
rash of border disputes in and around the area broke
out. At one point, a company of U.S. troops with the
82nd Airborne Division, which already was in Kosovo,
deployed to the border to move ethnic Albanian rebels
off the line. A brief gunfire ensued in the town of
Mijak on March 7.
Eventually, the border battle in that area subsided,
but fresh fighting broke out to the west along the
border, especially around the city of Tetovo.
News media in Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Kosovo have
been buzzing with news of the dispute for almost a
week. The Kosovo newspaper Zeri quoted a Macedonian
army spokesman as saying his troops would shoot any
settlers or KFOR soldiers who trespassed.
A Task Force Falcon spokesman said Huber will issue a
statement on the matter later, but could offer no
comment at this time
"It?s a very hot issue," said French navy Col. Vincent
Campredon, chief spokesman for KFOR headquarters in
Pristina.
Late last week, the matter landed on the desk of U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan. His office issued a
statement supporting the Yugoslav/Macedonian treaty.
"[T]he Security Council emphasized that the
demarcation agreement must be respected by all," the
statement said. "Accordingly, the United Nations
respects it."
On Monday, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson?s
office issued similar comments.
"NATO also emphasizes its unchanged respect for the
border as agreed by [Macedonia] and [Yugoslavia] in
February 2001," the statement said. "We look forward
to building on the already close working relationship
in the border area."
Campredon said KFOR will follow the agreement and
won?t send patrols into the area the international
community now agrees belongs to Macedonia. At a press
conference Monday in Pristina, he and UNMIK
spokeswoman Susan Manuel refused to discuss the matter
further and referred reporters to the U.N. and NATO
statements.
"That?s the last word on this issue," Manuel said.
===*===
Subject: NATO Feigns Ignorance As Terrorists Plan FYROM
Offensive
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:20:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff
-"I can't say either yes or no," spokesman to the NATO
mission in Macedonia Craig Ratcliff said.
An unnamed group of ethnic Albanian rebels allegedly
spent some 4.2 million dollars since October for a
wide range of sophisticated weapons, including light
anti-aircraft missiles SA-18 and SA-7, anti- tank
rockets and infantry weapons for some 2,000 soldiers,
Macedonian media reported Monday, quoting the British
Daily Telegraph.
-The money for the weapons was, according to the
reports, provided by the Albanian mafia selling heroin
from Afghan stocks controlled by the Osama bin Laden's
Al-Quaeda terrorist network.
NATO Has No Information on the Alleged Rebel Buildup
SKOPJE, Feb 18, 2002 -- (dpa) The North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) has no information on an
alleged ethnic Albanian rebel arms buildup in
Macedonia, NATO in Skopje said Monday.
"I can't say either yes or no," spokesman to the NATO
mission in Macedonia Craig Ratcliff said.
An unnamed group of ethnic Albanian rebels allegedly
spent some 4.2 million dollars since October for a
wide range of sophisticated weapons, including light
anti-aircraft missiles SA-18 and SA-7, anti- tank
rockets and infantry weapons for some 2,000 soldiers,
Macedonian media reported Monday, quoting the British
Daily Telegraph.
However, western intelligence sources in the
Macedonian capital said earlier that some 1,200
guerrillas were spotted training in the hills still
out of control of government security forces.
The money for the weapons was, according to the
reports, provided by the Albanian mafia selling heroin
from Afghan stocks controlled by the Osama bin Laden's
Al-Quaeda terrorist network.
(C)2002. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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See also:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/
story.html?f=/stories/20020219/98481.html&qs=jennings
February 19, 2002
Taliban heroin profits arming Balkan rebels
Albanian extremists: Weapons order could equip force
of up to 2,000
Christian Jennings
The Daily Telegraph
February 22, 2002
The Balkan connection
Books says al-Qaida now active in Macedonia
By PETER WORTHINGTON -- Toronto Sun
An irony of the war against terrorism since Sept. 11 is that while the
prime enemy was Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network, not
Afghanistan's Taliban regime, it's the Taliban that has been crushed,
and not al-Qaida.
Osama and al-Qaida have become household words, yet they remain shadowy,
ill-defined, unfathomable. We are routinely told al-Qaida-trained
suicidal assassins are scattered in something like 68 countries, poised
to do dreadful things that they believe will get them into paradise,
where 72 virgins await to give them a martyr's welcome.
What most don't know, and few in the media have paid much attention to,
is the Balkan connection with al-Qaida. Much to their embarrassment now,
NATO and the Americans realize they may have unwittingly contributed to
al-Qaida fronts in Bosnia and Kosovo prior to Sept. 11.
One who knows more than most about the western-orchestrated chaos in the
Balkans is Scott Taylor, the peripatetic publisher of the military
magazine Esprit de Corps. He's been back and forth to the area
innumerable times, especially during NATO'S air war against Serbia and,
more recently, to note simmering unrest in Macedonia - where
al-Qaida-trained Albanian insurgents seek to overthrow the government.
Taylor wrote a book about Serbia and the Kosovo war (Inat: Images of
Serbia and the Kosovo Conflict), and this week has a new book about
Kosovo overlapping into Macedonia, which is a target in the unspoken
campaign for a Greater Albania, that involves al-Qaida and various
Muslim extremist groups.
This book, Diary of an Uncivil War, is ahead of the wave in that it
anticipates the next phase of the Balkan wars. Al-Qaida and Islamic
Jihad fighters have been active in Muslim areas of the Balkans ever
since Slobodan Milosevic began a megalomaniac campaign that resulted in
a shrinking of Serbia.
Bunked with villagers
Taylor's book is based on what he witnessed in travels in the area
during war - experiences different from those of establishment
journalists on expense accounts, with rented cars, translators and the
best hotels. Taylor bunked in with local villagers, bummed rides, took
buses, depended on locals for food.
There's authenticity in Taylor's stuff that's often missing in
conventional news reports. His adventures are one thing, and give a
flavour of the Balkans, but on a more serious level, his is a withering
reflection of western (U.S.) policy gone awry.
Today, Macedonia's independence is threatened by rebellion led by
Kosovar Albanians who fought the Serbs. The European Union, NATO and the
U.S. downplay this, but Albanian insurgents in Macedonia are well armed
and financed from abroad.
Reports suggest some 5,000 al-Qaida terrorists have been trained in
Bosnia and Kosovo. In January, the Americans announced the capture of
Algerian al-Qaida members in Sarajevo.
The fragile peace signed last August giving more power to Albanians
living in Macedonia, is crumbling. The NATO- and U.S.-armed rebel
National Liberation Army in northern Macedonia continues to harass.
Another Albanian insurgent group, the Real National Liberation Army, is
led by a mysterious figure who calls himself "The Raven," who is prone
to give interviews to journalists who publicize him and his cause.
NATO Secretary-General George Robertson has condemned "extremists on
both sides" who resort to violence, conveniently overlooking that
tactics being used against Macedonia are similar to what the allies
supported in Kosovo against Serbia.
Montenegro also fears Albanian subversion. Albanian maps that show a
"Greater Albania" that includes parts of neighbouring countries, are
ignored by our media and governments, just as they ignore the presence
of foreign Muslim extremists in the Balkans.
Some al-Qaida members have been given Bosnian citizenship.
This is pretty significant, but has largely been ignored in President
Bush's "war on terrorism."
Taylor's book, which touches on all this, is not an academic exercise or
partisan polemic, but based on first-hand experiences and findings.
Ordinary Canadian soldiers who served in the Balkans, first as UN
peacekeepers, then as NATO peacemakers, often have greater understanding
of the area than politicians, academics and policy-makers in Washington
and elsewhere.
So Taylor has a view that's closer to reality than pundits who observe
from afar - and whom history proves are wrong far more often than they
are right.
---
To contact the author:
Esprit de Corps Magazine & Books
#204 - 1066 Somerset St. W.
Ottawa, ON K1Y 4T3, Canada
Tel: (613) 725-5060
Fax: (613) 725-1019
www.espritdecorps.on.ca
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> http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2002/02/24/f120.raw.html
Sunday, February 24, 2002 Back The Halifax Herald Limited
Balkans will likely re-erupt -author
By Bill Spurr / Military Reporter
A new book by Herald columnist Scott Taylor
predicts another round of violence in the
Balkans as early as this spring,
as soon as the snow melts.
In Diary of an Uncivil War, which was
released Friday, Taylor writes that observers
of the region are bracing for
an Albanian offensive following the
melting of the winter snows, an
offensive the presence of 50,000 NATO
soldiers seems unable to stop.
"The Albanians have reconstituted the army
that they were supposed to have disbanded
... which is a harbinger of a spring offensive,"
Mr. Taylor said in an interview Thursday.
There are 1,400 Canadian troops in Bosnia
and smaller groups in Kosovo and Croatia.
Only the presence of western
armies prevents war, writes Mr. Taylor.
"They're sitting on top of a powder keg in
Bosnia, there's no long-term solution,"
he said. "And if they leave, it'll
all go up tomorrow."
Adding to the tension is the fact that on
Tuesday, the UN refused to recognize the
boundary between Kosovo and
Macedonia, and Mr. Taylor, recently
returned from his 16th visit to the
area, thinks the survival of Macedonia
depends on its ability to control its
own border.
Mr. Taylor said the Americans are taking a
anti-Macedonia stand, and are taking
care to ensure the safety of Albanians.
He quotes an American general in Kosovo
as saying any interference from the
Macedonians will result in the U.S.
crushing their army "like a pop can."
Aside from a significant military presence
in the area, Canada also has a large
Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian
population, totalling perhaps
three-quarters of a million people.
"After (the Second World War), there was a
tremendous influx, and since the (Balkan)
war began we have been one of the
two major countries to take in refugees
from there, (along with Australia),"
said Mr. Taylor.
He also writes that many westerners have an
over-simplified view of the conflict
in the war-torn Balkans, in which
Serbians are considered evil and the
other factions good.
He said during the war many western
reporters compared Serbian soldiers
to Nazi storm troopers and are now
ignoring legitimate arguments being
made by former Serbian president
Slobodan Milosevic at his war crimes trial.
"I think he's already pronounced guilty,"
said Mr. Taylor, who pointed out that
as recently as 1996, the U.S. was a
staunch supporter of the Milosevic regime.
===*===
The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, February 22, 2002
U.S. backed Albanian rebels with al-Qaeda links, book says:
Author predicts renewed Balkan war
By Bruce Garvey
The Balkans will likely be plunged into a new round of war as
early as this spring, with fighting centred in Macedonia, according
to a new book by Ottawa military writer Scott Taylor.
Diary of an Uncivil War warns that despite concessions made by the
Macedonian government, ethnic Albanians and their guerrilla army,
made up of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, are preparing for a
major offensive in the region. The wildcard will be whether the U.S.
government backs away from its support of the Albanians in their
quest to take control of parts of the region they claim as theirs,
Mr. Taylor writes.
"While everyone is bracing for an Albanian offensive following the
melting of the winter snows, what remains unclear is whether the
U.S. will continue to support the guerrillas," Mr. Taylor writes.
"Secretary of State Colin Powell has indicated that the U.S. will
scale back its military presence in the Balkans. But it will not be
easy for the Americans to disengage themselves from the mess they
created without setting off another round of factional violence."
The ethnic Albanians and their guerrilla army are intent on carving
out what they call "Greater Albania" -- an area that includes 90,000
square kilometres of Kosovo, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia and
Montenegro.
Mr. Taylor has covered the fighting and political situation in the
Balkans over the past several years for the Citizen. Diary of an
Uncivil War, published by Esprit de Corps books, has just been
released in stores.
A news report this week from Macedonia includes warnings from
western intelligence officials that former KLA guerrillas and
Albanian extremists have used profits from a Taliban drug-smuggling
ring to re-arm themselves. The money has been used to buy
surface-to-air missiles that give the Albanians the ability to shoot
down Macedonian helicopter gunships, one of that force's main
deterrents against the guerrillas.
Mr. Taylor's book chronicles his first-hand observations of
fighting in Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia over three years. It also
outlines the strong support by former U.S. president Bill Clinton's
government for the KLA, despite the links the guerrilla group has to
extremist Muslim organizations such as Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
Mr. Taylor writes that the U.S. military has supplied the group
with equipment and advisers, including former senior U.S. army
officers, who have been training the Albanian guerrillas.
In some cases, the U.S. support has been blatant. In August 2001
U.S. troops were to disarm 500 KLA guerrillas and transport them to
camps in Kosovo. Instead, they transported the men, still armed, to
a location inside Macedonia near an ethnic Albanian stronghold.
There the guerrillas promptly resumed their attacks.
But the Clinton administration's unofficial policy of supporting
the ethnic Albanians and KLA has backfired and has only created
instability in the region, Mr. Taylor argues.
The current crisis in Macedonia began last March, when Albanian
guerrillas staged attacks from inside NATO-occupied Kosovo, using
weapons that NATO was supposed to have confiscated, Mr. Taylor
reports.
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. also highlight the folly
of Mr. Clinton's policies in the Balkans. Over the past decade,
mujahedeen fighters, and in particular Mr. bin Laden's followers,
have fought in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and have benefited from
the U.S. military support. Previously, Macedonian intelligence
officials had tried to warn western governments that Arab and Afghan
volunteers form the backbone of organizations such as the KLA.
An exclusive excerpt from Diary of an Uncivil War by Scott Taylor
will appear tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 23, 2002) in the Ottawa Citizen.
===*===
GRAVISSIMO AFFRONTO DIPLOMATICO: USA E KFOR
NON RICONOSCONO L'ACCORDO JUGOSLAVO-MACEDONE SUI CONFINI!!!
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT ASKS KOFI ANNAN TO EXERT HIS INFLUENCE ON KFOR AND
UNMIK
BELGRADE, Feb. 21 (Beta) - Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica asked
UN general secretary Kofi Annan on Feb. 21 to exert his influence on the
high representatives of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija to observe
the articles of the Agreement on the Yugoslav-Macedonian border.
"Your Excellency, with grave concern and surprise I received the
statements of KFOR and UNMIK high representatives in Kosovo and Metohija
doubting the legality of the Agreement," reads the letter Kostunica sent
to Annan.
"I would like to ask you to... exert influence on UNMIK and KFOR
representatives in Kosovo and Metohija to observe the articles of the
ratified Agreement on the Yugoslav-Macedonian border and abstain from
similar public statements in the future, because it is clear that they
do not serve the efforts of the international community to strengthen
regional stability but, on the contrary, serve the efforts of those who
advocate unacceptable solutions," added Kostunica.
Kostunica says the Agreement, concluded on Feb. 23, 2001, has been
welcomed by all international factors, including the EU and the US and
the participants of the Summit of state presidents and prime ministers
of southeastern Europe held in Skopje on Feb. 23, 2001.
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT STUNNED, WILL SEND DEMARCHE TO UNITED NATIONS
SKOPJE, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - Macedonian government is stunned by KFOR Gen.
Keith Huber's statement, which is supported by UMNIK, as well, saying
that the Kosovo part of Macedonian-Yugoslav border line is illegal.
The Macedonian Interior Ministry has announced it would send a demarche
to the United Nations and NATO, both KFOR and UNMIK being under their
wing.
The Ministry said that the demarche would focus on the Security Council
Resolution 1244 on Kosovo, which is obligatory for everyone, including
the UN mission, and which does not give KFOR and UNMIK officials the
right to define the document in a way that intensifies the tensions in
the region and questions the Yugoslav and Macedonian sovereignty.
The Ministry views Huber's statement as harmful and unacceptable, and
points out that it is beyond KFOR and UNMIK's mandate, and that it is in
contradiction with efforts aimed at establishing lasting peace in the
region.
The Ministry also reminded of the fact that the agreement on border
lines, which had been signed by Yugoslav and Macedonian representatives
a year ago, had been welcomed by NATO Secretary General George
Robertson, EU External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten, and then
Stability Pact head Bodo Hombach, who had attended the signing of the
document, as well as by top international officials, including those
from the UN and the European Union.
Skopje demands that NATO and the UN give their stand on the
Yugoslav-Macedonian border line, which, according to the statement, was
ascertained in keeping with all international regulations.
AGREEMENT ON BORDER UNCONTESTABLE FOR STATE DEPARTMENT
SKOPJE, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - The UN Security Council requested on March
12 last year that everyone respects the agreement on the demarcation of
the border between Macedonia and Yugoslavia, signed on February 23,
2001, and the government of the United States supported, just as does
now, the State Department said Thursday through the intermediary of the
Voice of America in the Macedonian language.
The statement added that the United States has a long-term policy of
support to the territorial integrity of states in the region to which
also belongs Macedonia, and to consult with the UN on issues relating to
Kosovo, bearing in mind the accord on the demarcation of borders.
The official US stand was made known following the statement of US Gen.
Huber, with KFOR, and the spokesman for the UN Civilian Mission in
Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK), Andrea Agnelli, that the accord on the border
between Yugoslavia and Macedonia was not valid for them and that they
will abide by it.
STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN AGREES WITH US GENERAL ON YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN
BORDER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - State Department Spokesman Richard
Boucher has agreed with a statement by the commander of the US forces in
Kosovo that the border agreement between Macedonia and Yugoslavia is not
valid.
Asked whether he agreed with General Keith Huber and UNMIK that they do
not recognize this agreement, Boucher replied positively. "I believe I
agree with this, but I do not know the circumstances," Boucher said.
YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN BORDER TREATY NOT REGISTERED WITH UN
SKOPJE, Feb. 24 (Beta) - The UN missions of Macedonia and Yugoslavia
have not registered a border treaty signed in Skopje in February,
diplomatic sources in Skopje told BETA.
"Both missions, the Macedonian and Yugoslav, did not follow regular
procedure after the treaty was signed -- submitting it to the UN
secretary's office in New York and receiving confirmation that the
document has been registered and placed in the world organization's
archives," said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The source added that Macedonian Foreign Minister Slobodan Casule would
visit New York on Feb. 25 to file a written statement and settle the
matter. "The Macedonian foreign minister will not participate in
tomorrow's session of the UN Security Council, as some in Skopje have
alleged, because Kosovo and not Macedonia is on the agenda," the unnamed
diplomat added.
CASULE: PERMANENT MEMBERS OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZE BORDER
AGREEMENT
SKOPJE, Feb. 25 (Beta) - Macedonian Foreign Minister, Slobodan Casule,
said on the evening of Feb. 25, that the ambassadors of the five
permanent members of the U.N. Security Council had accepted the
Macedonian-Yugoslav border agreement as valid, and that it must be
observed by all U.N. members.
Casule told Macedonian television from a U.N. session in New York that
the Security Council suggested that the border be secured immediately,
"especially the part with Kosovo, so that citizens who have fields on
Macedonian territory be legally able to access and cultivate them."
"I said that Macedonia was ready to take up the operation of securing
the border on its side, and that it remained for Yugoslavia and the U.N.
to agree on their engagement concerning securing the border on their
terrain," (along the border with Kosovo) he added.
Macedonian ambassador to the U.N. Srdan Kerim told the A1 television
station that the Macedonian and Yugoslav missions to the U.N. made a
"technical admission/omission" by not enclosing a topographic map with
the agreement. He said that this will be done on Feb. 26.
The agreement on the border between Yugoslavia and Macedonia was signed
in Skopje last February by Yugoslav minister of foreign affairs Goran
Svilanovic and Kerim, who was then head Macedonian diplomat.
UNMIK, KFOR TO RESPECT YUGOSLAV - MACEDONIAN BORDER TREATY
SKOPJE, Feb. 25 (Beta) - UNMIK and KFOR officials announced on Feb. 25
that they would accept a border treaty signed by Yugoslavia and
Macedonia in Skopje last February.
UNMIK spokeswoman Susan Manuel said that a UN declaration recognizing
the treaty had eliminated any dilemma that may have existed regarding
its validity, adding that the UN Mission in Kosovo would respect the
agreement.KFOR representatives said that they had been sticking to the
treaty for more than a year, adding that border patrols were being
carried out based on its provisions.
However, Kosovo Albanians are against the treaty because it gives almost
2,500 hectares of Kosovo territory to Macedonia. The Alliance for the
Future of Kosovo said on Feb. 25 that it is against the border treaty,
adding that the people of Kosovo are against having a part of the
province ceded to Macedonia. Riza Smakaj, chairman of the Association of
Independent Lawyers of Kosovo, criticized the U.N. and KFOR for
accepting the treaty and called the entire matter a scandal.
===*===
> http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=6976
Stars And Stripes
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
General's comments about disputed Balkans border area
set off diplomatic furor
-Then last week, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Keith Huber
reportedly told the Macedonian news media the
agreement was illegal because Yugoslavian President
Vojislav Kostunica lacked authority to make deals
regarding Kosovo.
By Steve Liewer, Kosovo bureau
European edition, Tuesday, February 26, 2002
PRISTINA, Kosovo - The U.S. general in charge of Task
Force Falcon kicked up a diplomatic furor last week
after he was quoted as saying he would send U.S.
troops to protect Kosovar Albanians who farm a
disputed border region claimed by Macedonia.
At stake is about 2,500 acres of farmland near Vitina,
about five miles southeast of Camp Bondsteel. U.S.
troops regularly patrol near the area.
In February 2001, Macedonia and Yugoslavia signed an
agreement settling several land disputes along their
mutual border, including lands in Kosovo. As part of
the agreement, the disputed 2,500 acres was turned
over to Macedonia, which was part of the Yugoslav
federation until it declared independence in 1991. At
the time the United Nations, NATO and the European
Union praised the agreement.
Then last week, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Keith Huber
reportedly told the Macedonian news media the
agreement was illegal because Yugoslavian President
Vojislav Kostunica lacked authority to make deals
regarding Kosovo.
