Informazione
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".
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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".
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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.
C Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky, Ottawa, August, 2001. All rights
reserved. Permission is granted to post this text on non-commercial
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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.
C Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky, Ottawa, August, 2001. All rights
reserved. Permission is granted to post this text on non-commercial
community internet sites, provided the essay remains intact, the
copyright
note is
displayed and no headers or footers are added to the article without
consulting the author. To publish this text in printed and/or other
forms,
including commercial internet sites and excerpts, contact the author at
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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
---
> 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
---
"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)
---
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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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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nelle carceri di Zenica (Federazione croato-musulmana) per crimini
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[Emperor's Clothes]
=========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."
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
----
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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
----
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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
Translated by Snezana Lazovic [23 June 2000]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[Emperor's Clothes]
=========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."
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
----
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.
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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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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?"
FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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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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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)
---
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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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)
---
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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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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August 8, 2001
Iranian gunrunners detained in Kosovo
By CNN National Security Producer Chris Plante
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Three Iranians have been arrested
in Kosovo for allegedly running arms to rebels
fighting in Macedonia, U.S. military officials told
CNN.
The Iranians, arrested in July, were said to have been
working for a non-governmental organisation in Kosovo
when British troops detained them near the border with
Macedonia.
Ethnic Albanian rebels in the Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia have been fighting for improved rights
since February.
Peace talks have been taking place over the last week
between Slav and Albanian political leaders and
although there has been progress no deal has yet been
signed.
It is believed that the Iranian nationals were in
Kosovo "helping ethnic Albanians in the area" based on
their shared Muslim faith, according to officials.
They said that the Iranians were caught in possession
of a small cache of arms.
Another U.S. official told CNN the men were determined
by British troops to be "anti-West", but showed "no
indication they were planning any" action against NATO
forces there.
They were detained on or around July 20, according to
the official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
He said that they were "expected to be released
shortly", but could not provide specifics.
The three Iranians are among "several dozen" people
currently incarcerated at the U.S. Army prison
facility at Camp Bondsteel in the troubled Yugoslav
province of Kosovo, officials said.
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/08/07/kosovo.arrest/index.html
---
Handelsblatt
August 6, 2001
"Our objection to the NATO troops deployment is
fundamental in nature. The Western alliance is not
suited to serving as a mediator for peace in
Macedonia, since it supported...the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) in the Kosovo conflict, and it did not
demand its disarmament."
MPs Revolt over Plans to Send Troops to Macedonia
HB/sms OHRID/BERLIN. A rebellion among
parliamentarians from Germany's governing parties
looks set to place a question mark over the country's
participation in a planned North Atlantic Treaty
Office mission to the former Yugoslav republic of
Macedonia.
On Monday, representatives of the Macedonian
government and the country's ethnic Albanian minority
surprisingly broke off talks that were thought to have
been aimed at putting the finishing touches to a peace
deal. Reports from the Macedonian town of Ohrid, where
the talks were being held, suggest that the Macedonian
government unexpectedly made fresh demands to which
the Albanian representatives could not agree.
But preparations are continuing for a mission of 3,000
NATO troops to help disarm the ethnic Albanian rebels
who have taken control of parts of northern Macedonia.
The mission NATO spokesman Barry Johnson said the
first soldiers could start to be stationed within the
republic within 48 hours of an agreement.
The participation of German troops in the mission will
have to be ratified by the Bundestag (lower house of
parliament) at a special session. Government spokesman
Uwe-Karsten Heye said no date had as yet been set for
the session.
But so far some 28 Bundestag members from Germany's
main governing party, the Social Democrats (SPD), have
voiced their intention to vote against the country's
involvement in the mission. They look set to be joined
by up to seven members from the junior coalition
partner, the environmentalist Greens. And the
center-right Christian Democrat-led opposition parties
have said they will oppose German involvement on
financial grounds.
SPD parliamentarian Harald Friese, who initiated the
rebellion, told Handelsblatt: "Our rejection of the
NATO troops deployment is fundamental in nature. The
Western alliance is not suited to serving as a
mediator for peace in Macedonia, since it supported
the (ethnic Albanian) Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in
the Kosovo conflict, and it did not demand its
disarmament."
Macedonia borders the autonomous Yugoslav province of
Kosovo, from which thousands of ethnic Albanians were
displaced as a result of the conflict with Serbian
forces that culminated in a Nato intervention in 1999.
The parliamentary SPD's expert on foreign policy, Gert
Weisskirchen, stressed that KLA disarmament is a
precondition for a NATO deployment. This was also
stressed by Greens parliamentarian Angelika Beer, who
expressed doubt as to whether the KLA would ever
actually meet this condition.
Weisskirchen, meanwhile, was more upbeat, saying
despite the rebellion from within the government's own
ranks, he's still sure that parliament will approve
German involvement in a NATO mission. He suggested
that some of the rebels were not yet aware that NATO
troops would be entering Macedonia at the request of
both sides in the conflict.
HANDELSBLATT, Montag, 06. August 2001
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http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=94434
Kathimerini
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2001
FYROM says US ties its hands
By Misha Savic
The Associated Press
OHRID - A key legislator in the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) complained bitterly
yesterday about US efforts to halt the flow of weapons
into this troubled Balkan country, arguing that guns
are needed for government forces battling ethnic
Albanian insurgents. Speaking at a rally during
FYROM's main national holiday, Parliament Speaker
Stojan Andov protested that "the international
community had shifted from its earlier condemnation of
the rebels" to "trying now to block our imports of
weapons."
Despite a breakthrough Wednesday on some aspects of a
peace plan, Andov, speaking in the central FYROM town
of Kursevo on the holiday Ilinden, or St. Elias,
insisted there would be no lasting peace until all
insurgents were disarmed.
His comments were echoed by Prime Minister Ljubco
Georgievski, who said signing a peace agreement "under
conditions where the terrorists are still in the
mountains and control territories would be a shameful
pact for Macedonia that would make any Macedonian
citizen feel humiliated."
Andov's frustration with the international community
was triggered by a visit by US President George W.
Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to
Ukraine last month. There, she won some assurances
that Ukraine, FYROM's key arms supplier, would stop
the sales.
Rice cited fears that more arms to the troubled Balkan
country could prolong the months-old conflict and
undermine peace talks in which US and European Union
envoys are actively mediating between the majority
Slav-Macedonians and ethnic Albanians, who say they
are fighting for broader rights. Since Rice's visit,
Ukrainian officials have sent mixed signals, with some
saying they would comply and others insisting that
some forms of "military cooperation" would continue.
Negotiators in FYROM reached an agreement Wednesday to
allow the Albanian language to become an alternative
official language for the minority, which accounts for
nearly a third of FYROM's 2 million people. US envoy
James Pardew stressed that agreement still had to be
reached on other aspects of the peace plan, adding
negotiations are "far from finished."
Ethnic Albanians are demanding that the country's
police forces be restructured, giving them the right
to elect police commanders in regions where they live.
Slav-Macedonians are resisting the idea, fearing they
will lose control over the areas forever. They regard
ethnic Albanian demands as a strategy to carve off a
piece of territory that ethnic Albanian militants
already control.
Georgievski has repeatedly demanded that a hardline
stance be taken against the rebels. "We have to secure
territorial integrity and then move on to signing
agreements that we consider would be in the interests
of Macedonia," he said yesterday.
Western officials have repeatedly condemned the
rebels' insurgency. NATO peacekeepers deployed in
neighboring Kosovo have worked hard to choke off
weapons supplies to rebels coming from the southern
Serbian province.
---
URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/spsm.htm
Statement of the Socialist Party of Serbia
DEFEND MACEDONIA AGAINST TERROR AND SEPARATISM
[1 August 2001]
The Socialist Party of Serbia condemns the escalation of violent
separatism
against our neighbor, Macedonia, caused by the organized spread of the
terrorism of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to Macedonia and
southern Serbian municipalities. This is due to the systematic violation
of
Security Council Resolution 1244, especially the failure [by NATO] to
fulfil
its obligation to disarm terrorists, and due to support for the KLA by
NATO
structures. The aim is to create Greater Albania, to change
internationally
recognized borders to the detriment of Serbia and Yugoslavia, of
Macedonia
and of Greece. This is leading towards deepening instability in the
Balkans
and threatens the stability of the entire Mediterranean area.
The Socialist Party of Serbia resolutely supports the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Macedonia and reiterates its solidarity with
the
fraternal Macedonian people in protection of its legitimate national and
state interests and expresses condolences to the Macedonian people and
especially to those families who have been victims of the terrorist
forces.
The Socialist Party of Serbia stands for peace and stability in the
Balkans,
for equal cooperation and integrational processes, for respect of
internationally recognized borders. The SPS resolutely opposes any
policy of
domination, foreign military presence, imposition of new divisions
(leading
to spheres of interest) in the Balkans and against misuse of separatism
and
terrorism to that end. Preservation of Yugoslavia and the solution of
the
Kosovo and Metohija issue within Serbia and Yugoslavia are crucial in
order
to achieve stabilization and peace in the Balkans.
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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Subject: Human Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:56:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff@...>
To: r_rozoff@...
Human Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
by Rick Rozoff
August 1, 2001
Human Rights Watch, whose interests and positions so
closely (suspiciously if you like) parallel those of
the United States State Department, politely requests
that the political leader of the self-styled National
Liberation Army in Macedonia, the lifelong separatist
extremist Ali Ahmeti, abide by "international
humanitarian law." (The Human Rights Watch appeal is
appended below.)
Though, contrary to the title of the missive, the
letter in fact requests that both sides in the
conflict - the legitimate, legally-elected government,
and the armed insurgency launched from Kosovo and
Albania - respect Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions pertaining to what Human Rights Watch
characterizes as "internal armed conflicts." In
keeping with HRW's stated policy of 'deferring
judgment' on the legitimacy of said internal armed
conflicts, its spokeperson, Holly Cartner, fully
equates the aggressor and the victim; the
legally-constituted authority, which is not accused of
either provoking or even creating any pretext for the
armed uprising, and the crime syndicate-linked and
-funded racial terrorists.
In the interim between the deferential letter from Ms.
Carter to Mr. Ahmeti almost three months ago and now,
Ahmeti and his pan-Albanian mercenaries have unleashed
a full-scale insurrection throughout the nation,
ethnically cleansing dozens of villages and
contributing to the displacement of - by some
estimates - over 120,000 civilians, a sizeable
percentage of Macedonia's two million people. Human
Rights Watch has kept a low profile since on this
issue, except for reports on alleged mistreatment of
ethnic Albanians and Western press personnel. When an
organization like HRW advances its concerns from those
affecting non-combatants in "internal armed conflicts"
to the mistreatment, real or fancied, of insurgents -
which is certainly impending - then it crosses the
threshold of supposed impartiality into treating the
belligerents as equal parties to the conflict, and
thus "internationalizes" what in truth is a matter of
internal criminal law enforcement. That HRW has at
least left the door open for such a prospect is
evident by Cartner's following up her reference to the
Geneva Conventions by her revealing invocation of the
"fundamental principle[s] of the laws of war."
Who is Dear Mr. Ahmeti?
Holly Cartner, Executive Director of Human Rights
Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division, has kept a
close enough eye on the Balkans over the past years to
know who she was so respectfully writing to. For
anyone not familiar with Mr. Ahmeti, whose history
suggests someone anything but dear, he possesses, to
employ an expression familiar to the American if not
the Albanian underworld, a rap sheet as long as his
arm.
Regarding his recent activties, in addition to waging
war against the sovereign nation of Macedonia and its
civilian population from his base in Prizren in
Kosovo, Ahmeti reportedly found time to appear on an
Australian radio broadcast and announce the launching
of a Liberation Army of Chameria in Northern Greece,
claiming he already had fighters and weapons in place
there.
When questioned about this, the latest plan for his
decades' old project for a Greater Albania, he denied
it - but then Ahmeti has denied a number of things in
his lifetime.
Had he been asked about his clandestine meeting with
American OSCE representative Robert Frowick in mid-May
of this year - a meeting held in Ahmeti's headquarters
in Kosovo with Macedonian ethnic Albanian political
leaders, and cabinet ministers, Arben Xhaferi and Imer
Imeri - he might well have denied that also, except
that Frowick himself didn't deny that it occurred. In
a feature in the London Times on March 19, 2001,
"Albanians Insist Their Victory Is Inevitable," writer
Anthony Loyd, commenting on the NLA in Macedonia, had
this to say about Mr. Ahmeti's antecedents:
"Intelligence reports name four main figures,
including Ali Ahmeti and Emrush Xhemajii, as leaders.
Both men owe their political allegiance to the Popular
Movement for Kosovo, the LPK, which set up the KLA in
1993 and created the Homeland Calling funding scheme
among Albanians abroad. The scheme still exists and
funding for the NLA has been launched, say diplomats."
But his record as an ethnic separatist goes back
farther than 1993. Though born in what is now the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he attended the
University of Pristina in the Serbian province of
Kosovo in 1981, where he was active in pan-Albanian
agitation and was arrested by federal authorities
there.
He subsequently left for Switzerland, where he joined
up with his uncle, Fazli Veliu, to set up an
international operation to raise funds and recruit
fighters for insurrections in Kosovo and elsewhere; an
operation that several investigations establish was
funded by narcotics trafficking and the European sex
slave trade.
On this score the German newspaper Die Welt reported
in March, in an article about the Albanian mafia, that
the NLA in Macedonia was indeed funded by the drug
trade and by a "war tax" levied on ethnic Albanians
living abroad.
Ali Ahmeti and Fazli Veliu (the second arrested on
terrorism charges in Germany last year, but released
shortly thereafter) are identified as key ringleaders
in the crime syndicate/armed insurgency collaboration.
Ahmeti, after leaving Switzerland for the first time,
returned to Yugoslavia to help found the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army, as noted above, and appears to
be the key liaison between the fighters on the ground
and the Transatlantic ethnic Albanian gun-running and
recruitment operation feeding the first with
personnel, funds and weapons.
In the past twenty six months since NATO-led KFOR
forces occupied Kosovo, with their KLA adjuncts in
tow, Ahmeti - who during the fighting had been a
commander for the infamous war criminal Ramush
Haradinaj - returned to Kosovo where he set up
operation in Prizren.
It was there, and recall that Ahmeti claims to be a
citizen of Macedonia concerned about alleged "civil
rights" in that nation, that he met with the heads of
Macedonia's two largest ethnic political parties, the
Democratic Party of Albanians and the Party for
Democratic Progress, under the auspices of U.S. OSCE
operative Robert Frowick.
It may also have been in Prizren, if not in Skopje
itself, that, according to the Skopje newspaper
Makedonija Denes, Ahmeti met with former NATO head and
current European Union foreign affairs chief Javier
Solana, with Kosovo Protection Corps commander and war
criminal Agim Ceku, and with KLA commander Haradinaj.
According to a Yugoslav Tanjug account of the
Macedonian paper's story, "It was agreed that Solana,
currently visiting Macedonia, bring pressure to bear
on the Macedonian government to halt the government
forces' operations for liberating Aracinovo village
near the capital Skopje" - the site of the U.S.-led
rescue of a hundred or more NLA fighters shortly
thereafter.
[http://www.tanjug.co.yu/Arhiva/2001/Jun%20-%2000/26-06e10.html%5d
Although Ahmeti recently made it on to the U.S. black
list and is also persona non grata in Switzerland of
late, his movements in and out of Kosovo, surely known
to if not coordinated by NATO's KFOR contingent, seem
blissfully unimpeded.
Lastly, to reflect on both Human Rights Watch and on
its dear Mr. Ahmeti, five days before Holly Cartner's
ever so reverential letter was issued, Ahmeti's
terrorists ambushed and killed eight Macedonian
security personnel.
Ahmeti told a Reuters reporter after the incident
that, "Our soldiers acted in self-defense." And no
doubt, in his mind and in Ms. Cartner's, according to
Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions relating to
"internal armed conflicts" and to "humanitarian law."
For the above crime was not mentioned in the exchange
between Dear Mr. Ahmeti and Holly Cartner,
respectfully.
______________________________________________
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/05/macedonia_ltr3.htm.
Letter to NLA Political Spokesman Ali Ahmeti
May 4, 2001
Mr. Ali Ahmeti
Political Spokesman for the National Liberation Army
(NLA)
Dear Mr. Ahmeti,
Human Rights Watch is a privately funded international
non-governmental organization dedicated to documenting
human rights abuses throughout the world. In the past
ten years, we have committed substantial time and
effort to investigating violations of human rights and
humanitarian law in the former Yugoslavia. We have
documented violations of international humanitarian
law by all sides of the armed conflicts in Croatia,
Bosnia, Kosovo, and the NATO war with the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Reports of the renewed conflict in the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia between security forces and
armed groups of ethnic Albanians raise concerns
relating to adherence to international humanitarian
law. As in all other conflicts in the territory of the
former Yugoslavia, our principal concern is that all
parties involved respect civilian immunity and ensure
the protection of civilians.
Human Rights Watch wants to express its concern that
the groups organized under the name of National
Liberation Army (NLA) take all measures to comply with
basic principles of international humanitarian law
applicable to situations of internal armed conflict,
and enshrined in Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions. This provision protects those who do not
take an active part in hostilities from the most
serious violations, including acts of murder, torture
and cruel treatment, the taking of hostages, outrages
upon personal dignity, and the passing of sentences
and the carrying out of executions without previous
judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court.
With regard to the renewed fighting, the NLA
leadership should refrain from any attacks against
civilians, attacks and reprisals against civilian
objects, as well as threats of violence the primary
purpose of which is to spread terror among the
civilian population.
We also call on the NLA leadership to ensure that the
civilian population of the affected areas enjoys as
much protection as possible against dangers of harm
resulting from the fighting. The most fundamental
principle of the laws of war requires that combatants
be distinguished from noncombatants, and that military
objectives be distinguished from protected property or
protected places. Parties to a conflict must direct
their operations only against military objectives
(including combatants). Also, the use of civilians as
shields for defensive positions, to hide military
objectives or to screen attacks, violates the
principles of the international humanitarian law.
We also note that the jurisdiction of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) applies to serious violations of
international humanitarian law committed after 1991 on
the territory of the former Yugoslavia, including the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Human Rights Watch also recognizes the obligations of
the Macedonian security forces to uphold the standards
of international humanitarian law and urges their
adherence to these norms. Letters expressing Human
Rights Watch's concerns to this effect are being sent
to the president and the prime minister of the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
We hope, Mr. Ahmeti, that you will give serious
thought to the points addressed in this letter and,
guided by consideration for human life and well-being,
do everything in your power to ensure that the NLA
respects obligations under international humanitarian
law.
Respectfully,
/s/
Holly Cartner
Executive Director
Europe and Central Asia Division
cc: Mrs. Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor, ICTY
---
Subject: NEBOJSA MALIC: RAMBOUILLET REPEATED?
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:21:47 +0200
From: TARGETS <redactie@...>
To: office@...
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/26/11063.html
NEBOJSA MALIC: RAMBOUILLET REPEATED?
In February of 1999, after the staged "massacre" of 45 KLA bandits at
Racak, Madeleine Albright summoned the Yugoslav leadership to a castle
in
Rambouillet, France, where they were to sign a NATO ultimatum providing
for
their unconditional surrender. KLA's warlord Hashim Thaci, sitting right
across from Slobodan Milosevic, refused to sign the ultimatum himself
until
the very last moment - thus making it appear as if the KLA was not too
thrilled with it either, while giving Albright and her warlord Wesley
Clark
an official excuse to bomb Yugoslavia. Milosevic, aware of the
ultimatum's
provisions, refused to submit. Rambouillet would have become a synonym
for
outrage in international affairs, had it not been overshadowed by NATO's
subsequent terror-bombing.
Yet here it is, nearly three years hence, and a Rambouillet-style
capitulation is being demanded of another country, Yugoslavia's weakened
southern neighbor, which has been, until recently, an obedient vassal of
the NATO Empire.
MACEDONIA AFLAME
Images that were beamed to TV screens across the world on Monday and
Tuesday were eerily reminiscent of Sarajevo in 1992, another city marked
with urban battles and quarter-to-quarter shelling, with devastating
effects. Two days of heavy fighting caused mounting casualties and
streams
of refugees. Contrary to ominous predictions in the world media, this
was
not full-scale civil war, at least not yet. If anything, the fighting in
Tetovo was intended as a warning, a foretaste of what was to come if the
Macedonian government were to continue refusing the so-called "peace"
proposal brokered by EU/NATO/U.S.
Macedonians fled Tetovo in droves, joining their compatriots expelled at
gunpoint from villages above the city, now under UCK control. A large
group
of them rioted in Skopje Tuesday night, attacking the US Embassy,
British
Airways office, OSCE offices and a McDonalds.
UCK bandits had almost reached the town center of Tetovo before a new
cease-fire was called Tuesday. Additionally, member of the bandit
"General
Staff" Nazmi Beqiri told Reuters the UCK had two brigades operating
around
the town of Gostivar in the southwest.
The fighting came in the wake of collapsing "peace talks" - sessions in
which Imperial legates James Pardew and Francois Leotard attempted to
impose the ready-made "agreement" on local participants. Macedonian
representatives refused to sign them last weekend, supposedly over the
issues of Albanian language and local policing.
DESPERATE FUMBLE
That is not what the Macedonian representatives said, denouncing the
plan
as "serious interference in internal Macedonian affairs."
Said Prime Minister Georgievski, "Now the masks are off and it is clear
that the terrorist organisations in Macedonia enjoy serious backing and
logistical support from Western democracies." (AFP)
His government, however, has no clue what to do next. It is far easier
to
oppose the West verbally than in practice, especially since the horrid
lesson of Serbia drove home the possible consequences of such an act.
Furthermore, Macedonia's leaders see their future in becoming part of
the
EU, perhaps hoping that this would guarantee their country's sovereignty
and security. This is a false hope at best, a dangerous delusion at
worst.
A chorus of voices from the West is denouncing the Macedonians for
refusing
to cave in, and at the same time denying doing so. Pardew and Leotard
also
reject accusations that they blamed Macedonians for the recent fighting.
But a Reuters report clearly mentions a Western diplomat saying that
"the
fighting played into the hands of hard-liners on the Macedonian side who
want to scupper talks on a peace deal.... Blame today's events on those
factions on one side who don't want peace." [Emphasis added.]
Not surprisingly, pro-establishment media in the West are leading the
way,
with all news agencies repeating phrases such as "hard-line elite" among
the "Macedonian Slavs" that "stokes nationalist fervor" through the
Prime
Minister's "tirades."
Having agreed to open the supposedly inviolate constitutional principles
to
discussion with his Albanian "partners" in government, Georgievski
severed
the branch he was sitting on and tumbled down the slope of negotiating
away
his country's sovereignty. His latest moves are less a renunciation of
this
immoral policy, however welcome that would have been, than an attempt to
get a better deal by playing the pouting child. He obviously did not
read
the script very well; only the prot?g?s of the Empire can play that role
and get away with it, from Alija Izetbegovic in Dayton to Hashim Thaci
in
Rambouillet.
Furthermore, Empire Casting C.S.A. has already given the role to Arben
Xhaferi and Imer Imeri. Their parties, DPA and PDP, are in effect a
political wing of the UCK - perhaps even officially, since they never
renounced the infamous Prizren protocol, signed with the KLA and UCK
leaders with American mediation. Thus positioned, they can easily
advance
the Albanian cause either through negotiations, or war. Indeed, PDP
leader
Imer Imeri told Reuters Tuesday, having "made a compromise by giving up
70
percent" of their demands, the Albanians were now "waiting for something
to
be decided on the military side."
THE ALBANIAN CAUSE (A REFRESHER)
The issue here is not one of language or civil rights. It never has
been.
The issue is one ethnic minority claiming nationhood status, and using
terrorism and propaganda about "human rights" to achieve its goal. First
of
all, no one fights for civil rights by taking up arms. The act in itself
creates too much bad blood for coexistence to be possible. Secondly,
language in the Balkans has always been a banner of not just
nationality,
but nationhood. That is why only Serbs will still sometimes say they
speak
Serbo-Croatian; others in the former Yugoslavia insist on "Croatian,"
"Bosnian" and even "Montenegrin." In other words: have language, need
nation-state.
In the case of Macedonian Albanians, they insist not on freedom to use
their own language, but a government-enforced privilege to not use
another.
Albanians need "their own social facilities" to feel at home, since one
cannot "create a new Macedonian identity including Albanians," says
professor Ismail Mehmeti, of the illegal Albanian university in Tetovo.
It
is a call for apartheid, a society deliberately separated from the rest
of
the country by language and ethnicity.
That separation is then only a step away from becoming physical. Why
else
would the UCK seize and hold territory, if its claim was not
territorial?
This logic is so overwhelming, and its denials by the UCK political wing
(Xhaferi's DPA and Imeri's PDP) and the Western powers so unfounded,
there
ought to be little doubt about the Albanians' true purpose - and the
support it has within the Empire.
A BETTER ANALOGY
On second thought, the current situation in Macedonia does not quite
resemble the situation in Rambouillet. Albright and her cohorts went to
France fully intent of launching a war against Milosevic and the Serbian
people. Their ultimatum was never meant to be accepted, only to serve as
a
whitewash for aggression. It mimicked Austria-Hungary pathetic excuse
for a
casus belli from 1914. Though the method of imposition is the same as
Dayton and Rambouillet, Empire's current strategy in Macedonia far more
closely matches Munich of 1938.
The focus of US/NATO/EU "peace" efforts has been to achieve the
Albanians'
military and political objectives peacefully, saving themselves the
trouble
of an embarrassing war. Covering up or spinning away all the crimes the
UCK
is likely to commit would represent a tremendous challenge, one they
would
rather not face. They have had plenty of trouble already with burying
the
story of water shortages in Kumanovo and ignoring tens of thousands of
Macedonians ethnically cleansed from UCK-occupied territories. Every so
often, information slips through.
So far, the "mediators" have used up most of their Balkans playbook.
There
were panicking Albanian refugees; "civilian" victims of unidentified
(but
strongly alleged to be Macedonian) shells inside Kosovo; a phony arms
embargo on the Kosovo-Macedonia border; reports of "human rights abuses"
by
the appropriate Western organizations; and now Rambouillet-like "peace
talks," in fact an ultimatum demanding one side's unconditional
surrender.
Three things have been conspicuously absent: a leader to be demonized,
atrocities to be presented as genocide and an actual intervention
against
whichever side needs to be pulverized.
Of course, with Skopje defending itself so ineptly and reluctantly,
there
is little need for these extreme measures. Unless something radically
changes, sooner or later Georgievski and Trajkovski will cave in, the
UCK
atrocities will be covered up, and the intervention will take on the
form
of "peacekeeping" and collecting a few token muskets from the
bandits-turned-policemen of the UCK. Albanians - if not the Albanian
state
per se - will have gotten their Sudetenland coup; within months, as soon
as
camera lights go off, Bulgarians (another loyal US ally) will march into
what is left of the vivisected country.
Macedonia will be no more. But there will be "stability" and
"compliance"
with the Empire's power - which is all its legates ever really wanted,
the
natives be damned. The Balkans would thus have "peace in our time."
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26 July 2001
Macedonia Accuses NATO of Siding With Militants
Summary
Macedonian lawmakers are rejecting NATO's terms for peace with
ethnic Albanian insurgents. In an unusual turn of events,
Macedonian officials accuse NATO of trying to divide the country
along ethnic lines by throwing its weight behind ethnic Albanian
militants. Civil war is now imminent.
Analysis
Ethnic Albanian militants, who on July 21 violated a weeks-old
cease-fire with the Macedonian government, have begun withdrawing
from strategic positions in the north. This follows days of
violence and anti-Western riots that threaten to hurl the country
into civil war.
Tensions remained high as officials from NATO and the European
Union attempted to negotiate a lasting cease-fire on July 26.
Days before, Macedonia's lawmakers had accused NATO of aiding
ethnic Albanian insurgents.
Though Western journalists have viewed the accusation as a surge
of nationalism typical for the Balkan region, NATO's recent
dealings with Albanian insurgents do suggest some degree of bias,
if not complicity.
Either through intent or mismanagement, NATO has helped prepare
the ground for civil war.
Macedonia is the one former Yugoslav republic that remained
stable during the past 10 years while bloody ethnic conflicts
consumed both Bosnia and Kosovo.
During the 1990s, nearly 100,000 people were killed and 3 million
displaced in the Balkans. Donor nations such as the United
States, Japan, Canada and members of the European Union shelled
out billions in reconstruction aid. Now, repeated incursions by
ethnic Albanian insurgents into Macedonian territories threaten
an encore of violence in the volatile region.
Far from being seen as a peace guarantor, NATO would bear part of
the blame for a new civil war. NATO-led peacekeeping forces,
known as KFOR, occupy a region of Kosovo bordering northwestern
Macedonia. By order of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244,
KFOR must secure arms and halt trafficking by Albanian militants,
but the force has failed to do so.
Albanian insurgents began filtering into Macedonia from KFOR-
occupied areas of Kosovo in February, and they have repeatedly
fired on national police.
KFOR has failed before to restrict the outflow of guns and
militants from Kosovo.
For most of 2000, Albanian militants pressed into southeastern
Serbia to annex three towns with an Albanian population majority.
Many of the same militants redeployed to towns around Macedonia's
Tetovo and Gostivar districts during the past five months.
As of the afternoon of July 25, militants were fighting for
control of more than 20 villages but began to withdraw hours
later in response to NATO requests.
With their borders still porous to armed insurgents, Macedonians
fear active sabotage by NATO. For example, although the U.S.
State Department hired contractor Military Professional Resources
Inc. to train Macedonia's security forces in 2001, reports from
Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and Macedonia indicate U.S.
soldiers also escorted Albanian militants a few miles outside the
Macedonian capital of Skopje only weeks ago. The Skopje bi-
monthly Forum says the dual U.S. support is a means to disable
Macedonia's defenses and to bolster the ethnic Albanians.
In both training and equipment, Macedonia's defense forces are
already at a substantial disadvantage. Albanians are using NATO-
issue 5.56 caliber weapons and third-generation, U.S.-issue
night-vision equipment, according to Russian media and Dnevnik,
the Skopje independent daily newspaper.
Moreover, Vremya Novosti, a Russian daily, reported on July 26
that U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said she
persuaded Ukrainian officials to cease arms shipments to
Macedonia. This could signal a potential arms embargo, further
undermining the Macedonian defenses.
Underscoring their suspicion of NATO, Macedonian government
officials were alarmed on July 21 when a KFOR helicopter violated
Macedonia's airspace and touched down at two northern towns held
by Albanian militants.
The country's Defense Ministry confirmed the landing, cited
eyewitness reports of cargo drops and demanded an explanation
from KFOR. KFOR officially denied aiding the rebels, saying its
flights were meant to help establish NATO communications along
the border.
Macedonia's majority party leaders also question NATO's political
neutrality. The alliance did not immediately condemn the
Albanians' recent violation of the cease-fire. Instead, American,
German and NATO officials have blamed lawmakers in Skopje for
disrupting the peace process by rejecting their proposals.
A peace proposal drafted by the United States and Europe -- and
backed by NATO envoys -- demands compromises on the national
language from Macedonia but no concessions from Albanian
militants. The proposal would require that all state certificates
and laws be printed in the Albanian Roman alphabet and in
Macedonia's official Cyrillic alphabet, while correspondence to
and from the central government could be in either alphabet.
Meanwhile, the proposal would also give smaller ethnic groups
such as Serbs, Turks, Vlachs and Roma equal rights in local
administrations where their populations exceed 20 percent, Radio
Free Europe reported.
Macedonian lawmakers consider the proposal excessive. To
Macedonia's non-Albanian legislators, who see Macedonia as more
accommodative of minority rights than most Balkan states, the
suggestions for compromises amount to arm-twisting. They also
smack of betrayal to Macedonia, which has always supported NATO's
deployment and occasionally unpopular U.S. foreign policy in the
region.
With its credibility in question, NATO may not be able to prevent
war in Macedonia. U.S. Embassy officials plan to evacuate
nonessential staff from Skopje.
On July 20, NATO postponed plans to disarm Albanian militants due
to the resumption of hostilities, and an envoy from the
Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe said the
alliance is helpless against ethnic cleansing by Albanians, the
Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA reported.
Macedonian officials are now willing to guard their borders
against NATO troops as well as Albanian militants. Prime Minister
Ljubco Georgievski plans to call a state of emergency. State
security forces locked down the borders on July 25, refusing
passage to KFOR and humanitarian aid workers.
The Albanian militants' campaign will likely continue,
irrespective of NATO's 11th-hour efforts to restore a cease-fire.
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July 25, 2001
Thousands Flee in Macedonia
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
TETOVO, Macedonia (AP) -- The government gave ethnic
Albanian rebels an ultimatum to pull back from around
the country's second-largest city or face a new army
offensive, as thousands of Macedonians streamed out of
the city in packed cars and buses.
NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson called the
situation ''critical'' and said he and the European
Union's foreign policy chief would fly to Macedonia on
Thursday for urgent mediation to prevent a descent
into full-scale civil war.
More than 8,000 people fled the area of the northern
city of Tetovo in the past 24 hours, the government
said, most heading for the capital Skopje after fierce
fighting Sunday and Monday shattered a fragile
cease-fire.
The exodus widened after Macedonia's defense minister
and interior minister on Wednesday warned that
military action was possible if the insurgents didn't
retreat.
''Unless the rebels pull out to their previous
positions ... we will no longer listen to suggestions
from any Western mediator, and an offensive is not
excluded as an option,'' the ministers said in a
statement.
In Brussels, Belgium, Robertson urged restraint. ''Any
efforts to resolve the situation militarily can only
result in the wreckage of the country and the
inflicting of grave civilian casualties,'' he said.
Overnight, mobs of Macedonians rampaged against
foreign embassies in Skopje, accusing NATO of
supporting the guerrillas. Protesters threw stones at
the U.S. Embassy late Tuesday, smashed entrances of
the British and German embassies and burned several
U.N. and other cars.
The clashes around Tetovo were the worst in months and
dimmed hopes that peace talks that collapsed last
month could be revived. Those fleeing the city largely
were ethnic Macedonians -- who form a majority in the
country but a minority in Tetovo.
One lifelong resident, Milina Stavreva, packed to
leave Wednesday, vowing never to return. ''Enough is
enough,'' said Stavreva, 60. ''We can no longer live
here.''
The militants launched their insurgency in February,
saying they were fighting for greater rights for
minority ethnic Albanians, who account for up to a
third of Macedonia's 2 million people. The government
alleges the rebels are linked to militants in
neighboring Kosovo and accuses them of trying to carve
out territory from Macedonia.
''It makes no sense to continue the talks as long as
the rebels are violating the cease-fire,'' government
spokesman Antonio Milososki told The Associated Press.
''If they don't return to their previous positions, we
will force them to do so.''
Britain's Foreign Office advised against all travel to
Macedonia, and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
strongly criticized the Macedonian government for
stirring up anti-Western sentiment.
Fischer said government statements helped create ''a
violent domestic climate'' and led to the embassy
attacks.
On Tuesday, Milososki accused Western mediators of
coordinating their efforts with the rebels and called
NATO ''a big friend of our enemies.''
On Wednesday, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in
Kosovo said it had detained more than 60 suspected
rebels from Macedonia, seizing weapons and ammunition
after intercepting three separate mule trains along
the rugged border.
Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski and Interior Minister
Ljube Boskoski gave the rebels until noon Wednesday to
pull back to their previous positions in Tetovo. That
deadline passed with no sign of an offensive.
Ministry spokesman Marjan Gjurovski said army barracks
and positions near Tetovo's soccer stadium came under
fire until 2 a.m. Wednesday. Tetovo's hospital said
five wounded were brought in overnight, and that they
included civilians and military personnel.
Several police checkpoints around the city were taken
by rebels, media reported.
"All our fears have proven true that the international
representatives are in close coordination with the
KLA. This is open, public coordination between the
mediators and the rebels."
Macedonia Accuses Western Officials
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Ethnic Albanian rebels
attacked an army barracks and surrounded four villages
on Tuesday, while mobs in the capital accused NATO of
siding with the guerrillas and attacked the U.S.,
British and German embassies.
Protesters threw stones at the U.S. Embassy, breaking
windows as riot police looked on but failed to
intervene.
A mob of several hundred people smashed the main doors
of the German and British embassies and the front of a
McDonald's restaurant. Vandals burned several cars
belonging to the United Nations and the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe before the
violent protests subsided early Wednesday.
Government spokesman Antonio Milososki on Tuesday
called NATO ''a big friend of our enemies.''
The protests came as rebels clashed with government
forces in Tetovo on Tuesday. The Defense Ministry said
that the rebels were advancing and had surrounded four
nearby villages.
Lightly armed Macedonian police abandoned several
checkpoints and were replaced by rebels in Tetovo,
Macedonia's second largest city, Macedonian media
reported.
A rebel commander, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said police were handing out arms to people
at one checkpoint. Rebels attacked Tetovo's army
barracks, but further details were not available.
Amid the growing hostilities, Macedonian authorities
closed the border with Kosovo and hundreds of
residents fled Tetovo and surrounding villages,
several of them now in rebel hands.
Army sources said fighting was still going on around 9
p.m. in and around Tetovo. ''Terrorists are using
heavy machine guns and mortars,'' one source said,
adding that rebel activity was particularly intense in
the Drenovec and Proj suburbs.
An hour later, fighting stopped, and a Macedonian TV
station reported that Peter Feith, NATO's special
envoy to Macedonia, had won a fresh cease-fire pledge
from Ali Ahmeti, the rebels' political leader.
The clashes followed some of the worst fighting in
Macedonia in months on Monday. Western diplomats on
Tuesday were trying to salvage peace talks designed to
prevent a full-scale civil war in this troubled Balkan
nation.
The militants launched their insurgency in February,
saying they were fighting for greater rights for
ethnic Albanians, who account for up to a third of
Macedonia's 2 million people. The government contends
they are trying to carve up the country.
But the talks have faltered and Monday's attack was
the largest violation yet of a cease-fire.
Meanwhile, Macedonian authorities accused NATO and
Western officials of siding with the rebels, dimming
prospects for the peace talks.
Up to 3,000 angry Macedonians protested in front of
parliament in Skopje, the capital, under a banner that
read, ''Who is protecting the terrorists? -- NATO.''
Milososki, the government spokesman, accused NATO and
Western officials of failing to respond to rebels'
''cleansing'' of Macedonian villages around Tetovo and
being biased in the negotiations.
''All our fears have proven true that the
international representatives are in close
coordination with the KLA,'' a reference to the
officially defunct Kosovo Liberation Army. ''This is
open, public cooperation between international
mediators and the rebels,'' Milososki told The
Associated Press.
Before Milososki spoke, NATO Secretary-General Lord
Robertson rejected similar Macedonian allegations over
the weekend that NATO-led forces in Kosovo had been
resupplying ethnic Albanian armed groups.
U.S. envoy James Pardew and his EU counterpart,
Francois Leotard, worked to revive peace talks that
collapsed late last week after majority Macedonians
refused to accept a provision that would make Albanian
an official language.
In a joint statement, Leotard and Pardew said they
''are shocked by allegations that they support the NLA
(rebel army) or that they lay responsibility for the
fighting in Tetotvo on the Macedonian security
forces.''
During a brief visit to Camp Bondsteel, the U.S.
military base in neighboring Kosovo, President Bush
issued a statement Tuesday backing efforts by Western
diplomats to broker a peace settlement, and called on
rebels and the Macedonian government to respect the
cease-fire.
''Those here in Kosovo who support the insurgency in
Macedonia are hurting the interests of ethnic
Albanians throughout the region,'' Bush said. ''The
people of Kosovo should focus on Kosovo.''
Earlier Tuesday, the Defense Ministry in a statement
admitted that the rebels were advancing in the recent
offensive and said that four Tetovo area villages had
been surrounded by ''terrorist forces.''
It said that late Monday and early Tuesday the rebels
had set up a checkpoint on the Tetovo-Gostivar road,
opening fire on vehicles that refused to stop.
A policeman died Tuesday from injuries he suffered
during clashes in the village of Lesok on Monday,
adding to an unconfirmed list of several fatalities
over the last two days, the ministry said.
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Subject: British Soldiers Fighting With Macedonian Rebels
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 08:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff@...>
To: r_rozoff@...
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960
Scotland On Sunday
July 15, 2001
British fighters seek thrill of battle in Macedonia's
struggle
FORMER British soldiers are fighting the Macedonian
security services as part of the ethnic Albanian
National Liberation Army, Scotland on Sunday has
learned.
Sources within the NLA confirmed that 12 British
nationals were fighting with them in the Kumanovo
region, along with at least two Dutch men and a
German.
The fighters are not of Albanian descent but are
believed to have fought in some of the wars in the
former Yugoslavia, including Croatia, Bosnia and
Kosovo.
The British contingent wasbased around the village of
Slupchane until the ceasefire which has been in place
for over a week. NLA commanders are taking advantage
of the ceasefire to rest their troops and send them to
Kosovo to recuperate.
Macedonians already feel persecuted by the Europeans
and the United States, whom they accuse of encouraging
the NLA.
Senior Macedonian officials said they were aware that
the NLA also included European former KLA fighters.
"We know they are there but they are not significant -
little more than drug addicts," one said.
