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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)
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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LA SEZIONE ITALIANA DEL TRIBUNALE CLARK ha indetto per domani
Mercoledi' 21 ore 12.00 a piazza SS. Apostoli 49, scala C, int.5
presso LIDU - Lega Internazionale per i Diritti dell'Uomo (tel.
06/6780504) una conferenza stampa
per presentare un primo rapporto redatto dalla commissione degli
scienziati che lavora con il Coordinamento per l'Abolizione delle
Armi all'Uranio e con il Tribunale Clark e per una prima risposta alle
sentenze assolutorie dell'uranio presentate lunedi' 19 dal prof.
Mandelli.
1) Segnalo articolo dell'Unione Sarda di domenica
http://www.unionesarda.it/news.asp?IDNews739&IDCategoria2
2) Intervista abortita del vostro affezionato al Tg5 di stasera alle
20:00.
E' stata cancellata quando gia' la troupe era in viaggio per registrare
il
mio minuto.
Potenza delle veline governative. Il giornalista che mi aveva
contattato
umiliato come pochi, pora stella.
3) Fra gli articoli di oggi, decente quello su Liberazione, un po'
cosi'
quello sul Manifesto, penosi gli altri.
(...)
Torino 20.3.2001
Con riferimento ai lavori della Commissione scientifica sull�uranio
impoverito nominata dal Ministro della Difesa, presieduta dal prof.
Mandelli (�Commissione�), il sottoscritto ha esaminato la Relazione
Preliminare emessa dalla Commissione in data 19.3.2001.
1) Nell�esprimere apprezzamento per il lavoro effettuato dai membri
della Commissione e per i dati messi a disposizione, si esprime stupore
tuttavia sul fatto che i risultati di questo lavoro siano stati intesi
come �Assoluzione dell�Uranio impoverito�, facendo ampio torto al reale
contenuto del rapporto stesso e alle dichiarazioni dello stesso
prof.Mandelli.
2) Inoltre, sullo specifico del metodo utilizzato nel rapporto e sui
suoi risultati preliminari, verrano espresse alcune osservazioni
critiche, atte pi� che altro, se prese in considerazione, a migliorarne
i contenuti.
1) La relazione preliminare NON � (e non poteva essere) una assoluzione
dell�uranio impoverito.
Il sottoscritto in particolare, a questo riguardo, concorda pienamente
con il prof. Mandelli ed i membri della Commissione sui seguenti punti:
- Si tratta di una relazione preliminare su un aspetto specifico
dell�intera questione, ovvero la maggior incidenza di tumori rispetto
al normale nei militari italiani in missione nei Balcani.
- La quantit� di dati a disposizione era troppo esigua per poter
permettere sia di negare sia di affermare con certezza il legame fra
uranio impoverito e certe neoplasie.
- Sar� necessario un accurato monitoraggio nel tempo, sia per quanto
riguarda l�acquisizione di eventuali nuovi casi, sia per controlli da
effettuare su altre popolazioni a rischio, sia per seguire nel tempo la
coorte dei soggetti militari esposti. E� necessario in particolare
aggiornare il numero di casi di neoplasie mediante l�acquisizione della
documentazione necessaria alla conferma diagnostica delle segnalazioni
che arriveranno alla Commissione nei prossimi mesi.
- Il ruolo di altre cause oltre all�uranio impoverito non ha potuto
essere preso in considerazione.
- Le considerazioni effettuate sul ruolo dell�uranio impoverito sono
preliminari e derivano dalla letteratura e dalle campagne recenti
dell�Unep.
- L�incidenza di alcune forme tumorali (linfoma di Hodgkin, ma anche
altre) � superiore all�atteso, anche se, viste le precedenti premesse,
erano di statistica dubbia e l�attribuzione all�uranio impoverito non �
stata possibile. Vi sono tuttavia lavori in letteratura che indicano
una possibile correlazione fra linfoma di Hodgkin e esposizione interna
da Uranio impoverito.
Se questa � una sentenza assolutoria, allora il sottoscritto qui, alla
pari dei membri della Commissione nel Rapporto, si � probabilmente
espresso in una lingua diversa dall�italiano corrente!
2) Sui seguenti punti della relazione si esprimono invece alcune
perplessit� e osservazioni. In particolare:
A) La statistica sulla normalit� o meno rispetto all�atteso del numero
di casi di malattia riscontrati dipende ovviamente da due parametri,
cio�:
a) Il numero di casi di tumore preso in considerazione.
b) La popolazione globale presa come campione statistico. Se infatti 10
casi di tumore, ad esempio, sono �sotto il normale� su una popolazione
di 1 milione di persone, sono �sopra il normale� su una popolazione di
1000 persone.
Sulla determinazione di queste grandezze il rapporto solleva dei dubbi.
Infatti:
a) L�esame dei casi di malattie e morti attribuibili all�uranio
impoverito deve prendere in esame, vista l�esiguit� del fenomeno, la
maggior base possibile di casi significativi, per migliorare la
affidabilit� dell�indagine. Allora, i molti ulteriori casi segnalati
dalle associazioni di militari colpiti (quali la AnaVafaf e altre) non
possono non essere presi in considerazione, e probabilmente, visti i
piccoli numeri, potrebbero modificare alcune delle conclusioni ora
tratte nel Rapporto.
b) La popolazione considerata �esposta� ai fini della statistica sulla
normalit� dell�insorgenza dei tumori � di ben 57164 soggetti,
includendo fra i potenzialmente esposti anche soggetti che sono stati
nei Balcani per una sola volta e per tempi brevissimi (anche fino ad un
sol giorno, in teoria!), oppure in date talmente posteriori ai
bombardamenti e/o in luoghi cos� lontani da esso da poterne escludere
con ogni probabilit� l�esposizione da uranio. La statistica stessa sui
colpiti da linfoma di Hodgkin, ad esempio, indica in 173 giorni la
durata media della permanenza, con un minimo di 64 giorni per un solo
caso.
In sostanza, se si includono nella statistica persone che all�uranio
non sono state esposte mai, da un lato, e si escludono invece casi di
patologie che potrebbero aumentare la statistica, dall�altro, risulta
ovvio come si possa giungere alle conclusioni sulla �normalit� rispetto
alle attese� dell�incidenza di tumori.
B) Per quanto riguarda lo screening dei militari esposti per accertare
l�esposizione ad uranio impoverito (ovvero gli esami da effettuare su
potenziali contaminati, ma senza patologie) � ben noto [si veda come
solo esempio la ref. 1] che esami ematologici e delle urine �standard�
non possono, a distanza di qualche anno, rilevare alcunch�, tranne il
caso di militari con proiettili ritenuti, che non si applica qui. La
tipologia di esami da effettuare risulta pi� complessa in questo caso.
E� anche improbabile, che, a distanza di anni, il meccanismo di
esposizione alla risospensione di polveri da parte di militari �alla
prima esperienza� sia in grado, a distanza di anni dai bombardamenti,
di provocare in costoro una esposizione significativamente rilevabile.
Si fa notare in ultimo che l�analisi �Whole Body Counter� � poi
inefficace alla rilevazione di contaminazioni da alfa emettitori quali
l�uranio.
C) Si concorda con la Commissione che la via di esposizione pi�
rilevante per l�uranio impoverito � l�inalazione e che, dai polmoni,
una frazione non trascurabile dell�attivit� in questi depositata si
concentri nei linfonodi del mediastino. Questo tuttavia, al di l� delle
comprensibili cautele e premesse della Commissione gi� esaminate,
appare un segnale significativo di correlazione fra l�eccesso di casi
di linfomi di Hodgkin e l�esposizione a uranio impoverito. Si concorda
per� su come occorra meglio chiarire il ruolo della contaminazione
interna da uranio nella eziologia dei linfomi, campo di ricerca sul
quale non vi sono sufficienti dati.
D) Fra le statistiche del UNSCEAR citate nel Rapporto riguardo il
linfoma di Hodgkin, risultano purtroppo di scarsa utlit� quelle legate
a esposizione a Iodio-131 e al gas Radon, mentre � interessante la
statistica del 1994 che riporta, fra i lavoratori addetti alla
lavorazione del minerale uranifero (quindi professionalmente esposti a
inalazione di polveri di uranio) casi in eccesso di linfoma di Hodgkin,
pur in presenza di normale incidenza di tumori a polmoni e ossa.
E) La citazione dei rassicuranti risultati del rapporto UNEP [2]: �non
� stata registrata una contaminazione significativa delle aree
sottoposte a mitragliamento con dardi all�uranio impoverito� non
rassicura affatto, purtroppo, a causa di forti dubbi riguardo la
liceit� di tali conclusioni. Infatti:
- Le misurazioni sono state fatte a distanza di anni dai bombardamenti.
Il sottoscritto ha gi� ampiamente spiegato in altre sedi [3] come sia
improbabile, a distanza di anni, rilevare l�inquinamento da DU con le
usuali misure di contaminazione ambientale. Occorre ricorrere a
bioindicatori/bioaccumulatori, nei quali si pu� ancora rilevare il DU
anche dopo parecchio tempo dai bombardamenti.
- Il rapporto afferma infatti di non aver trovato concentrazioni
ambientali rilevanti di DU e questo appunto non stupisce. Tuttavia,
contraddice le sue stesse conclusioni (il DU in seguito ad un
bombardamento non si sparge nell�atmosfera se non entro un piccolo
raggio dall�esplosione, ergo l�esposizione della popolazione nel suo
insieme risulta trascurabile), leggendo quanto scritto nell�Appendice
VI del Rapporto stesso.
- In essa vengono riportati i dati sui rilevamenti di DU in certi
bioindicatori (licheni e muschi). Si legge che in tutti i casi in cui
si � ricorso a questa misura si � trovato rilevante traccia di DU,
segno che esso si era polverizzato e sparso nell�atmosfera. Questo,
anche in concomitanza con rilevazioni nulle di contaminazione del
suolo. Si raccomanda nel Rapporto l�uso di questi bioindicatori in
future rilevazioni.
- Questa appare perci� una implicita affermazione di non aver
utilizzato le tecniche pi� adeguate per la rilevazione del DU.
Risultano perci� opinabili ed inficiate tutte le affermazioni del
rapporto Unep sulla pericolosit� del DU.
- Inoltre, solo in 11 siti sugli oltre 100 indicati sono state
effettuate misurazioni. Date le caratteristiche �a spot�
dell�inquinamento da DU, questo compromette la completezza ed
esaustivit� dell�indagine.
F) Si concorda con la Commissione che i coefficienti di rischio
attualmente raccomandati dall�ICRP (derivati da alte esposizioni
croniche esterne principalmente a nuclidi beta e gamma emettitori
statistiche su Hiroshima, Nagasaki e pazienti alto-irraggiati per
errate cure con raggi X negli anni quaranta) siano di difficile
applicazione al caso in esame (esposizioni interne croniche ad alfa
emettitori). Questo, tra l�altro, costituisce un ulteriore elemento di
critica a molte delle rassicuranti stime recentemente pubblicate [4].
In conclusione, il sottoscritto, al contrario di considerarlo una
sentenza assolutoria, considera il Rapporto della Commissione come un
pregevole primo risultato di una analisi che andr� ovviamente
completata. Segnala in particolare la necessit� di migliorare e
rivedere la statistica (come riportato nel punto A di questo Documento)
e di proseguire nell�interessante analisi della correlazione fra alcune
forme tumorali (linfoma di Hodgkin) e l�esposizione interna da Uranio
(punti C e D di questo Documento).
Rimanendo a disposizione per ogni eventuale chiarimento, porgo distinti
saluti,
(Prof.Ing. Massimo Zucchetti)
Professore di Ruolo di Impianti Nucleari
DENER - Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino (Italy)
Tel./Fax +39.011.564.4464/4499. Email: zucchetti@...
[1] F.J.Hooper et al. "Elevated urine uranium excretion by soldiers
with retained uranium shrapnel", Health Phys. 77(5) (1999) 512-519.
[2] Unep, Depleted Uranium in Kosovo - Post-Conflict Environmental
Assessment, marzo 2001, reperibile al sito:
http://balkans.unep.ch/du/reports/report.html.
[3] M.Cristaldi, A.Di Fazio, C.Pona, A.Tarozzi, M.Zucchetti �Uranio
impoverito (DU). Il suo uso nei Balcani, le sue conseguenze sul
territorio e la popolazione�, Giano, n.36 (sett-dic. 2000), pp. 11-31.
[4] Unione Europea, Opinion of the group of experts established
according to Article 31 of the EURATOM Treaty - Depleted Uranium,
reperibile al sito:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/radprot/opinion.pdf.
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LA SEZIONE ITALIANA DEL TRIBUNALE CLARK ha indetto per domani
Mercoledi' 21 ore 12.00 a piazza SS. Apostoli 49, scala C, int.5
presso LIDU - Lega Internazionale per i Diritti dell'Uomo (tel.
06/6780504) una conferenza stampa
per presentare un primo rapporto redatto dalla commissione degli
scienziati che lavora con il Coordinamento per l'Abolizione delle
Armi all'Uranio e con il Tribunale Clark e per una prima risposta alle
sentenze assolutorie dell'uranio presentate lunedi' 19 dal prof.
Mandelli.
1) Segnalo articolo dell'Unione Sarda di domenica
http://www.unionesarda.it/news.asp?IDNews739&IDCategoria2
2) Intervista abortita del vostro affezionato al Tg5 di stasera alle
20:00.
E' stata cancellata quando gia' la troupe era in viaggio per registrare
il
mio minuto.
Potenza delle veline governative. Il giornalista che mi aveva
contattato
umiliato come pochi, pora stella.
3) Fra gli articoli di oggi, decente quello su Liberazione, un po'
cosi'
quello sul Manifesto, penosi gli altri.
(...)
Torino 20.3.2001
Con riferimento ai lavori della Commissione scientifica sull�uranio
impoverito nominata dal Ministro della Difesa, presieduta dal prof.
Mandelli (�Commissione�), il sottoscritto ha esaminato la Relazione
Preliminare emessa dalla Commissione in data 19.3.2001.
1) Nell�esprimere apprezzamento per il lavoro effettuato dai membri
della Commissione e per i dati messi a disposizione, si esprime stupore
tuttavia sul fatto che i risultati di questo lavoro siano stati intesi
come �Assoluzione dell�Uranio impoverito�, facendo ampio torto al reale
contenuto del rapporto stesso e alle dichiarazioni dello stesso
prof.Mandelli.
2) Inoltre, sullo specifico del metodo utilizzato nel rapporto e sui
suoi risultati preliminari, verrano espresse alcune osservazioni
critiche, atte pi� che altro, se prese in considerazione, a migliorarne
i contenuti.
1) La relazione preliminare NON � (e non poteva essere) una assoluzione
dell�uranio impoverito.
Il sottoscritto in particolare, a questo riguardo, concorda pienamente
con il prof. Mandelli ed i membri della Commissione sui seguenti punti:
- Si tratta di una relazione preliminare su un aspetto specifico
dell�intera questione, ovvero la maggior incidenza di tumori rispetto
al normale nei militari italiani in missione nei Balcani.
- La quantit� di dati a disposizione era troppo esigua per poter
permettere sia di negare sia di affermare con certezza il legame fra
uranio impoverito e certe neoplasie.
- Sar� necessario un accurato monitoraggio nel tempo, sia per quanto
riguarda l�acquisizione di eventuali nuovi casi, sia per controlli da
effettuare su altre popolazioni a rischio, sia per seguire nel tempo la
coorte dei soggetti militari esposti. E� necessario in particolare
aggiornare il numero di casi di neoplasie mediante l�acquisizione della
documentazione necessaria alla conferma diagnostica delle segnalazioni
che arriveranno alla Commissione nei prossimi mesi.
- Il ruolo di altre cause oltre all�uranio impoverito non ha potuto
essere preso in considerazione.
- Le considerazioni effettuate sul ruolo dell�uranio impoverito sono
preliminari e derivano dalla letteratura e dalle campagne recenti
dell�Unep.
- L�incidenza di alcune forme tumorali (linfoma di Hodgkin, ma anche
altre) � superiore all�atteso, anche se, viste le precedenti premesse,
erano di statistica dubbia e l�attribuzione all�uranio impoverito non �
stata possibile. Vi sono tuttavia lavori in letteratura che indicano
una possibile correlazione fra linfoma di Hodgkin e esposizione interna
da Uranio impoverito.
Se questa � una sentenza assolutoria, allora il sottoscritto qui, alla
pari dei membri della Commissione nel Rapporto, si � probabilmente
espresso in una lingua diversa dall�italiano corrente!
2) Sui seguenti punti della relazione si esprimono invece alcune
perplessit� e osservazioni. In particolare:
A) La statistica sulla normalit� o meno rispetto all�atteso del numero
di casi di malattia riscontrati dipende ovviamente da due parametri,
cio�:
a) Il numero di casi di tumore preso in considerazione.
b) La popolazione globale presa come campione statistico. Se infatti 10
casi di tumore, ad esempio, sono �sotto il normale� su una popolazione
di 1 milione di persone, sono �sopra il normale� su una popolazione di
1000 persone.
Sulla determinazione di queste grandezze il rapporto solleva dei dubbi.
Infatti:
a) L�esame dei casi di malattie e morti attribuibili all�uranio
impoverito deve prendere in esame, vista l�esiguit� del fenomeno, la
maggior base possibile di casi significativi, per migliorare la
affidabilit� dell�indagine. Allora, i molti ulteriori casi segnalati
dalle associazioni di militari colpiti (quali la AnaVafaf e altre) non
possono non essere presi in considerazione, e probabilmente, visti i
piccoli numeri, potrebbero modificare alcune delle conclusioni ora
tratte nel Rapporto.
b) La popolazione considerata �esposta� ai fini della statistica sulla
normalit� dell�insorgenza dei tumori � di ben 57164 soggetti,
includendo fra i potenzialmente esposti anche soggetti che sono stati
nei Balcani per una sola volta e per tempi brevissimi (anche fino ad un
sol giorno, in teoria!), oppure in date talmente posteriori ai
bombardamenti e/o in luoghi cos� lontani da esso da poterne escludere
con ogni probabilit� l�esposizione da uranio. La statistica stessa sui
colpiti da linfoma di Hodgkin, ad esempio, indica in 173 giorni la
durata media della permanenza, con un minimo di 64 giorni per un solo
caso.
