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Subject: Kostunica "regrets" Milosevic's detention
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:11:06 +0200
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Tuesday, april 10, 2001
1. Kostunica "regrets" Milosevic's detention
2. Freedom for Slobodan! - Big rally in Belgrade
3. "Only a Humiliated Servant is Loyal"
4. Albanians protected by international community
**********************************************
KOSTUNICA "REGRETS" MILOSEVIC'S DETENTION
The Hague Tribunal is an institution which applies the international law
selectively, predominantly accusing political and military leaders of
one
people, namely, those of Serbs, Yugoslav President Voijislav Kostunica
has
told the Belgrade's BK television network. At that, Mr. Kostunica
emphasized it with compunction that the US administration's ultimatum to
arrest former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before March 31st
should not have been carried out "since times of the language of
ultimatums
are gone."
Speaking of future relations between Serbia and Montenegro and a likely
secession of Montenegro from Yugoslavia, Mr. Kostunica has expressed
hope
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will continue to exist. Should it
come
to secession, the decision taken by the people of Montenegro, will be
honoured, President Kostunica added. One can gather from Mr. Kostunica's
latest statements that he can hardly be noted for much firmness of
consistency.
SERGEI STEPHANOV
PRAVDA.RU
2001-04-09
*************************************************
FREEDOM FOR SLOBODAN! - BIG RALLY IN BELGRADE
Belgrade, April 7, 2001, SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA - Head Committee of
the
Socialist Party of Serbia met today in Belgrade after the end of the
massive rally of support to SPS President Slobodan Milosevic, who was
detained a week ago. Head Committee stated that the rally in front of
Government of Serbia buildings was big success.
Several speakers, young socialists, members of the Party leadership and
guests from Montenegro were cheered and applauded by more than 20.000
citizens. The key demand to the authorities was freeing Milosevic from
detention immediately, letting him defend his innocence from freedom and
stop politically motivated detentions. Proclamation read at the meeting
asked the authorities to answer who were the masked armed men, bearing
neither official insignia nor the authorization of a judge investigator,
who attacked Mr. Milosevic's residence.
Proclamation underlined that the DOS regime is fulfilling only one of
its
promises: it is releasing Albanian terrorists and putting Serbian
patriots
in jails. It trades away national and state interests. It sells the
dignity
of Serbia "for a handful of dollars". In the middle of Belgrade, the DOS
officials roll out the red carpet for Solana, Cook and other war
criminals.
While they show off their "international support", the separatists in
Montenegro, Vojvodina and Raska organize further attempts to break up
Yugoslavia and Serbia. In everyday life misery and poverty rule.
Delegation of protesters went to the Central jail in Belgrade to visit
Slobodan Milosevic and present him the Proclamation, but was denied to
do
so by responsible authorities. This provoked another protest because
Serbian authorities were officially requested for permission to visit
Milosevic 24 hours in advance.
*****************************************
"ONLY A HUMILIATED SERVANT IS LOYAL"
Comments on the Miloshevich arrest by a etired Yugoslav Diplomat
[posted at Emperor's Clothes, 10 April 2001]
[The name of the author, a distinguished Yugoslav
diplomat, is known to Emperor's Clothes but has been
withheld because of the current authoritarian climate in
Belgrade]
By their six-month political and media campaign of unprecedented
proportions, the current authorities of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
have demonstrated a greater concern for the elimination of any influence
whatsoever of the Socialist Party of Serbia as a national political
force
and its removal from the scene, than any interest in their own
accomplishments.
The sensational arrest of Mr. Slobodan Miloshevich, former President of
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the President of the Socialist Party
of
Serbia, based on extremely unconvincing and hasty accusations, shows
that
the current authorities have discarded any pretense that their policy is
independent.
Conscientiously meeting the strict US deadline, that Mr. Slobodan
Miloshevich must be arrested by 31 March 2001, the current authorities
have
admitted urbi et orbi [to Belgrade and to the world, see footnote 1]
that
they are mere protagonists of US and NATO policy. The United States and
NATO desperately need the removal of Mr. Slobodan Miloshevich from the
political and public scene and his incrimination for unsubstantiated
crimes, in order to shelter themselves from their guilt for numerous war
and other crimes committed against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
and
the Serbian people during their 1999 aggression.
There is no doubt that by setting the above deadline and insisting on
its
observance, the US intended to discredit the government of the
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia and to tie it to US policy. For only a humiliated
servant is loyal.
The current Yugoslav authorities, by agreeing to stage a political
process
against Mr. Miloshevich and other prominent members of the Socialist
Party
of Serbia, definitely conceded to the US and NATO the right to define
and
spearhead not only their foreign policy, but their internal policy as
well.
In this way, the current Serbian and Yugoslav authorities have reduced
themselves to simple instruments for implementing US and NATO strategy
and
policy in the region. The dignity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
has
been grossly trampled and its independence has been seriously brought
into
question.
Footnotes and Further Reading
1) Concerning the impossibility for people in target nations of
achieving
personal security by trying to satisfy Washington's hunger for
servility,
see "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/tolls.htm
2. URBI ET ORBI is: "A Latin phrase meaning 'To the City and to the
World'
that is a blessing given by the Holy Father. Normally, the first Urbi et
Orbi delivered by a pontiff is immediately after his election by the
College of Cardinals. This is a blessing accompanied by a short address
to
the crowds in St. Peter's Square and to the world; frequently, as with
Pope
John Paul II in 1978, it is delivered in as many languages as possible.
The
pope also delivers an Urbi et Orbi each year at Christmas and at
Easter."
>>From the Catholic Word Book,'
http://www.kofc.org/faith/cis/371/wordbook21.cfm
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/serv.htm
*******************************************
ALBANIANS PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
The Albanian extremists have been wreaking havoc in the Balkans since
they
were funded, clothed, trained and armed by pernicious foreign powers,
the
USA being first and foremost in this attempt to subvert Eastern European
stability. However, they continue to be the darlings of western European
powers, despite a continuing history of acts of savagery.
As Macedonian police arrest 18 suspected members of the Ushtria
Clirimtare
Kombatetur (NLA in Macedonia), in possession of large numbers of arms,
the
Albanian political parties in the country threaten to react by leaving
the
government coalition. This comes days after Robin Cook, the British
Foreign
Minister, visited Skopje, where he stated that the Macedonian
authorities
had to agree to the legitimate demands of the Albanians.
The Party of Democratic Prosperity, for instance, said it would "freeze
its
relations with the government. The young Albanians, members of the
National
Liberation Army, or merely its supporters, should not have been
arrested,
but fully integrated into the system". Integrating heavily armed
terrorists into a system must evidently only happen in Albania, a
country
whose state systematically breaks down into chaos. The Mayor of Tetovo
even
accused the Macedonian police of heavy-handedness.
However incredible it may seem, the Albanians continue to enjoy the
protection of the international community. The International Crisis
Group
has issued a report entitled "The Macedonian Issue - Reform or
Rebellion?"
in which it requests the Slavic majority in Macedonia to integrate the
Albanians into their society.
PRAVDA.Ru recently revealed the great degree of autonomy that the
Albanians
have in Macedonia, namely their own schools, cultural institutions and
political parties. This report goes on to reveal the continuing
intrusive
nature of the western countries behind it. It puts in question the
legitimacy of recent elections in Macedonia, claims that the recent
population census is inaccurate and complains about the corruption in
the
Macedonian political system. It is inconceivable that this report can
have
been elaborated by balanced and objective observers. Once again, it is a
shameful admission by western countries that all they have to offer the
world is arrogance and ignorance. Reports such as this one written by
the
ICG are not worth the paper they are written on because they are biased,
badly written and inaccurate.
2001-04-09
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
LISBON
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:11:06 +0200
From: global reflexion <office@...>
To: office@...
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to
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*********************************************
Tuesday, april 10, 2001
1. Kostunica "regrets" Milosevic's detention
2. Freedom for Slobodan! - Big rally in Belgrade
3. "Only a Humiliated Servant is Loyal"
4. Albanians protected by international community
**********************************************
KOSTUNICA "REGRETS" MILOSEVIC'S DETENTION
The Hague Tribunal is an institution which applies the international law
selectively, predominantly accusing political and military leaders of
one
people, namely, those of Serbs, Yugoslav President Voijislav Kostunica
has
told the Belgrade's BK television network. At that, Mr. Kostunica
emphasized it with compunction that the US administration's ultimatum to
arrest former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before March 31st
should not have been carried out "since times of the language of
ultimatums
are gone."
Speaking of future relations between Serbia and Montenegro and a likely
secession of Montenegro from Yugoslavia, Mr. Kostunica has expressed
hope
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will continue to exist. Should it
come
to secession, the decision taken by the people of Montenegro, will be
honoured, President Kostunica added. One can gather from Mr. Kostunica's
latest statements that he can hardly be noted for much firmness of
consistency.
SERGEI STEPHANOV
PRAVDA.RU
2001-04-09
*************************************************
FREEDOM FOR SLOBODAN! - BIG RALLY IN BELGRADE
Belgrade, April 7, 2001, SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA - Head Committee of
the
Socialist Party of Serbia met today in Belgrade after the end of the
massive rally of support to SPS President Slobodan Milosevic, who was
detained a week ago. Head Committee stated that the rally in front of
Government of Serbia buildings was big success.
Several speakers, young socialists, members of the Party leadership and
guests from Montenegro were cheered and applauded by more than 20.000
citizens. The key demand to the authorities was freeing Milosevic from
detention immediately, letting him defend his innocence from freedom and
stop politically motivated detentions. Proclamation read at the meeting
asked the authorities to answer who were the masked armed men, bearing
neither official insignia nor the authorization of a judge investigator,
who attacked Mr. Milosevic's residence.
Proclamation underlined that the DOS regime is fulfilling only one of
its
promises: it is releasing Albanian terrorists and putting Serbian
patriots
in jails. It trades away national and state interests. It sells the
dignity
of Serbia "for a handful of dollars". In the middle of Belgrade, the DOS
officials roll out the red carpet for Solana, Cook and other war
criminals.
While they show off their "international support", the separatists in
Montenegro, Vojvodina and Raska organize further attempts to break up
Yugoslavia and Serbia. In everyday life misery and poverty rule.
Delegation of protesters went to the Central jail in Belgrade to visit
Slobodan Milosevic and present him the Proclamation, but was denied to
do
so by responsible authorities. This provoked another protest because
Serbian authorities were officially requested for permission to visit
Milosevic 24 hours in advance.
*****************************************
"ONLY A HUMILIATED SERVANT IS LOYAL"
Comments on the Miloshevich arrest by a etired Yugoslav Diplomat
[posted at Emperor's Clothes, 10 April 2001]
[The name of the author, a distinguished Yugoslav
diplomat, is known to Emperor's Clothes but has been
withheld because of the current authoritarian climate in
Belgrade]
By their six-month political and media campaign of unprecedented
proportions, the current authorities of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
have demonstrated a greater concern for the elimination of any influence
whatsoever of the Socialist Party of Serbia as a national political
force
and its removal from the scene, than any interest in their own
accomplishments.
The sensational arrest of Mr. Slobodan Miloshevich, former President of
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the President of the Socialist Party
of
Serbia, based on extremely unconvincing and hasty accusations, shows
that
the current authorities have discarded any pretense that their policy is
independent.
Conscientiously meeting the strict US deadline, that Mr. Slobodan
Miloshevich must be arrested by 31 March 2001, the current authorities
have
admitted urbi et orbi [to Belgrade and to the world, see footnote 1]
that
they are mere protagonists of US and NATO policy. The United States and
NATO desperately need the removal of Mr. Slobodan Miloshevich from the
political and public scene and his incrimination for unsubstantiated
crimes, in order to shelter themselves from their guilt for numerous war
and other crimes committed against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
and
the Serbian people during their 1999 aggression.
There is no doubt that by setting the above deadline and insisting on
its
observance, the US intended to discredit the government of the
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia and to tie it to US policy. For only a humiliated
servant is loyal.
The current Yugoslav authorities, by agreeing to stage a political
process
against Mr. Miloshevich and other prominent members of the Socialist
Party
of Serbia, definitely conceded to the US and NATO the right to define
and
spearhead not only their foreign policy, but their internal policy as
well.
In this way, the current Serbian and Yugoslav authorities have reduced
themselves to simple instruments for implementing US and NATO strategy
and
policy in the region. The dignity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
has
been grossly trampled and its independence has been seriously brought
into
question.
Footnotes and Further Reading
1) Concerning the impossibility for people in target nations of
achieving
personal security by trying to satisfy Washington's hunger for
servility,
see "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/tolls.htm
2. URBI ET ORBI is: "A Latin phrase meaning 'To the City and to the
World'
that is a blessing given by the Holy Father. Normally, the first Urbi et
Orbi delivered by a pontiff is immediately after his election by the
College of Cardinals. This is a blessing accompanied by a short address
to
the crowds in St. Peter's Square and to the world; frequently, as with
Pope
John Paul II in 1978, it is delivered in as many languages as possible.
The
pope also delivers an Urbi et Orbi each year at Christmas and at
Easter."
>>From the Catholic Word Book,'
http://www.kofc.org/faith/cis/371/wordbook21.cfm
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/serv.htm
*******************************************
ALBANIANS PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
The Albanian extremists have been wreaking havoc in the Balkans since
they
were funded, clothed, trained and armed by pernicious foreign powers,
the
USA being first and foremost in this attempt to subvert Eastern European
stability. However, they continue to be the darlings of western European
powers, despite a continuing history of acts of savagery.
As Macedonian police arrest 18 suspected members of the Ushtria
Clirimtare
Kombatetur (NLA in Macedonia), in possession of large numbers of arms,
the
Albanian political parties in the country threaten to react by leaving
the
government coalition. This comes days after Robin Cook, the British
Foreign
Minister, visited Skopje, where he stated that the Macedonian
authorities
had to agree to the legitimate demands of the Albanians.
The Party of Democratic Prosperity, for instance, said it would "freeze
its
relations with the government. The young Albanians, members of the
National
Liberation Army, or merely its supporters, should not have been
arrested,
but fully integrated into the system". Integrating heavily armed
terrorists into a system must evidently only happen in Albania, a
country
whose state systematically breaks down into chaos. The Mayor of Tetovo
even
accused the Macedonian police of heavy-handedness.
However incredible it may seem, the Albanians continue to enjoy the
protection of the international community. The International Crisis
Group
has issued a report entitled "The Macedonian Issue - Reform or
Rebellion?"
in which it requests the Slavic majority in Macedonia to integrate the
Albanians into their society.
PRAVDA.Ru recently revealed the great degree of autonomy that the
Albanians
have in Macedonia, namely their own schools, cultural institutions and
political parties. This report goes on to reveal the continuing
intrusive
nature of the western countries behind it. It puts in question the
legitimacy of recent elections in Macedonia, claims that the recent
population census is inaccurate and complains about the corruption in
the
Macedonian political system. It is inconceivable that this report can
have
been elaborated by balanced and objective observers. Once again, it is a
shameful admission by western countries that all they have to offer the
world is arrogance and ignorance. Reports such as this one written by
the
ICG are not worth the paper they are written on because they are biased,
badly written and inaccurate.
2001-04-09
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
LISBON
********************
Global Reflexion - Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Ph. ++ 31 20 615 1122 - Fax: ++ 31 20 615 1120
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27-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABCDCA&object_id)30
Ev�nement exceptionnel � Bruxelles, ce 1er mars. Venus de
neuf pays, des victimes des armes � uranium
employ�es par les puissances de l?Otan ainsi que des experts
et des journalistes d?investigation �taient
rassembl�s pour la premi�re fois. Organis�e par la Coalition
pour l?Abolition des Armes � Uranium Appauvri,
cette soir�e bouleversante a connu un grand impact
m�diatique. Le nombreux public est reparti avec une tr�s
forte volont� de d�noncer et r�parer ces crimes de guerre
dont sont victimes les peuples d?Irak, de Bosnie et de
Yougoslavie, mais aussi de nombreux soldats occidentaux.
T�moignages et explications?
(...)
English
Balkans
"Shame on you Serbs!"
CANA (Christians Against Nato Aggression)
31-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)37
The Bulgarian Anti-NATO Movement need our solidarity
01-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)42
Based on the information provided by the Bulgarian Workers'
Communist Party-BWPC, we forward you some
facts.
The 'Times' Spreads a Deadly Lie
Jared Israel
01-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)44
APPEAL FOR THE RELEASE OF THE FIVE KIDNAPPED SERBS IN SOUTH
SERBIA
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)61
For almost one month innocent civilians and two soldiers of
Yugoslav Army are being unlawfully imprisoned by
the Albanian extremists (UCPBM) in the region of South
Serbia.
Destabilizing the Balkans: US & Albanian Defense Cooperation
in the 1990s
Mirko Dakovic & Boro Miseljic
22-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAC&object_id)11
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
William J. Hutton
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)66
When historians, with the help of documents which hopefully
will be released in the future, review all the events
pertaining to the break up of Yugoslavia they will quite
likely marvel at the highly professional way in which the
media was so brilliantly manipulated.
Paris 'Le Monde' found guilty of offense against the Serbian
people
Fr�d�ric Delorca
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)74
One franc in damages to a French association and to some
Serbs Court of appeals orders "Le Monde" to pay the
symbolic penalty and to publish its decision on public
racial discrimination against an entire nation.
MILOSEVIC'S ARREST OCCASION FOR MORE NATO LIES AND HYPOCRISY
Stephen Gowans
06-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)75
WASHINGTON FINANCES ETHNIC WARFARE IN THE BALKANS
Michel Chossudovsky
03-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAD&object_id)47
While Washington supports the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, it is at the same time --behind the
scenes-- funneling money and military hardware to the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) now engaged in a border
war with the Macedonian Security Forces. In a cruel irony,
Washington is arming and advising both the KLA
attackers and the Macedonian defenders under military and
intelligence authorization acts approved by the US
Congress. Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), a
mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon, is helping
Macedonia --as part of a US military aid package-- "to deter
armed aggression and defend Macedonian
territory." But MPRI is also advising and equipping the KLA,
which is responsible for the terrorist assaults. In
this war, the American military-intelligence apparatus is
pulling strings "on both sides of the fence". What is the
hidden agenda?
DECLARATION ABOUT BALKANS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
JURISTS
The American Association of Jurists
20-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBA&object_id)13
The American Association of Jurists denounces before the
international community and public opinion, the
criminal complicity of the NATO-KFOR whose acts of omission
permit the attacks on Serbia and Macedonia
carried out by armed groups based in Kosovo. Such complicity
consists of an unjustifiable lack of effectiveness on
the part of a multinational army of 40,000 soldiers provided
with the most sophisticated equipment that pretends
to be unable to control neutralize and disarm the armed
groups operating in a territory of only 11,000 km2 who
with cross the borders with complete freedom.
Two Years Later - A Press Release from The Ottawa Serbian
Heritage Society
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
24-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBA&object_id)12
DIGNITY vs. BARBARISM
24-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBA&object_id)20
Declaration of the Belgrade Forum International Conference,
March 24, 2001
Arrest of Milosevic continues U.S. attack on Yugoslavia
John Catalinotto
04-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBD&object_id)85
Professor Mihailo Markovic on arrest of Milosevic
Mihailo Markovic
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBD&object_id)70
! Statement on the arrest of president Milosevic by
professor Mihailo Markovic, the most important Yugoslav
living philosopher, member of the Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, member of several international
scientific societies and visiting professor in many foreign
universities, including in USA.
This is not victors' justice - it is no justice at all.
John Laughland
01-06-1999
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBE&object_id)76
'The anomalies of the International Criminal Tribunal are
legion. This is not victors' justice in the former
Yugoslavia - in fact, it is no justice at all'
NATO forces behind International Criminal Tribunal in The
Hague
Christopher Black
04-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBE&object_id)84
Private justice has replaced public justice, the appearance
of fundamental justice has been replaced by an open
contempt for justice.
AN APPEALTO THE BALKAN PEOPLES AND TO THE PEOPLES OF THE
ENTIRE WORLD
Balkan ANTI-NATO Centre
24-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACCA&object_id)29
Thessaloniki Meeting 23rd and 24th March, 2001
Depleted uranium
Depleted Uranium Activist's Home Burglarised
Murray Brewster
26-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABCDAA&object_id)26
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lundi 16 avril 2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/html/KB.phtml
Nouveaux articles
Fran�ais
Balkans
Belgrade c�de devant le chantage am�ricain
Parti du Travail de Belgique
01-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)40
Le New York Times pr�pare l'opinion au meurtre de Milosevic
Jared Israel
01-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)43
Les Etats Unis, un Etat-voyou
Danielle Bleitrach
02-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)45
Guerre contre la Mac�doine ? Les USA et l?Europe se
disputent les Balkans
Pol De Vos
03-04-2001
La pr�sence des troupes de l?OTAN n?a pas amen� la paix au
Kosovo. L?UCK a d�clench� � partir du Kosovo une
guerre contre l?ex-r�publique yougoslave de Mac�doine1. Il y
a d�j� plus de six mois que la m�me organisation
terrorise le Sud de la Serbie par de sanglants attentats �
la bombe et des meurtres. La situation est plus explosive
que jamais.
'Le Monde' et la d�sinformation
Christine Abdelkrim-Delanne
27-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)24
L'aveu du Monde
Marc-Antoine Coppo
27-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)25
LE MONDE coupable d'insulte au peuple serbe
Fr�d�ric Delorca
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)73
Le journal Le Monde a �t� condamn� � payer un franc
symbolique � une association fran�aise et � des Serbes par
la Cour d'appel de Paris ainsi qu'� publier le jugement dans
ses pages pour s'�tre rendu coupable de diffamation
raciale.
A propos de purification ethnique au Kosovo
Geor! ges Berghezan
07-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)78
Lettre adress�e au magazine Le Vif/L'Express, o� l'�crivain
albanais Besnik Mustafaj a fait une d�claration
selon laquelle "l'Acad�mie des sciences de Belgrade a r�dig�
la premi�re plate-forme fondant la purification
ethnique du Kosovo." (1986)
Les Etats-Unis prolongent leur pr�sence afin d?arr�ter
l?Europe
Pol De Vos
03-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAD&object_id)54
Lorsque le conflit a �clat� entre l?UCK et la Mac�doine,
l?Europe s?est imm�diatement rang�e du c�t� du
gouvernement mac�donien. Aux Etats-Unis, la r�action est
moins univoque. La contradiction entre Etats-Unis
et Europe est cependant plus profonde et touche au
d�veloppement d?une arm�e europ�enne.
�Tribunal P�nal International�: financ� par le gouvernement
et les multinationales US
Michel Collon
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBD&object_id)71
Le TPI pr�tend ne juger que Milosevic, mais pas Sharon ni
Pinochet ni les g�n�raux turcs assassins: est-il
impartial? Pay� par les USA et des milliardaires US, il
refuse d'enqu�ter sur les crimes de guerre de l'Otan et
ceux des terroristes albanais: est-il ind�pendant? Son
fonctionnement bafoue de nombreux principes juridiques:
est-il l�gal? Portrait d'un bizarre �tribunal�...
Stop � l?Otan
24-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACCA&object_id)55
Le Centre Anti-Otan des Balkans a tenu une rencontre
internationale � Thessalonique (Gr�ce) les 23 et 24 mars
et lance cet appel.
Dans la nuit du 31 mars au premier avril, l'ex-pr�sident
Milosevic � �t� arr�t�. Le gouvernement yougoslave
capitule devant le chantage de Washington et ex�cute
servilement ce que les Etats-Unis r�clament.
(...)
Uranium appauvri
Les documents d�classifi�s
Martin Meissonnier, Fr�d�ric Loore &Roger Trilling
01-02-200! 1
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABCDAB&object_id)18
Extrait du livre "Uranium Appauvri, la guerre invisible",
Martin Meissonnier, Fr�d�ric Loore et Roger Trilling,
pp191-197
Nouveaux crimes contre l'humanit�: l'utilisation militaire
des armes � uranium appauvri
Bruno Vitale
01-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABCDBA&object_id)65
Uranium: victimes et experts parlent
27-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABCDCA&object_id)30
Ev�nement exceptionnel � Bruxelles, ce 1er mars. Venus de
neuf pays, des victimes des armes � uranium
employ�es par les puissances de l?Otan ainsi que des experts
et des journalistes d?investigation �taient
rassembl�s pour la premi�re fois. Organis�e par la Coalition
pour l?Abolition des Armes � Uranium Appauvri,
cette soir�e bouleversante a connu un grand impact
m�diatique. Le nombreux public est reparti avec une tr�s
forte volont� de d�noncer et r�parer ces crimes de guerre
dont sont victimes les peuples d?Irak, de Bosnie et de
Yougoslavie, mais aussi de nombreux soldats occidentaux.
T�moignages et explications?
(...)
English
Balkans
"Shame on you Serbs!"
CANA (Christians Against Nato Aggression)
31-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)37
The Bulgarian Anti-NATO Movement need our solidarity
01-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)42
Based on the information provided by the Bulgarian Workers'
Communist Party-BWPC, we forward you some
facts.
The 'Times' Spreads a Deadly Lie
Jared Israel
01-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)44
APPEAL FOR THE RELEASE OF THE FIVE KIDNAPPED SERBS IN SOUTH
SERBIA
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAA&object_id)61
For almost one month innocent civilians and two soldiers of
Yugoslav Army are being unlawfully imprisoned by
the Albanian extremists (UCPBM) in the region of South
Serbia.
Destabilizing the Balkans: US & Albanian Defense Cooperation
in the 1990s
Mirko Dakovic & Boro Miseljic
22-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBAC&object_id)11
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
William J. Hutton
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)66
When historians, with the help of documents which hopefully
will be released in the future, review all the events
pertaining to the break up of Yugoslavia they will quite
likely marvel at the highly professional way in which the
media was so brilliantly manipulated.
Paris 'Le Monde' found guilty of offense against the Serbian
people
Fr�d�ric Delorca
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)74
One franc in damages to a French association and to some
Serbs Court of appeals orders "Le Monde" to pay the
symbolic penalty and to publish its decision on public
racial discrimination against an entire nation.
MILOSEVIC'S ARREST OCCASION FOR MORE NATO LIES AND HYPOCRISY
Stephen Gowans
06-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAB&object_id)75
WASHINGTON FINANCES ETHNIC WARFARE IN THE BALKANS
Michel Chossudovsky
03-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACAD&object_id)47
While Washington supports the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, it is at the same time --behind the
scenes-- funneling money and military hardware to the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) now engaged in a border
war with the Macedonian Security Forces. In a cruel irony,
Washington is arming and advising both the KLA
attackers and the Macedonian defenders under military and
intelligence authorization acts approved by the US
Congress. Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), a
mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon, is helping
Macedonia --as part of a US military aid package-- "to deter
armed aggression and defend Macedonian
territory." But MPRI is also advising and equipping the KLA,
which is responsible for the terrorist assaults. In
this war, the American military-intelligence apparatus is
pulling strings "on both sides of the fence". What is the
hidden agenda?
DECLARATION ABOUT BALKANS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
JURISTS
The American Association of Jurists
20-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBA&object_id)13
The American Association of Jurists denounces before the
international community and public opinion, the
criminal complicity of the NATO-KFOR whose acts of omission
permit the attacks on Serbia and Macedonia
carried out by armed groups based in Kosovo. Such complicity
consists of an unjustifiable lack of effectiveness on
the part of a multinational army of 40,000 soldiers provided
with the most sophisticated equipment that pretends
to be unable to control neutralize and disarm the armed
groups operating in a territory of only 11,000 km2 who
with cross the borders with complete freedom.
Two Years Later - A Press Release from The Ottawa Serbian
Heritage Society
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
24-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBA&object_id)12
DIGNITY vs. BARBARISM
24-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBA&object_id)20
Declaration of the Belgrade Forum International Conference,
March 24, 2001
Arrest of Milosevic continues U.S. attack on Yugoslavia
John Catalinotto
04-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBD&object_id)85
Professor Mihailo Markovic on arrest of Milosevic
Mihailo Markovic
05-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBD&object_id)70
! Statement on the arrest of president Milosevic by
professor Mihailo Markovic, the most important Yugoslav
living philosopher, member of the Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, member of several international
scientific societies and visiting professor in many foreign
universities, including in USA.
This is not victors' justice - it is no justice at all.
John Laughland
01-06-1999
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBE&object_id)76
'The anomalies of the International Criminal Tribunal are
legion. This is not victors' justice in the former
Yugoslavia - in fact, it is no justice at all'
NATO forces behind International Criminal Tribunal in The
Hague
Christopher Black
04-04-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACBE&object_id)84
Private justice has replaced public justice, the appearance
of fundamental justice has been replaced by an open
contempt for justice.
AN APPEALTO THE BALKAN PEOPLES AND TO THE PEOPLES OF THE
ENTIRE WORLD
Balkan ANTI-NATO Centre
24-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABBBACCA&object_id)29
Thessaloniki Meeting 23rd and 24th March, 2001
Depleted uranium
Depleted Uranium Activist's Home Burglarised
Murray Brewster
26-03-2001
>
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section%ef%bf%bdABCDAA&object_id)26
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INDETTE ELEZIONI ANTICIPATE PER IL 22 APRILE
MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CONFIRMS EARLY ELECTIONS FOR
APRIL 22
PODGORICA, January 24 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Parliament Speaker
Svetozar Marovic confirmed on Wednesday that representatives of
Parliamentary parties agreed on holding early elections on April 22.
Agreement was reached taking into account reservations
presented
by the Liberal Alliance, whose representative said the party would not
resort to obstructions, Marovic said.
The Montenegrin Parliament will hold a session on January 31 to
amend several electoral laws and pass a law on referendum, before voting
on
shortening its term, Marovic added.
Three working groups will draw up the bill on referendum,
amendments to the electoral law and new regulations on the media,
Marovic
said, expressing hope that the creation of a third channel of the
Montenegrin TV, which will focus on Parliamentary activities, would be a
great democratic step forward for Montenegro.
VUJANOVIC: MONTENEGRO TO URGE EU TO CLARIFY STANCE ON SERBIAMONTENEGRO
RELATIONS
PODGORICA, January 25 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Prime Minister
Filip
Vujanovic said late on Wednesday his Government would ask the European
Union to clarify its stance according to which the solution for settling
future relations between Serbia and Montenegro should be found within
the
framework of a federation.
Speaking at a debate in the northern Montenegrin town of
Rozaje,
Vujanovic reiterated his standpoints on the need for this republic to
restore its statehood, and gain membership in the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank as an independent and sovereign state.
MONTENEGRIN PARTIES AGREE ON REPUBLICAN ELECTIONS
PODGORICA, January 24 (Tanjug) Representatives of Montenegrin
parliamentary parties reached an agreement with this republic's
Parliament
Speaker Svetozar Marovic on the major issues regarding parliamentary
elections and the referendum on the state and legal status of
Montenegro.
According to the agreement, the Montenegrin parliament will
convene on January 31 to shorten its current mandate, thus fulfilling
the
conditions for calling early parliamentary elections on April 22.
Also agreed was that the new parliament would, at the demand of
President Milo Djukanovic, call the referendum on the status of
Montenegro
but its date has not been set.
DJINDJIC: COL NUOVO GOVERNO CAMBIEREMO LA COSTITUZIONE
MONTENEGRO AND KOSOVO WILL DICTATE CHANGES OF SERBIAN
CONSTITUTION
BELGRADE, January 25 (Tanjug) The Serbian Government will
propose
changes to the constitution of Serbia, definitely not within the first
100
days, but during its fouryear mandate, Serbian Premierdesignate Zoran
Djindjic said after a speech in the Republican Parliament on Thursday.
This will depend on agreement with Montenegro on relations
within
the Federation and on the situation in KosovoMetohija, Djindjic
explained
adding that "the composition of a new constitution without these two
crucial elements would not be a lasting job."
"If there is readiness in Montenegro to discuss the status of a
joint state, we can talk immediately. However, if the ruling Democratic
Party of Socialists (DPS) insists on the existence of two
internationally
recognized states, I fear that there is not much material for talks,"
Djindjic set out.
"We are ready to immediately discuss the mechanisms of mutual
control and protection within a joint state and to accept all control
mechanisms. However, if we must accept that we are two states, then
Montenegro should first make up this state, and then we can talk,"
Djindjic
stated.
DJUKANOVIC DEPLORA LA SERBIA E DEFINISCE IMPOSSIBILE OGNI IPOTESI
FEDERALE
DJUKANOVIC DEPLORES SERBIAN STANCE ON MONTENEGRIN INDEPENDENCE
PLAN
PODGORICA, January 25 (Tanjug) Serbia lacks understanding for
Montenegro's need to take independent decisions and choose its own road
to
the attainment of its national interests, according to Montenegro's
President in Podgorica on Thursday.
Milo Djukanovic told a news conference "Montenegro's democratic
society, aspiring after European democratic standards, has a need to
take
its decisions and choose its road to the attainment of its national and
state interests independently".
According to him, Serbia does not understand this. Djukanovic
went
on to comment on the international community's attitude to Montenegro's
idea to organise its common state with Serbia in future as a union of
independent and internationally recognised states.
He said the "international community, too, has certain
reservations in this matter, doubting on the strength of recent
experience
the Balkans' maturity to conduct a process of this kind in a civilised
way,
without bloodshed or conflict".
He said this doubt was being stoked by "diplomats in Belgrade",
especially with their insistence on an interdependence between the
problems
of Kosovo and of MontengroSerbia relations, and their fearmongering
about
another Balkan crisis.
He said the doubts would be refuted by Montenegro's foreign
policy, which would "explain" to the international community that it is
in
the best interests of all in the Balkans and Europe to allow democratic
processes to unfold untrammelled.
DJUKANOVIC: EQUALITY IN SERBIAMONTENEGRO FEDERATION IMPOSSIBLE
ZAGREB, January 26 (Tanjug) It was unrealistic to expect
equality
between Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia's two federal units,
Montenegrin
President Milo Djukanovic has said in an interview with a Croatian
newspaper.
Avoiding a direct reply to questions related to a possible
referendum in Montenegro, and the dynamism of efforts aimed at securing
international recognition for it as a sovereign state, Djukanovic told
Zagrebbased Republika that Montenegro had proposed a union of two
internationally recognized countries as a solution compatible with both
sides' interests.
Commenting on Croatian media reports to the effect that, during
his recent visit to Zagreb, Croatian officials had conveyed to him a
Western message suggesting that he should relinquish the idea of
secession,
Djukanovic said he had never requested Zagreb's support for secession,
since this was a matter of relations between Serbia and Montenegro, in
which Croatia did not want to interfere.
Staunchly rejecting allegations by Italy's Minister of Finance
Ottaviano Del Turco, who had accused Montenegro, and him personally, of
smuggling, Djukanovic noted that this was an attempt at discouraging an
even stronger democratic development in Montenegro through pressure.
Djukanovic, however, did not name the factors opposing the
development of democracy in Montenegro.
INCONTRO CON L'AMBASCIATORE TEDESCO
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT RECEIVES GERMAN AMBASSADOR
PODGORICA, January 26 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic received German Ambassador to Yugoslavia Yoachim Schmidt in
Podgorica on Thursday and spoke to him about the organization of
relations
between Montenegro and Serbia.
Djukanovic said his Government urged the settlement of these
relations in keeping with the stands of the European Union and the
international community, who he said could count on Montenegro as a
reliable partner.
Ambassador Schmidt underscored that Germany, for its part,
would
continue to contribute to the improvement of relations with
Montenegro.
TORTUOSA MESSA A PUNTO DELLE TAPPE VERSO IL REFERENDUM E LA SECESSIONE
MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT WORKING GROUP FOR LAW AMENDMENTS ENDS WORK
PODGORICA, February 1 (Tanjug) A Montenegrin parliament
working
group on Thursday ended its work by establishing the texts of a draft
law
on referendum and on amendments to the law on the election of deputies
and
delegates.
General agreement was reached on the decision to submit to
parliament the draft amended law on the election of deputies and
delegates.
Group members failed to reach full agreement on the draft law
on
referendum. It was supported by the Democratic Party of Socialists, the
Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Union, and the Democratic League of
Albanians, while the Socialist People's Party and the People's Party
were
against the proposed draft.
These two parties withheld their support for the proposed text
because it does not specify that only Montenegrin citizens can vote in
the
referendum.
DJINDJIC NEGLI USA INTERPRETA A MODO SUO E DIFENDE LA POSIZIONE DEGLI
USA
DJINDJIC: USA OPPOSES KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE AND MONTENEGRO'S
SECESSION
BELGRADE, February 4 (Tanjug) The U.S. State Department is
against an independent KosovoMetohija and Montenegro's secession, and
holds
that terrorism in southern Serbia (Yugoslavia) must be curbed, Serbia's
Premier said on returning from Washington on Sunday.
Zoran Djindjic said he was "highly satisfied" with his talks
with
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who supported the new authorities
in
Yugoslavia and its Federal unit Serbia in the matter of three key
issues:
relations with the other Federal Unit Montenegro, problem of Serbia's
Kosovo, and the south Serbia crisis.
Djindjic told reporters at Belgrade Airport his partners in
talks
in the new U.S. administration had made it clear they were against
Kosovo's
independence, and that they wanted a democratic Montenegro in a
democratic
Yugoslavia.
As for the situation in southern Serbia, the State Department
takes the view, according to Djindjic, that the terrorism must be curbed
and that there can be no compromise or haggling with armed civilians who
are destabilising the entire region.
He said that the most complex part of the talks had related to
Serbia's economic recovery and cooperation with international
institutions,
specifically the War Crimes Court in the Hague.
He said he had insisted to Powell that the new Yugoslav and
Serbian Governments be given time and a chance to deal gradually with
other
problems while working on the country's reconstruction and return to
international institutions, and that they be given help to prevent
critical
problems from escalating.
According to Djindjic, this position was received with
understanding and supported by his partners in talks in the United
States,
as was the position that a compromise formula be found for cooperation
with
the Haguebased Tribunal.
DJINDJIC: STILL ROOM FOR TALKS WITH MONTENEGRO
BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic said late on Sunday that he had not received any confirmation
in
his informal talks with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in
Washington
last week that he was ready to give up his unequivocal intention to
secure
that Yugoslav Republic's secession.
Nevertheless, Djindjic said he had "got the impression that
there
is still room for talks on a compromise solution."
Djindjic spoke to reporters at Belgrade airport upon his return
from the United States, which he had visited at the invitation of
Secretary
of State Colin Powell. Djindjic dined in Washington with Djukanovic, who
was visiting the U.S. capital at the same time.
The United States wants a "democratic Montenegro in a
democratic
Yugoslavia," Djindjic reported that he was told at the State Department.
"I even learned in talks with certain congressmen and senators,
who have so far supported Montenegro's secession, that this process
should
be slowed down and that they have advised Djukanovic in that sense.
However, it is up to the Montenegrin leadership to draw a lesson and
make
the move which it believes to be correct," Djindjic said.
DJUKANOVIC: "MILOSEVIC NON C'E' PIU' MA IL PROBLEMA RESTA"
DJUKANOVIC SAYS SERBIAMONTENEGRO RIFT NOT RECENT
PARIS, February 5 (Tanjug) The majority of Montenegro's
population will vote for the Republic's independence from Yugoslavia in
the
upcoming referendum, Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic has said in
an
interview with the Parisbased Le Monde daily.
Asked how he could broker a turnaround in the position of the
international community, which is opposing the secession, Djukanovic
pointed to Montenegro and Serbia's Kosovo province as "two unsolved
problems among the dramas the Balkans had seen".
It would be a mistake on the part of the international
community
to avoid contacts with Montenegro under the pretence of trying not to
encourage secession, Djukanovic noted. In the interview entitled "Milo
Djukanovic: Montenegro and Serbia are two separate states", the
Montenegrin
President said that no one should turn a blind eye to the problem
between
Serbia and Montenegro, because it had existed for a while, dating from
before the Milosevic era.
"Milosevic is gone, but the problem remains," he said.
KOSTUNICA CONTRO IL REFERENDUM INDIPENDENTISTA
REFERENDUM ON INDEPENDENCE OF MONTENEGRO UNILATERAL ACT
ROME, February 6 (Tanjgug) Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica
said that the intention of the authorities in Podgorica to hold a
referendum on independence was a unilateral act that constitutes a
violation of the Federal and Montenegrin Constitution.
In that case, responsibility for all the consequences would be
shouldered by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and by those who
apparently support him, said the Italian geopolitical review Limes.
Kostunica, in an interview to the Italian journal said that
noone
can believe that Washington with its might and power is not capable of
influencing Montenegro and Djukanovic's Government.
The Yugoslav president assessed that the situation in south
Serbia
was very difficult, because it is clear that Albanian terrorists are
using
the demilitarized zone as a zone for violence, which means that the zone
is
not well protected by Kfor and that the international forces in certain
cases are unable to control the situation.
That is why the current authorities in Belgrade are acting with
a
great deal of caution, by peaceful means, and not by provoking
incidents,
to resolve problems in south Serbia, he explained.
IL MINISTRO DEGLI ESTERI MONTENEGRINO "SODDISFATTO" PER LA VISITA A
WASHINGTON
MONTENEGRIN FOREIGN MINISTER SATISFIED WITH VISIT TO WASHINGTON
BONN, February 5 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Foreign Minister Branko
Lukovac said Monday that the current severalday visit of a Montenegrin
delegation to Washington was being used well to explain Montenegro's
stands
and aspirations.
The US administration's stance on a democratic Montenegro
within a
democratic Yugoslavia would be one of the options to be discussed by
Montenegrin and Serbian representatives, he said.
Lukovac said in an interview to a German radio that the fact
that
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic had not met the US Secretary of
State
Colin Powell did not mean there had been any new developments.
That there has been no meeting between Djukanovic and Powell
only
means that the new US secretary of state and his team have not yet had
the
opportunity to fully examine all issues that the Montenegrin delegation
has
discussed with other US officials, Lukovac said.
The new US administration has kept the stand of the former
administration, Lukovac said, adding he supposed that the Americans did
not
wish to have to either endorse or reject Montenegro's aspirations at a
DjukanovicPowell meeting.
SCHLESINGER (BUNDESBANK) DOPO AVER FORNITO LA MONETA METTE LE MANI
AVANTI
MONTENEGRO'S INDEPENDENCE NOT IN US AND EU INTEREST
WASHINGTON, February 6 (Tanjug) The George W. Bush
administration
and the European Union have made it clear that the proindependence
efforts
of the Montenegrin Government are not in the interest of the United
States
or Montenegro, according to the head of the easternEuropean studies
department at the US Woodrow Wilson Centre.
In a statement to the Voice of America (VOA), Martin
Schlesinger
recalled that the Bush administration had made it publicly clear that it
would back a gradual withdrawal of US troops from the territory of
former
Yugoslavia and the Balkans in general. He nevertheless added that this
did
not mean a sudden or full withdrawal.
Security and stability are the preconditions for this, he said,
expressing fears that the independence of Montenegro and KosovoMetohija,
or
aspirations to it, could not be considered as moves leading to security
improvements in the region, promoted by the US administration.
This was part of the message conveyed to Montenegrin President
Milo Djukanovic in the course of his recent visit to Washington,
Schlesinger said.
IL FONDO MONETARIO INTERNAZIONALE IN MONTENEGRO
IMF DELEGATION VISITS MONTENEGRO
PODGORICA, February 7 (Tanjug) Representatives of the
Montenegrin
government, monetary council and central bank received Wendesday
separately
a visiting delegation of the International Monetary Fund.