The Yugoslav province has been run as a U.N.
protectorate since the summer of 1999. A spokeswoman
for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo supported
Huber?s statement.
His comments earned criticism in both Belgrade and
Skopje.
Some Macedonians viewed the statement as tacit support
for Albanian rebels in Macedonia who would like to
break away, according to analysts for the London-based
Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
Shortly after the agreement was signed last year, a
rash of border disputes in and around the area broke
out. At one point, a company of U.S. troops with the
82nd Airborne Division, which already was in Kosovo,
deployed to the border to move ethnic Albanian rebels
off the line. A brief gunfire ensued in the town of
Mijak on March 7.
Eventually, the border battle in that area subsided,
but fresh fighting broke out to the west along the
border, especially around the city of Tetovo.
News media in Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Kosovo have
been buzzing with news of the dispute for almost a
week. The Kosovo newspaper Zeri quoted a Macedonian
army spokesman as saying his troops would shoot any
settlers or KFOR soldiers who trespassed.
A Task Force Falcon spokesman said Huber will issue a
statement on the matter later, but could offer no
comment at this time
"It?s a very hot issue," said French navy Col. Vincent
Campredon, chief spokesman for KFOR headquarters in
Pristina.
Late last week, the matter landed on the desk of U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan. His office issued a
statement supporting the Yugoslav/Macedonian treaty.
"[T]he Security Council emphasized that the
demarcation agreement must be respected by all," the
statement said. "Accordingly, the United Nations
respects it."
On Monday, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson?s
office issued similar comments.
"NATO also emphasizes its unchanged respect for the
border as agreed by [Macedonia] and [Yugoslavia] in
February 2001," the statement said. "We look forward
to building on the already close working relationship
in the border area."
Campredon said KFOR will follow the agreement and
won?t send patrols into the area the international
community now agrees belongs to Macedonia. At a press
conference Monday in Pristina, he and UNMIK
spokeswoman Susan Manuel refused to discuss the matter
further and referred reporters to the U.N. and NATO
statements.
"That?s the last word on this issue," Manuel said.
===*===
Subject: NATO Feigns Ignorance As Terrorists Plan FYROM
Offensive
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:20:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rozoff
-"I can't say either yes or no," spokesman to the NATO
mission in Macedonia Craig Ratcliff said.
An unnamed group of ethnic Albanian rebels allegedly
spent some 4.2 million dollars since October for a
wide range of sophisticated weapons, including light
anti-aircraft missiles SA-18 and SA-7, anti- tank
rockets and infantry weapons for some 2,000 soldiers,
Macedonian media reported Monday, quoting the British
Daily Telegraph.
-The money for the weapons was, according to the
reports, provided by the Albanian mafia selling heroin
from Afghan stocks controlled by the Osama bin Laden's
Al-Quaeda terrorist network.
NATO Has No Information on the Alleged Rebel Buildup
SKOPJE, Feb 18, 2002 -- (dpa) The North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) has no information on an
alleged ethnic Albanian rebel arms buildup in
Macedonia, NATO in Skopje said Monday.
"I can't say either yes or no," spokesman to the NATO
mission in Macedonia Craig Ratcliff said.
An unnamed group of ethnic Albanian rebels allegedly
spent some 4.2 million dollars since October for a
wide range of sophisticated weapons, including light
anti-aircraft missiles SA-18 and SA-7, anti- tank
rockets and infantry weapons for some 2,000 soldiers,
Macedonian media reported Monday, quoting the British
Daily Telegraph.
However, western intelligence sources in the
Macedonian capital said earlier that some 1,200
guerrillas were spotted training in the hills still
out of control of government security forces.
The money for the weapons was, according to the
reports, provided by the Albanian mafia selling heroin
from Afghan stocks controlled by the Osama bin Laden's
Al-Quaeda terrorist network.
(C)2002. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur
===*===
See also:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/
story.html?f=/stories/20020219/98481.html&qs=jennings
February 19, 2002
Taliban heroin profits arming Balkan rebels
Albanian extremists: Weapons order could equip force
of up to 2,000
Christian Jennings
The Daily Telegraph
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APPEAL TO PEOPLE THE WORLD OVER:
DEMAND THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL STOP THE
DANGEROUS FARCE AT THE HAGUE!
[Posted 26 February 2002]
=======================================
At the start of today's (Feb. 26) session
of his so-called trial at The
Hague, President Slobodan Milosevic said:
"There is no kind of equality when one
side has only a telephone and the
other has organization, institutions,
secret services, governments, and the
mass media. And even my telephone was
mysteriously not working yesterday
afternoon. That is why I again repeat the
demand for you to release me so
that I may have some semblance of
equality in this process and... "
Before President Milosevic could finish,
Judge May turned off his microphone.
The 'tribunal' has made clear that its
strategy for answering President
Milosevic's unanswerable charges against
NATO is to silence him, physically
exhausting him with abusive conditions
and an endless stream of obviously
lying witnesses.
We urge all who care about justice to
protest these attacks. Show Slobodan
Milosevic and NATO's 'tribunal' that he
is not alone.
Recently, a Radio Netherlands journalist
wrote:
"The performance Slobodan Milosevic is
putting up at his trial for war crimes
and genocide in The Hague - alone,
without a lawyer to defend him - has
earned him admiration and respect - not
just among his supporters, but in the
Belgrade newspapers and the Serb public
as a whole. As one newspaper put it:
'Milosevic -1, The Hague - 0.'" (Radio
Netherlands, February 22, 2002,
http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/icty020222.html
)
It is not only the brilliance of Slobodan
Milosevic's presentation and
cross-examination that took the world by
storm. It is the content. He has
forced people previously fooled by NATO's
cartoon-babble about 'humanitarian
bombing' and 'collateral damage,' to face
reality. NATO still sponsors the
KLA and other terrorists. It destroyed
multiethnic life in Kosovo. It
deliberately murdered thousands in an
effort to terrorize Yugoslavia into
surrender.
President Milosevic's style, intelligence
and political message simply do not
fit the fabricated media image of
'another new Hitler.'
"To the outside world, used to Slobodan
Milosevic being referred to as the
'Butcher of the Balkans', his courtroom
performance has come as a surprise.
Is this man they've seen depicted in
political cartoons in their
newspapersâ?¦?" (Radio Netherlands)
Those of us who labor to counter media
lies about Yugoslavia asked ourselves:
has NATO made a disastrous error? Have
they, inadvertently and at long last
given truth a platform? How can NATO
possibly answer Slobodan Milosevic?
After two weeks, we know their strategy.
They are trying to silence him.
First, the foreign policy establishments
of the NATO countries are using
their stranglehold on the media to
guarantee one-sided coverage of the
'trial.' Thus, a newspaper will report
the claims of a 'witness' but not
report the details of President
Milosevic's devastating
cross-examination.
And second, the 'tribunal' is doing
everything it can to physically exhaust
Slobodan Milosevic and eventually, they
hope, lower his morale.
Example - the Dutch government, obviously
on orders from the 'tribunal', has
refused to give a visa to Mira Markovic,
President Milosevic's wife.
Example - He is awakened every day at 7am
even though the 'trial' doesn't
start until 9:30 and his cell is only a
few minutes from the 'tribunal.'
Example - Last Thursday, he was kept
waiting 2 and a half hours after the
proceedings ended because the 'tribunal'
claimed it couldn't find a vehicle
to take him back to the World War II Nazi
prison where he is incarcerated.
Example - He is not permitted to exercise
or even to walk outside when the
'tribunal' is in session.
And perhaps worst of all, the 'tribunal'
is using every trick to drag out the
nightmarish process.
Most 'tribunal' proceedings last a few
days or weeks. This one is projected
to go two years, or longer, with
President Milosevic forced to listen to
an
endless stream of ridiculous, obviously
false witnesses.
For example, on Monday, February 25,
President Milosevic cross-examined Halil
Morina. Morina claimed Yugoslav soldiers
wantonly attacked his village of
Landovice on March 26, 1999.
President Milosevic challenged him:
''Wasn't what happened in Landovice in
fact a firefight between Yugoslav forces
and Kosovo Liberation Army
terrorists?"
Morina claimed there were no KLA members
in his village.
Milosevic asked: ''Wasn't a monument to
Ramiz Sadiku and Boro Vukmirovic
destroyed in Landovice?'' (These slain
partisans, an ethnic Albanian and an
ethnic Montenegrin, symbolized
brotherhood in Yugoslavia.)
"Yes," said Morina.
"And what replaced it?" asked President
Milosevic.
"Why, a monument to our fallen KLA
soldiers," said Morina.
This prompted the following quite
reasonable response:
"I question that he does not know
anything about these [KLA] activities,"
President Milosevic said. "I must say you
[the "prosecutor"] are bringing in
witnesses of this kind to ill-treat me.
These are false witnesses."
Earlier, Morina testified that Yugoslav
soldiers arrived in Landovice in a
particular army vehicle. Though this
assertion had no bearing on anything or
anyone, least of all President Milosevic,
the prosecution produced pictures
of different army vehicles and everyone
had to wait while the 'witness'
studied them, finally picking the one
that looked like the vehicle in which
the troops had traveled.
This combination of physical abuse,
isolation from family, friends and
advisors - even President Milosevic's
lawyers in the Dutch courts are not
permitted to see him - and a stream of
ridiculous 'witnesses' is the real
content of the prosecution case against
President Milosevic.
We urge all individuals, groups, mass
media and members of parliament who
care about justice to protest this abuse
in any way possible including with
letters and petitions to the United
Nations Security Council. Demand:
1) End this farce of a trial. It is
already obvious the 'prosecution' has no
case.
2) Until The Hague farce is ended,
Slobodan Milosevic must be freed from the
abusive Hague jail. He must be allowed to
live in a house in The Netherlands
with his family, thus preserving his
physical well being and allowing him to
conduct his defense and counter attack in
full contact with advisers and
research facilities
This kind of action and public pressure
must go on continuously in different
forms until we FREE SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC.
Milosevic must not be silenced.
-- International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic
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Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Singapore to the United Nations
231 East 51st Street, New York, N.Y.
10022
Telephone: (212)
826-0840/0841/0842/0843/0844, Telefax:
(212) 826-2964
Syrian Arab Republic
Permanent Representative of the Syrian
Arab Republic to the United Nations
820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York,
N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 661-1313, Telefax: (212)
983-4439
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
Permanent Representative of the United
Kingdom to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second
Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 745-9200, Telefax: (212)
745-9316
United States of America
Permanent Representative of the United
States to the United Nations
799 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y.
10017-3505
Telephone: (212) 415-4000, Telefax: (212)
415-4443
==========================
FURTHER READING
==========================
1) 'By Adding Three Lies, One Does Not
Get the Truth â?? Only a Bigger Lie ' -
President Slobodan Miloševic in The
Hague, January 30th 2002 (transcript)
2) 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans
and Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?'
By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser
3) 'Illegal Tribunal - Illegal
Indictment,' by Dr. Hans Koechler at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/prog2.htm
4) How Madeline Albright Ordered The
Hague 'Tribunal' To 'Indict' Milosevic
at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/lovie.htm
5) Official Statements Prove Hague
'Tribunal' Belongs to NATO
by Jared Israel at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/belongs.htm
Subscribe to the ICDSM email list at
http://www.icdsm.org/maillist.htm
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THE DEFENSE OF MILOSEVIC - AND THE TRUTH
- NEEDS YOUR HELP!
NATO has billions of dollars and the
media to spread lies. We have the truth,
supported by hundreds of millions of
people. To develop legal, educational,
parliamentary and other work, our
Committee needs donations, large or
small,
from those who want to get the truth to
the people.
Here is how you can help:
* Contribute via credit card by calling
our Dutch or U.S. offices:
Dutch office: 31 20 6151122
US office: 1 617 916-1705
* Donate over the internet via PayPal at:
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=icdsm%40aol.com
PayPal accepts VISA and MasterCard
* Or mail a check to: ICDSM
831 Beacon St., #295
Newton Centre, MA 02459 (USA)
Thank you!
http://www.icdsm.org
===*===
Dear friends,
Please support concretely the following ICDSM appeal. The situation is
dramatic. Behind the UN insignia NATO criminals are attempting another
crime: to silence the voice of freedom, dignity and consciousness. Let
us not allow them to avoid their final defeat from president Milosevic.
At the moment, 77% of Yugoslav citizens support president Milosevic.
That amount of support is far above any other individual, party or
institution.
The puppets in Belgrade are in panic!
Vladimir Krsljanin
International Secretary of the
Socialist Party of Serbia
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/ ('morning news' the only Serbian newspaper
advocating liberation)
===*===
FREE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW!
HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!
URL for petition is
http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/petition.htm
To add your name(s) to this petition, please click
here or write to icdsm@...
500,000 Sign Petition In Ukraine!!
FREE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW!
HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!
Since this petition was written President Milosevic has been
kidnapped in violation of the
Yugoslav constitution and international law by authorities in
Belgrade. He was delivered by the
RAF to NATO'S Tribunal in The Hague. The signers of this petition
most strongly demand that
President Milosevic be immediately released from illegal detention
and be returned a free man to his country and his family.
We the undersigned demand that the Serbian authorities immediately
release Slobodan Milosevic and all other Serbian patriots from jail.
The arrest of Mr. Milosevic is an attempt by NATO leaders to blame the
Serbian people for crimes against Yugoslavia committed by NATO.
We demand that Mr. Milosevic immediately be given proper medical
treatment, in the hospital of his choice, with
doctors of his choice, for a heart condition that appeared only after he
was jailed.
We demand that neither Slobodan Milosevic, nor any other Yugoslav, be
sent to the Hague Tribunal.
We demand an end to the arbitrary kidnapping, arrest, harassment and
persecution of Yugoslav leaders and soldiers
and ordinary people whose crime was to set an example to the world by
resisting NATO aggression.
Free Slobodan Milosevic at once!
End persecution of Mr. Milosevic and all Yugoslav patriots and soldiers
at once!
Jail the real war criminals: the NATO leaders who committed crimes
against humanity and against Yugoslav
sovereignty and who continue to commit those crimes today.
Petition is being circulated by the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) at icdsm@... To sign
petition, please click here or go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/sign.htm
For Signers' Comments see
http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/states.htm or click on highlighted
names.
Slobodan Milosevic www.icdsm.org
The URL for this article is:
http://www.icdsm.org/more/stopfarce.htm
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http://www.icdsm.org/maillist.htm
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APPEAL TO PEOPLE THE WORLD OVER:
DEMAND THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL STOP THE
DANGEROUS FARCE AT THE HAGUE!
[Posted 26 February 2002]
=======================================
At the start of today's (Feb. 26) session
of his so-called trial at The
Hague, President Slobodan Milosevic said:
"There is no kind of equality when one
side has only a telephone and the
other has organization, institutions,
secret services, governments, and the
mass media. And even my telephone was
mysteriously not working yesterday
afternoon. That is why I again repeat the
demand for you to release me so
that I may have some semblance of
equality in this process and... "
Before President Milosevic could finish,
Judge May turned off his microphone.
The 'tribunal' has made clear that its
strategy for answering President
Milosevic's unanswerable charges against
NATO is to silence him, physically
exhausting him with abusive conditions
and an endless stream of obviously
lying witnesses.
We urge all who care about justice to
protest these attacks. Show Slobodan
Milosevic and NATO's 'tribunal' that he
is not alone.
Recently, a Radio Netherlands journalist
wrote:
"The performance Slobodan Milosevic is
putting up at his trial for war crimes
and genocide in The Hague - alone,
without a lawyer to defend him - has
earned him admiration and respect - not
just among his supporters, but in the
Belgrade newspapers and the Serb public
as a whole. As one newspaper put it:
'Milosevic -1, The Hague - 0.'" (Radio
Netherlands, February 22, 2002,
http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/icty020222.html
)
It is not only the brilliance of Slobodan
Milosevic's presentation and
cross-examination that took the world by
storm. It is the content. He has
forced people previously fooled by NATO's
cartoon-babble about 'humanitarian
bombing' and 'collateral damage,' to face
reality. NATO still sponsors the
KLA and other terrorists. It destroyed
multiethnic life in Kosovo. It
deliberately murdered thousands in an
effort to terrorize Yugoslavia into
surrender.
President Milosevic's style, intelligence
and political message simply do not
fit the fabricated media image of
'another new Hitler.'
"To the outside world, used to Slobodan
Milosevic being referred to as the
'Butcher of the Balkans', his courtroom
performance has come as a surprise.
Is this man they've seen depicted in
political cartoons in their
newspapersâ?¦?" (Radio Netherlands)
Those of us who labor to counter media
lies about Yugoslavia asked ourselves:
has NATO made a disastrous error? Have
they, inadvertently and at long last
given truth a platform? How can NATO
possibly answer Slobodan Milosevic?
After two weeks, we know their strategy.
They are trying to silence him.
First, the foreign policy establishments
of the NATO countries are using
their stranglehold on the media to
guarantee one-sided coverage of the
'trial.' Thus, a newspaper will report
the claims of a 'witness' but not
report the details of President
Milosevic's devastating
cross-examination.
And second, the 'tribunal' is doing
everything it can to physically exhaust
Slobodan Milosevic and eventually, they
hope, lower his morale.
Example - the Dutch government, obviously
on orders from the 'tribunal', has
refused to give a visa to Mira Markovic,
President Milosevic's wife.
Example - He is awakened every day at 7am
even though the 'trial' doesn't
start until 9:30 and his cell is only a
few minutes from the 'tribunal.'
Example - Last Thursday, he was kept
waiting 2 and a half hours after the
proceedings ended because the 'tribunal'
claimed it couldn't find a vehicle
to take him back to the World War II Nazi
prison where he is incarcerated.
Example - He is not permitted to exercise
or even to walk outside when the
'tribunal' is in session.
And perhaps worst of all, the 'tribunal'
is using every trick to drag out the
nightmarish process.
Most 'tribunal' proceedings last a few
days or weeks. This one is projected
to go two years, or longer, with
President Milosevic forced to listen to
an
endless stream of ridiculous, obviously
false witnesses.
For example, on Monday, February 25,
President Milosevic cross-examined Halil
Morina. Morina claimed Yugoslav soldiers
wantonly attacked his village of
Landovice on March 26, 1999.
President Milosevic challenged him:
''Wasn't what happened in Landovice in
fact a firefight between Yugoslav forces
and Kosovo Liberation Army
terrorists?"
Morina claimed there were no KLA members
in his village.
Milosevic asked: ''Wasn't a monument to
Ramiz Sadiku and Boro Vukmirovic
destroyed in Landovice?'' (These slain
partisans, an ethnic Albanian and an
ethnic Montenegrin, symbolized
brotherhood in Yugoslavia.)
"Yes," said Morina.
"And what replaced it?" asked President
Milosevic.
"Why, a monument to our fallen KLA
soldiers," said Morina.
This prompted the following quite
reasonable response:
"I question that he does not know
anything about these [KLA] activities,"
President Milosevic said. "I must say you
[the "prosecutor"] are bringing in
witnesses of this kind to ill-treat me.
These are false witnesses."
Earlier, Morina testified that Yugoslav
soldiers arrived in Landovice in a
particular army vehicle. Though this
assertion had no bearing on anything or
anyone, least of all President Milosevic,
the prosecution produced pictures
of different army vehicles and everyone
had to wait while the 'witness'
studied them, finally picking the one
that looked like the vehicle in which
the troops had traveled.
This combination of physical abuse,
isolation from family, friends and
advisors - even President Milosevic's
lawyers in the Dutch courts are not
permitted to see him - and a stream of
ridiculous 'witnesses' is the real
content of the prosecution case against
President Milosevic.
We urge all individuals, groups, mass
media and members of parliament who
care about justice to protest this abuse
in any way possible including with
letters and petitions to the United
Nations Security Council. Demand:
1) End this farce of a trial. It is
already obvious the 'prosecution' has no
case.
2) Until The Hague farce is ended,
Slobodan Milosevic must be freed from the
abusive Hague jail. He must be allowed to
live in a house in The Netherlands
with his family, thus preserving his
physical well being and allowing him to
conduct his defense and counter attack in
full contact with advisers and
research facilities
This kind of action and public pressure
must go on continuously in different
forms until we FREE SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC.
Milosevic must not be silenced.
-- International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosevic
Security Council Members
* Mexico [President of Council in
February]
Permanent Representative of Mexico to the
United Nations
Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor, New
York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 752-0220, Telefax: (212)
688-8862
* Norway [President of Council in March]
Permanent Representative of Norway to the
United Nations
825 Third Avenue, 39th Floor, New York,
N.Y. 10022
Telephone: (212) 421-0280/ 0281/ 0282/
0283/0284, Telefax: (212) 688-0554
* Russian Federation [President of
Council in April]
Permanent Representative of the Russian
Federation to the United Nations
136 East 67th Street, New York, N.Y.
10021
Telephone: (212) 861-4900/4901/4902,
Telefax: (212) 628-0252
Bulgaria
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Bulgaria to the United Nations
11 East 84th Street, New York, N.Y. 10028
Telephone: (212) 737-4790/4791 or
327-4180/4181, Telefax: (212) 472-9865
Cameroon
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Cameroon to the United Nations
22 East 73rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10021
Telephone: (212)
794-2295/2296/2297/2298/2299, Telefax:
(212) 249-0533
China
Permanent Representative of the People's
Republic of China to the United
Nations
350 East 35th Street, New York, N.Y.
10016
Telephone: (212) 655-6100, Telefax: (212)
634-7626
Colombia
Permanent Representative of Colombia to
the United Nations
140 East 57th Street, 5th Floor, New
York, N.Y. 10022
Telephone: (212) 355-7776, Telefax: (212)
371-2813
France
Permanent Representative of France to the
United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 245 East
47th Street, 44th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10017, Telephone: (212)
308-5700
Telefax: (212) 421-6889
Guinea
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Guinea to the United Nations
140 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y.