In sostanza, se si includono nella statistica persone che all�uranio
non sono state esposte mai, da un lato, e si escludono invece casi di
patologie che potrebbero aumentare la statistica, dall�altro, risulta
ovvio come si possa giungere alle conclusioni sulla �normalit� rispetto
alle attese� dell�incidenza di tumori.
B) Per quanto riguarda lo screening dei militari esposti per accertare
l�esposizione ad uranio impoverito (ovvero gli esami da effettuare su
potenziali contaminati, ma senza patologie) � ben noto [si veda come
solo esempio la ref. 1] che esami ematologici e delle urine �standard�
non possono, a distanza di qualche anno, rilevare alcunch�, tranne il
caso di militari con proiettili ritenuti, che non si applica qui. La
tipologia di esami da effettuare risulta pi� complessa in questo caso.
E� anche improbabile, che, a distanza di anni, il meccanismo di
esposizione alla risospensione di polveri da parte di militari �alla
prima esperienza� sia in grado, a distanza di anni dai bombardamenti,
di provocare in costoro una esposizione significativamente rilevabile.
Si fa notare in ultimo che l�analisi �Whole Body Counter� � poi
inefficace alla rilevazione di contaminazioni da alfa emettitori quali
l�uranio.
C) Si concorda con la Commissione che la via di esposizione pi�
rilevante per l�uranio impoverito � l�inalazione e che, dai polmoni,
una frazione non trascurabile dell�attivit� in questi depositata si
concentri nei linfonodi del mediastino. Questo tuttavia, al di l� delle
comprensibili cautele e premesse della Commissione gi� esaminate,
appare un segnale significativo di correlazione fra l�eccesso di casi
di linfomi di Hodgkin e l�esposizione a uranio impoverito. Si concorda
per� su come occorra meglio chiarire il ruolo della contaminazione
interna da uranio nella eziologia dei linfomi, campo di ricerca sul
quale non vi sono sufficienti dati.
D) Fra le statistiche del UNSCEAR citate nel Rapporto riguardo il
linfoma di Hodgkin, risultano purtroppo di scarsa utlit� quelle legate
a esposizione a Iodio-131 e al gas Radon, mentre � interessante la
statistica del 1994 che riporta, fra i lavoratori addetti alla
lavorazione del minerale uranifero (quindi professionalmente esposti a
inalazione di polveri di uranio) casi in eccesso di linfoma di Hodgkin,
pur in presenza di normale incidenza di tumori a polmoni e ossa.
E) La citazione dei rassicuranti risultati del rapporto UNEP [2]: �non
� stata registrata una contaminazione significativa delle aree
sottoposte a mitragliamento con dardi all�uranio impoverito� non
rassicura affatto, purtroppo, a causa di forti dubbi riguardo la
liceit� di tali conclusioni. Infatti:
- Le misurazioni sono state fatte a distanza di anni dai bombardamenti.
Il sottoscritto ha gi� ampiamente spiegato in altre sedi [3] come sia
improbabile, a distanza di anni, rilevare l�inquinamento da DU con le
usuali misure di contaminazione ambientale. Occorre ricorrere a
bioindicatori/bioaccumulatori, nei quali si pu� ancora rilevare il DU
anche dopo parecchio tempo dai bombardamenti.
- Il rapporto afferma infatti di non aver trovato concentrazioni
ambientali rilevanti di DU e questo appunto non stupisce. Tuttavia,
contraddice le sue stesse conclusioni (il DU in seguito ad un
bombardamento non si sparge nell�atmosfera se non entro un piccolo
raggio dall�esplosione, ergo l�esposizione della popolazione nel suo
insieme risulta trascurabile), leggendo quanto scritto nell�Appendice
VI del Rapporto stesso.
- In essa vengono riportati i dati sui rilevamenti di DU in certi
bioindicatori (licheni e muschi). Si legge che in tutti i casi in cui
si � ricorso a questa misura si � trovato rilevante traccia di DU,
segno che esso si era polverizzato e sparso nell�atmosfera. Questo,
anche in concomitanza con rilevazioni nulle di contaminazione del
suolo. Si raccomanda nel Rapporto l�uso di questi bioindicatori in
future rilevazioni.
- Questa appare perci� una implicita affermazione di non aver
utilizzato le tecniche pi� adeguate per la rilevazione del DU.
Risultano perci� opinabili ed inficiate tutte le affermazioni del
rapporto Unep sulla pericolosit� del DU.
- Inoltre, solo in 11 siti sugli oltre 100 indicati sono state
effettuate misurazioni. Date le caratteristiche �a spot�
dell�inquinamento da DU, questo compromette la completezza ed
esaustivit� dell�indagine.
F) Si concorda con la Commissione che i coefficienti di rischio
attualmente raccomandati dall�ICRP (derivati da alte esposizioni
croniche esterne principalmente a nuclidi beta e gamma emettitori
statistiche su Hiroshima, Nagasaki e pazienti alto-irraggiati per
errate cure con raggi X negli anni quaranta) siano di difficile
applicazione al caso in esame (esposizioni interne croniche ad alfa
emettitori). Questo, tra l�altro, costituisce un ulteriore elemento di
critica a molte delle rassicuranti stime recentemente pubblicate [4].
In conclusione, il sottoscritto, al contrario di considerarlo una
sentenza assolutoria, considera il Rapporto della Commissione come un
pregevole primo risultato di una analisi che andr� ovviamente
completata. Segnala in particolare la necessit� di migliorare e
rivedere la statistica (come riportato nel punto A di questo Documento)
e di proseguire nell�interessante analisi della correlazione fra alcune
forme tumorali (linfoma di Hodgkin) e l�esposizione interna da Uranio
(punti C e D di questo Documento).
Rimanendo a disposizione per ogni eventuale chiarimento, porgo distinti
saluti,
(Prof.Ing. Massimo Zucchetti)
Professore di Ruolo di Impianti Nucleari
DENER - Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino (Italy)
Tel./Fax +39.011.564.4464/4499. Email: zucchetti@...
[1] F.J.Hooper et al. "Elevated urine uranium excretion by soldiers
with retained uranium shrapnel", Health Phys. 77(5) (1999) 512-519.
[2] Unep, Depleted Uranium in Kosovo - Post-Conflict Environmental
Assessment, marzo 2001, reperibile al sito:
http://balkans.unep.ch/du/reports/report.html.
[3] M.Cristaldi, A.Di Fazio, C.Pona, A.Tarozzi, M.Zucchetti �Uranio
impoverito (DU). Il suo uso nei Balcani, le sue conseguenze sul
territorio e la popolazione�, Giano, n.36 (sett-dic. 2000), pp. 11-31.
[4] Unione Europea, Opinion of the group of experts established
according to Article 31 of the EURATOM Treaty - Depleted Uranium,
reperibile al sito:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/radprot/opinion.pdf.
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Emperor's New Clothes
March 17, 2001
Gentle Reign: Washington Makes It Perfectly
Clear in Kosovo
by Jared Israel
Gentleness is a virtue, my friends.
With this in mind, note how the U.S. military dealt
recently with some terrorists, or as the media calls
them, 'ethnic Albanian rebels', or 'guerillas'.
The terrorists were returning to Kosovo after being
rudely received by security forces in the country
called Former Macedonia. They were in a hurry to get
home.
"Jim Marshal, spokesman for the U.S.-led contingent of
the KFOR [i.e., NATO] multinational peacekeeping
force, said the men appeared to be dumping their
uniforms and weapons before heading towards Kosovo.
'"We saw a lot of men in black uniforms crossing into
Kosovo, entering buildings, changing out of their
uniforms, leaving their weapons and coming here...in
civilian clothes,' Marshal told reporters in the
Kosovo village of Debelde, where U.S. troops are
monitoring the trouble.
'''We have seen machine guns and some RPGs
(rocket-propelled grenades) and light weapons,' he
said.
'Anyone who crossed into Kosovo would be detained and
searched, he said. 'We will disarm them and detain
them and investigate each case individually. It is up
to KFOR to decide about further investigations,'
Marshal said.
"'We are talking with the civilians here in Debelde to
convince the armed men to hand over their weapons and
finish this thing."' (My emphasis, 'Reuters',
3-4-2001)
U.S. forces were following the terrorists closely
enough to watch as they shed their clothing and
entered a town which U.S. military spokesman Marshall
calls 'here'. That town was Debelde, coincidentally
the place where U.S. forces (including, apparently,
Mr. Marshall) were stationed.
"We saw [the terrorists] entering buildings, changing
out of their uniforms," said Mr. Marshall.
Isn't this remarkable? The U.S. military and the
terrorists shared the same home base; the U.S.
military knew exactly where the terrorists were at all
times; but the U.S. military did not prevent the
terrorists from attacking Macedonia. Nor did it swoop
down and arrest the terrorists as they were "dumping
their uniforms and weapons", did not stop them from
illegally entering Kosovo and did not immediately turn
them over to Macedonians security forces whom they had
attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, etc.
As you may recall, the BBC has reported:
"Western special forces were still training the
guerrillas [i.e., the terrorists attacking Serbia and
Former Macedonia] as a result of decisions taken
before the change of government in Yugoslavia "
('BBC', Monday, 29 January, 2001)
Could Mr. Marshall have been engaging in double talk?
Could this be a case of Washington simultaneously
sponsoring and lamenting 'Greater Albanian' terrorism?
Why did the terrorists return 'here', that is, to U.S.
headquarters?
Keep in mind that these so-called 'rebels' are none
other than the Kosovo Liberation Army, recycled. Ever
since the KLA was glued together by German and US
'intelligence' from a mishmash of drug traffickers,
children of World War II Nazis and diehard supporters
of the late Albanian leader, Enver Hoxha, said KLA has
never won a battle against people with actual guns,
e.g., the Yugoslav Army. The KLA's specialty is
drive-by shootings and cutting the throats of
civilians, preferably old people and children.
Now a group of KLA'ers had invaded Macedonia and
received an unexpectedly harsh reception; that is, the
local security forces shot back. So they turned tail
and fled to the U.S. base in Debelde to complain,
shedding weapons and clothing as they went.
Why to Debelde? Doesn't it make sense that Debelde was
a base for those "Western special forces [who] were
still training the guerrillas"?
But just as the U.S. military was able to observe the
terrorists' shedding their clothing as they raced back
from Former Macedonia, so could the Former Macedonian
security forces who had routed the terrorists.
Everyone concerned was aware: the terrorists were
fleeing to a U.S. base.
This must have been embarrassing for the U.S. military
command. In an effort to spin gold from misfortune,
military spokesman Marshall called a press conference.
The U.S. military would take action, he declared.
"Everyone who crossed into Macedonia would be detained
and searched."
At first this sounds good, but on reflection it is not
clear what Mr. Marshall's men could hope to find
since, according to him, the terrorists had thrown
away clothing and weapons as they rushed back to
Debelde. Were they going to search for tattoos? In a
flash of perhaps unintended humor, Mr. Marshall added
that:
"We will... investigate each case individually..."
'Individually' has a nicely American ring, but again,
what did Mr. Marshall expect to discover? That some of
the terrorists had perfectly good reasons for
attacking Macedonia with "machine guns and some RPGs
(rocket-propelled grenades) and light weapons" whereas
others were being quite naughty?
And what would the U.S. military do after it was done
searching and individually investigating? Mr. Marshall
left that question open. "It will be up to KFOR to
decide about further investigations,'' he said.
The U.S. military was not going to move hastily in
ambiguous matters of law.
Back in the Real World
There is nothing ambiguous about the law concerning
these terrorists. Even UN resolution 1244, which is
NATO's justification for being in Kosovo, affirms:
"...the commitment of all Member States to the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the
region, as set out in the Helsinki Final Act and annex
2..."
The terrorists are attacking Yugoslavia and Former
Macedonia, i.e., "the States of the region." The U.S.
military is required to seize them and turn them over
to the legal authorities in those countries. Period.
In a dispatch that almost surely referred to the
United States and Britain, the 'BBC' reported that :
"...certain Nato-led K-For forces were not preventing
the guerrillas taking mortars and other weapons into
the exclusion zone
"The guerrilla units had been able to hold exercises
there, including live-firing of weapons, despite the
fact that K-For patrols the zone." ('BBC', Jan 29,
2001)
UN Resolution 1244 has many faults. One fault is that
it was forced on Yugoslavia through the worst possible
violation of international law - the 78 day bombing of
Yugoslavia. Moreover, Resolution 1244 states that the
Yugoslav government has suppressed the rights of
ethnic Albanians, which is simply a lie invented to
justify NATO's crimes including sponsoring terrorism
and bombing a sovereign nation. (1)
However even Resolution 1244:
"15. Demands that the KLA and other armed Kosovo
Albanian groups end immediately all offensive actions
and comply with the requirements for demilitarization
as laid down by the head of the international security
presence in consultation with the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General;" [my
emphasis] (3)
Yet the KLA, trained by "Western special forces", has
been attacking southern Serbia for more than a year
and is now attacking Former Macedonia.
I submit that the United States and Britain are using
KLA terrorists as a wedge to help undermine the
sovereignty of Yugoslavia and Former Macedonia. This
is a direct violation of the Helsinki Final Act, a
cornerstone of international law, which commits its
signers, including the United States and Britain :
"To refrain from any use of armed forces inconsistent
with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations and the provisions of the Declaration
on Principles Guiding Relations between Participating
States, against another participating State, in
particular from invasion of or attack on its
territory.
"To refrain from any manifestation of force for the
purpose of inducing another participating State to
renounce the full exercise of its sovereign rights."
[my emphasis] (2)
While it sponsors terrorist attacks on sovereign
nations, the United States government and its various
covert and overt conduits (of money) simultaneously
organize and fund "civil society" groups in targeted
nations around the world. The "civil society" groups
preach that targeted nations must learn to respect the
rule of law. (4)
In other words: WE can and will violate any law or
agreement any time we wish and we will accuse YOU whom
we wish to destroy of doing the violating and THAT is
the New World Order.
And that is how the game is played, my friends. People
of the world: take notice.
-- Jared Israel, 17 March 2001
Further Reading...
(1) 'Why Albanians Fled Kosovo During NATO Bombing'.
This interview presents an entirely different
explanation of why large numbers of Albanians left
Kosovo during the NATO bombing: not mainly because of
the bombing, and not because of Serb attacks.
The interview is with Mr. Chedomere Pralinchavich. He
was the chief archivist of Kosovo and leader of the
Jewish community in Prishtina until he and all other
Jews were driven from the province by the KLA, with
NATO's complicity. The interview can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/keys.htm
2) To read the Helsinki Final Act (the "Helsinki
Accords") please go to
http://www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html
3) UN Security Council Resolution 1244 can be read at
http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1999/99sc1244.htm
4) Concerning Washington's creation of 'civil society'
groups as weapons of policy, see "U.S. Arrogance and
Yugoslav Elections" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm
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Emperor's New Clothes
March 17, 2001
Gentle Reign: Washington Makes It Perfectly
Clear in Kosovo
by Jared Israel
Gentleness is a virtue, my friends.
With this in mind, note how the U.S. military dealt
recently with some terrorists, or as the media calls
them, 'ethnic Albanian rebels', or 'guerillas'.
The terrorists were returning to Kosovo after being
rudely received by security forces in the country
called Former Macedonia. They were in a hurry to get
home.
"Jim Marshal, spokesman for the U.S.-led contingent of
the KFOR [i.e., NATO] multinational peacekeeping
force, said the men appeared to be dumping their
uniforms and weapons before heading towards Kosovo.
'"We saw a lot of men in black uniforms crossing into
Kosovo, entering buildings, changing out of their
uniforms, leaving their weapons and coming here...in
civilian clothes,' Marshal told reporters in the
Kosovo village of Debelde, where U.S. troops are
monitoring the trouble.
'''We have seen machine guns and some RPGs
(rocket-propelled grenades) and light weapons,' he
said.
'Anyone who crossed into Kosovo would be detained and
searched, he said. 'We will disarm them and detain
them and investigate each case individually. It is up
to KFOR to decide about further investigations,'
Marshal said.
"'We are talking with the civilians here in Debelde to
convince the armed men to hand over their weapons and
finish this thing."' (My emphasis, 'Reuters',
3-4-2001)
U.S. forces were following the terrorists closely
enough to watch as they shed their clothing and
entered a town which U.S. military spokesman Marshall
calls 'here'. That town was Debelde, coincidentally
the place where U.S. forces (including, apparently,
Mr. Marshall) were stationed.
"We saw [the terrorists] entering buildings, changing
out of their uniforms," said Mr. Marshall.
Isn't this remarkable? The U.S. military and the
terrorists shared the same home base; the U.S.
military knew exactly where the terrorists were at all
times; but the U.S. military did not prevent the
terrorists from attacking Macedonia. Nor did it swoop
down and arrest the terrorists as they were "dumping
their uniforms and weapons", did not stop them from
illegally entering Kosovo and did not immediately turn
them over to Macedonians security forces whom they had
attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, etc.
As you may recall, the BBC has reported:
"Western special forces were still training the
guerrillas [i.e., the terrorists attacking Serbia and
Former Macedonia] as a result of decisions taken
before the change of government in Yugoslavia "
('BBC', Monday, 29 January, 2001)
Could Mr. Marshall have been engaging in double talk?
Could this be a case of Washington simultaneously
sponsoring and lamenting 'Greater Albanian' terrorism?
Why did the terrorists return 'here', that is, to U.S.
headquarters?
Keep in mind that these so-called 'rebels' are none
other than the Kosovo Liberation Army, recycled. Ever
since the KLA was glued together by German and US
'intelligence' from a mishmash of drug traffickers,
children of World War II Nazis and diehard supporters
of the late Albanian leader, Enver Hoxha, said KLA has
never won a battle against people with actual guns,
e.g., the Yugoslav Army. The KLA's specialty is
drive-by shootings and cutting the throats of
civilians, preferably old people and children.