The visit marks the resumption of cooperation between the
Montenegrin government and the IMF, a statement issued after the talks
says.
Montenegrin officials briefed their guests of the monetary
reform
based on the German mark and on the plans for a tax system reform.
The
IMF officials accepted the view that Montenegro should not depend
forever
on foreign donations, but should be enabled to become a reliable partner
in
world economy, the statement says.
VEDRINE METTE LE MANI AVANTI
VEDRINE: EUROPE AND US DO NOT SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE OF MONTENEGRO
PARIS, February 8 (Tanjug) French Foreign Minister Hubert
Vedrine
said in Paris on Thursday that officials in Europe and the United
States
do not support the independence of Montenegro nor do they favour it
leaving
the Yugoslav federation.
I do not believe that Yugoslavia's neighbors would support
this,
Vedrine told a joint press conference with Slovenian Foreign Minister
Dimitry Rupel following their talks.
Vedrine underscored that all state officials he met with in
Europe
and the United States are for an institutional solution of the
SerbianMontenegrin relations within the Yugoslav federation through a
political dialogue, which would facilitate the joint resolution of
relations between Serbia and Montenegro within the Yugoslav federation.
Vedrine pointed out that France supports the territorial
integrity
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, just as it supports its President
Vojislav Kostunica.
VUKOVIC CONTRO OGNI IPOTESI FEDERALE
FEDERATION OR CONFEDERATION UNACCEPTABLE MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT
ADVISER
BELGRADE, February 9 (Tanjug) Montenegrin presidential adviser
Miodrag Vukovic said that official Podgorica has not changed its stand
on
relations between Serbia and Montenegro, and that both confederation and
federation, as a form of state union are not acceptable for Montenegro,
Friday's issue of the Belgrade Vecernje Novosti daily said.
Declining to comment press reports that new agreements
allegedly
include a concept of a confederation, Vukovic told the newspaper that
"Montenegro is intent on reaching an agreement with Serbia on such a
concept of mutual relations which will resist the coming times and avoid
any of the improvisations made so far, such as a federation."
RAPPRESENTANTI EUROPEI A COLLOQUIO IN MONTENEGRO.
PETERSEN: "FATE COME VI PARE, MA CON CALMA"
MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CONFERS WITH EUROPEAN TROIKA
PODGORICA, February 9 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Parliament Speaker
Svetozar Marovic conferred on Friday in Podgorica with a European Union
Troika delegation headed by Swedish Foreign Ministry General Director
for
political issues Sven Olaf Petersson.
Petersson, whose county chairs the EU Ministerial Council,
conveyed to Marovic the EU views on resolving the relations between
Serbia
and Montenegro in a manner preserving peace, stability and development
of
democracy.
Montenegro believes an agreement would be reached with Serbia
that
would not be detrimental to Montenegro but would benefit both republics,
Marovic said.
Montenegro sincerely believes that its future is in democracy,
which means dialogue and cooperation with the European Union, the US,
and
Russia, as Montenegro will not agree to isolationism or political
marginalization, Marovic said.
The meeting was attended by representatives of all Montenegrin
Parliamentary Party Clubs.
MONTENEGRIN PREMIER RECEIVES E.U. "TROIKA"
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia, February 9 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Premier
Filip Vujanovic received in Podgorica on Friday a European Union
"troika",
headed by Swedish Foreign Ministry DirectorGeneral Sven Olaf Peterssen.
A statement from Vujanovic's cabinet quotes Peterssen as
conveying
high respect for this Yugoslav Republic's democratic policy in the past
period, especially for its role in the victory of democratic forces in
the
other Yugoslav federal unit, Serbia.
Vujanovic said he expected this support to continue, stressing
the
Montenegrin Government's commitment to reform processes towards
attaining
the standards of a modern European state.
The Montenegrin Government would continue in good faith its
talks
with Serbia on future relations in an effort to reach a mutually
acceptable
solution, he added.
EUROPE WANTS MONTENEGRO TO BE PART OF YUGOSLAVIA PETERSSEN
PODGORICA, February 10 (Tanjug) European Union representatives
who paid an official visit to Montenegro on Friday said in a clear
message
to the Montenegrin officials and citizens that Europe would like
democratic
Montenegro to be a part of Yugoslavia.
Swedish Foreign Ministry DirectorGeneral Sven Olaf Peterssen
told
the Montenegrin authorities at Friday's press conference that if they
want
to be a part of Europe, they must listen to EU "advice," and added that
citizens must not let officials make incautious moves.
Hasty activities in that direction could have grave
repercussions,
and they could mean one step backwards in cooperation with the European
Union, he said.
He emphasized that the United States, 15 countries of the
European
Union, and 30 states waiting to be admitted to the E.U., support the
same
stand.
Peterssen said they had made their stand clear, and that it was
up
to the Montenegrin leaders to decide about the holding of a referendum,
where it should be known that leaders are always responsible for their
stands.
The European Union thinks, he said, that the holding of a
referendum is the right of citizens, but it is very sensitive issue, and
has very often led to polarization. This is why it is very important to
be
well organized, and that citizens have enough time to form their
opinion.
Underscoring that this does not negate the right of Montenegro
to
decide about the future of the state, Peterssen said that every decision
will have certain consequences and stressed the stand of the West that
the
taking of hasty decisions was not in the interest of Montenegro, or the
region, or for the European Union.
L'AMBASCIATORE STATUNITENSE DICE LA SUA
US AMBASSADOR: COMMON MONTENEGRINSERBIAN STATE IS IN MUTUAL
INTEREST
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia, February 13 (Tanjug) A common state of
Serbia and Montenegro would be to mutual advantage, if a compromise were
found, according to a U.S. envoy in Podgorica, Montenegro, on Tuesday.
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia William Montgomery was meeting
with
Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Svetozar Marovic to review the current
political situation.
According to a statement from Marovic's cabinet, "it was noted
that relations between Montenegro and Serbia should be regulated in a
dialogue, with respect for both sides' interests".
Montgomery said the United States respects and appreciates
Montenegro's role, especially in recent years, when it opposed the
regime
of ousted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, expecting that
Montenegro's experience of democratisation and reforms should spread to
the
whole country after Serbia's parliamentary elections.
A common state of Montenegro and Serbia could be in mutual
interest, if a compromise were found, which was why the United States
supports talks between Montenegrin and Serbian officials and expects
both
sides to show good faith.
Montgomery said that Belgrade talks with Serbian officials had
shown that Serbia, too, was prepared to seek a settlement that would not
hurt Montenegro's interests.
The statement quotes Marovic as repeating that the Montenegrin
government's offer for regulating relations with Serbia was not an
ultimatum.
ANCHE CARLA DEL PONTE A PODGORICA/TITOGRAD
CARLA DEL PONTE IN PODGORICA ON THURSDAY
PODGORICA, February 12 (Tanjug) Hague tribunal chief
prosecutor
Carla del Ponte should visit Podgorica on Wednesday to meet with this
Yugoslav republic's officials, the Montenegrin state radio has said.
Del Ponte will meet with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovc,
Premier Filip Vujanovic and other top officials.
Del Ponte arrives in Montenegro to continue collecting data
about
war crimes committed in the territory of the former and current
Yugoslavia.
---
Da "Il Manifesto" del 21 Febbraio 2001
Voto anticipato in Montenegro
T. D. F.
Il parlamento del Montenegro ha approvato ieri le norme del
referendum sull'indipendenza della piccola repubblica dalla
federazione jugoslava: la consultazione sarà indetta entro
la fine di giugno. Il disegno di legge è stato approvato
ieri dai sostenitori del presidente Milo Djukanovic,
fautore dell'indipendenza, mentre i deputati del Partito
Socialista Popolare (Snp, all'opposizione e favorevoli alla
Federazione jugoslava) hanno ammonito di essere pronti a
boicottare il referendum, giudicandolo iniquo. E subito
dopo il presidente montenegrino Milo Djukanovic ha
convocato per il 22 aprile le elezioni parlamentari
anticipate. La legislatura è terminata un anno prima del
previsto per la crisi provocata, in dicembre, dall'uscita
dal governo del Partito popolare - piccola formazione di
centro che faceva parte della coalizione "Vivere meglio"
guidata dal presidente montenegrino -, contrario alle
aspirazioni secessioniste di Djukanovic. In base al
risultato delle elezioni, il presidente saprà se i suoi
cittadini sono con lui nella battaglia per la separazione
del Montenegro dalla Federazione jugoslava. Il nuovo
parlamento dovrà decidere se tenere o meno il referendum
sull'indipendenza preannunciato da Djukanovic.
Non è il solito, teso e conflittuale voto montenegrino:
dalle urne uscirà una decisiva risposta sulla sopravvivenza
della Federazione jugoslava, il cui presidente Voijslav
Kostunica non è ancora riconosciuto dal presidente
Djukanovic (lo chiama "dottor Kostunica").
Alle radici di questo nuovo inizio d'incendio in Montenegro
c'è, singolarmente, proprio la caduta del presidente
federale Slobodan Milosevic, prima per anni l'inventore di
Djukanovic, poi suo grande avversario [SIC: si noti che nessun
articolo potrebbe mai essere pubblicato sulla stampa italiana,
e nemmeno dal "Manifesto", senza un'inserzione anti-Milosevic
di prammatica, anche se completamente fuori luogo;
n.d.jugocoord@...]. Il presidente
montenegrino, non fidando nella vittoria della coalizione
democratica serba Dos nelle elezioni di settembre, aveva
deciso di boicottare il voto rompendo così anche con
l'opposizione jugoslava. Come risultato, i suoi nemici
politici montenegrini del Partito socialista popolare (Snp)
(che invece presentandosi ha ottenuto nelle elezioni
federali importanti consensi) si sono trovati come gli
unici montenegrini rappresentati nel parlamento federale.
A Djukanovic, già in calo di popolarità in patria per il
perdurare della crisi economica - e per le sue sfacciate
complicità con la mafia del contrabbando ormai
malsopportata dall'Occidente dopo l'uscita di scena
democratica di Milosevic - non è rimasto che continuare a
giocare la carta della secessione, già minacciata durante
il regime di Milosevic allora con l'appoggio degli Stati
uniti e poi dalla stessa Italia. Così, incurante della
svolta a Belgrado, ha presentato alle nuove autorità
jugoslave una piattaforma di future relazioni che prevede
la piena indipendenza di Serbia e Montenegro in vista di
una fumosa unione che non comprende settori essenziali come
la politica monetaria o il commercio con l'estero, e che
soprattutto non prevede l'esistenza di un presidente
federale - vale a dire: Kostunica vattene. Podgorica aveva
adottato fin dal novembre 1999 il marco come valuta
parallela, e lo ha poi reso moneta ufficiale creando una
sua Banca centrale. Anche la Serbia insiste per una
revisione dei rapporti con il Montenegro, ma sempre in
ambito federale. La mossa della secessione è mal vista -
adesso - dagli apprendisti stregoni della comunità
internazionale [ma siamo sicuri? n.d.jugocoord@...],
che temono una ulteriore frammentazione nei
Balcani, con un destabilizzante effetto domino che
coinvolgerebbe da subito il Kosovo e potrebbe allargarsi,
come in questi giorni di attacchi sanguinosi delle milizie
kosovaro albanesi, ad altre zone come l'ovest della
Macedonia, abitato da una maggioranza albanese, e in Serbia
dove già sono in atto tensioni in Vojvodina e Sangiaccato.
I risultati del 22 aprile chiariranno se è l'inizio anche
di questo precipizio o, com'è augurabile, se è invece la
fine della carriera "politica" di Milo Djukanovic, capace
comunque alla fine di aggrapparsi all'ultimo ricatto.
---
DJUKANOVIC RITIENE ILLEGITTIME LE AUTORITA' FEDERALI
DJUKANOVIC: AUTHORITY OF FEDERAL STATE WILL NOT BE REINSTATED
PODGORICA, February 19 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic said on Monday that the Montenegrin authorities do not intend
to restore to the federal state the authorities they have taken from it.
Speaking at an enlarged session of the Montenegrin Supreme
Court,
Djukanovic underscored that the top state leadership of Montenegro had
no
dilemmas regarding full cooperation with The Hague tribunal because this
would put an end to the past and open up new prospects for the Balkans.
In the process of resolving the serious statepolitical dilemmas
which Montenegro is facing, the current authorities "are taking care
that
all solutions must be based on preserving the full stability of
Montenegro
and absolute responsibility for regional stability."
Djukanovic said the central dilemma of Montenegrin citizens at
this time is whether they have faith in their ability to manage the
present and the future.
"I hope they have the confidence," Djukanovic said. The basic
question for any responsible state authorities is how to make
Montenegrin
society a part of Europe, he said. Montenegro has taken the first, but
very stable, decisive and irretrievable steps toward its own integration
into European structures, Djukanovic said.
LUKOVAC: YUGOSLAV EMBASSY IN SARAJEVO CANNOT REPRESENT
MONTENEGRO
SARAJEVO, February 20 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Foreign Minister
Branko Lukovac said on Tuesday that the Yugoslav Embassy in Sarajevo
cannot represent the interests of Montenegro in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In an interview to the Sarajevo newspaper Dnevni avaz, Lukovac
said that only a "Montenegrin mission in Sarajevo can represent the
interests of Montenegro."
Lukovac, who is due to meet on Tuesday in Sarajevo with
BosniaHerzegovina Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic, added that Yugoslav
federal bodies do not have a mandate to represent Montenegro.
Lukovac announced that he will inform Prlic about Montenegro's
course regarding future relations between Montenegro and Serbia and
interests for further cooperation between Montenegro and
BosniaHerzegovina."
VERSO LE ELEZIONI ANTICIPATE
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT CALLS EARLY ELECTIONS FOR APRIL 22
PODGORICA, February 20 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic on Tuesday called early parliamentary elections for April 22.
The decision to shorten the mandate of the Montenegrin
parliament
and to adapt the election law to those of developed democratic
societies,
based on the suggestions of OSCE experts, have created conditions for
holding democratic and fair elections at which the citizens will freely
express their will, Djukanovic stated.
He said that at a session on Monday evening, the Montenegrin
parliament adopted all laws which were a precondition for holding early
parliamentary elections thus creating conditions for the elections
initiated by the Democratic Party of Socialists, the Social Democrat
Party, ethnic Albanian national parties and the Liberal Alliance of
Montenegro.
Opposed to the adoption of the law on public informing and the
election law were the Socialist People's Party and the National Party
which said that these documents fail to fulfil all the necessary
conditions for holding fair and honest elections.
IN CERCA DI APPOGGIO ESPLICITO DA OCCIDENTE
MONTENEGRO'S PRESIDENT SEEKS EU, US HELP FOR INDEPENDENCE
BRUSSELS, February 26 (Tanjug) Montenegro's President urged
the
European Union and the United States in Brussels on Monday to support
independence for that Yugoslav federal unit as a contribution to Balkan
stability.
"We do expect that the European Union and the democracies of
the
world will support our endeavors", Milo Djukanovic said in a speech to
the
Centre for European Policy Studies.
"The greatest assistance we could get would be the appreciation
of our democratic goals", he added.
EU OFFICIALS DISAGREE WITH MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT
BRUSSELS, February 26 (Tanjug) Two key European Union
officials
in charge of foreign policy and security rejected on Monday the request
by
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic to the EU and Washington to
support
Montenegro's secession from the Yugoslav federation.
The EU wants a democratic Montenegro within a democratic and
transformed Yugoslavia, Foreign Policy Commissioner Chris Patten said,
underlining the EU did not agree with Djukanovic.
Djukanovic requested during his visit to Brussels Monday that
the
EU and the US support Montenegro's independence as a contribution to
Balkan stability.
He told the Center for European Political Studies he expects
the
EU and world democracies to endorse Montenegro's aspirations, adding
that
the greatest help Montenegro could get would be the respect of its
democratic goals.
The EU High Representative for foreign policy and security
Javier
Solana agreed with Patten, saying that Europe hopes that Montenegro and
Serbia will find a solution within the framework of the Constitution and
to
both sides' satisfaction.
L'OSCE COLLABORA AD ORGANIZZARE IL REFERENDUM SECESSIONISTA
LAW ON REFERENDUM ADOPTED IN COOPERATION WITH OSCE
PODGORICA, March 7 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Foreign Ministry said
late Tuesday in response to the concern expressed by some foreign top
officials regarding the recently adopted law on referendum, that the law
was adopted in a democratic procedure and in cooperation with authorized
institutions of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE).
The foreign officials' remarks were contained in a U.S.
government's statement made public Monday in Podgorica, and are
referring
to the adopted law provisions that only one fourth of the electoral body
is necessary to decide the status of Montenegro, and that Montenegrin
citizens with permanent residence outside Montenegro will be deprived of
the right
to vote.
These provisions have not been accepted by the international
community, and the U.S. government said that higher standards for
participation in referendum and for recognition of results should be
established.
The Montenegrin Foreign Ministry said that the law had been
drawn
up in cooperation with the Bureau for democratization and human rights,
which had no objections to the percentage of the necessary turnout or to
the ban on voting by Montenegrins who do not have permanent residence in
the republic.
CORDIALI CHIACCHIERE CON L'AMBASCIATORE USA
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH US AMBASSADOR TO YUGOSLAVIA
PODGORICA, March 13 (Tanjug) US Ambassador to Yugoslavia
William
Montgomery informed Tuesday in Podgorica Motenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic about the conditions of the US administration for pursuing
aid
to the new authorities in Belgrade, which they are to fulfil by March
31.
According to a statement from the cabinet of the Montenegrin
president, Ambassador Montgomery also expressed an interest in political
movements in Montenegro ahead of the elections and the referendum.
It was mutually considered that a quick implementation of
reforms
was very important in all sectors for the development of democratic
processes and the stabilization of overall political circumstances in
the
region, the statement said.
SERBIA E MONTENEGRO "DUE CASE CON LO STESSO CORTILE"
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT URGES "LIFE IN TWO HOUSES, BUT WITH SAME YARD"
NIKSIC, Montenegro, March 13 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President
Milo
Djukanovac said on Tuesday that this republic's proposal for redefining
relations between Serbia and Montenegro has not met with understanding
of a
part of the domestic and foreign public.
This proposal is incorrectly viewed as further Balkanization,
something which represents new divisions to be followed by conflicts,
Djukanovic told businessmen in the city of Niksic, Montenegro.
To overcome all misunderstandings, we believe that it is
necessary
to redefine relations so that, instead of living in two rooms within a
single house, we live in two houses which share the same yard,"
Djukanovic
explained.
SCHERMAGLIE PROCEDURALI...
MONTENEGRIN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT JUDGE CONTESTS FEDERAL COURT DECISION
PODGORICA, March 15 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Constitutional Court
judge Blagota Mitric has said that decisions of the Federal
Constitutional
Court are not binding for Montenegro.
He was commenting the federal court's Wednesday decision to
nullify a provision of the Montenegrin referendum law which denies the
right to vote to Montenegrins living in Serbia.
The Montenegrin media carry Thursday the criticism of the
decision
by Mitric, who said that the federal court was encroaching on the
exclusive
prerogatives of republican constitutional courts, in this case of
Montenegro's court.
According to Mitric, if the federal court had to deal with the
referendum law, it should have first ruled on whether the Montenegrin
Constitution is in line with the Federal Constitution.
KOSTUNICA E LA D.O.S.: SE SE NE ANDRANNO RESTEREMO A GUARDARE
YUGOSLAVIA SHOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN IN TO US ULTIMATUM PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, April 8 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia should not have given in
to
the US administration's ultimatum regarding the arrest of former
Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic by March 31, Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica said Sunday in an interview to the Belgrade BK TV.
The time of the language of ultimatums is past, and the new US
administration, abiding by the principle of positive isolation, no
longer
interferes in internal affairs of other countries to the same extent to
which the former administration used to do, Kostunica said.
Asked by viewers what charges he himself would have filed
against
MIlosevic, Kostunica said they would have been much more extensive and
would not be limited to abuse of office and illegal gain.
Referring to future relations with Montenegro, Kostunica said
he
hoped the Yugoslav federation would survive, but if Montenegro's
citizens
opt for a separation, their will should be respected.
According to Kostunica, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS)
endorses the platform on regulating the relations between the two
Yugoslav
federal units, and claims that views within DOS on that platform have
changed are nothing but manipulations.
The platform envisages a minimum working federation with
foreign
policy, defense, finance and human rights protection as common
functions,
Kostunica noted. According to Kostunica, DOS has not discussed a
possible secession of Montenegro. Should that occur, elections in Serbia
would be inevitable and its Constitution would have to be modified.
"Should Yugoslavia survive, and I hope it will, new federal
elections would be inevitable", Kostunica said.
Referring to DOS, which comprises 18 political parties,
Kostunica
said it would naturally cease to exist in time, noting that its
memberparties, including his own Democratic Party of Serbia, are guided
by
the idea of placing state interests above party ones.
DOS WILL RESPECT DECISION OF MONTENEGRIN CITIZENS
BELGRADE, April 9 (Tanjug) The Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS) Presidency late Sunday gave its support to a Serbian government
proposal to set up a commission to examine the work of the State
Security
Service since Jan 1, 1988, Serbian parliament DOS whip Cedomir Jovanovic
said.
Speaking after a Presidency session, Jovanovic told reporters
that
the Presidency had given its support to a draft law on single tax for
persons who acquired extra profit from 1989 until Oct 5, 2000, and that
it
had discussed district chiefs.
The platform on redefining relations in the federation remained
the same, said Jovanovic, denying allegations voiced in Montenegro that
it
had been changed.
"We are leaving it up to the citizens of Montenegro to decide
by
themselves about the future of the state, and we will not influence
their
decision. A community with Montenegro is the interest of Serbian
citizens,"
Jovanovic said.
Speaking about the socalled Vojvodina Platform, Jovanovic said
this issue would be resolved "integrally and with particular attention"
and
underscored that "the problem of Vojvodina will not affect the future of
DOS."
BATIC INVITA IL PARTITO POPOLARE DEL MONTENEGRO A CALARE LE BRAGHE
BATIC:SNP TO CHANGE POSITION ON COOPERATION WITH HAGUE AFTER POLLS
BELGRADE, April 9 (Tanjug) The announcement by Socialist
People's
Party (SNP) President Predrag Bulatovic that this party would not vote
for
a law on extradition of Yugoslav nationals to The Hague court is not a
definite position, and will change after the Montenegrin elections,
Serbia's Justice Minister Vladan Batic said.
It is a temporary option for SNP, primarily directed at its
supporters and voters, Batic was quoted as saying by the daily Blic on
Monday.
"I do not think that this is a definite decision reflecting
SNP's
position on cooperation with The Hague tribunal. I expect SNP to turn a
new
page after the elections in Montenegro, and revert the decision," Batic
added.
It would be purposeless to adopt a law on cooperation with the
tribunal that does not envisage extradition of Yugoslav nationals, Batic
said.
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MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CONFIRMS EARLY ELECTIONS FOR
APRIL 22
PODGORICA, January 24 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Parliament Speaker
Svetozar Marovic confirmed on Wednesday that representatives of
Parliamentary parties agreed on holding early elections on April 22.
Agreement was reached taking into account reservations
presented
by the Liberal Alliance, whose representative said the party would not
resort to obstructions, Marovic said.
The Montenegrin Parliament will hold a session on January 31 to
amend several electoral laws and pass a law on referendum, before voting
on
shortening its term, Marovic added.
Three working groups will draw up the bill on referendum,
amendments to the electoral law and new regulations on the media,
Marovic
said, expressing hope that the creation of a third channel of the
Montenegrin TV, which will focus on Parliamentary activities, would be a
great democratic step forward for Montenegro.
VUJANOVIC: MONTENEGRO TO URGE EU TO CLARIFY STANCE ON SERBIAMONTENEGRO
RELATIONS
PODGORICA, January 25 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Prime Minister
Filip
Vujanovic said late on Wednesday his Government would ask the European
Union to clarify its stance according to which the solution for settling
future relations between Serbia and Montenegro should be found within
the
framework of a federation.
Speaking at a debate in the northern Montenegrin town of
Rozaje,
Vujanovic reiterated his standpoints on the need for this republic to
restore its statehood, and gain membership in the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank as an independent and sovereign state.
MONTENEGRIN PARTIES AGREE ON REPUBLICAN ELECTIONS
PODGORICA, January 24 (Tanjug) Representatives of Montenegrin
parliamentary parties reached an agreement with this republic's
Parliament
Speaker Svetozar Marovic on the major issues regarding parliamentary
elections and the referendum on the state and legal status of
Montenegro.
According to the agreement, the Montenegrin parliament will
convene on January 31 to shorten its current mandate, thus fulfilling
the
conditions for calling early parliamentary elections on April 22.
Also agreed was that the new parliament would, at the demand of
President Milo Djukanovic, call the referendum on the status of
Montenegro
but its date has not been set.
DJINDJIC: COL NUOVO GOVERNO CAMBIEREMO LA COSTITUZIONE
MONTENEGRO AND KOSOVO WILL DICTATE CHANGES OF SERBIAN
CONSTITUTION
BELGRADE, January 25 (Tanjug) The Serbian Government will
propose
changes to the constitution of Serbia, definitely not within the first
100
days, but during its fouryear mandate, Serbian Premierdesignate Zoran
Djindjic said after a speech in the Republican Parliament on Thursday.
This will depend on agreement with Montenegro on relations
within
the Federation and on the situation in KosovoMetohija, Djindjic
explained
adding that "the composition of a new constitution without these two
crucial elements would not be a lasting job."
"If there is readiness in Montenegro to discuss the status of a
joint state, we can talk immediately. However, if the ruling Democratic
Party of Socialists (DPS) insists on the existence of two
internationally
recognized states, I fear that there is not much material for talks,"
Djindjic set out.
"We are ready to immediately discuss the mechanisms of mutual
control and protection within a joint state and to accept all control
mechanisms. However, if we must accept that we are two states, then
Montenegro should first make up this state, and then we can talk,"
Djindjic
stated.
DJUKANOVIC DEPLORA LA SERBIA E DEFINISCE IMPOSSIBILE OGNI IPOTESI
FEDERALE
DJUKANOVIC DEPLORES SERBIAN STANCE ON MONTENEGRIN INDEPENDENCE
PLAN
PODGORICA, January 25 (Tanjug) Serbia lacks understanding for
Montenegro's need to take independent decisions and choose its own road
to
the attainment of its national interests, according to Montenegro's
President in Podgorica on Thursday.
Milo Djukanovic told a news conference "Montenegro's democratic
society, aspiring after European democratic standards, has a need to
take
its decisions and choose its road to the attainment of its national and
state interests independently".
According to him, Serbia does not understand this. Djukanovic
went
on to comment on the international community's attitude to Montenegro's
idea to organise its common state with Serbia in future as a union of
independent and internationally recognised states.
He said the "international community, too, has certain
reservations in this matter, doubting on the strength of recent
experience
the Balkans' maturity to conduct a process of this kind in a civilised
way,
without bloodshed or conflict".
He said this doubt was being stoked by "diplomats in Belgrade",
especially with their insistence on an interdependence between the
problems
of Kosovo and of MontengroSerbia relations, and their fearmongering
about
another Balkan crisis.
He said the doubts would be refuted by Montenegro's foreign
policy, which would "explain" to the international community that it is
in
the best interests of all in the Balkans and Europe to allow democratic
processes to unfold untrammelled.
DJUKANOVIC: EQUALITY IN SERBIAMONTENEGRO FEDERATION IMPOSSIBLE
ZAGREB, January 26 (Tanjug) It was unrealistic to expect
equality
between Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia's two federal units,
Montenegrin
President Milo Djukanovic has said in an interview with a Croatian
newspaper.
Avoiding a direct reply to questions related to a possible
referendum in Montenegro, and the dynamism of efforts aimed at securing
international recognition for it as a sovereign state, Djukanovic told
Zagrebbased Republika that Montenegro had proposed a union of two
internationally recognized countries as a solution compatible with both
sides' interests.
Commenting on Croatian media reports to the effect that, during
his recent visit to Zagreb, Croatian officials had conveyed to him a
Western message suggesting that he should relinquish the idea of
secession,
Djukanovic said he had never requested Zagreb's support for secession,
since this was a matter of relations between Serbia and Montenegro, in
which Croatia did not want to interfere.
Staunchly rejecting allegations by Italy's Minister of Finance
Ottaviano Del Turco, who had accused Montenegro, and him personally, of
smuggling, Djukanovic noted that this was an attempt at discouraging an
even stronger democratic development in Montenegro through pressure.
Djukanovic, however, did not name the factors opposing the
development of democracy in Montenegro.
INCONTRO CON L'AMBASCIATORE TEDESCO
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT RECEIVES GERMAN AMBASSADOR
PODGORICA, January 26 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic received German Ambassador to Yugoslavia Yoachim Schmidt in
Podgorica on Thursday and spoke to him about the organization of
relations
between Montenegro and Serbia.
Djukanovic said his Government urged the settlement of these
relations in keeping with the stands of the European Union and the
international community, who he said could count on Montenegro as a
reliable partner.
Ambassador Schmidt underscored that Germany, for its part,
would
continue to contribute to the improvement of relations with
Montenegro.
TORTUOSA MESSA A PUNTO DELLE TAPPE VERSO IL REFERENDUM E LA SECESSIONE
MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT WORKING GROUP FOR LAW AMENDMENTS ENDS WORK
PODGORICA, February 1 (Tanjug) A Montenegrin parliament
working
group on Thursday ended its work by establishing the texts of a draft
law
on referendum and on amendments to the law on the election of deputies
and
delegates.
General agreement was reached on the decision to submit to
parliament the draft amended law on the election of deputies and
delegates.
Group members failed to reach full agreement on the draft law
on
referendum. It was supported by the Democratic Party of Socialists, the
Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Union, and the Democratic League of
Albanians, while the Socialist People's Party and the People's Party
were
against the proposed draft.
These two parties withheld their support for the proposed text
because it does not specify that only Montenegrin citizens can vote in
the
referendum.
DJINDJIC NEGLI USA INTERPRETA A MODO SUO E DIFENDE LA POSIZIONE DEGLI
USA
DJINDJIC: USA OPPOSES KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE AND MONTENEGRO'S
SECESSION
BELGRADE, February 4 (Tanjug) The U.S. State Department is
against an independent KosovoMetohija and Montenegro's secession, and
holds
that terrorism in southern Serbia (Yugoslavia) must be curbed, Serbia's
Premier said on returning from Washington on Sunday.
Zoran Djindjic said he was "highly satisfied" with his talks
with
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who supported the new authorities
in
Yugoslavia and its Federal unit Serbia in the matter of three key
issues:
relations with the other Federal Unit Montenegro, problem of Serbia's
Kosovo, and the south Serbia crisis.
Djindjic told reporters at Belgrade Airport his partners in
talks
in the new U.S. administration had made it clear they were against
Kosovo's
independence, and that they wanted a democratic Montenegro in a
democratic
Yugoslavia.
As for the situation in southern Serbia, the State Department
takes the view, according to Djindjic, that the terrorism must be curbed
and that there can be no compromise or haggling with armed civilians who
are destabilising the entire region.
He said that the most complex part of the talks had related to
Serbia's economic recovery and cooperation with international
institutions,
specifically the War Crimes Court in the Hague.
He said he had insisted to Powell that the new Yugoslav and
Serbian Governments be given time and a chance to deal gradually with
other
problems while working on the country's reconstruction and return to
international institutions, and that they be given help to prevent
critical
problems from escalating.
According to Djindjic, this position was received with
understanding and supported by his partners in talks in the United
States,
as was the position that a compromise formula be found for cooperation
with
the Haguebased Tribunal.
DJINDJIC: STILL ROOM FOR TALKS WITH MONTENEGRO
BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic said late on Sunday that he had not received any confirmation
in
his informal talks with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in
Washington
last week that he was ready to give up his unequivocal intention to
secure
that Yugoslav Republic's secession.
Nevertheless, Djindjic said he had "got the impression that
there
is still room for talks on a compromise solution."
Djindjic spoke to reporters at Belgrade airport upon his return
from the United States, which he had visited at the invitation of
Secretary
of State Colin Powell. Djindjic dined in Washington with Djukanovic, who
was visiting the U.S. capital at the same time.
The United States wants a "democratic Montenegro in a
democratic
Yugoslavia," Djindjic reported that he was told at the State Department.
"I even learned in talks with certain congressmen and senators,
who have so far supported Montenegro's secession, that this process
should
be slowed down and that they have advised Djukanovic in that sense.
However, it is up to the Montenegrin leadership to draw a lesson and
make
the move which it believes to be correct," Djindjic said.
DJUKANOVIC: "MILOSEVIC NON C'E' PIU' MA IL PROBLEMA RESTA"
DJUKANOVIC SAYS SERBIAMONTENEGRO RIFT NOT RECENT
PARIS, February 5 (Tanjug) The majority of Montenegro's
population will vote for the Republic's independence from Yugoslavia in
the
upcoming referendum, Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic has said in
an
interview with the Parisbased Le Monde daily.
Asked how he could broker a turnaround in the position of the
international community, which is opposing the secession, Djukanovic
pointed to Montenegro and Serbia's Kosovo province as "two unsolved
problems among the dramas the Balkans had seen".
It would be a mistake on the part of the international
community
to avoid contacts with Montenegro under the pretence of trying not to
encourage secession, Djukanovic noted. In the interview entitled "Milo
Djukanovic: Montenegro and Serbia are two separate states", the
Montenegrin
President said that no one should turn a blind eye to the problem
between
Serbia and Montenegro, because it had existed for a while, dating from
before the Milosevic era.
"Milosevic is gone, but the problem remains," he said.
KOSTUNICA CONTRO IL REFERENDUM INDIPENDENTISTA
REFERENDUM ON INDEPENDENCE OF MONTENEGRO UNILATERAL ACT
ROME, February 6 (Tanjgug) Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica
said that the intention of the authorities in Podgorica to hold a
referendum on independence was a unilateral act that constitutes a
violation of the Federal and Montenegrin Constitution.
In that case, responsibility for all the consequences would be
shouldered by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and by those who
apparently support him, said the Italian geopolitical review Limes.
Kostunica, in an interview to the Italian journal said that
noone
can believe that Washington with its might and power is not capable of
influencing Montenegro and Djukanovic's Government.
The Yugoslav president assessed that the situation in south
Serbia
was very difficult, because it is clear that Albanian terrorists are
using
the demilitarized zone as a zone for violence, which means that the zone
is
not well protected by Kfor and that the international forces in certain
cases are unable to control the situation.
That is why the current authorities in Belgrade are acting with
a
great deal of caution, by peaceful means, and not by provoking
incidents,
to resolve problems in south Serbia, he explained.
IL MINISTRO DEGLI ESTERI MONTENEGRINO "SODDISFATTO" PER LA VISITA A
WASHINGTON
MONTENEGRIN FOREIGN MINISTER SATISFIED WITH VISIT TO WASHINGTON
BONN, February 5 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Foreign Minister Branko
Lukovac said Monday that the current severalday visit of a Montenegrin
delegation to Washington was being used well to explain Montenegro's
stands
and aspirations.
The US administration's stance on a democratic Montenegro
within a
democratic Yugoslavia would be one of the options to be discussed by
Montenegrin and Serbian representatives, he said.
Lukovac said in an interview to a German radio that the fact
that
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic had not met the US Secretary of
State
Colin Powell did not mean there had been any new developments.
That there has been no meeting between Djukanovic and Powell
only
means that the new US secretary of state and his team have not yet had
the
opportunity to fully examine all issues that the Montenegrin delegation
has
discussed with other US officials, Lukovac said.
The new US administration has kept the stand of the former
administration, Lukovac said, adding he supposed that the Americans did
not
wish to have to either endorse or reject Montenegro's aspirations at a
DjukanovicPowell meeting.
SCHLESINGER (BUNDESBANK) DOPO AVER FORNITO LA MONETA METTE LE MANI
AVANTI
MONTENEGRO'S INDEPENDENCE NOT IN US AND EU INTEREST
WASHINGTON, February 6 (Tanjug) The George W. Bush
administration
and the European Union have made it clear that the proindependence
efforts
of the Montenegrin Government are not in the interest of the United
States
or Montenegro, according to the head of the easternEuropean studies
department at the US Woodrow Wilson Centre.
In a statement to the Voice of America (VOA), Martin
Schlesinger
recalled that the Bush administration had made it publicly clear that it
would back a gradual withdrawal of US troops from the territory of
former
Yugoslavia and the Balkans in general. He nevertheless added that this
did
not mean a sudden or full withdrawal.
Security and stability are the preconditions for this, he said,
expressing fears that the independence of Montenegro and KosovoMetohija,
or
aspirations to it, could not be considered as moves leading to security
improvements in the region, promoted by the US administration.
This was part of the message conveyed to Montenegrin President
Milo Djukanovic in the course of his recent visit to Washington,
Schlesinger said.
IL FONDO MONETARIO INTERNAZIONALE IN MONTENEGRO
IMF DELEGATION VISITS MONTENEGRO
PODGORICA, February 7 (Tanjug) Representatives of the
Montenegrin
government, monetary council and central bank received Wendesday
separately
a visiting delegation of the International Monetary Fund.
The visit marks the resumption of cooperation between the
Montenegrin government and the IMF, a statement issued after the talks
says.
Montenegrin officials briefed their guests of the monetary
reform
based on the German mark and on the plans for a tax system reform.
The
IMF officials accepted the view that Montenegro should not depend
forever
on foreign donations, but should be enabled to become a reliable partner
in
world economy, the statement says.
VEDRINE METTE LE MANI AVANTI
VEDRINE: EUROPE AND US DO NOT SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE OF MONTENEGRO
PARIS, February 8 (Tanjug) French Foreign Minister Hubert
Vedrine
said in Paris on Thursday that officials in Europe and the United
States
do not support the independence of Montenegro nor do they favour it
leaving
the Yugoslav federation.
I do not believe that Yugoslavia's neighbors would support
this,
Vedrine told a joint press conference with Slovenian Foreign Minister
Dimitry Rupel following their talks.
Vedrine underscored that all state officials he met with in
Europe
and the United States are for an institutional solution of the
SerbianMontenegrin relations within the Yugoslav federation through a
political dialogue, which would facilitate the joint resolution of
relations between Serbia and Montenegro within the Yugoslav federation.
Vedrine pointed out that France supports the territorial
integrity
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, just as it supports its President
Vojislav Kostunica.
VUKOVIC CONTRO OGNI IPOTESI FEDERALE
FEDERATION OR CONFEDERATION UNACCEPTABLE MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT
ADVISER
BELGRADE, February 9 (Tanjug) Montenegrin presidential adviser
Miodrag Vukovic said that official Podgorica has not changed its stand
on
relations between Serbia and Montenegro, and that both confederation and
federation, as a form of state union are not acceptable for Montenegro,
Friday's issue of the Belgrade Vecernje Novosti daily said.
Declining to comment press reports that new agreements
allegedly
include a concept of a confederation, Vukovic told the newspaper that
"Montenegro is intent on reaching an agreement with Serbia on such a
concept of mutual relations which will resist the coming times and avoid
any of the improvisations made so far, such as a federation."
RAPPRESENTANTI EUROPEI A COLLOQUIO IN MONTENEGRO.
PETERSEN: "FATE COME VI PARE, MA CON CALMA"
MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CONFERS WITH EUROPEAN TROIKA
PODGORICA, February 9 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Parliament Speaker
Svetozar Marovic conferred on Friday in Podgorica with a European Union
Troika delegation headed by Swedish Foreign Ministry General Director
for
political issues Sven Olaf Petersson.
Petersson, whose county chairs the EU Ministerial Council,
conveyed to Marovic the EU views on resolving the relations between
Serbia
and Montenegro in a manner preserving peace, stability and development
of
democracy.
Montenegro believes an agreement would be reached with Serbia
that
would not be detrimental to Montenegro but would benefit both republics,
Marovic said.
Montenegro sincerely believes that its future is in democracy,
which means dialogue and cooperation with the European Union, the US,
and
Russia, as Montenegro will not agree to isolationism or political
marginalization, Marovic said.
The meeting was attended by representatives of all Montenegrin
Parliamentary Party Clubs.
MONTENEGRIN PREMIER RECEIVES E.U. "TROIKA"
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia, February 9 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Premier
Filip Vujanovic received in Podgorica on Friday a European Union
"troika",
headed by Swedish Foreign Ministry DirectorGeneral Sven Olaf Peterssen.
A statement from Vujanovic's cabinet quotes Peterssen as
conveying
high respect for this Yugoslav Republic's democratic policy in the past
period, especially for its role in the victory of democratic forces in
the
other Yugoslav federal unit, Serbia.
Vujanovic said he expected this support to continue, stressing
the
Montenegrin Government's commitment to reform processes towards
attaining
the standards of a modern European state.
The Montenegrin Government would continue in good faith its
talks
with Serbia on future relations in an effort to reach a mutually
acceptable
solution, he added.
EUROPE WANTS MONTENEGRO TO BE PART OF YUGOSLAVIA PETERSSEN
PODGORICA, February 10 (Tanjug) European Union representatives
who paid an official visit to Montenegro on Friday said in a clear
message
to the Montenegrin officials and citizens that Europe would like
democratic
Montenegro to be a part of Yugoslavia.
Swedish Foreign Ministry DirectorGeneral Sven Olaf Peterssen
told
the Montenegrin authorities at Friday's press conference that if they
want
to be a part of Europe, they must listen to EU "advice," and added that
citizens must not let officials make incautious moves.
Hasty activities in that direction could have grave
repercussions,
and they could mean one step backwards in cooperation with the European
Union, he said.
He emphasized that the United States, 15 countries of the
European
Union, and 30 states waiting to be admitted to the E.U., support the
same
stand.
Peterssen said they had made their stand clear, and that it was
up
to the Montenegrin leaders to decide about the holding of a referendum,
where it should be known that leaders are always responsible for their
stands.
The European Union thinks, he said, that the holding of a
referendum is the right of citizens, but it is very sensitive issue, and
has very often led to polarization. This is why it is very important to
be
well organized, and that citizens have enough time to form their
opinion.
Underscoring that this does not negate the right of Montenegro
to
decide about the future of the state, Peterssen said that every decision
will have certain consequences and stressed the stand of the West that
the
taking of hasty decisions was not in the interest of Montenegro, or the
region, or for the European Union.
L'AMBASCIATORE STATUNITENSE DICE LA SUA
US AMBASSADOR: COMMON MONTENEGRINSERBIAN STATE IS IN MUTUAL
INTEREST
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia, February 13 (Tanjug) A common state of
Serbia and Montenegro would be to mutual advantage, if a compromise were
found, according to a U.S. envoy in Podgorica, Montenegro, on Tuesday.
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia William Montgomery was meeting
with
Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Svetozar Marovic to review the current
political situation.
According to a statement from Marovic's cabinet, "it was noted
that relations between Montenegro and Serbia should be regulated in a
dialogue, with respect for both sides' interests".
Montgomery said the United States respects and appreciates
Montenegro's role, especially in recent years, when it opposed the
regime
of ousted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, expecting that
Montenegro's experience of democratisation and reforms should spread to
the
whole country after Serbia's parliamentary elections.
A common state of Montenegro and Serbia could be in mutual
interest, if a compromise were found, which was why the United States
supports talks between Montenegrin and Serbian officials and expects
both
sides to show good faith.