10016
Telephone: (212) 687-8115/8116/8117,
Telefax: (212) 687-8248
Ireland
Permanent Representative of Ireland to
the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second
Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, N.Y.
10017
Telephone: (212) 421-6934, Telefax: (212)
752-4726
Mauritius
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Mauritius to the United Nations
211 East 43rd St., 15th Floor, New York,
N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 949-0190/0191, Telefax:
(212) 697-3829
Singapore
Permanent Representative of the Republic
of Singapore to the United Nations
231 East 51st Street, New York, N.Y.
10022
Telephone: (212)
826-0840/0841/0842/0843/0844, Telefax:
(212) 826-2964
Syrian Arab Republic
Permanent Representative of the Syrian
Arab Republic to the United Nations
820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York,
N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 661-1313, Telefax: (212)
983-4439
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
Permanent Representative of the United
Kingdom to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second
Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 745-9200, Telefax: (212)
745-9316
United States of America
Permanent Representative of the United
States to the United Nations
799 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y.
10017-3505
Telephone: (212) 415-4000, Telefax: (212)
415-4443
==========================
FURTHER READING
==========================
1) 'By Adding Three Lies, One Does Not
Get the Truth â?? Only a Bigger Lie ' -
President Slobodan Miloševic in The
Hague, January 30th 2002 (transcript)
2) 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans
and Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?'
By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser
3) 'Illegal Tribunal - Illegal
Indictment,' by Dr. Hans Koechler at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/prog2.htm
4) How Madeline Albright Ordered The
Hague 'Tribunal' To 'Indict' Milosevic
at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/lovie.htm
5) Official Statements Prove Hague
'Tribunal' Belongs to NATO
by Jared Israel at
http://www.icdsm.org/more/belongs.htm
Subscribe to the ICDSM email list at
http://www.icdsm.org/maillist.htm
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THE DEFENSE OF MILOSEVIC - AND THE TRUTH
- NEEDS YOUR HELP!
NATO has billions of dollars and the
media to spread lies. We have the truth,
supported by hundreds of millions of
people. To develop legal, educational,
parliamentary and other work, our
Committee needs donations, large or
small,
from those who want to get the truth to
the people.
Here is how you can help:
* Contribute via credit card by calling
our Dutch or U.S. offices:
Dutch office: 31 20 6151122
US office: 1 617 916-1705
* Donate over the internet via PayPal at:
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=icdsm%40aol.com
PayPal accepts VISA and MasterCard
* Or mail a check to: ICDSM
831 Beacon St., #295
Newton Centre, MA 02459 (USA)
Thank you!
http://www.icdsm.org
===*===
Dear friends,
Please support concretely the following ICDSM appeal. The situation is
dramatic. Behind the UN insignia NATO criminals are attempting another
crime: to silence the voice of freedom, dignity and consciousness. Let
us not allow them to avoid their final defeat from president Milosevic.
At the moment, 77% of Yugoslav citizens support president Milosevic.
That amount of support is far above any other individual, party or
institution.
The puppets in Belgrade are in panic!
Vladimir Krsljanin
International Secretary of the
Socialist Party of Serbia
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/ ('morning news' the only Serbian newspaper
advocating liberation)
===*===
FREE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW!
HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!
URL for petition is
http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/petition.htm
To add your name(s) to this petition, please click
here or write to icdsm@...
500,000 Sign Petition In Ukraine!!
FREE PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC NOW!
HANDS OFF YUGOSLAVIA!
Since this petition was written President Milosevic has been
kidnapped in violation of the
Yugoslav constitution and international law by authorities in
Belgrade. He was delivered by the
RAF to NATO'S Tribunal in The Hague. The signers of this petition
most strongly demand that
President Milosevic be immediately released from illegal detention
and be returned a free man to his country and his family.
We the undersigned demand that the Serbian authorities immediately
release Slobodan Milosevic and all other Serbian patriots from jail.
The arrest of Mr. Milosevic is an attempt by NATO leaders to blame the
Serbian people for crimes against Yugoslavia committed by NATO.
We demand that Mr. Milosevic immediately be given proper medical
treatment, in the hospital of his choice, with
doctors of his choice, for a heart condition that appeared only after he
was jailed.
We demand that neither Slobodan Milosevic, nor any other Yugoslav, be
sent to the Hague Tribunal.
We demand an end to the arbitrary kidnapping, arrest, harassment and
persecution of Yugoslav leaders and soldiers
and ordinary people whose crime was to set an example to the world by
resisting NATO aggression.
Free Slobodan Milosevic at once!
End persecution of Mr. Milosevic and all Yugoslav patriots and soldiers
at once!
Jail the real war criminals: the NATO leaders who committed crimes
against humanity and against Yugoslav
sovereignty and who continue to commit those crimes today.
Petition is being circulated by the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) at icdsm@... To sign
petition, please click here or go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/sign.htm
For Signers' Comments see
http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/states.htm or click on highlighted
names.
GERMANIA: L'UNICO PAESE D'EUROPA CHE DIFENDE LE "MINORANZE" OVUNQUE
- DOPO AVERE SPAZZATO VIA QUELLE ESISTENTI IN CASA PROPRIA
Chiusa la scuola sorba
KROSTWITZ, 25 febbraio 2002. Nella localita' sassone di
Krostwitz e' stata recentemente chiusa una delle due ultime
scuole medie dei Sorbi di Lausitz [popolazione di origine slava
insediata in questa area della ex-DDR]. Questa scuola non
aveva piu' abbastanza studenti ed e' stata percio' chiusa
su decisione della amministrazione locale. I rimanenti 55
scolari sono stati distribuiti tra le scuole vicine. I Sorbi
di Lausitz, di origine slava-occidentale, erano riconosciuti
come minoranza nazionale in Germania fino alla Seconda Guerra
Mondiale, e costituivano una comunita' di quasi mezzo milione
di persone. Disponevano di varie scuole elementari e medie.
Oggi la minoranza sorba in Germania [l'unica "minoranza etnica"
di questo paese, che e' "etnicamente" il piu' omogeneo
d'Europa ed anzi rivendica legami con le popolazioni di
lingua germanica dalla Alsazia fino al Volga] conta meno
di 50mila individui.
+++ Sorbische Schule geschlossen +++
KROSTWITZ, 25. Februar 2002. In dem sächsischen Ort
Krostwitz wurde vor kurzem eine der letzten beiden
Mittelschulen der Lausitzer Sorben geschlossen. Diese Schule
hatte nicht mehr genügend Schüler und wurde deswegen auf
Anordnung des Gemeinderates geschlossen. Die verbliebenen 55
Schüler wurden auf die umliegenden Schulen verteilt. Die
Lausitzer Sorben,Angehörige der West-Slawen, waren in
Deutschland bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg als nationale
Minderheit anerkannt und zählten annähernd eine halbe
Million Menschen. Sie hatten mehrere Grud- und
Mittelschulen. Heute zählt die sorbische Minderheit in
Deutschland kaum noch 50.000 Menschen.
TIKER.CO.YU / AMSELFELD.COM
- DOPO AVERE SPAZZATO VIA QUELLE ESISTENTI IN CASA PROPRIA
Chiusa la scuola sorba
KROSTWITZ, 25 febbraio 2002. Nella localita' sassone di
Krostwitz e' stata recentemente chiusa una delle due ultime
scuole medie dei Sorbi di Lausitz [popolazione di origine slava
insediata in questa area della ex-DDR]. Questa scuola non
aveva piu' abbastanza studenti ed e' stata percio' chiusa
su decisione della amministrazione locale. I rimanenti 55
scolari sono stati distribuiti tra le scuole vicine. I Sorbi
di Lausitz, di origine slava-occidentale, erano riconosciuti
come minoranza nazionale in Germania fino alla Seconda Guerra
Mondiale, e costituivano una comunita' di quasi mezzo milione
di persone. Disponevano di varie scuole elementari e medie.
Oggi la minoranza sorba in Germania [l'unica "minoranza etnica"
di questo paese, che e' "etnicamente" il piu' omogeneo
d'Europa ed anzi rivendica legami con le popolazioni di
lingua germanica dalla Alsazia fino al Volga] conta meno
di 50mila individui.
+++ Sorbische Schule geschlossen +++
KROSTWITZ, 25. Februar 2002. In dem sächsischen Ort
Krostwitz wurde vor kurzem eine der letzten beiden
Mittelschulen der Lausitzer Sorben geschlossen. Diese Schule
hatte nicht mehr genügend Schüler und wurde deswegen auf
Anordnung des Gemeinderates geschlossen. Die verbliebenen 55
Schüler wurden auf die umliegenden Schulen verteilt. Die
Lausitzer Sorben,Angehörige der West-Slawen, waren in
Deutschland bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg als nationale
Minderheit anerkannt und zählten annähernd eine halbe
Million Menschen. Sie hatten mehrere Grud- und
Mittelschulen. Heute zählt die sorbische Minderheit in
Deutschland kaum noch 50.000 Menschen.
TIKER.CO.YU / AMSELFELD.COM
Subject: ADOZIONI ZASTAVA - IN
PROGRAMMA UNA NUOVA CONSEGNA
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:31:31 +0100
From: "Rossi Alma" <alma@...>
Dal coordinamento RSU
Vi informiamo che (dopo quello dell'ottobre
2001) è programmato un ulteriore
viaggio alla Zastava di Kragujevac per la
consegna delle nuove adozioni a
distanza attivate ultimamente e delle quote
dei rinnovi per parte delle adozioni gia'
attive.
La partenza e' prevista per il giorno 15
marzo. La delegazione sarà composta
da compagni di Milano, Lodi, Trieste,
Padova e Toscana (totale 9 persone ..
completamente a loro spese) in
rappresentanza dei nodi che hanno gestito
le adozioni raccolte in questi 2 mesi.
Nello stesso periodo è prevista la partenza
anche dei compagni di Lecco che
consegneranno le loro adozioni sabato 16 marzo.
Per parte nostra, le consegne (direttamente
alle famiglie dei lavoratori
della Zastava coinvolte)
averranno la mattina di domenica 17 marzo
nel corso di una assemblea che si
terrà nei locali dello stabilimento.
In previsione di questo viaggio
sollecitiamo quindi:
- chi avesse la possibilità di versare la
rata della propria adozione o di
aprirne una nuova in tempo per la partenza
della delegazione di contattare
Alma Rossi (055-8498256) in modo da
sveltire la procedura.
- chi avesse lettere o regali da far
pervenire alle famiglie adottate di
mettersi in contatto sempre con Alma per
mettersi d'accordo sul loro ritiro.
E' necessario, anche per le lettere ed i
regali da consegnare alle famiglie,
avere al più presto i dati in modo da
muoverci per tempo ad informare le
famiglie interessate ad essere presenti
alla assemblea alla zastava del 17 marzo.
Al ritorno dal viaggio vi faremo avere un
rendiconto completo.
Vi anticipiamo inoltre che si sta ormai
concretizzando anche la spedizione
di 2 TIR (medicinali, materiali per
l'igiene personale e della casa, altri
generi di conforto) prevista per la prima
settimana di Aprile. In questo
modo (visti i tempi lunghi dello
sdoganamento alla dogana di Kragujevac) si
dovrebbe riuscire a consegnare il materiale
alle famiglie (per i generi di
conforto) ed all'ospedale (per il materiale
sanitario) nella settimana del 1
maggio (in occasione di una iniziativa
nella giornata del lavoro) per
rendere ancora una volta visibile (oltre
alle adozioni) la solidarietà dei
lavoratori italiani verso quelli Jugoslavi
ed alle loro famiglie
barbaramente colpiti nel loro diritto al
lavoro ed al salario da una assurda
guerra per l'egemonia politica e
territoriale condotta dalla Nato.
I materiali che comporranno il carico dei
due Tir sono il risultato di una
raccolta realizzata grazie all'impegno di
diverse Rsu che hanno concordato
con le rispettive aziende la donazione dei
prodotti.
Alla zastava di Kragujevac si sono da poco
concluse le elezioni per la nuova
struttura sindacale. Di questo e della
situazione sindacale più in generale
vi daremo maggiori informazioni al nostro
ritorno.
Resta il fatto che i lavoratori della
zastava devono fare i conti
con non pochi problemi.
Infatti continua la politica di
smantellamento delle prospettive
occupazionali della fabbrica di automobili
e camion. Oltre ai 1500
licenziamenti dell'inverno scorso sono in
programma altri 5000 licenziamenti
nei primi mesi del 2002. Licenziamenti che
tolgono oltretutto al personale
zastava quel minimo supporto economico di
12.000 lire mensili di indennità
di mancato impiego (un po' come la nostra
CIG). A questo si aggiunge la politica
antisociale del Governo che ha iniziato un
pesante smantellamento di quello che era il
livello dei diritti e delle
tutele che il mondo del lavoro Jugoslavo ha
conquistato negli anni
precedenti. Sulla tutela in caso di
maternità, sulla flessibilità in entrata
ed in uscita con maggiori libertà di
licenziamento, sulla struttura e sul grado
di copertura contrattuale, sul sistema
previdenziale.
Una politica che si accompagna ad una
violenta privatizzazione dei servizi
pubblici, sopratutto la sanità, che rende
sempre più inacessibile il diritto
alla salute da parte dei ceti popolari ed
impossibile per i pensionati ed i
lavoratori senza reddito.
Alla zastava, come nelle altre aziende
jugoslave si ricomincia a scioperare
ed a manifestare.
Forniremo di questa situazione un
esauriente rendiconto al nostro rientro
ciao
Alma Rossi - email - alma@...
indirizzo internet del Coordinamento RSU -
http://www.ecn.org/coord.rsu/
PROGRAMMA UNA NUOVA CONSEGNA
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:31:31 +0100
From: "Rossi Alma" <alma@...>
Dal coordinamento RSU
Vi informiamo che (dopo quello dell'ottobre
2001) è programmato un ulteriore
viaggio alla Zastava di Kragujevac per la
consegna delle nuove adozioni a
distanza attivate ultimamente e delle quote
dei rinnovi per parte delle adozioni gia'
attive.
La partenza e' prevista per il giorno 15
marzo. La delegazione sarà composta
da compagni di Milano, Lodi, Trieste,
Padova e Toscana (totale 9 persone ..
completamente a loro spese) in
rappresentanza dei nodi che hanno gestito
le adozioni raccolte in questi 2 mesi.
Nello stesso periodo è prevista la partenza
anche dei compagni di Lecco che
consegneranno le loro adozioni sabato 16 marzo.
Per parte nostra, le consegne (direttamente
alle famiglie dei lavoratori
della Zastava coinvolte)
averranno la mattina di domenica 17 marzo
nel corso di una assemblea che si
terrà nei locali dello stabilimento.
In previsione di questo viaggio
sollecitiamo quindi:
- chi avesse la possibilità di versare la
rata della propria adozione o di
aprirne una nuova in tempo per la partenza
della delegazione di contattare
Alma Rossi (055-8498256) in modo da
sveltire la procedura.
- chi avesse lettere o regali da far
pervenire alle famiglie adottate di
mettersi in contatto sempre con Alma per
mettersi d'accordo sul loro ritiro.
E' necessario, anche per le lettere ed i
regali da consegnare alle famiglie,
avere al più presto i dati in modo da
muoverci per tempo ad informare le
famiglie interessate ad essere presenti
alla assemblea alla zastava del 17 marzo.
Al ritorno dal viaggio vi faremo avere un
rendiconto completo.
Vi anticipiamo inoltre che si sta ormai
concretizzando anche la spedizione
di 2 TIR (medicinali, materiali per
l'igiene personale e della casa, altri
generi di conforto) prevista per la prima
settimana di Aprile. In questo
modo (visti i tempi lunghi dello
sdoganamento alla dogana di Kragujevac) si
dovrebbe riuscire a consegnare il materiale
alle famiglie (per i generi di
conforto) ed all'ospedale (per il materiale
sanitario) nella settimana del 1
maggio (in occasione di una iniziativa
nella giornata del lavoro) per
rendere ancora una volta visibile (oltre
alle adozioni) la solidarietà dei
lavoratori italiani verso quelli Jugoslavi
ed alle loro famiglie
barbaramente colpiti nel loro diritto al
lavoro ed al salario da una assurda
guerra per l'egemonia politica e
territoriale condotta dalla Nato.
I materiali che comporranno il carico dei
due Tir sono il risultato di una
raccolta realizzata grazie all'impegno di
diverse Rsu che hanno concordato
con le rispettive aziende la donazione dei
prodotti.
Alla zastava di Kragujevac si sono da poco
concluse le elezioni per la nuova
struttura sindacale. Di questo e della
situazione sindacale più in generale
vi daremo maggiori informazioni al nostro
ritorno.
Resta il fatto che i lavoratori della
zastava devono fare i conti
con non pochi problemi.
Infatti continua la politica di
smantellamento delle prospettive
occupazionali della fabbrica di automobili
e camion. Oltre ai 1500
licenziamenti dell'inverno scorso sono in
programma altri 5000 licenziamenti
nei primi mesi del 2002. Licenziamenti che
tolgono oltretutto al personale
zastava quel minimo supporto economico di
12.000 lire mensili di indennità
di mancato impiego (un po' come la nostra
CIG). A questo si aggiunge la politica
antisociale del Governo che ha iniziato un
pesante smantellamento di quello che era il
livello dei diritti e delle
tutele che il mondo del lavoro Jugoslavo ha
conquistato negli anni
precedenti. Sulla tutela in caso di
maternità, sulla flessibilità in entrata
ed in uscita con maggiori libertà di
licenziamento, sulla struttura e sul grado
di copertura contrattuale, sul sistema
previdenziale.
Una politica che si accompagna ad una
violenta privatizzazione dei servizi
pubblici, sopratutto la sanità, che rende
sempre più inacessibile il diritto
alla salute da parte dei ceti popolari ed
impossibile per i pensionati ed i
lavoratori senza reddito.
Alla zastava, come nelle altre aziende
jugoslave si ricomincia a scioperare
ed a manifestare.
Forniremo di questa situazione un
esauriente rendiconto al nostro rientro
ciao
Alma Rossi - email - alma@...
indirizzo internet del Coordinamento RSU -
http://www.ecn.org/coord.rsu/
NATO and US Government War Crimes in Yugoslavia
Michel Chossudovsky
Economic War Crimes:
Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia-Herzegovina
Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 1996
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), 19 February 2002
> http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO202G.html
===*===
'MEDIEVAL SAVAGERY¹
Compiled by Ian Johnson
At NATO's tribunal Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic has been portrayed as a perpetrator of
'medieval savagery.' The following items were compiled
from the mass media during the 1999 NATO bombing.
Unlike the false charges presented in The Hague
against Milosevic these public and verifiable facts
are irrefutable evidence of NATO's own high-tech
genocide. Pity then that the vigilantes in wigs have
decided that in their court the case against NATO
cannot be heard.
NATO and the bombing of Yugoslavia 1999.
5th April. The southern mining town of Aleksinac is
hit by three missiles which destroy a block of flats
and three streets of houses.
7th April. The Montenegrin capital of Podgorica sees
its residential area struck by four missiles.
9th April. The Zastava car plant in Kragujevac hit by
six missiles. The factory is occupied by its workers
trying to prevent it being destroyed and there are 132
casualties.
11th April. Nine more missiles blast the Zastava car
plant. 124 casualties.
12th April. A passenger train travelling between
Leskovac and the Macedonian capital Skopje is bombed
and first reports confirm twenty civilians burnt
alive.
14th April. Seventy-five Albanian refugees killed when
NATO bomb a refugee convoy near Meja, between
Djakovica and Prizren in Kosovo. The column was two
kilometres long and NATO rained missiles on it for
twenty minutes.
14th April. NATO commences daytime bombing of Belgrade
while the city is packed with people going about their
daily business.
21st April. Refugee camp near Djakovica in Kosovo is
bombed.
22nd April. Assassination attempt by NATO on Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and his family. Three
laser-guided bombs hit the family home in Belgrade.
None of the family was at home.
This attack is reminiscent of the attempt to
assassinate Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi, when US
planes, flying from Britain, attacked Gadaffi's
home in Tripoli. They missed Gaddafi but managed to
murder his daughter.
23rd April. The bombing of Yugoslavian television,
killing broadcasters, technicians, cleaners and
make-up ladies.
Robert Fisk, writing in the Independent of 24th April,
described the resultant carnage:
"Deep inside the tangle of cement and plastic and
iron, in what had once been the make-up room next to
the broadcasting studio of Serb television, was all
that was left of a young woman, burnt alive when
Nato¹s missile exploded in the radio control room. A
young technician could only be extracted from the
hundreds of tons of concrete in which he was encased
by amputating both his legs. A Belgrade fireman pulled
at one of the bodies for all of thirty seconds before
he realised that the man, swinging back and forth amid
the wreckage, was dead. By dusk last night, ten
crushed bodies, two of them women, had been tugged
from
beneath the concrete, another man had died in hospital
and fifteen other technicians and secretaries still
lay buried."
Tony Blair described this attack as 'entirely
justified' and Clare Short, then Secretary of State
for International Development, claimed that television
was a 'legitimate target'. Fisk wasn't so sure. He
continued his article: " I recall Croatian television
spreading hatred aplenty when it was ethnically
cleansing 170,000 Serbs from Croatia in 1995. But we
didn't bomb Zagreb. And when President Franjo
Tudjman¹s lads were massacring Serbs and Muslims in
Bosnia, we didn't bomb his residence. Was Serbian
television's real sin its broadcasting of film of the
Nato massacre of refugees last week?"
