(versione serbo-croata dell' intervista di Aldo Bernardini;
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Preuzeto iz spoljnopoliticke rubrike dnevnika "Corriere della sera"
broj od18. avgusta 2001
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Milosevic: "Veoma mi nedostaje moja Mira"

Profesor prava, Bernardini, u razgovoru
sa bivsim drzavnikom a sada pritvorenikom

"Slobodan Milosevic kaze da je cvrsto resen da ide do kraja i
da je njegova bitka protiv po njemu laznog i nezakonitog suda,
orudja Nato protiv naroda Srbije, zapravo tek na pocetku".
Samouveren i promisljen, opusten i nepokolebljiv, takav je utisak
Milosevic ostavio pre dva dana na Alda Bernardinija, jedinog Italijana
kome je Haski Tribunal dozvolio da razgovara sa bivsim srpskim
predsednikom, vec gotovo dva meseca u pritvoru u iscekivanju
sudjenja za zlocine protiv covecnosti. Profesor na katedri za
medjunarodno
pravo u Teramu i bivsi rektor Univerziteta u Kjetiju, Bernardini je u
svojstvu
pravnog savetnika dobio zeleno svetlo za ovaj susret. Milosevic je resio
da
se sam brani ali da pritom ima mogucnost da se posavetuje sa pravnim
ekspertima po sopstvenom nahodjenju. Krajem juna, u svojstvu savetnika,
prag Haskog suda presli su Ministar pravde SAD iz sezdesetih, Remzi
Klark
i kanadski sudija Kristofer Blek. Obojica su, kao uostalom i Bernardini,
clanovi Medjunarodnog Komiteta za odbranu S. Milosevica. Komitet je
nastao
na inicijativu intelektualaca, vecinom slovenskog porekla, cvrso resenih
da
se
bore protiv sudjenja, po njima, nepravednog. Predsednik komiteta je
clan bugarske skupstine Velkov Velkanov, ali je najistaknutija licnost
nesumnjivo Harold Pinter, cuveni engleski dramski pisac.

Razgovor Bernardini - Milosevic trajao je nekoliko sati bez pregradnog
stakla i mikrofona. Bio je prisutan samo prevodilac ali se i ona
povremeno
udaljavala posto su dvojica sagovornika razgovarala na engleskom.
"Ucinio sam samo ono sto mi je duznost nalagala,
a to je zastita srpskog sranovnistva", bile su reci koje je Milosevic
vise
puta
ponovio svom italijanskom gostu, odbacujuci nedvosmisleno optuzbe
kojima ga tereti sud Ujedinjenih Nacija. Prisecajuci se muckog Nato
bombardovanja Jugoslavije, bivsi predsednik je bivao vidno uzbudjen
vise puta, ali samo na tren, kaze Bernardini. A onda bi zatvorenik br.
39
povratio svoju uobicajenu prisebnost. Prisebnost politicara resenog da
se
pred celim svetom izbori za svoja ubedjenja.

Mada neustrasiv, Milosevic je Bernardiniju ipak priznao da cezne
za rodnom grudom, a narocito za suprugom Mirom Markovic. Tim
povodom Milosevic nije propustio da ukaze na ono sto dozivljava
kao nesumnjivu diskriminaciju uperenu protiv njega licno. Naime,
"Slobo" je objasnio da samo njemu nije omoguceno da bez poteskoca
vidja porodicu. To je zbog toga sto je Mira Markovic na crnoj listi.
Pozalio se i da je tokom jedinog vidjenja sa suprugom u julu mogao
da razgovara kroz staklo i preko mikrofona magnetofona.

BALKANSKI RAT- Milosevic nije samo kritikovao Haski Tribunal,
vec je u razgovoru sa profesorom iz Terama dugo analizirao razvoj
najnovijih dogadjaja vezanih za krizu na Balkanu.
"Rekao mi je - kaze Bernardini - da novo zariste rata u Makedoniji
nije nista drugo do posledica strategije Nato koja se sastoji u tome da
raspiruje nasilje svojom podrskom albanskom terorizmu".
Medjutim, nekada je srpski nacionalizam bio uzrok medjunacionalnih
sukoba u Jugoslaviji. Bivsi sef beogradske vlade u tom pogledu
porice svaku odgovornost. "Milosevic je veoma kriticki govorio o
nacionalistickom ekstremizmu - prica Bernardini. Ne zeli da ga
poistovecuju sa ideologijom velikosrpskog nazionalizma
Stavise, za sebe kaze da je bio borac za miroljubivu koegzistenciju
medju narodima i narodnostima Jugoslovenske federacije.
Govorio mi je o svom sukobu sa nacionalistima prilikom usvajanja
prvog clana novog Ustava 1990. po kome je Srbija
drzava svih gradjana koji u njoj zive a ne drzava Srba,
zasta su se zalagali ekstremisti. Priznao mi je da optuznicu
tribunala ni procitao nije"- kaze Bernardini.
Iz ovoga sledi da ce negdasnji covek cvrste ruke Beograda
na sledecem saslusanju 30. avgusta vrlo verovatno samo
ponovo osporiti pravovalljanost suda. Tako je bilo 3. jula
kada je protagonista balkanskog Nirmberskog procesa
nastupio prvi put i to samo na11 minuta pred Tribunalom
OUN. U tom pogledu stav bivseg Predsednika je kristalno jasan.
Proces je navodno samo montaza u Nato reziji, novo poglavlje agresije,
bas kao i bompardovanje 1999.
�Milosevic tvrdi da kada bi zaista imao pravo na odbranu, onda bi bili
pozvani da svedoce i sefovi zapadnih vlada zemalja ucesnica rata na
Kosovu, od Bila Klintona, preko Gerarda Sredera,
do Zaka Siraka i naseg Daleme", kaze Bernardini. "Medjutim, tako
nesto ocigledno nije moguce", zakljucuje optuzeni.

"Milosevic kaze da je pre par dana na tren video Karlu Del Ponte,
ali kako nije imao sta da joj saopsti, susret je ubrzo okoncan",
prica Bernardini. Prema navodima optuznice Milosevic treba da
odgovara za zlocine nad stanovnistvom pocinjene tokom rata na
Kosovu. Prema Karli Del Ponte, zlocin je vlada u Beogradu unapred
isplanirala da bi proterala albansko stanovnistvo iz juzne srpske
pokrajine.

�Razume se, i o tim optuzbama smo razgovarali,
medjutim, Milosevic kaze da je Armija imala precizna naredjenja
u smislu da civilno stanovnistvo treba da bude postedjeno
svakog vida nasilja. Ali, ako je u paklu koje je agresor izazvao
bombama, doslo do prekoracenja tih naredjenja,
ne moze se tvrditi da su ta prekoracenja bila programirana".

Elem, prema ovoj verziji dogadjaja, za kosovsku tragediju
krivicu snose navodno jedino Nato zemlje koje su tu tragediju
izazvale jezovitim bombardovanjem koje je pocelo marta 1999.
Dajemo ponovo rec Bernardiniju: "Milosevic mi je uzbudjeno
pricao o tim danima uzasa. Rekao mi je da je nekoliko puta
izgledalo kao da su pregovori na domaku primirja, ali da bi
Amerikanci svaki put sve upropastili. Rekao mi je da su
Umberto Bosi i Armando Kosuta dosli u Beograd de izraze
podrsku i kazu da je Italija bila prisiljena da ucestvuje u agresiji"

U toku dugotrajnog razgovora Milosevic je zeleo da obrazlozi
svoja politicka opredeljenja. Cinio je to sa zarom, katkad gnevno,
svaljujuci na Atlantski pakt, i narocito na " Ameriku i njenu
nezajazljivu volju da vlada svetom" svu odgovornost za rat.
Medjutim, razgovor nije ni u jednom trenutku poprimio obelezja
politickog istupanja. Covek koji je pre samo godinu dana
imao u saci citavu jednu drzavu, umeo je da zaboravi na
sopstvenu samoodbranu i govori i o pritvorenickom zivotu.
"Nastoji da bude obavesten, gleda TV i veoma mnogo cita.
Ja sam mu doneo dva eseja iz istorije na engleskom:
Hobsbona i Maka Smita (Hobsbawn i Mack Smith)" -
kaze Bernardini.

Proteklih sedmica je bilo reci o tome da se Milosevic
osamio, da odbija kontakt sa ostalim pritvorenicima,
medjutim, on licno nedvosmisleno pobija tu verziju koju
je predstavnik za stampu OUN pustio u promet.
"Milosevic mi se pozalio - veli Bernardini- da mu zatvorske
vlasti od dolaska u Hag nisu dozvoljavale nikakav kontakt. Tek od
pre nekoliko dana moze da se druzi i sa ostalim pritvorenicima,
osim sa trojicom i to, kako su mu naveli, iz proceduralnih razloga".
Bivsi srpski vodja kaze da je lepo primljen od svojih zatvorskih
drugova, ne izuzimajuci pri tom ni Hrvate i muslimane. Oslovili su
ga sa predsednice i ponudili mu cigarete. " Ponosno mi je poverio
da je dobio na destine pisma podrske iz citavog sveta" -kaze
Bernardini.
Medjutim, sva nadanja i ocekivanja pritvorenika Milosevica
usredsredjena su na predstojecu proslavu sezdesetog rodjendana.
Za tu priliku iz Beograda u Hag stize na nekoliko dana i supruga
Mira Markovic

Vittorio Malagutti

� Corriere della Sera

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MAKEDONSKA VISNJICA 1/3:

IL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA SI ATTRIBUISCE IL
MONOPOLIO DELLA INTERPRETAZIONE DEI SENTIMENTI DEI CITTADINI


MACEDONIA: CIAMPI, ITALIANI CONDIVIDONO MISSIONI PACE
(ANSA) - CAPRERA (SASSARI), 18 AGO - L' invio di un contigente militare,
la Brigata Sassari, in Macedonia per una missione di pace testimonia
dell' impegno dell' Italia in tale campo ed e' condiviso dai cittadini.
L' ha sottolineato il Presidente della Repubblica Carlo Azelio Ciampi,
rispondendo a una domanda dei giornalisti al termine della cerimonia nel
compendio garibaldino. ''E' un' altra occasione - ha spiegato il Capo
dello Stato - nella quale si confermano questi sentimenti degli italiani
su questi temi. Abbiamo gia' svolto questo tipo di missioni di pace in
varie parti del mondo, in particolare nel Kosovo e ora andiamo a farlo
in Macedonia. Sono iniziative condivise da tutti gli italiani''. (ANSA).
GC
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MAKEDONSKA VISNJICA 2/3:

I MACEDONI CHE SI OPPONGONO ALLA STRATEGIA TERRORISTA DELLA NATO SONO
"SLAVI NAZIONALISTI"; I TERRORISTI CHE VOGLIONO SFASCIARE LO STATO
MULTINAZIONALE E CREARE LA GRANDE ALBANIA SONO "GUERRIGLIERI"; I SOLDATI
DELLA NATO CHE ARMANO E SOSTENGONO I TERRORISTI SONO "PEACEKEEPERS"


MACEDONIA: NAZIONALISTI BLOCCANO STRADA, CONTRO NATO E UCK
(ANSA-AFP-REUTESR) - BLACE (MACEDONIA), 18 AGO - Alcune decine di
nazionalisti slavi macedoni hanno bloccato oggi una strada che da Skopje
porta al Kosovo, per protestare contro l'intervento della Nato in
Macedonia e chiedere il ritiro dei guerriglieri albanesi dell'Uck dai
villaggi che hanno occupato. Il blocco, formato da automobili messe di
traverso sulla strada in mezzo a sacchetti di terra e sabbia e da filo
spinato, e' stato eretto a qualche chilometro dal posto di frontiera di
Blace. Solo ambulanze e mezzi della polizia vengono lasciati passare. La
strada bloccata e' quella lungo cui passano i rifornimenti dalla
Macedonia alla Kfor, la forza della Nato in Kosovo. ''Abbiamo bloccato
la via di comunicazione degli aggressori della Nato che contrabbandano
droga e armi ai terroristi albanesi'', ha detto alla 'France Presse' uno
dei manifestanti, Gjeorgji Petrovski, un meccanico di 39 anni. Petrovski
ha detto che la manifestazione e' stata organizzata dal Congresso
nazionale dei macedoni, un'organizzazione fortemente nazionalista e da
un comitato formato da macedoni scacciati dalle loro case dei
guerriglieri albanesi. Altri manifestanti interrogati dall'agenzia
britannica 'Reuters' hanno detto di aver eretto il blocco per chiedere
il ritiro dei guerriglieri albanesi dai villaggi macedoni che hanno
occupato, il rilascio di tutti gli ostaggi macedoni che secondo loro
essi terrebbero prigionieri, e particolari agevolazioni per le famiglie
delle persone uccise durante i sei mesi di guerra civile .
(ANSA-AFP-REUTERS). LG 18/08/2001 16:28

Sunday August 19, 12:18 AM
Macedonian refugees block route to "NATO aggressors"
BLACE, Macedonia, Aug 18 (AFP) -
Macedonian anger at perceived pro-Albanian bias in the
West's response to fighting in their country boiled
over Saturday on the Kosovo border, where protesters
blocked a major NATO supply route.
More than 60 Macedonians, many of them refugees driven
from their homes by ethnic Albanian rebels, rolled
barbed wire across the main road from Skopje to the
Blace border crossing and stopped NATO and
international traffic.
"We have blocked the communication route of the NATO
aggressors who are smuggling drugs and weapons to the
Albanian terrorists," said Gjeorgji Petrovski, a
39-year-old mechanic from Skopje.
Small numbers of Macedonian police looked on as the
protesters filtered the traffic, turning back two
armour-plated British military staff cars from
Kosovo's NATO peacekeeping force and vehicles carrying
OSCE monitors.
The mood was angry, but not violent, although one
Macedonian who attempted to pass the barricades
driving a van marked with diplomatic plates had his
identity papers snatched and thrown into a ditch.
While most of the protesters were young or middle-aged
men, a busload of women and children from displaced
families joined them in the early afternoon.
The protesters arrived at around midnight Friday and
the road was still blocked at 4:00 pm Saturday, with
many protesters vowing to remain in place until the
NATO troops arriving at the weekend left the country.
The protest was organised by the World Macedonian
Congress, a nationalist organisation representing
mainly Macedonian emigres, and the coordination
committee for civilians driven from their homes by
fighting.
Congress president Todor Petrov, who arrived escorted
by three uniformed men carrying assault rifles, said:
"The protest is to make sure the Macedonian people's
voice is heard".
He said he had presented NATO with a list of demands
and that the road would remain blocked until the
alliance forced ethnic Albanian rebels to free the
Macedonians he said they had kidnapped and give up
captured land.
The road is the main supply route for NATO's
peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and previous occasions
when the Macedonian government has closed it have
caused serious disruption for the province's
international administration.
NATO's spokesman in Macedonia, US Major Barry Johnson,
said: "We use the crossing very heavily, but it has
been closed before and it will no doubt be closed
again. We use other routes when we have to."
But the blocking of the route is more important for
the signal it sends the NATO commanders who arrived in
Macedonia on Friday to take the temperature of the
conflict before advising on the deployment of a larger
force.
Many Macedonians oppose concessions made to ethnic
Albanians in a peace deal signed on Monday by party
leaders, and Western diplomats suspect hardline
politicians of manipulating protests to maintain
pressure on the West.
Every one of the protesters on the road Saturday,
sweltering in the blistering heat around their
makeshift barricades, were convinced that the West,
and the United States in particular, is supporting the
rebels.
The location of their protest also had a symbolic
importance.
Gesturing at a wide, dusty stretch of parched farmland
beyond the road, a middle-aged protester, shows where
in 1999 tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees
were housed in the Stenkovec refugee camp.
"When all those people came here during the Kosovo
crisis we helped them. Now look what they are doing to
us," he said.
The protesters were also furious with their own
government for signing off on the peace deal, many
accusing their leaders of being bought off by Albanian
and US money.
"All the moves made by the government are against the
Macedonian people and the state," Petrovski said.