Tim Ripley, a defence analyst at Lancaster University
who has been studying the Macedonian conflict, said he
was not surprised to learn that former British
soldiers and adventurers had joined the NLA.
"I heard that some British people were planning to
come out and join the NLA but I did not know if they
succeeded. These people are not classic mercenaries.
"They are likely to have fought in recent Balkan wars
and they are doing it for the adventure rather than
the money. All they will receive is board and pocket
money."
The use of foreign mercenaries is not restricted to
the NLA. The Macedonian government has bought a number
of helicopters and ground attack fighters from the
Ukraine and employed pilots to fly them. There have
also been persistent rumours that the Macedonian
security forces have been recruiting soldiers from
Serbia and Bulgaria.
One former British soldier arrived in Kosovo saying
that he had come to fight but had not yet decided for
which side.
Ripley said the Macedonians were also using military
assistance from abroad.
"The Macedonians have simply bought in an airforce
from the Ukraine and there are reports of Macedonian
soldiers who do not appear to speak or understand
Macedonian. There is a long tradition of this kind of
thing in the Balkans," he said.
The NLA began its insurrection against the Macedonian
government in February. It claims to be fighting for
civil rights for Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority,
which could make up one-third of the population.
Macedonians claim that the NLA has attacked Macedonia
from Kosovo and aims to split the country as part of a
wider campaign to form a greater Albania.
Fighting has officially been suspended although there
are regular gunfights as both sides re-supply their
troops.
Representatives of Albanian political parties are
negotiating with Macedonian parties, along with
Francois Leotard, the EU envoy and James Pardew, the
US envoy.
As the politicians speak the armed groups continue to
prepare for war.
This week, NLA fighters and military police were
walking freely around the suburbs of Tetovo,
Macedonia's second city, stopping cars and checking
papers.
New recruits could be seen heading off to the hills to
receive training.
Meanwhile, the Macedonians are transporting around
30tanks and armoured vehicles to the Ukraine to be
refurbished and equipped with night-vision equipment.
"They are clearly preparing for a long war," said
Ripley.
From Conal Urquhart in Skopje
Sunday, 15th July 2001
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An:
Betreff: UCK rescued
Sujet : Col. David Hackworth: Whose side are we really on?
Date : 10/07/01 15:37:28 Paris, Madrid (Heure d'été)
From: zana@... (Snezana Vitorovich)
To: wcg@...
Toogood Reports [Tuesday, July 10, 2001; 12:01 a.m. EST]
URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/
Last month, American troops in Macedonia rescued 400 Albanian
rebels
who were members of the 113th UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) Brigade. 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 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.
Retired four-stars don't run out of power until they hear taps.
Had
Vuono or another of his compadres such as Gen. Crosbie Saint picked up
the
phone and suggested the 502nd be sent to the rescue, that suggestion
would
have been taken as a virtual command.
MPRI even has a Web site — www.MPRI.com
— that boasts,
"We serve the needs of the U.S. government, of foreign
governments
and of the private sector with the highest standards and cost effective
solutions."
While Ollie North's Contra boys and the mercenaries who botched up
the
Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion might not have been so businesslike
— or so
blatant — they did establish an unfortunate tradition of
hired guns sticking
our nation into one minefield after another.
Dozens of ex-Army pals are presently working for the
ever-expanding
MPRI or other such military contractors in places like Saudi Arabia,
Taiwan,
ex-Yugoslavia and Colombia. We're talking booming business here.
But others have had the moral decency to say, "Take your
high-paying
mercenary job and stick it in your ear."
One still-serving three-war vet told me: "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. It's about time Congress did its duty and
enforced them.
-
Col. David Hackworth's military career spanned nearly a dozen
wars
and conflicts — from the end of World War II
— to the recent meltdown in the
ex-Yugoslavia. He enlisted in the merchant marine at 14, the U.S. Army
at
15. In almost 26 years in the Army he spent over seven years in combat
theaters, winning a battlefield commission in Korea and becoming the
youngest Army captain in that war. And then, it was on to Vietnam for
nearly
five years. In 1971, Hack was the youngest Army Colonel. [See Military
Awards & Decorations.] Col. Hackworth is a regular guest on radio and TV
shows, was Newsweek's contributing editor for defense, has been featured
in
People, Parade, Men's Journal, and has also been published in Playboy,
Soldier of Fortune, Self and Modern Maturity. His column, Defending
America,
appears weekly in newspapers across America. Hack's books include the
Vietnam Primer and the international best seller About Face: The Odyssey
of
an American Warrior and Hazardous Duty : One of America's Most Decorated
Soldiers Reports from the Front With the Truth About the U.S. Military
Today. His newest book is, The Price of Honor : A Novel.
July 10, 2001
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U.S. Ambassador Mobbed in Macedonia
by MISHA SAVIC
Associated Press Writer
July 7, 2001
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Villagers angry at being
expelled from their homes by a rebel advance mobbed an
American diplomat -- underlining the tense atmosphere
in which Western envoys are trying to transform a
cease-fire into a lasting peace in Macedonia.
More than 30 Macedonians forced from their homes when
ethnic Albanian rebels captured villages north of
Tetovo earlier this week mobbed Ambassador Michael
Einik after he met Friday with Tetovo mayor Murtezan
Ismali.
''We do not believe in any peace agreement,'' the
Slavic crowd shouted. ''How is it possible to have a
cease-fire when these terrorists are shooting on us?''
Bodyguards whisked the ambassador into his vehicle,
but the crowd swarmed and pounded on the car,
according to Forte Plus radio in Tetovo. Einik was not
injured.
The attack came as guns fell silent on the first day
of the cease-fire between the Macedonian government
and ethnic Albanian rebels, fighting for equal status
with their Slav neighbors in the small strife-torn
former Yugoslav republic.
Of Macedonia's two million people, at least one third
are ethnic Albanians who want their ethnic rights
codified in a new constitution.
Einik returned to Skopje, and later made a scheduled
visit to the city of Kumanovo, 15 miles northwest of
the capital, which has been another flashpoint.
The residents of the six occupied villages north of
Tetovo -- many of them communities of weekend mountain
homes -- have emerged as vociferous critics of the
Macedonian government's handling of the insurgency.
Despite the government's fierce refusal to negotiate
with the rebels, there are still segments of
Macedonian society that feel officials have not taken
a hard enough line, characterizing any cease-fire as
an unnecessary concession.
NATO and Macedonian army officials reported Friday
that the cease-fire was holding throughout the
country, with only sporadic gunfire. Macedonian Army
spokesman Col. Blogoja Markovsi said he did not
consider scattered incidents a provocation, but rather
''individual shots from rebels.''
The cease-fire gave U.S. envoy James Pardew and his
European Union counterpart Francois Leotard a window
of calm to work out details of a political framework
addressing ethnic Albanian demands for more
recognition and inclusion in Macedonian society. The
envoys spent Friday shuttling among political parties,
encouraging them to maintain restraint to allow
political progress.
Late Thursday, a German army convoy was fired, three
hours before the cease-fire, about 6 miles west of
Skopje, enroute from their base near Tetovo to the
port at Salonika, Greece, a transit point for supplies
to NATO troops in neighboring Kosovo.
Two of the vehicles were hit, one in a wheel, another
in a rear window, but no one was hurt, said Lt. Col.
Lt. Col. Peter Altmannsperger, a NATO spokesman. It
was unclear who fired the shots, but the incident
occurred some distance from any front line.
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http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=88158
KATHIMERINI
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2001
"The situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia is exceptionally critical."
"Sending out conflicting measures would contribute to
a continuation of the crisis."
"Extremists who turn their guns on democratic
institutions have no place at the negotiating table."
"We are categorically opposed to proposals for
ethnically 'clean' states which are aimed at redrawing
borders and population exchanges."
Athens fears FYROM could shake Balkans
Calls for a united response
Greece yesterday welcomed the cease-fire mediated by
NATO in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
(FYROM) but expressed fear that the situation in its
neighboring state "is exceptionally critical" and
could destabilize the entire region.
Athens has been trying to help defuse the situation in
FYROM, concerned about instability on its northern
border and the fate of sizable Greek investments in
the country. It has proposed an international
conference to solve the differences between the Slav
majority and ethnic Albanian minority and has also
offered about 300 troops for a NATO force that would
be deployed to safeguard a cease-fire.
Yesterday the Inner Cabinet discussed the situation in
the Balkans and Greece's investments in FYROM.
"The situation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia is exceptionally critical. The future of
FYROM, the protection of its integrity and
independence have a direct bearing on peace and
stability in the broader region," Foreign Minister
George Papandreou said in a statement afterwards. He
said the cease-fire was a "positive fact."
Government spokesman Dimitris Reppas also welcomed the
agreement. "I would like to express our satisfaction
at today's very positive development," he said. "This
could be the beginning of the end of the crisis."
Athens is afraid that the crisis in FYROM could
provide an arena for conflicting powers to compete
with each other. "(Greece) considers it essential that
there be close cooperation between Europe and the
United States, as well as with Russia, so that the
international community can act in a unified and
effective way throughout the entire region. Sending
out conflicting measures would contribute to a
continuation of the crisis," Papandreou said.
"The solution will have to be found by the legal
political forces that are represented in Skopje's
Parliament," Papandreou said. "Extremists who turn
their guns on democratic institutions have no place at
the negotiating table," he said.
At the Inner Cabinet meeting, fears were expressed
that the dismemberment of FYROM would lead to the
dissolution of Bosnia-Herzegovina and further changes
of borders in the region. "We are categorically
opposed to proposals for ethnically 'clean' states
which are aimed at redrawing borders and population
exchanges," Papandreou said.
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The Irish Times
Thursday, July 5, 2001
Rebel chief worked for UN funded force in Kosovo
The leader of the Macedonian rebels was originally
paid by the UN, writes Chris Stephen, in Pristina
MACEDONIA: The co-ordination of the international
community in the Balkans has been thrown into
confusion by revelations that the leader of
Macedonia's rebel army was a leading figure in
Kosovo's UN- funded civil defence force.
Before launching war in Macedonia, Commander Gezim
Ostremi was paid by the UN to help set up the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC), being appointed its
chief-of-staff.
Now President Bush has banned Commander Ostremi from
entry to the US, and accused five key members of the
KPC of aiding the rebels.
Yet the United Nations says it will take no action
against these five men, all still serving officers,
because Washington has yet to pass on details of what
the men are supposed to have done.
This row comes just as the US and the EU are groping
for a joint response to the escalating violence in
Macedonia, which yesterday saw rebels fighting
government forces in several places in the northern
mountains.
Yet while one part of NATO tries to stop the
guerrillas crossing the border from neighbouring
Kosovo, in Kosovo itself other parts of NATO and the
UN are busy paying and training them.
The KPC, formed at the end of the Kosovo war as part
of a deal between the former guerrillas of the Kosovo
Liberation Army and the UN. In return for the
guerrillas d<br/><br/>(Message over 64 KB, truncated)
Iranian gunrunners detained in Kosovo
By CNN National Security Producer Chris Plante
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Three Iranians have been arrested
in Kosovo for allegedly running arms to rebels
fighting in Macedonia, U.S. military officials told
CNN.
The Iranians, arrested in July, were said to have been
working for a non-governmental organisation in Kosovo
when British troops detained them near the border with
Macedonia.
Ethnic Albanian rebels in the Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia have been fighting for improved rights
since February.
Peace talks have been taking place over the last week
between Slav and Albanian political leaders and
although there has been progress no deal has yet been
signed.
It is believed that the Iranian nationals were in
Kosovo "helping ethnic Albanians in the area" based on
their shared Muslim faith, according to officials.
They said that the Iranians were caught in possession
of a small cache of arms.
Another U.S. official told CNN the men were determined
by British troops to be "anti-West", but showed "no
indication they were planning any" action against NATO
forces there.
They were detained on or around July 20, according to
the official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
He said that they were "expected to be released
shortly", but could not provide specifics.
The three Iranians are among "several dozen" people
currently incarcerated at the U.S. Army prison
facility at Camp Bondsteel in the troubled Yugoslav
province of Kosovo, officials said.
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/08/07/kosovo.arrest/index.html
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Handelsblatt
August 6, 2001
"Our objection to the NATO troops deployment is
fundamental in nature. The Western alliance is not
suited to serving as a mediator for peace in
Macedonia, since it supported...the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) in the Kosovo conflict, and it did not
demand its disarmament."
MPs Revolt over Plans to Send Troops to Macedonia
HB/sms OHRID/BERLIN. A rebellion among
parliamentarians from Germany's governing parties
looks set to place a question mark over the country's
participation in a planned North Atlantic Treaty
Office mission to the former Yugoslav republic of
Macedonia.
On Monday, representatives of the Macedonian
government and the country's ethnic Albanian minority
surprisingly broke off talks that were thought to have
been aimed at putting the finishing touches to a peace
deal. Reports from the Macedonian town of Ohrid, where
the talks were being held, suggest that the Macedonian
government unexpectedly made fresh demands to which
the Albanian representatives could not agree.
But preparations are continuing for a mission of 3,000
NATO troops to help disarm the ethnic Albanian rebels
who have taken control of parts of northern Macedonia.
The mission NATO spokesman Barry Johnson said the
first soldiers could start to be stationed within the
republic within 48 hours of an agreement.
The participation of German troops in the mission will
have to be ratified by the Bundestag (lower house of
parliament) at a special session. Government spokesman
Uwe-Karsten Heye said no date had as yet been set for
the session.
But so far some 28 Bundestag members from Germany's
main governing party, the Social Democrats (SPD), have
voiced their intention to vote against the country's
involvement in the mission. They look set to be joined
by up to seven members from the junior coalition
partner, the environmentalist Greens. And the
center-right Christian Democrat-led opposition parties
have said they will oppose German involvement on
financial grounds.
SPD parliamentarian Harald Friese, who initiated the
rebellion, told Handelsblatt: "Our rejection of the
NATO troops deployment is fundamental in nature. The
Western alliance is not suited to serving as a
mediator for peace in Macedonia, since it supported
the (ethnic Albanian) Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in
the Kosovo conflict, and it did not demand its
disarmament."
Macedonia borders the autonomous Yugoslav province of
Kosovo, from which thousands of ethnic Albanians were
displaced as a result of the conflict with Serbian
forces that culminated in a Nato intervention in 1999.
The parliamentary SPD's expert on foreign policy, Gert
Weisskirchen, stressed that KLA disarmament is a
precondition for a NATO deployment. This was also
stressed by Greens parliamentarian Angelika Beer, who
expressed doubt as to whether the KLA would ever
actually meet this condition.
Weisskirchen, meanwhile, was more upbeat, saying
despite the rebellion from within the government's own
ranks, he's still sure that parliament will approve
German involvement in a NATO mission. He suggested
that some of the rebels were not yet aware that NATO
troops would be entering Macedonia at the request of
both sides in the conflict.
HANDELSBLATT, Montag, 06. August 2001
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http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=94434
Kathimerini
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2001
FYROM says US ties its hands
By Misha Savic
The Associated Press
OHRID - A key legislator in the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) complained bitterly
yesterday about US efforts to halt the flow of weapons
into this troubled Balkan country, arguing that guns
are needed for government forces battling ethnic
Albanian insurgents. Speaking at a rally during
FYROM's main national holiday, Parliament Speaker
Stojan Andov protested that "the international
community had shifted from its earlier condemnation of
the rebels" to "trying now to block our imports of
weapons."
Despite a breakthrough Wednesday on some aspects of a
peace plan, Andov, speaking in the central FYROM town
of Kursevo on the holiday Ilinden, or St. Elias,
insisted there would be no lasting peace until all
insurgents were disarmed.
His comments were echoed by Prime Minister Ljubco
Georgievski, who said signing a peace agreement "under
conditions where the terrorists are still in the
mountains and control territories would be a shameful
pact for Macedonia that would make any Macedonian
citizen feel humiliated."
Andov's frustration with the international community
was triggered by a visit by US President George W.
Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to
Ukraine last month. There, she won some assurances
that Ukraine, FYROM's key arms supplier, would stop
the sales.
Rice cited fears that more arms to the troubled Balkan
country could prolong the months-old conflict and
undermine peace talks in which US and European Union
envoys are actively mediating between the majority
Slav-Macedonians and ethnic Albanians, who say they
are fighting for broader rights. Since Rice's visit,
Ukrainian officials have sent mixed signals, with some
saying they would comply and others insisting that
some forms of "military cooperation" would continue.
Negotiators in FYROM reached an agreement Wednesday to
allow the Albanian language to become an alternative
official language for the minority, which accounts for
nearly a third of FYROM's 2 million people. US envoy
James Pardew stressed that agreement still had to be
reached on other aspects of the peace plan, adding
negotiations are "far from finished."
Ethnic Albanians are demanding that the country's
police forces be restructured, giving them the right
to elect police commanders in regions where they live.
Slav-Macedonians are resisting the idea, fearing they
will lose control over the areas forever. They regard
ethnic Albanian demands as a strategy to carve off a
piece of territory that ethnic Albanian militants
already control.
Georgievski has repeatedly demanded that a hardline
stance be taken against the rebels. "We have to secure
territorial integrity and then move on to signing
agreements that we consider would be in the interests
of Macedonia," he said yesterday.
Western officials have repeatedly condemned the
rebels' insurgency. NATO peacekeepers deployed in
neighboring Kosovo have worked hard to choke off
weapons supplies to rebels coming from the southern
Serbian province.
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URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/spsm.htm
Statement of the Socialist Party of Serbia
DEFEND MACEDONIA AGAINST TERROR AND SEPARATISM
[1 August 2001]
The Socialist Party of Serbia condemns the escalation of violent
separatism
against our neighbor, Macedonia, caused by the organized spread of the
terrorism of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to Macedonia and
southern Serbian municipalities. This is due to the systematic violation
of
Security Council Resolution 1244, especially the failure [by NATO] to
fulfil
its obligation to disarm terrorists, and due to support for the KLA by
NATO
structures. The aim is to create Greater Albania, to change
internationally
recognized borders to the detriment of Serbia and Yugoslavia, of
Macedonia
and of Greece. This is leading towards deepening instability in the
Balkans
and threatens the stability of the entire Mediterranean area.
The Socialist Party of Serbia resolutely supports the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Macedonia and reiterates its solidarity with
the
fraternal Macedonian people in protection of its legitimate national and
state interests and expresses condolences to the Macedonian people and
especially to those families who have been victims of the terrorist
forces.
The Socialist Party of Serbia stands for peace and stability in the
Balkans,
for equal cooperation and integrational processes, for respect of
internationally recognized borders. The SPS resolutely opposes any
policy of
domination, foreign military presence, imposition of new divisions
(leading
to spheres of interest) in the Balkans and against misuse of separatism
and
terrorism to that end. Preservation of Yugoslavia and the solution of
the
Kosovo and Metohija issue within Serbia and Yugoslavia are crucial in
order
to achieve stabilization and peace in the Balkans.
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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Subject: Human Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:56:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff@...>
To: r_rozoff@...
Human Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
by Rick Rozoff
August 1, 2001
Human Rights Watch, whose interests and positions so
closely (suspiciously if you like) parallel those of
the United States State Department, politely requests
that the political leader of the self-styled National
Liberation Army in Macedonia, the lifelong separatist
extremist Ali Ahmeti, abide by "international
humanitarian law." (The Human Rights Watch appeal is
appended below.)
Though, contrary to the title of the missive, the
letter in fact requests that both sides in the
conflict - the legitimate, legally-elected government,
and the armed insurgency launched from Kosovo and
Albania - respect Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions pertaining to what Human Rights Watch
characterizes as "internal armed conflicts." In
keeping with HRW's stated policy of 'deferring
judgment' on the legitimacy of said internal armed
conflicts, its spokeperson, Holly Cartner, fully
equates the aggressor and the victim; the
legally-constituted authority, which is not accused of
either provoking or even creating any pretext for the
armed uprising, and the crime syndicate-linked and
-funded racial terrorists.
In the interim between the deferential letter from Ms.
Carter to Mr. Ahmeti almost three months ago and now,
Ahmeti and his pan-Albanian mercenaries have unleashed
a full-scale insurrection throughout the nation,
ethnically cleansing dozens of villages and
contributing to the displacement of - by some
estimates - over 120,000 civilians, a sizeable
percentage of Macedonia's two million people. Human
Rights Watch has kept a low profile since on this
issue, except for reports on alleged mistreatment of
ethnic Albanians and Western press personnel. When an
organization like HRW advances its concerns from those
affecting non-combatants in "internal armed conflicts"
to the mistreatment, real or fancied, of insurgents -
which is certainly impending - then it crosses the
threshold of supposed impartiality into treating the
belligerents as equal parties to the conflict, and
thus "internationalizes" what in truth is a matter of
internal criminal law enforcement. That HRW has at
least left the door open for such a prospect is
evident by Cartner's following up her reference to the
Geneva Conventions by her revealing invocation of the
"fundamental principle[s] of the laws of war."
Who is Dear Mr. Ahmeti?
Holly Cartner, Executive Director of Human Rights
Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division, has kept a
close enough eye on the Balkans over the past years to
know who she was so respectfully writing to. For
anyone not familiar with Mr. Ahmeti, whose history
suggests someone anything but dear, he possesses, to
employ an expression familiar to the American if not
the Albanian underworld, a rap sheet as long as his
arm.
Regarding his recent activties, in addition to waging
war against the sovereign nation of Macedonia and its
civilian population from his base in Prizren in
Kosovo, Ahmeti reportedly found time to appear on an
Australian radio broadcast and announce the launching
of a Liberation Army of Chameria in Northern Greece,
claiming he already had fighters and weapons in place
there.
When questioned about this, the latest plan for his
decades' old project for a Greater Albania, he denied
it - but then Ahmeti has denied a number of things in
his lifetime.
Had he been asked about his clandestine meeting with
American OSCE representative Robert Frowick in mid-May
of this year - a meeting held in Ahmeti's headquarters
in Kosovo with Macedonian ethnic Albanian political
leaders, and cabinet ministers, Arben Xhaferi and Imer
Imeri - he might well have denied that also, except
that Frowick himself didn't deny that it occurred. In
a feature in the London Times on March 19, 2001,
"Albanians Insist Their Victory Is Inevitable," writer
Anthony Loyd, commenting on the NLA in Macedonia, had
this to say about Mr. Ahmeti's antecedents:
"Intelligence reports name four main figures,
including Ali Ahmeti and Emrush Xhemajii, as leaders.
Both men owe their political allegiance to the Popular
Movement for Kosovo, the LPK, which set up the KLA in
1993 and created the Homeland Calling funding scheme
among Albanians abroad. The scheme still exists and
funding for the NLA has been launched, say diplomats."
But his record as an ethnic separatist goes back
farther than 1993. Though born in what is now the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he attended the
University of Pristina in the Serbian province of
Kosovo in 1981, where he was active in pan-Albanian
agitation and was arrested by federal authorities
there.
He subsequently left for Switzerland, where he joined
up with his uncle, Fazli Veliu, to set up an
international operation to raise funds and recruit
fighters for insurrections in Kosovo and elsewhere; an
operation that several investigations establish was
funded by narcotics trafficking and the European sex
slave trade.
On this score the German newspaper Die Welt reported
in March, in an article about the Albanian mafia, that
the NLA in Macedonia was indeed funded by the drug
trade and by a "war tax" levied on ethnic Albanians
living abroad.
Ali Ahmeti and Fazli Veliu (the second arrested on
terrorism charges in Germany last year, but released
shortly thereafter) are identified as key ringleaders
in the crime syndicate/armed insurgency collaboration.
Ahmeti, after leaving Switzerland for the first time,
returned to Yugoslavia to help found the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army, as noted above, and appears to
be the key liaison between the fighters on the ground
and the Transatlantic ethnic Albanian gun-running and
recruitment operation feeding the first with
personnel, funds and weapons.
In the past twenty six months since NATO-led KFOR
forces occupied Kosovo, with their KLA adjuncts in
tow, Ahmeti - who during the fighting had been a
commander for the infamous war criminal Ramush
Haradinaj - returned to Kosovo where he set up
operation in Prizren.
It was there, and recall that Ahmeti claims to be a
citizen of Macedonia concerned about alleged "civil
rights" in that nation, that he met with the heads of
Macedonia's two largest ethnic political parties, the
Democratic Party of Albanians and the Party for
Democratic Progress, under the auspices of U.S. OSCE
operative Robert Frowick.
It may also have been in Prizren, if not in Skopje
itself, that, according to the Skopje newspaper
Makedonija Denes, Ahmeti met with former NATO head and
current European Union foreign affairs chief Javier
Solana, with Kosovo Protection Corps commander and war
criminal Agim Ceku, and with KLA commander Haradinaj.
According to a Yugoslav Tanjug account of the
Macedonian paper's story, "It was agreed that Solana,
currently visiting Macedonia, bring pressure to bear
on the Macedonian government to halt the government
forces' operations for liberating Aracinovo village
near the capital Skopje" - the site of the U.S.-led
rescue of a hundred or more NLA fighters shortly
thereafter.
[http://www.tanjug.co.yu/Arhiva/2001/Jun%20-%2000/26-06e10.html%5d
Although Ahmeti recently made it on to the U.S. black
list and is also persona non grata in Switzerland of
late, his movements in and out of Kosovo, surely known
to if not coordinated by NATO's KFOR contingent, seem
blissfully unimpeded.
Lastly, to reflect on both Human Rights Watch and on
its dear Mr. Ahmeti, five days before Holly Cartner's
ever so reverential letter was issued, Ahmeti's
terrorists ambushed and killed eight Macedonian
security personnel.
Ahmeti told a Reuters reporter after the incident
that, "Our soldiers acted in self-defense." And no
doubt, in his mind and in Ms. Cartner's, according to
Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions relating to
"internal armed conflicts" and to "humanitarian law."
For the above crime was not mentioned in the exchange
between Dear Mr. Ahmeti and Holly Cartner,
respectfully.
______________________________________________
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/05/macedonia_ltr3.htm.
Letter to NLA Political Spokesman Ali Ahmeti
May 4, 2001
Mr. Ali Ahmeti
Political Spokesman for the National Liberation Army
(NLA)
Dear Mr. Ahmeti,
Human Rights Watch is a privately funded international
non-governmental organization dedicated to documenting
human rights abuses throughout the world. In the past
ten years, we have committed substantial time and
effort to investigating violations of human rights and
humanitarian law in the former Yugoslavia. We have
documented violations of international humanitarian
law by all sides of the armed conflicts in Croatia,
Bosnia, Kosovo, and the NATO war with the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Reports of the renewed conflict in the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia between security forces and
armed groups of ethnic Albanians raise concerns
relating to adherence to international humanitarian
law. As in all other conflicts in the territory of the
former Yugoslavia, our principal concern is that all
parties involved respect civilian immunity and ensure
the protection of civilians.
Human Rights Watch wants to express its concern that
the groups organized under the name of National
Liberation Army (NLA) take all measures to comply with
basic principles of international humanitarian law
applicable to situations of internal armed conflict,
and enshrined in Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions. This provision protects those who do not
take an active part in hostilities from the most
serious violations, including acts of murder, torture
and cruel treatment, the taking of hostages, outrages
upon personal dignity, and the passing of sentences
and the carrying out of executions without previous
judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court.
With regard to the renewed fighting, the NLA
leadership should refrain from any attacks against
civilians, attacks and reprisals against civilian
objects, as well as threats of violence the primary
purpose of which is to spread terror among the
civilian population.
We also call on the NLA leadership to ensure that the
civilian population of the affected areas enjoys as
much protection as possible against dangers of harm
resulting from the fighting. The most fundamental
principle of the laws of war requires that combatants
be distinguished from noncombatants, and that military
objectives be distinguished from protected property or
protected places. Parties to a conflict must direct
their operations only against military objectives
(including combatants). Also, the use of civilians as
shields for defensive positions, to hide military
objectives or to screen attacks, violates the
principles of the international humanitarian law.
We also note that the jurisdiction of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) applies to serious violations of
international humanitarian law committed after 1991 on
the territory of the former Yugoslavia, including the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Human Rights Watch also recognizes the obligations of
the Macedonian security forces to uphold the standards
of international humanitarian law and urges their
adherence to these norms. Letters expressing Human
Rights Watch's concerns to this effect are being sent
to the president and the prime minister of the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
We hope, Mr. Ahmeti, that you will give serious
thought to the points addressed in this letter and,
guided by consideration for human life and well-being,
do everything in your power to ensure that the NLA
respects obligations under international humanitarian
law.
Respectfully,
/s/
Holly Cartner
Executive Director
Europe and Central Asia Division
cc: Mrs. Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor, ICTY
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Subject: NEBOJSA MALIC: RAMBOUILLET REPEATED?
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:21:47 +0200
From: TARGETS <redactie@...>
To: office@...
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/26/11063.html
NEBOJSA MALIC: RAMBOUILLET REPEATED?
In February of 1999, after the staged "massacre" of 45 KLA bandits at
Racak, Madeleine Albright summoned the Yugoslav leadership to a castle
in
Rambouillet, France, where they were to sign a NATO ultimatum providing
for
their unconditional surrender. KLA's warlord Hashim Thaci, sitting right
across from Slobodan Milosevic, refused to sign the ultimatum himself
until
the very last moment - thus making it appear as if the KLA was not too
thrilled with it either, while giving Albright and her warlord Wesley
Clark
an official excuse to bomb Yugoslavia. Milosevic, aware of the
ultimatum's
provisions, refused to submit. Rambouillet would have become a synonym
for
outrage in international affairs, had it not been overshadowed by NATO's
subsequent terror-bombing.
Yet here it is, nearly three years hence, and a Rambouillet-style
capitulation is being demanded of another country, Yugoslavia's weakened
southern neighbor, which has been, until recently, an obedient vassal of
the NATO Empire.
MACEDONIA AFLAME
Images that were beamed to TV screens across the world on Monday and
Tuesday were eerily reminiscent of Sarajevo in 1992, another city marked
with urban battles and quarter-to-quarter shelling, with devastating
effects. Two days of heavy fighting caused mounting casualties and
streams
of refugees. Contrary to ominous predictions in the world media, this
was
not full-scale civil war, at least not yet. If anything, the fighting in
Tetovo was intended as a warning, a foretaste of what was to come if the
Macedonian government were to continue refusing the so-called "peace"
proposal brokered by EU/NATO/U.S.
Macedonians fled Tetovo in droves, joining their compatriots expelled at
gunpoint from villages above the city, now under UCK control. A large
group
of them rioted in Skopje Tuesday night, attacking the US Embassy,
British
Airways office, OSCE offices and a McDonalds.
UCK bandits had almost reached the town center of Tetovo before a new
cease-fire was called Tuesday. Additionally, member of the bandit
"General
Staff" Nazmi Beqiri told Reuters the UCK had two brigades operating
around
the town of Gostivar in the southwest.
The fighting came in the wake of collapsing "peace talks" - sessions in
which Imperial legates James Pardew and Francois Leotard attempted to
impose the ready-made "agreement" on local participants. Macedonian
representatives refused to sign them last weekend, supposedly over the
issues of Albanian language and local policing.
DESPERATE FUMBLE
That is not what the Macedonian representatives said, denouncing the
plan
as "serious interference in internal Macedonian affairs."
Said Prime Minister Georgievski, "Now the masks are off and it is clear
that the terrorist organisations in Macedonia enjoy serious backing and
logistical support from Western democracies." (AFP)
His government, however, has no clue what to do next. It is far easier
to
oppose the West verbally than in practice, especially since the horrid
lesson of Serbia drove home the possible consequences of such an act.
Furthermore, Macedonia's leaders see their future in becoming part of
the
EU, perhaps hoping that this would guarantee their country's sovereignty
and security. This is a false hope at best, a dangerous delusion at
worst.
A chorus of voices from the West is denouncing the Macedonians for
refusing
to cave in, and at the same time denying doing so. Pardew and Leotard
also
reject accusations that they blamed Macedonians for the recent fighting.
But a Reuters report clearly mentions a Western diplomat saying that
"the
fighting played into the hands of hard-liners on the Macedonian side who
want to scupper talks on a peace deal.... Blame today's events on those
factions on one side who don't want peace." [Emphasis added.]
Not surprisingly, pro-establishment media in the West are leading the
way,
with all news agencies repeating phrases such as "hard-line elite" among
the "Macedonian Slavs" that "stokes nationalist fervor" through the
Prime
Minister's "tirades."
Having agreed to open the supposedly inviolate constitutional principles
to
discussion with his Albanian "partners" in government, Georgievski
severed
the branch he was sitting on and tumbled down the slope of negotiating
away
his country's sovereignty. His latest moves are less a renunciation of
this
immoral policy, however welcome that would have been, than an attempt to
get a better deal by playing the pouting child. He obviously did not
read
the script very well; only the prot?g?s of the Empire can play that role
and get away with it, from Alija Izetbegovic in Dayton to Hashim Thaci
in
Rambouillet.
Furthermore, Empire Casting C.S.A. has already given the role to Arben
Xhaferi and Imer Imeri. Their parties, DPA and PDP, are in effect a
political wing of the UCK - perhaps even officially, since they never
renounced the infamous Prizren protocol, signed with the KLA and UCK
leaders with American mediation. Thus positioned, they can easily
advance
the Albanian cause either through negotiations, or war. Indeed, PDP
leader
Imer Imeri told Reuters Tuesday, having "made a compromise by giving up
70
percent" of their demands, the Albanians were now "waiting for something
to
be decided on the military side."
THE ALBANIAN CAUSE (A REFRESHER)
The issue here is not one of language or civil rights. It never has
been.
The issue is one ethnic minority claiming nationhood status, and using
terrorism and propaganda about "human rights" to achieve its goal. First
of
all, no one fights for civil rights by taking up arms. The act in itself
creates too much bad blood for coexistence to be possible. Secondly,
language in the Balkans has always been a banner of not just
nationality,
but nationhood. That is why only Serbs will still sometimes say they
speak
Serbo-Croatian; others in the former Yugoslavia insist on "Croatian,"
"Bosnian" and even "Montenegrin." In other words: have language, need
nation-state.
In the case of Macedonian Albanians, they insist not on freedom to use
their own language, but a government-enforced privilege to not use
another.
Albanians need "their own social facilities" to feel at home, since one
cannot "create a new Macedonian identity including Albanians," says
professor Ismail Mehmeti, of the illegal Albanian university in Tetovo.
It
is a call for apartheid, a society deliberately separated from the rest
of
the country by language and ethnicity.
That separation is then only a step away from becoming physical. Why
else
would the UCK seize and hold territory, if its claim was not
territorial?
This logic is so overwhelming, and its denials by the UCK political wing
(Xhaferi's DPA and Imeri's PDP) and the Western powers so unfounded,
there
ought to be little doubt about the Albanians' true purpose - and the
support it has within the Empire.
A BETTER ANALOGY
On second thought, the current situation in Macedonia does not quite
resemble the situation in Rambouillet. Albright and her cohorts went to
France fully intent of launching a war against Milosevic and the Serbian
people. Their ultimatum was never meant to be accepted, only to serve as
a
whitewash for aggression. It mimicked Austria-Hungary pathetic excuse
for a
casus belli from 1914. Though the method of imposition is the same as
Dayton and Rambouillet, Empire's current strategy in Macedonia far more
closely matches Munich of 1938.
The focus of US/NATO/EU "peace" efforts has been to achieve the
Albanians'
military and political objectives peacefully, saving themselves the
trouble
of an embarrassing war. Covering up or spinning away all the crimes the
UCK
is likely to commit would represent a tremendous challenge, one they
would
rather not face. They have had plenty of trouble already with burying
the
story of water shortages in Kumanovo and ignoring tens of thousands of
Macedonians ethnically cleansed from UCK-occupied territories. Every so
often, information slips through.
So far, the "mediators" have used up most of their Balkans playbook.
There
were panicking Albanian refugees; "civilian" victims of unidentified
(but
strongly alleged to be Macedonian) shells inside Kosovo; a phony arms
embargo on the Kosovo-Macedonia border; reports of "human rights abuses"
by
the appropriate Western organizations; and now Rambouillet-like "peace
talks," in fact an ultimatum demanding one side's unconditional
surrender.
Three things have been conspicuously absent: a leader to be demonized,
atrocities to be presented as genocide and an actual intervention
against
whichever side needs to be pulverized.
Of course, with Skopje defending itself so ineptly and reluctantly,
there
is little need for these extreme measures. Unless something radically
changes, sooner or later Georgievski and Trajkovski will cave in, the
UCK
atrocities will be covered up, and the intervention will take on the
form
of "peacekeeping" and collecting a few token muskets from the
bandits-turned-policemen of the UCK. Albanians - if not the Albanian
state
per se - will have gotten their Sudetenland coup; within months, as soon
as
camera lights go off, Bulgarians (another loyal US ally) will march into
what is left of the vivisected country.
Macedonia will be no more. But there will be "stability" and
"compliance"
with the Empire's power - which is all its legates ever really wanted,
the
natives be damned. The Balkans would thus have "peace in our time."
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26 July 2001
Macedonia Accuses NATO of Siding With Militants
Summary
Macedonian lawmakers are rejecting NATO's terms for peace with
ethnic Albanian insurgents. In an unusual turn of events,
Macedonian officials accuse NATO of trying to divide the country
along ethnic lines by throwing its weight behind ethnic Albanian
militants. Civil war is now imminent.
Analysis
Ethnic Albanian militants, who on July 21 violated a weeks-old
cease-fire with the Macedonian government, have begun withdrawing
from strategic positions in the north. This follows days of
violence and anti-Western riots that threaten to hurl the country
into civil war.
Tensions remained high as officials from NATO and the European
Union attempted to negotiate a lasting cease-fire on July 26.
Days before, Macedonia's lawmakers had accused NATO of aiding
ethnic Albanian insurgents.
Though Western journalists have viewed the accusation as a surge
of nationalism typical for the Balkan region, NATO's recent
dealings with Albanian insurgents do suggest some degree of bias,
if not complicity.
Either through intent or mismanagement, NATO has helped prepare
the ground for civil war.
Macedonia is the one former Yugoslav republic that remained
stable during the past 10 years while bloody ethnic conflicts
consumed both Bosnia and Kosovo.
During the 1990s, nearly 100,000 people were killed and 3 million
displaced in the Balkans. Donor nations such as the United
States, Japan, Canada and members of the European Union shelled
out billions in reconstruction aid. Now, repeated incursions by
ethnic Albanian insurgents into Macedonian territories threaten
an encore of violence in the volatile region.
Far from being seen as a peace guarantor, NATO would bear part of
the blame for a new civil war. NATO-led peacekeeping forces,
known as KFOR, occupy a region of Kosovo bordering northwestern
Macedonia. By order of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244,
KFOR must secure arms and halt trafficking by Albanian militants,
but the force has failed to do so.
Albanian insurgents began filtering into Macedonia from KFOR-
occupied areas of Kosovo in February, and they have repeatedly
fired on national police.
KFOR has failed before to restrict the outflow of guns and
militants from Kosovo.
For most of 2000, Albanian militants pressed into southeastern
Serbia to annex three towns with an Albanian population majority.
Many of the same militants redeployed to towns around Macedonia's
Tetovo and Gostivar districts during the past five months.
As of the afternoon of July 25, militants were fighting for
control of more than 20 villages but began to withdraw hours
later in response to NATO requests.
With their borders still porous to armed insurgents, Macedonians
fear active sabotage by NATO. For example, although the U.S.
State Department hired contractor Military Professional Resources
Inc. to train Macedonia's security forces in 2001, reports from
Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and Macedonia indicate U.S.
soldiers also escorted Albanian militants a few miles outside the
Macedonian capital of Skopje only weeks ago. The Skopje bi-
monthly Forum says the dual U.S. support is a means to disable
Macedonia's defenses and to bolster the ethnic Albanians.
In both training and equipment, Macedonia's defense forces are
already at a substantial disadvantage. Albanians are using NATO-
issue 5.56 caliber weapons and third-generation, U.S.-issue
night-vision equipment, according to Russian media and Dnevnik,
the Skopje independent daily newspaper.
Moreover, Vremya Novosti, a Russian daily, reported on July 26
that U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said she
persuaded Ukrainian officials to cease arms shipments to
Macedonia. This could signal a potential arms embargo, further
undermining the Macedonian defenses.
Underscoring their suspicion of NATO, Macedonian government
officials were alarmed on July 21 when a KFOR helicopter violated
Macedonia's airspace and touched down at two northern towns held
by Albanian militants.
The country's Defense Ministry confirmed the landing, cited
eyewitness reports of cargo drops and demanded an explanation
from KFOR. KFOR officially denied aiding the rebels, saying its
flights were meant to help establish NATO communications along
the border.
Macedonia's majority party leaders also question NATO's political
neutrality. The alliance did not immediately condemn the
Albanians' recent violation of the cease-fire. Instead, American,
German and NATO officials have blamed lawmakers in Skopje for
disrupting the peace process by rejecting their proposals.
A peace proposal drafted by the United States and Europe -- and
backed by NATO envoys -- demands compromises on the national
language from Macedonia but no concessions from Albanian
militants. The proposal would require that all state certificates
and laws be printed in the Albanian Roman alphabet and in
Macedonia's official Cyrillic alphabet, while correspondence to
and from the central government could be in either alphabet.
Meanwhile, the proposal would also give smaller ethnic groups
such as Serbs, Turks, Vlachs and Roma equal rights in local
administrations where their populations exceed 20 percent, Radio
Free Europe reported.