23rd April. Neighbouring Bulgaria hit by a third
missile. This time a suburb of the capital Sofia is
struck, thirty miles from the Yugoslav border.
26th April. The northern Yugoslav town of Nombor
suffers another bombing blitz.
The majority of the population of Nombor is of
Hungarian origin.
27th April. In a daytime bombing raid on the southern
town of Surdulica a quarter of the town is destroyed.
28th April. Twenty civilians killed instantly when a
2000lb laser-guided missile demolishes fifty homes on
the outskirts of Belgrade.
1st May. Forty people die after NATO missile hits a
civilian bridge in Kosovo, close to the capital,
Pristina.
7th May. Fifteen people are killed and sixty injured
when NATO bombers hit homes and a hospital in the
southern city of Nis.
7th May. NATO bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
Three dead and twenty injured. The Chinese government
accuses NATO of a 'barbarian act' and state that
three missiles were fired from different angles at its
embassy.
13th May. Kosovo village of Korisa bombed killing
eighty-seven ethnic Albanian civilians.
22nd May. Intense bombing of Yugoslavia¹s electricity
grid begins, causing major disruption of power and
water supplies, most notably affecting the country¹s
hospitals.
30th May. NATO jets bomb crowded bridge in Varvarin,
central Yugoslavia. First reports confirm nineteen
dead.
This brief review by no means tells the full story of
the horror inflicted on the civilian population of
Yugoslavia, affecting all twenty-six ethnic groups who
make up the population of the Federal Republic. Truly
a confirmed and undeniable example of 'medieval
savagery'.
Ian Johnson. Feb. 2002.
Michel Chossudovsky
Economic War Crimes:
Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia-Herzegovina
Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 1996
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), 19 February 2002
> http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO202G.html
===*===
'MEDIEVAL SAVAGERY¹
Compiled by Ian Johnson
At NATO's tribunal Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic has been portrayed as a perpetrator of
'medieval savagery.' The following items were compiled
from the mass media during the 1999 NATO bombing.
Unlike the false charges presented in The Hague
against Milosevic these public and verifiable facts
are irrefutable evidence of NATO's own high-tech
genocide. Pity then that the vigilantes in wigs have
decided that in their court the case against NATO
cannot be heard.
NATO and the bombing of Yugoslavia 1999.
5th April. The southern mining town of Aleksinac is
hit by three missiles which destroy a block of flats
and three streets of houses.
7th April. The Montenegrin capital of Podgorica sees
its residential area struck by four missiles.
9th April. The Zastava car plant in Kragujevac hit by
six missiles. The factory is occupied by its workers
trying to prevent it being destroyed and there are 132
casualties.
11th April. Nine more missiles blast the Zastava car
plant. 124 casualties.
12th April. A passenger train travelling between
Leskovac and the Macedonian capital Skopje is bombed
and first reports confirm twenty civilians burnt
alive.
14th April. Seventy-five Albanian refugees killed when
NATO bomb a refugee convoy near Meja, between
Djakovica and Prizren in Kosovo. The column was two
kilometres long and NATO rained missiles on it for
twenty minutes.
14th April. NATO commences daytime bombing of Belgrade
while the city is packed with people going about their
daily business.
21st April. Refugee camp near Djakovica in Kosovo is
bombed.
22nd April. Assassination attempt by NATO on Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and his family. Three
laser-guided bombs hit the family home in Belgrade.
None of the family was at home.
This attack is reminiscent of the attempt to
assassinate Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi, when US
planes, flying from Britain, attacked Gadaffi's
home in Tripoli. They missed Gaddafi but managed to
murder his daughter.
23rd April. The bombing of Yugoslavian television,
killing broadcasters, technicians, cleaners and
make-up ladies.
Robert Fisk, writing in the Independent of 24th April,
described the resultant carnage:
"Deep inside the tangle of cement and plastic and
iron, in what had once been the make-up room next to
the broadcasting studio of Serb television, was all
that was left of a young woman, burnt alive when
Nato¹s missile exploded in the radio control room. A
young technician could only be extracted from the
hundreds of tons of concrete in which he was encased
by amputating both his legs. A Belgrade fireman pulled
at one of the bodies for all of thirty seconds before
he realised that the man, swinging back and forth amid
the wreckage, was dead. By dusk last night, ten
crushed bodies, two of them women, had been tugged
from
beneath the concrete, another man had died in hospital
and fifteen other technicians and secretaries still
lay buried."
Tony Blair described this attack as 'entirely
justified' and Clare Short, then Secretary of State
for International Development, claimed that television
was a 'legitimate target'. Fisk wasn't so sure. He
continued his article: " I recall Croatian television
spreading hatred aplenty when it was ethnically
cleansing 170,000 Serbs from Croatia in 1995. But we
didn't bomb Zagreb. And when President Franjo
Tudjman¹s lads were massacring Serbs and Muslims in
Bosnia, we didn't bomb his residence. Was Serbian
television's real sin its broadcasting of film of the
Nato massacre of refugees last week?"
23rd April. Neighbouring Bulgaria hit by a third
missile. This time a suburb of the capital Sofia is
struck, thirty miles from the Yugoslav border.
26th April. The northern Yugoslav town of Nombor
suffers another bombing blitz.
The majority of the population of Nombor is of
Hungarian origin.
27th April. In a daytime bombing raid on the southern
town of Surdulica a quarter of the town is destroyed.
28th April. Twenty civilians killed instantly when a
2000lb laser-guided missile demolishes fifty homes on
the outskirts of Belgrade.
1st May. Forty people die after NATO missile hits a
civilian bridge in Kosovo, close to the capital,
Pristina.
7th May. Fifteen people are killed and sixty injured
when NATO bombers hit homes and a hospital in the
southern city of Nis.
7th May. NATO bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
Three dead and twenty injured. The Chinese government
accuses NATO of a 'barbarian act' and state that
three missiles were fired from different angles at its
embassy.
13th May. Kosovo village of Korisa bombed killing
eighty-seven ethnic Albanian civilians.
22nd May. Intense bombing of Yugoslavia¹s electricity
grid begins, causing major disruption of power and
water supplies, most notably affecting the country¹s
hospitals.
30th May. NATO jets bomb crowded bridge in Varvarin,
central Yugoslavia. First reports confirm nineteen
dead.
This brief review by no means tells the full story of
the horror inflicted on the civilian population of
Yugoslavia, affecting all twenty-six ethnic groups who
make up the population of the Federal Republic. Truly
a confirmed and undeniable example of 'medieval
savagery'.
Ian Johnson. Feb. 2002.
Milosevic, teste dell'accusa si sente male in aula
(Repubblica on line 21/2/2002)
Aja, 11:10
Milosevic, teste dell'accusa si sente male in aula
Piccolo colpo di scena questa mattina all'Aja all'inizio dell'ottava
udienza del processo Milosevic. Mentre l'ex presidente jugoslavo
stava riprendendo il contro-interrogatorio del testimone dell'accusa
Agim Tegiri, il teste ha detto di "non sentirsi bene" e di non poter
più rispondere ad altre domande. Milosevic aveva appena contestato la
traduzione fatta ieri in aula di quanto aveva dichiarato Tegiri sui
suoi rapporti con l'Uck.
Il teste aveva raccontato come il suo villaggio fosse stato attaccato
dalle forze serbe il 25 marzo 1999, all'inizio dei bombardamenti
Nato. Aveva detto di essere stato picchiato, di avere visto una
persona uccisa, e di avere perso 16 membri della sua famiglia su 18.
Stando a Milosevic una frase pronunciata ieri da Tegiri sui suoi
rapporti con l'Uck voleva dire "li ho ospitati", mentre la traduzione
è stata "li ho un po' aiutati".
L'ex-presidente jugoslavo ha pronunciato la frase in albanese ed ha
chiesto al teste di spiegarne il significato esatto. "Non sono in
grado di dirlo", ha risposto il testimone. Poi ha aggiunto "non mi
sento bene, sono sotto dialisi, non ho altro da dire, ho i miei
problemi, ho la mia sofferenza". (Red)
===*===
"Il Manifesto" 20 Febbraio 2002
Milosevic rovescia le accuse
TOMMASO DI FRANCESCO
Slobodan Milosevic, difensore di se stesso nel processo
per crimini di guerra e genocidio nel quale compare davanti al
Tribunale dell'Aja come unico imputato per dieci anni di
guerre sanguinose nei Balcani, da ieri ha cominciato a
controinterrogare i testimoni dell'accusa, a partire
dall'ex leader della provincia del Kosovo, Mahmut Bakalli.
Davanti alla corte dell'Aja, Bakalli lunedì aveva
accusato Belgrado di "apartheid" verso la maggioranza albanese,
con un piano di espulsione di centinaia di musulmani dalle cariche
pubbliche negli anni Novanta, alla quale la Lega democratica
del Kosovo guidata da Ibrahim Rugova rispose costruendo uno "stato
parallelo" - con scuole, università e strutture sanitarie albanesi
- e rifiutando ogni partecipazione alle elezioni (un dato che
per molti osservatori favorì lo strapotere di Milosevic). "Può
spiegarci cosa significa apartheid?", ha chiesto Milosevic a
Bakalli aggiungendo: "Le ricordo che è sotto giuramento".
L'anziano ex leader politico è rimasto fermo: "Lei impose
i dirigenti delle scuole e delle università".
Se Milosevic sembrava perfettamente a suo agio, Bakalli si è
trovato più volte in difficoltà. L'ex governatore del Kosovo ha
dovuto ammettere di essere stato consigliere di Adem Demaqi -
ex leader albanese kosovaro per più di 20 anni imprigionato
per i suoi legami con l'Albania di Enver Hoxha - che avrebbe
dovuto rappresentare gli albanesi alla conferenza-farsa di
Rambouillet del 1999. Secondo Milosevic, Demaqi era "il capo
dell'ala politica dell'Uck", l'Esercito di liberazione del
Kosovo - contrapposto spesso violentemente anche ai moderati
di Rugova - ritenuto da Milosevic responsabile di assassini
e stupri sulla popolazione serba "che spinsero Belgrado a
intervenire". Bakalli ha assicurato di avere avuto solo contatti
politici e diplomatici con l'Uck. Allo stesso modo, ha assicurato
di non aver mai saputo che il leader del suo attuale partito
Aak, Ramush Haradinaj, fosse stato "secondo i servizi segreti
britannici" a capo di una rete di contrabbando di sigarette e di
armi, come ha ricordato Milosevic.
Che ha rincarato la dose, sia quando ha rilanciato le accuse
di stragi provocate dai bombardamenti della Nato in Serbia e
Kosovo, e Bakalli ha dovuto ammettere che sì "ci sono stati
danni collaterali"; sia quando ha sollevato la questione dei
possibili rapporti fra la rete terrorista di Osama bin Laden e
le milizie albanesi-kosovare dell'Uck. "Che cosa sa dei legami
tra Hasim Thaqi (il leader dell'Uck ndr) e Osama bin Laden",
ha chiesto Milosevic a Bakalli, "Non so, sono sicuro che non ce
ne sono", ha risposto Bakalli, e lui di rimando: "E' al corrente
di una brigata di mujaheddin in Kosovo". "Non sono al
corrente", ha risposto il testimone.
Bakalli è apparso irritato quando l'ex presidente jugoslavo
ha messo in dubbio la sua ricostruzione della strage di Prezak, in
Kosovo, del 1998: furono uccisi 40 membri di una famiglia
albanese, i Jashari. "Uccideste civili, bambini, vecchi, donne
incinte sostenendo in continuazione che stavate combattendo
il terrorismo". Per Milosevic i Jashari si erano rifiutati di
arrendersi, sparavano e avevano un grosso quantitativo di armi.
E non ha finito con il controinterrogatorio fiume. L'ex
presidente jugoslavo ha ricordato l'assassinio di diversi oppositori
serbi in Kosovo nel '98, tra cui un eminente medico ucciso
sulla porta di casa: "Questo non è un atto di terrorismo?", ha
chiesto. "Non è stato l'Uck", ha risposto Bakalli. E allora,
ha proseguito Milosevic, "gli omicidi, gli stupri" compiuti dai
miliziani albanesi per cacciare la minoranza serba dopo l'ingresso
della Nato? "E' propaganda, non accetto queste cose", ha
replicato, in difficoltà, Bakalli. "Così, i morti che hanno visto
tutti sono propaganda?", è stata la controreplica sferzante di
Milosevic. Se Bakalli era il testimone contro, che accadrà con
quelli a favore?
Ora da Mosca si è dichiarato pronto a testimoniare l'ex
premier russo Ievgheni Primakov che ha ricordato che "senza
Milosevic gli accordi di Dayton sarebbero stati impossibili".
Non ci sarà, invece, per "motivi di salute" l'ex leader
musulmano bosniaco Alia Izetbegovic, da tempo malato e in
cura in Arabia saudita - il principale paese finanziatore del
Tribunale dell'Aja.
===*===
RAGIONI DELLA ILLEGITTIMITA' DEL "TRIBUNALE AD HOC" DELL'AIA
--- In Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli., "Fausto Concer" wrote:
Vi rigiro questa analisi di Andrea Catone, più che mai attuale. Ciao
Fausto
Il Tribunale, non rispetta diversi principi di legge assolutamente
fondamentali: la separazione dei poteri (esecutivo, legislativo e
giudiziario), parità fra accusa e difesa, presunzione di innocenza
finché non si giunge ad una condanna.
Il Tribunale Internazionale per i Crimini di Guerra è stato fondato
nel 1993 dal Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite (15 membri
dominati dai grandi poteri e dal veto USA), su insistenza del
Senatore Albright. Il normale canale per creare un Tribunale come
questo, come a suo tempo ha puntualizzato il Segretario Generale
delle Nazioni Unite, avrebbe dovuto essere "attraverso un Trattato
Internazionale stabilito ed approvato dagli Stati Membri che
avrebbero permesso al Tribunale di esercitare in pieno nell'ambito
della loro sovranità" (Rapporto No X S/25704, sezione 18). Tuttavia,
Washington ha imposto un'interpretazione arbitraria del Cap.VII della
Carta delle Nazioni Unite, che consente al Consiglio di Sicurezza di
prendere "misure speciali" per restaurare la pace in sede
internazionale. Può essere la creazione di un Tribunale una "misura
speciale"? E' arduo pensarlo! Il Tribunale Internazionale per i
Crimini di Guerra è esso stesso non legale.
Senza precedenti nella storia della legge, il Tribunale ha avuto
pieni poteri di costituire le proprie leggi e i regolamenti -
regolamenti che nei fatti ha modificato frequentemente. Attraverso
una procedura totalmente ridicola, il Presidente può apportare
variazioni di sua propria iniziativa o ratificarle via fax ad altri
giudici! (regola 6).
Vi è un'altra norma creativa. Le leggi del Tribunale Internazionale
per i Crimini di Guerra hanno il carattere della retroattività,
emanate e confezionate per adattarsi ai fatti, dopo l'evento.
Ancora peggio: il Procuratore (l'Accusa) può anche cambiare queste
norme (la Difesa non lo può fare). E non esiste un "giudice per le
indagini preliminari" che investighi sulle accuse e le contro-accuse.
Il Procuratore conduce l'inchiesta nel modo che più gli aggrada.
La Corte può ricusare un avvocato della difesa o semplicemente non
ascoltarlo, se lo ritiene "aggressivo" (regola 46).
Il Procuratore può, con il consenso dei giudici, rifiutare di
concedere all'avvocato difensore di consultare libri, documenti, foto
e altro materiale probatorio (regola 66).
Inoltre, la fonte testimoniale e di informazioni può essere tenuta
segreta. Questo significa che agenti CIA possono riempire i dossier
del Tribunale con accuse raccolte illegalmente (attraverso
intercettazioni foniche, corruzione, furti) senza averle sottoposte
ad alcun tipo di verifica o di controllo incrociato.
Anche i rappresentanti di altri Stati (partecipanti nel conflitto, ma
alleati degli Stati Uniti) possono sottoporre informazioni
confidenziali senza alcuna formale richiesta in merito.
Un atto di accusa può rimanere segreto "nell'interesse della
giustizia" (regola 53), in modo tale che l'accusato non possa
difendersi nei modi normali.
Un sospetto, cioè qualcuno che non è ancora stato imputato, può
essere detenuto per novanta giorni prima di essere accusato, un tempo
più che sufficiente per estorcergli forzatamente una confessione.
Inoltre, la regola 92 stabilisce che le confessioni saranno ritenute
credibili, a meno che l'accusato possa provare il contrario. Mentre,
in qualsiasi altra parte del mondo, l'accusato è ritenuto innocente
fino a quando non sia provata la sua colpevolezza.
Nessun Tribunale nazionale, negli Stati Uniti o in qualsiasi altra
parte del mondo, potrebbe operare in una tale maniera platealmente
illegale o arbitraria. Ma quando questo serve a condannare i nemici
degli Stati Uniti d'America, allora i principi della legge non
valgono più di tanto. In accordo con i padroni del mondo, il diritto
appartiene ai più forti e ai più ricchi. [cfr. al proposito
Christopher Black e Edward Herman, Il manifesto del 27 e 28 maggio
2000; Raniero la Valle, Liberazione, 4.4.2001; Kosta Cavoski,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski; M. Collon,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/913).
(Repubblica on line 21/2/2002)
Aja, 11:10
Milosevic, teste dell'accusa si sente male in aula
Piccolo colpo di scena questa mattina all'Aja all'inizio dell'ottava
udienza del processo Milosevic. Mentre l'ex presidente jugoslavo
stava riprendendo il contro-interrogatorio del testimone dell'accusa
Agim Tegiri, il teste ha detto di "non sentirsi bene" e di non poter
più rispondere ad altre domande. Milosevic aveva appena contestato la
traduzione fatta ieri in aula di quanto aveva dichiarato Tegiri sui
suoi rapporti con l'Uck.
Il teste aveva raccontato come il suo villaggio fosse stato attaccato
dalle forze serbe il 25 marzo 1999, all'inizio dei bombardamenti
Nato. Aveva detto di essere stato picchiato, di avere visto una
persona uccisa, e di avere perso 16 membri della sua famiglia su 18.
Stando a Milosevic una frase pronunciata ieri da Tegiri sui suoi
rapporti con l'Uck voleva dire "li ho ospitati", mentre la traduzione
è stata "li ho un po' aiutati".
L'ex-presidente jugoslavo ha pronunciato la frase in albanese ed ha
chiesto al teste di spiegarne il significato esatto. "Non sono in
grado di dirlo", ha risposto il testimone. Poi ha aggiunto "non mi
sento bene, sono sotto dialisi, non ho altro da dire, ho i miei
problemi, ho la mia sofferenza". (Red)
===*===
"Il Manifesto" 20 Febbraio 2002
Milosevic rovescia le accuse
TOMMASO DI FRANCESCO
Slobodan Milosevic, difensore di se stesso nel processo
per crimini di guerra e genocidio nel quale compare davanti al
Tribunale dell'Aja come unico imputato per dieci anni di
guerre sanguinose nei Balcani, da ieri ha cominciato a
controinterrogare i testimoni dell'accusa, a partire
dall'ex leader della provincia del Kosovo, Mahmut Bakalli.
Davanti alla corte dell'Aja, Bakalli lunedì aveva
accusato Belgrado di "apartheid" verso la maggioranza albanese,
con un piano di espulsione di centinaia di musulmani dalle cariche
pubbliche negli anni Novanta, alla quale la Lega democratica
del Kosovo guidata da Ibrahim Rugova rispose costruendo uno "stato
parallelo" - con scuole, università e strutture sanitarie albanesi
- e rifiutando ogni partecipazione alle elezioni (un dato che
per molti osservatori favorì lo strapotere di Milosevic). "Può
spiegarci cosa significa apartheid?", ha chiesto Milosevic a
Bakalli aggiungendo: "Le ricordo che è sotto giuramento".
L'anziano ex leader politico è rimasto fermo: "Lei impose
i dirigenti delle scuole e delle università".
Se Milosevic sembrava perfettamente a suo agio, Bakalli si è
trovato più volte in difficoltà. L'ex governatore del Kosovo ha
dovuto ammettere di essere stato consigliere di Adem Demaqi -
ex leader albanese kosovaro per più di 20 anni imprigionato
per i suoi legami con l'Albania di Enver Hoxha - che avrebbe
dovuto rappresentare gli albanesi alla conferenza-farsa di
Rambouillet del 1999. Secondo Milosevic, Demaqi era "il capo
dell'ala politica dell'Uck", l'Esercito di liberazione del
Kosovo - contrapposto spesso violentemente anche ai moderati
di Rugova - ritenuto da Milosevic responsabile di assassini
e stupri sulla popolazione serba "che spinsero Belgrado a
intervenire". Bakalli ha assicurato di avere avuto solo contatti
politici e diplomatici con l'Uck. Allo stesso modo, ha assicurato
di non aver mai saputo che il leader del suo attuale partito
Aak, Ramush Haradinaj, fosse stato "secondo i servizi segreti
britannici" a capo di una rete di contrabbando di sigarette e di
armi, come ha ricordato Milosevic.
Che ha rincarato la dose, sia quando ha rilanciato le accuse
di stragi provocate dai bombardamenti della Nato in Serbia e
Kosovo, e Bakalli ha dovuto ammettere che sì "ci sono stati
danni collaterali"; sia quando ha sollevato la questione dei
possibili rapporti fra la rete terrorista di Osama bin Laden e
le milizie albanesi-kosovare dell'Uck. "Che cosa sa dei legami
tra Hasim Thaqi (il leader dell'Uck ndr) e Osama bin Laden",
ha chiesto Milosevic a Bakalli, "Non so, sono sicuro che non ce
ne sono", ha risposto Bakalli, e lui di rimando: "E' al corrente
di una brigata di mujaheddin in Kosovo". "Non sono al
corrente", ha risposto il testimone.