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MAKEDONSKA VISNJICA 3/3:

DISPERATO SFORZO STATUNITENSE PER CONVINCERE I MACEDONI CHE
LA NATO E' INDISPENSABILE PER NON ESSERE DISTRUTTI DALLA NATO


MACEDONIA: USA FINANZIANO CAMPAGNA PUBBLICITARIA PRO-PACE
(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 17 AGO - Gli Stati Uniti si apprestano a finanziare
una massiccia campagna pubblicitaria in Macedonia, che durera' 45 giorni
ed avra' lo scopo di convicere il locale parlamento a ratificare gli
accordi di pace stretti dal governo di Skopje e i ribelli albanesi.
Secondo fonti informate a Washington, gli Usa potrebbero spendere fino a
250.000 dollari, circa 600 milioni di lire, una cifra notevole per una
campagna di informazione rivolta a un paese di circa due milioni di
abitanti. I soldi servirebbero a comprare spazi pubblicitari su radio,
tv e giornali, ma anche per una possibile campagna via posta senza
precedenti, con lettere inviate a tutto il popolo macedone. Coordinata
dall'ufficio del presidente macedone Boris Trajkovski, l'iniziativa
partirebbe a giorni. I suoi collaboratori lavoreranno con esperti di
comunicazione occidentali per creare messaggi che cambierebbero ogni
settimana. Il messaggio verrebbe poi tradotto nelle lingue locali da
agenzie pubblicitarie locali, che lo renderanno fruibile alle comunita'
slava, macedone e albanese. Gli Usa puntano molto su questa iniziativa,
si apprende, certi che se l'accordo non verra' applicato, il paese
potrebbe sprofondare in una guerra con conseguenze imprevedibili per
tutta la regione. (ANSA). NS 17/08/2001 18:00

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------- Forwarded message follows -------
Date forwarded: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:10:07 +0200
Date sent: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:20:28 +0200
From: "francesco iannuzzelli"
Organization: peacelink
To: pck-armamenti@...
Subject: Perizia sull'uranio impoverito


Nell'ambito della denuncia presentata dal Tribunale Clark contro i
crimini di
guerra perpetrati dalla Nato ai danni della Jugoslavia,
e' stata presentata una perizia di parte di carattere scientifico per
illustrare i pericoli dell'uso bellico dell'uranio impoverito.

Potete trovare la perizia online a questo indirizzo

http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/disarmo/u238/documenti

oppure anche a questo

http://www.peacelink.org/tematiche/disarmo/u238/documenti

(e' il nuovo mirror di peacelink, ancora in fase di allestimento, ma
la
parte sull'uranio impoverito c'e' gia' tutta)

Allego un commento e sintesi della perizia stessa a cura del prof.
Mauro Cristaldi


ciao
francesco


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COMMENTO E SINTESI DELLA PERIZIA DI PARTE DEL
GRUPPO DI LAVORO AD HOC PER LO STUDIO DEL DU
(URANIO IMPOVERITO), ESEGUITA SU RICHIESTA DEL
TRIBUNALE ITALIANO CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN
JUGOSLAVIA AL COMITATO "SCIENZIATE E SCIENZIATI
CONTRO LA GUERRA"

Mauro Cristaldi - Dip. Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Univ. "La
Sapienza" - Via A. Borelli 50, 00161 ROMA
Mauro.Cristaldi@...

La guerra contro la Jugoslavia, a tutt'oggi ancora in corso, non
rappresenta che l'ultimo atto dello scenario geo-politico in cui il
nostro paese si presenta ancora una volta alla storia recente come
parte integrante degli interessi statunitensi nel mondo. Chi ha avuto
un ruolo nel rendere concreta questa politica bellicista dovrà
risponderne in giudizio; è per questo principio che il Tribunale
Italiano contro i crimini della NATO in Jugoslavia (denominato
Tribunale Ramsey Clark) si è impegnato a denunciare presso la
Procura della Repubblica di Roma i gravi abusi anticostituzionali
del governo D'Alema, che rappresentò per primo questa palese
tendenza alla subordinazione atlantica, la quale portò l'Italia a
contribuire all'attacco incondizionato ed illegale di un paese
limitrofo mediante l'impatto distruttivo delle più moderne tecnologie.
Oggi l'asse Bush-Berlusconi-Fini rappresenta l'emblema risolutivo
di questa stessa tendenza, che deve essere obbligatoriamente
resa reversibile nell'interesse della tutela della biosfera nella sua
complessità per opera di un larghissimo fronte di opposizione, più
incisivo e diffuso di quello che fronteggiò, a suo tempo, il nazismo.

Il lavoro scientifico prodotto dal gruppo di lavoro, che vede come
autori 8 partecipanti alla lista del Comitato "Scienziate e scienziati
contro la guerra" ed un valente ematologo in pensione, mentre
mette in evidenza le carenze esplicite e nascoste dei documenti
ufficiali finora pubblicati sul DU, rappresenta lo spunto per
procedere nel compito che ci siamo dati di riqualificazione
scientifica delle istanze di tutto il movimento di opposizione;
questo impegno dovrà continuare ancora nell'ambito della
commissione scientifica del Tribunale Clark, che ci ha sostenuti.

Il presente breve documento conclusivo riassume i principali punti
fermi e le novità che la perizia di parte nel suo complesso mette in
luce, proprio nello spirito del Comitato "Scienziate/i contro la
guerra", che ha sempre sostenuto le finalità di una ricerca che
presupponga la critica del modo attuale di produrre scienza, per
fare in modo che chiunque possa dotarsi di strumenti di intervento
qualificato, sia sugli aspetti più generali, sia su quelli più
specifici
cui, ad es., la perizia di parte è legata. In bibliografia sono
riportati i
contributi del Comitato al problema del rischio da DU nelle aree
contaminate (Marenco, 1999; Zucchetti, 2000; Del Bello, 2001).

Il gruppo di lavoro è composto da due medici (Pasquale Angeloni,
Silvana Salerno), da una biologa citogenetista (Francesca
Degrassi), da un informatico (Francesco Iannuzzelli), da un
ingegnere nucleare (Massimo Zucchetti), da tre fisici (Andrea
Martocchia, Luca Nencini, Carlo Pona) e dal sottoscritto come
naturalista.

La competenza medica, per quanto riguarda le conseguenze
dell'esposizione all'Uranio impoverito (DU = Depleted Uranium), è
fondamentale: in tal modo un medico legale esperto di ematologia
e di radioecologia ed una ricercatrice esperta in medicina del lavoro
hanno saputo offrire un quadro di competenze capaci di coprire un
largo settore applicativo riguardante le patologie, l'eziologia e la
diagnosi delle cosiddette "sindrome del Golfo" e "sindrome dei
Balcani" che tanti aspetti hanno in comune, in quanto in ambedue
le sindromi sono implicate le conseguenze dell'uso bellico dei
dispositivi al DU (Durakovic, 1999).

Le competenze di mutagenesi si sono rivelate indispensabili per la
comprensione dei fenomeni che precocemente si manifestano nel
materiale nucleare delle cellule a seguito dell'esposizione a DU,
aspetti sovente sottaciuti e sottovalutati per la conseguente
valutazione del rischio, accanto a quelli di carattere biochimico e
biomolecolare, in quanto volutamente subordinati nella pratica
radioprotezionistica agli aspetti fisici e chimici della
contaminazione.

I tre fisici ricercatori, dal canto loro, hanno collaborato su diverse
problematiche avvalendosi sempre di un solido bagaglio di fisica
teorica: dalla fisica delle radiazioni, alle stime di dose, alla
lettura
critica di documenti spesso corposi quanto sovente incompleti.
Uno di loro aveva contribuito tra i primi alla denuncia dell'uso del
DU come arma di guerra (Pacilio & Pona in Marenco, 1999; Pona
in Zucchetti, 2000) e partecipa tuttora ad iniziative di solidarietà
nell'ambito di una OGN che opera in Iraq e in Jugoslavia.

Il prof. Zucchetti del Politecnico di Torino rappresenta una vera e
propria autorità nel campo della modellistica e della sicurezza degli
impianti nucleari ed aveva, di conseguenza, offerto la propria
consulenza gratuita, più volte indebitamente respinta, nell'ambito
della commissione Mandelli istituita dal Min. della Difesa del
governo Amato per lo studio dell'incidenza di neoplasie maligne tra
i militari italiani inviati in missione nei Balcani. La relazione
tratta
dalla tesi di laurea del suo allievo ing. Boschetti completa e
chiarifica il contributo della perizia con un'ampia serie di allegati.

Il sottoscritto ha coordinato il lavoro degli altri coautori e
soprattutto
ha interagito con l'informatico di Peacelink, il quale ha fornito, con
spiccato senso critico, una serie di relazioni e articoli di difficile
reperimento: cito per tutti l'importante documento DPRSN (2001)
della Missione Scientifica Portoghese in Kosovo e Bosnia-
Erzegovina, di notevole interesse metodologico ma sfuggito
all'attenzione degli organi di stampa. La decennale esperienza
interdisciplinare nel monitoraggio dei Mammiferi selvatici come
bioindicatori di contaminazione territoriale ha permesso al
sottoscritto di interagire con tutte le altre competenze per
preparare una relazione che servisse come spunto critico
all'approfondimento del problema del DU, indicando anche le
possibili direzioni su cui indirizzare le ricerche, in quanto tutto
l'argomento del rischio da Uranio è stato volutamente tenuto a
margine nella letteratura radiodosimetrica e radioecologica.

Con questo appunto, mentre rinnovo i ringraziamenti a tutti coloro
che, citati e non, hanno fornito spunti alla compilazione della
perizia di parte, fornendo documentazioni e spunti critici, procedo
alla presentazione degli argomenti salienti affrontati in essa:

1) L'uso bellico dell'Uranio impoverito (DU = Depleted Uranium)
rientra in un meccanismo di mercato che combina gli interessi
dell'industria nucleare e di quella bellica, utilizzando illegalmente
(cfr. risoluzione della Sottocommissione ONU per la Prevenzione
delle Discriminazioni e per la Protezione delle Minoranze, 48°
sessione del 30.8.1996) il vantaggio del basso costo di una scoria
radioattiva ad elevata pericolosità, che andrebbe invece sottoposta
a custodia protettiva passiva (Cristaldi et al., 2001).

2) La capacità del proiettile al DU di fondere metalli sviluppando
temperature molto elevate porta alla formazione di una nube di
polvere di ossidi insolubili di Uranio, che si deposita sul terreno
aggiungendosi alla polvere di campi, sterrati e strade, già
contenente Uranio naturale in quantità caratteristica per ogni tipo di
suolo. La polvere risollevandosi diviene facilmente inalabile, anche
nei tempi lunghi, da parte di potenziali gruppi a rischio (bambini,
contadini, militari, volontari, addetti alla manutenzione stradale,
pastori, ecc.). I frammenti residui dei proiettili al DU sono soggetti
a solubilizzazione e complessazione per effetto degli agenti
meteorici e delle sostanze chimiche del suolo, rimanendo essi
nello strato superficiale del terreno e/o raggiungendo per
percolazione le falde acquifere. Di conseguenza il DU viene diffuso
nella rete trofica, costituendo altresì un fattore aggiuntivo di
rischio
alimentare (Ribera et al., 1996).

3) L'uso finalizzato al ricatto sulla salute di intere popolazioni
esposte intenzionalmente al rischio da DU a partire da situazioni di
guerra (Iraq, ex-Jugoslavia, Somalia, Palestina) e/o da poligoni
sperimentali (solo negli USA Zajic, 1999, ne enumera 15) si
combina con il rischio sulla salute volutamente indotto con
modalità diverse.

4) L'attacco più massiccio della storia con dispositivi al DU è stato
comminato all'Iraq ed al Kuwait durante la guerra del Golfo (1991)
da parte delle forze aeree anglo-americane, determinando
conseguenze epidemiologiche gravosissime ed ancora
ampiamente da documentare (Intern. Action Center, 1997; Al-
Jibouri, 2000). L'aggravante dell'imposizione di un lungo embargo
internazionale contro l'Iraq, tuttora in corso, ha potenziato, per
conseguenti carenze di alimentazione, profilassi e di cura, le
patologie dirette ed accessorie (leucemie, linfomi, tumori solidi,
malattie infettive e da immunodepressione) attribuibili al DU, come
principale contaminante nella guerra del Golfo.

5) Vengono ricostruite le cause militari e politiche dell'uso
preponderante del DU contro la regione del Kosovo durante la
guerra NATO contro la Jugoslavia, aggressione accompagnata da
altre distruzioni con agenti contaminanti provenienti dal
bombardamento di industrie chimiche, che hanno soprattutto
interessato la Serbia e la Vojvodina. Complessivamente il rischio
conseguente di patologie combinate è mirato al confondimento
delle cause primarie di contaminazione, anche per la vasta area
coinvolta dalle conseguenze del fall-out chimico (Serbia, Romania,
Moldavia, Ungheria, Bosnia-Erzegovina, Macedonia, Croazia,
Grecia, Bulgaria), sottaciuta, per cause economiche e politiche
contingenti, dalle stesse nazioni coinvolte nella contaminazione
territoriale (Cristaldi et al., 1999).