Montgomery said that Belgrade talks with Serbian officials had
shown that Serbia, too, was prepared to seek a settlement that would not
hurt Montenegro's interests.
The statement quotes Marovic as repeating that the Montenegrin
government's offer for regulating relations with Serbia was not an
ultimatum.
ANCHE CARLA DEL PONTE A PODGORICA/TITOGRAD
CARLA DEL PONTE IN PODGORICA ON THURSDAY
PODGORICA, February 12 (Tanjug) Hague tribunal chief
prosecutor
Carla del Ponte should visit Podgorica on Wednesday to meet with this
Yugoslav republic's officials, the Montenegrin state radio has said.
Del Ponte will meet with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovc,
Premier Filip Vujanovic and other top officials.
Del Ponte arrives in Montenegro to continue collecting data
about
war crimes committed in the territory of the former and current
Yugoslavia.
---
Da "Il Manifesto" del 21 Febbraio 2001
Voto anticipato in Montenegro
T. D. F.
Il parlamento del Montenegro ha approvato ieri le norme del
referendum sull'indipendenza della piccola repubblica dalla
federazione jugoslava: la consultazione sarà indetta entro
la fine di giugno. Il disegno di legge è stato approvato
ieri dai sostenitori del presidente Milo Djukanovic,
fautore dell'indipendenza, mentre i deputati del Partito
Socialista Popolare (Snp, all'opposizione e favorevoli alla
Federazione jugoslava) hanno ammonito di essere pronti a
boicottare il referendum, giudicandolo iniquo. E subito
dopo il presidente montenegrino Milo Djukanovic ha
convocato per il 22 aprile le elezioni parlamentari
anticipate. La legislatura è terminata un anno prima del
previsto per la crisi provocata, in dicembre, dall'uscita
dal governo del Partito popolare - piccola formazione di
centro che faceva parte della coalizione "Vivere meglio"
guidata dal presidente montenegrino -, contrario alle
aspirazioni secessioniste di Djukanovic. In base al
risultato delle elezioni, il presidente saprà se i suoi
cittadini sono con lui nella battaglia per la separazione
del Montenegro dalla Federazione jugoslava. Il nuovo
parlamento dovrà decidere se tenere o meno il referendum
sull'indipendenza preannunciato da Djukanovic.
Non è il solito, teso e conflittuale voto montenegrino:
dalle urne uscirà una decisiva risposta sulla sopravvivenza
della Federazione jugoslava, il cui presidente Voijslav
Kostunica non è ancora riconosciuto dal presidente
Djukanovic (lo chiama "dottor Kostunica").
Alle radici di questo nuovo inizio d'incendio in Montenegro
c'è, singolarmente, proprio la caduta del presidente
federale Slobodan Milosevic, prima per anni l'inventore di
Djukanovic, poi suo grande avversario [SIC: si noti che nessun
articolo potrebbe mai essere pubblicato sulla stampa italiana,
e nemmeno dal "Manifesto", senza un'inserzione anti-Milosevic
di prammatica, anche se completamente fuori luogo;
n.d.jugocoord@...]. Il presidente
montenegrino, non fidando nella vittoria della coalizione
democratica serba Dos nelle elezioni di settembre, aveva
deciso di boicottare il voto rompendo così anche con
l'opposizione jugoslava. Come risultato, i suoi nemici
politici montenegrini del Partito socialista popolare (Snp)
(che invece presentandosi ha ottenuto nelle elezioni
federali importanti consensi) si sono trovati come gli
unici montenegrini rappresentati nel parlamento federale.
A Djukanovic, già in calo di popolarità in patria per il
perdurare della crisi economica - e per le sue sfacciate
complicità con la mafia del contrabbando ormai
malsopportata dall'Occidente dopo l'uscita di scena
democratica di Milosevic - non è rimasto che continuare a
giocare la carta della secessione, già minacciata durante
il regime di Milosevic allora con l'appoggio degli Stati
uniti e poi dalla stessa Italia. Così, incurante della
svolta a Belgrado, ha presentato alle nuove autorità
jugoslave una piattaforma di future relazioni che prevede
la piena indipendenza di Serbia e Montenegro in vista di
una fumosa unione che non comprende settori essenziali come
la politica monetaria o il commercio con l'estero, e che
soprattutto non prevede l'esistenza di un presidente
federale - vale a dire: Kostunica vattene. Podgorica aveva
adottato fin dal novembre 1999 il marco come valuta
parallela, e lo ha poi reso moneta ufficiale creando una
sua Banca centrale. Anche la Serbia insiste per una
revisione dei rapporti con il Montenegro, ma sempre in
ambito federale. La mossa della secessione è mal vista -
adesso - dagli apprendisti stregoni della comunità
internazionale [ma siamo sicuri? n.d.jugocoord@...],
che temono una ulteriore frammentazione nei
Balcani, con un destabilizzante effetto domino che
coinvolgerebbe da subito il Kosovo e potrebbe allargarsi,
come in questi giorni di attacchi sanguinosi delle milizie
kosovaro albanesi, ad altre zone come l'ovest della
Macedonia, abitato da una maggioranza albanese, e in Serbia
dove già sono in atto tensioni in Vojvodina e Sangiaccato.
I risultati del 22 aprile chiariranno se è l'inizio anche
di questo precipizio o, com'è augurabile, se è invece la
fine della carriera "politica" di Milo Djukanovic, capace
comunque alla fine di aggrapparsi all'ultimo ricatto.
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DJUKANOVIC RITIENE ILLEGITTIME LE AUTORITA' FEDERALI
DJUKANOVIC: AUTHORITY OF FEDERAL STATE WILL NOT BE REINSTATED
PODGORICA, February 19 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic said on Monday that the Montenegrin authorities do not intend
to restore to the federal state the authorities they have taken from it.
Speaking at an enlarged session of the Montenegrin Supreme
Court,
Djukanovic underscored that the top state leadership of Montenegro had
no
dilemmas regarding full cooperation with The Hague tribunal because this
would put an end to the past and open up new prospects for the Balkans.
In the process of resolving the serious statepolitical dilemmas
which Montenegro is facing, the current authorities "are taking care
that
all solutions must be based on preserving the full stability of
Montenegro
and absolute responsibility for regional stability."
Djukanovic said the central dilemma of Montenegrin citizens at
this time is whether they have faith in their ability to manage the
present and the future.
"I hope they have the confidence," Djukanovic said. The basic
question for any responsible state authorities is how to make
Montenegrin
society a part of Europe, he said. Montenegro has taken the first, but
very stable, decisive and irretrievable steps toward its own integration
into European structures, Djukanovic said.
LUKOVAC: YUGOSLAV EMBASSY IN SARAJEVO CANNOT REPRESENT
MONTENEGRO
SARAJEVO, February 20 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Foreign Minister
Branko Lukovac said on Tuesday that the Yugoslav Embassy in Sarajevo
cannot represent the interests of Montenegro in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In an interview to the Sarajevo newspaper Dnevni avaz, Lukovac
said that only a "Montenegrin mission in Sarajevo can represent the
interests of Montenegro."
Lukovac, who is due to meet on Tuesday in Sarajevo with
BosniaHerzegovina Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic, added that Yugoslav
federal bodies do not have a mandate to represent Montenegro.
Lukovac announced that he will inform Prlic about Montenegro's
course regarding future relations between Montenegro and Serbia and
interests for further cooperation between Montenegro and
BosniaHerzegovina."
VERSO LE ELEZIONI ANTICIPATE
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT CALLS EARLY ELECTIONS FOR APRIL 22
PODGORICA, February 20 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic on Tuesday called early parliamentary elections for April 22.
The decision to shorten the mandate of the Montenegrin
parliament
and to adapt the election law to those of developed democratic
societies,
based on the suggestions of OSCE experts, have created conditions for
holding democratic and fair elections at which the citizens will freely
express their will, Djukanovic stated.
He said that at a session on Monday evening, the Montenegrin
parliament adopted all laws which were a precondition for holding early
parliamentary elections thus creating conditions for the elections
initiated by the Democratic Party of Socialists, the Social Democrat
Party, ethnic Albanian national parties and the Liberal Alliance of
Montenegro.
Opposed to the adoption of the law on public informing and the
election law were the Socialist People's Party and the National Party
which said that these documents fail to fulfil all the necessary
conditions for holding fair and honest elections.
IN CERCA DI APPOGGIO ESPLICITO DA OCCIDENTE
MONTENEGRO'S PRESIDENT SEEKS EU, US HELP FOR INDEPENDENCE
BRUSSELS, February 26 (Tanjug) Montenegro's President urged
the
European Union and the United States in Brussels on Monday to support
independence for that Yugoslav federal unit as a contribution to Balkan
stability.
"We do expect that the European Union and the democracies of
the
world will support our endeavors", Milo Djukanovic said in a speech to
the
Centre for European Policy Studies.
"The greatest assistance we could get would be the appreciation
of our democratic goals", he added.
EU OFFICIALS DISAGREE WITH MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT
BRUSSELS, February 26 (Tanjug) Two key European Union
officials
in charge of foreign policy and security rejected on Monday the request
by
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic to the EU and Washington to
support
Montenegro's secession from the Yugoslav federation.
The EU wants a democratic Montenegro within a democratic and
transformed Yugoslavia, Foreign Policy Commissioner Chris Patten said,
underlining the EU did not agree with Djukanovic.
Djukanovic requested during his visit to Brussels Monday that
the
EU and the US support Montenegro's independence as a contribution to
Balkan stability.
He told the Center for European Political Studies he expects
the
EU and world democracies to endorse Montenegro's aspirations, adding
that
the greatest help Montenegro could get would be the respect of its
democratic goals.
The EU High Representative for foreign policy and security
Javier
Solana agreed with Patten, saying that Europe hopes that Montenegro and
Serbia will find a solution within the framework of the Constitution and
to
both sides' satisfaction.
L'OSCE COLLABORA AD ORGANIZZARE IL REFERENDUM SECESSIONISTA
LAW ON REFERENDUM ADOPTED IN COOPERATION WITH OSCE
PODGORICA, March 7 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Foreign Ministry said
late Tuesday in response to the concern expressed by some foreign top
officials regarding the recently adopted law on referendum, that the law
was adopted in a democratic procedure and in cooperation with authorized
institutions of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE).
The foreign officials' remarks were contained in a U.S.
government's statement made public Monday in Podgorica, and are
referring
to the adopted law provisions that only one fourth of the electoral body
is necessary to decide the status of Montenegro, and that Montenegrin
citizens with permanent residence outside Montenegro will be deprived of
the right
to vote.
These provisions have not been accepted by the international
community, and the U.S. government said that higher standards for
participation in referendum and for recognition of results should be
established.
The Montenegrin Foreign Ministry said that the law had been
drawn
up in cooperation with the Bureau for democratization and human rights,
which had no objections to the percentage of the necessary turnout or to
the ban on voting by Montenegrins who do not have permanent residence in
the republic.
CORDIALI CHIACCHIERE CON L'AMBASCIATORE USA
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH US AMBASSADOR TO YUGOSLAVIA
PODGORICA, March 13 (Tanjug) US Ambassador to Yugoslavia
William
Montgomery informed Tuesday in Podgorica Motenegrin President Milo
Djukanovic about the conditions of the US administration for pursuing
aid
to the new authorities in Belgrade, which they are to fulfil by March
31.
According to a statement from the cabinet of the Montenegrin
president, Ambassador Montgomery also expressed an interest in political
movements in Montenegro ahead of the elections and the referendum.
It was mutually considered that a quick implementation of
reforms
was very important in all sectors for the development of democratic
processes and the stabilization of overall political circumstances in
the
region, the statement said.
SERBIA E MONTENEGRO "DUE CASE CON LO STESSO CORTILE"
MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT URGES "LIFE IN TWO HOUSES, BUT WITH SAME YARD"
NIKSIC, Montenegro, March 13 (Tanjug) Montenegrin President
Milo
Djukanovac said on Tuesday that this republic's proposal for redefining
relations between Serbia and Montenegro has not met with understanding
of a
part of the domestic and foreign public.
This proposal is incorrectly viewed as further Balkanization,
something which represents new divisions to be followed by conflicts,
Djukanovic told businessmen in the city of Niksic, Montenegro.
To overcome all misunderstandings, we believe that it is
necessary
to redefine relations so that, instead of living in two rooms within a
single house, we live in two houses which share the same yard,"
Djukanovic
explained.
SCHERMAGLIE PROCEDURALI...
MONTENEGRIN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT JUDGE CONTESTS FEDERAL COURT DECISION
PODGORICA, March 15 (Tanjug) Montenegrin Constitutional Court
judge Blagota Mitric has said that decisions of the Federal
Constitutional
Court are not binding for Montenegro.
He was commenting the federal court's Wednesday decision to
nullify a provision of the Montenegrin referendum law which denies the
right to vote to Montenegrins living in Serbia.
The Montenegrin media carry Thursday the criticism of the
decision
by Mitric, who said that the federal court was encroaching on the
exclusive
prerogatives of republican constitutional courts, in this case of
Montenegro's court.
According to Mitric, if the federal court had to deal with the
referendum law, it should have first ruled on whether the Montenegrin
Constitution is in line with the Federal Constitution.
KOSTUNICA E LA D.O.S.: SE SE NE ANDRANNO RESTEREMO A GUARDARE
YUGOSLAVIA SHOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN IN TO US ULTIMATUM PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, April 8 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia should not have given in
to
the US administration's ultimatum regarding the arrest of former
Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic by March 31, Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica said Sunday in an interview to the Belgrade BK TV.
The time of the language of ultimatums is past, and the new US
administration, abiding by the principle of positive isolation, no
longer
interferes in internal affairs of other countries to the same extent to
which the former administration used to do, Kostunica said.
Asked by viewers what charges he himself would have filed
against
MIlosevic, Kostunica said they would have been much more extensive and
would not be limited to abuse of office and illegal gain.
Referring to future relations with Montenegro, Kostunica said
he
hoped the Yugoslav federation would survive, but if Montenegro's
citizens
opt for a separation, their will should be respected.
According to Kostunica, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS)
endorses the platform on regulating the relations between the two
Yugoslav
federal units, and claims that views within DOS on that platform have
changed are nothing but manipulations.
The platform envisages a minimum working federation with
foreign
policy, defense, finance and human rights protection as common
functions,
Kostunica noted. According to Kostunica, DOS has not discussed a
possible secession of Montenegro. Should that occur, elections in Serbia
would be inevitable and its Constitution would have to be modified.
"Should Yugoslavia survive, and I hope it will, new federal
elections would be inevitable", Kostunica said.
Referring to DOS, which comprises 18 political parties,
Kostunica
said it would naturally cease to exist in time, noting that its
memberparties, including his own Democratic Party of Serbia, are guided
by
the idea of placing state interests above party ones.
DOS WILL RESPECT DECISION OF MONTENEGRIN CITIZENS
BELGRADE, April 9 (Tanjug) The Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS) Presidency late Sunday gave its support to a Serbian government
proposal to set up a commission to examine the work of the State
Security
Service since Jan 1, 1988, Serbian parliament DOS whip Cedomir Jovanovic
said.
Speaking after a Presidency session, Jovanovic told reporters
that
the Presidency had given its support to a draft law on single tax for
persons who acquired extra profit from 1989 until Oct 5, 2000, and that
it
had discussed district chiefs.
The platform on redefining relations in the federation remained
the same, said Jovanovic, denying allegations voiced in Montenegro that
it
had been changed.
"We are leaving it up to the citizens of Montenegro to decide
by
themselves about the future of the state, and we will not influence
their
decision. A community with Montenegro is the interest of Serbian
citizens,"
Jovanovic said.
Speaking about the socalled Vojvodina Platform, Jovanovic said
this issue would be resolved "integrally and with particular attention"
and
underscored that "the problem of Vojvodina will not affect the future of
DOS."
BATIC INVITA IL PARTITO POPOLARE DEL MONTENEGRO A CALARE LE BRAGHE
BATIC:SNP TO CHANGE POSITION ON COOPERATION WITH HAGUE AFTER POLLS
BELGRADE, April 9 (Tanjug) The announcement by Socialist
People's
Party (SNP) President Predrag Bulatovic that this party would not vote
for
a law on extradition of Yugoslav nationals to The Hague court is not a
definite position, and will change after the Montenegrin elections,
Serbia's Justice Minister Vladan Batic said.
It is a temporary option for SNP, primarily directed at its
supporters and voters, Batic was quoted as saying by the daily Blic on
Monday.
"I do not think that this is a definite decision reflecting
SNP's
position on cooperation with The Hague tribunal. I expect SNP to turn a
new
page after the elections in Montenegro, and revert the decision," Batic
added.
It would be purposeless to adopt a law on cooperation with the
tribunal that does not envisage extradition of Yugoslav nationals, Batic
said.
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INDETTE ELEZIONI ANTICIPATE PER IL 22 APRILE
DJINDJIC: COL NUOVO GOVERNO CAMBIEREMO LA COSTITUZIONE FEDERALE
DJUKANOVIC DEPLORA LA SERBIA E DEFINISCE IMPOSSIBILE OGNI IPOTESI
FEDERALE
INCONTRO CON L'AMBASCIATORE TEDESCO
TORTUOSA MESSA A PUNTO DELLE TAPPE VERSO IL REFERENDUM E LA SECESSIONE
DJINDJIC NEGLI USA INTERPRETA A MODO SUO E DIFENDE LA POSIZIONE DEGLI
USA
DJUKANOVIC: "MILOSEVIC NON C'E' PIU' MA IL PROBLEMA RESTA"
KOSTUNICA CONTRO IL REFERENDUM INDIPENDENTISTA
IL MINISTRO DEGLI ESTERI MONTENEGRINO "SODDISFATTO" PER LA VISITA A
WASHINGTON
SCHLESINGER (BUNDESBANK) DOPO AVER FORNITO LA MONETA METTE LE MANI
AVANTI
IL FONDO MONETARIO INTERNAZIONALE IN MONTENEGRO
VEDRINE METTE LE MANI AVANTI
VUKOVIC CONTRO OGNI IPOTESI FEDERALE
RAPPRESENTANTI EUROPEI A COLLOQUIO IN MONTENEGRO.
PETERSEN: "FATE COME VI PARE, MA CON CALMA"
L'AMBASCIATORE STATUNITENSE DICE LA SUA
ANCHE CARLA DEL PONTE A PODGORICA/TITOGRAD
DJUKANOVIC RITIENE ILLEGITTIME LE AUTORITA' FEDERALI
VERSO LE ELEZIONI ANTICIPATE
IN CERCA DI APPOGGIO ESPLICITO DA OCCIDENTE
L'OSCE COLLABORA AD ORGANIZZARE IL REFERENDUM SECESSIONISTA
CORDIALI CHIACCHIERE CON L'AMBASCIATORE USA
SERBIA E MONTENEGRO "DUE CASE CON LO STESSO CORTILE"
SCHERMAGLIE PROCEDURALI...
KOSTUNICA E LA D.O.S.: SE SE NE ANDRANNO RESTEREMO A GUARDARE
BATIC INVITA IL PARTITO POPOLARE DEL MONTENEGRO A CALARE LE BRAGHE
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Razbijanje Jugoslavije (prevod)
Sorosova osmatracnica kriznih zarista u svetu, International
Crisis Group, vec godinama siri dezinformacije o prilikama
na Balkanu i medijski propagandom pruza podrsku svim
secesijama - otkrila je karte i stavila na znanje: Cemu
licemerje, treba otvoreno podrzati secesiju CRNE GORE.
Napomenimo da propagandni materijal ove Sorosove organizacije
nekriticki preuzimaju i sire pojedini delovi italijanske "levice" i
"pokreta za mir".
> http://www.europeaninternet.com/centraleurope/news.php3?id25616
>
> West Should Help Yugoslavia Split
---
LA SECESSIONE DEL MONTENEGRO
Selezione di documenti diffusi in passato:
* Con Kostunica il Montenegro se ne va
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/602
* LE MILIZIE PERSONALI DI DJUKANOVIC SONO ADDESTRATE DALLE
FORZE SPECIALI BRITANNICHE
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/393
* Emil Vlajki sulla secessione del Montenegro e l'assassinio di Zugic
* Djukanovic: "L'indipendenza e' piu' vicina che mai"
* Importanti link per documentarsi
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/316
* UNA NUOVA PEDINA NEL "MONOPOLI" GLOBALE: IL MONTENEGRO
(Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia)
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/208
* Vecchia documentazione del CRJ
> http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/160799a.htm
> http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/090899.htm
---
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/899
INDETTE ELEZIONI ANTICIPATE PER IL 22 APRILE
DJINDJIC: COL NUOVO GOVERNO CAMBIEREMO LA COSTITUZIONE FEDERALE
DJUKANOVIC DEPLORA LA SERBIA E DEFINISCE IMPOSSIBILE OGNI IPOTESI
FEDERALE
INCONTRO CON L'AMBASCIATORE TEDESCO
TORTUOSA MESSA A PUNTO DELLE TAPPE VERSO IL REFERENDUM E LA SECESSIONE
DJINDJIC NEGLI USA INTERPRETA A MODO SUO E DIFENDE LA POSIZIONE DEGLI
USA
DJUKANOVIC: "MILOSEVIC NON C'E' PIU' MA IL PROBLEMA RESTA"
KOSTUNICA CONTRO IL REFERENDUM INDIPENDENTISTA
IL MINISTRO DEGLI ESTERI MONTENEGRINO "SODDISFATTO" PER LA VISITA A
WASHINGTON
SCHLESINGER (BUNDESBANK) DOPO AVER FORNITO LA MONETA METTE LE MANI
AVANTI
IL FONDO MONETARIO INTERNAZIONALE IN MONTENEGRO
VEDRINE METTE LE MANI AVANTI
VUKOVIC CONTRO OGNI IPOTESI FEDERALE
RAPPRESENTANTI EUROPEI A COLLOQUIO IN MONTENEGRO.
PETERSEN: "FATE COME VI PARE, MA CON CALMA"
L'AMBASCIATORE STATUNITENSE DICE LA SUA
ANCHE CARLA DEL PONTE A PODGORICA/TITOGRAD
DJUKANOVIC RITIENE ILLEGITTIME LE AUTORITA' FEDERALI
VERSO LE ELEZIONI ANTICIPATE
IN CERCA DI APPOGGIO ESPLICITO DA OCCIDENTE
L'OSCE COLLABORA AD ORGANIZZARE IL REFERENDUM SECESSIONISTA
CORDIALI CHIACCHIERE CON L'AMBASCIATORE USA
SERBIA E MONTENEGRO "DUE CASE CON LO STESSO CORTILE"
SCHERMAGLIE PROCEDURALI...
KOSTUNICA E LA D.O.S.: SE SE NE ANDRANNO RESTEREMO A GUARDARE
BATIC INVITA IL PARTITO POPOLARE DEL MONTENEGRO A CALARE LE BRAGHE
---
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e' archiviata su:
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Razbijanje Jugoslavije (prevod)
Sorosova osmatracnica kriznih zarista u svetu, International
Crisis Group, vec godinama siri dezinformacije o prilikama
na Balkanu i medijski propagandom pruza podrsku svim
secesijama - otkrila je karte i stavila na znanje: Cemu
licemerje, treba otvoreno podrzati secesiju CRNE GORE.
Napomenimo da propagandni materijal ove Sorosove organizacije
nekriticki preuzimaju i sire pojedini delovi italijanske "levice" i
"pokreta za mir".
> http://www.europeaninternet.com/centraleurope/news.php3?id25616
>
> West Should Help Yugoslavia Split
---
LA SECESSIONE DEL MONTENEGRO
Selezione di documenti diffusi in passato:
* Con Kostunica il Montenegro se ne va
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/602
* LE MILIZIE PERSONALI DI DJUKANOVIC SONO ADDESTRATE DALLE
FORZE SPECIALI BRITANNICHE
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/393
* Emil Vlajki sulla secessione del Montenegro e l'assassinio di Zugic
* Djukanovic: "L'indipendenza e' piu' vicina che mai"
* Importanti link per documentarsi
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/316
* UNA NUOVA PEDINA NEL "MONOPOLI" GLOBALE: IL MONTENEGRO
(Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia)
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/208
* Vecchia documentazione del CRJ
> http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/160799a.htm
> http://www.marx2001.org/nuovaunita/jugo/crj/m_l/090899.htm
---
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Le mire di Budapest
Vojvodina, il governo ungherese soffia sul separatismo
LORIS CAMPETTI - ANTONIO SCIOTTO
Chi ci spedisce la lettera drammatica che pubblichiamo qui accanto
[cfr. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/883 ]
� una nostra amica, direttrice didattica in una scuola nel nord della
Vojvodina. La chameremo Ruzica, le abbiamo garantito l'anonimato perch�
� diventato difficile, per un serbo (o una serba), vivere in questa
regione della Jugoslavia dove gli ungheresi sono maggioranza. Una
regione su cui ha messo gli occhi il governo di Budapest che sta
fomentando atteggiamenti separatisti nella popolazione di origine
magiara. Da sempre, in Vojvodina convivono serbi, ungheresi e cittadini
di
molte altre nazionalit�, dai rom ai turchi, dai croati ai russini,
dagli slovacchi ai rumeni, dai ruteni ai macedoni. La convivenza e il
rispetto
delle minoranze - delle lingue, delle tradizioni, della cultura, delle
festivit�, dei mezzi di comunicazione - era garantito da leggi scritte e
prassi consolidate nel tempo. Per fare un esempio, tradizione voleva
che nelle citt� a maggioranza ungherese il sindaco fosse di etnia
magiara e
il presidente del consiglio comunale serbo.
Alle ultime elezioni, quelle seguite alla rivolta del 5 ottobre, nelle
cittadine del nord della Vojivodina, gli unici partiti presenti nello
schieramento gi� di opposizione, la Dos, erano i due partiti ungheresi.
Di conseguenza, i serbi contrari a Milosevic sono stati costretti a
votare per uno dei partiti ungheresi che hanno fatto il pieno dei
consensi di almeno due etnie. In sette citt� (Ada, Backa Topola, Beceij,
Kanjiza, Mali Idjos, Senta i Coka e Subotica) del nord della
Voijvodina, in cui gli ungheresi sono maggioranza, � iniziata un'odiosa
pulizia
etnica ai danni dei serbi e dei cittadini di altre nazionalit�,
cosicch� sia il sindaco che il presidente del consiglio comunale sono
ungheresi, e la
composizione dei governi locali � monoetnica. Quasi tutti i direttori
serbi delle fabbriche sono stati sostituiti con altrettanti magiari, e
lo
stesso sta avvenendo a tutti i livelli della societ�. Anche i
dipendenti comunali non ungheresi sono stati sostituiti: a Backa Topola,
su 80
lavoratori i serbi sono cinque.
Ma la cosa pi� grave, tra quelle denunciate dalla nostra amica, �
l'ingerenza sempre pi� pressante dell'Ungheria sulla difficile
situazione
della Vojvodina. Un'ingerenza che preoccupa il governo jugoslavo. Il
presidente Vojislav Kostunica era a Ginevra durante i due giorni
drammatici che hanno preceduto l'arresto di Slobodan Milosevic, proprio
per denunciare all'Onu il "rischio" Vojvodina e chiedere aiuto per
difendere l'integrit� del paese. Nelle stesse ore, da Novi Sad il
presidente del parlamento della Vojvodina Nedar Cianak chiedeva
l'arresto
non soltanto di Milosevic, ma anche di Kostunica.
La bestia nera del nazionalismo e del separatismo ha fatto la sua
comparsa persino nelle scuole, dove addirittura le gare sportive e i
regali ai
bambini rispondono a regole etniche, discriminatorie. E il censimento
di tutti gli alunni "ungheresi" ordinato dal governo di Budapest rischia
di essere la goccia che potrebbe far traboccare il vaso della
Vojvodina, una delle ultime regioni balcaniche in cui popolazioni
diverse avevano
imparato a convivere.
IL GOVERNO JUGOSLAVO D'ACCORDO CON L'APERTURA DI UN CONSOLATO UNGHERESE
A SUBOTICA
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT AGREES TO OPENING HUNGARIAN CONSULATE IN SUBOTICA
BELGRADE, March 15 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav government approved
at
its session Thursday the proposed opening of a Hungarian consulate in
Subotica, whose activities will cover the entire Serbian northern
province
of Vojvodina, the federal information secretariat said.
---
Le minoranze in vojvodina (tedesche e ungheresi) cominciano a
muoversi...
verso dove?
alberto tarozzi.
1.FONTE: Il giornale "VESTI".
2.TITOLO: I Tedeschi in Vojvodina chiedono lo status di minoranza.
3. INDICE: ///
4:SITO INTERNET:
http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?ty943&s=vesti.gif&e
5. NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
6.DATA: 23.01.2001.
Quattromila di cosiddetti " tedeschi del Danubio" che vivono in
Vojvodina,
chiedono, secondo il settimanale tedesco
"Spiegel", che le nuove autorit� jugoslave riconoscano a questo gruppo
etnico lo stato di minoranza nazionale.
In Jugoslavia, durante la monarchia, i "tedeschi del Danubio" avevano
anche
i loro deputati in Parlamento. Per�, dopo il
1944., a causa della collaborazione con le truppe tedesche e della loro
partecipazione nelle divisioni delle SS, circa 170.000
tedeschi sono stati internati e quasi 30.000 sono stati deportati
inell'Unione Sovietica dove la maggior parte mor� nei campi
di concentramento.
1.FONTE: Il giornale "VESTI".
2.TITOLO: Cominciare le trattative.
3. INDICE: Andras Agoston sull'autonomia degli Ungheresi in Vojvodina.
4.SITO INTERNET:
http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?ty876&s=dnevnik.gif&e
5. NUMERO DI PAGINE: �.
6. DATA: 23.01.2001.
Il presidente del Partito degli Ungheresi di Vojvodina, Andras Agoston ,
�
intervenuto ieri nel merito delle trattative
sull'autonomia della Vojvodina. Secondo il giornale ungherese "Info" ha
dichiarato "che dopo i cambiamenti politici in Serbia,
comunque ci sono le speranze per la realizzazione dell'autonomia degli
Ungheresi di Vojvodina " e ha aggiunto alla fine, "che � molto
importante
cominciare a trattare subito."
---
LA COMPAGNIA UNGHERESE MATAV NEL MERCATO DELLA TELEFONIA MOBILE SERBA
HUNGARIAN MATAV WANTS TO BE SERBIAN MOBILE TELEPHONY OPERATOR
BELGRADE, January 24 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's Telecommunications
Minister Boris Tadic received on Wednesday a delegation of Hungary's
MATAV
mobile telephony operator, headed by Ferenc Somogyi.
MATAV, as a strategic partner of Deutsche Telecom, is very much
interested in investing GermanHungarian capital in mobile telephony in
Serbia as a third operator, it was noted.
The meeting was attended by Hungarian Charge d'Affaires in
Belgrade Lazar Kristof.
---
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Le mire di Budapest
Vojvodina, il governo ungherese soffia sul separatismo
LORIS CAMPETTI - ANTONIO SCIOTTO
Chi ci spedisce la lettera drammatica che pubblichiamo qui accanto
[cfr. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/883 ]
� una nostra amica, direttrice didattica in una scuola nel nord della
Vojvodina. La chameremo Ruzica, le abbiamo garantito l'anonimato perch�
� diventato difficile, per un serbo (o una serba), vivere in questa
regione della Jugoslavia dove gli ungheresi sono maggioranza. Una
regione su cui ha messo gli occhi il governo di Budapest che sta
fomentando atteggiamenti separatisti nella popolazione di origine
magiara. Da sempre, in Vojvodina convivono serbi, ungheresi e cittadini
di
molte altre nazionalit�, dai rom ai turchi, dai croati ai russini,
dagli slovacchi ai rumeni, dai ruteni ai macedoni. La convivenza e il
rispetto
delle minoranze - delle lingue, delle tradizioni, della cultura, delle
festivit�, dei mezzi di comunicazione - era garantito da leggi scritte e
prassi consolidate nel tempo. Per fare un esempio, tradizione voleva
che nelle citt� a maggioranza ungherese il sindaco fosse di etnia
magiara e
il presidente del consiglio comunale serbo.
Alle ultime elezioni, quelle seguite alla rivolta del 5 ottobre, nelle
cittadine del nord della Vojivodina, gli unici partiti presenti nello
schieramento gi� di opposizione, la Dos, erano i due partiti ungheresi.
Di conseguenza, i serbi contrari a Milosevic sono stati costretti a
votare per uno dei partiti ungheresi che hanno fatto il pieno dei
consensi di almeno due etnie. In sette citt� (Ada, Backa Topola, Beceij,
Kanjiza, Mali Idjos, Senta i Coka e Subotica) del nord della
Voijvodina, in cui gli ungheresi sono maggioranza, � iniziata un'odiosa
pulizia
etnica ai danni dei serbi e dei cittadini di altre nazionalit�,
cosicch� sia il sindaco che il presidente del consiglio comunale sono
ungheresi, e la
composizione dei governi locali � monoetnica. Quasi tutti i direttori
serbi delle fabbriche sono stati sostituiti con altrettanti magiari, e
lo
stesso sta avvenendo a tutti i livelli della societ�. Anche i
dipendenti comunali non ungheresi sono stati sostituiti: a Backa Topola,
su 80
lavoratori i serbi sono cinque.
Ma la cosa pi� grave, tra quelle denunciate dalla nostra amica, �
l'ingerenza sempre pi� pressante dell'Ungheria sulla difficile
situazione
della Vojvodina. Un'ingerenza che preoccupa il governo jugoslavo. Il
presidente Vojislav Kostunica era a Ginevra durante i due giorni
drammatici che hanno preceduto l'arresto di Slobodan Milosevic, proprio
per denunciare all'Onu il "rischio" Vojvodina e chiedere aiuto per
difendere l'integrit� del paese. Nelle stesse ore, da Novi Sad il
presidente del parlamento della Vojvodina Nedar Cianak chiedeva
l'arresto
non soltanto di Milosevic, ma anche di Kostunica.
La bestia nera del nazionalismo e del separatismo ha fatto la sua
comparsa persino nelle scuole, dove addirittura le gare sportive e i
regali ai
bambini rispondono a regole etniche, discriminatorie. E il censimento
di tutti gli alunni "ungheresi" ordinato dal governo di Budapest rischia
di essere la goccia che potrebbe far traboccare il vaso della
Vojvodina, una delle ultime regioni balcaniche in cui popolazioni
diverse avevano
imparato a convivere.
IL GOVERNO JUGOSLAVO D'ACCORDO CON L'APERTURA DI UN CONSOLATO UNGHERESE
A SUBOTICA
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT AGREES TO OPENING HUNGARIAN CONSULATE IN SUBOTICA
BELGRADE, March 15 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav government approved
at
its session Thursday the proposed opening of a Hungarian consulate in
Subotica, whose activities will cover the entire Serbian northern
province
of Vojvodina, the federal information secretariat said.
---
Le minoranze in vojvodina (tedesche e ungheresi) cominciano a
muoversi...
verso dove?
alberto tarozzi.
1.FONTE: Il giornale "VESTI".
2.TITOLO: I Tedeschi in Vojvodina chiedono lo status di minoranza.
3. INDICE: ///
4:SITO INTERNET:
http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?ty943&s=vesti.gif&e
5. NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
6.DATA: 23.01.2001.
Quattromila di cosiddetti " tedeschi del Danubio" che vivono in
Vojvodina,
chiedono, secondo il settimanale tedesco
"Spiegel", che le nuove autorit� jugoslave riconoscano a questo gruppo
etnico lo stato di minoranza nazionale.
In Jugoslavia, durante la monarchia, i "tedeschi del Danubio" avevano
anche
i loro deputati in Parlamento. Per�, dopo il
1944., a causa della collaborazione con le truppe tedesche e della loro
partecipazione nelle divisioni delle SS, circa 170.000
tedeschi sono stati internati e quasi 30.000 sono stati deportati
inell'Unione Sovietica dove la maggior parte mor� nei campi
di concentramento.
1.FONTE: Il giornale "VESTI".
2.TITOLO: Cominciare le trattative.
3. INDICE: Andras Agoston sull'autonomia degli Ungheresi in Vojvodina.
4.SITO INTERNET:
http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?ty876&s=dnevnik.gif&e
5. NUMERO DI PAGINE: �.
6. DATA: 23.01.2001.
Il presidente del Partito degli Ungheresi di Vojvodina, Andras Agoston ,
�
intervenuto ieri nel merito delle trattative
sull'autonomia della Vojvodina. Secondo il giornale ungherese "Info" ha
dichiarato "che dopo i cambiamenti politici in Serbia,
comunque ci sono le speranze per la realizzazione dell'autonomia degli
Ungheresi di Vojvodina " e ha aggiunto alla fine, "che � molto
importante
cominciare a trattare subito."
---
LA COMPAGNIA UNGHERESE MATAV NEL MERCATO DELLA TELEFONIA MOBILE SERBA
HUNGARIAN MATAV WANTS TO BE SERBIAN MOBILE TELEPHONY OPERATOR
BELGRADE, January 24 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's Telecommunications
Minister Boris Tadic received on Wednesday a delegation of Hungary's
MATAV
mobile telephony operator, headed by Ferenc Somogyi.
MATAV, as a strategic partner of Deutsche Telecom, is very much
interested in investing GermanHungarian capital in mobile telephony in
Serbia as a third operator, it was noted.
The meeting was attended by Hungarian Charge d'Affaires in
Belgrade Lazar Kristof.
---
Questa lista e' provvisoriamente curata da componenti
dell'ex Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia Vivra'",
oggi "Comitato Promotore dell'Assemblea Antimperialista":
> http://www.tuttinlotta.org
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente le
opinioni delle realta' che compongono questa struttura, ma
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> Source : http://www.soldinet.org
>
>
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> Thessaloniki, Centre Anti-OTAN des Balkans
> 24.03. 2001 http://www.kke.gr
>
> ====================================================>
> Centre Anti-OTAN des Balkans
> Rencontre de Thessaloniki
> 23 et 24 mars, 2001.
>
> UN APPEL AUX PEUPLES DES BALKANS AUX PEUPLES DU MONDE
> mailto:bancenter@...
>
>
> Deux ans apr�s l'offensive de l'OTAN et ses bombardements criminels
contre
> la Yougoslavie, la situation dans la r�gion reste explosive.
> Dans les zones sous contr�le des forces d'occupation de l'OTAN
(Kosovo et
> fronti�res serbes avec l'ex-R�publique Yougoslave de Mac�doine), les
> attaques arm�es des �l�ments s�cessionnistes albanais se poursuivent
et
> s'�tendent sur le territoire de la R�publique voisine.
> Nous exprimons notre profonde pr�occupation devant les activit�s
> criminelles des �l�ments arm�s s�cessionnistes qui d�stabilisent la
r�gion
> enti�re et menacent de faire sombrer les Balkans dans une nouveau
round de
> conflits sanguinaires. Nous appelons les peuples des Balkans, les
peuples
> d'Europe et du monde entier � se mobiliser activement. Nous
r�clamons :
> - l'inviolabilit� des fronti�res �tatiques
> - de r�sister � toute tentative de mise en question de l'int�grit�
> territoriale, de la souverainet� et de l'ind�pendance des Etats de la
r�gion
> - que les interventions de l'OTAN dans les affaires internes des pays
> des Balkans cessent
> - qu'aucun nouveau pays des Balkans ne rejoigne l'OTAN, que la Gr�ce
> et la Turquie s'en retire et qu'enfin l'OTAN soit dissout
> - que les bases am�ricaines et de l'OTAN ainsi que les armes
> nucl�aires soient �limin�es de Gr�ce et de Turquie, et qu'elles ne
soient
> pas �tablies dans d'autres pays des Balkans
> - le renforcement de la lutte contre la course aux armements, contre
> l'achat de nouvelles armes, qui d'habitude, rencontrent les besoins de
> l'OTAN, au d�triment des besoins de nature sociale
> - qu'ils entreprennent une large campagne d'information et des
> mobilisations dans leurs pays � propos des effets sur l'homme et
> l'environnement dus � l'emploi criminel des bombes � uranium appauvri
et �
> plutonium lors des bombardements de l'OTAN
> - qu'ils luttent pour des BALKANS DE PAIX - DE RELATIONS EQUITABLES -
> SANS INTERVENTIONS IMPERIALISTES !
> Signatures des partis et organisations :
>
> � Bulgarian Communist Party �Georgi Dimitrov� � Communist Party of
> Bulgaria � Political Club �Ecoglasnost�, Bulgaria � Bulgarian
> Anti-fascist Union � Ideological Union �Marxist Platform� of the
Bulgarian
> Socialist Party � Movement �Generals and Officers in BSP�, Bulgaria �
> Club Federation �Open Forum�, Bulgaria � Bulgarian Popular Farmer
Union
> �Alexandr Stamboliiski� � Revolutionary Youth Movement �Che Guevara�,
> Bulgaria � Socialist Youth Union, Bulgaria . AKEL, Cyprus � Communist
> Party of Greece � Democratic Movement (DIKKI), Greece � Communist
> Renewal, Greece � Party of the Socialist Power, Turkey � Council for
> Peace of Romania � Pacifists of Sibiu, Romania � Socialist Party of
> Serbia, Yugoslavia � SUBNOR, Yugoslavia � New Communist Party of
> Yugoslavia � Communist Youth of Yugoslavia . World Federation of
> Democratic Youth
>
> The Socialist Party of Labour of Romania �tait pr�sent comme
observateur.
> For des raisons techniques, les partis suivants, qui soutiennent
> l'initiative, n'ont pu assister � la rencontre :
> Socialist Party of the Sprska Republic
> Party of Labour of Turkey, EMEP
> Communist Party of Albania
> Yugoslav Left (JUL)
> Anti-fascist Union of Romania
> PATRIR, Romania
> Communist Party of Macedonia.
>
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24.03. 2001
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From: Communist Party of Greece
mailto:cpg@... , http://www.kke.gr
====================================================
Balkan ANTI-NATO Centre
Thessaloniki Meeting 23rd and 24th March, 2001.
AN APPEAL
TO THE BALKAN PEOPLES
TO THE PEOPLES OF THE ENTIRE WORLD
mailto:bancenter@...
Two years following NATOs offensive and its criminal bombings against
Yugoslavia, the situation in the region remains explosive.
In the areas under the control of NATO occupation forces (Cossovo and
Serbias borders with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) the
armed attacks of the Albanian secessionist elements and expand into the
territory of the neighbouring Republic.
We express our deep concern for the criminal activities of the armed
secessionist elements which destabilise the whole region and threaten
to sink the Balkans into a new round of bloody conflicts.
We call upon the peoples of the Balkans, the peoples of Europe, of the
entire world, to actively mobilise themselves and demand:
- The inviolability of state borders.
- To resist any attempt at disputing the territorial integrity,
sovereignty and independence of the states of the region.
- That the NATO interventions in the internal affairs of the Balkan
countries be terminated.
- That no new Balkan countries join NATO, Greece and Turkey withdraw
from it and NATO be finally dissolved.
- That American and NATO bases and nuclear weapons be removed from
Greece - Turkey and not be established in other Balkan countries.
- The strengthening of the struggle against the arms race, against the
purchase of new weapons, which usually satisfy NATOs needs, at the
detriment of needs of social nature.
- That they a broad information campaign and mobilisations in their
countries for the effects on man and the environment of the criminal
use by NATO during the bombings, depleted uranium and plutonium bombs.