Now a group of KLA'ers had invaded Macedonia and
received an unexpectedly harsh reception; that is, the
local security forces shot back. So they turned tail
and fled to the U.S. base in Debelde to complain,
shedding weapons and clothing as they went.
Why to Debelde? Doesn't it make sense that Debelde was
a base for those "Western special forces [who] were
still training the guerrillas"?
But just as the U.S. military was able to observe the
terrorists' shedding their clothing as they raced back
from Former Macedonia, so could the Former Macedonian
security forces who had routed the terrorists.
Everyone concerned was aware: the terrorists were
fleeing to a U.S. base.
This must have been embarrassing for the U.S. military
command. In an effort to spin gold from misfortune,
military spokesman Marshall called a press conference.
The U.S. military would take action, he declared.
"Everyone who crossed into Macedonia would be detained
and searched."
At first this sounds good, but on reflection it is not
clear what Mr. Marshall's men could hope to find
since, according to him, the terrorists had thrown
away clothing and weapons as they rushed back to
Debelde. Were they going to search for tattoos? In a
flash of perhaps unintended humor, Mr. Marshall added
that:
"We will... investigate each case individually..."
'Individually' has a nicely American ring, but again,
what did Mr. Marshall expect to discover? That some of
the terrorists had perfectly good reasons for
attacking Macedonia with "machine guns and some RPGs
(rocket-propelled grenades) and light weapons" whereas
others were being quite naughty?
And what would the U.S. military do after it was done
searching and individually investigating? Mr. Marshall
left that question open. "It will be up to KFOR to
decide about further investigations,'' he said.
The U.S. military was not going to move hastily in
ambiguous matters of law.
Back in the Real World
There is nothing ambiguous about the law concerning
these terrorists. Even UN resolution 1244, which is
NATO's justification for being in Kosovo, affirms:
"...the commitment of all Member States to the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the
region, as set out in the Helsinki Final Act and annex
2..."
The terrorists are attacking Yugoslavia and Former
Macedonia, i.e., "the States of the region." The U.S.
military is required to seize them and turn them over
to the legal authorities in those countries. Period.
In a dispatch that almost surely referred to the
United States and Britain, the 'BBC' reported that :
"...certain Nato-led K-For forces were not preventing
the guerrillas taking mortars and other weapons into
the exclusion zone
"The guerrilla units had been able to hold exercises
there, including live-firing of weapons, despite the
fact that K-For patrols the zone." ('BBC', Jan 29,
2001)
UN Resolution 1244 has many faults. One fault is that
it was forced on Yugoslavia through the worst possible
violation of international law - the 78 day bombing of
Yugoslavia. Moreover, Resolution 1244 states that the
Yugoslav government has suppressed the rights of
ethnic Albanians, which is simply a lie invented to
justify NATO's crimes including sponsoring terrorism
and bombing a sovereign nation. (1)
However even Resolution 1244:
"15. Demands that the KLA and other armed Kosovo
Albanian groups end immediately all offensive actions
and comply with the requirements for demilitarization
as laid down by the head of the international security
presence in consultation with the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General;" [my
emphasis] (3)
Yet the KLA, trained by "Western special forces", has
been attacking southern Serbia for more than a year
and is now attacking Former Macedonia.
I submit that the United States and Britain are using
KLA terrorists as a wedge to help undermine the
sovereignty of Yugoslavia and Former Macedonia. This
is a direct violation of the Helsinki Final Act, a
cornerstone of international law, which commits its
signers, including the United States and Britain :
"To refrain from any use of armed forces inconsistent
with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations and the provisions of the Declaration
on Principles Guiding Relations between Participating
States, against another participating State, in
particular from invasion of or attack on its
territory.
"To refrain from any manifestation of force for the
purpose of inducing another participating State to
renounce the full exercise of its sovereign rights."
[my emphasis] (2)
While it sponsors terrorist attacks on sovereign
nations, the United States government and its various
covert and overt conduits (of money) simultaneously
organize and fund "civil society" groups in targeted
nations around the world. The "civil society" groups
preach that targeted nations must learn to respect the
rule of law. (4)
In other words: WE can and will violate any law or
agreement any time we wish and we will accuse YOU whom
we wish to destroy of doing the violating and THAT is
the New World Order.
And that is how the game is played, my friends. People
of the world: take notice.
-- Jared Israel, 17 March 2001
Further Reading...
(1) 'Why Albanians Fled Kosovo During NATO Bombing'.
This interview presents an entirely different
explanation of why large numbers of Albanians left
Kosovo during the NATO bombing: not mainly because of
the bombing, and not because of Serb attacks.
The interview is with Mr. Chedomere Pralinchavich. He
was the chief archivist of Kosovo and leader of the
Jewish community in Prishtina until he and all other
Jews were driven from the province by the KLA, with
NATO's complicity. The interview can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/keys.htm
2) To read the Helsinki Final Act (the "Helsinki
Accords") please go to
http://www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html
3) UN Security Council Resolution 1244 can be read at
http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1999/99sc1244.htm
4) Concerning Washington's creation of 'civil society'
groups as weapons of policy, see "U.S. Arrogance and
Yugoslav Elections" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm
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"I croati van da soli"
Bosnia: si rompe la Federazione musulmano-croata. Salta Dayton
GIACOMO SCOTTI
La previsione de il manifesto sulla Bosnia-Erzegovina si è avverata:
la Federazione musulmano-croata, seconda entità accanto alla
Repubblica serba, dello Stato bosniaco-erzegovese, si sta
frantumando. Il massimo esponente della comunità croata in quel
paese tormentato, Ante Jelavic, membro della presidenza tripartita
dello Stato e presidente del partito nazionalista Hdz, ha annunciato
solennemente che domani, sabato 3 marzo, il Parlamento nazionale
croato della Bosnia-Erzegovina (un organismo creato lo scorso
novembre e dichiarato illegale dalle autorità tutorie dell'Onu a
Sarajevo) si riunirà a Mostar per "emanare una storica decisione".
Lo stesso Jelavic l'ha già anticipata, preannunciando l'uscita dalla
presidenza tripartita e dichiarando che i croati bosniaco-erzegovesi
"ritengono illegale e illegittimo l'attuale governo della
Bosnia-Erzegovina" e pertanto "da oggi la Federazione
bosniaco-erzegovese è un'entità nazionale musulmana, senza i
croati". E' sottinteso: i croati formeranno una terza entità
politico-territoriale soltanto per loro. Gli accordi di Dayton, almeno
per quanto riguarda i croati, finiscono nella carta straccia.
L'annuncio è stato fatto da Ante Jelavic l'altro ieri in un comizio di
fronte a cinquemila croati bosniaci convenuti per onorare come loro
eroi i criminali di guerra Kordic e Cerkez, a Busovaca, loro città
natale (Dario Kordic è stato condannato dal tribunale dell'Aja a 25
anni di carcere, il generale Mario Cerkez a 15 anni). Busovaca giace
nella Bosnia centrale, in quella Valle del Lasva nella quale milizie
croato-bosniache dell'Hvo sterminarono centinaia di civili
musulmani, incendiandone i villaggi.
L'annunciata "decisione storica" segnerebbe dunque la separazione
dallo Stato bosniaco e dalla Federazione musulmano-croata di
Bosnia dei territori abitati in prevalenza da croati e amministrati
dall'Hdz, e quindi il ripristino di quella "Repubblica croata di
Erzeg-Bosnia" che nella guerra 1992-1995 fu la causa dei sanguinosi
scontri fra croati e musulmani inizialmente alleati contro i serbi. Per
la conservazione di quell'entità secessionista, il governo della
Croazia sotto la guida di Tudjman mandò in Bosnia una parte delle
sue truppe, compiendo in sostanza un'aggressione contro un paese
riconosciuto dall'Onu.
A Busovaca, Jelavic ha definito le condanne affibbiate dai giudici
dell'Aja a Kordic e Cerkez, e prima di loro al generale Blaskic, "un
tentativo di criminalizzare il popolo croato della Bosnia-Erzegovina",
un esempio di come agisce la comunità internazionale "a danno dei
croati, cementando in Bosnia due entità, la serba e la musulmana:
questo i croati non lo permetteranno mai". Conclude Jelavic: "per i
croati questo governo è illegale, illegittimo, e non accetteremo
nessuna delle sue decisioni", e "il Parlamento nazionale croato" (da
lui convocato in sessione a Mostar domani) "segnerà una nuova fase
della lotta per l'eguaglianza politica dei croati in
Bosnia-Erzegovina".
L'Hdz di Jelavic, si noti bene, già da quattro mesi boicotta il
parlamento centrale dello Stato bosniaco e quello della Federazione
croato-musulmana, e ha ritirato i propri rappresentanti dai due
governi dove gli unici rappresentanti dei croati sono esponenti
socialdemocratici. In altre parole, i nazionalisti croati hanno da
tempo creato le condizioni, o meglio i pretesti, per la secessione.
Chiarendo che la scissione non sarà seguita da una richiesta di
annessione del territorio secessionista alla Croazia (tanto più che il
governo democratico di Zagabria, decisamente contrario alla
creazione di un terzo staterello in Bosnia, si accinge a varare
perfino una legge che impedirà ai croati bosniaci di mandare propri
deputati nel parlamento di Zagabria), Jelavic ha detto: "La
Bosnia-Erzegovina non è in questione, ma vogliamo una
Bosnia-Erzegovina con tre entità nazionali su posizioni paritarie, e
questa sarà la nostra decisione a Mostar". Come reagirà l'Onu a
questa aggressione accadizetiana all'unità della Bosnia-Erzegovina?
Per la cronaca, al comizio di Busovaca, preannuncio di una serie di
azioni eversive e provocatorie che potrebbero portare nuovamente
sulla strada della guerra civile, almeno nel territorio della
Federazione croato-musulmana, hanno preso la parola pure il
vicepresidente dell'Hdz bosniaca Marko Topic, l'ex generale
dell'esercito croato-bosniaco (Hvo) e dell'esercito croato (Hv)
Slobodan Praljak, resosi "famoso" per aver ordinato il
cannoneggiamento e la distruzione del Ponte Vecchio di Mostar già
simbolo della convivenza plurietnica e gioiello dell'architettura, e
una decina di altri papaveri neoustascia, alcuni con il crocifisso in
mano.
Praljak ha accusato la comunità internazionale di condurre una
"politica filoserba" e i musulmani di Bosnia di non essersi battuti
contro i serbi nella scorsa guerra. Secondo lui non sarebbero stati i
croati ad aggredire i musulmani nella Bosnia centrale, ma i
musulmani ad aggredire i croati. I quali, guidati da Kordic, Cerkez e
altri "patrioti", si difesero scannando centinaia di bambini, donne e
vecchi ed altri bruciandoli nelle loro case. Perché non c'era posto per
i "diversi" in una terra "che noi croati abitiamo dal settimo secolo e
dove resteremo in eterno". Sparando a zero anche lui contro i
"nemici" dei croati in Bosnia e nel mondo, Marko Topic ha
parafrasato lo slogan urlato dai neofascisti a Spalato, Zagabria e in
altre città della Croazia da circa tre settimane a questa parte: "Noi
tutti siamo Dario Kordic". Criminali? No, "eroi, difensori della
propria
patria".
E' stato infine deciso che la data del 26 febbraio, giorno in cui
Kordic e Cerkez furono condannati dai giudici dell'Aja, sia
proclamata "Giornata dei patrioti croati della Bosnia-Erzegovina".
---
"Il Manifesto" del 4 Marzo 2001
Va in pezzi la Bosnia di Dayton
GIACOMO SCOTTI
L' aria di Mostar, resa leggera dal soffio che viene dal mare
attraverso la vallata della Neretva, ieri era politicamente pesante.
La città si presentava più che mai divisa, non dal fiume ma da un
invisibile quanto solido muro fra croati e musulmani. Case ed alberi
nel settore croato (ormai "ripulito" da serbi e musulmani) erano
tappezzati da manifesti che invitavano "tutti i croati della
Bosnia-Erzegovina" a raggiungere Mostar per "essere testimoni di
storici eventi". Un invito che ha fatto affluire in città decine di
migliaia di persone con cartelli e bandiere, molte nere, in una
scenografia ben nota: quella delle adunate neoustascia. Gli urli, gli
slogan e le canzoni erano di guerra, di odio. Faceva paura stare lì in
mezzo.
Ma quali sono state le "storiche decisioni"? Ecco: la cosiddetta
"Assemblea nazionale croata", costituitasi in novembre per volere
del partito Hdz, si è riunita a Mostar, già capitale della "Repubblica
croata di Erzeg-Bosnia" di triste memoria, per decretare la
resurrezione di quell'entità sotto il nome di "Autorità autonoma dei
territori croati", separata dalla Federazione musulmano-croata che
accanto alla Respublika srpska formava il secondo corno dello stato
unitario di Bosnia-Erzegovina.
La (ri)nascita della terza entità statale croata non è affermata a
chiare lettere nei documenti approvati dai secessionisti, ma la
sostanza non cambia, come è facile capire dalle decisioni prese:
dalla creazione di istituzioni parallele croate in Bosnia al ritiro dei
croati, a cominciare dai ministri, "da ogni carica ricoperta nelle
istituzioni della Federazione e dello stato bosniaco".
Sull'intero territorio a maggioranza etnica croata sarà riconosciuto
un solo partito, l'Hdz; saranno considerate illegittime le
amministrazioni a guida socialdemocratica nei comuni conquistati
dai non nazionalisti nelle elezioni di novembre. Sul medesimo
territorio non saranno valide leggi e direttive emanate dall'Alto
rappresentante dell'Onu e dell'Osce, né quelle del governo della
Federazione croato-musulmana. Il massimo organismo dell'Autorità
autonoma croata sarà il suo presidente e costui - un "duce",
considerati i poteri assoluti che gli vengono concessi - sarà Ante
Jelavic, leader massimo dell'Hdz bosniaco-erzegovese. Questi,
avendo calpestato la costituzione della Bosnia-Erzegovina di cui è
co-presidente assieme ai rappresentanti eletti dai serbi e dai
musulmani, rischia ora di essere dichiarato decaduto dalla carica e
cacciato dalla presidenza tripartita.
A dar forma e risalto alla scissione sono pure le decisioni prese dal
"parlamento" dei croati sulla struttura del governo dell'Autorità
autonoma: è prevista la creazione di un Consiglio esecutivo
provvisorio con una dozzina di ministeri, di un organo legislativo
pure provvisorio (l'attuale Assemblea nazionale croata dell'Hdz) e di
un Consiglio della magistratura. Imposte, tasse, dazi e dogane
saranno riscossi dall'Autorità autonoma per finanziare lo staterello
croato; il cui governo porrà sotto il proprio controllo, recitano le
decisioni, anche corpi di polizia e forze armate. Qualora le truppe
internazionali (Sfor) dovessero bloccare le caserme dell'esercito
bosniaco-croato (Hvo, attualmente parte integrante delle forze
armate della Federazione bosniaco-erzegovese) quell'esercito sarà
sciolto. Chi controllerà i confini? Questo ed altri problemi restano
aperti.
Per dare una cornice legalitaria al colpo di mano che definiscono
"storico evento", gli organizzatori hanno invitato esponenti di tutti i
paesi firmatari degli accordi di Dayton. Ma l'unico paese ad aderire è
stato la Croazia. I capi dell'Hdz bosniaco-erzegovese hanno
giustificato questa nuova scissione con la "volontà di contribuire
alla ristrutturazione interna della Bosnia-Erzegovina".
La reazione dell'autorità tutoria internazionale in Bosnia-Erzegovina
è stata rapida e tuttavia moderata - almeno per il momento. L'Alto
rappresentante dell'Onu e dell'Osce a Sarajevo non esclude la
possibilità di espellere Jelavic dalla presidenza dello stato bosniaco,
come ha dichiarato il suo portavoce Oleg Milisich, aggiungendo la
minaccia della messa fuori legge della stessa Hdz. Secondo l'Alto
rappresentante, "Jelavic mette in pericolo la pace in Bosnia".
Non meno severo si è dimostrato il portavoce dell'Osce, Luka
Zahner. Ricordando che qualche anno addietro l'autorità
internazionale cacciò dalla presidenza dello stato centrale bosniaco
il rappresentante serbo Nikola Poplasen, radicale, per aver violato
gli accordi di Dayton, Zahner ha detto che "il tentativo dell'Hdz di
creare uno staterello croato in Bosnia non è dettato dalla
preoccupazione per la posizione nazionale e culturale dei croati in
questo paese ma nasconde il disegno dei capi di instaurare il
proprio controllo sulle risorse finanziarie del territorio. Spero che
la
gente si renderà conto dell'insostenibile situazione economica in cui
Jelavic e l'Hdz possono trascinare il paese". Alla domanda, però, se
l'Alta autorità internazionale ricorrerà a sanzioni contro Jelavic e il
suo partito, Zahner ha risposto: "Non intendiamo trasformare in
martiri dei violatori della costituzione".
---
"Il Manifesto" del 9 Marzo 2001
Chiusi in un ghetto i secessionisti croati in
Bosnia
Durissime sanzioni dell'amministrazione internazionale, a Zagabria
chiesto un
ruolo attivo per isolare Jelavic e l'Hdz
GIACOMO SCOTTI
Ante Jelavic, massimo leader della filiale bosniaca dell' Hdz, il
partito nazionalista croato, è stato radiato dalla presidenza
tripartita della Bosnia-Erzegovina, la più alta autorità dello stato,
ed è stato dichiarato decaduto anche dalla carica di presidente
dell'Hdz bosniaco-erzegovese. La delibera, inappellabile, è stata
firmata dall'Alto rappresentante della comunità internazionale (Onu,
Osce, Sfor) che esercita nel paese balcanico il potere tutorio
supremo, Wolfang Petritsch.