6) A seguito degli accordi IAEA-WTO del 1959 riguardanti la
disincentivazione delle ricerche riguardanti il rapporto tra salute
pubblica e radiazioni, le pubblicazioni concernenti gli effetti del DU
sono state premeditatamente sfavorite (Parsons, 2001), in modo
che la pericolosità dell'Uranio - sia come emittente radioattivo,
essenzialmente di tipo alfa, sia come metallo pesante, quindi con
rischi combinati di tipo chimico e/o radioattivo per gli organismi
viventi - venisse sottostimata; tale situazione ha determinato
ulteriori carenze conoscitive parzialmente colmate dopo
l'emergenza della "sindrome del Golfo" sui reduci anglosassoni
(incertezza nell'eziologia e nei tempi di latenza dei fatti tumorali,
teratologici e neurologici, rischi rilevati su esperienze dirette e
non
su basi sperimentali, composizione del metallo e diversa tossicità
chimica e radioattiva). Scelte politiche recentemente effettuate in
Italia hanno concorso alla stigmatizzazione delle carenze
conoscitive sui bioindicatori di contaminazione territoriale (affidate
dalla comm. Calzolaio del Min. dell'Ambiente alla genetista
prof.ssa C. Tanzarella dell'Università di RomaTre, ma mai rese
attuabili concretamente da parte ANPA) e sul rischio
radiodosimetrico per i militari italiani in missione in Bosnia e
Kosovo (non accettazione del prof. M. Zucchetti come componente
della comm. Mandelli), portando a relazioni parziali ed omissive
(UNEP, 2001; Mandelli, 2001) non esaurienti rispettivamente né per
il danno biologico riscontrato in bioaccumulatori (e.g.: muschi e
licheni), né per la correlazione causa-effetto tra dose e probabilità
di rischio in soggetti umani.

7) La pericolosità radioattiva del metallo si espleta sia come DU da
arricchimento (DU "pulito"), sia come DU da riprocessamento (DU
"sporco"): in ambedue i casi, sia la presenza di nuclidi figli
provenienti dal decadimento radioattivo (Th-234, Pa-234m), sia la
presenza di ulteriori nuclidi estranei al DU pulito nel
riprocessamento (U-236, Pu-239/240, Np-237), comportano un
aumento del rischio radioattivo per la salute e per l'ambiente
(Zucchetti, 2001).

8) Vengono indicati i principali organi bersaglio dell'Uranio finora
individuati in letteratura (cfr.: Ribera et al., 1996; Durakovic,
1999;
Zajic, 1999; WHO.INT, 2001): polmoni, linfonodi, ossa e midollo
rosso, reni, fegato, sistemi nervoso e riproduttivo con conseguenze
combinate di origine chimica e/o radioattiva di tipo mutagenetico,
cancerogenetico, teratogenetico, neuropatie e miopatie con
compromissione generalizzata delle difese immunitarie.

9) Vengono evidenziate le necessarie indagini di tipo autoptico,
citotossicologico, biochimico, radiodosimetrico, epidemiologico ed
ecotossicologico, sottolineando le carenze di indagini (ad esempio
per il sistema genito-urinario femminile); ne viene criticata la
parziale applicazione su soggetti esposti al DU in alcuni rapporti
eseguiti su militari, commissionate da organi governativi (US Army
Environ. Policy. Inst., 1995; The Royal Soc. for Radiol. Prot., 1998-
2001; McDiarmid et al., 2000; UNEP, 2001; WTO.INT, 2001; The
Royal Soc., 2001; DPRSN, 2001), nei quali si osserva una diffusa
tendenza a far apparire come minimale il rischio effettivo
(minimalizzazione del rischio come risposta di "trinceramento"
sec. Collingridge, 1985): protocolli di indagine carenti per una o più
analisi importanti, carenze di anamnesi su soggetti a rischio e su
soggetti colpiti, discontinuità di alcuni risultati parzialmente
negativi
per esclusione dal computo di dati considerati troppo elevati
(outliers). L'attuazione di una prevenzione basata sul monitoraggio
del rischio (INTERSOS, 2001) non viene generalmente attuata, in
attesa continua di prove che non vengono attivamente cercate e la
cui risposta viene continuamente demandata ad un generico
principio di precauzione, che, se applicato senza prove, ha il limite
di una scelta politica ma non tecnica.

10) Si esegue una critica accurata del lavoro effettuato dalla
commissione Mandelli (2001) del Min. della Difesa, recentemente
riconfermata nel suo incarico, mettendo in evidenza il ruolo
preliminare di quell'indagine, ma rilevando carenze nel conteggio
dei malati, nella individuazione e nella valutazione critica degli
esposti e delle modalità di esposizione, partendo dalla durata delle
missioni e dalle mansioni svolte, dalla estrema imprecisione dei
luoghi di missione, dal mescolamento delle coorti esposte in
periodi diversi in Bosnia (1995-2001) e in Kosovo (1999-2001),
facendo comunque rilevare che un'indagine di questo tipo, solo
perché commissionata per i Balcani, non può prescindere dal
considerare tutti i casi comparativi degni di validità per modello e
quantità di esposizione, quale la contaminazione cronica
determinata in Iraq ed in altre località colpite con dispositivi al
DU.
Seguendo questo approccio, il riscontrato "eccesso,
statisticamente significativo, di Linfoma di Hodgkin", riconosciuto
nella seconda versione della relazione Mandelli (2001), è stato
accompagnato nella nostra perizia da una nota sull'eziologia dei
linfomi maligni, che permette di inserire il linfoma di Hodgkin tra le
malattie degenerative causate da esposizione a DU a seguito di
studi su esposti all'Uranio in ambiente di lavoro (Archer et al.,
1973; Checkoway et al., 1985; Gilbert et al., 1993a, 1993b;
McGheorgegan & Binks, 2000). La discrepanza temporale di circa
5 mesi tra la fine della guerra in Kosovo (luglio 1999) e
l'indicazione
di sistemi di prevenzione e profilassi almeno tra i soldati (novembre
1999), porta, inoltre, a pensare ad una programmata omissione di
informazioni, rese disponibili soltanto in maniera alterata ed a prove
belliche occultate, a seguito dell'esposizione a DU delle
maestranze (militari, civili, volontari) adibite alla rapida rimozione
dei residuati come prova delle avvenute azioni belliche.


Si auspica che la perizia di parte del gruppo di lavoro ad hoc sul
DU allegata all'esposto-denuncia alla Procura della commissione
giuridica del Tribunale Clark, possa essere utile alla Magistratura
come linea guida per l'approfondimento e la verifica di molti aspetti
tecnici attualmente ancora poco chiari legati all'uso del DU, ma
serva soprattutto come occasione per creare commissioni di
indagine che abbiano il requisito di comprendere in maniera
complessiva e non settoriale un argomento prettamente
interdisciplinare come quello del DU e che, inoltre, siano capaci di
cooperare per il raggiungimento di una oggettività scientifica che
non rappresenti più il compromesso tra esigenze di mercato ed
esigenze politiche di chi commissiona l'indagine: è per questo che
l'inchiesta giudiziaria resta ancora la formula più congruente alle
necessità di garanzia dell'oggettività scientifica.

Roma, 31.7.2001


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NUOVE STRATEGIE GIORNALISTICO-MILITARI:
INSTILLARE PAURA E DIFFIDENZA CONTRO LA CINA ED I CINESI


http://www.repubblica.it/quotidiano/repubblica/20010817/commenti/01sofri.html

Il pacifismo e gli orrori del mondo
di ADRIANO SOFRI

C'�, nella solenne intervista di Jiang Zemin al New York Times, un
concetto centrale, cui la versione di Repubblica ha dato il titolo: "La
democrazia in Cina? Sarebbe solo un pericolo". "E' impossibile che qui
la democrazia sia la stessa che viene praticata nel mondo occidentale".
"Se la Cina adottasse la democrazia parlamentare del mondo occidentale,
l'unico risultato sarebbe che gli 1,26 miliardi di cinesi non avrebbero
abbastanza da mangiare".
Sono stato subito impressionato dall'aria persuasiva di queste frasi.
Non pensiamo tutti alla Cina come a una tale enormit� da escludere che
valga col� quel che vale altrove? Quando vogliamo alludere alla fine del
mondo, non diciamo forse: "Se le famiglie cinesi avessero un'automobile,
come noi? Una proporzione paragonabile alla nostra di frigoriferi
sarebbe un lusso insostenibile per la Cina e per la Terra: dunque anche
una proporzione paragonabile di democrazia sarebbe un lusso
insostenibile...". (...)


"La condizione della Mongolia interna (cinese) � simile alla situazione
del Tibet".
(ascoltato su Radiofragola Trieste / Radiopopolare, agosto 2001)


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Von: Michel Chossudovsky [mailto:chossudovsky@...]
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. August 2001 06:10
An: Recipient list suppressed
Betreff: Military Occupation of Macedonia


The evidence amply confirms that the US and Britain --in complicity with
their NATO partners-- have been arming and equipping the terrorists,
while
paying lip service to constitutional reform in Macedonia.

The "framework document", to be ratified by the leaders of Macedonia's
political parties has nothing to do with "peace". It is an act of
surrender
by a sovereign country to the enemy, paving the way for the military
occupation of Macedonia by NATO troops.



THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF MACEDONIA

by

Michel Chossudovsky


Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa


The Western press points to the "mediation" of the US and the EU in what
is
largely portrayed as an "internal conflict". Public opinion is led to
believe that the Macedonian crisis pertains solely to the social,
political
and language rights of the ethnic Albanian minority and that the
"international community" is committed to ending the violence "between
government forces and ethnic Albanian insurgents" while assisting
opposing
sides to reach a solution.

The truth is that US military personnel is advising and equipping the
terrorists. The KLA-NLA is America's proxy military force. KLA-NLA
commanders --who until recently were on the United Nations payroll in
Kosovo-- were trained by British and American Special Forces.

The media describes the terrorists as "Albanian rebels" upholding the
rights
of an ethnic minority in Macedonia. Amply documented, the KLA-NLA is a
well
organised mercenary army, which includes recruits from NATO countries as
well as Mujahedin ("holy warriors") from a number of Muslim countries.

The Western media mantra portrays America's envoy Ambassador James
Pardew as
a "foreign facilitator", when in fact his military-intelligence mandate
consists in ensuring (through threat, intimidation and political
manipulation) the signing of a "framework document". The purpose of the
latter is to provide legitimacy to the military occupation of Macedonia
by
NATO troops. To reach this objective, the leaders of Macedonia's
political
parties have been deceived and co-opted, and (according to one source)
directly bribed by powerful American business interests.1

SURRENDER TO THE ENEMY

The Ohrid "framework document" to be ratified by the leaders of
Macedonia's
political parties has nothing to do with "peace". It is an act of
surrender
by a sovereign country to the enemy.

While the US and EU "mediators" promised that the "peace agreement"
would
lay the basis for "disarming the rebels" and enforcing a cease-fire, the
evidence amply confirms that exactly the opposite will occur.

NATO has no intention to confiscate the weapons of its own proxy army.
Washington has been directly arming and equipping the terrorists with
brand
new weapons "Made in America".

Following the acceptance of the "framework document" by the Macedonian
parties, a NATO spokesperson clarified that:

"it [NATO] would not actually disarm ethnic Albanian rebels and would
have
to rely on their cooperation to lay down their weapons. A NATO official
said
the surrender of arms by National Liberation Army (NLA) guerrillas was a
matter of trust, and reports that NATO had given new disarmament
guarantees
to the former Yugoslav republic's authorities were wrong."2

OPERATION "ESSENTIAL HARVEST"

Code-named "Essential Harvest", NATO's intervention under British
command
serves three related purposes:

1) NATO Special Forces will be deployed to directly protect the
terrorists,
including their territorial gains.

2) The intent is to not "disarm the rebels" but to weaken and disable
the
Macedonian Security Forces as evidenced by the pressure exerted by
Washington on the Ukraine to discontinue its military aid to the
Macedonian
ARM.

3) The agreement is intent on instilling an atmosphere of ethnic hatred
between the Albanian minority and the Macedonian majority, which would
justify military as well as political intervention "on humanitarian
grounds".

3) The "Framework Agreement" lays the basis for the installation of a
NATO
protectorate (similar to that prevailing in Kosovo and Bosnia) leading
to
the destruction of Macedonia as a country.

4) By signing this agreement, the Skopje government relinquishes all its
powers and jurisdictions, paving the way for the military occupation of
Macedonia by NATO forces in violation of international law.

MILITARISATION OF THE BALKANS

The transformation of Macedonia into a protectorate of the Western
military
alliance is a further step in the militarisation of the Balkans. In many
respects, it is reminiscent of the occupation of the Sudetenland
province of
Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany under the Munich Agreement signed between
Adolph Hitler and Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. The
annexation of the Sudetenland to the Third Reich was a stepping stone to
the subsequent invasion of Poland in 1939.

OPPOSING THE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT

It is important that Macedonian citizens of all ethnic groups join hands
in
forcefully opposing the invasion of their country by NATO troops. The
ratification of the framework document by the leaders of Macedonia's
political parties should be firmly opposed. NATO is the enemy. It should
be
understood, however, that even if the "framework document" is not
ratified,
NATO has already taken the decision to invade Macedonia.

Both Macedonians and ethnic Albanians are the victims of the NATO
sponsored
terrorist assaults and should act as much as possible in solidarity with
one
another. The important issue of minority rights in Macedonia is an
internal
matter to be worked out within the framework of existing national
political
and social institutions, without outside interference.

NATO is using the issue of social and language rights to trigger
divisions
between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians. In this insidious design, NATO
is
using the pretext of minority social rights to send in troops and occupy
the
country.

In NATO countries and around the World, citizens --acting individually
and
collectively within their respective communities-- should understand the
seriousness of the situation in Macedonia. The so-called National
Liberation
Army (NLA) is a proxy army of the United States of America. The
terrorists
are financed and supported by Washington. The war in Macedonia is a war
of
conquest.

The complicity of the heads of State and heads of government of NATO
countries must be confronted. NATO is upholding international terrorism.
It
plans to send troops into a sovereign country in vioaltion of its own
charter, in defiance of international law and without legislative assent
or
parliamentary debate in NATO member countries. The geopolitical
implications are far-reaching. The signing of the Ohrid "framework
document"
will provide legitimacy to the occupation of Macedonia by NATO troops
and
the militarisation of the entire Balkans region.