- That they will struggle for BALKANS OF PEACE - OF EQUITABLE
RELATIONS - WITHOUT IMPERIALIST INTERVENTIONS !
Signatures by Parties and Organisations:
� Bulgarian Communist Party �Georgi Dimirtov�
� Communist Party of Bulgaria
� Political Club �Ecoglasnost�, Bulgaria
� Bulgarian Anti-fascist Union
� Ideological Union �Marxist Platform� of the Bulgarian Socialist Party
� Movement �Generals and Officers in BSP�, Bulgaria
� Club Federation �Open Forum�, Bulgaria
� Bulgarian Popular Farmer Union�Alexandr Stamboliiski�
� Revolutionary Youth Movement �Che Guevara�, Bulgaria
� Socialist Youth Union, Bulgaria
. AKEL, Cyprus
� Communist Party of Greece
� Democratic Movement (DIKKI), Greece
� Communist Renewal, Greece
� Party of the Socialist Power, Turkey
� Council for Peace of Romania
� Pacifists of Sibiu, Romania
� Socialist Party of Serbia, Yugoslavia
� SUBNOR, Yugoslavia
� New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
� Communist Youth of Yugoslavia
. World Federation of Democratic Youth
The Socialist Party of Labour of Romania was present as an observer.
For technical reasons the following parties, which support the
initiative were not able to attend the meeting.
The Socialist Party of the Sprska Republic, the Party of Labour of
Turkey, EMEP, the Communist Party of Albania, the Yugoslav Left (JUL),
Anti-fascist Union of Romania, PATRIR, Romania and the Communist Party
of Macedonia.
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> Centre Anti-OTAN des Balkans
> Rencontre de Thessaloniki
> 23 et 24 mars, 2001.
>
> UN APPEL AUX PEUPLES DES BALKANS AUX PEUPLES DU MONDE
> mailto:bancenter@...
>
>
> Deux ans apr�s l'offensive de l'OTAN et ses bombardements criminels
contre
> la Yougoslavie, la situation dans la r�gion reste explosive.
> Dans les zones sous contr�le des forces d'occupation de l'OTAN
(Kosovo et
> fronti�res serbes avec l'ex-R�publique Yougoslave de Mac�doine), les
> attaques arm�es des �l�ments s�cessionnistes albanais se poursuivent
et
> s'�tendent sur le territoire de la R�publique voisine.
> Nous exprimons notre profonde pr�occupation devant les activit�s
> criminelles des �l�ments arm�s s�cessionnistes qui d�stabilisent la
r�gion
> enti�re et menacent de faire sombrer les Balkans dans une nouveau
round de
> conflits sanguinaires. Nous appelons les peuples des Balkans, les
peuples
> d'Europe et du monde entier � se mobiliser activement. Nous
r�clamons :
> - l'inviolabilit� des fronti�res �tatiques
> - de r�sister � toute tentative de mise en question de l'int�grit�
> territoriale, de la souverainet� et de l'ind�pendance des Etats de la
r�gion
> - que les interventions de l'OTAN dans les affaires internes des pays
> des Balkans cessent
> - qu'aucun nouveau pays des Balkans ne rejoigne l'OTAN, que la Gr�ce
> et la Turquie s'en retire et qu'enfin l'OTAN soit dissout
> - que les bases am�ricaines et de l'OTAN ainsi que les armes
> nucl�aires soient �limin�es de Gr�ce et de Turquie, et qu'elles ne
soient
> pas �tablies dans d'autres pays des Balkans
> - le renforcement de la lutte contre la course aux armements, contre
> l'achat de nouvelles armes, qui d'habitude, rencontrent les besoins de
> l'OTAN, au d�triment des besoins de nature sociale
> - qu'ils entreprennent une large campagne d'information et des
> mobilisations dans leurs pays � propos des effets sur l'homme et
> l'environnement dus � l'emploi criminel des bombes � uranium appauvri
et �
> plutonium lors des bombardements de l'OTAN
> - qu'ils luttent pour des BALKANS DE PAIX - DE RELATIONS EQUITABLES -
> SANS INTERVENTIONS IMPERIALISTES !
> Signatures des partis et organisations :
>
> � Bulgarian Communist Party �Georgi Dimitrov� � Communist Party of
> Bulgaria � Political Club �Ecoglasnost�, Bulgaria � Bulgarian
> Anti-fascist Union � Ideological Union �Marxist Platform� of the
Bulgarian
> Socialist Party � Movement �Generals and Officers in BSP�, Bulgaria �
> Club Federation �Open Forum�, Bulgaria � Bulgarian Popular Farmer
Union
> �Alexandr Stamboliiski� � Revolutionary Youth Movement �Che Guevara�,
> Bulgaria � Socialist Youth Union, Bulgaria . AKEL, Cyprus � Communist
> Party of Greece � Democratic Movement (DIKKI), Greece � Communist
> Renewal, Greece � Party of the Socialist Power, Turkey � Council for
> Peace of Romania � Pacifists of Sibiu, Romania � Socialist Party of
> Serbia, Yugoslavia � SUBNOR, Yugoslavia � New Communist Party of
> Yugoslavia � Communist Youth of Yugoslavia . World Federation of
> Democratic Youth
>
> The Socialist Party of Labour of Romania �tait pr�sent comme
observateur.
> For des raisons techniques, les partis suivants, qui soutiennent
> l'initiative, n'ont pu assister � la rencontre :
> Socialist Party of the Sprska Republic
> Party of Labour of Turkey, EMEP
> Communist Party of Albania
> Yugoslav Left (JUL)
> Anti-fascist Union of Romania
> PATRIR, Romania
> Communist Party of Macedonia.
>
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24.03. 2001
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From: Communist Party of Greece
mailto:cpg@... , http://www.kke.gr
====================================================
Balkan ANTI-NATO Centre
Thessaloniki Meeting 23rd and 24th March, 2001.
AN APPEAL
TO THE BALKAN PEOPLES
TO THE PEOPLES OF THE ENTIRE WORLD
mailto:bancenter@...
Two years following NATOs offensive and its criminal bombings against
Yugoslavia, the situation in the region remains explosive.
In the areas under the control of NATO occupation forces (Cossovo and
Serbias borders with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) the
armed attacks of the Albanian secessionist elements and expand into the
territory of the neighbouring Republic.
We express our deep concern for the criminal activities of the armed
secessionist elements which destabilise the whole region and threaten
to sink the Balkans into a new round of bloody conflicts.
We call upon the peoples of the Balkans, the peoples of Europe, of the
entire world, to actively mobilise themselves and demand:
- The inviolability of state borders.
- To resist any attempt at disputing the territorial integrity,
sovereignty and independence of the states of the region.
- That the NATO interventions in the internal affairs of the Balkan
countries be terminated.
- That no new Balkan countries join NATO, Greece and Turkey withdraw
from it and NATO be finally dissolved.
- That American and NATO bases and nuclear weapons be removed from
Greece - Turkey and not be established in other Balkan countries.
- The strengthening of the struggle against the arms race, against the
purchase of new weapons, which usually satisfy NATOs needs, at the
detriment of needs of social nature.
- That they a broad information campaign and mobilisations in their
countries for the effects on man and the environment of the criminal
use by NATO during the bombings, depleted uranium and plutonium bombs.
- That they will struggle for BALKANS OF PEACE - OF EQUITABLE
RELATIONS - WITHOUT IMPERIALIST INTERVENTIONS !
Signatures by Parties and Organisations:
� Bulgarian Communist Party �Georgi Dimirtov�
� Communist Party of Bulgaria
� Political Club �Ecoglasnost�, Bulgaria
� Bulgarian Anti-fascist Union
� Ideological Union �Marxist Platform� of the Bulgarian Socialist Party
� Movement �Generals and Officers in BSP�, Bulgaria
� Club Federation �Open Forum�, Bulgaria
� Bulgarian Popular Farmer Union�Alexandr Stamboliiski�
� Revolutionary Youth Movement �Che Guevara�, Bulgaria
� Socialist Youth Union, Bulgaria
. AKEL, Cyprus
� Communist Party of Greece
� Democratic Movement (DIKKI), Greece
� Communist Renewal, Greece
� Party of the Socialist Power, Turkey
� Council for Peace of Romania
� Pacifists of Sibiu, Romania
� Socialist Party of Serbia, Yugoslavia
� SUBNOR, Yugoslavia
� New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
� Communist Youth of Yugoslavia
. World Federation of Democratic Youth
The Socialist Party of Labour of Romania was present as an observer.
For technical reasons the following parties, which support the
initiative were not able to attend the meeting.
The Socialist Party of the Sprska Republic, the Party of Labour of
Turkey, EMEP, the Communist Party of Albania, the Yugoslav Left (JUL),
Anti-fascist Union of Romania, PATRIR, Romania and the Communist Party
of Macedonia.
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Oggetto: Professor Mihailo Markovic on arrest of Milosevic
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Friday, april 6, 2001
1. Professor Mihailo Markovic on arrest of Milosevic
2. Cuban Exile Group Says Milosevic Arrest Sends Message To Castro
3. Kosovo, the west's Chechnya
4. Croatian Army was the classic aggressor in the war in Bosnia
Herzegovina
**********************************************************
PROFESSOR MIHAILO MARKOVIC ON ARREST OF MILOSEVIC
Most important Yugoslav living philosopher, professor Mihailo Markovic,
member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of several
international scientific societies and visiting professor in many
foreign
universities, including in USA, made today the following statement on
the
arrest of president Milosevic:
Present Yugoslav authorities know that Slobodan Milosevic is not a war
criminal and yet they arrested him and intend to deliver him to the
Hague
tribunal the partiality of which is quite obvious. Its prosecutor,
notorious Carla Del Ponte declared in advance that for his "crimes"
Milosevic will get life imprisonment. He is guilty before anything was
proven, he is punished before the trial even started. In any truly legal
institution this lady would be fired and the case dismissed.
Unfortunately
the Hague tribunal is not a legal but a political institution fully
subordinated to the only-remaining word superpower.
It is common knowledge that multinational former Yugoslavia was not
broken
by former Yugoslav president but by separatist forces, supported from
outside. All evidence points out that the four wars in former Yugoslavia
were not produced by Milosevic but by paramilitary forces of
secessionists.
There were indeed appalling atrocities in those wars, as in every civil
war
in history. But they were committed by all parties. There was no
systematic
Serbian policy deserving to be characterized as genocide or crime
against
humanity. Besides, when similar crimes took place in some other wars
(for
example war in Vietnam) only those who committed them were held
responsible, not presidents of USA and other countries.
Certainly everyone, including Milosevic is responsible if he broke the
international low and the lows of his country. However, our entire
civilization and any truly legal system rest on the principle that guilt
must be proven and that each human being must be presumed innocent
before
trial begins. I am convinced that Milosevic would not have been arrested
had this not been demanded by the USA in order to absolve itself from
the
moral and legal responsibility for bombardment of Yugoslavia.
Mihailo Markovic, is member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
********************************************
CUBAN EXILE GROUP SAYS MILOSEVIC ARREST SENDS MESSAGE TO CASTRO
By Jim Burns CNS Senior Staff Writer
April 05, 2001 - (CNSNews.com) - The Cuban American National Foundation
Wednesday congratulated the Yugoslavian government for arresting its
former
president, Slobodan Milosevic, saying Cuban leader Fidel Castro should
learn from Milosevic's experience.
"Milosevic's arrest sends an important message to tyrants everywhere:
You
can no longer commit gross human rights abuses and hide behind the
outdated
doctrine of executive privilege," CANF Executive Vice President Dennis
Hays
said in a statement.
"There is an emerging international consensus that dictators can and
should
be held accountable for their crimes," said Hays in a pointed reference
to
Castro.
In the case of Cuba, Hays noted, "It is a forgone conclusion that in a
democratic Cuba, Fidel Castro would be brought before the courts to
answer
for his crimes. This is one reason why Castro denies the Cuban people
any
free voice in their government."
Hays believes the international community should "bring Castro to
account
for his direct involvement in crimes against the citizens of other
nations,
such as his admitted culpability in the premeditated murder of four
individuals in the shoot down of the Brothers to the Rescue aircraft."
Four Cuban exiles died on Feb. 24, 1996, when Cuban MIGs fired on planes
belonging to the Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based Cuban exile
group.
The brothers contend they were in international airspace over the
Florida
Straits.
CANF also congratulated the United States government and the
international
community for exerting "positive pressure" on Yugoslavia to undertake
Milosevic's arrest.
"The targeted use of economic sanctions clearly helped bring about this
important development. We call upon the international community to
continue
to press Yugoslavia to take the next step, Milosevic's extradition to
The
Hague to answer for his many crimes," Hays said.
*************************************
KOSOVO, THE WEST'S CHECHNYA
By Yuri Luzhkov
Nato has caused severe harm in the Balkans by believing that Albanian
desires for autonomy can be satisfied.
Two years have passed since Nato launched its military operation against
Yugoslavia. Under the guise of protecting Kosovar Albanians, Nato
inflicted
an exemplary punishment of bombings and blockades. Rarely were
dissenting
voices allowed to intrude on western public opinion.
At that time, I called Kosovo another Chechnya. I see now that if I
erred
it was in being over-optimistic. In 1999 there were already signs of
Kosovo's "Chechenisation". There was mass hostage-taking along ethnic
lines
and there was religious intolerance - the Kosovo Liberation Army was
even
forcing Catholic Albanians to leave. Serbian monasteries were destroyed
and
priests were kidnapped. Almost all the Serbian population has now been
expelled from the region of Kosovo. Almost all the historical monuments
have been ruined. We profess shock at the destruction of Buddhas in
Afghanistan but we have allowed history to be destroyed in the very
centre
of Europe.
Why is this cultural destruction occurring? Because it does not suit the
Kosovars to have evidence exposing them as relatively recent arrivals in
this land. In much the same way, Chechen rebels regularly destroy
evidence
that the plains of Chechnya were settled by the Cossacks of the north
Caucasus.
Macedonia is now becoming the victim of the very Albanians whom, until
recently, it had supported under pressure from Nato. Out of Nato's
bombs a
cancer has grown and it continues to spread.
Some people in Nato must have thought the Albanians could be easily
pacified. Their attitude must have been: they already have a state,
Albania
- let them annex to it all the territories where Albanians have settled.
They must also have thought: they have military forces - let them have
the
terrorists of the KLA as well. That will culminate in a Greater Albania.
True, it will be big and bloody - but it will still meet the legal norms
making it admissible to the United Nations.
That attitude is wrong - it will not be the end. Many rebellious
Albanians
will never settle for a peaceful life. Their country is the poorest in
Europe. Driven by political or economic forces, they will spread across
the
continent, forming a network of desperate sellers of arms and drugs. As
a
result, Europe will encounter its own clash of civilisations: a majority
operating by 21st-century legal and ethical standards will confront a
minority with far more ancient standards and yet with modern arms at
their
disposal.
To avoid a new battle of Poitiers, or of Vienna, Europe should analyse
the
situation in Pristina. In doing so, it may find Russia's sad experience
in
Chechnya to be of considerable help. The war in Chechnya began when some
former Russian leaders thought a tank regiment could solve a local
failure
in their nation-building. With Kosovo, Nato thought a bombing campaign
could rid them of one Serbian leader. An insignificant aim was pursued
with
enough force to shatter the calm of an entire region and leave
thousands of
dead and injured.
The Kosovars have taken the Chechen experience into account - and
reproduced it diligently. In Chechnya, the mono-ethnic path was clear by
the end of the Soviet period. A significant portion of the non-Chechen
population was forced out before the revolution led by Djohar Dudaev.
This
greatly assisted the second, outright separatist stage.
The same has happened in Kosovo: Serbs were already being squeezed out
during the peaceful times under Tito. But Kosovo has never belonged to
the
Albanians. Indeed, Tito invited many of them as part of his plan to
create
a Balkan federation.
It seems that now nobody is ready to resist the Kosovar brigands. At
least
when Yevgeny Primakov was prime minister of Russia, he turned his
aircraft
around in mid-flight, abandoning a trip to the US, to protest against
the
bombardment. But soon after that, Russia was not even prepared to
insist on
its own sector of control in Kosovo, which would have saved some of the
Serb population from exile.
With Serbia humiliated and Russia "contained", Nato alone must now
answer
for the Kosovo settlement. Perhaps that is why it has suddenly
remembered
the existence of the Yugoslav national army, which it was accusing of
all
possible sins just two years ago.
The Yugoslavs can bring real force to bear. Their motherland is at stake
and they alone must save it. There can be no hope of relying on a
transatlantic uncle. Russia has lived through this situation. Israel has
also lived through it. Now it is the turn of Yugoslavia. The rest of
Europe
must understand. As in medieval times, the question is not one of
comfort
but of survival.
The writer is mayor of Moscow
******************************************
CROATIAN ARMY WAS THE CLASSIC AGGRESSOR IN THE WAR IN BOSNIA
HERZEGOVINA
The Croatian newspaper Nacional is in possession of documentation and
witness testimonies that unquestionably prove that the Croatian Army was
the classic aggressor in the war in neighbouring Bosnia Herzegovina.
These
documents refer to the 175th Brigade which in the first half of 1994 was
sent to the "Uskoplje-Ram Battlefield", as military support for the
Convicts Brigade led by Mladen Naletilic Tuta, now a prisoner in the
Hague.
Formed by order of Gojko Susak, then Defense Minister, the 175th
Brigade is
a clear example of the so-called parallel military-political command
lines
which skirted the constitutional authority of the parliament, and also
the
HV General Staff.
The documents and evidence reached Nacional from military circles,
meaning
that within the Defense Ministry and General Staff archives are
certainly
many others like them. This proves that Vesna Pusic, HNS president, was
the
only person speaking the truth regarding the Croatian aggression on
Bosnia
Herzegovina. Also, the same documents show that the remaining
politicians
of the governing coalition, acting as though they have no idea, are
participating in covering up one of the greatest HDZ crimes: the misuse
of
entire units of the Croatian Army in a secret conquest on another
country's
territory.
Perfidious Lie
The lie is even more perfidious in that the leaders of the 175th Brigade
are even today in high ranking military functions in Croatia. The
Brigade
commander Franjo Primorac is employed at the Croatian Military Academy.
An
even more dramatic example is Miroslav Vidovic, who is currently the
right
hand to Military Chief of Staff Petar Stipetic. Vidovic was the chief of
security for the brigade, precisely at the time of its Bosnian
escapades,
and his headquarters were in Prozor.
Nacional is in possession of three key documents concerning the history
of
the 175th Brigade. One of these documents openly describes this brigade
as
a formation of the Croatian Army. In another, it is called the 175th
Brigade of HVO, and in the third it is not specified as to which
military
organization it belongs.
However, regardless of its name, it is evident that it was financed from
the Croatian national budget and that its members received their
salaries
as soldiers of the Croatian Armed Forces.
The first is a report regarding the "securing of the town Prozor by the
175th Brigade", dated January 1, 1994, and includes a blueprint of the
school building where the brigade's command center was.
The second document is dated February 4, 1994 and is signed by Major
Andrija Skoko, command assistant for logistics, and outlines the
organization scheme for the supply and medical assistance for the 1500
troops which made up the brigade. "The main storehouse facility of the
175th Brigade is in Zagreb, at the military base 'Croatia'�Facilitative
storehouse facilities, including technical and supplies, is in the
Prozor
High School, and the commander of the logistics company of the Brigade
is
responsible for it�Ammunition in Prozor is executed via the ZP
Tomislavgrad
IZM Prozor - storehouse Brana�", outlines Skoko in his supply scheme.
The third document is even more interesting. It is entitled: "Report on
the
life and work of a brigade from its formation to its transfer into the
reserves". Written on the official letterhead of the Croatian Defense
Ministry, the text was written on May 15, 1994 by the brigade's
commander,
Franjo Primorac. It testifies to the activities of the Croatian
military on
the other side of the Croatian border, and this report also tells of the
reasons for its military defeat: the lack of motive to fight in the
name of
the HDZ imperialistic ambitions.
"The formation of the brigade began based on an order by the Defense
Minister of the Republic of Croatia on December 14, 1993 for the
mobilization of RP 9804. The actual mobilization was executed in four
different phases�", begins the eight page report by Primorac which
outlines
the problems of training in Delnice and in Pozega, with the "numerous
activities" in Bosnia Herzegovina, outlines the troubles with armament
and
soldiers injuring themselves, and warns of the activities of the "yellow
media" in conjugation with the "foreign and domestic enemies".
Underhanded Mobilization
In short, from only three documents, it is possible to reconstruct the
way
in which HV became an instrument of the HDZ invasion on the territory of
the neighbouring country. However, the actual and much
greater Croatian aggression on BiH will become clear when the all of the
archives are opened one day. From the verbal stories which have been
passing around the military bases for years, it is obvious that the
175th
Brigade is not an isolated example and that numerous Croatian units
participated in the HDZ project to take command of territory within
Bosnia
Herzegovina.
According to Susak's order, the 175th Brigade was supposed to have been
composed of Croats from BiH which had fled to Croatia at the beginning
of
the Croat-Muslim war. Ivan Andabak, cofounder and leader of the
Convict's
Brigade, was unofficially in charge of executing the mobilization. Due
to
this task, he sat in the Defense Ministry for several weeks at the end
of
1993. As Primorac explicitly states in his report, the mobilization was
based on the unofficial thesis that those Croats who had moved to
Croatia
after January 1, 1992 could be treated as deserters.
This lead to the first difficulties in filling the 175th Brigade.
According
to Primorac's report, mobilized soldiers felt that it was unjust that
their
fellow Croats who had fled from BiH in December 1991 were exempt from
mandatory service, while those who had entered Croatia in 1992 were
mobilized as punishment for "deserting". As a consequence of the obvious
resistance to this recruitment action, almost 2000 men found a way,
through
connections in the recruitment committee, to obtain documents declaring
them unfit for military service. There was also a significant number of
men
who were militarily able who called upon the constitution, and refused
to
go to war on the territory of a neighbouring country.
Forced Volunteers
These men were separated into a separate brigade and spread about the
Zadar
region. Thus the mobilization was completed by bringing together men
without any real criteria, including Croatian citizens who for years had
not had any contact with Bosnia Herzegovina, outside of family
connections.
Due to the bad turnout, the brigade was thus composed of suspicious
foreigners, underaged boys and handicapped individuals. Recall that in
the
eyes of the public and the international community, these men were
presented as volunteers who had joined, with no pressures, and were
inspired by the very idea of Herceg-Bosna, and were making themselves
available to HVO.
"The mobilization began on New Years Day, 1994. Even though the majority
were against going into
Bosnia, they treated us as volunteers. The preparations lasted for ten
days. We left the Croatia military base by bus, divided into four
companies. They gave us HVO badges and classical infantry weaponry. At
the
Vran Mountain pass we got stuck in snow, and the UNPROFOR trailers had
to
pull us out. Prozor was empty and free; our brigade served as support
for
Naletilic's Convict's Brigade, and for the most part we just watched
over
the territory they had won. Naletilic's soldiers died in troops,
penetrating towards Donji Vakuf which was divided between the Croats and
the Muslims. UNPROFOR had a monitoring mission in the Vran Mountains and
were excellently informed in all the events," recalls a former member of
the 175th Brigade, 40 years old at the time, who had been born in
Tomislavgrad but had been living and working in Croatia for two decades
already. The Brigade was, therefore, sent into Bosnia in January 1994,
and
they were transported to the so-called South Battlefield in 170 busses.
They returned to Croatia in the same way in May of the same year. In the
Uskoplje-Ram region, they had taken the position of two HVO units which
had
been sent on leave: they substituted for the so-called Lasva Company and
the Matija Vlacic Company. Primorac's report also refers to the "HV
forces"
they came across there, which left after their arrival, but the name of
that formation is not given.
Smuggling Gangs
"According to the order by the Defense Ministry of Croatia, the brigade
was
militarily assigned in late 1993 to the South Battlefield, precisely to
the
Uskoplje-Ram battlefront. In the period from December 26 to 28, 1993 in
the
area of the future engagement of the brigade, a quarters scout was sent
to
the area to look over the battlefront area and the camp position, and to
conduct the logistical preparations for the arrival of the brigade. It
is
necessary to emphasize that at that time, the brigade had only two
terrain
vehicles, make and model 'Lada Niva', at its disposal and that all of
the
support in the transport segments were received from the transportation
sector of the Defense Ministry for the transfer of troops to Prozor,
while
further transport would be dependent on HVO," writes Primorac.
The report continues to state that they arrived to find total chaos in
the
field: a disorganized position without any protection from enemy fire, a
lack of information concerning Muslim forces, and HVO forces who were
small
in number, undisciplined and only lightly armed. The greatest problems
by
far were the showdowns among smuggling gangs, and that with the
blessing of
the local military police and the local HVO leaders. It is necessary to
add
the typical disorder of the logistical experts who had, for example,
sent
off the recoilless guns without enough grenades, sniper rifles without
bullets, rocket launchers without rockets, and grenades without the
appropriate launchers. Their repeated requests for obtain equipment and
weaponry from the HVO logistics center were responded to with demands
that
they first explain exactly which HVO region they belonged to. There were
also such trivial problems such as military boots, and Primorac began to
complain in his report that his 150 soldiers had walked for weeks in
boots
that were falling apart.
In such an atmosphere, already in the first days of its combat
expeditions
in Bosnia Herzegovina, the 175th Brigade experienced three cases of
self-injury and one injury caused by negligence.
Fatal Gun Cleaning
Just before the brigade pulled out of BiH, that statistic was increased
by
three deaths caused by negligence. One Croatian soldier was killed
while he
cleaned his gun, and two died in dangerous war games played in their
positions.
The first armed conflict of the 175th Brigade against Muslim forces took
place on February 24, 1994, one day prior to the cease-fire with Army
BiH.
Two of the brigade members were killed by Muslim shelling in the area of
Kicalj. The second encounter with the Muslim army took place at Zvisce
in
April 1994. As Primorac later informed Minister Susak with great pride,
that small offensive resulted in ten Muslim deaths and only two Croatian
causalities. The brigade imprisoned five Muslims who had crossed over
onto
Croatian territory by mistake, and all five were handed over to the
superior operative command center of HVO.
Fear of Reparations
In other words, the report by Franjo Primorac is, in a real
illustration of
the Croatian military as a so-called regional, Balkan force in Bosnia
Herzegovina during the HDZ regime: in direct conflicts with the enemy,
the
175th Brigade had fewer victims that in the their leisure time.
There are many reasons why the coalition government, in spite of
documents
and thousands of living witnesses, persistently deny the very active
involvement of the Croatian military in the war for Herceg Bosna. Some
deny
it for they fundamentally believe in the HDZ project of a Great Croatia
which should include at least Herzegovina. Many others, however, like
Zdravko Tomac (SDP) deny this out of the fear of potential financial
consequences of the unofficial, never publicly admitted aggression on
Bosnia Herzegovina. "If that becomes the official position of the
international community," announced Tomac during one conversation with
Nacional's journalist, "Sarajevo might then seek war reparations."
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Oggetto: Professor Mihailo Markovic on arrest of Milosevic
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Friday, april 6, 2001
1. Professor Mihailo Markovic on arrest of Milosevic
2. Cuban Exile Group Says Milosevic Arrest Sends Message To Castro
3. Kosovo, the west's Chechnya
4. Croatian Army was the classic aggressor in the war in Bosnia
Herzegovina
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PROFESSOR MIHAILO MARKOVIC ON ARREST OF MILOSEVIC
Most important Yugoslav living philosopher, professor Mihailo Markovic,
member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of several
international scientific societies and visiting professor in many
foreign
universities, including in USA, made today the following statement on
the
arrest of president Milosevic:
Present Yugoslav authorities know that Slobodan Milosevic is not a war
criminal and yet they arrested him and intend to deliver him to the
Hague
tribunal the partiality of which is quite obvious. Its prosecutor,
notorious Carla Del Ponte declared in advance that for his "crimes"
Milosevic will get life imprisonment. He is guilty before anything was
proven, he is punished before the trial even started. In any truly legal
institution this lady would be fired and the case dismissed.
Unfortunately
the Hague tribunal is not a legal but a political institution fully
subordinated to the only-remaining word superpower.
It is common knowledge that multinational former Yugoslavia was not
broken
by former Yugoslav president but by separatist forces, supported from
outside. All evidence points out that the four wars in former Yugoslavia
were not produced by Milosevic but by paramilitary forces of
secessionists.
There were indeed appalling atrocities in those wars, as in every civil
war
in history. But they were committed by all parties. There was no
systematic
Serbian policy deserving to be characterized as genocide or crime
against
humanity. Besides, when similar crimes took place in some other wars
(for
example war in Vietnam) only those who committed them were held
responsible, not presidents of USA and other countries.
Certainly everyone, including Milosevic is responsible if he broke the
international low and the lows of his country. However, our entire
civilization and any truly legal system rest on the principle that guilt
must be proven and that each human being must be presumed innocent
before
trial begins. I am convinced that Milosevic would not have been arrested
had this not been demanded by the USA in order to absolve itself from
the
moral and legal responsibility for bombardment of Yugoslavia.
Mihailo Markovic, is member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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CUBAN EXILE GROUP SAYS MILOSEVIC ARREST SENDS MESSAGE TO CASTRO
By Jim Burns CNS Senior Staff Writer
April 05, 2001 - (CNSNews.com) - The Cuban American National Foundation
Wednesday congratulated the Yugoslavian government for arresting its
former
president, Slobodan Milosevic, saying Cuban leader Fidel Castro should
learn from Milosevic's experience.
"Milosevic's arrest sends an important message to tyrants everywhere:
You
can no longer commit gross human rights abuses and hide behind the
outdated
doctrine of executive privilege," CANF Executive Vice President Dennis
Hays
said in a statement.
"There is an emerging international consensus that dictators can and
should
be held accountable for their crimes," said Hays in a pointed reference
to
Castro.
In the case of Cuba, Hays noted, "It is a forgone conclusion that in a
democratic Cuba, Fidel Castro would be brought before the courts to
answer
for his crimes. This is one reason why Castro denies the Cuban people
any
free voice in their government."
Hays believes the international community should "bring Castro to
account
for his direct involvement in crimes against the citizens of other
nations,
such as his admitted culpability in the premeditated murder of four
individuals in the shoot down of the Brothers to the Rescue aircraft."
Four Cuban exiles died on Feb. 24, 1996, when Cuban MIGs fired on planes
belonging to the Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based Cuban exile
group.
The brothers contend they were in international airspace over the
Florida
Straits.
CANF also congratulated the United States government and the
international
community for exerting "positive pressure" on Yugoslavia to undertake
Milosevic's arrest.
"The targeted use of economic sanctions clearly helped bring about this
important development. We call upon the international community to
continue
to press Yugoslavia to take the next step, Milosevic's extradition to
The
Hague to answer for his many crimes," Hays said.
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KOSOVO, THE WEST'S CHECHNYA
By Yuri Luzhkov
Nato has caused severe harm in the Balkans by believing that Albanian
desires for autonomy can be satisfied.
Two years have passed since Nato launched its military operation against
Yugoslavia. Under the guise of protecting Kosovar Albanians, Nato
inflicted
an exemplary punishment of bombings and blockades. Rarely were
dissenting
voices allowed to intrude on western public opinion.
At that time, I called Kosovo another Chechnya. I see now that if I
erred
it was in being over-optimistic. In 1999 there were already signs of
Kosovo's "Chechenisation". There was mass hostage-taking along ethnic
lines
and there was religious intolerance - the Kosovo Liberation Army was
even
forcing Catholic Albanians to leave. Serbian monasteries were destroyed
and
priests were kidnapped. Almost all the Serbian population has now been
expelled from the region of Kosovo. Almost all the historical monuments
have been ruined. We profess shock at the destruction of Buddhas in
Afghanistan but we have allowed history to be destroyed in the very
centre
of Europe.
Why is this cultural destruction occurring? Because it does not suit the
Kosovars to have evidence exposing them as relatively recent arrivals in
this land. In much the same way, Chechen rebels regularly destroy
evidence
that the plains of Chechnya were settled by the Cossacks of the north
Caucasus.
Macedonia is now becoming the victim of the very Albanians whom, until
recently, it had supported under pressure from Nato. Out of Nato's
bombs a
cancer has grown and it continues to spread.
Some people in Nato must have thought the Albanians could be easily
pacified. Their attitude must have been: they already have a state,
Albania
- let them annex to it all the territories where Albanians have settled.
They must also have thought: they have military forces - let them have
the
terrorists of the KLA as well. That will culminate in a Greater Albania.
True, it will be big and bloody - but it will still meet the legal norms
making it admissible to the United Nations.
That attitude is wrong - it will not be the end. Many rebellious
Albanians
will never settle for a peaceful life. Their country is the poorest in
Europe. Driven by political or economic forces, they will spread across
the
continent, forming a network of desperate sellers of arms and drugs. As
a
result, Europe will encounter its own clash of civilisations: a majority
operating by 21st-century legal and ethical standards will confront a
minority with far more ancient standards and yet with modern arms at
their
disposal.
To avoid a new battle of Poitiers, or of Vienna, Europe should analyse
the
situation in Pristina. In doing so, it may find Russia's sad experience
in
Chechnya to be of considerable help. The war in Chechnya began when some
former Russian leaders thought a tank regiment could solve a local
failure
in their nation-building. With Kosovo, Nato thought a bombing campaign
could rid them of one Serbian leader. An insignificant aim was pursued
with
enough force to shatter the calm of an entire region and leave
thousands of
dead and injured.
The Kosovars have taken the Chechen experience into account - and
reproduced it diligently. In Chechnya, the mono-ethnic path was clear by
the end of the Soviet period. A significant portion of the non-Chechen
population was forced out before the revolution led by Djohar Dudaev.
This
greatly assisted the second, outright separatist stage.
The same has happened in Kosovo: Serbs were already being squeezed out
during the peaceful times under Tito. But Kosovo has never belonged to
the
Albanians. Indeed, Tito invited many of them as part of his plan to
create
a Balkan federation.
It seems that now nobody is ready to resist the Kosovar brigands. At
least
when Yevgeny Primakov was prime minister of Russia, he turned his
aircraft
around in mid-flight, abandoning a trip to the US, to protest against
the
bombardment. But soon after that, Russia was not even prepared to
insist on
its own sector of control in Kosovo, which would have saved some of the
Serb population from exile.
With Serbia humiliated and Russia "contained", Nato alone must now
answer
for the Kosovo settlement. Perhaps that is why it has suddenly
remembered
the existence of the Yugoslav national army, which it was accusing of
all
possible sins just two years ago.
The Yugoslavs can bring real force to bear. Their motherland is at stake
and they alone must save it. There can be no hope of relying on a
transatlantic uncle. Russia has lived through this situation. Israel has
also lived through it. Now it is the turn of Yugoslavia. The rest of
Europe
must understand. As in medieval times, the question is not one of
comfort
but of survival.
The writer is mayor of Moscow
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CROATIAN ARMY WAS THE CLASSIC AGGRESSOR IN THE WAR IN BOSNIA
HERZEGOVINA
The Croatian newspaper Nacional is in possession of documentation and
witness testimonies that unquestionably prove that the Croatian Army was
the classic aggressor in the war in neighbouring Bosnia Herzegovina.
These
documents refer to the 175th Brigade which in the first half of 1994 was
sent to the "Uskoplje-Ram Battlefield", as military support for the
Convicts Brigade led by Mladen Naletilic Tuta, now a prisoner in the
Hague.
Formed by order of Gojko Susak, then Defense Minister, the 175th
Brigade is
a clear example of the so-called parallel military-political command
lines
which skirted the constitutional authority of the parliament, and also
the
HV General Staff.
The documents and evidence reached Nacional from military circles,
meaning
that within the Defense Ministry and General Staff archives are
certainly
many others like them. This proves that Vesna Pusic, HNS president, was
the
only person speaking the truth regarding the Croatian aggression on
Bosnia
Herzegovina. Also, the same documents show that the remaining
politicians
of the governing coalition, acting as though they have no idea, are
participating in covering up one of the greatest HDZ crimes: the misuse
of
entire units of the Croatian Army in a secret conquest on another
country's
territory.
Perfidious Lie
The lie is even more perfidious in that the leaders of the 175th Brigade
are even today in high ranking military functions in Croatia. The
Brigade
commander Franjo Primorac is employed at the Croatian Military Academy.
An
even more dramatic example is Miroslav Vidovic, who is currently the
right
hand to Military Chief of Staff Petar Stipetic. Vidovic was the chief of
security for the brigade, precisely at the time of its Bosnian
escapades,
and his headquarters were in Prozor.
Nacional is in possession of three key documents concerning the history
of
the 175th Brigade. One of these documents openly describes this brigade
as
a formation of the Croatian Army. In another, it is called the 175th
Brigade of HVO, and in the third it is not specified as to which
military
organization it belongs.
However, regardless of its name, it is evident that it was financed from
the Croatian national budget and that its members received their
salaries
as soldiers of the Croatian Armed Forces.
The first is a report regarding the "securing of the town Prozor by the
175th Brigade", dated January 1, 1994, and includes a blueprint of the
school building where the brigade's command center was.
The second document is dated February 4, 1994 and is signed by Major
Andrija Skoko, command assistant for logistics, and outlines the
organization scheme for the supply and medical assistance for the 1500
troops which made up the brigade. "The main storehouse facility of the
175th Brigade is in Zagreb, at the military base 'Croatia'�Facilitative
storehouse facilities, including technical and supplies, is in the
Prozor
High School, and the commander of the logistics company of the Brigade
is
responsible for it�Ammunition in Prozor is executed via the ZP
Tomislavgrad
IZM Prozor - storehouse Brana�", outlines Skoko in his supply scheme.
The third document is even more interesting. It is entitled: "Report on
the
life and work of a brigade from its formation to its transfer into the
reserves". Written on the official letterhead of the Croatian Defense
Ministry, the text was written on May 15, 1994 by the brigade's
commander,
Franjo Primorac. It testifies to the activities of the Croatian
military on
the other side of the Croatian border, and this report also tells of the
reasons for its military defeat: the lack of motive to fight in the
name of
the HDZ imperialistic ambitions.
"The formation of the brigade began based on an order by the Defense
Minister of the Republic of Croatia on December 14, 1993 for the
mobilization of RP 9804. The actual mobilization was executed in four
different phases�", begins the eight page report by Primorac which
outlines
the problems of training in Delnice and in Pozega, with the "numerous
activities" in Bosnia Herzegovina, outlines the troubles with armament
and
soldiers injuring themselves, and warns of the activities of the "yellow
media" in conjugation with the "foreign and domestic enemies".
Underhanded Mobilization
In short, from only three documents, it is possible to reconstruct the
way
in which HV became an instrument of the HDZ invasion on the territory of
the neighbouring country. However, the actual and much
greater Croatian aggression on BiH will become clear when the all of the
archives are opened one day. From the verbal stories which have been
passing around the military bases for years, it is obvious that the
175th
Brigade is not an isolated example and that numerous Croatian units
participated in the HDZ project to take command of territory within
Bosnia
Herzegovina.
According to Susak's order, the 175th Brigade was supposed to have been
composed of Croats from BiH which had fled to Croatia at the beginning
of
the Croat-Muslim war. Ivan Andabak, cofounder and leader of the
Convict's
Brigade, was unofficially in charge of executing the mobilization. Due
to
this task, he sat in the Defense Ministry for several weeks at the end
of
1993. As Primorac explicitly states in his report, the mobilization was
based on the unofficial thesis that those Croats who had moved to
Croatia
after January 1, 1992 could be treated as deserters.
This lead to the first difficulties in filling the 175th Brigade.
According
to Primorac's report, mobilized soldiers felt that it was unjust that
their
fellow Croats who had fled from BiH in December 1991 were exempt from
mandatory service, while those who had entered Croatia in 1992 were
mobilized as punishment for "deserting". As a consequence of the obvious
resistance to this recruitment action, almost 2000 men found a way,
through
connections in the recruitment committee, to obtain documents declaring
them unfit for military service. There was also a significant number of
men
who were militarily able who called upon the constitution, and refused
to
go to war on the territory of a neighbouring country.
Forced Volunteers
These men were separated into a separate brigade and spread about the
Zadar
region. Thus the mobilization was completed by bringing together men
without any real criteria, including Croatian citizens who for years had
not had any contact with Bosnia Herzegovina, outside of family
connections.
Due to the bad turnout, the brigade was thus composed of suspicious
foreigners, underaged boys and handicapped individuals. Recall that in
the
eyes of the public and the international community, these men were
presented as volunteers who had joined, with no pressures, and were
inspired by the very idea of Herceg-Bosna, and were making themselves
available to HVO.
"The mobilization began on New Years Day, 1994. Even though the majority
were against going into
Bosnia, they treated us as volunteers. The preparations lasted for ten
days. We left the Croatia military base by bus, divided into four
companies. They gave us HVO badges and classical infantry weaponry. At
the
Vran Mountain pass we got stuck in snow, and the UNPROFOR trailers had
to
pull us out. Prozor was empty and free; our brigade served as support
for
Naletilic's Convict's Brigade, and for the most part we just watched
over
the territory they had won. Naletilic's soldiers died in troops,
penetrating towards Donji Vakuf which was divided between the Croats and
the Muslims. UNPROFOR had a monitoring mission in the Vran Mountains and
were excellently informed in all the events," recalls a former member of
the 175th Brigade, 40 years old at the time, who had been born in
Tomislavgrad but had been living and working in Croatia for two decades
already. The Brigade was, therefore, sent into Bosnia in January 1994,
and
they were transported to the so-called South Battlefield in 170 busses.
They returned to Croatia in the same way in May of the same year. In the
Uskoplje-Ram region, they had taken the position of two HVO units which
had
been sent on leave: they substituted for the so-called Lasva Company and
the Matija Vlacic Company. Primorac's report also refers to the "HV
forces"
they came across there, which left after their arrival, but the name of
that formation is not given.
Smuggling Gangs
"According to the order by the Defense Ministry of Croatia, the brigade
was
militarily assigned in late 1993 to the South Battlefield, precisely to
the
Uskoplje-Ram battlefront. In the period from December 26 to 28, 1993 in
the
area of the future engagement of the brigade, a quarters scout was sent
to
the area to look over the battlefront area and the camp position, and to
conduct the logistical preparations for the arrival of the brigade. It
is
necessary to emphasize that at that time, the brigade had only two
terrain
vehicles, make and model 'Lada Niva', at its disposal and that all of
the
support in the transport segments were received from the transportation
sector of the Defense Ministry for the transfer of troops to Prozor,
while
further transport would be dependent on HVO," writes Primorac.
The report continues to state that they arrived to find total chaos in
the
field: a disorganized position without any protection from enemy fire, a
lack of information concerning Muslim forces, and HVO forces who were
small
in number, undisciplined and only lightly armed. The greatest problems
by
far were the showdowns among smuggling gangs, and that with the
blessing of
the local military police and the local HVO leaders. It is necessary to
add
the typical disorder of the logistical experts who had, for example,
sent
off the recoilless guns without enough grenades, sniper rifles without
bullets, rocket launchers without rockets, and grenades without the
appropriate launchers. Their repeated requests for obtain equipment and
weaponry from the HVO logistics center were responded to with demands
that
they first explain exactly which HVO region they belonged to. There were
also such trivial problems such as military boots, and Primorac began to
complain in his report that his 150 soldiers had walked for weeks in
boots
that were falling apart.