Macedonian lawmakers consider the proposal excessive. To
Macedonia's non-Albanian legislators, who see Macedonia as more
accommodative of minority rights than most Balkan states, the
suggestions for compromises amount to arm-twisting. They also
smack of betrayal to Macedonia, which has always supported NATO's
deployment and occasionally unpopular U.S. foreign policy in the
region.
With its credibility in question, NATO may not be able to prevent
war in Macedonia. U.S. Embassy officials plan to evacuate
nonessential staff from Skopje.
On July 20, NATO postponed plans to disarm Albanian militants due
to the resumption of hostilities, and an envoy from the
Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe said the
alliance is helpless against ethnic cleansing by Albanians, the
Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA reported.
Macedonian officials are now willing to guard their borders
against NATO troops as well as Albanian militants. Prime Minister
Ljubco Georgievski plans to call a state of emergency. State
security forces locked down the borders on July 25, refusing
passage to KFOR and humanitarian aid workers.
The Albanian militants' campaign will likely continue,
irrespective of NATO's 11th-hour efforts to restore a cease-fire.
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July 25, 2001
Thousands Flee in Macedonia
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
TETOVO, Macedonia (AP) -- The government gave ethnic
Albanian rebels an ultimatum to pull back from around
the country's second-largest city or face a new army
offensive, as thousands of Macedonians streamed out of
the city in packed cars and buses.
NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson called the
situation ''critical'' and said he and the European
Union's foreign policy chief would fly to Macedonia on
Thursday for urgent mediation to prevent a descent
into full-scale civil war.
More than 8,000 people fled the area of the northern
city of Tetovo in the past 24 hours, the government
said, most heading for the capital Skopje after fierce
fighting Sunday and Monday shattered a fragile
cease-fire.
The exodus widened after Macedonia's defense minister
and interior minister on Wednesday warned that
military action was possible if the insurgents didn't
retreat.
''Unless the rebels pull out to their previous
positions ... we will no longer listen to suggestions
from any Western mediator, and an offensive is not
excluded as an option,'' the ministers said in a
statement.
In Brussels, Belgium, Robertson urged restraint. ''Any
efforts to resolve the situation militarily can only
result in the wreckage of the country and the
inflicting of grave civilian casualties,'' he said.
Overnight, mobs of Macedonians rampaged against
foreign embassies in Skopje, accusing NATO of
supporting the guerrillas. Protesters threw stones at
the U.S. Embassy late Tuesday, smashed entrances of
the British and German embassies and burned several
U.N. and other cars.
The clashes around Tetovo were the worst in months and
dimmed hopes that peace talks that collapsed last
month could be revived. Those fleeing the city largely
were ethnic Macedonians -- who form a majority in the
country but a minority in Tetovo.
One lifelong resident, Milina Stavreva, packed to
leave Wednesday, vowing never to return. ''Enough is
enough,'' said Stavreva, 60. ''We can no longer live
here.''
The militants launched their insurgency in February,
saying they were fighting for greater rights for
minority ethnic Albanians, who account for up to a
third of Macedonia's 2 million people. The government
alleges the rebels are linked to militants in
neighboring Kosovo and accuses them of trying to carve
out territory from Macedonia.
''It makes no sense to continue the talks as long as
the rebels are violating the cease-fire,'' government
spokesman Antonio Milososki told The Associated Press.
''If they don't return to their previous positions, we
will force them to do so.''
Britain's Foreign Office advised against all travel to
Macedonia, and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
strongly criticized the Macedonian government for
stirring up anti-Western sentiment.
Fischer said government statements helped create ''a
violent domestic climate'' and led to the embassy
attacks.
On Tuesday, Milososki accused Western mediators of
coordinating their efforts with the rebels and called
NATO ''a big friend of our enemies.''
On Wednesday, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in
Kosovo said it had detained more than 60 suspected
rebels from Macedonia, seizing weapons and ammunition
after intercepting three separate mule trains along
the rugged border.
Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski and Interior Minister
Ljube Boskoski gave the rebels until noon Wednesday to
pull back to their previous positions in Tetovo. That
deadline passed with no sign of an offensive.
Ministry spokesman Marjan Gjurovski said army barracks
and positions near Tetovo's soccer stadium came under
fire until 2 a.m. Wednesday. Tetovo's hospital said
five wounded were brought in overnight, and that they
included civilians and military personnel.
Several police checkpoints around the city were taken
by rebels, media reported.
"All our fears have proven true that the international
representatives are in close coordination with the
KLA. This is open, public coordination between the
mediators and the rebels."
Macedonia Accuses Western Officials
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Ethnic Albanian rebels
attacked an army barracks and surrounded four villages
on Tuesday, while mobs in the capital accused NATO of
siding with the guerrillas and attacked the U.S.,
British and German embassies.
Protesters threw stones at the U.S. Embassy, breaking
windows as riot police looked on but failed to
intervene.
A mob of several hundred people smashed the main doors
of the German and British embassies and the front of a
McDonald's restaurant. Vandals burned several cars
belonging to the United Nations and the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe before the
violent protests subsided early Wednesday.
Government spokesman Antonio Milososki on Tuesday
called NATO ''a big friend of our enemies.''
The protests came as rebels clashed with government
forces in Tetovo on Tuesday. The Defense Ministry said
that the rebels were advancing and had surrounded four
nearby villages.
Lightly armed Macedonian police abandoned several
checkpoints and were replaced by rebels in Tetovo,
Macedonia's second largest city, Macedonian media
reported.
A rebel commander, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said police were handing out arms to people
at one checkpoint. Rebels attacked Tetovo's army
barracks, but further details were not available.
Amid the growing hostilities, Macedonian authorities
closed the border with Kosovo and hundreds of
residents fled Tetovo and surrounding villages,
several of them now in rebel hands.
Army sources said fighting was still going on around 9
p.m. in and around Tetovo. ''Terrorists are using
heavy machine guns and mortars,'' one source said,
adding that rebel activity was particularly intense in
the Drenovec and Proj suburbs.
An hour later, fighting stopped, and a Macedonian TV
station reported that Peter Feith, NATO's special
envoy to Macedonia, had won a fresh cease-fire pledge
from Ali Ahmeti, the rebels' political leader.
The clashes followed some of the worst fighting in
Macedonia in months on Monday. Western diplomats on
Tuesday were trying to salvage peace talks designed to
prevent a full-scale civil war in this troubled Balkan
nation.
The militants launched their insurgency in February,
saying they were fighting for greater rights for
ethnic Albanians, who account for up to a third of
Macedonia's 2 million people. The government contends
they are trying to carve up the country.
But the talks have faltered and Monday's attack was
the largest violation yet of a cease-fire.
Meanwhile, Macedonian authorities accused NATO and
Western officials of siding with the rebels, dimming
prospects for the peace talks.
Up to 3,000 angry Macedonians protested in front of
parliament in Skopje, the capital, under a banner that
read, ''Who is protecting the terrorists? -- NATO.''
Milososki, the government spokesman, accused NATO and
Western officials of failing to respond to rebels'
''cleansing'' of Macedonian villages around Tetovo and
being biased in the negotiations.
''All our fears have proven true that the
international representatives are in close
coordination with the KLA,'' a reference to the
officially defunct Kosovo Liberation Army. ''This is
open, public cooperation between international
mediators and the rebels,'' Milososki told The
Associated Press.
Before Milososki spoke, NATO Secretary-General Lord
Robertson rejected similar Macedonian allegations over
the weekend that NATO-led forces in Kosovo had been
resupplying ethnic Albanian armed groups.
U.S. envoy James Pardew and his EU counterpart,
Francois Leotard, worked to revive peace talks that
collapsed late last week after majority Macedonians
refused to accept a provision that would make Albanian
an official language.
In a joint statement, Leotard and Pardew said they
''are shocked by allegations that they support the NLA
(rebel army) or that they lay responsibility for the
fighting in Tetotvo on the Macedonian security
forces.''
During a brief visit to Camp Bondsteel, the U.S.
military base in neighboring Kosovo, President Bush
issued a statement Tuesday backing efforts by Western
diplomats to broker a peace settlement, and called on
rebels and the Macedonian government to respect the
cease-fire.
''Those here in Kosovo who support the insurgency in
Macedonia are hurting the interests of ethnic
Albanians throughout the region,'' Bush said. ''The
people of Kosovo should focus on Kosovo.''
Earlier Tuesday, the Defense Ministry in a statement
admitted that the rebels were advancing in the recent
offensive and said that four Tetovo area villages had
been surrounded by ''terrorist forces.''
It said that late Monday and early Tuesday the rebels
had set up a checkpoint on the Tetovo-Gostivar road,
opening fire on vehicles that refused to stop.
A policeman died Tuesday from injuries he suffered
during clashes in the village of Lesok on Monday,
adding to an unconfirmed list of several fatalities
over the last two days, the ministry said.
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Subject: British Soldiers Fighting With Macedonian Rebels
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 08:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff <r_rozoff@...>
To: r_rozoff@...
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960
Scotland On Sunday
July 15, 2001
British fighters seek thrill of battle in Macedonia's
struggle
FORMER British soldiers are fighting the Macedonian
security services as part of the ethnic Albanian
National Liberation Army, Scotland on Sunday has
learned.
Sources within the NLA confirmed that 12 British
nationals were fighting with them in the Kumanovo
region, along with at least two Dutch men and a
German.
The fighters are not of Albanian descent but are
believed to have fought in some of the wars in the
former Yugoslavia, including Croatia, Bosnia and
Kosovo.
The British contingent wasbased around the village of
Slupchane until the ceasefire which has been in place
for over a week. NLA commanders are taking advantage
of the ceasefire to rest their troops and send them to
Kosovo to recuperate.
Macedonians already feel persecuted by the Europeans
and the United States, whom they accuse of encouraging
the NLA.
Senior Macedonian officials said they were aware that
the NLA also included European former KLA fighters.
"We know they are there but they are not significant -
little more than drug addicts," one said.
Tim Ripley, a defence analyst at Lancaster University
who has been studying the Macedonian conflict, said he
was not surprised to learn that former British
soldiers and adventurers had joined the NLA.
"I heard that some British people were planning to
come out and join the NLA but I did not know if they
succeeded. These people are not classic mercenaries.
"They are likely to have fought in recent Balkan wars
and they are doing it for the adventure rather than
the money. All they will receive is board and pocket
money."
The use of foreign mercenaries is not restricted to
the NLA. The Macedonian government has bought a number
of helicopters and ground attack fighters from the
Ukraine and employed pilots to fly them. There have
also been persistent rumours that the Macedonian
security forces have been recruiting soldiers from
Serbia and Bulgaria.
One former British soldier arrived in Kosovo saying
that he had come to fight but had not yet decided for
which side.
Ripley said the Macedonians were also using military
assistance from abroad.
"The Macedonians have simply bought in an airforce
from the Ukraine and there are reports of Macedonian
soldiers who do not appear to speak or understand
Macedonian. There is a long tradition of this kind of
thing in the Balkans," he said.
The NLA began its insurrection against the Macedonian
government in February. It claims to be fighting for
civil rights for Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority,
which could make up one-third of the population.
Macedonians claim that the NLA has attacked Macedonia
from Kosovo and aims to split the country as part of a
wider campaign to form a greater Albania.
Fighting has officially been suspended although there
are regular gunfights as both sides re-supply their
troops.
Representatives of Albanian political parties are
negotiating with Macedonian parties, along with
Francois Leotard, the EU envoy and James Pardew, the
US envoy.
As the politicians speak the armed groups continue to
prepare for war.
This week, NLA fighters and military police were
walking freely around the suburbs of Tetovo,
Macedonia's second city, stopping cars and checking
papers.
New recruits could be seen heading off to the hills to
receive training.
Meanwhile, the Macedonians are transporting around
30tanks and armoured vehicles to the Ukraine to be
refurbished and equipped with night-vision equipment.
"They are clearly preparing for a long war," said
Ripley.
From Conal Urquhart in Skopje
Sunday, 15th July 2001
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2001 21:46
An:
Betreff: UCK rescued
Sujet : Col. David Hackworth: Whose side are we really on?
Date : 10/07/01 15:37:28 Paris, Madrid (Heure d'été)
From: zana@... (Snezana Vitorovich)
To: wcg@...
Toogood Reports [Tuesday, July 10, 2001; 12:01 a.m. EST]
URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/
Last month, American troops in Macedonia rescued 400 Albanian
rebels
who were members of the 113th UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) Brigade. 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 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.
Retired four-stars don't run out of power until they hear taps.
Had
Vuono or another of his compadres such as Gen. Crosbie Saint picked up
the
phone and suggested the 502nd be sent to the rescue, that suggestion
would
have been taken as a virtual command.
MPRI even has a Web site — www.MPRI.com
— that boasts,
"We serve the needs of the U.S. government, of foreign
governments
and of the private sector with the highest standards and cost effective
solutions."
While Ollie North's Contra boys and the mercenaries who botched up
the
Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion might not have been so businesslike
— or so
blatant — they did establish an unfortunate tradition of
hired guns sticking
our nation into one minefield after another.
Dozens of ex-Army pals are presently working for the
ever-expanding
MPRI or other such military contractors in places like Saudi Arabia,
Taiwan,
ex-Yugoslavia and Colombia. We're talking booming business here.
But others have had the moral decency to say, "Take your
high-paying
mercenary job and stick it in your ear."
One still-serving three-war vet told me: "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. It's about time Congress did its duty and
enforced them.
-
Col. David Hackworth's military career spanned nearly a dozen
wars
and conflicts — from the end of World War II
— to the recent meltdown in the
ex-Yugoslavia. He enlisted in the merchant marine at 14, the U.S. Army
at
15. In almost 26 years in the Army he spent over seven years in combat
theaters, winning a battlefield commission in Korea and becoming the
youngest Army captain in that war. And then, it was on to Vietnam for
nearly
five years. In 1971, Hack was the youngest Army Colonel. [See Military
Awards & Decorations.] Col. Hackworth is a regular guest on radio and TV
shows, was Newsweek's contributing editor for defense, has been featured
in
People, Parade, Men's Journal, and has also been published in Playboy,
Soldier of Fortune, Self and Modern Maturity. His column, Defending
America,
appears weekly in newspapers across America. Hack's books include the
Vietnam Primer and the international best seller About Face: The Odyssey
of
an American Warrior and Hazardous Duty : One of America's Most Decorated
Soldiers Reports from the Front With the Truth About the U.S. Military
Today. His newest book is, The Price of Honor : A Novel.
July 10, 2001
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http://www.newsday.com/ap/international/ap323.htm
U.S. Ambassador Mobbed in Macedonia
by MISHA SAVIC
Associated Press Writer
July 7, 2001
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Villagers angry at being
expelled from their homes by a rebel advance mobbed an
American diplomat -- underlining the tense atmosphere
in which Western envoys are trying to transform a
cease-fire into a lasting peace in Macedonia.
More than 30 Macedonians forced from their homes when
ethnic Albanian rebels captured villages north of
Tetovo earlier this week mobbed Ambassador Michael
Einik after he met Friday with Tetovo mayor Murtezan
Ismali.
''We do not believe in any peace agreement,'' the
Slavic crowd shouted. ''How is it possible to have a
cease-fire when these terrorists are shooting on us?''
Bodyguards whisked the ambassador into his vehicle,
but the crowd swarmed and pounded on the car,
according to Forte Plus radio in Tetovo. Einik was not
injured.
The attack came as guns fell silent on the first day
of the cease-fire between the Macedonian government
and ethnic Albanian rebels, fighting for equal status
with their Slav neighbors in the small strife-torn
former Yugoslav republic.
Of Macedonia's two million people, at least one third
are ethnic Albanians who want their ethnic rights
codified in a new constitution.
Einik returned to Skopje, and later made a scheduled
visit to the city of Kumanovo, 15 miles northwest of
the capital, which has been another flashpoint.
The residents of the six occupied villages north of
Tetovo -- many of them communities of weekend mountain
homes -- have emerged as vociferous critics of the
Macedonian government's handling of the insurgency.
Despite the government's fierce refusal to negotiate
with the rebels, there are still segments of
Macedonian society that feel officials have not taken
a hard enough line, characterizing any cease-fire as
an unnecessary concession.
NATO and Macedonian army officials reported Friday
that the cease-fire was holding throughout the
country, with only sporadic gunfire. Macedonian Army
spokesman Col. Blogoja Markovsi said he did not
consider scattered incidents a provocation, but rather
''individual shots from rebels.''
The cease-fire gave U.S. envoy James Pardew and his
European Union counterpart Francois Leotard a window
of calm to work out details of a political framework
addressing ethnic Albanian demands for more
recognition and inclusion in Macedonian society. The
envoys spent Friday shuttling among political parties,
encouraging them to maintain restraint to allow
political progress.
Late Thursday, a German army convoy was fired, three
hours before the cease-fire, about 6 miles west of
Skopje, enroute from their base near Tetovo to the
port at Salonika, Greece, a transit point for supplies
to NATO troops in neighboring Kosovo.
Two of the vehicles were hit, one in a wheel, another
in a rear window, but no one was hurt, said Lt. Col.
Lt. Col. Peter Altmannsperger, a NATO spokesman. It
was unclear who fired the shots, but the incident
occurred some distance from any front line.
---
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=88158
KATHIMERINI
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2001
"The situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia is exceptionally critical."
"Sending out conflicting measures would contribute to
a continuation of the crisis."
"Extremists who turn their guns on democratic
institutions have no place at the negotiating table."
"We are categorically opposed to proposals for
ethnically 'clean' states which are aimed at redrawing
borders and population exchanges."
Athens fears FYROM could shake Balkans
Calls for a united response
Greece yesterday welcomed the cease-fire mediated by
NATO in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
(FYROM) but expressed fear that the situation in its
neighboring state "is exceptionally critical" and
could destabilize the entire region.
Athens has been trying to help defuse the situation in
FYROM, concerned about instability on its northern
border and the fate of sizable Greek investments in
the country. It has proposed an international
conference to solve the differences between the Slav
majority and ethnic Albanian minority and has also
offered about 300 troops for a NATO force that would
be deployed to safeguard a cease-fire.
Yesterday the Inner Cabinet discussed the situation in
the Balkans and Greece's investments in FYROM.
"The situation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia is exceptionally critical. The future of
FYROM, the protection of its integrity and
independence have a direct bearing on peace and
stability in the broader region," Foreign Minister
George Papandreou said in a statement afterwards. He
said the cease-fire was a "positive fact."
Government spokesman Dimitris Reppas also welcomed the
agreement. "I would like to express our satisfaction
at today's very positive development," he said. "This
could be the beginning of the end of the crisis."
Athens is afraid that the crisis in FYROM could
provide an arena for conflicting powers to compete
with each other. "(Greece) considers it essential that
there be close cooperation between Europe and the
United States, as well as with Russia, so that the
international community can act in a unified and
effective way throughout the entire region. Sending
out conflicting measures would contribute to a
continuation of the crisis," Papandreou said.
"The solution will have to be found by the legal
political forces that are represented in Skopje's
Parliament," Papandreou said. "Extremists who turn
their guns on democratic institutions have no place at
the negotiating table," he said.
At the Inner Cabinet meeting, fears were expressed
that the dismemberment of FYROM would lead to the
dissolution of Bosnia-Herzegovina and further changes
of borders in the region. "We are categorically
opposed to proposals for ethnically 'clean' states
which are aimed at redrawing borders and population
exchanges," Papandreou said.
---
The Irish Times
Thursday, July 5, 2001
Rebel chief worked for UN funded force in Kosovo
The leader of the Macedonian rebels was originally
paid by the UN, writes Chris Stephen, in Pristina
MACEDONIA: The co-ordination of the international
community in the Balkans has been thrown into
confusion by revelations that the leader of
Macedonia's rebel army was a leading figure in
Kosovo's UN- funded civil defence force.
Before launching war in Macedonia, Commander Gezim
Ostremi was paid by the UN to help set up the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC), being appointed its
chief-of-staff.
Now President Bush has banned Commander Ostremi from
entry to the US, and accused five key members of the
KPC of aiding the rebels.
Yet the United Nations says it will take no action
against these five men, all still serving officers,
because Washington has yet to pass on details of what
the men are supposed to have done.
This row comes just as the US and the EU are groping
for a joint response to the escalating violence in
Macedonia, which yesterday saw rebels fighting
government forces in several places in the northern
mountains.
Yet while one part of NATO tries to stop the
guerrillas crossing the border from neighbouring
Kosovo, in Kosovo itself other parts of NATO and the
UN are busy paying and training them.
The KPC, formed at the end of the Kosovo war as part
of a deal between the former guerrillas of the Kosovo
Liberation Army and the UN. In return for the
guerrillas d<br/><br/>(Message over 64 KB, truncated)
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TRAFFICANTI IRANIANI DI ARMI PRO-UCK FERMATI IN KOSOVO
Iranian gunrunners detained in Kosovo
By CNN National Security Producer Chris Plante
August 8, 2001
> http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/08/07/kosovo.arrest/index.html
---
CONTRASTI NEL BUNDESTAG PER L'ANNUNCIATO INVIO DI TRUPPE
A FOMENTARE LA GUERRA DI SECESSIONE IN MACEDONIA
MPs Revolt over Plans to Send Troops to Macedonia
HANDELSBLATT, Montag, 06. August 2001
"Our objection to the NATO troops deployment is
fundamental in nature. The Western alliance is not
suited to serving as a mediator for peace in
Macedonia, since it supported...the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) in the Kosovo conflict, and it did not
demand its disarmament."
---
LA FYROM DENUNCIA: GLI USA VOGLIONO LEGARCI LE MANI
FYROM says US ties its hands
By Misha Savic
The Associated Press
Kathimerini
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2001
> http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id%ef%bf%bd434
---
DICHIARAZIONE DEL PARTITO SOCIALISTA DELLA SERBIA:
DIFENDERE LA MACEDONIA CONTRO IL TERRORE ED IL SEPARATISMO
Statement of the Socialist Party of Serbia
DEFEND MACEDONIA AGAINST TERROR AND SEPARATISM
[1 August 2001]
> http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/spsm.htm
---
UN COMMENTO SU HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ED IL BOSS DELL'UCK
AHMETI
Human Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
by Rick Rozoff
August 1, 2001
---
N. MALIC: UNA RIPETIZIONE DI RAMBOUILLET?
NEBOJSA MALIC: RAMBOUILLET REPEATED?
> http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/26/11063.html
---
LA MACEDONIA ACCUSA LA NATO DI PARTEGGIARE PER I
SECESSIONISTI
Macedonia Accuses NATO of Siding With Militants
S T R A T F O R - THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY
> http://www.stratfor.com
26 July 2001
Summary
Macedonian lawmakers are rejecting NATO's terms for
peace with ethnic Albanian insurgents. In an unusual
turn of events, Macedonian officials accuse NATO of
trying to divide the country along ethnic lines by
throwing its weight behind ethnic Albanian militants.
Civil war is now imminent.
---
A MIGLIAIA SCAPPANO DAL TERRORISMO UCK,
IL GOVERNO MACEDONE ACCUSA LA NATO
Thousands Flee in Macedonia
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
July 25, 2001
Macedonia Accuses Western Officials
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
"All our fears have proven true that the international
representatives are in close coordination with the
KLA. This is open, public coordination between the
mediators and the rebels."
---
SOLDATI BRITANNICI AL FIANCO DEI SECESSIONISTI
British fighters seek thrill of battle in Macedonia's
struggle
Scotland On Sunday
>From Conal Urquhart in Skopje
Sunday, 15th July 2001
> http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960
---
COL. D. HACKWORTH: DA CHE PARTE STIAMO?
Col. David Hackworth: Whose side are we really on?
Toogood Reports
Tuesday, July 10, 2001
> http://ToogoodReports.com/
---
I MACEDONI INFURIATI CON L'AMBASCIATORE USA
U.S. Ambassador Mobbed in Macedonia
by MISHA SAVIC
Associated Press Writer
July 7, 2001
> http://www.newsday.com/ap/international/ap323.htm
---
ATENE PREOCCUPATA PER LA SITUAZIONE
Athens fears FYROM could shake Balkans
Calls for a united response
KATHIMERINI
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2001
> http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid%ef%bf%bd158
---
IL CAPO DEI TERRORISTI ERA STIPENDIATO DALL'ONU
Rebel chief worked for UN funded force in Kosovo
The Irish Times
Thursday, July 5, 2001
The leader of the Macedonian rebels was originally
paid by the UN, writes Chris Stephen, in Pristina
---
CHI SONO I "RIBELLI ALBANESI"?
Who are the "Albanian rebels"?
> http://www.komiti.com/
---
"TURISTI" ALBANESI DALLA FYROM NELLA VALLE DI PRESEVO
Over 6,000 Albanian Refugees From
Macedonia Settled in the Preseva Valley
June 30, 2001
PRISHTINA/PRESHEVA (KosovaLive)
> http://www.kosovalive.com/english/english.htm
---
INTERESSI MAFIOSI NELLO SCACCHIERE PAN-ALBANESE
Albanian rebels are fighting to protect mafia
interests: expert
PARIS, March 21 (AFP)
---
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MICHAEL CHOSSUDOVSKY: DA DOVE VENGONO LE ARMI DELL'UCK
Subject: "Laughs" and "Chuckles" in State Department
Transcripts
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:02:11 -0400
From: Michel Chossudovsky <chossudovsky@...>
"LAUGHS" AND "CHUCKLES" IN STATE DEPARTMENT TRANSCRIPTS:
WHERE DID THE KLA GET ITS WEAPONS FROM?
by
Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Official transcripts of US State Department briefings
reproduce "verbatim" the "questions" (Q) by
journalists and the answers of the State Department
spokesperson. Words are always transcribed
phonetically, "Yes" is recorded as "yeah",
grammatical and speech errors are also recorded,
non-verbal "noises" such as "laughs", "chuckles",
"applause" as well as "mm-hmm", "wow" and "huh" are
also transcribed.
"Laughs" and "chuckles" are usually associated with a
Question (Q) from an individual journalist or an
answer by the State Department official, whereas
"laughter" is from the floor. The "chuckles" and
"laughs" often come after an embarrassing question,
or when the State Department spokesperson says "Yeah,
I don't know" or "I don't want to get into that".
"Chuckles" is often a way of skirting the question.
It also means, "You know the answer, why are you
asking?"
A few months before the onslaught of the NATO
bombings of Yugoslavia, the State Department held a
"Special Briefing" on Kosovo (November 1998). James
Pardew, Washington's "mediator" now in charge of
"disarming" NLA-KLA terrorists in Macedonia, had been
appointed in 1998 "Special Representative for Kosovo
Implementation" by the Clinton Adminstration. Joined
by Julia Taft, Assistant Secretary of State for
Population, Refugees and Migration, Pardew answers
questions on a central issue of the Kosovar crisis:
"Q Where are the arms coming from? I mean, the
Yugoslav forces' arms are coming from Yugoslavia.
Where is the KLA getting their arms?
MR. PARDEW: I can't answer that. I don't know the
answer to that.
Q Don't have any suspicions?
MR. PARDEW: No, not that I'm going into here.
(Chuckles.)
Q (Chuckles.)
MR. PARDEW: Okay --
MS. TAFT: He's guns, I'm butter. Any other -- other
questions? (Laughs.)
(Laughter.)"1
Ambassador James Pardew was sent by Washington to
Macedonia in July 2001 with a mandate to "disarm" the
NLA-KLA terrorists and implement a US-EU brokered
"cease-fire". "No laughing matter": recent
developments in Macedonia confirm that Washington
rather than disarming the terrorists is in fact
equipping them with brand new weapons "Made in
America."
Note:
1. Federal News Service, State Department Briefing on
Kosovo, Washington, November 13, 1998.
For details on how Washington has armed and equipped
the KLA, see the following articles by the author:
"Washington Behind Terrorist Assaults in Macedonia",
July 2001 at http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss6.html.
"Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the Balkans",
April 2001, at http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss4.html
"Macedonia: Washington's Military-Intelligence Ploy",
June 2001, at http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss4.html.
"America at War in Macedonia", June 2001, at
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss5.html.
"Kosovo 'Freedom Fighters' Financed by Organised
Crime", Covert Action Quarterly, Fall 1999, available
at
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/2743/1.html.
Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky, Ottawa, July 2001.
All rights reserved. Permission is granted to post
this text on non-commercial community internet sites,
provided the essay and the title remain intact, the
copyright note is displayed and no headers or footers
are added to the article without consulting the
author. To publish this text in printed and/or other
forms, including commercial internet sites and
excerpts, kindly contact the author at
chossudovsky@..., fax: 1-514-4256224.
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TRAFFICANTI IRANIANI DI ARMI PRO-UCK FERMATI IN KOSOVO
Iranian gunrunners detained in Kosovo
By CNN National Security Producer Chris Plante
August 8, 2001
> http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/08/07/kosovo.arrest/index.html
---
CONTRASTI NEL BUNDESTAG PER L'ANNUNCIATO INVIO DI TRUPPE
A FOMENTARE LA GUERRA DI SECESSIONE IN MACEDONIA
MPs Revolt over Plans to Send Troops to Macedonia
HANDELSBLATT, Montag, 06. August 2001
"Our objection to the NATO troops deployment is
fundamental in nature. The Western alliance is not
suited to serving as a mediator for peace in
Macedonia, since it supported...the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) in the Kosovo conflict, and it did not
demand its disarmament."
---
LA FYROM DENUNCIA: GLI USA VOGLIONO LEGARCI LE MANI
FYROM says US ties its hands
By Misha Savic
The Associated Press
Kathimerini
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2001
> http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id%ef%bf%bd434
---
DICHIARAZIONE DEL PARTITO SOCIALISTA DELLA SERBIA:
DIFENDERE LA MACEDONIA CONTRO IL TERRORE ED IL SEPARATISMO
Statement of the Socialist Party of Serbia
DEFEND MACEDONIA AGAINST TERROR AND SEPARATISM
[1 August 2001]
> http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/spsm.htm
---
UN COMMENTO SU HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ED IL BOSS DELL'UCK
AHMETI
Human Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti
by Rick Rozoff
August 1, 2001
---
N. MALIC: UNA RIPETIZIONE DI RAMBOUILLET?
NEBOJSA MALIC: RAMBOUILLET REPEATED?
> http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/26/11063.html
---
LA MACEDONIA ACCUSA LA NATO DI PARTEGGIARE PER I
SECESSIONISTI
Macedonia Accuses NATO of Siding With Militants
S T R A T F O R - THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY
> http://www.stratfor.com
26 July 2001
Summary
Macedonian lawmakers are rejecting NATO's terms for
peace with ethnic Albanian insurgents. In an unusual
turn of events, Macedonian officials accuse NATO of
trying to divide the country along ethnic lines by
throwing its weight behind ethnic Albanian militants.
Civil war is now imminent.
---
A MIGLIAIA SCAPPANO DAL TERRORISMO UCK,
IL GOVERNO MACEDONE ACCUSA LA NATO
Thousands Flee in Macedonia
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
July 25, 2001
Macedonia Accuses Western Officials
by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Associated Press Writer
"All our fears have proven true that the international
representatives are in close coordination with the
KLA. This is open, public coordination between the
mediators and the rebels."
---
SOLDATI BRITANNICI AL FIANCO DEI SECESSIONISTI
British fighters seek thrill of battle in Macedonia's
struggle
Scotland On Sunday
>From Conal Urquhart in Skopje
Sunday, 15th July 2001
> http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960
---
COL. D. HACKWORTH: DA CHE PARTE STIAMO?
Col. David Hackworth: Whose side are we really on?
Toogood Reports
Tuesday, July 10, 2001
> http://ToogoodReports.com/
---
I MACEDONI INFURIATI CON L'AMBASCIATORE USA
U.S. Ambassador Mobbed in Macedonia
by MISHA SAVIC
Associated Press Writer
July 7, 2001
> http://www.newsday.com/ap/international/ap323.htm
---
ATENE PREOCCUPATA PER LA SITUAZIONE
Athens fears FYROM could shake Balkans
Calls for a united response
KATHIMERINI
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2001
> http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid%ef%bf%bd158
---
IL CAPO DEI TERRORISTI ERA STIPENDIATO DALL'ONU
Rebel chief worked for UN funded force in Kosovo
The Irish Times
Thursday, July 5, 2001
The leader of the Macedonian rebels was originally
paid by the UN, writes Chris Stephen, in Pristina
---
CHI SONO I "RIBELLI ALBANESI"?
Who are the "Albanian rebels"?
> http://www.komiti.com/
---
"TURISTI" ALBANESI DALLA FYROM NELLA VALLE DI PRESEVO
Over 6,000 Albanian Refugees From
Macedonia Settled in the Preseva Valley
June 30, 2001
PRISHTINA/PRESHEVA (KosovaLive)
> http://www.kosovalive.com/english/english.htm
---
INTERESSI MAFIOSI NELLO SCACCHIERE PAN-ALBANESE
Albanian rebels are fighting to protect mafia
interests: expert
PARIS, March 21 (AFP)
---
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MICHAEL CHOSSUDOVSKY: DA DOVE VENGONO LE ARMI DELL'UCK
Subject: "Laughs" and "Chuckles" in State Department
Transcripts
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:02:11 -0400
From: Michel Chossudovsky <chossudovsky@...>
"LAUGHS" AND "CHUCKLES" IN STATE DEPARTMENT TRANSCRIPTS:
WHERE DID THE KLA GET ITS WEAPONS FROM?
by
Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Official transcripts of US State Department briefings
reproduce "verbatim" the "questions" (Q) by
journalists and the answers of the State Department
spokesperson. Words are always transcribed
phonetically, "Yes" is recorded as "yeah",
grammatical and speech errors are also recorded,
non-verbal "noises" such as "laughs", "chuckles",
"applause" as well as "mm-hmm", "wow" and "huh" are
also transcribed.
"Laughs" and "chuckles" are usually associated with a
Question (Q) from an individual journalist or an
answer by the State Department official, whereas
"laughter" is from the floor. The "chuckles" and
"laughs" often come after an embarrassing question,
or when the State Department spokesperson says "Yeah,
I don't know" or "I don't want to get into that".
"Chuckles" is often a way of skirting the question.
It also means, "You know the answer, why are you
asking?"
A few months before the onslaught of the NATO
bombings of Yugoslavia, the State Department held a
"Special Briefing" on Kosovo (November 1998). James
Pardew, Washington's "mediator" now in charge of
"disarming" NLA-KLA terrorists in Macedonia, had been
appointed in 1998 "Special Representative for Kosovo
Implementation" by the Clinton Adminstration. Joined
by Julia Taft, Assistant Secretary of State for
Population, Refugees and Migration, Pardew answers
questions on a central issue of the Kosovar crisis:
"Q Where are the arms coming from? I mean, the
Yugoslav forces' arms are coming from Yugoslavia.
Where is the KLA getting their arms?
MR. PARDEW: I can't answer that. I don't know the
answer to that.
Q Don't have any suspicions?
MR. PARDEW: No, not that I'm going into here.
(Chuckles.)
Q (Chuckles.)
MR. PARDEW: Okay --
MS. TAFT: He's guns, I'm butter. Any other -- other
questions? (Laughs.)
(Laughter.)"1
Ambassador James Pardew was sent by Washington to
Macedonia in July 2001 with a mandate to "disarm" the
NLA-KLA terrorists and implement a US-EU brokered
"cease-fire". "No laughing matter": recent
developments in Macedonia confirm that Washington
rather than disarming the terrorists is in fact
equipping them with brand new weapons "Made in
America."
Note:
1. Federal News Service, State Department Briefing on
Kosovo, Washington, November 13, 1998.
For details on how Washington has armed and equipped
the KLA, see the following articles by the author:
"Washington Behind Terrorist Assaults in Macedonia",
July 2001 at http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss6.html.
"Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the Balkans",
April 2001, at http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss4.html
"Macedonia: Washington's Military-Intelligence Ploy",
June 2001, at http://www.antiwar.com/rep/chuss4.html.
"America at War in Macedonia", June 2001, at
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Liebe Leute,
zur Krise in Mazedonien folgende Texte:
WASHINGTON HINTER DEN TERRORISTISCHEN ANSCHLÄGEN IN MAZEDONIEN
von Michel Chossudovsky [23. Juli 2001]
URL der englischen Originalversion:
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/behind.htm
Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Klaus von Raussendorff
Nachdruck und Verbreitung zu den am Ende des Textes genannten
Bedingungen erwünscht !
- Anl. 1 -
DEUTSCHE UNSCHULD
Von Matthias Küntzel
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
- Anl. 2 -
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN IM BUNDESTAG
von Andreas Buro
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
- Anl. 2 -
Z u d e n T e x t e n :
1. Michel Chossudovsky belegt aufgrund öffentlich zugänglicher Quellen
folgenden Sachverhalt: Die von den USA gesponsorten terroristischen
Anschläge ebenso wie der scheinheilige "Friedensplans" verfolgen die
Absicht, Mazedonien schließlich zu zerstückeln und das Land wie Bosnien
und Kosovo in ein NATO-Protektorat zu verwandeln. Die Operation
"Essential Harvest", angeblich zur Entwaffnung der albanischen Rebellen,
die von britischen Fallschirmjägern geleitet werden soll, würde den
ersten Schritt zu einer militärischen Besetzung mazedonischen
Territoriums darstellen. NATO-Streitkräfte schützen nicht nur die
Rebellen in den Gebieten unter ihrer Kontrolle, MPRI-Berater unter
Vertrag mit dem Pentagon, helfen auch bei der Durchführung "ethnischer
Säuberungen" in diesen Gebieten. In diesen funktionieren die
mazedonischen Staatseinrichtungen bereits nicht mehr.
Mit anderen Worten, die Gebiete unter UCK-Kontrolle - die an Kosovo
angrenzen - sind de facto unter der Jurisdiktion der NATO. Mehr noch, es
gibt Anzeichen, dass die UCK - mit NATO-Unterstützung - versuchen
könnte, eine einseitige Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien
auszulösen. Das würde nicht nur die politische Krise in Belgrad
verschärfen, es würde auch die Frage des politischen Status der von der
UCK besetzten Territorien aufwerfen, aus denen die mazedonische
Bevölkerung vertrieben wurde (vielfach in derselben Weise, in der die
Serben aus dem Kosovo vertrieben wurden). Bei diesem Vorhaben ist die
Absicht der NATO klar, sie besteht darin, Mazedonien als Land zu
zerstückeln und zu zerstören.
(Anl. 1)
2. Matthias Küntzel untersucht die deutsche Unterstützung des
albanischen Terrorismus und Separatismus: Der stellvertretende
Vorsitzende der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Gernot Erler, äußerte kürzlich
in einem Radiointerview die Ansicht, in Anbetracht des ,,albanischen
Strebens nach Separation in Mazedonien und im Kosovo„ müsse man
,,nach
der Zukunft der Grenzen in dieser Region (fragen), ob sie eigentlich für
uns unantastbar sind, oder ob man bereit wäre, diese zum großen Teil ja
willkürlich gezogenen Grenzen in irgendeiner Weise, natürlich nach einem
entsprechenden politischen Prozeß, zu verändern.„
„In Prizren haben es die deutschen Soldaten den albanischen
Kämpfern der
Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee überlassen, das in der Stadt geltende Recht zu
bestimmen, und damit die serbischen Familien ihrem Schicksal
überlassen„, kritisierte der in Paris erscheinende Figaro. Die UCK
habe
erklärt, Prizren stehe vollständig unter ihrer Kontrolle, bestätigte
auch die FAZ. „Selbst das geistliche Oberhaupt der Serben im
Kosovo,
Bischof Artemije, hatte vergeblich Sicherheitsgarantien vom deutschen
Kfor-Kontingent in Prizren erbeten.„ Die beinahe uneingeschränkte
Herrschaft der UCK über Prizren wurde niemals in Deutschland, wohl aber
von Stellen der Vereinten Nationen kritisiert – folgenlos.
Als Außenminister Fischer Anfang April in Pristina mit dem ehemaligen
UCK-Chef (und heutigem TMK-Kommandeur) Agim Ceku konferierte, war stets
auch die Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien und dessen Unabhängigkeit
mit im Gespräch. Im Prinzip scheint der deutsche Vizekanzler diesen
Absichten zugestimmt zu haben. Wie sein Adlatus Winfried Nachtwei,
Bundestagsabgeordneter der Grünen, in einem Reisebericht bekundet, habe
man „die kosovo-albanischen Politiker zu mehr Geduld und Vernunft
in
ihrem Unabhängigkeitsbestreben gedrängt.„
Während man sich nach außen mit allzu forschen
Unabhängigkeits-Postulaten nicht den Mund verbrennen will, wird
unterschwellig auf die Verschiebung der Grenzen und eine territoriale
Beantwortung der „albanischen Frage„ hingewirkt –
gestützt auf eine
Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland, der dieser provokante und eigensinnige
Kurs als pure Selbstverständlichkeit erscheint. Je mehr die heutige
deutsche Albanienpolitik dem Auftreten Hitlerdeutschlands auf dem Balkan
ähnelt, desto mehr gilt die Gewißheit, daß im Kosovo zwischen alter
Nazi-Politik und neuer deutscher Intervention nicht ein Spurenelement an
Kontinuität besteht, als Kernbestand der neudeutschen Identität.