Jelavic è l'uomo che ha cercato di riportare la Bosnia-Erzegovina sul
sentiero di una nuova guerra civile separando i territori a
maggioranza croata dalla Federazione musulmano-croata,
costituendo la terza entità politico-territoriale detta "Autorità
autonoma dei territori croati" nelle medesime regioni che già
formarono a suo tempo la Repubblica croata di Erzeg-Bosnia". Oltre
a lui, la gravissima sanzione ha colpito tutte le massime autorità
secessioniste: Marko Tokic, vicepresidente dell'Hdz e presidente del
"governo" dei territori croati in Bosnia, Ivo Andric-Luzanki,
vicepremier, e Zdravko Batinic membro della "Presidenza" dello
staterello.
Tutti costoro, cacciati da qualsiasi carica in ogni regione del paese,
non potranno esercitarne alcuna in Bosnia-Erzegovina nemmeno in
futuro. Petritsch ha chiarito che seguiranno anche sanzioni
amministrative, finanziarie ed economiche, e che "la comunità
internazionale sarà più che determinata nel controllare e distruggere
tutti i canali illegali finanziari che alimentano l'Hdz
bosniaco-erzegovese, e "destabilizzano e strutture legali del potere
in Bosnia-Erzegovina".
La reazione di Jelavic e soci è stata rabbiosa: loro resteranno "i
rappresentanti legittimi del popolo croato in Bosnia-Erzegovina", e
l'"Autorità autonoma dei territori croati" comincerà a funzionare in
pieno, con i propri simboli statali, da lunedì prossimo. Opposizione
totale, dunque, alla comunità internazionale che "con le sanzioni
non fa che omogeneizzare maggiormente i croati
bosniaco-erzegovesi e approfondirne lo sdegno, che si propaga
anche nella Repubblica di Croazia".
E le sanzioni contro i secessionisti, secondo fonti bene informate,
prevedono ulteriori misure: divieto di ingresso nei paesi occidentali
e in Croazia per alcuni gerarchi dell'Hdz bosniaca, divieto di
investimenti stranieri in Erzegovina finché a governarla saranno i
vertici dell'Hdz. La Croazia, inoltre, su richiesta della comunità
internazionale, potrebbe dover revocare tutti i passaporti concessi
ai croati di Bosnia dal precedente regime di Tudjman. Si parla di
denunce penali, nei prossimi giorni, contro esponenti dell'Hdz
bosniaca coinvolti in organizzazioni criminali di stampo mafioso, e
della richiesta alla Croazia di spiccare mandato di arresto contro l'ex
generale e deputato al parlamento croato Ljubo Cesic Rojs, oriundo
bosniaco, ritenuto uno dei promotori del putsch in Bosnia. In merito,
l'Alto rappresentante della comunità internazionale ha infatti
sottolineato: "abbiamo informazioni esatte sull'esistenza di una
collaborazione molto stretta, in tutta l'operazione, fra l'Hdz di
Jelavic in Bosnia-Erzegovina e l'Hdz-madre in Croazia".
La risposta del governo croato è stata diplomatica, ma anche
propositiva. Il ministero degli esteri di Zagabria afferma che la
rimozione di Jelavic e camerati "era attesa", e si spera che "il
provvedimento contribuisca alla stabilizzazione della
Bosnia-Erzegovina". Il premier Racan ha dichiarato che "la politica
del popolo croato in Bosnia-Erzegovina non viene creata né decisa a
Zagabria come una volta, ma in Bosnia-Erzegovina". La Croazia,
come firmataria degli accordi di Dayton, "desidera aiutare nella
soluzione dei problemi, ma non arbitrare", "è interessata ai buoni
rapporti con l'intera Bosnia-Erzegovina e non solo con una sua
parte". Mettendo in moto la propria diplomazia, il governo di
Zagabria è alla ricerca di una via d'uscita da una situazione
pericolosamente conflittuale e, al tempo stesso, proporrà uno
schema di ristrutturazione della Bosnia-Erzegovina che "superi gli
accordi di Dayton.
La proposta, presentata come "progetto per arrestare la guerra",
prevede: l'abolizione delle due entità "Repubblica serba" e
"Federazione musulmano-croata", e la costituzione di uno Stato
bosniaco unitario e federalista, composto da 12-14 Cantoni che non
avrebbero il potere di instaurare speciali rapporti con i paesi vicini
né quello della secessione, ma godrebbero di ampie autonomie. Al
vertice, un parlamento bicamerale il cui Senato garantirebbe
l'uguaglianza dei popoli costitutivi serbo, musulmano e croato e i
diritti delle minoranze. "E' tempo di una nuova fondazione della
Bosnia- Erzegovina", ha detto il premier croato Racan.
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"I croati van da soli"
Bosnia: si rompe la Federazione musulmano-croata. Salta Dayton
GIACOMO SCOTTI
La previsione de il manifesto sulla Bosnia-Erzegovina si è avverata:
la Federazione musulmano-croata, seconda entità accanto alla
Repubblica serba, dello Stato bosniaco-erzegovese, si sta
frantumando. Il massimo esponente della comunità croata in quel
paese tormentato, Ante Jelavic, membro della presidenza tripartita
dello Stato e presidente del partito nazionalista Hdz, ha annunciato
solennemente che domani, sabato 3 marzo, il Parlamento nazionale
croato della Bosnia-Erzegovina (un organismo creato lo scorso
novembre e dichiarato illegale dalle autorità tutorie dell'Onu a
Sarajevo) si riunirà a Mostar per "emanare una storica decisione".
Lo stesso Jelavic l'ha già anticipata, preannunciando l'uscita dalla
presidenza tripartita e dichiarando che i croati bosniaco-erzegovesi
"ritengono illegale e illegittimo l'attuale governo della
Bosnia-Erzegovina" e pertanto "da oggi la Federazione
bosniaco-erzegovese è un'entità nazionale musulmana, senza i
croati". E' sottinteso: i croati formeranno una terza entità
politico-territoriale soltanto per loro. Gli accordi di Dayton, almeno
per quanto riguarda i croati, finiscono nella carta straccia.
L'annuncio è stato fatto da Ante Jelavic l'altro ieri in un comizio di
fronte a cinquemila croati bosniaci convenuti per onorare come loro
eroi i criminali di guerra Kordic e Cerkez, a Busovaca, loro città
natale (Dario Kordic è stato condannato dal tribunale dell'Aja a 25
anni di carcere, il generale Mario Cerkez a 15 anni). Busovaca giace
nella Bosnia centrale, in quella Valle del Lasva nella quale milizie
croato-bosniache dell'Hvo sterminarono centinaia di civili
musulmani, incendiandone i villaggi.
L'annunciata "decisione storica" segnerebbe dunque la separazione
dallo Stato bosniaco e dalla Federazione musulmano-croata di
Bosnia dei territori abitati in prevalenza da croati e amministrati
dall'Hdz, e quindi il ripristino di quella "Repubblica croata di
Erzeg-Bosnia" che nella guerra 1992-1995 fu la causa dei sanguinosi
scontri fra croati e musulmani inizialmente alleati contro i serbi. Per
la conservazione di quell'entità secessionista, il governo della
Croazia sotto la guida di Tudjman mandò in Bosnia una parte delle
sue truppe, compiendo in sostanza un'aggressione contro un paese
riconosciuto dall'Onu.
A Busovaca, Jelavic ha definito le condanne affibbiate dai giudici
dell'Aja a Kordic e Cerkez, e prima di loro al generale Blaskic, "un
tentativo di criminalizzare il popolo croato della Bosnia-Erzegovina",
un esempio di come agisce la comunità internazionale "a danno dei
croati, cementando in Bosnia due entità, la serba e la musulmana:
questo i croati non lo permetteranno mai". Conclude Jelavic: "per i
croati questo governo è illegale, illegittimo, e non accetteremo
nessuna delle sue decisioni", e "il Parlamento nazionale croato" (da
lui convocato in sessione a Mostar domani) "segnerà una nuova fase
della lotta per l'eguaglianza politica dei croati in
Bosnia-Erzegovina".
L'Hdz di Jelavic, si noti bene, già da quattro mesi boicotta il
parlamento centrale dello Stato bosniaco e quello della Federazione
croato-musulmana, e ha ritirato i propri rappresentanti dai due
governi dove gli unici rappresentanti dei croati sono esponenti
socialdemocratici. In altre parole, i nazionalisti croati hanno da
tempo creato le condizioni, o meglio i pretesti, per la secessione.
Chiarendo che la scissione non sarà seguita da una richiesta di
annessione del territorio secessionista alla Croazia (tanto più che il
governo democratico di Zagabria, decisamente contrario alla
creazione di un terzo staterello in Bosnia, si accinge a varare
perfino una legge che impedirà ai croati bosniaci di mandare propri
deputati nel parlamento di Zagabria), Jelavic ha detto: "La
Bosnia-Erzegovina non è in questione, ma vogliamo una
Bosnia-Erzegovina con tre entità nazionali su posizioni paritarie, e
questa sarà la nostra decisione a Mostar". Come reagirà l'Onu a
questa aggressione accadizetiana all'unità della Bosnia-Erzegovina?
Per la cronaca, al comizio di Busovaca, preannuncio di una serie di
azioni eversive e provocatorie che potrebbero portare nuovamente
sulla strada della guerra civile, almeno nel territorio della
Federazione croato-musulmana, hanno preso la parola pure il
vicepresidente dell'Hdz bosniaca Marko Topic, l'ex generale
dell'esercito croato-bosniaco (Hvo) e dell'esercito croato (Hv)
Slobodan Praljak, resosi "famoso" per aver ordinato il
cannoneggiamento e la distruzione del Ponte Vecchio di Mostar già
simbolo della convivenza plurietnica e gioiello dell'architettura, e
una decina di altri papaveri neoustascia, alcuni con il crocifisso in
mano.
Praljak ha accusato la comunità internazionale di condurre una
"politica filoserba" e i musulmani di Bosnia di non essersi battuti
contro i serbi nella scorsa guerra. Secondo lui non sarebbero stati i
croati ad aggredire i musulmani nella Bosnia centrale, ma i
musulmani ad aggredire i croati. I quali, guidati da Kordic, Cerkez e
altri "patrioti", si difesero scannando centinaia di bambini, donne e
vecchi ed altri bruciandoli nelle loro case. Perché non c'era posto per
i "diversi" in una terra "che noi croati abitiamo dal settimo secolo e
dove resteremo in eterno". Sparando a zero anche lui contro i
"nemici" dei croati in Bosnia e nel mondo, Marko Topic ha
parafrasato lo slogan urlato dai neofascisti a Spalato, Zagabria e in
altre città della Croazia da circa tre settimane a questa parte: "Noi
tutti siamo Dario Kordic". Criminali? No, "eroi, difensori della
propria
patria".
E' stato infine deciso che la data del 26 febbraio, giorno in cui
Kordic e Cerkez furono condannati dai giudici dell'Aja, sia
proclamata "Giornata dei patrioti croati della Bosnia-Erzegovina".
---
"Il Manifesto" del 4 Marzo 2001
Va in pezzi la Bosnia di Dayton
GIACOMO SCOTTI
L' aria di Mostar, resa leggera dal soffio che viene dal mare
attraverso la vallata della Neretva, ieri era politicamente pesante.
La città si presentava più che mai divisa, non dal fiume ma da un
invisibile quanto solido muro fra croati e musulmani. Case ed alberi
nel settore croato (ormai "ripulito" da serbi e musulmani) erano
tappezzati da manifesti che invitavano "tutti i croati della
Bosnia-Erzegovina" a raggiungere Mostar per "essere testimoni di
storici eventi". Un invito che ha fatto affluire in città decine di
migliaia di persone con cartelli e bandiere, molte nere, in una
scenografia ben nota: quella delle adunate neoustascia. Gli urli, gli
slogan e le canzoni erano di guerra, di odio. Faceva paura stare lì in
mezzo.
Ma quali sono state le "storiche decisioni"? Ecco: la cosiddetta
"Assemblea nazionale croata", costituitasi in novembre per volere
del partito Hdz, si è riunita a Mostar, già capitale della "Repubblica
croata di Erzeg-Bosnia" di triste memoria, per decretare la
resurrezione di quell'entità sotto il nome di "Autorità autonoma dei
territori croati", separata dalla Federazione musulmano-croata che
accanto alla Respublika srpska formava il secondo corno dello stato
unitario di Bosnia-Erzegovina.
La (ri)nascita della terza entità statale croata non è affermata a
chiare lettere nei documenti approvati dai secessionisti, ma la
sostanza non cambia, come è facile capire dalle decisioni prese:
dalla creazione di istituzioni parallele croate in Bosnia al ritiro dei
croati, a cominciare dai ministri, "da ogni carica ricoperta nelle
istituzioni della Federazione e dello stato bosniaco".
Sull'intero territorio a maggioranza etnica croata sarà riconosciuto
un solo partito, l'Hdz; saranno considerate illegittime le
amministrazioni a guida socialdemocratica nei comuni conquistati
dai non nazionalisti nelle elezioni di novembre. Sul medesimo
territorio non saranno valide leggi e direttive emanate dall'Alto
rappresentante dell'Onu e dell'Osce, né quelle del governo della
Federazione croato-musulmana. Il massimo organismo dell'Autorità
autonoma croata sarà il suo presidente e costui - un "duce",
considerati i poteri assoluti che gli vengono concessi - sarà Ante
Jelavic, leader massimo dell'Hdz bosniaco-erzegovese. Questi,
avendo calpestato la costituzione della Bosnia-Erzegovina di cui è
co-presidente assieme ai rappresentanti eletti dai serbi e dai
musulmani, rischia ora di essere dichiarato decaduto dalla carica e
cacciato dalla presidenza tripartita.
A dar forma e risalto alla scissione sono pure le decisioni prese dal
"parlamento" dei croati sulla struttura del governo dell'Autorità
autonoma: è prevista la creazione di un Consiglio esecutivo
provvisorio con una dozzina di ministeri, di un organo legislativo
pure provvisorio (l'attuale Assemblea nazionale croata dell'Hdz) e di
un Consiglio della magistratura. Imposte, tasse, dazi e dogane
saranno riscossi dall'Autorità autonoma per finanziare lo staterello
croato; il cui governo porrà sotto il proprio controllo, recitano le
decisioni, anche corpi di polizia e forze armate. Qualora le truppe
internazionali (Sfor) dovessero bloccare le caserme dell'esercito
bosniaco-croato (Hvo, attualmente parte integrante delle forze
armate della Federazione bosniaco-erzegovese) quell'esercito sarà
sciolto. Chi controllerà i confini? Questo ed altri problemi restano
aperti.
Per dare una cornice legalitaria al colpo di mano che definiscono
"storico evento", gli organizzatori hanno invitato esponenti di tutti i
paesi firmatari degli accordi di Dayton. Ma l'unico paese ad aderire è
stato la Croazia. I capi dell'Hdz bosniaco-erzegovese hanno
giustificato questa nuova scissione con la "volontà di contribuire
alla ristrutturazione interna della Bosnia-Erzegovina".
La reazione dell'autorità tutoria internazionale in Bosnia-Erzegovina
è stata rapida e tuttavia moderata - almeno per il momento. L'Alto
rappresentante dell'Onu e dell'Osce a Sarajevo non esclude la
possibilità di espellere Jelavic dalla presidenza dello stato bosniaco,
come ha dichiarato il suo portavoce Oleg Milisich, aggiungendo la
minaccia della messa fuori legge della stessa Hdz. Secondo l'Alto
rappresentante, "Jelavic mette in pericolo la pace in Bosnia".
Non meno severo si è dimostrato il portavoce dell'Osce, Luka
Zahner. Ricordando che qualche anno addietro l'autorità
internazionale cacciò dalla presidenza dello stato centrale bosniaco
il rappresentante serbo Nikola Poplasen, radicale, per aver violato
gli accordi di Dayton, Zahner ha detto che "il tentativo dell'Hdz di
creare uno staterello croato in Bosnia non è dettato dalla
preoccupazione per la posizione nazionale e culturale dei croati in
questo paese ma nasconde il disegno dei capi di instaurare il
proprio controllo sulle risorse finanziarie del territorio. Spero che
la
gente si renderà conto dell'insostenibile situazione economica in cui
Jelavic e l'Hdz possono trascinare il paese". Alla domanda, però, se
l'Alta autorità internazionale ricorrerà a sanzioni contro Jelavic e il
suo partito, Zahner ha risposto: "Non intendiamo trasformare in
martiri dei violatori della costituzione".
---
"Il Manifesto" del 9 Marzo 2001
Chiusi in un ghetto i secessionisti croati in
Bosnia
Durissime sanzioni dell'amministrazione internazionale, a Zagabria
chiesto un
ruolo attivo per isolare Jelavic e l'Hdz
GIACOMO SCOTTI
Ante Jelavic, massimo leader della filiale bosniaca dell' Hdz, il
partito nazionalista croato, è stato radiato dalla presidenza
tripartita della Bosnia-Erzegovina, la più alta autorità dello stato,
ed è stato dichiarato decaduto anche dalla carica di presidente
dell'Hdz bosniaco-erzegovese. La delibera, inappellabile, è stata
firmata dall'Alto rappresentante della comunità internazionale (Onu,
Osce, Sfor) che esercita nel paese balcanico il potere tutorio
supremo, Wolfang Petritsch.
Jelavic è l'uomo che ha cercato di riportare la Bosnia-Erzegovina sul
sentiero di una nuova guerra civile separando i territori a
maggioranza croata dalla Federazione musulmano-croata,
costituendo la terza entità politico-territoriale detta "Autorità
autonoma dei territori croati" nelle medesime regioni che già
formarono a suo tempo la Repubblica croata di Erzeg-Bosnia". Oltre
a lui, la gravissima sanzione ha colpito tutte le massime autorità
secessioniste: Marko Tokic, vicepresidente dell'Hdz e presidente del
"governo" dei territori croati in Bosnia, Ivo Andric-Luzanki,
vicepremier, e Zdravko Batinic membro della "Presidenza" dello
staterello.
