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SZAMUELY'S LIST, PART 1
22 Reasons Why I Don't Want to be Imprisoned
by the Hague 'Tribunal'

"What follows are the Hague 'Tribunal's' rules
covering detention and also visitation
and communications. Other rules, covering
procedures and evidence will follow. Note that
these rules are for people who have not been
convicted of anything and who have no
expectation of a speedy trial. Quite the
contrary." - George Szamuely

"Rules Governing The Detention Of Persons
Awaiting Trial Or Appeal Before The
Tribunal..."

Reason 1. Rule 36 bis (A) - The Commanding
Officer of the Detention Unit may decide upon
the search of a detainee's cell if he suspects
that the cell contains an item which
constitutes a threat to the security or
good order of the detention unit or the host
prison, or the health and safety of any
person therein.

Reason 2. Rule 36 ter (A) - In exceptional
circumstances, in order to protect the health
or the safety of the detainee, the Registrar,
with the approval of the President, may
order that the cell of the detainee be
monitored by video surveillance equipment
for a period not exceeding thirty days.

Reason 3. Rule 63 (A) - Detainees shall be
entitled to receive visits from family,
friends and others, subject only to the
provisions of Rule 66 and to such restrictions
and supervision as the Commanding Officer,
in consultation with the Registrar, may
impose. Such restrictions and supervision
must be necessary in the interests of the
administration of justice or the security
and good order of the host prison and the
detention unit.

(B) The Registrar may refuse to allow a
person to visit a detainee if he has reason to
believe that the purpose of the visit is
to obtain information which may be subsequently
reported in the media.

Reason 4. Rule 64 - A detainee...may refuse
to see any visitor other than a
representative of the Prosecutor.

Reason 5. Rule 66 (A) - The Prosecutor may
request the Registrar or, in cases of
emergency, the Commanding Officer, to prohibit,
regulate or set conditions for contact
between a detainee and any other person if the
Prosecutor has reasonable grounds for
believing that such contact:

(ii) could prejudice or otherwise affect the
outcome of:

(a) the proceedings against the detainee; or,
(b) any other investigation;

(iv) could be used by the detainee to breach
an order for non-disclosure made by a Judge
or a Chamber pursuant to Rule 53 or Rule 75
of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence.

Reason 6. Rule 76 (A) - If, in the opinion of
the Prosecutor, the interests of justice
would not be served by allowing a particular
detainee unrestricted access to the news,
or that such unrestricted access could prejudice
the outcome of the proceedings against
the detainee or of any other investigation,
the Prosecutor may request the Registrar, or
in cases of urgency, the Commanding Officer
to restrict such access.

The following are from rules on "Visits And
Communications" of detainees...

Reason 7. Regulation 3 - Incoming mail will
be inspected both on delivery to the host
prison and to the United Nations detention unit.

Reason 8. Regulation 4 (A) - The Commanding
Officer may confiscate any item which, in
his opinion, constitutes a threat to:

(i) the security or good order of the
detention unit or the host prison; or,

Reason 9. Regulation 8 (A) - The Registrar,
or a person authorised by him, shall, within
twenty-four hours of receipt, open and read,
or have read, each item of mail.

Regulation 8 (B) - Items of opened mail shall
be delivered to the detainee or posted to
the addressee immediately thereafter and the
detainee informed accordingly unless the
item:

(i) is in breach of:

(a) the Rules of Detention;

(b) these Regulations; or,

(c) an Order of the Tribunal;

(ii) gives reasonable grounds to the Registrar,
or a person authorised by him, to
believe that the detainee may be attempting to:

(b) interfere with or intimidate a witness;

(c) interfere with the administration of justice;
or,

(d) otherwise disturb the security and good order
of the detention unit.

Reason 10. Regulation 9 (A) - If the Registrar,
or a person authorised by him, finds
there to have been a breach of the Rules of
Detention, these Regulations or an Order of
the Tribunal, an offending item of:

(i) outgoing mail shall be returned to the
detainee together with a note from the
Registrar, in a language the detainee understands,
giving the reasons for refusal to
post the offending item;

(ii) incoming mail shall, in the sole discretion
of the Registrar, either be returned to
the sender or retained by the Registrar and the
detainee shall be informed accordingly .

Regulation 9 (B) - Detainees shall be given the
opportunity to rewrite items of outgoing
mail omitting the offending part.

Regulation 9 (C) - A copy shall be kept by the
Registrar of all offending items and any
offending enclosure may be confiscated.

Regulation 9 (D) - The Registrar may also
notify the Prosecutor, the Commanding Officer
and, if deemed necessary, the Dutch authorities
of the breach and of the nature of the
offending item.

Reason 11. Regulation 11 (A) - Correspondence
addressed to or from counsel for the
detainee shall not be interfered with in
any manner unless the Commanding Officer or the
Registrar has reasonable grounds for believing
that this facility is being abused in an
attempt to:

(ii) interfere with or intimidate a witness;

(iii) interfere with the administration of
justice; or,

(iv) otherwise disturb the good order of the
detention unit.

Regulation 11 (B) - In any such case, the
Commanding Officer shall immediately forward
the item in question to the Registrar,
unopened, and shall enter details of the
interception in the log referred to above
and notify the detainee accordingly.

Regulation 11 (C) - The Registrar shall
contact the counsel to whom the item is
addressed or by whom it was sent and request
counsel to open the item in his presence.

Regulation 11 (D) - Counsel may be required
to explain to the Registrar, in one of the
working languages of the Tribunal, the
nature of the item and to hand over any offending
item or enclosure .

Reason 12. Regulation 14 (C) - Parcels
containing items that, in the sole discretion of
the Commanding Officer , pose a threat to
the safety and good order of the detention
unit shall be confiscated and their contents
retained or disposed of in accordance with
Rule 14 of the Rules of Detention and the
detainee informed accordingly.

Reason 13. Regulation 15 -The Commanding
Officer may, in consultation with the
Registrar, place such restrictions upon the
time that a detainee may spend on any one
telephone call as are reasonable for the good
order of the detention unit.

Reason 14. Regulation 19 - If the Commanding
Officer believes that he has reasonable
grounds for intervention , he may immediately
terminate a call and advise the detainee
of his reasons for so doing. The Commanding
Officer shall also report the matter to the
Registrar.

Reason 15. Regulation 20 - Telephone
conversations will not be recorded or monitored
unless:

(A) the Commanding Officer or the Registrar
has reasonable grounds for believing that
the detainee may be attempting to:

(ii) interfere with or intimidate a witness;

(iii) interfere with the administration of
justice; or,

(iv) otherwise disturb the maintenance of
good order in the detention unit;

(B) an Order for non-disclosure has
been made by a Judge or a Chamber pursuant to Rule
53 and Rule 75 of the Rules of Procedure
and Evidence;

(C) specifically requested by the Prosecutor
following the disclosure to the defence of
the names of witnesses pursuant to Rule 67
of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence .

Reason 16. Regulation 21 (A) - If one of
the situations listed in Regulation 20 arises,
the Registrar may order all telephone
calls to and from that detainee, other than with
counsel and diplomatic representatives,
to be recorded or monitored for a period not
exceeding thirty days .

Reason 17. Regulation 33 (A) - Permission
shall be granted for...visits unless the
Registrar or the Commanding Officer has
reasonable grounds for believing that the
detainee may be attempting to:

(ii) interfere with or intimidate a witness;

(iii) interfere with the administration of
justice; or,

(iv) otherwise disturb the maintenance of
good order in the detention unit.

(B) Permission may be denied if the Registrar
has reason to believe that the purpose of
the visit is to obtain information which
may be subsequently reported in the media.

Reason 18. Regulation 43 (A) - All visits
shall be conducted within the sight of the
staff of the detention unit, save in exceptional
circumstances and at the discretion of
the Commanding Officer in consultation with
the Registrar.

(B) Discussions between the detainee and
the visitor shall not be recorded unless :

(i) the Commanding Officer has reasonable
grounds for believing that the detainee may be
attempting to:

(b) interfere with or intimidate a witness;

(c) interfere with the administration of
justice; or,

(d) otherwise disturb the maintenance of
good order in the detention unit;

(ii) an Order for non-disclosure has been
made by a Judge or a Chamber pursuant to Rule
53 or Rule 75 of the Rules of Procedure and
Evidence.

(iii) specifically requested by the Prosecutor
following the disclosure to the defence
of the names of witnesses pursuant to Rule 67
of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence.

Reason 19. Regulation 44

(A) If one of the situations listed in
Regulation 43(B) arises, the Registrar may , at
the request of the Commanding Officer or
otherwise, order that all visits to that
detainee, other than by counsel and diplomatic
representatives, be recorded for a period
not exceeding seven days.

(B) Renewal of the period, which shall not
exceed seven days, shall be reported to the
President.

(C) The detainee and his counsel shall be
notified of the request and of the Registrar's
decision within twenty-four hours.

Reason 20. Regulation 47 - Details of all
recorded visits shall be forwarded to the
Registrar within twenty-four hours, who shall
make a determination whether to listen to,
or have transcribed and read, each individual
recorded visit.

Reason 21. Regulation 49

(A) If the Registrar finds there to have been
a breach of the Rules of Detention , these
Regulations or an Order of the Tribunal, the
offending conversation will be transcribed
by the Registry and, where necessary, translated
into one of the working languages of
the Tribunal.

(B) The Registrar may notify the Prosecutor,
the Commanding Officer and, if deemed
necessary, the Dutch authorities of the nature
of the breach.

Reason 22. Regulation 50

(A) Any conversation which is transcribed
under Regulation 49 shall be retained by the
Registrar.

(B) Such transcriptions shall not be handed
over to the Prosecutor as evidence of
contempt of the Tribunal pursuant to Rule 77(C)
of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence
without prior notice and disclosure to
counsel for the defence.

[Coming Soon: Part 2, Why I Don't Want to
be "Tried" by the Hague "Tribunal" - Excerpts
from the rules of procedure and evidence.]

URL's for the above are
http://www.un.org/icty/basic/detention/IT98_rev3.htm and
http://www.un.org/icty/basic/detention/IT38_rev8con.htm

Further Reading, and Notes:

1) 'Reichstag Fire Trial, the Sequel'Jared
Israel's biting report on Slobodan
Milsoevic's first apperance at the Hague
'Tribunal'. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/point1.htm

2) BIS: The suffix 'bis' is Old Latin for
"repeat" indicating that an item is second.

3) TER: Similarly, 'ter' is from Old Latin
meaning "three times," indicating that said
item is third.

4) 'Back to the Dark Ages?' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/bac.htm

5) 'Learning from the Inquisition,' by Prof. Kosta Cavoski at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm

www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]

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FROM TERRITORY TO PEOPLE: NATIONS ADRIFT

Louis Dalmas
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Balkans-Info (*)
(20/3 - 2/4, 2001)

Our Western political thought is being skewed by an odd
perversion. In the absence of anything more apt, it could be
given a somewhat torturous definition as its own “ethnification”
or “ethnisitation.” In the thought that dominates our
Euro-American world, with its Near Eastern and African
fringes, the focus is entirely on the component peoples, their
histories, their rights, their conditions and their claims.

The “right of self-determination” has its roots in an
anti-Colonialism meant to break-up the huge British, French,
German and other empires exploiting vast surfaces of the globe
for their own profits. The supporters of “self-determination” did
not struggle for the freedom of any specific ethnicity. Instead,
they sought to do away with the yoke on the backs of all the
populations under foreign occupation.

This is an important distinction. It is based on the difference
between Population and People, two terms all too often simply
interchanged. A population is represented by the totality of
inhabitants within a given territory. It has nothing to do with kin
ties or who “belongs” to whom. Here, the only frame of
reference is the soil (territorial dominance after the Latin jus
solis). When it comes to People the reference shifts to ethnicity
– with its past, its culture, its language and its uniqueness. As is
frequently reiterated, blood is here the defining element (from
Latin jus sanguinus). It is an abbreviated construct devoid of
felicity. It induces dangerous value judgements about “purity”
and “impurity.” It does, however, have one advantage, namely
its distinction from the soil.

The “right of self-determination” was attached traditionally to
territorial Populations as a right to freedom and independence.
It was not one confined to particular Peoples in recognition of
their specificities. It is only in recent times, following the end of
two World Wars, and after the dissolution of colonial empires,
that this “right” became strictly “ethnicised.” It was no longer a
right of oppressed Populations , not even of Peoples with
boundaries hard to establish. It became instead the right
transferred clearly to well-defined communities. The right of
the Peoples transmuted into a Cult of Minorities.

