Informazione
>
> Betreff: Wichtig: ARD-Sendung über NATO-Krieg: " Es begann mit einer
> Lüge" - ARD 8.2.01, 21:45
>
> ARD Das erste - Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2001, 21:45 - 22:30
>
> ES BEGANN MIT EINER LÜGE (WDR)
> FILM
> DEUTSCHLANDS WEG IN DEN KOSOVO-KRIEG
> Quelle:
> http://dyninet.wdr.de/inetepg/ObjekteZurSendung.asp?Sendung=683620&bookmark=http
>
> Im kosovarischen Dorf Rugovo erinnert bis heute der zerschossene
> Kleinbus an eine Schießerei zwischen den Soldaten der sogenannten
> Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee UCK und serbischen Polizisten. In Deutschland
> hatte Bundesverteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping daraus ein Massaker
> an der Zivilbevölkerung gemacht.
>
> Das WDR-Team bei den Dreharbeiten in der Nähe des kosovarischen Dorfs
> Petershtica, das laut Bundesverteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping
> angeblich von serbischer Miliz überfallen worden war.
>
> Nuhi Uka (li) und Fatmir Zymeri sind Bewohner des kleinen Kosovo-Dorfes
> Petershtica. In ihrem Ort waren laut Verteidigungsministerium Serben
> eingedrungen, hatten in den Kellern die Gashähne geöffnet und dann auf
> den Dachböden Kerzen angezündet. Doch das hat in Petershtica niemals
> stattgefunden, berichten alle Bewohner übereinstimmend. In der Hand hält
> Fatmir Zymeri das vom Bundesverteidigungsministerium veröffentlichte
> Satellitenfoto auf dem sein Dorf zu sehen ist und das eine
> Bildunterschrift trägt, derzufolge dieses Dorf nach der sog.
> "Kerzenmethode" zerstört worden war.
>
> Nach dem Ende des Kosovo-Krieges zerstören Kosovo-Albaner die Häuser der
> Serben in Prizren.
>
> 24. März 1999: Im italienischen Piacenza starten deutsche Kampfjets
> gegen Jugoslawien. Es ist der erste Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
> nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg - ein Tabubruch. Bundeskanzler Schröder
> erklärt im Fernsehen: 'Wir führen keinen Krieg, aber wir sind aufgerufen
> eine friedliche Lösung im Kosovo auch mit militärischen Mitteln
> durchzusetzen.' 78 Tage führte die NATO dann Krieg gegen Jugoslawien -
> nicht nur mit Bomben. Von Beginn an ging es auch darum, wer die
> 'richtigen' Begriffe besetzte und die 'besseren' Bilder besass.
> NATO-Sprecher Shea bringt es im Film auf den Punkt. 'Dieser Krieg war
> auch ein Kampf um die Bilder.'
>
> Nur aus einem Grund durften deutsche Soldaten am Krieg teilnehmen und
> der hiess: Abwendung einer humanitären Katastrophe. Doch war dieses
> Szenario - vor dem Bombardement der NATO - im Kosovo anzutreffen? Gab es
> die ethnischen Säuberungen wirklich schon vor dem Krieg? Heute sagt
> Norma Brown, enge Mitarbeiterin von OSZE-Chef William Walker: 'Die
> humanitäre Katastrophe im Kosovo gab es erst durch die
> NATO-Luftangriffe. Dass diese die Katastrophe auslösen würden, wussten
> alle bei der NATO, der OSZE und bei unserer Beobachter-Gruppe.' Der
> Krieg im Kosovo - geführt im Namen der Menschlichkeit - begann mit einer
> Lüge.
>
> Zwei Jahre nach dem Krieg ist die Öffentlichkeit um einiges klüger. Den
> 'Monitor'-Autoren Angerer und Werth ist es gelungen, hochrangige
> Militärs bei Bundeswehr und NATO zu befragen, die an den
> Kriegsvorbereitungen unmittelbar beteiligt waren. Sie sprachen mit
> Beratern der US-Regierung, dem damaligen NATO-Sprecher Jamie Shea und
> mit Verteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping. Vor allem aber unternahmen
> sie aufwendige Recherchen vor Ort im Kosovo. Herausgekommen ist: ein
> Lehrstück in Sachen Kriegspropaganda - made in Germany.
>
> 'Im Kampf um die öffentliche Meinung spielte Scharping eine
> entscheidende Rolle' bescheinigt NATO-Sprecher Shea dem deutschen
> Minister. Und in der Tat: Zahlreiche neue Zeugenaussagen und bislang
> unveröffentlichte geheime Lageberichte aus Scharpings Behörde machen
> wichtige 'Beweisstücke' zur Farce. Das gilt für das angebliche
> Konzentrationslager in Pristina, das 'Massaker' von Rugovo und den
> sogenannten Operationsplan Hufeisen, der kein serbisches Dokument,
> sondern in Wahrheit ein Produkt des Führungsstabes im deutschen
> Verteidigungsministerium ist. Es begann mit einer Lüge - so das Fazit
> der WDR-Dokumentation über den ersten Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
> nach 1945.
> © 2000 WDR
> Köln
>
> ===
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> Betreff: Wichtig: ARD-Sendung über NATO-Krieg: " Es begann mit einer
> Lüge" - ARD 8.2.01, 21:45
>
> ARD Das erste - Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2001, 21:45 - 22:30
>
> ES BEGANN MIT EINER LÜGE (WDR)
> FILM
> DEUTSCHLANDS WEG IN DEN KOSOVO-KRIEG
> Quelle:
> http://dyninet.wdr.de/inetepg/ObjekteZurSendung.asp?Sendung=683620&bookmark=http
>
> Im kosovarischen Dorf Rugovo erinnert bis heute der zerschossene
> Kleinbus an eine Schießerei zwischen den Soldaten der sogenannten
> Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee UCK und serbischen Polizisten. In Deutschland
> hatte Bundesverteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping daraus ein Massaker
> an der Zivilbevölkerung gemacht.
>
> Das WDR-Team bei den Dreharbeiten in der Nähe des kosovarischen Dorfs
> Petershtica, das laut Bundesverteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping
> angeblich von serbischer Miliz überfallen worden war.
>
> Nuhi Uka (li) und Fatmir Zymeri sind Bewohner des kleinen Kosovo-Dorfes
> Petershtica. In ihrem Ort waren laut Verteidigungsministerium Serben
> eingedrungen, hatten in den Kellern die Gashähne geöffnet und dann auf
> den Dachböden Kerzen angezündet. Doch das hat in Petershtica niemals
> stattgefunden, berichten alle Bewohner übereinstimmend. In der Hand hält
> Fatmir Zymeri das vom Bundesverteidigungsministerium veröffentlichte
> Satellitenfoto auf dem sein Dorf zu sehen ist und das eine
> Bildunterschrift trägt, derzufolge dieses Dorf nach der sog.
> "Kerzenmethode" zerstört worden war.
>
> Nach dem Ende des Kosovo-Krieges zerstören Kosovo-Albaner die Häuser der
> Serben in Prizren.
>
> 24. März 1999: Im italienischen Piacenza starten deutsche Kampfjets
> gegen Jugoslawien. Es ist der erste Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
> nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg - ein Tabubruch. Bundeskanzler Schröder
> erklärt im Fernsehen: 'Wir führen keinen Krieg, aber wir sind aufgerufen
> eine friedliche Lösung im Kosovo auch mit militärischen Mitteln
> durchzusetzen.' 78 Tage führte die NATO dann Krieg gegen Jugoslawien -
> nicht nur mit Bomben. Von Beginn an ging es auch darum, wer die
> 'richtigen' Begriffe besetzte und die 'besseren' Bilder besass.
> NATO-Sprecher Shea bringt es im Film auf den Punkt. 'Dieser Krieg war
> auch ein Kampf um die Bilder.'
>
> Nur aus einem Grund durften deutsche Soldaten am Krieg teilnehmen und
> der hiess: Abwendung einer humanitären Katastrophe. Doch war dieses
> Szenario - vor dem Bombardement der NATO - im Kosovo anzutreffen? Gab es
> die ethnischen Säuberungen wirklich schon vor dem Krieg? Heute sagt
> Norma Brown, enge Mitarbeiterin von OSZE-Chef William Walker: 'Die
> humanitäre Katastrophe im Kosovo gab es erst durch die
> NATO-Luftangriffe. Dass diese die Katastrophe auslösen würden, wussten
> alle bei der NATO, der OSZE und bei unserer Beobachter-Gruppe.' Der
> Krieg im Kosovo - geführt im Namen der Menschlichkeit - begann mit einer
> Lüge.
>
> Zwei Jahre nach dem Krieg ist die Öffentlichkeit um einiges klüger. Den
> 'Monitor'-Autoren Angerer und Werth ist es gelungen, hochrangige
> Militärs bei Bundeswehr und NATO zu befragen, die an den
> Kriegsvorbereitungen unmittelbar beteiligt waren. Sie sprachen mit
> Beratern der US-Regierung, dem damaligen NATO-Sprecher Jamie Shea und
> mit Verteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping. Vor allem aber unternahmen
> sie aufwendige Recherchen vor Ort im Kosovo. Herausgekommen ist: ein
> Lehrstück in Sachen Kriegspropaganda - made in Germany.
>
> 'Im Kampf um die öffentliche Meinung spielte Scharping eine
> entscheidende Rolle' bescheinigt NATO-Sprecher Shea dem deutschen
> Minister. Und in der Tat: Zahlreiche neue Zeugenaussagen und bislang
> unveröffentlichte geheime Lageberichte aus Scharpings Behörde machen
> wichtige 'Beweisstücke' zur Farce. Das gilt für das angebliche
> Konzentrationslager in Pristina, das 'Massaker' von Rugovo und den
> sogenannten Operationsplan Hufeisen, der kein serbisches Dokument,
> sondern in Wahrheit ein Produkt des Führungsstabes im deutschen
> Verteidigungsministerium ist. Es begann mit einer Lüge - so das Fazit
> der WDR-Dokumentation über den ersten Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
> nach 1945.
> © 2000 WDR
> Köln
>
> ===
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Es begann mit einer Lüge
Monitor-Autoren enthüllen Fälschungen in der Berichterstattung zum
Kosovo-Krieg
24. März 1999: Im italienischen Piacenza starten deutsche Kampfjets
gegen Jugoslawien. Es ist der erste Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Nur aus einem Grund durften deutsche
Soldaten am Krieg teilnehmen und der hiess: Abwendung einer humanitären
Katastrophe. Verteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping lieferte die
Argumente für den Kriegseinsatz: Bilder von Massakern an der
Zivilbevölkerung, von zerstörten Dörfern. Die Serben hätten zur
Vertreibung der Kosovaren den Operationsplan "Hufeisen" entwickelt, so
das Verteidigungsministerium. Nach diesem Plan wollten die Serben die
Kosovo-Albaner aus dem Land treiben. Zum Beleg lieferte Scharping den
Journalisten die passenden Fotos. Die Bilder gingen durch die Presse und
sorgten für Stimmung für einen deutschen Kriegseinsatz. 78 Tage führte
die NATO dann Krieg gegen Jugoslawien - nicht nur mit Bomben. Von Beginn
an ging es auch darum, wer die 'richtigen' Begriffe besetzte und die
'besseren' Bilder besaß.
Manuskript der Sendung (pdf-Datei, 52k)
Mit Bildern aus Kriegsgebieten hatten die Monitor-Redakteure Mathias
Werth und Jo Angerer ihre Erfahrungen. Bereits in der Berichterstattung
zum Golfkrieg konnten sie für Monitor Fälschungen aufdecken. Über zehn
Jahre arbeiten die beiden als Team zu Themen der Verteidigungs- und
Sicherheitspolitik. Als der Kosovo-Konflikt sich zuspitzte, berichtete
Jo Angerer in Deutschland, Mathias Werth konnte in Moskau die russische
Sicht der Dinge verfolgen. Es gab unterschiedliche Wahrnehmungen und
unterschiedliche Betroffenheit. Auf zahllosen Pressekonferenzen
informierten Politiker und Militärs die Öffentlichkeit. Bereits während
des Krieges gab es erste Zweifel am Wahrheitsgehalt dieser
Stellungnahmen.
"Bewusste Fälschungen"
Zwei Jahre nach dem Krieg ist es den Monitor-Autoren nun gelungen,
hochrangige Militärs bei Bundeswehr und NATO zu befragen, die an den
Kriegsvorbereitungen unmittelbar beteiligt waren. Sie sprachen mit
Beratern der US-Regierung, dem damaligen NATO-Sprecher Jamie Shea und
mit Verteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping.
Vor allem aber unternahmen sie aufwendige Recherchen vor Ort im Kosovo.
Sie gingen der Frage nach: Gab es die ethnischen Säuberungen wirklich
schon vor dem Krieg? Der "Operationsplan Hufeisen", das
"Konzentrationslager" im Fußballstadion von Pristina, das Massaker an
Zivilisten in Rugovo - Angerer und Werth überprüften diese zentralen
Argumente für den deutschen Kriegseinsatz. Sie stießen auf "bewusste
Fälschungen". Zeugen bestätigten die These von einer systematischen
Verfolgung der Zivilbevölkerung im Kosovo nicht.
Die Journalisten waren in Dörfern, die angeblich vor dem NATO-Einsatz
von den Serben zerstört worden waren. Die dort lebenden Kosovo-Albaner
erzählten, dass die Ortschaften erst nach den NATO-Luftangriffen durch
Gefechte zwischen Serben und UCK-Kämpfern zerstört worden seien.
OSZE-Beobachter, die vor dem NATO-Einsatz im Kosovo waren, äußerten sich
gegenüber Angerer und Werth kritisch zu den Bombardements. Norma Brown,
enge Mitarbeiterin von OSZE-Chef William Walker sagt: "Die humanitäre
Katastrophe im Kosovo gab es erst durch die NATO-Luftangriffe. Dass
diese die Katastrophe auslösen würde, wussten alle bei der NATO, der
OSZE und bei unserer Beobachter-Gruppe."
Angerer und Werth bekamen auch Zugang zu geheimen Lageberichten,
Planungsunterlagen aus dem US-amerikanischen Außenministerium und dem
Bundesverteidigungsministerium. Sie kamen zu dem Ergebnis: Hier wurde
eine Rechtfertigung fabriziert und damit der deutsche Kriegseinsatz
legalisiert. "Es begann mit einer Lüge", so das Fazit der Dokumentation
über den ersten Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten nach 1945.
Links zur Sendung
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Die Dokumentation "Es begann mit einer Lüge" von Jo Angerer und Mathias
Werth sendete die ARD am Donnerstag, 8.02.01, um 21.45 Uhr.
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============================================================
Es begann mit einer Lüge
Monitor-Autoren enthüllen Fälschungen in der Berichterstattung zum
Kosovo-Krieg
24. März 1999: Im italienischen Piacenza starten deutsche Kampfjets
gegen Jugoslawien. Es ist der erste Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Nur aus einem Grund durften deutsche
Soldaten am Krieg teilnehmen und der hiess: Abwendung einer humanitären
Katastrophe. Verteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping lieferte die
Argumente für den Kriegseinsatz: Bilder von Massakern an der
Zivilbevölkerung, von zerstörten Dörfern. Die Serben hätten zur
Vertreibung der Kosovaren den Operationsplan "Hufeisen" entwickelt, so
das Verteidigungsministerium. Nach diesem Plan wollten die Serben die
Kosovo-Albaner aus dem Land treiben. Zum Beleg lieferte Scharping den
Journalisten die passenden Fotos. Die Bilder gingen durch die Presse und
sorgten für Stimmung für einen deutschen Kriegseinsatz. 78 Tage führte
die NATO dann Krieg gegen Jugoslawien - nicht nur mit Bomben. Von Beginn
an ging es auch darum, wer die 'richtigen' Begriffe besetzte und die
'besseren' Bilder besaß.
Manuskript der Sendung (pdf-Datei, 52k)
Mit Bildern aus Kriegsgebieten hatten die Monitor-Redakteure Mathias
Werth und Jo Angerer ihre Erfahrungen. Bereits in der Berichterstattung
zum Golfkrieg konnten sie für Monitor Fälschungen aufdecken. Über zehn
Jahre arbeiten die beiden als Team zu Themen der Verteidigungs- und
Sicherheitspolitik. Als der Kosovo-Konflikt sich zuspitzte, berichtete
Jo Angerer in Deutschland, Mathias Werth konnte in Moskau die russische
Sicht der Dinge verfolgen. Es gab unterschiedliche Wahrnehmungen und
unterschiedliche Betroffenheit. Auf zahllosen Pressekonferenzen
informierten Politiker und Militärs die Öffentlichkeit. Bereits während
des Krieges gab es erste Zweifel am Wahrheitsgehalt dieser
Stellungnahmen.
"Bewusste Fälschungen"
Zwei Jahre nach dem Krieg ist es den Monitor-Autoren nun gelungen,
hochrangige Militärs bei Bundeswehr und NATO zu befragen, die an den
Kriegsvorbereitungen unmittelbar beteiligt waren. Sie sprachen mit
Beratern der US-Regierung, dem damaligen NATO-Sprecher Jamie Shea und
mit Verteidigungsminister Rudolf Scharping.
Vor allem aber unternahmen sie aufwendige Recherchen vor Ort im Kosovo.
Sie gingen der Frage nach: Gab es die ethnischen Säuberungen wirklich
schon vor dem Krieg? Der "Operationsplan Hufeisen", das
"Konzentrationslager" im Fußballstadion von Pristina, das Massaker an
Zivilisten in Rugovo - Angerer und Werth überprüften diese zentralen
Argumente für den deutschen Kriegseinsatz. Sie stießen auf "bewusste
Fälschungen". Zeugen bestätigten die These von einer systematischen
Verfolgung der Zivilbevölkerung im Kosovo nicht.
Die Journalisten waren in Dörfern, die angeblich vor dem NATO-Einsatz
von den Serben zerstört worden waren. Die dort lebenden Kosovo-Albaner
erzählten, dass die Ortschaften erst nach den NATO-Luftangriffen durch
Gefechte zwischen Serben und UCK-Kämpfern zerstört worden seien.
OSZE-Beobachter, die vor dem NATO-Einsatz im Kosovo waren, äußerten sich
gegenüber Angerer und Werth kritisch zu den Bombardements. Norma Brown,
enge Mitarbeiterin von OSZE-Chef William Walker sagt: "Die humanitäre
Katastrophe im Kosovo gab es erst durch die NATO-Luftangriffe. Dass
diese die Katastrophe auslösen würde, wussten alle bei der NATO, der
OSZE und bei unserer Beobachter-Gruppe."
Angerer und Werth bekamen auch Zugang zu geheimen Lageberichten,
Planungsunterlagen aus dem US-amerikanischen Außenministerium und dem
Bundesverteidigungsministerium. Sie kamen zu dem Ergebnis: Hier wurde
eine Rechtfertigung fabriziert und damit der deutsche Kriegseinsatz
legalisiert. "Es begann mit einer Lüge", so das Fazit der Dokumentation
über den ersten Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten nach 1945.
Links zur Sendung
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Die Dokumentation "Es begann mit einer Lüge" von Jo Angerer und Mathias
Werth sendete die ARD am Donnerstag, 8.02.01, um 21.45 Uhr.
---
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============================================================
> Es begann mit einer Lüge
> Monitor-Autoren enthüllen Fälschungen in der Berichterstattung zum
> Kosovo-Krieg
>
> 24. März 1999: Im italienischen Piacenza starten deutsche Kampfjets
> gegen Jugoslawien. Es ist der erste Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
> nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg...
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> Es begann mit einer Lüge
> Monitor-Autoren enthüllen Fälschungen in der Berichterstattung zum
> Kosovo-Krieg
>
> 24. März 1999: Im italienischen Piacenza starten deutsche Kampfjets
> gegen Jugoslawien. Es ist der erste Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten
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"Rasim e Ramadan, padre e figlio albanesi falciati al posto di blocco"
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dinamica dei fatti dalla quale trapelerebbe la violenza eccessiva e
gratuita dei poliziotti, e si tende a mettere in ridicolo "la
spiegazione ufficiale: i Korishi avevano una granata, stavano per
lanciarla. Poi, le parole indignate di Rauf Ramadani, il capo albanese
della polizia di Tetovo: 'No, erano due innocenti'". Talmente innocenti
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From: "Michel Collon"
Subject: After Kosovo, Macedonia
(Article of Michel Collon in English)
Please find here an important article about Macedonia, Kosovo, Nato and their future.
1. Is Macedonia a strategic area?
2. KLA attack: is it a surprise?
3. What is surviving of the official Nato version?
4. Is Washington playing double game?
5. Will KLA provoke a new war?
6. What do the US really want?
7. Will it be possible for Washington to keep playing with all sides?
8. Did they �forge a monster�?
9. What shall be the role of the rivalry between USA and EU?
10. Is Kostunica trapped?
11. Perspectives for Peace.
-- Michel Collon
(For fair use only)
After Kosovo, Macedonia.
What is left of the explanations of NATO ?
A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA
have attacked the villages of the Presevo valley in Serbia, after
they have killed 11 Serbian civilians of Kosovo by throwing a
bomb in a bus, they are waging now war in neighbouring Macedonia.
And again refugees are on the roads. Is there a new escalation in
the Balkans? In fact, these events allow to better understand
what happened in 1999. In this complex situation (because
everything is done to disorientate the public opinion), let us
answer clearly to the main questions.
Michel Collon
1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ?
Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the
general Jackson, commander of the NATO troops: "We will certainly
stay here for a long time in order to guarantee the safety of the
energy corridors which cross Macedonia". (1)
'Energy corridors' ?
We had presented the maps showing the projects of Europe (a whole
net of oil and gas pipe-lines connecting Europe via the Balkans
to the huge oil and gas resources of the former soviet Caucasus)
and the ones of the US (a pipe-line Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania-
Adriatic which would give to the US oil multinationals the
control of this road of oil and gas). These projects are in fact
rival. This is why all the great powers attempt for ten years to
control Yugoslavia. The road of oil and gas passes by. We had
also stressed that as soon as 1992 it is in Macedonia - however
very far away from the conflicts zones - and nowhere else that
Washington had decided to send a division. We have to be frank:
even in the left circles, some peoples found exaggerated to
suspect Washington to have so dark projects. But very recently,
the respectable British newspaper Guardian confirmed: "A project
called the Trans-Balkan pipeline has been little-reported in any
British, European or American newspaper.
The line will run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the
Adriatic at Vlore, passing through Bulgaria, Macedonia and
Albania. It is likely become the main route to the west for the
oil and gas now being extracted in central Asia. It will carry
750,000 barrels a day. The project is necessary, according to a
paper published by the US Trade and Development Agency, because
it will "provide a consistent source of crude oil to American
refineries", "provide American companies with a key role in
developing the vital east-west corridor", and "advance the
privatisation aspirations of the US government in the region"." (2)
Clear, isn't it ?
Moreover, Bill Richardson, the former US energy secretary,
declared in 1998, that is before the war: "This is about
America's energy security". When the US speak about 'energy
security', one must know what it means: to preserve the world
domination and the profits of their oil multinationals. And
Richardson continues: "We would like these newly independent
countries reliant on Western commercial and political interests
rather than going another way. We've made a substantial political
investment in the Caspian, and it's very important to us that
both the pipeline map and the politics come out right." (3) And
The Guardian adds this essential comment: "On December 9, 98
(before the war), the president of Albania attended a meeting on
this subject in Sofia:"According to my personal opinion, no
solution which will stay strictly inside of the Serbian borders
will bring a sustainable peace." The message could hardly be
clearer: if you want the agreement of the Albanians for the Trans-
Balkans pipeline, you have to take the Kosovo away from the
Serbs". (4)
2. Is the offensive of the KLA a surprise?
The US made thus a pact with the devil. Because many US
diplomatic reports testified it: the separatist KLA murdered not
only Serbian policemen or civilians, but also Albanians married
with Serbs or simply accepting to live in the Yugoslav state. And
the special envoy of Washington in the Balkans, Robert Gelbard,
had himself claimed three times in front of the international
press, at the beginning of 1998: "I tell you that these KLA
peoples are terrorists". But three months later, these terrorists
were turned by miracle into 'freedom fighters' and NATO will soon
become their air force. Today the US simulate surprise faced to
the "extremist violence" (5) which attacks Macedonia. It is
hypocrisy! As soon as June 98, the KLA distributed among its
European sympathisers a map of 'Great Albania'. In our book
Monopoly (p.69), we reproduced this map and made the following
comment: "In addition to Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, this
great Albania would remove large territories in Macedonia,
Montenegro and Greece. Wars are unavoidable if the KLA is allowed
to realize its plans". This Greater Albania implies not only
expansionism but also ethnic cleansing. Today, under the eyes and
with the tacit agreement of NATO, 350,000 not-Albanians have
already been expelled from Kosovo: Serbs but also Gypsies,
Gorani, Turks etc.. Kosovo is almost 'clean'.
A surprise? Not really, since, on July 12, 1982 already, the New
York Times interviewed a Yugoslav official in Kosovo, a man of
Albanian ancestry, who aid: "'The [Albanian] nationalists have a
two-point platform...first to establish what they call an
ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the
merger with Albania to form a greater Albania." Besides, during
the anti-Yugoslav insurgency of 1981, the Albanian nationalists
had already established a close collaboration between their units
in Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. All this didn't prevent the
influential US Senator Joseph Lieberman to declare in April 99:
"[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army
stand for the same human values and principles... Fighting for
the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values."(6).
In other words, the US and the KLA share the same fight. Besides,
anybody who travels through Kosovo can see everywhere, for
example in the petrol stations, the Albanian and US flags closely
associated.
3. Does the version of NATO still make any sense ?
What did NATO tell us to justify its murderous bombings?
1. That its war was humanitarian. Wrong: it was for oil and to
break an economy which resisted to the Western multinationals and
to the IMF.
2. That it had tried everything to find a negotiated solution.
Also wrong: we now know that there was never any negotiation;
Rambouillet was only a comedy to justify a war which had already
been decided.
3. That it was a clean war. Wrong again: 2.000 Yugoslav civilians
killed, a huge number of factories and infrastructures destroyed,
the use of forbidden and criminal weapons: cluster bombs,
depleted uranium. General Mangum just wote in the very official
journal of the Army War College: " The high-altitude bombing did
very little damage to the Serb military. It was only after NATO
began deliberately attacking civilian targets that the Serbs sued
for peace." (7)
Now what was left of the official version also collapses.
We were told: `The problems of Kosovo are caused by Milosevic'.
The situation is not better with Kostunica and a government which
is subjected to the West ! By the way, the Time confess:
"Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton administration spin during
the 1999 bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of
helpless ethnic Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo
Liberation Army who were fighting a David-vs.-Goliath struggle
against Belgrade's genocidal army.
Well, guess what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian
nationalists of the KLA stripe to be the primary security problem
in the region, the Western alliance is also considering asking
the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops police the border
between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of
Macedonia.
Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could
do business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal
independence for Kosovo dimmed even further." (8)
So, you may say white today, and black tomorrow if this useful
for "business". Who will dare to come and speak to us about a
humanitarian war, newt time?
We were told that the intervention was necessary to stop a
Serbian genocide and to establish a multi-ethnic Kosovo. But the
German general Heinz Loquai has demonstrated that the so-called
'horse-shoe plan' document presented by the German minister
Scharping was fake, that the genocide was a lie of the media and
he just qualified the war as 'unjustified', and accused NATO to
have caused two humanitarian catastrophes: a massive exodus of
the Albanians and then another exodus of the Serbs. And the
general Michael Rose, who commanded the UN forces in Bosnia,
reproaches NATO "to have introduced a culture of violence". (9)
Finally, in order to find some excuse for the current ethnic
cleansing in Kosovo, the supporters of NATO and KLA have
pretended that it was 'revenge acts for what the Serbs had done'.
And now, in Macedonia, where nothing happened, under which
pretext should one justify the aggression of the KLA? It is time
to acknowledge the only possible explanation: the KLA aims to
establish an ethnically clean state and can only realise this
program by the escalation of hatred and by terrorism.
4. Does Washington play a double game?
The United States make as if they were indignant at the current
violences of the KLA. But we must point out several things:
1. They didn't move a finger when the KLA went out from Kosovo to
attack the region of Presevo in Central Serbia. Worse: the
infiltration occurred from the US occupation zone in Kosovo.
2. Washington and the NATO pretend today "to try to stop the flux
of weapons and fighters towards southern Serbia and
Macedonia".(10)
But anybody who goes to Kosovo can observe roadblocks and check-
points of the KFOR every five kilometers. But the same KFOR is
working with interprets and other collaborators coming from the
KLA, which besides was transformed by KFOR into the very official
'Kosovo Protection Corps'. So, the ones who don't look for the
weapons of the KLA will not find them. Moreover, the major Jim
Marshall, spokesman of the US KFOR, declared on March, 6: "We
have identified between 75 and 150 rebels in Tanusevci
(Macedonia), we saw them enter and go out from Kosovo, and get
rid of their equipments and weapons before to cross the border."
A little stupid question: what did prevent you to arrest them?
45,000 NATO soldiers are occupying Kosovo and can not arrest 150
terrorists? Can not or don't want to?
On March, 11, in the British newspaper Observer, several European
high officers of KFOR and also several Macedonian officials
accused explicitly the CIA to have encouraged the KLA to start
its summer offensive in the South of Serbia in order to undermine
the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. Today, who
could guarantee that these encouragements have stopped?
5. Will the KLA start a new war ?
What will happen?
The current fights around Tanusevce could well be the prelude of
more important clashes. For example, to take control of Tetovo,
five kilometers away from the Kosovo border. In any case, one
thing is clear: the KLA, which lost the elections last year, -
because the large majority of the Albanians in Kosovo don't want
to live in a permanent state of war - can only regain ground by
using violence. Including in Macedonia where it pretends to
defend the rights of the Albanian minority, but one often forgets
to remind that, for years, every government of this country has
been made of a coalition with Albanian parties. To take power,
and thus increase the range of its maffia - like traffics,
necessitates war. The tactics of the KLA is thus clear: to cause
an escalation by provoking the Macedonian and the Yugoslavian
armies. Hoping that the later will attack Albanian civilians as
was done by some Serbian forces during the first days of the NATO
bombings.
That will allow to reach two goals:
1. To internationalise the conflict (we will come back to it
later).
2. To enrol new recruits in an Albanian youth which has been
fanatised by nationalism. In spite of the development of many
little traffics more or less legal, the Albanian community of
Macedonia has an unemployment rate of 60%; it is a potential
where to recruit.
To get this escalation, the KLA will probably use again a method
which has already been put in practice. As a French observer of
the OSCE explained it in Kosovo in 1998: "Inside the OSCE,
everybody knew that NATO, in particular the US, didn't want our
mission (of pacification) to succeed. The massacres have been
encouraged to justify a military intervention.
One day we got a message. We were told that Albanian fighters had
been trained by American instructors. They were explained that it
was more strategic to kill Serbian policemen to provoke important
retaliations against the Albanian community." (11) As in Bosnia
and in Kosovo there can be some time before that this tactics
ends up in more important clashes. An important step would be
done by provoking the equivalent of the 'Racak massacre'. In
January 99, in this village of Kosovo that it had fortified, the
KLA had provoked, and lost, a fight between the two armies. But
it made believe that the victims were civilians coldly massacred
by the Yugoslav army. With the help of the CIA, one made believe
this media-lie in the international media and this allow to
condition the Western public opinion to make it accept a war
decided for a long time by the US. Each war of today is preceded
by such a big media-lie, with shocking pictures.
6. What are the US really looking for?
But to do again the 'Racak trick' would necessitate a complicity
of the US to lead the Western media. If this would happen, that
would certainly be the sign that the US superpower would be
preparing a new intervention.
One can oppose two objections to this hypothesis: First the US
are qualifying today the KLA as 'extremist forces' and condemn
their actions, at least in words. Answer: at the beginning of 98
also, they qualified the KLA as 'terrorists', as we have seen,
but that didn't prevent them to support unconditionally the KLA a
few months later. If there is one principle to remember in the
action of the US for ten years, it is that there are no
principles! One can also ask why would the US intervene although
they seem to control the region and have installed there their
military bases ? Of course one doesn't know yet all the aspects
of their current tactics. It may be that behind the scene they
push the KLA to create again some tension in order to help the US
troops to occupy the whole region. As soon as the first incidents
in the Presevo valley occurred, Washington had generously
proposed to station US troops in Serbia proper. One must also
remind that during the so-called 'negotiations' in Rambouillet
before the war, Madeleine Albright had required that NATO will be
allowed to occupy militarily the whole Yugoslavia. It may also be
that new Bush administration has not yet decided which is the
best tactic to protect the US interests in the Balkans, that it
prefers to play for some time with both sides and that the tactic
of the KLA was precisely to force it to take a decision or to act
quicker. In both cases, one thing is sure: the US are not there
to defend peace or protect any people of the Balkans. They are
there to reign. And to reign you have to divide, as we know,
and to divide the best solution is a war, or at least a so-called
'low intensity' war, a situation of 'neither war nor peace' with
irregular clashes.
Isn't it the best way to justify the installation of US military
bases in the Balkans ? Of course, the candidate George Bush had
said that he wanted to move the US troops out of Kosovo. But the
president George Bush rapidly forgot these electoral promises.
Lets remind that in 1995 the candidate Bill Clinton had promised
that the US troops would have left Bosnia by Christmas.
Immediately afterwards, the commander of the UN troops in Bosnia,
the general MacKenzie, answered to a parliamentary commission:
"If I were you, I'd start training your grandchildren as Bosnia
peacekeepers." (12)
Wether it wants to force Bush to intervene or acts in
collaboration with him, the goal of the KLA is in any case to
internationalise again the conflict, as did the Muslims of
Izetbegovic in Bosnia from 1992 and the KLA itself in Kosovo in
1998. By attacking almost at the same time Macedonia and the
South of Serbia, by denouncing in racist terms any Slav presence
on their territories, the leaders of the KLA aim at provoking a
reaction of Macedonia and Yugoslavia, but also of Greece, close
to the Serbs. And, as an indirect result, a retaliation of their
own allies: Albania and Turkey. That is an internationalisation
of the conflict which would force Washington to choose between
its allies and, as the KLA hopes, to definitely choose the
Albanian side.
7. Will Washington still be able to play on both sides?
To understand the situation of the US, it is important to
understand that they systematically play on several sides at the
same time. To support and to manipulate discretely two
adversaries - and even train them militarily - does not embarrass
them at all.
For example, we can read in the British Daily Telegraph of March 3:
"The private company of security which is the most appreciated by
the US government has trained both sides of the last ethnic
conflict in the Balkans. Only two years ago the Albanian rebels
of Kosovo were trained by the society 'Military Professional
Resources' based in Virginia... One of the recent task of this
society was the training of the Macedonian army which is now
shooting on the Albanian guerrilla."
One should not underestimate the role in the US military system
of the private companies and militia, led by former high
officers. Already in Bosnia, they had trained and led the Muslim
militia of the president Izetbegovic before that the US could
openly intervene. And in Croatia they helped the president
Tudjman to realise the bloody ethnic cleansing of the Serbian
Krajina in august 95 (13). History repeats itself.
Having played in several sides, the US can be for a moment in a
difficult situation. From one side, they continue to use the KLA
to get more concessions from Serbia: the complete privatisation
and the elimination of the main opposition party, the SPS (by
sending its president Milosevic to the Court of the Hague). But
on the other hand, if they let the KLA going too far, they will
have troubles with precious allies:
1. The Macedonian government
2. Greece (also threatened by the demands of the KLA)
3. The Yugoslav president Kostunica.
The Macedonian government has not much autonomy and one says that
Washington could impose it what it wants, including a federal
state, prelude to a splitting. Moreover, the Macedonian leaders
are very weakened by various scandals, which have revealed their
links with the US. The left opposition claims to be more
independent, but its main candidate was put aside by terror
during the last elections. Macedonia, a too weak and unstable
ally for Washington ?
On the other hand, the Greek leaders are important pawns in the
NATO strategy of Washington. But the Greek people is strongly
against NATO, the influence of the communist party is important
and very recently one third of the Greek soldiers have required
and obtained to be moved out from Kosovo to escape the dangers of
depleted uranium.
Finally by playing too openly with the card of the KLA, the US
would strongly endangered the president Kostunica, who was
elected with an ambiguous profile - anti-NATO and pro-West - and
who can not present to his opinion any positive result about
Kosovo, to the contrary. To allow him to make come again some
Yugoslav troops to watch the border is maybe a small concession
to give some more credit to Kostunica and to somehow balance the
two 'friends' of the US. But the reason can also be simply to
avoid that US soldiers would be in first line and risk to come
back to the US in body-bags, which is always embarrassing for the
US opinion. And, in a more machiavellian way, that would start
again clashes between Serbs and Albanians.
What if Washington drops the KLA and reverses its alliance? Then
it could be that its German 'ally' -but also rival- supports
again secretly the KLA as it did at the beginning 98 (14). Which
also explains that the KLA has interest to make even more
provocations. The rivalry between Western great powers is thus
another factor which increases the risks of war.
Many European politicians had already accused the US to be guilty
of having uselessly prolonged the war in Bosnia in order to
eliminate their German competitor which had got a too good
position. (15) Reverse the alliance? One has already seen
everything in this respect from the US, for example between Iran,
Iraq and Syria. But their goal is to establish in the Balkans a
'plane-carrier' state, like Israel in the Middle-East. For this,
an obvious choice is still an Albanian state which would owe
everything to Washington. However, the European powers refuse a
change of the borders in the Balkans. This would cause new wars
and destabilise the projects of 'corridors' described above.
One thing is sure: the intervention of NATO for some hidden
interests didn't bring and will not bring peace.