In such an atmosphere, already in the first days of its combat
expeditions
in Bosnia Herzegovina, the 175th Brigade experienced three cases of
self-injury and one injury caused by negligence.
Fatal Gun Cleaning
Just before the brigade pulled out of BiH, that statistic was increased
by
three deaths caused by negligence. One Croatian soldier was killed
while he
cleaned his gun, and two died in dangerous war games played in their
positions.
The first armed conflict of the 175th Brigade against Muslim forces took
place on February 24, 1994, one day prior to the cease-fire with Army
BiH.
Two of the brigade members were killed by Muslim shelling in the area of
Kicalj. The second encounter with the Muslim army took place at Zvisce
in
April 1994. As Primorac later informed Minister Susak with great pride,
that small offensive resulted in ten Muslim deaths and only two Croatian
causalities. The brigade imprisoned five Muslims who had crossed over
onto
Croatian territory by mistake, and all five were handed over to the
superior operative command center of HVO.
Fear of Reparations
In other words, the report by Franjo Primorac is, in a real
illustration of
the Croatian military as a so-called regional, Balkan force in Bosnia
Herzegovina during the HDZ regime: in direct conflicts with the enemy,
the
175th Brigade had fewer victims that in the their leisure time.
There are many reasons why the coalition government, in spite of
documents
and thousands of living witnesses, persistently deny the very active
involvement of the Croatian military in the war for Herceg Bosna. Some
deny
it for they fundamentally believe in the HDZ project of a Great Croatia
which should include at least Herzegovina. Many others, however, like
Zdravko Tomac (SDP) deny this out of the fear of potential financial
consequences of the unofficial, never publicly admitted aggression on
Bosnia Herzegovina. "If that becomes the official position of the
international community," announced Tomac during one conversation with
Nacional's journalist, "Sarajevo might then seek war reparations."
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Caro Mantovani,
la tua risposta sfiora tantissime questioni, sulle quali potremmo
scrivere libri interi, ma siamo costretti a ribattere per punti. Essa
evidenzia troppi equivoci e le conseguenze del mancato approfondimento
e della mancata chiarificazione. Per noi e' triste verificare che
nemmeno chi vive di politica, ed al servizio di un partito come il PRC,
abbia sentito in questi anni l'urgenza di allargare i propri orizzonti
di conoscenza e guardare le cose al di la' della superficie e della
propaganda dei nostri media.
> Da: Ramon Mantovani <ramon.mantovani@...>
> A: <crj@...>
> Oggetto: R: Lettera aperta
> Data: gioved� 1 marzo 2001 20.33
>
> Caro Ivan, o meglio: cari compagni del Coordinamento Romano per la
> Jugoslavia, visto che dalla firma mi pare di capire si tratti di una
> lettera
> inviata a nome del comitato,
>
> rispondo volentieri alla tua del 23/2/2001 (che a me � giunta il 1�
> marzo via
> email). Mi scuso per il ritardo ma il periodo � piuttosto fitto di
> impegni e di viaggi.
>
> Francamente non ricordo l'episodio dell'articolo sulla Bosnia, ma mi
> sembra
> probabile visto che, come � risaputo, i titoli non vengono fatti da
> chi
> scrive gli articoli. In ogni caso le posizioni che assunsi all'epoca
> dell'intervento NATO in Bosnia credo parlino da sole.
> Quanto alla mia dichiarazione pubblicata il 17 febbraio da
> "Liberazione" si
> tratta di un dispaccio ANSA. Non so nemmeno dire quante volte l'ANSA,
> diramando dispacci relativi a mie dichiarazioni, abbia, nel corso di
> questi
> ultimi anni, definito il sottoscritto e/o il PRC filo-Milosevic.
> Ma...tant'�, che ci posso fare?
> Lo stesso dicasi per la questione "signora Milosevic". Il giornalista
> ANSA,
> che mi contatt� per telefono, quando pronunciai la sigla Jul mi
> chiese:
> "quello della moglie di Milosevic?" Risposi di si. Anche qui: che ci
> posso
> fare? Del resto non si trover� nessuno scritto di mio pugno nel quale
> la Jul
> venga definita in quel modo.
Non entriamo nel merito di questo tuo rapporto con l'ANSA, con
"Liberazione" e con i media in generale perche' crediamo che,
purtroppo,
quello che hai qui raccontato si commenti da solo! "Liberazione" non
e' il quotidiano del tuo partito!?
> Ma passiamo alle questioni di sostanza.
> Effettivamente ho definito, e definisco, Rugova pacifista. Il fatto
> che propugni l'indipendenza non lo rende per questo un guerrafondaio.
A dire il vero la nostra critica a Rugova non c'entra con i mezzi, ma
proprio con gli obiettivi della sua politica.
Prima ancora di entrare nel merito, lasciaci premettere che
l'errore e' a monte, quando ci si proclama favorevoli ad una revisione
dei confini nei Balcani. I confini delle Repubbliche jugoslave
ex-federate erano AMMINISTRATIVI, e questa non e' una puntualizzazione
da niente, poiche' in quelle Repubbliche e regioni autonome hanno
vissuto e vivono tuttora tanti popoli mischiati fra loro, come in un
sistema di scatole cinesi. Pretendere di trovare confini "piu' giusti"
a separare le popolazioni ed a dividerle al loro stesso interno e'
come pretendere di voler separare il caffe' dal latte dopo aver fatto
il cappuccino. Ricordiamo ad esempio le decine di migliaia di
schipetari che vivono in Serbia e nella stessa Belgrado, o quelli
nella FYROM ed in Montenegro... Staccare il Kosovo-Metohija significa
anche porre il problema di tutti questi altri schipetari, ed e' questo
uno dei motivi per cui tantissimi kosovari - di ogni nazionalita' - si
sono opposti e si oppongono tuttora alla "indipendenza del Kosovo", e
tanto piu' si oppongono in quanto lo stesso Rugova afferma da sempre
che la secessione e' solo il primo passo verso l'annessione all'Albania
(vedi interviste e dichiarazioni rilasciate alla stampa locale e
straniera almeno dal 1992, da noi tradotte e raccolte su "Nuova Unita'"
n.5/1997).
Inoltre: come puoi, da comunista, appoggiare un leader che e' da sempre
filo-occidentale, il cui partito partecipa ai lavori della
internazionale
democristiana, che ha stretti rapporti con tutte le cancellerie e con
il Vaticano, e che - dulcis in fundo - solo quattro mesi fa ha
dichiarato a "Der Spiegel" tutto il suo amore per la occupazione
militare del suo territorio da parte della NATO ? E a che scopo tutto
questo credito dato ad uno dei tanti personaggi dell'anticomunismo
dell'Europa centrorientale - come Walesa, Havel,... - dal quale, come
comunisti, mai otterremo alcun riconoscimento per il nostro sostegno?
> Ma forse
> Ivan potrebbe pensare che anche Tito fosse un nemico, visto che nella
> Costituzione della Repubblica Federale Jugoslava (fino al 1989) il
Kosovo
> godeva del diritto di autodeterminazione.
La Costituzione del 1974 fu promulgata, lo ricordiamo,
dopo una fase intensa di terrorismo da parte degli irredentisti
pan-albanesi, analoga a quello degli anni successivi denunciata dallo
stesso patriarca serbo-ortodosso in una lettera a Tito ancora nel 1979,
e che lo stesso Rugova riconosce nelle parole rivolte all'ex-
ambasciatore
USA nella RFSJ Zimmermann nel 1996. E comunque essa concedeva il
diritto di autodeterminazione ai soli "POPOLI COSTITUTIVI" :
serbi, croati, sloveni, montenegrini, macedoni e (dagli anni Sessanta)
musulmani di Bosnia. Questa facolta' chiaramente non implicava alcuna
corrispondenza con i confini amministrativi interni di Repubbliche e
meno che mai regioni !
> Quando si afferma un diritto lo si
> fa, credo, sapendo che pu� essere agito. O no?
Come spiegato sopra : NO.
Nel 1989 furono abrogate esclusivamente le disposizioni che concedevano
alla provincia del Kosovo-Metohija il diritto di veto sulle decisioni
del governo serbo - veto che poteva bloccare la vita istituzionale di
una repubblica federata e per il quale, inoltre, non esisteva alcuna
reciprocita' !
> A Rugova e agli altri (ma poi
> torneremo sugli altri) non andai, anzi andammo visto che si trattava
> di una
> delegazione ufficiale del PRC i cui obiettivi politici furono discussi
> (senza obiezione alcuna) dalla segreteria nazionale del partito, a
> dire che noi eravamo per l'indipendenza.
La tua frase non si capisce, visto il tuo precedente richiamo ad un
presunto "diritto alla autodeterminazione" : eravate o no favorevoli
alla "indipendenza" ?
> Andammo a dire che eravamo contro
> l'intervento della NATO e contro l'escalation violenta portata avanti
> dall'UCK. Rugova ci disse che disperava di poter controllare il
> movimento
> visto che l'intransigenza di Belgrado lo stava spingendo dritto nelle
> mani
> di un'UCK che nel frattempo andava trasformandosi nel cavallo di troia
> dello
> scatenamento della guerra. La stessa cosa ci disse Demacj, che di li a
> qualche giorno divent� il portavoce ufficiale dell'UCK. Anzi, a dire
> il vero
> Demacj disse, a differenza di Rugova che un gesto di Belgrado, e cio�
> il
> ripristino del diritto all'autoderteminazione,
...mai esistito...
> avrebbe evitato il conflitto
> armato e avrebbe riproposto il problema dell'indipendenza in termini
> pacifici. Ma chi � Demacj? Un agente della CIA? Demacj �
semplicemente un
> reduce da 18 anni di prigione trascorsi nelle galere jugoslave con
> l'accusa di essere filo-Enver Hoxha.
Demaci nei momenti piu' difficili della guerra
fredda tra Jugoslavia titina ed Albania staliniana simpatizzava e
lavorava alacremente a favore della controparte. Eppure in quello
stesso periodo c'era un altro Hoxha, Fadil, leader comunista e poi
addirittura membro della Presidenza collegiale, che come altri leader
schipetari jugoslavi, pur esercitando ogni diritto nella RFSJ nemmeno
ne possedeva il passaporto ! Questo la dice lunga sulla presunta
"oppressione nazionale" dell'epoca. Ma al di la' di tutto, e'
sorprendente questo tuo richiamo alla presunta fede "marxista-
leninista" di questa gente: stai prendendo partito nella
contrapposizione Tito-Hoxha ? Oppure sostieni che Demaci e' OGGI
comunista ?
> Naturalmente la mia parola per Ivan non vale
> nulla. Allora citiamo Domenico Losurdo: "una componente dell'UCK
pretendeva
> di essere erede di Enver Hoxha, pretendeva e pretende di essere
> marxista-leninista, pretendeva di richiamarsi a un dirigente che era
alla
> testa della lotta contro il revisionismo e contro il trotskismo." Si
> tratta di un discorso di Losurdo pronunciato in occasione di un
> convegno a Torino per la costruzione di un vero partito comunista e
> pubblicato da AGINFORM che � il bollettino della Fondazione Nino
> Pasti.
> Sebbene le affermazioni di Losurdo siano seguite da altre
> considerazioni che individuano finalmente nell'UCK uno strumento
> dell'imperialismo (e da altre secondo le quali il PRC "non � e non
> sar� mai comunista") rimane il fatto che l'origine dell'UCK non � cos�
> il frutto di una operazione dei servizi segreti occidentali come si
> vorrebbe far intendere, bens� qualcosa di molto pi� complesso.
Puo' darsi, pero' il ruolo ATTUALE di quella formazione e' quello di
piede di porco dell'imperialismo, ed e' proprio questo che Losurdo
chiarisce in maniera incontrovertibile, con una analisi concreta della
situazione concreta.
> Del
> resto lo stesso Demacj rimarr� portavoce dell'UCK per ben poco tempo,
> sar� presto sostituito da altri ben pi� allineati con la NATO e con i
> suoi progetti di intervento. Tu stesso, Ivan, parli di una Jugoslavia
> multinazionale, ed infatti lo era, fino a che negli anni ottanta
> l'applicazione delle ricette del FMI, accettate ed implementate dalla
> Lega dei Comunisti non accentuarono le differenze, come succede
> dovunque vengano applicate, fra le diverse repubbliche e fra le classi
> sociali. Continuo a pensare che l'elemento veramente disgregativo
> della Jugoslavia vada ricercato nella politica economica applicata
> allora. Lo stesso � successo in Italia con il Nord, ma a differenza
> della Jugoslavia non si sono sommate questioni religiose ed etniche.
> Di fronte a quella disgregazione regionale e sociale esponenti della
> Lega dei Comunisti cominciarono a dividersi fra serbi croati musulmani
> albanesi ecc. E alle mire separatiste delle regioni pi� forti
> economicamente come la Croazia e la Slovenia, e non abbiamo mai smesso
> di denunciare le responsabilit� vaticane, tedeche ed europee, la
> risposta di Belgrado fu una sorta di serbizzazione di tutta la
> Jugoslavia.
Questa interpretazione ("serbizzazione") e' assolutamente infondata, e
fa parte del "bignamino" dei secessionismi. Per smentirla basterebbe
guardare agli elenchi dei Ministri, degli ambasciatori, dei vertici
militari della RFSJ nonche' alla stessa Presidenza, dove rimase
la rappresentanza su basi proporzionali... Anzi, poiche' la politica
si fa con i fatti e non con le leggende, ti alleghiamo l'elenco
relativo alla situazione negli ultimi mesi prima della disgregazione !
Il tuo rimprovero alla classe dirigente serba per noi va capovolto,
perche' essa va semmai accusata di non aver usato TUTTI I MEZZI
necessari per impedire quelle secessioni.
Nel 1989 fu proposto, da parte jugoslava, l'ingresso della Federazione
nella Comunita' Europea. Ricordiamo che gli standard erano uguali a
quelli della Spagna. Tu che ti occupi di questioni degli Esteri
saprai quale e' stato allora il ruolo delle grandi istituzioni
internazionali, spec. del FMI e degli USA. Mentre il FMI ruppe
unilateralmente i rapporti per rivolgersi in maniera differenziata
alle varie Repubbliche federate, il Senato USA nel novembre 1990
approvo' la legge 101-513 che bloccava ogni rapporto economico ed
inizio' a discriminare esplicitamente tra le varie Repubbliche.
Il 29 novembre dello stesso anno tutti i quotidiani pubblicarono le
"rivelazioni" della CIA che prevedeva (cioe' : provvedeva) che "la
Jugoslavia esistera' ancora 18 mesi" - non a caso proprio il 29
novembre
venne scelto per lanciare questa sfida mafiosa, poiche' era
l'anniversario della fondazione della RFSJ, Festa Nazionale celebrata
dal 1943 !
> Una politica cieca incapace di rimuovere o almeno
> modificare le cause economiche e sociali del disastro e subalterna,
> invece, perch� a nazionalismi oppose altri nazionalismi. E'
> esattamente in quel contesto che viene rimosso il diritto
> all'autodeterminazione del Kosovo,
...mai esistito. Tra l'altro dovremmo parlare a lungo (ma forse abbiamo
qualche anno di ritardo ?...) sul significato di questi termini
("autodeterminazione", "indipendenza") in scenari di ricolonizzazione,
dove cioe' le secessioni hanno favorito esclusivamente l'ingerenza e la
politica di rapina dell'imperialismo straniero.
> ed � esattamente in ragione di
> questa concezione nazionalista che comincia una repressione culturale
> ed etnica nei territori controllati da Belgrado.
Falso, come dimostrano persino i recenti fatti in Macedonia! Mai e'
stato attaccato il bilinguismo, il diritto all'espressione culturale e
politica, mai sono state chiuse scuole od altre istituzioni in lingua
albanese (compresi i corsi in albanese all'Universita' di Pristina) -
bensi' queste, in quanto istituzioni jugoslave, sono state
BOICOTTATE dagli stessi schipetari in base alla politica segregazionista
su base etnica decisa dai loro leader.
Domanda: i sudtirolesi hanno forse una Universita' in lingua tedesca?
Se la avessero, potrebbero forse seguire l'ordine degli studi di Vienna
o Berlino?
> Potremmo discettare
> all'infinito su questo punto ma resto convinto che quando si scivola
> da posizioni di classe a posizioni nazionaliste la sinistra, ed i
> comunisti in particolare, siano sconfitti in partenza. Nel corso di
> tutti gli anni novanta in Kosovo si sviluppa un movimento nazionalista
> che rivendica l'indipendenza, Rugova ne � il leader e si tratta di un
> movimento dichiaratamente pacifico. La risposta di Belgrado, che
> infatti unifica il PSS, la Jul e tutti i gruppi dell'opposizione
> compresa quella monarchica e fascista, � improntata all'ideologia
> nazionalistica pi� bieca: il Kosovo � serbo da non so quanti secoli,
> abbiamo salvato l'occidente dalla barbarie musulmana ecc. Quando
> l'UCK, visti gli insuccessi della linea pacifica di Rugova, sorge e
> comincia una qualche attivit� il Dipartimento di Stato USA la
> classifica come gruppo terroristico.
Quelli che chiami "insuccessi" della linea di Rugova erano in effetti
la naturale conseguenza dell'umore della stragrande maggioranza dei
cittadini kosovari di ogni nazionalita' - schipetari compresi
(soprattutto sulla scorta di quello che era successo in Croazia e
Bosnia). E poi, e' indicativo che di tutte le altre nazionalita' della
provincia non si parlasse per niente all'epoca e tu stesso le
dimentichi,
benche' siano "saltate fuori" con le conseguenze dei bombardamenti
della NATO : Rom, Gorani, Turchi, Musulmani slavi, eccetera.
La tua interpretazione sulle posizioni occidentali rispetto all'UCK
per noi lascia il tempo che trova : vero e' che l'Occidente ha
appoggiato il secessionismo pan-albanese, insieme a tutti gli altri
secessionismi, gia' negli anni precedenti, come dimostra il fatto che
la
agenzia di disinformazione "Ruder&Finn Public Global Affairs" ha
lavorato
per il partito e per le "istituzioni parallele" - etno-separatiste - di
Rugova gia' all'inizio degli anni Novanta (cfr. Merlino 1993).
Per quanto riguarda il solito bla-bla sull'"ideologia nazionalistica
piu' bieca: il Kosovo e' serbo da non so quanti secoli, abbiamo salvato
l'Occidente dalla barbarie musulmana", eccetera, questa e' semplicemente
la storia, ed e' assurdo che essa venga interpretata come un'offesa,
quando
tutto cio' viceversa viene ricordato solamente in senso difensivo. A
commento
riportiamo senza le parole di Andre' Malraux (1974, ripreso da "Rivista
di Studi
Slavi", Parigi 1984, e da noi tradotto per "Nuova Unita'") : "Il Kosovo
non e'
solo il paese della vostra storia, esiste nel cuore della vostra
cultura, e la cultura
quando si tratta del valore piu' alto che hai non e' mai il passato".
Per gli italiani certo richiamarsi alla "storia" e' raro e non e'
facile : nel caso
specifico dei Balcani cio' implica dover fare i conti con la rimozione
dei crimini
commessi... nel caso del Kosovo-Metohija significa dover dire che tra
il 1941
ed il 1943 le truppe fasciste contribuirono a ripulire la provincia da
100mila
slavi sostituendoli con schipetari provenienti dall'Albania.
Facciamo nostre le parole di un comunista jugoslavo che tu - troppo
impegnato
ad intrattenerti con Rugova e compagnia bella - non hai mai incontrato,
Stevan
Mirkovic : chiedersi chi e' arrivato prima non ha senso, oggi le
frontiere sono quelle
e non si devono cambiare ; gli schipetari hanno diritto a vivere in
Kosovo-Metohija
con gli stessi diritti ed anche con gli stessi doveri di tutti gli
altri.
> Siamo all'indomani degli accordi
> di Dayton sulla Bosnia e cio� nel momento in cui Milosevic �
> considerato ufficialmente dagli USA e da tutta la banda un
> interlocutore credibile.
...e per questo tu credi di metterlo in ridicolo, mentre se non
avesse collaborato a trovare una soluzione pacifica lo avreste
definito "fanatico" e "guerrafondaio"...
> Noi, da soli e nell'isolamento pi� totale,
> criticammo gli accordi di Dayton proprio perch� fondavano nuove
> istituzioni sulla base della conquista etnica del territorio
> legittimendo ogni malefatta, e le malefatte furono una pratica di
> tutte le componenti etniche. Allo stesso tempo eravamo contro
> l'embargo nei confronti della Serbia e della Jugoslavia, anzi
> consideravamo l'embargo uno strumento per indurre una maggiore
> destabilizzazione della regione, oltre che un'ingiustizia contro le
> incolpevoli popolazioni. E' in quella fase che si produce l'affare
> Telecom ed � per questo che ho detto che considero del tutto
> plausibile quanto � emerso in seguito. Sull'affare Telecom avrai
> certamente letto il mio intervento alla camera che Liberazione ha
> pubblicato integralmente. Sono stato testimone diretto di un Congresso
> del PSS nel quale la parola d'ordine era privatizzare tutto il
> possibile, diventare un Partito socialista dell'Internazionale,
> entrare in Europa.
A nostro avviso la questione-Telekom per la Jugoslavia puo' essere
stato un modo di aggirare astutamente l'embargo ed ottenere valuta
pregiata, mentre per l'Italia il caso viene tutto giocato a fini di
politica
interna. La tua posizione su questo per noi rimane enigmatica. Tra
l'altro e' paradossale che tu e tanti altri esponenti del tuo partito
ve
la prendiate con Milosevic "privatizzatore" laddove avete per anni
sostenuto un governo che oltre a privatizzare ha compiuto scelte
sociali devastanti, come la legalizzazione del caporalato. In realta'
le
privatizzazioni in Jugoslavia hanno seguito il criterio del 51 per
cento
statale, o "golden share", da voi tanto decantato !
> Poi c'� una svolta. Mentre sembra svanire l'embargo
> e molte multinazionali cominciano a posare il loro sguardo sugli
> enormi affari che si possono fare in Jugoslavia ecco che compare l'UCK
> e comincia la lotta armata in Kosovo. Sull'UCK ho gi� detto prima, ma
> come mai gli USA cominciano a sostenerla? Come mai le aperture
> politiche europee a Milosevic cominciano a richiudersi? Come mai?
> Perch� la Jugoslavia � un baluardo del socialismo? Perch� la zona � un
> boccone prelibato dal punto di vista economico? Per favore non
> scherziamo! Di socialismo in Jugoslavia non c'era pi� nemmeno l'ombra
> fin dagli anni ottanta. Pensare che si scateni una guerra imperialista
> per conquistare ci� che si pu� tranquillamente comprare con un
> centesimo della spesa � veramente ridurre la teoria dell'imperialismo
> ad una caricatura. La verit� � che si coglie un'occasione per
> preparare una guerra il cui obiettivo � di molto pi� ambizioso, e pi�
> grave! Rilanciare la NATO come gendarme mondiale e dare un ulteriore
> colpo all'ONU, umiliare ancora di pi� la Russia fino a ridurla
> definitivamente a potenza regionale e indirizzare il processo di unit�
> europea in senso atlantico e mercantile, riaffermare in tutto questo
> processo l'egemonia americana. Tutti obiettivi raggiunti, purtroppo.
> Anche a causa del fatto, e non si pu� ignorare, che un nazionalismo,
> che per giunta commette crimini (e non si dica che siccome la pulizia
> etnica in Kosovo � stata esagerata a dismisura dai media � stato un
> fatto insignificante!), pu� anche resistere nei confronti dei nuovi
> assetti imperialistici, ma � destinato a sicura sconfitta visto che
> non rappresenta e non propone nessuna alternativa. Gli USA hanno
> voluto la guerra, ma i paesi europei membri della NATO non l'hanno
> subita, l'hanno voluta anch'essi. Del resto basta guardare al fatto
> che la guerra � stata conclusa dal G8, a dimostrazione che uno degli
> obiettivi fondamentali della guerra era ed � fare del G8 il nucleo del
> nuovo governo reale del mondo. Ma forse qui bisognerebbe aprire
> un'altra discussione relativa al capitalismo contemporaneo, alla
> globalizzazione e all'indirizzo ultraatlantico e mercantile che ha
> preso l'Unione Europea. Ma questa � un'altra discussione. Che per� mi
> piacerebbe fare senza che le mie/nostre posizioni vengano bollate con
> anatemi ideologici e senza fare a gara a chi la spara pi� grossa.
> Fermo restando il fatto che a me sembra molto pi� radicalmente
> anticapitalista ed antimperialista la denuncia della costruzione di un
> nuovo ordine mondiale unipolare che la denuncia di un imperialismo che
> ha come obiettivo principale abbattere Milosevic ed impossessarsi del
> Kosovo. Infine alcune precisazioni. Liberazione � stata attaccata da
> pi� parti e per motivi opposti, come filo-milosevic e come
> anti-milosevic. Mah! Anch'io avrei delle critiche da fare a
> Liberazione ma questa ginnastica muscolare di organizzare invio di fax
> a sostegno dell'una e dell'altra tesi mi sembra, lo devo proprio dire,
> une emerita stupidaggine. Marcon � stato uno fra quelli che dirigono
> associazioni ed ONG a promuovere la NON partecipazione di molte org
> non governative alla missione Arcobaleno, proprio perch� considerata
> interna alla guerra e non umanitaria. Come si fa descriverlo come fai
> tu? Mah! La pulizia etinica � "un'invenzione da un punto di vista
> storico". Si tratterebbe di una repressione antiterroristica? Allora
> ha ragione la Turchia con i curdi? L'iran con i comunisti, i fedayn e
> i mujaydin iraniani? Saddam con il Partito comunista iracheno? Suvvia!
Ogni paragone di questo tipo e' ingrato, ma quando citi i curdi - per
tacere di Ocalan... - dovresti quantomeno chiederti se i curdi della
situazione, nei Balcani, non siano i SERBI ! Infatti mentre si va
verso
tutte le secessioni, verso la "Grande Albania" e la "Grande Croazia",
solo ai serbi e' stato pervicacemente negato il diritto alla
"autodeterminazione", e questo non per caso ma
perche' proprio i serbi svolgono, oggi come storicamente, il ruolo di
componente aggregatrice in quelle terre, in contrasto con le mire
imperialistiche.
E poi, non conosciamo altri casi simili a questo in cui un popolo -
quello
kosovaro-albanese - e' stato ridotto cosi' in basso dai propri leader,
al punto
da plaudire al bombardamento NATO della propria terra !
> Cerchiamo di essere seri e di non fare gli struzzi che mettono la
> testa sotto la sabbia! La realt� � quello che �, a nulla serve
> nasconderla o giustificare crimini giudicandoli con due pesi e due
> misure. Ma non solo per una questione etica. Per essere veramente
> efficaci contro chi commette crimini ancor pi� grandi e pi� gravi.
> Infine, nella tua lettera si parla di "una parte del PRC". Quale?
> Perch� vedi, caro Ivan, ogni presa di posizione e decisione inerente
> la nostra politica contro la guerra Nato in Jugoslavia e su tutti gli
> avvenimenti seguenti, elezioni politche recenti comprese, sono state
> discusse in segreteria del partito e in direzione. Non c'� mai stato
> un voto contrario o la richiesta di una riunione per esaminare altre
> posizioni. So bene che ci sono, sia in segreteria sia in direzione
> compagne e compagni che hanno posizioni ben diverse, basta leggerle su
> riviste di corrente come l'Ernesto. E' loro diritto averle, esprimerle
> nei modi e nelle forme che vogliono. E' loro diritto cercare di farle
> diventare maggioritarie nel partito. Ma non si pu� delegittimare ci�
> che viene deciso e praticato con il loro assenso o con il loro
> silenzio dagli organismi dirigenti del partito, come se fosse il
> segretario o il sottoscritto a prendere posizioni e decisioni di
> parte. Del resto se non si presentano emendamenti alle tesi dei
> congressi, se non si vota in dissenso quando si prendono decisioni
> impegnative, se si abbandonano silenziosamente le riunioni della
> direzione per non votare documenti politici fondamentali, credo lo si
> faccia perch� si sa di essere in minoranza. Io personalmente sono
> stato molte volte in minoranza, sia nel PCI sia in Rifondazione quando
> Cossutta, e la sua demagogia, andava per la maggiore. Penso si possa e
> si debba rischiare il posticino per una battaglia politica di grande
> valore. Ma non pretendo di applicare questo principio a tutti. Se non
> fanno una battaglia aperta negli organismi dirigenti del partito
> avranno le loro buone ragioni. Ma finch� non la faranno non hanno il
> diritto di dire che le posizioni del PRC sono di una parte o di parte.
Sulle questioni interne del PRC speriamo che si esprimano i diretti
interessati, che ci sembrano pure soggetti a discriminazioni
all'interno
del partito in questa fase preelettorale. Per quanto ci risulta, il PRC
otterrebbe molto piu' consenso se fosse guidato da esponenti informati,
coraggiosi e conseguenti : se questi oggi sono in minoranza ci
rammarica,
ed e' sicuramente un guaio per tutto il partito, che a nostro avviso
oggi
non e' capace di indurre coscienza e consapevolezza su questioni cosi'
fondamentali, nemmeno per i suoi stessi militanti. Ci sembrate un po'
come
quel papa che fa sempre avanti-indietro con l'America Latina e parla
alle
masse di pace e giustizia mentre taglia le gambe alla Teologia della
Liberazione.
Ivan (Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia)
>
> ciao
>
> Ramon Mantovani
>
> PS siccome non so a chi sia stata spedita la lettera aperta spero tu
> voglia far conoscere la mia risposta allo stesso indirizzario
PS.
1 - stiamo completando la traduzione di una serie di articoli degli
anni Ottanta sui fatti nella provincia del Kosmet, raccontati da un
professore di nazionalita' schipetara : sara' per tutti una rivelazione
leggerli.
2 - in questa nostra risposta usiamo apposta il termine "schipetari"
poiche' esso indica precisamente il carattere "etnico" e non la
cittadinanza - "albanese" e' il cittadino della Repubblica di Albania.
ALLEGATO
Dirigenza politica della Jugoslavia 1980-1991
PRIMI MINISTRI FEDERALI :
* V. Djuranovic MONTENEGRINO
* M. Planinc CROATA
* B. Mikulic CROATO DI BOSNIA
* A. Markovic CROATO
MINISTRI DEGLI ESTERI :
* J. Vrhovec CROATO
* L. Mojsov MACEDONE
* R. Dizdarevic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
* B. Loncar CROATO
PRESIDENTI DELLA PRESIDENZA COLLEGIALE :
* L. Kolisevski MACEDONE
* S. Krajger SLOVENO
* P. Stambolic SERBO
* F. Hoxha ALBANESE-KOSOVARO
* S. Dolanc SLOVENO
* V. Zarkovic MONTENEGRINO
* L. Mojsov MACEDONE
* R. Dizdarevic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
* J. Drnovsek SLOVENO
* B. Jovic SERBO
* S. Mesic CROATO
DIRIGENZA DELLA ARMATA POPOLARE JUGOSLAVA -
GIUGNO 1991 (al momento della disintegrazione):
MINISTRO FEDERALE DELLA DIFESA
Generale V. Kadijevic JUGOSLAVO
VICE MINISTRO FEDERALE DELLA DIFESA
Ammiraglio S. Brovet SLOVENO
CAPO DI STATO MAGGIORE
Generale B. Adzic SERBO
COMANDANTE DELLA PRIMA ZONA MILITARE (SERBIA)
Generale A. Spirkovski MACEDONE
COMANDANTE DELLA QUINTA ZONA MILITARE (CROAZIA E SLOVENIA)
Generale K. Kolsek SLOVENO
COMANDANTE DELLA TERZA ZONA MILITARE (BOSNIA-ERZEGOVINA)
Generale A. Luketic CROATO
COMANDANTE DELLA MARINA
Ammiraglio Z. Letica CROATO
COMANDANTE DELLA ZONA MARITTIMA
Ammiraglio P. Grubisic CROATO
COMANDANTE DELL'AVIAZIONE JUGOSLAVA
Generale A. Tus CROATO
AMBASCIATORI DELLA JUGOSLAVIA IN ALCUNI PAESI STRANIERI -
GIUGNO 1991:
STATI UNITI D'AMERICA
Dz. Mujezinovic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
UNIONE SOVIETICA
A. Runjic CROATO
FRANCIA
B. Gagro CROATO
REGNO UNITO
S. Rikanovic SERBO
REPUBBLICA POPOLARE CINESE
Z. Dragan SLOVENO
NAZIONI UNITE - NEW YORK
D. Silovic CROATO
NAZIONI UNITE - GINEVRA
N. Calovski MACEDONE
AUSTRIA
I. Brkelic CROATO
CITTA' DEL VATICANO
I. Mastruko CROATO
SPAGNA
F. Dizdarevic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
UNGHERIA
R. Sova UNGHERESE
EGITTO
I. Ivekovic CROATO
TURCHIA
T. Petrovski MACEDONE
IRAN
T. Trajkovski MACEDONE
ARGENTINA
R. Mazuran CROATO
INDONESIA
V. Koprivnjak CROATO
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scrivere libri interi, ma siamo costretti a ribattere per punti. Essa
evidenzia troppi equivoci e le conseguenze del mancato approfondimento
e della mancata chiarificazione. Per noi e' triste verificare che
nemmeno chi vive di politica, ed al servizio di un partito come il PRC,
abbia sentito in questi anni l'urgenza di allargare i propri orizzonti
di conoscenza e guardare le cose al di la' della superficie e della
propaganda dei nostri media.
> Da: Ramon Mantovani <ramon.mantovani@...>
> A: <crj@...>
> Oggetto: R: Lettera aperta
> Data: gioved� 1 marzo 2001 20.33
>
> Caro Ivan, o meglio: cari compagni del Coordinamento Romano per la
> Jugoslavia, visto che dalla firma mi pare di capire si tratti di una
> lettera
> inviata a nome del comitato,
>
> rispondo volentieri alla tua del 23/2/2001 (che a me � giunta il 1�
> marzo via
> email). Mi scuso per il ritardo ma il periodo � piuttosto fitto di
> impegni e di viaggi.
>
> Francamente non ricordo l'episodio dell'articolo sulla Bosnia, ma mi
> sembra
> probabile visto che, come � risaputo, i titoli non vengono fatti da
> chi
> scrive gli articoli. In ogni caso le posizioni che assunsi all'epoca
> dell'intervento NATO in Bosnia credo parlino da sole.
> Quanto alla mia dichiarazione pubblicata il 17 febbraio da
> "Liberazione" si
> tratta di un dispaccio ANSA. Non so nemmeno dire quante volte l'ANSA,
> diramando dispacci relativi a mie dichiarazioni, abbia, nel corso di
> questi
> ultimi anni, definito il sottoscritto e/o il PRC filo-Milosevic.
> Ma...tant'�, che ci posso fare?
> Lo stesso dicasi per la questione "signora Milosevic". Il giornalista
> ANSA,
> che mi contatt� per telefono, quando pronunciai la sigla Jul mi
> chiese:
> "quello della moglie di Milosevic?" Risposi di si. Anche qui: che ci
> posso
> fare? Del resto non si trover� nessuno scritto di mio pugno nel quale
> la Jul
> venga definita in quel modo.
Non entriamo nel merito di questo tuo rapporto con l'ANSA, con
"Liberazione" e con i media in generale perche' crediamo che,
purtroppo,
quello che hai qui raccontato si commenti da solo! "Liberazione" non
e' il quotidiano del tuo partito!?
> Ma passiamo alle questioni di sostanza.
> Effettivamente ho definito, e definisco, Rugova pacifista. Il fatto
> che propugni l'indipendenza non lo rende per questo un guerrafondaio.
A dire il vero la nostra critica a Rugova non c'entra con i mezzi, ma
proprio con gli obiettivi della sua politica.
Prima ancora di entrare nel merito, lasciaci premettere che
l'errore e' a monte, quando ci si proclama favorevoli ad una revisione
dei confini nei Balcani. I confini delle Repubbliche jugoslave
ex-federate erano AMMINISTRATIVI, e questa non e' una puntualizzazione
da niente, poiche' in quelle Repubbliche e regioni autonome hanno
vissuto e vivono tuttora tanti popoli mischiati fra loro, come in un
sistema di scatole cinesi. Pretendere di trovare confini "piu' giusti"
a separare le popolazioni ed a dividerle al loro stesso interno e'
come pretendere di voler separare il caffe' dal latte dopo aver fatto
il cappuccino. Ricordiamo ad esempio le decine di migliaia di
schipetari che vivono in Serbia e nella stessa Belgrado, o quelli
nella FYROM ed in Montenegro... Staccare il Kosovo-Metohija significa
anche porre il problema di tutti questi altri schipetari, ed e' questo
uno dei motivi per cui tantissimi kosovari - di ogni nazionalita' - si
sono opposti e si oppongono tuttora alla "indipendenza del Kosovo", e
tanto piu' si oppongono in quanto lo stesso Rugova afferma da sempre
che la secessione e' solo il primo passo verso l'annessione all'Albania
(vedi interviste e dichiarazioni rilasciate alla stampa locale e
straniera almeno dal 1992, da noi tradotte e raccolte su "Nuova Unita'"
n.5/1997).
Inoltre: come puoi, da comunista, appoggiare un leader che e' da sempre
filo-occidentale, il cui partito partecipa ai lavori della
internazionale
democristiana, che ha stretti rapporti con tutte le cancellerie e con
il Vaticano, e che - dulcis in fundo - solo quattro mesi fa ha
dichiarato a "Der Spiegel" tutto il suo amore per la occupazione
militare del suo territorio da parte della NATO ? E a che scopo tutto
questo credito dato ad uno dei tanti personaggi dell'anticomunismo
dell'Europa centrorientale - come Walesa, Havel,... - dal quale, come
comunisti, mai otterremo alcun riconoscimento per il nostro sostegno?
> Ma forse
> Ivan potrebbe pensare che anche Tito fosse un nemico, visto che nella
> Costituzione della Repubblica Federale Jugoslava (fino al 1989) il
Kosovo
> godeva del diritto di autodeterminazione.
La Costituzione del 1974 fu promulgata, lo ricordiamo,
dopo una fase intensa di terrorismo da parte degli irredentisti
pan-albanesi, analoga a quello degli anni successivi denunciata dallo
stesso patriarca serbo-ortodosso in una lettera a Tito ancora nel 1979,
e che lo stesso Rugova riconosce nelle parole rivolte all'ex-
ambasciatore
USA nella RFSJ Zimmermann nel 1996. E comunque essa concedeva il
diritto di autodeterminazione ai soli "POPOLI COSTITUTIVI" :
serbi, croati, sloveni, montenegrini, macedoni e (dagli anni Sessanta)
musulmani di Bosnia. Questa facolta' chiaramente non implicava alcuna
corrispondenza con i confini amministrativi interni di Repubbliche e
meno che mai regioni !
> Quando si afferma un diritto lo si
> fa, credo, sapendo che pu� essere agito. O no?
Come spiegato sopra : NO.
Nel 1989 furono abrogate esclusivamente le disposizioni che concedevano
alla provincia del Kosovo-Metohija il diritto di veto sulle decisioni
del governo serbo - veto che poteva bloccare la vita istituzionale di
una repubblica federata e per il quale, inoltre, non esisteva alcuna
reciprocita' !
> A Rugova e agli altri (ma poi
> torneremo sugli altri) non andai, anzi andammo visto che si trattava
> di una
> delegazione ufficiale del PRC i cui obiettivi politici furono discussi
> (senza obiezione alcuna) dalla segreteria nazionale del partito, a
> dire che noi eravamo per l'indipendenza.
La tua frase non si capisce, visto il tuo precedente richiamo ad un
presunto "diritto alla autodeterminazione" : eravate o no favorevoli
alla "indipendenza" ?
> Andammo a dire che eravamo contro
> l'intervento della NATO e contro l'escalation violenta portata avanti
> dall'UCK. Rugova ci disse che disperava di poter controllare il
> movimento
> visto che l'intransigenza di Belgrado lo stava spingendo dritto nelle
> mani
> di un'UCK che nel frattempo andava trasformandosi nel cavallo di troia
> dello
> scatenamento della guerra. La stessa cosa ci disse Demacj, che di li a
> qualche giorno divent� il portavoce ufficiale dell'UCK. Anzi, a dire
> il vero
> Demacj disse, a differenza di Rugova che un gesto di Belgrado, e cio�
> il
> ripristino del diritto all'autoderteminazione,
...mai esistito...
> avrebbe evitato il conflitto
> armato e avrebbe riproposto il problema dell'indipendenza in termini
> pacifici. Ma chi � Demacj? Un agente della CIA? Demacj �
semplicemente un
> reduce da 18 anni di prigione trascorsi nelle galere jugoslave con
> l'accusa di essere filo-Enver Hoxha.
Demaci nei momenti piu' difficili della guerra
fredda tra Jugoslavia titina ed Albania staliniana simpatizzava e
lavorava alacremente a favore della controparte. Eppure in quello
stesso periodo c'era un altro Hoxha, Fadil, leader comunista e poi
addirittura membro della Presidenza collegiale, che come altri leader
schipetari jugoslavi, pur esercitando ogni diritto nella RFSJ nemmeno
ne possedeva il passaporto ! Questo la dice lunga sulla presunta
"oppressione nazionale" dell'epoca. Ma al di la' di tutto, e'
sorprendente questo tuo richiamo alla presunta fede "marxista-
leninista" di questa gente: stai prendendo partito nella
contrapposizione Tito-Hoxha ? Oppure sostieni che Demaci e' OGGI
comunista ?
> Naturalmente la mia parola per Ivan non vale
> nulla. Allora citiamo Domenico Losurdo: "una componente dell'UCK
pretendeva
> di essere erede di Enver Hoxha, pretendeva e pretende di essere
> marxista-leninista, pretendeva di richiamarsi a un dirigente che era
alla
> testa della lotta contro il revisionismo e contro il trotskismo." Si
> tratta di un discorso di Losurdo pronunciato in occasione di un
> convegno a Torino per la costruzione di un vero partito comunista e
> pubblicato da AGINFORM che � il bollettino della Fondazione Nino
> Pasti.
> Sebbene le affermazioni di Losurdo siano seguite da altre
> considerazioni che individuano finalmente nell'UCK uno strumento
> dell'imperialismo (e da altre secondo le quali il PRC "non � e non
> sar� mai comunista") rimane il fatto che l'origine dell'UCK non � cos�
> il frutto di una operazione dei servizi segreti occidentali come si
> vorrebbe far intendere, bens� qualcosa di molto pi� complesso.
Puo' darsi, pero' il ruolo ATTUALE di quella formazione e' quello di
piede di porco dell'imperialismo, ed e' proprio questo che Losurdo
chiarisce in maniera incontrovertibile, con una analisi concreta della
situazione concreta.
> Del
> resto lo stesso Demacj rimarr� portavoce dell'UCK per ben poco tempo,
> sar� presto sostituito da altri ben pi� allineati con la NATO e con i
> suoi progetti di intervento. Tu stesso, Ivan, parli di una Jugoslavia
> multinazionale, ed infatti lo era, fino a che negli anni ottanta
> l'applicazione delle ricette del FMI, accettate ed implementate dalla
> Lega dei Comunisti non accentuarono le differenze, come succede
> dovunque vengano applicate, fra le diverse repubbliche e fra le classi
> sociali. Continuo a pensare che l'elemento veramente disgregativo
> della Jugoslavia vada ricercato nella politica economica applicata
> allora. Lo stesso � successo in Italia con il Nord, ma a differenza
> della Jugoslavia non si sono sommate questioni religiose ed etniche.