(Anl. 2)
3. Andreas Buro untersucht, wie Rot-Grün die wahren Absichten der
deutschen Balkanpolitik vor der Öffentlichkeit zu verschleiern sucht:
In der Bundestagsdebatte, die der Regierungserklärung am 6. Juli folgte,
waren die Regierungsparteien bemüht, die Bedingungen für den
Militäreinsatz in Mazedonien so unscharf zu machen, daß in eine
Zustimmung des Bundestages vieles hineininterpretiert werden kann. So
wurde angedeutet, der Einsatz könne auch länger als 30 Tage dauern. Und
verdächtig oft wurde betont, das Mandat müsse einen
„robusten„ Einsatz
der Bundeswehr gestatten. Gemeint war damit, daß Kampfeinsätze nicht
ausgeschlossen werden dürften. Wieso aber wünscht die Regierung die
Lizenz für einen Kampfauftrag, wenn die Bundeswehr angeblich nur auf der
Grundlage einer Vereinbarung zwischen den Konfliktparteien Waffen
einsammeln soll?
Die wirklichen Probleme werden im Parlament gar nicht benannt. So zum
Beispiel die brisante Frage, welche Rolle die riesige Militärbasis
„Bondsteel Base„, die größte seit Vietnam, spielen soll,
welche die USA
in der Nähe von Pristina bauen. Sie gehört zu einer Serie strategischer
Basen, die es den USA letztlich ermöglichen sollen, in jedem Teil der
Welt militärisch einzugreifen. Bondsteel ist besonders geeignet für
Interventionen in dem Dreieck Mittlerer Osten-Kaukasus-Balkan. Soll
diese Basis an Serbien übergehen, wenn das NATO-Protektorat endet und
Kosovo wieder politisch zu Serbien gehören wird, oder ist die Basis ein
eindeutiges Anzeichen dafür, daß die US-Politik (und vielleicht auch die
der EU) die Abtrennung Kosovos von Serbien schon fest eingeplant hat?
Dann würde plausibel, warum die NATO-Mächte die UCK ständig gefördert
haben, warum britische und amerikanische Ausbilder in albanischen Lagern
UCK-Kämpfer trainieren, warum deren Waffen-, Geld- und Personalzufuhr
kaum behindert wird und warum die US- und Bundeswehrverbände, welche die
Grenzen zu Mazedonien kontrollieren sollen, den Grenzübertritt
albanischer Freischärler nicht wirksam unterbinden.
(Anl. 3)
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Anlage 1
WASHINGTON HINTER DEN TERRORISTISCHEN ANSCHLÄGEN IN MAZEDONIEN
von Michel Chossudovsky [23. Juli 2001]
URL der englischen
Originalversion:http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/behind.htm
Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Klaus von Raussendorff
Inzwischen ist zweifelsfrei dokumentiert, dass Washington hinter den
terroristischen Anschlägen in Mazedonien steckt. Während
US-Außenminister Colin Powell erneut die Entschlossenheit der USA
betont, "den Terrorismus zu bekämpfen", kämpfen an der Seite der
UCK-Terroristen US-Militärberater von der Military Professional
Ressources Inc. (MPRI), einer privaten vom Pentagon unter Vertrag
genommenen Söldnergruppe.
"Unter den abrückenden Rebellen befanden sich auch 17 'Instrukteure' -
frühere US-Offiziere, die den Rebellen militärischen Nachhilfeunterricht
erteilten. Damit nicht genug: Mazedonische Sicherheitskreise behaupten,
70 Prozent der Ausrüstung, die die Guerilleros davonschleppten, seien
US-Fabrikate gewesen - darunter auch modernste Nachtsichtgeräte der
dritten Generation." (1)
US-Streitkräfte schützen Terroristen
Ende Juni unternahm die mazedonische Armee ARM einen größeren Angriff
gegen die Stellungen der UCK in Aracinovo, einem Dorf nahe bei Skopje.
In einer von der NATO betreuten Operation, welche "der mazedonischen
Armee ermöglichen sollte, bedeutendes Rebellen-Gelände
zurückzugewinnen," wurden US-Truppen eingesetzt, um die Terroristen zu
"evakuieren" und zu "entwaffnen" (2)
"Als die Terroristen geschlagen waren und die weiße Fahne hissten,
gerieten OSZE und NATO in Panik und befahlen uns (den mazedonischen
Behörden), die (militärische) Aktion sofort zu stoppen. Die schwedische
Außenministerin Ana Lindth und die europäischen Führer wurden hysterisch
und drohten uns mit wirtschaftlichen Sanktionen etc. Ferner gingen OSZE
und KFOR nach Aracinovo rein und 'retteten' 500 Terroristen zusammen mit
ihren Waffen und brachten sie zu einem anderen Dorf, von wo aus sie nun
wieder angreifen, Zivilisten umbringen und ethnische Säuberungen in
mehreren mazedonischen Dörfern durchführen.... Die NATO verbietet uns,
uns zu verteidigen, wenn wir angegriffen werden und wenn unser
Territorium von den Terroristen brutal missbraucht wird. Wir haben
versucht, uns zu verteidigen, und sie haben die Terroristen in
klimatisierten Bussen gerettet. Das hat bei der mazedonischen
Bevölkerung heftige Reaktionen ausgelöst." (3)
Die aus der US-Militärbasis bei Skopje verlautbarte offizielle "Story"
war: "(Sorry)....aber irgend etwas ist schief gelaufen." (4)
"Eine vertrauliche Quelle in Camp Able Sentry (der US-Basis bei Skopje)
erklärt, dass der Buskonvoi (der die Terroristen evakuierte) durch von
UCK-Rebellen bemannte Panzer gestoppt wurde....und dass die Rebellen die
Busse verließen und verschwanden. 'Nun haben wir einige äußerst wütenden
Mazedonier auf dem Hals', sagte der Armeeangehörige." (5)
Dieselbe Quelle erklärt, dass die Rebellen "von leicht bewaffneten
US-amerikanischen Truppen eskortiert wurden," womit der Eindruck
vermittelt wird, dass die hoch trainierten US-amerikanischen GIs der
502ten Infanteriedivision nichts tun konnten gegen die "mit UCK-Rebellen
bemannten Panzer", die den Buskonvoi abgefangen hatten. (6) Die
Hinterhalt-Story ist eine Fabrikation; schon deshalb, weil die
UCK-Rebellen keine Panzer in ihrem Arsenal haben.
Eröffnung einer neuen Front
Die US-betreute "Evakuierung" aus Aracinavo erlaubte den UCK-Terroristen
- zusammen mit ihren US-amerikanischen Beratern und ausländischen
Söldnern - , bei dem Dorf Radusa 40 Kilometer nordwestlich von Skopje
"eine neue Front zu eröffnen". (7) "Sie (die NATO) transportiert die
Rebellen, die Terroristen, von einem Gebiet zum anderen und bewaffnet
sie neu, anstatt ihre Waffen einzuziehen". (8) Andererseits "schützt"
die KFOR die Nachschubwege der UCK-Terroristen, einschließlich des
Zustroms von Militärpersonal und Waffen aus UCK-Basen im Kosovo und
Ausbildungslagern in Albanien.
Quellen in der US-Armee im Kosovo weisen darauf hin, daß die
"Evakuierungs"-Mission auch die Absicht verfolgte, "die 17
'Instrukteure' unter den abrückenden Rebellen" in Sicherheit zu bringen,
vermutlich um dem hochrangigen US-Militärpersonal, das zusammen mit
Terroristen von den Mazedonischen Sicherheitskräften gefangen genommen
worden wäre, eine diplomatische Demütigung und Ärger mit den Medien zu
ersparen. (9)
Inzwischen gibt es Hinweise, dass US-amerikansiche Apache-Hubschrauber
und unbemannte "Predator"-Spionagedronen (UVA) (eingesetzt von einer
Abteilung des US-amerikanischen 15ten Aufklärungsbattallions in Camp
Able Sentry) diese "neue Front" durch Übermittlung von Erkenntnissen der
militärischen Aufklärung an die US-Militärberater der Rebellenarmee
unterstützen:
"Das Pentagon...bewilligte (Mitte März 2001) die Entsendung mehrerer
unbemannter Spionageflugzeuge, um die Grenze zwischen Kosovo und
Mazedonien zu überwachen. Die unbemannten Predator-Dronen der Luftwaffe
sind in der Lage, Bilder nicht nur unmittelbar an Truppen in der Region
sondern auch nach Washington zu liefern." (10)
Und im Gefolge der US-betreuten "Evakuierung" haben die UCK-Terroristen
- zusammen mit ihren US-Militärberatern - ihre Angriffe in der Region
von Tetovo erneut aufgenommen.
Anwerbung ausländischer Söldner
Seit dem sowjetisch-afghanischen Krieg ist die Anwerbung von
Mudschahedin ("Glaubenskriegern"), die auf Geheiß Washingtons in
verdeckten Kriegen kämpfen, ein integraler Bestandteil der
US-Außenpolitik geworden. Ein Bericht des US-Kongresses enthüllte, wie
die US-Administration - aufgrund von Beratung durch den Nationalen
Sicherheitsrat unter Leitung von Anthony Lake - "half, Bosnien in eine
militante islamische Basis zu verwandeln", was dazu führte, daß Tausende
von Mudschahedin aus der muslimischen Welt durch das sogenannte
"Militant Islamistische Netzwerk" rekrutiert wurden. (11)
Das "Bosnische Muster" ist anschließend im Kosovo, in Südserbien und in
Mazedonien kopiert worden. Unter den ausländischen Söldnern, die jetzt
mit der UCK kämpfen sind Mudschahedin aus dem Mittleren Osten und den
mittelasiatischen Republiken der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sowie "Soldiers
of Fortune" aus mehreren NATO-Ländern, darunter Großbritannien,
Niederlande und Deutschland. Einige dieser westlichen Söldner haben
früher schon bei der UCK und der bosnisch-muslimischen Armee gekämpft.
(12)
Ferner gibt es in der UCK albanisch-amerikanische "Freiwillige", die in
New York mit stillschweigender Billigung der US-Regierung angeworben
wurden. (13) Im März 2001 druckte die in New York erscheinende
albanisch-sprachige Zeitung Bota Sot eine Anzeige der UCK "mit dem
Appell an Albaner (in den USA), sich als Freiwillige zu melden und Geld
zu spenden." (14) Mehrere hundert albanisch-stämmige Amerikaner hatte
eine "Atlantische Brigade" gebildet, die 1998 und 1999 an der Seite der
UCK kämpfte. In den letzten Monaten haben sich, wie berichtet wird,
Mitglieder der "Atlantischen Brigade" der UCK angeschlossen. (15)
Die Vereinten Nationen finanzieren Terroristen
Wie umfangreich dokumentiert ist, ist das sogenannte "zivile"
Kosovo-Schutzcorps" (KPC) der Vereinten Nationen die UCK in anderer
Aufmachung, und die UCK in Mazedonien ist die Stellvertreterin der UCK
im Kosovo. Dazu die Sunday Times: "Hunderte von KPC-Reservisten wurden
von ihrem albanischen Kommandeur, Agim Ceku, im März (2001) einberufen.
Anschließend verschwanden sie in UCK-Ausbildungslagern in Albanien und
tauchen nun in Mazedonien allmählich wieder auf." (16)
Der Kommandeur der UCK-Rebellen in Mazedonien Ostremi war bis vor kurzem
der Stabschef des Kosovo-Schutzcorps (KPC). Um den Anschein zu wahren,
hat Washington die KPC-Kommandeure, die sich der UCK in Mazedonien
angeschlossen haben, "auf eine Schwarze Liste gesetzt." Diese sogenannte
Schwarze Liste Washingtons - - die den ehemaligen KPC-Kommandeuren die
Einreise in die USA untersagt - enthält die Namen von "Kommandeur
Ostremi, seines Nachfolgers als Stabschef beim KPC, Kommandeur Daut
Haradinaj, des Kommandeurs und Stellvertretenden Kommandeurs der
KPC-Eliteeinheit Rapid Reaction Corps sowie der Führer von zwei der
sechs regionalen Divisionen, Kommandeur Sami Lushtaku und Kommandeur
Mustafa Rrustem...."(17)
Aus erster Hand sozusagen widerlegt Washingtons "Schwarze Liste" per
Augenschein die Behauptung der "internationalen Gemeinschaft" und der
Sprachregelung westlicher Medien, daß "die UCK (NLA) in Mazedonien keine
Verbindungen zur UCK (KLA) im Kosovo hat." Tatsächlich bestätigt die
"Schwarze Liste", daß beide ein und dasselbe sind, mit denselben
kommandierenden Offizieren sowohl beim KPC wie bei der UCK (NLA) in
Mazedonien. Darüber hinaus bestätigt sie, dass die terroristischen
Angriffe von Militärpersonal geleitet werden, das von den Vereinten
Nationen bezahlt wird.
Als Kommandeur Ostremi auf seinem VN-Posten Urlaub nahm, um die UCK in
Mazedonien zu führen, haben die VN "angenommen, dass er in Ferien
gegangen sei." (18) Laut Irish Times versäumte es der VN-Generalsekretär
Kofi Annan, die UCK-Kommandeure von der Gehaltsliste der Vereinten
Nationen abzusetzen. Die "internationale Gemeinschaft" zahlte (Anfang
Juli) immer noch die Rechnung unter dem Mantel des VN-"Peacekeeping":
"...die Vereinten Nationen erklären dazu, sie werden gegen diese fünf
Männer (UCK-Kommandeure), alle noch Offiziere im Dienst (des
VN-betreuten KPC), nicht vorgehen, weil Washington noch detaillierte
Angaben darüber weitergeben müsse, was diese Männer angeblich getan
haben." (19)
Dieses Muster der "Terrorismus-Finanzierung" aus VN-Kassen ist nichts
Neues. Der frühere Leiter der VN-Interimmission im Kosovo (UNMIK),
Bernard Kouchner, hatte enge persönliche Kontakte mit
UCK-Oberbefehlshaber, Agim Ceku, herstellt, der in bitter ironischer
Weise auf der Liste der "verdächtigten Kriegsverbrecher" des Haager
Tribunals steht. Weil er aber im Zusammenhang mit " Verbrechen, die in
Kroatien begangen wurden", und nicht im Kosovo, gesucht wird, war dies
ohne Belang bei seiner Ernennung durch die Vereinten Nationen auf dem
Posten des Oberbefehlshabers des KPC.
Ein unabhängiger Bericht an VN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan aus dem Jahre
2000 bestätigte die Beteiligung des KPC an "kriminellen Aktivitäten -
Morden, Misshandlungen/Folterungen, illegaler Ausübung von
Polizeigewalt, Amtsmissbrauch, Einschüchterung, Verletzung der
politischen Neutralität und Volksverhetzung." (21) Auf grausam ironische
Weise "bezahlen die Vereinten Nationen die Gehälter von vielen der
Gangster." (22)
Was der Bericht jedoch versäumt zu erwähnen, ist, dass kaum zwei Monate
nach der offiziellen Einrichtung des KPC unter der Schirmherrschaft der
Vereinten Nationen (September 1999) KPC/UCK-Kommandeure bereits
VN-Ressourcen und -Ausrüstung nutzten, um die Angriffe nach Mazedonien
hinein vorzubereiten als logische Fortsetzung ihrer terroristischen
Aktivitäten im Kosovo. Nach Angaben der in Skopje erscheinenden
Tageszeitung Dnevnik hatte das KPC eine "sechste Operationszone"
eingerichtet, die:
"Presevo, Bujanovac, Medvedja (in Südserbien) und mazedonische Dörfer in
den Gebieten von Skopska Crna Gora, Lojane, Vaksince, Straza und Lipkovo
einschloss...Quellen, die auf Anonymität bestehen, behaupten, dass ein
Hauptquartier von Kosovo Schutzbrigaden (in unmittelbarer Verbindung mit
dem VN-betreuten KPC) schon (im März 2000) in Tetovo, Gostivar und
Skopje gebildet wurde. Es wird in Debar und Struga (an der Grenze zu
Albanien) vorbereitet und seine Mitglieder haben festgelegte Codes."
(23)
Laut BBC "waren westliche Spezialkräfte immer noch dabei Guerillas
auszubilden", was so viel bedeutet wie, dass sie der UCK halfen "eine
neue Front" in Südserbien und Mazdonien zu errichten. (24)
Verbindungen zum organisierten Verbrechen
Was ebenfalls durch offizielle US-Quellen sowie durch zahlreiche
Presseberichte zugegeben wird, sind die Verbindungen der UCK (KLA/NLA)
zu mächtigen Verbrechersyndikaten, die sich im
Multimilliarden-Drogenhandel auf dem Balkan betätigen. Albanische und
Kosovarische kriminelle Organisationen gewähren "ihnen (den
UCK-Terroristen in Mazedonien) eine sehr bedeutende Unterstützung." (25)
Diese kriminellen Gruppen betätigen sich auch im Handel mit albanischen
Frauen zur Prostitution in mehreren europäischen Ländern, darunter
Großbritannien, Italien und Deutschland. Und ein Teil der Einkünfte aus
diesen illegalen Aktivitäten wird gebraucht, um die UCK-Terroristen zu
bewaffnen und auszurüsten.
Mit anderen Worten: Durch Unterstützung der UCK unterstützt Washington
(nicht zu reden von den Vereinten Nationen) indirekt auch die
organisierten kriminell-kommerziellen Syndikate, die hinter den
Terroristen stehen.
Verrat in den mazedonischen Sicherheitskräften
Im April wurde der Oberbefehlshaber der mazedonische Armee (ARM),
General Andrejevski, von A1 TV Skopje beschuldigt, Erkenntnisse der
militärischen Aufklärung an die UCK weiter gegeben zu haben, und zwar
durch MPRI-General Richard Griffiths, der im Rahmen des
US-Militärhilfeprogramms Direktor des "Ausrüstungs- und
Ausbildungs"-Programms der USA bei den mazedonischen Streitkräften ist.
(26) Sechzehn (pensionierte) US-Militärs sind als Berater bei der ARM.
Aber zufällig hilft dieselbe US-Söldnergruppe, die bei der mazedonischen
Armee (ARM) unter Vertrag ist, auch den UCK-Rebellen bei ihren
terroristischen Anschlägen. Mit anderen Worten, Washington bewaffnet und
berät sowohl die UCK-Angreifer als auch die mazedonischen Verteidiger im
Rahmen der vom Kongress beschlossenen Bewilligungsgesetze für Militär
und Spionage. MPRI hilft Mazedonien - als Teil des US-Militärhilfepakets
- "um eine bewaffnete Aggression abzuschrecken und mazedonisches
Territorium zu verteidigen." Aber MPRI berät und rüstet auch die UCK
aus, die für die terroristischen Anschläge verantwortlich ist. In diesem
Krieg zieht der US-amerikanische Militär- und Spionageapparat die Fäden
"auf beiden Seiten des Zauns." (27)
Unter wachsendem Druck hat General Andrejevski inzwischen seinen Posten
als Oberbefehlshaber der ARM aufgegeben. Aber unmittelbar nach seinem
Rücktritt wurde Andrejevski zum "Militärischen Berater" von Präsident
Trajkovski ernannt, wobei er seine persönlichen Beziehungen zu Richard
Griffith von der MPRI beibehält, der immer noch in Skopje ist,
verantwortlich für die gezielte Weiterleitung der US-"Militärhilfe" im
Namen des Pentagon. Mit anderen Worten, das militärische
US-Establishment ist weiterhin auf beiden Seiten im Spiel, indem es
sowohl die UCK berät als auch der mazedonischen Armee ARM "hilft".
Letztlich verfolgt dieser täuschungsreiche Einsatz von Militär und
Spionage den Zweck, die mazedonische Armee (ARM) daran zu hindern, die
Terroristen zu besiegen.
Täuschungsreicher Einsatz der Zivilgesellschaft
Trotz Dauerbeschuss mit Unwahrheiten der Medien sind sich die Bürger
Mazedoniens vollkommen der Tatsache bewußt, dass Washington die
Terroristen unterstützt. Um den öffentlichen Unwillen zu zerstreuen
arbeiten mehrere westliche "Stiftungen" und
"Menschenrechtsorganisationen", darunter die International Crisis Group
(ICG) und Human Rights Watch (HRW) eng mit örtlichen Bürgergruppen in
Mazedonien zusammen. Ihr formelles Mandat liegt zwar in den Bereichen
"Vertrauensbildung", "Regierungsarbeit", "Friedenssicherung" und
"zwischen-ethnischeVersöhnung", aber in der Praxis arbeiten sie Hand in
Hand mit der NATO. Sie sind ein integraler Bestandteil des
täuschungsreichen Einsatzes von Militär und Spionage. Die Rolle dieser
Frontorganisationen besteht darin, dafür zu sorgen, dass der öffentliche
Unwillen gegen Regierung und Militär von Mazedonien statt gegen
Washington, NATO und den IWF gelenkt wird. (28)
Das Open Society Institute (OSI) in Skopje, das von dem
Wall-Street-Finanzier George Soros kontrolliert wird, spielt ebenfalls
eine zentrale Rolle bei der Manipulation und letztendlichen Schwächung
der zivilen Protestbewegung. (29) OSI hat in Mazedonien einen
"Friedensappell" lanciert, der von einer großen Zahl von mazedonischen
Organisationen unterstützt wird. (Über 300 Organisationen und
Einzelpersonen haben den OSI-"Friedensappell" unterzeichnet). Mit
anderen Worten: Das OSI von Soros in Skopje beherbergt und finanziert
die Bürgerbewegung gegen den Terrorismus und verschweigt dabei
geflissentlich die Ursachen des Terrorismus.
Im übrigen ist George Soros Teil des Finanzestablishment der Wall
Street, das den Balkan kolonisiert. Und diese "wirtschaftliche
Eroberung" durch US-amerikanische Finanzinteressen wird vom Militär- und
Spionageapparat der USA unterstützt, der den Terroristen getarnte
Schützenhilfe zukommen lässt.
Derweil George Soros in Mazedonien "Friedens-" und "Versöhnungs"-
Initiativen finanziert, unterstützt er die UCK ebenfalls. Über die
Grenze des Kosovo hinweg, finanziert die von Soros geförderte Kosova
Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) Aktivitäten von
"Gemeindeverwaltungen", die durch von der UCK ernannte Personen
kontrolliert werden. Diese Hilfe wurde ursprünglich durch einen "Post
Conflict Trust Fund" der Weltbank kanalisiert, dessen Mittel zu 90
Prozent von George Soros kontrolliert werden. (30)
Überflüssig zu betonen, dass Soros nahe am Sitz der politischen Macht in
den USA zuhause ist, dass er mit der Weltbank Hand in Hand arbeitet und
dass er bedeutende wirtschaftliche Interessen auf dem Balkan verfolgt.
Sein Open Society Institute unterstützt auch "alternative Medien" in
Mazedonien mit allen äußeren Formen des Anscheins, die "Demokratie" und
die "Freiheit der Presse" zu fördern.
Flüchtlingskrise unter NATO-Schirmherrschaft
Die Flüchtlingskrise ist vorsätzlich durch die terroristischen Angriffe
unter NATO-Schirmherrschaft ausgelöst worden. Unter den Opfern sind
sowohl mazedonische wie albanische Zivilisten. Über 100.000 Menschen
sind betroffen. Nach Angaben des Hohen Flüchtlingskommissars der
Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) sind etwa 73.800 Menschen über die Grenze
nach Kosovo gegangen, weitere 34.500 Menschen sind innerhalb Mazedoniens
"intern vertrieben". (31) In von Rebellen besetzten albanischen
Territorien sind albanische Zivilisten, statt von den
UCK-"Freiheitskämpfern" "beschützt" zu werden, oft Objekte von
Einschüchterung und Repressalien.
In Dörfern, die in der Region Tetovo von Mazedoniern bewohnt werden,
erfolgen ethnische Säuberungen in Gegenwart von US-Militärpersonal, das
die Rebellen-Kommandeure berät. Die UCK hat Berichten zufolge
"beispiellose Terrorakte gegen die Einwohner begangen, indem sie diese
zwang, die Dörfer gänzlich zu verlassen. Die Vertriebenen aus (diesen)
Dörfern haben schwere Vorwürfe gegen die OSZE und das Internationale
Rote Kreuz erhoben, deren Vertreter Kontakte mit den Bewohnern dieser
Tetovo-Dörfer beharrlich vermieden haben." (32)
Ganze Gemeinden sind entvölkert. Nach Angaben des UNHCR sind die
Mehrzahl der Flüchtlinge, die nach Kosovo überwechseln, Frauen, Kinder
und ältere Männer. Andere Berichte weisen darauf hin, daß die
Terroristen albanische Männer werben, sich der UCK anzuschließen, oft
mit Gewalt und Einschüchterung. Die Beweise deuten darauf hin, dass
Verweigerer schweren Repressalien ausgesetzt sind. (33) Das Muster ist
in dieser Hinsicht dem sehr ähnlich, was im Kosovo im Jahre 1999
geschah, wo ganze Dörfer entvölkert wurden. (34)
Ethnische Säuberungen
Washington steckt unleugbar hinter den ethnischen Säuberungen in
Mazedonien. Erwähnenswert ist in diesem Zusammenhang, dass MPRI (die
Söldnergruppe, die mit der UCK zusammenarbeitet) im Jahre 1995 bei den
kroatischen Streitkräften unter Vertrag, federführend bei den ethnischen
Säuberungen und Massakern an Zivilisten war, die sich gegen die
serbische Bevölkerung der Krajina in Kroatien richteten. Dabei arbeitete
MPRI eng mit Kommandeur Agim Ceku zusammen, der damals Brigadegeneral in
den Kroatischen Streitkräften war. Ceku war nicht nur einer der
maßgeblichen Planer der "Operation Sturm", er war auch Kommandeur der
Artilleriedivision, die für den Beschuss von Krajina-serbischen
Zivilisten verantwortlich ist. Es ist kein Wunder, dass das Muster in
Mazedonien dem in der Krajina und im Kosovo ähnlich ist. (35)
Dieselben kommandierenden Offiziere von UCK und MPRI sind jetzt an
terroristischen Angriffen und ethnischen Säuberungen in Mazedonien
beteiligt. "Geschützt" von US-amerikanischen und britischen Truppen in
Kosovo und Mazedonien, kontrollieren die UCK-Rebellen jetzt bedeutende
Teile des mazedonischen Territoriums.
Fingierter Friedensplan
Washingtons Vorhaben ist, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte daran zu
hindern, die Rebellen zu bekämpfen und die Grenzen zu schützen. Mit
anderen Worten, die versteckte Agenda des von EU und USA vermittelten
"Friedensplans" ist es, Zeit zu gewinnen, den Konflikt in die Länge zu
ziehen, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte in den Kasernen zu halten
und dabei weiter die Rebellen zu bewaffnen und auszurüsten. Und dieser
grausig hinterlistige Einsatz von Militär und Spionage ist möglich, weil
der mazedonische Präsident und ein Teil seiner Umgebung Marionetten der
USA sind. Im übrigen ist MPRI, die die UCK aktiv berät, immer noch unter
Vertrag mit der mazedonischen Regierung, um "den Mazedonischen
Streitkräften zu helfen."
Unterdessen ist General Andrejevski, der von seinem Posten als
ARM-Oberbefehlshaber kürzlich zurücktrat, weiterhin als "militärischer
Berater" des Präsidenten im Amt und agiert dabei im Auftrag von MPRI und
des Pentagons.
Mit anderen Worten, hochrangige Offiziere in Schlüsselstellungen in der
ARM arbeiten mit dem Feind zusammen, gegen die unteren Offiziersränge
und Mannschaften der ARM, die für ihr Land kämpfen. Trotz der Spaltungen
in der Regierung hat Premierminister Ljubco Georgievski den
US-Sondergesandten James Pardew und EU-Vermittler Francois Leotard
öffentlich beschuldigt, "Mazedonien zu zwingen, sich den Forderungen der
albanischen Guerilla zu beugen." (36)
"Es wird offenkundig, dass alle terroristischen Aktionen in Mazedonien
von den westlichen Demokratien unterstützt worden sind. Jetzt haben wir
praktisch 95% der Akte von Ali Ahmeti (dem UCK-Anführer) auf dem Tisch.
Es ist klar, dass die internationale Gemeinschaft über ihre Position
vorab entschieden hat, und sie versucht nun, diese in Mazedonien in die
Tat umzusetzen." (37)
" 'So brutal ihr Text auch ist, brutaler und noch Besorgnis erregender
ist die Art und Weise, in der sie versuchen, mazedonische
Staatseinrichtungen zu zerstören,' erklärte Herr Georgievski....Der
Premierminister stellte ferner fest, dass das vorgeschlagene
Friedenspaket 'einen schwerwiegenden Eingriff in die inneren
Angelegenheiten der Republik Mazedonien darstellt'....Befragt nach dem
Ausmaß des Drucks, den Mazedonien aushalten könnte, sagte Georgievski,
alle Drohungen und Erpressungen sind bisher schon vorgebracht worden,
'ausgenommen, dass die NATO Luftangriffe gegen uns durchführen wird.' "
(38)
Die anglo-amerikanische Achse
Bei den Verhandlungen über den "Friedensplan" hat sich die
anglo-amerikanische Position gegenüber derjenigen von Frankreich und
Deutschland durchgesetzt. Diesbezüglich hat Premierminister Georgievski
"betont, dass der französische Rechtsexperte (der frühere
Justizminister) Robert Badinter aus dem politischen Prozess
rücksichtslos ausgeschaltet wurde," was bedeutet, dass seine
Empfehlungen zur Verfassungsreform von James Pardew in Abstimmung mit
dem UCK-Führer Ali Ahmeti zurückgewiesen wurden. (39)
Obgleich die NATO formell nicht Teil der EU/US-"Vermittlung" ist, hat
der Hohe Beauftragte der EU Javier Solana (der den Posten des
Generalsekretärs während der Bombardierungen Jugoslawiens 1999
bekleidete) mit seinem Nachfolger bei der NATO Lord George Robertson
Hand in Hand gearbeitet. Entsprechend wurde der britische Botschafter
Mark Dickinson im Mai von Solana ernannt, um in seinem Name in Skopje zu
agieren. Britische Fallschirmspringer und Sondertruppen - die die UCK im
Jahre 1999 ausgebildet haben - sind dafür vorgesehen, die
Schwindeloperation "Essential Harvest" zu leiten, "um die Rebellen zu
entwaffnen."
Immer stärker sind die Korridore der internationalen Diplomatie von
Vertretern der Militärspionage mit früherer Erfahrung in Bosnien und
Kosovo übernommen worden. James Pardew begann als hochrangiger
Aufklärungsoffizier seine Balkan-Karriere 1993 für die Vereinigten
Stabschefs mit der Aufgabe, die US-Hilfe an die Bosnisch-Muslimische
Armee durchzuleiten. Oberst Pardew war damit betraut, die "Abwürfe" von
Nachschub für die bosnischen Streitkräfte zu arrangieren, wobei er eng
mit dem Vorsitzenden des Nationalen Sicherheitsrates Anthony Lake
zusammenarbeitete. (40) Peter Feith von der NATO, der "mit den Kontakten
zur UCK-Guerilla beauftragt" worden ist, ist ein alter "Kollege" von
James Pardew. Er war Mitte der 90er Jahre politischer Berater beim
IFOR-Oberkommando in Bosnien. (41)
Wiederauflage von Bosnien und Kosovo
Der "Vermittler" der USA, James Pardew, hat das Mandat, das
Bosnien/Kosovo-Muster wiederaufzulegen. Dementsprechend ist Washingtons
hinterhältiger Einsatz von Militär und Spionage da, um das mazedonische
Territorium zu zerstückeln, interne soziale Spaltungen zu forcieren und
ethnische Spannungen zu schüren. Das Vorhaben besteht darin, alle
sozialen und politischen Bande zwischen Albanern und Mazedoniern zu
zerstören, die länger als ein halbes Jahrhundert in einer
multi-ethnischen Gesellschaft koexistiert haben. Diese sozio-ethnischen
Spaltungen werden vorsätzlich geschaffen, um alle Formen des sozialen
Widerstands zu zügeln. Noch wichtiger, man will die Entwicklung einer
breiteren "gemeinsamen Front" gegen den Feind verhindern.
Die von den USA gesponsorten terroristischen Anschläge ebenso wie der
scheinheilige "Friedensplans" verfolgen die Absicht, das Land
schließlich zu zerstückeln und Mazedonien in ein NATO-Protektorat zu
verwandeln. Die Operation "Essential Harvest", die von britischen
Fallschirmjägern geleitet werden soll, würde den ersten Schritt zu einer
militärischen Besetzung mazedonischen Territoriums darstellen.
NATO-Streitkräfte schützen nicht nur die Rebellen in den Gebieten unter
ihrer Kontrolle, MPRI-Berater unter Vertrag mit dem Pentagon, helfen
auch bei der Durchführung "ethnischer Säuberungen" in diesen Gebieten.
In diesen funktionieren die mazedonischen Staatseinrichtungen bereits
nicht mehr.
Mit anderen Worten, die Gebiete unter UCK-Kontrolle - die an Kosovo
angrenzen - sind de facto unter der Jurisdiktion der NATO. Mehr noch, es
gibt Anzeichen, dass die UCK - mit NATO-Unterstützung - versuchen
könnte, eine einseitige Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien
auszulösen. Das würde nicht nur die politische Krise in Belgrad
verschärfen, es würde auch die Frage des politischen Status der von der
UCK besetzten Territorien aufwerfen, aus denen die mazedonische
Bevölkerung vertrieben wurde (vielfach in derselben Weise, in der die
Serben aus dem Kosovo vertrieben wurden). Bei diesem Vorhaben ist die
Absicht der NATO klar, sie besteht darin, Mazedonien als Land zu
zerstückeln und zu zerstören.
FOOT NOTES:
1. Franz-Josef Hutsch und Cornel Faltin, "US-Berater halfen
Albaner-Rebellen. Deutsche Soldaten nach Mazedonien: Muss der Bundestag
seine Sommerpause unterbrechen ?" in Hamburger Abendblatt v. 28.06.01.
http://www.abendblatt.de/contents/ha/news/politik/html/280601/SGOBJEE9.HTM
2. Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2001.
3. Report from informed source in Skopje, 3 July 2001.
4. Christian Science Monitor, op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. AFP. Paris, 4 July 2001.
8. Statement of Ljubica Acevska, Macedonia's first ambassador to the
United States, UPI, 5 July 2001.
9. See Col. David Hackworth, Wanted Guns for Hire, Toogood Reports, July
10, 2001, at
http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/hackworth/071001.htm.
10. See The Record, Bergen County New Jersey, 25 March 2001, and the New
York Times, 17 July 2001.
11. Washington Times, 14 December 1997 and US Congress, Press Release,
"Militant Islamic Base", Congressional Press Releases, 16 January 1997.
12. Scotland on Sunday, Glasgow, 15 June 2001,
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960 , see also
UPI, 9 July 2001.
13. New York Times, 19 March 2001. In March 2001, the New York-based
Albanian-language newspaper Bota Sot printed an advertisement by the
National Liberation Army (NLA) "calling Albanians [in the US] to
register as volunteers and to donate money." See The Guardian, London,
20 March 2001.
14. The Guardian, 20 March 2001, available at
http://gu.com/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,459596,00.html . See also ITAR Tass,
Moscow, 20 March 2001.
15. According to the editor of Bota Sot, Dervish Jahjaga interviewed by
The Guardian, London, 20 March 2001.
16. For further details see Sunday Times, London, 10 June 2001 at
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/10/stifgneeu01001.html
. See also Jared Israel, 'Sorry Virginia, but they are NATO troops, not
Rebels,' Emperors Clothes, June 2001 at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times2.htm.
17. Irish Times, Dublin, 5 July 2001.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. See Michel Chossudovsky, The United Nations Appoints an Alleged War
Criminal in Kosovo, March 2000, at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm.
21. Quoted in John Sweeney and Jen Holsoe, "Kosovo Disaster Response
Service Stands Accused of Murder and Torture," The Observer, London, 12
March 2000.
22. Ibid
23. Macedonian Information Centre Newsletter, Skopje, 21 March 2000,
published by BBC Summary of World Broadcast, 24 March 2000.
24. BBC, 29 January 2001, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1142000/1142478.stm
25. UPI, 8 July 2001.
26. See Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington Military Intelligence
Ploy, June 2001, at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm
. See also MPRI Republic of Macedonia, Stability and Deterrence Program
(1998-Present) at http://www.mpri.com/subchannels/int_europe.html .
27. See Michel Chossudovsky, Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the
Balkans, April 2001, http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm
and Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington's Military-Intelligence
Ploy, June 2001 at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm
28. See ICG's report on Macedonia at
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=318 .
Both HRW and ICG are funded by Wall Street financier George Soros.
29. See the OSI Macedonia webpage at http://www.soros.org.mk /.
30. World Bank, Kosova Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) World Bank,
World Bank Launches First Kosovo Project, Washington, November 16, 1999
News Release No. 2000/097/ECA,
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/097.htm . See also Michel
Chossudovsky, Opening Kosovo to Foreign Capital, March 2000, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/opening.htm .
31. UNHCR Press Briefing, Geneva, 3 July 2001
32. Macedonian Radio, Skopje, in Macedonian, 200 GMT 8 July 2001, BBC
Monitoring Service, 8 July 2001.
33. The Red Cross has registered some 34,000 "internally displaced
persons", expulsed by the terrorists, See Red Cross, Report Macedonia,
26 June 2001, at
http://crisis.vmacedonia.com/RedCross25062001/index.html .
34. In this regard, recent evidence suggests that the KLA was
instrumental in uprooting the civilian population in Kosovo during the
1999 bombing of Yugoslavia. See Jared Israel, What's Behind KLA Strategy
in the Balkans? Emperors Clothes, and the interview with Kosovo
historian Chedomir Pralinchevich, May 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/strategy.htm .
35 See Michel Chossudovsky, NATO Installs a Reign of Terror in the
Kosovo, July 1999 at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/chossnato.htm
36. Quoted in The Independent, London, 19 July 2001.
37. Press Release, Macedonian Information Agency, Skopje, 19 July 2001
at http://www.sinf.gov.mk/PressRoomEN/2001/07/n0719.htm#2
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Washington Times, 14 December 1997 and US Congress, Press Release,
"Militant Islamic Base", Congressional Press Releases, 16 January 1997.
41. Deutsche Presse Agentur, 12 July 2001.
Articles by the author on Macedonia:
Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the Balkans, Ottawa, April 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm .
America at War in Macedonia, June 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/pipe.htm .
Macedonia: Washington's Military Intelligence Ploy, June 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm
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Anlage 2
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
DEUTSCHE UNSCHULD
Von Matthias Küntzel
Zufällig war mein Radio eingeschaltet, als kürzlich der stellvertretende
Vorsitzende der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Gernot Erler, in einem Interview
zur Perspektive Mazedoniens und des Kosovo Stellung nahm. ,,Gibt es so
etwas wie Strategie und Konzept?„, erkundigte sich der Moderator
des
Morgenmagazins. Die Antwort des SPD-Politikers war bemerkenswert. In
Anbetracht des ,,albanischen Strebens nach Separation in Mazedonien und
im Kosovo„ müsse man ,,nach der Zukunft der Grenzen in dieser
Region
(fragen), ob sie eigentlich für uns unantastbar sind, oder ob man bereit
wäre, diese zum großen Teil ja willkürlich gezogenen Grenzen in
irgendeiner Weise, natürlich nach einem entsprechenden politischen
Prozeß, zu verändern.„
Schon der Inhalt dieser Worte bietet Zündstoff genug. Wer Grenzen
infragestellen und Staaten zerteilen will, schafft Präzedenzfälle und
nimmt Kriege in Kauf. Man stelle sich vor, Erler hätte so über die
Revision der „willkürlich gezogenen„ deutsch-polnischen
Grenze oder über
„das Streben nach Separation„ der in der Türkei lebenden
Kurden
parliert. Mehr noch als der Inhalt erstaunte mich der nonchalante
Gestus, mit welchem Gernot Erler das territoriale Programm der UCK in
die Sprache des durchschnittlichen Deutschlandfunk-Zuhö-rers übertrug,
sowie die Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der der Rundfunk-Moderator dem
Revisionismus Erlers beipflichtete und zur Tagesordnung überging.
Diese „Selbstverständlichkeit„ ist das Rätsel und das
Problem, vor dem
jeder Kritiker der deutschen Kosovo-Politik steht. Selbstverständlich
wird im Englischen mit it goes without saying und im Französischen mit
cela va sans dire umschrieben, und eben so scheint die deutsche
Öffentlichkeit zu funktionieren: Wird nicht jeder noch so provokante
Vorstoß der deutschen Außenpolitik im stillschweigenden Einverständnis
verteidigt und unterstützt? Offenkundig konnte Erler, als er die
Neuordnung des Balkans empfahl, spezifische Gedankenformen im Bewußtsein
seiner Zuhörer voraussetzen – Gedankenformen, die untrennbar mit
der
rot-grünen Verantwortung für den „antifaschistisch„
begründeten
NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien verbunden sind.