Tutti costoro, cacciati da qualsiasi carica in ogni regione del paese,
non potranno esercitarne alcuna in Bosnia-Erzegovina nemmeno in
futuro. Petritsch ha chiarito che seguiranno anche sanzioni
amministrative, finanziarie ed economiche, e che "la comunità
internazionale sarà più che determinata nel controllare e distruggere
tutti i canali illegali finanziari che alimentano l'Hdz
bosniaco-erzegovese, e "destabilizzano e strutture legali del potere
in Bosnia-Erzegovina".
La reazione di Jelavic e soci è stata rabbiosa: loro resteranno "i
rappresentanti legittimi del popolo croato in Bosnia-Erzegovina", e
l'"Autorità autonoma dei territori croati" comincerà a funzionare in
pieno, con i propri simboli statali, da lunedì prossimo. Opposizione
totale, dunque, alla comunità internazionale che "con le sanzioni
non fa che omogeneizzare maggiormente i croati
bosniaco-erzegovesi e approfondirne lo sdegno, che si propaga
anche nella Repubblica di Croazia".
E le sanzioni contro i secessionisti, secondo fonti bene informate,
prevedono ulteriori misure: divieto di ingresso nei paesi occidentali
e in Croazia per alcuni gerarchi dell'Hdz bosniaca, divieto di
investimenti stranieri in Erzegovina finché a governarla saranno i
vertici dell'Hdz. La Croazia, inoltre, su richiesta della comunità
internazionale, potrebbe dover revocare tutti i passaporti concessi
ai croati di Bosnia dal precedente regime di Tudjman. Si parla di
denunce penali, nei prossimi giorni, contro esponenti dell'Hdz
bosniaca coinvolti in organizzazioni criminali di stampo mafioso, e
della richiesta alla Croazia di spiccare mandato di arresto contro l'ex
generale e deputato al parlamento croato Ljubo Cesic Rojs, oriundo
bosniaco, ritenuto uno dei promotori del putsch in Bosnia. In merito,
l'Alto rappresentante della comunità internazionale ha infatti
sottolineato: "abbiamo informazioni esatte sull'esistenza di una
collaborazione molto stretta, in tutta l'operazione, fra l'Hdz di
Jelavic in Bosnia-Erzegovina e l'Hdz-madre in Croazia".
La risposta del governo croato è stata diplomatica, ma anche
propositiva. Il ministero degli esteri di Zagabria afferma che la
rimozione di Jelavic e camerati "era attesa", e si spera che "il
provvedimento contribuisca alla stabilizzazione della
Bosnia-Erzegovina". Il premier Racan ha dichiarato che "la politica
del popolo croato in Bosnia-Erzegovina non viene creata né decisa a
Zagabria come una volta, ma in Bosnia-Erzegovina". La Croazia,
come firmataria degli accordi di Dayton, "desidera aiutare nella
soluzione dei problemi, ma non arbitrare", "è interessata ai buoni
rapporti con l'intera Bosnia-Erzegovina e non solo con una sua
parte". Mettendo in moto la propria diplomazia, il governo di
Zagabria è alla ricerca di una via d'uscita da una situazione
pericolosamente conflittuale e, al tempo stesso, proporrà uno
schema di ristrutturazione della Bosnia-Erzegovina che "superi gli
accordi di Dayton.
La proposta, presentata come "progetto per arrestare la guerra",
prevede: l'abolizione delle due entità "Repubblica serba" e
"Federazione musulmano-croata", e la costituzione di uno Stato
bosniaco unitario e federalista, composto da 12-14 Cantoni che non
avrebbero il potere di instaurare speciali rapporti con i paesi vicini
né quello della secessione, ma godrebbero di ampie autonomie. Al
vertice, un parlamento bicamerale il cui Senato garantirebbe
l'uguaglianza dei popoli costitutivi serbo, musulmano e croato e i
diritti delle minoranze. "E' tempo di una nuova fondazione della
Bosnia- Erzegovina", ha detto il premier croato Racan.
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Oggetto: VIVICITTA' A BELGRADO
Rispedito-Data: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:39:19 +0100
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Data: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:46:50 +0100
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VIVICITTA' si svolgerà quest'anno l'8 aprile anche a Baghdad, nell'Iraq sotto embargo, e a Belgrado, nella
Jugoslavia che sta ricostruendo dopo l'attacco della NATO, grazie alla collaborazione della UISP con "Un
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Il viaggio si svolgerà tra il 3 e il 10 aprile (date indicative) nel corso della permanenza saranno organizzate
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Il costo del viaggio è in corso di definizione ed oscillerà tra 1 e 1,5 milioni.
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> -----Messaggio originale-----
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> Data: venerdì 16 marzo 2001 19.03
> Oggetto: proposta
>
> Mitrovica chiama!
> Abbiamo sentito il medico dell'ospedale di Mitrovica e la situazione è
> drammatica. Occorrono urgentemente Farmaci e materiale sanitario in
> quanto sono giorni che si susseguono scontri tra manifestanti e Kfor e
> i manifestanti feriti non sanno dove andare a curarsi, inoltre vi sono
> casi molto gravi (amputati e malati terminali) che non hanno neanche il
> cibo.
> Proponiamo a tutte le situazioni che parteciperanno a Cesena alla
> manifestazione del 24/3 di autotassarsi con Lire 100.000 per coprire
> le spese di un convoglio che faremo partire il giorno 30 marzo con
> 40 quintali di medicinali e materiale sanitario che abbiamo gia'
> raccolto.
> La quota va a coprire l'affitto di un frigo e le spese doganali.
> Il resto delle spese le sosterrà il Convoglio Giorgiana Masi.
> Prego girare questa proposta a tutte le realtà
>
> ------- End of forwarded message -------
>
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>
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> cell. 0338-9116688
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>
> Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia vivrà"
> Italijanska Mreza "ZIVECE JUGOSLAVIJA"
>
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> > intestato a Marchionni e Mazzola
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------- END
CON RIFERIMENTO ALL'APPELLO A TUTTE LE PERSONE DI BUONA VOLONTA PER TIMOTIJEVIC MLADEN RINGRAZIAMO TUTTE LE PERSONE BRAVE, ASSOCIAZIONI ED ASPEDALI. IL MALATO SARA CURATO A BELGRADO ED E GIA SOTTOPOSTO A TERAPIA GRAZIE ALL'
IMMEDIATA ATTIVITA DELL' ASSOCIAZIONE ABC, PACE E SOLIDARIETA DI ROMA. DOPO TUTTE LE TRAGEDIE CHE HANNO COLPITO IL POPOLO JUGOSLAVO CI AVETE DATO LA SPERANZA DI UN MONDO MIGLIORE PIU UMANO SE NON AVREMO LA POSSIBILITA DI
OTTENERE LE TERAPIE SUCCESSIVE SAREMO COSTRETTI A RIVOLGERVI DI NUOVO. RINGRAZIAMO SIA ASSOCIAZIONE UN PONTE PER BELGRADO DI ROMA CHE SI E DICHIARATA DISPOSTA AD AIUTARE CHE TUTTI ALTRI DICHIARATISI DISPONIBILI. CI AUGURIAMO DI
NON ESSERE COSTRETTI A CHIEDERE AIUTI COSTRETTI A CHIEDERE AIUTI E DI RIVOLGERVI CON LE NOTIZIE OTTIMISTICHE. GRAZIE, FRATERNI SALUTI
RAJKA VELJOVIC
PER SINDACATO ZASTAVA
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Oggetto: VIVICITTA' A BELGRADO
Rispedito-Data: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:39:19 +0100
Rispedito-Da: pck-yugoslavia@...
Data: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:46:50 +0100
Da: "alessandro marucci" <ale.marucci@...>
Rispondi-a: pck-yugoslavia@...
A: <pck-yugoslavia@...>
UNA CORSA CONTRO L'EMBARGO E LA GUERRA
VIVICITTA' è una corsa competitiva (12 km) e non competitiva (1,5-6 km) , promossa dalla UISP (Unione
Italiana Sport Per tutti), che si svolge da anni contemporaneamente in cento città d'Italia e del mondo. Una
corsa solidale per la pace e la vivibilità delle città.
VIVICITTA' si svolgerà quest'anno l'8 aprile anche a Baghdad, nell'Iraq sotto embargo, e a Belgrado, nella
Jugoslavia che sta ricostruendo dopo l'attacco della NATO, grazie alla collaborazione della UISP con "Un
ponte per..".
UN PONTE PER... organizza la partecipazione italiana al VIVICITTA' a Baghdad e a Belgrado per
solidarizzare con questi popoli, per conoscere i loro paesi.
per...Baghdad
Il viaggio si svolgerà tra il 3 e il 10 aprile (date indicative) nel corso della permanenza saranno organizzate
visite storico/culturali.
Il costo del viaggio è in corso di definizione ed oscillerà tra 1 e 1,5 milioni.
Le prenotazioni si raccoglieranno sino al 20 marzo.
per...Belgrado
pensiamo di restringere la permanenza in Jugo per la partecipazione al Vivicittà e in coincidenza con i voli JAT (sab. - mar.),
quindi: partenza sabato 7 ritorno martedì 10. Il costo del viaggio è in via di definizione (la JAT ci ha comunicato che forse
saranno ritoccati i prezzi dal 1° aprile).
Le prenotazioni si raccoglieranno sino al 27 marzo.
Per informazioni e prenotazioni: 066780808 - viaggi@...
Maggiori dettagli su Vivicittà su: www.uisp.it/vivi2001
Informazioni su Un ponte per... su: www.unponteper.it
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VOCE JUGOSLAVA / JUGOSLAVENSKI GLAS
Trasmissione autogestita a cura del
Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia - crj@...
ogni MARTEDI dalle ore 13 alle 14 a Roma e nel Lazio
sulle frequenze di RADIO CITTA' APERTA - 88.9 MHZ
Gli ascoltatori possono intervenire in diretta chiamando il numero
06-4393512
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PARTIZANSKI DNEVNIK
In grande evidenza sulla prima pagina del "Primorski Dnevnik",
quotidiano della minoranza di lingua slovena di Trieste, il giorno 15
marzo 2001 appariva il seguente titolo: "Gli albanesi chiedono la pace
ed i propri diritti", con riferimento alle recenti manifestazioni
irredentistiche in Macedonia. Gli atti di terrorismo dei nazionalisti
pan-albanesi stanno causando in queste ore la pulizia etnica del
territorio di Tetovo, dal quale la popolazione slava e di altra etnia
non-schipetara fugge.
Il "Primorski Dnevnik", che ha a suo tempo appoggiato la secessione
della Slovenia, continua in questo modo a contribuire allo squartamento
della Jugoslavia multinazionale e partigiana secondo criteri
etnicistici, infangando squallidamente la sua stessa origine e la sua
storia.
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quotidiano della minoranza di lingua slovena di Trieste, il giorno 15
marzo 2001 appariva il seguente titolo: "Gli albanesi chiedono la pace
ed i propri diritti", con riferimento alle recenti manifestazioni
irredentistiche in Macedonia. Gli atti di terrorismo dei nazionalisti
pan-albanesi stanno causando in queste ore la pulizia etnica del
territorio di Tetovo, dal quale la popolazione slava e di altra etnia
non-schipetara fugge.
Il "Primorski Dnevnik", che ha a suo tempo appoggiato la secessione
della Slovenia, continua in questo modo a contribuire allo squartamento
della Jugoslavia multinazionale e partigiana secondo criteri
etnicistici, infangando squallidamente la sua stessa origine e la sua
storia.
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AUTOBUS DA ROMA PER CESENA
Il giorno 24 stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma.
La partenza sarà alle ore 6,30 da Roma con arrivo previsto a Cesena
alle ore 10,30 e il ritorno partenza da Cesena alle ore 19,30 e ritorno
a Roma per le ore 23,30 circa.
per prenotazioni convgm@... entro e non oltre il 22 marzo alle
ore 16,30
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=== Aggiornamento delle adesioni al 15 marzo ===
- 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)
- Avamposto degli Incompatibili (Lecce)
- Azione Popolare (Emilia e Romagna)
- Centro di Docum. Krupskaja (Bologna)
- Centro di Docum. politica Albano Corneli di Camerano (AN)
- 100 idee per la pace (Siena)
- 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)
- Circ. Culturale Iqbal Mash (Bologna)
- Circ. ARCI l¹Osservatorio di Pozzuoli (NA)
- Cobas Scuola (Ravenna)
- Circ. P.R.C. Centrocitta¹ (Trieste)
- Circ. Pablo Neruda di Camerino (MC)
- 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)
- Comunità degli Jugoslavi in Umbria
- Confederazione COBAS
- Convoglio internazionalista Giorgiana Masi (Roma)
- Coord. nazionale "Su la testa"
- Coord. contro la Guerra (Cosenza)
- Corrente Leninista Internazionale
- C.S.O. Stella Rossa (Bassano)
- C.U.B. Scuola (Rimini)
- Cunfederatzione de sos Comunistas Sardos
- Democrazia Popolare
- Drustvena Gostilna Kontovel (Trst/Trieste)
- Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Imola)
- Feder. P.R.C. (Rimini) - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Forlì e Cesena)
- Fondazione Luigi Cipriani (Cremona)
- Gruppo musicale "Alla Macchia"
- La giustizia degli erranti (Treviso)
- Laboratorio Marxista (Versilia)
- Lista Reno (Bologna)
- Movim. per la confederazione dei comunisti (Toscana)
- Movim. di Solidarietà Austria-Jugoslavia
- Pagine Rosse - Partito Umanista
- Pellerossa di Cesena
- Punto Rosso (Jesi)
- Radio Citta' Aperta (Roma)
- Radio base (Venezia)
- Redazione Proletari Nati (Bologna)
- Rete OperaiaRivista - Frigidaire
- Senza Censura
- Tribunale Ramsey Clark
- Unione Popolare (Roma)
- Un Ponte per...
- Unita¹ Internazionale dei Lavoratori (C.I.)
- 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)
=> Sono inoltre giunte decine di adesioni individuali da varie regioni
d¹Italia
24 marzo 1999 - 24 marzo 2001
Guerra, Nucleare, NATO
MAI PIU'
Il 24 marzo 1999 la NATO, l¹Europa, il governo D¹Alema-Ulivo (con
l¹appoggio del Polo),
scatenarono una guerra criminale violando la costituzione, le leggi e i
trattati internazionali,
colpendo i popoli della Jugoslavia con bombe ³umanitarie², causando
distruzioni, lutti,
disastri ambientali; trasformando l¹Adriatico in una discarica chimica e
radioattiva,
contaminando i Balcani per millenni.
L¹indifferenza uccide come la guerra
Non possiamo e non dobbiamo dimenticare
Sabato 24 marzo, Ore 11,00
Cesena, Piazzale Carlo Marx (zona stazione)
manifestazione nazionale e corteo
per dire
no a nuove guerre ³umanitarie²
no agli F-16 e alle atomiche in Romagna nella base di Pisignano di cui
vogliamo la
chiusura!
no alla NATO!
Il pomeriggio alle ore 14,30, presso la Sala Cinema S. Biagio (Via
Aldini)
ASSEMBLEA NAZIONALE ANTIMPERIALISTA
Comitato Promotore per l'Assemblea Antimperialista
(-Coordinamento Romagnolo contro la guerra e la Nato - Assijug (Perugia)
- Campo Antimperialista - Coll. Antinebbia
(Valdarno) - Comitato contro la guerra Sesto S. Giovanni - Comitato
contro la guerra (Milano Sud) - Comitato per la Pace
e la Solidarietà fra i Popoli - Coorinamento. cittadino antimperialista
(Torino) - Coordinamento romano per la Jugoslavia -
Red Ghost (Ravenna) - Gruppo Zastava! (Trieste) -Soccorso Popolare
(Padova) - Voce Operaia
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Il giorno 24 stiamo organizzando gli autobus da Roma.
La partenza sarà alle ore 6,30 da Roma con arrivo previsto a Cesena
alle ore 10,30 e il ritorno partenza da Cesena alle ore 19,30 e ritorno
a Roma per le ore 23,30 circa.
per prenotazioni convgm@... entro e non oltre il 22 marzo alle
ore 16,30
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=== Aggiornamento delle adesioni al 15 marzo ===
- 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)
- Avamposto degli Incompatibili (Lecce)
- Azione Popolare (Emilia e Romagna)
- Centro di Docum. Krupskaja (Bologna)
- Centro di Docum. politica Albano Corneli di Camerano (AN)
- 100 idee per la pace (Siena)
- 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)
- Circ. Culturale Iqbal Mash (Bologna)
- Circ. ARCI l¹Osservatorio di Pozzuoli (NA)
- Cobas Scuola (Ravenna)
- Circ. P.R.C. Centrocitta¹ (Trieste)
- Circ. Pablo Neruda di Camerino (MC)
- 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)
- Comunità degli Jugoslavi in Umbria
- Confederazione COBAS
- Convoglio internazionalista Giorgiana Masi (Roma)
- Coord. nazionale "Su la testa"
- Coord. contro la Guerra (Cosenza)
- Corrente Leninista Internazionale
- C.S.O. Stella Rossa (Bassano)
- C.U.B. Scuola (Rimini)
- Cunfederatzione de sos Comunistas Sardos
- Democrazia Popolare
- Drustvena Gostilna Kontovel (Trst/Trieste)
- Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Imola)
- Feder. P.R.C. (Rimini) - Feder. Giovani Comunisti (Forlì e Cesena)
- Fondazione Luigi Cipriani (Cremona)
- Gruppo musicale "Alla Macchia"
- La giustizia degli erranti (Treviso)
- Laboratorio Marxista (Versilia)
- Lista Reno (Bologna)
- Movim. per la confederazione dei comunisti (Toscana)
- Movim. di Solidarietà Austria-Jugoslavia
- Pagine Rosse - Partito Umanista
- Pellerossa di Cesena
- Punto Rosso (Jesi)
- Radio Citta' Aperta (Roma)
- Radio base (Venezia)
- Redazione Proletari Nati (Bologna)
- Rete OperaiaRivista - Frigidaire
- Senza Censura
- Tribunale Ramsey Clark
- Unione Popolare (Roma)
- Un Ponte per...
- Unita¹ Internazionale dei Lavoratori (C.I.)