Bakalli è apparso irritato quando l'ex presidente jugoslavo
ha messo in dubbio la sua ricostruzione della strage di Prezak, in
Kosovo, del 1998: furono uccisi 40 membri di una famiglia
albanese, i Jashari. "Uccideste civili, bambini, vecchi, donne
incinte sostenendo in continuazione che stavate combattendo
il terrorismo". Per Milosevic i Jashari si erano rifiutati di
arrendersi, sparavano e avevano un grosso quantitativo di armi.
E non ha finito con il controinterrogatorio fiume. L'ex
presidente jugoslavo ha ricordato l'assassinio di diversi oppositori
serbi in Kosovo nel '98, tra cui un eminente medico ucciso
sulla porta di casa: "Questo non è un atto di terrorismo?", ha
chiesto. "Non è stato l'Uck", ha risposto Bakalli. E allora,
ha proseguito Milosevic, "gli omicidi, gli stupri" compiuti dai
miliziani albanesi per cacciare la minoranza serba dopo l'ingresso
della Nato? "E' propaganda, non accetto queste cose", ha
replicato, in difficoltà, Bakalli. "Così, i morti che hanno visto
tutti sono propaganda?", è stata la controreplica sferzante di
Milosevic. Se Bakalli era il testimone contro, che accadrà con
quelli a favore?
Ora da Mosca si è dichiarato pronto a testimoniare l'ex
premier russo Ievgheni Primakov che ha ricordato che "senza
Milosevic gli accordi di Dayton sarebbero stati impossibili".
Non ci sarà, invece, per "motivi di salute" l'ex leader
musulmano bosniaco Alia Izetbegovic, da tempo malato e in
cura in Arabia saudita - il principale paese finanziatore del
Tribunale dell'Aja.
===*===
RAGIONI DELLA ILLEGITTIMITA' DEL "TRIBUNALE AD HOC" DELL'AIA
--- In Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli., "Fausto Concer" wrote:
Vi rigiro questa analisi di Andrea Catone, più che mai attuale. Ciao
Fausto
Il Tribunale, non rispetta diversi principi di legge assolutamente
fondamentali: la separazione dei poteri (esecutivo, legislativo e
giudiziario), parità fra accusa e difesa, presunzione di innocenza
finché non si giunge ad una condanna.
Il Tribunale Internazionale per i Crimini di Guerra è stato fondato
nel 1993 dal Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite (15 membri
dominati dai grandi poteri e dal veto USA), su insistenza del
Senatore Albright. Il normale canale per creare un Tribunale come
questo, come a suo tempo ha puntualizzato il Segretario Generale
delle Nazioni Unite, avrebbe dovuto essere "attraverso un Trattato
Internazionale stabilito ed approvato dagli Stati Membri che
avrebbero permesso al Tribunale di esercitare in pieno nell'ambito
della loro sovranità" (Rapporto No X S/25704, sezione 18). Tuttavia,
Washington ha imposto un'interpretazione arbitraria del Cap.VII della
Carta delle Nazioni Unite, che consente al Consiglio di Sicurezza di
prendere "misure speciali" per restaurare la pace in sede
internazionale. Può essere la creazione di un Tribunale una "misura
speciale"? E' arduo pensarlo! Il Tribunale Internazionale per i
Crimini di Guerra è esso stesso non legale.
Senza precedenti nella storia della legge, il Tribunale ha avuto
pieni poteri di costituire le proprie leggi e i regolamenti -
regolamenti che nei fatti ha modificato frequentemente. Attraverso
una procedura totalmente ridicola, il Presidente può apportare
variazioni di sua propria iniziativa o ratificarle via fax ad altri
giudici! (regola 6).
Vi è un'altra norma creativa. Le leggi del Tribunale Internazionale
per i Crimini di Guerra hanno il carattere della retroattività,
emanate e confezionate per adattarsi ai fatti, dopo l'evento.
Ancora peggio: il Procuratore (l'Accusa) può anche cambiare queste
norme (la Difesa non lo può fare). E non esiste un "giudice per le
indagini preliminari" che investighi sulle accuse e le contro-accuse.
Il Procuratore conduce l'inchiesta nel modo che più gli aggrada.
La Corte può ricusare un avvocato della difesa o semplicemente non
ascoltarlo, se lo ritiene "aggressivo" (regola 46).
Il Procuratore può, con il consenso dei giudici, rifiutare di
concedere all'avvocato difensore di consultare libri, documenti, foto
e altro materiale probatorio (regola 66).
Inoltre, la fonte testimoniale e di informazioni può essere tenuta
segreta. Questo significa che agenti CIA possono riempire i dossier
del Tribunale con accuse raccolte illegalmente (attraverso
intercettazioni foniche, corruzione, furti) senza averle sottoposte
ad alcun tipo di verifica o di controllo incrociato.
Anche i rappresentanti di altri Stati (partecipanti nel conflitto, ma
alleati degli Stati Uniti) possono sottoporre informazioni
confidenziali senza alcuna formale richiesta in merito.
Un atto di accusa può rimanere segreto "nell'interesse della
giustizia" (regola 53), in modo tale che l'accusato non possa
difendersi nei modi normali.
Un sospetto, cioè qualcuno che non è ancora stato imputato, può
essere detenuto per novanta giorni prima di essere accusato, un tempo
più che sufficiente per estorcergli forzatamente una confessione.
Inoltre, la regola 92 stabilisce che le confessioni saranno ritenute
credibili, a meno che l'accusato possa provare il contrario. Mentre,
in qualsiasi altra parte del mondo, l'accusato è ritenuto innocente
fino a quando non sia provata la sua colpevolezza.
Nessun Tribunale nazionale, negli Stati Uniti o in qualsiasi altra
parte del mondo, potrebbe operare in una tale maniera platealmente
illegale o arbitraria. Ma quando questo serve a condannare i nemici
degli Stati Uniti d'America, allora i principi della legge non
valgono più di tanto. In accordo con i padroni del mondo, il diritto
appartiene ai più forti e ai più ricchi. [cfr. al proposito
Christopher Black e Edward Herman, Il manifesto del 27 e 28 maggio
2000; Raniero la Valle, Liberazione, 4.4.2001; Kosta Cavoski,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski; M. Collon,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/913).
RENDON GROUP: UN NUOVO EFFICIENTE SERVIZIO
PER LA TUA DISINFORMAZIONE STRATEGICA
Dal sito online di Repubblica, 19/2/2002
New York, 18:19
Usa pronti a propaganda strategica in tutto il mondo
Presentare la politica Usa in una luce
positiva, anche attraverso notizie
false. Questo il compito dell'Ufficio
di influenza strategica. Lo staff, creato dal
Pentagono dopo l'11 settembre, sta
preparando un'offensiva su scala
mondiale: in Medio Oriente, in Asia e
anche nell'Europa occidentale. E,
secondo indiscrezioni raccolte dal New
York Times negli ambienti del
ministero della difesa, sta "elaborando
dei piani" finalizzati alla diffusione di
informazioni, "anche false", allo scopo di
influenzare l'opinione pubblica e i
politici "in paesi amici e ostili".
Ma il quotidiano newyorkese segnala anche
il pericolo disinformazione: le
agenzie di stampa potrebbero far rimbalzare
anche in patria le notizie false
create ad hoc per l'estero. E la legge
vieta, sia all'ente di spionaggio sia al
Pentagono, di svolgere attivita' di
propaganda sul suolo statunitense.
L'ufficio di influenza strategica
e' capeggiato dal generale dell'aeronautica
Simon Worden, che lavora in collaborazione
con il Rendon Group, una societa' di consulenza
internazionale, con sede a Washington, guidata da
W. Rendon Jr., che lavora alla campagna
dell'ex presidente Jimmy Carter.
(Buc)
Commento:
Ma che bello!
Che siano gli stessi che hanno organizzato Racak?
A quali altri favolosi spettacoli assisteremo?
Magari fra un qualche settimana cadranno un paio di aerei
e la colpa sara' certamente di qualche "cattivone"
che andremo subito a punire.....ed ovviamente Repubblica sara'
in prima fila a chiedere pace sociale ed unita' nazionale
contro i nuovi terroristi
ed allora faremo un'altra bella guerra.
Luca
PER LA TUA DISINFORMAZIONE STRATEGICA
Dal sito online di Repubblica, 19/2/2002
New York, 18:19
Usa pronti a propaganda strategica in tutto il mondo
Presentare la politica Usa in una luce
positiva, anche attraverso notizie
false. Questo il compito dell'Ufficio
di influenza strategica. Lo staff, creato dal
Pentagono dopo l'11 settembre, sta
preparando un'offensiva su scala
mondiale: in Medio Oriente, in Asia e
anche nell'Europa occidentale. E,
secondo indiscrezioni raccolte dal New
York Times negli ambienti del
ministero della difesa, sta "elaborando
dei piani" finalizzati alla diffusione di
informazioni, "anche false", allo scopo di
influenzare l'opinione pubblica e i
politici "in paesi amici e ostili".
Ma il quotidiano newyorkese segnala anche
il pericolo disinformazione: le
agenzie di stampa potrebbero far rimbalzare
anche in patria le notizie false
create ad hoc per l'estero. E la legge
vieta, sia all'ente di spionaggio sia al
Pentagono, di svolgere attivita' di
propaganda sul suolo statunitense.
L'ufficio di influenza strategica
e' capeggiato dal generale dell'aeronautica
Simon Worden, che lavora in collaborazione
con il Rendon Group, una societa' di consulenza
internazionale, con sede a Washington, guidata da
W. Rendon Jr., che lavora alla campagna
dell'ex presidente Jimmy Carter.
(Buc)
Commento:
Ma che bello!
Che siano gli stessi che hanno organizzato Racak?
A quali altri favolosi spettacoli assisteremo?
Magari fra un qualche settimana cadranno un paio di aerei
e la colpa sara' certamente di qualche "cattivone"
che andremo subito a punire.....ed ovviamente Repubblica sara'
in prima fila a chiedere pace sociale ed unita' nazionale
contro i nuovi terroristi
ed allora faremo un'altra bella guerra.
Luca
Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad
Tue Feb 19, 9:00 AM ET
By JAMES DAO and ERIC SCHMITT The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 The Pentagon is
developing plans to provide news items,
possibly even false ones, to foreign media
organizations as part of a new
effort to influence public sentiment
and policy makers in both friendly and
unfriendly countries, military officials
said.
The plans, which have not received
final approval from the Bush
administration, have stirred opposition
among some Pentagon officials who
say they might undermine the credibility
of information that is openly
distributed by the Defense Department's
public affairs officers.
The military has long engaged in
information warfare against hostile nations
for instance, by dropping leaflets
and broadcasting messages into
Afghanistan when it was still under
Taliban rule.
But it recently created the Office
of Strategic Influence, which is
proposing to broaden that mission
into allied nations in the Middle East,
Asia and even Western Europe. The
office would assume a role traditionally
led by civilian agencies, mainly
the State Department.
The small but well-financed Pentagon
office, which was established shortly
after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
was a response to concerns in the
administration that the United States
was losing public support overseas for
its war on terrorism, particularly in
Islamic countries.
As part of the effort to counter the
pronouncements of the Taliban, Osama
bin Laden and their supporters, the
State Department has already hired a
former advertising executive to run
its public diplomacy office, and the
White House has created a public
information "war room" to coordinate the
administration's daily message domestically
and abroad.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld,
while broadly supportive of the new
office, has not approved its specific
proposals and has asked the Pentagon's
top lawyer, William J. Haynes, to review
them, senior Pentagon officials
said.
Little information is available about
the Office of Strategic Influence, and
even many senior Pentagon officials and
Congressional military aides say
they know almost nothing about its
purpose and plans. Its multimillion
dollar budget, drawn from a $10 billion
emergency supplement to the Pentagon
budget authorized by Congress in
October, has not been disclosed.
Headed by Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden of
the Air Force, the new office has
begun circulating classified proposals
calling for aggressive campaigns that
use not only the foreign media and the
Internet, but also covert operations.
The new office "rolls up all the
instruments within D.O.D. to influence
foreign audiences," its assistant for
operations, Thomas A. Timmes, a former
Army colonel and psychological operations
officer, said at a recent
conference, referring to the Department
of Defense. "D.O.D. has not
traditionally done these things."
One of the office's proposals calls
for planting news items with foreign
media organizations through outside
concerns that might not have obvious
ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar
with the proposal said.
General Worden envisions a broad
mission ranging from "black" campaigns that
use disinformation and other covert
activities to "white" public affairs
that rely on truthful news releases,
Pentagon officials said.
"It goes from the blackest of black
programs to the whitest of white," a
senior Pentagon official said.
Another proposal involves sending
journalists, civic leaders and foreign
leaders e-mail messages that promote
American views or attack unfriendly
governments, officials said.
Asked if such e-mail would be identified
as coming from the American
military, a senior Pentagon official
said that "the return address will
probably be a dot-com, not a dot- mil,"
a reference to the military's
Internet designation.
To help the new office, the Pentagon
has hired the Rendon Group, a
Washington-based international consulting
firm run by John W. Rendon Jr., a
former campaign aide to President
Jimmy Carter. The firm, which is being
paid about $100,000 a month, has
done extensive work for the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Kuwaiti royal
family and the Iraqi National
Congress, the opposition group seeking
to oust President Saddam Hussein.
Officials at the Rendon Group say terms
of their contract forbid them to
talk about their Pentagon work. But
the firm is well known for running
propaganda campaigns in Arab countries,
including one denouncing atrocities
by Iraq during its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
The firm has been hired as the Bush
administration appears to have united
around the goal of ousting Mr. Hussein.
"Saddam Hussein has a charm
offensive going on, and we haven't
done anything to counteract it," a senior
military official said.
Proponents say the new Pentagon
office will bring much-needed coordination
to the military's efforts to influence
views of the United States overseas,
particularly as Washington broadens the
war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan.
But the new office has also stirred a
sharp debate in the Pentagon, where
several senior officials have questioned
whether its mission is too broad
and possibly even illegal.
Those critics say they are disturbed
that a single office might be
authorized to use not only covert
operations like computer network attacks,
psychological activities and deception,
but also the instruments and staff
of the military's globe- spanning
public affairs apparatus.
Mingling the more surreptitious
activities with the work of traditional
public affairs would undermine the
Pentagon's credibility with the media,
the public and governments around
the world, critics argue.
"This breaks down the boundaries
almost completely," a senior Pentagon
official said.
Moreover, critics say, disinformation
planted in foreign media
organizations, like Reuters or
Agence France-Presse, could end up being
published or broadcast by American
news organizations.
The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence
Agency are barred by law from
propaganda activities in the United
States. In the mid-1970's, it was
disclosed that some C.I.A. programs
to plant false information in the
foreign press had resulted in articles
published by American news
organizations.
Critics of the new Pentagon office
also argue that governments allied with
the United States are likely to object
strongly to any attempts by the
American military to influence media
within their borders.
"Everybody understands using
information operations to go after
nonfriendlies," another senior Pentagon
official said. "When people get
uncomfortable is when people use the
same tools and tactics on friendlies."
Victoria Clarke, the assistant
secretary of defense for public information,
declined to discuss details of the new
office. But she acknowledged that its
mission was being carefully reviewed by
the Pentagon.
"Clearly the U.S. needs to be as
effective as possible in all our
communications," she said. "What we're
trying to do now is make clear the
distinction and appropriateness of who
does what."
General Worden, an astrophysicist who
has specialized in space operations in
his 27-year Air Force career, did not
respond to several requests for an
interview.
General Worden has close ties to his
new boss, Douglas J. Feith, the under
secretary of defense for policy, that
date back to the Reagan
administration, military officials said.
The general's staff of about 15
people reports to the office of the
assistant secretary of defense for
special operations and low-intensity
conflict, which is under Mr. Feith.
The Office for Strategic Influence
also coordinates its work with the White
House's new counterterrorism office,
run by Wayne A. Downing, a retired
general who was head of the Special
Operations command, which oversees the
military's covert information operations.
Many administration officials worried
that the United States was losing
support in the Islamic world after
American warplanes began bombing
Afghanistan in October. Those
concerns spurred the creation of the Office of
Strategic Influence.
In an interview in November, Gen.
Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, explained the Pentagon's
desire to broaden its efforts to
influence foreign audiences, saying:
"Perhaps the most challenging piece
of this is putting together what we call
a strategic influence campaign quickly
and with the right emphasis. That's
everything from psychological operations
to the public affairs piece to
coordinating partners in this effort
with us."
One of the military units assigned to
carry out the policies of the Office
of Strategic Influence is the Army's
Psychological Operations Command. The
command was involved in dropping
millions of fliers and broadcasting scores
of radio programs into Afghanistan
encouraging Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers
to surrender.
In the 1980's, Army "psyop" units, as
they are known, broadcast radio and
television programs into Nicaragua
intended to undermine the Sandinista
government. In the 1990's, they tried
to encourage public support for
American peacekeeping missions in the
Balkans.
The Office of Strategic Influence will
also oversee private companies that
will be hired to help develop information
programs and evaluate their
effectiveness using the same techniques
as American political campaigns,
including scientific polling and
focus groups, officials said.
"O.S.I. still thinks the way to go is
start a Defense Department Voice of
America," a senior military official
said. "When I get their briefings, it's
scary."
---
Source:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&u=/nyt/
20020219/ts_nyt/pentagon_readies_efforts_to_sway_sentiment_abroad
Tue Feb 19, 9:00 AM ET
By JAMES DAO and ERIC SCHMITT The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 The Pentagon is
developing plans to provide news items,
possibly even false ones, to foreign media
organizations as part of a new
effort to influence public sentiment
and policy makers in both friendly and
unfriendly countries, military officials
said.
The plans, which have not received
final approval from the Bush
administration, have stirred opposition
among some Pentagon officials who
say they might undermine the credibility
of information that is openly
distributed by the Defense Department's
public affairs officers.
The military has long engaged in
information warfare against hostile nations
for instance, by dropping leaflets
and broadcasting messages into
Afghanistan when it was still under
Taliban rule.
But it recently created the Office
of Strategic Influence, which is
proposing to broaden that mission
into allied nations in the Middle East,
Asia and even Western Europe. The
office would assume a role traditionally
led by civilian agencies, mainly
the State Department.
The small but well-financed Pentagon
office, which was established shortly
after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
was a response to concerns in the
administration that the United States
was losing public support overseas for
its war on terrorism, particularly in
Islamic countries.
As part of the effort to counter the
pronouncements of the Taliban, Osama
bin Laden and their supporters, the
State Department has already hired a
former advertising executive to run
its public diplomacy office, and the
White House has created a public
information "war room" to coordinate the
administration's daily message domestically
and abroad.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld,
while broadly supportive of the new
office, has not approved its specific
proposals and has asked the Pentagon's
top lawyer, William J. Haynes, to review
them, senior Pentagon officials
said.
Little information is available about
the Office of Strategic Influence, and
even many senior Pentagon officials and
Congressional military aides say
they know almost nothing about its
purpose and plans. Its multimillion
dollar budget, drawn from a $10 billion
emergency supplement to the Pentagon
budget authorized by Congress in
October, has not been disclosed.
Headed by Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden of
the Air Force, the new office has
begun circulating classified proposals
calling for aggressive campaigns that
use not only the foreign media and the
Internet, but also covert operations.
The new office "rolls up all the
instruments within D.O.D. to influence
foreign audiences," its assistant for
operations, Thomas A. Timmes, a former
Army colonel and psychological operations
officer, said at a recent
conference, referring to the Department
of Defense. "D.O.D. has not
traditionally done these things."
One of the office's proposals calls
for planting news items with foreign
media organizations through outside
concerns that might not have obvious
ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar
with the proposal said.
General Worden envisions a broad
mission ranging from "black" campaigns that
use disinformation and other covert
activities to "white" public affairs
that rely on truthful news releases,
Pentagon officials said.
"It goes from the blackest of black
programs to the whitest of white," a
senior Pentagon official said.
Another proposal involves sending
journalists, civic leaders and foreign
leaders e-mail messages that promote
American views or attack unfriendly
governments, officials said.
Asked if such e-mail would be identified
as coming from the American
military, a senior Pentagon official
said that "the return address will
probably be a dot-com, not a dot- mil,"
a reference to the military's
Internet designation.
To help the new office, the Pentagon
has hired the Rendon Group, a
Washington-based international consulting
firm run by John W. Rendon Jr., a
former campaign aide to President
Jimmy Carter. The firm, which is being
paid about $100,000 a month, has
done extensive work for the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Kuwaiti royal
family and the Iraqi National
Congress, the opposition group seeking
to oust President Saddam Hussein.
Officials at the Rendon Group say terms
of their contract forbid them to
talk about their Pentagon work. But
the firm is well known for running
propaganda campaigns in Arab countries,
including one denouncing atrocities
by Iraq during its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
The firm has been hired as the Bush
administration appears to have united
around the goal of ousting Mr. Hussein.
"Saddam Hussein has a charm
offensive going on, and we haven't
done anything to counteract it," a senior
military official said.
Proponents say the new Pentagon
office will bring much-needed coordination
to the military's efforts to influence
views of the United States overseas,
particularly as Washington broadens the
war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan.
But the new office has also stirred a
sharp debate in the Pentagon, where
several senior officials have questioned
whether its mission is too broad
and possibly even illegal.
Those critics say they are disturbed
that a single office might be
authorized to use not only covert
operations like computer network attacks,
psychological activities and deception,
but also the instruments and staff
of the military's globe- spanning
public affairs apparatus.