Eines der wichtigsten dieser Selbstverständlichkeits-Konstrukte lautet:
„Es ging nicht anders.„ Ob rückblickend Rudolf Scharpings
Kriegsrhetorik
und Joseph Fischers Hufeisenplan gerügt werden oder nicht: An der
Prämisse, daß es zur Bombardierung Jugoslawiens letztlich keine
Alternative gegeben habe, hält man fest. Warum muß jeder Anflug von
Zweifel und die Ahnung, daß ausgerechnet unsere
„Regierungslinke„ an
einem Kriegsverbrechen beteiligt gewesen sein könnte, tabuisiert und aus
dem Bewußtsein gedrängt werden? Weil jede andere Sicht auf diesen Krieg
Konsequenzen zeitigen müßte, die nur eine verschwindend kleine
Minderheit zu tragen bereit ist: nicht nur den individuellen Bruch mit
Rot-Grün, sondern das grundsätzliche Infragestellen all dessen, auf das
man in Deutschland stolz sein und stolz bleiben will: Lernfähigkeit aus
der Geschichte, Friedenswille und demokratisierte Öffentlichkeit, um nur
einige Topoi zu nennen. Die Rationalisierungen, die für das „Es
ging
nicht anders„ nachgeschoben werden, sind demgegenüber zweitrangig
und
widersprechen sich oft selbst. So wird für die deutsche
Kriegsbeteiligung sowohl der angebliche Völkermord eines Milosevic wie
auch das angebliche Agieren der USA, die die „Submacht„
Deutschland in
diesen Krieg hineingezwungen hätten, verantwortlich gemacht und eine
eigenständige deutsche Rolle bei der Anbahnung dieses Krieges a priori
dementiert.
Ganz von selbst funktioniert auch der anti-slawische Affekt, der sich am
Beispiel des Kosovo als a priori-Sympathie für die albanische Sache
manifestiert. Auch wer wenig von der Region weiß oder wissen will, hegt
doch wenigstens daran keinen Zweifel, daß den albanisch-sprachigen
Jugoslawen ein unabhängiges Kosovo so schnell wie möglich zuzugestehen
sei. Als Fischer auf dem Höhepunkt der ersten Mazedonien-Krise die
„albanische Frage„ für „offen„ erklärte, löste
dieser Vorstoß
hierzulande weder Irritation, noch Protest aus.
Das wichtigste „Es-versteht-sich-von-selbst„-Konstrukt hat
jedoch mit
dem Verhältnis zum Nationalsozialismus zu tun: Die Gewißheit, daß im
Kosovo zwischen alter Nazi-Politik und neuer deutscher Intervention
nicht ein Spurenelement an Kontinuität besteht, ist Kernbestand der
neudeutschen Identität. Oder gilt etwa nicht als selbstverständlich, daß
die im Kosovo stationierten deutschen Soldaten dazu beitragen,
„historische Schuld und historisches Verbrechen, die im deutschen
Namen
begangen wurden, durch ein anderes Bild Deutschlands zu ersetzen„,
wie
Bundeskanzler Schröder stolz erklärte? Doch schon der logische Defekt
der Schröderschen Formulierung (können Bilder Verbrechen
„ersetzen„?)
deutet die Bemühtheit dieser Prämisse an. Noch augenfälliger ist der
Umstand, daß sich die deutsche Öffentlichkeit in ein geradezu
ohrenbetäubendes Schweigen hüllt, wenn es um die nationalsozialistische
Herrschaft im Kosovo geht. Warum wurde über die kosovo-albanische
SS-Division „Skanderbeg„ bis heute kein Film gedreht und
kein Essay
verfaßt? Warum ist über die NS-Herrschaft im Kosovo so gut wie nichts
bekannt? Weil zwar kein Schlußstrich unter die Befassung mit der
Vergangenheit gezogen wurde, eine Befassung mit der Vergangenheit unter
dem Aspekt der Kontinuität jedoch strikt tabuiert ist.
Täglich strahlt der in Prizren betriebene deutsche Soldatensender
„Radio
Andernach„ in präziser Nachahmung eines zwischen 1941 und 1944 vom
deutschen Sender „Radio Belgrad„ gepflegten Rituals zum
allabendlichen
Programmschluß den Wehrmachtsschlager „Lili Marleen„ aus
– wo einstmals
ein Zentrum der Nazi-Kollaboration gewesen ist, können sich die
Deutschen das erlauben. Doch gänzlich unpassend ist diese Musikauswahl
nicht: Zur alten Melodie und unter neuer deutscher Fahne wird seit dem
Juni 1999 in Prizren der „Säuberungspolitik„ der alten
albanischen
SS-Division nachgeeifert. Im krassen Gegensatz zu den Beschönigungen der
Bundesregierung und ihrer medialen Nachbeter erhielt die UCK in keiner
anderen Besatzungszone des Kosovo ein vergleichbar großes Maß an
Pogromfreiheit wie in der deutschen.
„In Prizren haben es die deutschen Soldaten den albanischen
Kämpfern der
Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee überlassen, das in der Stadt geltende Recht zu
bestimmen, und damit die serbischen Familien ihrem Schicksal
überlassen„, kritisierte der in Paris erscheinende Figaro. Die UCK
habe
erklärt, Prizren stehe vollständig unter ihrer Kontrolle, bestätigte
auch die FAZ. „Selbst das geistliche Oberhaupt der Serben im
Kosovo,
Bischof Artemije, hatte vergeblich Sicherheitsgarantien vom deutschen
Kfor-Kontingent in Prizren erbeten.„ Die beinahe uneingeschränkte
Herrschaft der UCK über Prizren wurde niemals in Deutschland, wohl aber
von Stellen der Vereinten Nationen kritisiert – folgenlos.
Auf Kritik auch in Berlin stieß das terroristische Agieren der UCK erst
im Zusammenhang mit der Mazedonien-Krise. Doch scheint die Politik der
stillen Beihilfe für die inzwischen als
„Kosovo-Schutz-Korps„ (TMK)
getarnte UCK fortgesetzt worden zu sein. „In Prizren weiß jedes
Kind,
daß die TMK die mazedonische UCK unterstützt„, berichtete kürzlich
Die
Woche.. „Die meisten Waffen der dortigen Kämpfer kommen aus dem
Kosovo.
,Oft sind Kolonnen von bis zu 100 Maultieren unterwegs‘, erläutert
Kfor-Mann Löbbering: ,Wenn neben jedem Tier ein Bewacher geht,
transportieren die wahrscheinlich Waffen.‘„ –
ungehindert, versteht
sich. Im deutschen Sektor gebe es „wenig zu lachen„,
mokierte sich die
Londoner Times, „außer über die Behauptung der Nato, die Grenze
für das
Kosovo dicht gemacht zu haben. Nachdem ich beobachten konnte, wie
Albaner ein halbes Dutzend Mal über die Grenze entkommen sind, erscheint
die Vorstellung, daß deutsche Soldaten im Kosovo die Grenze dichtmachen,
weit hergeholt.„
Als Außenminister Fischer Anfang April in Pristina mit dem ehemaligen
UCK-Chef (und heutigem TMK-Kommandeur) Agim Ceku konferierte, war stets
auch die Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien und dessen Unabhängigkeit
mit im Gespräch. Im Prinzip scheint der deutsche Vizekanzler diesen
Absichten zugestimmt zu haben. Wie sein Adlatus Winfried Nachtwei,
Bundestagsabgeordneter der Grünen, in einem Reisebericht bekundet, habe
man „die kosovo-albanischen Politiker zu mehr Geduld und Vernunft
in
ihrem Unabhängigkeitsbestreben gedrängt.„
Erinnert nicht diese Ermunterung zum Unabhängigkeitskampf an die
eingangs zitierte Plauderei von Gernot Erler, der mit größter
Selbstverständlichkeit die „willkürlich gezogenen Grenzen„
Jugoslawiens
und vielleicht auch die Mazedoniens verändern will? Und doch ist
angesichts der internationalen Widerstände gegen jede Grenzrevision die
Politik der Bundesregierung doppelbödig angelegt: Während man sich nach
außen mit allzu forschen Unabhängigkeits-Postulaten nicht den Mund
verbrennen will, wird unterschwellig auf die Verschiebung der Grenzen
und eine territoriale Beantwortung der „albanischen Frage„
hingewirkt –
gestützt auf eine Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland, der dieser provokante
und eigensinnige Kurs als pure Selbstverständlichkeit erscheint. Doch
die eingangs genannten Selbstverständlichkeiten sind fiktionale Gebilde:
Der durch die UCK provozierte NATO-Krieg war keineswegs unvermeidbar,
die deutsche Rolle bei seiner Anbahnung zentral, die Veränderung der
Grenzen nach UCK-Gusto durchaus nicht selbstverständlich und die
dahinterstehende außenpolitische Strategie an spezifischen Mustern der
Nazi-Periode orientiert.
Als die UCK 1999 die letzte jüdische Gemeinde aus Pristina vetrieb, rief
im britischen Unterhaus die Abgeordnete Alice Mahon aus. „Can
honored
Members believe that, in this day and age...?„ Doch im Unterschied
zu
Großbritannien war und ist das in Deutschland kein Thema. Obwohl die
Kontinuitätslinie offensichtlich ist? Nein: gerade deswegen. Je näher
die deutsche Außenpolitik der Leiche im eigenen Keller kommt, desto
wirkungsvoller muß der Blick auf sie verwehrt, die Erkenntnis blockiert
werden. Geschichte freilich kehrt, je heftiger sie abgewiesen wird,
desto traumwandlerischer zurück.
Dieser Kontext war präsent, als Gernot Erler die Verschiebung der
balkanischen Grenzen empfahl. Wie im Selbstlauf knüpft seine a
priori-Sympathie für „die Albaner„ und
„Großalbanien„ an das historische
antiserbische Paradigma an – it goes without saying. Im Gestus
taufrischer Unschuld nehmen heutige deutsche Politiker und Kommentatoren
Vergangenes wieder auf – als das Selbstverständlichste der Welt.
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Anlage 3
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN IM BUNDESTAG
von Andreas Buro
Kein Mitglied des Bundestages soll künftig sagen, es habe die Tragweite
der Entscheidung nicht kennen können. Bevor Außenminister Fischer am 6.
Juli seine Regierungserklärung abgab, forderten das Komitee für
Grundrechte und Demokratie, das Netzwerk Friedenskooperative und der
Deutsche Zweig des Internationalen Versöhnungsbundes alle Abgeordneten
in einem offenen Brief auf, gegen jede Ermächtigungsvorlage der
Bundesregierung für einen möglichen Einsatz der Bundeswehr in Mazedonien
zu stimmen.
Zur Begründung schrieben sie: „In Mazedonien drohen die bisherigen
Kämpfe, sich zu einem Bürgerkrieg auszuweiten. Die NATO und mit ihr die
Bundeswehr sollen nach dem Willen von Bundeskanzler und Außenminister
eingreifen können. Angeblich geht es nur um das Einsammeln von Waffen
der Guerilla innerhalb von 30 Tagen auf der Grundlage einer Vereinbarung
zwischen der Regierung Mazedoniens und den albanischen
UCK-Freischärlern. Eine solche Vereinbarung ist jedoch nicht in Sicht.
Die albanische Seite strebt eine dauerhafte Stationierung von
NATO-Truppen an, während Mazedoniens Regierung die Entwaffnung der
Guerilla und dann einen schnellen Abzug der NATO wünscht. Zu befürchten
ist, daß sich der Konflikt nicht beherrschen läßt und aus dem Einsammeln
von Waffen ein Kampf mit Waffen wird, der zu einem weiteren
NATO-Protektorat auf dem Balkan mit unabsehbaren Konsequenzen und Kosten
führen kann.„
Als Konfliktschlichter, so argumentierten die drei Organisationen aus
der Friedensbewegung, sei die NATO ungeeignet. Sie sei in Mazedonien
nicht vertrauenswürdig, da sie die kosovo-albanische UCK unterstütze.
Die KFOR-Einheiten mehrerer NATO-Staaten im Kosovo hätten die UCK nicht
wirksam entwaffnet und deren grenzüberschreitenden Aktionen in Serbien
und Mazedonien nicht verhindert. Der NATO mangele es aber auch deswegen
an Vertrauenswürdigkeit, weil sie mit dem Krieg gegen Jugoslawien das
Land enorm belastet, es jedoch nicht angemessen entschädigt habe. Zudem
sei jüngst bekannt geworden, daß sich unter den aus Aracinovo
abziehenden UCK-Rebellen 17 frühere US-Offiziere als Instrukteure
befanden und die Ausrüstung, einschließlich modernster Nachtsichtgeräte,
zu einem erheblichen Teil aus amerikanischen Beständen stammt. Das müsse
doch der Bundesregierung bekannt sein. Ob die, die Öl ins Feuer gießen,
nun als Friedensstifter in Erscheinung treten sollten?
In dem Brief hieß es weiter, für die Konfliktschlichtung in Mazedonien
seien die Vereinten Nationen zuständig – auch für das Einsammeln
von
Gewehren, wenn eine politische Lösung gefunden sei. „Der
Weltsicherheitsrat muß der UNO und ihrer Regionalorganisation in Europa,
der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit (OSZE), sogleich
einen entsprechenden Auftrag erteilen und die dafür erforderlichen
Mittel zur Verfügung stellen. So würde auch Rußland in die Verantwortung
für eine friedliche Lösung des Konflikts eingebunden. Ferner würde einer
weiteren Militarisierung von Außenpolitik vorgebeugt werden.„
In der Bundestagsdebatte, die der Regierungserklärung folgte, waren die
Regierungsparteien bemüht, die Bedingungen für den Militäreinsatz in
Mazedonien so unscharf zu machen, daß in eine Zustimmung des Bundestages
vieles hineininterpretiert werden kann. So wurde angedeutet, der Einsatz
könne auch länger als 30 Tage dauern. Und verdächtig oft wurde betont,
das Mandat müsse einen „robusten„ Einsatz der Bundeswehr
gestatten.
Gemeint war damit, daß Kampfeinsätze nicht ausgeschlossen werden
dürften. Wieso aber wünscht die Regierung die Lizenz für einen
Kampfauftrag, wenn die Bundeswehr angeblich nur auf der Grundlage einer
Vereinbarung zwischen den Konfliktparteien Waffen einsammeln soll?
Sozialdemokraten und Grüne stellten die Einschaltung der Vereinten
Nationen und ihrer Regionalorganisation OSZE nicht ernsthaft zur
Debatte. Der CDU-Abgeordnete Willy Wimmer dagegen hatte schon Anfang Mai
auf deren Zuständigkeit hingewiesen und in einem Brief an den
Bundeskanzler gewarnt: „Die amerikanische Seite scheint im
globalen
Kontext und zur Durchsetzung ihrer Ziele bewußt und gewollt die als
Ergebnis von zwei Kriegen im letzten Jahrhundert entwickelte
internationale Rechtsordnung aushebeln zu wollen. Macht soll Recht
vorgehen. Wo internationales Recht im Wege steht, wird es beseitigt. Als
eine ähnliche Entwicklung den Völkerbund traf, war der zweite Weltkrieg
nicht mehr fern. Ein Denken, das die eigenen Interessen so absolut
sieht, kann nur totalitär genannt werden.„
Schwenkt Rot-Grün nun generell auf die Linie der USA ein? Soll die NATO
je nach Interessenlage die Vereinten Nationen kaltstellen? Dann kann man
die immer wieder vorgetragenen Absichten, die UN zu reformieren, in den
Wind schreiben und alles Regierungsgerede über zivile
Konfliktbearbeitung in der internationalen Politik als Wahlkampfnummer
ablegen.
Die wirklichen Probleme werden im Parlament gar nicht benannt. So zum
Beispiel die brisante Frage, welche Rolle die riesige Militärbasis
„Bondsteel Base„, die größte seit Vietnam, spielen soll,
welche die USA
in der Nähe von Pristina bauen.
Sie gehört zu einer Serie strategischer Basen, die es den USA letztlich
ermöglichen sollen, in jedem Teil der Welt militärisch einzugreifen.
Bondsteel ist besonders geeignet für Interventionen in dem Dreieck
Mittlerer Osten-Kaukasus-Balkan. Soll diese Basis an Serbien übergehen,
wenn das NATO-Protektorat endet und Kosovo wieder politisch zu Serbien
gehören wird, oder ist die Basis ein eindeutiges Anzeichen dafür, daß
die US-Politik (und vielleicht auch die der EU) die Abtrennung Kosovos
von Serbien schon fest eingeplant hat? Dann würde plausibel, warum die
NATO-Mächte die UCK ständig gefördert haben, warum britische und
amerikanische Ausbilder in albanischen Lagern UCK-Kämpfer trainieren,
warum deren Waffen-, Geld- und Personalzufuhr kaum behindert wird und
warum die US- und Bundeswehrverbände, welche die Grenzen zu Mazedonien
kontrollieren sollen, den Grenzübertritt albanischer Freischärler nicht
wirksam unterbinden.
Ein Parlament, das dies alles vor einem möglichen Kriegseinsatz nicht
zum Thema macht, ist entweder inkompetent oder deckt eine ganz andere
Politik, die der Öffentlichkeit nicht bekannt werden soll.
Der schwedische Friedensforscher Jan Oberg, Direktor der Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research, beschreibt diese Politik um
Kosovo und Mazedonien im Lichte der gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen
NATO-Expansion: „Sie bezieht sich auf drei Ziele der Gestaltung
der
Weltordnung: das Containment Rußlands, die Marginalisierung von UN und
OSZE als peace-keeping organisations durch die USA und die NATO und die
langfristige Entwicklung eines zweiten Kalten Krieges. Dazu soll vor
allem die systematische Verfeindung der Chinesen, der Russen und
anderer, die nicht der auf die USA zentrierten Weltordnung gehorchen,
dienen.„
Die Situation auf dem Balkan gebietet eine gründliche Erörterung und
verbietet Schnellschußermächtigungen. Kriegsfördernde Vorratsbeschlüsse
wie im Oktober 1998, hieß es in dem eingangs zitierten offenen Brief,
darf sich ein selbstbewußtes und verantwortliches Parlament nicht mehr
leisten. Ist das eine zu hohe Erwartung an den mehrheitlich rot-grünen
Bundestag?
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UCK-Bock will Gärtner werden
(von Rainer Rupp)
Am Donnerstag ruhten die unter NATO- und EU-Druck wieder aufgenommenen
sogenannten Friedensverhandlungen in Mazedonien. Das Land
feierte in Erinnerung an den Aufstand gegen das ottomanische Reich 1903
seinen Nationalfeiertag. Während die UCK über den von ihr besetzten
Gebieten provokativ die albanische Flaggen hisste, betonte der
mazedonische Ministerpräsident Ljubco Georgievski in einer Festrede vor
seinen
Landsleute, dass es nötig sei, die UCK aus den von ihr besetzen Gebiete
zu verjagen, bevor ein Friedensabkommen unterschrieben werden kann. Er
nannte es "erniedrigend", unter dem Druck von Gewehren verhandeln zu
müssen.
Auch der mazedonische Parlamentspräsident Stojan Andonow warnte, dass
das Parlament das Friedensabkommen nur dann beraten würde, wenn
vorher die UCK "aufgelöst und entwaffnet" ist. ("Renewal of fighting as
Macedonia celebrates National Day", SKOPJE, Aug 2 2001, AFP)
Andonow warf der UCK vor: "Sie sagen, daß sie für Menschenrechte
kämpfen, aber sie verletzten die grundlegenden Rechte vieler Menschen,
friedlich in ihren Häusern zu wohnen." Nach Schätzungen sollen seit
Beginn der UCK-Terrorkampagne in Mazedonien vor fünf Monaten bis zu
120.000 Menschen geflüchtet sein. Und es werden wohl noch mehr, denn
Ali Ahmeti, der politische Chef der mazedonischen UCK, ist mit dem Gang
der Verhandlungen nicht zufrieden. Noch letzten Dienstag hatte der, von
der mazedonischen Polizei mittlerweile per internationalem Haftbefehl
gesuchte Ahmeti aus seinem Versteck per Handy erklärt, dass er "nicht
optimistisch" ist.
Die beiden westlichen "Friedensvermittler" Pardew und Léotard priesen
dagegen letzten Mittwoch die Einigung beim Sprachenstreit als großen
Durchbruch. Albanisch soll demnach als zweite Amtsprache eingeführt, in
der ethnische Albaner mit allen Behörden und Ämtern kommunizieren
können. Auch in den Sitzungen des Parlaments kann albanisch gesprochen
werden. Dagegen bleibt mazedonisch die alleinige Sprache für alle
Belange der Zentralregierung. Von allen Problemen war das
Sprachenproblem jedoch das am wenigsten Widersprüchlichste.
Einer der kritischen Punkte der gestern (Freitag den 3.8.01) wieder
aufgenommenen Verhandlungen ist das Problem der Kontrolle und der
Zusammensetzung der Sicherheitskräfte in den Gebieten, in denen die
Bevölkerungsmehrheit aus ethnischen Albanern besteht. Die Albaner
bestehen
darauf, die Sicherheitskräfte dort selbst zu wählen. Das aber - so die
berechtigte Befürchtung der slawischen Mazedonier - hieße den UCK-Bock
zum Gärtner zu machen. Denn auf diese Weise bekäme innerhalb kürzester
Zeit die UCK in den ethnisch-albanischen Gebieten ganz legal die
gesamten Sicherheitsstrukturen in ihre Hand. Das aber hätte mit großer
Sicherheit die Teilung Mazedoniens zur Folge und würde die Tür für
Großalbanien öffnen. Da dies auch der slawisch-mazedonischen Seite
bewusst ist, kommt für sie die Aufteilung der Sicherheitskräfte entlang
ethnischer Grenzen grundsätzlich nicht in Frage.
Eine weitere ethnisch-albanische Bedingung ist eine Amnestie für die
mazedonische UCK, auf deren Konto bisher über 40 Tote und ungezählte
Verletzte gehen. Damit nicht genug, die Gewaltseparatisten bestehen
auch noch darauf, in die mazedonische Polizei und Armee übernommen zu
werden. Zugleich wird die Verhandlungsbereitschaft der mazedonischen
Seite durch fortwährende Verletzungen des Waffenstillstandes durch die
UCK immer wieder in Frage gestellt. Letzten Dienstag z.B. richtete sich
die Aufmerksamkeit auf sieben slawisch-mazedonische Dörfer im
Nordwesten des Landes, die sich mit ihrer verzweifelten Bitte um Medizin
und Lebensmittel an das Internationale Rote Kreuz gewand hatten.
Bewaffnete UCK-Banditen haben die Dörfer seit Wochen komplett von der
Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Die Situation sei "mehr als nur alarmierend"
beschwor Toni Kocevski, der Bürgermeister von Vratnica, den
Korrespondenten der französischen Nachrichtenagentur AFP. Bei den
anderen Dörfern
handelt es sich um Beloviste, Staro Selo, Rogacevo, Gorno Orasje, Dolno
Orasje and Jazince.
Eine Woche zuvor hatte die NATO mit der UCK ein Abkommen geschlossenen,
in dem sich die Gewaltseparatisten verpflichtet hatten, sich aus all
jenen Positionen wieder zurück zu ziehen, die sie unter Ausnutzung des
am 5. Juli geschlossenen Waffenstillstandes erobert hatten.
Entsprechend
dieses Abkommens hätte auch die Verbindungsstraße zwischen den
betroffenen mazedonischen Dörfern und der Außenwelt von der UCK geräumt
werden müssen. ("Macedonian Villages Say Cut off From World by Albanian
Rebels", SKOPJE, Jul 31, 2001 Agence France Presse) An das
Abkommen scheint sich die UCK aber nach wie vor nicht zu halten.
Am Mittwoch vertrieben ethnische Albaner mit vorgehaltener Waffe die
slawischen Einwohner des Dorfes Blace, das in der Nähe der noch vor
wenigen Tagen umkämpften Stadt Tetovo liegt. ("Albanian Guerrillas Said
Forcing Macedonians to Leave Village", SKOPJE, Aug 1. 2001, AFP) Am
Donnerstag griff die UCK in der Umgebung von Tetovo erneut mehrere
Kontrollposten an und verletzte dabei einen Polizisten schwer. Auch die
Trauergemeinde auf dem Friedhof, auf dem ein tags zuvor von der UCK
getöteter Polizist beerdigt wurde, nahmen die ethnisch-albanischen
Terroristen unter Beschuß.
Sbg. den 3.8.01
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Ermahnung an mazedonischen Staatspräsident -
Eid auf Mazedonien geschworen und nicht auf die NATO
(von Rainer Rupp)
In der Nacht zum Mittwoch griffen in der mazedonischen Hauptstadt Skopje
etwa 2.000, meist jugendliche Demonstranten die deutsche und
amerikanische Botschaft an, warfen Fenster ein und zündeten Dutzende mit
OSZE-Markierungen versehene Fahrzeuge an. Auch als westlich
erkennbare Geschäfte wie z.B. das McDonald's Hamburgerrestaurant wurden
zur Zielscheibe der aufgebrachten Menge, die sich angesichts des
Vordringens der UCK-Terroristen unter dem Schutz des von der NATO
ausgehandelten sogenannten Waffenstillstandes vom Westen verraten und
verkauft vorkommen. Die mazedonische Polizei sah tatenlos zu und
sympathisierte offensichtlich mit den Demonstranten. ("Macedonia heads
for
all-out war as demos rock Skopje", AFP, SKOPJE, July 25, 2001)
Nach dem Aufflammen der Kämpfe, insbesondere in Tetovo s<br/><br/>(Message over 64 KB, truncated)
zur Krise in Mazedonien folgende Texte:
WASHINGTON HINTER DEN TERRORISTISCHEN ANSCHLÄGEN IN MAZEDONIEN
von Michel Chossudovsky [23. Juli 2001]
URL der englischen Originalversion:
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/behind.htm
Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Klaus von Raussendorff
Nachdruck und Verbreitung zu den am Ende des Textes genannten
Bedingungen erwünscht !
- Anl. 1 -
DEUTSCHE UNSCHULD
Von Matthias Küntzel
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
- Anl. 2 -
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN IM BUNDESTAG
von Andreas Buro
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
- Anl. 2 -
Z u d e n T e x t e n :
1. Michel Chossudovsky belegt aufgrund öffentlich zugänglicher Quellen
folgenden Sachverhalt: Die von den USA gesponsorten terroristischen
Anschläge ebenso wie der scheinheilige "Friedensplans" verfolgen die
Absicht, Mazedonien schließlich zu zerstückeln und das Land wie Bosnien
und Kosovo in ein NATO-Protektorat zu verwandeln. Die Operation
"Essential Harvest", angeblich zur Entwaffnung der albanischen Rebellen,
die von britischen Fallschirmjägern geleitet werden soll, würde den
ersten Schritt zu einer militärischen Besetzung mazedonischen
Territoriums darstellen. NATO-Streitkräfte schützen nicht nur die
Rebellen in den Gebieten unter ihrer Kontrolle, MPRI-Berater unter
Vertrag mit dem Pentagon, helfen auch bei der Durchführung "ethnischer
Säuberungen" in diesen Gebieten. In diesen funktionieren die
mazedonischen Staatseinrichtungen bereits nicht mehr.
Mit anderen Worten, die Gebiete unter UCK-Kontrolle - die an Kosovo
angrenzen - sind de facto unter der Jurisdiktion der NATO. Mehr noch, es
gibt Anzeichen, dass die UCK - mit NATO-Unterstützung - versuchen
könnte, eine einseitige Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien
auszulösen. Das würde nicht nur die politische Krise in Belgrad
verschärfen, es würde auch die Frage des politischen Status der von der
UCK besetzten Territorien aufwerfen, aus denen die mazedonische
Bevölkerung vertrieben wurde (vielfach in derselben Weise, in der die
Serben aus dem Kosovo vertrieben wurden). Bei diesem Vorhaben ist die
Absicht der NATO klar, sie besteht darin, Mazedonien als Land zu
zerstückeln und zu zerstören.
(Anl. 1)
2. Matthias Küntzel untersucht die deutsche Unterstützung des
albanischen Terrorismus und Separatismus: Der stellvertretende
Vorsitzende der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Gernot Erler, äußerte kürzlich
in einem Radiointerview die Ansicht, in Anbetracht des ,,albanischen
Strebens nach Separation in Mazedonien und im Kosovo„ müsse man
,,nach
der Zukunft der Grenzen in dieser Region (fragen), ob sie eigentlich für
uns unantastbar sind, oder ob man bereit wäre, diese zum großen Teil ja
willkürlich gezogenen Grenzen in irgendeiner Weise, natürlich nach einem
entsprechenden politischen Prozeß, zu verändern.„
„In Prizren haben es die deutschen Soldaten den albanischen
Kämpfern der
Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee überlassen, das in der Stadt geltende Recht zu
bestimmen, und damit die serbischen Familien ihrem Schicksal
überlassen„, kritisierte der in Paris erscheinende Figaro. Die UCK
habe
erklärt, Prizren stehe vollständig unter ihrer Kontrolle, bestätigte
auch die FAZ. „Selbst das geistliche Oberhaupt der Serben im
Kosovo,
Bischof Artemije, hatte vergeblich Sicherheitsgarantien vom deutschen
Kfor-Kontingent in Prizren erbeten.„ Die beinahe uneingeschränkte
Herrschaft der UCK über Prizren wurde niemals in Deutschland, wohl aber
von Stellen der Vereinten Nationen kritisiert – folgenlos.
Als Außenminister Fischer Anfang April in Pristina mit dem ehemaligen
UCK-Chef (und heutigem TMK-Kommandeur) Agim Ceku konferierte, war stets
auch die Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien und dessen Unabhängigkeit
mit im Gespräch. Im Prinzip scheint der deutsche Vizekanzler diesen
Absichten zugestimmt zu haben. Wie sein Adlatus Winfried Nachtwei,
Bundestagsabgeordneter der Grünen, in einem Reisebericht bekundet, habe
man „die kosovo-albanischen Politiker zu mehr Geduld und Vernunft
in
ihrem Unabhängigkeitsbestreben gedrängt.„
Während man sich nach außen mit allzu forschen
Unabhängigkeits-Postulaten nicht den Mund verbrennen will, wird
unterschwellig auf die Verschiebung der Grenzen und eine territoriale
Beantwortung der „albanischen Frage„ hingewirkt –
gestützt auf eine
Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland, der dieser provokante und eigensinnige
Kurs als pure Selbstverständlichkeit erscheint. Je mehr die heutige
deutsche Albanienpolitik dem Auftreten Hitlerdeutschlands auf dem Balkan
ähnelt, desto mehr gilt die Gewißheit, daß im Kosovo zwischen alter
Nazi-Politik und neuer deutscher Intervention nicht ein Spurenelement an
Kontinuität besteht, als Kernbestand der neudeutschen Identität.
(Anl. 2)
3. Andreas Buro untersucht, wie Rot-Grün die wahren Absichten der
deutschen Balkanpolitik vor der Öffentlichkeit zu verschleiern sucht:
In der Bundestagsdebatte, die der Regierungserklärung am 6. Juli folgte,
waren die Regierungsparteien bemüht, die Bedingungen für den
Militäreinsatz in Mazedonien so unscharf zu machen, daß in eine
Zustimmung des Bundestages vieles hineininterpretiert werden kann. So
wurde angedeutet, der Einsatz könne auch länger als 30 Tage dauern. Und
verdächtig oft wurde betont, das Mandat müsse einen
„robusten„ Einsatz
der Bundeswehr gestatten. Gemeint war damit, daß Kampfeinsätze nicht
ausgeschlossen werden dürften. Wieso aber wünscht die Regierung die
Lizenz für einen Kampfauftrag, wenn die Bundeswehr angeblich nur auf der
Grundlage einer Vereinbarung zwischen den Konfliktparteien Waffen
einsammeln soll?
Die wirklichen Probleme werden im Parlament gar nicht benannt. So zum
Beispiel die brisante Frage, welche Rolle die riesige Militärbasis
„Bondsteel Base„, die größte seit Vietnam, spielen soll,
welche die USA
in der Nähe von Pristina bauen. Sie gehört zu einer Serie strategischer
Basen, die es den USA letztlich ermöglichen sollen, in jedem Teil der
Welt militärisch einzugreifen. Bondsteel ist besonders geeignet für
Interventionen in dem Dreieck Mittlerer Osten-Kaukasus-Balkan. Soll
diese Basis an Serbien übergehen, wenn das NATO-Protektorat endet und
Kosovo wieder politisch zu Serbien gehören wird, oder ist die Basis ein
eindeutiges Anzeichen dafür, daß die US-Politik (und vielleicht auch die
der EU) die Abtrennung Kosovos von Serbien schon fest eingeplant hat?
Dann würde plausibel, warum die NATO-Mächte die UCK ständig gefördert
haben, warum britische und amerikanische Ausbilder in albanischen Lagern
UCK-Kämpfer trainieren, warum deren Waffen-, Geld- und Personalzufuhr
kaum behindert wird und warum die US- und Bundeswehrverbände, welche die
Grenzen zu Mazedonien kontrollieren sollen, den Grenzübertritt
albanischer Freischärler nicht wirksam unterbinden.
(Anl. 3)
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Anlage 1
WASHINGTON HINTER DEN TERRORISTISCHEN ANSCHLÄGEN IN MAZEDONIEN
von Michel Chossudovsky [23. Juli 2001]
URL der englischen
Originalversion:http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/behind.htm
Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Klaus von Raussendorff
Inzwischen ist zweifelsfrei dokumentiert, dass Washington hinter den
terroristischen Anschlägen in Mazedonien steckt. Während
US-Außenminister Colin Powell erneut die Entschlossenheit der USA
betont, "den Terrorismus zu bekämpfen", kämpfen an der Seite der
UCK-Terroristen US-Militärberater von der Military Professional
Ressources Inc. (MPRI), einer privaten vom Pentagon unter Vertrag
genommenen Söldnergruppe.
"Unter den abrückenden Rebellen befanden sich auch 17 'Instrukteure' -
frühere US-Offiziere, die den Rebellen militärischen Nachhilfeunterricht
erteilten. Damit nicht genug: Mazedonische Sicherheitskreise behaupten,
70 Prozent der Ausrüstung, die die Guerilleros davonschleppten, seien
US-Fabrikate gewesen - darunter auch modernste Nachtsichtgeräte der
dritten Generation." (1)
US-Streitkräfte schützen Terroristen
Ende Juni unternahm die mazedonische Armee ARM einen größeren Angriff
gegen die Stellungen der UCK in Aracinovo, einem Dorf nahe bei Skopje.
In einer von der NATO betreuten Operation, welche "der mazedonischen
Armee ermöglichen sollte, bedeutendes Rebellen-Gelände
zurückzugewinnen," wurden US-Truppen eingesetzt, um die Terroristen zu
"evakuieren" und zu "entwaffnen" (2)
"Als die Terroristen geschlagen waren und die weiße Fahne hissten,
gerieten OSZE und NATO in Panik und befahlen uns (den mazedonischen
Behörden), die (militärische) Aktion sofort zu stoppen. Die schwedische
Außenministerin Ana Lindth und die europäischen Führer wurden hysterisch
und drohten uns mit wirtschaftlichen Sanktionen etc. Ferner gingen OSZE
und KFOR nach Aracinovo rein und 'retteten' 500 Terroristen zusammen mit
ihren Waffen und brachten sie zu einem anderen Dorf, von wo aus sie nun
wieder angreifen, Zivilisten umbringen und ethnische Säuberungen in
mehreren mazedonischen Dörfern durchführen.... Die NATO verbietet uns,
uns zu verteidigen, wenn wir angegriffen werden und wenn unser
Territorium von den Terroristen brutal missbraucht wird. Wir haben
versucht, uns zu verteidigen, und sie haben die Terroristen in
klimatisierten Bussen gerettet. Das hat bei der mazedonischen
Bevölkerung heftige Reaktionen ausgelöst." (3)
Die aus der US-Militärbasis bei Skopje verlautbarte offizielle "Story"
war: "(Sorry)....aber irgend etwas ist schief gelaufen." (4)
"Eine vertrauliche Quelle in Camp Able Sentry (der US-Basis bei Skopje)
erklärt, dass der Buskonvoi (der die Terroristen evakuierte) durch von
UCK-Rebellen bemannte Panzer gestoppt wurde....und dass die Rebellen die
Busse verließen und verschwanden. 'Nun haben wir einige äußerst wütenden
Mazedonier auf dem Hals', sagte der Armeeangehörige." (5)
Dieselbe Quelle erklärt, dass die Rebellen "von leicht bewaffneten
US-amerikanischen Truppen eskortiert wurden," womit der Eindruck
vermittelt wird, dass die hoch trainierten US-amerikanischen GIs der
502ten Infanteriedivision nichts tun konnten gegen die "mit UCK-Rebellen
bemannten Panzer", die den Buskonvoi abgefangen hatten. (6) Die
Hinterhalt-Story ist eine Fabrikation; schon deshalb, weil die
UCK-Rebellen keine Panzer in ihrem Arsenal haben.
Eröffnung einer neuen Front
Die US-betreute "Evakuierung" aus Aracinavo erlaubte den UCK-Terroristen
- zusammen mit ihren US-amerikanischen Beratern und ausländischen
Söldnern - , bei dem Dorf Radusa 40 Kilometer nordwestlich von Skopje
"eine neue Front zu eröffnen". (7) "Sie (die NATO) transportiert die
Rebellen, die Terroristen, von einem Gebiet zum anderen und bewaffnet
sie neu, anstatt ihre Waffen einzuziehen". (8) Andererseits "schützt"
die KFOR die Nachschubwege der UCK-Terroristen, einschließlich des
Zustroms von Militärpersonal und Waffen aus UCK-Basen im Kosovo und
Ausbildungslagern in Albanien.
Quellen in der US-Armee im Kosovo weisen darauf hin, daß die
"Evakuierungs"-Mission auch die Absicht verfolgte, "die 17
'Instrukteure' unter den abrückenden Rebellen" in Sicherheit zu bringen,
vermutlich um dem hochrangigen US-Militärpersonal, das zusammen mit
Terroristen von den Mazedonischen Sicherheitskräften gefangen genommen
worden wäre, eine diplomatische Demütigung und Ärger mit den Medien zu
ersparen. (9)
Inzwischen gibt es Hinweise, dass US-amerikansiche Apache-Hubschrauber
und unbemannte "Predator"-Spionagedronen (UVA) (eingesetzt von einer
Abteilung des US-amerikanischen 15ten Aufklärungsbattallions in Camp
Able Sentry) diese "neue Front" durch Übermittlung von Erkenntnissen der
militärischen Aufklärung an die US-Militärberater der Rebellenarmee
unterstützen:
"Das Pentagon...bewilligte (Mitte März 2001) die Entsendung mehrerer
unbemannter Spionageflugzeuge, um die Grenze zwischen Kosovo und
Mazedonien zu überwachen. Die unbemannten Predator-Dronen der Luftwaffe
sind in der Lage, Bilder nicht nur unmittelbar an Truppen in der Region
sondern auch nach Washington zu liefern." (10)
Und im Gefolge der US-betreuten "Evakuierung" haben die UCK-Terroristen
- zusammen mit ihren US-Militärberatern - ihre Angriffe in der Region
von Tetovo erneut aufgenommen.
Anwerbung ausländischer Söldner
Seit dem sowjetisch-afghanischen Krieg ist die Anwerbung von
Mudschahedin ("Glaubenskriegern"), die auf Geheiß Washingtons in
verdeckten Kriegen kämpfen, ein integraler Bestandteil der
US-Außenpolitik geworden. Ein Bericht des US-Kongresses enthüllte, wie
die US-Administration - aufgrund von Beratung durch den Nationalen
Sicherheitsrat unter Leitung von Anthony Lake - "half, Bosnien in eine
militante islamische Basis zu verwandeln", was dazu führte, daß Tausende
von Mudschahedin aus der muslimischen Welt durch das sogenannte
"Militant Islamistische Netzwerk" rekrutiert wurden. (11)
Das "Bosnische Muster" ist anschließend im Kosovo, in Südserbien und in
Mazedonien kopiert worden. Unter den ausländischen Söldnern, die jetzt
mit der UCK kämpfen sind Mudschahedin aus dem Mittleren Osten und den
mittelasiatischen Republiken der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sowie "Soldiers
of Fortune" aus mehreren NATO-Ländern, darunter Großbritannien,
Niederlande und Deutschland. Einige dieser westlichen Söldner haben
früher schon bei der UCK und der bosnisch-muslimischen Armee gekämpft.
(12)
Ferner gibt es in der UCK albanisch-amerikanische "Freiwillige", die in
New York mit stillschweigender Billigung der US-Regierung angeworben
wurden. (13) Im März 2001 druckte die in New York erscheinende
albanisch-sprachige Zeitung Bota Sot eine Anzeige der UCK "mit dem
Appell an Albaner (in den USA), sich als Freiwillige zu melden und Geld
zu spenden." (14) Mehrere hundert albanisch-stämmige Amerikaner hatte
eine "Atlantische Brigade" gebildet, die 1998 und 1999 an der Seite der
UCK kämpfte. In den letzten Monaten haben sich, wie berichtet wird,
Mitglieder der "Atlantischen Brigade" der UCK angeschlossen. (15)
Die Vereinten Nationen finanzieren Terroristen
Wie umfangreich dokumentiert ist, ist das sogenannte "zivile"
Kosovo-Schutzcorps" (KPC) der Vereinten Nationen die UCK in anderer
Aufmachung, und die UCK in Mazedonien ist die Stellvertreterin der UCK
im Kosovo. Dazu die Sunday Times: "Hunderte von KPC-Reservisten wurden
von ihrem albanischen Kommandeur, Agim Ceku, im März (2001) einberufen.