Many things have contributed to this change. The wars, with
endless processions of patriotic stimuli, dealt some terrible
blows to the humanistic ideals of a world citizenship. The fall
of Communism undermined the universality of the workers’
international solidarity.. “Internationalism,” once perceived as a
noble fraternal undertaking to harmonize the Planet Earth, gave
way to a financial neo-Colonialism of an American
super-Power which engenders a variety of local resistances to
its hegemony.

The progress of technology, combined with a virtual
monopoly over the means of communication and the
requirements of economic domination, served to accelerate
social inequalities. In turn, this reinforced the feeling of
alienation and impotence in the common man. The net result is
an increasing need to connect with “roots,” to belong to a
group, to find one’s identity within the anonymous mass.
Defenders of the Multinationals and champions of Europe’s
unification continuously underrate the diversity of languages
which acts to consolidate social fragmentation. Attempts at
Esperanto have all failed while the English language has yet to
conquer the totality of our universe. The ferment of separatist
semantics is all the more active because well-intentioned
imbeciles are promoting revivals of idioms, dialects and
folkloric patois which provide for yet another process of
atomization.

The Great Religions have also had a role to play. The most
aggressive ones are on continuous proselytizing missions
seeking to transcend the spiritual space in order to enhance
their temporal power. The simplest way to attain this is to
become The Religion of a particular group. By appropriating
its cultural patrimony, the Great Religion encapsulates it into a
dogmatism of the Faithful as It jealously protects against the
influences of infidel thought. All of this empowers a particular
ethnic group to the detriment of the broader humanity. To this
must be added an item of cultural evolution, namely the Cult of
Minorities. Inspired and justified by respect for the
empowerment itself, it acquired the right to be different , the
right to communitarianism. To put it another way, this amounts
to a moral obligation to subscribe to ethnic sub-divisions of a
society. Having a preference for that which divides over a
unitary opposite has come to pass, by now, as only “just.” At
the same time, it is barely understood that humanity is
breaking-up into separatist islets, homogeneous and
impenetrable, falling back ever more on the “ethnically pure”
and imagined themselves.

By espousing terrorism the Cult of Minorities has created its
own “ethnicised” slippery slope. Initially, terrorist acts had
social content. Their perpetrators recommended themselves as
fighters against injustice. They invoked the absolute
necessity for violent and timely anarchy in order to change
society. Incrementally, this social demand gave way to a
political claim as the struggle continues to secure
recognition of a group. The terrorists themselves have
become “fighters” perceived alternately as criminals or
heroes yet soldiers of an army. After the Israelis under
British occupation , the Kurds, the Basques, the Irish, the
Chechins, the Palestinians and the Albanians have given
terrorism a new face. It is the face of self-proclaimed
representatives of a would-be impoverished People that can
only be heard through a resort to bombs. The braves of yore
and the Robin Hoods, all isolated marginals meting out
selective justice , have been replaced by militarized extremists
engaged in a clandestine war put together in the name of
patriotic objectives.

The risks involved in this “ethnisation” of modern geo-strategy
are obvious. The introduction and practical application of value
judgements tops the list. In a world broken-up into ethnicities
– especially when these are confounded with religion - there is
strong temptation to show distinct preference for some but
downgrade others. Thus, molded by politics, circumstances and
opinions, the behavior (and even the very existence) of certain
ethnicities is contested while others are viewed with favor. We
are at the Gates of Racism taking roots in ethnicity. As soon as
there is reference to a People, in essence a particular variety
of individuals issuing from the same collective “stock,” it
becomes patently easy to qualify it by attributing virtues and
vices in accordance with specific interests and stands. Here,
Race comes to the fore.
Chosen or Persecuted, as the case may be, it comes along with
unacceptable excesses egged-on by this type of conception.
The collective guilt assigned to “the Serbs” is a case in point,
trumpeted by the International Community since the start of the
Balkan crisis. This was the first large-scale manifestation of
racism since the Jewish Holocaust.

The Cult of Minority’s dominance within contemporary
political thought is in full view. Yet, one can also see that it
can be manipulated in turn. Thus, for example, had the Cult
been followed across the board in ex-Yugoslavia, there would
now be a mini-state of “Srpska Krajina.” Instead, more than
250,000 ethnic Serbs had been “cleansed” out of Krajina in a
single month, with both direct and indirect help of the West.
Similarly, there has been much talk about severing completely
Kosovo from Yugoslavia in support of its ethnic Albanian
minority’s “right to self-determination.” In contrast, hardly
anyone in the West advocates seriously a partition of Kosovo
to accommodate its Serb minority’s “right to self-determination”
as well. Such asymmetries represent the tell-tale sign of
manipulation.

Religious fanaticism presents yet another danger. The very
isolation of religious communities increases among its
members the need to share in a spirituality which bonds
them. The common Faith becomes a cemented shield for a
group finding itself amid strangers, more often than not hostile
as well. This, in turn, leads to calls on Religion to protect.
Given its natural penchant for the conquest of power, the
Religion is only too happy to oblige through its clergy and
spokesmen. The result is the identification with and
inseparability of Religion and People. The spiritual and
temporal controls of a community doubly endow its political
claims with combat on behalf of God, producing oftentimes the
delirious intensity of Righteousness.

One last evil consequence consists of the inversion of values,
confusion of ideas and the imprecision of words. The last
decade of events in the Balkans, especially in Yugoslavia, has
been most revealing in this respect. Here, the “ethnic” approach
literally burned-up all the analyses. There was even an
incoherent start with the beginning of the Nineties. Initial
secessions from the Yugoslav Federation were viewed
uniformly as Population movements (understood as “ethnic”
ones). False finding. The Slovenes, the Croats, the Bosnians
(originally Croats or Serbs and Muslims only through Religious
espousal) and the Serbs –all being Slavs- have been
distinguishable solely by belonging to Catholicism, Orthodox
Religion or to Islam. Over-ridden by the prevailing dogma of
minority rights, this fundamental truth did not prevent the
International Community from recognizing “new “ nations in
the name of justice due to Peoples in the process of gaining
“freedom from Serb domination.” The ensuing conflict at
Kosovo and the recent ripping apart of Macedonia have had the
effect of reinforcing this point of view and all the more so since
it has been served as an “ethnic” confrontation between the
Serbs and the Albanians, two “enemy” Peoples “since
times immemorial.”

Various newscasters and commentators have not even been able
to grasp the inversion of their own values. They speak all the
time of pluralism and multi-ethnicity as determining values
without a sense of reality which is precisely the opposite.
Thanks to Western policy , every “People” is to have its own
country, what with: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia sub-divided into
Republika Srpska and Croato-Muslim Federation (about to
split in turn), Kosovo, a Serbia which may soon be severed
from Vojvodina and Sandzak , the Greater Albania of tomorrow,
and a Macedonia as a moiety, without mentioning the Czech and
Slovak Republics or the dismantling of the Soviet Union --the
Europe is witnessing the birth of a bevy of nations which are
the most “ethnically pure” of the Continent

Some further particulars need clarification due to a confusion of
terms. A distinction has already been made between Populations
and Peoples. It becomes necessary now to take a closer look at
what are the Nation, Nationality, Citizenship and State.

Let us start with nationality. Its ambiguity derives from the
fact that in contemporary usage it designates the belonging to a
constituent Nation. It is thus said that one ”is of French or
German or Italian nationality” to attest that one is a citizen of
France, Germany or Italy. This is an all too facile use of
language which fails to consider the particular status of Nations
and States, one which is at fault in assimilating nationality and
citizenship. As citizenship defines to which State one belongs,
nationality has a more blurred connotation. It can go as far as to
designate the belonging to a Religion. just as in ex-Yugoslavia
with an existing Muslim State having its own nationals.
Besides, within the Federal Yugoslavia of yesterday,
hostilities between nationalities and republics were
exacerbated by the Great Powers to end in secessions with
their own grotesque attempts at differentiation. Such has been
the practice of linguistic separatisms involving the Croat and
Macedonian languages severed from the Serb. It reminds one of
trying to separate French from the Quebecois, the Bruxellois or
the Valaisan.

With the “ethnicist” evolution, nationality has prevailed over
citizenship, evoking rather the People and not the State. There
are now Scottish, Basque, Corsican, Catalan, Palestinian,
Chechin or Kurdish Nationalities. As of now, there is not much
credible talk in France about the Provencale, Bretonne or
Savoyarde nationalities. These will not be late in coming along,
however. The principal reason behind the “ethnisation” of
nationality is relatively simple: leaders of minorities that labor
at national promotions, as well as those who support them,
know that the “ethnic” word evokes the idea of a Nation. By
baptizing it as nationality they anticipate the future of their
community. Their objective is to transform it into a Nation. By
labeling themselves as “nationalists” they patent
respectability.

The newly arriving nationalisms have encountered some rather
different estimations. In concert with their habits, the
intellectuals sublimate mainly with the most distant aspects; the
politicians praise those who bring them voters who can elect;
the governments , on the other hand, encourage those
obstructing other countries by repressing those apt to spread
troubles at home. In connection with the ex-Yugoslavia
there is the need to mention , at least in passing, the role of
bad faith which has helped the International Community to
support all of the local nationalisms, from the Slovene
separatists to the Albanian terrorists. The sole exception relates
to a falsely depicted “Greater- Serbia” Belgrade, roundly
condemned and ”doomed to end in failure.”

The State itself is an administrative and political entity
incorporating its members as citizens. This basic definition of
principle does not contain even the slightest hint of ethnicity.
The citizens can be of different nationalities reflecting a
variety of Peoples. Inversely, a Federated Nation can envelop
all the citizens of States in the Federal structure, irrespective of
their ethnic origins. The method of making such a structure
possible is of rather slight consequence. Its essential feature
is that the State and the citizens merge (or should merge)
collectively into an undifferentiated and purely juridical
system of governance in which the same Law applies to all.
That, at least, is the theory. In practice, the solidification of
minorities (perceived as the discovery of “self” by some and
as subversion by others) has been instrumental in introducing
discriminations within the citizenry as an integral part of the
ways in which certain States actually function. As a result, the
fundamental neutrality of the system of government goes out of
the window. As our premier and most beloved comic of
France, Coluche, used to say, “ We are all equal but there are
some who are more equal than others.” The State is confounded
with nationality or a single People to the detriment of a
segment of its constituents. It is sad to have to note that the
actual “ethnicist” evolution thus impels the State to betray its
mission.

Finally, the Nation is a collective shaped by history, geography
and culture which are its flesh while the State provides the
bones alone. The richer the Nation’s past, the less it is prone to
see itself reduced as a representation of a single People. That
has been the case of all the Great Nations of Europe, including
Yugoslavia, that have been able to reassemble their diversities
within a Population consisting of various ethnicities occupying
the same territorial space. In this arrangement it is the soil
that acquires primacy over the blood. State structures can be
different: Confederations, Federations, Centralist States,
Regional Autonomies. Yet these are all reunited in a single
enabling construct which agglomerates, integrates and
assimilates through a common language and shared values. The
differences are confined to a nook instead of being paraded
where everyone can see them in spades. The real Nation is, in
effect, a “melting pot” and not a mere assembly of specs.

Such a concept of a polymorphic Nation is contrary to the
prevailing “ethnicist” tendency. It provides the only barrier
against racist ferments which generate the abusive cult of
Peoples or minorities.. This is so on the sole condition that it
upholds its essence, expressed through total indifference to
origins. The slightest shortfall in this absence of discrimination
immediately justifies all the ethnic claims while betraying the
national calling which defangs them through a rigorous respect
of equality. If a Nation and a State, as its legally mandated
repository, know how to treat, without exceptions, in exactly
the same manner, all of the component ethnicities willing to
enter into the covenant , they both have a right that cannot be
contested. It is the right to suppress anything that menaces the
social covenant to insure the order required for the very
existence of a Nation and State.