> Di fronte a quella disgregazione regionale e sociale esponenti della
> Lega dei Comunisti cominciarono a dividersi fra serbi croati musulmani
> albanesi ecc. E alle mire separatiste delle regioni pi� forti
> economicamente come la Croazia e la Slovenia, e non abbiamo mai smesso
> di denunciare le responsabilit� vaticane, tedeche ed europee, la
> risposta di Belgrado fu una sorta di serbizzazione di tutta la
> Jugoslavia.
Questa interpretazione ("serbizzazione") e' assolutamente infondata, e
fa parte del "bignamino" dei secessionismi. Per smentirla basterebbe
guardare agli elenchi dei Ministri, degli ambasciatori, dei vertici
militari della RFSJ nonche' alla stessa Presidenza, dove rimase
la rappresentanza su basi proporzionali... Anzi, poiche' la politica
si fa con i fatti e non con le leggende, ti alleghiamo l'elenco
relativo alla situazione negli ultimi mesi prima della disgregazione !
Il tuo rimprovero alla classe dirigente serba per noi va capovolto,
perche' essa va semmai accusata di non aver usato TUTTI I MEZZI
necessari per impedire quelle secessioni.
Nel 1989 fu proposto, da parte jugoslava, l'ingresso della Federazione
nella Comunita' Europea. Ricordiamo che gli standard erano uguali a
quelli della Spagna. Tu che ti occupi di questioni degli Esteri
saprai quale e' stato allora il ruolo delle grandi istituzioni
internazionali, spec. del FMI e degli USA. Mentre il FMI ruppe
unilateralmente i rapporti per rivolgersi in maniera differenziata
alle varie Repubbliche federate, il Senato USA nel novembre 1990
approvo' la legge 101-513 che bloccava ogni rapporto economico ed
inizio' a discriminare esplicitamente tra le varie Repubbliche.
Il 29 novembre dello stesso anno tutti i quotidiani pubblicarono le
"rivelazioni" della CIA che prevedeva (cioe' : provvedeva) che "la
Jugoslavia esistera' ancora 18 mesi" - non a caso proprio il 29
novembre
venne scelto per lanciare questa sfida mafiosa, poiche' era
l'anniversario della fondazione della RFSJ, Festa Nazionale celebrata
dal 1943 !
> Una politica cieca incapace di rimuovere o almeno
> modificare le cause economiche e sociali del disastro e subalterna,
> invece, perch� a nazionalismi oppose altri nazionalismi. E'
> esattamente in quel contesto che viene rimosso il diritto
> all'autodeterminazione del Kosovo,
...mai esistito. Tra l'altro dovremmo parlare a lungo (ma forse abbiamo
qualche anno di ritardo ?...) sul significato di questi termini
("autodeterminazione", "indipendenza") in scenari di ricolonizzazione,
dove cioe' le secessioni hanno favorito esclusivamente l'ingerenza e la
politica di rapina dell'imperialismo straniero.
> ed � esattamente in ragione di
> questa concezione nazionalista che comincia una repressione culturale
> ed etnica nei territori controllati da Belgrado.
Falso, come dimostrano persino i recenti fatti in Macedonia! Mai e'
stato attaccato il bilinguismo, il diritto all'espressione culturale e
politica, mai sono state chiuse scuole od altre istituzioni in lingua
albanese (compresi i corsi in albanese all'Universita' di Pristina) -
bensi' queste, in quanto istituzioni jugoslave, sono state
BOICOTTATE dagli stessi schipetari in base alla politica segregazionista
su base etnica decisa dai loro leader.
Domanda: i sudtirolesi hanno forse una Universita' in lingua tedesca?
Se la avessero, potrebbero forse seguire l'ordine degli studi di Vienna
o Berlino?
> Potremmo discettare
> all'infinito su questo punto ma resto convinto che quando si scivola
> da posizioni di classe a posizioni nazionaliste la sinistra, ed i
> comunisti in particolare, siano sconfitti in partenza. Nel corso di
> tutti gli anni novanta in Kosovo si sviluppa un movimento nazionalista
> che rivendica l'indipendenza, Rugova ne � il leader e si tratta di un
> movimento dichiaratamente pacifico. La risposta di Belgrado, che
> infatti unifica il PSS, la Jul e tutti i gruppi dell'opposizione
> compresa quella monarchica e fascista, � improntata all'ideologia
> nazionalistica pi� bieca: il Kosovo � serbo da non so quanti secoli,
> abbiamo salvato l'occidente dalla barbarie musulmana ecc. Quando
> l'UCK, visti gli insuccessi della linea pacifica di Rugova, sorge e
> comincia una qualche attivit� il Dipartimento di Stato USA la
> classifica come gruppo terroristico.
Quelli che chiami "insuccessi" della linea di Rugova erano in effetti
la naturale conseguenza dell'umore della stragrande maggioranza dei
cittadini kosovari di ogni nazionalita' - schipetari compresi
(soprattutto sulla scorta di quello che era successo in Croazia e
Bosnia). E poi, e' indicativo che di tutte le altre nazionalita' della
provincia non si parlasse per niente all'epoca e tu stesso le
dimentichi,
benche' siano "saltate fuori" con le conseguenze dei bombardamenti
della NATO : Rom, Gorani, Turchi, Musulmani slavi, eccetera.
La tua interpretazione sulle posizioni occidentali rispetto all'UCK
per noi lascia il tempo che trova : vero e' che l'Occidente ha
appoggiato il secessionismo pan-albanese, insieme a tutti gli altri
secessionismi, gia' negli anni precedenti, come dimostra il fatto che
la
agenzia di disinformazione "Ruder&Finn Public Global Affairs" ha
lavorato
per il partito e per le "istituzioni parallele" - etno-separatiste - di
Rugova gia' all'inizio degli anni Novanta (cfr. Merlino 1993).
Per quanto riguarda il solito bla-bla sull'"ideologia nazionalistica
piu' bieca: il Kosovo e' serbo da non so quanti secoli, abbiamo salvato
l'Occidente dalla barbarie musulmana", eccetera, questa e' semplicemente
la storia, ed e' assurdo che essa venga interpretata come un'offesa,
quando
tutto cio' viceversa viene ricordato solamente in senso difensivo. A
commento
riportiamo senza le parole di Andre' Malraux (1974, ripreso da "Rivista
di Studi
Slavi", Parigi 1984, e da noi tradotto per "Nuova Unita'") : "Il Kosovo
non e'
solo il paese della vostra storia, esiste nel cuore della vostra
cultura, e la cultura
quando si tratta del valore piu' alto che hai non e' mai il passato".
Per gli italiani certo richiamarsi alla "storia" e' raro e non e'
facile : nel caso
specifico dei Balcani cio' implica dover fare i conti con la rimozione
dei crimini
commessi... nel caso del Kosovo-Metohija significa dover dire che tra
il 1941
ed il 1943 le truppe fasciste contribuirono a ripulire la provincia da
100mila
slavi sostituendoli con schipetari provenienti dall'Albania.
Facciamo nostre le parole di un comunista jugoslavo che tu - troppo
impegnato
ad intrattenerti con Rugova e compagnia bella - non hai mai incontrato,
Stevan
Mirkovic : chiedersi chi e' arrivato prima non ha senso, oggi le
frontiere sono quelle
e non si devono cambiare ; gli schipetari hanno diritto a vivere in
Kosovo-Metohija
con gli stessi diritti ed anche con gli stessi doveri di tutti gli
altri.
> Siamo all'indomani degli accordi
> di Dayton sulla Bosnia e cio� nel momento in cui Milosevic �
> considerato ufficialmente dagli USA e da tutta la banda un
> interlocutore credibile.
...e per questo tu credi di metterlo in ridicolo, mentre se non
avesse collaborato a trovare una soluzione pacifica lo avreste
definito "fanatico" e "guerrafondaio"...
> Noi, da soli e nell'isolamento pi� totale,
> criticammo gli accordi di Dayton proprio perch� fondavano nuove
> istituzioni sulla base della conquista etnica del territorio
> legittimendo ogni malefatta, e le malefatte furono una pratica di
> tutte le componenti etniche. Allo stesso tempo eravamo contro
> l'embargo nei confronti della Serbia e della Jugoslavia, anzi
> consideravamo l'embargo uno strumento per indurre una maggiore
> destabilizzazione della regione, oltre che un'ingiustizia contro le
> incolpevoli popolazioni. E' in quella fase che si produce l'affare
> Telecom ed � per questo che ho detto che considero del tutto
> plausibile quanto � emerso in seguito. Sull'affare Telecom avrai
> certamente letto il mio intervento alla camera che Liberazione ha
> pubblicato integralmente. Sono stato testimone diretto di un Congresso
> del PSS nel quale la parola d'ordine era privatizzare tutto il
> possibile, diventare un Partito socialista dell'Internazionale,
> entrare in Europa.
A nostro avviso la questione-Telekom per la Jugoslavia puo' essere
stato un modo di aggirare astutamente l'embargo ed ottenere valuta
pregiata, mentre per l'Italia il caso viene tutto giocato a fini di
politica
interna. La tua posizione su questo per noi rimane enigmatica. Tra
l'altro e' paradossale che tu e tanti altri esponenti del tuo partito
ve
la prendiate con Milosevic "privatizzatore" laddove avete per anni
sostenuto un governo che oltre a privatizzare ha compiuto scelte
sociali devastanti, come la legalizzazione del caporalato. In realta'
le
privatizzazioni in Jugoslavia hanno seguito il criterio del 51 per
cento
statale, o "golden share", da voi tanto decantato !
> Poi c'� una svolta. Mentre sembra svanire l'embargo
> e molte multinazionali cominciano a posare il loro sguardo sugli
> enormi affari che si possono fare in Jugoslavia ecco che compare l'UCK
> e comincia la lotta armata in Kosovo. Sull'UCK ho gi� detto prima, ma
> come mai gli USA cominciano a sostenerla? Come mai le aperture
> politiche europee a Milosevic cominciano a richiudersi? Come mai?
> Perch� la Jugoslavia � un baluardo del socialismo? Perch� la zona � un
> boccone prelibato dal punto di vista economico? Per favore non
> scherziamo! Di socialismo in Jugoslavia non c'era pi� nemmeno l'ombra
> fin dagli anni ottanta. Pensare che si scateni una guerra imperialista
> per conquistare ci� che si pu� tranquillamente comprare con un
> centesimo della spesa � veramente ridurre la teoria dell'imperialismo
> ad una caricatura. La verit� � che si coglie un'occasione per
> preparare una guerra il cui obiettivo � di molto pi� ambizioso, e pi�
> grave! Rilanciare la NATO come gendarme mondiale e dare un ulteriore
> colpo all'ONU, umiliare ancora di pi� la Russia fino a ridurla
> definitivamente a potenza regionale e indirizzare il processo di unit�
> europea in senso atlantico e mercantile, riaffermare in tutto questo
> processo l'egemonia americana. Tutti obiettivi raggiunti, purtroppo.
> Anche a causa del fatto, e non si pu� ignorare, che un nazionalismo,
> che per giunta commette crimini (e non si dica che siccome la pulizia
> etnica in Kosovo � stata esagerata a dismisura dai media � stato un
> fatto insignificante!), pu� anche resistere nei confronti dei nuovi
> assetti imperialistici, ma � destinato a sicura sconfitta visto che
> non rappresenta e non propone nessuna alternativa. Gli USA hanno
> voluto la guerra, ma i paesi europei membri della NATO non l'hanno
> subita, l'hanno voluta anch'essi. Del resto basta guardare al fatto
> che la guerra � stata conclusa dal G8, a dimostrazione che uno degli
> obiettivi fondamentali della guerra era ed � fare del G8 il nucleo del
> nuovo governo reale del mondo. Ma forse qui bisognerebbe aprire
> un'altra discussione relativa al capitalismo contemporaneo, alla
> globalizzazione e all'indirizzo ultraatlantico e mercantile che ha
> preso l'Unione Europea. Ma questa � un'altra discussione. Che per� mi
> piacerebbe fare senza che le mie/nostre posizioni vengano bollate con
> anatemi ideologici e senza fare a gara a chi la spara pi� grossa.
> Fermo restando il fatto che a me sembra molto pi� radicalmente
> anticapitalista ed antimperialista la denuncia della costruzione di un
> nuovo ordine mondiale unipolare che la denuncia di un imperialismo che
> ha come obiettivo principale abbattere Milosevic ed impossessarsi del
> Kosovo. Infine alcune precisazioni. Liberazione � stata attaccata da
> pi� parti e per motivi opposti, come filo-milosevic e come
> anti-milosevic. Mah! Anch'io avrei delle critiche da fare a
> Liberazione ma questa ginnastica muscolare di organizzare invio di fax
> a sostegno dell'una e dell'altra tesi mi sembra, lo devo proprio dire,
> une emerita stupidaggine. Marcon � stato uno fra quelli che dirigono
> associazioni ed ONG a promuovere la NON partecipazione di molte org
> non governative alla missione Arcobaleno, proprio perch� considerata
> interna alla guerra e non umanitaria. Come si fa descriverlo come fai
> tu? Mah! La pulizia etinica � "un'invenzione da un punto di vista
> storico". Si tratterebbe di una repressione antiterroristica? Allora
> ha ragione la Turchia con i curdi? L'iran con i comunisti, i fedayn e
> i mujaydin iraniani? Saddam con il Partito comunista iracheno? Suvvia!
Ogni paragone di questo tipo e' ingrato, ma quando citi i curdi - per
tacere di Ocalan... - dovresti quantomeno chiederti se i curdi della
situazione, nei Balcani, non siano i SERBI ! Infatti mentre si va
verso
tutte le secessioni, verso la "Grande Albania" e la "Grande Croazia",
solo ai serbi e' stato pervicacemente negato il diritto alla
"autodeterminazione", e questo non per caso ma
perche' proprio i serbi svolgono, oggi come storicamente, il ruolo di
componente aggregatrice in quelle terre, in contrasto con le mire
imperialistiche.
E poi, non conosciamo altri casi simili a questo in cui un popolo -
quello
kosovaro-albanese - e' stato ridotto cosi' in basso dai propri leader,
al punto
da plaudire al bombardamento NATO della propria terra !
> Cerchiamo di essere seri e di non fare gli struzzi che mettono la
> testa sotto la sabbia! La realt� � quello che �, a nulla serve
> nasconderla o giustificare crimini giudicandoli con due pesi e due
> misure. Ma non solo per una questione etica. Per essere veramente
> efficaci contro chi commette crimini ancor pi� grandi e pi� gravi.
> Infine, nella tua lettera si parla di "una parte del PRC". Quale?
> Perch� vedi, caro Ivan, ogni presa di posizione e decisione inerente
> la nostra politica contro la guerra Nato in Jugoslavia e su tutti gli
> avvenimenti seguenti, elezioni politche recenti comprese, sono state
> discusse in segreteria del partito e in direzione. Non c'� mai stato
> un voto contrario o la richiesta di una riunione per esaminare altre
> posizioni. So bene che ci sono, sia in segreteria sia in direzione
> compagne e compagni che hanno posizioni ben diverse, basta leggerle su
> riviste di corrente come l'Ernesto. E' loro diritto averle, esprimerle
> nei modi e nelle forme che vogliono. E' loro diritto cercare di farle
> diventare maggioritarie nel partito. Ma non si pu� delegittimare ci�
> che viene deciso e praticato con il loro assenso o con il loro
> silenzio dagli organismi dirigenti del partito, come se fosse il
> segretario o il sottoscritto a prendere posizioni e decisioni di
> parte. Del resto se non si presentano emendamenti alle tesi dei
> congressi, se non si vota in dissenso quando si prendono decisioni
> impegnative, se si abbandonano silenziosamente le riunioni della
> direzione per non votare documenti politici fondamentali, credo lo si
> faccia perch� si sa di essere in minoranza. Io personalmente sono
> stato molte volte in minoranza, sia nel PCI sia in Rifondazione quando
> Cossutta, e la sua demagogia, andava per la maggiore. Penso si possa e
> si debba rischiare il posticino per una battaglia politica di grande
> valore. Ma non pretendo di applicare questo principio a tutti. Se non
> fanno una battaglia aperta negli organismi dirigenti del partito
> avranno le loro buone ragioni. Ma finch� non la faranno non hanno il
> diritto di dire che le posizioni del PRC sono di una parte o di parte.
Sulle questioni interne del PRC speriamo che si esprimano i diretti
interessati, che ci sembrano pure soggetti a discriminazioni
all'interno
del partito in questa fase preelettorale. Per quanto ci risulta, il PRC
otterrebbe molto piu' consenso se fosse guidato da esponenti informati,
coraggiosi e conseguenti : se questi oggi sono in minoranza ci
rammarica,
ed e' sicuramente un guaio per tutto il partito, che a nostro avviso
oggi
non e' capace di indurre coscienza e consapevolezza su questioni cosi'
fondamentali, nemmeno per i suoi stessi militanti. Ci sembrate un po'
come
quel papa che fa sempre avanti-indietro con l'America Latina e parla
alle
masse di pace e giustizia mentre taglia le gambe alla Teologia della
Liberazione.
Ivan (Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia)
>
> ciao
>
> Ramon Mantovani
>
> PS siccome non so a chi sia stata spedita la lettera aperta spero tu
> voglia far conoscere la mia risposta allo stesso indirizzario
PS.
1 - stiamo completando la traduzione di una serie di articoli degli
anni Ottanta sui fatti nella provincia del Kosmet, raccontati da un
professore di nazionalita' schipetara : sara' per tutti una rivelazione
leggerli.
2 - in questa nostra risposta usiamo apposta il termine "schipetari"
poiche' esso indica precisamente il carattere "etnico" e non la
cittadinanza - "albanese" e' il cittadino della Repubblica di Albania.
ALLEGATO
Dirigenza politica della Jugoslavia 1980-1991
PRIMI MINISTRI FEDERALI :
* V. Djuranovic MONTENEGRINO
* M. Planinc CROATA
* B. Mikulic CROATO DI BOSNIA
* A. Markovic CROATO
MINISTRI DEGLI ESTERI :
* J. Vrhovec CROATO
* L. Mojsov MACEDONE
* R. Dizdarevic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
* B. Loncar CROATO
PRESIDENTI DELLA PRESIDENZA COLLEGIALE :
* L. Kolisevski MACEDONE
* S. Krajger SLOVENO
* P. Stambolic SERBO
* F. Hoxha ALBANESE-KOSOVARO
* S. Dolanc SLOVENO
* V. Zarkovic MONTENEGRINO
* L. Mojsov MACEDONE
* R. Dizdarevic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
* J. Drnovsek SLOVENO
* B. Jovic SERBO
* S. Mesic CROATO
DIRIGENZA DELLA ARMATA POPOLARE JUGOSLAVA -
GIUGNO 1991 (al momento della disintegrazione):
MINISTRO FEDERALE DELLA DIFESA
Generale V. Kadijevic JUGOSLAVO
VICE MINISTRO FEDERALE DELLA DIFESA
Ammiraglio S. Brovet SLOVENO
CAPO DI STATO MAGGIORE
Generale B. Adzic SERBO
COMANDANTE DELLA PRIMA ZONA MILITARE (SERBIA)
Generale A. Spirkovski MACEDONE
COMANDANTE DELLA QUINTA ZONA MILITARE (CROAZIA E SLOVENIA)
Generale K. Kolsek SLOVENO
COMANDANTE DELLA TERZA ZONA MILITARE (BOSNIA-ERZEGOVINA)
Generale A. Luketic CROATO
COMANDANTE DELLA MARINA
Ammiraglio Z. Letica CROATO
COMANDANTE DELLA ZONA MARITTIMA
Ammiraglio P. Grubisic CROATO
COMANDANTE DELL'AVIAZIONE JUGOSLAVA
Generale A. Tus CROATO
AMBASCIATORI DELLA JUGOSLAVIA IN ALCUNI PAESI STRANIERI -
GIUGNO 1991:
STATI UNITI D'AMERICA
Dz. Mujezinovic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
UNIONE SOVIETICA
A. Runjic CROATO
FRANCIA
B. Gagro CROATO
REGNO UNITO
S. Rikanovic SERBO
REPUBBLICA POPOLARE CINESE
Z. Dragan SLOVENO
NAZIONI UNITE - NEW YORK
D. Silovic CROATO
NAZIONI UNITE - GINEVRA
N. Calovski MACEDONE
AUSTRIA
I. Brkelic CROATO
CITTA' DEL VATICANO
I. Mastruko CROATO
SPAGNA
F. Dizdarevic MUSULMANO DI BOSNIA
UNGHERIA
R. Sova UNGHERESE
EGITTO
I. Ivekovic CROATO
TURCHIA
T. Petrovski MACEDONE
IRAN
T. Trajkovski MACEDONE
ARGENTINA
R. Mazuran CROATO
INDONESIA
V. Koprivnjak CROATO
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Glas Javnosti, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
March 19, 2001
Balance sheet of the new government: Neither bread nor circuses
by Kosta Cavoski
More than 160 days have passed since the overturn of October 5, 2000 ad
80
days have passed since the overwhelming victory of the Democratic
Opposition
of Serbia (DOS) in the December elections - enough time to draw up the
first
balance sheet of the new government.
In the very beginning of this new democratic era, the greatest emphasis
was
placed on the ?EUR�thrill?EUR? of the foreign players with the new
government in
Belgrade. Cited in support of this is the quick acceptance of Yugoslavia
into the United Nations and OSCE. However, no mention is made of the
fact
that we were accepted as a completely new country which was created
yesterday, even though our membership in the United Nations was only
suspended; consequently, by submitting a request for acceptance as a new
country we practically co-validated the violation of the UN Charter
carried
out by that suspension.
An ugly shadow has been cast on this caring and benevolent approach of
the
so-called international community toward the new government by the
unexpected demand of Milo Djukanovic that Montenegro completely secede
as an
independent country and the incursion of Arbanas terrorists armed to the
teeth into the external safety zone, all with the unspoken and perhaps
the
direct support of the North Atlantic alliance.
For ordinary people who don?EUR�t care much about dignity or the
territorial
integrity of the state, far more significant is the economic progress
which
was promised and the longing desire for an improvement in life
conditions
which have become intolerable. On the eve of the elections, these hopes
were
fueled by the casual statements of DOS leaders such as Vladan Batic,
Mladjan
Dinkic and others to the effect that four to six billion marks of gifts,
assistance and favorable loans would pour into our country after their
election victory. It was even public talk that the NATO member countries
were prepared to compensate the damage they had caused by their
aggression
in the form of appropriate assistance.
It quickly became apparent that these were false promises and
transparent
deceptions. Instead of four to six billion marks, barely three hundred
million has arrived for the most part in merchandise, electricity and
other
basic needs, hardly any of it in the cash necessary to revitalize the
economy. And so the economy continues to stagnate, while prices,
especially
of food items and other expenses which are absolute necessities,
continue to
spiral upward. And what is worst of all, salaries are increasingly
losing
the race with prices which has an especially adverse effect on the
growing
ranks of the poor.
This has induced some groups of employed persons - the workers of
?EUR�Telecom?EUR?,
?EUR�Zastava?EUR? in Kragujevac and, most recently, education workers -
to begin
strikes and to demand significant increases in salary. By granting the
possibility of an initial twenty percent salary increase with successive
incremental increases thereafter the Serbian Government has managed to
stave
off the first strikes; however, it is highly questionable whether it
will be
able to continue to do so when health workers and other destitute groups
of
workers begin their own strikes. In other words, due to the almost
complete
lack of generous support previously promised from abroad, the new
government
has not been successful in revitalizing the economy and in securing
enough
bread and other needs for its citizens.
In addition to a full belly, which is always the highest priority,
ordinary
people also need some form of comfort and food for the soul: in these
modern
times, this is equivalent to an entertaining television program.
Milosevic?EUR�s
Socialists were not lacking in this respect; like true pirates (lest we
say
thieves) they broadcast the best and the newest films and television
series
for which they obviously paid nothing to their creators and producers.
Especially memorable were the exceptionally good film marathons run by
TV
Politika which were broadcast with the intent of discouraging people
from
going out into the streets. The new government doesn?EUR�t have the
knack for
this nor the money to pay copyrights; consequently, it is compensating
for
the huge lack of good films with an almost repulsive excess of public
appearances by its leaders.
During the time of imperial Rome social peace was preserved according to
the
dictate: bread and circuses! It would appear that our new government is
incapable of providing us with either.
by Kosta Cavoski
More than 160 days have passed since the overturn of October 5, 2000 ad
80
days have passed since the overwhelming victory of the Democratic
Opposition
of Serbia (DOS) in the December elections - enough time to draw up the
first
balance sheet of the new government.
In the very beginning of this new democratic era, the greatest emphasis
was
placed on the ?EUR�thrill?EUR? of the foreign players with the new
government in
Belgrade. Cited in support of this is the quick acceptance of Yugoslavia
into the United Nations and OSCE. However, no mention is made of the
fact
that we were accepted as a completely new country which was created
yesterday, even though our membership in the United Nations was only
suspended; consequently, by submitting a request for acceptance as a new
country we practically co-validated the violation of the UN Charter
carried
out by that suspension.
An ugly shadow has been cast on this caring and benevolent approach of
the
so-called international community toward the new government by the
unexpected demand of Milo Djukanovic that Montenegro completely secede
as an
independent country and the incursion of Arbanas terrorists armed to the
teeth into the external safety zone, all with the unspoken and perhaps
the
direct support of the North Atlantic alliance.
For ordinary people who don?EUR�t care much about dignity or the
territorial
integrity of the state, far more significant is the economic progress
which
was promised and the longing desire for an improvement in life
conditions
which have become intolerable. On the eve of the elections, these hopes
were
fueled by the casual statements of DOS leaders such as Vladan Batic,
Mladjan
Dinkic and others to the effect that four to six billion marks of gifts,
assistance and favorable loans would pour into our country after their
election victory. It was even public talk that the NATO member countries
were prepared to compensate the damage they had caused by their
aggression
in the form of appropriate assistance.
It quickly became apparent that these were false promises and
transparent
deceptions. Instead of four to six billion marks, barely three hundred
million has arrived for the most part in merchandise, electricity and
other
basic needs, hardly any of it in the cash necessary to revitalize the
economy. And so the economy continues to stagnate, while prices,
especially
of food items and other expenses which are absolute necessities,
continue to
spiral upward. And what is worst of all, salaries are increasingly
losing
the race with prices which has an especially adverse effect on the
growing
ranks of the poor.
This has induced some groups of employed persons - the workers of
?EUR�Telecom?EUR?,
?EUR�Zastava?EUR? in Kragujevac and, most recently, education workers -
to begin
strikes and to demand significant increases in salary. By granting the
possibility of an initial twenty percent salary increase with successive
incremental increases thereafter the Serbian Government has managed to
stave
off the first strikes; however, it is highly questionable whether it
will be
able to continue to do so when health workers and other destitute groups
of
workers begin their own strikes. In other words, due to the almost
complete
lack of generous support previously promised from abroad, the new
government
has not been successful in revitalizing the economy and in securing
enough
bread and other needs for its citizens.
In addition to a full belly, which is always the highest priority,
ordinary
people also need some form of comfort and food for the soul: in these
modern
times, this is equivalent to an entertaining television program.
Milosevic?EUR�s
Socialists were not lacking in this respect; like true pirates (lest we
say
thieves) they broadcast the best and the newest films and television
series
for which they obviously paid nothing to their creators and producers.
Especially memorable were the exceptionally good film marathons run by
TV
Politika which were broadcast with the intent of discouraging people
from
going out into the streets. The new government doesn?EUR�t have the
knack for
this nor the money to pay copyrights; consequently, it is compensating
for
the huge lack of good films with an almost repulsive excess of public
appearances by its leaders.
During the time of imperial Rome social peace was preserved according to
the
dictate: bread and circuses! It would appear that our new government is
incapable of providing us with either.
---
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dell'ex Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia Vivra'",
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> http://www.tuttinlotta.org
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March 19, 2001
Balance sheet of the new government: Neither bread nor circuses
by Kosta Cavoski
More than 160 days have passed since the overturn of October 5, 2000 ad
80
days have passed since the overwhelming victory of the Democratic
Opposition
of Serbia (DOS) in the December elections - enough time to draw up the
first
balance sheet of the new government.
In the very beginning of this new democratic era, the greatest emphasis
was
placed on the ?EUR�thrill?EUR? of the foreign players with the new
government in
Belgrade. Cited in support of this is the quick acceptance of Yugoslavia
into the United Nations and OSCE. However, no mention is made of the
fact
that we were accepted as a completely new country which was created
yesterday, even though our membership in the United Nations was only
suspended; consequently, by submitting a request for acceptance as a new
country we practically co-validated the violation of the UN Charter
carried
out by that suspension.
An ugly shadow has been cast on this caring and benevolent approach of
the
so-called international community toward the new government by the
unexpected demand of Milo Djukanovic that Montenegro completely secede
as an
independent country and the incursion of Arbanas terrorists armed to the
teeth into the external safety zone, all with the unspoken and perhaps
the
direct support of the North Atlantic alliance.
For ordinary people who don?EUR�t care much about dignity or the
territorial
integrity of the state, far more significant is the economic progress
which
was promised and the longing desire for an improvement in life
conditions
which have become intolerable. On the eve of the elections, these hopes
were
fueled by the casual statements of DOS leaders such as Vladan Batic,
Mladjan
Dinkic and others to the effect that four to six billion marks of gifts,
assistance and favorable loans would pour into our country after their
election victory. It was even public talk that the NATO member countries
were prepared to compensate the damage they had caused by their
aggression
in the form of appropriate assistance.
It quickly became apparent that these were false promises and
transparent
deceptions. Instead of four to six billion marks, barely three hundred
million has arrived for the most part in merchandise, electricity and
other
basic needs, hardly any of it in the cash necessary to revitalize the
economy. And so the economy continues to stagnate, while prices,
especially
of food items and other expenses which are absolute necessities,
continue to
spiral upward. And what is worst of all, salaries are increasingly
losing
the race with prices which has an especially adverse effect on the
growing
ranks of the poor.
This has induced some groups of employed persons - the workers of
?EUR�Telecom?EUR?,
?EUR�Zastava?EUR? in Kragujevac and, most recently, education workers -
to begin
strikes and to demand significant increases in salary. By granting the
possibility of an initial twenty percent salary increase with successive
incremental increases thereafter the Serbian Government has managed to
stave
off the first strikes; however, it is highly questionable whether it
will be
able to continue to do so when health workers and other destitute groups
of
workers begin their own strikes. In other words, due to the almost
complete
lack of generous support previously promised from abroad, the new
government
has not been successful in revitalizing the economy and in securing
enough
bread and other needs for its citizens.
In addition to a full belly, which is always the highest priority,
ordinary
people also need some form of comfort and food for the soul: in these
modern
times, this is equivalent to an entertaining television program.
Milosevic?EUR�s
Socialists were not lacking in this respect; like true pirates (lest we
say
thieves) they broadcast the best and the newest films and television
series
for which they obviously paid nothing to their creators and producers.
Especially memorable were the exceptionally good film marathons run by
TV
Politika which were broadcast with the intent of discouraging people
from
going out into the streets. The new government doesn?EUR�t have the
knack for
this nor the money to pay copyrights; consequently, it is compensating
for
the huge lack of good films with an almost repulsive excess of public
appearances by its leaders.
During the time of imperial Rome social peace was preserved according to
the
dictate: bread and circuses! It would appear that our new government is
incapable of providing us with either.
by Kosta Cavoski
More than 160 days have passed since the overturn of October 5, 2000 ad
80
days have passed since the overwhelming victory of the Democratic
Opposition
of Serbia (DOS) in the December elections - enough time to draw up the
first
balance sheet of the new government.
In the very beginning of this new democratic era, the greatest emphasis
was
placed on the ?EUR�thrill?EUR? of the foreign players with the new
government in
Belgrade. Cited in support of this is the quick acceptance of Yugoslavia
into the United Nations and OSCE. However, no mention is made of the
fact
that we were accepted as a completely new country which was created
yesterday, even though our membership in the United Nations was only
suspended; consequently, by submitting a request for acceptance as a new
country we practically co-validated the violation of the UN Charter
carried
out by that suspension.
An ugly shadow has been cast on this caring and benevolent approach of
the
so-called international community toward the new government by the
unexpected demand of Milo Djukanovic that Montenegro completely secede
as an
independent country and the incursion of Arbanas terrorists armed to the
teeth into the external safety zone, all with the unspoken and perhaps
the
direct support of the North Atlantic alliance.
For ordinary people who don?EUR�t care much about dignity or the
territorial
integrity of the state, far more significant is the economic progress
which
was promised and the longing desire for an improvement in life
conditions
which have become intolerable. On the eve of the elections, these hopes
were
fueled by the casual statements of DOS leaders such as Vladan Batic,
Mladjan
Dinkic and others to the effect that four to six billion marks of gifts,
assistance and favorable loans would pour into our country after their
election victory. It was even public talk that the NATO member countries
were prepared to compensate the damage they had caused by their
aggression
in the form of appropriate assistance.
It quickly became apparent that these were false promises and
transparent
deceptions. Instead of four to six billion marks, barely three hundred
million has arrived for the most part in merchandise, electricity and
other
basic needs, hardly any of it in the cash necessary to revitalize the
economy. And so the economy continues to stagnate, while prices,
especially
of food items and other expenses which are absolute necessities,
continue to
spiral upward. And what is worst of all, salaries are increasingly
losing
the race with prices which has an especially adverse effect on the
growing
ranks of the poor.
This has induced some groups of employed persons - the workers of
?EUR�Telecom?EUR?,
?EUR�Zastava?EUR? in Kragujevac and, most recently, education workers -
to begin
strikes and to demand significant increases in salary. By granting the
possibility of an initial twenty percent salary increase with successive
incremental increases thereafter the Serbian Government has managed to
stave
off the first strikes; however, it is highly questionable whether it
will be
able to continue to do so when health workers and other destitute groups
of
workers begin their own strikes. In other words, due to the almost
complete
lack of generous support previously promised from abroad, the new
government
has not been successful in revitalizing the economy and in securing
enough
bread and other needs for its citizens.
In addition to a full belly, which is always the highest priority,
ordinary
people also need some form of comfort and food for the soul: in these
modern
times, this is equivalent to an entertaining television program.
Milosevic?EUR�s
Socialists were not lacking in this respect; like true pirates (lest we
say
thieves) they broadcast the best and the newest films and television
series
for which they obviously paid nothing to their creators and producers.
Especially memorable were the exceptionally good film marathons run by
TV
Politika which were broadcast with the intent of discouraging people
from
going out into the streets. The new government doesn?EUR�t have the
knack for
this nor the money to pay copyrights; consequently, it is compensating
for
the huge lack of good films with an almost repulsive excess of public
appearances by its leaders.
During the time of imperial Rome social peace was preserved according to
the
dictate: bread and circuses! It would appear that our new government is
incapable of providing us with either.
---
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MILOSEVIC'S ARREST OCCASION FOR MORE NATO LIES AND HYPOCRISY
by Stephen Gowans
"We cannot and must not forget the chilling images of...mass graves
unearthed by UN investigators," said President George W. Bush, on the
occasion of Slobodan Milosevic's arrest over the weekend.
And as Milosevic was beginning his first day in a Belgrade jail, British
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook reminded us that he had visited some of the
mass graves himself.
One newspaper remarked, "[T]his is only the beginning of what could be a
long procedure leading to Mr. Milosevic's being tried for war crimes
committed two years ago in Kosovo, where an estimated 10,000 ethnic
Albanian civilians were killed and hundreds of thousands driven from
their
homes."
Images of mass graves are indeed chilling. But has anyone ever seen the
mass graves in Kosovo? Did Robin Cook really visit them? And were there
10,000 Albanian civilians killed in Kosovo?
If you want to be spectacularly misinformed, said author Henry Miller,
buy
a newspaper.
George Orwell, in his famous essay, Politics and the English Language,
complained that a lot of political writing consisted of gumming together
phrases like the sections of a prefabricated hen house, an easy way of
writing, he said, once you had the habit. Reach into a handy grab-bag of
weathered phrases, and you don't have to think critically about what
you're
writing. To journalists spoon fed copy by government sources, tacking
together ready made, prefabricated phrases and ideas is an easy way to
meet
deadlines without a lot of effort.
Dutifully reporting the words of political figures, without questioning
even the most conspicuous deviations from the truth, goes along way too
toward effortlessly filing copy.
Press coverage of Milosevic's arrest has been very much like the
building
of prefabricated hen houses. The words of Bush, Cook and former US
Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, are reported uncritically, while
Milosevic, just as uncritically, is denounced as a "tyrant,"
"cold-blooded
autocrat," "war-lord," "strongman," and "iron-fisted dictator."
He's also "terrifying," "ruthless," "brutal," "the mastermind of the
worst
European wars since the Nazis."
Altogether a bad egg. Certainly, someone who could exterminate 10,000
Albanians and have their corpses dumped into mass graves, say, at the
bottom of the infamous Trepca mines, the repository it, is said, of the
remains of tens of thousands of brutally murdered ethnic Albanian
Kosovars.
Certainly someone who could be responsible for the mass graves Bush is
chilled by and Cook remembers visiting.
But take apart the cairn of ready made phrases to see what lies below
and
you'll find little more than what Orwell said you'd find behind
prefabricated phrases -- pure wind. And little more than what was found
at
the bottom of the Trepca mines, once pathologists were dispatched to
excavate the site -- some rubble and a few scattered animal bones.
Nothing
more.
But that's not the only bit of nothingness that has been found.
Operation Horseshoe, the alleged Milosevic plan to ethnically cleanse
Kosovo, turned out to be a hoax.
The Racak massacre, the slaughter of some forty ethnic Albanian
civilians
by Serb security forces -- said to have provided the impetus for Nato to
bomb Yugoslavia -- looks, now, after the release of a Finnish forensic
pathology report, to have been faked by the KLA.
One hundred thousand Kosovars were said to have been killed by
Milosevic's
forces, a number later revised downward to 10,000, and then, after
pathologists rushed to Kosovo at the end of Nato's 78-day air war ready
to
inspect dozens of alleged mass graves, was revised downward further
still,
when pathologists failed to uncover what Nato darkly warned the world
they'd find. Fewer than 2,000 autopsies were performed. Bodies were
found
buried alone or in pairs -- not in the mass graves Cook says he visited
or
Bush remembers chilling images of. Whether the corpses were Serb or
Albanian, indeed whether they met their deaths at the hands of Serb
security forces or KLA guerillas, was never certain.
What then are we to make of this? Most of the atrocities Milosevic stood
initially accused of turn out never to have happened, which may be why
the
first press reports of Milosevic's arrest steered clear of the specifics
of
the reasons for his apprehension, preferring instead Orwell's
prefabricated
phrases. Being a strongman, ruthless and iron-fisted, seemed reason
enough
for his arrest. About as concrete as anyone got was in attributing "the
worst European wars since the Nazis" to Milosevic, an accusation that
could
only be made by turning a blind eye to what was truly one of the worst
post
World War II European wars -- the Nato air strikes on Yugoslavia. And it
was hardly Milosevic who initiated that war, although I suppose, in some
perverted twist of logic it could be said that Milosevic was
responsible,
in the same way that a kid who refuses to relinquish his lunch money to
the
school yard bully is responsible for his own bloodied nose.
Largely unreported is that Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia was precipitated
by
Milosevic's refusal to allow Nato to occupy the entire country -- one of
the ultimata Nato issued at Rambouilett. Milosevic was ready to agree to
a
UN force in Kosovo, something, it will be recalled, Nato finally agreed
to,
but only after turning the country into a polluted desert.
Nato's pummelling of Yugoslavia, with its toll of hundreds, if not
thousands of civilians killed, and many more thousands injured,
apparently
doesn't count as one of the worst European wars since the Nazis, though
it
might be recalled that before Nato it was the Nazis who last bombed
Yugoslavia.
The flexing of Nato's military muscle was called a humanitarian
intervention, not a war, and therefore doesn't count. Goebbels would
have
admired the audacity. The euphemistic evasion "humanitarian
intervention"
calls to mind the Fuggs' 1966 underground hit, Kill for Peace.
Kill, it will give you the mental ease
Kill it will give you a big release
Kill, kill, kill for peace.
It also calls to mind Orwell's charge that political language is
designed
to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
Human Rights Watch says that Nato bombs killed 500 civilians.
The total body count for which Milosevic stands indicted on war crimes
is
391, not 100,000 and not 10,000. Less than the number of Yugoslav
civilians
killed by a humanitarian Nato. That's never mentioned by the media.
And all of the incidents cited in the indictment against Milosevic but
one
-- the phoney Racak incident -- happened after Nato's bombs started
their
ugly exercise of ushering Serb civilians to an early grave or to a life
of
permanent disability. Which is curious, because Nato said it needed to
bomb
Yugoslavia to stop Serb atrocities.
So what exactly is George W. Bush talking about when he mentions the
chilling images of mass graves? And exactly what graves did Robin Cook
visit anyway?
Chilling images of mass killing, indeed, are something we should never
forget. The near genocide of the East Timorese by Indonesia, which went
on
for decades under the eyes of successive US administrations; the burning
of
Kurd villages by Turkish security forces, both in Turkey, and across its
border, in Northern Iraq, where American and British patrols supposedly
fly
to protect the Kurd minority -- except when Turkish jet fighters loaded
with bombs, generously paid for by US military aid, are razing Kurd
villages; Colombian peasants driven from their homes and murdered by
death
squads linked to the Colombian military the US has given $1.3 billion
to;
the hundreds of Palestinians killed by the Israeli Defence Forces, and
the
thousands injured and permanently disabled, in the latest intifada;
these
are chilling images we should begin to notice, much less never forget.
And what of the chilling images of thousands of Iraqi children dying
every
month because of the US-led sanctions regime, or Serb hospitals,
schools,
bridges, factories, destroyed by Nato bombs -- can they be forgotten?
Nor should we overlook -- or forget -- the complicity of the press in
lending the appearance of solidity to the emptiness of the words of the
likes of Bush and Cook, a press which boasts of being free and
independent,
yet allows itself to be spoon-fed mendacious drivel which it neither
questions nor parses.
And we shouldn't forget the troubling lies that roll so easily off the
tongues of Nato leaders -- about massacres that didn't happen, and
master
plans for ethnic cleansing that never existed, and death tolls that are
wildly exaggerated.
Mr. Steve Gowans is a writer and political activist who lives in Ottawa,
Canada.
Source: Antiwar.com
---
STATEMENT OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Belgrade, April 4, 2001
Socialist Party of Serbia has requested the competent authorities that
Party President Slobodan Milosevic is released from detention and given
possibility to legally defend himself free. Slobodan Milosevic is symbol
of
defending dignity of Serbian nation, national and state interests as
well
as of cooperation based on equality with all countries and peoples.
Milosevic had organized and united citizens of Yugoslavia in resisting
NATO
armed aggression which provoked thousands of human victims, destruction
of
the country and which led Balkans, Europe and whole world the heritage
of
unpredictable lasting dangers. Let nobody stay with illusions that
history
and truth can be changed by detaining Slobodan Milosevic.