Anschließend verschwanden sie in UCK-Ausbildungslagern in Albanien und
tauchen nun in Mazedonien allmählich wieder auf." (16)
Der Kommandeur der UCK-Rebellen in Mazedonien Ostremi war bis vor kurzem
der Stabschef des Kosovo-Schutzcorps (KPC). Um den Anschein zu wahren,
hat Washington die KPC-Kommandeure, die sich der UCK in Mazedonien
angeschlossen haben, "auf eine Schwarze Liste gesetzt." Diese sogenannte
Schwarze Liste Washingtons - - die den ehemaligen KPC-Kommandeuren die
Einreise in die USA untersagt - enthält die Namen von "Kommandeur
Ostremi, seines Nachfolgers als Stabschef beim KPC, Kommandeur Daut
Haradinaj, des Kommandeurs und Stellvertretenden Kommandeurs der
KPC-Eliteeinheit Rapid Reaction Corps sowie der Führer von zwei der
sechs regionalen Divisionen, Kommandeur Sami Lushtaku und Kommandeur
Mustafa Rrustem...."(17)
Aus erster Hand sozusagen widerlegt Washingtons "Schwarze Liste" per
Augenschein die Behauptung der "internationalen Gemeinschaft" und der
Sprachregelung westlicher Medien, daß "die UCK (NLA) in Mazedonien keine
Verbindungen zur UCK (KLA) im Kosovo hat." Tatsächlich bestätigt die
"Schwarze Liste", daß beide ein und dasselbe sind, mit denselben
kommandierenden Offizieren sowohl beim KPC wie bei der UCK (NLA) in
Mazedonien. Darüber hinaus bestätigt sie, dass die terroristischen
Angriffe von Militärpersonal geleitet werden, das von den Vereinten
Nationen bezahlt wird.
Als Kommandeur Ostremi auf seinem VN-Posten Urlaub nahm, um die UCK in
Mazedonien zu führen, haben die VN "angenommen, dass er in Ferien
gegangen sei." (18) Laut Irish Times versäumte es der VN-Generalsekretär
Kofi Annan, die UCK-Kommandeure von der Gehaltsliste der Vereinten
Nationen abzusetzen. Die "internationale Gemeinschaft" zahlte (Anfang
Juli) immer noch die Rechnung unter dem Mantel des VN-"Peacekeeping":
"...die Vereinten Nationen erklären dazu, sie werden gegen diese fünf
Männer (UCK-Kommandeure), alle noch Offiziere im Dienst (des
VN-betreuten KPC), nicht vorgehen, weil Washington noch detaillierte
Angaben darüber weitergeben müsse, was diese Männer angeblich getan
haben." (19)
Dieses Muster der "Terrorismus-Finanzierung" aus VN-Kassen ist nichts
Neues. Der frühere Leiter der VN-Interimmission im Kosovo (UNMIK),
Bernard Kouchner, hatte enge persönliche Kontakte mit
UCK-Oberbefehlshaber, Agim Ceku, herstellt, der in bitter ironischer
Weise auf der Liste der "verdächtigten Kriegsverbrecher" des Haager
Tribunals steht. Weil er aber im Zusammenhang mit " Verbrechen, die in
Kroatien begangen wurden", und nicht im Kosovo, gesucht wird, war dies
ohne Belang bei seiner Ernennung durch die Vereinten Nationen auf dem
Posten des Oberbefehlshabers des KPC.
Ein unabhängiger Bericht an VN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan aus dem Jahre
2000 bestätigte die Beteiligung des KPC an "kriminellen Aktivitäten -
Morden, Misshandlungen/Folterungen, illegaler Ausübung von
Polizeigewalt, Amtsmissbrauch, Einschüchterung, Verletzung der
politischen Neutralität und Volksverhetzung." (21) Auf grausam ironische
Weise "bezahlen die Vereinten Nationen die Gehälter von vielen der
Gangster." (22)
Was der Bericht jedoch versäumt zu erwähnen, ist, dass kaum zwei Monate
nach der offiziellen Einrichtung des KPC unter der Schirmherrschaft der
Vereinten Nationen (September 1999) KPC/UCK-Kommandeure bereits
VN-Ressourcen und -Ausrüstung nutzten, um die Angriffe nach Mazedonien
hinein vorzubereiten als logische Fortsetzung ihrer terroristischen
Aktivitäten im Kosovo. Nach Angaben der in Skopje erscheinenden
Tageszeitung Dnevnik hatte das KPC eine "sechste Operationszone"
eingerichtet, die:
"Presevo, Bujanovac, Medvedja (in Südserbien) und mazedonische Dörfer in
den Gebieten von Skopska Crna Gora, Lojane, Vaksince, Straza und Lipkovo
einschloss...Quellen, die auf Anonymität bestehen, behaupten, dass ein
Hauptquartier von Kosovo Schutzbrigaden (in unmittelbarer Verbindung mit
dem VN-betreuten KPC) schon (im März 2000) in Tetovo, Gostivar und
Skopje gebildet wurde. Es wird in Debar und Struga (an der Grenze zu
Albanien) vorbereitet und seine Mitglieder haben festgelegte Codes."
(23)
Laut BBC "waren westliche Spezialkräfte immer noch dabei Guerillas
auszubilden", was so viel bedeutet wie, dass sie der UCK halfen "eine
neue Front" in Südserbien und Mazdonien zu errichten. (24)
Verbindungen zum organisierten Verbrechen
Was ebenfalls durch offizielle US-Quellen sowie durch zahlreiche
Presseberichte zugegeben wird, sind die Verbindungen der UCK (KLA/NLA)
zu mächtigen Verbrechersyndikaten, die sich im
Multimilliarden-Drogenhandel auf dem Balkan betätigen. Albanische und
Kosovarische kriminelle Organisationen gewähren "ihnen (den
UCK-Terroristen in Mazedonien) eine sehr bedeutende Unterstützung." (25)
Diese kriminellen Gruppen betätigen sich auch im Handel mit albanischen
Frauen zur Prostitution in mehreren europäischen Ländern, darunter
Großbritannien, Italien und Deutschland. Und ein Teil der Einkünfte aus
diesen illegalen Aktivitäten wird gebraucht, um die UCK-Terroristen zu
bewaffnen und auszurüsten.
Mit anderen Worten: Durch Unterstützung der UCK unterstützt Washington
(nicht zu reden von den Vereinten Nationen) indirekt auch die
organisierten kriminell-kommerziellen Syndikate, die hinter den
Terroristen stehen.
Verrat in den mazedonischen Sicherheitskräften
Im April wurde der Oberbefehlshaber der mazedonische Armee (ARM),
General Andrejevski, von A1 TV Skopje beschuldigt, Erkenntnisse der
militärischen Aufklärung an die UCK weiter gegeben zu haben, und zwar
durch MPRI-General Richard Griffiths, der im Rahmen des
US-Militärhilfeprogramms Direktor des "Ausrüstungs- und
Ausbildungs"-Programms der USA bei den mazedonischen Streitkräften ist.
(26) Sechzehn (pensionierte) US-Militärs sind als Berater bei der ARM.
Aber zufällig hilft dieselbe US-Söldnergruppe, die bei der mazedonischen
Armee (ARM) unter Vertrag ist, auch den UCK-Rebellen bei ihren
terroristischen Anschlägen. Mit anderen Worten, Washington bewaffnet und
berät sowohl die UCK-Angreifer als auch die mazedonischen Verteidiger im
Rahmen der vom Kongress beschlossenen Bewilligungsgesetze für Militär
und Spionage. MPRI hilft Mazedonien - als Teil des US-Militärhilfepakets
- "um eine bewaffnete Aggression abzuschrecken und mazedonisches
Territorium zu verteidigen." Aber MPRI berät und rüstet auch die UCK
aus, die für die terroristischen Anschläge verantwortlich ist. In diesem
Krieg zieht der US-amerikanische Militär- und Spionageapparat die Fäden
"auf beiden Seiten des Zauns." (27)
Unter wachsendem Druck hat General Andrejevski inzwischen seinen Posten
als Oberbefehlshaber der ARM aufgegeben. Aber unmittelbar nach seinem
Rücktritt wurde Andrejevski zum "Militärischen Berater" von Präsident
Trajkovski ernannt, wobei er seine persönlichen Beziehungen zu Richard
Griffith von der MPRI beibehält, der immer noch in Skopje ist,
verantwortlich für die gezielte Weiterleitung der US-"Militärhilfe" im
Namen des Pentagon. Mit anderen Worten, das militärische
US-Establishment ist weiterhin auf beiden Seiten im Spiel, indem es
sowohl die UCK berät als auch der mazedonischen Armee ARM "hilft".
Letztlich verfolgt dieser täuschungsreiche Einsatz von Militär und
Spionage den Zweck, die mazedonische Armee (ARM) daran zu hindern, die
Terroristen zu besiegen.
Täuschungsreicher Einsatz der Zivilgesellschaft
Trotz Dauerbeschuss mit Unwahrheiten der Medien sind sich die Bürger
Mazedoniens vollkommen der Tatsache bewußt, dass Washington die
Terroristen unterstützt. Um den öffentlichen Unwillen zu zerstreuen
arbeiten mehrere westliche "Stiftungen" und
"Menschenrechtsorganisationen", darunter die International Crisis Group
(ICG) und Human Rights Watch (HRW) eng mit örtlichen Bürgergruppen in
Mazedonien zusammen. Ihr formelles Mandat liegt zwar in den Bereichen
"Vertrauensbildung", "Regierungsarbeit", "Friedenssicherung" und
"zwischen-ethnischeVersöhnung", aber in der Praxis arbeiten sie Hand in
Hand mit der NATO. Sie sind ein integraler Bestandteil des
täuschungsreichen Einsatzes von Militär und Spionage. Die Rolle dieser
Frontorganisationen besteht darin, dafür zu sorgen, dass der öffentliche
Unwillen gegen Regierung und Militär von Mazedonien statt gegen
Washington, NATO und den IWF gelenkt wird. (28)
Das Open Society Institute (OSI) in Skopje, das von dem
Wall-Street-Finanzier George Soros kontrolliert wird, spielt ebenfalls
eine zentrale Rolle bei der Manipulation und letztendlichen Schwächung
der zivilen Protestbewegung. (29) OSI hat in Mazedonien einen
"Friedensappell" lanciert, der von einer großen Zahl von mazedonischen
Organisationen unterstützt wird. (Über 300 Organisationen und
Einzelpersonen haben den OSI-"Friedensappell" unterzeichnet). Mit
anderen Worten: Das OSI von Soros in Skopje beherbergt und finanziert
die Bürgerbewegung gegen den Terrorismus und verschweigt dabei
geflissentlich die Ursachen des Terrorismus.
Im übrigen ist George Soros Teil des Finanzestablishment der Wall
Street, das den Balkan kolonisiert. Und diese "wirtschaftliche
Eroberung" durch US-amerikanische Finanzinteressen wird vom Militär- und
Spionageapparat der USA unterstützt, der den Terroristen getarnte
Schützenhilfe zukommen lässt.
Derweil George Soros in Mazedonien "Friedens-" und "Versöhnungs"-
Initiativen finanziert, unterstützt er die UCK ebenfalls. Über die
Grenze des Kosovo hinweg, finanziert die von Soros geförderte Kosova
Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) Aktivitäten von
"Gemeindeverwaltungen", die durch von der UCK ernannte Personen
kontrolliert werden. Diese Hilfe wurde ursprünglich durch einen "Post
Conflict Trust Fund" der Weltbank kanalisiert, dessen Mittel zu 90
Prozent von George Soros kontrolliert werden. (30)
Überflüssig zu betonen, dass Soros nahe am Sitz der politischen Macht in
den USA zuhause ist, dass er mit der Weltbank Hand in Hand arbeitet und
dass er bedeutende wirtschaftliche Interessen auf dem Balkan verfolgt.
Sein Open Society Institute unterstützt auch "alternative Medien" in
Mazedonien mit allen äußeren Formen des Anscheins, die "Demokratie" und
die "Freiheit der Presse" zu fördern.
Flüchtlingskrise unter NATO-Schirmherrschaft
Die Flüchtlingskrise ist vorsätzlich durch die terroristischen Angriffe
unter NATO-Schirmherrschaft ausgelöst worden. Unter den Opfern sind
sowohl mazedonische wie albanische Zivilisten. Über 100.000 Menschen
sind betroffen. Nach Angaben des Hohen Flüchtlingskommissars der
Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) sind etwa 73.800 Menschen über die Grenze
nach Kosovo gegangen, weitere 34.500 Menschen sind innerhalb Mazedoniens
"intern vertrieben". (31) In von Rebellen besetzten albanischen
Territorien sind albanische Zivilisten, statt von den
UCK-"Freiheitskämpfern" "beschützt" zu werden, oft Objekte von
Einschüchterung und Repressalien.
In Dörfern, die in der Region Tetovo von Mazedoniern bewohnt werden,
erfolgen ethnische Säuberungen in Gegenwart von US-Militärpersonal, das
die Rebellen-Kommandeure berät. Die UCK hat Berichten zufolge
"beispiellose Terrorakte gegen die Einwohner begangen, indem sie diese
zwang, die Dörfer gänzlich zu verlassen. Die Vertriebenen aus (diesen)
Dörfern haben schwere Vorwürfe gegen die OSZE und das Internationale
Rote Kreuz erhoben, deren Vertreter Kontakte mit den Bewohnern dieser
Tetovo-Dörfer beharrlich vermieden haben." (32)
Ganze Gemeinden sind entvölkert. Nach Angaben des UNHCR sind die
Mehrzahl der Flüchtlinge, die nach Kosovo überwechseln, Frauen, Kinder
und ältere Männer. Andere Berichte weisen darauf hin, daß die
Terroristen albanische Männer werben, sich der UCK anzuschließen, oft
mit Gewalt und Einschüchterung. Die Beweise deuten darauf hin, dass
Verweigerer schweren Repressalien ausgesetzt sind. (33) Das Muster ist
in dieser Hinsicht dem sehr ähnlich, was im Kosovo im Jahre 1999
geschah, wo ganze Dörfer entvölkert wurden. (34)
Ethnische Säuberungen
Washington steckt unleugbar hinter den ethnischen Säuberungen in
Mazedonien. Erwähnenswert ist in diesem Zusammenhang, dass MPRI (die
Söldnergruppe, die mit der UCK zusammenarbeitet) im Jahre 1995 bei den
kroatischen Streitkräften unter Vertrag, federführend bei den ethnischen
Säuberungen und Massakern an Zivilisten war, die sich gegen die
serbische Bevölkerung der Krajina in Kroatien richteten. Dabei arbeitete
MPRI eng mit Kommandeur Agim Ceku zusammen, der damals Brigadegeneral in
den Kroatischen Streitkräften war. Ceku war nicht nur einer der
maßgeblichen Planer der "Operation Sturm", er war auch Kommandeur der
Artilleriedivision, die für den Beschuss von Krajina-serbischen
Zivilisten verantwortlich ist. Es ist kein Wunder, dass das Muster in
Mazedonien dem in der Krajina und im Kosovo ähnlich ist. (35)
Dieselben kommandierenden Offiziere von UCK und MPRI sind jetzt an
terroristischen Angriffen und ethnischen Säuberungen in Mazedonien
beteiligt. "Geschützt" von US-amerikanischen und britischen Truppen in
Kosovo und Mazedonien, kontrollieren die UCK-Rebellen jetzt bedeutende
Teile des mazedonischen Territoriums.
Fingierter Friedensplan
Washingtons Vorhaben ist, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte daran zu
hindern, die Rebellen zu bekämpfen und die Grenzen zu schützen. Mit
anderen Worten, die versteckte Agenda des von EU und USA vermittelten
"Friedensplans" ist es, Zeit zu gewinnen, den Konflikt in die Länge zu
ziehen, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte in den Kasernen zu halten
und dabei weiter die Rebellen zu bewaffnen und auszurüsten. Und dieser
grausig hinterlistige Einsatz von Militär und Spionage ist möglich, weil
der mazedonische Präsident und ein Teil seiner Umgebung Marionetten der
USA sind. Im übrigen ist MPRI, die die UCK aktiv berät, immer noch unter
Vertrag mit der mazedonischen Regierung, um "den Mazedonischen
Streitkräften zu helfen."
Unterdessen ist General Andrejevski, der von seinem Posten als
ARM-Oberbefehlshaber kürzlich zurücktrat, weiterhin als "militärischer
Berater" des Präsidenten im Amt und agiert dabei im Auftrag von MPRI und
des Pentagons.
Mit anderen Worten, hochrangige Offiziere in Schlüsselstellungen in der
ARM arbeiten mit dem Feind zusammen, gegen die unteren Offiziersränge
und Mannschaften der ARM, die für ihr Land kämpfen. Trotz der Spaltungen
in der Regierung hat Premierminister Ljubco Georgievski den
US-Sondergesandten James Pardew und EU-Vermittler Francois Leotard
öffentlich beschuldigt, "Mazedonien zu zwingen, sich den Forderungen der
albanischen Guerilla zu beugen." (36)
"Es wird offenkundig, dass alle terroristischen Aktionen in Mazedonien
von den westlichen Demokratien unterstützt worden sind. Jetzt haben wir
praktisch 95% der Akte von Ali Ahmeti (dem UCK-Anführer) auf dem Tisch.
Es ist klar, dass die internationale Gemeinschaft über ihre Position
vorab entschieden hat, und sie versucht nun, diese in Mazedonien in die
Tat umzusetzen." (37)
" 'So brutal ihr Text auch ist, brutaler und noch Besorgnis erregender
ist die Art und Weise, in der sie versuchen, mazedonische
Staatseinrichtungen zu zerstören,' erklärte Herr Georgievski....Der
Premierminister stellte ferner fest, dass das vorgeschlagene
Friedenspaket 'einen schwerwiegenden Eingriff in die inneren
Angelegenheiten der Republik Mazedonien darstellt'....Befragt nach dem
Ausmaß des Drucks, den Mazedonien aushalten könnte, sagte Georgievski,
alle Drohungen und Erpressungen sind bisher schon vorgebracht worden,
'ausgenommen, dass die NATO Luftangriffe gegen uns durchführen wird.' "
(38)
Die anglo-amerikanische Achse
Bei den Verhandlungen über den "Friedensplan" hat sich die
anglo-amerikanische Position gegenüber derjenigen von Frankreich und
Deutschland durchgesetzt. Diesbezüglich hat Premierminister Georgievski
"betont, dass der französische Rechtsexperte (der frühere
Justizminister) Robert Badinter aus dem politischen Prozess
rücksichtslos ausgeschaltet wurde," was bedeutet, dass seine
Empfehlungen zur Verfassungsreform von James Pardew in Abstimmung mit
dem UCK-Führer Ali Ahmeti zurückgewiesen wurden. (39)
Obgleich die NATO formell nicht Teil der EU/US-"Vermittlung" ist, hat
der Hohe Beauftragte der EU Javier Solana (der den Posten des
Generalsekretärs während der Bombardierungen Jugoslawiens 1999
bekleidete) mit seinem Nachfolger bei der NATO Lord George Robertson
Hand in Hand gearbeitet. Entsprechend wurde der britische Botschafter
Mark Dickinson im Mai von Solana ernannt, um in seinem Name in Skopje zu
agieren. Britische Fallschirmspringer und Sondertruppen - die die UCK im
Jahre 1999 ausgebildet haben - sind dafür vorgesehen, die
Schwindeloperation "Essential Harvest" zu leiten, "um die Rebellen zu
entwaffnen."
Immer stärker sind die Korridore der internationalen Diplomatie von
Vertretern der Militärspionage mit früherer Erfahrung in Bosnien und
Kosovo übernommen worden. James Pardew begann als hochrangiger
Aufklärungsoffizier seine Balkan-Karriere 1993 für die Vereinigten
Stabschefs mit der Aufgabe, die US-Hilfe an die Bosnisch-Muslimische
Armee durchzuleiten. Oberst Pardew war damit betraut, die "Abwürfe" von
Nachschub für die bosnischen Streitkräfte zu arrangieren, wobei er eng
mit dem Vorsitzenden des Nationalen Sicherheitsrates Anthony Lake
zusammenarbeitete. (40) Peter Feith von der NATO, der "mit den Kontakten
zur UCK-Guerilla beauftragt" worden ist, ist ein alter "Kollege" von
James Pardew. Er war Mitte der 90er Jahre politischer Berater beim
IFOR-Oberkommando in Bosnien. (41)
Wiederauflage von Bosnien und Kosovo
Der "Vermittler" der USA, James Pardew, hat das Mandat, das
Bosnien/Kosovo-Muster wiederaufzulegen. Dementsprechend ist Washingtons
hinterhältiger Einsatz von Militär und Spionage da, um das mazedonische
Territorium zu zerstückeln, interne soziale Spaltungen zu forcieren und
ethnische Spannungen zu schüren. Das Vorhaben besteht darin, alle
sozialen und politischen Bande zwischen Albanern und Mazedoniern zu
zerstören, die länger als ein halbes Jahrhundert in einer
multi-ethnischen Gesellschaft koexistiert haben. Diese sozio-ethnischen
Spaltungen werden vorsätzlich geschaffen, um alle Formen des sozialen
Widerstands zu zügeln. Noch wichtiger, man will die Entwicklung einer
breiteren "gemeinsamen Front" gegen den Feind verhindern.
Die von den USA gesponsorten terroristischen Anschläge ebenso wie der
scheinheilige "Friedensplans" verfolgen die Absicht, das Land
schließlich zu zerstückeln und Mazedonien in ein NATO-Protektorat zu
verwandeln. Die Operation "Essential Harvest", die von britischen
Fallschirmjägern geleitet werden soll, würde den ersten Schritt zu einer
militärischen Besetzung mazedonischen Territoriums darstellen.
NATO-Streitkräfte schützen nicht nur die Rebellen in den Gebieten unter
ihrer Kontrolle, MPRI-Berater unter Vertrag mit dem Pentagon, helfen
auch bei der Durchführung "ethnischer Säuberungen" in diesen Gebieten.
In diesen funktionieren die mazedonischen Staatseinrichtungen bereits
nicht mehr.
Mit anderen Worten, die Gebiete unter UCK-Kontrolle - die an Kosovo
angrenzen - sind de facto unter der Jurisdiktion der NATO. Mehr noch, es
gibt Anzeichen, dass die UCK - mit NATO-Unterstützung - versuchen
könnte, eine einseitige Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien
auszulösen. Das würde nicht nur die politische Krise in Belgrad
verschärfen, es würde auch die Frage des politischen Status der von der
UCK besetzten Territorien aufwerfen, aus denen die mazedonische
Bevölkerung vertrieben wurde (vielfach in derselben Weise, in der die
Serben aus dem Kosovo vertrieben wurden). Bei diesem Vorhaben ist die
Absicht der NATO klar, sie besteht darin, Mazedonien als Land zu
zerstückeln und zu zerstören.
FOOT NOTES:
1. Franz-Josef Hutsch und Cornel Faltin, "US-Berater halfen
Albaner-Rebellen. Deutsche Soldaten nach Mazedonien: Muss der Bundestag
seine Sommerpause unterbrechen ?" in Hamburger Abendblatt v. 28.06.01.
http://www.abendblatt.de/contents/ha/news/politik/html/280601/SGOBJEE9.HTM
2. Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2001.
3. Report from informed source in Skopje, 3 July 2001.
4. Christian Science Monitor, op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. AFP. Paris, 4 July 2001.
8. Statement of Ljubica Acevska, Macedonia's first ambassador to the
United States, UPI, 5 July 2001.
9. See Col. David Hackworth, Wanted Guns for Hire, Toogood Reports, July
10, 2001, at
http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/hackworth/071001.htm.
10. See The Record, Bergen County New Jersey, 25 March 2001, and the New
York Times, 17 July 2001.
11. Washington Times, 14 December 1997 and US Congress, Press Release,
"Militant Islamic Base", Congressional Press Releases, 16 January 1997.
12. Scotland on Sunday, Glasgow, 15 June 2001,
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960 , see also
UPI, 9 July 2001.
13. New York Times, 19 March 2001. In March 2001, the New York-based
Albanian-language newspaper Bota Sot printed an advertisement by the
National Liberation Army (NLA) "calling Albanians [in the US] to
register as volunteers and to donate money." See The Guardian, London,
20 March 2001.
14. The Guardian, 20 March 2001, available at
http://gu.com/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,459596,00.html . See also ITAR Tass,
Moscow, 20 March 2001.
15. According to the editor of Bota Sot, Dervish Jahjaga interviewed by
The Guardian, London, 20 March 2001.
16. For further details see Sunday Times, London, 10 June 2001 at
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/10/stifgneeu01001.html
. See also Jared Israel, 'Sorry Virginia, but they are NATO troops, not
Rebels,' Emperors Clothes, June 2001 at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times2.htm.
17. Irish Times, Dublin, 5 July 2001.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. See Michel Chossudovsky, The United Nations Appoints an Alleged War
Criminal in Kosovo, March 2000, at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm.
21. Quoted in John Sweeney and Jen Holsoe, "Kosovo Disaster Response
Service Stands Accused of Murder and Torture," The Observer, London, 12
March 2000.
22. Ibid
23. Macedonian Information Centre Newsletter, Skopje, 21 March 2000,
published by BBC Summary of World Broadcast, 24 March 2000.
24. BBC, 29 January 2001, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1142000/1142478.stm
25. UPI, 8 July 2001.
26. See Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington Military Intelligence
Ploy, June 2001, at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm
. See also MPRI Republic of Macedonia, Stability and Deterrence Program
(1998-Present) at http://www.mpri.com/subchannels/int_europe.html .
27. See Michel Chossudovsky, Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the
Balkans, April 2001, http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm
and Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington's Military-Intelligence
Ploy, June 2001 at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm
28. See ICG's report on Macedonia at
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=318 .
Both HRW and ICG are funded by Wall Street financier George Soros.
29. See the OSI Macedonia webpage at http://www.soros.org.mk /.
30. World Bank, Kosova Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) World Bank,
World Bank Launches First Kosovo Project, Washington, November 16, 1999
News Release No. 2000/097/ECA,
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/097.htm . See also Michel
Chossudovsky, Opening Kosovo to Foreign Capital, March 2000, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/opening.htm .
31. UNHCR Press Briefing, Geneva, 3 July 2001
32. Macedonian Radio, Skopje, in Macedonian, 200 GMT 8 July 2001, BBC
Monitoring Service, 8 July 2001.
33. The Red Cross has registered some 34,000 "internally displaced
persons", expulsed by the terrorists, See Red Cross, Report Macedonia,
26 June 2001, at
http://crisis.vmacedonia.com/RedCross25062001/index.html .
34. In this regard, recent evidence suggests that the KLA was
instrumental in uprooting the civilian population in Kosovo during the
1999 bombing of Yugoslavia. See Jared Israel, What's Behind KLA Strategy
in the Balkans? Emperors Clothes, and the interview with Kosovo
historian Chedomir Pralinchevich, May 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/strategy.htm .
35 See Michel Chossudovsky, NATO Installs a Reign of Terror in the
Kosovo, July 1999 at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/chossnato.htm
36. Quoted in The Independent, London, 19 July 2001.
37. Press Release, Macedonian Information Agency, Skopje, 19 July 2001
at http://www.sinf.gov.mk/PressRoomEN/2001/07/n0719.htm#2
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Washington Times, 14 December 1997 and US Congress, Press Release,
"Militant Islamic Base", Congressional Press Releases, 16 January 1997.
41. Deutsche Presse Agentur, 12 July 2001.
Articles by the author on Macedonia:
Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the Balkans, Ottawa, April 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm .
America at War in Macedonia, June 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/pipe.htm .
Macedonia: Washington's Military Intelligence Ploy, June 2001,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm
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Anlage 2
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
DEUTSCHE UNSCHULD
Von Matthias Küntzel
Zufällig war mein Radio eingeschaltet, als kürzlich der stellvertretende
Vorsitzende der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Gernot Erler, in einem Interview
zur Perspektive Mazedoniens und des Kosovo Stellung nahm. ,,Gibt es so
etwas wie Strategie und Konzept?„, erkundigte sich der Moderator
des
Morgenmagazins. Die Antwort des SPD-Politikers war bemerkenswert. In
Anbetracht des ,,albanischen Strebens nach Separation in Mazedonien und
im Kosovo„ müsse man ,,nach der Zukunft der Grenzen in dieser
Region
(fragen), ob sie eigentlich für uns unantastbar sind, oder ob man bereit
wäre, diese zum großen Teil ja willkürlich gezogenen Grenzen in
irgendeiner Weise, natürlich nach einem entsprechenden politischen
Prozeß, zu verändern.„
Schon der Inhalt dieser Worte bietet Zündstoff genug. Wer Grenzen
infragestellen und Staaten zerteilen will, schafft Präzedenzfälle und
nimmt Kriege in Kauf. Man stelle sich vor, Erler hätte so über die
Revision der „willkürlich gezogenen„ deutsch-polnischen
Grenze oder über
„das Streben nach Separation„ der in der Türkei lebenden
Kurden
parliert. Mehr noch als der Inhalt erstaunte mich der nonchalante
Gestus, mit welchem Gernot Erler das territoriale Programm der UCK in
die Sprache des durchschnittlichen Deutschlandfunk-Zuhö-rers übertrug,
sowie die Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der der Rundfunk-Moderator dem
Revisionismus Erlers beipflichtete und zur Tagesordnung überging.
Diese „Selbstverständlichkeit„ ist das Rätsel und das
Problem, vor dem
jeder Kritiker der deutschen Kosovo-Politik steht. Selbstverständlich
wird im Englischen mit it goes without saying und im Französischen mit
cela va sans dire umschrieben, und eben so scheint die deutsche
Öffentlichkeit zu funktionieren: Wird nicht jeder noch so provokante
Vorstoß der deutschen Außenpolitik im stillschweigenden Einverständnis
verteidigt und unterstützt? Offenkundig konnte Erler, als er die
Neuordnung des Balkans empfahl, spezifische Gedankenformen im Bewußtsein
seiner Zuhörer voraussetzen – Gedankenformen, die untrennbar mit
der
rot-grünen Verantwortung für den „antifaschistisch„
begründeten
NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien verbunden sind.
Eines der wichtigsten dieser Selbstverständlichkeits-Konstrukte lautet:
„Es ging nicht anders.„ Ob rückblickend Rudolf Scharpings
Kriegsrhetorik
und Joseph Fischers Hufeisenplan gerügt werden oder nicht: An der
Prämisse, daß es zur Bombardierung Jugoslawiens letztlich keine
Alternative gegeben habe, hält man fest. Warum muß jeder Anflug von
Zweifel und die Ahnung, daß ausgerechnet unsere
„Regierungslinke„ an
einem Kriegsverbrechen beteiligt gewesen sein könnte, tabuisiert und aus
dem Bewußtsein gedrängt werden? Weil jede andere Sicht auf diesen Krieg
Konsequenzen zeitigen müßte, die nur eine verschwindend kleine
Minderheit zu tragen bereit ist: nicht nur den individuellen Bruch mit
Rot-Grün, sondern das grundsätzliche Infragestellen all dessen, auf das
man in Deutschland stolz sein und stolz bleiben will: Lernfähigkeit aus
der Geschichte, Friedenswille und demokratisierte Öffentlichkeit, um nur
einige Topoi zu nennen. Die Rationalisierungen, die für das „Es
ging
nicht anders„ nachgeschoben werden, sind demgegenüber zweitrangig
und
widersprechen sich oft selbst. So wird für die deutsche
Kriegsbeteiligung sowohl der angebliche Völkermord eines Milosevic wie
auch das angebliche Agieren der USA, die die „Submacht„
Deutschland in
diesen Krieg hineingezwungen hätten, verantwortlich gemacht und eine
eigenständige deutsche Rolle bei der Anbahnung dieses Krieges a priori
dementiert.
Ganz von selbst funktioniert auch der anti-slawische Affekt, der sich am
Beispiel des Kosovo als a priori-Sympathie für die albanische Sache
manifestiert. Auch wer wenig von der Region weiß oder wissen will, hegt
doch wenigstens daran keinen Zweifel, daß den albanisch-sprachigen
Jugoslawen ein unabhängiges Kosovo so schnell wie möglich zuzugestehen
sei. Als Fischer auf dem Höhepunkt der ersten Mazedonien-Krise die
„albanische Frage„ für „offen„ erklärte, löste
dieser Vorstoß
hierzulande weder Irritation, noch Protest aus.
Das wichtigste „Es-versteht-sich-von-selbst„-Konstrukt hat
jedoch mit
dem Verhältnis zum Nationalsozialismus zu tun: Die Gewißheit, daß im
Kosovo zwischen alter Nazi-Politik und neuer deutscher Intervention
nicht ein Spurenelement an Kontinuität besteht, ist Kernbestand der
neudeutschen Identität. Oder gilt etwa nicht als selbstverständlich, daß
die im Kosovo stationierten deutschen Soldaten dazu beitragen,
„historische Schuld und historisches Verbrechen, die im deutschen
Namen
begangen wurden, durch ein anderes Bild Deutschlands zu ersetzen„,
wie
Bundeskanzler Schröder stolz erklärte? Doch schon der logische Defekt
der Schröderschen Formulierung (können Bilder Verbrechen
„ersetzen„?)
deutet die Bemühtheit dieser Prämisse an. Noch augenfälliger ist der
Umstand, daß sich die deutsche Öffentlichkeit in ein geradezu
ohrenbetäubendes Schweigen hüllt, wenn es um die nationalsozialistische
Herrschaft im Kosovo geht. Warum wurde über die kosovo-albanische
SS-Division „Skanderbeg„ bis heute kein Film gedreht und
kein Essay
verfaßt? Warum ist über die NS-Herrschaft im Kosovo so gut wie nichts
bekannt? Weil zwar kein Schlußstrich unter die Befassung mit der
Vergangenheit gezogen wurde, eine Befassung mit der Vergangenheit unter
dem Aspekt der Kontinuität jedoch strikt tabuiert ist.
Täglich strahlt der in Prizren betriebene deutsche Soldatensender
„Radio
Andernach„ in präziser Nachahmung eines zwischen 1941 und 1944 vom
deutschen Sender „Radio Belgrad„ gepflegten Rituals zum
allabendlichen
Programmschluß den Wehrmachtsschlager „Lili Marleen„ aus
– wo einstmals
ein Zentrum der Nazi-Kollaboration gewesen ist, können sich die
Deutschen das erlauben. Doch gänzlich unpassend ist diese Musikauswahl
nicht: Zur alten Melodie und unter neuer deutscher Fahne wird seit dem
Juni 1999 in Prizren der „Säuberungspolitik„ der alten
albanischen
SS-Division nachgeeifert. Im krassen Gegensatz zu den Beschönigungen der
Bundesregierung und ihrer medialen Nachbeter erhielt die UCK in keiner
anderen Besatzungszone des Kosovo ein vergleichbar großes Maß an
Pogromfreiheit wie in der deutschen.
„In Prizren haben es die deutschen Soldaten den albanischen
Kämpfern der
Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee überlassen, das in der Stadt geltende Recht zu
bestimmen, und damit die serbischen Familien ihrem Schicksal
überlassen„, kritisierte der in Paris erscheinende Figaro. Die UCK
habe
erklärt, Prizren stehe vollständig unter ihrer Kontrolle, bestätigte
auch die FAZ. „Selbst das geistliche Oberhaupt der Serben im
Kosovo,
Bischof Artemije, hatte vergeblich Sicherheitsgarantien vom deutschen
Kfor-Kontingent in Prizren erbeten.„ Die beinahe uneingeschränkte
Herrschaft der UCK über Prizren wurde niemals in Deutschland, wohl aber
von Stellen der Vereinten Nationen kritisiert – folgenlos.
Auf Kritik auch in Berlin stieß das terroristische Agieren der UCK erst
im Zusammenhang mit der Mazedonien-Krise. Doch scheint die Politik der
stillen Beihilfe für die inzwischen als
„Kosovo-Schutz-Korps„ (TMK)
getarnte UCK fortgesetzt worden zu sein. „In Prizren weiß jedes
Kind,
daß die TMK die mazedonische UCK unterstützt„, berichtete kürzlich
Die
Woche.. „Die meisten Waffen der dortigen Kämpfer kommen aus dem
Kosovo.
,Oft sind Kolonnen von bis zu 100 Maultieren unterwegs‘, erläutert
Kfor-Mann Löbbering: ,Wenn neben jedem Tier ein Bewacher geht,
transportieren die wahrscheinlich Waffen.‘„ –
ungehindert, versteht
sich. Im deutschen Sektor gebe es „wenig zu lachen„,
mokierte sich die
Londoner Times, „außer über die Behauptung der Nato, die Grenze
für das
Kosovo dicht gemacht zu haben. Nachdem ich beobachten konnte, wie
Albaner ein halbes Dutzend Mal über die Grenze entkommen sind, erscheint
die Vorstellung, daß deutsche Soldaten im Kosovo die Grenze dichtmachen,
weit hergeholt.„
Als Außenminister Fischer Anfang April in Pristina mit dem ehemaligen
UCK-Chef (und heutigem TMK-Kommandeur) Agim Ceku konferierte, war stets
auch die Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien und dessen Unabhängigkeit
mit im Gespräch. Im Prinzip scheint der deutsche Vizekanzler diesen
Absichten zugestimmt zu haben. Wie sein Adlatus Winfried Nachtwei,
Bundestagsabgeordneter der Grünen, in einem Reisebericht bekundet, habe
man „die kosovo-albanischen Politiker zu mehr Geduld und Vernunft
in
ihrem Unabhängigkeitsbestreben gedrängt.„
Erinnert nicht diese Ermunterung zum Unabhängigkeitskampf an die
eingangs zitierte Plauderei von Gernot Erler, der mit größter
Selbstverständlichkeit die „willkürlich gezogenen Grenzen„
Jugoslawiens
und vielleicht auch die Mazedoniens verändern will? Und doch ist
angesichts der internationalen Widerstände gegen jede Grenzrevision die
Politik der Bundesregierung doppelbödig angelegt: Während man sich nach
außen mit allzu forschen Unabhängigkeits-Postulaten nicht den Mund
verbrennen will, wird unterschwellig auf die Verschiebung der Grenzen
und eine territoriale Beantwortung der „albanischen Frage„
hingewirkt –
gestützt auf eine Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland, der dieser provokante
und eigensinnige Kurs als pure Selbstverständlichkeit erscheint. Doch
die eingangs genannten Selbstverständlichkeiten sind fiktionale Gebilde:
Der durch die UCK provozierte NATO-Krieg war keineswegs unvermeidbar,
die deutsche Rolle bei seiner Anbahnung zentral, die Veränderung der
Grenzen nach UCK-Gusto durchaus nicht selbstverständlich und die
dahinterstehende außenpolitische Strategie an spezifischen Mustern der
Nazi-Periode orientiert.
Als die UCK 1999 die letzte jüdische Gemeinde aus Pristina vetrieb, rief
im britischen Unterhaus die Abgeordnete Alice Mahon aus. „Can
honored
Members believe that, in this day and age...?„ Doch im Unterschied
zu
Großbritannien war und ist das in Deutschland kein Thema. Obwohl die
Kontinuitätslinie offensichtlich ist? Nein: gerade deswegen. Je näher
die deutsche Außenpolitik der Leiche im eigenen Keller kommt, desto
wirkungsvoller muß der Blick auf sie verwehrt, die Erkenntnis blockiert
werden. Geschichte freilich kehrt, je heftiger sie abgewiesen wird,
desto traumwandlerischer zurück.
Dieser Kontext war präsent, als Gernot Erler die Verschiebung der
balkanischen Grenzen empfahl. Wie im Selbstlauf knüpft seine a
priori-Sympathie für „die Albaner„ und
„Großalbanien„ an das historische
antiserbische Paradigma an – it goes without saying. Im Gestus
taufrischer Unschuld nehmen heutige deutsche Politiker und Kommentatoren
Vergangenes wieder auf – als das Selbstverständlichste der Welt.
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Anlage 3
Aus Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
14/2001
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN IM BUNDESTAG
von Andreas Buro
Kein Mitglied des Bundestages soll künftig sagen, es habe die Tragweite
der Entscheidung nicht kennen können. Bevor Außenminister Fischer am 6.
Juli seine Regierungserklärung abgab, forderten das Komitee für
Grundrechte und Demokratie, das Netzwerk Friedenskooperative und der
Deutsche Zweig des Internationalen Versöhnungsbundes alle Abgeordneten
in einem offenen Brief auf, gegen jede Ermächtigungsvorlage der
Bundesregierung für einen möglichen Einsatz der Bundeswehr in Mazedonien
zu stimmen.
Zur Begründung schrieben sie: „In Mazedonien drohen die bisherigen
Kämpfe, sich zu einem Bürgerkrieg auszuweiten. Die NATO und mit ihr die
Bundeswehr sollen nach dem Willen von Bundeskanzler und Außenminister
eingreifen können. Angeblich geht es nur um das Einsammeln von Waffen
der Guerilla innerhalb von 30 Tagen auf der Grundlage einer Vereinbarung
zwischen der Regierung Mazedoniens und den albanischen
UCK-Freischärlern. Eine solche Vereinbarung ist jedoch nicht in Sicht.