ENDNOTES

1. See Mirko Velinovska, "Dzaferi is paid for the Destruction of
Macedonia,"
Start, Skopje, 4 February.2000. See also BBC Monitoring Service,
"Macedonian-Albanian daily denies Weekly's Claims about Ethnic Albanian
Leader", A1 TV, Skopje, in Macedonian 1500 GMT 15 February 2000).

2. Reuters, 8 August 2001.

* * *

The following texts by the author provide documentary evidence that the
US
government is supporting the terrorist assaults:

"Washington Behind the Terrorist Assaults in Macedonia", Ottawa, July
2001,
at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/washbe.htm, also at
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss6.html.

"Washington Behind the Terrorist Assaults in Macedonia", Ottawa, July
2001,
at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/washbe.htm, also at
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss6.html.

"America at War in Macedonia", June 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/pipe.htm also at
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss5.html.

"Macedonia: Washington's Military Intelligence Ploy", June 2001,
http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2001/Chossudov_WashingtPloy.html.

"Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the Balkans", Ottawa, April 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm.



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Contiene:

1. Intervista ad Aldo Bernardini sulla prigionia di
Milosevic
"Corriere dela Sera", 18.08.2001

2. Aleksandar Ivanov: KARLA DEL PONTE GUBI OD MILOSEVICA
"Nezavisimaja gazeta", 10.08.2001

3. GREGORY ELICH:
Yugoslavia's Real War Criminals Are Not On Trial
PRAVDA (RUSSIA), Wednesday, August 1, 2001


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> http://www.corriere.it/edicola/index.jsp?path=ESTERI&doc=MILO

dal "Corriere della Sera", 18 agosto 2001

ESTERI

Milosevic: �Mi manca tanto mia moglie Mira�

L'ex leader, visitato in carcere dal giurista italiano
Bernardini, parla della sua difesa e delle sue nostalgie

�Slobodan Milosevic mi ha detto che vuole andare fino in
fondo, che la sua battaglia contro quello che definisce un
tribunale falso e illegale, un'arma della Nato contro il
popolo serbo, � soltanto all'inizio�. E' un Milosevic
lucido e determinato, dall'aria distesa e insieme
energica, quello che due giorni fa si � presentato a
Aldo Bernardini, l'unico italiano a cui la corte penale
dell'Onu per i crimini commessi nella ex Jugoslavia ha
concesso di incontrare l'ex presidente serbo, da quasi
due mesi detenuto nella prigione olandese di Scheveningen,
in attesa di processo per crimini contro l'umanit�.
Bernardini, professore di diritto internazionale a Teramo
ed ex rettore dell'universit� di Chieti, ha ottenuto
il via libera alla visita in qualit� di consulente
giuridico. Milosevic infatti ha deciso di non nominare
un proprio collegio difensivo, ma ha accettato di ricevere
alcune consulenze legali. Alla fine di luglio, con lo
status di consiglieri, avevano gi� varcato la soglia del
carcere anche l'ex ministro della Giustizia americano
(negli anni Sessanta) Ramsey Clark e il legale canadese
Cristopher Black. Entrambi, come Bernardini, fanno parte
del Comitato internazionale in difesa di Milosevic, nato
per iniziativa di decine di intellettuali, soprattutto
del mondo slavo, decisi a battersi contro un processo
a loro parere ingiusto. Il presidente del comitato � il
parlamentare bulgaro Velkov Valkanov, ma l'esponente
di gran lunga pi� noto � il commediografo inglese Harold
Pinter.
L'incontro tra Bernardini e Milosevic, un faccia a faccia
in una saletta del penitenziario, senza vetri divisori
o microfoni, � durato un paio di ore alla sola presenza
di un'interprete, che, per�, si � limitata ad ascoltare,
assentandosi di tanto in tanto, visto che i due ospiti
parlavano entrambi l'inglese. �Ho solo fatto il mio
dovere per difendere il popolo serbo�, ha ripetuto pi�
volte Milosevic nel suo colloquio con il visitatore
italiano, respingendo con forza tutte le accuse che gli
vengono rivolte dal Tribunale dell'Onu. �Pi� volte -
ricorda Bernardini - l'ex presidente si � visibilmente
commosso ricordando i giorni terribili dei bombardamenti
Nato sulla Jugoslavia�.
Questione di un attimo, per�. E poi il prigioniero
numero 39 del carcere di Scheveningen ha subito ripreso
il suo contegno abituale. Quello di un uomo politico
deciso far valere le sue ragioni di fronte al mondo.

DIETRO LA GRATA - Un duro, insomma, che per� ha confessato
a Bernardini di sentire molto la nostalgia del suo
Paese e, soprattutto, di sua moglie Mira Markovic. A
questo proposito Milosevic non ha perso l'occasione di
denunciare quella che considera una vera e propria
discriminazione nei suoi confronti. Infatti, ha spiegato
�Slobo�, a tutti gli altri detenuti viene concesso di
vedere i familiari con estrema facilit�. A lui invece
sono stati posti grandi ostacoli. Tutto nasce dal fatto
che Mira Markovic fa parte della lista nera dei serbi
indesiderati nei Paesi occidentali. E in pi�, si �
lamentato Milosevic con il suo interlocutore italiano,
l'unico incontro con la moglie, lo scorso luglio, �
avvenuto attraverso una grata e con un microfono a
registrare le loro conversazioni.

LE GUERRE BALCANICHE - Parlando due giorni fa con il
professore di Teramo, Milosevic non si � limitato a
ribadire i suoi attacchi alla Corte dell'Aja, ma ha
commentato a lungo anche gli ultimi sviluppi della crisi
nei Balcani. �Mi ha detto - racconta Bernardini - che
il nuovo focolaio di guerra in Macedonia non � altro
che il risultato della strategia della Nato, che
sostenendo la guerriglia albanese ha fomentato nuove
violenze�. Prima ancora, per�, era stato il nazionalismo
dei serbi ad esasperare le tensioni tra le varie etnie
della Jugoslavia. Ma su questo punto l'ex capo del
governo di Belgrado ha negato ogni responsabilit�.
Racconta Bernardini: �Milosevic ha usato parole molto
dure contro l'estremismo nazionalista. Non vuole essere
identificato come l'ideologo della Grande Serbia. Anzi,
si � descritto come un fautore della convivenza tra
le varie etnie all'interno della federazione jugoslava.
Ha voluto ricordarmi la sua battaglia contro i
nazionalisti per far approvare l'articolo uno della
nuova costituzione del 1990, dove si spiegava che la
Serbia � il Paese di tutti coloro che vi abitano e non
il Paese dei serbi, come invece pretendevano gli
estremisti�. Detto questo, Milosevic ancora una volta
ha voluto chiarire che non intende in nessun modo
riconoscere il Tribunale dell'Aja. �Mi ha rivelato
di non aver neppure letto l'atto d'accusa nei suoi
confronti�, spiega Bernardini. Di conseguenza � molto
probabile che l'ex uomo forte di Belgrado si presenter�
alla prossima udienza preliminare del 30 agosto, ma
semplicemente per ripetere che la corte non ha nessuna
legittimit� giuridica. Proprio come � gi� successo lo
scorso 3 luglio, quando, per soli 11 minuti, il
protagonista della Norimberga dei Balcani venne
condotto per la prima volta davanti al Tribunale
dell'Onu. Su questo punto la posizione dell'ex
presidente serbo � molto chiara. Il processo non
sarebbe altro che una messa in scena orchestrata
dalla Nato, un nuovo capitolo dell'aggressione contro
i serbi, proprio come i bombardamenti del 1999.
�Milosevic mi ha detto - racconta Bernardini - che,
se davvero fosse libero di difendersi, allora
dovrebbe chiamare a testimoniare anche i capi dei
governi occidentali che hanno partecipato alla guerra
in Kosovo, da Bill Clinton al cancelliere tedesco
Gerhard Schr�der, al presidente francese Jacques
Chirac, al nostro Massimo D'Alema�. �Ma questo
ovviamente non sar� possibile�, ha concluso l'imputato.

UN BREVISSIMO INCONTRO - Nessun rapporto anche con il
procuratore dell'Aja, il magistrato svizzero Carla Del
Ponte. �Milosevic mi ha raccontato che nei giorni
scorsi ha visto per pochi minuti la signora Del Ponte -
rivela Bernardini - ma non aveva niente da dirle,
quindi la visita si � chiusa molto in fretta�. In
base all'atto d'accusa dell'Onu, Milosevic � chiamato
a rispondere di stragi e deportazioni durante la guerra
del Kosovo. Secondo il procuratore Del Ponte tutto
sarebbe stato pianificato a tavolino dal governo di
Belgrado, deciso a espellere gli albanesi dalla
provincia meridionale della Serbia.
�Ovviamente abbiamo parlato anche di queste accuse�,
spiega Bernardini. �Ma, secondo Milosevic - continua
il professore italiano - l'esercito jugoslavo aveva
ordini precisi di evitare qualunque violenza contro
la popolazione civile. Poi, nel caos determinato dai
bombardamenti, ci possono essere state violazioni di
questi ordini, ma non facevano parte di un piano
predeterminato�.

GLI AMICI ITALIANI -Insomma, secondo questa versione
dei fatti, la tragedia del Kosovo sarebbe tutta colpa
dei bombardamenti scatenati dalla Nato nel marzo del
1999. Continua Bernardini: �Milosevic mi ha raccontato
con grande commozione di quei giorni terribili. Mi ha
detto che pi� volte il negoziato sembrava vicino a un
accordo di pace ma poi gli americani hanno fatto saltare
tutto. Ha anche ricordato i politici italiani, come
Umberto Bossi e Armando Cossutta, che andarono a
portargli solidariet� a Belgrado e gli dissero
che l'Italia era stata di fatto costretta a partecipare
alla guerra�. Ma la rievocazione dei giorni della
guerra � stato l'unico momento di debolezza dell'ex
uomo forte dei Balcani: �Per il resto del colloquio
si � sempre dimostrato fermo e determinato nel difendere
le sue scelte politiche, mi � apparso psicologicamente
molto motivato e pronto a dare battaglia�, ha detto
Bernardini.
Durante il lungo colloquio Milosevic ha voluto spiegare
le ragioni delle sue scelte politiche. Lo ha fatto con
foga, a volte con rabbia, rigettando sull'Alleanza
Atlantica e soprattutto �sulla sete di dominio mondiale
degli americani� tutte le responsabilit� della guerra.
Ma l'incontro non si � mai trasformato in un comizio.
L'uomo che meno di un anno fa teneva in pugno un Paese
intero, a tratti ha messo da parte la sua autodifesa
per raccontare anche la sua vita da carcerato. �Si tiene
informato - racconta Bernardini -, guarda la televisione
e soprattutto legge molto. Io stesso gli ho portato due
saggi storici in inglese di Hobsbawn ("Il secolo breve")
e di Mack Smith�.
Nelle scorse settimane si � detto che Milosevic si era
isolato, che non voleva contatti con gli altri detenuti,
ma il diretto interessato ha smentito con forza questa
versione dei fatti divulgata dai portavoce dell'Onu.
�Milosevic - spiega il professore italiano - si �
lamentato che le autorit� del Tribunale dal momento del
suo arrivo non gli hanno consentito di vedere nessuno.
Da qualche giorno invece pu� frequentare gli altri
carcerati. Tutti salvo tre, per motivi, come gli �
stato spiegato, di ordine processuale�.
L'ex leader dei serbi ha raccontato di aver ricevuto
un'ottima accoglienza dai suoi compagni di prigionia,
anche i croati e i musulmani. Lo chiamano presidente
e gli hanno offerto sigarette. �Mi ha anche rivelato
con orgoglio - dice Bernardini - di aver ricevuto decine
di lettere di solidariet� da ogni parte del mondo�. Ma
adesso le attese e le speranze del carcerato Milosevic
sono tutte rivolte alla prossima settimana, quando
festegger� il suo sessantesimo compleanno. Per
l'occasione arriver� all'Aja da Belgrado, per fermarsi
qualche giorno, anche sua moglie, Mira Markovic.

Vittorio Malagutti

� Corriere della Sera

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"Nezavisimaja gazeta", 10.08.2001.

Aleksandar Ivanov

KARLA DEL PONTE GUBI OD MILOSEVICA

Najispolitizovanija tuziteljka Evrope u
delovanju bivseg jugoslovenskog predsednika
nije pronasla znake genocida

Karla del Ponte ni u Hagu nema vise srece nego
u domovini Svajcarskoj. Najglasovitijem predmetu
glavnog tuzioca Medjunarodnog tribunala - o ratnim
zlocinima Slobodana Milosevica - preti propast zbog
odsustva realnih dokaza njegove krivice. Del Ponteova
je prekjuce bila prinudjena da u svom poslednjem
intervjuu italijanskom listu "Il Piccolo" prizna da
tribunal kome je na celu nije uspeo da pronadje materijale
o odgovornosti bivseg jugoslovenskog predsednika za
genocid na Kosovu. Sada ona u tom predmetu uglavnom
racuna na Miloseviceve "zlocine" tokom gradjanskih
ratova u Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini. Medjutim,
pozicije glavnog tuzioca su i tu vrlo klimave.
Izvanredno oprezni Milosevic prakticno nije ostavljao
tragove svoje rukovodece delatnosti. Vise je voleo da
naloge daje iskljucivo usmeno i tet-a-tet. Osim toga,
sav prljavi posao tokom rata u Hrvatskoj su, i
umnogome na sopstvenu inicijativu, obavljali prvo
generali federalne armije (tj. jos one, "velike
Jugoslavije"), a potom lideri tamosnje srpske manjine,
kao kasnije lideri bosanskih Srba Radovan Karadzic i
general Ratko Mladic tokom gradjanskog rata sa
muslimanima. Nije slucajno sto se sada del
Ponteova sve cesce priseca isto tako zasad nedokazanih
finansijskih mahinacija bivseg jugoslovenskog predsednika.
Ali to pitanje tim pre potpada pod prerogativu
nacionalnih istrazno-sudskih organa SRJ.