All of the already discussed definitions of principles seem to be
reasonably clear on paper but it becomes more difficult to
discern them in the real world. There are two basic reasons for
this, namely manipulations through propaganda and
contradictions in the testimonies. The most powerful shaper of
public opinion today happens to be unabashed disinformation.
Through progress in technology and communications, it has
reached the proportions of a totalitarian assault on human
conscience. Given the veneer of “political correctness” it has
become virtually impossible to recover even a small fragment
of truth from the fog caused by outright lies. We have some idea
of this here, “at the “Balkans-Info,” journal that this author
has kept alive for some five years so far. It has been a
publication devoted to combat the boggling of the mind
in connection with the drama of the Balkans. During the years
as a professional journalist , I have never seen so many stage-
managements , such distortions of even basic facts, the high
elevations of poison in both the audio-visual and scribal
media, the myriad fakeries and the parades of untruths. With
total scorn for ordinary decency, “the Serbs” have been
satanized while their adversaries were endowed with virtual
sainthood. All sorts of pretexts were advanced in order to
dismantle Yugoslavia, to implant military colonies in Bosnia
and at Kosovo, and to bomb Serbia itself. At the point when the
political regime changed hands in Belgrade, with the lavish
support of American dollars, the wretched of yesterday became
the saints of today. Simultaneously, the West’s former Albanian
allies became worrisome as a disruptive element through a
parade of information items doctored as much in this new
sense as they had been tampered with previously in the older
one.

How does one get to some proximity to truth? Were the
Kosovo’s Albanians marginalized, according to their own
claims , by the monopolizing Serbs? In order to advertise their
presence, did they do right to boycott the helping hand
tendered officially by Belgrade? Did they really need to
unleash a civil war in order to secure their freedoms?
Or, as the Serbs counter-claim, did they not enjoy the same
rights, the same access to positions at work and advantages, to
the same education at identical levels of learning? Were they a
deprived minority or a band of rebels always more demanding,
accepting nothing less than an independence which would lead,
in its wake, to the expulsion of everything considered “alien?”

If the Albanians’ autonomy was real, if their citizenship was
co-equal, the Serbs had every right to defend themselves
against assassinations and suppress a terrorism without a leg to
stand on. And, in such a condition the International Community
had no right to intervene under an humanitarian pretext of its
own making , designed to justify its bellicose action. Even if the
Serbs had not been completely innocent of the anti-Albanian
bias they were tarred with, there was nothing around to
authorize anyone to wage an illegal war against the Serbs for
the would-be purpose of “re-establishing peace.”

Besides, it is worth observing that the realities we had
described throughout the years at the “Balkans-Info,” realities
disengaged from a wave (more aptly, a Tsunami) of manipulated
information and contradictory testimonies do serve to obviate
the unilateral demonization of the Serbs . More than that, our
findings have obtained a posteriori verifications. Macedonia is
defending itself today against the same Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA or UCK in Albanian) that had attacked the Serbs.
The only difference is that the International Community is now
allowing to Skoplje what it had refused to Belgrade. The
would-be heroes of the national liberation of Kosovo did not
transform themselves, between just yesterday and today, into
dangerous assassins. This is precisely what they have always
been. In turn, this fact reveals that the Serb Army and police
were absolutely justified to attempt a KLA wipe-out.

It is unfortunate that, again, the ethnic approach brings in its
perverted effects. After championing the causes espoused by
the Slovenes, Croats and Bosnian Muslims, and after
destroying the multi-ethnic Yugoslav State, the very same
Western sorcerer’s apprentices have mounted the Albanian
horse. They never even came to ponder the fact that Yugoslavia
was a model of pluralism. Even at the peak of the anti-terrorist
repression at Kosovo, the Serbs had not come to denigrate
“Albanity” itself as they pursued the murderers. This is in
sharp contrast to the hate constantly expressed toward
“Serbianity” by the same men. It cannot be stressed enough that
Serbia of today continues to be a refugee haven for dozens of
different nationalities.

It is probable that the Balkan tragedy of the last decade could
have been avoided, with its hundreds of thousands of the dead
and the displaced. The victims of pillages and expulsions
could have been spared the agonies through a pre-condition.
Instead of honoring the pretensions of the self-styled Peoples in
need of independence, the International Community needed to
take a firm stand at the very start of the intra--Yugoslav
discussions by declaring that it would not tender its recognition
to any secessionist State of ex-Yugoslavia. Its failure to so do
was due to a blindness caused by the adulation of minorities.

Having said that, it is necessary to probe a little deeper. If many
of the political heads in the West happen to be notoriously
incompetent, especially in matters affecting foreign affairs, one
should not conclude that all the damages they had caused were
involuntary or accidental. Without bringing-up the fiction of
secret cells created by the all-powerful plotters out to control
the world , there remains the necessity to disconnect from such
a scenario the actual existence of quite real occult plans and
non-admitted goals. Among them, “ethnisation” is not the fruit
of stupidity on the part of our leaders. It corresponds to a desire
and the will to bring about regionalisation and tribalization
meant to weaken certain national centralisms and thus
undermine the very structure of a Nation.

In this game, at once secret and formidable, Germany first,
with the United States right behind, hold the top place. In the
April 1997 issue of “Balkans-Info,” General Pierre Marie
Gallois, one of the very best geostrategic specialists, revealed
the existence of a “European Center for the Study of the Lot of
Minorities,” financed by the Bonn Government. It is but one of
the agencies which engender and fund special missions to
various countries of the Continent to gratify Germany’s
will-to-power as ruler of Europe and implement it by
supporting the centrifugal forces among the potential opponents
of Germany’s Continental hegemony. It is not a novel
enterprise since Nazi Germany had already sided with the
Breton and Flammand separatists in the course of its occupation
of France. The New Germany pre-empted everyone else in
saluting the Yugoslav secessionists and induced, by its own
example, the international recognition of “new nations” in the
process of devouring the Yugoslav Federation. During the war
in Bosnia, Germany equipped and armed the Serb adversaries
and did exactly the same with the “Kosovo Liberation Army”
(KLA). The lasting nature of German ambition is self-evident.
By helping Peoples to orbit out of Nations, Germany can
decidedly weaken all the rivals. This strategy has undergone a
magisterial and most detailed depiction in a remarkable book
penned by Pierre Hillard and just published by
Francois-Xavier de Guibert. As its preface-writer Paul-Marie
Couteaux describes the contents, they deal with “what could
well become one of predominant themes in the next few
years.” The key here is the Awakening of Ethnic Irredentisms
all over Europe with consequences of a potentially huge reach.
All of it is due to the patient and consistent work of Germany
everywhere, so as to bring them to life, to fortify and use them
for its political aims.

The United States hardly hide their intention to dominate the
World. Their hegemonist policy of Economic and Financial
Imperialism emanates from their current status as the sole
remaining super-Power. The pillars supporting this type of
Imperialism lead directly into such internationalized entities
as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the
OSCE, NATO and the Criminal Tribunal at the Hague. It must
be admitted that this lethal American strategy , underpinned, to
boot, by the stupidity and cowardice of its European
accomplices, finds itself at the moment in a state of
complete success in the Balkans. Yugoslavia, the only state
capable of inconveniently standing in its way, has been
dismembered. Serbia, as the last stumbling-block, has
been tossed into the pot with the rest of Yugoslavia’s
ex-members, and, one might add, through a change abundantly
subvented by the outgoing Clinton Administration. All the
others have been reduced to the level of colonial protectorates
or orbiting satellites heavily dependent on the U.S. financial
aid. The new candidates for membership in NATO, that is to
say into supervised docility and compliance, are slated to enrich
America’s munitions and arms makers, by having to deflect
and spend financial fortunes in order to attain the “NATO
standards.” The environmental and economic harm done has
already opened up gigantic markets for reconstruction but one
payable in dollars only. New avenues for the transport of oil
have been opened, along with new military bases (like the huge
Camp Bondsteel at Kosovo), and the encirclement of Russia is
now complete. In fact, Washington rules today over a field of
ruins. It will be allowed to vegetate, with the acquiescence of
Germany and Great Britain, even if this “partnership” may not
be of long duration as rivalry develops between Germany
and the United States.

The most acute angle of this “ethnicist” optic has just been
cleared in connection with the conflict exploding in
Macedonia. It forces our Oracles into some diversionary
acrobatics. For example, Lord David Owen, who has had a
major role in drafting several plans designed to resolve
Yugoslavia’s problems, has sounded a clarion call with an
article published in Le Monde (23/3/2001) Under the heading of
“Redesigning the map of the Balkans,” he advocates border
re-adjustments within the Balkan Peninsula to coincide with
irredentist claims. He has been closely seconded by Fareed
Zakaria in the Newsweek (2 April 2001) where he proposes,
with cold-blooded detachment, the following devolution:

“It is high time for NATO to come to grips with
transfers of power to every single (ethnic)
community that demands it, in Bosnia and Kosovo,
and perhaps persuade, privately, the Macedonian
Government to do the same.
The Albanian enclave in Macedonia can easily be
detached to form its own Entity. If, thereafter, the
Albanians at Kosovo and Macedonia wish to unite
or stay separate, well, that is their own business.
If the Bosnian Serbs wish to join Belgrade, good
luck. If the Croats wish to join the New Croatia,
mazel tov. From the moment on when all of this
takes place, through negotiation and without
bloodshed, what importance, if any, can be
attached to all the small statelets bound to
surface. The desirable outcome is that there
will be some more seats at the United
Nations.” (1)

It is entirely clear where the blind support of Peoples has led
so far. There are now rump States, ethnic “mini-nationalities”
and Great Nations in a state of degeneration. That was the goal
pursued and the result obtained. Is it at all possible to cope
with the present-day mess that promises nothing but troubling
tomorrows?

The dream of Universality is now encapsulated in an
internationalism of the New World Order or, to put it
differently, in an Empire of the banks, the multinationals and
American money. Its mirror image is to be found in an
industrialized and monetarised Europe which totally neglects
the social aspect of imposing such a Continental Union.
One possible opposition to this “Summit Internationalism” is
already on its way through basic anti-Globalisation movements
which are spreading beyond their mainly local points of
response. At the moment, they are corporal, poorly organized
and politically confused. They do not grasp as yet that Bove’s
enemies are those of Milosevic as well; that these are the same
individuals who decide to impose embargoes, who embellish
with poetic license their (military) interventions and diktats and
who have already bombed Belgrade. Yet, the sheer potential of
these contesting movements is very real. Above all, they have
the advantage of being able to cut horizontally into the vertical
which reflects the people, to re-discover the separateness of
labor and capital. In a word, to replace the ethnic with the
social. It happens to be a moment in time when every
communal body, with its strata of the privileged, comes to
disregard the gap between those who exploit and the
exploited, comes to realize that the social strata leap across
frontiers and puncture the bloated communitarianism and
its false and conniving attachment to blood. If these
movements can modernize the living tradition of an earlier
international solidarity, if they can focus on putting the fight
against economic injustice ahead of defending minorities, and if
they target imperialism itself, they can indeed come to provide
serious hope for a better future.

While awaiting for this response to the New World Order to
gel, the safest pillar to rest the resistance on amounts to what
can be called an open concept of the Nation. It is a concept
enriched in France over several centuries through the
respective additions of the Monarchy and the Revolution. It is
the same concept that belongs to ex-Yugoslavia (one still extant)
and which, incidentally, renders the betrayal of friendship
between the two countries even more reprehensible. If I evoke
France, there is no need to search in this act some sort of
patriotic vanity. The France of Enlightenment, of equality
among her citizens, of a land open to strangers, guaranteeing
the right of sanctuary, the freedom to secularism, enjoying the
structure of a homogenous republic and the integrity of her
natural frontiers – that was, for a long time, a France that
inspired, as a model, not a few nations. It is a modern concept
of life together which must not be deprived of its vitality either
through chauvinistic phobia against immigrants or the chilly
protectionism of another Era, or, yet, by a blind acceptance
of Globalization and the abandonment of a sovereignty which
is essential to independence. The path between self-enclosure
and a too obliging openness is indeed a narrow one. But, it
must be found because this form of a Nation, with a common
patrimony and beyond discrimination, in any form, is the most
desirable antidote to “ethnisation” and racism. The undertaking
itself will be a difficult one, to be sure. It will be absolutely
necessary to resist at the same time the sirens of financial
internationalism and the insisting on communitarian claims, to
be concerned more with conditions of life within Populations
than with the interests of particular Peoples. In short, to favor
the Social to the Ethnic desiderata.

It is a price that must be paid in order to prevent a decline. If
countries other than France alone, follow this pattern of
renewal, Europe will have an entirely different face. It will be
the face of an assemblage of civilized nations unified by the
tradition of cultural osmosis and equality of its citizenry. It
will not be a collection of tribes obsessed by their singularities
and run by chieftains devoured by their own petty ambitions. It
will be the face of a Humane Continent.