8. Do they really ask themselves if they have created a monster?
It is again in The Guardian that one could read, on March 12, a
surprising question: 'Did we create a monster ?'.
Their special correspondent in Pristina reports:
"The West is stunned. Balkan nightmares were supposed to have
ended with the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. But now Albanian
nationalist militants are stirring ethnic rivalries in a quest
for a greater Kosovo. The liberated victims have become the
villains. In Washington and London, and in the offices of NATO
and UN in Pristina, a question is dominating: did we create a
monster?"
The correspondent of the Guardian led a quite vast investigation
with the staff of UN and KFOR and concludes:
"The failure of KFOR to disarm the KLA, protect the Serb minority
and build a multi-ethnic society has created a climate in which
extremists flourish. For almost a year it ignored intellectuals
who urged a crackdown on KLA members who seized assets and set up
criminal networks. "Now it's too late, the moderates won the
election, but those who smuggle and run the rackets have the real
power," one officer serving there admits."
Disastrous result, and one understands that the former governor
of Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, had quickly left the ship before
that his self-satisfied TV statements have been refuted. Because
what The Guardian reports is true.
I was myself in Kosovo last December to make there a documentary
movie "The damned of Kosovo" (which will be ready next May). I
discovered there a hell for the Serbs and all non - Albanian
minorities. Most of them have been expelled from Kosovo: ethnic
cleansing. The ones who have stayed live in terror. To speak its
own language in public constitutes a mortal danger. Also to go on
highways in non-Serbian zones. But the terror strikes also a
number of Albanians. KLA maffiosi kill Albanians also. To take
houses, companies or women. And many of the Albanian with who I
was talking, predicted a civil war - between Albanians - in two
or three years time.
Quickly The Guardian mentions the theory of 'the mistake': The
West would 'have misunderstood the danger of Albanian
nationalism'.
Of which 'West' are we talking here? If it is the public, it is
indeed true that it didn't understand because one hided to it
carefully the truth. When some analysts explained that the
program of the KLA was the ethnic cleansing, they were almost
excluded of the media or even considered as evils. But if one
speaks about the leaders of this 'West' - the White House, Tony
Blair, Solana and Robertson, the CIA - they knew of course for a
long time because their own reports considered the KLA as
'terrorists'.
In Kosovo, we have also seen that one has to distinguish between
a number of honest Western aid workers and militaries, and their
high-level officials. The former went to Kosovo with prejudices
but also with good will. The later have
been sent to Kosovo to hide this truth, to hide the secret goals
of the US and their allies and to lie. It is certainly in the
first category that one must put Eric Torch, a UN aid worker
cited by The Guardian:
"Albanians trace their lineage to the Illyrans who controlled the
territory in the 11th century BC. Underground schools during
Milosevic's rule inculcated ethnic hatred into generations."
Yes, you have read correctly: 'during Milosevic's rule'. This
confirms what have said some unconventional analysts: these
parallel Albanian schools, organized by the party of Rugova and
financed by the US taught racist anti-Serbian conceptions. It was
wrong to say that the responsibility of the conflict was entirely
on the side of the Serbs. Pushed by the US, the Albanian leaders
of Kosovo refused to negotiate seriously, they wanted only
independence and taught the hatred to achieve it.
9. Which role will play the rivalry US -EU?
One can not understand the attitude of the US in these events
without replacing it in the context of their world strategy. One
of the key-men of the new Bush administration is called
Wolfowitz.
In our book Liar's Poker we made comments about his shock-report
of March 92:
"The status of unique super-power of the US must be preserved by
a constructive behaviour and a sufficient military force to
dissuade any nation or group of nations to challenge the
supremacy of the US. We must act in order to prevent the
appearance of a security system exclusively European which could
destabilise NATO" (16).
The US military budget began to blow up under Clinton and this
will continue under Bush. Three potential rivals at more or less
long term are today the potential targets of this dangerous
strategy: the European Union, Russia, China. The embassy of the
later was bombed as a warning. It is considered by the CIA as
risking to overtake around 2015-2030 the power of the US.
Concerning Russia, the new US State secretary, Colin Powell,
declared that the objections of Moscow would not prevent the
expansion of NATO to the East or the militarisation of space by
the so-called 'anti-missiles shield' (NMD). His colleague
Condoleezza Rice declared that she sincerely "believes that
Russia is a threat for the West" (17). And the Defence secretary
Rumsfeld attacked Russia for "its 'active proliferation of
missiles' to countries like Iran, Korea or India". (18)
Concerning Europe, Rumsfeld warned against any autonomous
European intervention force which would perturb the transatlantic
relation during the conference of Munich about global safety,
beginning of February. Answer of the German minister Joskha
Fisher: the new Bush administration wants to restart a new arms
race. His colleague Scharping expressed sympathy for the Russian
views about NMD. Germany has, like France, condemned the US
bombings against Iraq. Moreover, the ambition of the US to
dictate their will to the whole world is currently braked by
several points of resistance that they don't succeed to
eliminate. Iraq still resists, as well as the Palestinians. The
US intervention in Colombia could transform itself into a new
Vietnam. The communist guerrilla in Nepal worries the American
experts. Some of them think that it is time to find a solution in
the Balkans and to focus on other operations. All this on a
background of growing commercial rivalries and crisis which could
only worsen the tension USA-Europe.
The game that these powers are playing in the Balkans for ten
years, each of them trying to get the biggest part of the cake,
this game will continue to cause damages to the peoples of the
region. When the elephants fight each other, it is the grass
which is smashed. And after all the gifts that the US have given
to reward the terrorism of the KLA, one can expect that this
example will be contagious for some fractions of the Albanian
community in Macedonia and Montenegro or for other secessionist
movements in the world. One will use provocations and terrorism
to try to present oneself as 'victims'. The mistrust between US
and Europe about Kosovo increased when the candidate Bush
threatened to move out the US troops from the Balkans, letting
the Europeans alone in what one is forced to call a mess. Since
then, many European officials criticize -privately- the support
of the US to the terrorists of KLA.
An expert of the French Institute of International Relations
(IFRI) has just declared:
"The Dayton process is dead. The whole system needs to be
renegotiated. But no-one wants to open the Pandora's box by
calling it into question, risking poisoning the situation on the
ground. If for example, the Kosovo Albanians were appeased with a
state of their own, it would trigger a domino effect that would
see Serbia's junior partner in the rump Yugoslavia, Montenegro,
as well as Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats all renewing their
own independence claims. For some time it appeared the Americans
were prepared to look at changing borders. I think that cannot
happen now, and if they did try it they would be opposed by
Europe." (19)
What will be the outcome?
In fact, Bush has four options:
1. to redraw his troops. That would have strongly embarrassed the
Europeans. It is now not possible anymore, especially with the
depleted uranium scandal.
2. to reverse the alliance and to support the Serbia of
Kostunica. But the US troops could become the targets of the KLA.
And one is not sure that Serbia will be a reliable partner for
the long term. The spirit of popular resistance is still alive
there.
3. to support both sides by using a strategy of tension.
4. to maintain the support to the KLA to create an Albanian
'Israel-like' state while hiding its game as long as possible.
No one of the options is moral, we have seen that this criteria
is never relevant. But to realize their strategic long-term
goals, the US can well resort to changing and contradictory
tactics.
For now a combination of the options 3 and 4 seems the most
likely to us. But maybe the US have not decided yet and they are
waiting to see the most favourable according to the reactions of
their 'friends'?
In any case, the tactics being changing, some docile media would
have some trouble to explain to the peoples that the good guys
are not good anymore and that the bad guys are on the other side.
Let's hope that these troubles will cause a deep reflexion. If
one doesn't understand the economic interests at stake, and
first, the ones of the multinationals looking for new markets,
working forces and raw materials, it is impossible to understand
all these wars.
10. Is Kostunica in a trap ?
The president Kostunica has been elected by defending an
ambiguous position: on one hand, he denounces the war of NATO,
the occupation of Kosovo and the interference of the US; on the
other hand, he promises the reconciliation with this very same
West and an economic improvement thanks to Western aid.
Till now the least one can say is that he wasn't rewarded
concerning Kosovo. On March 6, he declared:
"The representatives of the international community in Kosovo are
facing failure, because they did not provide stability and peace,
and the crisis spilled over into Macedonia. Kfor is dealing with
its own security, and not with the security of those because of
whom it is here." (20)
Kostunica also accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing
the aspirations of a Greater Albania. KFOR is abandoning
protection of the border and is inviting our army to be in the
crossfire" (21) He also expressed hope that the policy of the new
U.S. administration would be marked by "a high level of non-
interference in the problems of other states". (22)
The paradox is that two days after having warned so clearly
against NATO and the interference of the US , the same Kostunica
added that "he did not rule out Yugoslavia becoming a formal
alliance partner one day."(23) A NATO which is however the most
obvious tool of the interference spirit of the US!
In the same declaration, the Yugoslav president declared himself
disappointed:
"When I came to office, I did not expect the situation in the
country to be quite so difficult; it is discouraging," citing
security and constitutional problems as well as 40 percent
unemployment and 800,000 refugees. Surprising declaration as the
800,000 refugees (expelled from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo) are
living in Serbia for years. Concerning the unemployed, did he
lead his electoral campaign by ignoring that the Western embargo
and the state of the economy had such consequences? And by not
reading the program of the economists of his own electoral
coalition which foresaw privatisations and massive dismissals ?
How to interpret these contradictory statements?
In fact, as expected, the material situation of the Serbian
population has still worsened with the Djindjic government. If
the salaries of the university professors have been doubled, the
ones of the workers have only increased by 25% to 50%, and it is
completely insufficient to face the huge increases of the prices.
The cubic meter of gas has gone from three up to twelve dinars,
the kilo of sausages from 150 up to 300 dinars, the electricity
bill of a household has increased from 150 or 200 dinars a month
to 500 dinars! The electricity company of Belgrade indicates that
130,000 households of the city have a very important debt: more
than 30,000 dinars! And the price of petrol also increases, all
the more that the new government took control of all the oil
sector in order to eliminate the black market of petrol (cheaper).
As expected, the honeymoon didn't last. If the president
Kostunica is not considered as personally responsible for all
this, the rate of discontent towards the new government of Zoran
Djindjic on the other hand has already gone up to 60%: "He
doesn't do anything for the people. Even during the war, we had
always had electricity, but with the 'great democracy', the cuts
last for four hours during the day, three hours at night" is it
told everywhere. And many judge that elections are unavoidable in
12 or 18 months time. The heterogeneous coalition of 18 parties
should split quite soon. It is why one must dismiss Milosevic and
eliminate the risk of a come back of the socialist party, even if
this party has not yet gone up in the polls.
Which evolution is to foresee inside Yugoslavia?
The professors that are not from the universities are on a
prolonged strike. Many strikes occur also in the industry, only
broken by threats of collective dismissals. This didn't prevent
the new left trade-union 'Solidarity' to get at the car factory
Zastava an additional increase of salary of 25%. On the other
hand, the minority trade-union of government tendency had refused
to join the strike. 'Solidarity' has announced the publication of
a monthly newspaper and the next months should see it increasing
its influence.
Did Kostunica fall in a trap of the West? Was he expecting to get
more support in the question of Kosovo and for the economy?
Till now he just got alms and the US make the other credits
depend on the extradition of Milosevic. What Kostunica can not do
otherwise he would contradict himself and commit a political
suicide. Thus, the US finance a new campaign of OTPOR to
criminalize Milosevic. The US, which, for fifty years, have
supported, financed and armed all the far-right and military
dictatorships in the world, these US which have protected the
crimes of Pinochet, Mobutu, Franco, Salazar, the Greek colonels
and the Turkish fascist generals, these US pretend to judge just
one former head of state, precisely one who has resisted to them?
The US deserve the Oscar of hypocrisy.
11. Perspectives.
In a world marked by a looming economic crisis, by an increase
of the wars and a frightening increase of the military budgets,
it is important to fully draw the lessons of Kosovo and of the
current situation.
1. There are no 'humanitarian' wars, only economic and strategic
wars.
2. The US and NATO are not searching to solve the problems but to
dominate the world. Thus they create or excite the problems when
it is useful for them
3. The military intervention against Yugoslavia and in favour of
the KLA has worsened everything.
4. It is not 'by mistake' that Washington supported the KLA, but
consciously. It is urgent to reinforce or to recreate a powerful
peace movement on a grass-root level. The only way to get there
is to work with patience in establishing the dialog between the
peoples, who are all victims of this strategy of 'dividing to
conquer'. And for this, to debate of the results of this war and
of the real strategies of the great powers is the fundamental
condition.
The struggle for peace begins with a lucid analysis.
12th of March 2001
Notes
(1) Michel Collon, Monopoly - L'Otan � la Conqu�te du monde, EPO,
march 2000, p. 96. (English edition prepared)
(2) The Guardian, February 15, 2001.
(3) Idem.
(4) Idem.
(5) AFP-Skopje, March 6, 2001.
(6) Washington Post, April 28, 1999.
(7) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001.
(8) Time, 8 mars 2001
(9) Both cited in Kan Anders-Vredeskoerier (Holland), march 2001.
(10) Declaration of Robertson (NATO), AP, March 6.
(11) L'Humanit�, November 18, 1999
(12) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001
(13) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 191. (Soon
published in English version)
(14) See Monopoly, pp. 70-71.
(15) The European mediator in Bosnia, David Owen, cited in Michel
Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 182.
(16) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, p. 116.
(17) Le Figaro, February 10, 2001.
(18) PBS, February 14, 2001.
(19) AFP - Paris, March 8, 2001.
(20) BBC, March 6.
(21) Reuters - Skopje, March 8, 2001.
(22) BBC, March 6.
(23) Reuters - London, March 8, 2001
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Subject: After Kosovo, Macedonia
(Article of Michel Collon in English)
Please find here an important article about Macedonia, Kosovo, Nato and their future.
1. Is Macedonia a strategic area?
2. KLA attack: is it a surprise?
3. What is surviving of the official Nato version?
4. Is Washington playing double game?
5. Will KLA provoke a new war?
6. What do the US really want?
7. Will it be possible for Washington to keep playing with all sides?
8. Did they �forge a monster�?
9. What shall be the role of the rivalry between USA and EU?
10. Is Kostunica trapped?
11. Perspectives for Peace.
-- Michel Collon
(For fair use only)
After Kosovo, Macedonia.
What is left of the explanations of NATO ?
A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA
have attacked the villages of the Presevo valley in Serbia, after
they have killed 11 Serbian civilians of Kosovo by throwing a
bomb in a bus, they are waging now war in neighbouring Macedonia.
And again refugees are on the roads. Is there a new escalation in
the Balkans? In fact, these events allow to better understand
what happened in 1999. In this complex situation (because
everything is done to disorientate the public opinion), let us
answer clearly to the main questions.
Michel Collon
1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ?
Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the
general Jackson, commander of the NATO troops: "We will certainly
stay here for a long time in order to guarantee the safety of the
energy corridors which cross Macedonia". (1)
'Energy corridors' ?
We had presented the maps showing the projects of Europe (a whole
net of oil and gas pipe-lines connecting Europe via the Balkans
to the huge oil and gas resources of the former soviet Caucasus)
and the ones of the US (a pipe-line Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania-
Adriatic which would give to the US oil multinationals the
control of this road of oil and gas). These projects are in fact
rival. This is why all the great powers attempt for ten years to
control Yugoslavia. The road of oil and gas passes by. We had
also stressed that as soon as 1992 it is in Macedonia - however
very far away from the conflicts zones - and nowhere else that
Washington had decided to send a division. We have to be frank:
even in the left circles, some peoples found exaggerated to
suspect Washington to have so dark projects. But very recently,
the respectable British newspaper Guardian confirmed: "A project
called the Trans-Balkan pipeline has been little-reported in any
British, European or American newspaper.
The line will run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the
Adriatic at Vlore, passing through Bulgaria, Macedonia and
Albania. It is likely become the main route to the west for the
oil and gas now being extracted in central Asia. It will carry
750,000 barrels a day. The project is necessary, according to a
paper published by the US Trade and Development Agency, because
it will "provide a consistent source of crude oil to American
refineries", "provide American companies with a key role in
developing the vital east-west corridor", and "advance the
privatisation aspirations of the US government in the region"." (2)
Clear, isn't it ?
Moreover, Bill Richardson, the former US energy secretary,
declared in 1998, that is before the war: "This is about
America's energy security". When the US speak about 'energy
security', one must know what it means: to preserve the world
domination and the profits of their oil multinationals. And
Richardson continues: "We would like these newly independent
countries reliant on Western commercial and political interests
rather than going another way. We've made a substantial political
investment in the Caspian, and it's very important to us that
both the pipeline map and the politics come out right." (3) And
The Guardian adds this essential comment: "On December 9, 98
(before the war), the president of Albania attended a meeting on
this subject in Sofia:"According to my personal opinion, no
solution which will stay strictly inside of the Serbian borders
will bring a sustainable peace." The message could hardly be
clearer: if you want the agreement of the Albanians for the Trans-
Balkans pipeline, you have to take the Kosovo away from the
Serbs". (4)
2. Is the offensive of the KLA a surprise?
The US made thus a pact with the devil. Because many US
diplomatic reports testified it: the separatist KLA murdered not
only Serbian policemen or civilians, but also Albanians married
with Serbs or simply accepting to live in the Yugoslav state. And
the special envoy of Washington in the Balkans, Robert Gelbard,
had himself claimed three times in front of the international
press, at the beginning of 1998: "I tell you that these KLA
peoples are terrorists". But three months later, these terrorists
were turned by miracle into 'freedom fighters' and NATO will soon
become their air force. Today the US simulate surprise faced to
the "extremist violence" (5) which attacks Macedonia. It is
hypocrisy! As soon as June 98, the KLA distributed among its
European sympathisers a map of 'Great Albania'. In our book
Monopoly (p.69), we reproduced this map and made the following
comment: "In addition to Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, this
great Albania would remove large territories in Macedonia,
Montenegro and Greece. Wars are unavoidable if the KLA is allowed
to realize its plans". This Greater Albania implies not only
expansionism but also ethnic cleansing. Today, under the eyes and
with the tacit agreement of NATO, 350,000 not-Albanians have
already been expelled from Kosovo: Serbs but also Gypsies,
Gorani, Turks etc.. Kosovo is almost 'clean'.
A surprise? Not really, since, on July 12, 1982 already, the New
York Times interviewed a Yugoslav official in Kosovo, a man of
Albanian ancestry, who aid: "'The [Albanian] nationalists have a
two-point platform...first to establish what they call an
ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the
merger with Albania to form a greater Albania." Besides, during
the anti-Yugoslav insurgency of 1981, the Albanian nationalists
had already established a close collaboration between their units
in Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. All this didn't prevent the
influential US Senator Joseph Lieberman to declare in April 99:
"[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army
stand for the same human values and principles... Fighting for
the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values."(6).
In other words, the US and the KLA share the same fight. Besides,
anybody who travels through Kosovo can see everywhere, for
example in the petrol stations, the Albanian and US flags closely
associated.
3. Does the version of NATO still make any sense ?
What did NATO tell us to justify its murderous bombings?
1. That its war was humanitarian. Wrong: it was for oil and to
break an economy which resisted to the Western multinationals and
to the IMF.
2. That it had tried everything to find a negotiated solution.
Also wrong: we now know that there was never any negotiation;
Rambouillet was only a comedy to justify a war which had already
been decided.
3. That it was a clean war. Wrong again: 2.000 Yugoslav civilians
killed, a huge number of factories and infrastructures destroyed,
the use of forbidden and criminal weapons: cluster bombs,
depleted uranium. General Mangum just wote in the very official
journal of the Army War College: " The high-altitude bombing did
very little damage to the Serb military. It was only after NATO
began deliberately attacking civilian targets that the Serbs sued
for peace." (7)
Now what was left of the official version also collapses.
We were told: `The problems of Kosovo are caused by Milosevic'.
The situation is not better with Kostunica and a government which
is subjected to the West ! By the way, the Time confess:
"Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton administration spin during
the 1999 bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of
helpless ethnic Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo
Liberation Army who were fighting a David-vs.-Goliath struggle
against Belgrade's genocidal army.
Well, guess what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian
nationalists of the KLA stripe to be the primary security problem
in the region, the Western alliance is also considering asking
the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops police the border
between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of
Macedonia.
Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could
do business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal
independence for Kosovo dimmed even further." (8)
So, you may say white today, and black tomorrow if this useful
for "business". Who will dare to come and speak to us about a
humanitarian war, newt time?
We were told that the intervention was necessary to stop a
Serbian genocide and to establish a multi-ethnic Kosovo. But the
German general Heinz Loquai has demonstrated that the so-called
'horse-shoe plan' document presented by the German minister
Scharping was fake, that the genocide was a lie of the media and
he just qualified the war as 'unjustified', and accused NATO to
have caused two humanitarian catastrophes: a massive exodus of
the Albanians and then another exodus of the Serbs. And the
general Michael Rose, who commanded the UN forces in Bosnia,
reproaches NATO "to have introduced a culture of violence". (9)
Finally, in order to find some excuse for the current ethnic
cleansing in Kosovo, the supporters of NATO and KLA have
pretended that it was 'revenge acts for what the Serbs had done'.
And now, in Macedonia, where nothing happened, under which
pretext should one justify the aggression of the KLA? It is time
to acknowledge the only possible explanation: the KLA aims to
establish an ethnically clean state and can only realise this
program by the escalation of hatred and by terrorism.
4. Does Washington play a double game?
The United States make as if they were indignant at the current
violences of the KLA. But we must point out several things:
1. They didn't move a finger when the KLA went out from Kosovo to
attack the region of Presevo in Central Serbia. Worse: the
infiltration occurred from the US occupation zone in Kosovo.
2. Washington and the NATO pretend today "to try to stop the flux
of weapons and fighters towards southern Serbia and
Macedonia".(10)
But anybody who goes to Kosovo can observe roadblocks and check-
points of the KFOR every five kilometers. But the same KFOR is
working with interprets and other collaborators coming from the
KLA, which besides was transformed by KFOR into the very official
'Kosovo Protection Corps'. So, the ones who don't look for the
weapons of the KLA will not find them. Moreover, the major Jim
Marshall, spokesman of the US KFOR, declared on March, 6: "We
have identified between 75 and 150 rebels in Tanusevci
(Macedonia), we saw them enter and go out from Kosovo, and get
rid of their equipments and weapons before to cross the border."
A little stupid question: what did prevent you to arrest them?
45,000 NATO soldiers are occupying Kosovo and can not arrest 150
terrorists? Can not or don't want to?
On March, 11, in the British newspaper Observer, several European
high officers of KFOR and also several Macedonian officials
accused explicitly the CIA to have encouraged the KLA to start
its summer offensive in the South of Serbia in order to undermine
the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. Today, who
could guarantee that these encouragements have stopped?
5. Will the KLA start a new war ?
What will happen?
The current fights around Tanusevce could well be the prelude of
more important clashes. For example, to take control of Tetovo,
five kilometers away from the Kosovo border. In any case, one
thing is clear: the KLA, which lost the elections last year, -
because the large majority of the Albanians in Kosovo don't want
to live in a permanent state of war - can only regain ground by
using violence. Including in Macedonia where it pretends to
defend the rights of the Albanian minority, but one often forgets
to remind that, for years, every government of this country has
been made of a coalition with Albanian parties. To take power,
and thus increase the range of its maffia - like traffics,
necessitates war. The tactics of the KLA is thus clear: to cause
an escalation by provoking the Macedonian and the Yugoslavian
armies. Hoping that the later will attack Albanian civilians as
was done by some Serbian forces during the first days of the NATO
bombings.
That will allow to reach two goals:
1. To internationalise the conflict (we will come back to it
later).
2. To enrol new recruits in an Albanian youth which has been
fanatised by nationalism. In spite of the development of many
little traffics more or less legal, the Albanian community of
Macedonia has an unemployment rate of 60%; it is a potential
where to recruit.
To get this escalation, the KLA will probably use again a method
which has already been put in practice. As a French observer of
the OSCE explained it in Kosovo in 1998: "Inside the OSCE,
everybody knew that NATO, in particular the US, didn't want our
mission (of pacification) to succeed. The massacres have been
encouraged to justify a military intervention.
One day we got a message. We were told that Albanian fighters had
been trained by American instructors. They were explained that it
was more strategic to kill Serbian policemen to provoke important
retaliations against the Albanian community." (11) As in Bosnia
and in Kosovo there can be some time before that this tactics
ends up in more important clashes. An important step would be
done by provoking the equivalent of the 'Racak massacre'. In
January 99, in this village of Kosovo that it had fortified, the
KLA had provoked, and lost, a fight between the two armies. But
it made believe that the victims were civilians coldly massacred
by the Yugoslav army. With the help of the CIA, one made believe
this media-lie in the international media and this allow to
condition the Western public opinion to make it accept a war
decided for a long time by the US. Each war of today is preceded
by such a big media-lie, with shocking pictures.
6. What are the US really looking for?
But to do again the 'Racak trick' would necessitate a complicity
of the US to lead the Western media. If this would happen, that
would certainly be the sign that the US superpower would be
preparing a new intervention.
One can oppose two objections to this hypothesis: First the US
are qualifying today the KLA as 'extremist forces' and condemn
their actions, at least in words. Answer: at the beginning of 98
also, they qualified the KLA as 'terrorists', as we have seen,
but that didn't prevent them to support unconditionally the KLA a
few months later. If there is one principle to remember in the
action of the US for ten years, it is that there are no
principles! One can also ask why would the US intervene although
they seem to control the region and have installed there their
military bases ? Of course one doesn't know yet all the aspects
of their current tactics. It may be that behind the scene they
push the KLA to create again some tension in order to help the US
troops to occupy the whole region. As soon as the first incidents
in the Presevo valley occurred, Washington had generously
proposed to station US troops in Serbia proper. One must also
remind that during the so-called 'negotiations' in Rambouillet
before the war, Madeleine Albright had required that NATO will be
allowed to occupy militarily the whole Yugoslavia. It may also be
that new Bush administration has not yet decided which is the
best tactic to protect the US interests in the Balkans, that it
prefers to play for some time with both sides and that the tactic
of the KLA was precisely to force it to take a decision or to act
quicker. In both cases, one thing is sure: the US are not there
to defend peace or protect any people of the Balkans. They are
there to reign. And to reign you have to divide, as we know,
and to divide the best solution is a war, or at least a so-called
'low intensity' war, a situation of 'neither war nor peace' with
irregular clashes.
Isn't it the best way to justify the installation of US military
bases in the Balkans ? Of course, the candidate George Bush had
said that he wanted to move the US troops out of Kosovo. But the
president George Bush rapidly forgot these electoral promises.
Lets remind that in 1995 the candidate Bill Clinton had promised
that the US troops would have left Bosnia by Christmas.
Immediately afterwards, the commander of the UN troops in Bosnia,
the general MacKenzie, answered to a parliamentary commission:
"If I were you, I'd start training your grandchildren as Bosnia
peacekeepers." (12)
Wether it wants to force Bush to intervene or acts in
collaboration with him, the goal of the KLA is in any case to
internationalise again the conflict, as did the Muslims of
Izetbegovic in Bosnia from 1992 and the KLA itself in Kosovo in
1998. By attacking almost at the same time Macedonia and the
South of Serbia, by denouncing in racist terms any Slav presence
on their territories, the leaders of the KLA aim at provoking a
reaction of Macedonia and Yugoslavia, but also of Greece, close
to the Serbs. And, as an indirect result, a retaliation of their
own allies: Albania and Turkey. That is an internationalisation
of the conflict which would force Washington to choose between
its allies and, as the KLA hopes, to definitely choose the
Albanian side.
7. Will Washington still be able to play on both sides?
To understand the situation of the US, it is important to
understand that they systematically play on several sides at the
same time. To support and to manipulate discretely two
adversaries - and even train them militarily - does not embarrass
them at all.
For example, we can read in the British Daily Telegraph of March 3:
"The private company of security which is the most appreciated by
the US government has trained both sides of the last ethnic
conflict in the Balkans. Only two years ago the Albanian rebels
of Kosovo were trained by the society 'Military Professional
Resources' based in Virginia... One of the recent task of this
society was the training of the Macedonian army which is now
shooting on the Albanian guerrilla."
One should not underestimate the role in the US military system
of the private companies and militia, led by former high
officers. Already in Bosnia, they had trained and led the Muslim
militia of the president Izetbegovic before that the US could
openly intervene. And in Croatia they helped the president
Tudjman to realise the bloody ethnic cleansing of the Serbian
Krajina in august 95 (13). History repeats itself.
Having played in several sides, the US can be for a moment in a
difficult situation. From one side, they continue to use the KLA
to get more concessions from Serbia: the complete privatisation
and the elimination of the main opposition party, the SPS (by
sending its president Milosevic to the Court of the Hague). But
on the other hand, if they let the KLA going too far, they will
have troubles with precious allies:
1. The Macedonian government
2. Greece (also threatened by the demands of the KLA)
3. The Yugoslav president Kostunica.
The Macedonian government has not much autonomy and one says that
Washington could impose it what it wants, including a federal
state, prelude to a splitting. Moreover, the Macedonian leaders
are very weakened by various scandals, which have revealed their
links with the US. The left opposition claims to be more
independent, but its main candidate was put aside by terror
during the last elections. Macedonia, a too weak and unstable
ally for Washington ?
On the other hand, the Greek leaders are important pawns in the
NATO strategy of Washington. But the Greek people is strongly
against NATO, the influence of the communist party is important
and very recently one third of the Greek soldiers have required
and obtained to be moved out from Kosovo to escape the dangers of
depleted uranium.
Finally by playing too openly with the card of the KLA, the US
would strongly endangered the president Kostunica, who was
elected with an ambiguous profile - anti-NATO and pro-West - and
who can not present to his opinion any positive result about
Kosovo, to the contrary. To allow him to make come again some
Yugoslav troops to watch the border is maybe a small concession
to give some more credit to Kostunica and to somehow balance the
two 'friends' of the US. But the reason can also be simply to
avoid that US soldiers would be in first line and risk to come
back to the US in body-bags, which is always embarrassing for the
US opinion. And, in a more machiavellian way, that would start
again clashes between Serbs and Albanians.
What if Washington drops the KLA and reverses its alliance? Then
it could be that its German 'ally' -but also rival- supports
again secretly the KLA as it did at the beginning 98 (14). Which
also explains that the KLA has interest to make even more
provocations. The rivalry between Western great powers is thus
another factor which increases the risks of war.
Many European politicians had already accused the US to be guilty
of having uselessly prolonged the war in Bosnia in order to
eliminate their German competitor which had got a too good
position. (15) Reverse the alliance? One has already seen
everything in this respect from the US, for example between Iran,
Iraq and Syria. But their goal is to establish in the Balkans a
'plane-carrier' state, like Israel in the Middle-East. For this,
an obvious choice is still an Albanian state which would owe
everything to Washington. However, the European powers refuse a
change of the borders in the Balkans. This would cause new wars
and destabilise the projects of 'corridors' described above.
One thing is sure: the intervention of NATO for some hidden
interests didn't bring and will not bring peace.
8. Do they really ask themselves if they have created a monster?
It is again in The Guardian that one could read, on March 12, a
surprising question: 'Did we create a monster ?'.
Their special correspondent in Pristina reports:
"The West is stunned. Balkan nightmares were supposed to have
ended with the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. But now Albanian
nationalist militants are stirring ethnic rivalries in a quest
for a greater Kosovo. The liberated victims have become the
villains. In Washington and London, and in the offices of NATO
and UN in Pristina, a question is dominating: did we create a
monster?"
The correspondent of the Guardian led a quite vast investigation
with the staff of UN and KFOR and concludes:
"The failure of KFOR to disarm the KLA, protect the Serb minority
and build a multi-ethnic society has created a climate in which
extremists flourish. For almost a year it ignored intellectuals
who urged a crackdown on KLA members who seized assets and set up
criminal networks. "Now it's too late, the moderates won the
election, but those who smuggle and run the rackets have the real
power," one officer serving there admits."
Disastrous result, and one understands that the former governor
of Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, had quickly left the ship before
that his self-satisfied TV statements have been refuted. Because
what The Guardian reports is true.
I was myself in Kosovo last December to make there a documentary
movie "The damned of Kosovo" (which will be ready next May). I
discovered there a hell for the Serbs and all non - Albanian
minorities. Most of them have been expelled from Kosovo: ethnic
cleansing. The ones who have stayed live in terror. To speak its
own language in public constitutes a mortal danger. Also to go on
highways in non-Serbian zones. But the terror strikes also a
number of Albanians. KLA maffiosi kill Albanians also. To take
houses, companies or women. And many of the Albanian with who I
was talking, predicted a civil war - between Albanians - in two
or three years time.
Quickly The Guardian mentions the theory of 'the mistake': The
West would 'have misunderstood the danger of Albanian
nationalism'.
Of which 'West' are we talking here? If it is the public, it is
indeed true that it didn't understand because one hided to it
carefully the truth. When some analysts explained that the
program of the KLA was the ethnic cleansing, they were almost
excluded of the media or even considered as evils. But if one
speaks about the leaders of this 'West' - the White House, Tony
Blair, Solana and Robertson, the CIA - they knew of course for a
long time because their own reports considered the KLA as
'terrorists'.
In Kosovo, we have also seen that one has to distinguish between
a number of honest Western aid workers and militaries, and their
high-level officials. The former went to Kosovo with prejudices
but also with good will. The later have
been sent to Kosovo to hide this truth, to hide the secret goals
of the US and their allies and to lie. It is certainly in the
first category that one must put Eric Torch, a UN aid worker
cited by The Guardian:
"Albanians trace their lineage to the Illyrans who controlled the
territory in the 11th century BC. Underground schools during
Milosevic's rule inculcated ethnic hatred into generations."
Yes, you have read correctly: 'during Milosevic's rule'. This
confirms what have said some unconventional analysts: these
parallel Albanian schools, organized by the party of Rugova and
financed by the US taught racist anti-Serbian conceptions. It was
wrong to say that the responsibility of the conflict was entirely
on the side of the Serbs. Pushed by the US, the Albanian leaders
of Kosovo refused to negotiate seriously, they wanted only
independence and taught the hatred to achieve it.
9. Which role will play the rivalry US -EU?
One can not understand the attitude of the US in these events
without replacing it in the context of their world strategy. One
of the key-men of the new Bush administration is called
Wolfowitz.
In our book Liar's Poker we made comments about his shock-report
of March 92:
"The status of unique super-power of the US must be preserved by
a constructive behaviour and a sufficient military force to
dissuade any nation or group of nations to challenge the
supremacy of the US. We must act in order to prevent the
appearance of a security system exclusively European which could
destabilise NATO" (16).
The US military budget began to blow up under Clinton and this
will continue under Bush. Three potential rivals at more or less
long term are today the potential targets of this dangerous
strategy: the European Union, Russia, China. The embassy of the
later was bombed as a warning. It is considered by the CIA as
risking to overtake around 2015-2030 the power of the US.
Concerning Russia, the new US State secretary, Colin Powell,
declared that the objections of Moscow would not prevent the
expansion of NATO to the East or the militarisation of space by
the so-called 'anti-missiles shield' (NMD). His colleague
Condoleezza Rice declared that she sincerely "believes that
Russia is a threat for the West" (17). And the Defence secretary
Rumsfeld attacked Russia for "its 'active proliferation of
missiles' to countries like Iran, Korea or India". (18)
Concerning Europe, Rumsfeld warned against any autonomous
European intervention force which would perturb the transatlantic
relation during the conference of Munich about global safety,
beginning of February. Answer of the German minister Joskha
Fisher: the new Bush administration wants to restart a new arms
race. His colleague Scharping expressed sympathy for the Russian
views about NMD. Germany has, like France, condemned the US
bombings against Iraq. Moreover, the ambition of the US to
dictate their will to the whole world is currently braked by
several points of resistance that they don't succeed to
eliminate. Iraq still resists, as well as the Palestinians. The
US intervention in Colombia could transform itself into a new
Vietnam. The communist guerrilla in Nepal worries the American
experts. Some of them think that it is time to find a solution in
the Balkans and to focus on other operations. All this on a
background of growing commercial rivalries and crisis which could
only worsen the tension USA-Europe.
The game that these powers are playing in the Balkans for ten
years, each of them trying to get the biggest part of the cake,
this game will continue to cause damages to the peoples of the
region. When the elephants fight each other, it is the grass
which is smashed. And after all the gifts that the US have given
to reward the terrorism of the KLA, one can expect that this
example will be contagious for some fractions of the Albanian
community in Macedonia and Montenegro or for other secessionist
movements in the world. One will use provocations and terrorism
to try to present oneself as 'victims'. The mistrust between US
and Europe about Kosovo increased when the candidate Bush
threatened to move out the US troops from the Balkans, letting
the Europeans alone in what one is forced to call a mess. Since
then, many European officials criticize -privately- the support
of the US to the terrorists of KLA.
An expert of the French Institute of International Relations
(IFRI) has just declared:
"The Dayton process is dead. The whole system needs to be
renegotiated. But no-one wants to open the Pandora's box by
calling it into question, risking poisoning the situation on the
ground. If for example, the Kosovo Albanians were appeased with a
state of their own, it would trigger a domino effect that would
see Serbia's junior partner in the rump Yugoslavia, Montenegro,
as well as Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats all renewing their
own independence claims. For some time it appeared the Americans
were prepared to look at changing borders. I think that cannot
happen now, and if they did try it they would be opposed by
Europe." (19)
What will be the outcome?
In fact, Bush has four options:
1. to redraw his troops. That would have strongly embarrassed the
Europeans. It is now not possible anymore, especially with the
depleted uranium scandal.
2. to reverse the alliance and to support the Serbia of
Kostunica. But the US troops could become the targets of the KLA.