Socialist Party of Serbia is grateful to numerous friendly parties,
statesmen and world public personalities, who condemned detention of
Slobodan Milosevic as an attempt to amnesty those who have been
destroying
Yugoslavia and committing genocide over Serbian nation and blame victims
of
the crimes - defenders of legitimate interests of Yugoslavia and Serbian
people.
Socialist Party of Serbia urges the competent state authorities to
prevent
Democratic Party from being headquarters for public lynches,
orchestration
of political trials and ransom detention of political opponents.
The new DOS authorities succeed in only one election promise: freeing
from
jails Albanian terrorists and filing jails with Serbian patriots. These
authorities having no national and state policy, neglecting dignity and
interest of Serbia - have accepted to negotiate with Albanian terrorists
about Serbian territories in Southern Serbia, thus offering time to
terrorists to amass, build fortifications from which they kill every day
Serbian citizens, policemen and soldiers. Separatism program of DOS
leaders
in Vojvodina and Raska region is publicly destroying Serbian state as
the
only pillar of the whole Serbian nation and all citizens of Serbia.
In these conditions the Socialist Party of Serbia will continue to
resolutely defend interest of Serbia and its citizens, safeguarding
Yugoslavia as the Balkans and European state, the most important factor
of
peace, stability and cooperation based on equality in the region.
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.24casa.co.yu/ (the only free daily newspaper in Yugoslavia)
---
SPS ON MILUTINOVIC RESIGNATION
Belgrade, April 4, 2001
President of the Republic of Serbia Milan Milutinovic submitted
yesterday
his resignation from the posts of vice-chairman and of the member of
Head
Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia, the principal opposition
party
on both - Serbian and Federal levels. His letter to the Head Committee
followed only a day after the President of the Party Slobodan Milosevic
was
put in detention by Serbian authorities. Milutinovic who has acquired
extraordinary political carrier being one of the closest friends of
Milosevic and who won Serbian presidential elections as the candidate of
Socialist Party, has kept him self completely away from public political
life ever since Democratic opposition took power in Yugoslavia and in
Serbia towards the end of last year.
Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia has issued today a
statement reacting to complaints of Mr. Milutinovic that he has been
asked
in various occasions to act beyond his powers. The statement says that
Socialist Party has been expecting President Milutinovic to publicly
condemn escalation of Albanian terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija and
southern districts of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja as it is his
principal duty to defend peace, stability, integrity of the Republic and
human rights of all citizens. He has been asked to visit those regions,
the
same way as many other less competent officials have been doing.
The statement confirms that Milutinovic has been urged by his Party
colleagues to use his constitutional powers and refrain from signing
certain laws considered by the Party to be contrary to the interest of
the
Republic, such as Amnesty law and law on abolishing the Law on
privatization. He was also asked to amnesty Dragoljub Milanovic, former
director of the state television (RTS), who was accused and detained two
months ago under accusation of being responsible for the death of
sixteen
RTS employees, who were killed by NATO bomb on April 23, 1999.
All these expectations and initiatives of Socialist Party of Serbia have
been ignored by Mr. Milutinovic.
The Socialist Party of Serbia has strongly criticized Milutinovic's
move,
reminding him that he has never been dissatisfied while exploiting the
Party and friendship with Milosevic for very fast and privilege
rendering
rising-up to the top of the power - first Ambassador to Athens, then
Minister of Foreign Affairs and finally President of Serbia.
Milutinovic's resignation will soon be considered by the Head Committee
of
the Party.
---
http://serbianunity.net/index.html
Serbian Unity Congress
MARCH 24th 1999
REMEMBER KOSOVO
March 24, 1999 - a day that will live in infamy. On
that day, NATO fired the opening shots of what was to
be a 78-day war against Yugoslavia. In the following
eleven weeks, thousands of people were killed as
civilian infrastructure was systematically targeted by
NATO's air force. Using forbidden and toxic weapons,
such as cluster bombs and depleted uranium rounds,
NATO hit marketplaces and hospitals, oil refineries,
the power grid, chemical plants, bridges, apartment
buildings, passenger trains, refugee columns and
camps, two television stations, and an embassy of a
neutral foreign country.
Justifications for the attack were alleged Serb
atrocities against Albanian population in Kosovo,
which NATO claimed were part of a systematic plan of
ethnic cleansing. Some US officials claimed that
100,000 Albanians were murdered. The world press
agreed on 10,000. Two years later, these accusations
have been proven false. There was no massacre of
civilians at the village of Racak. There was no
"Operation Horseshoe." There was no crematorium in the
Trepca mines. There were no death camps. There were no
mass graves. There was no genocide.
Investigators of the International Criminal Tribunal
found less than three thousand dead, in individual
graves, without disclosing the manner of death or even
the ethnicity of the exhumed.
In the end, Yugoslavia accepted NATO's temporary
control of Kosovo in exchange for guarantees of safety
for all its citizens in the province. Within two
months of NATO's entry, most non-Albanians had been
expelled from the province at gunpoint, their homes
burned, looted or expropriated by the KLA, a militant
organization trained and equipped by the United States
and other NATO members. One American officer, a
veteran of World War Two, Korea and Viet Nam,
described them as "one of the most cutthroat gangs of
terrorists in the world."
But the KLA's terror did not stop there. Over a
hundred Orthodox churches were dynamited, torched or
otherwise demolished. Hundreds of non-Albanians were
brutally murdered, on the streets, in their offices,
in their fields, or in buses under NATO's armed
escort. Over 1800 are missing. Kosovo's remaining
non-Albanians - Serbs, Roma, Jews, Turks, Bosniaks and
Gorani - live in ghettos, surrounded by barbed-wire
fences and armed guards. Anyone speaking Serbian on
the street risks being murdered, even UN employees.
Kosovo is ruled by violence and terror, despite the
presence of almost 40,000 NATO troops, about 5000 of
which are Americans.
Furthermore, NATO trained some KLA members for further
attacks on Serbs. These Albanians are currently
occupying villages in Serbia's Presevo valley, and
attacking the second largest city in Macedonia - the
same country that generously gave refuge to thousands
of Albanians trying to escape the bombing and the war
in Kosovo. Today's Balkans is still feeling the
consequences of what started on March 24, 1999.
By attacking Yugoslavia, NATO violated the UN Charter,
its own Charter, the Geneva Convention, the Helsinki
Final Act and a series of other conventions and
agreements its members had signed. Its bombs destroyed
the rule of law and the international order NATO
claimed to have been defending.
On this day, Serbs and their friends across the world
will light candles and say prayers in memory of NATO's
victims - both the people, and the peace, that the
bombs of March 24 so brutally killed.
March 24, 2001
Serbian Unity Congress
Washington, DC
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Subject: from chris soda
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:27:33 -0500
From: Chris Soda <chriss12@...>
Open letter to Serbian churches and organizations in Canada
Thank you for the opportunity to share a few thoughts at this solemn
occasion. This weekend marks the
second anniversary of our government's murder of innocent people in
Yugoslavia. As a Canadian citizen born
and raised in this country I and my family have been lucky enough to
have never suffered from a foreign
military aggression. Consequently, I didn't have a personal common
history nor a personal common
experience with many of you until two years ago; now, we all live
together in a country whose government has
broken our laws and stolen our money to murder both the helpless and the
honourable.
We all read the same lies here in our newspapers, listened to the same
lies on radio. We still do.
We all waited for the same Russian cavalry which never arrived.
Who amongst you gathered here today didn't watch CNN ask, "What's wrong
with our society?" as children
shot each other at Columbine High School- while it reported the
justification of adults from the same country
bombing children in high schools overseas?
I'm still waiting for an answer as to how directing a cluster bomb near
a World Heritage Site or a marketplace
or a bus station helps to save the lives of innocent people hundreds of
miles away who are running from
those same types of bombs- all dropped by the same so-called
'humanitarians'. I'm still waiting for an answer
as to how yesterday's terrorists who killed the innocent became Canadian
allies, freedom fighters, and the
police force of Kosovo all wrapped into one- while still killing the
innocent even as you are gathered here
today.
I'm asking myself how a government that agrees to autonomy during
meetings at Rambouillet can be
accused of plotting something called "Operation Horseshoe" at the same
time. I'm wondering how
Canadians could murder the children of a country that at the same place
and at the same time just asked our
country if they could join their NATO alliance. I'm wondering about why
anyone anywhere would believe
accusations of this so-called 'ethnic cleansing' coming from a country
that not that long ago systematically
deployed racial segregation. And I'm wondering how our country can allow
'language laws'.
And it puzzles me how both the US and Canada can point the finger at
anyone after forcing their own natives
onto reservations. I also wonder how a 'dictatorship' using 'repressive'
means can guarantee education,
health, and employment in over twenty languages to those it is
'repressing'- or how a 'human rights violator'
somehow allows the schools, hospitals, and churches of those it is
'ethnically cleansing' to remain intact; in
fact, the 'violating' state even pays for most of it.
I wonder how so-called 'ethnic cleansing' involves riding an
air-conditioned bus to safety, escorted by none
other than what our government calls the 'Serb aggressors'.
I wonder how defending your country constitutes 'aggression'. I wonder
how those who paid for and
perpetrated the real aggression are known as 'peacekeepers'.
Since our beloved CBC found the time and resources to produce an
award-winning documentary of a KLA
woman whose sister was 'murdered by the Serbs', I'm wondering two
things: why this sister turned up alive
and well and unharmed- but the CBC still kept their award anyway; and
secondly, why couldn't this same
CBC find the time and resources to interview and film some of the many
hundreds of thousands of Muslims
who fled north from Kosovo- to Belgrade, which welcomed them with open
arms- for safety during what we
are still being told was a 'humanitarian intervention' to save
them..........................from Belgrade.
I'm puzzled by the silence of the Globe and Mails and National Posts of
Canada who watch as Agim Ceku
first tries to murder Canadians in Croatia, then is protected by
Canadians in Kosovo as the new police chief.
I'm puzzled as to why none of our mainstream media comment as to why the
Germans have to force back to
Kosovo so-called 'victims of the Serbs' long after these 'Serb
aggressors' have left.
There are also two other things we have in common now. We have many
questions that we ask of the
bombers, and we have no truthful answers from any of them.
Try to get a truthful answer from Canadian child killers and their
superiors by asking how someone who
suffered tuberculosis and is sheltered, fed, and cared for by Serbs
suddenly becomes 'a victim of Serb death
camps' photographed by trickery to appear to be imprisoned behind barbed
wire- followed shortly after by
NATO bombings of innocent people. Try to get a truthful answer from the
cripplers of ordinary hard-working,
law-abiding people by asking how "a massacre of innocent civilians at
Racak, forced to kneel in the mud and
beg for their lives" really means gunpowder residue on the hands of
armed insurrectionists shot while firing
weapons at the police- after refusing to surrender.
Then ask how this "massacre" was attended by film crews invited to watch
by "the perpetrators of this
massacre" before the "massacre" even took place - followed shortly
thereafter by yet another NATO bombing
of innocent people.
Ask anyone of our 'independant' news media or anyone of our country's
political leaders from any of our
political parties in the House of Commons how a regularly-scheduled
passenger train is bombed twice within
minutes by "accident"- the first time to cripple the machine, the second
time to kill the defenceless people
trapped inside- when this "accident" involves manually using a joystick
to divert missiles AWAY from the
unoccupied part of a bridge and TOWARDS the target.
We all know this particular event was also filmed- and shown to us at
three times normal speed, also by
"accident" according to our government's real spokesmen: Jamie Shea,
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Madeleine
Albright (herself saved by Serbs, the very same people whose friends and
relatives she orders murdered
years later) and the other savages in NATO.
The questions are innumerable but all of them have only one answer. The
same answer. This answer can be
found at a press conference given by this same Jamie Shea in April/99,
in which he congratulates his fellow
NATO personnel for "...another very effective day of operations..."
Less than 24 hours earlier, NATO had just murdered hundreds of ordinary
people in and around Korisa-
ordinary people moving in different groups and in different directions.
Ordinary people in Yugoslavia who
were moving to begin with because hours earlier NATO had bombed them out
of their homes in what
everyone tells us was an example of "protection" from the Serbs who had
defended them while they were still
in their homes.
That answers any of my questions, and any of yours I'm sure. For me, it
answers how 19 countries can share
the technology to sit on the edge of outer space and read a license
plate miles below, and yet tell us that they
can't read the correct address of an embassy listed in a phone book an
inch away from their faces. It
answers how a TV station can be bombed because they tell us it's
reporters are a propaganda machine of
Milosevic, while the same types of bombers sit together with the
reporters at CNN and invite an elected
Yugoslav Member of Parliament to an interview in that same TV station-
at the exact time the station is
scheduled to be bombed- by those who are sitting at those same desks at
CNN.
We all know what has happened here. We all know that there is no shame
amongst the plotters of murder,
theft, and deception. We all know that I'm speaking of the highest
elected officials of this country. We all know
who elected them and we all know most of those don't bear any shame
either.
The best thing we can do is to keep asking the questions for which we
already know the answers to; only by
embarassing the electors can we hope to unsettle the elected. Ask your
police chiefs and your police officers
why those who fought cold-blooded murderers and drug traffickers are
considered 'criminals' by those whom
the same police chiefs and their officers are sworn to protect. Ask the
representatives of all religious
denominations in this country why their leaders have not come out with
ongoing, direct statements
condemning the targeting of innocents. Ask your school boards why they
can't find the will to author a joint
statement condemning the theft of taxpayer dollars that should have been
used for education here, rather than
being stolen and then used for the destruction of buildings of learning
in Yugoslavia. Ask your medical boards
and the federal Health Ministry why money could not be found by the
Canadian federal government to keep
hospitals open in this country, while at the same time revenue was
stolen to finance the bombing of hospitals
overseas.
Put them all on the spot. Ask your elected Members of Parliament why
they have always been silent on these
issues except to patronize us and insult our intelligence with
propaganda. Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis may
prove to be an exception if approached with written questions in this
regard- he's the only one I've found who
(once, and I believe it was in the House of Commons, May 10/99) decried
this government's targeting of
civilians during those 78 days of murder.
Commemoration of the dead means remembering the honourable, the
innocent, and the perpetrators. Let's
remember-and remind- the guilty with our questions.
Ask these same federal MPs what their definition of a 'two-tier' health
system means in practice. Ask them
why their 'two-tier' actions have supported one level of health safety
here, and one level of health destruction
elsewhere.
Ask your Globe and Mails and your National Posts and your local papers
how they can call something
'collateral damage' when it is planned many years ahead of time, and how
this 'collateral damage' is caused
by repeatedly and deliberately circling over a target before firing.
Call your CBC office and inquire as to when they plan to do an
'exclusive interview' with the Spanish Air
Force pilot who told us early on in these Canadian-sponsored atrocities
in Yugoslavia that the ordinary
people were the target from Day One.
And ask all of these people this: if our government embarked on such a
noble cause, then why is it that they
still have to keep lying to us?
Thank you again for your time today. I hope to meet some of you one day
and shake the hands of those with
such spirit and determination.
Sincerely, Chris Soda
---
WORLDNETDAILY, Saturday, February 10, 2001
How the New World Order is 'helping' Serbia
By Aleksandar Pavic
(C) 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
The way things are going, it seems that it's just a matter
of time
before Bill Clinton, the man who ordered the NATO bombing
of Yugoslavia
in 1999 will come to Belgrade offering "help." For, this
past week, the
country was a positive place of pilgrimage for all those
who had
previously contributed to its ruin in one way or another.
It started a week ago when U.S. Senators Biden and McCain
led a
delegation of senators and representatives to Belgrade to
wave the
carrot and stick. Back in 1999, Biden was one of the
louder proponents
of arming the Albanian KLA guerilla force fighting the
Serb population
and police in Kosovo - the same force that effectively
cleared the
region of its Serb population, in the wake of the bombing,
and went on
to transform Kosovo into the main European center of drug
smuggling,
white slavery and prostitution. John McCain, on the other
hand, was a
fierce advocate of launching a ground invasion of
Yugoslavia when the
bombing failed to give the expected "results."
Now, these two gentlemen have come humbly to Belgrade to
offer to do
their part so that Yugoslavia would recover a fraction of
a percent of
the estimated damage from the bombing and the resulting
after effects --
but not so humbly as to make the offer unconditional. No,
the generous
gift of $100 million was conditioned on the country's
leadership
agreeing to turn over ex-president Slobodan Milosevic to
the Hague "war
crimes tribunal." Thus, one man who openly called for the
arming of a
guerilla insurgency inside a sovereign country -- who
openly called for
an invasion of that same sovereign country without even a
formal
declaration of war -- came to that country asking for
"international
justice" to be satisfied.
At the beginning of the week, a second great "helper"
appeared on the
scene a little further south -- in the Presevo and
Bujanovac region of
Serbia -- where the Kosovo Albanians "disarmed" by the
50,000-strong
NATO-led force are trying to import the virtues of the
newly
"democratized" Kosovo to the south of Serbia by starting a
brand new
guerilla insurgency. The man in question was U.S. diplomat
James Pardew,
now "U.S. Special Envoy to the Balkans," but a man far
better known for
running the "arm-and-train" program in neighboring Bosnia
(formerly a
part of Yugoslavia) during that country's civil war. Under
this program,
U.S. arms and training were used to "level the playing
field" in that
country by arming the Bosnian Muslims and Croats until
they eventually
became twice as well-armed as the Bosnian Serbs. Now,
Pardew's sense of
sportsmanship was set on firmer legal ground than was
Biden's. For,
although the Bosnian Croats and Muslims also had their
beginnings as
illegal secessionist paramilitary units within a sovereign
country, by
the time Pardew came on the scene, Bosnia had already been
recognized as
a newly sovereign country by the "international
community." (That's the
way things are done according to international law
nowadays. As soon as
recognition came in the spring of 1992, the Yugoslav Army
troops on the
territory of Bosnia all of a sudden became the
"aggressors," while
yesterday's illegal guerillas became a legitimate army
worthy of Western
support and arms.)
Anyway, Mr. Pardew was in the south of Serbia offering his
good offices
at the beginning of the week. He publicly called for the
KLA-backed
insurgents to "seriously consider" the Serbian
government's call for a
peaceful settlement of the problem. Coincidentally or not,
a couple of
days later came a statement from NATO and U.S. Admiral
Ellis, saying
that the "international community" should appoint some
sort of a "Peace
Minister" to mediate between the legally-elected
government of Serbia
and the illegal guerilla force. This possibly shed light
on the "Special
Envoy's" earlier visit: to help the negotiations along,
could Mr. Pardew
once again do something to "level the playing field?"
Then on Thursday, the influx of peace pilgrims reached its
height when
the present E.U. Commissioner for Security, Javier Solana,
made his way
to Belgrade. Before his present position, Solana held the
post of NATO's
Secretary-General, which made him the formal number one
during that
military organization's illegal bombing campaign of
Yugoslavia. But now
he had come to "help." He wouldn't have come if he didn't
think he could
help, he said, adding that he was very happy to be in
Belgrade and that
the visit personally meant a great deal to him. After
Solana, nothing
less than Bill Clinton will do -- except, perhaps, for
Madeleine
Albright.
It would be too easy to say that these were cases of
criminals returning
to the scene of the crime. It has more to do with the
further
development of Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" -- evil
that has
become so banal as to become unrecognizable to many of its
bearers. So
unrecognizable, in fact, that they have started seeing it
as something
that is, in fact, good. "Leveling the playing field,"
"arming the
oppressed," "bombing to prevent (unproven) genocide,"
demanding
"international justice." It is under these abstract,
noble-on-the-surface battle-cries that the Devil is
currently doing his
finest work.
It is no surprise that Javier Solana was once a fierce
left-wing
opponent of NATO, as was Joschka Fisher, the current
German Defense
Minister and another supporter of the NATO bombing. In
their youthful
projections of heaven-on-earth, NATO was something evil,
something
militaristic that openly contradicted the ideals of their
own,
peace-and-flower generation. Having come to positions of
substantial
political power -- where they could actually help mold the
ideal world
with their own hands -- the raw military power of NATO had
become their
instrument for bringing good and righting the world's
wrongs. And, of
course, in this way, anything and everything can be
justified. Even
NATO's aggressive march eastward can be portrayed as the
advancement of
the benefits of Western democracy. The hunger to gain
control of natural
resources can also be seen as a way to bring "prosperity"
to previously
poor regions.
Of course, not all the mavens of intervention and carriers
of the New
World Order's institutionalized cynicism are secularized
do-gooders
blinded by their own hubris and lack of humility. What is
sad is that
they are the best of the bunch and that they actually
believe many of
the things that come out of their mouths.
Aleksandar Pavic in Belgrade has covered Yugoslavia's
historic election
and its dramatic aftermath for WorldNetDaily.com.
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http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/djindjic.htm
'These Djindjic people are brown shirts!'
An Interview with a Serbian political activist, by Jared Israel
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
The following interview took place several days after the October 5 coup
in Belgrade. The person interviewed has been a member of the Serbian
Radical party, a nationalist group. When I conducted the interview, I
had the impression she was still a member but she has informed me that
now she is in no party.
**
Jared: What's going on?
Gordana: Some very aggressive people from the opposition are grabbing
everything around here, in particular taking the institutions that have
some money, for instance the telecommunications company. They are
scaring people and beating people.
They want to destroy the results of previous elections by declaring that
new elections have to be held for the Serbian Parliament. Elections are
not supposed to be held for a year but they want them this fall. That
would mean the Serbian people would lose their representatives because
the elections would be held in an impossible situation. Whole groups of
political parties have no access to media. In the past we had many
viewpoints because we had government media and even more widespread was
various shades of opposition media. Now only one view. And there is day
to day terrorizing of people. Mr. Djindjic hopes that people will be too
scared to run as candidates from those parties which stand in his way.
Jared: You say there is "day to day terrorizing"?.
Gordana: Take this example. A friend of mine is intellectual. Every time
her phone rings she gets a threat from the other side. They stop her car
in traffic to threaten her, and so on. And this is a professional woman,
the daughter of a well-known professor. Even these people who are well
known are subject to threats. Another such woman, a reporter, visits me,
and she is afraid to go home alone and stays over - and this is in
Belgrade! Can you imagine how the common people feel? They are even more
afraid. I was on a bus full of tired, worried working people and one of
these Otpor types got on and demanded that the bus stands still and he
says: "Listen! We have the power now and you will see what we do!"
Jared: So you think that people will be afraid to vote for the Socialist
or Radical parties or other parties that oppose the coup?
Gordana: No, I think that people may be afraid to run as candidates for
these parties.
The Djindjic people took over all the radio stations and TV stations and
newspapers. On TV now you can't see even the regular old shows. It is
propaganda. The old ladies in Serbia like to watch soap operas from
South America but now they can't do that. You see they are poor and they
have such a hard life and now they don't have even this small pleasure.
Instead we have to watch stupid American government lies, even about the
wars in Bosnia and Croatia and so on. They have programs that blame the
Serbs, for everything. Can you believe this? Do they think we are
morons, not to know our own history. But the purpose here is also a kind
of terror, to break the spirit. To make people feel hope is lost.
Today they had a show on the television telling lies about Dubrovnik,
showing pictures to prove it was burned down in 1991 by the Yugoslav
army. But Dubrovnik has all the old buildings in perfect condition and I
know this because friends have been back to see the town, and it was not
damaged.
And these movies they now show to prove to us that the Serbs were
responsible for the wars this past decade. Why? Did we try to secede?
Doesn't Yugoslavia have a right to exist? .Would other countries allow
secessionists and foreign factors to destroy their nation? I have never
seen such lies. Can you imagine, having a situation where you can't
stand to watch the TV or read the papers.
Jared: I'm afraid I can imagine. What we mainly do on Emperor's Clothes
is expose lies. They create 'em faster than we can expose them. All I do
is expose fiction.
Gordana: Today is 1941 in Yugoslavia. If there are people who don't
know, well, they will know it very soon. Even some people I spoke to who
were supporting the DOS now see this violence that is going on and they
say, "These Djindjic people are brown shirts."
[Brown shirts is a term for Fascists or Nazi's - E-C]
***
Afterthoughts - The lies they now tell in Serbia
I am writing a book on Western media lies about Yugoslavia. As part of
the research, I've read news reports written in 1991 about Dubrovnik. As
Gordana says, the Western claim is that the Yugoslavs (read: Serbs)
burned down the priceless Old City. This lie was broadcast in the
Western mass media in order to prove the Serbs were ruthless monsters.
When the first stories broke describing the (in fact fictitious) burning
of the Old City, they produced popular anti-Serb response. So, wanting
to make the most of a good thing, the controllers of the media has the
lie repeated.
But there is only so much mileage you can get from a single burning; so
they burned it down several times.
The first time Dubrovnik was fictitiously burned down, a decent interval
was allowed, whereupon it was fictitiously burned to the ground a second
time, and then a third, and so on. Dubrovnik is Burning, Redux.
The London "Independent" reported that Dubrovnik was burned to the
ground no less than five times over a four months period. These reports
were mostly signed by one Phil Davison.
Despite multiple burnings, Prof. Peter Maher, a knowledgeable witness,
shot a film of the Old City in March, 1992. Dubrovnik was still
standing, untouched by Yugoslav shells. It remains a prime tourist
attraction.
(I have seen the film.)
So what DID happen in Dubrovnik in 1991? There was indeed fighting. But
the Yugoslav Army deliberately avoided shelling the Old City. (This is
not surprising because, after all, they viewed it as a Yugoslav
treasure!)
Actually it was the secessionists who deliberately put Old Dubrovnik at
risk, trying to trick Yugoslav loyalist forces into shelling it. In this
they failed, so the media made it up.
Here is the basic sequence of events.
Croatian secessionist troops attacked Yugoslav Army barracks near
Dubrovnik. The Yugoslav Army gave chase. The secessionists retreated
behind the old city digging in areas dangerously close to hotels in
which they had housed refugees from the fighting . In a moment of
candor, Phil Davison, the reporter from the British "Independent" who
holds the record for reporting total destructions of Dubrovnik the most
times, admitted that by setting up near the hotels, the secessionist
army virtually guaranteed that hotels would get hit:
"The Croats have set up a mortar close to our hotel, just as they have
next to hospitals and refugee centres. This may make us a target for the
army. Sooner or later, they are going to lay a couple of rounds on us.
The army is zapping Lokrum island, 300 yards from my hotel. Mortars,
machineguns, ack-ack guns. It is deafening. A machinegun barrage rattles
my windows. It is just a matter of time."
(The 'Independent' November 17, 1991)
Other than this single, honest report, the Western media was full of
stories about how the heartless Yugoslav Army was shelling hotels that
housed refugees.
Did the secessionists set up their positions behind the Old City and
near hotels in order to get the Yugoslav Army and Navy to shell the Old
City and the hotels and thus provide ammunition for anti-Yugoslav
propaganda? Common sense suggests they did. And more than common sense:
consider the following, which appeared in only two English language
newspapers:
"Women And Children Barred From Leaving Croatian Town
"The six-member Dubrovnik crisis committee decided six days ago that the
defense of this coastal Adriatic city required the presence of all the
remaining women and children. UNICEF was informed of the decree three
days ago, and on Tuesday, it was first implemented when 200 people were
prevented from leaving the city on a UNICEF relief vessel that had
brought supplies to the city.
"First, he said, if the women and children stay, it will mean that the
attacking army would be shooting at them and not just at a walled city.
"Second, he said, their presence might force the army to hesitate before
shooting.
"Third, if there is an attack, the international public reaction to such
an attack would be a public-relations coup for Croatia, which has been
trying desperately for months to get diplomatic and military support
from the West…
"Only 100 of 300 people scheduled to leave on a ship Tuesday were
allowed to depart, and UNICEF was told by Dubrovnik officials that no
one else would be able to leave."(My emphasis, 'The Orange County
Register,' December 5, 1991.)
Note that the story was not covered by the 'N.Y.Times' .
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by Stephen Gowans
"We cannot and must not forget the chilling images of...mass graves
unearthed by UN investigators," said President George W. Bush, on the
occasion of Slobodan Milosevic's arrest over the weekend.
And as Milosevic was beginning his first day in a Belgrade jail, British
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook reminded us that he had visited some of the
mass graves himself.
One newspaper remarked, "[T]his is only the beginning of what could be a
long procedure leading to Mr. Milosevic's being tried for war crimes
committed two years ago in Kosovo, where an estimated 10,000 ethnic
Albanian civilians were killed and hundreds of thousands driven from
their
homes."
Images of mass graves are indeed chilling. But has anyone ever seen the
mass graves in Kosovo? Did Robin Cook really visit them? And were there
10,000 Albanian civilians killed in Kosovo?
If you want to be spectacularly misinformed, said author Henry Miller,
buy
a newspaper.
George Orwell, in his famous essay, Politics and the English Language,
complained that a lot of political writing consisted of gumming together
phrases like the sections of a prefabricated hen house, an easy way of
writing, he said, once you had the habit. Reach into a handy grab-bag of
weathered phrases, and you don't have to think critically about what
you're
writing. To journalists spoon fed copy by government sources, tacking
together ready made, prefabricated phrases and ideas is an easy way to
meet
deadlines without a lot of effort.
Dutifully reporting the words of political figures, without questioning
even the most conspicuous deviations from the truth, goes along way too
toward effortlessly filing copy.
Press coverage of Milosevic's arrest has been very much like the
building
of prefabricated hen houses. The words of Bush, Cook and former US
Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, are reported uncritically, while
Milosevic, just as uncritically, is denounced as a "tyrant,"
"cold-blooded
autocrat," "war-lord," "strongman," and "iron-fisted dictator."
He's also "terrifying," "ruthless," "brutal," "the mastermind of the
worst
European wars since the Nazis."
Altogether a bad egg. Certainly, someone who could exterminate 10,000
Albanians and have their corpses dumped into mass graves, say, at the
bottom of the infamous Trepca mines, the repository it, is said, of the
remains of tens of thousands of brutally murdered ethnic Albanian
Kosovars.
Certainly someone who could be responsible for the mass graves Bush is
chilled by and Cook remembers visiting.
But take apart the cairn of ready made phrases to see what lies below
and
you'll find little more than what Orwell said you'd find behind
prefabricated phrases -- pure wind. And little more than what was found
at
the bottom of the Trepca mines, once pathologists were dispatched to
excavate the site -- some rubble and a few scattered animal bones.
Nothing
more.
But that's not the only bit of nothingness that has been found.
Operation Horseshoe, the alleged Milosevic plan to ethnically cleanse
Kosovo, turned out to be a hoax.
The Racak massacre, the slaughter of some forty ethnic Albanian
civilians
by Serb security forces -- said to have provided the impetus for Nato to
bomb Yugoslavia -- looks, now, after the release of a Finnish forensic
pathology report, to have been faked by the KLA.
One hundred thousand Kosovars were said to have been killed by
Milosevic's
forces, a number later revised downward to 10,000, and then, after
pathologists rushed to Kosovo at the end of Nato's 78-day air war ready
to
inspect dozens of alleged mass graves, was revised downward further
still,
when pathologists failed to uncover what Nato darkly warned the world
they'd find. Fewer than 2,000 autopsies were performed. Bodies were
found
buried alone or in pairs -- not in the mass graves Cook says he visited
or
Bush remembers chilling images of. Whether the corpses were Serb or
Albanian, indeed whether they met their deaths at the hands of Serb
security forces or KLA guerillas, was never certain.
What then are we to make of this? Most of the atrocities Milosevic stood
initially accused of turn out never to have happened, which may be why
the
first press reports of Milosevic's arrest steered clear of the specifics
of
the reasons for his apprehension, preferring instead Orwell's
prefabricated
phrases. Being a strongman, ruthless and iron-fisted, seemed reason
enough
for his arrest. About as concrete as anyone got was in attributing "the
worst European wars since the Nazis" to Milosevic, an accusation that
could
only be made by turning a blind eye to what was truly one of the worst
post
World War II European wars -- the Nato air strikes on Yugoslavia. And it
was hardly Milosevic who initiated that war, although I suppose, in some
perverted twist of logic it could be said that Milosevic was
responsible,
in the same way that a kid who refuses to relinquish his lunch money to
the
school yard bully is responsible for his own bloodied nose.
Largely unreported is that Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia was precipitated
by
Milosevic's refusal to allow Nato to occupy the entire country -- one of
the ultimata Nato issued at Rambouilett. Milosevic was ready to agree to
a
UN force in Kosovo, something, it will be recalled, Nato finally agreed
to,
but only after turning the country into a polluted desert.
Nato's pummelling of Yugoslavia, with its toll of hundreds, if not
thousands of civilians killed, and many more thousands injured,
apparently
doesn't count as one of the worst European wars since the Nazis, though
it
might be recalled that before Nato it was the Nazis who last bombed
Yugoslavia.
The flexing of Nato's military muscle was called a humanitarian
intervention, not a war, and therefore doesn't count. Goebbels would
have
admired the audacity. The euphemistic evasion "humanitarian
intervention"
calls to mind the Fuggs' 1966 underground hit, Kill for Peace.
Kill, it will give you the mental ease
Kill it will give you a big release
Kill, kill, kill for peace.
It also calls to mind Orwell's charge that political language is
designed
to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
Human Rights Watch says that Nato bombs killed 500 civilians.
The total body count for which Milosevic stands indicted on war crimes
is
391, not 100,000 and not 10,000. Less than the number of Yugoslav
civilians
killed by a humanitarian Nato. That's never mentioned by the media.
And all of the incidents cited in the indictment against Milosevic but
one
-- the phoney Racak incident -- happened after Nato's bombs started
their
ugly exercise of ushering Serb civilians to an early grave or to a life
of
permanent disability. Which is curious, because Nato said it needed to
bomb
Yugoslavia to stop Serb atrocities.
So what exactly is George W. Bush talking about when he mentions the
chilling images of mass graves? And exactly what graves did Robin Cook
visit anyway?
Chilling images of mass killing, indeed, are something we should never
forget. The near genocide of the East Timorese by Indonesia, which went
on
for decades under the eyes of successive US administrations; the burning
of
Kurd villages by Turkish security forces, both in Turkey, and across its
border, in Northern Iraq, where American and British patrols supposedly
fly
to protect the Kurd minority -- except when Turkish jet fighters loaded
with bombs, generously paid for by US military aid, are razing Kurd
villages; Colombian peasants driven from their homes and murdered by
death
squads linked to the Colombian military the US has given $1.3 billion
to;
the hundreds of Palestinians killed by the Israeli Defence Forces, and
the
thousands injured and permanently disabled, in the latest intifada;
these
are chilling images we should begin to notice, much less never forget.
And what of the chilling images of thousands of Iraqi children dying
every
month because of the US-led sanctions regime, or Serb hospitals,
schools,
bridges, factories, destroyed by Nato bombs -- can they be forgotten?
Nor should we overlook -- or forget -- the complicity of the press in
lending the appearance of solidity to the emptiness of the words of the
likes of Bush and Cook, a press which boasts of being free and
independent,
yet allows itself to be spoon-fed mendacious drivel which it neither
questions nor parses.
And we shouldn't forget the troubling lies that roll so easily off the
tongues of Nato leaders -- about massacres that didn't happen, and
master
plans for ethnic cleansing that never existed, and death tolls that are
wildly exaggerated.
Mr. Steve Gowans is a writer and political activist who lives in Ottawa,
Canada.
Source: Antiwar.com
---
STATEMENT OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
Belgrade, April 4, 2001
Socialist Party of Serbia has requested the competent authorities that
Party President Slobodan Milosevic is released from detention and given
possibility to legally defend himself free. Slobodan Milosevic is symbol
of
defending dignity of Serbian nation, national and state interests as
well
as of cooperation based on equality with all countries and peoples.
Milosevic had organized and united citizens of Yugoslavia in resisting
NATO
armed aggression which provoked thousands of human victims, destruction
of
the country and which led Balkans, Europe and whole world the heritage
of
unpredictable lasting dangers. Let nobody stay with illusions that
history
and truth can be changed by detaining Slobodan Milosevic.
Socialist Party of Serbia is grateful to numerous friendly parties,
statesmen and world public personalities, who condemned detention of
Slobodan Milosevic as an attempt to amnesty those who have been
destroying
Yugoslavia and committing genocide over Serbian nation and blame victims
of
the crimes - defenders of legitimate interests of Yugoslavia and Serbian
people.
Socialist Party of Serbia urges the competent state authorities to
prevent
Democratic Party from being headquarters for public lynches,
orchestration
of political trials and ransom detention of political opponents.
The new DOS authorities succeed in only one election promise: freeing
from
jails Albanian terrorists and filing jails with Serbian patriots. These
authorities having no national and state policy, neglecting dignity and
interest of Serbia - have accepted to negotiate with Albanian terrorists
about Serbian territories in Southern Serbia, thus offering time to
terrorists to amass, build fortifications from which they kill every day
Serbian citizens, policemen and soldiers. Separatism program of DOS
leaders
in Vojvodina and Raska region is publicly destroying Serbian state as
the
only pillar of the whole Serbian nation and all citizens of Serbia.
In these conditions the Socialist Party of Serbia will continue to
resolutely defend interest of Serbia and its citizens, safeguarding
Yugoslavia as the Balkans and European state, the most important factor
of
peace, stability and cooperation based on equality in the region.
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
http://www.24casa.co.yu/ (the only free daily newspaper in Yugoslavia)
---
SPS ON MILUTINOVIC RESIGNATION
Belgrade, April 4, 2001
President of the Republic of Serbia Milan Milutinovic submitted
yesterday
his resignation from the posts of vice-chairman and of the member of
Head
Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia, the principal opposition
party
on both - Serbian and Federal levels. His letter to the Head Committee
followed only a day after the President of the Party Slobodan Milosevic
was
put in detention by Serbian authorities. Milutinovic who has acquired
extraordinary political carrier being one of the closest friends of
Milosevic and who won Serbian presidential elections as the candidate of
Socialist Party, has kept him self completely away from public political
life ever since Democratic opposition took power in Yugoslavia and in
Serbia towards the end of last year.
Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia has issued today a
statement reacting to complaints of Mr. Milutinovic that he has been
asked
in various occasions to act beyond his powers. The statement says that
Socialist Party has been expecting President Milutinovic to publicly
condemn escalation of Albanian terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija and
southern districts of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja as it is his
principal duty to defend peace, stability, integrity of the Republic and
human rights of all citizens. He has been asked to visit those regions,
the
same way as many other less competent officials have been doing.
The statement confirms that Milutinovic has been urged by his Party
colleagues to use his constitutional powers and refrain from signing
certain laws considered by the Party to be contrary to the interest of
the
Republic, such as Amnesty law and law on abolishing the Law on
privatization. He was also asked to amnesty Dragoljub Milanovic, former
director of the state television (RTS), who was accused and detained two
months ago under accusation of being responsible for the death of
sixteen
RTS employees, who were killed by NATO bomb on April 23, 1999.
All these expectations and initiatives of Socialist Party of Serbia have
been ignored by Mr. Milutinovic.
The Socialist Party of Serbia has strongly criticized Milutinovic's
move,
reminding him that he has never been dissatisfied while exploiting the
Party and friendship with Milosevic for very fast and privilege
rendering
rising-up to the top of the power - first Ambassador to Athens, then
Minister of Foreign Affairs and finally President of Serbia.
Milutinovic's resignation will soon be considered by the Head Committee
of
the Party.
---
http://serbianunity.net/index.html
Serbian Unity Congress
MARCH 24th 1999
REMEMBER KOSOVO
March 24, 1999 - a day that will live in infamy. On
that day, NATO fired the opening shots of what was to
be a 78-day war against Yugoslavia. In the following
eleven weeks, thousands of people were killed as
civilian infrastructure was systematically targeted by
NATO's air force. Using forbidden and toxic weapons,
such as cluster bombs and depleted uranium rounds,
NATO hit marketplaces and hospitals, oil refineries,
the power grid, chemical plants, bridges, apartment
buildings, passenger trains, refugee columns and
camps, two television stations, and an embassy of a
neutral foreign country.
Justifications for the attack were alleged Serb
atrocities against Albanian population in Kosovo,
which NATO claimed were part of a systematic plan of
ethnic cleansing. Some US officials claimed that
100,000 Albanians were murdered. The world press
agreed on 10,000. Two years later, these accusations
have been proven false. There was no massacre of
civilians at the village of Racak. There was no
"Operation Horseshoe." There was no crematorium in the
Trepca mines. There were no death camps. There were no
mass graves. There was no genocide.
Investigators of the International Criminal Tribunal
found less than three thousand dead, in individual
graves, without disclosing the manner of death or even
the ethnicity of the exhumed.
In the end, Yugoslavia accepted NATO's temporary
control of Kosovo in exchange for guarantees of safety
for all its citizens in the province. Within two
months of NATO's entry, most non-Albanians had been
expelled from the province at gunpoint, their homes
burned, looted or expropriated by the KLA, a militant
organization trained and equipped by the United States
and other NATO members. One American officer, a
veteran of World War Two, Korea and Viet Nam,
described them as "one of the most cutthroat gangs of
terrorists in the world."
But the KLA's terror did not stop there. Over a
hundred Orthodox churches were dynamited, torched or
otherwise demolished. Hundreds of non-Albanians were
brutally murdered, on the streets, in their offices,
in their fields, or in buses under NATO's armed
escort. Over 1800 are missing. Kosovo's remaining
non-Albanians - Serbs, Roma, Jews, Turks, Bosniaks and
Gorani - live in ghettos, surrounded by barbed-wire
fences and armed guards. Anyone speaking Serbian on
the street risks being murdered, even UN employees.
Kosovo is ruled by violence and terror, despite the
presence of almost 40,000 NATO troops, about 5000 of
which are Americans.
Furthermore, NATO trained some KLA members for further
attacks on Serbs. These Albanians are currently
occupying villages in Serbia's Presevo valley, and
attacking the second largest city in Macedonia - the
same country that generously gave refuge to thousands
of Albanians trying to escape the bombing and the war
in Kosovo. Today's Balkans is still feeling the
consequences of what started on March 24, 1999.
By attacking Yugoslavia, NATO violated the UN Charter,
its own Charter, the Geneva Convention, the Helsinki
Final Act and a series of other conventions and
agreements its members had signed. Its bombs destroyed
the rule of law and the international order NATO
claimed to have been defending.
On this day, Serbs and their friends across the world
will light candles and say prayers in memory of NATO's
victims - both the people, and the peace, that the
bombs of March 24 so brutally killed.
March 24, 2001
Serbian Unity Congress
Washington, DC
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Subject: from chris soda
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:27:33 -0500
From: Chris Soda <chriss12@...>
Open letter to Serbian churches and organizations in Canada
Thank you for the opportunity to share a few thoughts at this solemn
occasion. This weekend marks the
second anniversary of our government's murder of innocent people in
Yugoslavia. As a Canadian citizen born
and raised in this country I and my family have been lucky enough to
have never suffered from a foreign
military aggression. Consequently, I didn't have a personal common
history nor a personal common
experience with many of you until two years ago; now, we all live
together in a country whose government has
broken our laws and stolen our money to murder both the helpless and the
honourable.
We all read the same lies here in our newspapers, listened to the same
lies on radio. We still do.
We all waited for the same Russian cavalry which never arrived.
Who amongst you gathered here today didn't watch CNN ask, "What's wrong
with our society?" as children
shot each other at Columbine High School- while it reported the
justification of adults from the same country
bombing children in high schools overseas?