(*)With tenacity and fairness, Louis Dalmas,
a French journalist of long standing, and
his “Balkans-Info” have refused to capitulate
to the Western propaganda mills as these
sought to impose a contemporary “history”
of the Yugoslav fratricidal drama. . It
is clear, in retrospect, that “Balkans-Info”
will become an essential research
repository for anyone interested in
finding an approximation of truth. (added by
R.K.Kent)

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Tuesday July 10, 9:24 PM

Milosevic's party sues federal ministers over
extradition

BELGRADE, July 10 (AFP) -
The Socialist Party of Slobodan Milosevic has filed
criminal charges against federal ministers who passed
a decree authorising his extradition to the UN war
crimes tribunal in The Hague, a top party official
said Tuesday.
"The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) has brought
criminal charges against all the ministers who were
involved in passing the decree," Ljubomir Ilkic told
reporters.
The decree was adopted June 23 by eight ministers of
Serbia's DOS reformist coalition.
Ministers of Montenegro's Socialist People's Party,
former allies of the ousted Yugoslav president who
threw in their lot with the DOS, boycotted the
session.
Ilkic said that in a few days the SPS would also file
criminal charges against "those in the Serbian
government who supported the decision" to extradite
Milosevic to The Hague, referring to Prime Minister
Zoran Djindjic and his cabinet.
The SPS considers both the decree and the extradition
decision "serious violations of the Yugoslav and
Serbian constitutions."
Milosevic, indicted for alleged war crimes committed
during the Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanians in
Kosovo in 1998-99, was handed over to the
International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) on June 28.
Ilkic said the "party leadership has contacted
president Milosevic in The Hague" and officials
expected to visit him in the prison where he is
awaiting trial.
Ilkic said Milosevic had "sent word to members that
the party's unity should be kept above all."
The SPS plans to organise Friday another protest rally
over Milosevic's extradition.
Meanwhile in The Hague, Milosevic told a Canadian
lawyer who visited him in his ICTY detention centre on
Monday that he was proud of his record in Yugoslavia.
"I am proud of all I've done for my people and for my
country. Everything I did was honest. All I did was
exercise my right to defend my country," Christopher
Black, quoted him as saying.
Black heads the legal arm of the International
Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, an
international group formed in Berlin in March, and
visited Milosevic in that capacity.
Black told the Dutch Nova television news programme
that Milosevic todl him: "The guilty parties should
not be sought at (the prison of the UN war crimes
tribunal in) Scheveningen but at NATO headquarters."
Black told Nova that Milosevic was in good form and
had never been suicidal.
"He is relaxed, he smokes, he's psychologically
strong. The discussion was relaxed. He is determined,
his morale is good. He said that he was not afraid of
anything and he was not guilty of anything," the
lawyer said.

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LA SOLIDARIETA' DI ZJUGANOV

Caro compagno Miloaevic,

a nome delle centinaia di migliaia di comunisti della Russia, Le
indirizzo questo messaggio di sostegno e solidariet�.

Noi riteniamo che la cosiddetta "estradizione" all'Aja sia un
rapimento, una grave infrazione dei diritti dell'uomo, un crimine. Il
nostro sdegno per questo atto criminale � condiviso dal Parlamento russo
e dal pi� ampio spettro di forze politiche e sociali della Russia.

Siamo intenzionati a lottare con decisione per la cessazione
dell'attivit� del "tribunale" illeggittimo e per la Sua liberazione.

Le auguro fermezza d'animo e certezza che la Sua causa � giusta.

G. A. Zjuganov

Capo del gruppo del PCFR alla Duma di Stato,
Presidente dell'Unione Patriottica Popolare della Russia

(Fonte: http://web.tiscali.it/markbernardini )

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Milosevic: "Sono fiero di quello che ho fatto" - Repubblica on
line 10/7

L'AJA - "Sono fiero di tutto quello che ho fatto per il mio popolo e per
il mio Paese". Non
molla Slobodan Milosevic e, dal carcere di Scheveningen dove � rinchiuso
in attesa del
processo, attraverso un avvocato del Comitato internazionale che
appoggia l'ex presidente
serbo rinnova la sfida al Tribunale dell'Aja che lo deve giudicare.

L'ex presidente della Jugoslavia si � incontrato per un paio d'ore con
l'avvocato canadese
Christopher Black, ed � proprio il legale a raccontare che Milosevic non
solo non si sente
colpevole ma, al contrario, si dice "fiero" di quello che ha fatto.
"Sono fiero - ha detto Slobo
all'avvocato - di tutto quello che ho fatto per il mio popolo e per il
mio Paese. Tutto quello che
ho fatto era onesto, tutto quello che ho fatto � stato usare il mio
diritto di difendere il mio
Paese".

La linea difensiva di Milosevic � dunque ancora quella inaugurata nella
prima udienza del
processo a suo carico al Tribunale penale internazionale: non
riconoscere legittimit� alle
accuse e agli accusatori. L'ex presidente serbo si ritiene solo un buon
patriota arrestato
proprio perch� ha difeso il suo Paese e perci� dice: "I colpevoli non
devono essere ricercati
nel carcere di Scheveningen, ma al quartier generale della Nato".

E, forte di queste sue convinzioni, Milosevic � apparso in ottima forma
al legale canadese che
lo ha visitato. "E' disteso, fuma, � forte psicologicamente,
determinato, il suo morale � buono.
Mi ha raccontato che non ha paura di niente e non � colpevole di
niente", ha dichiarato Black,
sottolineando che l'uomo da lui incontrato non ha mai avuto intenzioni
suicide.

(10 luglio 2001)

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Von: petar <petar@...>
Datum: 2001/07/08 So AM 06:43:37 GMT+02:00
An: (Recipient list suppressed)
Betreff: Boba// Re.:The butcher of the Balkans, by MATTHEW FISHER

To the Editor:
Re: THE TORONTO SUN, Saturday, July 7, 2001

The butcher of the Balkans
Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial for crimes against humanity, By MATTHEW
FISHER -- Sun Columnist at Large

Sir,
It looks like everyone is capable of having his piece published in
Canadian
newspapers as long as the Serbs are depicted as the bad guys . There is
of
course unlimited column space nowadays if you write pejoratively about
Milosevic. The nastier the better.
Although nobody, who is at least somewhat informed about Balkan affairs
would take your analysis of the Balkans seriously, many misinformed
Canadians might believe you. Even they could become suspicious for not
being
able to read about Nato's (read: USA, Canada, Germany, UK etc.) role in
Balkan wars. And their contribution to the blood bath in the Balkans has
been significant.
Let me remind your readers that it is Serbs who form, by far, the
greatest
number of refugees from Croatia ( 250,000 were driven out in four days
by
Croatian forces armed and trained by the US and supported by NATO
bombing)
and Bosnia and Kosovo. There are over 900,000 presently in the depleted
territory of Yugoslavia and the UN Committee on Refugees has
acknowledged
that they are its greatest concern.
As for the " frantic exodus of Albanian refugees from Kosovo" (and not
only
Albanians but also Serbs and others), it would be accurate to note that
exodus started with NATO bombardment of Serbia.

Boba Borojevic
30 Walgate Ave.
Ottawa, ON. Canada

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2001-07-06

HAGUE TRIBUNAL OBSESSED WITH YUGOSLAVIA

The International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) at The Hague appears to have
an obsession with the
former Yugoslavia and in particular the Slavic Republics of Croatia,
Serbia and the Srpska
Republika in Bosnia.

ICT Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte made an unnecessary and gloating
appearance to hear
Slobodan Milosevic call the Tribunal illegal (in English and without
headphones for translation)
before making another trip to the Balkans. The presiding judge was the
British Brian May, who
cut the microphone connection many times when Slobodan Milosevic was
speaking,
demonstrating what freedom of speech means for this illegal and
intrusive organism.

This time it is to apply pressure on the Bosnian Serb Republic (BSR -
Srpska Republika), where
she is to meet Prime Minister Mladen Ivanovic. It is believed Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic,
formerly President and Chief of the Armed Forces of the BSR,
respectively, live in the BSR. A
spokesperson for the Chief Prosecutor of the ICT said �We will remind
(the BSR authorities) of
their obligation to cooperate with the tribunal and the importance of
starting immediately�.

Maybe here we have the first evidence which points to the fact that
Carla del Ponte is becoming
desperate as she realises that, in her vindictive obsession to
humiliate Slavs, she has shot her
bolt too early. Fearing that the case against Slobodan Milosevic for
alleged war crimes
committed in Kosovo will not stand up, the Chief Prosecutor frantically
tries to find evidence of
other atrocities in other battlefields, namely Bosnia-Herzegovina. It
may be thought that Mr.
Karadzic and General Mladic could provide information linking Slobodan
Milosevic to personal
orders to commit atrocities.

Here is another clear indication that Carla del Ponte, as well as the
ICT, which she represents,
and the spite behind it, has a warped and biased vision of the events
which took place in the
Balkans in the past decade. The fact that Slobodan Milosevic sits in
court without headphones
and Carla del Ponte sits clutching hers to her ears says all � it means
she does not understand.

She and her Court or Tribunal, or whatever other name one cares to give
it, never understood and
never intended to understand. She and her backers have one mission only
� to apportion blame
somehow, using whatever means possible, to indict Balkans Slavs for war
crimes, sweep the
matter into a nice, neat little pile, and brush it under the carpet as
if nothing happened so as not
to see NATO leaders in a war crimes trial, where they belong.

If there was a war in the Balkans, it was because there was political
interference from outside,
namely from the western countries, who raced to recognise the �new
states�, arm them, equip
them and train them...for war. It was unfortunately the people of the
Balkans who paid the high
human price for this war, not the countries which instigated it,
whether directly or indirectly. It
was to Mr. Milosevic, after all, that these countries turned to broker
peace in Bosnia, a role
which he performed promptly and effectively.

Now to bring only Slavs to this summary court which has as much
credence as a medieval �trial
by ordeal�, is so evidently one-sided that it is scandalous. Where are
the Moslems who murdered
Croats? Where are the Albanians who murdered Serbs? Where are the
representatives of the
criminal NATO organisation which murdered Serbs and Albanians alike
with their illegal attacks?

That NATO deliberately attacked civilian targets is beyond doubt. Such
attacks are by definition
war crimes. But NATO is not staffed by Slavs. Where are those
responsible for the deaths of the
200,000 ethnically cleansed Krajina Serbs?

Carla del Ponte cannot deny that her tribunal is biased and
anti-Slavic. Furthermore, to even
imagine that Slobodan Milosevic was personally responsible for
atrocities is to call the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia a Banana Republic. Unlike those countries baying
for its blood, the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a state of law.

There is a chain of command which is respected, the political
authorities have their
responsibilities and the military authorities have theirs. That the
Albanians were being equipped,
trained and armed by western countries, led by the USA, is a fact. They
were being encouraged to
create a situation of instability and insecurity in Kosovo, an integral
part of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia. That the Albanian extremists are no more than a bunch of
unruly bandits is also a
fact, however romantic the idea of an innocent and oppressed people
might have seemed in the
western press to court the well-groomed readership, spoon-fed with lies
for decades.

Yugoslavia reacted to this situation as a state of law imposing law and
order in its territory.
Whoever was killed in the process is a tragedy because the loss of any
human life is tragic. War
is violent and there are deaths on both sides. To accuse only the
Slavic peoples of being guilty
for the Balkans conflicts is to be biased, one-sided and as judicious
as a Medieval witch-trial.

Carla del Ponte is a shame to herself and an insult to her profession.
A judge should be impartial
and sit in a legally constituted organism. Carla del Ponte and her
Tribunal are neither of these.
She may as well dress Mr. Milosevic as a witch, tie him to a chair, and
put him under water for
five minutes to see if he drowns, and if he does, declare him guilty.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
LISBON PORTUGAL

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2 OTTOBRE 2000: NEL SUO ULTIMO DISCORSO TELEVISIVO,
IL PRESIDENTE MILOSEVIC SI RIVOLGE ALLA NAZIONE


English version:
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En francais:
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http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/565
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Belgrado, 2 ottobre 2000 - (Tanjug) -

Il Presidente della R.F.J. Slobodan Milosevic lunedi
2 ottobre 2000 si e' rivolto alla nazione attraverso
la radiotelevisione serba.