And one is not sure that Serbia will be a reliable partner for
the long term. The spirit of popular resistance is still alive
there.
3. to support both sides by using a strategy of tension.
4. to maintain the support to the KLA to create an Albanian
'Israel-like' state while hiding its game as long as possible.
No one of the options is moral, we have seen that this criteria
is never relevant. But to realize their strategic long-term
goals, the US can well resort to changing and contradictory
tactics.
For now a combination of the options 3 and 4 seems the most
likely to us. But maybe the US have not decided yet and they are
waiting to see the most favourable according to the reactions of
their 'friends'?
In any case, the tactics being changing, some docile media would
have some trouble to explain to the peoples that the good guys
are not good anymore and that the bad guys are on the other side.
Let's hope that these troubles will cause a deep reflexion. If
one doesn't understand the economic interests at stake, and
first, the ones of the multinationals looking for new markets,
working forces and raw materials, it is impossible to understand
all these wars.
10. Is Kostunica in a trap ?
The president Kostunica has been elected by defending an
ambiguous position: on one hand, he denounces the war of NATO,
the occupation of Kosovo and the interference of the US; on the
other hand, he promises the reconciliation with this very same
West and an economic improvement thanks to Western aid.
Till now the least one can say is that he wasn't rewarded
concerning Kosovo. On March 6, he declared:
"The representatives of the international community in Kosovo are
facing failure, because they did not provide stability and peace,
and the crisis spilled over into Macedonia. Kfor is dealing with
its own security, and not with the security of those because of
whom it is here." (20)
Kostunica also accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing
the aspirations of a Greater Albania. KFOR is abandoning
protection of the border and is inviting our army to be in the
crossfire" (21) He also expressed hope that the policy of the new
U.S. administration would be marked by "a high level of non-
interference in the problems of other states". (22)
The paradox is that two days after having warned so clearly
against NATO and the interference of the US , the same Kostunica
added that "he did not rule out Yugoslavia becoming a formal
alliance partner one day."(23) A NATO which is however the most
obvious tool of the interference spirit of the US!
In the same declaration, the Yugoslav president declared himself
disappointed:
"When I came to office, I did not expect the situation in the
country to be quite so difficult; it is discouraging," citing
security and constitutional problems as well as 40 percent
unemployment and 800,000 refugees. Surprising declaration as the
800,000 refugees (expelled from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo) are
living in Serbia for years. Concerning the unemployed, did he
lead his electoral campaign by ignoring that the Western embargo
and the state of the economy had such consequences? And by not
reading the program of the economists of his own electoral
coalition which foresaw privatisations and massive dismissals ?
How to interpret these contradictory statements?
In fact, as expected, the material situation of the Serbian
population has still worsened with the Djindjic government. If
the salaries of the university professors have been doubled, the
ones of the workers have only increased by 25% to 50%, and it is
completely insufficient to face the huge increases of the prices.
The cubic meter of gas has gone from three up to twelve dinars,
the kilo of sausages from 150 up to 300 dinars, the electricity
bill of a household has increased from 150 or 200 dinars a month
to 500 dinars! The electricity company of Belgrade indicates that
130,000 households of the city have a very important debt: more
than 30,000 dinars! And the price of petrol also increases, all
the more that the new government took control of all the oil
sector in order to eliminate the black market of petrol (cheaper).
As expected, the honeymoon didn't last. If the president
Kostunica is not considered as personally responsible for all
this, the rate of discontent towards the new government of Zoran
Djindjic on the other hand has already gone up to 60%: "He
doesn't do anything for the people. Even during the war, we had
always had electricity, but with the 'great democracy', the cuts
last for four hours during the day, three hours at night" is it
told everywhere. And many judge that elections are unavoidable in
12 or 18 months time. The heterogeneous coalition of 18 parties
should split quite soon. It is why one must dismiss Milosevic and
eliminate the risk of a come back of the socialist party, even if
this party has not yet gone up in the polls.
Which evolution is to foresee inside Yugoslavia?
The professors that are not from the universities are on a
prolonged strike. Many strikes occur also in the industry, only
broken by threats of collective dismissals. This didn't prevent
the new left trade-union 'Solidarity' to get at the car factory
Zastava an additional increase of salary of 25%. On the other
hand, the minority trade-union of government tendency had refused
to join the strike. 'Solidarity' has announced the publication of
a monthly newspaper and the next months should see it increasing
its influence.
Did Kostunica fall in a trap of the West? Was he expecting to get
more support in the question of Kosovo and for the economy?
Till now he just got alms and the US make the other credits
depend on the extradition of Milosevic. What Kostunica can not do
otherwise he would contradict himself and commit a political
suicide. Thus, the US finance a new campaign of OTPOR to
criminalize Milosevic. The US, which, for fifty years, have
supported, financed and armed all the far-right and military
dictatorships in the world, these US which have protected the
crimes of Pinochet, Mobutu, Franco, Salazar, the Greek colonels
and the Turkish fascist generals, these US pretend to judge just
one former head of state, precisely one who has resisted to them?
The US deserve the Oscar of hypocrisy.
11. Perspectives.
In a world marked by a looming economic crisis, by an increase
of the wars and a frightening increase of the military budgets,
it is important to fully draw the lessons of Kosovo and of the
current situation.
1. There are no 'humanitarian' wars, only economic and strategic
wars.
2. The US and NATO are not searching to solve the problems but to
dominate the world. Thus they create or excite the problems when
it is useful for them
3. The military intervention against Yugoslavia and in favour of
the KLA has worsened everything.
4. It is not 'by mistake' that Washington supported the KLA, but
consciously. It is urgent to reinforce or to recreate a powerful
peace movement on a grass-root level. The only way to get there
is to work with patience in establishing the dialog between the
peoples, who are all victims of this strategy of 'dividing to
conquer'. And for this, to debate of the results of this war and
of the real strategies of the great powers is the fundamental
condition.
The struggle for peace begins with a lucid analysis.
12th of March 2001
Notes
(1) Michel Collon, Monopoly - L'Otan � la Conqu�te du monde, EPO,
march 2000, p. 96. (English edition prepared)
(2) The Guardian, February 15, 2001.
(3) Idem.
(4) Idem.
(5) AFP-Skopje, March 6, 2001.
(6) Washington Post, April 28, 1999.
(7) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001.
(8) Time, 8 mars 2001
(9) Both cited in Kan Anders-Vredeskoerier (Holland), march 2001.
(10) Declaration of Robertson (NATO), AP, March 6.
(11) L'Humanit�, November 18, 1999
(12) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001
(13) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 191. (Soon
published in English version)
(14) See Monopoly, pp. 70-71.
(15) The European mediator in Bosnia, David Owen, cited in Michel
Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 182.
(16) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, p. 116.
(17) Le Figaro, February 10, 2001.
(18) PBS, February 14, 2001.
(19) AFP - Paris, March 8, 2001.
(20) BBC, March 6.
(21) Reuters - Skopje, March 8, 2001.
(22) BBC, March 6.
(23) Reuters - London, March 8, 2001
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>
> URANIO: DA RIFARE INDAGINE MANDELLI, ASSOCIAZIONI
> (ANSA) - ROMA, 21 MAR - L'indagine sull'uranio impoverito svolta dalla
> commissione Mandelli ''non ha alcuna validita', deve essere ritirata e
> rifatta daccapo con nuovi criteri''. A sostenerlo sono l'Anavafaf,
> associazione familiari vittime arruolate nelle forze armate, e il Tribunale
> Clark, che da anni si batte per il rispetto dei diritti civili.
>
> ''Il rapporto - ha detto il presidente dell'Anavafaf, Falco Accame, nel
> corso di una conferenza stampa - e' basato su falsi dati di partenza. Per
> fare un esempio: sono stati presi in considerazione i militari che sono
> stati in Albania, dove l'uranio non e' stato usato, e non quelli in Somalia,
> dove invece e' stato usato. Bisognava fare l'esatto contrario''.
>
> Altre critiche da Giorgio Cortellessa, fisico che guida la contro
> commissione di esperti nominata dal Tribunale Clark. ''Il confronto
> sull'incidenza dei tumori con la popolazione civile - ha spiegato - e' stato
> fatto in maniera scorretta. Ci si e' basati sui registri dei tumori del
> Nord, dove l'incidenza di queste malattie e' molto piu' alta che nel resto
> del Paese. La maggior parte dei militari italiani impiegati nelle missioni,
> invece, proviene dal Sud. Insomma, i numeri contenuti nell'indagine non
> hanno diritto di cittadinanza nella comunita' scientifica. Questo malessere,
> peraltro, serpeggia nelle pieghe del rapporto''.
>
> Alla conferenza stampa ha partecipato anche Giambattista Marica, reduce
> della Somalia che e' riuscito a guarire da un linfoma di Hodgkin: ''Il mio
> caso - ha detto - non e' stato preso in considerazione dalla commissione
> perche' dicono che allora l'uranio non fu usato. Ma chi mi garantisce che
> sia andata davvero cosi' ''
---
Il testo che segue e' apparso su "Il Manifesto" del 15 Marzo 2001
Cinque storie impoverite
Effetti dell'uranio Il veterano inglese e quello francese,
il volontario fiammingo e lo spagnolo, il serbo. Seduti a
un tavolo raccontano vite distrutte dalla stessa "sindrome"
JEAN TOSCHI MARAZZANI VISCONTI - BRUXELLES
La Coalizione per l'Abolizione delle Armi ad Uranio
Impoverito ha riunito il 3 marzo scorso intorno ad un
tavolo membri di associazioni di pacifisti, associazioni
contro le armi nucleari, fondazioni e soprattutto
associazioni di veterani colpiti dalla "Sindrome"
provenienti da Francia, Inghilterra, Olanda, Germania,
Stati uniti, oltre ad esperti e medici da Iraq, Bosnia e
Jugoslavia. Un incontro internazionale sugli effetti
dell'uranio impoverito e non solo, che è stato seguito
anche da "funzionari" della Nato.
Sconvolgente il distacco di questi uomini, il loro sguardo.
Apparentemente presenti ma già in un'altra dimensione,
quella della morte dentro di loro. Consci del letale
meccanismo a tempo insinuato nei loro corpi, impiegano le
loro energie per aiutare altri, contaminati in circostanze
similari, e vittime dell'isolamento da parte degli enti
responsabili.
Ray Bristow, veterano britannico del Golfo, ha 43 anni,
sposato con 3 figli. E' affetto da una sindrome di
stanchezza che lo obbliga alla sedia a rotelle. Nel 1990
correva la Maratona di Londra, doveva avere il fisico del
bevitore di birra, oggi è abbandonato sulla sedia come una
bambola rotta, non coordina bene i movimenti e la parola e,
come egli stesso dice con ironia, il suo cervello funziona
come un computer con il virus. Nel dicembre 1990 viene
richiamato come riservista, operava nel settore medico come
tecnico. Nel gennaio 1991 è in Iraq. Secondo il programma
di vaccinazioni riceve 23 iniezioni, in breve tempo, contro
peste, colera, tosse canina (due volte) e antrax fra
l'altro, e due con etichetta biologica. Probabilmente anche
una droga in prova contro l'Aids. All'inizio dei
bombardamenti sente spesso suonare i detector chimici e con
l'attacco via terra arrivano nelle retrovie i feriti, fra i
quali molti iracheni. Avevano strane bruciature e nel
togliere loro gli abiti si formava nell'infermeria
un'atmosfera di sabbia impalpabile. Durante quel periodo
dovevano prendere due pillole ogni 8 ore, contro
l'avvelenamento chimico. Mentre si trovava presso un
deposito Usa - ricorda - suonano i detector chimici, nulla
succede, ma, per i due giorni seguenti, tutti i militari
presenti soffrono di una specie di influenza che sparirà di
colpo. Al termine delle operazioni di guerra, il suo
gruppo, nel prepararsi alla partenza, riceve l'ordine di
bruciare un notevole quantitativo di medicinali ed
equipaggiamento medico. Viene avanzata la proposta di
donare agli ospedali civili il materiale intatto. Risposta
negativa. Suggeriscono di metterlo in scatole e rimandarlo
a casa. Negazione definitiva. Il materiale viene bruciato e
le ceneri seppellite. Commenta Bristow: probabilmente era
contaminato, non ci sono conferme ufficiali sull'uso di
armi chimiche, ma sono state usate.
Rientra in Inghilterra il 15 marzo 1991. Dopo due anni,
inizia ad avere problemi di memoria, disturbi di vista,
vuoti improvvisi, impossibilità di concentrazione al punto
che nel 1996 non può più lavorare. Gli trovano un fegato
allargato, un test IQ rivela un problema organico simile ad
un uomo in avanzato stato di malattia di Alzhaimer.
Progressivamente iniziano dolori ai muscoli e ai tendini,
una spossatezza progressiva che lo obbliga alla sedia a
rotelle. Deve bere 8 litri di acqua al giorno per lavare le
reni da tutte le pillole che deve assumere per tenere a
bada i dolori. Oggi si sente abbastanza bene, ma sa di
essere sul ruolino della morte. Il suo desiderio -dice - è
di essere seppellito in una fossa comune con il milione di
iracheni colpiti dalla Sindrome del Golfo, i centomila
della Bosnia e quelli della Jugoslavia. E' stato in Iraq
due anni fa e ha promesso di fare del suo meglio per
aiutare la popolazione. Ha fondato un'associazione di
veterani del Golfo (National Gulf Veterans and Families)
per aiutare coloro che affrontano il male in una solitudine
sociale - i sintomi sono misconosciuti -e per lottare
contro l'indifferenza del governo e dell'esercito. Bristow
racconta che 9000 degli iscritti soffrono degli stessi
prodromi, ogni anno alcuni muoiono, secondo lui quanto
hanno provocato gli Usa in Iraq, in Bosnia, più
recentemente in Jugoslavia, è paragonabile ai campi di
sterminio nazisti.
Hervé Deslat, veterano francese del Golfo, ha 30 anni, è
sposato con una bambina. Alto, robusto, era molto sportivo.
All'epoca della guerra dell'Alleanza aveva 19 anni ed era
volontario da due. Ha fondato con la giornalista Christine
Abdelkrim-Delanne, autrice di "La sporca guerra pulita",
un'associazione di veterani (Association de defense
Avigolf). Faceva parte dell'esercito di terra in
artiglieria: un gruppo di trenta soldati addetti ai missili
antiaerei, Desplat era a capo di un sottogruppo di cinque
uomini che girava in camion con 6 missili Mistral ed
operava al confine con l'Arabia saudita. Durante la fase
delle operazioni aeree erano sottoposti a continui
allenamenti anti guerra chimica, durante i quali dovevano
indossare tute e maschere. Gli allenamenti si ripetevano
con tale frequenza da dubitare si trattasse di allarmi
reali. Il suo gruppo era dotato di detector chimici, spesso
iniziavano a suonare, ma gli ufficiali assicuravano che non
c'era nulla da temere. Al termine delle operazioni di
guerra, Desplat passando per una base americana, vede
uomini in tute anti-contaminazione bruciare tutto, compresi
i carri armati. Un'altra volta, mentre tiene una postazione
nel deserto, un'inaspettata esplosione, davanti a lui,
produce una nuvola di fumo verde. Gli americani facevano
esplodere o bruciare tutto quanto era in superficie.
Specialisti in tute protettive si occupavano
dell'eliminazione. Mettevano le cariche e, dopo essersi
allontanati 3.000 metri, le facevano esplodere. I soldati
degli altri eserciti non venivano informati. Anche Desplat
aveva ricevuto un notevole numero di vaccini, erano
obbligati a prendere pillole anti sonno (generalmente non
autorizzate) e altre ignote che davano strani sintomi.
Durante l'attacco terrestre viene ordinato di prendere
pillole di physostignin contro agenti biologici.
Al ritorno in patria, Desplat per un intero anno soffre di
terribili incubi, depressione, credeva di impazzire. Nel
giugno '93, perde 20 chili di peso, ospedalizzato, gli
viene diagnosticata una grave forma di tubercolosi
polmonare. Trattato per un anno, ha perso il 60% di
capacità polmonare. E' considerato un lavoratore adulto
handicappato, ma senza pensione, sociale o militare. Sua
figlia, nata dopo la sua malattia, viene controllata
periodicamente. Desplat ritiene che nella guerra del Golfo
la combinazione di armi chimiche quali gas nervino
(sarin/cyclosarin/tabin), gas vescicante (mustard gas) e un
agente che agisce sul sangue, oltre al Du (depleted
uranium), siano le principali cause delle malattie che
affliggono la popolazione irachena, soprattutto i bambini.
Non sono esclusi test clandestini sui soldati attraverso
vaccini e medicinali sconosciuti. I numerosi bombardamenti
su Bassora e sulla centrale nucleare, a 40 chilometri da
Baghdad, avevano creato una nuvola gassosa che, secondo una
mappa meteorologica dell'epoca presso la sua fondazione, i
venti avrebbero spinto sugli eserciti dell'Alleanza.
Anch'egli desidera ritornare in Iraq per chiedere perdono
alla popolazione per quello a cui ha partecipato.
P. Furenkas, fiammingo, un omone con la barba, volontario
nei campi dei rifugiati in Croazia e Bosnia fin dal 1992.
All'epoca godeva ottima salute. Ritorna a Sarajevo nel '94
per accompagnare i convogli delle popolazioni in movimento.
Dopo un anno dal suo rientro a casa (1996) iniziano i primi
sintomi di stanchezza e vista sdoppiata. Peggiora
continuamente al punto di non poter più lavorare. I medici
non trovano indicazioni per una diagnosi e lo inviano da
psichiatri e psicologi. Credeva di impazzire, quando il
Sindacato Democratico ha preso la sua difesa e lo ha
aiutato. Molti suoi colleghi, reduci dai Balcani, soffrono
degli stessi sintomi.
Zelijko Samardic, guardia forestale nella Repubblica Srpka
di Bosnia, 33 anni, sposato con tre figli. Un uomo alto,
robusto, gran camminatore. Nel '95 si trovava nella foresta
a Bulozi, non lontano da Pale, quando un missile cade a
cinquanta metri da lui. Ben felice di essere vivo, nei
giorni seguenti controlla altre zone bombardate sulla
montagna e raccoglie un pezzetto della bomba che lo ha
mancato. Nel '97 iniziano i primi sintomi: doppia visione,
disordine di vista, ronzio nelle orecchie, perdita di
equilibrio e di memoria, grande stanchezza. Quando iniziano
forti dolori di stomaco ed emorragia, si rivolge ai medici
che diagnosticano un tumore maligno al colon e lo operano.
Da quel momento sarà obbligato a portare un sacchetto di
contenzione. Sei mesi dopo riprendono gli stessi sintomi
iniziali e la parte sinistra del corpo si paralizza
obbligandolo alla sedia a rotelle, i disturbi cessano
misteriosamente in 15 giorni e ritorna a camminare. Ancora
qualche tempo e iniziano gravi dolori alle mani, si
gonfiano, si storcono, i medici sono obbligati a tagliare
il mignolo sinistro in cancrena. In seguito é attaccato da
febbre alta, mal di testa e vomito, perdita di coscienza.
Gli diagnosticano un tumore maligno delle surrenali e viene
operato. A quel punto lo informano della contaminazione da
Du.
Oggi sta bene, ma non sa per quanto. Non può fare esaminare
il bambino, nato dopo la bomba, per mancanza di soldi. Non
lavora e lo stato non lo considera pensionabile, ma solo in
congedo per malattia. Nei boschi - racconta - le zone
colpite stanno morendo, sono spariti gli scoiattoli, la
flora ha subito un radicale cambiamento. Il suo gatto è
nato con sole tre zampe. Il professor Djordje Jovanovic,
che ha operato Samardzic, racconta che i suoi tumori erano
composti di tessuti cromosomicamente diversi e non
dipendenti l'uno dall'altro. Altri casi in Bosnia si sono
presentati con le stesse peculiarità. Il professore ritiene
che siano centinaia di migliaia le persone contaminate, le
bombe al Du lanciate sulle montagne intorno a Sarajevo e
sul Monte Igman a questo punto hanno raggiunto le falde
acquifere. La popolazione ignara non prende precauzioni, i
soldati della Sfor bevono solo acqua minerale. Il dottor
Dragutin Ilic, deputato e direttore del Fondo di salute, a
Banja Luka, aggiunge che mancano i mezzi pratici per fare
test alla popolazione, solo le malattie maligne sono
operate gratuitamente. In pratica possono solo contare le
vittime della sindrome dei Balcani.
La Coalizione belga aveva invitato anche dei medici
albanesi - sembra che casi sempre più numerosi si
verifichino anche in Kosovo - ma si sono mostrati reticenti
per paura di perdere il lavoro e per non dispiacere alla
Nato.
Patricia Rodriguez è una studentessa spagnola, esile ed
intensa. Vuole fondare un'associazione di reduci dal Kosovo
in nome del suo compagno. Il giovane, rientrato dal Kosovo
nel settembre 2000, inizia a sentirsi molto stanco,
sviluppa una febbre molto alta, gli viene diagnosticata una
doppia polmonite. I medici militari trovano che è affetto
da grave anemia, infine da leucemia. Cinque giorni dopo é
in coma, il 4 ottobre muore. Un altro compagno della stessa
unità è affetto da linfoma. Sembra che ci siano altri 50
casi nello stesso corpo. Le autorità militari spagnole
avevano deciso di fare test a tutti i soldati reduci dalla
Jugoslavia, ma si sono fermate a 5.000 e rifiutano di
pubblicare i risultati.
Un medico iracheno ha posto l'accento sull'ipotesi che nel
'91 la guerra fosse anche chimica e batteriologica, lo
proverebbero i cadaveri nel deserto evitati dalle mosche.
Il sud dell'Iraq e la zona di Bassora sono pesantemente
contaminate. Nessuno compra prodotti di quella zona. Grave
è l'inquinamento dei pozzi anche a Baghdad. Si conta un
aumento dodici volte maggiore di cancri ai polmoni,
all'intestino, linfomi e leucemia. Il numero di bambini
infettati, con malattie della pelle da radiazione o con
insolite sindromi al fegato ai reni, cresce. Purtroppo
anche la percentuale di neonati focomelici o con terribili
deformazioni.
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> URANIO: DA RIFARE INDAGINE MANDELLI, ASSOCIAZIONI
> (ANSA) - ROMA, 21 MAR - L'indagine sull'uranio impoverito svolta dalla
> commissione Mandelli ''non ha alcuna validita', deve essere ritirata e
> rifatta daccapo con nuovi criteri''. A sostenerlo sono l'Anavafaf,
> associazione familiari vittime arruolate nelle forze armate, e il Tribunale
> Clark, che da anni si batte per il rispetto dei diritti civili.
>
> ''Il rapporto - ha detto il presidente dell'Anavafaf, Falco Accame, nel
> corso di una conferenza stampa - e' basato su falsi dati di partenza. Per
> fare un esempio: sono stati presi in considerazione i militari che sono
> stati in Albania, dove l'uranio non e' stato usato, e non quelli in Somalia,
> dove invece e' stato usato. Bisognava fare l'esatto contrario''.
>
> Altre critiche da Giorgio Cortellessa, fisico che guida la contro
> commissione di esperti nominata dal Tribunale Clark. ''Il confronto
> sull'incidenza dei tumori con la popolazione civile - ha spiegato - e' stato
> fatto in maniera scorretta. Ci si e' basati sui registri dei tumori del
> Nord, dove l'incidenza di queste malattie e' molto piu' alta che nel resto
> del Paese. La maggior parte dei militari italiani impiegati nelle missioni,
> invece, proviene dal Sud. Insomma, i numeri contenuti nell'indagine non
> hanno diritto di cittadinanza nella comunita' scientifica. Questo malessere,
> peraltro, serpeggia nelle pieghe del rapporto''.
>
> Alla conferenza stampa ha partecipato anche Giambattista Marica, reduce
> della Somalia che e' riuscito a guarire da un linfoma di Hodgkin: ''Il mio
> caso - ha detto - non e' stato preso in considerazione dalla commissione
> perche' dicono che allora l'uranio non fu usato. Ma chi mi garantisce che
> sia andata davvero cosi' ''
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Il testo che segue e' apparso su "Il Manifesto" del 15 Marzo 2001
Cinque storie impoverite
Effetti dell'uranio Il veterano inglese e quello francese,
il volontario fiammingo e lo spagnolo, il serbo. Seduti a
un tavolo raccontano vite distrutte dalla stessa "sindrome"
JEAN TOSCHI MARAZZANI VISCONTI - BRUXELLES
La Coalizione per l'Abolizione delle Armi ad Uranio
Impoverito ha riunito il 3 marzo scorso intorno ad un
tavolo membri di associazioni di pacifisti, associazioni
contro le armi nucleari, fondazioni e soprattutto
associazioni di veterani colpiti dalla "Sindrome"
provenienti da Francia, Inghilterra, Olanda, Germania,
Stati uniti, oltre ad esperti e medici da Iraq, Bosnia e
Jugoslavia. Un incontro internazionale sugli effetti
dell'uranio impoverito e non solo, che è stato seguito
anche da "funzionari" della Nato.
Sconvolgente il distacco di questi uomini, il loro sguardo.
Apparentemente presenti ma già in un'altra dimensione,
quella della morte dentro di loro. Consci del letale
meccanismo a tempo insinuato nei loro corpi, impiegano le
loro energie per aiutare altri, contaminati in circostanze
similari, e vittime dell'isolamento da parte degli enti
responsabili.
Ray Bristow, veterano britannico del Golfo, ha 43 anni,
sposato con 3 figli. E' affetto da una sindrome di
stanchezza che lo obbliga alla sedia a rotelle. Nel 1990
correva la Maratona di Londra, doveva avere il fisico del
bevitore di birra, oggi è abbandonato sulla sedia come una
bambola rotta, non coordina bene i movimenti e la parola e,
come egli stesso dice con ironia, il suo cervello funziona
come un computer con il virus. Nel dicembre 1990 viene
richiamato come riservista, operava nel settore medico come
tecnico. Nel gennaio 1991 è in Iraq. Secondo il programma
di vaccinazioni riceve 23 iniezioni, in breve tempo, contro
peste, colera, tosse canina (due volte) e antrax fra
l'altro, e due con etichetta biologica. Probabilmente anche
una droga in prova contro l'Aids. All'inizio dei
bombardamenti sente spesso suonare i detector chimici e con
l'attacco via terra arrivano nelle retrovie i feriti, fra i
quali molti iracheni. Avevano strane bruciature e nel
togliere loro gli abiti si formava nell'infermeria
un'atmosfera di sabbia impalpabile. Durante quel periodo
dovevano prendere due pillole ogni 8 ore, contro
l'avvelenamento chimico. Mentre si trovava presso un
deposito Usa - ricorda - suonano i detector chimici, nulla
succede, ma, per i due giorni seguenti, tutti i militari
presenti soffrono di una specie di influenza che sparirà di
colpo. Al termine delle operazioni di guerra, il suo
gruppo, nel prepararsi alla partenza, riceve l'ordine di
bruciare un notevole quantitativo di medicinali ed
equipaggiamento medico. Viene avanzata la proposta di
donare agli ospedali civili il materiale intatto. Risposta
negativa. Suggeriscono di metterlo in scatole e rimandarlo
a casa. Negazione definitiva. Il materiale viene bruciato e
le ceneri seppellite. Commenta Bristow: probabilmente era
contaminato, non ci sono conferme ufficiali sull'uso di
armi chimiche, ma sono state usate.
Rientra in Inghilterra il 15 marzo 1991. Dopo due anni,
inizia ad avere problemi di memoria, disturbi di vista,
vuoti improvvisi, impossibilità di concentrazione al punto
che nel 1996 non può più lavorare. Gli trovano un fegato
allargato, un test IQ rivela un problema organico simile ad
un uomo in avanzato stato di malattia di Alzhaimer.
Progressivamente iniziano dolori ai muscoli e ai tendini,
una spossatezza progressiva che lo obbliga alla sedia a
rotelle. Deve bere 8 litri di acqua al giorno per lavare le
reni da tutte le pillole che deve assumere per tenere a
bada i dolori. Oggi si sente abbastanza bene, ma sa di
essere sul ruolino della morte. Il suo desiderio -dice - è
di essere seppellito in una fossa comune con il milione di
iracheni colpiti dalla Sindrome del Golfo, i centomila
della Bosnia e quelli della Jugoslavia. E' stato in Iraq
due anni fa e ha promesso di fare del suo meglio per
aiutare la popolazione. Ha fondato un'associazione di
veterani del Golfo (National Gulf Veterans and Families)
per aiutare coloro che affrontano il male in una solitudine
sociale - i sintomi sono misconosciuti -e per lottare
contro l'indifferenza del governo e dell'esercito. Bristow
racconta che 9000 degli iscritti soffrono degli stessi
prodromi, ogni anno alcuni muoiono, secondo lui quanto
hanno provocato gli Usa in Iraq, in Bosnia, più
recentemente in Jugoslavia, è paragonabile ai campi di
sterminio nazisti.
Hervé Deslat, veterano francese del Golfo, ha 30 anni, è
sposato con una bambina. Alto, robusto, era molto sportivo.
All'epoca della guerra dell'Alleanza aveva 19 anni ed era
volontario da due. Ha fondato con la giornalista Christine
Abdelkrim-Delanne, autrice di "La sporca guerra pulita",
un'associazione di veterani (Association de defense
Avigolf). Faceva parte dell'esercito di terra in
artiglieria: un gruppo di trenta soldati addetti ai missili
antiaerei, Desplat era a capo di un sottogruppo di cinque
uomini che girava in camion con 6 missili Mistral ed
operava al confine con l'Arabia saudita. Durante la fase
delle operazioni aeree erano sottoposti a continui
allenamenti anti guerra chimica, durante i quali dovevano
indossare tute e maschere. Gli allenamenti si ripetevano
con tale frequenza da dubitare si trattasse di allarmi
reali. Il suo gruppo era dotato di detector chimici, spesso
iniziavano a suonare, ma gli ufficiali assicuravano che non
c'era nulla da temere. Al termine delle operazioni di
guerra, Desplat passando per una base americana, vede
uomini in tute anti-contaminazione bruciare tutto, compresi
i carri armati. Un'altra volta, mentre tiene una postazione
nel deserto, un'inaspettata esplosione, davanti a lui,
produce una nuvola di fumo verde. Gli americani facevano
esplodere o bruciare tutto quanto era in superficie.
Specialisti in tute protettive si occupavano
dell'eliminazione. Mettevano le cariche e, dopo essersi
allontanati 3.000 metri, le facevano esplodere. I soldati
degli altri eserciti non venivano informati. Anche Desplat
aveva ricevuto un notevole numero di vaccini, erano
obbligati a prendere pillole anti sonno (generalmente non
autorizzate) e altre ignote che davano strani sintomi.
Durante l'attacco terrestre viene ordinato di prendere
pillole di physostignin contro agenti biologici.
Al ritorno in patria, Desplat per un intero anno soffre di
terribili incubi, depressione, credeva di impazzire. Nel
giugno '93, perde 20 chili di peso, ospedalizzato, gli
viene diagnosticata una grave forma di tubercolosi
polmonare. Trattato per un anno, ha perso il 60% di
capacità polmonare. E' considerato un lavoratore adulto
handicappato, ma senza pensione, sociale o militare. Sua
figlia, nata dopo la sua malattia, viene controllata
periodicamente. Desplat ritiene che nella guerra del Golfo
la combinazione di armi chimiche quali gas nervino
(sarin/cyclosarin/tabin), gas vescicante (mustard gas) e un
agente che agisce sul sangue, oltre al Du (depleted
uranium), siano le principali cause delle malattie che
affliggono la popolazione irachena, soprattutto i bambini.
Non sono esclusi test clandestini sui soldati attraverso
vaccini e medicinali sconosciuti. I numerosi bombardamenti
su Bassora e sulla centrale nucleare, a 40 chilometri da
Baghdad, avevano creato una nuvola gassosa che, secondo una
mappa meteorologica dell'epoca presso la sua fondazione, i
venti avrebbero spinto sugli eserciti dell'Alleanza.
Anch'egli desidera ritornare in Iraq per chiedere perdono
alla popolazione per quello a cui ha partecipato.
P. Furenkas, fiammingo, un omone con la barba, volontario
nei campi dei rifugiati in Croazia e Bosnia fin dal 1992.
All'epoca godeva ottima salute. Ritorna a Sarajevo nel '94
per accompagnare i convogli delle popolazioni in movimento.
Dopo un anno dal suo rientro a casa (1996) iniziano i primi
sintomi di stanchezza e vista sdoppiata. Peggiora
continuamente al punto di non poter più lavorare. I medici
non trovano indicazioni per una diagnosi e lo inviano da
psichiatri e psicologi. Credeva di impazzire, quando il
Sindacato Democratico ha preso la sua difesa e lo ha
aiutato. Molti suoi colleghi, reduci dai Balcani, soffrono
degli stessi sintomi.
Zelijko Samardic, guardia forestale nella Repubblica Srpka
di Bosnia, 33 anni, sposato con tre figli. Un uomo alto,
robusto, gran camminatore. Nel '95 si trovava nella foresta
a Bulozi, non lontano da Pale, quando un missile cade a
cinquanta metri da lui. Ben felice di essere vivo, nei
giorni seguenti controlla altre zone bombardate sulla
montagna e raccoglie un pezzetto della bomba che lo ha
mancato. Nel '97 iniziano i primi sintomi: doppia visione,
disordine di vista, ronzio nelle orecchie, perdita di
equilibrio e di memoria, grande stanchezza. Quando iniziano
forti dolori di stomaco ed emorragia, si rivolge ai medici
che diagnosticano un tumore maligno al colon e lo operano.
Da quel momento sarà obbligato a portare un sacchetto di
contenzione. Sei mesi dopo riprendono gli stessi sintomi
iniziali e la parte sinistra del corpo si paralizza
obbligandolo alla sedia a rotelle, i disturbi cessano
misteriosamente in 15 giorni e ritorna a camminare. Ancora
qualche tempo e iniziano gravi dolori alle mani, si
gonfiano, si storcono, i medici sono obbligati a tagliare
il mignolo sinistro in cancrena. In seguito é attaccato da
febbre alta, mal di testa e vomito, perdita di coscienza.
Gli diagnosticano un tumore maligno delle surrenali e viene
operato. A quel punto lo informano della contaminazione da
Du.
Oggi sta bene, ma non sa per quanto. Non può fare esaminare
il bambino, nato dopo la bomba, per mancanza di soldi. Non
lavora e lo stato non lo considera pensionabile, ma solo in
congedo per malattia. Nei boschi - racconta - le zone
colpite stanno morendo, sono spariti gli scoiattoli, la
flora ha subito un radicale cambiamento. Il suo gatto è
nato con sole tre zampe. Il professor Djordje Jovanovic,
che ha operato Samardzic, racconta che i suoi tumori erano
composti di tessuti cromosomicamente diversi e non
dipendenti l'uno dall'altro. Altri casi in Bosnia si sono
presentati con le stesse peculiarità. Il professore ritiene
che siano centinaia di migliaia le persone contaminate, le
bombe al Du lanciate sulle montagne intorno a Sarajevo e
sul Monte Igman a questo punto hanno raggiunto le falde
acquifere. La popolazione ignara non prende precauzioni, i
soldati della Sfor bevono solo acqua minerale. Il dottor
Dragutin Ilic, deputato e direttore del Fondo di salute, a
Banja Luka, aggiunge che mancano i mezzi pratici per fare
test alla popolazione, solo le malattie maligne sono
operate gratuitamente. In pratica possono solo contare le
vittime della sindrome dei Balcani.
La Coalizione belga aveva invitato anche dei medici
albanesi - sembra che casi sempre più numerosi si
verifichino anche in Kosovo - ma si sono mostrati reticenti
per paura di perdere il lavoro e per non dispiacere alla
Nato.
Patricia Rodriguez è una studentessa spagnola, esile ed
intensa. Vuole fondare un'associazione di reduci dal Kosovo
in nome del suo compagno. Il giovane, rientrato dal Kosovo
nel settembre 2000, inizia a sentirsi molto stanco,
sviluppa una febbre molto alta, gli viene diagnosticata una
doppia polmonite. I medici militari trovano che è affetto
da grave anemia, infine da leucemia. Cinque giorni dopo é
in coma, il 4 ottobre muore. Un altro compagno della stessa
unità è affetto da linfoma. Sembra che ci siano altri 50
casi nello stesso corpo. Le autorità militari spagnole
avevano deciso di fare test a tutti i soldati reduci dalla
Jugoslavia, ma si sono fermate a 5.000 e rifiutano di
pubblicare i risultati.
Un medico iracheno ha posto l'accento sull'ipotesi che nel
'91 la guerra fosse anche chimica e batteriologica, lo
proverebbero i cadaveri nel deserto evitati dalle mosche.
Il sud dell'Iraq e la zona di Bassora sono pesantemente
contaminate. Nessuno compra prodotti di quella zona. Grave
è l'inquinamento dei pozzi anche a Baghdad. Si conta un
aumento dodici volte maggiore di cancri ai polmoni,
all'intestino, linfomi e leucemia. Il numero di bambini
infettati, con malattie della pelle da radiazione o con
insolite sindromi al fegato ai reni, cresce. Purtroppo
anche la percentuale di neonati focomelici o con terribili
deformazioni.
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Kosovo - The "Banality of Evil"
by Gilles d'Aymery
February 19, 2001
> http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=294133
Macedonia Warns NATO of Possible Conflict on Border
With Kosovo
SKOPJE, Feb 21, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse)
---
Alberto Tarozzi wrote:
> ecco come si stanno mobilitando gli albanesi nei balcani per la campagna di
> primavera.
>
> alberto tarozzi e zivkica nedanovska.
>
> 1.FONTE: FREE B-92- VESTI.