Tuzilac Medjunarodnog tribunala fakticki svakim svojim
postupkom, svakom izjavom za glasila potvrdjuje svoju
kolegama odavno poznatu strucnu neupotrebljivost. U
sustini, citava njena tridesetogodisnja pravna praksa
se sastoji iz izgubljenih procesa, kontra-tuzbi i
demantija. Necemo dublje zalaziti u cisto svajcarsku ili
evropsku prasumu, vec cemo se setiti makar samo "ruskih
predmeta" del Ponteove: o firmi "Mabeteks", o sredstvima
moskovskih mafijaskih formacija u zapadnim bankama ili
hapsenja preduzetnika Sergeja Mihajlova predstavljenog
kao rukovodioca momaka iz Solnceva. U ovom slucaju necemo
zalaziti u pitanje stvarne krivice ili nevinosti tih
objekata na koje je bila usmerena njena tuzilacka paznja.
Sustina je u necemu drugom: u onoj nepromisljenoj
odlucnosti del Ponteove da ih unapred, pre istrage i
sudjenja, proglasi krivima i izvede dalekosezne zakljucke
o vladajucem moralu u doticnoj zemlji. Da angazuje u
svoju podrsku mnoge medjunarodne institucije i organizacije,
da rastrubi svoje zakljucke po svim svetskim glasilima. I,
dobivsi jos vise zvanje, da se preseli u Hag, ne obracajuci
paznju, na primer, na placanje milionske nadoknade istom tom
Mihajlovu koji je uspeo da opovrgne sve optuzbe del Ponteove.

Nista nije ispalo ni sa Rusima, pa se onda "uraganska
tuziteljka" kako su je nekad pre nazvali zemljaci-Svajcarci
latila Srba. I na duznosti glavnog tuzioca Medjunarodnog
tribunala del Ponteova dela s istom bespogovornoscu kao
i ranije u svom kantonu, a potom u Zenevi. Istrazni
zatvor je prepun bivsih srpskih politicara i vojnih
lica, jos vise optuzbi je razaslato u Beograd i
bosansku Republiku Srpsku (RS), znatno manje - u
druge mlade balkanske drzave, premda je poznato da je
u gradjanskom ratu u nacelu nemoguce razabrati ko je
prav a ko kriv. Vec i jedan primer sa bivsom
predsednicom RS Biljanom Plavsic opovrgava navodnu
objektivnost Haskog tribunala. Plavsiceva postade
sef republike koji poslusno sprovodi prozapadnu
politiku - na nju u Hagu zaboravise; cim je neslavno
napustila tu duznost - opet se nje setise i pozvase
je kod sebe, dok sad bice da del Ponteova i ne zna
sta da inkriminira toj 70-godisnjoj zeni, pa bi da
je pusti kuci.

Brizljivo gradeci sopstvenu karijeru na tudjim
zlocinima i nesrecama, Karla del Ponte istovremeno
sve otvorenije ispoljava svoju angazovanost koja
granici s direktnom servilnoscu. Kad vec u istom
tom njenom propalom predmetu o dogadjajima iz 1999.
godine na Kosovu nisu pronadjeni nikakvi direktni
dokazi Milosevicevih zlocina, onda bar postoji
mnostvo ociglednih dokaza zlocina NATO tokom
bombardovanja SRJ, izmedju ostalog i vazdusnih
napada na cisto civilne objekte. Pa i u stampi
objavljenih potvrda, na primer, toga da masovni
odlazak Albanaca s Kosova nije zapoceo pre,
nego upravo posle pocetka natovskih bombardovanja,
na Zapadu ima vise nego dovoljno. O tome sada svedoce
ne samo novinari, nego i aktivni, a jos cesce
penzionisani zapadni politicari i generali. Ali,
glavni tuzilac Haskog tribunala ne samo da ne primecuje
takve materijale, nego i odbija direktne tuzbe
protiv Severnoatlantske alijanse. Ona ne obraca
paznju ni na opseznu trgovinu drogom i oruzjem cime
se bave sadasnji lideri politickih struktura
Kosova, kao ni na oruzane upade prvo u Juznu Srbiju
a sad i Makedoniju koje oni organizuju. Kao ni na
ranije akcije genocida u odnosu na sopstvenu
srpsku manjinu od strane vlasti Hrvatske.

Uostalom, takva kratkovidost napreskok od koje del
Ponteova pati vrlo lako se moze objasniti: u
pozadini blickrigova hrvatske armije u sopstvene
provincije Krajinu i Slavoniju naseljene pretezno
Srbima, mnogih provokativnih radnji muslimanskih
vlasti u Bosni, stvaranja i faktickog ocuvanja sve
dosad nerazoruzanih kosovskih borbenih formacija
stajali su politicari Zapada, tacnije SAD i NATO.
Isti su i Karlu del Ponte doveli na celo te
institucije koja je, kako je ovih dana pisalo
u engleskom listu "Gardijan", "cedo bivseg drzavnog
sekretara SAD Madlen Olbrajt" i koja sve dosad "igra
kako joj americka spoljnopoliticka institucija svira".

Zato je za ocekivati da cemo imati jos dosta
prilika da cujemo priznanja del Ponteove isto
toliko razoracana i nemusto prosaputana u intervjuu
nekom manjem izdanju tipa spomenutog "Il Piccolo".
Vrlo je moguce da i "proces veka" s Milosevicem
propadne. Ali, "uraganska tuziteljka" ce mozda
dotad vec otici na neku visu duznost, jer ovih
dana vec ulazi u drugu polovinu cetvorogodisnjeg
roka na toj duznosti. A na Zapadu odanost umeju
da cene.

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)

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http://english.pravda.ru/yougoslavia/2001/08/01/11509.html

PRAVDA (RUSSIA), Wednesday, August 1, 2001

2001-08-01

GREGORY ELICH:
Yugoslavia's Real War Criminals Are Not On Trial

The blare of media fanfare exhorts us to
celebrate the abduction and imprisonment of
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Though widely touted as a victory in the American
crusade for human rights, the arrest of Milosevic
fits a quite different pattern when seen in the
context of the history of post World War II
history. Whether waving the banner of freedom or
waving the banner of human rights, Western
leaders have consistently sought to obscure both
their motivations and the often-dreadful
consequences of their actions. Freedom was never
a concern. Nor were human rights, but such
rhetorical justifications helped to engage
domestic public support for international
adventures designed to serve corporate interests.
The lure of profit always takes precedence over
the lives of millions. Every year, 40 million
people die needlessly of hunger, victims of a
global capitalist system that cherishes wealth,
but human lives not at all. In terms of death,
this silent holocaust is the equivalent of a
Second World War - in which 55 million died -
taking place every year and a half. Yet a drop in
the Stock Market evokes more concern. Such a
system is monstrous. One can gauge Western
commitment to human rights and justice by
examining the record of these self-appointed
judges. History is replete with examples, so a
few cases will have to serve as a synecdoche.

In August 1995, Croatian troops invaded Serbian
Krajina. Within days, virtually the entire
Serbian population, over 200,000 people, was
driven from their homes. U.S. NATO warplanes
spearheaded the assault, bombing Serbian radar
and anti-aircraft sites. American EA-6B
Electronic Warfare aircraft jammed Serb military
communications. Croatian troops, trained and
supplied with weapons and satellite
reconnaissance by the U.S., rampaged through the
Krajina, burning down homes and slaughtering
thousands who couldn't escape in time. It was the
single greatest refugee crisis of the 1991-95
Balkan civil war, and it was U.S. officials who
gave the go-ahead to the Croatian government.
Serbian Krajina was closely associated with
Yugoslavia, the last remaining socialist-led
government in Europe, and decidedly outside the
orbit of Western control.

In March 1998, the secessionist Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) was a small force with about 300
members. Turing a blind eye to the KLA's policy
of murder and intimidation, the U.S., Germany and
Great Britain sent arms shipments and provided
training to the KLA, building it up into a major
guerrilla army with as many as 30,000 members.
Western intervention turned a small conflict into
a major crisis. As a pretext, NATO relied on the
crisis it had created in order to justify waging
a war of aggression against Yugoslavia. Foremost
among crimes against humanity is the crime
against peace, and for this crime NATO and
Western leaders clearly bear guilt. Every town
and city in Yugoslavia was the target of their
bombs. My travels throughout Yugoslavia shortly
after the war confirmed that NATO deliberately
targeted civilians. Entire residential areas were
wiped out. Factories, schools, hospitals,
bridges, apartment buildings, houses, offices and
a passenger train were destroyed. Cluster bombs,
anti-personnel in nature, were dropped on
residential areas, tearing human beings to
pieces. Over 2,000 civilians were killed and over
10,000 wounded by NATO.

Western leaders could not sell the war to their
publics by revealing that it was intended to
create a market friendly to Western corporate
interests, so they concocted the lie of concern
for Albanian human rights. When NATO bombs
started falling, Serbian extremists became
enraged, blaming Albanians for the bombs.
Right-wing paramilitary squads formed, venting
their rage on Albanian civilians in mainly border
areas of Kosovo. Rogue police and criminal gangs,
both Serbian and Albanian, took advantage of the
chaos to loot homes and drive away occupants.
Yugoslav security forces, the target of NATO
bombs, struggled to stabilize the situation. By
the third week of the war, they were escorting
Albanian refugees back to their homes, and within
two months order had been restored to most of
Kosovo. Yugoslav security forces fought against
the terrorism of both the KLA and Serbian
paramilitaries, and by the end of the war had
arrested over 800 Serbian extremists for crimes
against Albanian civilians.

President Milosevic's position was consistent. He
advocated ethnic equality. His delegation at
Rambouillet peace talks consisted of members of
every ethnic group in Kosovo, including Albanian.
Serbs were a minority in the Yugoslav delegation.
At the talks, the Yugoslav delegation offered
wide-ranging autonomy for Kosovo. Repeatedly,
Milosevic stated his commitment to a multi-ethnic
society. His words from a 1992 speech are
typical: "We know that there are many Albanians
in Kosovo who do not approve of the separatist
policy of their nationalist leaders. They are
under pressure, intimidated, and blackmailed, but
we shall not respond with the like. We must
respond by offering our hand, living with them in
equality, and not permitting that a single
Albanian child, woman, or man be discriminated
against in Kosovo in any way. We must, for the
sake of all Serbian citizens, insist on the
policy of brotherhood, unity, and ethnic equality
in Kosovo. We shall persevere on this policy." A
monumental propaganda campaign has succeeded in
achieving one of the most astounding smear
campaigns in history, painting a democrat devoted
to socialist ideals as a racist hate-monger.

Milosevic's offense was his opposition to
privatization and foreign control of the Yugoslav
economy. The U.S.-organized Balkan Stability Pact
called for a region under the sway of the free
market model. Yugoslavia, strategically
positioned along the Danube and astride a major
highway transportation route, stood in the way of
the effort to place the Balkans under complete
and total Western economic domination.

The common thread running through these examples
is not a zeal for justice and human rights by the
West, but a vindictive urge to seek the
imprisonment or murder of its opponents. Nothing
can stand in the way of corporate profits. As one
man in Yugoslavia told me, " I think our
President Milosevic is more of a problem for
imperialism than for us."

Who can believe that Milosevic could possibly
receive a fair trial at the hands of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY)? He wasn't even allowed to
speak at his arraignment without having his
microphone twice switched off. During NATO's war
against Yugoslavia, the Tribunal hastily composed
its indictment of Milosevic and four other
Yugoslav leaders in order to bolster sagging
public support for the war. Created and funded by
the same Western powers that carried out NATO's
war, the ICTY serves its master. The trial is
widely, and rightly, seen as setting an important
precedent. No longer would international law be
an impediment to action. Already the war
established that Western powers could wage war
without authorization by the United Nations. The
trial will establish their right to seize anyone
without regard to borders or legal niceties.
Anyone resisting Western demands would be
threatened with abduction and imprisonment. It
will be yet another tool for imposing Western
domination over other nations, and make no
mistake, it will be used. The trial of Slobodan
Milosevic will be a show trial with a preordained
verdict.

The real war criminals are not on trial. They act
as judge and jury. We are witnessing the
outrageous spectacle of criminals judging their
victims. President Milosevic's only crime was
that he had the courage to stand up to NATO
despite overwhelming odds, to patriotically
defend his country against aggression. Shortly
after the war, I was a member of a delegation
that interviewed Albanian refugees who fled to
Belgrade. Among those we interviewed was Fatmir
Seholi, Chief Editor at Radio Television Pristina
until NATO troops entered Kosovo and expelled him
from the province. Unlike those in the West
deluded by propaganda, he knew a real war
criminal when he saw one. "Every NATO bombing was
a big problem," he told us. "There was no purpose
relating to the Serbian nation or the Albanian
nation. Whether that was their purpose or not,
people were killed. The man who could command
NATO to bomb people is not human. He is an
animal. After the bombing at Djakovica, I saw
decapitated bodies. I have pictures of that. It
is horrible, terrible. I saw people without arms,
without feet." Seholi demanded, "Who is Clinton
to accuse another? I would like to say to Hillary
Clinton that her husband is an immoral person.
That man ruined our state for no reason. What
would he say if someone bombed the United States,
bombed the White House, or killed or raped his
daughter? Who is the evil man here? Milosevic,
who is protecting the territory of Yugoslavia and
protecting the people of Kosovo, or Clinton, who
bombs us?"

Prepared by Gregory Elich

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Dragan Opacic, serbo-bosniaco, e' rinchiuso da piu' di sei anni
nelle carceri di Zenica (Federazione croato-musulmana) per crimini
che non ha commesso.

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=========The Case of Dragan Opacic:
Global Imprisonment of 'Witness L'
[June 21, 2000]
by Igor Gajic, 'Reporter,' Banja Luka, Srpska
=========
For six and a half years, inside the walls of the Correctional Facility
in
Zenica, Dragan Opacic has been asking himself each day what he has done
before God to deserve such a fate. Nevertheless, today he has at least
one
guarantee. He will live. Even in the case that he serves the entire
sentence determined by the court in Sarajevo when he was imprisoned on
the
Treskavica Mt. as a private of the Republic of Srpska Army (VRS).

According to the decision of the court, he was sentenced to ten years in
prison for alleged war crimes carried out in the Trnopolje collection
center during 1992. At that time Opacic was 16 years old but this did
not
present an obstacle to the Higher Court in Sarajevo which sentenced him
for
23 counts of murder by gunfire, two counts of murder by cutting of the
throat and 10 rapes. The court was likewise not bothered by the fact
that
not a single witness saw Opacic in the Trnopolje camp, nor that he was
not
he at the camp during the period mentioned in the indictment. He was
sentenced on the basis of a confession which he signed while in the
hands
of AID, the intelligence service of the Bosnia-Hercegovina (BH)
Federation.

Ideal witness: "I had no means of survival. The only thing I could do
was
to sign the confession. Then they stopped beating me. They beat me with
anything and everything. A rubber hose, split wood logs, they put salt
into
my wounds," Opacic is loath to remember. During his trial he did not
see a
single witness. The judge accused him and the judge sentenced him.
Today he
asks himself: "Which of those Muslims was in that war camp and saw me
there? Let him step forward and say that I was at the war camp. They
should
feel free to step forward." This evidence was not provided by the Hague
tribunal, OHR, IPTF nor the Office for Human Rights. Opacic has
appealed to
all of these institutions.