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Cari concittadini,

nell'attesa del secondo turno delle elezioni colgo
l'occasione per esporvi la mia opinione sulla
situazione politica ed elettorale nel nostro Paese, e
in special modo in Serbia. Come voi sapete, da dieci
anni sono in corso manovre per porre tutta la penisola
balcanica sotto il controllo di alcune potenze
occidentali. Buona parte di questo lavoro e' stato
compiuto mediante l'insediamento di governi fantoccio
in alcuni paesi, trasformati in paesi a sovranita'
limitata, cioe' privati a tutti gli effetti di
sovranita'.

A causa della resistenza opposta dal nostro Paese a una
tale sorte, siamo stati sottoposti a tutte le forme di
pressione alle quali un popolo puo' essere sottoposto
nel mondo contemporaneo. Queste pressioni sono andate
via via crescendo in quantita' ed intensita'. Tutta
l'esperienza accumulata dalle grandi potenze nel corso
della seconda meta' del XX secolo nell'arte di
rovesciare governi, provocare disordini, fomentare
guerre civili, screditare o liquidare coloro che
lottano per la liberta' nazionale, ridurre le nazioni
e gli stati sull'orlo della miseria - tutto cio' e'
stato applicato contro il nostro Paese e il nostro
popolo.

Tutto quello che e' stato organizzato attorno a queste
elezioni fa parte quindi della persecuzione organizzata
contro il nostro Paese e il nostro popolo, perche' il
nostro Paese e il nostro popolo costituiscono una
barriera contro lo stabilirsi di un dominio totale
nella penisola balcanica.

Da molto tempo e' presente in mezzo a noi un
raggruppamento che, con il pretesto di orientare i
partiti politici di opposizione, rappresenta gli
interessi di quei governi che sono stati protagonisti
delle pressioni contro la Jugoslavia e specialmente
contro la Serbia. Questa lobby si e' presentata a
queste elezioni sotto il nome di Opposizione
Democratica Serba (D.O.S.). Il suo vero capo non e' il
suo candidato alla presidenza. Da molti anni il suo
capo e' il presidente del Partito Democratico,
collaboratore dell'allenza militare che ha scatenato la
guerra contro il nostro Paese. Egli non ha neanche
potuto nascondere la sua collaborazione con quelsta
alleanza. Nei fatti, tutto il nostro popolo e' al
corrente del suo appello alla NATO perche' continuasse
a bombardare la Serbia per tutto il tempo necessario a
spezzarne la resistenza. Il cartello che si e' cosi'
organizzato per le elezioni rappresenta gli eserciti e
i governi che hanno appena condotto la guerra contro la
Jugoslavia. Rappresentando quegli interessi, ha
lanciato alla opinione pubblica il messaggio che, con
loro al potere, la Jugoslavia sarebbe uscita da ogni
pericolo di guerra e di violenza, sarebbe riavviata la
prosperita' economica, il tenore di vita sarebbe
migliorato visibilmente e rapidamente, la Jugoslavia
sarebbe reintegrata nelle istituzioni internazionali, e
via dicendo.

Cari concittadini, e' mio dovere mettervi
pubblicamente in guardia e per tempo sulla falsita' di
queste promesse e sul fatto che la situazione e' ben
diversa. E' proprio la nostra politica che garantisce
la pace, mentre la loro provoca conflitti incessanti e
violenza e vi diro' perche'.

Con l'instaurazione di un governo appoggiato o
direttamente insediato dalla comunita' dei paesi
riuniti nella NATO, la Jugoslavia diventerebbe
inevitabilmente un Paese il cui territorio verrebbe
rapidamente smembrato.

Queste non sono soltanto le intenzioni della NATO.
Queste sono le promesse pre-elettorali della
Opposizione Democratica Serba. Noi l'abbiamo ascoltato
dalla bocca dei suoi stessi rappresentanti: - il
Sangiaccato otterrebbe l'autonomia che un membro della
coalizione, leader di un'organizzazione separatista
musulmana, Suleiman Ugljanin, reclama da dieci anni- e
che significherebbe, nei fatti, la separazione
definitiva del Sangiaccato dalla Serbia.

- Le loro promesse comprendono anche l'ottenimento da
parte della Vojvodina di un'autonomia che non soltanto
la separerebbe dalla Serbia e dalla Jugoslavia, ma la
trasformerebbe nei fatti in parte integrante della
vicina Ungheria.

- Nello stesso modo, altre regioni sarebbero separate
dalla Serbia, e anche alcune zone di frontiera. La loro
annessione da parte degli Stati confinanti costituisce
da lungo tempo un imperativo per questi paesi, che
continuano ad incitare le loro minoranze presenti in
Jugoslavia a contribuire all'integrazione di queste
parti del nostro Paese negli Stati vicini.

- Nel quadro di questa politica di smembramento della
Jugoslavia, il Kosovo sarebbe la prima vittima. Il suo
status attuale sarebbe dichiarato legale e definitivo.
Questa sarebbe la prima parte del suo territorio cui la
Serbia dovrebbe dire addio, senza poter neanche sperare
che questa parte della sua terra le possa mai essere
restituita.

- Il resto del territorio che continuera' a chiamarsi
Serbia verrebbe occupato da forze militari
internazionali, USA o comunque straniere, che
tratteranno il nostro territorio come loro zona di
esercitazioni militari e loro proprieta', da
controllare secondo gli interessi della potenza che
disloca il proprio esercito di occupazione. Abbiamo
visto casi di controllo simili, e le loro conseguenze,
negli scorsi decenni, e specialmente negli ultimi dieci
anni in molti paesi nel mondo e ultimamente purtroppo
anche in Europa, per esempio nel Kosovo, nella
Repubblica Serba di Bosnia, in Macedonia, per restare
intorno a noi. Il popolo della Serbia subirebbe la
stessa sorte dei Kurdi, con la prospettiva di essere
sterminato ben piu' rapidamente dei Kurdi, essendo
meno numeroso e muovendosi su un territorio assai piu'
ristretto del loro.

- Quanto al Montenegro, il suo destino sarebbe lasciato
nelle mani della mafia le cui regole del gioco i
cittadini dovrebbero conoscere: ogni infrazione alla
disciplina e soprattutto ogni opposizione agli
interessi mafiosi e' punita con la morte, senza alcun
diritto di appello.

Vi ho descritto il destino della Jugoslavia in caso di
accettazione dell'opzione NATO per il nostro paese, con
l'intento di mettervi in guardia che oltre e piu'
della perdita territoriale e all'umiliazione del
popolo, noi ci troveremo tutti a vivere in un clima di
continue violenze. I nuovi proprietari degli antichi
territori dello Stato di Jugoslavia e gli occupanti del
restante territorio serbo terrorizzerebbero, come e'
nella natura delle cose, le popolazioni dei territori
che andrebbero ad occupare. Nello stesso tempo, il
popolo serbo stesso si batterebbe continuamente per
ristabilire uno Stato serbo nel quale potersi riunire.

Queste potenze non vogliono la pace e la prosperita'
nei Balcani. Esse vogliono che questa sia una zona di
conflitti permanenti e di guerre che servano da alibi a
far perdurare la loro presenza. Un governo fantoccio
e' una garanzia certa di violenze, forse anche di
molti anni di guerra. Di tutto salvo che di pace. Solo
il nostro governo indipendente puo' garantire la pace.

Non solo questo. Tutti i paesi che si sono trovati in
condizioni di sovranita' limitata e con governi sotto
l'influenza di potenze straniere si sono rapidamente
impoveriti in misura tale da distruggere ogni speranza
di relazioni sociali piu' giuste e umane. La divisione
radicale tra una maggioranza povera e una minoranza
ricca: questo e' il quadro che l'Europa orientale ci
presenta da diversi anni ormai, come tutti possono
constatare. La stessa cosa accadrebbe anche a noi.
Anche noi, una volta sottoposti al comando e al
controllo di quelli che dominerebbero il paese, avremo
in breve un'immensa maggioranza di gente nella piu'
estrema poverta', con una prospettiva di uscirne
molto, molto incerta e lontana. La minoranza ricca
sarebbe composta da un'elite di profittatori del
mercato nero, cui sara' concesso di arricchirsi solo a
patto di sottostare ciecamente al potere di chi
deciderebbe del destino del nostro Paese.

La proprieta' sociale e pubblica sarebbe rapidamente
privatizzata, ma i nuovi padroni, come l'esperienza dei
paesi vicini dimostra, sarebbero di regola stranieri.
Tra le rare eccezioni figureranno coloro che avranno
acquistato il loro diritto di proprieta' con la loro
obbedienza e sottomissione, cosa che portera' alla
scomparsa di ogni piu' elementare dignita', nazionale
e umana.

In queste circostanze, le principali ricchezze della
nazione diverrebbero proprieta' straniera, e coloro
che le gia' amministravano normalmente continuerebbero
a farlo nella nuova situazione ma come impiegati di
societa' straniere nel loro paese. L'umiliazione
nazionale, la frammentazione dello Stato e la poverta'
sociale condurrebbero necessariamente a ogni tipo di
patologia sociale, di cui il crimine sara' il primo.
Questa non e' una supposizione: e' l'esperienza
vissuta da tutti i Paesi che hanno preso il cammino che
noi cerchiamo di evitare a tutti i costi. I centri del
crimine non sono piu' nell'Europa occidentale, si sono
spostati verso l'Europa dell'Est da una decina d'anni.
Il nostro popolo ha gia' dovuto mal sopportare
l'incidenza criminale attuale, perche' noi abbiamo
vissuto a lungo, dalla Seconda guerra mondiale agli
anno '90, in una societa' che non conosceva quasi per
niente il crimine. La criminalita' a grande scala, che
non potrebbe essere evitata nel tipo di societa' che
diverrebbe la nostra in caso di perdita della nostra
sovranita' e di una parte del nostro territorio,
sarebbe tanto pericolosa per la societa' e i cittadini
e per il nostro piccolo popolo, che non vi e'
abituato, quanto puo' esserlo la guerra.

Uno degli obiettivi e compiti essenziali di un governo
fantoccio, non importa in quale Paese, compreso il
nostro se noi dovessimo avere un tale governo, e' la
perdita di identita' nazionale. I Paesi sotto potere
straniero si separano velocemente dalla loro storia,
dal loro passato, dalle loro tradizioni, dal loro stile
di vita, e spesso anche dal loro idioma letterario.
Cio' sara' invisibile all'inizio, ma una selezione
molto efficacie e senza pieta' dell'identita'
nazionale la ridurra' a qualche pietanza locale,
qualche canzone e danza folcloristica, ed al nome di
qualche eroe nazionale utilizzato come marca di
cosmetici o di prodotti alimentari. Nel XX secolo, una
delle piu' evidenti conseguenze dell'usurpazione dei
territori nazionali da parte delle grandi potenze e'
l'annichilimento dell'identita' di popolo di questi
paesi.

L'esperienza delle altre nazioni mostra che le persone
possono difficilmente sopportare la velocita' alla
quale esse devono cominciare a servirsi di una lingua
straniera come fosse la loro, ad identificarsi in
figure storiche straniere dimenticando le loro, ad
avere piu' familiarita' con la letteratura dei loro
occupanti che con la loro, a glorificare la Storia
degli altri sminuendo la loro, ad assomigliare agli
altri e non a se stessi. La perdita dell'identita'
nazionale e' la piu' grande sconfitta che una nazione
possa conoscere, ed essa e' inevitabile nella forma
moderna di colonialismo. Inoltre, questa nuova forma di
colonozzazione mette fuori norma, per sua stessa
natura, ogni possibilita' di liberta' di parola e di
decisione, e soprattutto ogni forma di creativita'.
Quando un Paese non e' libero, esso rifiuta ai popoli
che vivono nel suo seno il diritto di esprimere
liberamente le proprie opinioni, perche' queste
opinioni rischiano di trovarsi in conflitto con
l'assenza di liberta'. E' per questo che la tortura
del pensiero e' la forma piu' essenziale ed efficacie
in un paese che ha perduto la liberta'. Quanto ad
esercitare il proprio libero arbitrio, e' naturalmente
fuori di discussione. La liberta' di decisione non e'
permessa che illusoriamente. Essa e' accordata solo ai
lacche' dei dominatori stranieri, perche' la loro
sedicente liberta' serve agli occupanti per proclamare
di avere instaurato la Democrazia, nel nome della quale
avevano preso possesso del Paese di un altro popolo.