>
> 2.TITOLO: Il numero delle vittime doppio.
>
> 3.INDICE: ///
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET:
> http://vesti.freeb92.net/press-index.phtml">http://www.b92.net/archive/s/pre
> ss-index.phtmlmozete
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001. Le Notizie del 19.02.2001.
>
> L'attacco sull'autobus dei Serbi nel villaggio Livadice vicino a Podujevo
> In Kosovo è
> l'indice chiaro alla comunità internazionale che i terroristi albanesi sono
> "i padroni
> della situazione sul terreno"- ha dichiarato il vicepresidente del Partito
> Democratico
> Serbo ( DSS), Marko Jaksic. "L'escalation spaventosa del terrorismo in
> Kosovo e
> Metohija ci dimostra che il KFOR e l'UNMK non sono in grado di proteggere i
> Serbi
> neanche di eliminare le bande terroristiche ".Secondo l'avviso di Jaksic"il
> numero
> delle vittime nell'attacco sul convoglio dei Serbi il 16 febbraio è doppio
> di quello
> che hanno pubblicato e fra le vittime ci sono anche i bambini"."Se si vuole
> , sul serio
> la pace in Kosovo, la comunità internazionale si deve scontrare con gli
> Albanesi".
> "Però, quello è poco probabile, perchè il comandante di KFOR, Carlo Cabigiosu
> ha dichiarato che il KFOR non ha l'intenzione di scontrarsi con gli
> Albanesi a causa
> dei Serbi".
>
> 1.FONTE: FRVESTI
>
> 2.TITOLO: Gli attacchi non cesseranno
>
> 3.INDICE: Nebojsa Pavkovic avverte il vertice jugoslavo:
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85135&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5. NUMERO DI PAGINE : 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> Alla riunione del vertice jugoslavo e serbo, dedicata all'escalation della
> violenza al sud di Serbia e in Kosovo e Metohija, il capo dello Stato
> Maggiore, il generale Nebojsa Pavkovic, ha annunciato l'ecalation ulteriore
> della situazione che si rifletterà negli attacchi giornalieri fuori della
> zona di
> sicurezza.Secondo lui"gli attacchi saranno indirizzati alla polizia e
> all'esercito perchè l'ultimo
> attacco sul convoglio di civili ha provocato la condanna della pubblica
> opinione al mondo."
> Lui ha aggiunto che l'atteggiamento e le reazioni dei politici occidentali
> è differente dall'atteggiamento degli appartenenti di KFOR sul terreno.Loro
> tuttora "chiudono un occhio"
> quando si tratta dei terroristi albanesi i quali campi e basi sono
> letteralmente davanti agli occhi
> di KFOR, all'estremo est del Kosovo.
> Il generale Pavkovic in particolare ha preso in considerazione le
> conseguenze del ritiro dell'Esercito
> Jugoslavo dalla regione di Medvedje, Bujanovac e Presevo, come prevede il
> piano del vicepresidente del Governo serbo, Njebojsa Covic.
> "Con la partenza dell'Esercito jugoslavo da questo territorio, la
> situazione nella regione peggiorerà
> sia nel piano militare- strategico, sia nel piano psicologico perchè questo
> stimolerà lo sfollamento
> della popolazione serba di questi comuni"-dice la fonte di "Vesti"vicina
> allo Stato Maggiore jugoslavo.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: L'offensiva degli Albanesi in primavera.
>
> 3.INDICE: l'Ex-ministro macedone degli Interni avverte.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85212&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'ex ministro macedone degli Interni, Pavle Trajanov, afferma che in
> Macedonia esistono
> i campi per l'addestramento delle nuove unità dell'Esercito separatistico
> di Kosovo"OVK"
> per gli attacchi primaverili nel sud di Serbia e che le autorità macedone
> ne sanno."Nelle
> regioni di Skopje,Kumanovo e Tetovo esistono i campi dove si nascondono e
> dove si addestrano le nuove formazioni dellOVK che si stanno preparando per
> gli attacchi in primavera nel sud
> di Serbia"- ha dichiarato per il giornale "Vesti" di Skopje Pavle
> Trajanov.Lui ha precisato che
> nei villaggi Tanusevci, Malino,Brest, Lijane e Vakinci si raccolgono i
> membri dell'OVK,
> si nascondono e si preparano per l'attacco militare nel sud di Serbia.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: La mobilitazione forzata.
>
> 3.INDICE: L'associazione di Goranci denuncia.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85213&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: ½.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'associazione nativa di Goranci ( il gruppo etnico che vive in 16 villaggi
> al confine di tre campi di
> Jugoslavia, Albania e Macedonia. Parla il serbo e ha la confessione
> musulmana ) ha avvertito
> ieri il pubblico che i suoi membri sono esposti a molte minacce degli
> estremisti albanesi e che il
> KFOR non ha intrapreso niente per proteggerli .L'associazione ha avviato
> l'appello alle forze
> Internazionali di pace in Kosovo per impedire quanto prima la mobilitazione
> forzata che l'OVK
> sta effettuando a Gora sui Goranci. Infine, dicono che gli estremisti
> albanesi minacciano con la
> morte ai Goranci che rifiutano di essere 'mobilitati'.
>
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Swans
Kosovo - The "Banality of Evil"
by Gilles d'Aymery
February 19, 2001
> http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=294133
Macedonia Warns NATO of Possible Conflict on Border
With Kosovo
SKOPJE, Feb 21, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse)
---
Alberto Tarozzi wrote:
> ecco come si stanno mobilitando gli albanesi nei balcani per la campagna di
> primavera.
>
> alberto tarozzi e zivkica nedanovska.
>
> 1.FONTE: FREE B-92- VESTI.
>
> 2.TITOLO: Il numero delle vittime doppio.
>
> 3.INDICE: ///
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET:
> http://vesti.freeb92.net/press-index.phtml">http://www.b92.net/archive/s/pre
> ss-index.phtmlmozete
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001. Le Notizie del 19.02.2001.
>
> L'attacco sull'autobus dei Serbi nel villaggio Livadice vicino a Podujevo
> In Kosovo è
> l'indice chiaro alla comunità internazionale che i terroristi albanesi sono
> "i padroni
> della situazione sul terreno"- ha dichiarato il vicepresidente del Partito
> Democratico
> Serbo ( DSS), Marko Jaksic. "L'escalation spaventosa del terrorismo in
> Kosovo e
> Metohija ci dimostra che il KFOR e l'UNMK non sono in grado di proteggere i
> Serbi
> neanche di eliminare le bande terroristiche ".Secondo l'avviso di Jaksic"il
> numero
> delle vittime nell'attacco sul convoglio dei Serbi il 16 febbraio è doppio
> di quello
> che hanno pubblicato e fra le vittime ci sono anche i bambini"."Se si vuole
> , sul serio
> la pace in Kosovo, la comunità internazionale si deve scontrare con gli
> Albanesi".
> "Però, quello è poco probabile, perchè il comandante di KFOR, Carlo Cabigiosu
> ha dichiarato che il KFOR non ha l'intenzione di scontrarsi con gli
> Albanesi a causa
> dei Serbi".
>
> 1.FONTE: FRVESTI
>
> 2.TITOLO: Gli attacchi non cesseranno
>
> 3.INDICE: Nebojsa Pavkovic avverte il vertice jugoslavo:
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85135&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5. NUMERO DI PAGINE : 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> Alla riunione del vertice jugoslavo e serbo, dedicata all'escalation della
> violenza al sud di Serbia e in Kosovo e Metohija, il capo dello Stato
> Maggiore, il generale Nebojsa Pavkovic, ha annunciato l'ecalation ulteriore
> della situazione che si rifletterà negli attacchi giornalieri fuori della
> zona di
> sicurezza.Secondo lui"gli attacchi saranno indirizzati alla polizia e
> all'esercito perchè l'ultimo
> attacco sul convoglio di civili ha provocato la condanna della pubblica
> opinione al mondo."
> Lui ha aggiunto che l'atteggiamento e le reazioni dei politici occidentali
> è differente dall'atteggiamento degli appartenenti di KFOR sul terreno.Loro
> tuttora "chiudono un occhio"
> quando si tratta dei terroristi albanesi i quali campi e basi sono
> letteralmente davanti agli occhi
> di KFOR, all'estremo est del Kosovo.
> Il generale Pavkovic in particolare ha preso in considerazione le
> conseguenze del ritiro dell'Esercito
> Jugoslavo dalla regione di Medvedje, Bujanovac e Presevo, come prevede il
> piano del vicepresidente del Governo serbo, Njebojsa Covic.
> "Con la partenza dell'Esercito jugoslavo da questo territorio, la
> situazione nella regione peggiorerà
> sia nel piano militare- strategico, sia nel piano psicologico perchè questo
> stimolerà lo sfollamento
> della popolazione serba di questi comuni"-dice la fonte di "Vesti"vicina
> allo Stato Maggiore jugoslavo.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: L'offensiva degli Albanesi in primavera.
>
> 3.INDICE: l'Ex-ministro macedone degli Interni avverte.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85212&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: 1.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'ex ministro macedone degli Interni, Pavle Trajanov, afferma che in
> Macedonia esistono
> i campi per l'addestramento delle nuove unità dell'Esercito separatistico
> di Kosovo"OVK"
> per gli attacchi primaverili nel sud di Serbia e che le autorità macedone
> ne sanno."Nelle
> regioni di Skopje,Kumanovo e Tetovo esistono i campi dove si nascondono e
> dove si addestrano le nuove formazioni dellOVK che si stanno preparando per
> gli attacchi in primavera nel sud
> di Serbia"- ha dichiarato per il giornale "Vesti" di Skopje Pavle
> Trajanov.Lui ha precisato che
> nei villaggi Tanusevci, Malino,Brest, Lijane e Vakinci si raccolgono i
> membri dell'OVK,
> si nascondono e si preparano per l'attacco militare nel sud di Serbia.
>
> 1.FONTE: FrVesti.
>
> 2.TITOLO: La mobilitazione forzata.
>
> 3.INDICE: L'associazione di Goranci denuncia.
>
> 4.SITO INTERNET: http://www.frvesti.com/vest.asp?t=85213&s=dnevnik.gif&e=
>
> 5.NUMERO DI PAGINE: ½.
>
> 6.DATA: 20.02.2001.
>
> L'associazione nativa di Goranci ( il gruppo etnico che vive in 16 villaggi
> al confine di tre campi di
> Jugoslavia, Albania e Macedonia. Parla il serbo e ha la confessione
> musulmana ) ha avvertito
> ieri il pubblico che i suoi membri sono esposti a molte minacce degli
> estremisti albanesi e che il
> KFOR non ha intrapreso niente per proteggerli .L'associazione ha avviato
> l'appello alle forze
> Internazionali di pace in Kosovo per impedire quanto prima la mobilitazione
> forzata che l'OVK
> sta effettuando a Gora sui Goranci. Infine, dicono che gli estremisti
> albanesi minacciano con la
> morte ai Goranci che rifiutano di essere 'mobilitati'.
>
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LETTERA APERTA A RAMON MANTOVANI
Faccio riferimento alle parole che Mantovani mi disse alcuni anni fa,
in seguito ad una mia critica relativa a certi titoli del
quotidiano "Liberazione" sulla guerra in Bosnia : "Il titolo e' un po'
infelice, ma sai quali sono le posizioni del partito e puoi ritrovarle
nel contenuto dell’articolo..." Gia’ allora fui scettico e
risposi : "Ma in quanti vuoi che vadano a vedere il contenuto
dell’articolo, con tutta la propaganda continua e a senso unico che
devono sorbirsi da tutti i media: la gente si ferma al titolo e giudica
in base a quello".
Pochi giorni fa mi sono purtroppo dovuto ricordare di questo scambio di
battute. Su "Liberazione" del 17 febbraio scorso si leggeva il
titolo: "Mantovani, PRC : Il caso Telecom e’ plausibile". Il contenuto
svela chiaramente quali sono i referenti privilegiati da Mantovani e da
una parte del PRC, nelle problematiche jugoslave: "Quando nell’estate
del 1998 (prima dell’inizio del conflitto [per il Kosovo-Metohija]) mi
recai nuovamente a Belgrado e a Pristina (...) trovai sia gli esponenti
del Partito Socialista sia quelli della JUL, il partito della signora
Milosevic [sic! Mira Markovic : "Per i compagni sono compagna, per gli
altri ho un nome e cognome", dal libro-intervista "La risposta",
Edizioni Internazionali Beta, Roma 1998, che voi avete opportunamente
evitato di recensire su "Liberazione"...], molto freddi. Al contrario
ho trovato buona accoglienza da parte dei leader pacifisti kosovari
[vuol dire secessionisti pan-albanesi ?], Rugova in testa."
A parte il fatto che qui Mantovani dimentica di parlare dell’accoglienza
che gli riservarono i "combattenti" dell’UCK - ma come diamine puo’
continuare
a definire semplicisticamente "pacifisti" gli ambienti rugoviani,
legati da sempre all’Occidente attraverso Germania e Vaticano, quando
lo stesso Rugova ha ripetuto per l’ennesima volta a "Der Spiegel" lo
scorso dicembre che la indipendenza e' il suo obiettivo, aggiungendo
peraltro (come se non l’avessimo gia’ capito) che "La NATO e’ gia’ il
nostro esercito privato"?!? Dichiarazioni che ricalcano pari-pari
le precedenti, ad esempio quelle del '92 a "Danas" (Croazia), nelle
quali Rugova ha sempre sostenuto che quello di protettorato deve
essere uno status transitorio in vista delle unificazione della
Grande Albania. Avete pubblicato almeno queste ultime dichiarazioni
a "Der Spiegel" su "Liberazione"? Perche’ non ne traete mai nessuna
conseguenza?
In tutto il resto dell’articolo di Mantovani e’ contraddittorio e
dimostra apparentemente scarsa conoscenza delle questioni, ad esempio
quando dice che la FIAT (Iveco) avrebbe fatto "il suo ingresso con
quote consistenti nelle imprese di quel paese", il che e’ semmai da
riferire ai decenni precedenti ma resta comunque inesatto.
Il recente "caso" della Telekom serba e’ chiaramente, a mio avviso, una
campagna tutta giocata a fini di politica interna italiana, con la
quale pero’ si cerca sempre di attribuire, in ultimo, le colpe peggiori
a Milosevic che avrebbe "finanziato la pulizia etnica", pulizia etnica
che e’ una invenzione, dal punto di vista storico. La RF di Jugoslavia
ha dovuto attuare una legittima repressione contro il movimento
secessionista e terrorista, movimento che tutti gli internazionalisti
ed i democratici avrebbero dovuto denunciare e combattere per il suo
carattere nazionalista e reazionario e per la sua funzione
disgregatrice nei confronti della Jugoslavia multinazionale, in questo
affiancato dagli altri secessionismi.
D’altronde anche nell’articolo a fianco, a firma Paola Pittei, si
dimostra chi sono gli interlocutori del PRC sulle questioni jugoslave :
Giulio Marcon, capofila di una delle tante ONG, istituzioni
paragovernative (altro che "non governative..."), maestrine di
democrazia ma con le mani in pasta nella gestione degli "aiuti"
(predestinati verso si-sa-chi) e della ricostruzione. Da ben prima dei
bombardamenti Marcon e altri come lui invocavano una
internazionalizzazione della questione del Kosovo-Metohija, adesso che
quello e’ diventato un protettorato co-gestito da NATO e mafia
nazionalista non sono ancora soddisfatti ?
Ivan per il Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia
Roma, 23/2/2001
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Faccio riferimento alle parole che Mantovani mi disse alcuni anni fa,
in seguito ad una mia critica relativa a certi titoli del
quotidiano "Liberazione" sulla guerra in Bosnia : "Il titolo e' un po'
infelice, ma sai quali sono le posizioni del partito e puoi ritrovarle
nel contenuto dell’articolo..." Gia’ allora fui scettico e
risposi : "Ma in quanti vuoi che vadano a vedere il contenuto
dell’articolo, con tutta la propaganda continua e a senso unico che
devono sorbirsi da tutti i media: la gente si ferma al titolo e giudica
in base a quello".
Pochi giorni fa mi sono purtroppo dovuto ricordare di questo scambio di
battute. Su "Liberazione" del 17 febbraio scorso si leggeva il
titolo: "Mantovani, PRC : Il caso Telecom e’ plausibile". Il contenuto
svela chiaramente quali sono i referenti privilegiati da Mantovani e da
una parte del PRC, nelle problematiche jugoslave: "Quando nell’estate
del 1998 (prima dell’inizio del conflitto [per il Kosovo-Metohija]) mi
recai nuovamente a Belgrado e a Pristina (...) trovai sia gli esponenti
del Partito Socialista sia quelli della JUL, il partito della signora
Milosevic [sic! Mira Markovic : "Per i compagni sono compagna, per gli
altri ho un nome e cognome", dal libro-intervista "La risposta",
Edizioni Internazionali Beta, Roma 1998, che voi avete opportunamente
evitato di recensire su "Liberazione"...], molto freddi. Al contrario
ho trovato buona accoglienza da parte dei leader pacifisti kosovari
[vuol dire secessionisti pan-albanesi ?], Rugova in testa."
A parte il fatto che qui Mantovani dimentica di parlare dell’accoglienza
che gli riservarono i "combattenti" dell’UCK - ma come diamine puo’
continuare
a definire semplicisticamente "pacifisti" gli ambienti rugoviani,
legati da sempre all’Occidente attraverso Germania e Vaticano, quando
lo stesso Rugova ha ripetuto per l’ennesima volta a "Der Spiegel" lo
scorso dicembre che la indipendenza e' il suo obiettivo, aggiungendo
peraltro (come se non l’avessimo gia’ capito) che "La NATO e’ gia’ il
nostro esercito privato"?!? Dichiarazioni che ricalcano pari-pari
le precedenti, ad esempio quelle del '92 a "Danas" (Croazia), nelle
quali Rugova ha sempre sostenuto che quello di protettorato deve
essere uno status transitorio in vista delle unificazione della
Grande Albania. Avete pubblicato almeno queste ultime dichiarazioni
a "Der Spiegel" su "Liberazione"? Perche’ non ne traete mai nessuna
conseguenza?
In tutto il resto dell’articolo di Mantovani e’ contraddittorio e
dimostra apparentemente scarsa conoscenza delle questioni, ad esempio
quando dice che la FIAT (Iveco) avrebbe fatto "il suo ingresso con
quote consistenti nelle imprese di quel paese", il che e’ semmai da
riferire ai decenni precedenti ma resta comunque inesatto.
Il recente "caso" della Telekom serba e’ chiaramente, a mio avviso, una
campagna tutta giocata a fini di politica interna italiana, con la
quale pero’ si cerca sempre di attribuire, in ultimo, le colpe peggiori
a Milosevic che avrebbe "finanziato la pulizia etnica", pulizia etnica
che e’ una invenzione, dal punto di vista storico. La RF di Jugoslavia
ha dovuto attuare una legittima repressione contro il movimento
secessionista e terrorista, movimento che tutti gli internazionalisti
ed i democratici avrebbero dovuto denunciare e combattere per il suo
carattere nazionalista e reazionario e per la sua funzione
disgregatrice nei confronti della Jugoslavia multinazionale, in questo
affiancato dagli altri secessionismi.
D’altronde anche nell’articolo a fianco, a firma Paola Pittei, si
dimostra chi sono gli interlocutori del PRC sulle questioni jugoslave :
Giulio Marcon, capofila di una delle tante ONG, istituzioni
paragovernative (altro che "non governative..."), maestrine di
democrazia ma con le mani in pasta nella gestione degli "aiuti"
(predestinati verso si-sa-chi) e della ricostruzione. Da ben prima dei
bombardamenti Marcon e altri come lui invocavano una
internazionalizzazione della questione del Kosovo-Metohija, adesso che
quello e’ diventato un protettorato co-gestito da NATO e mafia
nazionalista non sono ancora soddisfatti ?
Ivan per il Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia
Roma, 23/2/2001
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http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/djaja/amnesia.htm
> AMNESTY.... OR AMNESIA?
> By Aleksandar Djaya
> From Belgrade, Special to Emperor's Clothes [2-21-2001]
> Translated by N. Malic
>
> It took the martyrdom of Serb civilians in a bus near Poduyevo ?
> protected by soldiers of the same countries that drove those Serbs out
> of Kosovo-Metohia [Kos-Met] ? to stop the Federal Parliament, at least
> temporarily, from passing the humiliating, Western-instigated Amnesty
> Act.
>
> Amnesty, or Amnesia?
>
> Earlier, in the Serbian Parliament, a DOS minister explained that "an
> act of mercy" made such a law necessary. Well mercy is a fine thing
> and perhaps some of the KLA prisoners deserve it. But there is the
> other side of the story....
>
> In the spring of 1999, NATO?s operation "Merciful Angel", the bombing
> of Yugoslavia, killed thousands of civilians and inflicted immense
> destruction. Today, this Merciful Angel issues ultimatums to the same
> Yugoslav political forces whose electoral campaign and subsequent
> government takeover it had financed. It demands DOS pass the Amnesty
> Act and release the "political prisoners."
>
> Who are these Kos-Met Political Prisoners? They were arrested for the
> murder of Yugoslav civilians, Serbian and Albanian, and of policemen
> and Yugoslav soldiers. What would these prisoners of conscience do
> upon their release? They would return to Kos-Met to be greeted as
> heroes by their terrorist associates. The next day they would take
> rifles and, as members of the "KLA" or "UCPMB" [which has invaded
> Serbia] again shoot or abduct and murder Serbian and uncooperative
> Albanian citizens or set up ambush massacres like the bus bombing near
> Poduyevo.
>
> Until that tragic event, the Yugoslav media mentioned little else but
> the Amnesty Act and the need to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal and
> possibly extradite our citizens to this New World Inquisition. As if
> there were no enterprises and factories, economy and industry,
> workers, civil servants, teachers or administrators. As if there were
> no people with ordinary, everyday lives, but only the visions in the
> brains of DOS leaders of some hypothetical "better future" ? dependent
> on the tender mercies of those who made our lives miserable for ten
> long years, only finally to bomb us with thousands of tons of their
> nuclear waste...
>
> Some facts are obvious to the blind. Nevertheless, the DOS-controlled
> media labors heroically to hide them.
>
> If the former government thought that controlling the state television
> and the largest publishing house in the Balkans (while allowing the
> existence of a hundred opposition TV stations throughout Serbia and a
> dozen opposition newspapers) would secure an easy electoral victory ?
> thus committing a major strategic blunder ? then DOS, still
> unnaturally calling itself the "opposition", is continuing in the
> footsteps of its predecessor. There is one important difference: the
> current government controls all the media. Through this captive media
> it continually attempts to convince itself and everyone else that it
> can fill the restless hearts and minds of Serbian citizens with
> optimism and their increasingly empty wallets with funds by doing two
> things:
>
> * First, constantly repeating the promise to arrest leaders of the
> previous government.
> * Second, submitting to all sorts of humiliating demands from the
> US and the West.
>
> If NATO, KFOR and the Hague are the true political reality, as the DOS
> leaders claim, how "real" are these leaders? Does this country have a
> president? Does it have a prime minister, parliament and government?
> Does it have citizens; indeed, does it have any "Reality" at all? Or
> are Serbia and Yugoslavia today only virtually real, a computer game
> run by DOS for the greater amusement of the New World Masters?
>
> Unfortunately, the events in Kosovo-Metohia and the south of Serbia
> transcend virtual-reality fiction. It is true that the new government
> cannot (yet) be held legally responsible for the tragedies in Kos-Met.
> (Though one should ask oneself why the latest and most monstrous
> attack by the terrorist "KLA" - the massacre of Serb civilians in a
> bus near Poduyevo ? happened to this government (and not the old one)
> though this government "cooperates" with the international community
> to a sometimes disgusting degree? Or how long will DOS continue to
> blame the current escalation of terrorism against Yugoslavia on
> someone else? Or at least wish it was the fault of someone else?
>
> JUST WISHING AND HOPING
>
> Wishes are one thing; reality is something else. Ever since the
> victory of "democratic" forces in the federal and state elections,
> what has been the reality in southern Serbia?s Buyanovats, Preshevo
> and Medvedja counties?
>
> Albanian secessionist terrorists have fortified their positions
> including outside the so-called ground safety zone. With the help and
> protection of American KFOR troops, they have brought in heavy
> weaponry. In the "pauses" between attacks on our country?s sovereignty
> and its citizens, they engage in "combat target practice". The targets
> are our law enforcement agents and soldiers, forbidden from firing
> back until Washington gives its blessing. Meanwhile, our humiliated
> police respond to the hail of mortar fire from terrorist positions
> with "dignified restraint" from any response!
>
> Meanwhile, Albanian terrorists responded to the [DOS] peace plan for
> southern Serbia by bombing a bus, massacring Serb returnees in
> Kos-Met, near Poduyevo. And while the United States and NATO "support"
> the peace plan and pat the backs of DOS diplomats worldwide, the
> charred bodies of Serb policemen are being dragged out of their patrol
> car, which hit a mine near the village of Luchane, near Buyanovats.
>
> Nevertheless the most important issue for some of our leaders (not
> all, one must say with honesty) is still the extradition of the former
> Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich to the Hague Tribunal!
>
> Was the Yugoslav Parliament really supposed to ratify the Amnesty
> (Amnesia) Act on that fateful day?
>
> THE PLAN TO FINISH OFF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> The Washington-concocted scenario for crippling the Serbian state is
> in its essence so simple and logical (sinister, but logical
> nevertheless) that it can be ignored only by those who wish to do so.
>
> 1. The Amnesty Act would release all Albanian terrorists. Furthermore,
> it would halt prosecution of deserters and draft-dodgers, rendering
> any subsequent draft ineffective;
>
> 2. As stated in warnings from the West and as enforced by the threat
> of arrest by the Hague Tribunal, any Army commander or law enforcement
> agent in the field who shoots back at NATO's proxy terrorists could be
> labeled a "war criminal". The Army and police chain of command would
> be paralyzed;
>
> 3. Continued insistence on restraint would in effect support the
> deeper penetration of Albanian terrorists from Kos-Met into southern
> Serbia;
>
> 4. Conditioning financial aid to our country with the extradition of
> Yugoslav citizens to the Hague Inquisition would stimulate political
> conflict among the people (1) and if need be ? in order to definitely
> destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia ? incite a civil war. Afterwards,
> obviously, under appropriate resolutions of the UN Security Council
> and in order to protect civilians, their "human rights" and
> "democratic liberties", NATO would occupy all of Yugoslavia! (2)
>
> This State Department/CIA production isn't especially original.
> Nevertheless, it has worked to destroy many Latin American
> "banana-republics." Whether the thousand-year Serb state will founder
> and become a banana-republic at the dawn of the 21st century depends
> on all of us: those in power, as well as ? and even more ? those who
> elected them.
>
> Amnesty, or amnesia? You decide.
>
> Aleksandar Djaya was a columnist for the Yugoslav newspaper 'Borba'
> for two decades, until the Oct. 5th coup. He has written in several
> media and directed Theater in Belgrade.
>
> ***
>
> Further reading...
>
> 1) 'For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Jared Israel at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/tolls.htm Discusses the
> attitude of the current Yugoslav 'government' toward the Hague
> Tribunal.
>
> 2)'German Foreign Minister Calls for Permanent German Troop Occupation
> of Yugoslavia' at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/occupation.htm
> discusses the 'Associated Press' dispatch in which the German Foreign
> Minister argues that Germany should occupy Yugoslavia. Comments by
> Michel Chossudovsky.
>
> 3) Critics say the Hague Tribunal (also known as the International
> Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia or ICTY and also the War
> Crimes Tribunal...) - critics say it reminds them of the Inquisition.
> How very strange... See 'Learning from the Inquisition' by Dr. Kosta
> Cavoski at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm
>
> Send this article to a friend! [Does not work with all email
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>
> Please Assist Yugoslav Journalists' Fund
>
> Emperor's Clothes is trying to assist a few families of Yugoslav
> journalists. These journalists are among the many journalists who have
> literally been thrown out of work when thugs took over all TV and
> radio stations and newspapers during and after the Oct. 5th coup.
> These attacks are part of the terror in 'democratic' Serbia. We are
> providing some financial help; we need to provide more.
>
> It's really a privilege to be able to help these brave men and women
> who are trying to report 'the other side' within Yugoslavia and,
> through Emperor's Clothes and other media, to the outside world.
>
> Meanwhile, our own operating costs have increased. (For instance,
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> than doubled.)
>
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> AMNESTY.... OR AMNESIA?
> By Aleksandar Djaya
> From Belgrade, Special to Emperor's Clothes [2-21-2001]
> Translated by N. Malic
>
> It took the martyrdom of Serb civilians in a bus near Poduyevo ?
> protected by soldiers of the same countries that drove those Serbs out
> of Kosovo-Metohia [Kos-Met] ? to stop the Federal Parliament, at least
> temporarily, from passing the humiliating, Western-instigated Amnesty
> Act.
>
> Amnesty, or Amnesia?
>
> Earlier, in the Serbian Parliament, a DOS minister explained that "an
> act of mercy" made such a law necessary. Well mercy is a fine thing
> and perhaps some of the KLA prisoners deserve it. But there is the
> other side of the story....
>
> In the spring of 1999, NATO?s operation "Merciful Angel", the bombing
> of Yugoslavia, killed thousands of civilians and inflicted immense
> destruction. Today, this Merciful Angel issues ultimatums to the same
> Yugoslav political forces whose electoral campaign and subsequent
> government takeover it had financed. It demands DOS pass the Amnesty
> Act and release the "political prisoners."
>
> Who are these Kos-Met Political Prisoners? They were arrested for the
> murder of Yugoslav civilians, Serbian and Albanian, and of policemen
> and Yugoslav soldiers. What would these prisoners of conscience do
> upon their release? They would return to Kos-Met to be greeted as
> heroes by their terrorist associates. The next day they would take
> rifles and, as members of the "KLA" or "UCPMB" [which has invaded
> Serbia] again shoot or abduct and murder Serbian and uncooperative
> Albanian citizens or set up ambush massacres like the bus bombing near
> Poduyevo.
>
> Until that tragic event, the Yugoslav media mentioned little else but
> the Amnesty Act and the need to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal and
> possibly extradite our citizens to this New World Inquisition. As if
> there were no enterprises and factories, economy and industry,
> workers, civil servants, teachers or administrators. As if there were
> no people with ordinary, everyday lives, but only the visions in the
> brains of DOS leaders of some hypothetical "better future" ? dependent
> on the tender mercies of those who made our lives miserable for ten
> long years, only finally to bomb us with thousands of tons of their
> nuclear waste...
>
> Some facts are obvious to the blind. Nevertheless, the DOS-controlled
> media labors heroically to hide them.
>
> If the former government thought that controlling the state television
> and the largest publishing house in the Balkans (while allowing the
> existence of a hundred opposition TV stations throughout Serbia and a
> dozen opposition newspapers) would secure an easy electoral victory ?
> thus committing a major strategic blunder ? then DOS, still
> unnaturally calling itself the "opposition", is continuing in the
> footsteps of its predecessor. There is one important difference: the
> current government controls all the media. Through this captive media
> it continually attempts to convince itself and everyone else that it
> can fill the restless hearts and minds of Serbian citizens with
> optimism and their increasingly empty wallets with funds by doing two
> things:
>
> * First, constantly repeating the promise to arrest leaders of the
> previous government.
> * Second, submitting to all sorts of humiliating demands from the
> US and the West.
>
> If NATO, KFOR and the Hague are the true political reality, as the DOS
> leaders claim, how "real" are these leaders? Does this country have a
> president? Does it have a prime minister, parliament and government?
> Does it have citizens; indeed, does it have any "Reality" at all? Or
> are Serbia and Yugoslavia today only virtually real, a computer game
> run by DOS for the greater amusement of the New World Masters?
>
> Unfortunately, the events in Kosovo-Metohia and the south of Serbia
> transcend virtual-reality fiction. It is true that the new government
> cannot (yet) be held legally responsible for the tragedies in Kos-Met.
> (Though one should ask oneself why the latest and most monstrous
> attack by the terrorist "KLA" - the massacre of Serb civilians in a
> bus near Poduyevo ? happened to this government (and not the old one)
> though this government "cooperates" with the international community
> to a sometimes disgusting degree? Or how long will DOS continue to
> blame the current escalation of terrorism against Yugoslavia on
> someone else? Or at least wish it was the fault of someone else?
>
> JUST WISHING AND HOPING
>
> Wishes are one thing; reality is something else. Ever since the
> victory of "democratic" forces in the federal and state elections,
> what has been the reality in southern Serbia?s Buyanovats, Preshevo
> and Medvedja counties?
>
> Albanian secessionist terrorists have fortified their positions
> including outside the so-called ground safety zone. With the help and
> protection of American KFOR troops, they have brought in heavy
> weaponry. In the "pauses" between attacks on our country?s sovereignty
> and its citizens, they engage in "combat target practice". The targets
> are our law enforcement agents and soldiers, forbidden from firing
> back until Washington gives its blessing. Meanwhile, our humiliated
> police respond to the hail of mortar fire from terrorist positions
> with "dignified restraint" from any response!
>
> Meanwhile, Albanian terrorists responded to the [DOS] peace plan for
> southern Serbia by bombing a bus, massacring Serb returnees in
> Kos-Met, near Poduyevo. And while the United States and NATO "support"
> the peace plan and pat the backs of DOS diplomats worldwide, the
> charred bodies of Serb policemen are being dragged out of their patrol
> car, which hit a mine near the village of Luchane, near Buyanovats.
>
> Nevertheless the most important issue for some of our leaders (not
> all, one must say with honesty) is still the extradition of the former
> Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich to the Hague Tribunal!
>
> Was the Yugoslav Parliament really supposed to ratify the Amnesty
> (Amnesia) Act on that fateful day?
>
> THE PLAN TO FINISH OFF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> The Washington-concocted scenario for crippling the Serbian state is
> in its essence so simple and logical (sinister, but logical
> nevertheless) that it can be ignored only by those who wish to do so.
>
> 1. The Amnesty Act would release all Albanian terrorists. Furthermore,
> it would halt prosecution of deserters and draft-dodgers, rendering
> any subsequent draft ineffective;
>
> 2. As stated in warnings from the West and as enforced by the threat
> of arrest by the Hague Tribunal, any Army commander or law enforcement
> agent in the field who shoots back at NATO's proxy terrorists could be
> labeled a "war criminal". The Army and police chain of command would
> be paralyzed;
>
> 3. Continued insistence on restraint would in effect support the
> deeper penetration of Albanian terrorists from Kos-Met into southern
> Serbia;
>
> 4. Conditioning financial aid to our country with the extradition of
> Yugoslav citizens to the Hague Inquisition would stimulate political
> conflict among the people (1) and if need be ? in order to definitely
> destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia ? incite a civil war. Afterwards,
> obviously, under appropriate resolutions of the UN Security Council
> and in order to protect civilians, their "human rights" and
> "democratic liberties", NATO would occupy all of Yugoslavia! (2)
>
> This State Department/CIA production isn't especially original.
> Nevertheless, it has worked to destroy many Latin American
> "banana-republics." Whether the thousand-year Serb state will founder
> and become a banana-republic at the dawn of the 21st century depends
> on all of us: those in power, as well as ? and even more ? those who
> elected them.
>
> Amnesty, or amnesia? You decide.
>
> Aleksandar Djaya was a columnist for the Yugoslav newspaper 'Borba'
> for two decades, until the Oct. 5th coup. He has written in several
> media and directed Theater in Belgrade.
>
> ***
>
> Further reading...
>
> 1) 'For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Jared Israel at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/tolls.htm Discusses the
> attitude of the current Yugoslav 'government' toward the Hague
> Tribunal.
>
> 2)'German Foreign Minister Calls for Permanent German Troop Occupation
> of Yugoslavia' at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/occupation.htm
> discusses the 'Associated Press' dispatch in which the German Foreign
> Minister argues that Germany should occupy Yugoslavia. Comments by
> Michel Chossudovsky.
>
> 3) Critics say the Hague Tribunal (also known as the International
> Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia or ICTY and also the War
> Crimes Tribunal...) - critics say it reminds them of the Inquisition.
> How very strange... See 'Learning from the Inquisition' by Dr. Kosta
> Cavoski at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm
>
> Send this article to a friend! [Does not work with all email
> programs...]
>
> Please Assist Yugoslav Journalists' Fund
>
> Emperor's Clothes is trying to assist a few families of Yugoslav
> journalists. These journalists are among the many journalists who have
> literally been thrown out of work when thugs took over all TV and
> radio stations and newspapers during and after the Oct. 5th coup.
> These attacks are part of the terror in 'democratic' Serbia. We are
> providing some financial help; we need to provide more.
>
> It's really a privilege to be able to help these brave men and women
> who are trying to report 'the other side' within Yugoslavia and,
> through Emperor's Clothes and other media, to the outside world.
>
> Meanwhile, our own operating costs have increased. (For instance,
> monthly fees for the superb news media search engine Lexis have more
> than doubled.)
>
> If you can make a contribution either to our general expenses or
> specifically to help the Journalists' Fund, please do. Any amount will
> help. To use our secure server, please go to
> http://www.emperors-clothes.com/howyour.htm#donate. (If you use the
> secure server and wish your contribution to go to the Journalists'
> Fund, please send us a note at emperors1000@...
>
> Or you can mail a check to Emperor's Clothes, P.O. Box 610-321,
> Newton, MA 02461-0321.
>
> Or call 617 916-1705 from 9-5, Eastern U.S. time and ask for Bob.
> Thanks very much!
>
> And please join our email list so we can keep you informed.
>
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Michel Collon wrote:
>
> Please find here an important article about Macedonia, Kosovo, Nato
> and their future.