- 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)
=> Sono inoltre giunte decine di adesioni individuali da varie regioni
d¹Italia
24 marzo 1999 - 24 marzo 2001
Guerra, Nucleare, NATO
MAI PIU'
Il 24 marzo 1999 la NATO, l¹Europa, il governo D¹Alema-Ulivo (con
l¹appoggio del Polo),
scatenarono una guerra criminale violando la costituzione, le leggi e i
trattati internazionali,
colpendo i popoli della Jugoslavia con bombe ³umanitarie², causando
distruzioni, lutti,
disastri ambientali; trasformando l¹Adriatico in una discarica chimica e
radioattiva,
contaminando i Balcani per millenni.
L¹indifferenza uccide come la guerra
Non possiamo e non dobbiamo dimenticare
Sabato 24 marzo, Ore 11,00
Cesena, Piazzale Carlo Marx (zona stazione)
manifestazione nazionale e corteo
per dire
no a nuove guerre ³umanitarie²
no agli F-16 e alle atomiche in Romagna nella base di Pisignano di cui
vogliamo la
chiusura!
no alla NATO!
Il pomeriggio alle ore 14,30, presso la Sala Cinema S. Biagio (Via
Aldini)
ASSEMBLEA NAZIONALE ANTIMPERIALISTA
Comitato Promotore per l'Assemblea Antimperialista
(-Coordinamento Romagnolo contro la guerra e la Nato - Assijug (Perugia)
- Campo Antimperialista - Coll. Antinebbia
(Valdarno) - Comitato contro la guerra Sesto S. Giovanni - Comitato
contro la guerra (Milano Sud) - Comitato per la Pace
e la Solidarietà fra i Popoli - Coorinamento. cittadino antimperialista
(Torino) - Coordinamento romano per la Jugoslavia -
Red Ghost (Ravenna) - Gruppo Zastava! (Trieste) -Soccorso Popolare
(Padova) - Voce Operaia
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http://www.sunday-times.co.uk (World)
Sunday Times
March 11 2001
Albanian exiles fund Balkans war
Tom Walker and Alex Todorovic
THE Albanian diaspora is pouring millions of pounds
into secretive funds helping guerrillas in southern
Serbia and Macedonia fight for a "greater Albania" in
an operation that threatens Nato's peacekeeping forces
in the Balkans.
Although police throughout western Europe, including
Britain, are looking at ways of cutting off the funds
- which came to prominence during the Kosovo conflict
- they admit they have had little success.
Radicals among the diaspora, such as Leka Zog, the
exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, have vowed to
continue supporting the struggle in whatever way they
can.
Increased co-operation between Belgrade and London in
the battle against Balkan racketeering was discussed
at a recent meeting between a Yugoslav government
adviser and Home Office officials. Belgrade files on
the Albanian mafia are to be made available to British
police for the first time in an effort to stem the
flow of money and arms.
Last week Kosovo Albanians in London confirmed that
they had received new demands for contributions to
unspecified causes. One estimated that up to £5,000 a
week was being raised in London; another said he
feared for the safety of his two brothers and elderly
mother in Pristina, the Kosovo capital, if he failed
to pay up.
In Switzerland federal investigators said they were
struggling to link Albanian funds with weapons
purchases because most such deals were struck by
mobile telephone and within the rigid patriarchal
family structures.
The so-called "Homeland Calling Fund", the main
cash-for-arms conduit used during the Kosovo war, is
thought to have been closed. However, the police
believe another fund, ostensibly to raise cash for the
Albanian University of Tetovo in Macedonia, is playing
a similar role.
Leka Zog, whose father, King Zog, ruled Albania
briefly before the second world war, is said to be
preparing for a trip to Kosovo to call for the
"unification" of territory dominated by Albanians.
Suleman Ganaj, a prominent royalist, complained that
Albanians living in Macedonia were treated like
second-class citizens. "They want freedom," he said.
"We support every step taken by Albanians still under
the domination of foreign powers, every attempt to
free ourselves from Serbs, Macedonians and other
neighbours."
Ganaj warned that the tolerance of Nato's peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo was wearing thin. "Kosovo should have
independence and its own army," he said.
Maps of a greater Albania on diaspora websites feature
a swathe of territory around Kosovo, taking in an arc
of land in southern Serbia and across into Macedonia,
including the capital, Skopje. Further west,
Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, is shown as
Albanian - as are territories in northern Greece.
Fighting flared last week in the Presevo Valley in
southern Serbia and in the nearby Albanian-majority
borderlands in Macedonia. Presevo Albanians and Serbs
failed to agree on a local ceasefire last night,
despite intense negotiations involving the United
Nations and European Union monitors.
Albanian guerrillas said this weekend that they had no
intention of allowing the Yugoslav army into the
security zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia, even
though Nato has given Belgrade approval.
Talat, a young rebel, said that fighting the Serbs had
helped to make 2001 "the best year of my life". He
said that after each border clash the guerrillas'
numbers swell, gaining as many as 70 new volunteers a
day.
The funds coming from abroad and from within Kosovo
have helped to prepare a force of about 2,000 along
the Presevo and Macedonian fronts, he said, and their
leaders aim to enlarge Kosovo's territory.
Talat showed reporters a small field hospital inside
the exclusion zone, where he hugged an injured
colleague, a bearded fighter with the nom de guerre of
Masovitsa. His left hand was loosely wrapped in gauze
and plastered with ointment, but the flesh hung from
his fingertips.
"They [the Serbs] were attacking from all sides with
machineguns, tanks and rockets," Masovitsa said. "At
one point there were only about 50 yards between us
and them." He described how he had shielded his face
with his hands as a rocket exploded nearby. "God saved
my life," he concluded.
A further group of about 300 rebels calling themselves
the National Liberation Army (NLA) was forced by
American soldiers from its headquarters in Tanusevci,
a Macedonian border village. Three Macedonian
policemen had been killed and the Skopje government
was critical of Nato peacekeepers for allowing the
rebels into the country from Kosovo.
The guerrillas, led by Ismet Yashari, then attacked a
police convoy escorting Ljube Boskovski, Macedonia's
deputy interior minister, a few miles south of
Tanusevci at Brest.
A rocket-propelled grenade fired by the NLA killed a
driver in the convoy, which was then pinned down for
12 hours by the rebels. Srdjan Kerim, the Macedonian
foreign minister, has asked Nato to seal off the
130-mile border with Kosovo to stop rebels slipping
through.
The Bush administration in Washington made it clear
this weekend that Slobodan Milosevic, the former
Serbian leader, would have to be arrested in Serbia -
but not necessarily handed over to the war criminal
tribunal in the Hague - by March 31 if Yugoslavia is
to receive hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of
aid.
Additional reporting: Juliet Terzieff, James Pettifer,
Fiona Fleck
-------- Original Message --------
Oggetto: Prof. Négovan Rajic: DE KABOUL À KOSOVO
Data: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:18:25 -0500
DE KABOUL ? KOSOVO
Le destruction barbare des boudhas g?ants en Afghanistan a provoqu?, ?
juste titre, un toll? de protestations dans le monde.
Qu'ils soient croyants ou non, tous les hommes civilis?s ressentiront
douloureusement ce geste comme un affront intol?rable ?
la culture. Il s'agit non seulement d'une atteinte au patrimoine
artistique de l'humanit? , mais aussi ? son histoire et ? sa
m?moire collective .
Malheureusement, ? l'heure o? j'?cris ces lignes, les Thalibans ont d?j?
transform? en un tas de pierres ces falaises de gr?s
auxquelles les pieux moines bouddhistes avaient jadis insuffl? une ?me.
Aucune grande puissance n'avait pas os? envoyer ses
troupes dans le gu?pier afghan pour sauver ces tr?sors inestimables . Si
? la limite cela peut se justifier par souci d'?pargner
des vies humaines , on ne peut comprendre comment au Kosovo, au coeur de
l'Europe, et en pr?sence des troupes des
Nations Unies, l'Occident puisse assister, sans broncher, ? la
destruction des monuments d'une civilisation qui en fin de
compte lui appartient. Qui peut croire les commandants de la KFOR,
disposant d'une arm?e de 40 000 soldats et de deux
mille policiers sur un territoire ne d?passant pas celui d'un
d?partement fran?ais, quand ils pr?tendent n'avoir pas de moyens
suffisants pour prot?ger les populations serbes des extr?mistes albanais
et emp?cher la destruction d'une centaine d'?glises
chr?tiennes dont certaines ?taient orn?es des fresques admirables datant
du Moyen Age? Comment cela se fait-il que les
dirigeants occidentaux et ces intellectuels qui encore hier satanisaient
les Serbes, en les accusant de tous les crimes possibles,
se taisent aujourd'hui l?chement?
Combien de temps l'Occident pourrait-il fermer les yeux devant une
r?alit? qui demain risque de le rattraper comme elle a
rattrap? jadis les dirigeants nazis. Non, demain , ses dirigeants
n'auront pas le droit de dire: nous ne savions pas. Les ?glises
orthodoxes sont d?truites ? la dynamite, les maisons serbes incendi?es
et les vieux cimeti?res profan?s en pr?sence des
troupes de la communaut? internationale , celle-l? m?me qui pr?tend
s'?riger en juge supr?me du bien et du mal.
Comble de cynisme ou d'inconscience, on nous dit maintenant que le
commandant des troupes alli?es au Kosovo, complice
des terroristes, songe confier la garde des monast?res orthodoxes,
encore d?bout, aux anciens soldats de l'UCK! Hitler
lui-m?me n'avait pas os? pousser la perfidie jusqu'? confier la
protection des synagogues aux formations des SS! Si la
nouvelle se confirme , il faudra mettre une croix sur les derniers
vestiges de ces joyaux d'art m?di?val, prot?g?s par
l'UNESCO et t?moin s muets d'une civilisation mise ? mort comme les
boudhas g?ants.
Mais ne nous d?trompons pas, leur disparition sera aussi notre d?faite
morale et les puissants de ce monde n'auront pas la
conscience tranquille en essayant de nous persuader que cette
destruction est ce que les Serbes ont m?rit? par leurs crimes,
car qui, ? l'heure o? les grandes compagnies p?troli?res ?laborent d?j?
des plans pour sillonner de pipelines la p?ninsule
balkanique , puisse encore croire que la guerre contre la Yougoslavie
fut une guerre humanitaire?
N?govan
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Sunday Times
March 11 2001
Albanian exiles fund Balkans war
Tom Walker and Alex Todorovic
THE Albanian diaspora is pouring millions of pounds
into secretive funds helping guerrillas in southern
Serbia and Macedonia fight for a "greater Albania" in
an operation that threatens Nato's peacekeeping forces
in the Balkans.
Although police throughout western Europe, including
Britain, are looking at ways of cutting off the funds
- which came to prominence during the Kosovo conflict
- they admit they have had little success.
Radicals among the diaspora, such as Leka Zog, the
exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, have vowed to
continue supporting the struggle in whatever way they
can.
Increased co-operation between Belgrade and London in
the battle against Balkan racketeering was discussed
at a recent meeting between a Yugoslav government
adviser and Home Office officials. Belgrade files on
the Albanian mafia are to be made available to British
police for the first time in an effort to stem the
flow of money and arms.
Last week Kosovo Albanians in London confirmed that
they had received new demands for contributions to
unspecified causes. One estimated that up to £5,000 a
week was being raised in London; another said he
feared for the safety of his two brothers and elderly
mother in Pristina, the Kosovo capital, if he failed
to pay up.
In Switzerland federal investigators said they were
struggling to link Albanian funds with weapons
purchases because most such deals were struck by
mobile telephone and within the rigid patriarchal
family structures.
The so-called "Homeland Calling Fund", the main
cash-for-arms conduit used during the Kosovo war, is
thought to have been closed. However, the police
believe another fund, ostensibly to raise cash for the
Albanian University of Tetovo in Macedonia, is playing
a similar role.
Leka Zog, whose father, King Zog, ruled Albania
briefly before the second world war, is said to be
preparing for a trip to Kosovo to call for the
"unification" of territory dominated by Albanians.
Suleman Ganaj, a prominent royalist, complained that
Albanians living in Macedonia were treated like
second-class citizens. "They want freedom," he said.
"We support every step taken by Albanians still under
the domination of foreign powers, every attempt to
free ourselves from Serbs, Macedonians and other
neighbours."
Ganaj warned that the tolerance of Nato's peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo was wearing thin. "Kosovo should have
independence and its own army," he said.
Maps of a greater Albania on diaspora websites feature
a swathe of territory around Kosovo, taking in an arc
of land in southern Serbia and across into Macedonia,
including the capital, Skopje. Further west,
Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, is shown as
Albanian - as are territories in northern Greece.
Fighting flared last week in the Presevo Valley in
southern Serbia and in the nearby Albanian-majority
borderlands in Macedonia. Presevo Albanians and Serbs
failed to agree on a local ceasefire last night,
despite intense negotiations involving the United
Nations and European Union monitors.
Albanian guerrillas said this weekend that they had no
intention of allowing the Yugoslav army into the
security zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia, even
though Nato has given Belgrade approval.
Talat, a young rebel, said that fighting the Serbs had
helped to make 2001 "the best year of my life". He
said that after each border clash the guerrillas'
numbers swell, gaining as many as 70 new volunteers a
day.
The funds coming from abroad and from within Kosovo
have helped to prepare a force of about 2,000 along
the Presevo and Macedonian fronts, he said, and their
leaders aim to enlarge Kosovo's territory.
Talat showed reporters a small field hospital inside
the exclusion zone, where he hugged an injured
colleague, a bearded fighter with the nom de guerre of
Masovitsa. His left hand was loosely wrapped in gauze
and plastered with ointment, but the flesh hung from
his fingertips.
"They [the Serbs] were attacking from all sides with
machineguns, tanks and rockets," Masovitsa said. "At
one point there were only about 50 yards between us
and them." He described how he had shielded his face
with his hands as a rocket exploded nearby. "God saved
my life," he concluded.
A further group of about 300 rebels calling themselves
the National Liberation Army (NLA) was forced by
American soldiers from its headquarters in Tanusevci,
a Macedonian border village. Three Macedonian
policemen had been killed and the Skopje government
was critical of Nato peacekeepers for allowing the
rebels into the country from Kosovo.
The guerrillas, led by Ismet Yashari, then attacked a
police convoy escorting Ljube Boskovski, Macedonia's
deputy interior minister, a few miles south of
Tanusevci at Brest.
A rocket-propelled grenade fired by the NLA killed a
driver in the convoy, which was then pinned down for
12 hours by the rebels. Srdjan Kerim, the Macedonian
foreign minister, has asked Nato to seal off the
130-mile border with Kosovo to stop rebels slipping
through.
The Bush administration in Washington made it clear
this weekend that Slobodan Milosevic, the former
Serbian leader, would have to be arrested in Serbia -
but not necessarily handed over to the war criminal
tribunal in the Hague - by March 31 if Yugoslavia is
to receive hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of
aid.
Additional reporting: Juliet Terzieff, James Pettifer,
Fiona Fleck
-------- Original Message --------
Oggetto: Prof. Négovan Rajic: DE KABOUL À KOSOVO
Data: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:18:25 -0500
DE KABOUL ? KOSOVO
Le destruction barbare des boudhas g?ants en Afghanistan a provoqu?, ?
juste titre, un toll? de protestations dans le monde.
Qu'ils soient croyants ou non, tous les hommes civilis?s ressentiront
douloureusement ce geste comme un affront intol?rable ?
la culture. Il s'agit non seulement d'une atteinte au patrimoine
artistique de l'humanit? , mais aussi ? son histoire et ? sa
m?moire collective .
Malheureusement, ? l'heure o? j'?cris ces lignes, les Thalibans ont d?j?
transform? en un tas de pierres ces falaises de gr?s
auxquelles les pieux moines bouddhistes avaient jadis insuffl? une ?me.
Aucune grande puissance n'avait pas os? envoyer ses
troupes dans le gu?pier afghan pour sauver ces tr?sors inestimables . Si
? la limite cela peut se justifier par souci d'?pargner
des vies humaines , on ne peut comprendre comment au Kosovo, au coeur de
l'Europe, et en pr?sence des troupes des
Nations Unies, l'Occident puisse assister, sans broncher, ? la
destruction des monuments d'une civilisation qui en fin de
compte lui appartient. Qui peut croire les commandants de la KFOR,
disposant d'une arm?e de 40 000 soldats et de deux
mille policiers sur un territoire ne d?passant pas celui d'un
d?partement fran?ais, quand ils pr?tendent n'avoir pas de moyens
suffisants pour prot?ger les populations serbes des extr?mistes albanais
et emp?cher la destruction d'une centaine d'?glises
chr?tiennes dont certaines ?taient orn?es des fresques admirables datant
du Moyen Age? Comment cela se fait-il que les
dirigeants occidentaux et ces intellectuels qui encore hier satanisaient
les Serbes, en les accusant de tous les crimes possibles,
se taisent aujourd'hui l?chement?
Combien de temps l'Occident pourrait-il fermer les yeux devant une
r?alit? qui demain risque de le rattraper comme elle a
rattrap? jadis les dirigeants nazis. Non, demain , ses dirigeants
n'auront pas le droit de dire: nous ne savions pas. Les ?glises
orthodoxes sont d?truites ? la dynamite, les maisons serbes incendi?es
et les vieux cimeti?res profan?s en pr?sence des
troupes de la communaut? internationale , celle-l? m?me qui pr?tend
s'?riger en juge supr?me du bien et du mal.
Comble de cynisme ou d'inconscience, on nous dit maintenant que le
commandant des troupes alli?es au Kosovo, complice
des terroristes, songe confier la garde des monast?res orthodoxes,
encore d?bout, aux anciens soldats de l'UCK! Hitler
lui-m?me n'avait pas os? pousser la perfidie jusqu'? confier la
protection des synagogues aux formations des SS! Si la
nouvelle se confirme , il faudra mettre une croix sur les derniers
vestiges de ces joyaux d'art m?di?val, prot?g?s par
l'UNESCO et t?moin s muets d'une civilisation mise ? mort comme les
boudhas g?ants.