Mingling the more surreptitious
activities with the work of traditional
public affairs would undermine the
Pentagon's credibility with the media,
the public and governments around
the world, critics argue.
"This breaks down the boundaries
almost completely," a senior Pentagon
official said.
Moreover, critics say, disinformation
planted in foreign media
organizations, like Reuters or
Agence France-Presse, could end up being
published or broadcast by American
news organizations.
The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence
Agency are barred by law from
propaganda activities in the United
States. In the mid-1970's, it was
disclosed that some C.I.A. programs
to plant false information in the
foreign press had resulted in articles
published by American news
organizations.
Critics of the new Pentagon office
also argue that governments allied with
the United States are likely to object
strongly to any attempts by the
American military to influence media
within their borders.
"Everybody understands using
information operations to go after
nonfriendlies," another senior Pentagon
official said. "When people get
uncomfortable is when people use the
same tools and tactics on friendlies."
Victoria Clarke, the assistant
secretary of defense for public information,
declined to discuss details of the new
office. But she acknowledged that its
mission was being carefully reviewed by
the Pentagon.
"Clearly the U.S. needs to be as
effective as possible in all our
communications," she said. "What we're
trying to do now is make clear the
distinction and appropriateness of who
does what."
General Worden, an astrophysicist who
has specialized in space operations in
his 27-year Air Force career, did not
respond to several requests for an
interview.
General Worden has close ties to his
new boss, Douglas J. Feith, the under
secretary of defense for policy, that
date back to the Reagan
administration, military officials said.
The general's staff of about 15
people reports to the office of the
assistant secretary of defense for
special operations and low-intensity
conflict, which is under Mr. Feith.
The Office for Strategic Influence
also coordinates its work with the White
House's new counterterrorism office,
run by Wayne A. Downing, a retired
general who was head of the Special
Operations command, which oversees the
military's covert information operations.
Many administration officials worried
that the United States was losing
support in the Islamic world after
American warplanes began bombing
Afghanistan in October. Those
concerns spurred the creation of the Office of
Strategic Influence.
In an interview in November, Gen.
Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, explained the Pentagon's
desire to broaden its efforts to
influence foreign audiences, saying:
"Perhaps the most challenging piece
of this is putting together what we call
a strategic influence campaign quickly
and with the right emphasis. That's
everything from psychological operations
to the public affairs piece to
coordinating partners in this effort
with us."
One of the military units assigned to
carry out the policies of the Office
of Strategic Influence is the Army's
Psychological Operations Command. The
command was involved in dropping
millions of fliers and broadcasting scores
of radio programs into Afghanistan
encouraging Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers
to surrender.
In the 1980's, Army "psyop" units, as
they are known, broadcast radio and
television programs into Nicaragua
intended to undermine the Sandinista
government. In the 1990's, they tried
to encourage public support for
American peacekeeping missions in the
Balkans.
The Office of Strategic Influence will
also oversee private companies that
will be hired to help develop information
programs and evaluate their
effectiveness using the same techniques
as American political campaigns,
including scientific polling and
focus groups, officials said.
"O.S.I. still thinks the way to go is
start a Defense Department Voice of
America," a senior military official
said. "When I get their briefings, it's
scary."
---
Source:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&u=/nyt/
20020219/ts_nyt/pentagon_readies_efforts_to_sway_sentiment_abroad
LA "GIUSTIZIA" DEI BARBARI DI NAGASAKI
Lettera aperta a Carla Del Ponte
Acireale, 18 febbraio 2002
Mrs. Carla DEL PONTE
Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal
for Yugoslavia (ICTY)
DEN HAAG - Paesi Bassii
OGGETTO: Processo a Milosevic. -
Per celebrare un processo internazionale ci vuole un tribunale VERO
ovvero un istituto giuridico nato e funzionante nel rispetto del diritto
internazionale ed ordinario. Non risulta allo scrivente -- come a
giuristi, sociologi, studiosi, uomini politici ed operatori sociali di
fama mondiale - che codesto Tribunale abbia i requisiti essenziali,
organici e funzionali per essere quello che dice di essere.
L?innocenza o colpevolezza di Milosevic sono fuori causaa semplicemente
perché qualunque capo di Stato -- e non solo Milosevic -- può essere
processato solo da un tribunale internazionale VERO cioè legale e quindi
legittimato a svolgere una legale funzione di giustizia, e NON il
prodotto di una parte politica in causa creato per uso e consumo della
parte stessa. Un tale prodotto è una mistificazione mostruosa del
diritto come sanno perfino studenti principianti della materia.
A comprovare la gratuità giuridica di codesto Tribunale è esso stesso,
il quale si rifiuta di processare i responsabili dei 78 giorni di
massacro indiscriminato e quindi terroristico, consumato, nella Serbia e
nel Kosovo, in quanto tale anche contro civili (compresi donne, vecchi,
bambini, ammalati e profughi) e contro la natura con l'impiego di
sostanze biochimiche e radioattive. E' evidente che non possa accettare
di processare sé stesso. E' di questi giorni l'ennesima conferma (semmai
ce ne fosse bisogno) della nocività clinica dell'ranioo impoverito dalla
NATO sparso a piene mani - ad insaputa dei propri stessi uomini - con
"bombe intelligenti" (quanto chi?) e in nome di una "guerra
umanitaria?".
Chi mi legge sa che gli USA, genitori naturali di codesto Tribunale
(non importa se attraverso l?utilizzo forzoso e improprio del Consiglio
di Sicurezza di un?ONU, ridotta ad una sigla di sé), sono responsabili,
impentiti e impuniti, di oltre mezzo secolo di trattamento
militare-terroristico del mondo, avendo iniziato tale triste carriera
nel 1945 con la doppia gratuita ecatombe atomica di Hiroshima e
Nagasaki. Se è vero che i crimini contro l?umanità sono
imprescrittibili, io chiedo formalmente che codesto Tribunale, a prova
della propria identità, celebri un processo postumo ai responsabili
almeno del bombardamento atomico di Nagasaki, totalmente inutile dopo
quello di Hiroshima di tre giorni prima, estendendolo a quanti degli
attuali potenti degli USA non siano disposti a chiedere umilmente
perdono al mondo per un'ignominia e vergogna che non hanno l'uguale in
tutta la storia umana se si tiene conto che la responsabilità morale e
penale è direttamente proporzionale alla consapevolezza razionale.
Esorto chi mi legge a ricusare codesto Tribunale, in nome del quale
pronuncia accuse e predefinisce condanne, in quanto destituito di ogni
fondamento giuridico, scientifico e morale e, naturalmente, a
dimettersi. Così, se non avrà condannato un uomo - che potrebbe essere
anche innocente - avrà per lo meno salvata la propria coscienza ed
evitato il rischio di essere corroso da un rimorso che coglie tutte le
persone normali, tanto più se vivono anche in funzione di affetti.
Esorto chi mi legge a liberare un uomo - Milosevic - il quale, seppure
ipoteticamente colpevole - è stato illegalmente sequestrato ed è
illegalmente detenuto.
Se Milosevic deve essere processato, che lo sia, ma da un tribunale
VERO e SIMULTANEAMENTE con tutti (ma proprio tutti - altrimenti che
giustizia sarebbe!) coloro che hanno, a titolo e in misura vari,
aggredito i popoli della ex Jugoslavia di Tito.
Non penso di essere riuscito a convincere chi mi legge ma so di non
essere solo e che l'orrore per la menzogna sta salendo e che prima o poi
sommergerà anche i nostalgici epigoni degli inquisitori del Medioevo.
Allego il mio libro intitolato: ?A proposito del Kosovo: come i
<Barbari di Nagasaki> vogliono feudalizzare il mondo?. Esso contiene
anche una mia lettera di denuncia (datata 28 maggio 1999) a codesto
Tribunale perché lo stesso processasse i responsabili, diretti e
collaterali, del 78 giorni di barbarie terroristica CONTRO il Kosovo. Il
mio era un gesto simbolico perché codesto Tribunale non avrebbe potuto
suicidarsi, ma ora è anche un precedente ?storico? probatorio della
natura esclusivamente di parte politica del Tribunale stesso.
Saluti civili.
Carmelo R. Viola
Centro Studi Biologia Sociale, Acireale (CT)
Email: <crviola@...>
Lettera aperta a Carla Del Ponte
Acireale, 18 febbraio 2002
Mrs. Carla DEL PONTE
Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal
for Yugoslavia (ICTY)
DEN HAAG - Paesi Bassii
OGGETTO: Processo a Milosevic. -
Per celebrare un processo internazionale ci vuole un tribunale VERO
ovvero un istituto giuridico nato e funzionante nel rispetto del diritto
internazionale ed ordinario. Non risulta allo scrivente -- come a
giuristi, sociologi, studiosi, uomini politici ed operatori sociali di
fama mondiale - che codesto Tribunale abbia i requisiti essenziali,
organici e funzionali per essere quello che dice di essere.
L?innocenza o colpevolezza di Milosevic sono fuori causaa semplicemente
perché qualunque capo di Stato -- e non solo Milosevic -- può essere
processato solo da un tribunale internazionale VERO cioè legale e quindi
legittimato a svolgere una legale funzione di giustizia, e NON il
prodotto di una parte politica in causa creato per uso e consumo della
parte stessa. Un tale prodotto è una mistificazione mostruosa del
diritto come sanno perfino studenti principianti della materia.
A comprovare la gratuità giuridica di codesto Tribunale è esso stesso,
il quale si rifiuta di processare i responsabili dei 78 giorni di
massacro indiscriminato e quindi terroristico, consumato, nella Serbia e
nel Kosovo, in quanto tale anche contro civili (compresi donne, vecchi,
bambini, ammalati e profughi) e contro la natura con l'impiego di
sostanze biochimiche e radioattive. E' evidente che non possa accettare
di processare sé stesso. E' di questi giorni l'ennesima conferma (semmai
ce ne fosse bisogno) della nocività clinica dell'ranioo impoverito dalla
NATO sparso a piene mani - ad insaputa dei propri stessi uomini - con
"bombe intelligenti" (quanto chi?) e in nome di una "guerra
umanitaria?".
Chi mi legge sa che gli USA, genitori naturali di codesto Tribunale
(non importa se attraverso l?utilizzo forzoso e improprio del Consiglio
di Sicurezza di un?ONU, ridotta ad una sigla di sé), sono responsabili,
impentiti e impuniti, di oltre mezzo secolo di trattamento
militare-terroristico del mondo, avendo iniziato tale triste carriera
nel 1945 con la doppia gratuita ecatombe atomica di Hiroshima e
Nagasaki. Se è vero che i crimini contro l?umanità sono
imprescrittibili, io chiedo formalmente che codesto Tribunale, a prova
della propria identità, celebri un processo postumo ai responsabili
almeno del bombardamento atomico di Nagasaki, totalmente inutile dopo
quello di Hiroshima di tre giorni prima, estendendolo a quanti degli
attuali potenti degli USA non siano disposti a chiedere umilmente
perdono al mondo per un'ignominia e vergogna che non hanno l'uguale in
tutta la storia umana se si tiene conto che la responsabilità morale e
penale è direttamente proporzionale alla consapevolezza razionale.
Esorto chi mi legge a ricusare codesto Tribunale, in nome del quale
pronuncia accuse e predefinisce condanne, in quanto destituito di ogni
fondamento giuridico, scientifico e morale e, naturalmente, a
dimettersi. Così, se non avrà condannato un uomo - che potrebbe essere
anche innocente - avrà per lo meno salvata la propria coscienza ed
evitato il rischio di essere corroso da un rimorso che coglie tutte le
persone normali, tanto più se vivono anche in funzione di affetti.
Esorto chi mi legge a liberare un uomo - Milosevic - il quale, seppure
ipoteticamente colpevole - è stato illegalmente sequestrato ed è
illegalmente detenuto.
Se Milosevic deve essere processato, che lo sia, ma da un tribunale
VERO e SIMULTANEAMENTE con tutti (ma proprio tutti - altrimenti che
giustizia sarebbe!) coloro che hanno, a titolo e in misura vari,
aggredito i popoli della ex Jugoslavia di Tito.
Non penso di essere riuscito a convincere chi mi legge ma so di non
essere solo e che l'orrore per la menzogna sta salendo e che prima o poi
sommergerà anche i nostalgici epigoni degli inquisitori del Medioevo.
Allego il mio libro intitolato: ?A proposito del Kosovo: come i
<Barbari di Nagasaki> vogliono feudalizzare il mondo?. Esso contiene
anche una mia lettera di denuncia (datata 28 maggio 1999) a codesto
Tribunale perché lo stesso processasse i responsabili, diretti e
collaterali, del 78 giorni di barbarie terroristica CONTRO il Kosovo. Il
mio era un gesto simbolico perché codesto Tribunale non avrebbe potuto
suicidarsi, ma ora è anche un precedente ?storico? probatorio della
natura esclusivamente di parte politica del Tribunale stesso.
Saluti civili.
Carmelo R. Viola
Centro Studi Biologia Sociale, Acireale (CT)
Email: <crviola@...>
* Zum Stand der Diskussion über den "Fall Milosevic", 19/02/2002
* Beweisnotstand. In Den Haag wird Serbien kriminalisiert (W. Pirker)
* Der Tag des Milosevic. Jugoslawiens Ex-Präsident setzt die NATO
und das Haager Tribunal auf die Anklagebank (W. Pirker)
* Hoffnungslos überfordert. Dumpfbacken-Fernsehen aus Den Haag (W.
Pirker)
* Verschiedene Nachrichten aus AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER
> http://www.amselfeld.com - in der Rubrik "Pressestimmen":
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC IN DEN HAAG: MANIPULATIONEN IM FERNSEHEN
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milodeu.txt
Zum Beginn des "Verfahrens" gegen Milosevic vor dem Haager "Tribunal"
===*===
Zum Stand der Diskussion über den "Fall Milosevic", 19/02/2002
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/lage_milo1902.txt
BEWEISE, DASS MILOSEVIC EINES VERBRECHENS SCHULDIG IST,
GIBT ES NICHT, ES SEI DENN, MAN KONSTRUIERT SIE.
DIE ANKLAGE GEGEN MILOSEVIC IST UNGERECHT BIS ZUR LÄCHERLICHKEIT
Christopher Black und Jacques Vergès, juristische Berater von Slobodan
Milosevic, auf einer Pressekonferenz des ICDSM in Den Haag am 12.
Februar
2002
PM 4/02 der Deutschen Sektion des ICDSM v. 18.02.02
DAS HAAGER "TRIBUNAL" IST EIN MARIONETTENGERICHT.
SEINE GRÜNDUNG SELBST IST EIN VERBRECHEN GEGEN DEN FRIEDEN.
ES MUSS UNVERZÜGLICH ABGESCHAFFT WERDEN.
Diskussionsbeitrag von Christopher Black, Leiter des juristischen
Beraterteams von Slobodan Milosevic, bei einem von der holländischen
Tageszeitung NRC Handelsblad in Amsterdam veranstalteten Streitgespräch
am
10. Februar 2002
INS MARK GETROFFEN
PM 3/02 der Deutschen Sektion des ICDSM v. 17.02.02
Eine kritische Darstellung des Medienechos auf die Verteidigung von
Slobodan
Milosevic
WORTLAUTAUSZÜGE AUS DER ERKLÄRUNG VON SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC VOR DEM HAAGER
"TRIBUNAL"
(Laut dpa v. 14.02.2002)
LANDESVERBAND WENIG ERBAUT ÜBER GENOSSEN
IN TEMPELHOF-SCHÖNEBERG
(auch eine Art "Werbung" für das Kolloquium in Berlin am 2.März 02)
Von Holger Wild in Tagesspiegel v. 18.02.2002
http://www2.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/2002/02/17/ak-be-2215204.html
dazu LESERBRIEF von Klaus Hartmann, Sprecher der Deutschen Sektion des
ICDSM
BRAVO SLOBO!
Kommentar der Antiimperialistischen Koordination, Wien;
(Email v. 18.02.2002 00:09)
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/lage_milo1902.txt
===*===
Beweisnotstand
In Den Haag wird Serbien kriminalisiert
Werner Pirker
Die Chefanklägerin des Haager Tribunals, Carla del Ponte, verweist
bei jeder Gelegenheit darauf, daß allein Milosevic und nicht das
serbische Volk auf der Anklagebank sitze, daß über dessen
individuelle Schuld und nicht über eine serbische Kollektivschuld
verhandelt werde. Doch die von Geoffrey Nice, dem Assistenten del
Pontes, am Dienstag und Mittwoch verlesene Anklageschrift spricht
eine andere Sprache. Aus ihr läßt sich deutlich die Absicht
herauslesen, die serbische Position als Ganzes zu kriminalisieren. Im
jugoslawischen Bürgerkrieg waren unterschiedliche nationale
Interessen aufeinandergeprallt. Doch allein Serbien wird das
Eintreten für seine Interessen als Verbrechen angelastet. Zwar wird
den Serben großzügig zugestanden, arme Verführte eines skrupellosen
Demagogen und Machtpolitikers gewesen zu sein. Doch ist die große
Mehrheit der serbischen Bevölkerung heute noch davon überzeugt, im
jugoslawischen Krieg für die nationale Gerechtigkeit gekämpft zu
haben. Deshalb steht in Den Haag nicht nur Milosevic, sondern die
serbische und damit auch die jugoslawische Sache unter Anklage. Denn
einzig Serbien hat Jugoslawien bis zuletzt verteidigt.
Bezeichnend für die einseitige politische Schuldzuweisung war die
Präsentation der Milosevic-Rede auf dem Amselfeld 1989. Ein aus dem
Zusammenhang gerissener Satz - »Wir stehen vor neuen Kämpfen« -
sollte ihn als Kriegshetzer bloßstellen. Die zentralen Passagen
dieser Rede, die sich auf die Wiederherstellung nationaler und
sozialer Gerechtigkeit in Jugoslawien bezogen, wurden dem Publikum
vorenthalten. Ohne Verständnis für die komplexen nationalen
Beziehungen im untergegangenen Vielvölkerstaat maßt sich ein
amerikanischer Jurist an, den Schuldigen an der Balkan-Tragödie zu
benennen.
Unter den Zeugen der Anklage befinden sich auch ehemalige KP-
Nomenklaturakader aus dem Kosovo. Sie sollen die These stützen, daß
die von der serbischen Führung betriebene Reintegration des Kosovo in
den Bestand Serbiens den Beginn des Bürgerkrieges markiert habe.
Andere historische Deutungen werden vom Haager Gericht nicht
zugelassen. Das Gros der Zeugen aber sind Opfer von Kriegsverbrechen.
Sie werden über grauenhafte Geschehnisse zu berichten wissen. Sie
werden, wie es die Anklage wünscht, Slobodan Milosevic als den
Verursacher ihrer Leiden nennen. Doch die Beweiskraft solcher
Behauptungen ist gleich Null.
Also wird die Anklage immer wieder die Ereignisse von 1989 Revue
passieren lassen, Milosevic als rücksichtslosen Machtpolitiker und
Fanatiker der großserbischen Idee anprangern. Auch wenn Milosevic nie
großserbisch argumentiert hat, wird Signora del Ponte unbeirrbar an
ihrem Rechtsstandpunkt festhalten: Wer Großserbien im Sinn hat,
meuchelt auch kleine Kinder.
Den Artikel finden Sie unter:
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/02-14/002.php
(c) Junge Welt 2002
http://www.jungewelt.de
===*===
Der Tag des Milosevic
Jugoslawiens Ex-Präsident setzt die NATO und das Haager Tribunal auf
die Anklagebank
Werner Pirker
Der dritte Verhandlungstag im Den Haager Prozeß gegen den ehemaligen
jugoslawischen Staatspräsidenten Slobodan Milosevic gehörte dem
Angeklagten. Konsequent seiner Linie folgend, dem Tribunal die
Legitimität abzusprechen, gestaltete Milosevic seine Rede am
Donnerstag zu einer Anklage gegen den »illegalen Gerichtshof« und
gegen den »verbrecherischen Krieg der NATO gegen Jugoslawien«.
Milosevics Ausführungen waren ruhig, sachlich und von bestechender
Logik. Es war die größte Rede seines Lebens. Denn dieses Mal sprach
er nicht vor einer Million begeisterter Anhänger, wie 1989 auf dem
Amselfeld, sondern vor einem Gericht, dessen Daseinszweck darin
besteht, ihn aus der menschlichen Gesellschaft zu verbannen. In
diesem Mikrokosmos, der ihn gefangen hält, war er der Herr des
Geschehens, Chefankläger der Opfer der neuen Weltordnung. Es war sein
Tag. Selten noch hat man vor Gericht einen überzeugenderen Ankläger
gesehen.
Um zu demonstrieren, daß die Anklage gegen ihn auf Lügen beruht, ließ
Milosevic Auszüge aus der ARD-Fernsehdokumentation »Es begann mit
einer Lüge« vorführen. Darin wird das angebliche Massaker in dem
Kosovo-Dorf Racak als provokatorische Inszenierung bloßgestellt.