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic area? 2. KLA attack: is it a surprise? 3.
> What is surviving of the official Nato version? 4. Is Washington
> playing double game? 5. Will KLA provoke a new war? 6. What do the US
> really want? 7. Will it be possible for Washington to keep playing
> with all sides? 8. Did they «forge a monster»? 9. What shall be the
> role of the rivalry between USA and EU? 10. Is Kostunica trapped? 11.
> Perspectives for Peace.
>
> -- Michel Collon
> michel.collon@... (For fair use only)
>
> After Kosovo, Macedonia.
> What is left of the explanations of NATO ?
>
> A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA have
> attacked the villages
> of the Presevo valley in Serbia, after they have killed 11 Serbian
> civilians of Kosovo by throwing a bomb in a bus, they are waging now
> war
> in neighbouring Macedonia. And again refugees are on the roads. Is
> there a
> new escalation in the Balkans?
> In fact, these events allow to better understand what happened in
> 1999. In
> this complex situation (because everything is done to disorientate the
> public
> opinion), let us answer clearly to the main questions.
>
> Michel Collon
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ?
>
> Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the general
> Jackson,
> commander of the NATO troops:
> "We will certainly stay here for a long time in order to guarantee the
> safety of the energy corridors which cross Macedonia". (1) 'Energy
> corridors' ? We had presented the maps showing the projects of Europe
> (a whole net of oil and gas pipe-lines connecting Europe via the
> Balkans
> to the huge oil and gas resources of the former soviet Caucasus) and
> the ones
> of the US (a pipe-line Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania-Adriatic which would
> give
> to the US oil multinationals the control of this road of oil and gas).
> These
> projects are in fact rival. This is why all the great powers attempt
> for ten
> years to control Yugoslavia. The road of oil and gas passes by. We had
> also
> stressed that as soon as 1992 it is in Macedonia - however very far
> away
> from the conflicts zones - and nowhere else that Washington had
> decided to
> send a division.
> We have to be frank: even in the left circles, some peoples found
> exaggerated to suspect Washington to have so dark projects. But very
> recently,
> the respectable British newspaper Guardian confirmed: "A project
> called the Trans-Balkan pipeline has been little-reported in any
> British,
> European or American newspaper. The line
> will run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the Adriatic at Vlore,
> passing through
> Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. It is likely become the main route to
> the west for the oil
> and gas now being extracted in central Asia. It will carry 750,000
> barrels a day. The project is necessary, according to a paper
> published by the US Trade and Development Agency, because it will
> "provide a consistent source of crude oil to American refineries",
> "provide
> American companies with a key role in developing the vital east-west
> corridor",
> and "advance the privatisation aspirations of the US government in the
> region"." (2)
> Clear, isn't it ? Moreover, Bill Richardson, the former US energy
> secretary, declared in 1998, that is before the war: "This is
> about America's energy security". When the US speak about 'energy
> security',
> one must know what it means: to preserve the world domination and the
> profits of their oil multinationals. And Richardson continues:
> "We would like these newly independent countries reliant on Western
> commercial and political interests rather than going another way.
> We've made a substantial political investment in the Caspian, and it's
> very important to us that both the pipeline map and the politics come
> out right." (3)
> And The Guardian adds this essential comment: "On December 9, 98
> (before
> the war), the president of Albania attended a meeting on this subject
> in
> Sofia:"According to my personal opinion, no solution which will stay
> strictly
> inside of the Serbian borders will bring a sustainable peace." The
> message
> could hardly be clearer: if you want the agreement of the Albanians
> for
> the Trans-Balkans pipeline, you have to take the Kosovo away from the
> Serbs". (4)
>
> 2. Is the offensive of the KLA a surprise?
>
> The US made thus a pact with the devil. Because many US diplomatic
> reports testified it: the separatist KLA murdered not only Serbian
> policemen or civilians, but also Albanians married with Serbs or
> simply
> accepting to live in the Yugoslav state. And the special envoy of
> Washington in the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, had himself claimed three
> times
> in front of the international press, at the beginning of 1998: "I tell
> you
> that these KLA peoples are terrorists". But three months later, these
> terrorists were turned by miracle into 'freedom fighters' and NATO
> will soon
> become their air force.
> Today the US simulate surprise faced to the "extremist violence" (5)
> which
> attacks Macedonia. It is hypocrisy! As soon as June 98, the KLA
> distributed
> among its European sympathisers a map of 'Great Albania'. In our book
> Monopoly (p.69), we reproduced this map and made the following
> comment:
> "In addition to Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, this great Albania
> would
> remove large territories in Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece. Wars are
> unavoidable if the KLA is allowed to realize its plans".
> This Greater Albania implies not only expansionism but also ethnic
> cleansing.
> Today, under the eyes and with the tacit agreement of NATO, 350,000
> not-Albanians have already been expelled from Kosovo: Serbs but also
> Gypsies,
> Gorani, Turks etc.. Kosovo is almost 'clean'. A surprise? Not really,
> since, on July 12, 1982 already, the New York Times interviewed a
> Yugoslav official in Kosovo, a man of Albanian ancestry,
> who said: "'The [Albanian] nationalists have a two-point
> platform...first to
> establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and
> then the
> merger with Albania to form a greater Albania." Besides, during the
> anti-Yugoslav insurgency of 1981, the Albanian nationalists had
> already
> established a close collaboration between their units in Macedonia,
> Serbia
> and Montenegro.
> All this didn't prevent the influential US Senator Joseph Lieberman to
> declare in April 99: "[The] United States of America and the Kosovo
> Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles...
> Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
> values."(6).
> In other words, the US and the KLA share the same fight. Besides,
> anybody who travels through Kosovo can see everywhere, for example in
> the petrol stations, the Albanian and US flags closely associated.
>
> 3. Does the version of NATO still make any sense ?
>
> What did NATO tell us to justify its murderous bombings? 1. That its
> war
> was humanitarian. Wrong: it was for oil and to break an economy which
> resisted to the Western multinationals and to the IMF. 2. That it had
> tried everything to find a negotiated solution. Also wrong: we now
> know that
> there was never any negotiation; Rambouillet was only a comedy to
> justify a
> war which had already been decided. 3. That it was a clean war. Wrong
> again:
> 2.000 Yugoslav civilians killed, a huge number of factories and
> infrastructures destroyed, the use of forbidden and criminal weapons:
> cluster bombs, depleted uranium.
> General Mangum just wote in the very official journal of the Army War
> College:
> " The high- altitude bombing did very little damage to the Serb
> military. It was only after NATO began deliberately attacking civilian
> targets that the Serbs sued for peace." (7)
>
> Now what was left of the official version also collapses. We were
> told:
> `The problems of Kosovo are caused by Milosevic'. The situation is not
> better with Kostunica and a government which is subjected to the West
> ! By the way, the Time confess: "Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton
> administration spin during the 1999
> bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of helpless ethnic
> Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo Liberation Army who
> were fighting a
> David-vs.-Goliath struggle against Belgrade's genocidal army. Well,
> guess
> what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of
> the KLA stripe to
> be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is
> also
> considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops
> police the border
> between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of
> Macedonia.
> Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do
> business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence
> for Kosovo dimmed even further." (8)
> So, you may say white today, and black tomorrow if this useful for
> "business". Who will dare to come and speak to us about a humanitarian
> war, newt time?
>
> We were told that the intervention was necessary to stop a Serbian
> genocide
> and to establish a multi-ethnic Kosovo. But the German general Heinz
> Loquai
> has demonstrated that the so-called 'horse-shoe plan' document
> presented
> by the German minister Scharping was fake, that the genocide was a lie
> of the
> media and he just qualified the war as 'unjustified', and accused NATO
> to
> have caused two humanitarian catastrophes: a massive exodus of the
> Albanians
> and then another exodus of the Serbs. And the general Michael Rose,
> who
> commanded the UN forces in Bosnia, reproaches NATO "to have introduced
> a
> culture of violence". (9)
> Finally, in order to find some excuse for the current ethnic cleansing
> in
> Kosovo, the supporters of NATO and KLA have pretended that it was
> 'revenge acts
> for what the Serbs had done'. And now, in Macedonia, where nothing
> happened,
> under which pretext should one justify the aggression of the KLA? It
> is
> time to acknowledge the only possible explanation: the KLA aims to
> establish
> an ethnically clean state and can only realise this program by the
> escalation of hatred and by terrorism.
>
> 4. Does Washington play a double game?
>
> The United States make as if they were indignant at the current
> violences
> of the KLA. But we must point out several things: 1. They didn't move
> a
> finger when the KLA went out from Kosovo to attack the region of
> Presevo
> in Central Serbia. Worse: the infiltration occurred from the US
> occupation
> zone in Kosovo. 2. Washington and the NATO pretend today "to try to
> stop the
> flux of weapons and fighters towards southern Serbia and
> Macedonia".(10)
> But anybody who goes to Kosovo can observe roadblocks and
> check-points of
> the KFOR every five kilometers. But the same KFOR is working with
> interprets
> and other collaborators coming from the KLA, which besides was
> transformed
> by KFOR into the very official 'Kosovo Protection Corps'. So, the ones
> who
> don't look for the weapons of the KLA will not find them.
> Moreover, the major Jim Marshall, spokesman of the US KFOR, declared
> on
> March, 6: "We have identified between 75 and 150 rebels in Tanusevci
> (Macedonia), we saw them enter and go out from Kosovo, and get rid of
> their equipments and weapons before to cross the border." A little
> stupid
> question: what did prevent you to arrest them? 45,000 NATO soldiers
> are
> occupying Kosovo and can not arrest 150 terrorists ? Can not or
> don't want to? On March, 11, in the British newspaper Observer,
> several
> European high officers of KFOR and also several Macedonian officials
> accused
> explicitly the CIA to have encouraged the KLA to start its summer
> offensive
> in the South of Serbia in order to undermine the former Yugoslav
> president
> Slobodan Milosevic. Today, who could guarantee that these
> encouragements
> have stopped?
>
> 5. Will the KLA start a new war ?
>
> What will happen ? The current fights around Tanusevce could well be
> the prelude of more important clashes. For example, to take control of
> Tetovo, five kilometers away from the Kosovo border.
> In any case, one thing is clear: the KLA, which lost the elections
> last
> year, -because the large majority of the Albanians in Kosovo don't
> want to
> live in a permanent state of war - can only regain ground by using
> violence.
> Including in Macedonia where it pretends to defend the rights of the
> Albanian minority, but one often forgets to remind that, for years,
> every
> government of this country has been made of a coalition with Albanian
> parties.
> To take power, and thus increase the range of its maffia - like
> traffics,
> necessitates war.
> The tactics of the KLA is thus clear: to cause an escalation by
> provoking the Macedonian and the Yugoslavian armies. Hoping that the
> later
> will attack Albanian civilians as was done by some Serbian forces
> during
> the first days of the NATO bombings. That will allow to reach two
> goals: 1. To internationalise the conflict (we will come back to it
> later).
> 2. To enrol new recruits in an Albanian youth which has been fanatised
> by
> nationalism. In spite of the development of many little traffics more
> or
> less legal, the Albanian community of Macedonia has an unemployment
> rate of
> 60%; it is a potential where to recruit.
> To get this escalation, the KLA will probably use again a method which
> has already been put in practice. As a French observer of the OSCE
> explained it in Kosovo in 1998: "Inside the OSCE, everybody knew that
> NATO, in particular the US, didn't want our mission (of pacification)
> to
> succeed. The massacres have been encouraged to justify a military
> intervention. One day we got a message. We were told that Albanian
> fighters had been trained by American instructors. They were explained
> that it was more strategic to kill Serbian policemen to provoke
> important
> retaliations against the Albanian community." (11)
> As in Bosnia and in Kosovo there can be some time before that this
> tactics ends up in more important clashes. An important step would be
> done by provoking the equivalent of the 'Racak massacre'. In January
> 99,
> in this village of Kosovo that it had fortified, the KLA had provoked,
> and lost, a fight between the two armies. But it made believe that the
> victims were civilians coldly massacred by the Yugoslav army. With the
> help
> of the CIA, one made believe this media-lie in the international media
> and
> this allow to condition the Western public opinion to make it accept a
> war
> decided for a long time by the US. Each war of today is preceded by
> such
> a big media-lie, with shocking pictures.
>
> 6. What are the US really looking for?
>
> But to do again the 'Racak trick' would necessitate a complicity of
> the
> US to lead the Western media. If this would happen, that would
> certainly be
> the sign that the US superpower would be preparing a new intervention.
> One can oppose two objections to this hypothesis: First the US are
> qualifying today the KLA as 'extremist forces' and condemn their
> actions, at
> least in words. Answer: at the beginning of 98 also, they qualified
> the
> KLA as 'terrorists', as we have seen, but that didn't prevent them to
> support unconditionally the KLA a few months later. If there is one
> principle to remember
> in the action of the US for ten years, it is that there are no
> principles!
> One can also ask why would the US intervene although they seem to
> control
> the region and have installed there their military bases ? Of course
> one
> doesn't know yet all the aspects of their current tactics. It may be
> that
> behind the scene they push the KLA to create again some tension in
> order to
> help the US troops to occupy the whole region. As soon as the first
> incidents in the Presevo valley occurred, Washington had generously
> proposed to station US troops in Serbia proper. One must also remind
> that during the so-called
> 'negotiations' in Rambouillet before the war, Madeleine Albright had
> required that NATO will be allowed to occupy militarily the whole
> Yugoslavia.
> It may also be that new Bush administration has not yet decided which
> is
> the best tactic to protect the US interests in the Balkans, that it
> prefers
> to play for some time with both sides and that the tactic of the KLA
> was
> precisely to force it to take a decision or to act quicker.
> In both cases, one thing is sure: the US are not there to defend peace
> or
> protect any people of the Balkans. They are there to reign. And to
> reign
> you have to divide, as we know, and to divide the best solution is a
> war, or
> at least a so-called 'low intensity' war, a situation of 'neither war
> nor
> peace' with irregular clashes. Isn't it the best way to justify the
> installation of US military bases in the Balkans ?
> Of course, the candidate George Bush had said that he wanted to move
> the
> US troops out of Kosovo. But the president George Bush rapidly forgot
> these
> electoral promises. Lets remind that in 1995 the candidate Bill
> Clinton
> had promised that the US troops would have left Bosnia by Christmas.
> Immediately afterwards, the commander of the UN troops in Bosnia, the
> general MacKenzie, answered to a parliamentary commission: "If I were
> you,
> I'd start training your grandchildren as Bosnia peacekeepers." (12)
> Wether it wants to force Bush to intervene or acts in collaboration
> with him,
> the goal of the KLA is in any case to internationalise again the
> conflict,
> as did the Muslims of Izetbegovic in Bosnia from 1992 and the KLA
> itself in
> Kosovo in 1998.
> By attacking almost at the same time Macedonia and the South of
> Serbia,
> by denouncing in racist terms any Slav presence on their territories,
> the leaders of the KLA aim at provoking a reaction of Macedonia and
> Yugoslavia, but also of Greece, close to the Serbs. And, as an
> indirect
> result, a retaliation of their own allies: Albania and Turkey. That is
> an
> internationalisation of the conflict which would force Washington to
> choose
> between its allies and, as the KLA hopes, to definitely choose the
> Albanian side.
>
> 7. Will Washington still be able to play on both sides?
>
> To understand the situation of the US, it is important to understand
> that
> they systematically play on several sides at the same time. To support
> and
> to manipulate discretely two adversaries - and even train them
> militarily -
> does not embarrass them at all. For example, we can read in the
> British Daily
> Telegraph of March 3: "The private company of security which is the
> most
> appreciated by the US government has trained both sides of the last
> ethnic
> conflict in the Balkans. Only two years ago the Albanian rebels of
> Kosovo
> were trained by the society 'Military Professional Resources' based in
> Virginia... One of the recent task of this society was the training of
> the
> Macedonian army which is now shooting on the Albanian guerrilla."
> One should not underestimate the role in the US military system of the
> private companies and militia, led by former high officers. Already in
> Bosnia, they had trained and led the Muslim militia of the president
> Izetbegovic before that the US could openly intervene. And in Croatia
> they
> helped the president Tudjman to realise the bloody ethnic cleansing of
> the Serbian Krajina in august 95 (13). History repeats itself.
> Having played in several sides, the US can be for a moment in a
> difficult
> situation. From one side, they continue to use the KLA to get more
> concessions from Serbia: the complete privatisation and the
> elimination of
> the main opposition party, the SPS (by sending its president Milosevic
> to the Court of the Hague). But on the other hand, if they let the KLA
> going too far, they will have troubles with precious allies: 1. The
> Macedonian government 2. Greece (also threatened by the demands of the
> KLA) 3. The Yugoslav president Kostunica.
> The Macedonian government has not much autonomy and one says that
> Washington could impose it what it wants, including a federal state,
> prelude to a splitting. Moreover, the Macedonian leaders are very
> weakened by various scandals, which have revealed their links
> with the US. The left opposition claims to be more independent, but
> its
> main candidate was put aside by terror during the last elections.
> Macedonia,
> a too weak and unstable ally for Washington ?
> On the other hand, the Greek leaders are important pawns in the NATO
> strategy of Washington. But the Greek people is strongly against NATO,
> the
> influence of the communist party is important and very recently one
> third
> of the Greek soldiers have required and obtained to be moved out from
> Kosovo to escape the dangers of depleted uranium.
> Finally by playing too openly with the card of the KLA, the US would
> strongly endangered the president Kostunica, who was elected with an
> ambiguous profile - anti-NATO and pro-West - and who can not present
> to
> his opinion any positive result about Kosovo, to the contrary.
> To allow him to make come again some Yugoslav troops to watch the
> border is maybe a small concession to give some more credit to
> Kostunica and to somehow balance the two 'friends' of the US. But the
> reason can also be simply to avoid that US soldiers would be in first
> line
> and risk to come back to the US in body-bags, which is always
> embarrassing
> for the US opinion. And, in a more machiavellian way, that would start
> again clashes between Serbs and Albanians.
> What if Washington drops the KLA and reverses its alliance? Then it
> could be that its German 'ally' -but also rival- supports again
> secretly
> the KLA as it did at the beginning 98 (14). Which also explains that
> the
> KLA has interest to make even more provocations. The rivalry between
> Western great powers is thus another factor which increases the risks
> of
> war. Many European politicians had already accused the US to be guilty
> of
> having uselessly prolonged the war in Bosnia in order to eliminate
> their
> German competitor which had got a too good position. (15)
> Reverse the alliance? One has already seen everything in this respect
> from
> the US, for example between Iran, Iraq and Syria. But their goal is to
> establish in the Balkans a 'plane-carrier' state, like Israel in the
> Middle-East. For this, an obvious choice is still an Albanian state
> which
> would owe everything to Washington. However, the European powers
> refuse
> a change of the borders in the Balkans. This would cause new wars and
> destabilise the projects of 'corridors' described above.
> One thing is sure: the intervention of NATO for some hidden interests
> didn't
> bring and will not bring peace.
>
> 8. Do they really ask themselves if they have created a monster?
>
> It is again in The Guardian that one could read, on March 12, a
> surprising question: 'Did we create a monster ?'. Their special
> correspondent
> in Pristina reports: "The West is stunned. Balkan nightmares were
> supposed
> to have ended with the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. But now
> Albanian nationalist militants are stirring ethnic rivalries in a
> quest
> for a greater Kosovo. The liberated victims have become the villains.
> In Washington and London, and in the offices of NATO and UN in
> Pristina, a
> question is dominating: did we create a monster ?" The correspondent
> of the
> Guardian led a quite vast investigation with the staff of UN and KFOR
> and
> concludes: "The failure of KFOR to disarm the KLA, protect the Serb
> minority and build a multi-ethnic society has created a climate in
> which extremists flourish. For almost a year it
> ignored intellectuals who urged a crackdown on KLA members who seized
> assets and set up criminal networks. "Now it's too late, the moderates
> won the election, but those who smuggle and run the rackets have the
> real power," one officer serving there
> admits."
> Disastrous result, and one understands that the former governor of
> Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, had quickly left the ship before that his
> self-satisfied TV statements have been refuted.
> Because what The Guardian reports is true. I was myself in Kosovo last
> December to make there a documentary movie "The damned of Kosovo"
> (which will
> be ready next May). I discovered there a hell for the Serbs and all
> non - Albanian minorities. Most of them have been expelled from
> Kosovo:
> ethnic cleansing. The ones who have stayed live in terror. To speak
> its own
> language in public constitutes a mortal danger. Also to go on highways
> in non-Serbian zones. But the terror strikes also a number of
> Albanians.
> KLA maffiosi kill Albanians also. To take houses, companies or women.
> And
> many of the Albanian with who I was talking, predicted a civil war
> - between Albanians - in two or three years time.
> Quickly The Guardian mentions the theory of 'the mistake': The West
> would 'have misunderstood the danger of Albanian nationalism'. Of
> which
> 'West' are we talking here? If it is the public, it is indeed true
> that
> it didn't understand because one hided to it carefully the truth. When
> some analysts explained that the program of the KLA was the ethnic
> cleansing,
> they were almost excluded of the media or even considered as evils.
> But if one speaks about the leaders of this 'West' - the White House,
> Tony Blair, Solana and Robertson, the CIA - they knew of course for a
> long
> time because their own reports considered the KLA as 'terrorists'.
> In Kosovo, we have also seen that one has to distinguish between a
> number
> of honest Western aid workers and militaries, and their high-level
> officials.
> The former went to Kosovo with prejudices but also with good will. The
> later
> have been sent to Kosovo to hide this truth, to hide the secret goals
> of the
> US and their allies and to lie.
> It is certainly in the first category that one must put Eric Torch, a
> UN aid worker cited by The Guardian: "Albanians
> trace their lineage to the Illyrans who controlled the territory in
> the
> 11th century BC. Underground schools during Milosevic's rule
> inculcated ethnic
> hatred into generations."
> Yes, you have read correctly: 'during Milosevic's
> rule'. This confirms what have said some unconventional analysts:
> these
> parallel Albanian schools, organized by the party of Rugova and
> financed
> by the US taught racist anti-Serbian conceptions. It was wrong to say
> that
> the responsibility of the conflict was entirely on the side of the
> Serbs.
> Pushed by the US, the Albanian leaders of Kosovo refused to negotiate
> seriously, they wanted only independence and taught the hatred to
> achieve it.
>
> 9. Which role will play the rivalry US -EU?
>
> One can not understand the attitude of the US in these events without
> replacing it in the context of their world strategy. One of the
> key-men
> of the new Bush administration is called Wolfowitz. In our book
> Liar's Poker we made comments about his shock-report of March 92:
> "The status of unique super-power of the US must be preserved by a
> constructive behaviour and a sufficient military force to dissuade any
> nation or group of nations to challenge the supremacy of the US. We
> must
> act in order to prevent the appearance of a security system
> exclusively
> European which could destabilise NATO" (16).
> The US military budget began to blow up under Clinton and this will
> continue under Bush. Three potential rivals at more or less long term
> are
> today the potential targets of this dangerous strategy: the European
> Union,
> Russia, China. The embassy of the later was bombed as a warning. It is
> considered by the CIA as risking to overtake around 2015-2030 the
> power of
> the US. Concerning Russia, the new US State secretary, Colin Powell,
> declared
> that the objections of Moscow would not prevent the expansion of NATO
> to
> the East or the militarisation of space by the so-called
> 'anti-missiles
> shield' (NMD). His colleague Condoleezza Rice declared that she
> sincerely
> "believes that Russia is a threat for the West" (17). And the Defence
> secretary
> Rumsfeld attacked Russia for "its 'active proliferation of missiles'
> to
> countries like Iran, Korea or India". (18)
> Concerning Europe, Rumsfeld warned against any autonomous European
> intervention force which would perturb the transatlantic relation
> during
> the conference of Munich about global safety, beginning of February.
> Answer
> of the German minister Joskha Fisher: the new Bush administration
> wants to
> restart a new arms race. His colleague Scharping expressed sympathy
> for
> the Russian views about NMD. Germany has, like France, condemned the
> US bombings against Iraq.
> Moreover, the ambition of the US to dictate their will to the whole
> world
> is currently braked by several points of resistance that they don't
> succeed to eliminate. Iraq still resists, as well as the Palestinians.
> The US intervention in Colombia could transform itself into a new
> Vietnam.
> The communist guerrilla in Nepal worries the American experts. Some of
> them
> think that it is time to find a solution in the Balkans and to focus
> on other
> operations.
> All this on a background of growing commercial rivalries and crisis
> which
> could only worsen the tension USA-Europe. The game that these powers
> are
> playing in the Balkans for ten years, each of them trying to get the
> biggest part of the cake, this game will continue to cause damages to
> the
> peoples of the region. When the elephants fight each other, it is the
> grass
> which is smashed.
> And after all the gifts that the US have given to reward the terrorism
> of
> the KLA, one can expect that this example will be contagious for some
> fractions of the Albanian community in Macedonia and Montenegro or for
> other
> secessionist movements in the world. One will use provocations and
> terrorism to try to present oneself as 'victims'.
> The mistrust between US and Europe about Kosovo increased when the
> candidate Bush threatened to move out the US troops from the Balkans,
> letting
> the Europeans alone in what one is forced to call a mess. Since then,
> many European officials criticize -privately- the support of the US to
> the
> terrorists of KLA. An expert of the French Institute of International
> Relations (IFRI) has just declared: "The Dayton process is dead. The
> whole
> system needs to be renegotiated. But no-one wants to open the
> Pandora's
> box by calling it into question, risking poisoning the
> situation on the ground. If for example, the Kosovo Albanians were
> appeased
> with a state of their own, it would trigger a domino
> effect that would see Serbia's junior partner in the
> rump Yugoslavia, Montenegro, as well as Bosnian Serbs
> and Bosnian Croats all renewing their own independence claims.
> For some time it appeared the Americans were prepared
> to look at changing borders. I think that cannot
> happen now, and if they did try it they would be opposed by Europe."
> (19))
>
> What will be the outcome? In fact, Bush has four options: 1. to redraw
> his
> troops. That would have strongly embarrassed the Europeans. It is now
> not
> possible anymore, especially with the depleted uranium scandal. 2. to
> reverse
> the alliance and to support the Serbia of Kostunica. But the US troops
> could become the targets of the KLA. And one is not sure that Serbia
> will be a reliable partner for the long term. The spirit of popular
> resistance is still alive there. 3. to support both sides by using a
> strategy of tension. 4. to maintain the support to the KLA to create
> an
> Albanian 'Israel-like' state while hiding its game as long as
> possible.
> No one of the options is moral, we have seen that this criteria is
> never
> relevant. But to realize their strategic long-term goals, the US can
> well
> resort to changing and contradictory tactics.
> For now a combination of the options 3 and 4 seems the most likely to
> us. But
> maybe the US have not decided yet and they are waiting to see the most
> favourable according to the reactions of their 'friends' ?
> In any case, the tactics being changing, some docile media would have
> some
> trouble to explain to the peoples that the good guys are not good
> anymore and
> that the bad guys are on the other side. Let's hope that these
> troubles will
> cause a deep reflexion. If one doesn't understand the economic
> interests at
> stake, and first, the ones of the multinationals looking for new
> markets,
> working forces and raw materials, it is impossible to understand all
> these
> wars.
>
> 10. Is Kostunica in a trap ?
>
> The president Kostunica has been elected by defending an ambiguous
> position:
> on one hand, he denounces the war of NATO, the occupation of Kosovo
> and
> the interference of the US; on the other hand, he promises the
> reconciliation with this very same West and an economic improvement
> thanks
> to Western aid.
> Till now the least one can say is that he wasn't rewarded concerning
> Kosovo.
> On March 6, he declared: "The representatives of the international
> community
> in Kosovo are facing failure, because they did not provide stability
> and peace,
> and the crisis spilled over into Macedonia. Kfor is dealing with its
> own security,
> and not with the security of those because of whom it is here."(20)
> Kostunica also accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing the
> aspirations of a Greater Albania. KFOR is abandoning protection of the
> border and is
> inviting our army to be in the crossfire" (21) He also expressed hope
> that
> the policy of the new U.S. administration would be marked by "a high
> level of
> non-interference in the problems of other states". (22)
> The paradox is that two days after having warned so clearly against
> NATO and the interference of the US , the same Kostunica added that
> "he did not rule out Yugoslavia becoming a formal alliance partner one
> day."(23) A NATO which is however the most obvious tool of the
> interference spirit of the US ! In the same declaration, the Yugoslav
> president declared himself disappointed: "When I came to office, I did
> not
> expect the situation in the country to be quite so difficult; it is
> discouraging," citing security and constitutional problems as well as
> 40
> percent unemployment and 800,000 refugees. Surprising declaration as
> the
> 800,000 refugees (expelled from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo) are living
> in Serbia for years. Concerning the unemployed, did he lead his
> electoral
> campaign by ignoring that the Western embargo and the state of the
> economy had such consequences ? And by not reading the program of the
> economists of his own electoral coalition which foresaw privatisations
> and
> massive dismissals ?
>
> How to interpret these contradictory statements ? In fact, as
> expected,
> the material situation of the Serbian population has still worsened
> with the
> Djindjic government. If the salaries of the university professors have
> been
> doubled, the ones of the workers have only increased by 25% to 50%,
> and
> it is completely insufficient to face the huge increases of the
> prices.
> The cubic meter of gas has gone from three up to twelve dinars, the
> kilo of
> sausages from 150 up to 300 dinars, the electricity bill of a
> household
> has increased from 150 or 200 dinars a month to 500 dinars! The
> electricity
> company of Belgrade indicates that 130,000 households of the city have
> a very important debt: more than 30,000 dinars! And the price of
> petrol also
> increases, all the more that the new government took control of all
> the
> oil sector in order to eliminate the black market of petrol (cheaper).
> As expected, the honeymoon didn't last. If the president Kostunica is
> not
> considered as personally responsible for all this, the rate of
> discontent
> towards the new government of Zoran Djindjic on the other hand has
> already gone up to 60%: "He doesn't do anything for the people. Even
> during
> the war, we had always had electricity, but with the 'great
> democracy', the
> cuts last for four hours during the day, three hours at night" is it
> told
> everywhere. And many judge that elections are unavoidable in 12 or 18
> months
> time. The heterogeneous coalition of 18 parties should split quite
> soon.
> It is why one must dismiss Milosevic and eliminate the risk of a come
> back of the socialist party, even if this party has not yet gone up in
> the polls.
>
> Which evolution is to foresee inside Yugoslavia? The professors that
> are
> not from the universities are on a prolonged strike. Many strikes
> occur also in the industry, only broken by threats of collective
> dismissals.
> This didn't prevent the new left trade-union 'Solidarity' to get at
> the
> car factory Zastava an additional increase of salary of 25%. On the
> other
> hand, the minority trade-union of government tendency had refused to
> join the strike. 'Solidarity' has announced the publication of a
> monthly
> newspaper and the next months should see it increasing its influence.
> Did Kostunica fall in a trap of the West? Was he expecting to get more
> support in the question of Kosovo and for the economy? Till now he
> just
> got alms and the US make the other credits depend on the extradition
> of
> Milosevic. What Kostunica can not do otherwise he would contradict
> himself
> and commit a political suicide. Thus, the US finance a new campaign of
> OTPOR
> to criminalize Milosevic. The US, which, for fifty years, have
> supported,
> financed and armed all the far-right and military dictatorships in the
> world, these US which have protected the crimes of Pinochet, Mobutu,
> Franco, Salazar, the Greek colonels and the Turkish fascist generals,
> these
> US pretend to judge just one former head of state, precisely one who
> has
> resisted to them ? The US deserve the Oscar of hypocrisy.
>
> 11. Perspectives.
>
> In a world marked by a looming economic crisis, by an increase of the
> wars and a frightening increase of the military budgets, it is
> important to
> fully draw the lessons of Kosovo and of the current situation.
> 1. There are no 'humanitarian' wars, only economic and strategic wars.
> 2. The US and NATO are not searching to solve the problems but to
> dominate the world. Thus they create or excite the problems when it is
> useful
> for them 3. The military intervention against Yugoslavia and in favour
> of
> the KLA has worsened everything. 4. It is not 'by mistake' that
> Washington
> supported the KLA, but consciously.
> It is urgent to reinforce or to recreate a powerful peace movement on
> a
> grass-root level. The only way to get there is to work with patience
> in
> establishing the dialog between the peoples, who are all victims of
> this
> strategy of 'dividing to conquer'.
> And for this, to debate of the results of this war and of the real
> strategies of the great powers is the fundamental condition. The
> struggle for
> peace begins with a lucid analysis.
>
> 12th of March 2001
>
> Notes
>
> (1) Michel Collon, Monopoly - L'Otan à la Conquête du monde, EPO,
> march 2000,
> p. 96. (English edition prepared)
> (2) The Guardian, February 15, 2001.
> (3) Idem.
> (4) Idem.
> (5) AFP-Skopje, March 6, 2001.
> (6) Washington Post, April 28, 1999.
> (7) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001.
> (8) Time, 8 mars 2001
> (9) Both cited in Kan Anders-Vredeskoerier (Holland), march 2001.
> (10) Declaration of Robertson (NATO), AP, March 6.
> (11) L'Humanité, November 18, 1999
> (12) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001
> (13) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 191. (Soon published
> in English version)
> (14) See Monopoly, pp. 70-71.
> (15) The European mediator in Bosnia, David Owen, cited in Michel
> Collon,
> Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 182.
> (16) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, p. 116.
> (17) Le Figaro, February 10, 2001.
> (18) PBS, February 14, 2001.
> (19) AFP - Paris, March 8, 2001.
> (20) BBC, March 6.
> (21) Reuters - Skopje, March 8, 2001.
> (22) BBC, March 6.
> (23) Reuters - London, March 8, 2001
>
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> Please find here an important article about Macedonia, Kosovo, Nato
> and their future.
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic area? 2. KLA attack: is it a surprise? 3.
> What is surviving of the official Nato version? 4. Is Washington
> playing double game? 5. Will KLA provoke a new war? 6. What do the US
> really want? 7. Will it be possible for Washington to keep playing
> with all sides? 8. Did they «forge a monster»? 9. What shall be the
> role of the rivalry between USA and EU? 10. Is Kostunica trapped? 11.
> Perspectives for Peace.
>
> -- Michel Collon
> michel.collon@... (For fair use only)
>
> After Kosovo, Macedonia.
> What is left of the explanations of NATO ?
>
> A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA have
> attacked the villages
> of the Presevo valley in Serbia, after they have killed 11 Serbian
> civilians of Kosovo by throwing a bomb in a bus, they are waging now
> war
> in neighbouring Macedonia. And again refugees are on the roads. Is
> there a
> new escalation in the Balkans?
> In fact, these events allow to better understand what happened in
> 1999. In
> this complex situation (because everything is done to disorientate the
> public
> opinion), let us answer clearly to the main questions.
>
> Michel Collon
>
> 1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ?
>
> Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the general
> Jackson,
> commander of the NATO troops:
> "We will certainly stay here for a long time in order to guarantee the
> safety of the energy corridors which cross Macedonia". (1) 'Energy
> corridors' ? We had presented the maps showing the projects of Europe
> (a whole net of oil and gas pipe-lines connecting Europe via the
> Balkans
> to the huge oil and gas resources of the former soviet Caucasus) and
> the ones
> of the US (a pipe-line Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania-Adriatic which would
> give
> to the US oil multinationals the control of this road of oil and gas).
> These
> projects are in fact rival. This is why all the great powers attempt
> for ten
> years to control Yugoslavia. The road of oil and gas passes by. We had
> also
> stressed that as soon as 1992 it is in Macedonia - however very far
> away
> from the conflicts zones - and nowhere else that Washington had
> decided to
> send a division.
> We have to be frank: even in the left circles, some peoples found
> exaggerated to suspect Washington to have so dark projects. But very
> recently,
> the respectable British newspaper Guardian confirmed: "A project
> called the Trans-Balkan pipeline has been little-reported in any
> British,
> European or American newspaper. The line
> will run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the Adriatic at Vlore,
> passing through
> Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. It is likely become the main route to
> the west for the oil
> and gas now being extracted in central Asia. It will carry 750,000
> barrels a day. The project is necessary, according to a paper
> published by the US Trade and Development Agency, because it will
> "provide a consistent source of crude oil to American refineries",
> "provide
> American companies with a key role in developing the vital east-west
> corridor",
> and "advance the privatisation aspirations of the US government in the
> region"." (2)
> Clear, isn't it ? Moreover, Bill Richardson, the former US energy
> secretary, declared in 1998, that is before the war: "This is
> about America's energy security". When the US speak about 'energy
> security',
> one must know what it means: to preserve the world domination and the
> profits of their oil multinationals. And Richardson continues:
> "We would like these newly independent countries reliant on Western
> commercial and political interests rather than going another way.
> We've made a substantial political investment in the Caspian, and it's
> very important to us that both the pipeline map and the politics come
> out right." (3)
> And The Guardian adds this essential comment: "On December 9, 98
> (before
> the war), the president of Albania attended a meeting on this subject
> in
> Sofia:"According to my personal opinion, no solution which will stay
> strictly
> inside of the Serbian borders will bring a sustainable peace." The
> message
> could hardly be clearer: if you want the agreement of the Albanians
> for
> the Trans-Balkans pipeline, you have to take the Kosovo away from the
> Serbs". (4)
>
> 2. Is the offensive of the KLA a surprise?
>
> The US made thus a pact with the devil. Because many US diplomatic
> reports testified it: the separatist KLA murdered not only Serbian
> policemen or civilians, but also Albanians married with Serbs or
> simply
> accepting to live in the Yugoslav state. And the special envoy of
> Washington in the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, had himself claimed three
> times
> in front of the international press, at the beginning of 1998: "I tell
> you
> that these KLA peoples are terrorists". But three months later, these
> terrorists were turned by miracle into 'freedom fighters' and NATO
> will soon
> become their air force.