While he related his story to Reporter in the meeting room of the
Correctional Facility in Zenica, Opacic at first appeared calm. Only
after
a certain time did it become apparent that this calm was nothing else
but
resignation or acceptance of his fate there.

Nevertheless, he has not given up on the battle to prove the truth, even
though he himself believes in it less and less.

When he was imprisoned and sentenced, no one knew anything about him.
Neither the Red Cross, nor UNPROFOR, nor his parents nor the VRS, which
after his capture sought him as a deserter. He was carefully hidden and
the
reason become apparent immediately after the sentencing. At that time
the
Bosniak government desperately needed a Serb as a witness in the Hague
in
the case against Dusko Tadic. Dragan Opacic with his confession became
the
ideal witness. Ideal for the Hague investigators as well: they finally
found a Serb willing to say that he was under Tadic's direct command.

He became Witness L.

The only man at that time who was interested in Opacic and his fate was
Branislava Isailovic, an attorney from Paris, has a somewhat cynical
explanation of the manner in which Opacic became Witness L.

"I think that Opacic had many advantages from the perspective of the
Bosniaks. He was young, not too smart and he could be easily
influenced. He
was an ideal witness, created to be manipulated. He comes from a poor,
uneducated family, the chance of his parents initiating a search for
their
son were minimal. While Opacic was a prisoner, his family did not know
of
his whereabouts. What is more, Opacic was less than 18 years old during
the
period when he allegedly committed the crimes for which the Bosniaks
tried
to make him responsible. They used the fact that Opacic was a minor to
hold
his trial behind closed doors; by doing so, they created even greater
pressure on him to testify against Tadic," said Isailovic, who initiated
several motions for the revision of the case against her defendant. For
now
all her requests are at a standstill.

Preparations: Opacic, who testified against Dusko Tadic, had never seen
him
in his life. He was prepared to testify by AID. While he talks about
this
he shakes his head: "I was prepared for a long time. I lived through all
sorts of things. They worked on breaking me both physically and
psychologically. I viewed all the tapes, all the photos but I was
afraid to
step out and say that all of it was a lie prearranged by the Federation
and
the tribunal investigators. They knew it, too, but they wanted to
believe
the government here."

His story at times is accompanied by bitter twitching of a relatively
indifferent expression on his face.

Nevertheless, lying saved his life. Only in the Hague did the Red Cross
find out about him. He became famous as Witness L.

"I told them things but they are trying to justify themselves even today
and so they did not want to try me for false testimony because they knew
that they themselves were involved in it. I have always told them: I am
not
guilty; I was not there; I didn't do anything."

The solution was simple. They prepared him even "better". They took him
in
secret to the scene of the alleged crimes. Cheap movie plots became
Opacic's reality: "It was no use telling them that I had never been
there
and that I didn't know anything about the places they were showing us."
After that, he decided to nod his head at everything that they showed
him.
"I procrastinated as much as I could in order to delay as much as
possible
so that I would have some kind of guarantee for staying alive. I had no
idea whether my family was alive or not."

Washing hands: The deception with the witness, whom the prosecution had
already termed a key witness, was first noticed by professor Mischa
Vladimirof, then one of Tadic's defenders.

During the trial, on October 26, 1996, Opacic admitted to Tadic's
defender
that he was not the author of his confession. The hearing was held in
the
presence of the chief investigator of the tribunal, Reed, the day after
the
identity of "Witness L" was revealed.

"I know Trnopolje from 1993 when I was a refugee there. There were no
Muslims there at all. There were just a lot of refugees there and I
used to
tell them that they wouldn't accomplish anything and that in the end the
lie would be revealed. But they only believed what they were told by the
government in Sarajevo." Opacic remembers when he first saw Dusko
Tadic's
photograph: "When they brought the picture of Tadic, I had no idea that
this was Tadic. I saw him for the first time in person at the Hague, and
before the Hague I saw him on videos which were shown to me by the
Bosniak
police."

This was the sign for the beginning of the washing of hands of the
biggest
deception in the history of the Hague tribunal.

Judge Gabriella Kirk McDonald was the first. She immediately returned
Opacic into the uncertainty of Bosniak hands with the words: "We believe
that Bosnia will act in the appropriate manner."

A legal expert from the Netherlands who is following the work of the
tribunal, Heikelina Verrijn Stuart laughed at this. "The president of
the
tribunal based her decision on sympathies toward Bosnia at a time when
the
world still believed in the picture of 'the good guys and the bad guys'.
Which is probably understandable and motivated by humanism but from a
legal
aspect completely unjustified."

Opacic's request for asylum in the Netherlands was not even considered
and
on June 12, 1997 Opacic left the Schiphol airport despite the
opposition of
several legal experts and Dutch attorneys.

"The Netherlands could not have acted otherwise," was the position of
the
Dutch court and the state of Holland but in the opinion of Jeuran
Sluiter,
a researcher at the University of Utrecht, the European convention on
human
rights should have been taken into consideration.

Since then, Opacic has been in Bosnia. The only person who has remained
by
his side is Branislava Isailovic, who searched for him in vain for
almost a
year because Dragan Opacic was hidden once again. She found him at his
present location, in the Zenica prison, and since then has resumed her
battle on his behalf.

Turning heads: She appealed to Izetbegovic and Silajdzic but the most
powerful men in the Federation continued the trend of turning away their
heads. They did not want compromise the independence of their
judiciary.

Dragan Opacic turned to the institutions of RS: "I wrote a letter to
Dodik,
a letter to the RS government. Nothing yet," he says with resignation.

In the office of the RS government they know nothing about such a
letter;
they also do not know from what point any sort of action could be
initiated. The ministry of "smoothing over troubled waters" or the
ministry
of justice, as it is called in RS, has kept the promise of its minister
to
undertake something with regard to Opacic to the same extent that they
have
abolished criminal activity in RS.

The assistant to the minister of justice, Strahinja Djurkovic,
remembered
the case but could not tell us anything concrete about it.

"We have been in contact and spoken with the ministry in the BH
Federation
and this case has received some mention. We know that he has been
sentenced
to 10 years but we do not know the circumstances under which he was
arrested," the assistant to the minister demonstrated his enviable
interest
in the case. But he has problems in coordinating his schedule. "At that
time we did not have the time to visit him. When we find time..."

Djurkovic also mentioned something about a parole committee; even Opacic
does not believe in this. He is aware that as a prisoner from another
entity and someone accused of war crimes he has no chance for a weekend
visit, let alone a parole. The motion to retry his case was decidedly
rejected by the ministry of justice because "this must be done
according to
a universal plan and consistently throughout BH". The ministry of
defense
has never even heard of him, even though he was captured and sentenced
as a
member of the VRS.

After all this, Opacic's belief that one day when after his release from
prison he will have no place in either the Republic of Srpska or
Bosnia-Hercegovina is not surprising.

No one wants Witness L anymore.

The most accurate and tragic comment came from Opacic's mother, Zorka:
"We
are poor so I guess that is how it has to be."

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Village petition

The family of Dragan Opacic lives in the village of Hrnici near Kozarac,
230 kilometers from Zenica, where Dragan is imprisoned. The Opacic
family
lives in the last house, or more accurately, a hut, in the village.
Their
property consists of one cow. The hut itself is dark and damp. "We have
not
seen him for years," his mother, Zorka, grieves. She last saw her son
when
she saw him off to the Army. His father Janko and brother Pero saw him
in
the Hague where Dragan was afraid to admit he knew them. This was the
first
crack in the testimony of Witness L.

His mother, who cries every time Dragan's name is mentioned, swears
that he
was never in the Trnopolje camp. The local residents of the village even
managed to gather a few hundred signatures on a statement asserting
Opacic's innocence and his nonparticipation in anything that may have
occurred in Trnopolje.

They have not visited him in prison yet because they do not have the
money
to do so.

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----

Rights before and after Dayton

In addition to the attorney Isailovic, the only other active interest in
Opacic's case has been expressed by the Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights
of RS. The president of this organization, Branko Todorovic, believes
that
this was a clear instance of a staged trial which was useful to AID for
propaganda regarding "the bad guys". Todorovic also attempted to
approach
the Office for Human Rights but he received the same response as
Isailovic:
that the office has no jurisdiction in matters preceding the Dayton
agreement.

When asked why nothing could be done for Opacic and what is the purpose
of
the existence of the Office for Human Rights, Reporter received a
written
response which allotted this human tragedy two cold paragraphs. "The
office
has considered the report of Mr. Opacic and adopted its decision
regarding
this matter on January 12, 2000. The office has unanimously decided that
the report was unacceptable on the basis of the fact that one part of
his
report was inconsistent ratione temporis with article VIII(2)(c), while
one
part was completely unfounded with respect to article VIII(2)(c) annex
6 of
the Dayton peace agreement," it is stated in the response of Theresa
Nelson, the executive officer of the office.

Even more interesting was the reaction of the BH Federation judiciary.
Mustafa Bisic, the prosecutor of the cantonal court in Sarajevo, swooped
down on the Helsinki Committee, accusing them of requesting a retrial
for
political reasons, and saying that Opacic had a fair and honest trial.
How
fair and honest it really was, Opacic himself felt on his own skin.
Literally.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
----

Moment of truth

Reporter has received a transcript of the moment when professor
Vladimirof
discovered that Witness L was "planted" by the former and current
Bosniak
authorities.

Vladimirof: Have you ever read any kind of statement yourself or has
someone read any kind of statement to you?

Opacic: No.

Vladimirof: Did you read your own statement?

Opacic: I just got the statement to sign.

Vladimirof: So you signed the statement without reading it first?

Opacic: Yes.

Vladimirof: Why?

Opacic: They beat me. I was hurt and they threatened me. They constantly
beat me and told me the most horrible things.

Vladimirof: Did you tell the judge that you were forced to sign the
statement?

Opacic: No one asked me anything, not even my own attorney.

Vladimirof: You were in court, with a judge, police and someone who
recorded everything. Surely you could have told the judge that you were
forced to sign the statement?

Opacic: How could I? They said that they would kill me.

Vladimirof: I understand. Why didn't you tell Bob Reed what had
happened?

Opacic: They told me that I needed to testify in the Tadic case. After
that
I would go back and then my prison sentence would be reduced or I would
be
freed. That is why they told me in the [Bosniak] Internal Security
Service
and in the court.

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----
Translated by Snezana Lazovic [23 June 2000]
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Data: 12/08/2001 08:23
Da: TiM Publisher
Oggetto: Bob Djurdjevic on NWO mantra of perpetual
war/commerce (+ Black on Juournalism in Attachment)

Summary of Western help to Macedonia:
About the West, (I wish to say) only one thing. Two days ago, in full
view
of our (Macedonian) army, they had dropped off to them (the Albanian
rebels) two containers full of weapons. The next day, they attacked
Tetovo. Is there anything more left to say?"

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A Cover Story for the Australian New Dawn Magazine

1. Another Farcical American Oil War

Macedonia: Bosnia III, Kosovo II in the Making; Macedonia Section of
the
�Green Interstate� under Construction

By Bob Djurdjevic

PHOENIX, Aug. 10 - On Monday, government troops kill five Albanian
guerrillas while �peace negotiations� continued at a lake resort on the
Macedonian-Greek border. On Tuesday, Albanian terrorists ambush and
kill
10 government soldiers in the worst single act of violence since the
conflict began in February of this year. On Wednesday, the Lake Ohrid
�peace negotiators� emerge to announce a �breakthrough deal.�

Sane people laugh. The rest applaud.

�Let's give peace another chance," said Macedonia�s defense minister,
Vlado
Buckovski, considered a moderate, a euphemism for a Washington stooge.
He
spoke at a news conference Aug. 9 about the killing of the 10
Macedonian
soldiers.

A Hollywood farce? No. Just a few farcical scenes from America�s
farcical
oil war in Macedonia.

If it weren�t so tragic, the war that has claimed over 100 lives in the
last six months would be downright boring. Were it a film, it could be
titled �Bosnia III,� or �Kosovo II,� just well as �Macedonia.� It�s a
�been there, done that�-production using the same scenario as that in
Bosnia (1993-1995) and Kosovo (1998-1999). Only actors and scenery are
different.

The plot goes like this� American government, acting on behalf of the
Princes of the 20th Century - the New World Order�s real masters,
multinational corporations - incites a regional conflict where none had
existed before. It does it by training and arming ethnic (Islamic)
terrorists. Or by using some of our �allies� to its bidding (such as
Iran,
in the case of Bosnian Muslims; or Germany, in the case of Kosovo
Albanians).

The NWO lapdog media echo the State Department pronunciations. Soon
enough, western public are told that the Washington-trained and funded
terrorists are �[insert name here] Liberation Army,� or �ethnic
insurgents.� They are supposedly fighting for �independence� or greater
�minority rights.�

When the local government responds militarily to gruesome acts of
violence
by the western-trained thugs, such authorities, not the terrorists, are
portrayed by the western media as �rogue� governments.

The intent is, of course, to play on emotions of tens of millions of
legal
or illegal immigrants in the United States, Western Europe and
Australia. After all, these newcomers, many with �green cards� if not
citizenship papers in their pockets, know better than most stupefied
native
citizens about government abuses (some also sponsored by Washington,
such
as in Indonesia, El Salvador or Chile, for example).

Both citizen groups, however, are equally gullible, and thus easily
duped,
by the NWO media. Which is why the greatest violations of sovereignty
and
human rights since the Soviet or Hitler�s invasions of neighboring
countries have been carried out by the NWO forces in the last 10 years
without as much as a whimper from the Coke- and McDonald�s-infatuated
western masses.

The ultimate goal of the Balkans clashes has been to send in the
American
and other international troops as �peacekeepers.� Their presence claims
another piece of the geopolitically strategic ground for NATO, at
Russia�s
expense. And it provides security for a future pipeline from the Black
Sea
to the Adriatic (see the map).

As a result, NATO has now occupied virtually all of the former
Yugoslavia,
once a buffer zone between the West and the (Soviet) East. Since the
quisling Bulgarian and Romanian governments are pleading to be admitted
to
NATO, this Cold War relic, a military alliance created to defend the
West
against the now non-existent threat from a non-existent country (the
Soviet
Union), has practically achieved its goal of reaching the Black Sea. In
its wake, a new �Iron Curtain� has descended upon Europe (see the map):

No wonder the American president, who said during his 2000 election
campaign that he would pull the U.S. troops out of the Balkans, has
done a
turn-about-face. By doing so, George W. Bush proved that the interests
of
American oil and other multinational companies come first, that of the
American public - a distant second.