Io vorrei sottolinearlo particolarmente all'attenzione
dei giovani, intellettuali o sapienti: e' di regola
che i Paesi privati di sovranita' nazionale siano
privati del diritto al lavoro creativo, e specialmene
al lavoro creativo in campo scientifico. Sono i centri
di potere e le grandi potenze che finanziano il lavoro
scientifico, controllano i suoi risultati e decidono
della loro applicazione. Negli Stati dipendenti, i
laboratori di ricerca e gli istituti scientifici non
sono indipendenti ma operano in qualita' di branche
controllate da un centro. Le loro realizzazioni devono
restare entro dei limiti che non rischino di introdurre
nei Paesi e nei popoli occupati un seme di ribellione o
di emancipazione.

Al momento in cui vi parlo, siccome l'Opposizione
Democratica Serba non e' sicura di raggiungere i
risultati che le sono necessari, i leader del DOS
stanno accettando, con il denaro introdotto nel paese,
di far ricattare e logorare i cittadini, di organizzare
degli scioperi, di creare un clima di insicurezza e di
violenza, con l'intento di arrestare la produzione,
ogni lavoro e ogni attivita'. Tutto cio' ha lo scopo
evidente di arrestare la vita in Serbia, e di affermare
che essa riprendera' con successo e benessere solo
quando sara' organizzata da coloro che tra noi
rappresentano le intenzioni, i piani e gli interessi
degli occupanti.

Il nostro Paese e' uno Stato sovrano. Ha le sue leggi,
la sua Costituzione e le sue istituzioni. La Serbia ha
il dovere e il diritto all'autodifesa dall'invasione
che e' stata preparata contro di essa attraverso
diverse forme di sovversione. E i cittadini devono
sapere che partecipando ad una sovversione il cui
obiettivo e' la dominazione straniera o l'occupazione
del loro Paese, essi portano la responsabilita'
storica di privare il loro Paese del diritto
all'esistenza, cosi' come la responsabilita' di
perdere il controllo sulla propria esistenza.
Abandonando il loro Paese in mano ad altri, a degli
stranieri, essi stanno per mettere nelle mani dello
straniero la loro vita, la vita dei loro figli e di
molte altre persone.

Io ho ritenuto mio dovere mettere in guardia i
cittadini della nostra patria sulle conseguenze di
queste attivita', finanziate e sostenute dai governi
dei paesi NATO. I cittadini possono credermi, ma non ne
sono obbligati. Mi auguro soltanto che non si ricredano
quando sara' troppo tardi, che non si avvedano di
questa realta' quando sara' difficile correggere gli
errori fatti per ingenuita', o per errore o
indifferenza, perche' quegli errori avranno prodotto
situazioni difficili e forse impossibili da
raddrizzare, e certamente non avranno mai una
riparazione.

Nel dire queste cose non ho motivazioni di carattere
personale. Sono stato eletto due volte presidente
della Serbia e una volta presidente della Jugoslavia.
Dovrebbe essere chiaro a tutti, dopo questi dieci anni,
che non attaccano la Serbia perche' c'e' Milosevic,
ma attaccano Milosevic per attaccare la Serbia. La mia
coscienza al riguardo e' assolutamente tranquilla. Ma
non lo sarebbe del tutto se io non dicessi al mio
popolo, dopo tutti questi anni trascorsi alla sua
guida, quella che io penso sara' la sua sorte, sia che
il suo destino gli sia imposto da altri, sia che cio'
significhi dire al popolo che questo destino se lo sta
scegliendo con le sue stesse mani. L'errore di giudizio
che consiste nello scegliere cio' che e' stato scelto
da altri e' il piu' pericoloso degli errori di
giudizio, e questa e' essenzialmente la ragione della
mia decisione di rivolgermi pubblicamente ai cittadini
della Jugoslavia.

Vi ringrazio.

Presidente Slobodan Milosevic

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The Theft of the Serbs' Only Treasure
by Petar Makara. [5 July 2001]

[NOTE FROM EMPEROR'S CLOTHES - Petar
Makara was born in the Serbian town of
Pancevo. A leading activist in the
Serbian Diaspora, he co-founded the
Website, www.srpska-mreza.com . (1) Mr.
Makara has devoted most of his
energy these past 10 years to exposing
misinformation about what has been
done in and to Yugoslavia. He was a
supporter of Vojislav Kostunica. - END
NOTE ]

Thank you for your recent article, "The
Treason of Vojislav Kostunica." (2)

More than seven years ago, on a late
April day in 1994, with a small group
of close friends, I entered the office of
Vojislav Kostunica in Belgrade.
We, Serbian-American activists deeply
concerned with events in Yugoslavia,
were eager to meet the man whose articles
we read and loved.

While Slobodan Milosevic, who promised
many times to protect the truly
vital interests of the Serbian people was
persistently trying to find a
political solution to the Western-induced
crisis and thus avoid a clash
with mighty NATO, Mr. Kostunica was
criticizing what he called indecision.
He was always eloquent in explaining the
rights of Serbs as the people who
founded Yugoslavia and who were still
loyal to this multiethnic state. He
explained that the Serbs have the right
and duty to help their own people
who were, in 1945, left outside the
Republic of Serbia by President Tito's
artificial, undemocratic borders. The
Serbs have the right, Mr. Kostunica
claimed, to defend the lands where they,
as the majority population, have
lived for centuries.

In his statements Mr. Kostunica seemed
always to be right. He seemed to be
not only a person who understood law, but
a man who understood the soul of his people.

Our surprise as we entered Mr.
Kostunica's office was to find a man who
appeared to be in quite a contrast to his
fiery statements, not only good
mannered and soft-spoken but with his
eyes always half closed, giving him
the look of someone completely drained of
life energy or, at least, who had
not slept for days.

What kind of a leader, I remember
thinking, would this guy be? But I told
myself, who cares about appearances? The
hope was Kostunica would be firm
and principled, an intellectual who knew
the enemy and the way out of its grip.

Such was the hope. After the ten long
years that the Serbs gave to Mankind
by single-handedly fighting NATO and its
combined onslaught on the economy,
property and lives of the Serbian people,
is it a surprise that many Serbs
hoped that Kostunica - Mr. Right - would
not sell out Serbian interests?

The hope dies last.

The colonial club (now known by its
nickname as NATO) and its thousands of
psychologists, employed in covert
agencies (this is not my personal
nightmare - it is fact!), empowered with
knowledge accumulated over the
centuries that their countries pillaged,
cleansed and annihilated uncounted
peoples across the globe - these
psychologists must have fully grasped this
truth: false hope will keep the victim
immobilized when action is the only
real hope left.

That is why virtually all Western press
articles talking about the recent
kidnap of the ex-president of a sovereign
country to the kangaroo court of
the colonialists never forgot to give
their local quisling Vojislav
Kostunica the well known tool of deceit,
a 'plausible denial.' That is why
they all say about the kidnapping of
Milosevic, "this was done without
Kostunica's knowledge" or "Kostunica
disapproved of this action," or words
to the effect.

Except that, as your clear analysis has
proven, the denial is NOT plausible.

After recent events, the last hope of us
who wanted to believe that Mr.
Kostunica is a decent man should cease.
Kostunica's name must be listed
alongside Djindjic's as history's worst
traitors of the Serbian people.
That is as clear as day.

We the Serbs are a small people who as a
Serbian poet has noted have the
bad luck that our forefathers "built a
home in the middle of the road."
Fourteen centuries ago, they settled in
the middle of Balkans, in the
middle of the main road that leads from
Central Europe to Central Asia, the
Middle East and North Africa. It is the
southern flank in a conqueror's
attack on Russia.

Since those ancient times all those who
aspired to rule the Earth tried
their ruthless methods of conquest, of
divide-and-rule, on the Balkan
peoples first. As stepping-stones to what
they dreamed to be their Eternal
Empires they wanted the Balkans as the
first jewel in the crown. Those
empires include the Ottoman Empire, the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hitler's
Third Reich and now U.S./NATO.

We the Serbs do not have vast lands or
far-away islands. We are rather
poor. We never collected riches by
oppressing or enslaving near or far-away
peoples as the NATO nations did. Our only
treasure is our pride that our
forefathers, through many centuries, and
the last two in particular, fought
countless battles against all those
foreign oppressors. Our forefathers
never fought to grab other people's
lands. Our forefathers never fought to
impose our culture, our way of life on
anyone. They fought for freedom, for
the simple right to exist. They fought so
we are in charge of our own
destinies. Throughout the countless
centuries of fighting gruesome
oppressors, there is no record that would
shame the Serbs. Pride is our
only treasure and now NATO, with
quislings like Kostunica, would take away
that, the only treasure we possess.

To understand the Serbs is to understand
their sense of pride; it is to
understand why the Serbs celebrate June
28, St. Vitus Day, the day of the
Kosovo Battle of 1389. Those who hate the
Serbs claim we are sick people
who celebrate a day of defeat. (The
actual battle, according to countless
history books, was a draw; both the
Serbian King and Turkish Sultan
perished.)

The Serbs do not celebrate this as
victory or defeat. They celebrate the
bravery, the pride of their forefathers
who came to meet on the battlefield
the intruder to their homeland. It did
not matter that the advancing forces
were immense. To protect their way of
life, to protect their families, to
protect freedom, all Serbian nobility
came to fight. Most of them died on
that day, June 28, 1389. Since that day
the Serbs firmly knew that FREEDOM
HAS NO PRICE. Many Serbs, through
generations and time, easily sacrificed
their lives for freedom.

The Hague 'Tribunal' is not the first
time that a conqueror attacks the
Serbs as physical beings, but also
attacks their pride. To keep a people
subjugated, the oppressors knew you have
to destroy their pride. That is
why, exactly on June 28, 1914, Prince
Ferdinand, the Austrian heir to the
throne, decided to have military
maneuvers in Bosnia, then a majority
Serbian province which the
Austro-Hungarian Empire had illegally annexed
six years before. The Serbian answer was
to assassinate Ferdinand. That is
how World War I started, remember? Some
50% of the Serbian male population
perished in that war! Every second man.

The story of that Serbian sacrifice and
Golgotha should be in every
elementary history book. That was the
price the Serbs were ready to pay.

In 1941 Hitler could not wait for June 28
to issue his ultimatums. He was
in a hurry to attack Russia and had to
conquer Serbia first. The Serbian
answer to the weakness in the Yugoslav
government, weakened by a strong
Croatian fascist secessionist movement
was: "Better grave than slave." Well
over one million Serbs perished during
W.W.II fighting against the Nazi New
World Order.

That the oppressor would attack the
Serbian sense of pride is not
surprising, but that a handful of Serbs
would sink so low in their treason
and hand over their recent elected leader
to the attacking enemy - and
exactly on June 28 - is shocking! The
message is clear because the timing
is everything. The event was clearly
timed to destroy the Serbian sense of pride.

June 28, 2001 is probably the darkest day
in Serbian history. It is a dark
day in world history too as it clearly
sends a message about the
American-led NATO form of Nazism. It is
planetary in scope and no one can
hide from it, not even presidents of
states, people who have armies. It
shows that the American form of Nazism,
while showing all elements of the
German Nazi type of pure, raw brutality,
as evidenced from Hiroshima to
Vietnam, to Panama, to Iraq, to
Yugoslavia and on, also employs another
powerful weapon - money. Whatever NATO
Nazism cannot achieve with
uranium-rich bombs it attempts to achieve
by buying the services of
traitors. For that reason this type of
Nazism is doubly threatening to the
destinies of peoples across the globe.

That Kostunica would sink so low in his
treason as to betray the Serbs and
the whole of Mankind fills me with a
sickened feeling as I remember the
April day when I met him. I am disgusted
that I shook his hand.

As the old saying goes, the devil is at
his worst when pretending to be an
angel. At least and at last Kostunica has
shown his true face. No one
should be fooled any more.

One could have more respect even for a
Djindjic who was at least open in
his treason.

-- Petar Makara

Further reading:

1) 'NATO Deliberately Triggered an
Environmental Catastrophe in
Yugoslavia,' by Michel Chossudovsky at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm

2) 'The Treason of Vojislav Kostunica,'
at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/treas.htm

3) 'We Accuse: Washington's Aid Promises
Are A Traitorous Lie!' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/fools.htm

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LIMES: Se lei fosse stato Milosevic, come avrebbe risposto alla NATO?

NAUMANN: Se fossi stato al posto di Milosevic, avrei fatto marcia
indietro prima, in modo da non rischiare che il mio paese venisse
distrutto nella misura in cui poi lo � stato. E Milosevic questo lo
sapeva. Sono stato uno dei pochi che con lui ha parlato a lungo: il
generale Clark ed io gli avevamo detto chiaramente quello che sarebbe
accaduto. Milosevic non ci ha creduto e ha bluffato sulla pelle del suo
paese e del suo popolo e per questo spero, come molti altri, che le
macine della giustizia terrena, nella loro lentezza, prima o poi
alla fine lo raggiungano.