Die albanische Seite strebt eine dauerhafte Stationierung von
NATO-Truppen an, während Mazedoniens Regierung die Entwaffnung der
Guerilla und dann einen schnellen Abzug der NATO wünscht. Zu befürchten
ist, daß sich der Konflikt nicht beherrschen läßt und aus dem Einsammeln
von Waffen ein Kampf mit Waffen wird, der zu einem weiteren
NATO-Protektorat auf dem Balkan mit unabsehbaren Konsequenzen und Kosten
führen kann.„
Als Konfliktschlichter, so argumentierten die drei Organisationen aus
der Friedensbewegung, sei die NATO ungeeignet. Sie sei in Mazedonien
nicht vertrauenswürdig, da sie die kosovo-albanische UCK unterstütze.
Die KFOR-Einheiten mehrerer NATO-Staaten im Kosovo hätten die UCK nicht
wirksam entwaffnet und deren grenzüberschreitenden Aktionen in Serbien
und Mazedonien nicht verhindert. Der NATO mangele es aber auch deswegen
an Vertrauenswürdigkeit, weil sie mit dem Krieg gegen Jugoslawien das
Land enorm belastet, es jedoch nicht angemessen entschädigt habe. Zudem
sei jüngst bekannt geworden, daß sich unter den aus Aracinovo
abziehenden UCK-Rebellen 17 frühere US-Offiziere als Instrukteure
befanden und die Ausrüstung, einschließlich modernster Nachtsichtgeräte,
zu einem erheblichen Teil aus amerikanischen Beständen stammt. Das müsse
doch der Bundesregierung bekannt sein. Ob die, die Öl ins Feuer gießen,
nun als Friedensstifter in Erscheinung treten sollten?
In dem Brief hieß es weiter, für die Konfliktschlichtung in Mazedonien
seien die Vereinten Nationen zuständig – auch für das Einsammeln
von
Gewehren, wenn eine politische Lösung gefunden sei. „Der
Weltsicherheitsrat muß der UNO und ihrer Regionalorganisation in Europa,
der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit (OSZE), sogleich
einen entsprechenden Auftrag erteilen und die dafür erforderlichen
Mittel zur Verfügung stellen. So würde auch Rußland in die Verantwortung
für eine friedliche Lösung des Konflikts eingebunden. Ferner würde einer
weiteren Militarisierung von Außenpolitik vorgebeugt werden.„
In der Bundestagsdebatte, die der Regierungserklärung folgte, waren die
Regierungsparteien bemüht, die Bedingungen für den Militäreinsatz in
Mazedonien so unscharf zu machen, daß in eine Zustimmung des Bundestages
vieles hineininterpretiert werden kann. So wurde angedeutet, der Einsatz
könne auch länger als 30 Tage dauern. Und verdächtig oft wurde betont,
das Mandat müsse einen „robusten„ Einsatz der Bundeswehr
gestatten.
Gemeint war damit, daß Kampfeinsätze nicht ausgeschlossen werden
dürften. Wieso aber wünscht die Regierung die Lizenz für einen
Kampfauftrag, wenn die Bundeswehr angeblich nur auf der Grundlage einer
Vereinbarung zwischen den Konfliktparteien Waffen einsammeln soll?
Sozialdemokraten und Grüne stellten die Einschaltung der Vereinten
Nationen und ihrer Regionalorganisation OSZE nicht ernsthaft zur
Debatte. Der CDU-Abgeordnete Willy Wimmer dagegen hatte schon Anfang Mai
auf deren Zuständigkeit hingewiesen und in einem Brief an den
Bundeskanzler gewarnt: „Die amerikanische Seite scheint im
globalen
Kontext und zur Durchsetzung ihrer Ziele bewußt und gewollt die als
Ergebnis von zwei Kriegen im letzten Jahrhundert entwickelte
internationale Rechtsordnung aushebeln zu wollen. Macht soll Recht
vorgehen. Wo internationales Recht im Wege steht, wird es beseitigt. Als
eine ähnliche Entwicklung den Völkerbund traf, war der zweite Weltkrieg
nicht mehr fern. Ein Denken, das die eigenen Interessen so absolut
sieht, kann nur totalitär genannt werden.„
Schwenkt Rot-Grün nun generell auf die Linie der USA ein? Soll die NATO
je nach Interessenlage die Vereinten Nationen kaltstellen? Dann kann man
die immer wieder vorgetragenen Absichten, die UN zu reformieren, in den
Wind schreiben und alles Regierungsgerede über zivile
Konfliktbearbeitung in der internationalen Politik als Wahlkampfnummer
ablegen.
Die wirklichen Probleme werden im Parlament gar nicht benannt. So zum
Beispiel die brisante Frage, welche Rolle die riesige Militärbasis
„Bondsteel Base„, die größte seit Vietnam, spielen soll,
welche die USA
in der Nähe von Pristina bauen.
Sie gehört zu einer Serie strategischer Basen, die es den USA letztlich
ermöglichen sollen, in jedem Teil der Welt militärisch einzugreifen.
Bondsteel ist besonders geeignet für Interventionen in dem Dreieck
Mittlerer Osten-Kaukasus-Balkan. Soll diese Basis an Serbien übergehen,
wenn das NATO-Protektorat endet und Kosovo wieder politisch zu Serbien
gehören wird, oder ist die Basis ein eindeutiges Anzeichen dafür, daß
die US-Politik (und vielleicht auch die der EU) die Abtrennung Kosovos
von Serbien schon fest eingeplant hat? Dann würde plausibel, warum die
NATO-Mächte die UCK ständig gefördert haben, warum britische und
amerikanische Ausbilder in albanischen Lagern UCK-Kämpfer trainieren,
warum deren Waffen-, Geld- und Personalzufuhr kaum behindert wird und
warum die US- und Bundeswehrverbände, welche die Grenzen zu Mazedonien
kontrollieren sollen, den Grenzübertritt albanischer Freischärler nicht
wirksam unterbinden.
Ein Parlament, das dies alles vor einem möglichen Kriegseinsatz nicht
zum Thema macht, ist entweder inkompetent oder deckt eine ganz andere
Politik, die der Öffentlichkeit nicht bekannt werden soll.
Der schwedische Friedensforscher Jan Oberg, Direktor der Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research, beschreibt diese Politik um
Kosovo und Mazedonien im Lichte der gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen
NATO-Expansion: „Sie bezieht sich auf drei Ziele der Gestaltung
der
Weltordnung: das Containment Rußlands, die Marginalisierung von UN und
OSZE als peace-keeping organisations durch die USA und die NATO und die
langfristige Entwicklung eines zweiten Kalten Krieges. Dazu soll vor
allem die systematische Verfeindung der Chinesen, der Russen und
anderer, die nicht der auf die USA zentrierten Weltordnung gehorchen,
dienen.„
Die Situation auf dem Balkan gebietet eine gründliche Erörterung und
verbietet Schnellschußermächtigungen. Kriegsfördernde Vorratsbeschlüsse
wie im Oktober 1998, hieß es in dem eingangs zitierten offenen Brief,
darf sich ein selbstbewußtes und verantwortliches Parlament nicht mehr
leisten. Ist das eine zu hohe Erwartung an den mehrheitlich rot-grünen
Bundestag?
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UCK-Bock will Gärtner werden
(von Rainer Rupp)
Am Donnerstag ruhten die unter NATO- und EU-Druck wieder aufgenommenen
sogenannten Friedensverhandlungen in Mazedonien. Das Land
feierte in Erinnerung an den Aufstand gegen das ottomanische Reich 1903
seinen Nationalfeiertag. Während die UCK über den von ihr besetzten
Gebieten provokativ die albanische Flaggen hisste, betonte der
mazedonische Ministerpräsident Ljubco Georgievski in einer Festrede vor
seinen
Landsleute, dass es nötig sei, die UCK aus den von ihr besetzen Gebiete
zu verjagen, bevor ein Friedensabkommen unterschrieben werden kann. Er
nannte es "erniedrigend", unter dem Druck von Gewehren verhandeln zu
müssen.
Auch der mazedonische Parlamentspräsident Stojan Andonow warnte, dass
das Parlament das Friedensabkommen nur dann beraten würde, wenn
vorher die UCK "aufgelöst und entwaffnet" ist. ("Renewal of fighting as
Macedonia celebrates National Day", SKOPJE, Aug 2 2001, AFP)
Andonow warf der UCK vor: "Sie sagen, daß sie für Menschenrechte
kämpfen, aber sie verletzten die grundlegenden Rechte vieler Menschen,
friedlich in ihren Häusern zu wohnen." Nach Schätzungen sollen seit
Beginn der UCK-Terrorkampagne in Mazedonien vor fünf Monaten bis zu
120.000 Menschen geflüchtet sein. Und es werden wohl noch mehr, denn
Ali Ahmeti, der politische Chef der mazedonischen UCK, ist mit dem Gang
der Verhandlungen nicht zufrieden. Noch letzten Dienstag hatte der, von
der mazedonischen Polizei mittlerweile per internationalem Haftbefehl
gesuchte Ahmeti aus seinem Versteck per Handy erklärt, dass er "nicht
optimistisch" ist.
Die beiden westlichen "Friedensvermittler" Pardew und Léotard priesen
dagegen letzten Mittwoch die Einigung beim Sprachenstreit als großen
Durchbruch. Albanisch soll demnach als zweite Amtsprache eingeführt, in
der ethnische Albaner mit allen Behörden und Ämtern kommunizieren
können. Auch in den Sitzungen des Parlaments kann albanisch gesprochen
werden. Dagegen bleibt mazedonisch die alleinige Sprache für alle
Belange der Zentralregierung. Von allen Problemen war das
Sprachenproblem jedoch das am wenigsten Widersprüchlichste.
Einer der kritischen Punkte der gestern (Freitag den 3.8.01) wieder
aufgenommenen Verhandlungen ist das Problem der Kontrolle und der
Zusammensetzung der Sicherheitskräfte in den Gebieten, in denen die
Bevölkerungsmehrheit aus ethnischen Albanern besteht. Die Albaner
bestehen
darauf, die Sicherheitskräfte dort selbst zu wählen. Das aber - so die
berechtigte Befürchtung der slawischen Mazedonier - hieße den UCK-Bock
zum Gärtner zu machen. Denn auf diese Weise bekäme innerhalb kürzester
Zeit die UCK in den ethnisch-albanischen Gebieten ganz legal die
gesamten Sicherheitsstrukturen in ihre Hand. Das aber hätte mit großer
Sicherheit die Teilung Mazedoniens zur Folge und würde die Tür für
Großalbanien öffnen. Da dies auch der slawisch-mazedonischen Seite
bewusst ist, kommt für sie die Aufteilung der Sicherheitskräfte entlang
ethnischer Grenzen grundsätzlich nicht in Frage.
Eine weitere ethnisch-albanische Bedingung ist eine Amnestie für die
mazedonische UCK, auf deren Konto bisher über 40 Tote und ungezählte
Verletzte gehen. Damit nicht genug, die Gewaltseparatisten bestehen
auch noch darauf, in die mazedonische Polizei und Armee übernommen zu
werden. Zugleich wird die Verhandlungsbereitschaft der mazedonischen
Seite durch fortwährende Verletzungen des Waffenstillstandes durch die
UCK immer wieder in Frage gestellt. Letzten Dienstag z.B. richtete sich
die Aufmerksamkeit auf sieben slawisch-mazedonische Dörfer im
Nordwesten des Landes, die sich mit ihrer verzweifelten Bitte um Medizin
und Lebensmittel an das Internationale Rote Kreuz gewand hatten.
Bewaffnete UCK-Banditen haben die Dörfer seit Wochen komplett von der
Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Die Situation sei "mehr als nur alarmierend"
beschwor Toni Kocevski, der Bürgermeister von Vratnica, den
Korrespondenten der französischen Nachrichtenagentur AFP. Bei den
anderen Dörfern
handelt es sich um Beloviste, Staro Selo, Rogacevo, Gorno Orasje, Dolno
Orasje and Jazince.
Eine Woche zuvor hatte die NATO mit der UCK ein Abkommen geschlossenen,
in dem sich die Gewaltseparatisten verpflichtet hatten, sich aus all
jenen Positionen wieder zurück zu ziehen, die sie unter Ausnutzung des
am 5. Juli geschlossenen Waffenstillstandes erobert hatten.
Entsprechend
dieses Abkommens hätte auch die Verbindungsstraße zwischen den
betroffenen mazedonischen Dörfern und der Außenwelt von der UCK geräumt
werden müssen. ("Macedonian Villages Say Cut off From World by Albanian
Rebels", SKOPJE, Jul 31, 2001 Agence France Presse) An das
Abkommen scheint sich die UCK aber nach wie vor nicht zu halten.
Am Mittwoch vertrieben ethnische Albaner mit vorgehaltener Waffe die
slawischen Einwohner des Dorfes Blace, das in der Nähe der noch vor
wenigen Tagen umkämpften Stadt Tetovo liegt. ("Albanian Guerrillas Said
Forcing Macedonians to Leave Village", SKOPJE, Aug 1. 2001, AFP) Am
Donnerstag griff die UCK in der Umgebung von Tetovo erneut mehrere
Kontrollposten an und verletzte dabei einen Polizisten schwer. Auch die
Trauergemeinde auf dem Friedhof, auf dem ein tags zuvor von der UCK
getöteter Polizist beerdigt wurde, nahmen die ethnisch-albanischen
Terroristen unter Beschuß.
Sbg. den 3.8.01
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Ermahnung an mazedonischen Staatspräsident -
Eid auf Mazedonien geschworen und nicht auf die NATO
(von Rainer Rupp)
In der Nacht zum Mittwoch griffen in der mazedonischen Hauptstadt Skopje
etwa 2.000, meist jugendliche Demonstranten die deutsche und
amerikanische Botschaft an, warfen Fenster ein und zündeten Dutzende mit
OSZE-Markierungen versehene Fahrzeuge an. Auch als westlich
erkennbare Geschäfte wie z.B. das McDonald's Hamburgerrestaurant wurden
zur Zielscheibe der aufgebrachten Menge, die sich angesichts des
Vordringens der UCK-Terroristen unter dem Schutz des von der NATO
ausgehandelten sogenannten Waffenstillstandes vom Westen verraten und
verkauft vorkommen. Die mazedonische Polizei sah tatenlos zu und
sympathisierte offensichtlich mit den Demonstranten. ("Macedonia heads
for
all-out war as demos rock Skopje", AFP, SKOPJE, July 25, 2001)
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Auf beiden Seiten des Zauns
Der Militär- und Spionageapparat der USA zieht die Fäden im
Mazedonien-Konflikt (Teil 1). Von Michel Chossudovsky
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* In welchem Maße die UCK immer noch von den USA und den Vereinten
Nationen unterstützt und ausgehalten wird, zeigt die jüngste Analyse
von Michel Chossudovsky, die jW in zwei Teilen veröffentlicht. Michel
Chossudovsky ist Professor für Ökonomie an der Universität Ottawa. Die
englische Originalversion vom 23. Juli 2001 ist im Internet zu finden
unter der Adresse: http://emperors- clothes.com/articles/choss/
behind.htm. Die Übersetzung aus dem Englischen besorgte Klaus von
Raussendorff
Inzwischen ist zweifelsfrei dokumentiert, daß Washington hinter den
terroristischen Anschlägen in Mazedonien steckt. Während
US-Außenminister Colin Powell erneut die Entschlossenheit der USA
betont, »den Terrorismus zu bekämpfen«, stehen an der Seite der
UCK-Terroristen US- Militärberater von der Military Professional
Ressources Incorporation (MPRI), einer privaten, vom Pentagon unter
Vertrag genommenen Söldnergruppe. Franz Josef Husch und Cornel Faltin
erklärten dazu im Hamburger Abendblatt vom 28. Juni 2001: »Unter den
abrückenden Rebellen befanden sich auch 17 'Instrukteure' - frühere
US-Offiziere, die den Rebellen militärischen Nachhilfeunterricht
erteilten.
Damit nicht genug: Mazedonische Sicherheitskreise behaupten, 70
Prozent der Ausrüstung, die die Guerilleros davonschleppten, seien
US-Fabrikate gewesen - darunter auch modernste Nachtsichtgeräte der
dritten Generation.«
Ende Juni unternahm die mazedonische Armee ARM einen größeren Angriff
gegen die Stellungen der UCK in Aracinovo, einem Dorf nahe bei Skopje.
Angaben der US- amerikanischen Tageszeitung Christian Science Monitor
vom 27. Juni 2001 zufolge wurden in einer von der NATO betreuten
Operation, welche »der mazedonischen Armee ermöglichen sollte,
bedeutendes Rebellen-Gelände zurückzugewinnen«, US-Truppen eingesetzt,
um die Terroristen zu »evakuieren« und zu »entwaffnen«. Ein
politischer Beobachter vor Ort gibt dazu am 3. Juli 2001 zu Protokoll:
»Als die Terroristen geschlagen waren und die weiße Fahne hißten,
gerieten OSZE und NATO in Panik und befahlen uns (den mazedonischen
Behörden), die (militärische) Aktion sofort zu stoppen. Die
schwedische Außenministerin Anna Lindh und die europäischen Führer
wurden hysterisch und drohten uns mit wirtschaftlichen Sanktionen etc.
Ferner gingen OSZE und KFOR nach Aracinovo rein und >retteten< 500
Terroristen zusammen mit ihren Waffen und brachten sie zu einem
anderen Dorf, von wo aus sie nun wieder angreifen, Zivilisten
umbringen und ethnische Säuberungen in mehreren mazedonischen Dörfern
durchführen... Die NATO verbietet uns, uns zu verteidigen, wenn wir
angegriffen werden und wenn unser Territorium von den Terroristen
brutal mißbraucht wird. Wir haben versucht, uns zu verteidigen, und
sie haben die Terroristen in klimatisierten Bussen gerettet. Das hat
bei der mazedonischen Bevölkerung heftige Reaktionen ausgelöst.«
Die offizielle Verlautbarung aus der US-Militärbasis bei Skopje
lautete: »(Sorry)... aber irgend etwas ist schief gelaufen.«
(Christian Science Monitor vom 27. Juni 2001) In derselben Ausgabe
heißt es weiter: »Eine vertrauliche Quelle in Camp Able Sentry (der
US-Basis bei Skopje) erklärt, daß der Buskonvoi (der die Terroristen
evakuierte) durch von UCK-Rebellen bemannte Panzer gestoppt wurde...
und daß die Rebellen die Busse verließen und verschwanden. >Nun haben
wir einige äußerst wütenden Mazedonier auf dem Hals<, sagte der
Armeeangehörige.«
Dieselbe Quelle erklärt, daß die Rebellen »von leichtbewaffneten
US-amerikanischen Truppen eskortiert wurden«, womit der Eindruck
vermittelt wird, daß die hochtrainierten US-amerikanischen GIs der
502. Infanteriedivision nichts tun konnten gegen die »mit UCK-
Rebellen bemannten Panzer«, die den Buskonvoi abgefangen hatten. Die
Hinterhalt-Story ist eine Fabrikation; schon deshalb, weil die
UCK-Rebellen keine Panzer in ihrem Arsenal haben.
Neue Front eröffnet
Wie AFP am 4. Juli 2001 berichtet, erlaubte die US-betreute
»Evakuierung« aus Aracinovo den UCK-Terroristen - zusammen mit ihren
US-amerikanischen Beratern und ausländischen Söldnern -, bei dem Dorf
Radusa 40 Kilometer nordwestlich von Skopje »eine neue Front zu
eröffnen«. »Sie (die NATO) transportiert die Rebellen, die
Terroristen, von einem Gebiet zum anderen und bewaffnet sie neu,
anstatt ihre Waffen einzuziehen«, empörte sich der erste mazedonische
Botschafter in den USA Ljubica Acevska am 5. Juli 2001 und fuhr fort:
»Andererseits >schützt< die KFOR die Nachschubwege der UCK-
Terroristen, einschließlich des Zustroms von Militärpersonal und
Waffen aus UCK-Basen im Kosovo und Ausbildungslagern in Albanien.«
David Hackworth verweist in den Toogood Reports auf Quellen in der
US-Armee im Kosovo, die belegen, daß die »Evakuierungs«-Mission auch
die Absicht verfolgte, »die 17 >Instrukteure< unter den abrückenden
Rebellen« in Sicherheit zu bringen, vermutlich um dem hochrangigen
US-Militärpersonal, das zusammen mit Terroristen von den mazedonischen
Sicherheitskräften gefangengenommen worden wäre, eine diplomatische
Demütigung und Ärger mit den Medien zu ersparen.
Inzwischen gibt es Hinweise, daß US-amerikanische Apache-Hubschrauber
und unbemannte »Predator«-Spionagedronen (UVA) (eingesetzt von einer
Abteilung des US-amerikanischen 15. Aufklärungsbataillons in Camp Able
Sentry) diese »neue Front« durch Übermittlung von Erkenntnissen der
militärischen Aufklärung an die US-Militärberater der Rebellenarmee
unterstützen: »Das Pentagon bewilligte (Mitte März 2001) die
Entsendung mehrerer unbemannter Spionageflugzeuge, um die Grenze
zwischen Kosovo und Mazedonien zu überwachen. Die unbemannten
Predator-Dronen der Luftwaffe sind in der Lage, Bilder nicht nur
unmittelbar an Truppen in der Region, sondern auch nach Washington zu
liefern.« (The Record, New Jersey, vom 25. März 2001, und New York
Times (17. Juli 2001). Und: Im Gefolge der US- betreuten »Evakuierung«
haben die UCK-Terroristen - zusammen mit ihren US-Militärberatern -
ihre Angriffe in der Region von Tetovo erneut aufgenommen.
Anwerbung von Söldnern
Seit dem sowjetisch-afghanischen Krieg ist die Anwerbung von
Mudschahedin (»Glaubenskriegern«), die auf Geheiß Washingtons in
verdeckten Kriegen kämpfen, ein integraler Bestandteil der
US-Außenpolitik geworden. Ein Bericht des US-Kongresses enthüllte, wie
die US- Administration auf Empfehlung des Nationalen Sicherheitsrates
unter Leitung von Anthony Lake half, »Bosnien in eine militante
islamische Basis zu verwandeln«, was dazu führte, daß Tausende
Mudschahedins aus der muslimischen Welt durch das sogenannte »Militant
Islamistische Netzwerk« rekrutiert wurden. (Washington Times, 14.
Dezember 1997 und Pressemitteilung des US- Kongresses »Militant
Islamic Base«, 16. Januar 1997)
Das »bosnische Muster« ist anschließend im Kosovo, in Südserbien und
in Mazedonien kopiert worden. Unter den ausländischen Söldnern, die
jetzt mit der UCK kämpfen, sind Mudschahedins aus dem Mittleren Osten
und den mittelasiatischen Republiken der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sowie
»Soldiers of Fortune« aus mehreren NATO-Ländern, darunter
Großbritannien, Niederlande und Deutschland. Einige dieser westlichen
Söldner haben früher schon bei der UCK und der bosnisch-muslimischen
Armee gekämpft. (Scotland on Sunday, 19. März 2001)
Ferner gibt es in der UCK albanisch-amerikanische »Freiwillige«, die
in New York mit stillschweigender Billigung der US-Regierung
angeworben wurden. Im März 2001 druckte die in New York erscheinende
albanischsprachige Zeitung Bota Sot eine Anzeige der UCK »mit dem
Appell an Albaner (in den USA), sich als Freiwillige zu melden und
Geld zu spenden.« (The Guardian, 20. März 2001) Mehrere hundert
albanischstämmige Amerikaner hatten eine »Atlantische Brigade«
gebildet, die 1998 und 1999 an der Seite der UCK kämpfte. In den
letzten Monaten haben sich, wie berichtet wird, Mitglieder der
»Atlantischen Brigade« der UCK in Mazedonien angeschlossen.
Auf der Gehaltliste der UN
Wie umfangreich dokumentiert ist, ist das sogenannte »zivile
Kosovo-Schutzkorps« (KPC) der Vereinten Nationen die UCK in anderer
Aufmachung, und die UCK in Mazedonien ist die Stellvertreterin der UCK
im Kosovo. Dazu die Londoner Sunday Times am 10. Juli 2001: »Hunderte
von KPC-Reservisten wurden von ihrem albanischen Kommandeur, Agim
Ceku, im März (2001) einberufen. Anschließend verschwanden sie in UCK-
Ausbildungslagern in Albanien und tauchen nun in Mazedonien allmählich
wieder auf.«
Der Kommandeur der UCK-Rebellen in Mazedonien Ostremi war bis vor
kurzem der Stabschef des Kosovo- Schutzkorps. Um den Schein zu wahren,
hat Washington die KPC-Kommandeure, die sich der UCK in Mazedonien
angeschlossen haben, »auf eine Schwarze Liste gesetzt.« Diese
sogenannte Schwarze Liste Washingtons, die den ehemaligen
KPC-Kommandeuren die Einreise in die USA untersagt, enthält die Namen
von »Kommandeur Ostremi, seines Nachfolgers als Stabschef beim KPC,
Kommandeur Daut Haradinaj, des Kommandeurs und stellvertretenden
Kommandeurs der KPC-Eliteeinheit Rapid Reaction Corps sowie der Führer
von zwei der sechs regionalen Divisionen, Kommandeur Sami Lushtaku und
Kommandeur Mustafa Rrustem...« (Irish Times, Dublin, 5. Juli 2001)
Aus erster Hand sozusagen widerlegt Washingtons »Schwarze Liste« per
Augenschein die Behauptung der »internationalen Gemeinschaft« und der
Sprachregelung westlicher Medien, daß »die UCK (NLA) in Mazedonien
keine Verbindungen zur UCK (KLA) im Kosovo hat«.
Tatsächlich bestätigt die »Schwarze Liste«, daß beide ein und dasselbe
sind, mit denselben kommandierenden Offizieren sowohl beim KPC wie bei
der UCK (NLA) in Mazedonien. Darüber hinaus bestätigt sie, daß die
terroristischen Angriffe von Militärpersonal geleitet werden, das von
den Vereinten Nationen bezahlt wird.
Als Kommandeur Ostremi von seinem UN-Posten Urlaub nahm, um die UCK in
Mazedonien zu führen, haben die Vereinten Nationen »angenommen, daß er
in Ferien gegangen sei«. Wie die Irish Times (5. Juli 2001) weiter
schreibt, versäumte es UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan, die
UCK-Kommandeure von der Gehaltsliste der Vereinten Nationen
abzusetzen. Die »internationale Gemeinschaft« zahlte (Anfang Juli)
immer noch die Rechnung unter dem Mantel des UN-»Peacekeeping«: »...
die Vereinten Nationen erklären dazu, sie werden gegen diese fünf
Männer (UCK- Kommandeure), alle noch Offiziere im Dienst (des UN-
betreuten KPC), nicht vorgehen, weil Washington noch detaillierte
Angaben darüber weitergeben müsse, was diese Männer angeblich getan
haben.«
Dieses Muster der »Terrorismus-Finanzierung« aus UN- Kassen ist nichts
Neues. Der frühere Leiter der UN- Interimsmission im Kosovo (UNMIK),
Bernard Kouchner, hatte enge persönliche Kontakte zu
UCK-Oberbefehlshaber Agim Ceku hergestellt, der - bittere Ironie - auf
der Liste der »verdächtigten Kriegsverbrecher« des Haager Tribunals
steht. Weil er aber im Zusammenhang mit »Verbrechen, die in Kroatien
begangen wurden« und nicht im Kosovo, gesucht wird, war dies ohne
Belang bei seiner Ernennung durch die Vereinten Nationen zum
Oberbefehlshaber des KPC.
Organisiertes Verbrechen
Ein unabhängiger Bericht an UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan aus dem
Jahre 2000 bestätigte die Beteiligung des KPC an »kriminellen
Aktivitäten - Morden, Mißhandlungen, Folterungen, illegaler Ausübung
von Polizeigewalt, Amtsmißbrauch, Einschüchterung, Verletzung der
politischen Neutralität und Volksverhetzung«. Auf grausam ironische
Weise »bezahlen die Vereinten Nationen die Gehälter von vielen der
Gangster.« (The Observer, London, 12. März 2000)
Was der Bericht jedoch versäumt zu erwähnen, ist, daß kaum zwei Monate
nach der offiziellen Einrichtung des KPC unter der Schirmherrschaft
der Vereinten Nationen (September 1999) KPC/UCK-Kommandeure bereits
UN- Ressourcen und -Ausrüstung nutzten, um die Angriffe nach
Mazedonien hinein vorzubereiten als logische Fortsetzung ihrer
terroristischen Aktivitäten im Kosovo. Nach Angaben der in Skopje
erscheinenden Tageszeitung Dnevnik hatte das KPC eine »sechste
Operationszone« eingerichtet, die »Presevo, Bujanovac, Medvedja (in
Südserbien) und mazedonische Dörfer in den Gebieten von Skopska Crna
Gora, Lojane, Vaksince, Straza und Lipkovo einschloß ... Quellen, die
auf Anonymität bestehen, behaupten, daß ein Hauptquartier von Kosovo
Schutzbrigaden (in unmittelbarer Verbindung mit dem UN-betreuten KPC)
schon (im März 2000) in Tetovo, Gostivar und Skopje gebildet wurde. Es
wird in Debar und Struga (an der Grenze zu Albanien) vorbereitet und
seine Mitglieder haben festgelegte Codes.« (BBC, 24. März 2000)
Laut BBC (29. Januar 2001) »waren westliche Spezialkräfte immer noch
dabei, Guerillas auszubilden«, was soviel bedeutet, daß sie der UCK
halfen, »eine neue Front« in Südserbien und Mazdonien zu errichten.
Von offiziellen US-Quellen und Medienberichten bestätigt werden auch
die Verbindungen der UCK (KLA/NLA) zu mächtigen Verbrechersyndikaten,
die sich im milliardenschweren Drogenhandel auf dem Balkan betätigen.
Albanische und kosovarische kriminelle Organisationen gewähren
UCK-Terroristen in Mazedonien »eine sehr bedeutende Unterstützung.«
(UPI, 8. Juli 2001) Diese kriminellen Gruppen betätigen sich auch im
Handel mit albanischen Frauen zur Prostitution in mehreren
europäischen Ländern, darunter Großbritannien, Italien und
Deutschland. Und ein Teil der Einkünfte aus diesen illegalen
Aktivitäten wird gebraucht, um die UCK-Terroristen zu bewaffnen und
auszurüsten. Mit anderen Worten: Durch Unterstützung der UCK fördert
Washington (nicht zu reden von den Vereinten Nationen) indirekt auch
die organisierten kriminell-kommerziellen Syndikate, die hinter den
Terroristen stehen.
Verrat in Sicherheitskräften
Im April wurde der Oberbefehlshaber der mazedonischen Armee (ARM),
General Andrejevski, von A1 TV Skopje beschuldigt, Erkenntnisse der
militärischen Aufklärung an die UCK weitergegeben zu haben, und zwar
durch MPRI- General Richard Griffiths, der im Rahmen des US-
Militärhilfeprogramms Direktor des »Ausrüstungs- und
Ausbildungs«-Programms der USA bei den mazedonischen Streitkräften
ist. (1) 16 (pensionierte) US-Militärs sind als Berater bei der ARM.
Aber zufällig hilft dieselbe US-Söldnergruppe, die bei der
mazedonischen Armee (ARM) unter Vertrag ist, auch den UCK-Rebellen bei
ihren terroristischen Anschlägen. Mit anderen Worten, Washington
bewaffnet und berät sowohl die UCK-Angreifer als auch die
mazedonischen Verteidiger im Rahmen der vom Kongreß beschlossenen
Bewilligungsgesetze für Militär und Spionage. MPRI hilft Mazedonien -
als Teil des US-Militärhilfepakets - »um eine bewaffnete Aggression
abzuschrecken und mazedonisches Territorium zu verteidigen«. Aber MPRI
berät und rüstet auch die UCK aus, die für die terroristischen
Anschläge verantwortlich ist. In diesem Krieg zieht der US-
amerikanische Militär- und Spionageapparat die Fäden »auf beiden
Seiten des Zauns«. (2)
Unter wachsendem Druck hat General Andrejevski inzwischen seinen
Posten als Oberbefehlshaber der ARM aufgegeben. Aber unmittelbar nach
seinem Rücktritt wurde Andrejevski zum »Militärischen Berater« von
Präsident Trajkovski ernannt, wobei er seine persönlichen Beziehungen
zu Richard Griffith von der MPRI beibehält, der immer noch in Skopje
ist, verantwortlich für die gezielte Weiterleitung der
US-«Militärhilfe« im Namen des Pentagon. Mit anderen Worten, das
militärische US- Establishment ist weiterhin auf beiden Seiten im
Spiel, indem es sowohl die UCK berät als auch der mazedonischen Armee
ARM »hilft«. Letztlich verfolgt dieser täuschungsreiche Einsatz von
Militär und Spionage den Zweck, die mazedonische Armee (ARM) daran zu
hindern, die Terroristen zu besiegen.
(1) Michel Chossudovsky: Macedonia - Washingtons Military Intelligence
Ploy, June 2001, at http://emperors-
clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm . MPRI Republic of Macedonia,
Stability and Deterrence Program (1998- Present)
http://www.mpri.com/subchannels/int_europe.html
(2) Michel Chossudovsky: Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the
Balkans, April 2001, http://emperors-
clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm
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Zerstückeln und zerstören
Der Militär- und Spionageapparat der USA zieht die Fäden im
Mazedonien-Konflikt (Teil II und Schluß). Von Michel Chossudovsky
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Trotz Dauerbeschuß mit Unwahrheiten der Medien sind sich die Bürger
Mazedoniens vollkommen der Tatsache bewußt, daß Washington die
Terroristen unterstützt. Um den öffentlichen Unwillen zu zerstreuen,
arbeiten mehrere westliche »Stiftungen« und
»Menschenrechtsorganisationen«, darunter die International Crisis
Group (ICG) und Human Rights Watch (HRW) eng mit örtlichen
Bürgergruppen in Mazedonien zusammen. Ihr formelles Mandat liegt zwar
in den Bereichen »Vertrauensbildung«, »Regierungsarbeit«,
»Friedenssicherung« und »zwischenethnische Versöhnung«, aber in der
Praxis arbeiten sie Hand in Hand mit der NATO. Sie sind ein integraler
Bestandteil des an Tarnungen und Täuschungen reichen Einsatzes von
Militär und Spionage.
Die Rolle dieser Frontorganisationen besteht darin, dafür zu sorgen,
daß der öffentliche Unwillen gegen Regierung und Militär von
Mazedonien statt gegen Washington, NATO und den IWF gelenkt wird.
Manipulation der Protestbewegung
Das Open Society Institute (OSI) in Skopje, das von dem
Wallstreet-Finanzier George Soros kontrolliert wird, spielt ebenfalls
eine zentrale Rolle bei der Manipulation und letztendlichen Schwächung
der zivilen Protestbewegung. (Vgl. OSI Macedonia webpage:
http://www.soros. org.mk /.) OSI hat in Mazedonien einen
»Friedensappell« lanciert, der von einer großen Zahl von mazedonischen
Organisationen unterstützt wird. (Über 300 Organisationen und
Einzelpersonen haben den OSI-»Friedensappell« unterzeichnet.) Im
Klartext: Das OSI von Soros in Skopje beherbergt und finanziert die
Bürgerbewegung gegen den Terrorismus und verschweigt geflissentlich
die Ursachen des Terrorismus.
Im übrigen ist George Soros Teil des Finanzestablishments der
Wallstreet, das den Balkan kolonisiert. Und diese »wirtschaftliche
Eroberung« durch US-amerikanische Finanzinteressen wird vom Militär-
und Spionageapparat der USA unterstützt, der den Terroristen getarnte
Schützenhilfe zukommen läßt.
Während George Soros in Mazedonien »Friedens«- und
»Versöhnungs«-Initiativen finanziert, unterstützt er die UCK
ebenfalls. Über die Grenze des Kosovo hinweg finanziert die von Soros
geförderte Kosova Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) Aktivitäten
von »Gemeindeverwaltungen«, deren Personal von der UCK ernannt und
eingesetzt worden ist. Diese Hilfe hatte ursprünglich ein »Post
Conflict Trust Fund« der Weltbank kanalisiert, dessen Mittel zu 90
Prozent von George Soros kontrolliert werden. (World Bank, Kosova
Foundation for an Open Society , World Bank Launches First Kosovo
Project, Washington, November 16, 1999 News Release No. 2000/097/ECA)
Überflüssig zu betonen, daß Soros am Sitz der politischen Macht in den
USA zu Hause ist, daß er mit der Weltbank Hand in Hand arbeitet und
wirtschaftliche Interessen auf dem Balkan verfolgt. Sein Open Society
Institute unterstützt auch »alternative Medien« in Mazedonien und gibt
sich den Anschein, die »Demokratie« und »Freiheit der Presse« zu
fördern.
Die Flüchtlingskrise ist vorsätzlich durch die terroristischen
Angriffe unter NATO-Schirmherrschaft ausgelöst worden. Unter den
Opfern befinden sich sowohl mazedonische wie albanische Zivilisten.
Über 100 000 Menschen sind betroffen. Nach Angaben des Hohen
Flüchtlingskommissars der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) sind etwa 73 800
Menschen über die Grenze nach Kosovo gegangen, weitere 34 500 Menschen
sind innerhalb Mazedoniens »intern vertrieben«. (UNHCR Press Briefing,
Geneva, 3 July 2001) In von Rebellen besetzten albanischen Territorien
sind albanische Zivilisten, statt von den UCK- »Freiheitskämpfern«
»beschützt« zu werden, oft Objekte von Einschüchterung und
Repressalien.
In Dörfern, die in der Region Tetovo von Mazedoniern bewohnt werden,
erfolgen ethnische Säuberungen in Gegenwart von US-Militärpersonal,
das die Rebellen- Kommandeure berät. Die UCK hat Berichten zufolge
»beispiellose Terrorakte gegen die Einwohner begangen, indem sie diese
zwang, die Dörfer gänzlich zu verlassen. Die Vertriebenen aus (diesen)
Dörfern haben schwere Vorwürfe gegen die OSZE und das Internationale
Rote Kreuz erhoben, deren Vertreter Kontakte mit den Bewohnern dieser
Tetovo-Dörfer beharrlich vermieden haben.« (Macedonian Radio, Skopje,
8. Juli 2001, BBC Monitoring Service, 8 July 2001)
Ganze Gemeinden sind entvölkert. Nach Angaben des UNHCR sind die
Mehrzahl der Flüchtlinge, die nach Kosovo überwechseln, Frauen, Kinder
und ältere Männer. Andere Berichte weisen darauf hin, daß die
Terroristen albanische Männer werben, sich der UCK anzuschließen, oft
mit Gewalt und Einschüchterung. Beweise deuten darauf hin, daß
Verweigerer schweren Repressalien ausgesetzt sind. (Red Cross, Report
Macedonia, 26 June 2001) Das Muster ist in dieser Hinsicht dem sehr
ähnlich, was im Kosovo im Jahre 1999 geschah, wo ganze Dörfer
entvölkert wurden.
Ethnische Säuberungen nach kroatischem Muster
Washington steckt unleugbar hinter den ethnischen Säuberungen in
Mazedonien. Erwähnenswert ist in diesem Zusammenhang, daß die mit der
UCK zusammenarbeitende US-Söldnertruppe MPRI (Milirary Professional
Ressouces Incorporation) im Jahre 1995 bei den kroatischen
Streitkräften unter Vertrag stehend, federführend bei den ethnischen
Säuberungen und Massakern an Zivilisten war, die sich gegen die
serbische Bevölkerung der Krajina in Kroatien richteten. Dabei
arbeitete MPRI eng mit Kommandeur Agim Ceku zusammen, der damals
Brigadegeneral in den kroatischen Streitkräften war. Ceku war nicht
nur einer der maßgeblichen Planer der »Operation Sturm«, er war auch
Kommandeur der Artilleriedivision, die für den Beschuß von
krajina-serbischen Zivilisten verantwortlich ist. Es ist kein Wunder,
daß das Muster in Mazedonien dem in der Krajina und im Kosovo ähnlich
ist.* Dieselben kommandierenden Offiziere von UCK und MPRI sind jetzt
an terroristischen Angriffen und ethnischen Säuberungen in Mazedonien
beteiligt, wo die UCK- Rebellen, »geschützt« von in der Region
stationierten US- amerikanischen und britischen Truppen, bedeutende
Teile des mazedonischen Territoriums kontrollieren.
Fingierter »Friedensplan«, um Zeit zu gewinnen
Washingtons Vorhaben ist, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte daran zu
hindern, die Rebellen zu bekämpfen und die Grenzen zu schützen. Mit
anderen Worten, die versteckte Agenda des von EU und USA vermittelten
»Friedensplans« ist es, Zeit zu gewinnen, den Konflikt in die Länge zu
ziehen, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte in den Kasernen zu halten
und dabei weiter die Rebellen zu bewaffnen und auszurüsten. Und dieser
grausig hinterlistige Einsatz von Militär und Spionage ist möglich,
weil der mazedonische Präsident und ein Teil seiner Umgebung
Marionetten der USA sind. Im übrigen sind die US-Militärberater von
der Military Professional Ressources Incorporation (MPRI), die die UCK
beraten, noch immer unter Vertrag bei der mazedonischen Regierung, um
»den mazedonischen Streitkräften zu helfen.« Und General Andrejevski,
der unterdessen von seinem Posten als Oberbefehlshaber der
mazadonischen Armee (ARM) zurücktrat, fungiert weiterhin als
»militärischer Berater« des Präsidenten und agiert dabei im Auftrag
von MPRI und des Pentagons.