I'm still waiting for an answer as to how directing a cluster bomb near
a World Heritage Site or a marketplace
or a bus station helps to save the lives of innocent people hundreds of
miles away who are running from
those same types of bombs- all dropped by the same so-called
'humanitarians'. I'm still waiting for an answer
as to how yesterday's terrorists who killed the innocent became Canadian
allies, freedom fighters, and the
police force of Kosovo all wrapped into one- while still killing the
innocent even as you are gathered here
today.
I'm asking myself how a government that agrees to autonomy during
meetings at Rambouillet can be
accused of plotting something called "Operation Horseshoe" at the same
time. I'm wondering how
Canadians could murder the children of a country that at the same place
and at the same time just asked our
country if they could join their NATO alliance. I'm wondering about why
anyone anywhere would believe
accusations of this so-called 'ethnic cleansing' coming from a country
that not that long ago systematically
deployed racial segregation. And I'm wondering how our country can allow
'language laws'.
And it puzzles me how both the US and Canada can point the finger at
anyone after forcing their own natives
onto reservations. I also wonder how a 'dictatorship' using 'repressive'
means can guarantee education,
health, and employment in over twenty languages to those it is
'repressing'- or how a 'human rights violator'
somehow allows the schools, hospitals, and churches of those it is
'ethnically cleansing' to remain intact; in
fact, the 'violating' state even pays for most of it.
I wonder how so-called 'ethnic cleansing' involves riding an
air-conditioned bus to safety, escorted by none
other than what our government calls the 'Serb aggressors'.
I wonder how defending your country constitutes 'aggression'. I wonder
how those who paid for and
perpetrated the real aggression are known as 'peacekeepers'.
Since our beloved CBC found the time and resources to produce an
award-winning documentary of a KLA
woman whose sister was 'murdered by the Serbs', I'm wondering two
things: why this sister turned up alive
and well and unharmed- but the CBC still kept their award anyway; and
secondly, why couldn't this same
CBC find the time and resources to interview and film some of the many
hundreds of thousands of Muslims
who fled north from Kosovo- to Belgrade, which welcomed them with open
arms- for safety during what we
are still being told was a 'humanitarian intervention' to save
them..........................from Belgrade.
I'm puzzled by the silence of the Globe and Mails and National Posts of
Canada who watch as Agim Ceku
first tries to murder Canadians in Croatia, then is protected by
Canadians in Kosovo as the new police chief.
I'm puzzled as to why none of our mainstream media comment as to why the
Germans have to force back to
Kosovo so-called 'victims of the Serbs' long after these 'Serb
aggressors' have left.
There are also two other things we have in common now. We have many
questions that we ask of the
bombers, and we have no truthful answers from any of them.
Try to get a truthful answer from Canadian child killers and their
superiors by asking how someone who
suffered tuberculosis and is sheltered, fed, and cared for by Serbs
suddenly becomes 'a victim of Serb death
camps' photographed by trickery to appear to be imprisoned behind barbed
wire- followed shortly after by
NATO bombings of innocent people. Try to get a truthful answer from the
cripplers of ordinary hard-working,
law-abiding people by asking how "a massacre of innocent civilians at
Racak, forced to kneel in the mud and
beg for their lives" really means gunpowder residue on the hands of
armed insurrectionists shot while firing
weapons at the police- after refusing to surrender.
Then ask how this "massacre" was attended by film crews invited to watch
by "the perpetrators of this
massacre" before the "massacre" even took place - followed shortly
thereafter by yet another NATO bombing
of innocent people.
Ask anyone of our 'independant' news media or anyone of our country's
political leaders from any of our
political parties in the House of Commons how a regularly-scheduled
passenger train is bombed twice within
minutes by "accident"- the first time to cripple the machine, the second
time to kill the defenceless people
trapped inside- when this "accident" involves manually using a joystick
to divert missiles AWAY from the
unoccupied part of a bridge and TOWARDS the target.
We all know this particular event was also filmed- and shown to us at
three times normal speed, also by
"accident" according to our government's real spokesmen: Jamie Shea,
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Madeleine
Albright (herself saved by Serbs, the very same people whose friends and
relatives she orders murdered
years later) and the other savages in NATO.
The questions are innumerable but all of them have only one answer. The
same answer. This answer can be
found at a press conference given by this same Jamie Shea in April/99,
in which he congratulates his fellow
NATO personnel for "...another very effective day of operations..."
Less than 24 hours earlier, NATO had just murdered hundreds of ordinary
people in and around Korisa-
ordinary people moving in different groups and in different directions.
Ordinary people in Yugoslavia who
were moving to begin with because hours earlier NATO had bombed them out
of their homes in what
everyone tells us was an example of "protection" from the Serbs who had
defended them while they were still
in their homes.
That answers any of my questions, and any of yours I'm sure. For me, it
answers how 19 countries can share
the technology to sit on the edge of outer space and read a license
plate miles below, and yet tell us that they
can't read the correct address of an embassy listed in a phone book an
inch away from their faces. It
answers how a TV station can be bombed because they tell us it's
reporters are a propaganda machine of
Milosevic, while the same types of bombers sit together with the
reporters at CNN and invite an elected
Yugoslav Member of Parliament to an interview in that same TV station-
at the exact time the station is
scheduled to be bombed- by those who are sitting at those same desks at
CNN.
We all know what has happened here. We all know that there is no shame
amongst the plotters of murder,
theft, and deception. We all know that I'm speaking of the highest
elected officials of this country. We all know
who elected them and we all know most of those don't bear any shame
either.
The best thing we can do is to keep asking the questions for which we
already know the answers to; only by
embarassing the electors can we hope to unsettle the elected. Ask your
police chiefs and your police officers
why those who fought cold-blooded murderers and drug traffickers are
considered 'criminals' by those whom
the same police chiefs and their officers are sworn to protect. Ask the
representatives of all religious
denominations in this country why their leaders have not come out with
ongoing, direct statements
condemning the targeting of innocents. Ask your school boards why they
can't find the will to author a joint
statement condemning the theft of taxpayer dollars that should have been
used for education here, rather than
being stolen and then used for the destruction of buildings of learning
in Yugoslavia. Ask your medical boards
and the federal Health Ministry why money could not be found by the
Canadian federal government to keep
hospitals open in this country, while at the same time revenue was
stolen to finance the bombing of hospitals
overseas.
Put them all on the spot. Ask your elected Members of Parliament why
they have always been silent on these
issues except to patronize us and insult our intelligence with
propaganda. Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis may
prove to be an exception if approached with written questions in this
regard- he's the only one I've found who
(once, and I believe it was in the House of Commons, May 10/99) decried
this government's targeting of
civilians during those 78 days of murder.
Commemoration of the dead means remembering the honourable, the
innocent, and the perpetrators. Let's
remember-and remind- the guilty with our questions.
Ask these same federal MPs what their definition of a 'two-tier' health
system means in practice. Ask them
why their 'two-tier' actions have supported one level of health safety
here, and one level of health destruction
elsewhere.
Ask your Globe and Mails and your National Posts and your local papers
how they can call something
'collateral damage' when it is planned many years ahead of time, and how
this 'collateral damage' is caused
by repeatedly and deliberately circling over a target before firing.
Call your CBC office and inquire as to when they plan to do an
'exclusive interview' with the Spanish Air
Force pilot who told us early on in these Canadian-sponsored atrocities
in Yugoslavia that the ordinary
people were the target from Day One.
And ask all of these people this: if our government embarked on such a
noble cause, then why is it that they
still have to keep lying to us?
Thank you again for your time today. I hope to meet some of you one day
and shake the hands of those with
such spirit and determination.
Sincerely, Chris Soda
---
WORLDNETDAILY, Saturday, February 10, 2001
How the New World Order is 'helping' Serbia
By Aleksandar Pavic
(C) 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
The way things are going, it seems that it's just a matter
of time
before Bill Clinton, the man who ordered the NATO bombing
of Yugoslavia
in 1999 will come to Belgrade offering "help." For, this
past week, the
country was a positive place of pilgrimage for all those
who had
previously contributed to its ruin in one way or another.
It started a week ago when U.S. Senators Biden and McCain
led a
delegation of senators and representatives to Belgrade to
wave the
carrot and stick. Back in 1999, Biden was one of the
louder proponents
of arming the Albanian KLA guerilla force fighting the
Serb population
and police in Kosovo - the same force that effectively
cleared the
region of its Serb population, in the wake of the bombing,
and went on
to transform Kosovo into the main European center of drug
smuggling,
white slavery and prostitution. John McCain, on the other
hand, was a
fierce advocate of launching a ground invasion of
Yugoslavia when the
bombing failed to give the expected "results."
Now, these two gentlemen have come humbly to Belgrade to
offer to do
their part so that Yugoslavia would recover a fraction of
a percent of
the estimated damage from the bombing and the resulting
after effects --
but not so humbly as to make the offer unconditional. No,
the generous
gift of $100 million was conditioned on the country's
leadership
agreeing to turn over ex-president Slobodan Milosevic to
the Hague "war
crimes tribunal." Thus, one man who openly called for the
arming of a
guerilla insurgency inside a sovereign country -- who
openly called for
an invasion of that same sovereign country without even a
formal
declaration of war -- came to that country asking for
"international
justice" to be satisfied.
At the beginning of the week, a second great "helper"
appeared on the
scene a little further south -- in the Presevo and
Bujanovac region of
Serbia -- where the Kosovo Albanians "disarmed" by the
50,000-strong
NATO-led force are trying to import the virtues of the
newly
"democratized" Kosovo to the south of Serbia by starting a
brand new
guerilla insurgency. The man in question was U.S. diplomat
James Pardew,
now "U.S. Special Envoy to the Balkans," but a man far
better known for
running the "arm-and-train" program in neighboring Bosnia
(formerly a
part of Yugoslavia) during that country's civil war. Under
this program,
U.S. arms and training were used to "level the playing
field" in that
country by arming the Bosnian Muslims and Croats until
they eventually
became twice as well-armed as the Bosnian Serbs. Now,
Pardew's sense of
sportsmanship was set on firmer legal ground than was
Biden's. For,
although the Bosnian Croats and Muslims also had their
beginnings as
illegal secessionist paramilitary units within a sovereign
country, by
the time Pardew came on the scene, Bosnia had already been
recognized as
a newly sovereign country by the "international
community." (That's the
way things are done according to international law
nowadays. As soon as
recognition came in the spring of 1992, the Yugoslav Army
troops on the
territory of Bosnia all of a sudden became the
"aggressors," while
yesterday's illegal guerillas became a legitimate army
worthy of Western
support and arms.)
Anyway, Mr. Pardew was in the south of Serbia offering his
good offices
at the beginning of the week. He publicly called for the
KLA-backed
insurgents to "seriously consider" the Serbian
government's call for a
peaceful settlement of the problem. Coincidentally or not,
a couple of
days later came a statement from NATO and U.S. Admiral
Ellis, saying
that the "international community" should appoint some
sort of a "Peace
Minister" to mediate between the legally-elected
government of Serbia
and the illegal guerilla force. This possibly shed light
on the "Special
Envoy's" earlier visit: to help the negotiations along,
could Mr. Pardew
once again do something to "level the playing field?"
Then on Thursday, the influx of peace pilgrims reached its
height when
the present E.U. Commissioner for Security, Javier Solana,
made his way
to Belgrade. Before his present position, Solana held the
post of NATO's
Secretary-General, which made him the formal number one
during that
military organization's illegal bombing campaign of
Yugoslavia. But now
he had come to "help." He wouldn't have come if he didn't
think he could
help, he said, adding that he was very happy to be in
Belgrade and that
the visit personally meant a great deal to him. After
Solana, nothing
less than Bill Clinton will do -- except, perhaps, for
Madeleine
Albright.
It would be too easy to say that these were cases of
criminals returning
to the scene of the crime. It has more to do with the
further
development of Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" -- evil
that has
become so banal as to become unrecognizable to many of its
bearers. So
unrecognizable, in fact, that they have started seeing it
as something
that is, in fact, good. "Leveling the playing field,"
"arming the
oppressed," "bombing to prevent (unproven) genocide,"
demanding
"international justice." It is under these abstract,
noble-on-the-surface battle-cries that the Devil is
currently doing his
finest work.
It is no surprise that Javier Solana was once a fierce
left-wing
opponent of NATO, as was Joschka Fisher, the current
German Defense
Minister and another supporter of the NATO bombing. In
their youthful
projections of heaven-on-earth, NATO was something evil,
something
militaristic that openly contradicted the ideals of their
own,
peace-and-flower generation. Having come to positions of
substantial
political power -- where they could actually help mold the
ideal world
with their own hands -- the raw military power of NATO had
become their
instrument for bringing good and righting the world's
wrongs. And, of
course, in this way, anything and everything can be
justified. Even
NATO's aggressive march eastward can be portrayed as the
advancement of
the benefits of Western democracy. The hunger to gain
control of natural
resources can also be seen as a way to bring "prosperity"
to previously
poor regions.
Of course, not all the mavens of intervention and carriers
of the New
World Order's institutionalized cynicism are secularized
do-gooders
blinded by their own hubris and lack of humility. What is
sad is that
they are the best of the bunch and that they actually
believe many of
the things that come out of their mouths.
Aleksandar Pavic in Belgrade has covered Yugoslavia's
historic election
and its dramatic aftermath for WorldNetDaily.com.
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The url for this article
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/djindjic.htm
'These Djindjic people are brown shirts!'
An Interview with a Serbian political activist, by Jared Israel
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
The following interview took place several days after the October 5 coup
in Belgrade. The person interviewed has been a member of the Serbian
Radical party, a nationalist group. When I conducted the interview, I
had the impression she was still a member but she has informed me that
now she is in no party.
**
Jared: What's going on?
Gordana: Some very aggressive people from the opposition are grabbing
everything around here, in particular taking the institutions that have
some money, for instance the telecommunications company. They are
scaring people and beating people.
They want to destroy the results of previous elections by declaring that
new elections have to be held for the Serbian Parliament. Elections are
not supposed to be held for a year but they want them this fall. That
would mean the Serbian people would lose their representatives because
the elections would be held in an impossible situation. Whole groups of
political parties have no access to media. In the past we had many
viewpoints because we had government media and even more widespread was
various shades of opposition media. Now only one view. And there is day
to day terrorizing of people. Mr. Djindjic hopes that people will be too
scared to run as candidates from those parties which stand in his way.
Jared: You say there is "day to day terrorizing"?.
Gordana: Take this example. A friend of mine is intellectual. Every time
her phone rings she gets a threat from the other side. They stop her car
in traffic to threaten her, and so on. And this is a professional woman,
the daughter of a well-known professor. Even these people who are well
known are subject to threats. Another such woman, a reporter, visits me,
and she is afraid to go home alone and stays over - and this is in
Belgrade! Can you imagine how the common people feel? They are even more
afraid. I was on a bus full of tired, worried working people and one of
these Otpor types got on and demanded that the bus stands still and he
says: "Listen! We have the power now and you will see what we do!"
Jared: So you think that people will be afraid to vote for the Socialist
or Radical parties or other parties that oppose the coup?
Gordana: No, I think that people may be afraid to run as candidates for
these parties.
The Djindjic people took over all the radio stations and TV stations and
newspapers. On TV now you can't see even the regular old shows. It is
propaganda. The old ladies in Serbia like to watch soap operas from
South America but now they can't do that. You see they are poor and they
have such a hard life and now they don't have even this small pleasure.
Instead we have to watch stupid American government lies, even about the
wars in Bosnia and Croatia and so on. They have programs that blame the
Serbs, for everything. Can you believe this? Do they think we are
morons, not to know our own history. But the purpose here is also a kind
of terror, to break the spirit. To make people feel hope is lost.
Today they had a show on the television telling lies about Dubrovnik,
showing pictures to prove it was burned down in 1991 by the Yugoslav
army. But Dubrovnik has all the old buildings in perfect condition and I
know this because friends have been back to see the town, and it was not
damaged.
And these movies they now show to prove to us that the Serbs were
responsible for the wars this past decade. Why? Did we try to secede?
Doesn't Yugoslavia have a right to exist? .Would other countries allow
secessionists and foreign factors to destroy their nation? I have never
seen such lies. Can you imagine, having a situation where you can't
stand to watch the TV or read the papers.
Jared: I'm afraid I can imagine. What we mainly do on Emperor's Clothes
is expose lies. They create 'em faster than we can expose them. All I do
is expose fiction.
Gordana: Today is 1941 in Yugoslavia. If there are people who don't
know, well, they will know it very soon. Even some people I spoke to who
were supporting the DOS now see this violence that is going on and they
say, "These Djindjic people are brown shirts."
[Brown shirts is a term for Fascists or Nazi's - E-C]
***
Afterthoughts - The lies they now tell in Serbia
I am writing a book on Western media lies about Yugoslavia. As part of
the research, I've read news reports written in 1991 about Dubrovnik. As
Gordana says, the Western claim is that the Yugoslavs (read: Serbs)
burned down the priceless Old City. This lie was broadcast in the
Western mass media in order to prove the Serbs were ruthless monsters.
When the first stories broke describing the (in fact fictitious) burning
of the Old City, they produced popular anti-Serb response. So, wanting
to make the most of a good thing, the controllers of the media has the
lie repeated.
But there is only so much mileage you can get from a single burning; so
they burned it down several times.
The first time Dubrovnik was fictitiously burned down, a decent interval
was allowed, whereupon it was fictitiously burned to the ground a second
time, and then a third, and so on. Dubrovnik is Burning, Redux.
The London "Independent" reported that Dubrovnik was burned to the
ground no less than five times over a four months period. These reports
were mostly signed by one Phil Davison.
Despite multiple burnings, Prof. Peter Maher, a knowledgeable witness,
shot a film of the Old City in March, 1992. Dubrovnik was still
standing, untouched by Yugoslav shells. It remains a prime tourist
attraction.
(I have seen the film.)
So what DID happen in Dubrovnik in 1991? There was indeed fighting. But
the Yugoslav Army deliberately avoided shelling the Old City. (This is
not surprising because, after all, they viewed it as a Yugoslav
treasure!)
Actually it was the secessionists who deliberately put Old Dubrovnik at
risk, trying to trick Yugoslav loyalist forces into shelling it. In this
they failed, so the media made it up.
Here is the basic sequence of events.
Croatian secessionist troops attacked Yugoslav Army barracks near
Dubrovnik. The Yugoslav Army gave chase. The secessionists retreated
behind the old city digging in areas dangerously close to hotels in
which they had housed refugees from the fighting . In a moment of
candor, Phil Davison, the reporter from the British "Independent" who
holds the record for reporting total destructions of Dubrovnik the most
times, admitted that by setting up near the hotels, the secessionist
army virtually guaranteed that hotels would get hit:
"The Croats have set up a mortar close to our hotel, just as they have
next to hospitals and refugee centres. This may make us a target for the
army. Sooner or later, they are going to lay a couple of rounds on us.
The army is zapping Lokrum island, 300 yards from my hotel. Mortars,
machineguns, ack-ack guns. It is deafening. A machinegun barrage rattles
my windows. It is just a matter of time."
(The 'Independent' November 17, 1991)
Other than this single, honest report, the Western media was full of
stories about how the heartless Yugoslav Army was shelling hotels that
housed refugees.
Did the secessionists set up their positions behind the Old City and
near hotels in order to get the Yugoslav Army and Navy to shell the Old
City and the hotels and thus provide ammunition for anti-Yugoslav
propaganda? Common sense suggests they did. And more than common sense:
consider the following, which appeared in only two English language
newspapers:
"Women And Children Barred From Leaving Croatian Town
"The six-member Dubrovnik crisis committee decided six days ago that the
defense of this coastal Adriatic city required the presence of all the
remaining women and children. UNICEF was informed of the decree three
days ago, and on Tuesday, it was first implemented when 200 people were
prevented from leaving the city on a UNICEF relief vessel that had
brought supplies to the city.
"First, he said, if the women and children stay, it will mean that the
attacking army would be shooting at them and not just at a walled city.
"Second, he said, their presence might force the army to hesitate before
shooting.
"Third, if there is an attack, the international public reaction to such
an attack would be a public-relations coup for Croatia, which has been
trying desperately for months to get diplomatic and military support
from the West…
"Only 100 of 300 people scheduled to leave on a ship Tuesday were
allowed to depart, and UNICEF was told by Dubrovnik officials that no
one else would be able to leave."(My emphasis, 'The Orange County
Register,' December 5, 1991.)
Note that the story was not covered by the 'N.Y.Times' .
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Subject: WHAT THE US IS ACTUALLY AFTER IN YUGOSLAVIA?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:28:44 EST
From: Pelkinsin@...
For Your Information and Contemplation.
Tika Jankovic
Part II
7. Badguys and Quislings
Professor Vukotic is the brains behind the secession of Montenegro.
His
former student, Milo Djukanovic, is the President of Montenegro.
Djukanovic
employed the good professor to hasten the privatization of state
property in
Montenegro. He was ubiquitous; Professor Vukotic marched into Kosovo
with
NATO forces in June 1999, at the height of Kosovar expulsions of ethnic
Serbs
and Gypsies (ROM) (who are by now 90% ethnically cleansed from the
province.)
(NATO remains mum about that.)
The IMF sent another G 17 member, Dr. Zeliko Bogetic, who oversaw
the
transition to capitalism in Bulgaria, to Montenegro. Recently, following
Bogetic's advice, Montenegro adopted the Deutchmark as its currency,
placing
the province, which claims to desire independence, in the hands of its
creditors. Dr. Bogetic is in line to become the director of Yugoslavia's
Central Bank. Yugoslavia would cease to be an economically sovereign
entity
if Dr. Bogetic follows the same policies in Belgrade as he did in
Montenegro.
29
Veselin Vukotic was on the "News Hour" with Jim Lehrer, on Public
television,
on Bastille Day, 1999 and said, "We want to be an open colony and an
open
society."
Although the West reassured Kostunica and his supporters that
Montenegro
and Kosovo were to remain Yugoslav provinces, powerful forces in the
United
States have other ideas.
Morton Abromowitz was Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence
and
Research in the Reagan administration. I'm sure we'll see more of him
under
George W. He supported the arming of the Afghan Mujahaddin that served
to
discredit and destabilize the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He was part of
the
Council on Foreign Relations panel that advised the Clinton
administration
to
loosen restrictions on CIA operations dealing with criminals, using
journalists, and targeting unfriendly heads of state. He now works for a
right-wing think tank called The Century Foundation." In a recent
Washington
Post op ed. piece Mr. Abromowitz asserted, "the federal republic is
Serbia.
After the December 23rd elections-which should produce a government free
of
Mr. Milosovic's flunkies- fresh talks can be held between Montenegro and
Serbia." Abromowitz later in the article urged, "Effective management
of
Kosovo's own affairs . . . Prospects . . . would be better if the west
stopped encouraging Belgrade to believe it still has a future in ruling
Kosovo." 30
That is the future Kostunica faces: Yugoslavia, its people
impoverished
and trapped in an IMF/World Bank straightjacket, pared down to Serbia,
with
incursions on its territories encouraged and protected by NATO. With
Montenegro gone, it will become land-locked. It will be a Yugoslavia
forced
to borrow money to pay for the destruction of NATO bombings, and
finally,
faced with the decimation of its once productive economy.
And who is waiting in the wings? Every western corporations who see
"crucial assets for sale, includ(ing)the huge tobacco factory in Nis,
electric, oil, and gas companies, cement factories, and the government's
51%
stake in Telecom Srbja." McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Heineken are all
salivating
at
the prospects of investment and trade. Milan Panic, tossed out by
Milosovic,
is back at his old pharmaceutical company, which was nationalized by
Milosovic. 31
8. What is Vojislav Kostunica, really?
At the Serb Unity Congress in Toronto in October, the victory of
Kostunica was greeted with joy and celebration. But who is this fellow,
this
professor of law, this so-called leader of the Democratic Opposition of
Serbia?
Kostunica is a pathetic creature. In October he visited Republika
Srpska
in Bosnia. This Serbian enclave is the 49% of the land the Serbs were
allowed to keep in Bosnia after the war. The United States Institute of
Peace, closely associated with the likes of Madeline Albright, Jamie
Rubin,
and Richard Holbrooke, in their most recent publication urged that,
"Serbia
(under Kostunica) should end support to all political forces in Bosnia.
.
.and should recognize Bosnia's territorial integrity," and "the European
Union should . . . make the country a single economic space. . . with a
single integrated (intelligence and military) command." 32 Several
weeks
after Kostunica's visit, James Cunningham, deputy US representative to
the
United Nations rejected the election of candidates from the Serb
Democratic
Party in Republika Srpska saying "obstructionists should be kept out of
government." 33 .
(This was kind of funny since the Gore campaign was saying the same
thing
about the Bush "victory" in Florida.)
Kostunica is constrained by his financial supporters to "recognize
Bosnian sovereignty." And "conditional independence for Kosovo."34 But
there
was Vojislav, visiting the grave of a Yugoslav poet on his way to a
meeting
in Biarritz, France, at the European summit.
Greeted with cheers and congratulations in France, Kostunica was
the
man
of the hour. But his "welcome to the European family", was tempered with
the
knowledge that he was the front man for another more sinister fellow by
the
name of Zoran Djindjic. It is he who will probably become Prime Minister
of
Serbia 35 , and he who united the many dissident groups and managed
Kostunica's campaign, under the watchful eye of Madeline Albright. He
was a
founder of the Yugoslav Democratic Party, and worked for many years to
end
socialism in his own country.36 Djindjic is prepared to sink Yugoslavia
under the indebtedness of its previous IMF loans, which amount to $128
million, and a World Bank debt of $1.7 billion.37
But Djindjic, the G-17, OTPOR, D.O.S., all these shady characters,
including Kostunica, are just marionettes. The puppeteers reside
elsewhere,
in Washington and Bonn predominantly, pulling the strings, dismantling
what
is left of Yugoslavia. Slobodan Milosovic is down, but not out, having
just
been elected to lead the Socialist party. And the West fears that the
upcoming December 23rd elections might go well for the Socialists. After
all,
the IMF and World Bank have been voted out of Yugoslavia before.
9. What are the Prospects for the Future?
It is instructive to look at another country for a moment, the
Republic
of Belarus. No sooner had Slobodan Milosovic been dispatched, the US
and
the
European press began another assault, this time on Alexander Lukashenko
as
Europe's last Communist-style leader." 38 Belarus is facing the same
kinds
of
so called "nationalist" opposition that Yugoslavia faced. "Lukashenko's
security forces were gearing up to meet "provocations" by "foreign
agents"
with "Harsh measures,"39 reported the Boston Globe. The State
Department,
commenting on a recent election called it, "undemocratic." And
Lukashenko,
who swept to power in a landslide in 1994, said, "We have our own way to
travel."
That way includes his appreciation for Fidel Castro whom he visited
in
September, calling Castro, "a legendary figure."40 That way includes
opposition to loans from the International Monetary Fund, and proposing
to
Russia to build a large force in Belarus to defend against NATO.41 The
Belarus way is a socialist economy under which unemployment is 1.7%,
hunger
is non-existent, though everyone is poor, and the wage gap between rich
and
poor is nothing like that found in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, or the
Ukraine.
Education and medical care are still free, and cultural events are low
priced. 42
So here is another Yugoslavia in the making. Only this time we need
to
be
ready to counter the attacks of those who will swear up and down that
this
"dictator" has to go because he is so ruthless. Because if we say
nothing,
NATO forces, which are already in former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Albania,
Azerbajan, Czech Republic . . . will move east to counter the "threat"
of
another leader who dares to oppose the International Monetary Fund, NATO
and
"democratic liberal economic reforms."
10. What it is Really All About
When we read the economic news lately, we worry that the economic
"boom"
(which has really been good for only the top 20 percent of the
population,)
is about to end. My late husband, Sean Gervasi wrote a document, five
months
before he died in 1996, which was published in the book, NATO in the
Balkans
and disseminated widely in Europe (as the Prague Declaration). It was
called, "Why is NATO in Yugoslavia," and in his brilliant prescience, he
noted, "the Western system is experiencing a profound economic, social,
and
political crisis, . . . and sees the exploitation of the East as the
only
large scale project which might stimulate growth. . ." And he asked,
"will
the world accept the risks of East-West conflict and nuclear war" to
protect
this system?43
Sean was warning about a war for resources, a war for markets, a war
between Europe and America. Russia opposes NATO expansion. Germany, as
the
most powerful economy of the European Union is both coactive and
dangerously
competitive with Washington for power in the East. In 1996, Volker Ruhe,
German Defense Minister said, "Bonn is not counting on remaining number
two
forever."44 Reading recent articles about the European Union's
development
of
a large military strike force, Germany's financial dominance in Western
and
Eastern Europe, and German statements that are aggressive in tone,
remind us
of history. They remind us that this is a perilous world, a world of
nuclear
powers, and a world which is now facing the final race for resources.
And that is what this has always been about. The west has used
revanchist
nationalists as their pawns. The American and German strategy has been
to
splinter existing nations, demonize states which oppose the "Grand
Plan,"
and
support pro-capitalist forces. The purpose of this military, ideological
and
economic onslaught is to secure the exploitation of the East, with the
incredible natural resources including the cheap (and desperate) labor
of
the
Eurasian continent. But Germany and the United States are rivals for all
of
this. And inter-imperial rivalry means war. It always has.
Russia alone has $28 trillion dollars worth of resources!
Azerbaijan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, plus Russian Astrakhan have oil
and
gas. In these regions, Islam is the major religion. In these republics,
the
United States is once again supporting reactionary Islamic
Fundamentalist
nationalists just as they did in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Albania, Bosnia,
and
Kosovo.
In his book, The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of a
long-term strategy for Eurasia. He urged the United States to establish
"global hegemony," and warned that there were only ten to 20 years to
take
control "before the door is closed."45 Brzezinski wrote of controlling
the
Eurasian corridor, from . . . the Balkans to Xinjiang and Tibet. Sean
Gervasi, a few days before he died, said that the US would try to push
NATO
all the way to China.
On November 19, 2000, a New York Times article on Xinjiang Province
in
western China described the Uighurs, a "Muslim majority (which) lives
restively under Chinese rule. " They "are well versed in the NATO
bombing
of
Yugoslavia last year which some celebrate for liberating the Muslims in
Kosovo; they fantasize about a similar 'rescue' here." 46 In last
week's
Times Magazine, the recipe for Xinjiang cabbage salad contained some
very
interesting information rarely found in most recipes, and NOT found in
the
news story from November 19th. "Recent discoveries of oil have made
Xinjiang
extremely attractive to international trade", it noted while comparing
the
conditions for its indigenous population to those in Tibet. (We are all
familiar with the Western media campaign to delegitimize China's control
over
Tibet, the recipe even alludes to the Richard Gere movie which swayed
filmgoers against the policies of the Peoples Republic of China in
Tibet).
The recipe cites Amnesty International's report on the Chinese
mistreatment
of Xinjiang's Moslem majority, and then advises cooks to buy Sichuan
peppers
for the recipe which "numb your tongue."47
11. What can we do?
Our tongues are not numb. Our eyes can see. Our minds are clearing.
This
is a moment for the Peace Movement to surge back into existence. With
the
international perspective of those who understand the political,
economic,
and military nature of these issues along with the tremendous vitality
of
the
ew generation of anti World Trade Organizations-, anti-IMF/World Bank
activists, I believe we are on the brink of a new and extraordinarily
vital
movement. And we are not alone, because these truths are clear to people
throughout the entire world.
Yugoslavia has been our teacher on American millennial treachery in
Eastern Europe, much as Vietnam was our textbook on 20th Century
American
foreign policy in the Third World. But the Vietnamese won their
confrontation
with the US and Yugoslavs- and the Serbs as a people- appear to have
lost.
The fall of Yugoslavia happened in part because the Peace Movement was
manipulated and misguided, and people thought that US foreign policy
could
be
benevolent. That was a big mistake.
The 21st Century may seem to be the zenith for American world
domination, but the contradictions within this system are too great, and
the
lies are just too transparent. Courageous people, need to join together
to
understand and counter this menace to the human race. Time is of the
essence.
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:28:44 EST
From: Pelkinsin@...
For Your Information and Contemplation.
Tika Jankovic
Part II
7. Badguys and Quislings
Professor Vukotic is the brains behind the secession of Montenegro.
His
former student, Milo Djukanovic, is the President of Montenegro.
Djukanovic
employed the good professor to hasten the privatization of state
property in
Montenegro. He was ubiquitous; Professor Vukotic marched into Kosovo
with
NATO forces in June 1999, at the height of Kosovar expulsions of ethnic
Serbs
and Gypsies (ROM) (who are by now 90% ethnically cleansed from the
province.)
(NATO remains mum about that.)
The IMF sent another G 17 member, Dr. Zeliko Bogetic, who oversaw
the
transition to capitalism in Bulgaria, to Montenegro. Recently, following
Bogetic's advice, Montenegro adopted the Deutchmark as its currency,
placing
the province, which claims to desire independence, in the hands of its
creditors. Dr. Bogetic is in line to become the director of Yugoslavia's
Central Bank. Yugoslavia would cease to be an economically sovereign
entity
if Dr. Bogetic follows the same policies in Belgrade as he did in
Montenegro.
29
Veselin Vukotic was on the "News Hour" with Jim Lehrer, on Public
television,
on Bastille Day, 1999 and said, "We want to be an open colony and an
open
society."
Although the West reassured Kostunica and his supporters that
Montenegro
and Kosovo were to remain Yugoslav provinces, powerful forces in the
United
States have other ideas.
Morton Abromowitz was Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence
and
Research in the Reagan administration. I'm sure we'll see more of him
under
George W. He supported the arming of the Afghan Mujahaddin that served
to
discredit and destabilize the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He was part of
the
Council on Foreign Relations panel that advised the Clinton
administration
to
loosen restrictions on CIA operations dealing with criminals, using
journalists, and targeting unfriendly heads of state. He now works for a
right-wing think tank called The Century Foundation." In a recent
Washington
Post op ed. piece Mr. Abromowitz asserted, "the federal republic is
Serbia.
After the December 23rd elections-which should produce a government free
of
Mr. Milosovic's flunkies- fresh talks can be held between Montenegro and
Serbia." Abromowitz later in the article urged, "Effective management
of
Kosovo's own affairs . . . Prospects . . . would be better if the west
stopped encouraging Belgrade to believe it still has a future in ruling
Kosovo." 30
That is the future Kostunica faces: Yugoslavia, its people
impoverished
and trapped in an IMF/World Bank straightjacket, pared down to Serbia,
with
incursions on its territories encouraged and protected by NATO. With
Montenegro gone, it will become land-locked. It will be a Yugoslavia
forced
to borrow money to pay for the destruction of NATO bombings, and
finally,
faced with the decimation of its once productive economy.
And who is waiting in the wings? Every western corporations who see
"crucial assets for sale, includ(ing)the huge tobacco factory in Nis,
electric, oil, and gas companies, cement factories, and the government's
51%
stake in Telecom Srbja." McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Heineken are all
salivating
at
the prospects of investment and trade. Milan Panic, tossed out by
Milosovic,
is back at his old pharmaceutical company, which was nationalized by
Milosovic. 31
8. What is Vojislav Kostunica, really?
At the Serb Unity Congress in Toronto in October, the victory of
Kostunica was greeted with joy and celebration. But who is this fellow,
this
professor of law, this so-called leader of the Democratic Opposition of
Serbia?
Kostunica is a pathetic creature. In October he visited Republika
Srpska
in Bosnia. This Serbian enclave is the 49% of the land the Serbs were
allowed to keep in Bosnia after the war. The United States Institute of
Peace, closely associated with the likes of Madeline Albright, Jamie
Rubin,
and Richard Holbrooke, in their most recent publication urged that,
"Serbia
(under Kostunica) should end support to all political forces in Bosnia.
.
.and should recognize Bosnia's territorial integrity," and "the European
Union should . . . make the country a single economic space. . . with a
single integrated (intelligence and military) command." 32 Several
weeks
after Kostunica's visit, James Cunningham, deputy US representative to
the
United Nations rejected the election of candidates from the Serb
Democratic
Party in Republika Srpska saying "obstructionists should be kept out of
government." 33 .
(This was kind of funny since the Gore campaign was saying the same
thing
about the Bush "victory" in Florida.)
Kostunica is constrained by his financial supporters to "recognize
Bosnian sovereignty." And "conditional independence for Kosovo."34 But
there
was Vojislav, visiting the grave of a Yugoslav poet on his way to a
meeting
in Biarritz, France, at the European summit.
Greeted with cheers and congratulations in France, Kostunica was
the
man
of the hour. But his "welcome to the European family", was tempered with
the
knowledge that he was the front man for another more sinister fellow by
the
name of Zoran Djindjic. It is he who will probably become Prime Minister
of
Serbia 35 , and he who united the many dissident groups and managed
Kostunica's campaign, under the watchful eye of Madeline Albright. He
was a
founder of the Yugoslav Democratic Party, and worked for many years to
end
socialism in his own country.36 Djindjic is prepared to sink Yugoslavia
under the indebtedness of its previous IMF loans, which amount to $128
million, and a World Bank debt of $1.7 billion.37
But Djindjic, the G-17, OTPOR, D.O.S., all these shady characters,
including Kostunica, are just marionettes. The puppeteers reside
elsewhere,
in Washington and Bonn predominantly, pulling the strings, dismantling
what
is left of Yugoslavia. Slobodan Milosovic is down, but not out, having
just
been elected to lead the Socialist party. And the West fears that the
upcoming December 23rd elections might go well for the Socialists. After
all,
the IMF and World Bank have been voted out of Yugoslavia before.
9. What are the Prospects for the Future?
It is instructive to look at another country for a moment, the
Republic
of Belarus. No sooner had Slobodan Milosovic been dispatched, the US
and
the
European press began another assault, this time on Alexander Lukashenko
as
Europe's last Communist-style leader." 38 Belarus is facing the same
kinds
of
so called "nationalist" opposition that Yugoslavia faced. "Lukashenko's
security forces were gearing up to meet "provocations" by "foreign
agents"
with "Harsh measures,"39 reported the Boston Globe. The State
Department,
commenting on a recent election called it, "undemocratic." And
Lukashenko,
who swept to power in a landslide in 1994, said, "We have our own way to
travel."
That way includes his appreciation for Fidel Castro whom he visited
in
September, calling Castro, "a legendary figure."40 That way includes
opposition to loans from the International Monetary Fund, and proposing
to
Russia to build a large force in Belarus to defend against NATO.41 The
Belarus way is a socialist economy under which unemployment is 1.7%,
hunger
is non-existent, though everyone is poor, and the wage gap between rich
and
poor is nothing like that found in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, or the
Ukraine.
Education and medical care are still free, and cultural events are low
priced. 42
So here is another Yugoslavia in the making. Only this time we need
to
be
ready to counter the attacks of those who will swear up and down that
this
"dictator" has to go because he is so ruthless. Because if we say
nothing,
NATO forces, which are already in former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Albania,
Azerbajan, Czech Republic . . . will move east to counter the "threat"
of
another leader who dares to oppose the International Monetary Fund, NATO
and
"democratic liberal economic reforms."
10. What it is Really All About
When we read the economic news lately, we worry that the economic
"boom"
(which has really been good for only the top 20 percent of the
population,)
is about to end. My late husband, Sean Gervasi wrote a document, five
months
before he died in 1996, which was published in the book, NATO in the
Balkans
and disseminated widely in Europe (as the Prague Declaration). It was
called, "Why is NATO in Yugoslavia," and in his brilliant prescience, he
noted, "the Western system is experiencing a profound economic, social,
and
political crisis, . . . and sees the exploitation of the East as the
only
large scale project which might stimulate growth. . ." And he asked,
"will
the world accept the risks of East-West conflict and nuclear war" to
protect
this system?43
Sean was warning about a war for resources, a war for markets, a war
between Europe and America. Russia opposes NATO expansion. Germany, as
the
most powerful economy of the European Union is both coactive and
dangerously
competitive with Washington for power in the East. In 1996, Volker Ruhe,
German Defense Minister said, "Bonn is not counting on remaining number
two
forever."44 Reading recent articles about the European Union's
development
of
a large military strike force, Germany's financial dominance in Western
and
Eastern Europe, and German statements that are aggressive in tone,
remind us
of history. They remind us that this is a perilous world, a world of
nuclear
powers, and a world which is now facing the final race for resources.
And that is what this has always been about. The west has used
revanchist
nationalists as their pawns. The American and German strategy has been
to
splinter existing nations, demonize states which oppose the "Grand
Plan,"
and
support pro-capitalist forces. The purpose of this military, ideological
and
economic onslaught is to secure the exploitation of the East, with the
incredible natural resources including the cheap (and desperate) labor
of
the
Eurasian continent. But Germany and the United States are rivals for all
of
this. And inter-imperial rivalry means war. It always has.
Russia alone has $28 trillion dollars worth of resources!
Azerbaijan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, plus Russian Astrakhan have oil
and
gas. In these regions, Islam is the major religion. In these republics,
the
United States is once again supporting reactionary Islamic
Fundamentalist
nationalists just as they did in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Albania, Bosnia,
and
Kosovo.
In his book, The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of a
long-term strategy for Eurasia. He urged the United States to establish
"global hegemony," and warned that there were only ten to 20 years to
take
control "before the door is closed."45 Brzezinski wrote of controlling
the
Eurasian corridor, from . . . the Balkans to Xinjiang and Tibet. Sean
Gervasi, a few days before he died, said that the US would try to push
NATO
all the way to China.
On November 19, 2000, a New York Times article on Xinjiang Province
in
western China described the Uighurs, a "Muslim majority (which) lives
restively under Chinese rule. " They "are well versed in the NATO
bombing
of
Yugoslavia last year which some celebrate for liberating the Muslims in
Kosovo; they fantasize about a similar 'rescue' here." 46 In last
week's
Times Magazine, the recipe for Xinjiang cabbage salad contained some
very
interesting information rarely found in most recipes, and NOT found in
the
news story from November 19th. "Recent discoveries of oil have made
Xinjiang
extremely attractive to international trade", it noted while comparing
the
conditions for its indigenous population to those in Tibet. (We are all
familiar with the Western media campaign to delegitimize China's control
over
Tibet, the recipe even alludes to the Richard Gere movie which swayed
filmgoers against the policies of the Peoples Republic of China in
Tibet).
The recipe cites Amnesty International's report on the Chinese
mistreatment
of Xinjiang's Moslem majority, and then advises cooks to buy Sichuan
peppers
for the recipe which "numb your tongue."47
11. What can we do?
Our tongues are not numb. Our eyes can see. Our minds are clearing.
This
is a moment for the Peace Movement to surge back into existence. With
the
international perspective of those who understand the political,
economic,
and military nature of these issues along with the tremendous vitality
of
the
ew generation of anti World Trade Organizations-, anti-IMF/World Bank
activists, I believe we are on the brink of a new and extraordinarily
vital
movement. And we are not alone, because these truths are clear to people
throughout the entire world.
Yugoslavia has been our teacher on American millennial treachery in
Eastern Europe, much as Vietnam was our textbook on 20th Century
American
foreign policy in the Third World. But the Vietnamese won their
confrontation
with the US and Yugoslavs- and the Serbs as a people- appear to have
lost.
The fall of Yugoslavia happened in part because the Peace Movement was
manipulated and misguided, and people thought that US foreign policy
could
be
benevolent. That was a big mistake.
The 21st Century may seem to be the zenith for American world
domination, but the contradictions within this system are too great, and
the
lies are just too transparent. Courageous people, need to join together
to
understand and counter this menace to the human race. Time is of the
essence.
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