(Dall'intervista di Tiziana Boari al generale
Klaus Naumann, in Limes, 2001, n. 3, p. 272)

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Invited Lawyers Await 'Permission' to See Milosevic
by Jared Israel [7 July 2001]

I caught up with the lawyers Chris Black and Andre Tremblay yesterday by
phone. President Slobodan Milosevic had requested to see them so they
flew
to the Netherlands on Thursday and are now waiting for officials at the
'War Crimes Tribunal' to approve their visit. They should have an answer
Monday at noon, Dutch time. (1)

The trip has received much coverage, some accurate, some not. Mr. Black
said the 'Toronto Star' had entirely misquoted him, misrepresenting the
reason for his trip to The Hague, making it sound as if he wanted to
pressure President Milosevic. Said ChrisBlack:

"The Committee to Defend Milosevic and its lawyers have nothing but
admiration for what Mr. Milsoevic did during his confrontation with the
Tribunal and we are going to the Hague to help him any way he sees fit."

The BBC (pleasant surprise!) got the story right:

"Two Canadian lawyers are travelling to the International War Crimes
Tribunal at The Hague at the request of the former Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic.

"The lawyers are part of an international support committee that
considers
Mr Milosevic a political prisoner.

"Formed in Berlin in March, the International Committee to Defend
Slobodan
Milosevic is made up of 200 lawyers, writers and intellectuals.

"One of the lawyers, Christopher Black, said he was going there on
behalf
of the group to see the conditions of Mr Milosevic's detention and
discuss
any legal matters he wished to raise.

"At his first appearance at the tribunal earlier this week, the former
Yugoslav leader declined to ask for defence lawyers and refused to enter
a
plea on war crimes charges....

"Mr Black, accompanied by his colleague Andre Tremblay, refused to
speculate about whether they would eventually represent Mr Milosevic."
(BBC
News, July 6, 2001)

Things are not always handled so objectively. Here's a report I wrote
about
an interview the BBC had with Chris Black on July 3rd.

CHRIS BLACK, ABANDONED

It's a Free World unless you're too free with your opinions. Chris Black
reports on an interview with the BBC, 9AM Greenwich Mean Time.

Black: I had a discussion with the producer two hours before the
interview.
Everything seemed OK. When the program comes on, I don't recall the
gentleman's name, but he was taking a very strong pro-NATO view.

Israel: That's no gentleman.

Chris: It starts with a lead-in. There's some Serbian person they found
to
trash Milosevic and say he has to answer for his 'crimes'. The usual.
And
then the Serb says, "All Serbs are responsible because we voted for
him."

That seemed to me a very dangerous sentiment. First the assertion of
crimes. He offered nothing to back it up but people would think, "It's a
Serb saying this, so it must be true." And then his clincher: all Serbs
are
guilty. He says, "We shouldn't believe in collective responsibility."
But
then he says, "All Serbs are responsible."

So then they jump to me and the BBC guys says, "So Mr. Black do you
think
he's going to get a fair trial at the Tribunal?"

And I told him bluntly, "No," and explained why: "It's a NATO court, its
purpose is to justify NATO's flagrant aggression."

And then he cuts in and says, "Surely you would admit that there are
crimes
he has to answer for?"

The 'surely' is where you're expected to cave; the pressure is for you
to
say, "Well of course I'm not saying that!" But I said. "No. Nobody has
seen
any evidence."

And he said, "Oh come on now, there is massive evidence proving his
guilt.
It's all been proven in the media. We've had it on the BBC."

And I said, "That's fluff. There's nothing solid to back it up. If they
had
anything solid they would have produced it by now. It's all fabrications
that disappear when you examine them."

And he said, "How can you make such a sweeping statement like that?"

And I said, "Just as you made your sweeping statement, I have a right to
make my own sweeping statement. The purpose of this court is to justify
NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia to their own domestic populations.
To
justify that NATO had the right to bomb this poor country."

And he said, "But surely you would agree he can get a fair hearing!"

And I said, 'But surely I would not agree. He's been convicted in
advance."

And he said "How? How can you say that? These are only charges,
allegations. There's been no presumption of guilt. Who has convicted
him?"

And I said, "He has been convicted in the media."

He said: "How can you say that?"

I said: "You said it."

He said: "When?"

I said: "One minute ago. You asked me how I could deny he's guilty when
it's all been proven right in the media. Including the BBC. Your words."

That was when the phone went "Click" and there was 15 seconds of silence
and then a woman came on and said, "Well thank you, then. Good bye."

Jared: That's it? Not even flowers?

Chris: Nothing.

Jared: I told you he was no gentleman.

-- End of report on BBC interview.

AND EXACTLY WHAT WOULD YOU BE DISCUSSING WITH MR. MILOSEVIC?

Though President Milosevic had requested the meeting with Chris Black
and
Andre Tremblay, they had to apply to the 'Tribunal', fill out forms, go
through an interview. A 'Tribunal' official asked Chris Black what he,
Tremblay and Milosevic might be planning to discuss. Black pointed out
that
such a question violates the lawyer-client relationship. The official
argued that since the President was defending himself, he did not need
to
see lawyers. Chris responded that regardless of how President Milosevic
is
dealing with the 'Tribunal,' he has the right to consult legal counsel
or
anyone else he wishes. Just because he has chosen not to register any
lawyers to represent him at the 'Tribunal,' because of his opinion of
that
body, does not mean he can't talk to attorneys.

ANDRE TREMBLAY

I spoke to Chris again this morning (Eastern U.S. time) and also for the
first time talked to the legal scholar, Andre Tremblay.

Tremblay is Professor of Law at University of Montreal. This month he
addressed the European Parliament, delivering a scathing critique of The
Hague 'Tribunal.' Like Black, Tremblay has been defending officials of
the
former Rwandan government, which has been jailed en masse by the Rwandan
'War Crimes Tribunal,' sister to the one holding Milosevic.

The current Rwandan government, which began as a military force trained
and
armed by the U.S., has no legal problems with the 'Tribunal.' Yet many
experts say its leaders and their U.S. sponsors bear overwhelming
responsibility for past and current violence in Rwanda. But that's a
whole
other nightmare... (3)

I asked Mr. Tremblay to describe his work and he said, "I defend poor
people, the ones who are abused, the oppressed." About the kidnapping
and
'trial' of Mr. Milosevic, he said:

"It is just the beginning. It's going to be a long fight. The President
is
in a very very good spirit and he is a man ready to fight. We do not
fear
and he does not fear at all - for we are telling the truth. "

Chris Black says other Serbian prisoners being held in the 'Tribunal'
"have
been electrified by Milosevic's resistance."

-- JI

***

Further Reading:

1) To see/hear Committee to Defend Milosevic lawyer Chris Black on CBC
TV,
go to http://cbc.ca/clips/ram-newsworld/kelley_black010704.ram

2) Regarding the demonization of Milosevic, please see "KLA Attacks
Everyone. Media Attacks...Miloshevich?" by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/expan.htm

3) The Rwanda Tribunal is the subject of the article, 'One-Sided Justice
At
The Rwanda Tribunal' . That 'Tribunal' is also discussed in For Whom the
Bell Tolls by Jared Israel. The background of the situation in Rwanda is
discussed in the interview, 'A Murder in Congo' . The URLs for these
articles are

http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/rwanda.htm
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/tolls.htm
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/congo.htm

4) One critical question of evidence is: What did Mr. Milosevic say? Did
he
exhort Serbs to commit hate crimes, as the Western media claim? Or did
he
preach ethnic cooperation and unity against NATO? You won't find out
from
the mass media, which manages to attack what he 'said' without quoting a
word. One of the most important texts is "Milosevich's 1989 Speech in
Kosovo" at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/milosaid.html

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Lettera aperta al "Manifesto"

Cari compagni del Manifesto. Siamo rimasti sbigottiti, ci aspettavamo
davvero qualcosa di diverso dal ''nostro'' Manifesto. ''La polizia ha
sorpreso ieri in pieno centro di Roma 10 bambini tra i 9 e i 12 anni che
venivano utilizzati
per chiedere l'elemosina per le strade o per vendere rose
all'interno dei ristoranti e dei locali nei pressi di piazza Navona.
Gli agenti hanno fermato anche i genitori.
Si tratta di nomadi provenienti dalla ex Jugoslavia''.
E' una notizia breve uscita a pagina 8 di sabato scorso. Compagni del
Manifesto, da quando in qua rigirate a cuor leggero le veline della
Questura, fedelmente battute dalle agenzie (come voi del mestiere ben
sapete) a proposito di un argomento tanto delicato, come quello dei rom
che
vivono in questa citta'? Prima cosa, sono rom, e non ''nomadi''. Seconda
cosa, bambini ''utilizzati'' per vendere le rose? Gentili compagni del
Manifesto, vi accompagneremmo volentieri nei meandri delle favelas che
Roma
capitale ospita, per farvi apprezzare lo sforzo di molti nuclei
familiari
(donne, uomini, anziani e bambini) di vendere onestamente le rose per
strada, piuttosto che adattarsi ad altre soluzioni piu' remunerative.
Oppure devono sparire? Sia chiaro, tutti noi vorremmo che i bambini
fossero
tutti uguali, e avessero tutti il diritto di non dover fermare la gente
con
una rosa in mano per chiedere mille lire. Ma prima di tutto vorremmo che
tutti i bambini avessero una casa, un letto, la possibilita' di vivere
in
un ambiente amichevole e sano. Ebbene, nella nostra civilizzata Europa,
il
semplice fatto di nascere rom lo rende impossibile nel 90 per cento dei
casi. Terza cosa, questa volta - legge del contrappasso - vi e' andata
pure
male, perche' la vera notizia risiedeva in altri due episodi. Uno
abbastanza ''scontato'', l'altro decisamente ''succoso''. I bambini di
cui
sopra, salvati grazie alle insonni auto blu della polizia da cotanto
sfruttamento minorile (ma perche' Benetton non sta in galera?), sono
stati
trascinati in Questura dove sono state prese le loro impronte digitali.
Perfino a una bambina di 6 anni. I rom lo chiamano ''abuso di potere'',
voi
non sappiamo. La retata, inoltre, ha causato il fermo (illegale) di una
donna incinta a cui e' stato revocato (illegalmente) il permesso di
soggiorno mentre il di lei marito veniva espulso. In piu' sono fioccate
numerose multe da due milioni ciascuna, perche' vendere le rose e'
illegale
ma soprattutto disturba i turisti e mette di cattivo umore quei
poveracci
dei ristoratori di piazza Navona. Questo il livello ''scontato'',
perche e'
''normale''. E ora l'episodio succoso, che forse potra' aiutarvi a
guardare
con un pizzico in piu' di interesse queste persone, vero crocevia delle
contraddizioni della nostra epoca. Proprio due giorni prima della retata
decantata dal Manifesto su quella stessa piazza era arrivata una
macchinona. Chi scende, scortato dai suoi tirapiedi? Lui, Silvio
Berlusconi. Due delle bimbe rom che pochi giorni dopo verranno salvate
dalla polizia dai genitori-sfruttatori, si avvicinano per vendergli una
rosa. Berlusconi si rifiuta infastidito, le bambine gli gridano dietro
"tirchio" e "razzista". Il Cavaliere avra' pensato che i bambini che non
hanno tempo di guardare i cartoni animati mediaset crescono troppo in
fretta?

Roberto Pignoni

Roma

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Rapimento Milosevic e Tribunale dell'Aja

Presentazione di:
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(a cura di Z. Nedanovska)

1.FONTE: B92-Vesti.
2. TITOLO: Coinvolgimento di membri dell�UNMIK in Kosovo negli affari
con la prostituzione.
3. INDICE: ///
4:SITO INTERNET: http://www.b92.net/
5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
6.DATA:06.07.2001.-Notizie del 05.07.2001.

La polizia dell�UNMK ha aperto un�inchiesta in relazione alla
collaborazione dei loro appartenenti con i proprietari locali di case
di tolleranza nel contrabbando di prostitute nel Kosovo. Nella
relazione del capo regionale dell�UNMK si raccomanda una inchiesta
dettagliata legata a questo caso, sottolineando che si tratta della
credibilit� della polizia internazionale.
Si accusano due poliziotti americani e uno rumeno di aver aiutato i
proprietari di case di tolleranza in diversi modi.