Milosevic kontrastierte diesen Film mit der medialen Umzingelung
Serbiens während seiner Amtszeit: »Das ist nur ein Atom, der
Bruchteil eines Atoms im Ozean der Lügen, der Propaganda und des
Mißbrauchs der globalen Medien als Kriegsinstrument gegen mein Land.«
Danach ging Milosevic auf Vorwürfe der Anklage ein, seine
rücksichtslose Machtpolitik und bedenkenlose Instrumentalisierung des
serbischen Nationalismus hätte den Untergang Jugoslawiens bewirkt. Er
zitierte aus seiner historischen Rede auf dem Amselfeld 1989, die in
der Anklageschrift als Kriegshetze gebrandmarkt wird. Dies sei doch
eine hervorragende Rede gewesen, meinte Milosevic, ein Bekenntnis zum
gleichberechtigten Zusammenleben der Völker Jugoslawiens. Damals
sagte er: »Der Sozialismus erlaubt keine Trennung des Volkes in
ethnische und religiöse Gruppierungen. Der einzige Unterschied, den
der Sozialismus zu machen erlaubt, ist der zwischen ehrlichen und
unehrlichen Menschen, zwischen Menschen, die arbeiten und solchen,
die nicht arbeiten.« Und weiter: »Jugoslawien ist eine multinationale
Gemeinschaft und kann nur auf der Grundlage der Gleichberechtigung
überleben.«
Milosevic verwahrte sich gegen den Vorwurf, großserbische Ziele
verfolgt zu haben. Die serbischen Sozialisten stünden für die
Kontinuität Jugoslawiens und seien gegen sezessionistische Stimmungen
in der serbischen Bevölkerung aufgetreten. Jugoslawien habe den Kampf
der kroatischen und bosnischen Serben um nationale Selbstbestimmung
unterstützt und sei gleichzeitig für eine schnellstmögliche
Beendigung der brudermörderischen Sezessionskriege eingetreten.
Die Anklage gegen die Anklage fand ihren Höhepunkt in einer
detaillierten Auflistung von NATO-Kriegsverbrechen in Jugoslawien
1999. Milosevic präsentierte umfangreiches Bildmaterial. Die Fotos
zeigten von US-Kassettenbomben zerfetzte Menschen, zerbombte
Wohnhäuser und zerstörte Industrieanlagen. Der Aufforderung, das
Material zu begutachten, kamen die Mitglieder des Tribunals mit
erkennbarem Widerwillen nach. »Das ist das Haus, in dem die
elfjährige Milica Jovanovic den Tod fand«, sagte der angeklagte
Ankläger. 30 Prozent der von den NATO-Bomben Getöteten waren Kinder.
Milosevic sprach den sozialen Sadismus der Aggressoren an, indem er
immer wieder erwähnte, daß sich der Aggressionsdrang der
Bomberpiloten vor allem gegen Städte und Dörfer mit einer hohen
Konzentration von sozial schwachen Menschen ausgetobt habe. Die
Aufzählung der im Bombenkrieg zerstörten medizinischen Einrichtungen
und Schulen zog sich über Minuten hin. »Es war ein gezielter Krieg
gegen die Zivilbevölkerung«, so Milosevic. Die Zahl zerstörter
Sozialeinrichtungen hätte die Zahl abgeschossener Panzer um ein
Vielfaches übertroffen.
Die albanische Bevölkerung hätte unter dem Bombardement der NATO
nicht weniger gelitten als die anderen Völker Jugoslawiens. Slobodan
Milosevic erinnerte an den 14. April 1999. Ein Treck albanischer
Flüchtlinge bewegte sich in Richtung Prizren. Sie wollten zurück in
ihre Heimatdörfer. Da wurden die Kosovo-Albaner von NATO-Flugzeugen
angegriffen. Die Dokumentation zeigt verstümmelte Leichen von Kindern
und Greisen, den Kopf eines Mannes, der vom Rumpf getrennt worden
war. Warum wurden sie zu Zielscheiben, fragte Milosevic. Weil sich
die Flüchtlinge in die falsche Richtung bewegt hatten und so die NATO-
Propaganda von zu Hunderttausenden vor den Serben flüchtenden
Albanern konterkarierten. Neben Bomben seien auch Flugblätter vom
Himmel gefallen, auf denen die Albaner zur Flucht aufgefordert worden
seien. Viele, die dem nicht nachkamen, seien von der UCK exekutiert
worden, so Milosevic.
Der einsame Mann von Den Haag hat an diesem Donnerstag überzeugende
Aufklärungsarbeit geleistet. Doch um Aufklärung ist dieses Tribunal
nicht bemüht. Am heutigen Freitag setzt der Angeklagte seine Klage
gegen die NATO in Den Haag fort.
(Siehe auch Kommentar)
Den Artikel finden Sie unter:
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/02-15/001.php
(c) Junge Welt 2002
http://www.jungewelt.de
===*===
15.02.2002
Kommentar
junge Welt
Werner Pirker
Hoffnungslos überfordert
Dumpfbacken-Fernsehen aus Den Haag
Slobodan Milosevics souveräner Auftritt vor dem Haager Tribunal war nach
dem
Geschmack deutscher Nachrichtensender entschieden zu souverän, um ihn
adäquat wiederzugeben. ntv bemühte sich zwar um eine Wiedergabe in
Simultanübersetzung, doch der Dolmetscher erwies sich in seinen
sprachlichen
Fähigkeiten und seinem intellektuellen Erfassungsvermögen als
hoffnungslos
überfordert. So fand eine logisch aufgebaute, sprachlich beeindruckende,
argumentativ überzeugende Rede in wüstem Gestammel ihre unwürdige
deutsche
Entsprechung. Das Elend des Übersetzers dürfte indes nicht der Grund
gewesen
sein, dass sich der Sender kurzerhand aus der Übertragung ausschaltete.
Der
dürfte eher in der Verpflichtung des deutschen Journalismus zur
Objektivität
gelegen haben. Wenn der »Schlächter vom Balkan« keinen Stuss
zusammenredet,
sondern überzeugend argumentiert, dann ergibt das ein äußerst
unobjektives
Bild.
Deshalb wollte sich EuroNews auf eine Eins-zu-Eins-Übersetzung erst gar
nicht einlassen. Dort führte eine Dame durchs Programm, die nach einem
undurchschaubaren Prinzip Sätze aus der Milosevic-Rede übersetzte, die
für
sich genommen wenig Sinn ergaben und den Serben offenbar als billigen
Agitator und Dauerredner inhaltsloser Phrasen bloßstellen sollten. Nicht
ein
einziges Statement kam authentisch rüber, weil sich die gute Frau schon
nach
dem ersten Halbsatz bemüßigt fühlte, dies umgehend zu kommentieren.
Sprach
Milosevic von Terroristen, erläuterte sie zum besseren Verständnis, dass
damit albanische Unabhängigkeitskämpfer gemeint seien. Ganze
Redepassagen
wurden auf die Schnelle zusammengefasst: »Nun versucht Milosevic, den
Albanern die Schuld in die Schuhe zu schieben«.
Gegen die Idiotisierung der öffentlichen Meinung hat Slobodan Milosevic
kaum
eine Chance.
===*===
+++ Kreuzverhör im Milosevic-Prozess +++
DEN HAAG, 19. Februar 2002. Am Dienstag begann der ehemalige
jugoslawische Präsident Slobodan Milosevic in Den Haag mit dem
Kreuzverhör eines Zeugen der Anklage, dem früheren Vorsitzenden
der Kommunistischen Partei in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien, Mahmut Bakali. Milosevic befragte Bakalli zu seiner
Aussage vom Vortag. Bakali hatte behauptet, die jugoslawischen
Sicherheitskräfte hätten an die 70 Angehörige der albanischen
Familie Jasari umgebracht. Auf die Frage von Milosevic ob er (
Bakalli ) wisse, dass sich die ethnisch albanischen Terroristen
dabei nicht ergeben wollten, auf Polizisten schossen und
Zivilisten als Schutzschild benutzten, erwiderte Bakali, dass er
keine Einzelheiten kenne.
Milosevic wies darufhin, dass Anfang der achtziger Jahre mehr als
40.000 Serben zum Verlassen der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien von den ethnisch albanischen Extremisten gezwungen
wurden. "Mit Mord, Vergewaltigungen, Brandstiftungen und
Zerstörung von Eigentum haben sie Serben vertrieben", erklärte
Milosevic weiter.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Vernehmung der "Zeugen" beginnt +++
DEN HAAG, 18. Februar 2002. Der ehemalige jugoslawische
Präsident Slobodan Milosevic hat heute vor dem Haager
Tribunal seine Stellungnahme zu den gegen ihn erhobenen
Vorwürfen fortgesetzt. Er hatte bereits am Donnerstag und
Freitag zu den Anklagepunkten Stellung genommen, war aber
mit seiner Rede noch nicht zu Ende. Das Gericht hatte
daraufhin Milosevic aufgetragen, sein Plädoyer bis
Montagmittag abzuschließen.
Milosevic hat heute erneut alle Vorwürfe bestritten und den
Westen für die Balkan-Konflikte verantwortlich gemacht. Er
beschuldigte die NATO während der Aggression gegen
Jugoslawien schwere Verbrechen begangen zu haben.
Unterdessen haben am Montag auch die ersten
Zeugenvernehmungen begonnen. Als erster sagte Mahmut
Bakalli, der ehemalige Albanerführer aus der südserbischen
Provinz Kosovo und Metochien aus. Der ethnisch-albanische
Politiker war bis 1981 Vorsitzender der jugoslawischen
Kommunisten in Kosovo und Metochien und ist heute
Abgeordneter im Provinzparlament.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Internationales Komitee: "Kriegsverbrechertribunal"
abschaffen +++
DEN HAAG, 17. Februar 2002. Das Internationale Komitee zur
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic, der vom bulgarischen
Rechtswissenschaftler Prof. Velko Velkanov und dem ehemaligen
US-Generalstaatsanwalt Ramsey Clark angeführt wird, rief heute in
Den Haag die Weltöffentlichkeit dazu auf, die Initiative des
Komitees zu unterstützen, das Den Haager
"Kriegsverbrechertribunal" durch die UNO zu abzuschaffen.
RIA NOVOSTI / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Milosevic redet über NATO-Verbrechen +++
DEN HAAG, 16. Februar 2002. In seiner gestrigen Rede vor dem
"Kriegsverbrechertribunal" in Den Haag trug der ehemalige
jugoslawische Präsident Milosevic Beweismaterial vor, der von
NATO-Verbrechen an jugoslawischer Zivilbevölkerung und von der
Unterstützung der deutschen Geheimdienste für die albanischen
UCK-Terroristen zeugen. Er zitierte ausführlich aus dem Buch
"Kriegsverbrechen" von Jürgen Elsässer.
SPS.ORG.YU / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Djindjic will weitere Serben ausliefern +++
FRANKFURT, 16. Februar 2002. Serbiens Ministerpräsident Zoran
Djindjic kündigte gegenüber "Handlesblatt" Auslieferung von
weieteren Serben an das "Kriegsverbrechertribunal" in Den Haag
an. Er nannte namentlich den amtierenden Präsidenten Serbiens
Milan Milutinovic, den ehemaligen Innenminister Vlajko
Stojiljkovic und den ehemaligen Generalstabschef Dragoljub
Ojdanic, die auf der Liste des Tribunals stehen, da sie während
der NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien in Amt waren.
TIKER / AMSELFELD.COM
________________________
AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER
15.2.2002
http://www.amselfeld.com
________________________
+++ NATO droht Milosevic +++
BELGRAD, 15.Februar 2002. Die NATO droht dem früheren
jugoslawischen Präsidenten Milosevic offenbar mit
?Strafmaßnahmen?, sofern die Organisation ?Freiheit -
für eine Welt der Freien und Gleichen? in Serbien den
Medien weiterhin neue Beweise für Verbrechen der NATO
während der Aggression gegen Jugoslawien vorlegt. Dies
berichtete heute der Sprecher der Organisation Milan
Vidojevic.
TANJUG
+++ Milosevic will westliche Politiker als Zeugen +++
DEN HAAG, 15.Februar 2002. Der ehemalige jugoslawische
Präsident Slobodan Milosevic will führende westliche
Politiker aus der Zeit der Zerschlagung der
Sozialistischen Föderativen Republik Jugoslawien (SFRJ) und der
NATO-Aggression gegen die Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien
als Zeugen vor das Haager Tribunal bringen. Milosevic
erklärte mögliche Zeugen wären der frühere deutsche
Außenminister Kinkel und Ex-US-Präsident Clinton.
Milosevic möchte durch solche Zeugen beweisen, daß
der Westen eine erhebliche Mitschuld an den Ereignissen
im ehemaligen Jugoslawien während der letzten zehn
Jahre trägt.
Ein Experte der britischen BBC bestätigte, daß die
von Milosevic genannten Personen sich durchaus im
Zeugenstand des Tribunals wiederfinden könnten, auch
könnte das Tribunal gegen die Personen Zwangsmaßnahmen
einleiten, sofern sich diese einer Vorladung verweigern
sollten.
STIMME KOSOVOS
+++ Prozeß gegen Milosevic Prozeß gegen Jugoslawien +++
MOSKAU, 15.Februar 2002. Der Präsident der russischen
staatlichen Duma, Genadij Seleznjov erklärte am
Freitag, daß der Prozeß gegen Slobodan Milosevic in
den Haag ?einen politischen Prozeß gegen das ganze
Jugoslawien darstellt?. Seleznjov erklärte weiter,
daß Milosevic unzweifelhaft ein politischer Gefangener
sei.
TANJUG
(...)
Redaktion Amselfeld
leserbriefe@...
+++ Milosevic spricht vor Haager Tribunal +++
DEN HAAG, 14.Februar 2002. Der ehemalige jugoslawische
Präsident Slobodan Milosevic hat heute vor dem
Tribunal in Den Haag zu den gegen ihn erhobenen Vorwürfen
Stellung genommen. Milosevic stellte klar, daß er
während der NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien seiner
Pflicht zum Schutz seines Landes vor dem feindlichen
Angriff nachgekommen sei und daß der Kampf der
serbischen Sicherheitskräfte gegen die UCK in Kosovo und
Metochien keinensfalls, wie von der Anklage behauptet,
ein Venichtungsfeldzug gegen albanische Zivilisten
darstellte, sondern den legitimen Kampf der staatlichen
Autorität gegen den sie bedrohenden albanischen
Terrorismus. Milosevic legte dem Tribunal diverse
Fotos vor, in denen zivile Opfer der NATO-Aggression
gezeigt wurden.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
* Beweisnotstand. In Den Haag wird Serbien kriminalisiert (W. Pirker)
* Der Tag des Milosevic. Jugoslawiens Ex-Präsident setzt die NATO
und das Haager Tribunal auf die Anklagebank (W. Pirker)
* Hoffnungslos überfordert. Dumpfbacken-Fernsehen aus Den Haag (W.
Pirker)
* Verschiedene Nachrichten aus AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER
> http://www.amselfeld.com - in der Rubrik "Pressestimmen":
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC IN DEN HAAG: MANIPULATIONEN IM FERNSEHEN
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milodeu.txt
Zum Beginn des "Verfahrens" gegen Milosevic vor dem Haager "Tribunal"
===*===
Zum Stand der Diskussion über den "Fall Milosevic", 19/02/2002
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/lage_milo1902.txt
BEWEISE, DASS MILOSEVIC EINES VERBRECHENS SCHULDIG IST,
GIBT ES NICHT, ES SEI DENN, MAN KONSTRUIERT SIE.
DIE ANKLAGE GEGEN MILOSEVIC IST UNGERECHT BIS ZUR LÄCHERLICHKEIT
Christopher Black und Jacques Vergès, juristische Berater von Slobodan
Milosevic, auf einer Pressekonferenz des ICDSM in Den Haag am 12.
Februar
2002
PM 4/02 der Deutschen Sektion des ICDSM v. 18.02.02
DAS HAAGER "TRIBUNAL" IST EIN MARIONETTENGERICHT.
SEINE GRÜNDUNG SELBST IST EIN VERBRECHEN GEGEN DEN FRIEDEN.
ES MUSS UNVERZÜGLICH ABGESCHAFFT WERDEN.
Diskussionsbeitrag von Christopher Black, Leiter des juristischen
Beraterteams von Slobodan Milosevic, bei einem von der holländischen
Tageszeitung NRC Handelsblad in Amsterdam veranstalteten Streitgespräch
am
10. Februar 2002
INS MARK GETROFFEN
PM 3/02 der Deutschen Sektion des ICDSM v. 17.02.02
Eine kritische Darstellung des Medienechos auf die Verteidigung von
Slobodan
Milosevic
WORTLAUTAUSZÜGE AUS DER ERKLÄRUNG VON SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC VOR DEM HAAGER
"TRIBUNAL"
(Laut dpa v. 14.02.2002)
LANDESVERBAND WENIG ERBAUT ÜBER GENOSSEN
IN TEMPELHOF-SCHÖNEBERG
(auch eine Art "Werbung" für das Kolloquium in Berlin am 2.März 02)
Von Holger Wild in Tagesspiegel v. 18.02.2002
http://www2.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/2002/02/17/ak-be-2215204.html
dazu LESERBRIEF von Klaus Hartmann, Sprecher der Deutschen Sektion des
ICDSM
BRAVO SLOBO!
Kommentar der Antiimperialistischen Koordination, Wien;
(Email v. 18.02.2002 00:09)
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/lage_milo1902.txt
===*===
Beweisnotstand
In Den Haag wird Serbien kriminalisiert
Werner Pirker
Die Chefanklägerin des Haager Tribunals, Carla del Ponte, verweist
bei jeder Gelegenheit darauf, daß allein Milosevic und nicht das
serbische Volk auf der Anklagebank sitze, daß über dessen
individuelle Schuld und nicht über eine serbische Kollektivschuld
verhandelt werde. Doch die von Geoffrey Nice, dem Assistenten del
Pontes, am Dienstag und Mittwoch verlesene Anklageschrift spricht
eine andere Sprache. Aus ihr läßt sich deutlich die Absicht
herauslesen, die serbische Position als Ganzes zu kriminalisieren. Im
jugoslawischen Bürgerkrieg waren unterschiedliche nationale
Interessen aufeinandergeprallt. Doch allein Serbien wird das
Eintreten für seine Interessen als Verbrechen angelastet. Zwar wird
den Serben großzügig zugestanden, arme Verführte eines skrupellosen
Demagogen und Machtpolitikers gewesen zu sein. Doch ist die große
Mehrheit der serbischen Bevölkerung heute noch davon überzeugt, im
jugoslawischen Krieg für die nationale Gerechtigkeit gekämpft zu
haben. Deshalb steht in Den Haag nicht nur Milosevic, sondern die
serbische und damit auch die jugoslawische Sache unter Anklage. Denn
einzig Serbien hat Jugoslawien bis zuletzt verteidigt.
Bezeichnend für die einseitige politische Schuldzuweisung war die
Präsentation der Milosevic-Rede auf dem Amselfeld 1989. Ein aus dem
Zusammenhang gerissener Satz - »Wir stehen vor neuen Kämpfen« -
sollte ihn als Kriegshetzer bloßstellen. Die zentralen Passagen
dieser Rede, die sich auf die Wiederherstellung nationaler und
sozialer Gerechtigkeit in Jugoslawien bezogen, wurden dem Publikum
vorenthalten. Ohne Verständnis für die komplexen nationalen
Beziehungen im untergegangenen Vielvölkerstaat maßt sich ein
amerikanischer Jurist an, den Schuldigen an der Balkan-Tragödie zu
benennen.
Unter den Zeugen der Anklage befinden sich auch ehemalige KP-
Nomenklaturakader aus dem Kosovo. Sie sollen die These stützen, daß
die von der serbischen Führung betriebene Reintegration des Kosovo in
den Bestand Serbiens den Beginn des Bürgerkrieges markiert habe.
Andere historische Deutungen werden vom Haager Gericht nicht
zugelassen. Das Gros der Zeugen aber sind Opfer von Kriegsverbrechen.
Sie werden über grauenhafte Geschehnisse zu berichten wissen. Sie
werden, wie es die Anklage wünscht, Slobodan Milosevic als den
Verursacher ihrer Leiden nennen. Doch die Beweiskraft solcher
Behauptungen ist gleich Null.
Also wird die Anklage immer wieder die Ereignisse von 1989 Revue
passieren lassen, Milosevic als rücksichtslosen Machtpolitiker und
Fanatiker der großserbischen Idee anprangern. Auch wenn Milosevic nie
großserbisch argumentiert hat, wird Signora del Ponte unbeirrbar an
ihrem Rechtsstandpunkt festhalten: Wer Großserbien im Sinn hat,
meuchelt auch kleine Kinder.
Den Artikel finden Sie unter:
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/02-14/002.php
(c) Junge Welt 2002
http://www.jungewelt.de
===*===
Der Tag des Milosevic
Jugoslawiens Ex-Präsident setzt die NATO und das Haager Tribunal auf
die Anklagebank
Werner Pirker
Der dritte Verhandlungstag im Den Haager Prozeß gegen den ehemaligen
jugoslawischen Staatspräsidenten Slobodan Milosevic gehörte dem
Angeklagten. Konsequent seiner Linie folgend, dem Tribunal die
Legitimität abzusprechen, gestaltete Milosevic seine Rede am
Donnerstag zu einer Anklage gegen den »illegalen Gerichtshof« und
gegen den »verbrecherischen Krieg der NATO gegen Jugoslawien«.
Milosevics Ausführungen waren ruhig, sachlich und von bestechender
Logik. Es war die größte Rede seines Lebens. Denn dieses Mal sprach
er nicht vor einer Million begeisterter Anhänger, wie 1989 auf dem
Amselfeld, sondern vor einem Gericht, dessen Daseinszweck darin
besteht, ihn aus der menschlichen Gesellschaft zu verbannen. In
diesem Mikrokosmos, der ihn gefangen hält, war er der Herr des
Geschehens, Chefankläger der Opfer der neuen Weltordnung. Es war sein
Tag. Selten noch hat man vor Gericht einen überzeugenderen Ankläger
gesehen.
Um zu demonstrieren, daß die Anklage gegen ihn auf Lügen beruht, ließ
Milosevic Auszüge aus der ARD-Fernsehdokumentation »Es begann mit
einer Lüge« vorführen. Darin wird das angebliche Massaker in dem
Kosovo-Dorf Racak als provokatorische Inszenierung bloßgestellt.