Bush pushed the U.S. deeper into the Balkans quagmire in late June when
her
ordered some 80 American G.I.�s in to rescue about 320 Albanian
terrorists
from Aracinovo, a small town only six miles northeast of Skopje,
Macedonia�s capital. The U.S. troops marshaled 15 buses, 3 trucks, 3
ambulances and 16 Humvees for an operation in which the Albanian rebels
were whisked off to safety of the NATO-occupied Kosovo (see the map).

The news of the American G.I.�s coming to the aid of Albanian
terrorists
spawned a huge riot in Skopje, during which the Macedonian Parliament
was
occupied by some of the over 5,000 angry citizens for several
hours. Protesters fired guns in the air and shouted anti-western
slogans
during the night of June 25-26.

The June 26 New York Times edition carried a front page photo of the
Macedonian troops trying to prevent some citizens of the Umin Dol
village
from attacking the 101st Airborne Division G.I.�s who were rescuing the
Aracinovo Albanian rebels. Outside the capital, an American diplomat
was
slightly wounded, apparently accidentally, by the Macedonian army
soldiers.

Several other anti-western protests erupted in Skopje during the month
of
July, usually after new acts of terrorism by the Albanian insurgents.
The
targets of the local Slavic populace�s wrath were American, German and
British embassies, as well as a local McDonald�s restaurant and an OSCE
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) car.

Macedonian government spokesman, Antonio Milososki, called NATO in a
July
23 news conference �a big friend of our enemies.� The truth could not
have
been spoken any more plainly. No wonder the State Department ordered
all
of its non-essential embassy employees to leave Skopje.

It is especially ironic that the U.S. troops were sent to rescue
Albanian
rebels less than a week after George W. Bush and his senior foreign
affairs
officials declared that they did NOT want the U.S. troops involved in
any
NATO operations that were to follow an eventual ceasefire. Estimated at
about 3,500, this NATO �peacekeeping� contingent is likely to be led by
the
British, whose government has agreed to deploy in Macedonia some 3,000
of
its troops. (No, regrettably British Petroleum isn�t paying for them,
although it probably should be since they serve its interests).

Using American soldiers to save Albanian terrorists was evidently
deemed by
the White House and the Pentagon a legitimate mission. Why? Because
birds
of a feather flock together. Albanian insurgents in Macedonia were
fighting a Washington fight, just as they were three years ago in
Kosovo
(see �Kosovo: Bosnia II, Serbia�s Aztlan, Chechnya�, Mar. 6, 1998 -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim98-3-1.html). No wonder a top
NATO official in Macedonia (Daniel Speckhard) defensively told the New
York
Times that the late June U.S. action was �a one-time offer (to save the
rebels) aimed at bolstering peace.�

Really? If so, why did NATO, the Albanian terrorists� air wing in
Kosovo,
and a bus company in Macedonia, let the terrorist leave with their
weapons,
rather than disarm them first?

Details, details� The NATO �lie and deny� spokespeople have never been
very
big on details or logic, as those who have followed the TiM reports
during
the 1999 bombing of Serbia know very well (see
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/war-peace.html). Fortunately, they
fooled only the ignorant or the gullible. Here�s, for example, what
Colonel David Hackworth, America�s most decorated living soldier, said
about the U.S. Aracinovo escapade in his July 10 column:

�This operation didn't pass the smell test for me. I couldn't stop
asking
myself why NATO brass would risk the lives of 80 American paratroopers
to
save a band of heavily armed cutthroats bent on overthrowing the
established government of a country that our president and State
Department
have repeatedly stated they are committed to save.

The act was kind of like an FBI SWAT team rescuing Timothy McVeigh
minutes
before the execution. My first thought was, Whose side are we really
on? My
second was, What's the objective here -- stabilizing or destabilizing
Macedonia?

The UCK (an acronym for the Kosovo Liberation Army) brigade -- dug in
around Aracinovo, four miles north of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia
--
had been surrounded for two weeks, under heavy attack by Macedonian
government forces and on the verge of destruction. Imagine how we'd
feel if
one of our units was about to take out a rebel brigade whose objective
was
to overthrow our government, when out of nowhere a Canadian paratroop
company swooped in and saved the enemy force?

Of course, the Macedonians were fit to be tied.

Sources in the U.S. Army in Kosovo familiar with the 3/502nd Airborne
Battalion's rescue operation confirm that the mission was all about
saving
the "17 'instructors' among the withdrawing rebels -- former U.S.
officers,
who were providing the rebels with continued military education. But
that
was not enough: The Macedonian security forces claim that 70 percent of
the
equipment taken away by the guerrillas had been U.S. made -- to include
even the most modern third-generation night vision devices," as
reported by
the German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt on June 28.

Other sources say the "17 instructors" were members of a high-ticket
Rent-a-Soldier outfit called MPRI -- Military Professional Resources
Incorporated -- that operates in the shadow of the Pentagon and has
been
hired by the CIA and our State Department for ops in ex-Yugoslavia. The
company, headed up by former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Carl E.
Vuono,
is filled with former U.S. Army personnel, from generals to senior
sergeants, all of whom draw handsome wages on top of their Army retired
salaries.

This is the same outfit that in the early 1990s trained Croatian
soldiers
for Operation Storm -- which resulted in the brutal ethnic cleansing of
200,000 unarmed Serb civilians -- as well as bringing Croatian Gen.
Agim
Ceku up to speed. Ceku, who played a central role in the slaughter, is
alleged to have killed thousands of other Serb civilians before joining
the
KLA in 1999, where he again received training and assistance from CIA
and
State Department contractors operating overtly and covertly throughout
ex-Yugoslavia and around the globe.�

Naturally, actions like this make Hackworth and other honorable
American
veterans furious. One still-serving three-war vet, for example, told
Hackworth: �A number of contractors have been pitching me to work for
them
after I retire. I said no. There's no principles, no love of country,
no
honor -- just MONEY. I can't ... sell my soul for a buck.�

�There are laws on the books that prevent American citizens from
serving
foreign governments,� Hackworth railed. �It's about time Congress did
its
duty and enforced them.�

True. But �who will guard the guards themselves?� (Juvenal, a.d. 60-
130).
What if the American government, including Congress, is in service of
the
multinational Princes?

Frankfurter Rundschau, a respected German paper, virtually said that in
its
July 9 report on Macedonia. Quoting Andreas Buro, a political analyst
and
a representative of the Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy, the
German daily said that, �the West has never seriously followed a policy
of
conflict-prevention in Macedonia, at least partly because the United
States
wants to increase its influence in that part of the world.�

�The United States wants a reason to beef up its military and political
influence in the Balkans,� Buro said. He cited the huge U.S. base
(Bondsteel) near Pristina, Kosovo, one of the largest in the world,
from
which �the U.S. forces can oversee transport routes and pipelines.�

To support his claim, Buro cited a letter from Willi Wimmer, a security
expert from Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union party.
Wimmer
sent the letter, which has received relatively little public notice, to
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder after a meeting of heads of state,
foreign ministers and defense ministers in Bratislava, Slovakia, in
early
May. The United States, he wrote, wants to correct an oversight from
the
World War II era, and station U.S. military forces in the (Balkans)
area
for strategic reasons.

This writer first pointed out in November 1995, right after the Dayton
accords that ended the Bosnian war were signed, that the �Green
Interstate�
(see http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim95-11.html), an Islamic
demographic �highway� from Bihac (Bosnia) to Istanbul, represents a
confluence of NATO and Islamic interests. And I predicted that next
conflagration point after Bosnia would be Kosovo, followed by Macedonia.

This also helped explain why the former U.S. president, George Bush
Sr.,
announced in December 1992 (see
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-7-5.html ), after he
had
already lost the election, that he would the U.S. troops to this
yet-to-be-formed �country.� And why Bush Jr. is now following in his
Dad�s
and Bill Clinton�s footsteps. Because they are all puppets controlled
by
the same puppeteers - the global multinational Princes.

The fact that Bush Jr. chose a defense contractor and an oil company
executive (Dick Cheney, who also served as Secretary of Defense in Bush
St.�s government) for his vice president and overseer of national
security,
speaks volumes about which side an American president�s bread is
buttered
on (see �Weep Mankind,� this writer�s July 2000 article on that topic -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-7-5.html). Of course,
George Bush Sr. was himself a former oil company executive when he
wasn�t
in government service, doing virtually the same job.

(Also check out the article �Blood for Oil, Drugs for Arms,� (April
2000),
which was published as a front-page story in the New Dawn magazine�s
July-August 2000 issue).

It is worthy of note that Macedonia was being hailed in the mid-1990s
by
the New World Order globalist elite as a model multicultural
country. George Soros, for example, publicly praised Macedonia and
often
met with its former president Kiro Gligorov, who narrowly survived an
assassination attempt in September 1995. By that stage, some 500
American
troops had been showing the flag in this former Yugoslav republic for
over
two years.

The Frankfurter Rundschau report also said that the British and U.S.
military advisors have been training members of the ethnic Albanian
rebels
from the National Liberation Army (NLA). One of the Western goals was
to
prevent Russia from establishing a presence in the Balkans, Buro said.
But
for Macedonia and the Balkans themselves, a Russian involvement could
be
important. Or that of Russia�s friends, such as the Ukraine.

Which is why the Bush administration is evidently trying to stop it.
While
publicly proclaiming its support for the Macedonian government, the
National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, said during her visit to
Kiev
on July 25, that she had received assurances from the Ukraine
government
that it would no longer sell arms to Macedonia. Between May and July,
the
Ukraine had reportedly sent to Macedonia two Sukhoi-25 fighter jets,
six
Mi-24 attack helicopters, and four Mi-8 military transport helicopters,
according to a July 26 Tanjug news agency report.

At the same time, U.S. military aid seems to be pouring in to its
Albanian
rebel prot�g�s even as the �peace talks� are being pushed by American
diplomats. Like William Walker in Kosovo during the 1998-1999 period
(see
�Washington Crisis Factory� -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Columns/new-dawn.html and �CIA Ties to KLA�
-
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-3.HTML), special
State
Department envoy, James Pardee, is Washington�s �Trojan Horse� in
Macedonia. His job is to distract and confuse.

But many Macedonians aren�t falling for it as evident by the almost
daily
anti-American protests in Skopje these days. That�s because many
Macedonians have seen or heard firsthand reports of the American
support of
the Albanian insurgents. Here�s, for example, our translation of a
message
the Truth in Media received on July 24 from a Macedonian whose identity
is
known to us, but whose name is being withheld for his own security:

�The last two days have been terrible. The Shiptars (Albanians) have
taken
half of Tetovo (a town northwest of Skopje - see the map), and 80% of
villages around Tetovo. There are quite a few dead and wounded
civilians
who are being driven from their homes� About the West, (I wish to say)
only
one thing. Two days ago, in full view of our army, they had dropped off
to
them (the Albanian rebels) two containers full of weapons. The next
day,
they attacked Tetovo. Is there anything more left to say?�

If still in doubt about the real reason for Washington�s support of the
Albanians (oil), take a look at the map at the start of this article.
Note
that the flashpoints of the latest Albanian insurgency lie north and
northeast of Skopje. In other words, trouble spots are AWAY from the
areas
in which the Albanians are ethnically dominant. But they do lie along
the
route of the future oil corridor - the �Green Interstate,� as we put it.

So much for the Albanian rebels having anything to do with �liberation�
or
�secession� of the 23% Albanian minority from Macedonia. Like their KLA
predecessors in Kosovo from which many of the fighters come, they are
mercenaries of the New World Order.

So what does this tell us about �Dubya,� the current American
president,
and his foreign policy team?

(1) The best way of fighting international terrorism is to save the
terrorists so they can fight for us another day. Except for domestic
terrorists, of course (McVeigh, Waco women and children; Ruby Ridge
�rebels��), who must be killed to set an example for other Americans
who
may be unhappy with the NWO�s usurpation of the U.S. government.

(2) Words are cheap. Dubya�s actions speak louder than words.

(3) Any differences between the Dubya and Bill Clinton foreign policy
is
purely accidental. No similarities are.
No wonder Bush�s approval rating back home has now dropped to 50%, the
lowest level for a sitting president in five years. What the American
public seems to be saying is: Clinton was bad, but a Clinton look-alike
is
worse.
NATO to Use Yugoslav Military Bases?

Dubya�s approval ratings would probably sink even lower if the American
media were to carry one of the more bizarre Balkans news items that
emerged
in the last few days. Two years ago after trying to bomb a defiant
Yugoslavia into the stone age, NATO officials are asking that country�s
government for permission to use the Serb military bases, according to
an
Aug. 5 report by the London Sunday Times
(http://www.sunday-
times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/05/stifgneur01004.html
).

The reason? The NATO �supermen� seem to have miscalculated a little
when
they started the Macedonian war. An all-out war in Macedonia would cut
off
the Thessalonika-Kosovo supply route, a vital lifeline for some 40,000+
NATO troops in Kosovo.

So NATO officials, hat in hand and checkbook in pocket, are now talking
with Yugoslav government officials about supplying their Kosovo troops
through Serbia (from Hungary, a NATO country). The alliance would need
to
send up to 80 trucks a day through Yugoslavia, with stop-offs at
Yugoslav
Army bases in Novi Sad in the north, and in Nis in the south.

�There are 40,000 guys in Kosovo - and they need feeding, water, tents,
whatever. We've got to look at the alternatives,� a NATO planner told
the
Times. He admitted that the options of going through the Montenegrin
mountains, or the bandit-infested north of Albania, had been ruled
out. Planners have calculated it would take a year to build a suitable
road through Kukes in northern Albania.

A source close to recent talks in Belgrade between the five leading
NATO
countries and Yugoslavia, said the U.S., which is heading the
negotiations,
wants relations between the Pentagon and Belgrade to get back to where
they
were before Slobodan Milosevic came to power in 1987. Among other
things,
this means that Yugoslav officers would be sent to West Point and Fort
Lauderdale for training.

Details of a NATO supply line through Serbia were discussed at an early
August meeting in Germany between American officers, the Yugoslav
foreign
minister, Goran Svilanovic, and the Serbian deputy prime minister,
Nebojsa
Covic, the Times also said.