> Today the US simulate surprise faced to the "extremist violence" (5)
> which
> attacks Macedonia. It is hypocrisy! As soon as June 98, the KLA
> distributed
> among its European sympathisers a map of 'Great Albania'. In our book
> Monopoly (p.69), we reproduced this map and made the following
> comment:
> "In addition to Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, this great Albania
> would
> remove large territories in Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece. Wars are
> unavoidable if the KLA is allowed to realize its plans".
> This Greater Albania implies not only expansionism but also ethnic
> cleansing.
> Today, under the eyes and with the tacit agreement of NATO, 350,000
> not-Albanians have already been expelled from Kosovo: Serbs but also
> Gypsies,
> Gorani, Turks etc.. Kosovo is almost 'clean'. A surprise? Not really,
> since, on July 12, 1982 already, the New York Times interviewed a
> Yugoslav official in Kosovo, a man of Albanian ancestry,
> who said: "'The [Albanian] nationalists have a two-point
> platform...first to
> establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and
> then the
> merger with Albania to form a greater Albania." Besides, during the
> anti-Yugoslav insurgency of 1981, the Albanian nationalists had
> already
> established a close collaboration between their units in Macedonia,
> Serbia
> and Montenegro.
> All this didn't prevent the influential US Senator Joseph Lieberman to
> declare in April 99: "[The] United States of America and the Kosovo
> Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles...
> Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
> values."(6).
> In other words, the US and the KLA share the same fight. Besides,
> anybody who travels through Kosovo can see everywhere, for example in
> the petrol stations, the Albanian and US flags closely associated.
>
> 3. Does the version of NATO still make any sense ?
>
> What did NATO tell us to justify its murderous bombings? 1. That its
> war
> was humanitarian. Wrong: it was for oil and to break an economy which
> resisted to the Western multinationals and to the IMF. 2. That it had
> tried everything to find a negotiated solution. Also wrong: we now
> know that
> there was never any negotiation; Rambouillet was only a comedy to
> justify a
> war which had already been decided. 3. That it was a clean war. Wrong
> again:
> 2.000 Yugoslav civilians killed, a huge number of factories and
> infrastructures destroyed, the use of forbidden and criminal weapons:
> cluster bombs, depleted uranium.
> General Mangum just wote in the very official journal of the Army War
> College:
> " The high- altitude bombing did very little damage to the Serb
> military. It was only after NATO began deliberately attacking civilian
> targets that the Serbs sued for peace." (7)
>
> Now what was left of the official version also collapses. We were
> told:
> `The problems of Kosovo are caused by Milosevic'. The situation is not
> better with Kostunica and a government which is subjected to the West
> ! By the way, the Time confess: "Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton
> administration spin during the 1999
> bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of helpless ethnic
> Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo Liberation Army who
> were fighting a
> David-vs.-Goliath struggle against Belgrade's genocidal army. Well,
> guess
> what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of
> the KLA stripe to
> be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is
> also
> considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops
> police the border
> between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of
> Macedonia.
> Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do
> business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence
> for Kosovo dimmed even further." (8)
> So, you may say white today, and black tomorrow if this useful for
> "business". Who will dare to come and speak to us about a humanitarian
> war, newt time?
>
> We were told that the intervention was necessary to stop a Serbian
> genocide
> and to establish a multi-ethnic Kosovo. But the German general Heinz
> Loquai
> has demonstrated that the so-called 'horse-shoe plan' document
> presented
> by the German minister Scharping was fake, that the genocide was a lie
> of the
> media and he just qualified the war as 'unjustified', and accused NATO
> to
> have caused two humanitarian catastrophes: a massive exodus of the
> Albanians
> and then another exodus of the Serbs. And the general Michael Rose,
> who
> commanded the UN forces in Bosnia, reproaches NATO "to have introduced
> a
> culture of violence". (9)
> Finally, in order to find some excuse for the current ethnic cleansing
> in
> Kosovo, the supporters of NATO and KLA have pretended that it was
> 'revenge acts
> for what the Serbs had done'. And now, in Macedonia, where nothing
> happened,
> under which pretext should one justify the aggression of the KLA? It
> is
> time to acknowledge the only possible explanation: the KLA aims to
> establish
> an ethnically clean state and can only realise this program by the
> escalation of hatred and by terrorism.
>
> 4. Does Washington play a double game?
>
> The United States make as if they were indignant at the current
> violences
> of the KLA. But we must point out several things: 1. They didn't move
> a
> finger when the KLA went out from Kosovo to attack the region of
> Presevo
> in Central Serbia. Worse: the infiltration occurred from the US
> occupation
> zone in Kosovo. 2. Washington and the NATO pretend today "to try to
> stop the
> flux of weapons and fighters towards southern Serbia and
> Macedonia".(10)
> But anybody who goes to Kosovo can observe roadblocks and
> check-points of
> the KFOR every five kilometers. But the same KFOR is working with
> interprets
> and other collaborators coming from the KLA, which besides was
> transformed
> by KFOR into the very official 'Kosovo Protection Corps'. So, the ones
> who
> don't look for the weapons of the KLA will not find them.
> Moreover, the major Jim Marshall, spokesman of the US KFOR, declared
> on
> March, 6: "We have identified between 75 and 150 rebels in Tanusevci
> (Macedonia), we saw them enter and go out from Kosovo, and get rid of
> their equipments and weapons before to cross the border." A little
> stupid
> question: what did prevent you to arrest them? 45,000 NATO soldiers
> are
> occupying Kosovo and can not arrest 150 terrorists ? Can not or
> don't want to? On March, 11, in the British newspaper Observer,
> several
> European high officers of KFOR and also several Macedonian officials
> accused
> explicitly the CIA to have encouraged the KLA to start its summer
> offensive
> in the South of Serbia in order to undermine the former Yugoslav
> president
> Slobodan Milosevic. Today, who could guarantee that these
> encouragements
> have stopped?
>
> 5. Will the KLA start a new war ?
>
> What will happen ? The current fights around Tanusevce could well be
> the prelude of more important clashes. For example, to take control of
> Tetovo, five kilometers away from the Kosovo border.
> In any case, one thing is clear: the KLA, which lost the elections
> last
> year, -because the large majority of the Albanians in Kosovo don't
> want to
> live in a permanent state of war - can only regain ground by using
> violence.
> Including in Macedonia where it pretends to defend the rights of the
> Albanian minority, but one often forgets to remind that, for years,
> every
> government of this country has been made of a coalition with Albanian
> parties.
> To take power, and thus increase the range of its maffia - like
> traffics,
> necessitates war.
> The tactics of the KLA is thus clear: to cause an escalation by
> provoking the Macedonian and the Yugoslavian armies. Hoping that the
> later
> will attack Albanian civilians as was done by some Serbian forces
> during
> the first days of the NATO bombings. That will allow to reach two
> goals: 1. To internationalise the conflict (we will come back to it
> later).
> 2. To enrol new recruits in an Albanian youth which has been fanatised
> by
> nationalism. In spite of the development of many little traffics more
> or
> less legal, the Albanian community of Macedonia has an unemployment
> rate of
> 60%; it is a potential where to recruit.
> To get this escalation, the KLA will probably use again a method which
> has already been put in practice. As a French observer of the OSCE
> explained it in Kosovo in 1998: "Inside the OSCE, everybody knew that
> NATO, in particular the US, didn't want our mission (of pacification)
> to
> succeed. The massacres have been encouraged to justify a military
> intervention. One day we got a message. We were told that Albanian
> fighters had been trained by American instructors. They were explained
> that it was more strategic to kill Serbian policemen to provoke
> important
> retaliations against the Albanian community." (11)
> As in Bosnia and in Kosovo there can be some time before that this
> tactics ends up in more important clashes. An important step would be
> done by provoking the equivalent of the 'Racak massacre'. In January
> 99,
> in this village of Kosovo that it had fortified, the KLA had provoked,
> and lost, a fight between the two armies. But it made believe that the
> victims were civilians coldly massacred by the Yugoslav army. With the
> help
> of the CIA, one made believe this media-lie in the international media
> and
> this allow to condition the Western public opinion to make it accept a
> war
> decided for a long time by the US. Each war of today is preceded by
> such
> a big media-lie, with shocking pictures.
>
> 6. What are the US really looking for?
>
> But to do again the 'Racak trick' would necessitate a complicity of
> the
> US to lead the Western media. If this would happen, that would
> certainly be
> the sign that the US superpower would be preparing a new intervention.
> One can oppose two objections to this hypothesis: First the US are
> qualifying today the KLA as 'extremist forces' and condemn their
> actions, at
> least in words. Answer: at the beginning of 98 also, they qualified
> the
> KLA as 'terrorists', as we have seen, but that didn't prevent them to
> support unconditionally the KLA a few months later. If there is one
> principle to remember
> in the action of the US for ten years, it is that there are no
> principles!
> One can also ask why would the US intervene although they seem to
> control
> the region and have installed there their military bases ? Of course
> one
> doesn't know yet all the aspects of their current tactics. It may be
> that
> behind the scene they push the KLA to create again some tension in
> order to
> help the US troops to occupy the whole region. As soon as the first
> incidents in the Presevo valley occurred, Washington had generously
> proposed to station US troops in Serbia proper. One must also remind
> that during the so-called
> 'negotiations' in Rambouillet before the war, Madeleine Albright had
> required that NATO will be allowed to occupy militarily the whole
> Yugoslavia.
> It may also be that new Bush administration has not yet decided which
> is
> the best tactic to protect the US interests in the Balkans, that it
> prefers
> to play for some time with both sides and that the tactic of the KLA
> was
> precisely to force it to take a decision or to act quicker.
> In both cases, one thing is sure: the US are not there to defend peace
> or
> protect any people of the Balkans. They are there to reign. And to
> reign
> you have to divide, as we know, and to divide the best solution is a
> war, or
> at least a so-called 'low intensity' war, a situation of 'neither war
> nor
> peace' with irregular clashes. Isn't it the best way to justify the
> installation of US military bases in the Balkans ?
> Of course, the candidate George Bush had said that he wanted to move
> the
> US troops out of Kosovo. But the president George Bush rapidly forgot
> these
> electoral promises. Lets remind that in 1995 the candidate Bill
> Clinton
> had promised that the US troops would have left Bosnia by Christmas.
> Immediately afterwards, the commander of the UN troops in Bosnia, the
> general MacKenzie, answered to a parliamentary commission: "If I were
> you,
> I'd start training your grandchildren as Bosnia peacekeepers." (12)
> Wether it wants to force Bush to intervene or acts in collaboration
> with him,
> the goal of the KLA is in any case to internationalise again the
> conflict,
> as did the Muslims of Izetbegovic in Bosnia from 1992 and the KLA
> itself in
> Kosovo in 1998.
> By attacking almost at the same time Macedonia and the South of
> Serbia,
> by denouncing in racist terms any Slav presence on their territories,
> the leaders of the KLA aim at provoking a reaction of Macedonia and
> Yugoslavia, but also of Greece, close to the Serbs. And, as an
> indirect
> result, a retaliation of their own allies: Albania and Turkey. That is
> an
> internationalisation of the conflict which would force Washington to
> choose
> between its allies and, as the KLA hopes, to definitely choose the
> Albanian side.
>
> 7. Will Washington still be able to play on both sides?
>
> To understand the situation of the US, it is important to understand
> that
> they systematically play on several sides at the same time. To support
> and
> to manipulate discretely two adversaries - and even train them
> militarily -
> does not embarrass them at all. For example, we can read in the
> British Daily
> Telegraph of March 3: "The private company of security which is the
> most
> appreciated by the US government has trained both sides of the last
> ethnic
> conflict in the Balkans. Only two years ago the Albanian rebels of
> Kosovo
> were trained by the society 'Military Professional Resources' based in
> Virginia... One of the recent task of this society was the training of
> the
> Macedonian army which is now shooting on the Albanian guerrilla."
> One should not underestimate the role in the US military system of the
> private companies and militia, led by former high officers. Already in
> Bosnia, they had trained and led the Muslim militia of the president
> Izetbegovic before that the US could openly intervene. And in Croatia
> they
> helped the president Tudjman to realise the bloody ethnic cleansing of
> the Serbian Krajina in august 95 (13). History repeats itself.
> Having played in several sides, the US can be for a moment in a
> difficult
> situation. From one side, they continue to use the KLA to get more
> concessions from Serbia: the complete privatisation and the
> elimination of
> the main opposition party, the SPS (by sending its president Milosevic
> to the Court of the Hague). But on the other hand, if they let the KLA
> going too far, they will have troubles with precious allies: 1. The
> Macedonian government 2. Greece (also threatened by the demands of the
> KLA) 3. The Yugoslav president Kostunica.
> The Macedonian government has not much autonomy and one says that
> Washington could impose it what it wants, including a federal state,
> prelude to a splitting. Moreover, the Macedonian leaders are very
> weakened by various scandals, which have revealed their links
> with the US. The left opposition claims to be more independent, but
> its
> main candidate was put aside by terror during the last elections.
> Macedonia,
> a too weak and unstable ally for Washington ?
> On the other hand, the Greek leaders are important pawns in the NATO
> strategy of Washington. But the Greek people is strongly against NATO,
> the
> influence of the communist party is important and very recently one
> third
> of the Greek soldiers have required and obtained to be moved out from
> Kosovo to escape the dangers of depleted uranium.
> Finally by playing too openly with the card of the KLA, the US would
> strongly endangered the president Kostunica, who was elected with an
> ambiguous profile - anti-NATO and pro-West - and who can not present
> to
> his opinion any positive result about Kosovo, to the contrary.
> To allow him to make come again some Yugoslav troops to watch the
> border is maybe a small concession to give some more credit to
> Kostunica and to somehow balance the two 'friends' of the US. But the
> reason can also be simply to avoid that US soldiers would be in first
> line
> and risk to come back to the US in body-bags, which is always
> embarrassing
> for the US opinion. And, in a more machiavellian way, that would start
> again clashes between Serbs and Albanians.
> What if Washington drops the KLA and reverses its alliance? Then it
> could be that its German 'ally' -but also rival- supports again
> secretly
> the KLA as it did at the beginning 98 (14). Which also explains that
> the
> KLA has interest to make even more provocations. The rivalry between
> Western great powers is thus another factor which increases the risks
> of
> war. Many European politicians had already accused the US to be guilty
> of
> having uselessly prolonged the war in Bosnia in order to eliminate
> their
> German competitor which had got a too good position. (15)
> Reverse the alliance? One has already seen everything in this respect
> from
> the US, for example between Iran, Iraq and Syria. But their goal is to
> establish in the Balkans a 'plane-carrier' state, like Israel in the
> Middle-East. For this, an obvious choice is still an Albanian state
> which
> would owe everything to Washington. However, the European powers
> refuse
> a change of the borders in the Balkans. This would cause new wars and
> destabilise the projects of 'corridors' described above.
> One thing is sure: the intervention of NATO for some hidden interests
> didn't
> bring and will not bring peace.
>
> 8. Do they really ask themselves if they have created a monster?
>
> It is again in The Guardian that one could read, on March 12, a
> surprising question: 'Did we create a monster ?'. Their special
> correspondent
> in Pristina reports: "The West is stunned. Balkan nightmares were
> supposed
> to have ended with the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. But now
> Albanian nationalist militants are stirring ethnic rivalries in a
> quest
> for a greater Kosovo. The liberated victims have become the villains.
> In Washington and London, and in the offices of NATO and UN in
> Pristina, a
> question is dominating: did we create a monster ?" The correspondent
> of the
> Guardian led a quite vast investigation with the staff of UN and KFOR
> and
> concludes: "The failure of KFOR to disarm the KLA, protect the Serb
> minority and build a multi-ethnic society has created a climate in
> which extremists flourish. For almost a year it
> ignored intellectuals who urged a crackdown on KLA members who seized
> assets and set up criminal networks. "Now it's too late, the moderates
> won the election, but those who smuggle and run the rackets have the
> real power," one officer serving there
> admits."
> Disastrous result, and one understands that the former governor of
> Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, had quickly left the ship before that his
> self-satisfied TV statements have been refuted.
> Because what The Guardian reports is true. I was myself in Kosovo last
> December to make there a documentary movie "The damned of Kosovo"
> (which will
> be ready next May). I discovered there a hell for the Serbs and all
> non - Albanian minorities. Most of them have been expelled from
> Kosovo:
> ethnic cleansing. The ones who have stayed live in terror. To speak
> its own
> language in public constitutes a mortal danger. Also to go on highways
> in non-Serbian zones. But the terror strikes also a number of
> Albanians.
> KLA maffiosi kill Albanians also. To take houses, companies or women.
> And
> many of the Albanian with who I was talking, predicted a civil war
> - between Albanians - in two or three years time.
> Quickly The Guardian mentions the theory of 'the mistake': The West
> would 'have misunderstood the danger of Albanian nationalism'. Of
> which
> 'West' are we talking here? If it is the public, it is indeed true
> that
> it didn't understand because one hided to it carefully the truth. When
> some analysts explained that the program of the KLA was the ethnic
> cleansing,
> they were almost excluded of the media or even considered as evils.
> But if one speaks about the leaders of this 'West' - the White House,
> Tony Blair, Solana and Robertson, the CIA - they knew of course for a
> long
> time because their own reports considered the KLA as 'terrorists'.
> In Kosovo, we have also seen that one has to distinguish between a
> number
> of honest Western aid workers and militaries, and their high-level
> officials.
> The former went to Kosovo with prejudices but also with good will. The
> later
> have been sent to Kosovo to hide this truth, to hide the secret goals
> of the
> US and their allies and to lie.
> It is certainly in the first category that one must put Eric Torch, a
> UN aid worker cited by The Guardian: "Albanians
> trace their lineage to the Illyrans who controlled the territory in
> the
> 11th century BC. Underground schools during Milosevic's rule
> inculcated ethnic
> hatred into generations."
> Yes, you have read correctly: 'during Milosevic's
> rule'. This confirms what have said some unconventional analysts:
> these
> parallel Albanian schools, organized by the party of Rugova and
> financed
> by the US taught racist anti-Serbian conceptions. It was wrong to say
> that
> the responsibility of the conflict was entirely on the side of the
> Serbs.
> Pushed by the US, the Albanian leaders of Kosovo refused to negotiate
> seriously, they wanted only independence and taught the hatred to
> achieve it.
>
> 9. Which role will play the rivalry US -EU?
>
> One can not understand the attitude of the US in these events without
> replacing it in the context of their world strategy. One of the
> key-men
> of the new Bush administration is called Wolfowitz. In our book
> Liar's Poker we made comments about his shock-report of March 92:
> "The status of unique super-power of the US must be preserved by a
> constructive behaviour and a sufficient military force to dissuade any
> nation or group of nations to challenge the supremacy of the US. We
> must
> act in order to prevent the appearance of a security system
> exclusively
> European which could destabilise NATO" (16).
> The US military budget began to blow up under Clinton and this will
> continue under Bush. Three potential rivals at more or less long term
> are
> today the potential targets of this dangerous strategy: the European
> Union,
> Russia, China. The embassy of the later was bombed as a warning. It is
> considered by the CIA as risking to overtake around 2015-2030 the
> power of
> the US. Concerning Russia, the new US State secretary, Colin Powell,
> declared
> that the objections of Moscow would not prevent the expansion of NATO
> to
> the East or the militarisation of space by the so-called
> 'anti-missiles
> shield' (NMD). His colleague Condoleezza Rice declared that she
> sincerely
> "believes that Russia is a threat for the West" (17). And the Defence
> secretary
> Rumsfeld attacked Russia for "its 'active proliferation of missiles'
> to
> countries like Iran, Korea or India". (18)
> Concerning Europe, Rumsfeld warned against any autonomous European
> intervention force which would perturb the transatlantic relation
> during
> the conference of Munich about global safety, beginning of February.
> Answer
> of the German minister Joskha Fisher: the new Bush administration
> wants to
> restart a new arms race. His colleague Scharping expressed sympathy
> for
> the Russian views about NMD. Germany has, like France, condemned the
> US bombings against Iraq.
> Moreover, the ambition of the US to dictate their will to the whole
> world
> is currently braked by several points of resistance that they don't
> succeed to eliminate. Iraq still resists, as well as the Palestinians.
> The US intervention in Colombia could transform itself into a new
> Vietnam.
> The communist guerrilla in Nepal worries the American experts. Some of
> them
> think that it is time to find a solution in the Balkans and to focus
> on other
> operations.
> All this on a background of growing commercial rivalries and crisis
> which
> could only worsen the tension USA-Europe. The game that these powers
> are
> playing in the Balkans for ten years, each of them trying to get the
> biggest part of the cake, this game will continue to cause damages to
> the
> peoples of the region. When the elephants fight each other, it is the
> grass
> which is smashed.
> And after all the gifts that the US have given to reward the terrorism
> of
> the KLA, one can expect that this example will be contagious for some
> fractions of the Albanian community in Macedonia and Montenegro or for
> other
> secessionist movements in the world. One will use provocations and
> terrorism to try to present oneself as 'victims'.
> The mistrust between US and Europe about Kosovo increased when the
> candidate Bush threatened to move out the US troops from the Balkans,
> letting
> the Europeans alone in what one is forced to call a mess. Since then,
> many European officials criticize -privately- the support of the US to
> the
> terrorists of KLA. An expert of the French Institute of International
> Relations (IFRI) has just declared: "The Dayton process is dead. The
> whole
> system needs to be renegotiated. But no-one wants to open the
> Pandora's
> box by calling it into question, risking poisoning the
> situation on the ground. If for example, the Kosovo Albanians were
> appeased
> with a state of their own, it would trigger a domino
> effect that would see Serbia's junior partner in the
> rump Yugoslavia, Montenegro, as well as Bosnian Serbs
> and Bosnian Croats all renewing their own independence claims.
> For some time it appeared the Americans were prepared
> to look at changing borders. I think that cannot
> happen now, and if they did try it they would be opposed by Europe."
> (19))
>
> What will be the outcome? In fact, Bush has four options: 1. to redraw
> his
> troops. That would have strongly embarrassed the Europeans. It is now
> not
> possible anymore, especially with the depleted uranium scandal. 2. to
> reverse
> the alliance and to support the Serbia of Kostunica. But the US troops
> could become the targets of the KLA. And one is not sure that Serbia
> will be a reliable partner for the long term. The spirit of popular
> resistance is still alive there. 3. to support both sides by using a
> strategy of tension. 4. to maintain the support to the KLA to create
> an
> Albanian 'Israel-like' state while hiding its game as long as
> possible.
> No one of the options is moral, we have seen that this criteria is
> never
> relevant. But to realize their strategic long-term goals, the US can
> well
> resort to changing and contradictory tactics.
> For now a combination of the options 3 and 4 seems the most likely to
> us. But
> maybe the US have not decided yet and they are waiting to see the most
> favourable according to the reactions of their 'friends' ?
> In any case, the tactics being changing, some docile media would have
> some
> trouble to explain to the peoples that the good guys are not good
> anymore and
> that the bad guys are on the other side. Let's hope that these
> troubles will
> cause a deep reflexion. If one doesn't understand the economic
> interests at
> stake, and first, the ones of the multinationals looking for new
> markets,
> working forces and raw materials, it is impossible to understand all
> these
> wars.
>
> 10. Is Kostunica in a trap ?
>
> The president Kostunica has been elected by defending an ambiguous
> position:
> on one hand, he denounces the war of NATO, the occupation of Kosovo
> and
> the interference of the US; on the other hand, he promises the
> reconciliation with this very same West and an economic improvement
> thanks
> to Western aid.
> Till now the least one can say is that he wasn't rewarded concerning
> Kosovo.
> On March 6, he declared: "The representatives of the international
> community
> in Kosovo are facing failure, because they did not provide stability
> and peace,
> and the crisis spilled over into Macedonia. Kfor is dealing with its
> own security,
> and not with the security of those because of whom it is here."(20)
> Kostunica also accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing the
> aspirations of a Greater Albania. KFOR is abandoning protection of the
> border and is
> inviting our army to be in the crossfire" (21) He also expressed hope
> that
> the policy of the new U.S. administration would be marked by "a high
> level of
> non-interference in the problems of other states". (22)
> The paradox is that two days after having warned so clearly against
> NATO and the interference of the US , the same Kostunica added that
> "he did not rule out Yugoslavia becoming a formal alliance partner one
> day."(23) A NATO which is however the most obvious tool of the
> interference spirit of the US ! In the same declaration, the Yugoslav
> president declared himself disappointed: "When I came to office, I did
> not
> expect the situation in the country to be quite so difficult; it is
> discouraging," citing security and constitutional problems as well as
> 40
> percent unemployment and 800,000 refugees. Surprising declaration as
> the
> 800,000 refugees (expelled from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo) are living
> in Serbia for years. Concerning the unemployed, did he lead his
> electoral
> campaign by ignoring that the Western embargo and the state of the
> economy had such consequences ? And by not reading the program of the
> economists of his own electoral coalition which foresaw privatisations
> and
> massive dismissals ?
>
> How to interpret these contradictory statements ? In fact, as
> expected,
> the material situation of the Serbian population has still worsened
> with the
> Djindjic government. If the salaries of the university professors have
> been
> doubled, the ones of the workers have only increased by 25% to 50%,
> and
> it is completely insufficient to face the huge increases of the
> prices.
> The cubic meter of gas has gone from three up to twelve dinars, the
> kilo of
> sausages from 150 up to 300 dinars, the electricity bill of a
> household
> has increased from 150 or 200 dinars a month to 500 dinars! The
> electricity
> company of Belgrade indicates that 130,000 households of the city have
> a very important debt: more than 30,000 dinars! And the price of
> petrol also
> increases, all the more that the new government took control of all
> the
> oil sector in order to eliminate the black market of petrol (cheaper).
> As expected, the honeymoon didn't last. If the president Kostunica is
> not
> considered as personally responsible for all this, the rate of
> discontent
> towards the new government of Zoran Djindjic on the other hand has
> already gone up to 60%: "He doesn't do anything for the people. Even
> during
> the war, we had always had electricity, but with the 'great
> democracy', the
> cuts last for four hours during the day, three hours at night" is it
> told
> everywhere. And many judge that elections are unavoidable in 12 or 18
> months
> time. The heterogeneous coalition of 18 parties should split quite
> soon.
> It is why one must dismiss Milosevic and eliminate the risk of a come
> back of the socialist party, even if this party has not yet gone up in
> the polls.
>
> Which evolution is to foresee inside Yugoslavia? The professors that
> are
> not from the universities are on a prolonged strike. Many strikes
> occur also in the industry, only broken by threats of collective
> dismissals.
> This didn't prevent the new left trade-union 'Solidarity' to get at
> the
> car factory Zastava an additional increase of salary of 25%. On the
> other
> hand, the minority trade-union of government tendency had refused to
> join the strike. 'Solidarity' has announced the publication of a
> monthly
> newspaper and the next months should see it increasing its influence.
> Did Kostunica fall in a trap of the West? Was he expecting to get more
> support in the question of Kosovo and for the economy? Till now he
> just
> got alms and the US make the other credits depend on the extradition
> of
> Milosevic. What Kostunica can not do otherwise he would contradict
> himself
> and commit a political suicide. Thus, the US finance a new campaign of
> OTPOR
> to criminalize Milosevic. The US, which, for fifty years, have
> supported,
> financed and armed all the far-right and military dictatorships in the
> world, these US which have protected the crimes of Pinochet, Mobutu,
> Franco, Salazar, the Greek colonels and the Turkish fascist generals,
> these
> US pretend to judge just one former head of state, precisely one who
> has
> resisted to them ? The US deserve the Oscar of hypocrisy.
>
> 11. Perspectives.
>
> In a world marked by a looming economic crisis, by an increase of the
> wars and a frightening increase of the military budgets, it is
> important to
> fully draw the lessons of Kosovo and of the current situation.
> 1. There are no 'humanitarian' wars, only economic and strategic wars.
> 2. The US and NATO are not searching to solve the problems but to
> dominate the world. Thus they create or excite the problems when it is
> useful
> for them 3. The military intervention against Yugoslavia and in favour
> of
> the KLA has worsened everything. 4. It is not 'by mistake' that
> Washington
> supported the KLA, but consciously.
> It is urgent to reinforce or to recreate a powerful peace movement on
> a
> grass-root level. The only way to get there is to work with patience
> in
> establishing the dialog between the peoples, who are all victims of
> this
> strategy of 'dividing to conquer'.
> And for this, to debate of the results of this war and of the real
> strategies of the great powers is the fundamental condition. The
> struggle for
> peace begins with a lucid analysis.
>
> 12th of March 2001
>
> Notes
>
> (1) Michel Collon, Monopoly - L'Otan à la Conquête du monde, EPO,
> march 2000,
> p. 96. (English edition prepared)
> (2) The Guardian, February 15, 2001.
> (3) Idem.
> (4) Idem.
> (5) AFP-Skopje, March 6, 2001.
> (6) Washington Post, April 28, 1999.
> (7) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001.
> (8) Time, 8 mars 2001
> (9) Both cited in Kan Anders-Vredeskoerier (Holland), march 2001.
> (10) Declaration of Robertson (NATO), AP, March 6.
> (11) L'Humanité, November 18, 1999
> (12) Pittsburgh Gazette, March 11, 2001
> (13) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 191. (Soon published
> in English version)
> (14) See Monopoly, pp. 70-71.
> (15) The European mediator in Bosnia, David Owen, cited in Michel
> Collon,
> Poker menteur, EPO, 1998, p. 182.
> (16) Michel Collon, Poker menteur, p. 116.
> (17) Le Figaro, February 10, 2001.
> (18) PBS, February 14, 2001.
> (19) AFP - Paris, March 8, 2001.
> (20) BBC, March 6.
> (21) Reuters - Skopje, March 8, 2001.
> (22) BBC, March 6.
> (23) Reuters - London, March 8, 2001
>
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ITALIA: CESENA
Under the slogans
* no more war, Nato, nuclear arms
* no more "humanitarian" wars
* close down the Nato basis in Italy
* down with Nato
a big nation-wide anti Nato demonstration will take place in Cesena,
Italy,
on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Nato aggression against
Jugoslavia on March 24. Already several dozens of organisations have
given there participation (see below). Also international delegations
from
Yugoslavia, Greece and Austria have announced their support.
The poster in Italian and the full text of the call in Italian and
german
can be viewed under:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=983824497
24 marzo 1999 - 24 marzo 2001
MAI PIU'
NATO, GUERRE E NUCLEARE
Comitato Promotore per l'Assemblea Antimperialista
-Coord. Romagnolo contro la guerra e la Nato - Assijug (Perugia) - Campo
Antimperialista - Coll. Antinebbia (Valdarno) - Comit. contro la guerra
Sesto S. Giovanni -
Comit. contro la guerra (Milano Sud) - Comit. per la Pace e la
Solidarietà fra i Popoli - Coord. cittadino antimperialista (Torino) -
Coord. romano per la Jugoslavia - Red
Ghost (Ravenna) - Gruppo Zastava! (Trieste) -Soccorso Popolare (Padova)
- Voce Operaia
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Aggiornamento adesioni al 20 marzo
- 100 idee per la pace (Siena)
- AIASP (Associazione Internazionale di Amicizia e Solidarietà con i
Popoli)
- Aiutiamo La Jugoslavia (Bologna)
- Assemblea Nazionale Anticapitalista
- Ass. Cult. Gente Adriatica (Trieste)
- Ass. Cult. Punto Rosso di Vicenza
- Ass. comunista IL PIANETA FUTURO (Pisa)
- Ass. Progetto Drim (Foligno)
- Ass. culturale ³Il Puntino²
- Ass. Dedalo di Sermoneta
- Avamposto degli Incompatibili (Lecce)
- Azione Popolare (Emilia e Romagna)
- Associazione Spaccio Culturale di Succivo (Caserta)
- Casa dei Popoli di Roma
- Centro di Docum. Krupskaja (Bologna)
- Centro di Docum. politica Albano Corneli di Camerano (AN)
- C.S.A. Dordoni (Cremona)
- Centro Studi Ingegneria Biosociale Acireale (Ct)
- Centro Iniziativa Popol. (Foligno)
- Circolo Agorà (Pisa)
- Circolo P.R.C. (Treviso)
- Circolo Prc "Jure Canciani" di Servola/Skedenj (Trieste)
- Circolo P.R.C. di Bussero (MI) "RifoBussero"
- Circcolo Culturale Iqbal Mash (Bologna)
- Circolo ARCI l¹Osservatorio di Pozzuoli (NA)
- Circolo P.R.C. Centrocitta¹ (Trieste)
- Circolo Pablo Neruda di Camerino (MC)
- Circolo Iskra di Cividale del Friuli (UD)
- Circolo Culturale Internazion. Wladimir Majakowskij (RE)
- Cobas Scuola (Ravenna)
- Coll. Squasso (Rimini)
- Coll. Autorganizzati (Rimini)
- Coll. Spartakus di Vicenza
- Coll. classe contro classe (Roma)
- Comit. cittadino contro la guerra (Bologna)
- Comit. contro la guerra (Treviso)
- Comit. contro le guerre di Conegliano (TV)
- Comit. Sardo di solid. internazionalista (Tula)
- Comit. Umbro Antimperialista
- Comit. contro la Guerra (Novara)
- Comit. Operaio e Pop. Antimperialista (Vicenza)
- Comunità degli Jugoslavi in Umbria
- Confederazione COBAS
- Convoglio internazionalista Giorgiana Masi (Roma)
- Coord. nazionale "Su la testa"
- Coordinamento territoriale MAGMA (Roma)
- Coord. contro la Guerra (Cosenza)
- C.S.O. Stella Rossa (Bassano)
- C.U.B. Scuola (Rimini)
- Democrazia Popolare
- Drustvena Gostilna Kontovel (Trst/Trieste)
- Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Imola)
- Feder. P.R.C. (Rimini) - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Forlì e Cesena)
- Federazione P.R.C. di La Spezia
- Fondazione Luigi Cipriani (Cremona)
- Gruppo musicale "Alla Macchia"
- Gruppo musicale Pura Utopia
- La giustizia degli erranti (Treviso)
- Laboratorio Marxista (Versilia)
- Linea Rossa (Genova-Taranto)
- Lista Reno (Bologna)
- Movim. per la confederazione dei comunisti (Toscana)
- Movim. di Solidarietà Austria-Jugoslavia
- Pagine Rosse
- Partito Umanista
- Pellerossa di Cesena
- P.M.L.I. (cellula di Forli¹)
- Punto Rosso (Jesi)
- Punto Rosso Fermo/Porto San Giorgio (AP)
- Radio Citta' Aperta (Roma)
- Radio base (Venezia)
- RAP (Rete Associazioni Popolari)
- Redazione Precari Nati (Bologna)
- Rete Operaia
- Rivista ³Frigidaire ³
- Rivista "Giano².
- SACS (Società degli Artisti Comunisti dello Spettacolo)
- Senza Censura (Bologna)
- Spazio Sociale Filorosso Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza)
- Teatro dell'Esistenza
- Tribunale Ramsey Clark
- Unione Popolare (Roma)
- Unita¹ Internazionale dei Lavoratori (C.I.)
- Un Ponte per...
- Cesare Mangianti (segretario regionale P.R.C. dell¹ Emilia-Romagna)
- Roberto Sconciaforni (segretario federaz. P.R.C.di Bologna)
- Paolo Gambuti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Rimini)
- Martino Albonetti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ravenna)
- Kiwan Kiwan (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ferrara)
- Lodovico Cutaia (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Parma)
Adesioni Internazionali
- Antiimperialistische Koordination (Austria)
- Corrente Leninista Internazionale
- Cunfederatzione de sos Comunistas Sardos
- E.E.K. - Partito Operaio Rivoluzionario (Grecia)
- I.D.P. - Sinistra Democratica Popolare (Messico)
- J.V.P. - Fronte di Liberazione del Popolo (Sri Lanka)
- N.A.R. - Nuova Corrente di Sinistra - (Grecia)
- Revista 'El Nuevo Topo" (El Salvador)
- Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
=> Sono inoltre giunte decine di adesioni individuali da varie regioni
d¹Italia e dall¹estero
Wie an vielen anderen Orten findet in Italien am 24.3. in Cesena einen
Demo
statt. Die Organisatoren haben uns gebeten für internationale
Unterstützung
aufzurufen.
Hier die Plattform:
"Nie mehr Nato, Krieg und Nuklearwaffen!
Aufruf zur italienischen Demonstration anlässlich des zweiten Jahrestags
der
Nato-Aggression in Cesena
Am 24. März 1999 begannen die Nato, Europa und die Olivenbaum-Regierung
D’
Alemas (mit der Unterstützung des Pols Berlusconis) einen kriminellem
Krieg
gegen Jugoslawien. Sie brachen damit die Verfassung und zahlreiche
Bestimmungen internationalen Rechts und belegten die Völker Jugoslawiens
mit
„humanitären“ Bomben, die Zerstörung, Schmerz und Umweltzerstörung
hervorriefen. Gleichzeitig wurde die Adria ein Mistplatz für Chemikalien
und
Uran und der Balkan auf Jahrtausende verseucht.
Die Teilnahmslosigkeit tötet genauso wie der Krieg. Wir können und wir
wollen nicht vergessen.
Keine neuen „humanitären Kriege“!
Nein zu den F-16 und den Atomwaffen in der Emiglia Romana!
Schließung der Nato-Basis Pisignano!
Nein zur Nato!"
Das Plakat kann unter
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=983824497
abgerufen werden.
Wer den Aufruf unterstützen möchte kann entweder uns oder die
Organisatoren
direkt kontaktieren: posta@...