1. FONTE: B 92-Vesti.
2. TITOLO: L�oleodotto attraverso la Serbia.
3. INDICE: ///
4. SITO INTERNET: http://www.b92.net/
5. NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
6.DATA: 05.07.2001.-Notizie del 05.07.2001.

La presidentessa dell�Oleodotto adriatico, Vesna Trnokop, ha confermato
per B 92 che la Croazia, la Romania e la Jugoslavia hanno in progetto
la costruzione dell�oleodotto comune. "Questo � il sistema fra i paesi
per il trasporto di nafta dal porto Costanza nel Mare Nero fino al
porto Omisalj, nell�Adriatico. L�oleodotto passer� attraverso la Serbia
e sar� una parte del progetto per la fornitura all�Europa di nafta a
buon prezzo dal Mare Caspio."
Secondo lei, ogni paese dovr� finanziare la sua parte dell�oleodotto,
per� dalle fonti finanziarie di creditori internazionali. L�inizio
della costruzione e il valore del progetto per ora non sono
noti. "Guadagneremo circa 30 tonnellate di nafta all�anno. Allo stesso
tempo avremo la possibilit� di comprare la nafta a buon mercato" - ha
agginto Vesna Trnokop. Inoltre ha dichiarato che l�Industria
petrolifera crota avr� nel futuro una collaborazione a lungo termine
con la Serbia.
L�"Oleodotto jugoslavo", che dopo lo smembramento della RFJ ha
ribatezzato il nome in "Oleodotto adriatico", � stato costruito nel
1979 per le necessit� delle raffinerie jugoslave.
La causa sulla struttura della propriet�, cio� se all�Oleodotto di Novi
sad "Naftagas" appartenga parte dell�oleodotto, perche� ha partecipato
al finanziamento della costruzione, ancora non � finita.

1.FONTE: B 92 �Vesti.
2. TITOLO: Feriti 7 cittadini di Tetovo.
3.INDICE:///
4. SITO INTERNET: http://www.b92.net/
5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
6.DATA: 06.07.2001-Notizie del 05.07.2001.

Sono continuati gli scontri giovedi nel pomeriggio fra i terroristi
albanesi e le forze macedoni intorno a Tetovo. In questi scontri sono
rimasti feriti 7 civili e 2 appartenenti delle forze macedoni. Dopo le
18, nello scontro con gli Albanesi, � stato usato anche un aereo
militare e un elicottero delle forze macedoni. Per i terroristi,
l�obiettivo era il posto di polizia vicino allo stadio municipale a
Tetovo. Il Ministero degli Interni ha spedito forze aggiuntive, in
seguito all�informazione che gli estremisti si trovano nel villaggio
Poraj, praticamente un sobborgo di Tetovo. L�obiettivo degli estremisti
� di occupare la posizione migliore prima dell�armistizio.

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05/07/01


ESTERI
"Non ho voluto vedere Milosevic alla sbarra"

Intervista al presidente jugoslavo Kostunica. "Il
Tribunale Onu fa una giustizia parziale"

DAL NOSTRO INVIATO
BELGRADO - E' la prima volta dal giorno
dell'estradizione di Slobodan
Milosevic che il presidente della rivoluzione
democratica jugoslava
Vojislav Kostunica accetta un'intervista. E lo fa
con il settimanale serbo
Vreme e il Corriere della Sera . Il presidente �
nell'ufficio che fu del
detenuto 039 del carcere dell'Aja. Uno studio
sobrio, con la cartina del
Paese appesa alla parete e la bandiera dietro la
scrivania. Il fatto � che
Milosevic preferiva le sale reali del Castello
Bianco, mentre Kostunica �
rimasto nell'approccio alle cose l'orgoglioso
professore di Diritto
indifferente alle lusinghe del regime. Di suo ha
voluto solo alcuni libri,
il piccolo busto di un eroe serbo del primo '900 e
il computer.

Signor presidente, che cosa ha pensato quando ha
visto il suo predecessore
interrogato dai giudici dell'Aja?

"Non ho acceso la televisione".

No?

"Sarebbe stato troppo penoso per me".

Perch�?

"All'Aja c'� ben poco di quanto dovrebbe
caratterizzare un Tribunale. Non
c'� imparzialit�, ma solo l'espressione di una
giustizia selettiva. Quella
Corte non applica alcuna equit� fra casi identici o
simili. E anche il suo
carattere internazionale � discutibile. In pratica,
rappresenta forze e
interessi specifici. E' pi� americana che di una
pluralit� di Paesi".

Non pensa che adesso, con Milosevic in carcere, il
Tribunale possa mettere
sotto accusa anche altri responsabili del sanguinoso
decennio balcanico?

"Credo di no. Il Tribunale ha lavorato troppo a
lungo in una sola
direzione, ed � difficile che si corregga. In s�
contiene moltissime
zavorre, compreso il tentativo di sfuggire alle
proprie responsabilit�. Il
presidente della Corte dell'Aja sostiene che la sua
� un'istituzione
giuridica imparziale e che il procuratore Carla Del
Ponte "� parziale nel
miglior significato del termine". Io proprio non
capisco quale possa essere
questa "parzialit� buona". Assisto alla campagna che
la Del Ponte fa su
giornali e televisioni di tutto il pianeta in modo
assolutamente di parte e
capisco ancora meno. Cos� facendo, la Del Ponte
dimentica, fra l'altro,
quale sia il dovere di un procuratore".

Il processo a Milosevic potr� avere almeno un
effetto positivo? Aiuter� la
Jugoslavia a uscire definitivamente dal recente
passato?

"Conosco questa teoria. Sento molto spesso
sbandierare la necessit� che
questo Paese passi attraverso una catarsi morale per
tutti gli anni di
guerra che ha vissuto. Ma non ci pu� essere alcuna
riappacificazione con il
passato se i responsabili dei bombardamenti Nato
sulla Jugoslavia non ne
saranno a loro volta protagonisti. L'unica catarsi
che vedo realisticamente
materializzarsi � quella senza morale che stiamo gi�
vivendo nelle
dichiarazioni dell'ex comandante della Nato Wesley
Clark, dell'ex
segretario di Stato americano Madeleine Albright e
dell'inviato speciale
statunitense Richard Holbrooke. Tutti e tre hanno
responsabilit� sia dal
punto di vista giuridico, sia da quello morale.
Eppure la catarsi dovrebbe
riguardare soltanto noi. Senza un coinvolgimento di
altri, questa presunta
analisi collettiva delle colpe serbe sarebbe solo
una forzatura ipocrita".

Dunque per lei, come per Milosevic, andrebbe
processata anche la Nato?

"Quando la signora Del Ponte � venuta a Belgrado
all'inizio dell'anno,
abbiamo ascoltato le sue spiegazioni estremamente
farraginose in base alle
quali non ci sarebbero ancora le prove dei crimini
dell'Alleanza atlantica.
Invece le prove ci sono addirittura sui giornali
occidentali a cominciare
dal 24 marzo del 1999, e cio� dal primo giorno di
bombardamenti, fino all'ultimo".

Signor presidente, fosse stato per lei, Milosevic
sarebbe mai finito alla Corte dell'Aja?

"Sarebbe stato meglio processarlo qui. Magari anche
per l'atto d'accusa, in
verit� stereotipato, schematico e vuoto, di cui deve
rispondere al Tribunale dell'Aja. Mi spiego facendo un passo
indietro. La Jugoslavia
era arrivata davvero al dubbio amletico tra "essere e
non essere". Senza il
reinserimento nel contesto mondiale non avremmo
avuto possibilit� di
sopravvivere. Io personalmente e tutti noi come
coalizione democratica,
Dos, avevamo scelto il ritorno al mondo e quando
l'abbiamo deciso sapevamo
che non potevamo farlo gratis. Uno dei pedaggi pi�
pesanti da pagare era
proprio la collaborazione con l'Aja. Ci sarebbero
potute essere modalit�
diverse, per�, meno penose di quella attuata.
Avremmo potuto approvare
leggi specifiche che tenessero conto di quanto poco
il Tribunale sia
guidato dal principio della Giustizia. E avremmo
potuto proteggere al
massimo i diritti e la dignit� dello Stato e dei
singoli individui. In quel
caso, collaborazione avrebbe significato anche
apertura della questione dei
crimini commessi nei confronti dei serbi in Kosovo,
in Bosnia e nelle Krajine".

Ma lei era stato informato dell'estradizione dal
primo ministro serbo Zoran Djindjic?

"Per mesi abbiamo tentato di fondare la
collaborazione con l'Aja su un
terreno di legalit�. E' stata elaborata una legge
specifica che � stata
per� bocciata dal Parlamento. Allora � stato
accettato il surrogato del
decreto. Ma la Corte costituzionale ha bocciato
anche quello. A quel punto
il governo serbo ha deciso di cancellare l'intero
percorso legale e mettere
Milosevic su un elicottero. E' un gorgo giuridico.
Un'illegalit� elevata al
cubo. Io francamente non immaginavo che qualcuno
arrivasse a infischiarsene di qualunque base legale".

Djindjic dice che voi due rappresentate
l'acceleratore e il freno della
nuova Serbia. E che siete indispensabili entrambi.

"Lascerei da parte le metafore meccaniche. La
politica e le differenze tra
noi due sono qualcosa di pi� complesso".

E' vero che l'esercito avrebbe potuto impedire
l'estradizione e che lei �
un difensore del capo di Stato maggiore Nebojsa
Pavkovic, ex responsabile
delle operazioni in Kosovo durante i bombardamenti?

"La storia dell'intervento dei militari ha tutta
l'aria di un giallo di
serie B. E' falso. Dalla rivoluzione del 5 ottobre
l'esercito si � tenuto
in disparte, senza preferenze politiche. So che ci
sono dei tentativi di
provocare uno scontro fra esercito e altre strutture
dello Stato, so anche
che ci saranno pure personaggi non ideali tra i
militari, ma sono convinto
che non si debba macellare il manzo per una sola
bistecca. Solo chi non
vede oltre il proprio naso pu� pensare di
destabilizzare un'istituzione che
garantisce invece la stabilit�".

Nel governo Djindjic c'� chi lavora a una
regolamentazione del Kosovo
ricorrendo provvisoriamente al modello bosniaco:
entit� amministrative
distinte su base etnica sotto il controllo
internazionale. Che ne pensa?

"Che � difficile parlare di modello bosniaco quando
questo modello funziona
cos� male. In ogni caso, in Bosnia almeno esiste un
certo equilibrio tra le
etnie. In Kosovo, invece, grazie alla pulizia etnica
fatta dagli albanesi
con il supporto del mondo, esiste il dominio
assoluto di un'unica etnia.
Duecentocinquantamila tra serbi e non-albanesi hanno
dovuto lasciare la
provincia. Le statistiche sono state deformate
dall'ingresso di cittadini
albanesi che hanno ottenuto documenti kosovari con
dichiarazioni o
documenti falsi. Prima di pensare a una ricetta
bosniaca bisogna sistemare tutto questo".

Che relazioni ha con l'Italia?

"I miei rapporti persona- li con il presidente
Azeglio Ciampi e, fino a
poco tempo fa, con il primo ministro Giuliano Amato
sono a un livello
invidiabile. L'Italia � il Paese che ci aiutato pi�
di qualunque altro e,
particolare importante, senza condizionare mai i
suoi interventi. Non ho
ancora avuto occasione di incontrare il premier
Silvio Berlusconi, ma mi �
assolutamente chiaro che esiste una vera amicizia
fra i nostri popoli e
anche una certa sintonia nella percezione del
mondo".

E le presunte tangenti pagate sull'acquisto italiano
di Telekom Serbia?

"L'eredit� del passato � pesante, eppure sono
convinto che ci siano state
incomprensioni, ma anche incapacit� del governo
serbo di reagire in modo appropriato".

L'estradizione di Milosevic ha aperto una crisi nel
governo della
Federazione jugoslava che per molti rischia di
mettere la parola fine
all'unione tra Serbia e Montenegro.

"Tra ultimatum e tintinnio di monete sono stati dati
duri colpi alla
Jugoslavia. Proprio come successe all'ex Jugoslavia
di Tito quando forze e
ricatti internazionali finirono per avere pi� peso
rispetto agli atti
distruttivi dei potenti di Belgrado, Zagabria,
Sarajevo o Lubiana".

Corriere della Sera/ Vreme
Andrea Nicastro

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