Mais ne nous d?trompons pas, leur disparition sera aussi notre d?faite
morale et les puissants de ce monde n'auront pas la
conscience tranquille en essayant de nous persuader que cette
destruction est ce que les Serbes ont m?rit? par leurs crimes,
car qui, ? l'heure o? les grandes compagnies p?troli?res ?laborent d?j?
des plans pour sillonner de pipelines la p?ninsule
balkanique , puisse encore croire que la guerre contre la Yougoslavie
fut une guerre humanitaire?
N?govan
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'CIA's bastard army ran riot in Balkans' backed extremists'
Special report: Kosovo
By Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday March 11, 2001, The Observer
The United States secretly supported the ethnic
Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in
Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army
fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in
an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European
officers who served with the international
peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as
leading Macedonian and US sources.
They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately
ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across
Kosovo's borders.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews by
The Observer. They emerge as America has been forced
into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian
extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that
would include Albanian communities in Serbia and
Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have
intensified their campaign of attacks in the two
areas, threatening a new war in the region which last
week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans
for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For between
the European and US military missions. European
officers are furious that the Americans have allowed
guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms
and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told The
Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run
riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to
overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US
State Department seems incapable of reining in its
bastard army.'
He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing
frustration with US support for the radical Albanians.
US policy was and still is out of step with the other
Nato allies.'
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in
the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the
National Liberation Army [which has been responsible
for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in
recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation
in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened
when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one.
'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies
have not been honest here.'
The claims were given extra credence from an
unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of
Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent
the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war
inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last
administration. There had now been 'a shift of
emphasis'.
---
For more background information on the CIA's involvement
with the KLA and
the lies and deception which launched NATO's war against
Yugoslavia, check
out the following articles which appear in issue #43 of
the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade's magazine, Press for Conversion!
(Dozens of other articles, summarizing 50 years of CIA
covert activities,
are also included in this issue, on the theme: "A
People's History of the
CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to
Zaire.")
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/>
---
1999, Yugoslavia: KLA, CIA, OSCE and NATO Join Hands
By Peter Stavropoulos
The BBC and Newsweek report that President Clinton
has approved CIA
training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to do
sabotage in Yugoslavia.
According to Newsweek, the CIA will train the KLA in
"age-old tricks like
cutting telephone lines, blowing up buildings, fouling
gasoline reserves
and pilfering food supplies - in an effort to undermine
public support for
the Serbian leader and damage Yugoslav targets that can't
be reached from
the air."
U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger secretly
briefed the
House and Senate Intelligence committees on these plans
the week that
former-General in the Croatian military, Agim Ceku, was
appointed to head
the KLA.
Newsweek says, "Intelligence officials worry it
would be difficult to
control the US-trained rebels once boot camp is over and
they are set loose
on Milosevic." A former chief of intelligence planner for
the US Air Force
said, "I'm afraid they could use their training to carry
out atrocities.
If they think they can rein them in, it's tremendous
naivete."
KLA ranks in Albania swelled. An estimated 10,000
arrived in
Albania, mainly from Germany, Switzerland, France and
Austria. Reuters has
reported that the KLA is also forcing male Kosovar
refugees to join its ranks.
Jane's reported that U.S. military Special Forces
and British SAS
were fighting alongside the KLA inside Kosovo. The French
news agency
Agence France Presse has reported on the deaths of three
French army
paratroop officers killed while commanding a KLA unit
trying to cross into
Kosovo from Albania.
The U.S.-NATO backing to the KLA and Ceku, its new
military leader is
the most telling refutation of the claims made to justify
the war.
Who is the KLA Commander, Agim Ceku?
* Ceku an ethnic Kosovo Albanian, graduated from the
Belgrade Military
Academy; served as an artillery captain in the Yugoslav
army.
* During Yugoslavia's dissolution in 1991, he defected to
the newly formed
Croatian Army to assist its drive to secession. He was
decorated nine
times in battles against Serb forces in both Bosnia and
Croatia.
* Brigadier-General, Croatian Army.
* Mastermind of the "Medak Massacre" (September 1993), a
savage bloodbath
against Serb civilians in which Canadian peacekeeping
troops were compelled
to intervene, killing 30 Croatian militiamen.
* He played a central role in the Croatian Army's
"cleansing" of Serbs from
eastern Croatia's Krajina region, where Serbs had
comprised the majority
for hundreds of years.
* Ceku was "one of the key planners of 'Operation Storm'"
led by the
Croatian Armed Forces against Krajina Serbs in 1995"
(Jane's Defence
Weekly, June 10, 1999). This was supported by the U.S.
and assisted by
NATO bombing of Serb positions. Ceku developed close ties
with U.S.
military officials. (More than 300,000 Croa-tian Serbs
were expelled from
Croatia between 1991 and 1998. Hundreds were murdered,
including many too
old or disabled to escape. Methods included: systematic
and deliberate
bombing of civilians, well-publicized acts of terror to
spread panic, rape,
and arson against homes, farms and other property. It was
the greatest act
of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans prior to the NATO
bombing in Kosovo.
* The Croatian Army was trained by a U.S. company called
Military
Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), composed of retired
U.S. military
officers. An MPRI spokesmen described Ceku in Jane's
Defense Weekly (JDW)
as a highly competent and disciplined officer.
* Ceku retired from his Croatian Army post in February,
1999.
* Ceku was appointed KLA chief-of-staff in a
reorganization to more closely
align it with U.S. strategy.
* Ceku is under investigation by the International
Criminal Tribunal for
war crimes against Serbs in Croatia (Sunday Times of
London, October 10,
1999.)
Source: "Former Croatian general has US backing: New KLA
leader was
responsible for ethnic cleansing," World Socialist Web
Service, May 29,
1999.
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/kla-m29.shtml>
---
CIA Training and Advice
By Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty
U.S. intelligence agents have admitted they helped
train the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) before NATO's bombing of
Yugoslavia. This angered
some European diplomats, who said it had undermined a
political solution.
CIA officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and
1999. They gave
the KLA U.S. military training manuals and field advice.
When the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE),
which coordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week
before airstrikes
began, many of its satellite phones and global positioning
systems were
secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that they could stay
in touch with
NATO and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the phone
number of General
Clark, the NATO commander.
Several Americans with CIA links, spoke to makers of
"Moral Combat,"
a BBC2 documentary [Mar.12, 2000], and The Sunday Times
about their
clandestine roles. U.S. diplomatic observers were "a CIA
front, gathering
intelligence on the KLA's arms and leadership," said one.
Another agent,
said he had been "suckered in" by an organization that ran
amok in post-war
Kosovo. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander involved in
destabilizing majority
Albanian villages in Serbia proper, said he met British,
U.S. and Swiss
agents in northern Albania in 1996.
Source: Siol nan Gaidheal, March 2000.
<http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com/ciaaid.htm>
---
William Walker: Mr. Massacre, from El Salvador to Racak
By Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi.
On January 15, 1999, a U.S. diplomat, William
Walker, head of the war
crimes verification team of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), visited the Kosovar village of Racak to
investigate an
alleged Serb massacre of ethnic Albanian peasants. "I do
not hesitate to
describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against
humanity," he said. "Nor
do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of
responsibility."
Washington responded to this by quickly setting the U.S.
military machine
in motion.
Walker's background inspires suspicion about the
entire Yugoslavia
campaign. If William Walker is not a CIA agent, he's done
a very bad job
of not looking like one. He spent most of his foreign
service career in
Central and South America. He began his diplomatic career
in 1961 in Peru.
In the early 1980s, he held the highly controversial post
of Deputy Chief
of Mission in Honduras, exactly the time and place the
Contras were formed.
Walker was promoted, in 1985, to Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
for Central America. He was a special assistant to
Assistant Secretary of
State, Elliot Abrams, who was closely connected to the
"Iran-Contra"
scandal. According to Independent Counsel Lawrence
Walsh's lengthy
indictment of Abrams and Oliver North, Walker set up a
phony humanitarian
operation at an airbase in Ilopango, El Salvador, which
funneled guns,
ammunition and supplies to Contras in Nicaragua.
Although outed in the international press as a
gunrunner, Walker's
diplomatic career did not suffer. In 1988, he became
ambassador to El
Salvador, a state which was still in the grip of
U.S.-sponsored state terror.
In late 1989, when U.S.-trained Salvadoran soldiers
executed six
Jesuit priests and two women, Walker was asked about
evidence linking the
killings to the Salvadoran High Command. He apologized
for chief of staff
Rene Ponce, saying "Management control problems can exist
in these kinds of
situations. I'm not condoning it, but in times of great
emotion and great
anger, things like this happen."
Shrugging off news of eyewitness reports that the
murderers wore
Salvadoran army uniforms, Walker said "anyone can get
uniforms. The fact
that they wore military uniforms was not proof they were
military."
Later, Walker recommended to Secretary of State
James Baker that the
U.S. "not jeopardize" its relationship with El Salvador by
investigating
"past deaths, however heinous." This is ironic, coming
from a man who
later recommended that the U.S. go to war with Yugoslavia
over heinous
deaths.
In 1996, Walker hosted a ceremony in Washington
honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought secretly in El Salvador. While Walker
was Ambassador
there, the official U.S. story was that only 50 U.S.
military advisors in
the country (Washington Post, May 6, 1996).
"Ambassador Walker's record certainly does
compromise his reliability
as an objective witness," said James Morrell, research
director, Center for
International Policy, Washington.
There is a widespread belief that Walker's role in
Racak was to
assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre to be used
as an excuse for
military action. French national TV and two major French
newspapers ran
exposes on the Racak incident. They cited inconsistencies
in Walker's
version of events. Even the Los Angeles Times ran a story
suggesting the
Racak massacre was faked. The theory behind these expos?s
is that the KLA
gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their
uniforms, put them
in civilian clothes and called in the observers. Walker,
significantly,
did not see the bodies until 12 hours after Serb police
left the town. As
Walker knows, not only can "anybody have uniforms," anyone
can have them
taken off, too.
Source:
<http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm> Aug.10, 2000.
---
Who is William Walker?
(1935 - )
U.S. Foreign Service officer:
* Peru (1962-1964)
* Japan (1964-1967)
* Brazil (1969-1972)
* El Salvador (1974-1991)
* Honduras (1980-1986)
* Panama (1985)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Honduras (1980-1982)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Bolivia (1982-1984)
* Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America,
Office of
Inter-American Affairs; worked with Ollie North and was
special assistant
to Eliot Abrams, helping arm the Contras (1985-1988)
* Ambassador, El Salvador (1988-1992); invited death squad
leader Roberto
d'Aubuisson to U.S. embassy's July 4 party (1989)
* Vice Pres., National Defense Univ., Wash., D.C.
(1994-97)
* hosted a Washington ceremony honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought
secretly in El Salvador (1996)
* Special Representative of Secretary General, heading UN
Transitional
Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (return E.
Slavonia to Croatian
control) (1997-1998)
* Head, Kosovo Verification Mission, Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe (1998-1999)
Sources:
<http://alpha.ddm.uci.edu/zotmail/archive/1999/19991109101.html>
<http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gyedb/STILE/Email0002026/m4.html>
<http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1992/92050804.html>
<http://www.moravian.edu/NewsInfo/NewsReleases/NR174.htm>
<http://www.pir.org>
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Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
Editor, Press for Conversion!
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Special report: Kosovo
By Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday March 11, 2001, The Observer
The United States secretly supported the ethnic
Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in
Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army
fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in
an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European
officers who served with the international
peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as
leading Macedonian and US sources.
They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately
ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across
Kosovo's borders.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews by
The Observer. They emerge as America has been forced
into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian
extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that
would include Albanian communities in Serbia and
Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have
intensified their campaign of attacks in the two
areas, threatening a new war in the region which last
week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans
for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For between
the European and US military missions. European
officers are furious that the Americans have allowed
guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms
and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told The
Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run
riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to
overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US
State Department seems incapable of reining in its
bastard army.'
He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing
frustration with US support for the radical Albanians.
US policy was and still is out of step with the other
Nato allies.'
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in
the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the
National Liberation Army [which has been responsible
for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in
recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation
in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened
when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one.
'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies
have not been honest here.'
The claims were given extra credence from an
unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of
Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent
the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war
inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last
administration. There had now been 'a shift of
emphasis'.
---
For more background information on the CIA's involvement
with the KLA and
the lies and deception which launched NATO's war against
Yugoslavia, check
out the following articles which appear in issue #43 of
the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade's magazine, Press for Conversion!
(Dozens of other articles, summarizing 50 years of CIA
covert activities,
are also included in this issue, on the theme: "A
People's History of the
CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to
Zaire.")
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/>
---
1999, Yugoslavia: KLA, CIA, OSCE and NATO Join Hands
By Peter Stavropoulos
The BBC and Newsweek report that President Clinton
has approved CIA
training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to do
sabotage in Yugoslavia.
According to Newsweek, the CIA will train the KLA in
"age-old tricks like
cutting telephone lines, blowing up buildings, fouling
gasoline reserves
and pilfering food supplies - in an effort to undermine
public support for
the Serbian leader and damage Yugoslav targets that can't
be reached from
the air."
U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger secretly
briefed the
House and Senate Intelligence committees on these plans
the week that
former-General in the Croatian military, Agim Ceku, was
appointed to head
the KLA.
Newsweek says, "Intelligence officials worry it
would be difficult to
control the US-trained rebels once boot camp is over and
they are set loose
on Milosevic." A former chief of intelligence planner for
the US Air Force
said, "I'm afraid they could use their training to carry
out atrocities.
If they think they can rein them in, it's tremendous
naivete."
KLA ranks in Albania swelled. An estimated 10,000
arrived in
Albania, mainly from Germany, Switzerland, France and
Austria. Reuters has
reported that the KLA is also forcing male Kosovar
refugees to join its ranks.
Jane's reported that U.S. military Special Forces
and British SAS
were fighting alongside the KLA inside Kosovo. The French
news agency
Agence France Presse has reported on the deaths of three
French army
paratroop officers killed while commanding a KLA unit
trying to cross into
Kosovo from Albania.
The U.S.-NATO backing to the KLA and Ceku, its new
military leader is
the most telling refutation of the claims made to justify
the war.
Who is the KLA Commander, Agim Ceku?
* Ceku an ethnic Kosovo Albanian, graduated from the
Belgrade Military
Academy; served as an artillery captain in the Yugoslav
army.
* During Yugoslavia's dissolution in 1991, he defected to
the newly formed
Croatian Army to assist its drive to secession. He was
decorated nine
times in battles against Serb forces in both Bosnia and
Croatia.
* Brigadier-General, Croatian Army.
* Mastermind of the "Medak Massacre" (September 1993), a
savage bloodbath
against Serb civilians in which Canadian peacekeeping
troops were compelled
to intervene, killing 30 Croatian militiamen.
* He played a central role in the Croatian Army's
"cleansing" of Serbs from
eastern Croatia's Krajina region, where Serbs had
comprised the majority
for hundreds of years.
* Ceku was "one of the key planners of 'Operation Storm'"
led by the
Croatian Armed Forces against Krajina Serbs in 1995"
(Jane's Defence
Weekly, June 10, 1999). This was supported by the U.S.
and assisted by
NATO bombing of Serb positions. Ceku developed close ties
with U.S.
military officials. (More than 300,000 Croa-tian Serbs
were expelled from
Croatia between 1991 and 1998. Hundreds were murdered,
including many too
old or disabled to escape. Methods included: systematic
and deliberate
bombing of civilians, well-publicized acts of terror to
spread panic, rape,
and arson against homes, farms and other property. It was
the greatest act
of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans prior to the NATO
bombing in Kosovo.
* The Croatian Army was trained by a U.S. company called
Military
Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), composed of retired
U.S. military
officers. An MPRI spokesmen described Ceku in Jane's
Defense Weekly (JDW)
as a highly competent and disciplined officer.
* Ceku retired from his Croatian Army post in February,
1999.
* Ceku was appointed KLA chief-of-staff in a
reorganization to more closely
align it with U.S. strategy.
* Ceku is under investigation by the International
Criminal Tribunal for
war crimes against Serbs in Croatia (Sunday Times of
London, October 10,
1999.)
Source: "Former Croatian general has US backing: New KLA
leader was
responsible for ethnic cleansing," World Socialist Web
Service, May 29,
1999.
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/kla-m29.shtml>
---
CIA Training and Advice
By Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty
U.S. intelligence agents have admitted they helped
train the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) before NATO's bombing of
Yugoslavia. This angered
some European diplomats, who said it had undermined a
political solution.
CIA officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and
1999. They gave
the KLA U.S. military training manuals and field advice.
When the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE),
which coordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week
before airstrikes
began, many of its satellite phones and global positioning
systems were
secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that they could stay
in touch with
NATO and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the phone
number of General
Clark, the NATO commander.
Several Americans with CIA links, spoke to makers of
"Moral Combat,"
a BBC2 documentary [Mar.12, 2000], and The Sunday Times
about their
clandestine roles. U.S. diplomatic observers were "a CIA
front, gathering
intelligence on the KLA's arms and leadership," said one.
Another agent,
said he had been "suckered in" by an organization that ran
amok in post-war
Kosovo. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander involved in
destabilizing majority
Albanian villages in Serbia proper, said he met British,
U.S. and Swiss
agents in northern Albania in 1996.
Source: Siol nan Gaidheal, March 2000.
<http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com/ciaaid.htm>
---
William Walker: Mr. Massacre, from El Salvador to Racak
By Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi.
On January 15, 1999, a U.S. diplomat, William
Walker, head of the war
crimes verification team of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), visited the Kosovar village of Racak to
investigate an
alleged Serb massacre of ethnic Albanian peasants. "I do
not hesitate to
describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against
humanity," he said. "Nor
do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of
responsibility."
Washington responded to this by quickly setting the U.S.
military machine
in motion.
Walker's background inspires suspicion about the
entire Yugoslavia
campaign. If William Walker is not a CIA agent, he's done
a very bad job
of not looking like one. He spent most of his foreign
service career in
Central and South America. He began his diplomatic career
in 1961 in Peru.