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ITALIA: ROMA
A DUE ANNI DALLA GUERRA NEI BALCANI
APPELLO PER UNA MANIFESTAZIONE IL 24 MARZO 2001
A due anni dai bombardamenti nel Kosovo col loro disumano carico di
morte e distruzione all?uranio impoverito, l?Unione Europea cerca di
archiviare lo scandalo che ne è seguito e
l?allarme dell?opinione pubblica, chiudendo frettolosamente una finta
inchiesta che nega i crimini, i rischi reali e le responsabilità, mentre
le popolazioni civili di quei territori
subiscono la più catastrofica contaminazione radioattiva e tossica della
loro storia e mentre continuano a morire di leucemia i soldati italiani
ed europei nell?indifferenza degli
organi di governo.
Per la messa al bando dell?uranio impoverito, Rifondazione Comunista ha
condotto una campagna con interrogazioni parlamentari, raccolta di firme
ed appelli all?opinione
pubblica. Ma oggi rivolgiamo un nuovo appello a tutte le associazioni,
alle donne e agli uomini che hanno lottato contro la ?guerra umanitaria?
perché aderiscano e sostengano una
manifestazione che nell?anniversario della guerra, il 24 marzo, rilanci
il rinnovato ripudio della guerra e la ripresa della lotta per il
disarmo nel mondo.
Ma ciò richiede oggi una radicale contestazione dell?Alleanza Atlantica.
Infatti, la guerra nel Kosovo, tragedia d?Europa e crimine mondiale
della NATO, ha reintrodotto la
guerra nella nostra storia, facendone strumento di governo del Nuovo
Ordine Mondiale. Oggi il Patto Atlantico, grazie agli effetti
?costituenti? della guerra nei Balcani, è stato
trasformato, dal Nuovo Concetto Strategico varato nell?aprile 1999, in
un patto di aggressione militare che minaccia la pace nel mondo ed i
paesi cui si impone la globalizzazione
con il ricatto del terrore e dello sterminio.
Perciò chiediamo lo scioglimento del Patto Atlantico . Chiediamo che
l?Italia esca dalla complicità e dalla ipocrisia, rifiutando i sistemi
d?arma e la strategia complessiva della
Nato e decidendo una messa al bando unilaterale sul proprio territorio
dell?uranio impoverito e delle altre armi di sterminio presenti nelle
basi.
Chiediamo perciò a tutte le associazioni che ripudiano la guerra di
sostenere la manifestazione che stiamo organizzando per il 24 marzo
alle 15 in Largo Goldoni : un pomeriggio
di controinformazione, mostre, interventi al microfono, ed altre
iniziative .
Per opporci alla Nato, ai suoi sistemi d?arma, alle sue bombe
?umanitarie?
Per affermare una politica di pace contro il riarmo nucleare e lo scudo
spaziale,
contro la politica filoatlantica europea ed il nuovo esercito europeo
suddito Nato,
per abolire la disumana politica degli embarghi e la complicità del
governo italiano alla politica di guerra.
Partito della Rifondazione Comunista di Roma, Dipartimento Esteri della
Federazione di Roma.
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JUGOSLAVIJA: BEOGRAD
TWO YEARS ON:
THE TRUTH ABOUT NATO AGGRESSION
24 March 1999 – 24 March 2001
Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The conference will concentrate scholarly and scientific investigation
of past and current events bearing on the
aggression, its consequences and resistance to it. Results will be
publicised. Discussions will be presented from the
viewpoints of history, politics, law, economics, and media, as for the
primary goal. Next is to promote increased
public awareness, responsibility and activism. Invitations to the
conference are extended to distinguished scholars,
journalists and peace activists from Yugoslavia and several other
countries.
You are invited to participate in the conference on 22 and 23 March 2001
and also to join in public events to be
held on 24 March. Your expenses for the three-day Belgrade conference
will be covered by the conference
organizer.
For more information: e-mail
office@...
Yours sincerely,
Zivadin Jovanovic,
Chairman of BELGRADE FORUM
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Subject: Nie wieder "humanitäre Bomben"!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:19:39 +0100
From: "RKL" <rkl@...>
To: <rkl@...>
Aufruf anlässlich des 2. Jahrestages der NATO-Aggression gegen
Jugoslawien
************************************
* Protestkundgebungen in D und Ö *
* Wien, Stefansplatz, 24.3. 18 h *
* Hamburg, Zentrum, 24.3. abend *
* Erfurt, Zentrum, 21.3. 17 h *
* *
* int. Proteste *
* Cesena, Italien *
* Saloniki, Griechenland *
* Athen, Griechenland *
* Quebec, Kanada *
************************************
Überall auf der Welt werden Protestaktionen anlässlich des zweiten
Jahrestages der NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien stattfinden. Der 24.
März
ist zu einem Datum von historischer Bedeutung geworden, nicht nur
aufgrund
der Tatsache, dass an diesem Tag der erste große imperialistische Krieg
in
Europa seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg begonnen hat, sondern vor allem wegen
des
entschlossenen Widerstandes mit dem dieser Krieg konfrontiert wurde,
nicht
nur von Seiten Jugoslawiens sondern weltweit:
· Die sogenannten „Luftschläge“, welche die NATO nicht einmal wagte als
Krieg zu bezeichnen, demaskierten den wahren totalitären Charakter der
Neuen
Weltordnung. Jede Bewegung, jedes Volk und jede Nation, die sich der
Unterordnung unter die kapitalistische Globalisierung entgegenstellen
(die
nicht nur eine immer größer werdende Ausbeutung und Verarmung der
Mehrheit
der Weltbevölkerung bedeutet, sondern ebenso die Zerstörung der Umwelt,
die
elementarste Voraussetzung für menschliches Leben, und die Auslöschung
der
Volkskultur, wodurch die allgemeine Durchsetzung des Amerikanismus
begünstigt wird) werden mit militärischen Mitteln angegriffen. All die
schönen Worte, dass das Ende der Geschichte Demokratie, Menschenrechte
und
Wohlstand rund um den Globus bringen werde, wurden als offenkundige Lüge
enttarnt. Die Herrschaft der USA und ihrer europäischen Partner,
militärisch
vereinigt in der NATO, ist nichts anderes als eine globale Tyrannei der
Reichen gegen die Armen, die nur durch militärische Gewalt
aufrechterhalten
werden kann. Die sogenannte „Internationale Gemeinschaft“ ist nichts
anderes
als eine Heilige Allianz der imperialistischen Länder, die ihren Willen
der
Welt aufzwingen und ihre eigenen internationalen Gesetze dabei
verletzen.
Aber die Opposition von Ländern wie Russland oder China zeigt die
Grenzen
ihrer Vollmacht und ist das Wappen des aufkommenden Widerstands der
unterdrückten Völker und ihrer Staaten gegen die unipolare Welt, die
unweigerlich dazu verdammt ist, unterzugehen – das ist nur eine Frage
der
Zeit.
· Die imperialistische Aggression gegen Jugoslawien, die dazu diente die
Kontrolle über den Balkan zu gewinnen, wurde getarnt als ein
„humanitärer,
demokratischer und antifaschistischer“ Krieg. Diese Tarnung wurde
hauptsächlich von den sogenannten „Linken“ wie Fischer, Solana und Amato
aufrechterhalten, die, indem sie sich zu Sozialliberalen wandelten, zu
den
Hauptpfeilern der imperialistischen Herrschaft in Europa wurden. Jeder
Widerstand gegen die kapitalistische Globalisierung wird als totalitär
verleumdet, um ihre eigene totalitäre Herrschaft zu maskieren.
„Humanitärer,
demokratischer und antifaschistischer“ Imperialismus ist zu der
Hauptgefahr
für die Menschheit geworden. Der Kampf gegen den Imperialismus bedeutet
auch
der sogenannten „Linken“, welche seine Hegemonie sichert, den Kampf
anzusagen.
· Andererseits hat der Krieg auch gezeigt, das Widerstand möglich ist,
selbst unter den Bedingungen einer einheitlichen imperialistischen Front
mit
mehrfach höherer ökonomischer und militärischer Macht. Das jugoslawische
Volk leistete über zehn Jahre hinweg Widerstand gegen die
imperialistischen
Sanktionen und letztendlich wurde die jugoslawische Armee nicht von der
NATO
besiegt auch wenn sie vom Kosovo abziehen musste.
Die Tatsache, dass es dem Imperialismus schließlich gelang, das Regime
von
Milosevic zu stürzen, welches den antiimperialistischen Widerstand
führte,
ändert nichts an dieser vorher erläuterten geschichtlichen Bedeutung.
Der
Imperialismus gewann nur eine Schlacht, nicht den ganzen Krieg. Der
Volkswiderstand brachte Resultate, die wir bald zu Gesicht bekommen
werden.
Obwohl der Westen ein pro-imperialistisches Regime installieren konnte,
werden die serbischen Volksmassen niemals die totale nationale
Unterwerfung
oder das bereits voll in Gang gekommene soziale Massaker akzeptieren.
Nichtsdestotrotz haben wir etwas aus diesem Rückschlag zu lernen:
· Eine bürokratische Clique (selbst wenn sie ernsthafte
antiimperialistische
Maßnahmen gesetzt hat), welche die politische Macht usurpiert und sich
selbst auf dem Rücken der Massen bereichert, wird früher oder später die
Zustimmung im Volk verlieren. Eine erfolgreiche nationale
antiimperialistische Verteidigung ist in letzter Instanz nur auf Basis
der
Volksmassen, die nach sozialer Gleichheit und Volksdemokratie streben,
möglich.
· Der Imperialismus, geeint unter der Führung der USA, kann nur durch
eine
internationale antiimperialistische Front besiegt werden, welche die
Einheit
des Feindes zerstört. Daher ist die internationale Dimension unseres
Kampfes
eine absolute Notwendigkeit.
Der Kampf gegen die NATO und gegen den Imperialismus geht weiter, nicht
nur
in Jugoslawien, sondern überall auf der Welt – im Irak, in Palästina, in
Kolumbien und vielen anderen Orten. Wir rufen alle antiimperialistische
Kräfte in der ganzen Welt und besonders in Europa auf, sich in einer
antiimperialistischen Front zu vereinen. Die Antiimperialistische
Koordination wird dafür als Instrument dienen.
Nieder mit der NATO!
Für eine internationale antiimperialistische Front!
Permanentes Büro der ILS
Wien, 16. März 2001
***************************************
International Leninist Current (ILC)
Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI)
PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria
Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10
ilc@...
http://www.leninist-current.org
http://www.antiimperialista.com
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LONDON
COMMEMORATION OF 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF NATO BOMBING YUGOSLAVIA
Tue 20 March
After NATO bombing
Yusoglavia - two years on
with Alice Mahon MP Tony Benn MP
and Michael Gavrilovic, British Serbian Alliance for Peace
7pm to 9pm in Committee Room 14, House of Commons, London SW1
Sat 24 March
Protest at Downing Street
from 6pm onwards
organised by British Serbian Alliance for Peace
ENDS
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CANADA
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
3662 Albion Rd. South, Gloucester, Ontario, K1T 1A3,
serbian.heritage@..., Tel. 613/ 852-1971
TWO YEARS LATER
You are invited to attend a
MEMORIAL
For innocent civilian victims perpetrated
by indiscriminate NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Saturday, March 24, at 11:00 a.m.
St Stefan Serbian Orthodox Church
3662 Albion Rd. South
Gloucester
Deadly Chronology
March 24 - NATO begins 78 days of air strikes against Yugoslavia
April 5 - An attack on a residential area in the mining town of
Aleksninac kills 17 people.
April 12 - NATO missiles striking a railroad bridge near the Serbian
town of Grdelica inadvertently hit a passenger train, killing 17.
April 14 - The attack on a convoy of Albanian refugees on 14 April.
NATO planes bombed two groups of refugees in the Djakovica region of
south-western Kosovo, killing 75 people.
April 22 - NATO razed Serbian State TV (RTS) building in Belgrade
downtown, killing ten journalists and technicians. More than thirty were
injured.
April 27 - A missile strike in the Serbian town of Surdulica kills at
least 20 civilians.
May 1 - A missile hits a bus crossing a bridge north of Pristina,
killing 47
May 7 - A cluster bomb attack damages a marketplace and the grounds of a
hospital in Nis, killing at least 15.
May 8 - NATO Fighter pilots "using outdated maps" attack the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade, firing three missiles, killing three journalists
and injuring 20 other people.
May 21 - NATO bombs a Kosovo jail, killing at least 19 people and
injuring scores.
May 30 - NATO missiles slam into a bridge crossing the Velika Morava
River near Krusevac. At least 11 were killed and 40 injured when three
missiles hit the bridge, which was crowded with vehicles and
pedestrians.
May 30 - NATO missiles smashed into a hospital and a retirement home in
Surdulica, killing more than 25 people.
May 31 - An apartment building in southern Serbian town of Novi Pazar
was hit, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding more than 20 others.
The most frequent bombed towns were town of Pancevo and Novi Sad, where
oil refineries and bridges over the Danube were destroyed; countless
injured and many killed people.
June 9 - Yugoslav and NATO generals sign an agreement on the withdrawal
of Serbs troops from Kosovo and the complete disarming of the KLA,
following a long session of intense talks near the Yugoslav-Macedonian
border.
June 10 - Yugoslavia begins the process of withdrawing its security
forces from Kosovo. NATO announces that it has suspended the bombing
campaign, and the UN Security Council formally ratifies the negotiated
peace proposal.
June 12 - KFOR troops enter Kosovo.
Two Years After
NATO handed Kosovo on a platter to Thaci's dope-peddling murderers in
June 1999, having acted as their air force for the preceding 78 days.
The "international community" was subsequently content to give the KLA
a free hand, with all that this entailed: killings, expulsion and
robbery of the remaining Serbs, general lawlessness, drug trafficking,
organised prostitution, and the farce of "demilitarisation." More than
200.000 Serbs and non-Albanians were ethnically cleansed from Kososvo
and their property destroyed; and more than 135 Serbian , medieval
churches and monasteries were destroyed. Since NATO / Albanians took
over control in Kosovo more than 1,000 people were killed.
-
La Communaut? Serbe du Qu?bec (CSQ) organise une c?l?bration
comm?morative pour souligner le deuxi?me anniversaire du bombardement
destructif et meurtrier de la Yougoslavie par les forces de l’OTAN qui a
caus? :
-La mort de plus de 2000 victimes innocentes,
-Une destruction totale de l’infrastructure industrielle du pays et,
-Une pollution environnementale sans pr?c?dent.
Ce g?chis irresponsable a compl?tement ?cras? le tissu social de la
population yougoslave, rendant cette soci?t? quasi inop?rante.
Pour marquer cet ?v?nement, une c?r?monie religieuse aura lieu
24.III.2001 ? midi ? l’?glise Orthodoxe Serbe "Ste-Trinit?", situ?e au
349 avenue Melville ? Westmount (coin Sherbrooke) en m?moire de toutes
les victimes de guerre. La c?r?monie sera pr?sid?e par le R?v?rend
Zivorad Subotic, ainsi que plusieurs clerg?s des ?glises Chr?tiennes
Orthodoxes du Qu?bec.
Apr?s cette messe, une r?union pacifique s’ensuivra dans la salle
communautaire o? les discours comm?moratifs seront prononc?s par des
orateurs ?minents du Qu?bec, et ensuite un repas fun?bre (la meilleure
nourriture faite maison) sera offert ? tous les participants dans la
plus pure tradition orthodoxe chr?tienne.
Nous, Communaut? Serbe du Qu?bec, comptons sur votre pr?sence et celle
de toute la population qu?becoise ? cette d?monstration humanitaire pour
t?moigner de votre d?saccord avec l’agression d’un pays souverain par
une force quelconque car aucun agresseur ne peut se donner le privil?ge
irresponsable de tuer et de nommer ses victimes innocentes (enfants,
femmes et vieillards) comme "pertes collat?rales".
Par votre participation, vous dites ?galement haut et fort que vous
n’acceptez pas qu’on laisse vivre toute une nation dans des ruines et
des conditions ?cologiques g?nocidaires et sous un embargo qui a
r?trograd? la nation Yougoslave ? l’?poque pr?-industrielle,
appauvrissant et affamant toute une population civile comptant plus de
14 millions de victimes.
Nous vous remercions cordialement d’avance de votre solidarit? et
participation ? cet ?v?nement important de mise ? l’?preuve de la
conscience humaine.
Note: La pr?-inscription des journalistes est souhaitable
Centre Communautaire Serbe - 349 avenue Melville, Westmount, H3Z
2J7 T?l.: (514) 932-8529
*******************************************************
The Serb Community of Quebec (SCQ) organizes a memorial celebration for
the second anniversary of the destructive and murderous bombardment of
Yugoslavia by NATO forces which have caused:
-Death of more than 2000 innocent people,
-A total destruction of the country’s industrial infrastructure and,
-An ecological pollution whose intensity is yet unknown.
This irresponsible strike has dismantled completely the social structure
of the Yugoslav population, rendering this society nearly inoperative.
To commemorate this day, a religious ceremony will take place 24.III
2001 at noon at the Serbian Orthodoxe Church "Holy-Trinity", located at
349 Melville avenue in Westmount (corner of Sherbrooke) in memory of all
war victims. The ceremony will be chaired by V. Reverend Zivorad
Subotic, as well as several clergies of the Quebec Christian Orthodoxe
Churches.
Following the ceremony, a gathering for peace will follow in the CSQ
hall, where memorial speeches will be given by eminent speakers of
Quebec, after which a funerary meal (the best home made food) will be
offered to all participants in the finest Christian Orthodoxe tradition.
We, the Serb Community of Quebec, count on your presence, as well as the
one of the entire Quebec population to this humanitarian demonstration
to manifest your total disagreement with the aggression of a sovereign
country by any forces, because no one is allowed to kill and designate
innocent victims (children, women, elders) as "collateral losses".
By your participation, you will also say loudly and clearly that you do
not agree to allow an entire nation to live in ruins, genocidal
ecological conditions and under an embargo which retrogressed the
Yougoslav nation to the preindustrial time, impoverishing and starving a
civil population accounting more than 14 million victims.
We thank you cordially in advance for your solidarity and involvement in
this important event of challenging human conscience.
Note: Pre-registration of journalists is preferable
Serbian Community Center - 349 Melville avenue, Westmount, H3Z 2J7
Tel. : (514) 932-8529
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DEUTSCHLAND
> Von: "Dr. Peter Strutynski" <strutype@...-kassel.de>
> Datum: 2001/03/14 Wed PM 03:38:42 CET
> Betreff: Erklärung zum 2. Jahrestag
>
> Liebe Friedensfreundinnen und -freunde,
> anbei erhaltet ihr eine Erklärung des Bundesausschusses
> Friedensratschlag zum 2. Jahrestag des NATO-Kriegs gegen
> Jugoslawien.
> Der Text folgt im Wortlaut weiter unten, für diejenigen, die auch
> doc-Dateien entgegennehmen, ist die Erklärung auch noch als
> attachment
> angefügt.
>
> Der Appell "Kriege verhindern - Einsatzkräfte auflösen" wird
> bereits von
> 90 Organisationen (v.a. Friedensinitiativen) als Erstunterzeichner
> getragen. Er ist im Internet unter www.friedensratschlag.de zu
> besichtigen. Unterschriftenlisten können angefordert werden bei
> mailto:Frieden-und-Zukunft@...
>
> Hinweis:
> Rechtzeitig zum 2. Jahrestag des NATO-Kriegs erscheint eine weitere
> Ausgabe der "Zeitung gegen den Krieg".
> Ab dem 20. März geht die Zeitung in den Vertrieb, sodass sie am
> Jahrestag und zu den Ostermärschen einsetzbar ist.
> Die Zeitung wird herausgegeben von: Informationsstelle
> Militarisierung
> (IMI) e.V., Bundestagsbüro Winfried Wolf (PDS), VVN-BdA.
> Die 16 seitige "Zeitung gegen den Krieg" kann bestellt werden beim
> Bundestagsbüro Winfried Wolf, MdB, Platz der Republik, 11011
> Berlin, Tel.: 030-227-71791,Fax: 030-227-76068,
> mailto:winfried.wolf@...
> (Preis: 0,15 DM pro Exemplar, ab 500 pro Ex.: 0,10 DM)
>
> Mit besten Grüßen
> Peter Strutynski
>
> Das Debakel könnte nicht größer sein
>
> Erklärung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag zum 2. Jahrestag
> des
> Beginns des NATO-Kriegs gegen Jugoslawien
>
> Um den 24. März 2001 herum finden im ganzen Land - aber auch
> international - zahlreiche Veranstaltungen, Mahnwachen und
> Kundgebungen
> statt, mit denen an den Krieg gegen Jugoslawien im Frühjahr 1999
> erinnert wird.
>
> Auch zwei Jahre nach dem NATO-Luftkrieg gegen Jugoslawien ist die
> Friedensbewegung nicht bereit einfach "zur Tagesordnung
> überzugehen",
> sie ist auch nicht bereit ihren "Frieden" mit den Verantwortlichen
> des
> Krieges zu schließen. Dieser Krieg stellte eine Zäsur in der
> Außenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland dar. Zum ersten Mal
> beteiligte sich die Bundeswehr an einem Krieg, den die NATO ohne
> jegliches Mandat der Vereinten Nationen gegen einen souveränen
> Staat
> führte. Entsprechend engagiert ist seither über die
> völkerrechtliche,
> politische und moralische Bewertung des Kriegs diskutiert worden.
>
> Selbsttäuschung, Lügen und andere Rechtfertigungen
>
> Ein Ergebnis dieser Diskussionen kann heute dahingehend
> zusammengefasst
> werden: Nahezu alle von der Bundesregierung seinerzeit angeführten
> Gründe für die Bombardierung Jugoslawiens haben sich als
> Selbsttäuschung, als vorgeschobene Rechtfertigungsversuche oder als
> offenkundige Lügen herausgestellt.
>
> Beispiel 1: Die "humanitäre Katastrophe", die mit dem militärischen
> Eingreifen "verhindert" werden sollte, hat es so nicht gegeben bzw.
> ist
> erst mit dem Krieg eingetreten. Die US-Diplomatin Norma Brown, die
> sich
> damals im Kosovo aufgehalten hatte, erklärte gegenüber dem WDR:
> "Jeder
> wusste, dass es erst zu einer humanitären Krise kommen würde, wenn
> die
> NATO bombardiert." Alle Lageberichte der Bundesregierung bis zum
> unmittelbaren Kriegsbeginn und alle Berichte unabhängiger
> OSZE-Beobachter aus dem Kosovo 1998/99 sprechen übereinstimmend von
> einer "bürgerkriegsähnlichen" Situation, in der serbische
> Sicherheitskräfte und albanische Separatisten (UCK) verwickelt
> waren.
> Von großflächigen oder gar systematischen Vertreibungen oder
> Massenmorden konnte keine Rede sein.
>
> Beispiel 2: Auch den "Hufeisenplan" hat es nicht gegeben.
> Verteidigungsminister Scharping präsentierte im April 1999 den
> Medien
> einen solchen angeblich von der serbischen Führung ausgearbeiteten
> operativen Plan zur systematischen Vernichtung und Vertreibung der
> albanischen Bevölkerung aus dem Kosovo. Bis heute konnte die
> Bundesregierung keinen Beweis für die Existenz solch eines Planes
> liefern. Experten vermuten indessen, dass der sog. Hufeisenplan von
> einem deutschen Geheimdienst oder im Außenministerium hergestellt
> wurde.
>
> Beispiel 3: Die "Massaker" von Rugovo und von Racak, in denen
> albanische
> Zivilisten von Serben brutal ermordet worden sein sollen, hat es
> ebenfalls so nicht gegeben. OSZE-Mitarbeiter und unabhängige
> Gerichtsmediziner, die diese Vorfälle (im Januar bzw. Februar 1999)
> untersucht haben, kamen zum Ergebnis, dass es sich im ersten Fall
> (Rugovo) keineswegs um ein Massaker gehandelt hat, vielmehr seien
> die 24
> toten Albaner (keine Zivilisten, sondern UCK-Kämpfer) bei einem
> Gefecht
> getötet und anschließend an einen Ort zusammen getragen worden. Im
> zweiten Fall (Racak) - hier waren über 40 tote Albaner zu beklagen
> -
> konnten die Gerichtsmediziner keine Anzeichen auf eine Erschießung
> feststellen. Wahrscheinlich sind die Toten ebenfalls Opfer eines
> Gefechts geworden und erst nachträglich an einem Ort nebeneinander
> gelegt worden.
>
> Eine Aufarbeitung des Krieges fand nicht statt
>
> Vieles von dem, was zum Teil erst Monate nach dem Krieg von
> Wissenschaftlern, Journalisten, OSZE-Mitarbeitern und anderen
> Augenzeugen recherchiert und der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert wurde,
> musste den verantwortlichen Politikern schon damals bekannt gewesen
> sein. Nichtsdestoweniger beteiligten sie sich an der
> NATO-Propaganda vom
> zwar illegalen (weil völkerrechtswidrigen), aber "legitimen" Krieg,
> der
> um der Menschenrechte Willen geführt worden sei. Was die Sache bis
> heute
> aber fast noch schlimmer macht, ist die Tatsache, dass auch nach
> den
> diversen Enthüllungen unabhängiger Medien (z.B. Panorama im Mai
> 2000,
> WDR-ARD im Februar 2001) kein Politiker der Regierungskoalition
> bereit
> ist, den Krieg neu zu bewerten oder gar zuzugeben einen Fehler
> gemacht
> zu haben. Es scheint nach wie vor bequemer einer Lebenslüge
> aufzusitzen,
> als der Wahrheit ins Auge zu schauen.
>
> Ein weiterer Aspekt des NATO-Kriegs gegen Jugoslawien bleibt
> unaufgearbeitet: Die NATO-Kriegsführung selbst verstieß gegen
> elementare
> Regeln des Völkerrechts, nämlich gegen zahlreiche Bestimmungen der
> Genfer Konvention. Die meisten Opfer des Krieges waren
> Zivilpersonen.
> Mit dem verharmlosenden Begriff der "Kollateralschäden" kann dies
> nicht
> abgetan werden. Neben Menschen wurden viele zivile Objekte und
> Infrastruktureinrichtungen wie Brücken, Industriebetriebe,
> Krankenhäuser, Kraftwerke, Rundfunk- und Fernsehsender zerstört.
> Auch
> der Einsatz uranhaltiger Munition verursacht bleibende Schäden bei
> Mensch und Natur und stellt einen Skandal dar, bevor ruchbar
> geworden
> ist, dass vielleicht auch eigene Soldaten dadurch in Gefahr geraten
> sein
> könnten.
>
> Warum?
>
> Wenn es sich bei den offiziellen Regierungsverlautbarungen zur
> Rechtfertigung des Krieges um reine Zweckpropaganda gehandelt hat,
> dann
> stellt sich die Frage nach dem Warum. Wayne Merry, politische
> Beraterin
> der US-Regierung, sieht die Sache heute ziemlich nüchtern: "Man
> wollte
> zeigen, dass die NATO überhaupt noch einen Zweck hat." In der Tat:
> Nach
> dem Ende der Ost-West-Blockkonfrontation und der Auflösung des
> Warschauer Pakts hatte die NATO, die ja als Verteidigungsbündnis
> gegen
> den "drohenden Kommunismus" gedacht war, keine Existenzberechtigung
> mehr. Also musste, wenn man am Militär selbst interessiert war,
> eine
> neue Bedrohungslüge bzw. eine neue Sinngebung der NATO her. 50
> Jahre
> nach Gründung der NATO gab sie sich auf ihrem Gipfel im April 1999
> eine
> neue Strategie. Deren Ziel ist letztendlich die weltweite
> Durchsetzung
> ökonomischer und geostrategischer Interessen der reichen
> Industrienationen (soweit sie der NATO angehören). In einschlägigen
> Papieren der NATO wird das mit "Aufrechterhaltung des freien
> Welthandels" oder mit dem "ungehinderten Zugang zu Märkten und
> Rohstoffen in aller Welt" ziemlich genau beschrieben. Auch die
> Bundeswehr wird auf diese Strategie vorbereitet und in eine
> weltweit
> einsetzbare Interventionsarmee umgewandelt: In den kommenden 15
> Jahren
> sollen für rund 200 Mrd. DM neue Waffen und Ausrüstungen beschafft
> werden. Die Stärke der für Interventionen ("so genannte
> "Kriseneinsätze") zur Verfügung stehenden Truppen soll auf 150.000
> Soldatinnen und Soldaten ausgelegt werden.
>
> Eine friedliche Entwicklung der Welt ist damit nicht zu erreichen.
> Rüstung provoziert (Gegen-)Rüstung, der Aufbau von
> Interventionstruppen
> der NATO oder der Europäischen Union provoziert entsprechende
> Reaktionen
> der "Ausgeschlossenen". Der geplante Aufbau eines
> US-Raketenabwehrsystems (Kostenpunkt rund 60 Mrd. US-Dollar)
> provoziert
> entsprechende Aufrüstungsaktivitäten Russlands und Chinas, aber
> auch der
> so genannten "Schurken"-Staaten, die sich im Visier der
> US-Militärdoktrin befinden. Wenn die Welt heute vor einer neuen
> Aufrüstungsspirale steht, dann ist die Politik der USA und der NATO
> daran Schuld.
>
> Aber auch auf dem Balkan hat der siegreiche NATO-Krieg keines der
> vielen
> Probleme lösen können, wie sich nicht zuletzt durch die anhaltenden
> Kämpfe in Südserbien und mittlerweile in Mazedonien zeigt. Die NATO
> gleicht dem Zauberlehrling, der die UCK-Geister seinerzeit gerufen
> hat,
> um das Kosovo von Milosevic-Jugoslawien abzutrennen. Sie sind ihm
> aber
> heute über den Kopf gewachsen und präsentieren ihre Rechnung:
> Abtrennung
> südserbischer Gebiete von Kustonica-Jugoslawien, Abtrennung eines
> Drittels des Territoriums von Mazedonien und Schaffung eines
> großalbanischen Staates. Der Balkan steht - auch ohne Milosevic! -
> vor
> einem neuen Krieg.
> Angesichts des Debakels einer verfehlten Kriegs- und Militärpolitik
> auf
> dem Balkan fordern wir zum zweiten Jahrestag des Beginns des
> NATO-Kriegs
> eine außen- und sicherheitspolitische Umkehr. Nötig sind:
> - eine vorausschauende Politik, die dem Gedanken der zivilen
> Konfliktprävention verpflichtet ist,
> - die strikte Beachtung des Friedensgebots der UN-Charta,
> - der Verzicht auf jegliche Militäreinsätze und damit auch
> - der Verzicht auf die Umwandlung der Bundeswehr in eine vorwiegend
> auf
> Auslandseinsätze getrimmte Interventionsarmee.
>
> Für den Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag:
> Dr. Peter Strutynski (Sprecher), Kassel, den 14. März 2001
>
> http://www.friedensratschlag.de
> Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag, c/o DGB Kassel, Spohrstr. 6,
> 34117
> Kassel
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Under the slogans
* no more war, Nato, nuclear arms
* no more "humanitarian" wars
* close down the Nato basis in Italy
* down with Nato
a big nation-wide anti Nato demonstration will take place in Cesena,
Italy,
on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Nato aggression against
Jugoslavia on March 24. Already several dozens of organisations have
given there participation (see below). Also international delegations
from
Yugoslavia, Greece and Austria have announced their support.
The poster in Italian and the full text of the call in Italian and
german
can be viewed under:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=983824497
24 marzo 1999 - 24 marzo 2001
MAI PIU'
NATO, GUERRE E NUCLEARE
Comitato Promotore per l'Assemblea Antimperialista
-Coord. Romagnolo contro la guerra e la Nato - Assijug (Perugia) - Campo
Antimperialista - Coll. Antinebbia (Valdarno) - Comit. contro la guerra
Sesto S. Giovanni -
Comit. contro la guerra (Milano Sud) - Comit. per la Pace e la
Solidarietà fra i Popoli - Coord. cittadino antimperialista (Torino) -
Coord. romano per la Jugoslavia - Red
Ghost (Ravenna) - Gruppo Zastava! (Trieste) -Soccorso Popolare (Padova)
- Voce Operaia
Per adesioni e informazioni vai al sito:
http://www.tuttinlotta.org
oppure scrivi a
posta@...
Aggiornamento adesioni al 20 marzo
- 100 idee per la pace (Siena)
- AIASP (Associazione Internazionale di Amicizia e Solidarietà con i
Popoli)
- Aiutiamo La Jugoslavia (Bologna)
- Assemblea Nazionale Anticapitalista
- Ass. Cult. Gente Adriatica (Trieste)
- Ass. Cult. Punto Rosso di Vicenza
- Ass. comunista IL PIANETA FUTURO (Pisa)
- Ass. Progetto Drim (Foligno)
- Ass. culturale ³Il Puntino²
- Ass. Dedalo di Sermoneta
- Avamposto degli Incompatibili (Lecce)
- Azione Popolare (Emilia e Romagna)
- Associazione Spaccio Culturale di Succivo (Caserta)
- Casa dei Popoli di Roma
- Centro di Docum. Krupskaja (Bologna)
- Centro di Docum. politica Albano Corneli di Camerano (AN)
- C.S.A. Dordoni (Cremona)
- Centro Studi Ingegneria Biosociale Acireale (Ct)
- Centro Iniziativa Popol. (Foligno)
- Circolo Agorà (Pisa)
- Circolo P.R.C. (Treviso)
- Circolo Prc "Jure Canciani" di Servola/Skedenj (Trieste)
- Circolo P.R.C. di Bussero (MI) "RifoBussero"
- Circcolo Culturale Iqbal Mash (Bologna)
- Circolo ARCI l¹Osservatorio di Pozzuoli (NA)
- Circolo P.R.C. Centrocitta¹ (Trieste)
- Circolo Pablo Neruda di Camerino (MC)
- Circolo Iskra di Cividale del Friuli (UD)
- Circolo Culturale Internazion. Wladimir Majakowskij (RE)
- Cobas Scuola (Ravenna)
- Coll. Squasso (Rimini)
- Coll. Autorganizzati (Rimini)
- Coll. Spartakus di Vicenza
- Coll. classe contro classe (Roma)
- Comit. cittadino contro la guerra (Bologna)
- Comit. contro la guerra (Treviso)
- Comit. contro le guerre di Conegliano (TV)
- Comit. Sardo di solid. internazionalista (Tula)
- Comit. Umbro Antimperialista
- Comit. contro la Guerra (Novara)
- Comit. Operaio e Pop. Antimperialista (Vicenza)
- Comunità degli Jugoslavi in Umbria
- Confederazione COBAS
- Convoglio internazionalista Giorgiana Masi (Roma)
- Coord. nazionale "Su la testa"
- Coordinamento territoriale MAGMA (Roma)
- Coord. contro la Guerra (Cosenza)
- C.S.O. Stella Rossa (Bassano)
- C.U.B. Scuola (Rimini)
- Democrazia Popolare
- Drustvena Gostilna Kontovel (Trst/Trieste)
- Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Imola)
- Feder. P.R.C. (Rimini) - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Forlì e Cesena)
- Federazione P.R.C. di La Spezia
- Fondazione Luigi Cipriani (Cremona)
- Gruppo musicale "Alla Macchia"
- Gruppo musicale Pura Utopia
- La giustizia degli erranti (Treviso)
- Laboratorio Marxista (Versilia)
- Linea Rossa (Genova-Taranto)
- Lista Reno (Bologna)
- Movim. per la confederazione dei comunisti (Toscana)
- Movim. di Solidarietà Austria-Jugoslavia
- Pagine Rosse
- Partito Umanista
- Pellerossa di Cesena
- P.M.L.I. (cellula di Forli¹)
- Punto Rosso (Jesi)
- Punto Rosso Fermo/Porto San Giorgio (AP)
- Radio Citta' Aperta (Roma)
- Radio base (Venezia)
- RAP (Rete Associazioni Popolari)
- Redazione Precari Nati (Bologna)
- Rete Operaia
- Rivista ³Frigidaire ³
- Rivista "Giano².
- SACS (Società degli Artisti Comunisti dello Spettacolo)
- Senza Censura (Bologna)
- Spazio Sociale Filorosso Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza)
- Teatro dell'Esistenza
- Tribunale Ramsey Clark
- Unione Popolare (Roma)
- Unita¹ Internazionale dei Lavoratori (C.I.)
- Un Ponte per...
- Cesare Mangianti (segretario regionale P.R.C. dell¹ Emilia-Romagna)
- Roberto Sconciaforni (segretario federaz. P.R.C.di Bologna)
- Paolo Gambuti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Rimini)
- Martino Albonetti (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ravenna)
- Kiwan Kiwan (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Ferrara)
- Lodovico Cutaia (segretario federaz. P.R.C. di Parma)
Adesioni Internazionali
- Antiimperialistische Koordination (Austria)
- Corrente Leninista Internazionale
- Cunfederatzione de sos Comunistas Sardos
- E.E.K. - Partito Operaio Rivoluzionario (Grecia)
- I.D.P. - Sinistra Democratica Popolare (Messico)
- J.V.P. - Fronte di Liberazione del Popolo (Sri Lanka)
- N.A.R. - Nuova Corrente di Sinistra - (Grecia)
- Revista 'El Nuevo Topo" (El Salvador)
- Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
=> Sono inoltre giunte decine di adesioni individuali da varie regioni
d¹Italia e dall¹estero
Wie an vielen anderen Orten findet in Italien am 24.3. in Cesena einen
Demo
statt. Die Organisatoren haben uns gebeten für internationale
Unterstützung
aufzurufen.
Hier die Plattform:
"Nie mehr Nato, Krieg und Nuklearwaffen!