Given the current Yugoslav government�s subservient attitude toward
Washington, Serbia may become a de facto NATO country even before some
of
the current Balkans frontrunners make it (Slovenia, Romania, Croatia,
Bulgaria�).
So is that bad? Not if NATO pays up. And what would be a fair price?
How
about $30 billion and counting, roughly the amount of unconditional war
reparations that the Yugoslav government should have, but did not,
demand
before becoming a western vassal. Instead, Belgrade sold out its
sovereignty and its honor by shipping Milosevic to the Hague kangaroo
court
for a mere promise of $1.3 billion, of which it has received one far
zero
so far.

Which is why the Serb prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, who orchestrated
the
Milosevic handover, railed against western treachery during a mid-July
visit to Germany. �When I was in the opposition, the European Union
promised us three million marks (about $1.4 billion) in cash for
Milosevic,� he said in an interview with the German Der Spiegel
(Mirror)
magazine. �Where is it? I am seriously warning the West. If my
government
falls, that would cost the international community $10 billion."

Only $10 billion?

Djindjic said Belgrade had been expecting to receive a first
installment of
300 hundred million euros ($255 million) by August, but had discovered
that
225 million euros of that would go toward paying off old debts.... �I
am
losing my credibility and cannot stabilize the country anymore. We
didn't
make any conditions for the handover. We wanted to show our goodwill to
integrate into the international community.�

�But I must admit that I am shocked about the farce of the western aid
which should amount to $1.3 billion,� he said. �If we do not receive a
financial injection immediately, we will have demonstrations and unrest
by
September at the latest.�

Maybe not if NATO pays up, huh? After all, �first you knock them down,
then you build them up,� this writer wrote in 1995, in reference to the
NWO/NATO occupation of Bosnia. That�s when I also pointed out that the
real NWO mantra was �perpetual war for perpetual commerce,� not �world
peace through world trade,� as the globalist leaders claim.
Guess the Yugoslav and Macedonian leaders are only now getting around
to
realizing it?
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2. British Big Brother �Watching Over� Macedonia President�s, Prime
Minister�s Residences

SKOPJE, July 21 - Macedonian Ministry of the Interior announced that a
KFOR
helicopter bearing British insignia flew over the residences of
President
Boris Trajkovski and Prime Minister Ljubcho Georgievski at the Vodno
hillsides on three separate occasions on July 19-20, the Macedonian MIA
news agency reported on July 21.

Observers noted some �lightning balls� being ejected from the
helicopter. A representative of KFOR was contacted about the matter,
and
he explained that they were only performing their regular observatory
maneuvers, during which a security shield of the helicopter reacted to
the
presence of certain radiation in that area.

For detailed investigation of these occurrences, the Ministry of
Interior
requested that a commission to be established, to be made up of
representatives of KFOR, the EU Monitoring Mission, the Ministry of
Defense, and the Ministry of Interior. TiM has received no further
information about the formation of, or the activities of, any such
commission.

Regardless of the nature and the origin of these �lightning balls,� the
mere presence and spying of the British Big Brother over the heads of
state
residences in a foreign country shows that Macedonia is neither a free
nor
a sovereign country. And why should one be surprised? How can a country
that has allowed unfettered access by NATO to its territory during the
Kosovo war call itself sovereign?

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Data: 16/08/2001 21:55
Da: "Vladimir Krsljanin"
A: "Belgrade Forum"
Cc: "Internet team of SPS"
Oggetto: Jovanovic on visit to Milosevic

STATEMENT

OF MR. ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC, VICE-PRESIDENT

OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA,

given at the press-conference in Belgrade on August 16, 2001


A delegation, determined by the president of the Socialist Party of
Serbia Slobodan Milosevic, in the following composition: Zivadin
Jovanovic, vice-president of SPS, Zivorad Igic, member of the
Secretariat of the Executive Committee, and Professor Slavica Djukic-
Dejanovic, Bogoljub Bjelica, Boro Drakulovic - members of the Executive
Committee, has visited president Milosevic on August 14, in his
detention in the Hague.

The delegation conveyed to president Milosevic greetings, expressions
of solidarity and of moral and political support from SPS members and
supporters and from citizens of our country. These expressions of
support and solidarity have been articulated in the mass popular
rallies in Belgrade and other cities of Serbia and Yugoslavia, as well
as in numerous public meetings of citizens, scientists, cultural and
other public workers. In all these rallies and meetings criminal, anti-
constitutional and illegal abduction of president Milosevic and his
delivery to the Hague have been condemned and personal responsibility
of the executors of this shamefull act has been demanded.

President Milosevic has been also greeted by the delegation on the
occasion of his 60th birthday.

President Milosevic acknowledged solidarity, support and birthday
greetings. He expressed the special gratitude to all citizens and SPS
members who have been sent many letters of support and solidarity,
since he has been detained in the Hague.

He said that he feels well, that his consciousness is completely clean,
that everything he did as president of Serbia and Yugoslavia was based
on the Constitution, Law and on legitimate interests of the people and
State. He especially underlined that he organized resistance to NATO
military aggression because it was his main constitutional obligation
as a head of State and as a patriot. On other side were the ones who
violated UN Charter and basic principles of the international law,
caused numerous human victims and mass destruction and who by
groundless charges against him want to cover their indisputable
responsibility.

During the hours-long talk, actual situation in Serbia, Yugoslavia and
in the Balkans, continuous worsening of the economic, social, political
and security conditions, attacks on freedom, independence and
territorial integrity of our and other countries in this part of
Europe, have been discussed. Special attention has been paid to the
activities of the Socialist Party of Serbia as the most influential and
biggest opposition party in situation when there is an overall
deterioration of the life conditions, when consciousness about the
disastrous consequences of the DOS regime policy increases and when
early elections become inevitable.

Position of president Milosevic is that in such conditions the most
important is strengthening of unity within SPS, respecting the will and
expectations of the members and supporters of SPS and everyday
strengthening of the thighs with and of the presence of SPS among
citizens, workers, peasants, intellectuals - all those who live from
their work and whose interests are directly damaged by the policy of
the regime. The Socialist Party of Serbia as the only political force
that always consequently struggles for the protection of the State and
its integrity, that firmly opposes any separatism and terrorism, that
stands for social equality and justice, that has proved its strategic
orientation to equal cooperation in the region, in Europe and in the
world - is the only force capable to secure conditions for peaceful and
stable development of the country, he underlined. Exactly for that
reason, SPS is exposed to enormous pressures and threats and is obliged
to oppose these pressures and threats by stronger determination in
political struggle and by clearer oppositional stands of its
parliamentary clubs, party organs and leadership. The Socialist Party
of Serbia should not allow to anybody and anything in this critically
important period to turne the Party from its strategic course of the
strongest defense of national, social, cultural and other legitimate
interests of our country and its citizens.

This was the first visit of SPS representatives to president Milosevic,
since he has been detained in the Hague. Visits of the representatives
and delegations of SPS will continue regularly in the future.

During its short stay in the Hague, the delegation had meetings and
talks with several scientists, jurists and public personalities from
the Netherlands, Russia, Canada, Italy and other countries, who have
just visited president Milosevic, or who shall visit him in following
days.

The delegation did not have any difficulties neither in the Hague
detention unit, nor during the two days stay in the Netherlands.


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)

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The URL for this article is
http://www.icdsm.org/more/20th.htm

======================================Let's Send A Message To The Hague 'Humanitarians'
-Authors listed below
======================================
The people who bombed Yugoslavia are punishing President Slobodan
Milosevic
for defying them. Let's do some defying ourselves. Flood The Hague with
telegrams and letters on Milosevic's 60th birthday, Aug. 20, supporting
his
resistance.

Please send letters and especially telegrams to:
President Slobodan Milosevic
Huis van Bewaring Pompstationsweg 46a
2597GX Den Haag
The Netherlands

Why send telegrams and letters? And why before August 20th?

****************************
The Full Treatment
****************************

When former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic appeared before The
Hague
Tribunal on July 2, Judge Richard May told him (and the world):

'You will be accorded the full rights of the accused, according to
international law, '

One analyst asked: What are the rights of a kidnap victim under
international
law? ( http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/point1.htm )

This has been clarified.

1) The right to isolation. President Milosevic has been held in
solitary
confinement for six weeks despite his protest and the official UN
position,
that: "Efforts addressed to the abolition of solitary confinement as a
punishment, or to the restriction of its use, should be undertaken and
encouraged." (http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/35.shtml)

2) The right not to sleep. During the first several days, the lights
were
never turned off in Milosevic's cell. As a corollary, video cameras are
trained on Milosevic at all times, thus providing the right to no
privacy

3) The right to be denied counsel of your choice. After weeks of
haggling,
one of Mr. Milosevic's Yugoslav attorneys has finally been allowed to
see
him. However, the Dutch government, acting, it says, under instructions
from
the 'Tribunal,' has denied the other Yugoslav attorney a visa.

4) The right to witness the mistreatment of your loved ones. Mr.
Milosevic's
wife is treated like a criminal when she comes to Holland, confined to
a
hotel room when not visiting her husband from whom she is separated by
a
plane of glass. (Thus the Tribunal, a United Nations organization,
expresses
the UN's declared goal that: "All prisoners shall be treated with the
respect
due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings."

*********************************************
The 'Tribunal' Makes It Perfectly Clear
*********************************************

The treatment of Milosevic, a former head of state, and of the other
Serbian
prisoners in The Hague, clarifies what the NATO leaders who control
this jail
mean when they speak of bringing humanitarian values to the world. Is
it an
accident that the Tribunal's jail is located in Schevenieng, the very
village
where the German Nazi's detained members of the Dutch Resistance before
shooting them?

For ten years a compliant media has drummed anti-Milosevic horror tales
into
our heads until it's hard to think straight. But who is really guilty?
Who
has murdered thousands of Yugoslavs with bombs dropped from a coward's
height? Who has driven over a million people of all nationalities into
homelessness in Serbia? Who has unleashed fascist secessionists
throughout
the Balkans, supporting them with arms and training, and lauding them
as
democrats, forcing victims to 'negotiate' with their murderers? Who has
waged
low-level nuclear war, turning Kosovo, focus of one 'humanitarian
crusade,'
into a radioactive dump?

To his great credit Milosevic used his July appearance at the Tribunal
to
declare: "This Tribunal aims to produce false justification for the war
crimes of NATO committed in Yugoslavia."
(http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/point1.htm)

******************************************************
You Can Take A Stand - Before August 20th!
******************************************************

By refusing to bow before the NATO criminals, Milosevic has done the
world an
incalculable service. In response NATO is trying to break his spirit.
Therefore we urge every individual and every group to send letters and
Telegrams of support to Milosevic. August 20th is his 60th birthday. It
is in
no way sentimental to urge people: send Milosevic letters and
especially
Telegrams before his birthday August 20th. Through this small gesture
you
will serve notice on the 'Tribunal' that you are watching everything
they do,
and you will also help sustain the courage of this man who, kept in
isolation
and mistreated, is sustained in his principled stance by the justice of
his
defense of Yugoslav sovereignty, and his opposition to NATO, and by the
support that burns in your heart.

Please send letters and especially telegrams to:
President Slobodan Milosevic
Huis van Bewaring Pompstationsweg 46a
2597GX Den Haag
The Netherlands

Signed:

Klaus Hartmann, Vice-Chairman, Committee to Defend Milosevic, Germany
Jared Israel, www.emperors-clothes.com , USA
Ian Johnson, North West Regional Secretary, Socialist Labour Party,
England
Mihail N. Kuznecov, Professor of International Law, Russian Federation
Nico
Varkevisser, www.targets.org , The Netherlands

http://www.icdsm.org


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ESCE IN SERBIA "WINDOWS 2001"

Dopo la... prima edizione - del 1999, che aveva ispirato una serie di
cartoline sarcastiche dedicate ai bombardamenti, raccolte anche in un
sito internet (ora apparentemente oscurato: http://www.windows99.org.yu)
- la Microsoft di Bill Gates sfonda finalmente, per davvero, in Serbia,
offrendosi di modernizzare l'amministrazione dello Stato con i suoi
mediocri prodotti e con i suoi ben noti virus informatici.


MICROSOFT IS COMING TO SERBIA, SAYS DJINDJIC
BELGRADE, Aug 7 (Beta)-The U.S. company Microsoft will soon open an
office in Belgrade, which will help to develop information technology in
Yugoslavia and enable Yugoslav companies to work on the Microsoft
platform.
This agreement was reached by representatives of Microsoft and the
Serbian government.
The secretary of the Serbian government's Information and Internet
Development Agency, Branislav Andjelic, told BETA in a phone
conversation, that this office should be opened between October 2001 and
January 2002.
Andjelic added that they also agreed that Microsoft should support at
least two projects of modernizing the Serbian state administration.
Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and the Agency's Secretary Andjelic
talked with Microsoft's president Steven Belmore and the company's
founder Bill Gates at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond.

DJINDJIC: MICROSOFT BELIEVES IN SERBIA
BEOGRAD, Aug 9 (Free Serbia) - Microsoft will open a branch office in
Belgrade by the end of the year. The US company will provide a
10-million-dollar grant for the education system in Serbia and aid
modernization of the Serbian government's infrastructure by introducing
new ITs, said Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic after talking with Microsoft
chairman Steve Balmer and founder Bill Gates.
The Serbian PM said he was confident that cooperation with Microsoft
would encourage other investors to take interest in the Serbian market,
since the US company is known in the world of business for careful
market analyses.
Stressing that Microsoft profits in Serbia are almost zero at the
moment, while their business strategy was to establish themselves in a
country only after their profits exceed 2 million dollars a year,
Djindjic said Microsoft's decision to open an office in Belgrade had a
political background, but also called it a gesture of trust in
government estimates that the decision would be good for business in a
few years.

KOSTUNICA MEETS COMPUTER GIANTS
BELGRADE, June 7 (FoNet/AFP) Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica met Microsoft Chairman for Europe Michel Lacombe today
following announcements that the computer giant would advise Belgrade on
technological development.
A statement from the office of the president said that Lacombe
confirmed Microsoft's interest in the long-term development of
corporate cooperation with Yugoslavia.
Kostunica said he hoped that new legislation would soon be adopted
to bring the country into line the world's technological standards.
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic had announced earlier that
Microsoft would in the future advise Yugoslav and Serbian governments
on the introduction of technology into the health, education, customs
and tax systems. "I hope both sides will benefit from this cooperation,"
Djindjic said, announcing also that Microsoft would soon be opening
offices in Belgrade.

MICROSOFT TO ADVISE SERBIA ON IT
BELGRADE, June 7 (FoNet) Microsoft has today signed up to serve
in a consultancy role to the Serbian government on the issue of
introducing new computer technologies.
Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic said that today's agreement
"won't be commercial in character for the time being".

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