In the early 1980s, he held the highly controversial post
of Deputy Chief
of Mission in Honduras, exactly the time and place the
Contras were formed.
Walker was promoted, in 1985, to Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
for Central America. He was a special assistant to
Assistant Secretary of
State, Elliot Abrams, who was closely connected to the
"Iran-Contra"
scandal. According to Independent Counsel Lawrence
Walsh's lengthy
indictment of Abrams and Oliver North, Walker set up a
phony humanitarian
operation at an airbase in Ilopango, El Salvador, which
funneled guns,
ammunition and supplies to Contras in Nicaragua.
Although outed in the international press as a
gunrunner, Walker's
diplomatic career did not suffer. In 1988, he became
ambassador to El
Salvador, a state which was still in the grip of
U.S.-sponsored state terror.
In late 1989, when U.S.-trained Salvadoran soldiers
executed six
Jesuit priests and two women, Walker was asked about
evidence linking the
killings to the Salvadoran High Command. He apologized
for chief of staff
Rene Ponce, saying "Management control problems can exist
in these kinds of
situations. I'm not condoning it, but in times of great
emotion and great
anger, things like this happen."
Shrugging off news of eyewitness reports that the
murderers wore
Salvadoran army uniforms, Walker said "anyone can get
uniforms. The fact
that they wore military uniforms was not proof they were
military."
Later, Walker recommended to Secretary of State
James Baker that the
U.S. "not jeopardize" its relationship with El Salvador by
investigating
"past deaths, however heinous." This is ironic, coming
from a man who
later recommended that the U.S. go to war with Yugoslavia
over heinous
deaths.
In 1996, Walker hosted a ceremony in Washington
honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought secretly in El Salvador. While Walker
was Ambassador
there, the official U.S. story was that only 50 U.S.
military advisors in
the country (Washington Post, May 6, 1996).
"Ambassador Walker's record certainly does
compromise his reliability
as an objective witness," said James Morrell, research
director, Center for
International Policy, Washington.
There is a widespread belief that Walker's role in
Racak was to
assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre to be used
as an excuse for
military action. French national TV and two major French
newspapers ran
exposes on the Racak incident. They cited inconsistencies
in Walker's
version of events. Even the Los Angeles Times ran a story
suggesting the
Racak massacre was faked. The theory behind these expos?s
is that the KLA
gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their
uniforms, put them
in civilian clothes and called in the observers. Walker,
significantly,
did not see the bodies until 12 hours after Serb police
left the town. As
Walker knows, not only can "anybody have uniforms," anyone
can have them
taken off, too.
Source:
<http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm> Aug.10, 2000.
---
Who is William Walker?
(1935 - )
U.S. Foreign Service officer:
* Peru (1962-1964)
* Japan (1964-1967)
* Brazil (1969-1972)
* El Salvador (1974-1991)
* Honduras (1980-1986)
* Panama (1985)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Honduras (1980-1982)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Bolivia (1982-1984)
* Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America,
Office of
Inter-American Affairs; worked with Ollie North and was
special assistant
to Eliot Abrams, helping arm the Contras (1985-1988)
* Ambassador, El Salvador (1988-1992); invited death squad
leader Roberto
d'Aubuisson to U.S. embassy's July 4 party (1989)
* Vice Pres., National Defense Univ., Wash., D.C.
(1994-97)
* hosted a Washington ceremony honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought
secretly in El Salvador (1996)
* Special Representative of Secretary General, heading UN
Transitional
Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (return E.
Slavonia to Croatian
control) (1997-1998)
* Head, Kosovo Verification Mission, Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe (1998-1999)
Sources:
<http://alpha.ddm.uci.edu/zotmail/archive/1999/19991109101.html>
<http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gyedb/STILE/Email0002026/m4.html>
<http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1992/92050804.html>
<http://www.moravian.edu/NewsInfo/NewsReleases/NR174.htm>
<http://www.pir.org>
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
Richard Sanders
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
Editor, Press for Conversion!
541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 5R2
Tel.: 613-231-3076 Fax: 613-231-2614
Email: <ad207@...> Web site: <www.ncf.ca/coat>
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* Lettera aperta a Sonja Biserko-Licht, rappresentante della Fondazione
Soros a Belgrado (R.K. Kent)
* Human Rights Watch... Watch (R. Rozoff)
---
A LETTER FROM AMERICA
TO ONE SONJA BISERKO IN BELGRADE
R.K.Kent
Emeritus Professor of History
University of California at Berkeley
In a "briefing" of the CSCE, dated 6th March 2001, you identify yourself
as Chair of the "Serbian" Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. You
claim to be assessing, by way of a "Progress Report,"what is happening
in Serbia after the fall of Milosevic. Of course, your text is not just
a "Report" about Serbia and the Serbs between 5 October 2000 and the
beginning of March 2001. It criss-crosses into "other" time-frames. It
is a rambling and disjointed piece, riddled with self-esteem. It is
also a pontificating and hate-mongering tract against the Serbs, easily
identifiable as such. You simply expurgate from the "Report" any harm
done to the Serbs. To give but one example that cannot be refuted, you
are parading an asymmetrical humanism of stunning proportions. Your
heart is bleeding for the incomplete release of all the ethnic
Albanians held in Serbia’s prisons.and not just 105. You refuse to even
consider the charge that some of them may have tortured and killed Serb
women and children and should hence not be released. But,let us leave
that aside and add in another dimension left out. There have been and
are still some 80,000 ethnic Albanians in the Greater Belgrade area
alone Most of them have escaped any "justifiable retribution" from the
Serbs, to recall a phrase uttered by the well-known French Serbophobe,
Bernar Kouchner. He simply whitewashed the Albanian "purification" of
Kosovo. But, since you are out to keep smearing the Serbs for an alleged
"pernicious nationalism," intolerant of other ethnicities, this "credit"
column in the ledger is left out in a calculated way.
The core problem is that you could not care less about the Human Rights
of Serbs at Kosovo from June 1999 through February 2001.Over a thousand
have been kidnapped, many were tortured and killed. Some 150,000 have
been "cleansed" out of Kosovo with all the other minorities. A grave
with 150 Serb victims of Albanian atrocities was found after June 1999
but reports of it had been suppressed for over a year and the bodies had
been reburied. The truth has just come out.The kindest possible
explanation of your shoddy logic, omissions and commissions would be
that you have a dishonest affiliation. The "Serb" Committeee for Human
Rights, in your obvious cosmology, must castigate only the Serbs for
alleged violations of Human Rights of others. That would, however, not
only be too kind. It would also be very incomplete.
You are not actually concerned with Human Rights violations at all. You
are simply using the "Committee for Human Rights" as a cover for a serie
of personal political agendas without any convincing degree of
professional competence. The two identifiable agendas are a declaration
of war on "Serb Nationalism" and an attempt to ingratiate yourself to
all those of influence in the U.S. and the European Union who demonized
"the Serbs" for a decade and engineered eleven weeks of destruction in
Serbia and Kosovo. Let me say at once that your knowledge of recent
history in the ex-Yugoslav space is worthless. By way of another example
that cannot be refuted,
(2)
you pour compliments in the direction of the U.S. and the European Union
for their "efforts to establish peace in the Balkans." To put it in a
Serb idiomatic phrase, "to se, draga Sonja, zove cesanje jajca." It has
nothing to do with actual events. Had the United States not torpedoed
the Lisbon Agreement of February 1992 all of the subsequent fratricidal
tragedies would not have taken place. Here, the European Union was
behind it but not the Clinton Administration. A year later, two
respected foreigners worked hard and long to come up with a three-point
major peace plan, called the Vance-Owen plan. It was acceptable to all
the co-belligerents. Even Richerd Holbrooke supported it. But, it was
again "killed" in Washington with the utterly false "explanation" that
the U.S. did not wish to "reward Serb aggression." The plan reduced the
Serbs land holdings in Bosnia from about 62 percent to just 41, with
most of the resources going to Sarajevo. It would, moreover, take
someone suffering of singular myopia to call the support of the West for
the ethnic cleansings of Western Slavonia (August 1991-February 1992},
Krajina (Augost 1995) and Kosovo (June 1999 to the present), along with
the 78 days of relentless "air war" over Serbia and Kosovo (with all the
destructive consequences} "efforts to establish peace."
You may be dispapointed in President Bush’s decision on or shortly after
31st March. If for no other reason because He will not succumb to your
"clever" canard about the "generous" "grace period" of some six months
given to the current Serb government. It has taken at least since the
Seveneteenth Century for Western Europe and the United States to evolve
into "civil societies." I urge you in the strongest terms to read the
classics of Max Weber and Werner Sombart. The "priorities" you serve
about compliance with Dayton and cooperation with the ICTY are both
comical and tragic. Tragic when one considers that almost half of the
workers with families to feed in Serbia are out of jobs which puts
economic developemnt in Top Priority. By ingratiating yourself to the
U.S. in particular through acceptance of Washington’s list of priorities
you egg-on the Serbophobes in Congress to use the economic weapon
against the background of economic and social misery in Serbia. If you
are a Serb you are certainly an anti-Serb. One could only speculate why.
The comic strip comes in with ITCY. It is by no stretch of imagination a
real court of Law, International or otherwise. It is merely a political
fact of life set-up to keep punishing primarily the Serbs for the same
reason that you yearn for, namely a refusal to get down on their knees
and beg to be forgiven for the temerity to stand up to international
bullies and the "nationalist gall" for not confessing their "collective
guilt." Cooperation with the ICTY? Sure, lets open an ICTY office in
Belgrade. Rush-in "precanske Srbe." What was done to them? Do you car
at all?
For the sake of relative brevity, I refrain from entering here into your
magister dixit text comments about "the internal dynamic in Serbia and
legacy of the last ten years." Should you however wish to enter into a
written duel with me on this or any other subject relating to the last
decade in the ex-Yugoslav space it will give me endless pleasure to rip
your arguments to shreds This letter will be broadcast on several E-mail
networks reaching a couple of million recipients. A copy will be sent to
President Kostunica and certain members of the U.S. Government as well.
R.K.Kent
---
It should come as no surprise that the U.S.-based
Human Rights Watch would act as both advocate and
attack dog for Carla Del Ponte's and the ICTY's
campaign against Yugoslavia, even lecturing the
president of the country - a legal scholar - on what
his constitution really says.
Human Rights Watch is good at following orders - from
the ICTY, the White House, the U.S. State Department
and George Soros - and being paid handsomely to do it.
For information on how HRW (aa well as Amnesty
International U.S.A.) received its marching orders
from the State Department on how to promote NATO's war
against Yugoslavia in 1999, see 'The Progressives'
War" at: http://www.counterpunch.org/kohmtg.html
To learn how HRW assisted drug cazr and war criminal
Barry McCaffrey and the White House in distorting the
truth about the civil conflict in Colombia and in
garnering support for Plan Colombia and increased U.S.
military aggression in that country, see "Barry
McCaffrey And Jose Miguel Vivanco" at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/hrwcolombia.html
To find out more about what HRW is, who its directors
are, and where its funding comes from, see "Who Is
Behind Human Rights Watch?" at:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
(R. Rozoff)
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* Human Rights Watch... Watch (R. Rozoff)
---
A LETTER FROM AMERICA
TO ONE SONJA BISERKO IN BELGRADE
R.K.Kent
Emeritus Professor of History
University of California at Berkeley
In a "briefing" of the CSCE, dated 6th March 2001, you identify yourself
as Chair of the "Serbian" Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. You
claim to be assessing, by way of a "Progress Report,"what is happening
in Serbia after the fall of Milosevic. Of course, your text is not just
a "Report" about Serbia and the Serbs between 5 October 2000 and the
beginning of March 2001. It criss-crosses into "other" time-frames. It
is a rambling and disjointed piece, riddled with self-esteem. It is
also a pontificating and hate-mongering tract against the Serbs, easily
identifiable as such. You simply expurgate from the "Report" any harm
done to the Serbs. To give but one example that cannot be refuted, you
are parading an asymmetrical humanism of stunning proportions. Your
heart is bleeding for the incomplete release of all the ethnic
Albanians held in Serbia’s prisons.and not just 105. You refuse to even
consider the charge that some of them may have tortured and killed Serb
women and children and should hence not be released. But,let us leave
that aside and add in another dimension left out. There have been and
are still some 80,000 ethnic Albanians in the Greater Belgrade area
alone Most of them have escaped any "justifiable retribution" from the
Serbs, to recall a phrase uttered by the well-known French Serbophobe,
Bernar Kouchner. He simply whitewashed the Albanian "purification" of
Kosovo. But, since you are out to keep smearing the Serbs for an alleged
"pernicious nationalism," intolerant of other ethnicities, this "credit"
column in the ledger is left out in a calculated way.
The core problem is that you could not care less about the Human Rights
of Serbs at Kosovo from June 1999 through February 2001.Over a thousand
have been kidnapped, many were tortured and killed. Some 150,000 have
been "cleansed" out of Kosovo with all the other minorities. A grave
with 150 Serb victims of Albanian atrocities was found after June 1999
but reports of it had been suppressed for over a year and the bodies had
been reburied. The truth has just come out.The kindest possible
explanation of your shoddy logic, omissions and commissions would be
that you have a dishonest affiliation. The "Serb" Committeee for Human
Rights, in your obvious cosmology, must castigate only the Serbs for
alleged violations of Human Rights of others. That would, however, not
only be too kind. It would also be very incomplete.
You are not actually concerned with Human Rights violations at all. You
are simply using the "Committee for Human Rights" as a cover for a serie
of personal political agendas without any convincing degree of
professional competence. The two identifiable agendas are a declaration
of war on "Serb Nationalism" and an attempt to ingratiate yourself to
all those of influence in the U.S. and the European Union who demonized
"the Serbs" for a decade and engineered eleven weeks of destruction in
Serbia and Kosovo. Let me say at once that your knowledge of recent
history in the ex-Yugoslav space is worthless. By way of another example
that cannot be refuted,
(2)
you pour compliments in the direction of the U.S. and the European Union
for their "efforts to establish peace in the Balkans." To put it in a
Serb idiomatic phrase, "to se, draga Sonja, zove cesanje jajca." It has
nothing to do with actual events. Had the United States not torpedoed
the Lisbon Agreement of February 1992 all of the subsequent fratricidal
tragedies would not have taken place. Here, the European Union was
behind it but not the Clinton Administration. A year later, two
respected foreigners worked hard and long to come up with a three-point
major peace plan, called the Vance-Owen plan. It was acceptable to all
the co-belligerents. Even Richerd Holbrooke supported it. But, it was
again "killed" in Washington with the utterly false "explanation" that
the U.S. did not wish to "reward Serb aggression." The plan reduced the
Serbs land holdings in Bosnia from about 62 percent to just 41, with
most of the resources going to Sarajevo. It would, moreover, take
someone suffering of singular myopia to call the support of the West for
the ethnic cleansings of Western Slavonia (August 1991-February 1992},
Krajina (Augost 1995) and Kosovo (June 1999 to the present), along with
the 78 days of relentless "air war" over Serbia and Kosovo (with all the
destructive consequences} "efforts to establish peace."
You may be dispapointed in President Bush’s decision on or shortly after
31st March. If for no other reason because He will not succumb to your
"clever" canard about the "generous" "grace period" of some six months
given to the current Serb government. It has taken at least since the
Seveneteenth Century for Western Europe and the United States to evolve
into "civil societies." I urge you in the strongest terms to read the
classics of Max Weber and Werner Sombart. The "priorities" you serve
about compliance with Dayton and cooperation with the ICTY are both
comical and tragic. Tragic when one considers that almost half of the
workers with families to feed in Serbia are out of jobs which puts
economic developemnt in Top Priority. By ingratiating yourself to the
U.S. in particular through acceptance of Washington’s list of priorities
you egg-on the Serbophobes in Congress to use the economic weapon
against the background of economic and social misery in Serbia. If you
are a Serb you are certainly an anti-Serb. One could only speculate why.
The comic strip comes in with ITCY. It is by no stretch of imagination a
real court of Law, International or otherwise. It is merely a political
fact of life set-up to keep punishing primarily the Serbs for the same
reason that you yearn for, namely a refusal to get down on their knees
and beg to be forgiven for the temerity to stand up to international
bullies and the "nationalist gall" for not confessing their "collective
guilt." Cooperation with the ICTY? Sure, lets open an ICTY office in
Belgrade. Rush-in "precanske Srbe." What was done to them? Do you car
at all?
For the sake of relative brevity, I refrain from entering here into your
magister dixit text comments about "the internal dynamic in Serbia and
legacy of the last ten years." Should you however wish to enter into a
written duel with me on this or any other subject relating to the last
decade in the ex-Yugoslav space it will give me endless pleasure to rip
your arguments to shreds This letter will be broadcast on several E-mail
networks reaching a couple of million recipients. A copy will be sent to
President Kostunica and certain members of the U.S. Government as well.
R.K.Kent
---
It should come as no surprise that the U.S.-based
Human Rights Watch would act as both advocate and
attack dog for Carla Del Ponte's and the ICTY's
campaign against Yugoslavia, even lecturing the
president of the country - a legal scholar - on what
his constitution really says.
Human Rights Watch is good at following orders - from
the ICTY, the White House, the U.S. State Department
and George Soros - and being paid handsomely to do it.
For information on how HRW (aa well as Amnesty
International U.S.A.) received its marching orders
from the State Department on how to promote NATO's war
against Yugoslavia in 1999, see 'The Progressives'
War" at: http://www.counterpunch.org/kohmtg.html
To learn how HRW assisted drug cazr and war criminal
Barry McCaffrey and the White House in distorting the
truth about the civil conflict in Colombia and in
garnering support for Plan Colombia and increased U.S.
military aggression in that country, see "Barry
McCaffrey And Jose Miguel Vivanco" at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/hrwcolombia.html
To find out more about what HRW is, who its directors
are, and where its funding comes from, see "Who Is
Behind Human Rights Watch?" at:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
(R. Rozoff)
---
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