Milosevic kontrastierte diesen Film mit der medialen Umzingelung
Serbiens während seiner Amtszeit: »Das ist nur ein Atom, der
Bruchteil eines Atoms im Ozean der Lügen, der Propaganda und des
Mißbrauchs der globalen Medien als Kriegsinstrument gegen mein Land.«
Danach ging Milosevic auf Vorwürfe der Anklage ein, seine
rücksichtslose Machtpolitik und bedenkenlose Instrumentalisierung des
serbischen Nationalismus hätte den Untergang Jugoslawiens bewirkt. Er
zitierte aus seiner historischen Rede auf dem Amselfeld 1989, die in
der Anklageschrift als Kriegshetze gebrandmarkt wird. Dies sei doch
eine hervorragende Rede gewesen, meinte Milosevic, ein Bekenntnis zum
gleichberechtigten Zusammenleben der Völker Jugoslawiens. Damals
sagte er: »Der Sozialismus erlaubt keine Trennung des Volkes in
ethnische und religiöse Gruppierungen. Der einzige Unterschied, den
der Sozialismus zu machen erlaubt, ist der zwischen ehrlichen und
unehrlichen Menschen, zwischen Menschen, die arbeiten und solchen,
die nicht arbeiten.« Und weiter: »Jugoslawien ist eine multinationale
Gemeinschaft und kann nur auf der Grundlage der Gleichberechtigung
überleben.«
Milosevic verwahrte sich gegen den Vorwurf, großserbische Ziele
verfolgt zu haben. Die serbischen Sozialisten stünden für die
Kontinuität Jugoslawiens und seien gegen sezessionistische Stimmungen
in der serbischen Bevölkerung aufgetreten. Jugoslawien habe den Kampf
der kroatischen und bosnischen Serben um nationale Selbstbestimmung
unterstützt und sei gleichzeitig für eine schnellstmögliche
Beendigung der brudermörderischen Sezessionskriege eingetreten.
Die Anklage gegen die Anklage fand ihren Höhepunkt in einer
detaillierten Auflistung von NATO-Kriegsverbrechen in Jugoslawien
1999. Milosevic präsentierte umfangreiches Bildmaterial. Die Fotos
zeigten von US-Kassettenbomben zerfetzte Menschen, zerbombte
Wohnhäuser und zerstörte Industrieanlagen. Der Aufforderung, das
Material zu begutachten, kamen die Mitglieder des Tribunals mit
erkennbarem Widerwillen nach. »Das ist das Haus, in dem die
elfjährige Milica Jovanovic den Tod fand«, sagte der angeklagte
Ankläger. 30 Prozent der von den NATO-Bomben Getöteten waren Kinder.
Milosevic sprach den sozialen Sadismus der Aggressoren an, indem er
immer wieder erwähnte, daß sich der Aggressionsdrang der
Bomberpiloten vor allem gegen Städte und Dörfer mit einer hohen
Konzentration von sozial schwachen Menschen ausgetobt habe. Die
Aufzählung der im Bombenkrieg zerstörten medizinischen Einrichtungen
und Schulen zog sich über Minuten hin. »Es war ein gezielter Krieg
gegen die Zivilbevölkerung«, so Milosevic. Die Zahl zerstörter
Sozialeinrichtungen hätte die Zahl abgeschossener Panzer um ein
Vielfaches übertroffen.
Die albanische Bevölkerung hätte unter dem Bombardement der NATO
nicht weniger gelitten als die anderen Völker Jugoslawiens. Slobodan
Milosevic erinnerte an den 14. April 1999. Ein Treck albanischer
Flüchtlinge bewegte sich in Richtung Prizren. Sie wollten zurück in
ihre Heimatdörfer. Da wurden die Kosovo-Albaner von NATO-Flugzeugen
angegriffen. Die Dokumentation zeigt verstümmelte Leichen von Kindern
und Greisen, den Kopf eines Mannes, der vom Rumpf getrennt worden
war. Warum wurden sie zu Zielscheiben, fragte Milosevic. Weil sich
die Flüchtlinge in die falsche Richtung bewegt hatten und so die NATO-
Propaganda von zu Hunderttausenden vor den Serben flüchtenden
Albanern konterkarierten. Neben Bomben seien auch Flugblätter vom
Himmel gefallen, auf denen die Albaner zur Flucht aufgefordert worden
seien. Viele, die dem nicht nachkamen, seien von der UCK exekutiert
worden, so Milosevic.
Der einsame Mann von Den Haag hat an diesem Donnerstag überzeugende
Aufklärungsarbeit geleistet. Doch um Aufklärung ist dieses Tribunal
nicht bemüht. Am heutigen Freitag setzt der Angeklagte seine Klage
gegen die NATO in Den Haag fort.
(Siehe auch Kommentar)
Den Artikel finden Sie unter:
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/02-15/001.php
(c) Junge Welt 2002
http://www.jungewelt.de
===*===
15.02.2002
Kommentar
junge Welt
Werner Pirker
Hoffnungslos überfordert
Dumpfbacken-Fernsehen aus Den Haag
Slobodan Milosevics souveräner Auftritt vor dem Haager Tribunal war nach
dem
Geschmack deutscher Nachrichtensender entschieden zu souverän, um ihn
adäquat wiederzugeben. ntv bemühte sich zwar um eine Wiedergabe in
Simultanübersetzung, doch der Dolmetscher erwies sich in seinen
sprachlichen
Fähigkeiten und seinem intellektuellen Erfassungsvermögen als
hoffnungslos
überfordert. So fand eine logisch aufgebaute, sprachlich beeindruckende,
argumentativ überzeugende Rede in wüstem Gestammel ihre unwürdige
deutsche
Entsprechung. Das Elend des Übersetzers dürfte indes nicht der Grund
gewesen
sein, dass sich der Sender kurzerhand aus der Übertragung ausschaltete.
Der
dürfte eher in der Verpflichtung des deutschen Journalismus zur
Objektivität
gelegen haben. Wenn der »Schlächter vom Balkan« keinen Stuss
zusammenredet,
sondern überzeugend argumentiert, dann ergibt das ein äußerst
unobjektives
Bild.
Deshalb wollte sich EuroNews auf eine Eins-zu-Eins-Übersetzung erst gar
nicht einlassen. Dort führte eine Dame durchs Programm, die nach einem
undurchschaubaren Prinzip Sätze aus der Milosevic-Rede übersetzte, die
für
sich genommen wenig Sinn ergaben und den Serben offenbar als billigen
Agitator und Dauerredner inhaltsloser Phrasen bloßstellen sollten. Nicht
ein
einziges Statement kam authentisch rüber, weil sich die gute Frau schon
nach
dem ersten Halbsatz bemüßigt fühlte, dies umgehend zu kommentieren.
Sprach
Milosevic von Terroristen, erläuterte sie zum besseren Verständnis, dass
damit albanische Unabhängigkeitskämpfer gemeint seien. Ganze
Redepassagen
wurden auf die Schnelle zusammengefasst: »Nun versucht Milosevic, den
Albanern die Schuld in die Schuhe zu schieben«.
Gegen die Idiotisierung der öffentlichen Meinung hat Slobodan Milosevic
kaum
eine Chance.
===*===
+++ Kreuzverhör im Milosevic-Prozess +++
DEN HAAG, 19. Februar 2002. Am Dienstag begann der ehemalige
jugoslawische Präsident Slobodan Milosevic in Den Haag mit dem
Kreuzverhör eines Zeugen der Anklage, dem früheren Vorsitzenden
der Kommunistischen Partei in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien, Mahmut Bakali. Milosevic befragte Bakalli zu seiner
Aussage vom Vortag. Bakali hatte behauptet, die jugoslawischen
Sicherheitskräfte hätten an die 70 Angehörige der albanischen
Familie Jasari umgebracht. Auf die Frage von Milosevic ob er (
Bakalli ) wisse, dass sich die ethnisch albanischen Terroristen
dabei nicht ergeben wollten, auf Polizisten schossen und
Zivilisten als Schutzschild benutzten, erwiderte Bakali, dass er
keine Einzelheiten kenne.
Milosevic wies darufhin, dass Anfang der achtziger Jahre mehr als
40.000 Serben zum Verlassen der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien von den ethnisch albanischen Extremisten gezwungen
wurden. "Mit Mord, Vergewaltigungen, Brandstiftungen und
Zerstörung von Eigentum haben sie Serben vertrieben", erklärte
Milosevic weiter.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Vernehmung der "Zeugen" beginnt +++
DEN HAAG, 18. Februar 2002. Der ehemalige jugoslawische
Präsident Slobodan Milosevic hat heute vor dem Haager
Tribunal seine Stellungnahme zu den gegen ihn erhobenen
Vorwürfen fortgesetzt. Er hatte bereits am Donnerstag und
Freitag zu den Anklagepunkten Stellung genommen, war aber
mit seiner Rede noch nicht zu Ende. Das Gericht hatte
daraufhin Milosevic aufgetragen, sein Plädoyer bis
Montagmittag abzuschließen.
Milosevic hat heute erneut alle Vorwürfe bestritten und den
Westen für die Balkan-Konflikte verantwortlich gemacht. Er
beschuldigte die NATO während der Aggression gegen
Jugoslawien schwere Verbrechen begangen zu haben.
Unterdessen haben am Montag auch die ersten
Zeugenvernehmungen begonnen. Als erster sagte Mahmut
Bakalli, der ehemalige Albanerführer aus der südserbischen
Provinz Kosovo und Metochien aus. Der ethnisch-albanische
Politiker war bis 1981 Vorsitzender der jugoslawischen
Kommunisten in Kosovo und Metochien und ist heute
Abgeordneter im Provinzparlament.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Internationales Komitee: "Kriegsverbrechertribunal"
abschaffen +++
DEN HAAG, 17. Februar 2002. Das Internationale Komitee zur
Verteidigung von Slobodan Milosevic, der vom bulgarischen
Rechtswissenschaftler Prof. Velko Velkanov und dem ehemaligen
US-Generalstaatsanwalt Ramsey Clark angeführt wird, rief heute in
Den Haag die Weltöffentlichkeit dazu auf, die Initiative des
Komitees zu unterstützen, das Den Haager
"Kriegsverbrechertribunal" durch die UNO zu abzuschaffen.
RIA NOVOSTI / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Milosevic redet über NATO-Verbrechen +++
DEN HAAG, 16. Februar 2002. In seiner gestrigen Rede vor dem
"Kriegsverbrechertribunal" in Den Haag trug der ehemalige
jugoslawische Präsident Milosevic Beweismaterial vor, der von
NATO-Verbrechen an jugoslawischer Zivilbevölkerung und von der
Unterstützung der deutschen Geheimdienste für die albanischen
UCK-Terroristen zeugen. Er zitierte ausführlich aus dem Buch
"Kriegsverbrechen" von Jürgen Elsässer.
SPS.ORG.YU / AMSELFELD.COM
+++ Djindjic will weitere Serben ausliefern +++
FRANKFURT, 16. Februar 2002. Serbiens Ministerpräsident Zoran
Djindjic kündigte gegenüber "Handlesblatt" Auslieferung von
weieteren Serben an das "Kriegsverbrechertribunal" in Den Haag
an. Er nannte namentlich den amtierenden Präsidenten Serbiens
Milan Milutinovic, den ehemaligen Innenminister Vlajko
Stojiljkovic und den ehemaligen Generalstabschef Dragoljub
Ojdanic, die auf der Liste des Tribunals stehen, da sie während
der NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien in Amt waren.
TIKER / AMSELFELD.COM
________________________
AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER
15.2.2002
http://www.amselfeld.com
________________________
+++ NATO droht Milosevic +++
BELGRAD, 15.Februar 2002. Die NATO droht dem früheren
jugoslawischen Präsidenten Milosevic offenbar mit
?Strafmaßnahmen?, sofern die Organisation ?Freiheit -
für eine Welt der Freien und Gleichen? in Serbien den
Medien weiterhin neue Beweise für Verbrechen der NATO
während der Aggression gegen Jugoslawien vorlegt. Dies
berichtete heute der Sprecher der Organisation Milan
Vidojevic.
TANJUG
+++ Milosevic will westliche Politiker als Zeugen +++
DEN HAAG, 15.Februar 2002. Der ehemalige jugoslawische
Präsident Slobodan Milosevic will führende westliche
Politiker aus der Zeit der Zerschlagung der
Sozialistischen Föderativen Republik Jugoslawien (SFRJ) und der
NATO-Aggression gegen die Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien
als Zeugen vor das Haager Tribunal bringen. Milosevic
erklärte mögliche Zeugen wären der frühere deutsche
Außenminister Kinkel und Ex-US-Präsident Clinton.
Milosevic möchte durch solche Zeugen beweisen, daß
der Westen eine erhebliche Mitschuld an den Ereignissen
im ehemaligen Jugoslawien während der letzten zehn
Jahre trägt.
Ein Experte der britischen BBC bestätigte, daß die
von Milosevic genannten Personen sich durchaus im
Zeugenstand des Tribunals wiederfinden könnten, auch
könnte das Tribunal gegen die Personen Zwangsmaßnahmen
einleiten, sofern sich diese einer Vorladung verweigern
sollten.
STIMME KOSOVOS
+++ Prozeß gegen Milosevic Prozeß gegen Jugoslawien +++
MOSKAU, 15.Februar 2002. Der Präsident der russischen
staatlichen Duma, Genadij Seleznjov erklärte am
Freitag, daß der Prozeß gegen Slobodan Milosevic in
den Haag ?einen politischen Prozeß gegen das ganze
Jugoslawien darstellt?. Seleznjov erklärte weiter,
daß Milosevic unzweifelhaft ein politischer Gefangener
sei.
TANJUG
(...)
Redaktion Amselfeld
leserbriefe@...
+++ Milosevic spricht vor Haager Tribunal +++
DEN HAAG, 14.Februar 2002. Der ehemalige jugoslawische
Präsident Slobodan Milosevic hat heute vor dem
Tribunal in Den Haag zu den gegen ihn erhobenen Vorwürfen
Stellung genommen. Milosevic stellte klar, daß er
während der NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien seiner
Pflicht zum Schutz seines Landes vor dem feindlichen
Angriff nachgekommen sei und daß der Kampf der
serbischen Sicherheitskräfte gegen die UCK in Kosovo und
Metochien keinensfalls, wie von der Anklage behauptet,
ein Venichtungsfeldzug gegen albanische Zivilisten
darstellte, sondern den legitimen Kampf der staatlichen
Autorität gegen den sie bedrohenden albanischen
Terrorismus. Milosevic legte dem Tribunal diverse
Fotos vor, in denen zivile Opfer der NATO-Aggression
gezeigt wurden.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
*** Slobodan Milosevic 18.02.2002 u Hagu
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo180202sh.txt
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo180202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/19-01.html
*** Slobodan Milosevic 15.02.2002 u Hagu
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo150202sh.txt
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo150202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/15-01.html
*** Slobodan Milosevic 14.02.2002 u Hagu
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo140202sh.txt
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo140202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/14-01.html
*** Slobodan Milosevic 13.02.2002 u Hagu
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1600
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo130202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/13-01.html
===*===
VLADIMIR KRSLJANIN (SPS) NA GALERIJI SUDNICE
Novinari koji su se okupili u zgradi
Tribunala primetili su da prvog
dana sudjenja na galeriji nije bio
niko od clanova porodice Slobodana
Milosevica. Jedina osoba kojoj je
optuzeni uputio osmeh bio je Vladimir
Krsljanin, iz SPS, kao predstavnik
Upravnog odbora Komiteta Sloboda
Koji je na galeriji sedeo bas
pored izvestaca Danasa.
On je za nas list izjavio: "Ne
moze se ocekivati da Tuzilastvo dokaze
neki zlocin jer je to nemoguce.
Ipak, u odnosu na raniji stav, vidi se
pomak u tome sto su odustali od
diskreditacije Milosevica kao tvorca
ideje o velikoj Srbiji i sve
su prebacili na teren ocuvanja licne
vlasti. Nevesto su pokusali da kazu
da je on tvorac sveg zla. Nizali su
price o krvavim dogadjajima, a
ispricali jednu potpuno politicku
pricu."
Na pitanje zasto nikoga od Miloseviceve
porodice nema u sali, Krsljanin je
odgovorio: "On je prinudjen da bude izlozen
ovom maltretiranju i ja ne vidim zasto
bi se, sedeci na sudjenju, i posmatrajuci
sve ovo, jos vise maltretirali clanovi
njegove porodice."
===*===
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of
equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee
to defend Slobodan Milosevic)
http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/
('morning news' the only Serbian newspaper advocating
liberation)
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo180202sh.txt
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo180202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/19-01.html
*** Slobodan Milosevic 15.02.2002 u Hagu
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo150202sh.txt
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo150202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/15-01.html
*** Slobodan Milosevic 14.02.2002 u Hagu
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo140202sh.txt
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo140202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/14-01.html
*** Slobodan Milosevic 13.02.2002 u Hagu
tekst:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1600
Windows Word file (.doc):
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/files/milo130202sh.doc
HTML:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/02/13-01.html
===*===
VLADIMIR KRSLJANIN (SPS) NA GALERIJI SUDNICE
Novinari koji su se okupili u zgradi
Tribunala primetili su da prvog
dana sudjenja na galeriji nije bio
niko od clanova porodice Slobodana
Milosevica. Jedina osoba kojoj je
optuzeni uputio osmeh bio je Vladimir
Krsljanin, iz SPS, kao predstavnik
Upravnog odbora Komiteta Sloboda
Koji je na galeriji sedeo bas
pored izvestaca Danasa.
On je za nas list izjavio: "Ne
moze se ocekivati da Tuzilastvo dokaze
neki zlocin jer je to nemoguce.
Ipak, u odnosu na raniji stav, vidi se
pomak u tome sto su odustali od
diskreditacije Milosevica kao tvorca
ideje o velikoj Srbiji i sve
su prebacili na teren ocuvanja licne
vlasti. Nevesto su pokusali da kazu
da je on tvorac sveg zla. Nizali su
price o krvavim dogadjajima, a
ispricali jednu potpuno politicku
pricu."
Na pitanje zasto nikoga od Miloseviceve
porodice nema u sali, Krsljanin je
odgovorio: "On je prinudjen da bude izlozen
ovom maltretiranju i ja ne vidim zasto
bi se, sedeci na sudjenju, i posmatrajuci
sve ovo, jos vise maltretirali clanovi
njegove porodice."
===*===
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of
equals)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee
to defend Slobodan Milosevic)
http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/
('morning news' the only Serbian newspaper advocating
liberation)
IL FMI SCATENATO CONTRO I POPOLI DEI BALCANI
Il Fondo Monetario Internazionale ha intensificato negli ultimi mesi le
sue pressioni sulla Croazia, per costringere il Parlamento ed il governo
a realizzare ulteriori "riforme strutturali" senza le quali il paese si
trovera' escluso dai "salotti buoni" internazionali - UE in primis. In
particolare, adesso gli usurai del FMI chiedono provvedimenti destinati
a causare il licenziamento di 10mila lavoratori, tagli alla spesa
pubblica ed il blocco della realizzazione di certe infrastrutture - per
le quali alla Croazia, come gia' agli altri paesi dell'area, viene
imposto che l'appalto e la successiva gestione siano affidati a ditte
straniere.
+++ IWF stellt neue Forderungen an Zagreb +++
ZAGREB, 16. Februar 2002. Der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF)
stellt neue Forderungen an Kroatien, nachdem dieses Staatsgebilde
vor kurzem der Forderung dieser Organisation zugestimmt hat,
einen "transparenten" Verteidigungshaushalt einzuführen. Der IWF
verlangt nun die Entlassung von 10.000 Beamten, Lohnkürzungen im
öffentlichen Dienst und den Baustopp für die Autobahn zwischen
der Hauptstadt Zagreb und dem Adriahafen Split. Wenn auch diesen
Forderungen nachgegangen wird, sind soziale Unruhe und der Sturz
der aktuellen Regierung garantiert, meldet die Zagreber
Nachrichtenagentur HINA.
TIKER / AMSELFELD.COM
Il Fondo Monetario Internazionale ha intensificato negli ultimi mesi le
sue pressioni sulla Croazia, per costringere il Parlamento ed il governo
a realizzare ulteriori "riforme strutturali" senza le quali il paese si
trovera' escluso dai "salotti buoni" internazionali - UE in primis. In
particolare, adesso gli usurai del FMI chiedono provvedimenti destinati
a causare il licenziamento di 10mila lavoratori, tagli alla spesa
pubblica ed il blocco della realizzazione di certe infrastrutture - per
le quali alla Croazia, come gia' agli altri paesi dell'area, viene
imposto che l'appalto e la successiva gestione siano affidati a ditte
straniere.
+++ IWF stellt neue Forderungen an Zagreb +++
ZAGREB, 16. Februar 2002. Der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF)
stellt neue Forderungen an Kroatien, nachdem dieses Staatsgebilde
vor kurzem der Forderung dieser Organisation zugestimmt hat,
einen "transparenten" Verteidigungshaushalt einzuführen. Der IWF
verlangt nun die Entlassung von 10.000 Beamten, Lohnkürzungen im
öffentlichen Dienst und den Baustopp für die Autobahn zwischen
der Hauptstadt Zagreb und dem Adriahafen Split. Wenn auch diesen
Forderungen nachgegangen wird, sind soziale Unruhe und der Sturz
der aktuellen Regierung garantiert, meldet die Zagreber
Nachrichtenagentur HINA.
TIKER / AMSELFELD.COM
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