Aufruf zur italienischen Demonstration anlässlich des zweiten Jahrestags
der
Nato-Aggression in Cesena
Am 24. März 1999 begannen die Nato, Europa und die Olivenbaum-Regierung
D’
Alemas (mit der Unterstützung des Pols Berlusconis) einen kriminellem
Krieg
gegen Jugoslawien. Sie brachen damit die Verfassung und zahlreiche
Bestimmungen internationalen Rechts und belegten die Völker Jugoslawiens
mit
„humanitären“ Bomben, die Zerstörung, Schmerz und Umweltzerstörung
hervorriefen. Gleichzeitig wurde die Adria ein Mistplatz für Chemikalien
und
Uran und der Balkan auf Jahrtausende verseucht.
Die Teilnahmslosigkeit tötet genauso wie der Krieg. Wir können und wir
wollen nicht vergessen.
Keine neuen „humanitären Kriege“!
Nein zu den F-16 und den Atomwaffen in der Emiglia Romana!
Schließung der Nato-Basis Pisignano!
Nein zur Nato!"
Das Plakat kann unter
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=983824497
abgerufen werden.
Wer den Aufruf unterstützen möchte kann entweder uns oder die
Organisatoren
direkt kontaktieren: posta@...
---
ITALIA: ROMA
A DUE ANNI DALLA GUERRA NEI BALCANI
APPELLO PER UNA MANIFESTAZIONE IL 24 MARZO 2001
A due anni dai bombardamenti nel Kosovo col loro disumano carico di
morte e distruzione all?uranio impoverito, l?Unione Europea cerca di
archiviare lo scandalo che ne è seguito e
l?allarme dell?opinione pubblica, chiudendo frettolosamente una finta
inchiesta che nega i crimini, i rischi reali e le responsabilità, mentre
le popolazioni civili di quei territori
subiscono la più catastrofica contaminazione radioattiva e tossica della
loro storia e mentre continuano a morire di leucemia i soldati italiani
ed europei nell?indifferenza degli
organi di governo.
Per la messa al bando dell?uranio impoverito, Rifondazione Comunista ha
condotto una campagna con interrogazioni parlamentari, raccolta di firme
ed appelli all?opinione
pubblica. Ma oggi rivolgiamo un nuovo appello a tutte le associazioni,
alle donne e agli uomini che hanno lottato contro la ?guerra umanitaria?
perché aderiscano e sostengano una
manifestazione che nell?anniversario della guerra, il 24 marzo, rilanci
il rinnovato ripudio della guerra e la ripresa della lotta per il
disarmo nel mondo.
Ma ciò richiede oggi una radicale contestazione dell?Alleanza Atlantica.
Infatti, la guerra nel Kosovo, tragedia d?Europa e crimine mondiale
della NATO, ha reintrodotto la
guerra nella nostra storia, facendone strumento di governo del Nuovo
Ordine Mondiale. Oggi il Patto Atlantico, grazie agli effetti
?costituenti? della guerra nei Balcani, è stato
trasformato, dal Nuovo Concetto Strategico varato nell?aprile 1999, in
un patto di aggressione militare che minaccia la pace nel mondo ed i
paesi cui si impone la globalizzazione
con il ricatto del terrore e dello sterminio.
Perciò chiediamo lo scioglimento del Patto Atlantico . Chiediamo che
l?Italia esca dalla complicità e dalla ipocrisia, rifiutando i sistemi
d?arma e la strategia complessiva della
Nato e decidendo una messa al bando unilaterale sul proprio territorio
dell?uranio impoverito e delle altre armi di sterminio presenti nelle
basi.
Chiediamo perciò a tutte le associazioni che ripudiano la guerra di
sostenere la manifestazione che stiamo organizzando per il 24 marzo
alle 15 in Largo Goldoni : un pomeriggio
di controinformazione, mostre, interventi al microfono, ed altre
iniziative .
Per opporci alla Nato, ai suoi sistemi d?arma, alle sue bombe
?umanitarie?
Per affermare una politica di pace contro il riarmo nucleare e lo scudo
spaziale,
contro la politica filoatlantica europea ed il nuovo esercito europeo
suddito Nato,
per abolire la disumana politica degli embarghi e la complicità del
governo italiano alla politica di guerra.
Partito della Rifondazione Comunista di Roma, Dipartimento Esteri della
Federazione di Roma.
---
JUGOSLAVIJA: BEOGRAD
TWO YEARS ON:
THE TRUTH ABOUT NATO AGGRESSION
24 March 1999 – 24 March 2001
Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The conference will concentrate scholarly and scientific investigation
of past and current events bearing on the
aggression, its consequences and resistance to it. Results will be
publicised. Discussions will be presented from the
viewpoints of history, politics, law, economics, and media, as for the
primary goal. Next is to promote increased
public awareness, responsibility and activism. Invitations to the
conference are extended to distinguished scholars,
journalists and peace activists from Yugoslavia and several other
countries.
You are invited to participate in the conference on 22 and 23 March 2001
and also to join in public events to be
held on 24 March. Your expenses for the three-day Belgrade conference
will be covered by the conference
organizer.
For more information: e-mail
office@...
Yours sincerely,
Zivadin Jovanovic,
Chairman of BELGRADE FORUM
---
Subject: Nie wieder "humanitäre Bomben"!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:19:39 +0100
From: "RKL" <rkl@...>
To: <rkl@...>
Aufruf anlässlich des 2. Jahrestages der NATO-Aggression gegen
Jugoslawien
************************************
* Protestkundgebungen in D und Ö *
* Wien, Stefansplatz, 24.3. 18 h *
* Hamburg, Zentrum, 24.3. abend *
* Erfurt, Zentrum, 21.3. 17 h *
* *
* int. Proteste *
* Cesena, Italien *
* Saloniki, Griechenland *
* Athen, Griechenland *
* Quebec, Kanada *
************************************
Überall auf der Welt werden Protestaktionen anlässlich des zweiten
Jahrestages der NATO-Aggression gegen Jugoslawien stattfinden. Der 24.
März
ist zu einem Datum von historischer Bedeutung geworden, nicht nur
aufgrund
der Tatsache, dass an diesem Tag der erste große imperialistische Krieg
in
Europa seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg begonnen hat, sondern vor allem wegen
des
entschlossenen Widerstandes mit dem dieser Krieg konfrontiert wurde,
nicht
nur von Seiten Jugoslawiens sondern weltweit:
· Die sogenannten „Luftschläge“, welche die NATO nicht einmal wagte als
Krieg zu bezeichnen, demaskierten den wahren totalitären Charakter der
Neuen
Weltordnung. Jede Bewegung, jedes Volk und jede Nation, die sich der
Unterordnung unter die kapitalistische Globalisierung entgegenstellen
(die
nicht nur eine immer größer werdende Ausbeutung und Verarmung der
Mehrheit
der Weltbevölkerung bedeutet, sondern ebenso die Zerstörung der Umwelt,
die
elementarste Voraussetzung für menschliches Leben, und die Auslöschung
der
Volkskultur, wodurch die allgemeine Durchsetzung des Amerikanismus
begünstigt wird) werden mit militärischen Mitteln angegriffen. All die
schönen Worte, dass das Ende der Geschichte Demokratie, Menschenrechte
und
Wohlstand rund um den Globus bringen werde, wurden als offenkundige Lüge
enttarnt. Die Herrschaft der USA und ihrer europäischen Partner,
militärisch
vereinigt in der NATO, ist nichts anderes als eine globale Tyrannei der
Reichen gegen die Armen, die nur durch militärische Gewalt
aufrechterhalten
werden kann. Die sogenannte „Internationale Gemeinschaft“ ist nichts
anderes
als eine Heilige Allianz der imperialistischen Länder, die ihren Willen
der
Welt aufzwingen und ihre eigenen internationalen Gesetze dabei
verletzen.
Aber die Opposition von Ländern wie Russland oder China zeigt die
Grenzen
ihrer Vollmacht und ist das Wappen des aufkommenden Widerstands der
unterdrückten Völker und ihrer Staaten gegen die unipolare Welt, die
unweigerlich dazu verdammt ist, unterzugehen – das ist nur eine Frage
der
Zeit.
· Die imperialistische Aggression gegen Jugoslawien, die dazu diente die
Kontrolle über den Balkan zu gewinnen, wurde getarnt als ein
„humanitärer,
demokratischer und antifaschistischer“ Krieg. Diese Tarnung wurde
hauptsächlich von den sogenannten „Linken“ wie Fischer, Solana und Amato
aufrechterhalten, die, indem sie sich zu Sozialliberalen wandelten, zu
den
Hauptpfeilern der imperialistischen Herrschaft in Europa wurden. Jeder
Widerstand gegen die kapitalistische Globalisierung wird als totalitär
verleumdet, um ihre eigene totalitäre Herrschaft zu maskieren.
„Humanitärer,
demokratischer und antifaschistischer“ Imperialismus ist zu der
Hauptgefahr
für die Menschheit geworden. Der Kampf gegen den Imperialismus bedeutet
auch
der sogenannten „Linken“, welche seine Hegemonie sichert, den Kampf
anzusagen.
· Andererseits hat der Krieg auch gezeigt, das Widerstand möglich ist,
selbst unter den Bedingungen einer einheitlichen imperialistischen Front
mit
mehrfach höherer ökonomischer und militärischer Macht. Das jugoslawische
Volk leistete über zehn Jahre hinweg Widerstand gegen die
imperialistischen
Sanktionen und letztendlich wurde die jugoslawische Armee nicht von der
NATO
besiegt auch wenn sie vom Kosovo abziehen musste.
Die Tatsache, dass es dem Imperialismus schließlich gelang, das Regime
von
Milosevic zu stürzen, welches den antiimperialistischen Widerstand
führte,
ändert nichts an dieser vorher erläuterten geschichtlichen Bedeutung.
Der
Imperialismus gewann nur eine Schlacht, nicht den ganzen Krieg. Der
Volkswiderstand brachte Resultate, die wir bald zu Gesicht bekommen
werden.
Obwohl der Westen ein pro-imperialistisches Regime installieren konnte,
werden die serbischen Volksmassen niemals die totale nationale
Unterwerfung
oder das bereits voll in Gang gekommene soziale Massaker akzeptieren.
Nichtsdestotrotz haben wir etwas aus diesem Rückschlag zu lernen:
· Eine bürokratische Clique (selbst wenn sie ernsthafte
antiimperialistische
Maßnahmen gesetzt hat), welche die politische Macht usurpiert und sich
selbst auf dem Rücken der Massen bereichert, wird früher oder später die
Zustimmung im Volk verlieren. Eine erfolgreiche nationale
antiimperialistische Verteidigung ist in letzter Instanz nur auf Basis
der
Volksmassen, die nach sozialer Gleichheit und Volksdemokratie streben,
möglich.
· Der Imperialismus, geeint unter der Führung der USA, kann nur durch
eine
internationale antiimperialistische Front besiegt werden, welche die
Einheit
des Feindes zerstört. Daher ist die internationale Dimension unseres
Kampfes
eine absolute Notwendigkeit.
Der Kampf gegen die NATO und gegen den Imperialismus geht weiter, nicht
nur
in Jugoslawien, sondern überall auf der Welt – im Irak, in Palästina, in
Kolumbien und vielen anderen Orten. Wir rufen alle antiimperialistische
Kräfte in der ganzen Welt und besonders in Europa auf, sich in einer
antiimperialistischen Front zu vereinen. Die Antiimperialistische
Koordination wird dafür als Instrument dienen.
Nieder mit der NATO!
Für eine internationale antiimperialistische Front!
Permanentes Büro der ILS
Wien, 16. März 2001
***************************************
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Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI)
PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria
Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10
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LONDON
COMMEMORATION OF 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF NATO BOMBING YUGOSLAVIA
Tue 20 March
After NATO bombing
Yusoglavia - two years on
with Alice Mahon MP Tony Benn MP
and Michael Gavrilovic, British Serbian Alliance for Peace
7pm to 9pm in Committee Room 14, House of Commons, London SW1
Sat 24 March
Protest at Downing Street
from 6pm onwards
organised by British Serbian Alliance for Peace
ENDS
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CANADA
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
3662 Albion Rd. South, Gloucester, Ontario, K1T 1A3,
serbian.heritage@..., Tel. 613/ 852-1971
TWO YEARS LATER
You are invited to attend a
MEMORIAL
For innocent civilian victims perpetrated
by indiscriminate NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Saturday, March 24, at 11:00 a.m.
St Stefan Serbian Orthodox Church
3662 Albion Rd. South
Gloucester
Deadly Chronology
March 24 - NATO begins 78 days of air strikes against Yugoslavia
April 5 - An attack on a residential area in the mining town of
Aleksninac kills 17 people.
April 12 - NATO missiles striking a railroad bridge near the Serbian
town of Grdelica inadvertently hit a passenger train, killing 17.
April 14 - The attack on a convoy of Albanian refugees on 14 April.
NATO planes bombed two groups of refugees in the Djakovica region of
south-western Kosovo, killing 75 people.
April 22 - NATO razed Serbian State TV (RTS) building in Belgrade
downtown, killing ten journalists and technicians. More than thirty were
injured.
April 27 - A missile strike in the Serbian town of Surdulica kills at
least 20 civilians.
May 1 - A missile hits a bus crossing a bridge north of Pristina,
killing 47
May 7 - A cluster bomb attack damages a marketplace and the grounds of a
hospital in Nis, killing at least 15.
May 8 - NATO Fighter pilots "using outdated maps" attack the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade, firing three missiles, killing three journalists
and injuring 20 other people.
May 21 - NATO bombs a Kosovo jail, killing at least 19 people and
injuring scores.
May 30 - NATO missiles slam into a bridge crossing the Velika Morava
River near Krusevac. At least 11 were killed and 40 injured when three
missiles hit the bridge, which was crowded with vehicles and
pedestrians.
May 30 - NATO missiles smashed into a hospital and a retirement home in
Surdulica, killing more than 25 people.
May 31 - An apartment building in southern Serbian town of Novi Pazar
was hit, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding more than 20 others.
The most frequent bombed towns were town of Pancevo and Novi Sad, where
oil refineries and bridges over the Danube were destroyed; countless
injured and many killed people.
June 9 - Yugoslav and NATO generals sign an agreement on the withdrawal
of Serbs troops from Kosovo and the complete disarming of the KLA,
following a long session of intense talks near the Yugoslav-Macedonian
border.
June 10 - Yugoslavia begins the process of withdrawing its security
forces from Kosovo. NATO announces that it has suspended the bombing
campaign, and the UN Security Council formally ratifies the negotiated
peace proposal.
June 12 - KFOR troops enter Kosovo.
Two Years After
NATO handed Kosovo on a platter to Thaci's dope-peddling murderers in
June 1999, having acted as their air force for the preceding 78 days.
The "international community" was subsequently content to give the KLA
a free hand, with all that this entailed: killings, expulsion and
robbery of the remaining Serbs, general lawlessness, drug trafficking,
organised prostitution, and the farce of "demilitarisation." More than
200.000 Serbs and non-Albanians were ethnically cleansed from Kososvo
and their property destroyed; and more than 135 Serbian , medieval
churches and monasteries were destroyed. Since NATO / Albanians took
over control in Kosovo more than 1,000 people were killed.
-
La Communaut? Serbe du Qu?bec (CSQ) organise une c?l?bration
comm?morative pour souligner le deuxi?me anniversaire du bombardement
destructif et meurtrier de la Yougoslavie par les forces de l’OTAN qui a
caus? :
-La mort de plus de 2000 victimes innocentes,
-Une destruction totale de l’infrastructure industrielle du pays et,
-Une pollution environnementale sans pr?c?dent.
Ce g?chis irresponsable a compl?tement ?cras? le tissu social de la
population yougoslave, rendant cette soci?t? quasi inop?rante.
Pour marquer cet ?v?nement, une c?r?monie religieuse aura lieu
24.III.2001 ? midi ? l’?glise Orthodoxe Serbe "Ste-Trinit?", situ?e au
349 avenue Melville ? Westmount (coin Sherbrooke) en m?moire de toutes
les victimes de guerre. La c?r?monie sera pr?sid?e par le R?v?rend
Zivorad Subotic, ainsi que plusieurs clerg?s des ?glises Chr?tiennes
Orthodoxes du Qu?bec.
Apr?s cette messe, une r?union pacifique s’ensuivra dans la salle
communautaire o? les discours comm?moratifs seront prononc?s par des
orateurs ?minents du Qu?bec, et ensuite un repas fun?bre (la meilleure
nourriture faite maison) sera offert ? tous les participants dans la
plus pure tradition orthodoxe chr?tienne.
Nous, Communaut? Serbe du Qu?bec, comptons sur votre pr?sence et celle
de toute la population qu?becoise ? cette d?monstration humanitaire pour
t?moigner de votre d?saccord avec l’agression d’un pays souverain par
une force quelconque car aucun agresseur ne peut se donner le privil?ge
irresponsable de tuer et de nommer ses victimes innocentes (enfants,
femmes et vieillards) comme "pertes collat?rales".
Par votre participation, vous dites ?galement haut et fort que vous
n’acceptez pas qu’on laisse vivre toute une nation dans des ruines et
des conditions ?cologiques g?nocidaires et sous un embargo qui a
r?trograd? la nation Yougoslave ? l’?poque pr?-industrielle,
appauvrissant et affamant toute une population civile comptant plus de
14 millions de victimes.
Nous vous remercions cordialement d’avance de votre solidarit? et
participation ? cet ?v?nement important de mise ? l’?preuve de la
conscience humaine.
Note: La pr?-inscription des journalistes est souhaitable
Centre Communautaire Serbe - 349 avenue Melville, Westmount, H3Z
2J7 T?l.: (514) 932-8529
*******************************************************
The Serb Community of Quebec (SCQ) organizes a memorial celebration for
the second anniversary of the destructive and murderous bombardment of
Yugoslavia by NATO forces which have caused:
-Death of more than 2000 innocent people,
-A total destruction of the country’s industrial infrastructure and,
-An ecological pollution whose intensity is yet unknown.
This irresponsible strike has dismantled completely the social structure
of the Yugoslav population, rendering this society nearly inoperative.
To commemorate this day, a religious ceremony will take place 24.III
2001 at noon at the Serbian Orthodoxe Church "Holy-Trinity", located at
349 Melville avenue in Westmount (corner of Sherbrooke) in memory of all
war victims. The ceremony will be chaired by V. Reverend Zivorad
Subotic, as well as several clergies of the Quebec Christian Orthodoxe
Churches.
Following the ceremony, a gathering for peace will follow in the CSQ
hall, where memorial speeches will be given by eminent speakers of
Quebec, after which a funerary meal (the best home made food) will be
offered to all participants in the finest Christian Orthodoxe tradition.
We, the Serb Community of Quebec, count on your presence, as well as the
one of the entire Quebec population to this humanitarian demonstration
to manifest your total disagreement with the aggression of a sovereign
country by any forces, because no one is allowed to kill and designate
innocent victims (children, women, elders) as "collateral losses".
By your participation, you will also say loudly and clearly that you do
not agree to allow an entire nation to live in ruins, genocidal
ecological conditions and under an embargo which retrogressed the
Yougoslav nation to the preindustrial time, impoverishing and starving a
civil population accounting more than 14 million victims.
We thank you cordially in advance for your solidarity and involvement in
this important event of challenging human conscience.
Note: Pre-registration of journalists is preferable
Serbian Community Center - 349 Melville avenue, Westmount, H3Z 2J7
Tel. : (514) 932-8529
---
DEUTSCHLAND
> Von: "Dr. Peter Strutynski" <strutype@...-kassel.de>
> Datum: 2001/03/14 Wed PM 03:38:42 CET
> Betreff: Erklärung zum 2. Jahrestag
>
> Liebe Friedensfreundinnen und -freunde,
> anbei erhaltet ihr eine Erklärung des Bundesausschusses
> Friedensratschlag zum 2. Jahrestag des NATO-Kriegs gegen
> Jugoslawien.
> Der Text folgt im Wortlaut weiter unten, für diejenigen, die auch
> doc-Dateien entgegennehmen, ist die Erklärung auch noch als
> attachment
> angefügt.
>
> Der Appell "Kriege verhindern - Einsatzkräfte auflösen" wird
> bereits von
> 90 Organisationen (v.a. Friedensinitiativen) als Erstunterzeichner
> getragen. Er ist im Internet unter www.friedensratschlag.de zu
> besichtigen. Unterschriftenlisten können angefordert werden bei
> mailto:Frieden-und-Zukunft@...
>
> Hinweis:
> Rechtzeitig zum 2. Jahrestag des NATO-Kriegs erscheint eine weitere
> Ausgabe der "Zeitung gegen den Krieg".
> Ab dem 20. März geht die Zeitung in den Vertrieb, sodass sie am
> Jahrestag und zu den Ostermärschen einsetzbar ist.
> Die Zeitung wird herausgegeben von: Informationsstelle
> Militarisierung
> (IMI) e.V., Bundestagsbüro Winfried Wolf (PDS), VVN-BdA.
> Die 16 seitige "Zeitung gegen den Krieg" kann bestellt werden beim
> Bundestagsbüro Winfried Wolf, MdB, Platz der Republik, 11011
> Berlin, Tel.: 030-227-71791,Fax: 030-227-76068,
> mailto:winfried.wolf@...
> (Preis: 0,15 DM pro Exemplar, ab 500 pro Ex.: 0,10 DM)
>
> Mit besten Grüßen
> Peter Strutynski
>
> Das Debakel könnte nicht größer sein
>
> Erklärung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag zum 2. Jahrestag
> des
> Beginns des NATO-Kriegs gegen Jugoslawien
>
> Um den 24. März 2001 herum finden im ganzen Land - aber auch
> international - zahlreiche Veranstaltungen, Mahnwachen und
> Kundgebungen
> statt, mit denen an den Krieg gegen Jugoslawien im Frühjahr 1999
> erinnert wird.
>
> Auch zwei Jahre nach dem NATO-Luftkrieg gegen Jugoslawien ist die
> Friedensbewegung nicht bereit einfach "zur Tagesordnung
> überzugehen",
> sie ist auch nicht bereit ihren "Frieden" mit den Verantwortlichen
> des
> Krieges zu schließen. Dieser Krieg stellte eine Zäsur in der
> Außenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland dar. Zum ersten Mal
> beteiligte sich die Bundeswehr an einem Krieg, den die NATO ohne
> jegliches Mandat der Vereinten Nationen gegen einen souveränen
> Staat
> führte. Entsprechend engagiert ist seither über die
> völkerrechtliche,
> politische und moralische Bewertung des Kriegs diskutiert worden.
>
> Selbsttäuschung, Lügen und andere Rechtfertigungen
>
> Ein Ergebnis dieser Diskussionen kann heute dahingehend
> zusammengefasst
> werden: Nahezu alle von der Bundesregierung seinerzeit angeführten
> Gründe für die Bombardierung Jugoslawiens haben sich als
> Selbsttäuschung, als vorgeschobene Rechtfertigungsversuche oder als
> offenkundige Lügen herausgestellt.
>
> Beispiel 1: Die "humanitäre Katastrophe", die mit dem militärischen
> Eingreifen "verhindert" werden sollte, hat es so nicht gegeben bzw.
> ist
> erst mit dem Krieg eingetreten. Die US-Diplomatin Norma Brown, die
> sich
> damals im Kosovo aufgehalten hatte, erklärte gegenüber dem WDR:
> "Jeder
> wusste, dass es erst zu einer humanitären Krise kommen würde, wenn
> die
> NATO bombardiert." Alle Lageberichte der Bundesregierung bis zum
> unmittelbaren Kriegsbeginn und alle Berichte unabhängiger
> OSZE-Beobachter aus dem Kosovo 1998/99 sprechen übereinstimmend von
> einer "bürgerkriegsähnlichen" Situation, in der serbische
> Sicherheitskräfte und albanische Separatisten (UCK) verwickelt
> waren.
> Von großflächigen oder gar systematischen Vertreibungen oder
> Massenmorden konnte keine Rede sein.
>
> Beispiel 2: Auch den "Hufeisenplan" hat es nicht gegeben.
> Verteidigungsminister Scharping präsentierte im April 1999 den
> Medien
> einen solchen angeblich von der serbischen Führung ausgearbeiteten
> operativen Plan zur systematischen Vernichtung und Vertreibung der
> albanischen Bevölkerung aus dem Kosovo. Bis heute konnte die
> Bundesregierung keinen Beweis für die Existenz solch eines Planes
> liefern. Experten vermuten indessen, dass der sog. Hufeisenplan von
> einem deutschen Geheimdienst oder im Außenministerium hergestellt
> wurde.
>
> Beispiel 3: Die "Massaker" von Rugovo und von Racak, in denen
> albanische
> Zivilisten von Serben brutal ermordet worden sein sollen, hat es
> ebenfalls so nicht gegeben. OSZE-Mitarbeiter und unabhängige
> Gerichtsmediziner, die diese Vorfälle (im Januar bzw. Februar 1999)
> untersucht haben, kamen zum Ergebnis, dass es sich im ersten Fall
> (Rugovo) keineswegs um ein Massaker gehandelt hat, vielmehr seien
> die 24
> toten Albaner (keine Zivilisten, sondern UCK-Kämpfer) bei einem
> Gefecht
> getötet und anschließend an einen Ort zusammen getragen worden. Im
> zweiten Fall (Racak) - hier waren über 40 tote Albaner zu beklagen
> -
> konnten die Gerichtsmediziner keine Anzeichen auf eine Erschießung
> feststellen. Wahrscheinlich sind die Toten ebenfalls Opfer eines
> Gefechts geworden und erst nachträglich an einem Ort nebeneinander
> gelegt worden.
>
> Eine Aufarbeitung des Krieges fand nicht statt
>
> Vieles von dem, was zum Teil erst Monate nach dem Krieg von
> Wissenschaftlern, Journalisten, OSZE-Mitarbeitern und anderen
> Augenzeugen recherchiert und der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert wurde,
> musste den verantwortlichen Politikern schon damals bekannt gewesen
> sein. Nichtsdestoweniger beteiligten sie sich an der
> NATO-Propaganda vom
> zwar illegalen (weil völkerrechtswidrigen), aber "legitimen" Krieg,
> der
> um der Menschenrechte Willen geführt worden sei. Was die Sache bis
> heute
> aber fast noch schlimmer macht, ist die Tatsache, dass auch nach
> den
> diversen Enthüllungen unabhängiger Medien (z.B. Panorama im Mai
> 2000,
> WDR-ARD im Februar 2001) kein Politiker der Regierungskoalition
> bereit
> ist, den Krieg neu zu bewerten oder gar zuzugeben einen Fehler
> gemacht
> zu haben. Es scheint nach wie vor bequemer einer Lebenslüge
> aufzusitzen,
> als der Wahrheit ins Auge zu schauen.
>
> Ein weiterer Aspekt des NATO-Kriegs gegen Jugoslawien bleibt
> unaufgearbeitet: Die NATO-Kriegsführung selbst verstieß gegen
> elementare
> Regeln des Völkerrechts, nämlich gegen zahlreiche Bestimmungen der
> Genfer Konvention. Die meisten Opfer des Krieges waren
> Zivilpersonen.
> Mit dem verharmlosenden Begriff der "Kollateralschäden" kann dies
> nicht
> abgetan werden. Neben Menschen wurden viele zivile Objekte und
> Infrastruktureinrichtungen wie Brücken, Industriebetriebe,
> Krankenhäuser, Kraftwerke, Rundfunk- und Fernsehsender zerstört.
> Auch
> der Einsatz uranhaltiger Munition verursacht bleibende Schäden bei
> Mensch und Natur und stellt einen Skandal dar, bevor ruchbar
> geworden
> ist, dass vielleicht auch eigene Soldaten dadurch in Gefahr geraten
> sein
> könnten.
>
> Warum?
>
> Wenn es sich bei den offiziellen Regierungsverlautbarungen zur
> Rechtfertigung des Krieges um reine Zweckpropaganda gehandelt hat,
> dann
> stellt sich die Frage nach dem Warum. Wayne Merry, politische
> Beraterin
> der US-Regierung, sieht die Sache heute ziemlich nüchtern: "Man
> wollte
> zeigen, dass die NATO überhaupt noch einen Zweck hat." In der Tat:
> Nach
> dem Ende der Ost-West-Blockkonfrontation und der Auflösung des
> Warschauer Pakts hatte die NATO, die ja als Verteidigungsbündnis
> gegen
> den "drohenden Kommunismus" gedacht war, keine Existenzberechtigung
> mehr. Also musste, wenn man am Militär selbst interessiert war,
> eine
> neue Bedrohungslüge bzw. eine neue Sinngebung der NATO her. 50
> Jahre
> nach Gründung der NATO gab sie sich auf ihrem Gipfel im April 1999
> eine
> neue Strategie. Deren Ziel ist letztendlich die weltweite
> Durchsetzung
> ökonomischer und geostrategischer Interessen der reichen
> Industrienationen (soweit sie der NATO angehören). In einschlägigen
> Papieren der NATO wird das mit "Aufrechterhaltung des freien
> Welthandels" oder mit dem "ungehinderten Zugang zu Märkten und
> Rohstoffen in aller Welt" ziemlich genau beschrieben. Auch die
> Bundeswehr wird auf diese Strategie vorbereitet und in eine
> weltweit
> einsetzbare Interventionsarmee umgewandelt: In den kommenden 15
> Jahren
> sollen für rund 200 Mrd. DM neue Waffen und Ausrüstungen beschafft
> werden. Die Stärke der für Interventionen ("so genannte
> "Kriseneinsätze") zur Verfügung stehenden Truppen soll auf 150.000
> Soldatinnen und Soldaten ausgelegt werden.
>
> Eine friedliche Entwicklung der Welt ist damit nicht zu erreichen.
> Rüstung provoziert (Gegen-)Rüstung, der Aufbau von
> Interventionstruppen
> der NATO oder der Europäischen Union provoziert entsprechende
> Reaktionen
> der "Ausgeschlossenen". Der geplante Aufbau eines
> US-Raketenabwehrsystems (Kostenpunkt rund 60 Mrd. US-Dollar)
> provoziert
> entsprechende Aufrüstungsaktivitäten Russlands und Chinas, aber
> auch der
> so genannten "Schurken"-Staaten, die sich im Visier der
> US-Militärdoktrin befinden. Wenn die Welt heute vor einer neuen
> Aufrüstungsspirale steht, dann ist die Politik der USA und der NATO
> daran Schuld.
>
> Aber auch auf dem Balkan hat der siegreiche NATO-Krieg keines der
> vielen
> Probleme lösen können, wie sich nicht zuletzt durch die anhaltenden
> Kämpfe in Südserbien und mittlerweile in Mazedonien zeigt. Die NATO
> gleicht dem Zauberlehrling, der die UCK-Geister seinerzeit gerufen
> hat,
> um das Kosovo von Milosevic-Jugoslawien abzutrennen. Sie sind ihm
> aber
> heute über den Kopf gewachsen und präsentieren ihre Rechnung:
> Abtrennung
> südserbischer Gebiete von Kustonica-Jugoslawien, Abtrennung eines
> Drittels des Territoriums von Mazedonien und Schaffung eines
> großalbanischen Staates. Der Balkan steht - auch ohne Milosevic! -
> vor
> einem neuen Krieg.
> Angesichts des Debakels einer verfehlten Kriegs- und Militärpolitik
> auf
> dem Balkan fordern wir zum zweiten Jahrestag des Beginns des
> NATO-Kriegs
> eine außen- und sicherheitspolitische Umkehr. Nötig sind:
> - eine vorausschauende Politik, die dem Gedanken der zivilen
> Konfliktprävention verpflichtet ist,
> - die strikte Beachtung des Friedensgebots der UN-Charta,
> - der Verzicht auf jegliche Militäreinsätze und damit auch
> - der Verzicht auf die Umwandlung der Bundeswehr in eine vorwiegend
> auf
> Auslandseinsätze getrimmte Interventionsarmee.
>
> Für den Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag:
> Dr. Peter Strutynski (Sprecher), Kassel, den 14. März 2001
>
> http://www.friedensratschlag.de
> Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag, c/o DGB Kassel, Spohrstr. 6,
> 34117
> Kassel
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Odbor za spomenik padlim v NOB iz Skednja, Sv. Ane in Kolonkovca
Comitato per il monumento ai caduti nella Guerra di Liberazione di
Servola, S. Anna e Kolonkovec
SLAVA PADLIM * GLORIA AI CADUTI
SOTTOSCRIZIONE POPOLARE * LJUDSKA NABIRALNA AKCIJA
Skedenj/Servola (TS) 15/1/2001
Spostovani,
Po dolgih prizadevanjih je odboru koncno uspelo, da dobi vsa potrebna
dovoljenja za dokoncno postavitev spomenika padlim v NOB iz Skednja, Sv.
Ane i Kolonkovca.
Kljub stevilnim prispevkom, ki so jih prebivalci omenjenih okrajev in
trzaske pokrajine namenjali vsa ta leta, ne krije zbrana vsota stroskov
za
postavitev spomenika in brosuro, ki jo namerava odbor izdati za to
priloznost.
Zato se je odbor odlocil, da se ponovno obrne na zasebnike, podjetja,
ustanove in zdruzenja, da priskocijo na pomoc s svojimi prispevki. Tako
bi
lahko dokoncali gradnjo spomenika, ki naj bo izraz hvaleznosti nasim
padlim.
Prepricani smo, da se boste odzvali nasemu vabilu, ker vemo da bo to,
vsaj za sedaj, edini spomenik padlim v NOB v nasem mestu. Vsaka, tudi
najmanjsa, vsota bo dobrodosla.
V pricakovanju na vas odgovor, prejmite nase prisrcne pozdrave.
Odbor
Alla Vostra cortese attenzione
Dopo lunghi anni di sforzi, il nostro comitato ha ottenuto le
autorizzazioni necessarie per la costruzione di un monumento ai Caduti
nella Guerra di Liberazione di Servola, S. Anna e Coloncovez.
Purtroppo pero', nonostante la generosita' dimostrata in questi lunghi
anni dai cittadini dei rioni interessati, di altre parti della citta' e
della provincia, i fondi finora raccolti sono ancora insufficienti per
la
costruzione del monumento e la realizzazione di una pubblicazione
commemorativa.
Per tale motivo e fidando nella sensibilita' di cittadini, enti e
istituzioni, viene promossa una nuova raccolta di fondi che permetta il
completamento di un'opera che tributi il giusto riconoscimento a quei
Caduti lungamente dimenticati.
Contando sulla Vostra sensibilita', e ricordando il valore morale di
tale
iniziativa, Ci rivolgiamo a Voi, chiedendo di voler sostenere tale
raccolta.
Nell'attesa di un Vostro riscontro, inviamo i nostri piu' cordiali
saluti.
Il Comitato
c/o KD "Ivan Grbec", ulica/via di Servola 124 - 34146 Skedenj/Servola
(Trst/Trieste)
Zadruzna Kraska Banka, st. 80306
Banca di Credito Cooperativo del Carso, conto numero 80306
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Comitato per il monumento ai caduti nella Guerra di Liberazione di
Servola, S. Anna e Kolonkovec
SLAVA PADLIM * GLORIA AI CADUTI
SOTTOSCRIZIONE POPOLARE * LJUDSKA NABIRALNA AKCIJA
Skedenj/Servola (TS) 15/1/2001
Spostovani,
Po dolgih prizadevanjih je odboru koncno uspelo, da dobi vsa potrebna
dovoljenja za dokoncno postavitev spomenika padlim v NOB iz Skednja, Sv.
Ane i Kolonkovca.
Kljub stevilnim prispevkom, ki so jih prebivalci omenjenih okrajev in
trzaske pokrajine namenjali vsa ta leta, ne krije zbrana vsota stroskov
za
postavitev spomenika in brosuro, ki jo namerava odbor izdati za to
priloznost.
Zato se je odbor odlocil, da se ponovno obrne na zasebnike, podjetja,
ustanove in zdruzenja, da priskocijo na pomoc s svojimi prispevki. Tako
bi
lahko dokoncali gradnjo spomenika, ki naj bo izraz hvaleznosti nasim
padlim.
Prepricani smo, da se boste odzvali nasemu vabilu, ker vemo da bo to,
vsaj za sedaj, edini spomenik padlim v NOB v nasem mestu. Vsaka, tudi
najmanjsa, vsota bo dobrodosla.
V pricakovanju na vas odgovor, prejmite nase prisrcne pozdrave.
Odbor
Alla Vostra cortese attenzione
Dopo lunghi anni di sforzi, il nostro comitato ha ottenuto le
autorizzazioni necessarie per la costruzione di un monumento ai Caduti
nella Guerra di Liberazione di Servola, S. Anna e Coloncovez.
Purtroppo pero', nonostante la generosita' dimostrata in questi lunghi
anni dai cittadini dei rioni interessati, di altre parti della citta' e
della provincia, i fondi finora raccolti sono ancora insufficienti per
la
costruzione del monumento e la realizzazione di una pubblicazione
commemorativa.
Per tale motivo e fidando nella sensibilita' di cittadini, enti e
istituzioni, viene promossa una nuova raccolta di fondi che permetta il
completamento di un'opera che tributi il giusto riconoscimento a quei
Caduti lungamente dimenticati.
Contando sulla Vostra sensibilita', e ricordando il valore morale di
tale
iniziativa, Ci rivolgiamo a Voi, chiedendo di voler sostenere tale
raccolta.
Nell'attesa di un Vostro riscontro, inviamo i nostri piu' cordiali
saluti.
Il Comitato
c/o KD "Ivan Grbec", ulica/via di Servola 124 - 34146 Skedenj/Servola
(Trst/Trieste)
Zadruzna Kraska Banka, st. 80306
Banca di Credito Cooperativo del Carso, conto numero 80306
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opinioni delle realta' che compongono questa struttura, ma
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