Mit anderen Worten: Hochrangige Offiziere in Schlüsselstellungen der
ARM arbeiten mit dem Feind zusammen - gegen die unteren Offiziersränge
und Mannschaften der ARM, die für ihr Land kämpfen. Trotz der
Spaltungen in der Regierung hat Premierminister Ljubco Georgievski den
US-Sondergesandten James Pardew und EU-Vermittler Francois Leotard
öffentlich beschuldigt, »Mazedonien zu zwingen, sich den Forderungen
der albanischen Guerilla zu beugen«. (The Independent, London, 19.
Juli 2001)
Hohn auf Souveränität Mazedoniens
»Es wird offenkundig, daß alle terroristischen Aktionen in Mazedonien
von den westlichen Demokratien unterstützt worden sind. Jetzt haben
wir praktisch 95 Prozent der Akte von Ali Ahmeti (dem UCK-Anführer)
auf dem Tisch. Es ist klar, daß die internationale Gemeinschaft über
ihre Position vorab entschieden hat, und sie versucht nun, diese in
Mazedonien in die Tat umzusetzen.« (Staatliche mazedonische
Nachrichtenagentur, Skopje, 19. Juli 2001)
»>So brutal ihr Text auch ist, brutaler und noch Besorgnis erregender
ist die Art und Weise, in der sie versuchen, mazedonische
Staatseinrichtungen zu zerstören<, erklärte Herr Georgievski ... Der
Premierminister stellte ferner fest, daß das vorgeschlagene
Friedenspaket >einen schwerwiegenden Eingriff in die inneren
Angelegenheiten der Republik Mazedonien darstellt< ... Befragt nach
dem Ausmaß des Drucks, den Mazedonien aushalten könnte, sagte
Georgievski, alle Drohungen und Erpressungen sind bisher schon
vorgebracht worden, >ausgenommen, daß die NATO Luftangriffe gegen uns
durchführen wird<.« (ebenda) Bei den Verhandlungen über den
»Friedensplan« hat sich die anglo-amerikanische Position gegenüber
derjenigen von Frankreich und Deutschland durchgesetzt. Diesbezüglich
hat Premierminister Georgievski »betont, daß der französische
Rechtsexperte (der frühere Justizminister) Robert Badinter aus dem
politischen Prozeß rücksichtslos ausgeschaltet wurde«, was bedeutet,
daß seine Empfehlungen zur Verfassungsreform von James Pardew in
Abstimmung mit dem UCK-Führer Ali Ahmeti zurückgewiesen wurden.
(ebenda)
Obgleich die NATO formell nicht Teil der EU/US- »Vermittlung« ist, hat
der Hohe Beauftragte der Europäischen Union, Javier Solana (der den
Posten des Generalsekretärs während der Bombardierungen Jugoslawiens
1999 bekleidete), mit seinem Nachfolger bei der NATO, Lord George
Robertson, Hand in Hand gearbeitet. Entsprechend wurde der britische
Botschafter Mark Dickinson im Mai von Solana ernannt, um in seinem
Namen in Skopje zu agieren. Britische Fallschirmspringer und
Sondertruppen - die die UCK im Jahre 1999 ausgebildet haben - sind
dafür vorgesehen, die Schwindeloperation »Essential Harvest« zu
leiten, »um die Rebellen zu entwaffnen«.
Immer stärker sind die Korridore der internationalen Diplomatie von
Vertretern der Militärspionage mit früherer Erfahrung in Bosnien und
Kosovo übernommen worden. James Pardew begann als hochrangiger
Aufklärungsoffizier seine Balkan-Karriere 1993 für die Vereinigten
Stabschefs mit der Aufgabe, die US-Hilfe an die Bosnisch-Muslimische
Armee durchzuleiten. Oberst Pardew war damit betraut, die »Abwürfe«
von Nachschub für die bosnischen Streitkräfte zu arrangieren, wobei er
eng mit dem Vorsitzenden des Nationalen Sicherheitsrates Anthony Lake
zusammenarbeitete (Washington Times, 14. Dezember 1997 und US-Kongreß
Pressemitteilung »Militant Islamic Base« vom 16. Januar 1997). Peter
Feith von der NATO, der »mit den Kontakten zur UCK-Guerilla
beauftragt« worden ist, ist ein alter »Kollege« von James Pardew. Er
war Mitte der 90er Jahre politischer Berater beim IFOR- Oberkommando
in Bosnien. (dpa, 12 Juli 2001)
Wiederauflage von Bosnien und Kosovo
Der »Vermittler« der USA, James Pardew, hat das Mandat, das
Bosnien/Kosovo-Muster wiederaufzulegen. Dementsprechend zielt
Washingtons hinterhältiger Einsatz von Militär und Spionage darauf ab,
das mazedonische Territorium zu zerstückeln, interne soziale
Spaltungen zu forcieren und ethnische Spannungen zu schüren. Das
Vorhaben besteht darin, alle sozialen und politischen Bande zwischen
Albanern und Mazedoniern zu zerstören, die länger als ein halbes
Jahrhundert in einer multiethnischen Gesellschaft koexistiert haben.
Diese sozioethnischen Spaltungen werden vorsätzlich geschaffen, um
alle Formen des sozialen Widerstands zu zügeln. Noch wichtiger: Man
will die Entwicklung einer breiteren »gemeinsamen Front« gegen den
Feind verhindern.
Die von den USA gesponserten terroristischen Anschläge ebenso wie der
scheinheilige »Friedensplan« verfolgen die Absicht, das Land
schließlich zu zerstückeln und Mazedonien in ein NATO-Protektorat zu
verwandeln. Die Operation »Essential Harvest«, die von britischen
Fallschirmjägern geleitet werden soll, würde den ersten Schritt zu
einer militärischen Besetzung mazedonischen Territoriums darstellen.
NATO-Streitkräfte schützen die Rebellen nicht nur in den unter ihrer
Kontrolle stehenden Gebieten, MPRI-Berater, unter Vertrag beim
Pentagon, helfen auch bei der Durchführung »ethnischer Säuberungen« in
diesen Gebieten. In diesen funktionieren die mazedonischen
Staatseinrichtungen bereits nicht mehr.
Die Gebiete unter UCK-Kontrolle, die an Kosovo angrenzen, stehen also
de facto schon unter der Jurisdiktion der NATO. Mehr noch: Es gibt
Anzeichen, daß die UCK - mit NATO-Unterstützung - versuchen könnte,
eine einseitige Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien auszulösen. Das
würde nicht nur die politische Krise in Belgrad verschärfen, es würde
auch die Frage des politischen Status der von der UCK besetzten
Territorien aufwerfen, aus denen die mazedonische Bevölkerung
vertrieben wurde (vielfach in derselben Weise, in der die Serben aus
dem Kosovo vertrieben wurden). Bei diesem Vorhaben ist die Absicht der
NATO klar, sie besteht darin, Mazedonien als Land zu zerstückeln und
zu zerstören.
(+) Michel Chossudovsky: NATO Installs a Reign of Terror in the
Kosovo, Juli 1999,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/chossnato.htm
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Der Militär- und Spionageapparat der USA zieht die Fäden im
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* In welchem Maße die UCK immer noch von den USA und den Vereinten
Nationen unterstützt und ausgehalten wird, zeigt die jüngste Analyse
von Michel Chossudovsky, die jW in zwei Teilen veröffentlicht. Michel
Chossudovsky ist Professor für Ökonomie an der Universität Ottawa. Die
englische Originalversion vom 23. Juli 2001 ist im Internet zu finden
unter der Adresse: http://emperors- clothes.com/articles/choss/
behind.htm. Die Übersetzung aus dem Englischen besorgte Klaus von
Raussendorff
Inzwischen ist zweifelsfrei dokumentiert, daß Washington hinter den
terroristischen Anschlägen in Mazedonien steckt. Während
US-Außenminister Colin Powell erneut die Entschlossenheit der USA
betont, »den Terrorismus zu bekämpfen«, stehen an der Seite der
UCK-Terroristen US- Militärberater von der Military Professional
Ressources Incorporation (MPRI), einer privaten, vom Pentagon unter
Vertrag genommenen Söldnergruppe. Franz Josef Husch und Cornel Faltin
erklärten dazu im Hamburger Abendblatt vom 28. Juni 2001: »Unter den
abrückenden Rebellen befanden sich auch 17 'Instrukteure' - frühere
US-Offiziere, die den Rebellen militärischen Nachhilfeunterricht
erteilten.
Damit nicht genug: Mazedonische Sicherheitskreise behaupten, 70
Prozent der Ausrüstung, die die Guerilleros davonschleppten, seien
US-Fabrikate gewesen - darunter auch modernste Nachtsichtgeräte der
dritten Generation.«
Ende Juni unternahm die mazedonische Armee ARM einen größeren Angriff
gegen die Stellungen der UCK in Aracinovo, einem Dorf nahe bei Skopje.
Angaben der US- amerikanischen Tageszeitung Christian Science Monitor
vom 27. Juni 2001 zufolge wurden in einer von der NATO betreuten
Operation, welche »der mazedonischen Armee ermöglichen sollte,
bedeutendes Rebellen-Gelände zurückzugewinnen«, US-Truppen eingesetzt,
um die Terroristen zu »evakuieren« und zu »entwaffnen«. Ein
politischer Beobachter vor Ort gibt dazu am 3. Juli 2001 zu Protokoll:
»Als die Terroristen geschlagen waren und die weiße Fahne hißten,
gerieten OSZE und NATO in Panik und befahlen uns (den mazedonischen
Behörden), die (militärische) Aktion sofort zu stoppen. Die
schwedische Außenministerin Anna Lindh und die europäischen Führer
wurden hysterisch und drohten uns mit wirtschaftlichen Sanktionen etc.
Ferner gingen OSZE und KFOR nach Aracinovo rein und >retteten< 500
Terroristen zusammen mit ihren Waffen und brachten sie zu einem
anderen Dorf, von wo aus sie nun wieder angreifen, Zivilisten
umbringen und ethnische Säuberungen in mehreren mazedonischen Dörfern
durchführen... Die NATO verbietet uns, uns zu verteidigen, wenn wir
angegriffen werden und wenn unser Territorium von den Terroristen
brutal mißbraucht wird. Wir haben versucht, uns zu verteidigen, und
sie haben die Terroristen in klimatisierten Bussen gerettet. Das hat
bei der mazedonischen Bevölkerung heftige Reaktionen ausgelöst.«
Die offizielle Verlautbarung aus der US-Militärbasis bei Skopje
lautete: »(Sorry)... aber irgend etwas ist schief gelaufen.«
(Christian Science Monitor vom 27. Juni 2001) In derselben Ausgabe
heißt es weiter: »Eine vertrauliche Quelle in Camp Able Sentry (der
US-Basis bei Skopje) erklärt, daß der Buskonvoi (der die Terroristen
evakuierte) durch von UCK-Rebellen bemannte Panzer gestoppt wurde...
und daß die Rebellen die Busse verließen und verschwanden. >Nun haben
wir einige äußerst wütenden Mazedonier auf dem Hals<, sagte der
Armeeangehörige.«
Dieselbe Quelle erklärt, daß die Rebellen »von leichtbewaffneten
US-amerikanischen Truppen eskortiert wurden«, womit der Eindruck
vermittelt wird, daß die hochtrainierten US-amerikanischen GIs der
502. Infanteriedivision nichts tun konnten gegen die »mit UCK-
Rebellen bemannten Panzer«, die den Buskonvoi abgefangen hatten. Die
Hinterhalt-Story ist eine Fabrikation; schon deshalb, weil die
UCK-Rebellen keine Panzer in ihrem Arsenal haben.
Neue Front eröffnet
Wie AFP am 4. Juli 2001 berichtet, erlaubte die US-betreute
»Evakuierung« aus Aracinovo den UCK-Terroristen - zusammen mit ihren
US-amerikanischen Beratern und ausländischen Söldnern -, bei dem Dorf
Radusa 40 Kilometer nordwestlich von Skopje »eine neue Front zu
eröffnen«. »Sie (die NATO) transportiert die Rebellen, die
Terroristen, von einem Gebiet zum anderen und bewaffnet sie neu,
anstatt ihre Waffen einzuziehen«, empörte sich der erste mazedonische
Botschafter in den USA Ljubica Acevska am 5. Juli 2001 und fuhr fort:
»Andererseits >schützt< die KFOR die Nachschubwege der UCK-
Terroristen, einschließlich des Zustroms von Militärpersonal und
Waffen aus UCK-Basen im Kosovo und Ausbildungslagern in Albanien.«
David Hackworth verweist in den Toogood Reports auf Quellen in der
US-Armee im Kosovo, die belegen, daß die »Evakuierungs«-Mission auch
die Absicht verfolgte, »die 17 >Instrukteure< unter den abrückenden
Rebellen« in Sicherheit zu bringen, vermutlich um dem hochrangigen
US-Militärpersonal, das zusammen mit Terroristen von den mazedonischen
Sicherheitskräften gefangengenommen worden wäre, eine diplomatische
Demütigung und Ärger mit den Medien zu ersparen.
Inzwischen gibt es Hinweise, daß US-amerikanische Apache-Hubschrauber
und unbemannte »Predator«-Spionagedronen (UVA) (eingesetzt von einer
Abteilung des US-amerikanischen 15. Aufklärungsbataillons in Camp Able
Sentry) diese »neue Front« durch Übermittlung von Erkenntnissen der
militärischen Aufklärung an die US-Militärberater der Rebellenarmee
unterstützen: »Das Pentagon bewilligte (Mitte März 2001) die
Entsendung mehrerer unbemannter Spionageflugzeuge, um die Grenze
zwischen Kosovo und Mazedonien zu überwachen. Die unbemannten
Predator-Dronen der Luftwaffe sind in der Lage, Bilder nicht nur
unmittelbar an Truppen in der Region, sondern auch nach Washington zu
liefern.« (The Record, New Jersey, vom 25. März 2001, und New York
Times (17. Juli 2001). Und: Im Gefolge der US- betreuten »Evakuierung«
haben die UCK-Terroristen - zusammen mit ihren US-Militärberatern -
ihre Angriffe in der Region von Tetovo erneut aufgenommen.
Anwerbung von Söldnern
Seit dem sowjetisch-afghanischen Krieg ist die Anwerbung von
Mudschahedin (»Glaubenskriegern«), die auf Geheiß Washingtons in
verdeckten Kriegen kämpfen, ein integraler Bestandteil der
US-Außenpolitik geworden. Ein Bericht des US-Kongresses enthüllte, wie
die US- Administration auf Empfehlung des Nationalen Sicherheitsrates
unter Leitung von Anthony Lake half, »Bosnien in eine militante
islamische Basis zu verwandeln«, was dazu führte, daß Tausende
Mudschahedins aus der muslimischen Welt durch das sogenannte »Militant
Islamistische Netzwerk« rekrutiert wurden. (Washington Times, 14.
Dezember 1997 und Pressemitteilung des US- Kongresses »Militant
Islamic Base«, 16. Januar 1997)
Das »bosnische Muster« ist anschließend im Kosovo, in Südserbien und
in Mazedonien kopiert worden. Unter den ausländischen Söldnern, die
jetzt mit der UCK kämpfen, sind Mudschahedins aus dem Mittleren Osten
und den mittelasiatischen Republiken der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sowie
»Soldiers of Fortune« aus mehreren NATO-Ländern, darunter
Großbritannien, Niederlande und Deutschland. Einige dieser westlichen
Söldner haben früher schon bei der UCK und der bosnisch-muslimischen
Armee gekämpft. (Scotland on Sunday, 19. März 2001)
Ferner gibt es in der UCK albanisch-amerikanische »Freiwillige«, die
in New York mit stillschweigender Billigung der US-Regierung
angeworben wurden. Im März 2001 druckte die in New York erscheinende
albanischsprachige Zeitung Bota Sot eine Anzeige der UCK »mit dem
Appell an Albaner (in den USA), sich als Freiwillige zu melden und
Geld zu spenden.« (The Guardian, 20. März 2001) Mehrere hundert
albanischstämmige Amerikaner hatten eine »Atlantische Brigade«
gebildet, die 1998 und 1999 an der Seite der UCK kämpfte. In den
letzten Monaten haben sich, wie berichtet wird, Mitglieder der
»Atlantischen Brigade« der UCK in Mazedonien angeschlossen.
Auf der Gehaltliste der UN
Wie umfangreich dokumentiert ist, ist das sogenannte »zivile
Kosovo-Schutzkorps« (KPC) der Vereinten Nationen die UCK in anderer
Aufmachung, und die UCK in Mazedonien ist die Stellvertreterin der UCK
im Kosovo. Dazu die Londoner Sunday Times am 10. Juli 2001: »Hunderte
von KPC-Reservisten wurden von ihrem albanischen Kommandeur, Agim
Ceku, im März (2001) einberufen. Anschließend verschwanden sie in UCK-
Ausbildungslagern in Albanien und tauchen nun in Mazedonien allmählich
wieder auf.«
Der Kommandeur der UCK-Rebellen in Mazedonien Ostremi war bis vor
kurzem der Stabschef des Kosovo- Schutzkorps. Um den Schein zu wahren,
hat Washington die KPC-Kommandeure, die sich der UCK in Mazedonien
angeschlossen haben, »auf eine Schwarze Liste gesetzt.« Diese
sogenannte Schwarze Liste Washingtons, die den ehemaligen
KPC-Kommandeuren die Einreise in die USA untersagt, enthält die Namen
von »Kommandeur Ostremi, seines Nachfolgers als Stabschef beim KPC,
Kommandeur Daut Haradinaj, des Kommandeurs und stellvertretenden
Kommandeurs der KPC-Eliteeinheit Rapid Reaction Corps sowie der Führer
von zwei der sechs regionalen Divisionen, Kommandeur Sami Lushtaku und
Kommandeur Mustafa Rrustem...« (Irish Times, Dublin, 5. Juli 2001)
Aus erster Hand sozusagen widerlegt Washingtons »Schwarze Liste« per
Augenschein die Behauptung der »internationalen Gemeinschaft« und der
Sprachregelung westlicher Medien, daß »die UCK (NLA) in Mazedonien
keine Verbindungen zur UCK (KLA) im Kosovo hat«.
Tatsächlich bestätigt die »Schwarze Liste«, daß beide ein und dasselbe
sind, mit denselben kommandierenden Offizieren sowohl beim KPC wie bei
der UCK (NLA) in Mazedonien. Darüber hinaus bestätigt sie, daß die
terroristischen Angriffe von Militärpersonal geleitet werden, das von
den Vereinten Nationen bezahlt wird.
Als Kommandeur Ostremi von seinem UN-Posten Urlaub nahm, um die UCK in
Mazedonien zu führen, haben die Vereinten Nationen »angenommen, daß er
in Ferien gegangen sei«. Wie die Irish Times (5. Juli 2001) weiter
schreibt, versäumte es UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan, die
UCK-Kommandeure von der Gehaltsliste der Vereinten Nationen
abzusetzen. Die »internationale Gemeinschaft« zahlte (Anfang Juli)
immer noch die Rechnung unter dem Mantel des UN-»Peacekeeping«: »...
die Vereinten Nationen erklären dazu, sie werden gegen diese fünf
Männer (UCK- Kommandeure), alle noch Offiziere im Dienst (des UN-
betreuten KPC), nicht vorgehen, weil Washington noch detaillierte
Angaben darüber weitergeben müsse, was diese Männer angeblich getan
haben.«
Dieses Muster der »Terrorismus-Finanzierung« aus UN- Kassen ist nichts
Neues. Der frühere Leiter der UN- Interimsmission im Kosovo (UNMIK),
Bernard Kouchner, hatte enge persönliche Kontakte zu
UCK-Oberbefehlshaber Agim Ceku hergestellt, der - bittere Ironie - auf
der Liste der »verdächtigten Kriegsverbrecher« des Haager Tribunals
steht. Weil er aber im Zusammenhang mit »Verbrechen, die in Kroatien
begangen wurden« und nicht im Kosovo, gesucht wird, war dies ohne
Belang bei seiner Ernennung durch die Vereinten Nationen zum
Oberbefehlshaber des KPC.
Organisiertes Verbrechen
Ein unabhängiger Bericht an UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan aus dem
Jahre 2000 bestätigte die Beteiligung des KPC an »kriminellen
Aktivitäten - Morden, Mißhandlungen, Folterungen, illegaler Ausübung
von Polizeigewalt, Amtsmißbrauch, Einschüchterung, Verletzung der
politischen Neutralität und Volksverhetzung«. Auf grausam ironische
Weise »bezahlen die Vereinten Nationen die Gehälter von vielen der
Gangster.« (The Observer, London, 12. März 2000)
Was der Bericht jedoch versäumt zu erwähnen, ist, daß kaum zwei Monate
nach der offiziellen Einrichtung des KPC unter der Schirmherrschaft
der Vereinten Nationen (September 1999) KPC/UCK-Kommandeure bereits
UN- Ressourcen und -Ausrüstung nutzten, um die Angriffe nach
Mazedonien hinein vorzubereiten als logische Fortsetzung ihrer
terroristischen Aktivitäten im Kosovo. Nach Angaben der in Skopje
erscheinenden Tageszeitung Dnevnik hatte das KPC eine »sechste
Operationszone« eingerichtet, die »Presevo, Bujanovac, Medvedja (in
Südserbien) und mazedonische Dörfer in den Gebieten von Skopska Crna
Gora, Lojane, Vaksince, Straza und Lipkovo einschloß ... Quellen, die
auf Anonymität bestehen, behaupten, daß ein Hauptquartier von Kosovo
Schutzbrigaden (in unmittelbarer Verbindung mit dem UN-betreuten KPC)
schon (im März 2000) in Tetovo, Gostivar und Skopje gebildet wurde. Es
wird in Debar und Struga (an der Grenze zu Albanien) vorbereitet und
seine Mitglieder haben festgelegte Codes.« (BBC, 24. März 2000)
Laut BBC (29. Januar 2001) »waren westliche Spezialkräfte immer noch
dabei, Guerillas auszubilden«, was soviel bedeutet, daß sie der UCK
halfen, »eine neue Front« in Südserbien und Mazdonien zu errichten.
Von offiziellen US-Quellen und Medienberichten bestätigt werden auch
die Verbindungen der UCK (KLA/NLA) zu mächtigen Verbrechersyndikaten,
die sich im milliardenschweren Drogenhandel auf dem Balkan betätigen.
Albanische und kosovarische kriminelle Organisationen gewähren
UCK-Terroristen in Mazedonien »eine sehr bedeutende Unterstützung.«
(UPI, 8. Juli 2001) Diese kriminellen Gruppen betätigen sich auch im
Handel mit albanischen Frauen zur Prostitution in mehreren
europäischen Ländern, darunter Großbritannien, Italien und
Deutschland. Und ein Teil der Einkünfte aus diesen illegalen
Aktivitäten wird gebraucht, um die UCK-Terroristen zu bewaffnen und
auszurüsten. Mit anderen Worten: Durch Unterstützung der UCK fördert
Washington (nicht zu reden von den Vereinten Nationen) indirekt auch
die organisierten kriminell-kommerziellen Syndikate, die hinter den
Terroristen stehen.
Verrat in Sicherheitskräften
Im April wurde der Oberbefehlshaber der mazedonischen Armee (ARM),
General Andrejevski, von A1 TV Skopje beschuldigt, Erkenntnisse der
militärischen Aufklärung an die UCK weitergegeben zu haben, und zwar
durch MPRI- General Richard Griffiths, der im Rahmen des US-
Militärhilfeprogramms Direktor des »Ausrüstungs- und
Ausbildungs«-Programms der USA bei den mazedonischen Streitkräften
ist. (1) 16 (pensionierte) US-Militärs sind als Berater bei der ARM.
Aber zufällig hilft dieselbe US-Söldnergruppe, die bei der
mazedonischen Armee (ARM) unter Vertrag ist, auch den UCK-Rebellen bei
ihren terroristischen Anschlägen. Mit anderen Worten, Washington
bewaffnet und berät sowohl die UCK-Angreifer als auch die
mazedonischen Verteidiger im Rahmen der vom Kongreß beschlossenen
Bewilligungsgesetze für Militär und Spionage. MPRI hilft Mazedonien -
als Teil des US-Militärhilfepakets - »um eine bewaffnete Aggression
abzuschrecken und mazedonisches Territorium zu verteidigen«. Aber MPRI
berät und rüstet auch die UCK aus, die für die terroristischen
Anschläge verantwortlich ist. In diesem Krieg zieht der US-
amerikanische Militär- und Spionageapparat die Fäden »auf beiden
Seiten des Zauns«. (2)
Unter wachsendem Druck hat General Andrejevski inzwischen seinen
Posten als Oberbefehlshaber der ARM aufgegeben. Aber unmittelbar nach
seinem Rücktritt wurde Andrejevski zum »Militärischen Berater« von
Präsident Trajkovski ernannt, wobei er seine persönlichen Beziehungen
zu Richard Griffith von der MPRI beibehält, der immer noch in Skopje
ist, verantwortlich für die gezielte Weiterleitung der
US-«Militärhilfe« im Namen des Pentagon. Mit anderen Worten, das
militärische US- Establishment ist weiterhin auf beiden Seiten im
Spiel, indem es sowohl die UCK berät als auch der mazedonischen Armee
ARM »hilft«. Letztlich verfolgt dieser täuschungsreiche Einsatz von
Militär und Spionage den Zweck, die mazedonische Armee (ARM) daran zu
hindern, die Terroristen zu besiegen.
(1) Michel Chossudovsky: Macedonia - Washingtons Military Intelligence
Ploy, June 2001, at http://emperors-
clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm . MPRI Republic of Macedonia,
Stability and Deterrence Program (1998- Present)
http://www.mpri.com/subchannels/int_europe.html
(2) Michel Chossudovsky: Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the
Balkans, April 2001, http://emperors-
clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm
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Trotz Dauerbeschuß mit Unwahrheiten der Medien sind sich die Bürger
Mazedoniens vollkommen der Tatsache bewußt, daß Washington die
Terroristen unterstützt. Um den öffentlichen Unwillen zu zerstreuen,
arbeiten mehrere westliche »Stiftungen« und
»Menschenrechtsorganisationen«, darunter die International Crisis
Group (ICG) und Human Rights Watch (HRW) eng mit örtlichen
Bürgergruppen in Mazedonien zusammen. Ihr formelles Mandat liegt zwar
in den Bereichen »Vertrauensbildung«, »Regierungsarbeit«,
»Friedenssicherung« und »zwischenethnische Versöhnung«, aber in der
Praxis arbeiten sie Hand in Hand mit der NATO. Sie sind ein integraler
Bestandteil des an Tarnungen und Täuschungen reichen Einsatzes von
Militär und Spionage.
Die Rolle dieser Frontorganisationen besteht darin, dafür zu sorgen,
daß der öffentliche Unwillen gegen Regierung und Militär von
Mazedonien statt gegen Washington, NATO und den IWF gelenkt wird.
Manipulation der Protestbewegung
Das Open Society Institute (OSI) in Skopje, das von dem
Wallstreet-Finanzier George Soros kontrolliert wird, spielt ebenfalls
eine zentrale Rolle bei der Manipulation und letztendlichen Schwächung
der zivilen Protestbewegung. (Vgl. OSI Macedonia webpage:
http://www.soros. org.mk /.) OSI hat in Mazedonien einen
»Friedensappell« lanciert, der von einer großen Zahl von mazedonischen
Organisationen unterstützt wird. (Über 300 Organisationen und
Einzelpersonen haben den OSI-»Friedensappell« unterzeichnet.) Im
Klartext: Das OSI von Soros in Skopje beherbergt und finanziert die
Bürgerbewegung gegen den Terrorismus und verschweigt geflissentlich
die Ursachen des Terrorismus.
Im übrigen ist George Soros Teil des Finanzestablishments der
Wallstreet, das den Balkan kolonisiert. Und diese »wirtschaftliche
Eroberung« durch US-amerikanische Finanzinteressen wird vom Militär-
und Spionageapparat der USA unterstützt, der den Terroristen getarnte
Schützenhilfe zukommen läßt.
Während George Soros in Mazedonien »Friedens«- und
»Versöhnungs«-Initiativen finanziert, unterstützt er die UCK
ebenfalls. Über die Grenze des Kosovo hinweg finanziert die von Soros
geförderte Kosova Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) Aktivitäten
von »Gemeindeverwaltungen«, deren Personal von der UCK ernannt und
eingesetzt worden ist. Diese Hilfe hatte ursprünglich ein »Post
Conflict Trust Fund« der Weltbank kanalisiert, dessen Mittel zu 90
Prozent von George Soros kontrolliert werden. (World Bank, Kosova
Foundation for an Open Society , World Bank Launches First Kosovo
Project, Washington, November 16, 1999 News Release No. 2000/097/ECA)
Überflüssig zu betonen, daß Soros am Sitz der politischen Macht in den
USA zu Hause ist, daß er mit der Weltbank Hand in Hand arbeitet und
wirtschaftliche Interessen auf dem Balkan verfolgt. Sein Open Society
Institute unterstützt auch »alternative Medien« in Mazedonien und gibt
sich den Anschein, die »Demokratie« und »Freiheit der Presse« zu
fördern.
Die Flüchtlingskrise ist vorsätzlich durch die terroristischen
Angriffe unter NATO-Schirmherrschaft ausgelöst worden. Unter den
Opfern befinden sich sowohl mazedonische wie albanische Zivilisten.
Über 100 000 Menschen sind betroffen. Nach Angaben des Hohen
Flüchtlingskommissars der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) sind etwa 73 800
Menschen über die Grenze nach Kosovo gegangen, weitere 34 500 Menschen
sind innerhalb Mazedoniens »intern vertrieben«. (UNHCR Press Briefing,
Geneva, 3 July 2001) In von Rebellen besetzten albanischen Territorien
sind albanische Zivilisten, statt von den UCK- »Freiheitskämpfern«
»beschützt« zu werden, oft Objekte von Einschüchterung und
Repressalien.
In Dörfern, die in der Region Tetovo von Mazedoniern bewohnt werden,
erfolgen ethnische Säuberungen in Gegenwart von US-Militärpersonal,
das die Rebellen- Kommandeure berät. Die UCK hat Berichten zufolge
»beispiellose Terrorakte gegen die Einwohner begangen, indem sie diese
zwang, die Dörfer gänzlich zu verlassen. Die Vertriebenen aus (diesen)
Dörfern haben schwere Vorwürfe gegen die OSZE und das Internationale
Rote Kreuz erhoben, deren Vertreter Kontakte mit den Bewohnern dieser
Tetovo-Dörfer beharrlich vermieden haben.« (Macedonian Radio, Skopje,
8. Juli 2001, BBC Monitoring Service, 8 July 2001)
Ganze Gemeinden sind entvölkert. Nach Angaben des UNHCR sind die
Mehrzahl der Flüchtlinge, die nach Kosovo überwechseln, Frauen, Kinder
und ältere Männer. Andere Berichte weisen darauf hin, daß die
Terroristen albanische Männer werben, sich der UCK anzuschließen, oft
mit Gewalt und Einschüchterung. Beweise deuten darauf hin, daß
Verweigerer schweren Repressalien ausgesetzt sind. (Red Cross, Report
Macedonia, 26 June 2001) Das Muster ist in dieser Hinsicht dem sehr
ähnlich, was im Kosovo im Jahre 1999 geschah, wo ganze Dörfer
entvölkert wurden.
Ethnische Säuberungen nach kroatischem Muster
Washington steckt unleugbar hinter den ethnischen Säuberungen in
Mazedonien. Erwähnenswert ist in diesem Zusammenhang, daß die mit der
UCK zusammenarbeitende US-Söldnertruppe MPRI (Milirary Professional
Ressouces Incorporation) im Jahre 1995 bei den kroatischen
Streitkräften unter Vertrag stehend, federführend bei den ethnischen
Säuberungen und Massakern an Zivilisten war, die sich gegen die
serbische Bevölkerung der Krajina in Kroatien richteten. Dabei
arbeitete MPRI eng mit Kommandeur Agim Ceku zusammen, der damals
Brigadegeneral in den kroatischen Streitkräften war. Ceku war nicht
nur einer der maßgeblichen Planer der »Operation Sturm«, er war auch
Kommandeur der Artilleriedivision, die für den Beschuß von
krajina-serbischen Zivilisten verantwortlich ist. Es ist kein Wunder,
daß das Muster in Mazedonien dem in der Krajina und im Kosovo ähnlich
ist.* Dieselben kommandierenden Offiziere von UCK und MPRI sind jetzt
an terroristischen Angriffen und ethnischen Säuberungen in Mazedonien
beteiligt, wo die UCK- Rebellen, »geschützt« von in der Region
stationierten US- amerikanischen und britischen Truppen, bedeutende
Teile des mazedonischen Territoriums kontrollieren.
Fingierter »Friedensplan«, um Zeit zu gewinnen
Washingtons Vorhaben ist, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte daran zu
hindern, die Rebellen zu bekämpfen und die Grenzen zu schützen. Mit
anderen Worten, die versteckte Agenda des von EU und USA vermittelten
»Friedensplans« ist es, Zeit zu gewinnen, den Konflikt in die Länge zu
ziehen, die mazedonischen Sicherheitskräfte in den Kasernen zu halten
und dabei weiter die Rebellen zu bewaffnen und auszurüsten. Und dieser
grausig hinterlistige Einsatz von Militär und Spionage ist möglich,
weil der mazedonische Präsident und ein Teil seiner Umgebung
Marionetten der USA sind. Im übrigen sind die US-Militärberater von
der Military Professional Ressources Incorporation (MPRI), die die UCK
beraten, noch immer unter Vertrag bei der mazedonischen Regierung, um
»den mazedonischen Streitkräften zu helfen.« Und General Andrejevski,
der unterdessen von seinem Posten als Oberbefehlshaber der
mazadonischen Armee (ARM) zurücktrat, fungiert weiterhin als
»militärischer Berater« des Präsidenten und agiert dabei im Auftrag
von MPRI und des Pentagons.
Mit anderen Worten: Hochrangige Offiziere in Schlüsselstellungen der
ARM arbeiten mit dem Feind zusammen - gegen die unteren Offiziersränge
und Mannschaften der ARM, die für ihr Land kämpfen. Trotz der
Spaltungen in der Regierung hat Premierminister Ljubco Georgievski den
US-Sondergesandten James Pardew und EU-Vermittler Francois Leotard
öffentlich beschuldigt, »Mazedonien zu zwingen, sich den Forderungen
der albanischen Guerilla zu beugen«. (The Independent, London, 19.
Juli 2001)
Hohn auf Souveränität Mazedoniens
»Es wird offenkundig, daß alle terroristischen Aktionen in Mazedonien
von den westlichen Demokratien unterstützt worden sind. Jetzt haben
wir praktisch 95 Prozent der Akte von Ali Ahmeti (dem UCK-Anführer)
auf dem Tisch. Es ist klar, daß die internationale Gemeinschaft über
ihre Position vorab entschieden hat, und sie versucht nun, diese in
Mazedonien in die Tat umzusetzen.« (Staatliche mazedonische
Nachrichtenagentur, Skopje, 19. Juli 2001)
»>So brutal ihr Text auch ist, brutaler und noch Besorgnis erregender
ist die Art und Weise, in der sie versuchen, mazedonische
Staatseinrichtungen zu zerstören<, erklärte Herr Georgievski ... Der
Premierminister stellte ferner fest, daß das vorgeschlagene
Friedenspaket >einen schwerwiegenden Eingriff in die inneren
Angelegenheiten der Republik Mazedonien darstellt< ... Befragt nach
dem Ausmaß des Drucks, den Mazedonien aushalten könnte, sagte
Georgievski, alle Drohungen und Erpressungen sind bisher schon
vorgebracht worden, >ausgenommen, daß die NATO Luftangriffe gegen uns
durchführen wird<.« (ebenda) Bei den Verhandlungen über den
»Friedensplan« hat sich die anglo-amerikanische Position gegenüber
derjenigen von Frankreich und Deutschland durchgesetzt. Diesbezüglich
hat Premierminister Georgievski »betont, daß der französische
Rechtsexperte (der frühere Justizminister) Robert Badinter aus dem
politischen Prozeß rücksichtslos ausgeschaltet wurde«, was bedeutet,
daß seine Empfehlungen zur Verfassungsreform von James Pardew in
Abstimmung mit dem UCK-Führer Ali Ahmeti zurückgewiesen wurden.
(ebenda)
Obgleich die NATO formell nicht Teil der EU/US- »Vermittlung« ist, hat
der Hohe Beauftragte der Europäischen Union, Javier Solana (der den
Posten des Generalsekretärs während der Bombardierungen Jugoslawiens
1999 bekleidete), mit seinem Nachfolger bei der NATO, Lord George
Robertson, Hand in Hand gearbeitet. Entsprechend wurde der britische
Botschafter Mark Dickinson im Mai von Solana ernannt, um in seinem
Namen in Skopje zu agieren. Britische Fallschirmspringer und
Sondertruppen - die die UCK im Jahre 1999 ausgebildet haben - sind
dafür vorgesehen, die Schwindeloperation »Essential Harvest« zu
leiten, »um die Rebellen zu entwaffnen«.
Immer stärker sind die Korridore der internationalen Diplomatie von
Vertretern der Militärspionage mit früherer Erfahrung in Bosnien und
Kosovo übernommen worden. James Pardew begann als hochrangiger
Aufklärungsoffizier seine Balkan-Karriere 1993 für die Vereinigten
Stabschefs mit der Aufgabe, die US-Hilfe an die Bosnisch-Muslimische
Armee durchzuleiten. Oberst Pardew war damit betraut, die »Abwürfe«
von Nachschub für die bosnischen Streitkräfte zu arrangieren, wobei er
eng mit dem Vorsitzenden des Nationalen Sicherheitsrates Anthony Lake
zusammenarbeitete (Washington Times, 14. Dezember 1997 und US-Kongreß
Pressemitteilung »Militant Islamic Base« vom 16. Januar 1997). Peter
Feith von der NATO, der »mit den Kontakten zur UCK-Guerilla
beauftragt« worden ist, ist ein alter »Kollege« von James Pardew. Er
war Mitte der 90er Jahre politischer Berater beim IFOR- Oberkommando
in Bosnien. (dpa, 12 Juli 2001)
Wiederauflage von Bosnien und Kosovo
Der »Vermittler« der USA, James Pardew, hat das Mandat, das
Bosnien/Kosovo-Muster wiederaufzulegen. Dementsprechend zielt
Washingtons hinterhältiger Einsatz von Militär und Spionage darauf ab,
das mazedonische Territorium zu zerstückeln, interne soziale
Spaltungen zu forcieren und ethnische Spannungen zu schüren. Das
Vorhaben besteht darin, alle sozialen und politischen Bande zwischen
Albanern und Mazedoniern zu zerstören, die länger als ein halbes
Jahrhundert in einer multiethnischen Gesellschaft koexistiert haben.
Diese sozioethnischen Spaltungen werden vorsätzlich geschaffen, um
alle Formen des sozialen Widerstands zu zügeln. Noch wichtiger: Man
will die Entwicklung einer breiteren »gemeinsamen Front« gegen den
Feind verhindern.
Die von den USA gesponserten terroristischen Anschläge ebenso wie der
scheinheilige »Friedensplan« verfolgen die Absicht, das Land
schließlich zu zerstückeln und Mazedonien in ein NATO-Protektorat zu
verwandeln. Die Operation »Essential Harvest«, die von britischen
Fallschirmjägern geleitet werden soll, würde den ersten Schritt zu
einer militärischen Besetzung mazedonischen Territoriums darstellen.
NATO-Streitkräfte schützen die Rebellen nicht nur in den unter ihrer
Kontrolle stehenden Gebieten, MPRI-Berater, unter Vertrag beim
Pentagon, helfen auch bei der Durchführung »ethnischer Säuberungen« in
diesen Gebieten. In diesen funktionieren die mazedonischen
Staatseinrichtungen bereits nicht mehr.
Die Gebiete unter UCK-Kontrolle, die an Kosovo angrenzen, stehen also
de facto schon unter der Jurisdiktion der NATO. Mehr noch: Es gibt
Anzeichen, daß die UCK - mit NATO-Unterstützung - versuchen könnte,
eine einseitige Abtrennung des Kosovo von Jugoslawien auszulösen. Das
würde nicht nur die politische Krise in Belgrad verschärfen, es würde
auch die Frage des politischen Status der von der UCK besetzten
Territorien aufwerfen, aus denen die mazedonische Bevölkerung
vertrieben wurde (vielfach in derselben Weise, in der die Serben aus
dem Kosovo vertrieben wurden). Bei diesem Vorhaben ist die Absicht der
NATO klar, sie besteht darin, Mazedonien als Land zu zerstückeln und
zu zerstören.
(+) Michel Chossudovsky: NATO Installs a Reign of Terror in the
Kosovo, Juli 1999,
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/chossnato.htm
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